The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1901, Page 18

18 — 3 AN IRISH CRITIC'S TRIBUTE TO AN ACTRESS ONE CENTURY ! BY GUISARD. E are fallen now upon the drab days of criticism, a grudging, a-lipped fashion of praise, a t-strawed, sublimated, Hen- James’ way of judgment. ry Listen to a lovely old Irish critic on the subject of Sarah Siddons, in the Dublin Journal, more than a hundred years ago, | and acknowledge that the rascal's beau- | tiful brogue, g'orious extravagance nnd; sumptuous bulls are infinitely better | reading than the criticisms of the aver- | age impassionate paragrapher of to-day. | Here he is: Yesterday Mrs. Siddons, about whom all the world has been talking, posed her beautiful adamantine, soft and lovely person for the first time in the Theater Royal, Smock alley, | in the bewitching, melthg and all-tearful | character of Isabella. From the repeated | pancgyrics in the London papers We Were taught to expect the sight of a heavenly an- zel, but how were we supernaturally surpm-l ed into the most swful joy in beholding an ess. The house was crowded with | e than it could hold () with | ¢ admiring spectators who went | without @ sight. This extraordinary | menon of tragic excellence, this star of . this comet of the stage, this sun | queen and princess of tears, ons, went beyond bellef and above all powers of description. She are itself; she is the most exquisite lort, she was the bouquet of veral persons fainted before the up, but when she came to the ng with her wedding ring, oh, | was there! The very orchestra | 4 to the melting mood,” wept ar Nature sure, in one of in one of her humane | her smiling days, in | ceping months, made this acme | Oh, bappy Hibernia! blessed | ht excellence of excellence | of thy fruitful earth. I see that Arthur Byron, Ada Rehan’s| nephew. is to be starred by Wagenhals | & Kemper during the coming season and | that on his tour he will present one or| more of the Bernard Shaw plays. | i N | At last the Transvaal has been laid under contribution for the local color of | & play. Paul Potter will produce a play | in October next with its scenes laid in| Dopp@sdorf, a Transvaal village. Louis | Mann and Clara Lipman will take the | principal parts in Mr. Potter's drama—| those of an old Boer farmer, Plet Prins- ‘ 100, and his willful daughter Mona. The | actor and actress are now in Holland | stuaying Dutch characteristics and dia- | lect for their coming impersonations. It is not yet announced if the piay has any political interest. e + what one will by wanting | and steadily enough; Is it | not hether or not the thing is| worth having when obtained is another | Some things seem to be. There e a man who came to Califoraia | seven or eight years ago wishing o | be an a He wished more particular] to be Hamlet, to be Romeo, to be Mae- What he did here was to give dra- | - readings, under the wing of a cientific-Delsartean cult then at ght of its fervor. The combination | ed him, adored him and haloed bim | into extinction for the s0? som right- | thinking portion of the commanity, but | the man had some sort of temper that| served to carry him safely through the | danger of such association. It served also | rent to a numerous | v prejudiced class of | RN ANSWERS TO COINAGE STOPPED-L S. L., City.) The coinage of two and a half dollar| pieces of the United States was discon- | tinued in 1882. THREE-DOLLAR PIECE—Subscriber, City. A threesdollar gold plece of 1854 is not listed as one of the coins that com- mands a premium. DIME OF '$5—C. K., Yuba City, Cal Catalogues of eastern coin dealers offer from 90 cents to $3 for & dime of 178 ac- cording to condition. WITH ARROWS—Subscriber, City. A quarter of 1853 with arrows at date does not command a premium. It is worth 25 cents and no more. JOURNALISM—Rhoda, City. There is no school of journalism in San Francisco other than that of learning from practical experience in a newspaper office. COLUMBIAN HALF DOLLARS—Sub- scribers, City. Eastern dealers in coin of- fer an advance of from ten to twenty-five cents on Columbian half dollars of 1882. TEN-DOLLAR PIECE-M. C. M., City. The catalogues of coin dealers show that no premium is offered for ten-dollar pieces of the United States coined after the year 1504. BANK ROBBERY-M. S., City. This department cannot find any record of any euch criminal case as the *“‘great Duncan- Casserly bank robbery.” The inquiry should be more explicit. ROTTANZI-J. R., City. Dr. T. O. Rot- tanzi was elected Supervisor in San Fran- cisco November 3, 18%, as a Democrat. The published list of candidates do not show that he was on any but the Demo- cratic ticket. MARRIAGE LAW-—C. L., City. The Legislature of California at its last heid session did not pass a law declaring that marriages in Reno, Nev., solemnized with- in a year after divorce in California should not be considered legal. THE BURNS CASE-J. M. S, City. Tom Burns, who was tried for “holding up” a saloon-keeper in his place of buri- ness near Fourteenth and Valencia streets some time since, was sentenced on the 224 of July, 1901, to imprisonment in San Quentin for five years. “CRAZY" MOODY—J. J. C., City. The soldier known as “Crazy” Moody, who shot a dry goods merchant on Mission street, near Tenth, some months since, was found guilty of robbery and assault to murder. He was sentenced to imprison- ment In San Quentin for twenty-eight years. LIVING TOGETHER—A., City. Before being able to answer the questions asked in regard to a man and woman having lived together for ten years it is neces- sary to know if at any time during that period they were known as husband and wife and each introduced each other in the relation of husband and wife. DISCHARGED EMPLOYE-T. 8. City. Whether a man employed at $76 per month is entitled to a full month’s pay if *dis- charged in the middle of the month with- out any reason being given by the em- ployer,” depends upon the terms of the en- gagement at the time the man was en- gaged. ANTS—Subscriber, Suisun, Cal. Worm- wood leaves placed where ants congregate will drive them away. To destroy ants grease a tin plate with lard and place it where the ants abound. The pests will go | by a Hindoo paper that I have before ma | and such like. | theatrical managers have hung upon bis | make. | of black jade set with jewels made from | the handle of a dagger of the time of CORRESPONDENTS. AGO. critics, who accused him of every sin in the artistic decalogue, and it further kept him steadily to his purpose. This mun had other and curious claims to consid- eration. He had a collection of jewels, rare, quaint and rich gems, that was said to equal even that of Sarah .Bernhardt. He used to pose in these, with the delight of a woman in that kind of beauty, and this collection its perfecting, was his sec- ond ambition. e Edmund Russell is the man’s name, and now, an Indian Advocate of last June, Russell seems to have attained both his desires. He playe Hamlet, Romeo and Macheth, and according to Mr. Baliwala, the “Irving of India,” is the “finest actor that has ever visited India.” How much that is saying I cannot vouch for, but as Russell is now probably somewhere in Australia or the Sandwich Islands and will presumably pass through here on the completion of his leisurely tour of the world we may have early opportunity of judging. He has quite evidently been taken very seriously in India, the de- scription of his progress through the country reading like an Oriental fairy tale in the magnificence of its attendant circumstances. Princes, rajahs, royal highnesses, galkwars and every Kind of Hindoo royalty has done him honor, load- ing him with jewels, sacred robes, ivories Even queens and their veiled ladies have looked upon his Ham- let from their latticed balconies, and tha priests in the temples have covered him with gifts and flowers. Nautch girls have danced for him, elephants fought for his amusement, actors have acted for him— “Sakuntala,” the great epic of India, still played with boys in the women's parts as in Shakespeare’s time with us—and | lips as he lectured on the future of the Hindoo drama. He seems indeed to have left behind him both a thorough liking and respect and to have brought away, what must now be almost that perfect collection of gems that he planned to Here are a few of them, just for the sake of the picturesqueness of the | thing. His Highness, the Gaikwar of Baroda, presented the actor with “a Prince’s choga and a magnificent neck- lace of ancient workmanship, in enamel set with diamonds and rubies and strung with pearls and pendant emeralds.” The Nawab of Junagadh's gift was a turban pendant, in catseyes, pearls, dia- monds and sapphires. The Maharajah of Kashmir gave a superb Kashmir shawl, and his brother Rajah, Sir Amar Singh (“whose beauty and culture are unequaled among the Princes of India”), his portrait set in a splendid piece of Kashmirett lac- quer. The Rajah Ravi Vamir of Agra, where is the wonderfui Taj, gave some exquisite wines, a girdle of the incanta- tions of Buddha worn by the Grand La- ma of Thibet, a great turquoise carved with a figure of Ganesh and a girdle clasp Akbar. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Publication Office............ i B @ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL DAY, AUGUST 25, 1901. R s e G Ser i s ey Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .AUGUST 25, 1901 SR R S sy s Market 'and Third, S.F. Truly, like a rew Arabian night's enter- tainment it reads, and the tour was crowned by the presentation of a farewell | address (in a silver casket) to this rejected and despised member of the American | stage from all the theatrical managers in Bombay. There should be a moral in this story, that you may have if you can find. Like the small boy with a certain minis- ter's tales, I myself like best stories that have no morals. Perhaps you do. on the lard and when there is sufficient number on the plate plunge the plate and contents in boiling water and set the trap anew. POLICE FORCE—Taxpayer, City. The distributicn of the police force in a city during a time of disturbance is a matter of discretion by the Chief of Police. he using his judgment in placing the officers so as to avert possible trouble and Je- | struction of property. The stripping of | one district of police to cover another is not an act for which any officer in author- ity can be impeached. POLL TAX—A., Lemoore, Cal. The fact that you do not read the papers and did not become aware that there had bcen published a notice in the county papers relative to the fact that if poll tax was not paid by a certain date, does not excuse you from paying the added penalty. The law requires that if the tax is not paid by a stated time a penalty of one dollar shall be added. The collector has no alternative but to collect the penalty. SELF-DEFENSE—J. P. C., City. A party is not guilty of a crime if wkile aclln_g in self-defense he fires upon his assailant and kills an innocent party. The general rule is that upon a sudden affray and with no avenue of escape from manifest danger to life or great bodily harm a party may resort to the extreme to defend himself. but to act in self-de- fense the party must not be actuated by a mere fear that he might be killed or greatly injured, but he must have an c:ver‘w;vl;eh-ndxy;]g1 conviction that if he did not defend himself ei e bodily injury wo&lde‘rglllegw?e“h ey s MAZUZA—Joseph Siebel of this eity furnishes the following in relation to what a mazuza is and it is a fuller answer than was given recently in this department: “The mazuza contains in Hebrew charac- ters verses from the Holy Bible, viz., Deuteronomy vi:4-9, also same book xi: 13-21. On the outside appears the Hebrew word Shaddai (Almighty). The mazuza is known in America as well as in Europe and other parts of the world. In Jewish houses it is nailed to the upper right hand of a door frame—that is, the right hand on entering of any door in the house. On passing a mazuza a Jew has to touch the same with his right hand and express in Hebrew a supplication, as ‘May the Al- mighty keep me from doing evil’ or ‘pro- tect me from evil desire.’ COAL OIL—A. H. L., City. Wh discovered coal oil in the T‘.’hlh_td 0512::: is a question that cannot be answered with positiveness; for the discovery of such ofl has been traced to several locali- ties and persons. As early as 1852 oll was noticed floating on the surface of a well near .Titusville, Pa. This was collected and used for medicinal purposes. In 1853 a Dr. Brewer suggested that such oil be used for illuminating; also for lubricat- ing purposes. In 1858-9 Colonel E. L. Drake of New Haven, Conn., investigated the oll région and sank a well on Oil Creek at Titusville, and on the 26th of August, 1859, was rewarded by “striking oil,’” the product of that well being from 400 to 1000 gallons a day. The first flowing well was struck that year in that region |, ::d it produced from 800 to 1000 barrels a y. —_———— Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy S(I.I'!:.l; but there the smith Shop” there greets the eye no more; but “Bisickels Repared” is seen above the smoky door.—Chicago Journal. THE ANTI-TRUST LEAGUE. ORRESPONDENCE has passed between the Anti-Trust League and the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States. ; The league secems to be very much dissatisfied with the result of the interchange, and indulges in personal charges against the Cabinet officer, intended to impeach his enforcement of the law. ; Finally, the league makes a proposition which partakes of the unfortunate most of the anti-trust political talk. It is in the interest of the people and of our national commerce that the trustquestion becir- cumnavigated by the courts. If these combinations are only evil they should be judiciallyabolished, killed dead. If they are a mixtare of good and evil the evil in them should be judicially restrained and the good encouraged. But neither will be done by political platforms and irrelevant discus- sion. The public mind is not enlightened by these and therefore has no light to cast upon legis- lation, to be enforced by the courts. None of the volunteer doctors of the trust evil has ventured to piit in complete form a bill for an act of legislation which medicates the malady. They prefer to inflame partisan activity by torrid denunciation. The last letter of the Anti-Trust League to the Attorney General is of this class of matter. It says: “We will now give him (the Attorney General) an opportunity to reas- sure the people as to his desire and intention to enforce the law against trusts. Will Attorney Gen- eral Knox offer a reward for the production of the incriminating, evidence against the trust for which we asked, and which he says he does not possess? Will he announce to-morrow that the Department of Justice of the United States will pay a substantial reward to any person or persons who will produce evidence that will lead to the arrest and conviction of any person or corporation guilty of violating the Federal statute against trusts?” That is so well calculated to muddle the issue that one is at a loss to decide whether it is the fesult of ignorance or design. The Attorney General is a Cabinet officer, the head of a departmient which has for expenditure only such funds and for such purposes as Congress may appropriate. It should be known to the Anti-Trust League that the Attorney General has no authority to offer any reward for a drag net expedition to find testimony in a case that has no existence. If he did this he would be subject to impeachment for unlawfully using the funds of his department. There are many Federal statutes besides the one on trusts. He has no more authority to offer a reward for evidence of the violation of one than of another. It is, therefore, whimsical or worse for the league to propose that the Attorney General shall violate the law himself’ to get evidence on which to begin a case against other violators of the law. If the league know of the existence of the evidence for which it wants a reward offered, its duty is to bring that evidence to the attention of the Attorney General by bringing suit in any Federal court, or before any Federal Court Commissioner. When such suit is docketed the De- partment of Justice has jurisdiction of its prosecution, and the intention of the Attorney Gencral to enforce the law will be made known through the use he makes of the evidence in the case. It is notoriously in the power of any citizen to lodge in a Federal court an information which will begin such a suit. The prosecuting witness need not be even a member of the Anti- Trust League, nor belong to the platform committee of the conventions, Democratic, Republican or Populist, which are now engaged in racing against each other for hard words in which to de- nounce trusts. Of course it would look better if some such person would back up his zeal in language by substantial action, but so far none has offered. The league can do this. 1t says “the trusts ride rough-shod over the ‘people.” There ought, then, to be marks enough left to identify the culprit, and evidence to convict the rough- shod rider should not be wanting. Therefore will the league cease to talk nonsense and do something? - PARADISES FOR TWO. character of N Englishman of wealth and leisure who has been cruising about the Indian Ocean for pleasure for a long series of years is reported to have informed the Royal Geographical Society that he had touched at upward of 16,000 small but inhabitable islands between Madagascar and India and found only about 600 of them inhabited. = The remainder are Edens waiting for an Adam and an Eve. It will be remembered that we have not yet completed the census of our small islands in the Philippine group, but it is known there are thousands of them on which no one is living. Taking the two groups alone and not counting the myriad islands of the South Seas, it will be seen that any one who is tired of civilization and neighbors can easily find a place to settle where he can bring up his family in quictness and peace, uniretted by poli- tics or gossip. The English yachtsman is reported to have described the islands he saw as being altogether beautiful. Many of them show no signs of ever having been trodden by the human foot. Every- thing promises peace and plenty to the first comer. They are happy isles of palm and pine, where every prospect pleases and there are no men to be vile. Amid their umbrageous bowers the set- tler will be truly lord of all he surveys. He will never have to pay taxes nor go to the trouble of ' voting against a boss in order to have good government. Here, then, are ample opportunities for those who are weary of the wear and tear of the competitive system of civilization. The re- former will have nothing to reform except snakes and malaria, and those things are easy. Persons who are in search of an exclusive society should not overlook these opportunities. This is a land-grabbing age, and if the chance be not taken while it offers it may soon pass. There is no telling when Mr. Morgan will get his eye on those islands which are now free to all. TLet him who wishes an easy life and a quiet life and an exclusive life be prompt. He can have his pick of thousands of choice spots if he act quickly. : MARTINEZ JUSTICE ERSEY JUSTICE, in the sense of prompt and proper enforcement of the law, has passed into a proverb. California may now point to Martinez justice as equal to the best Jersey article. : Judge Wells of the Contra Costa Superior Court, in his prompt sentence of the Selby Smelting Works robber, has renewed and strengthened popular respect for the courts. He gave the thief of $320,000 the full extent of the law, unmoved by the plea that after arrest he had disclosed the hiding-place of the gold. The court’s action will tend to deter criminals and repress crime, and the Judge will be noted among the judicial officers of the State for his firmness and respect for the law which he is sworn to administer impartially. Let us have more Martinez justice. < Recent reports of wireless telegraph tests in Europe are to the effect that "in Southern France the messages covered a distance of 115 miles on land with ease, while in Great Britain a message was sent successfully from Crookhaven, Ireland, to Cornwall, a distance of 223 miles. After that there seems no good reason why the new telegraphy should not come our way and give us communication with the Farallones. Dr. Darember of Paris has created something of a sensation and gained a_ passing fame by declaring that consumption is rapidly increasing in France and that the disease is due mainly to the use of impure alcohol. The moral is: Never drink French wine when you can get that of Cali- fornia. Massachusetts is making more splutter over the disappearance. of a man named Blondin, who is supposed to have committed a murder, than the whole country made over the midsummer disappearance of Rooseve}t, so if any honest community has Mr. Blondin it should return him at once. Politics in Pennsylvania has become so exciting by reason of the fusion against Quay that the Philadelphia papers are announcing almost every day in big letters, “Philadelphia is awaken- ing.” So the rest of the country might as well begin to look out for the unexpected. It is said there are more than 10,000 American summer tourists in London who are unable to obtain passage room on any steamer for six weeks to come, and if the report be true it is about time to abolish the ocean ferry system and build a bridge. . It seems to be the determination of Colombia and Venezuela to give the Pan-American Congress at Mcxicp: something to do that will be wosth while. WAGNERIAN MARKS MAY BE DIVERTED FROM BAYREUTH TO MUNICH. BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. E accounts from Bayreuth are 2!'ngix:mlnx to come in, with the usual rhapsodies and enthusiasms only explicable to those fortunate enough to have been there. Otto Floersheim of the Courfer this week {reats his readers to an epic of ennun': asm concerning the “Flying Dutchman that this year opened the season. Gen- erdl Musikdirector Mottl conducted, and to the performance from a purely musi- cal standpoint, save for a certain slow- ness of tempi, Mr. Floersheim accords “unalloyed praise.” Mme. Heink is the only singer in 0 cally known, and, of course, sang Mary's part, and again, of course, admirably. Van Rooy sang the title role, and he must be a wonder from the accounts. Miss Emily Destinn of Berlin was the Senta, and she is highly praised both from the histrionic and vocal standpoint. The Erik seems not to have been so suc- cessfully undertaken by Burgstaller, who was over-vehement in the part. Peter Heldkamp from Cologne sang Daland's part, to the full as well as Van Rooy sang the Dutchman, says Mr. Floersheim. The “Ring” has also been given, with Herr Hans Richter conducting, and with a splendid “Die Walkure” and a poor “Siegfried,” says the Concert-Goer’s critic. As “Siegfried” is mostly Siegfried it may have been -comparatively poor, but as the same critic acknowledges that the “scenery was splendid; Friedrichs as Alberich was splendid; Frl. Feuge-Gleiss as Brunnhilde excellent; Bertram as Wanderer and Schumann-Heink sufficing to raise the first two acts above total failure,” it Is possible we might have found it bearable. Schmedes was the Siegfried and Breuer. Mme. Bertram's Wotan seems to have made a profound impression. “Parsifal” has also been heard and criticized, and our ‘favorite, Van Dyck, was said to be in brilliant voice through- out his rendering of the name role. His exceptional histrionic abilities are also awarded a high meed of praise, and only a poor German pronunciation unfavorably criticized. There is much ado in Bayreuth just now about the new Munich theater, the Prinz Regent, that has been built with a view to giving the Wagner operas in their per- fection exactly as they are given at Bay- reuth. The plan naturally meets with some opposition at Bayreuth, that the un- kind Munich folk allege is not so much concern for the purity of Wagnerian art as concern for Wagnerian dollars that will naturally flow Munichward if people can get as good performance as at Bay- reuth for half the price. Bayreuth's art has been a myth to the middle classes, say the Munich people, and the Bayreuth aristocrats would keep it so. At any rate the new theater has been officially inspected by Prinz Regent Luitpold and accepted. rnest v., Possart will be mu- sikdirector, and the theater opened on Thursday last, two days after the closing of the Bayreuth festival. ) e e the cast lo- Our own operas this week, to leave the sublime for the local, have been Rossini's merry masterplece, ville,” and Boito's “Mefistofele.” I hear that the “Barber” was good as usual, with the same cast as last year, and that {the hit of the performance was Russo and Repetto’s naive rendering in English of “Because I Love You” in the “singing lesfon” scene. The “Mefistofele” I can answer for as a surprisingly good performance. It is one of the features of the season and has very apparently been more fully rehearsed and carefully directed than is commonly practicable in the Tivoll PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. B. T. Filshman of Amador is at the Palace. James Bell, a Nome miner, Is a guest at the Grand. J. W. Knox, an attorney of Merced, is at the Palace. | Dr. Paul Verleg of Hongkong is a guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller of San Jose | are at the Grand. D. G. Grant, a young capitalist of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. W. 8. Tupper, a prominent business mah of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. A. W. Barrett, a wealthy business man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Califor- nia. Dr. R. M. Hunt, a prominent medical man of Nevada City, 1s a guest at the Lick. J, B. Lippincott of the United States Geodetic Survey is at the Occidental from Los Angeles. Dr.T. Tukuda, a Japanese physician, is at the Occidental, where he registered last night from Tokio. A. G. Wells, general manager of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is at the Pal- ace. He is accompanied by his family and a few friends. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lawrence, promi- nent society people of Salt Lake City, are at the Palace. They, together with a party of friends, are touring the coast for pleasure and recreation. ——————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The following Californians have arrived: San Fran- cisco—W. Frank, at the Hoffman; S. H. Peddy, at the Gilsey; E. I. Wolfe, at the Herald Square; Miss Bissinger, M. E. Greene and wife, W. J. Wayte and wife, at the Holland; C. C. Justin and wife, at the Gilsey; E. J. Powers, at the Murray Hill. Los Angeles—H. C. Ackerly, at the Hol- 1and; E. W. Potter, at the Herald Square. Oakland—H. C. Sincul, at the Broadway Central. QUEER TWINS THESE. Curious Chinese twins are now being ex- hibited in Europe. Like the famous Siam- ese twins, they are joined together at the lower part.of the chest. These twins are boys, and they were born In China a few years ago. They are of normal intelligence and each weighs thirteen kilogrammes. Four years ago they had smallpox, the infection passing in twenty-four hours from one to the other. One day whisky was given to one of them and yet it was the other one who first began to show signs of intoxication. They go to sleep about the same time, but it is possible to awaken one without arousing the other. They can walk and run with ease and when they lie down t:zey very quickly find a comfortable posi- tion. M. Chapot-Prevost, a sclentist, who has given much attention to monstrosities of this kind and who successfully performed an operation some time ago on two girls ligament uniting them could be severed without much if any risk. He, therefore, suggested that this be done, but those in charge of the twins said it was impossi- ble, as it was the will of the Chinese god Khango that the boys should be born g lu:u:, and his will must be respected. “The Barber of Se-| productions. Then the staging, barring a bare and un. comfortable paradise in the first act—in alarming contrast.to the spruce and well- furnished mansion of the Greek blend that later appears, be it noted—is much more elaborate than one has any right to ex- pect at the price. The Brocken scene is a really excellent bit of stage manag. ment, a fine picture, well lighted, co: tug:d and grouped. So, also, is the Greek hedven aforesaid, and the chorus in the market scene gets quite a respectable dis- tance from its usual indifferent pose. It Schumann- | has also been trained into a real dramatic effectiveness in the Brocken scene, where Faust and Mephisto g0 wandering around the picture in a quite Wagnerian fashion. It is to be conceived that even the choru: enjoys a novelty, and certainly in “Mefis- tofele’” there is admirable material for their appreciation. The orchestra also plays a noble part, and Mr. Steindorft has done more than well in his work with the opera. The management has wisely de- cided to keep it in the bill another week. e “Mefistofele” is much nobler in scope than the Gounod edition of the story. “Faust” has in it dramatic thrill and easy tunefulness, and one truly misses in “Mefistofele” the “King of Thule,” the “Calf of Gold,” the “Soldiers’ Chorus” and the “Cavatina.” But “Faust” is Goethe Gallicised, popularized, metamorphosed, but in no sense interpreted, which is just where Bolto comes in. That the Italian composer dared to produce his “Meflsto- fele”” not ten years after the Gounod opera shows that he was very fully persuaded of its vital significance and radical difference from the first setting of the opera. The work has all the broad reach and high imaginative qualities of Goethe's poem, and is also original and beautiful from a musical standpoint. That the composer dld not always attain his high end is not to be wondered at, but “Mefistofele” re- mains one of the most important works of the Italian school. It reminds much of Berlioz in places, and the thinness of the Tivoli orchestra was sometimes unpleas- antly apparent in its interpretation there- fore. Ome needs an orchestra of sixty in- stead of sixteen, to get all the tone-color possible, six harps instead of one for the celestial chorus, and so on. Still, it is all the more creditable to the house with its limited resources to have given so good a performance, and one is very glad to get it even so. Dado sings the title role very satisfac- torily, looks the part very handsomely, but lacks largely on the dramatic side. His deflance to the heavenly powers in the first act s unpardonably tame—perhaps owing to a somewhat précarious position on a sort of jaunting car of a cloud where he is perched. He is wanting entirely, too, in the splendid mischief that made Plan- con’s Mephisto such a marvelous affair, that even Nicolini’s devil was not found wanting in. But he sings his “whistling song” splendidly, and is always safe vocally. Montanari's Marguerite is good, and had she wisely confined herself to roles like this would have been even bet- ter. But her voice has suffered from the strain of heavy dramatic roles that do not come within her vocal domain, and it is a pity, for it is a very sweet, pure, round quality that she has. Agostini is the Faust, and though it is not so fine as his Ferdinand, is yet a very pleasing perform- ance. Hig voice is notably free from the “bleat” of so many Italian tenors. “Il Trovatore” will be the other. bill of the coming week, with Salassa, who is bad- 1y cast as the Count di Luna, Collamarint as Azucena, a fine performance, Barbar- eschi in one of her best parts as Leonora, and Russo as her miniature but voecally sufficient lover. @ il O A CHANCE TO SMILE. Wife—What do you suppose baby is thinking about? The Brute—I s’pose he’s thinking about something to cry about to-night.—Tit-Bits. Miss Fortysummers—Now, I remember the time when hoopskirts were considered quite the proper thing. Alex Smart—I guess they were swell af- fairs in those days.—Ohio State Journal. “Rivers, I wish you would tell me what would be a good dlet for breakfast this hot weather. I have a spell of indigestion every morning after eating.” 1 “If you'll eat what I do, Brooks, you will never have any trouble with your digestive organs. In fact, you will never know you have any such things about you. 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