The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 18

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1901. PUPIL OF OLD CORTEZI PROVES A DISCOVERY ON RETURN FROM CONTINENT By Blanche Partingion. R. HARRY H BARNHART, a the last gaining knowledge and g-ace, made his first appearance here as a singer Thursday evening last at Sherman & Clay Hall, in -company with Miss An- nette Hullah charming young English- woman who plays_the piano and who also made her debut before a dience. alifornian au- r. Barnhart is something in the nature of a discovery. A pupil, of old Cortezi in Florence for five years, a pupil of Ran- degger 1 London, he has a delightful voice, tech: i method. His volce is a s basso cantante, il the best characteristics of his He phrases most musiclanly shion, has the n e of shading, a flexibility and & wide range of even from end to end. Mr. Barnhart =0 the with elusive thing called temperament and has a serviceable dramatic sense that ena- bles him to give numbers like the “Torea- dor Song” with a fine swing and spirit. I advise any one hearing this singer in concert to refrain from 'judgment on his first and even secofid . numbers. He was extremely nervous the other evening, until he had got the pitch of the house, ‘s0 to speak—nerv- ous to an extent that affected his intona- tion and even his freedom of execution. But perhaps that was only-the nervous- ness incidental to a first appearance. Mr. Barnhart has certainly no other reason to be rervous. Worth, variety and interest were all rep- resented in the programme, from the Handelian merrymaking in O, Ruddier Than the Cherry,” given with a delightful certainty of execution, to the pirated de- lights of Levi's tuneful “Garden Sere- nade,” in which the singer touched ad- mirably the sentimental elde of things. His exquisite pianissimo is another pleas- ing feature of Mr. Barnhart's work, and the quaint “Philemon et Baucis” song offers happy opportunity for its exhibi- tion. Barring a sometime eccentricity of enunciation and a few Insignificant man- nerisms, there is but little to cavil at in the newcomer's work, and he is truly an important addition to the not too thickly populated ranks of good men singers here. » e Miss Hullah is & Leschetiszky pupil and, I understand, an accredited repre- sentative of the famous master's meth- ods. She has certainly all the character- istics of the school, the inimitable stac- cato, the round, full tone and fine clarity of execution. Hers is the scholarly, academic, logical school—an intellectual rather than emotional conception—and from this standpoint her work is emi- nently satisfactory. But it is as if she sang because she willed, not because she must, as if judgment rather than in- spiration guided her effort—a fine and high judgment be it said, but still a cal- culated and not inevitable note. I do not think the planist's programme was chosen altogether fortunately. The Mozart variations in G have not been so long neglected for nothing, neither Chopin at his cheapest in the Op. 16 “Rondo” and the angularities of the Grieg E minor sonata (I know this is rank heresy) do not suffice to put one into most harmoni- ous mood. The Bach “Gigue” was de- lightful, though I know the planist has sometimes done it ampler justice, and a new “Song of the Waves” by Arthur Henton is a most picturesque and pleas- ing number and was given with full sense of its values. In one of the Mendelssohn “Lieder” Miss Hullah most nearly ap- rroached tenderness, but her distinguish- ing characteristics are an admirable con- scientipusness, considerable technical at- tainment and unusual poise. Mr. Oscar Maurer, 1 was forgetting to note, sccompanied Mr. Barnhart with sympathy, taste and spirit. I 1f the particular edition of “Florodora” with which we are to be regaled to-mor- row evening at the Columbia Theater is not a success we shall ourselves be largely to blame, for it turns out to be quite a family affair. There are any number of Californians (more or less) concerned in the production, from John C. Fisher, who owns it, to George E. Lask, the stage meanager, the late lamented stage director of the Tivoll, Mr, Fisher is, or was, the owner of the San Diego Opera-house, and when the American rights of “Florodora’ were on the market in London secured them after & famous fight with the well- | fortunate possessor of that | | and one can therefore feel reasonably sure | of that part of the entertainment. Frank Wiy (] L i g ENGLISH WOMAN WHOSE PI- ANO PLAYING IS ATTRACT- ING FAVORABLE COMMENT, * + known Dunne & Ryley Company; that, by the way, dissolved partnership over | the transaction. Dunne had the option of the popular opera, but after his somewhat disastfous season at the California Thea- ter last summer had not the wherewithal to obtain it. It therefore came in Mr: Fisher's way, who also incidentally secured the services of Mr. Dunne’s partner, Phil Ryley, and one of the best comedlans of the day, while he was about it. Now there are three “Florodoras” running in America— | the original Casino production In New | York, the company that will appear here | to-morrow and another that began an | Bastern season in Philadelphia last weck ! —all under the fortunate ‘“Florodora’ Fisker's management. The “‘old original” “Florodora” of the Lyric Theater in Lon- don, by the way, is still running. It is| now in its third vear. George E. Lask, as before intimated, is responsible for the stage management of the Columbia production to-morrow nigt, Palma, another Californian, fs musfcai | director, and Laura Millard, sometime so- prano of light opera seasons at the Tivoli a few years ago, is another contribution from the State. Then there is Willlam T. Carleton, long and favorably known here as head of his own light opera com- pany that toured the State for years a couple of decades ago with its headquar- ters at thé old Bush-street Theater. Neither, perhaps, should be omitted the ! name of Fred Herr, who, with an excel- | lent training in the Southern Pacific of- fices at Los Angeles, fills to admiration the role of the company's treasurer. “‘Florodora” brings, therefore, many old friends here, and, if not for herself alone, will be welcome for theirs. The management, however, claims an equality of merit with the Chasino produe- tion—in some regards even a superiority— and that has so far sufficed to fill the New York theater for more than a year and the end thereof no man knows. It appears that we are not to have the Gerardy recitals after all, or, at least, tht the celebrated ‘cellist will not be heard here until February next. A change of pian has made San Francisco more nearly the last instead of the first city of his American appearance this seson, and Boston, where he will have the unusual honor of appearing five times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will hear first that wonderful Stradivarius and its talented owner. Gerardy has had a finely successful season in Australia this sum- mer and also gave several prosperous con- certs in’ Honolulu. 3. ekl . The Berkeley Oratorlo Soclety, Clinton R. Morse, conductor, presents on Thurs- day next at Shattuck Hall Mendelssonn’s “Elijah” with the following soloists: Mrs. Charles B. Mills, soprano; Mrs. J. B. Bermingham, econtralto; Harry L. Taylor, tenor; S. Homer Henley, basso. The soclety is composed of seventy-five voices, and last year presented “Elijah” and “The Creation,” with full orchestral accompaniment by the Berkeley Orches- tral Soclety. The chorus has been en- larged this year and the orchestra strengthened, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY .. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ..SEPTEMBER 29, 1901 Publication Offis.............oeveeireeenennnsne.. . T .Market and Third, S. F. YELILOW TRIGZ% EXPOSED. F~®\ HE Examiner, in an effort to fix upon The Call some of the yellow pitch of anarchy with was in which the yellow sheet has itself been defiled for years past, yesterday puhlishefl in h{nck« faced type at the head of its editorial columns an extract from a report upon Emma Gold- man made by a woman employed upon the staff of The Call at the time the noted anarchist this city in April, 1898, The extract separated from its context gives but little ground for the insinuation which the yellow distorter of the truth would have it convey, and when read in its proper place in the article it affords no such ground at all. The publication of it therefore in the way in which it was presented to the public by the Examiner was a deliberate attempt at defa- mation by means of falsehood and misrepresentation, $ We cannot permit the yellow faker to place The Call in even a seeming alliance with Exam- iner motives to promote anarchy, and accordingly take space enough this morning to refute the falsehood and expose the trickery to which Hearst in his desperation resorts, When Emma Goldman came to San Franciseo a member of the staff of The Call was sent to attend her lecture, interview her and give a personal impression of her character and manners, That work is done in the ordinary routine of legitimate journalism in order that the public may be informed concerning any person in whom there is general interest at the time, even if that person man was published on April 27, 1808, as a part of the local news of the day. he a murderer whose ~rime has shocked the community, The report concerning Miss Gold- On the very next day there was published an editorial setting forth the condemmation which The Call has never failed to pronounce upon anarchy and its votaries whenever the occasion has ealled for it, That the public may have now an opportunity to perceive how grossly the Examiner has lied in this ase we republish hoth the interview and the editorial in full, The report ran thus: EMMA GOLDMAN, ANARCHIST A little woman—she can't be five feet tall-~her round elender figure neatly dressed in black, a bunch of carnations at her belt and one glowing vividly in her brown hair, a white collar at her fair throat and white lace falling over her tiny hands. Her eyes are beautifully clear and gray, her forehead is fine and low though the head itself seems narrow, the small nose is a bit blunt and the thin lips have an habitual disdain- ful curl that is far from pleasing. riot. nal Manning's words, ‘Necessity knows no law. century ago she would have been beheaded. delivered over to the loving embrace of the jungfrau, while in the sixteenth century she would This is Emma Goldman, the anarchist, who suffered a year's imprisonment in New York for “inciting to “I didn't incite to riot,” she eaid to me after last night's meeting was over, “I merely quoted Cardi- “But there was an implication, wasn't there? Incite to riot? Why, this five feet of feminine anarchy is the most dangerous enemy society has. You meant them to riot?” I asked her. Had she lived a Two centuries ago, Emma Goldman, anarchist, would have been have been nicely boiled in oil or beheaded and then neatly broken on the wheel. ical ever met. though I can't agree with her, But this little Russian woman, with her thickened speech, her good rolling “r's,” her disdain of rhetor- rules, her vehemence of expression, her potent unstudied postures. is the most interesting woman I She has life, she has courage, she has brains. She is fiercely consistent, unwaveringly true, and 1 believe her to be absolutely sincere. You should hear her talk. It doesn’t matter whether you're socialist or anarchist, or are endowed with a blessed indifference to isms in general. You can better afford to miss hearing Melba or even Bernhardt than listening to this genuine creature. cago; e t listening to Emma Goldman. She is San Francisco's sensation as she was that of New York and Chi- and next to the departure of the soidiers who marched off to Cuba there is nothing so thrilling as For nothing cows this woman, who_ alludes in her full, strong contralto to the Diety as “the old gentleman who employs full-stomached idlers, priests, rabbis and ministers, .to mind his business”; who attacks the press and charges it with the responsibility of the war with Spain; who speaks mockingly of President McKinley as “a low politician,” and says it was honesty among thieves that made De Lome so express himself, and who then turns upon the people themselves present and taunts them with their ignorance, their helplessness and their gullibility. “You—you—you fools!” she cried, “you slaves who prate of humanity! Did you interfere in human- ity’s name when Sheriff Martin and the other murderers, his deputies, shot the strikers down? Oh, no; you ou stand like cattle before the bulletin boards with the war news. the ruling classes may rejoice: your purse may suffer. did nothing of the kind! You believe what you are told to believe; you do what you are told to do. What for, my friends, what for? That that the yoke may press tighter upon you; that your blood and your'body and And then you talk of freedom, of liberty!” O, the contempt in this woman’s voice! O, the power she has over this large audience that .shouts bravos and stamps and roars in response to her fiery words! boys,’ : father sweats at home and his sister sells herself in the streets “As if a workingman could ever be free! Why, you are.slaves, slaves. And ‘the brave boys, the brave she went on quoting sarcastically, “I say ‘the brave boy’ who goes to offer himself in battle while his deserves the lash—and I hope he gets it.” 1 asked Miss Goldman later if she didn't fear to address men in such terms as this. “Never,” she answered. “I have talked to workingmen at the mines, in Chicago, during strikes, and never once was molested.” a relic of a barbarous time. not ‘hip, and She doesn’t mince words, this fierce, scornful woman. She denounces the present war—all wars—as She declares the men we honor—Washington, Jefferson, Wendell Phillips—were patriots, but rebels. She deplores love of country because it makes one intolerant. “Do you mean to tell me,” she demands, one little hand outstretched and the other braced upon her “do you mean to tell me it is wise and noble to throw yourselves like wild beasts upon the Spaniards, that you'll believe it perfectly wise and perfectly legal and noble, simply because you're told so by the press and the pulpit—the pulpit,”” she sneered, “for war!—and the monopolists and the Government that is not by the people and for the people? They tell you you'd tear yourselves to pieces if you had no leaders. Who does the lynching in the South—the white or the black?” clares; “to do good is my only religion.” rier “The world Freedom, freedom is her cry. tyranny, every government, all laws, an imposition. And the remedy? : i “I may be'a fool: T am not a prophet,” she answered a question from the gallery with a swagger, the Miss ‘Goldman’s speech is epigrammatic: it is highly quotable. is my country,” she de- According to her creed every bar- only betrayal of self-consciousness she was guilty of last night. : but up a looking-glass before you so that you can see and know yourselves. This small firebrand will suggest no remedy save this: 3 “Truth is a dangerous weapon in the hands of workmg men and women. }’our enemy is not in Spain in Washington: not in Madrid, but in San Francisco. in New York, in Chicago. I believe in holding When you are educated, when you know your power, you'll need no bombs, and no dynamite or militia will hold you.” On the following day as a warning against the effects of the Goldman meetings The Call published this editorial: THE SPIRIT OF ANARCHY. The record of several anarchists who by bomb-throwing and other forms of assassination have brought themselves into position in which their lives could be laid bare furnishes an interesting study. men before national codes were formed, and is understood to restrain men even when They have usually been found to have lived in violation of the moral law which was in force among they are beyond the reach of codes and statutes. Their domestic relations are frequently illicit and their ideas of rights of prop- erty are not derived from the ten commandments. As organized society and the law of states are based upon the rights of person and property and de- fend the moral foundation of the domestic relations, anarchy lifts its hand against society and against gov- ernment. When confronted with such records as are revealed by the arrest of anarchists who have been guilty of assassination it is their practice to reply that the moral offenses committed by them are also practiced by others who profess to support organized society and to support government. % That is obviously true. But such violators of the moral code are secret sinners, who realize their of- fense and conceal it and shrink from making its practice the social rule by the destruction of government and tions, and strikes impartially at church and s cipline. its institutions. The spirit of anarchy is one that resists moral restraint, that chafes under the discipline of institu- ate, because each is in its way the agent of morality and dis- It would seem, then, that anarchy is the cult of the abnormal man, of the class of atavists who reject everything that has come into the world with civilization. Those who publicly propagate it are the apostles of crime, the evangelists of assassination. Their cry to the laboring man is that he is a slave, and no means are omitted to embitter him and make him an agent in the destruction of civilization and government. mises of anarchy. It needs no profound knowledge or exalted intelligence to discern the motives or SROWAE , deny the pre- Modern civilization, which it attacks, 2 has lifted the face of labor from the ground and turned it toward the stars. It has taken labor in the mass out of serfdom into independence, out of a hut into a hownse. It has dotted the nations with schools wherein the sons and danghters of laboring men have been freely offered the opportunity for a better education than was within the reach of princes a thousand years ago. Government and civilization have put the personal and property rights of labor on exactly the same footing and under the same judicial protection as the rights of the rich, born in the purple. The improved economic conditions, due to modern civilization, have put over labor a shelter, into its life comforts, and on its table food that were the exclusive possession of royalty and nobility five hundred years ago. man since the dark ages. cent torn to shreds by dynamite: to the President of a republic who decreed freedom’ and ownership of land to 25.000,000 serfs, assassinated in the street: to a score of faithful policemen murdered in Haymarket square while doing their duty as and schooling? him? So government and social institutions can point to what they have done for the enfranchisement To what can anarchy point as its achievements for humanity? murdered in his carriage: of To the inno- to the Czar s of St. Petersburg; their protectors of person ; Has it given wages, shelter, food and a step in the path of further progress which civilization. has opened for Let it blazon its achievements and inform lahor of the mighty things it has wrought for those who toil property. What has all this crime and violence done for labor? Has it advanced man that the world may strike a balance between murder and civilization as a means for the uplifting of the race. Such is the full record of the case. The reader will perceive there is nothing in the inter- view with Miss Goldman to incline any person to listen favorably to her teachings, while the edi- torial in emphatic'terms condemned them by pointing out their violation not only of the laws of government but of God as well. It remains now for the Examiner, this maligner of others and garbler of reports, to venture upon some explanation of its relations to anarchy and to assassina- tion—and to the publication and indorsement of the following verse: “The bullet that pierced Goebel’s chest Cannot be found in all the West; Good reason. It is speeding here To stretch McKinley on his bier.” » \ RO BRI S ARARES AR AR AR H A +__________d_/——-—————_——+ | DISCUSSION RAGES OVER PLAYS RUNNING ON DAY OF PRESIDENT'S DEATH By Guisdrd. { <+ CURIOUS fllustration of the rad- ical difference between the East- ern and Western ethical outiook is the more or less acrid discus- sion now raging in the East on the keeping open of the theaters there on .the day of the late President’s death, co- incident with the absolute silence on the subject maintained here. The San Fran- cisco theaters, without exception, were closed in the afternoon, thus sacrificing the matinee receipts, and were also at one in keeping open for the Saturday night performances, a course of conduct that excited here neither comment nor con- troversy. In New York most of the theaters pursued the same policy, with the important exceptions of Weber & Field's Music Hall, the Broadway Theater and Wallack’'s—where James Hackett was appearing in “Don Caesar’s Return”— that were all closed for the day, while in Chicago the theaters were open both in the afternoon and evening. On the day of the funeral at Canton almost every American theater was closed both afternoon and evening, with some exceptions among the vaudeville houses in Chicago. In London also the day was generally observed among the American players and managers, notably Gillette, now playing in “Sherlock Holmes' at the Lyceum, Nat Goodwin and Maxine EI- liott at the Comedy; at the Shaftesbury, “Are You a Mason?”; at the Century, “The Whirl of the Town,” and the Duke of York’s, the Apollo and the vaudeville. In San Francisco every theater was closed, every business house except drug stores and eating houses, even to the cigar and bootblack stands, and the day with its strange accord of physical atmosphere, heavy, pallid, mournful, and the weird quiet, will long be remembered with a sorrowful shudder. But it does not seem to have oceurred to any one here to question the right- eousness of those Saturday night per- formances, nor of those in the interim between the close of the deplorable trag- edy and the funeral of the President, though a large portion of the usual au- diences signified their decent sorrow by absenting themselves from the theaters. But those who stayed away have criti- cized neither the various managements for keeping open house nor the play- goers who attended the performances: neither the actors who took part therein, nor the owners of the several attractions; wherein, as plain as a pikestaff, appears the vital difference between ou®selves and our Eastern neighbors—with the honors where honor is due. In the East the manager has been very generally called upon to defend his policy in keeping open found national sorrow, and the question has created a considerable bitterness in the discussion. The action of James K. Hackett in closing his theater from the day of the President’s death until after the funeral, sustaining thereby a personal loss of $2000 a night, seems to have formed the center of discussion and is variously interpreted according to the interpreter as ‘“gallery play,” “pure ad- vertisement” or as a noble sacrifice to a keenly sensitive regard for the national proprieties. The latter view seems to prevail with the general public, who have accorded Mr. Hackett the highest praise for his action, the former with other managers, who say that the actor’s line of conduct has given rise tp unjust com- parisons between his and their policies. > G le The Rochester Democrat thus presents m“lflmm,muflm resents lucidly the general point of view | a place of amusement at a time of pro-. NEW LEADING LADY AT THE AL- CAZAR WHO WILL APPEAR IN “LIBERTY HALL.” -L T am a good citizen of the United States, and T deplore the death of the President and the manner of it as deeply as any other good citi- zen. 1 perceive as clearly as you the incon- gruity of public amusements during a perfod of public mourning. But if I ¢lose my theater for a week—there is no reason that I cam ses why it is more permissible to open it on any one night during the.mourning period than on any . other—I will suffer a pecuniary loss of from $5000 to $10,000. And I must bear this loss alone. I cannot so distribute it between my- self, my landlord and my employes that my personal loss would be merely the loss of my profit for the week. It would not be fair to do g0, and the law would not permit me to do so. I cannot afford this loss. It might bankrupt me. Now, why should I, more than any other business man, be asked to prove my sympathy with the general sorrow by incurring such a loss and risking bankruptey? I understand per- fectly that there are occupations to which my question does not apply. - The butchers, the grocers, ii.. bakers, the apothecaries must cone tinue to du ousiness in order to supply actual needs of the public. But to the jewelers, the | dry goods dealers, the milliners, in short, to) ninety-nine occupations out of & hundred that are uninterrupted during a period of publiq mourning without objection, I think my quess tion does apply. Their activity during thel mourning period is no more vitally essenttal to the public weil being than ls the continuancd of my business. Moreover, note this: If pul lic opinion were solidly against me, if ther were a genuine public aversion to publid amusement during the period of public mourn, ing. my theater would, of course, be closed for obvious reasons. There is no loss in no playing to empty benches. { The above statement seems to cover thé ground pretty well, and is a fair and sen. sible presentment of the case for the man. agers. The fact, however, remains tha a large percentage of the American pul lic, indubitably composed of those eitf zens whom we are content to acknowl: edge as safe leaders in any other qu tion of national import, differ from th. opinions therein expressed and hold tha the opening of the theaters at all durin, a period of deep mourning like through which the nation has just is a flagrant violation of nation: prieties. The very practical of opinion from that other community that partially filled the ope: theaters during the aforesald period I e;gdence unmistakable on the mana; side. It is, of course, a matter of ment, and to expect that that vg:-lst"llrl:e' 5;::1 ity shall coincide upon this or any qu. tion is the most altrurian of delusions. Bu it is certainly unfortunate {among them I give it here in full: present time, and the current discussi has certainly trended in that dlrectl:)o Many remedies have been suggested b: which such vurdignified differences have inspired the present controvers; might be obviated, even to the Europea; expedient of ordering a prescribed period of mourning, to be observed by all place: of amusement alike. But mourning b: act of Congress will hardly appeal to th American public, especially one that ap: parently discrininates against the busi+ ness Interests of certain classes of tha community. It would hardly be possibla either unless certain conditions that pre- vail in Europe were prevalent here: for example, theaters subsidized by the state, or, as in England. the life of the reigning sovereign Insured by theatrical managers against their inevitable loss in case of said rulers’ death. And here the question hangs, that we have here allowed, with characteristic good nature or indiffer- ence, to settle itself, permitting our reighbor to mind his own business whether it took him to the theater or to church, and not therein being conspicu- ously improper apparently, even fn com- parison with our controversial Eastern friends. e ———— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotsl? —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's. —_—— Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarium, 1839 Polk. * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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