The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1901, Page 18

18 - — FLOODTIME OF NEW PLAY { DELIGHTS THEATER-GOERS ; IN THE EAST THESE DAYS | ! BY GUISARD. 3 - | | i | | | i { | | i’ | i TPTELI_J\K\'G“’N AND TALENTED ACTOR WHO IS ADDING.TO HIS FAME IN THE CHARACTER OF HAMLET, NOW BEING PRODUCED | AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. e and high sea- | in the East of the tasting of and perhaps a matic menu th car if we are good, | resting. tan Theater is regarded as one of ed and pro- | rent an- | augurated us of opinion | s less favorable. anda of the Bal novelty of out that was promised zreat personal oppor- e, but lack of action is Ay rance of the psych- 1 rather th the dramatic flavor. ay that is bound to meet with a con- distinguished favor that s first appearance at the New heater Republic on the 23rd uilt. is ren’s “The Bonnie Brier Bush,” | » drama by James McArthur and Thomas. I wish I might quote llfam Winter's appreciation of Stoddart” in the part of Lach- Campbell, in which the veteran actor | has made his reappearance on the stage with such distinguished success. Here is 2 bit of it, however; the critic is speaking of that touching incident of Campbell's erasure of his daughter's name from the ¥ Bible. Mr. Stoddart’s acting, on the other hand, effect 1s so afflicting and lamentable that ve all art and scarcely can be | Nothing so simply touching, so rev- , 0 awful in its tremendous purpose of ce, and so deplorable in its weakness of nan grief has been seen on our stage. In of simplicity—in the gomething that t from the heart and goes straight hearts of others—this impersonation tran- of its s that the present | @id not seem to be acting—it had all the of reality. The audience was greatly The performance is one that every- body should sce. It adorns the theater. It dicates the uses of the drama. It is an honor to human pature, and it will prove a great public benefit—coming, 2s it does, in a time when such blessings as a pure play and & great actor are grievously needed. John Drew’s néw play at the Emplre, in which he has a part that is said to fit him like a glove, is “The Second in Com- mand,” a four-act comedy by Captain Marshall, whose “A Royal Family” has of late so delighted the play-goers here. Mr. Drew’s role is that of a major in the English army, who is always late for the good things of life, late in love, late in war, everywhere too late. The comedy is said to have all the brilllance and clarity of comstruction that commonly distin- guishes Captain Marshall's work. The new drama by Sir Henry Irving's son Lawrence, “Richard Lovelace,” E. H. Sothern’s offering at the Garden Theater, is another rather mixed metropolitan suc- s. The story winds about the courtly poet’s life as it is known with consider- able truth to history, but, with the excep- tion of the third act (where Lovelace, mortally wounded, sees again his former sweetheart, Lucy Sacheverell, now mar- ried to his treacherous friend Hawley), that is unanimously described as strong, moving and sympathetic, the play is not regarded as a distinguished example of dramatic craftsmanship. Mr. Sothern has won much personal favor as Lovelace, nen and Cecilia Loftus, whose appearance in! P. A., 87 Crocker Bldg., | at Wallack | the & | sham | play are not much discussed, the balance | to | Grand Opera-house: the “legitimate” was an event second only in interest to Mr. Sothern’s appear- ance in a new play, seems to have cre- ated a markedly favorable impression as Lucy Sacheverell. Hillary Bell says of rmances that ““Cecilia Loftus has iped the river that separates vaudeville | from the drama, but her skirts are wet.” Other critics express it that Miss Loftus’ in the emotionals needs toning | . @ tendency to hysteria being evi- down, dent. James K. Hackett and William Faver- sham are both competing for favor as THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1901. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager avioin s o ol alate o' siath Aisienia's e s ais sioie HONGT CRERS 6 “TQOF Publication Office ..Market and Third, S. F. PUBLIC ILLAND GRANTS. R. BRYAN, who is publishing columns of advice to President Roosevelt on how to run the government. has found time to rediscover a grievance and dress it up as a fresh ad- dition to his museum of issues. He finds that between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean the Republican party granted 135,800,000 acres of public lands, to secure the building of railroads. To his mind this transgression warrants standing the Republican party up against a dead wall and shooting it through with oratory supplied by himself, Cyclone Davis, and other Populist cartridge makers. He finds it entirely convenient to forget, and maybe he doesn’t know, that the system of building railroads in advance of population and business, to open up new country by furnishing transportation, was devised by the Democratic party. It was a wise policy then, and was wiser when it enabled the building of railroads over the bare and unpeopled stretch of mountain and desert to reach this coast. Mr. Bryan was born in Illinois. Thet State was the first to benefit by a railroad land grant. When she was bankrupt and trying to repudiate her public debt, when her people were few and immigration meager, for there were not facilities to carry people there and their surplus products to a profitable market, Stephen A. Douglas saved Illinois from the dishonor of repudiation by securing a vast grant of public land to build the Illinois Central Railroad. It was the best of agricultural land, capable of enormous production, but it was unpeopled. The road brought settlers, took their crops to market, and survived to a paying period on the credit which the land grant gave it. Admonished by this experience, land grants in the State of Iowa, again rich agricultural territory, were given during the administration of President Pierce, when Marcy was Secretary of State, Linn Boyd of Kentucky Speaker of the House, and Davy Atchison of Missouri President of the Senate. These grants created the credit which built across Towa the Mis- sissippi and Missouri, now the C. R. I. and P., the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska, now the C. and N. W, and the Chicago, Buriington and Quincy railroads, and the Iowa branch of the Hlinois Cen- tral, from Dubuque to Sioux City. Both parties in 1860 demanded. government aid to a Pacific railway, and the grants to the overland roads, which made the shivers run down Bryan’s back, fol- lowed in answer to that demand. He speaks of these grants as “monstrous;” and of the lands as the heritage of the people for their homes. Not one grant to a Pacific railroad approached in value that of the Illinois Ceniral. Mr. Bryan knows better. for he has traveled over the Southern Pacific on a pass, but he fosters the idea that these mountain and desert graits were like the rich prairie land in the Illindfs and Towa grants, which were made under Democratic administrations. The fact is the exact contrary. The overland grants look enormots on paper, but in their whole vast expanse there is rarely a section that equals in production a single forty-acre in Iowa or illi- nois. They were land, it is true. They had some, but a low, economic value. They looked well as'a basis of credit, and helped to build roads which were a military necessity to the government, ond finally enabled such settlement as the country was capable of supporting, and by furnishing trans- portation built up the mining, livestock: and coal business of the West and created the States of Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada. Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas. Without the roads which those grants helped to build there would not now be a State in the Union between California and Ne- braska. It is true that the United States also loaned to the Urion and Central Pacific roads bonds, from which they derived $18.000,000 each, to spend on construction, but it also true that these roads have paid back to the United States every dollar of this loan and every mill of its interest, and for its loan that yielded the roads only $36,000,000 the United States has pocketed muore than $120,000,000. We, who live on this coast and enjoy the railway facitities for travel and transportation afforded by the overland land grant roads, do not take patiently the criticism of the land grant policy made by demagogues born on the Illinois Central grant and domesticated in Nebraska or elsewhere. The grants that made their country great are treated as politically and economically proper, while everything dore in the same line for the far West is denounced as “a steal,” and the Republican party, which took over and applied a Democratic policy for our benefit, is character- ized as a thief, robbing the people of their heritage. grants, but he will be retired to the moldy and mummified company of those Republican politicians who still think there are votes in the rebel claims issue. We have the roads and they have the rocky and desert grants, and we only wish there were more lands of that kind to grant railroad companies which would take them and build more roads. UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS. OR along time past the increasing frequency of divorces among the people of this country, and the variety and laxity of the laws on the subject in different States, have been topics of earnest discussion on the part of lawyers, moralists and sociologists. The churches have been compelled to interpose, and in some cases have refused to recognize certain legal divorces, to the extent at least that their clergy have been forbidden to officiate at marriages between parties one or the other of which has been legally divorced, but upon grounds the church the swash-buckling Don C; ars, Hackett ’s in Victor Mapes’ edition ot ¥, “Don Caesar’s Return”; Faver- the Criterion in Gerald du Mau- rier’s “A Royal Rival.” The new dramati- zations, or rather adaptations, of the old of favor perhaps being with Du Maurier's that keeps more closely to the old ver- sion. _ William Winter says “James Hacket: is the best Don Caesar since Salvini.” but as been pointed out, there have beer no, Caesars since falvini’s, wherefore Mr. ays nothing. Both actors | Pl acking the superbly pic- turesque quality of the Latin hero, the ‘grand air,” the full-blooded grasp on fe, the careless, dashing, splendid stride through their romantic day, but Hack. cit’s impersonation is conceded to pos- the true note in higher degree. Faversham has with him the clever Jessie Busiey, the beautiful Julle Opp ang cur own Edwin Stevens, Mr. Hacken numbers another favorite here, Theodore Roberts, in his company. S Here is what the Boston Traveler had say of Joseph Haworth's Hamicr that will be the farewell bill of the gifted actor’s engagement this week at the Perhiaps the greatest praise that can be ac. corded Mr. Haworth's impersonation Is to sqy that it was a constant and vivid reminder | the Hamlet of Edwin Booth. It was & ver buman Hamlet, but it did not fail in poetre atmosphere. Then great soliloquies were res, with marked intelligence, and the strong temy tation to over emphasize was well resistes In appearance Mr. Haworth's Hamlet com pletely satisfled the most exacting admirer of the role. It is picturesque and virile in cor ception and executlon, and Mr. Haworth ana his friends may well be pleased With the sue. cess of the creation, Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. ————— Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Pulace Hotel* —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— Selling out. Eyeglasses, specs, 10¢ to 40c. Look out for 81 4th, ft. barber & grocer, - —_——— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c o pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas. kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s = gomery street. Telepho‘n‘ej fd?u';' é.l’o‘-uox:t —— The coffee trees require about four years to reach maturity and produce profitable crops. ————— “Go Away Back and Sit Down.” It 1= said that certain people cannot sing this song, but anybody can go away back East goy £it down In the comfortable trains of the Nioj: Plate Road. These trains carry Nickel Plage Dining Cars in which are served American Cly), Meals at from 85c to $1.00 each. Call or write for free book showing views of Buffalo Pan. American Exposition. Jay W, Adams, P. C. San Francisco Cal. ~ refuses to recognize as sufficient. To the bar the problem has been as serious as to the church. There is now such a confusion in our marriage laws that it is difficult for the ablest lawyer to determine in some cases whether a man has been legally divorced or not, or to what extent a divorce granted in one State is recog- nized as valid by the courts of another. A church can make 1egulations for itself on such subjects that will be binding upon its clergy and its membership, but the bar has no such advantage. For that reason there has been an earnest effort on the part of many of the eminent members of the bar to bring abput the enactment of something like a uniform divorce law throughout the nation. The aim of the bar differs from that of any of the churches inasmuch as it does not concern itself with what grounds may be made a sufficient basis for divorce so long as the statutes of the vari- ous States agree. For-the purpose of ridding our laws of this confusion the American Bar Association at its recent meeting at Denver recommended that no divorce be granted in any State unless the grounds for the suit were valid in the State where the parties had lived and where the cause arose. Wherethe suitis brought in the State where the cause arose the person seeking a divorce must have had an actual residence of one year; where the cause arose in a State other than that in which the suit is brought, the applicant must have had a residence of two years in the State where he secks relief. It was further recommended that no person be entitled to a divorce’ unless the , defendant shall have been served personally with a process, except that when the defendant cannot be found after a diligent search of six months, it shall be lawful to the court -to authorize publication of the suit and grant a decree. . The Bar Association aims to bring about the adoption of laws in conformity with its rec- ommendations by the Legislatures of the various States, and efforts to that end have already been made in many quarters. It will be seen that the recommendations of the bar do not affect the phases of the issue with which the church deals. Tt is with the bar merely a question of bringing order out of confusion, and the plan proposed leaves each State to decide for itself what shall con- stitute a valid ground for a dissolution of the marriage bond within'its jurisdiction. A New York man who found a burglar in his house held him up at the point of a revolver, “searched him and found in his pocket $10, which he took. as he said, to pay for some crockery the burglar had broken. He then let the fellow go, and now the burglar is wondering whether he can have the householder arrested for robbery. R i ot b It is now stated that the reason Prince Chun and his suite started for was not because of orders from the Chinese Government, but because German Kaiser did not wish Chun to make a tour of European capitals and cony many”’ intq a frolic. China so promptly y insisted on it. The ert that “apology to Ger- Bt Bt There is Skirmishing all over the Transvaal, and now and then a battle, but if all reports be true the heaviest fighting of the war is going on between Kitchener's headquarters and the Salis- ‘bury Ministry. We have not heard much of late about the Charleston exposition, nouncement that twenty-one acres have been set aside for mid cite interest. but the recent an- way attractions is calculated to ex- Rl TR President Roosevelt is reported to have said recently that one of his regrets is that he has never visited the Pacific Coast, so perhaps an invitation to come along about next summer would L. accepted. A 4 S o e i Mr. Bryan may think there is another campaign in pounding thrashed straw over these old - P e SRR e e ‘ENLIVEN BY BLANCHE SYMPHONY SOCIETY WILL SOON BE REALITY AND. MUSICAL SEASON PARTINGTON. i g2 —— —_— NEW LEADER OF THE “ROYAL ITALIAN MARINE BAND,” THE MU- SICAL SENSATION OF THE EAST THIS SEASON, BILLED TO AR- RIVE HERE THIS COMING WEEK. - HERE, O where, is the custom- ary and necessary grumble on symphony matters that usually adorns your pages at this sea- son?” questions one subscriber this week among several who concern themselves with the same subject, and who owns to something like dismay at having seen the beginning of the season go by without anywhere a word of protest as to this most crying musical need of the town. It affords me the utmost pleasure, O most polite and perturbed sir, to make the following very sufficient explanation of the symphonic silence that has pervaded these pages; but prepare yourself before- hand for the shock of good news. There is no grumble coming this year on the subject of a symphony orchestra for San Francisco, for and because before San Francisco is two months older she will have a symphony society for which I think I may venture to prophesy perma- v, artistic standing and financial sol- This is a large saying, I am aware, particularly as it is based almost entirely on the personality of the man that has been chosen as director of the orchestra, and in face of the warring factions into which former societies have split, and the generally lymphatic and intermittent interest that has been taken in the subject for some time now. But, after all, in a matter of this kind, it is the personality of the director that counts; witness the highly successful symphony seasons here under the mag- netic leadership of Fritz Scheel for ex- ample. Since that day the society has seen only troublous times, with occasional gleams of success. Its leaders have be- come the most pessimistic of persons and the public has lost both confidence and in- terast in the matter. With the coming of the Tivoll grand opera season, however, with its introduc- tifn of Mr. Paul Steindorff as a condue- tor of importance, the directors of the Symphony Society who have still held to- gether in a forlorn hope again took heart. They watched Mr. Steindorff's work week by week with increasing respect. They ‘D)k the measure of the man, noted his courage, energy, enthusiasm, artistic at- tainment, unlimited capacity for work, a gift in handling men, and to their own surprise found themselves considering anew the possibility of a symphony so- ciety for San Francisco. Last week they finally decided that Mr. Steindorff was the man for the hour, met officially and took the decisive step of electing him con- ductor of the society that is to be. The assets of the society so far are the faithful and competent board of directors, composed of Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, presi- dent; Dr. Edward R. Taylor, vice presi- dent; Mrs. James N. Odell, Mrs. J. M. Goewey, Mr. P. N. Lillenthal and Mr. Robert Tolmie, directors; Paul Steindorit, conductor; something like $1800 in the bank, and the list of former symphony society members. Library there is none, on the other side, without the mortgaged Scheel library that is in the directors’ possession shall, as it legally may, be con- sidered as the property of the society; there is the public indifference to fight, scattered enthusiasm to organize, the mu- sicians to inspire and all the thousand nd one other duties incident to initial organization to be undertaken. But Mr. Steindorff has said, “It shall be done™; the directors say, “It shall be done,” and 1 think this time the symphony society may be looked upon as an assured fact. Nothing is to be undertaken in the matter of concerts until after the Grau grand spera season in November, when three trial concerts will be given by Mr. Stein- dorft. Meanwhile those interested are ad- monished to busy themselves in this the most significant musical movement of the year. There has been a happy indication that the audiences of this year at the Tiveli have been going to hear operas, and not particular singers. Salassa and Collama- rinl are the exceptions, however, and Salasea’s Tonio this week in “I has been the chief attraction of the per- 3 formance. It is a fine effort, the clumsy passion, punchinello braggadocio and ma- licious mischief of the character being given with the aptest art, and the sing- er’s rendering of the famous “Prologue™ #f course delights. And the admirable usefulness of Burbareschi, whe assumed successfully the role of Nedda on Thurs- day night on shortest notice, should not pass without note. This week both Sa- lassa and Barbareschi will again delight us in “Nabucco,” that in respomse to a large demand will be repeated, and this rare opportunity of hearing Verdi's first opera should by no means be neglected by any student of operatic literature. R A small but enthusiastic tribe of bard- lovers will well remember the good littls “Royal Italian Marine Band” that played to such pitifully scant houses last year at the California Theater and came to griet at the end of irs season there. Not least among its attractions will they remember the handsome and accomplished solo trombone player, Creatore, whose musi- clanly work created so much attention. This year Signor Creatore is leader of the band in place of Minoliti, the competent but melancholy person who last year led Ellery Channing’s organization into fa- vor. It may also be remembered that the band split into two sections here, a Mino- liti and a Creatora faction, and that one went north and the other south, or, to be more exact. the Minolitls went to an ar- tistic extinction somewhers Seattle< ward, and the Creatores walked into glory in Philadelphia. Creatore has been quite the reigning band sensation of the East this season. He has been freely compared with Sousa, and quite frequent- 1y to the disadvantage of the last named, and has achieved an altogether enviabley reputation in his line. This is all apropos to the fact that Mr. Channing’s band will be here this coming week to begin any engagement at the Alhambra. L igbe g {The pages of the Wasp are Ppoorer thesa days by the lively vitriolism of R. A. Lucchesi, who has departed the journal- istic life to devote himself wholly to music. As a kind of introduction to tha new regime Mr. Lucchesi gives a musicala on Friday afternoon next at Sherman & Clay Hall, in which he is to be assisted by Miss Lia Polletini, Mme. Emilia Tojet. ti, Miss Inez Carusi and the following gentlemen: Harry Samuels, A. Rode- mann, A. Weiss, H. Siering, Fr. Hess, Fr, Forde, W. Weigel, R. Laraja, W. G. Cal- linaux, C. W. Fuhrer, H. Susman, W, Wertsch and P. Demetrio. ADVERTISEMENTS. 66 7” BREAKS UP WRETCHED COLDS It is not for us to alarm you about your Cold; you are wretched enough as it 1s. Our province is to supply the cure, and We do so with confidence. 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