The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1901, Page 18

18 T FRANCISCO CAL UNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1901, | MUSICIANS OF PROMISE HAVE BEEN AND WILL BE HEARD IN HALLS OF CITY BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. i BARNETTA HUELLER | | - ——— — ,;.‘! TALENTED NEW ORLEANS GIRL WHO WILL MAKE HER FIRST AF- ! PEARANCE IN GRAND OPERA AS NEDDA IN “I PAGLIACCI’ AT | THE TIVOLI NEXT WEDNESDAY EV NG. | | o | HAVE had the serious misfortune |La Ch this week to fall afoul of that per- verse little person, Signor Richard A. Lucchesi, by than wise small courtesy extended to him in these columns last Sunday. that « of r of intellect that can scent a little ex-critic of the W s in the decalogue, b ng of the before-m of his intention- to ce ism. It should also be no desire to mitigate my e ror—that my sins of omission in the said notice were mot less vicious than those itted. The sad truth is that I ven- to regard with different e from 1 pre- and all the other s reason of the pt tioned nc 7 insignificant s quintet to a me” (written delectation. pea le body. however, >wing retraction of the offendin ement, the handsomest in my reper- toire, in the hope that it will make for the general amity of nations and the par- ticular peace of Signor Lucchesi: “The pages of the Wasp are not the insult in the multiplication table, | reason of the kinder | 4‘ i resemblance of 1), keeping the | Be- | | night, to be given at the Hopkins Art In- poorer these days by the lively vitriolism | of Signor Lucchesi. nor The vitriolism of Lucchesi is anything but livel; either can the vitriolism properl e classed as vitriolism at all, but sh rather termed mush, canicular mu I T The Tivoli has another interesting rovelty on hand this weck in the shape of the debut of a very promising young soprano, who will make her first appéar- ance in g opera on Wednesday night next as Nedda in “I Pagliaccl” The singer is Barnetta Mueller, a New Orleans girl, numbering only 21 years and with a considerable experience already Mueller is also art, as her people are wealthy, and has 4 temperament that seems to warrant the choice. She was a pupil of Paul Stein- dorfl’s some three years ago in New York and while there also went on ‘the | comic opera stage with Alice Nielsen for a short season. Then, on the advice of her teacher, the young student went to italy and has since spent a year with Carignani in Milan, and another year in with Madame Duprez-Du Wast. ller sang for Puccini and Mas- seems to have created a favor- sion upon both compos e was also offered a debut in Italy, but refused it, preferring to make her first essay in her own country and alto gether Miss Mueller's is a debut that yromises more than usually well. TS, To-morrcw night the Tivoll will cele- | brs Verdi's gramme *Otello,” birthday, with a pro- lude acts from Lombardi,” “Rig- jletto” and others ni” will be the alternating bill with “Cavalleria” and ! RATTRE 3 The first concert of the Royal Italian Band will take place to-night at the Al- hambra Theater. Great things are ex- pected of the organization this year from the lively reports that have reached here from time to time of its well-doing in the t under the new conductor, Signor There will be twelve concerts in all during the week, eight evening con- certs, beginning with to-night, and five matinees, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday afternoons. Following is the good programme pre- pared for this evening: March, ““Royal Purple” to Spokane Lodge of Elks ‘Tannhauser” (Wagner); rp solo, selected, Miss Ida Heintzen; “*Traumerei” (Schumann); sextet from ‘“Lucia” (Donizetti), Signori Palma, Alola, Marino, Curti, Donizetti, Liberaton and Baslla; march, Club” (Metz); “Funeral March” (Chopin); soprano solo, selected, Mme. Barili; “'La Glo- conda” (Ponchielll); prelude, “Dance of the Hours.” (Creatore), dedicated No. 228; overture, . . following exacting programme was rendered last Monday night by Miss Helen Heath, a pupil of the Von Meyerinck School of Music, on the occa- sion of her graduation from the school. I was unable to attend, but hear on good authority that the young lady did exceed- ingly well: Caccini (1555-1615). Amarilli; Scarlatti (1650- O Cessate di Piagarmi (O Cease to Wound Me); Jomelli (1714-1774), La Calandrina (The Meadow Lark); Bellini (1802-1835), aria, “Casta Diva” from “Norma’; Leoncavallo «a865), ballatella from ‘‘Pagliacci” . The “The Owl's | | | | | Er Ist's (tis He.) s | Maria” | with the Grau grand opera season e T . one dsome and sings for pure love of the | | under the direction of Messrs. Ellinghouse | kets. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends. rmante Marguerite; Gretry (1741-1513), song from the opera ‘‘Richard Coeur Bizet (183 , Pastorale; Massenet ie, violin to by George Haendel (16 ), ‘aria from ‘‘Se- Sleep, Why Doest Thou Leave Me?): Blonde bl Schubert ( 1528), Du bist die Ruh (My Sweet Repose); L (1811-1556), Die Loreley; Richard | Strauss (1864), Traum durch die Daemmerung | (Drea hrough the Gleaming); Hugo Wolff, | Mrs. M. E. Blanchard, whose pleasant contralto voice has béen among the miss- ing for two years now, has recently re-| turned to San Francisco, The singer has | been studying hard in the meartime with | Isidore Luckstone and Oscar Saenger in New York and Miss Lena Little in Bos- ton. She will shortly give two song re- citals to show what she has gained there. | v. The dates of the recitals have been | for Tuesday evening, October 22, and | aturday afternoon, October 26, at J o'clock, the place, Sherman and Clay Hall. A Miss Mary Genevieve Moroney, whose clever accompaniments are a feature of | any programme in which she takes part, announces a concert for next Saturday | stitute. Miss Moroney will have with her | Mme. mille d’Arville-Crellin, Donald de V. Graham and Lovell Langstroth, the young cellist whose work here is rapidly | bringing him to the front. Sherman & | Clay have charge of the concert tickets. | . . | The musical programme ut St. Domi- nic’s Church for this morning at 11 o’clock v itions by Alois F. Lejeal—the *'F} ““Asperges Me Domini,” “Veni Creator” and an “Ave quartet. The music is in charge of James H. Howe, the organist and choir master. . o Among announcements in connection that will be received with much pleasure is that of the Wagner lectures of Walter Damrosch, that will take place, as last year, before the ‘opening of the opera sea- | son. Mr. Damrysch will lecture in the California Thea‘er. the dates later to be announced, and his subjects this y will embrace “Tr and Isolde, “Der Meistersinger” znd “Parsifal,” the former two of which we shall Jater have the joy of hearing in the Grau repertoire. Mr. Damrosch’s leciures are remembered with | much pleasurs, and with their suggestive | text and ampi2 musical fllustration are | the best possible preparation for hearing the operas themselves. The lectures are and Oppenheimer. Mrs. Peppery—There's something pe- culiar about that couple who just moved in next door. She's receiving attentions from a married man who's in love with her. Mr. that? Mrs. Peppery—Well, the married man in question is her husband.—Philadelphia Press. Peppery—What's unusual about —_—— ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. 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Published at Los Angeles, Cal. . el B If all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, how does the box office induce the ghost to walk? —_— e T “Go Away Back and Sit Down.” It is said that certain people cannot sing this song, but anybody can go away back East and =it down in the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road. These trains carry Nickel Plate Dining Cars in which are served American Club Meals at from 35c to §1.00 each. Call or write for free book showing views of Buffalo Pan- American Exposition. Jay W. ‘Adams, P. C, ; Old French, | P. A., 87 Crocker Bidg., San Francisco Cal, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY ...... b2 .OCTOBER 13, 1901 Publication Office, ..Market and Third, S. F. UNICIPAL politicc is now in shape for the active work of campaigning. The various parties have aligned themselves, have adopted their platforms and nominated their can- didates. The contest is local in its nature. It is of great importance to the people of San Francisco, but it ought not to be'a matter of much personal concern to other per- sons. There is, however, one man living far from San Francisco who is seriously concerned in cer- tain phases of the contest, to whom indeed the situation presents an issue that directly affects him. That person is President Harriman of the Southern Pacific Railway, and the issue that :uns directly up to him is that raised by the use which W. F. Herrin, Jere Burke and others are making of the railroad in city politics. The people of San Francisco have certain questions to ask of President Harriman in this regard. They have a right to ask whether it be his intention to carry out the policy announced by Mr. Hays, and confine the officers of the road to railread work, or to return to the old way of using the power of the road as.a political machine for the purpose of advancing the schemes and personal fortunes of those officers and their favorites. Is W. F. Herrin to be permitted to use his position in the railway office as a means:of making himself powerful in politics and thus able to demand and obtain large fees and salaries as counsel for local corporations who desire to do politics on occasions? Is he to be permitted to drag the road into municipal politics and make it the -ally of bosses of the worst type. using it for the purpose of electing corrupt men to office, or of corrupt- ing such as have hitherto been honest? ; As President Harriman does not live in San Francisco it is probable he is not aware of the injury which Herrin and his gang do, not to San Francisco only, but to the railway itself. The very activity by which Herrin makes himself needful to the gas company, the water com- pany and other corporations makes him antagonistic to ¢he business elements of the city. He makes enemies for the road 1mong merchants, manufacturers and shippers of every grade and de- gree. If Mr. Harriman desires to learn how deep is the feeling of antagonism in this city to Herrin let him note the enthusiastic reception given by the merchants to Mr. Hays when he came to San Francisco and announced decisively that the road would be taken out of politics. Let him also note the silence with which the merchants received the news of Mr. Hays’ retirement. There were no meetings of congratulation among business men when that change was made. It is the duty of President Harriman to give attention to these things. They are not mat- ters of local concern merely. Herrin is but a subordinate in the railway office, and the issue raised by the misuse of his official position runs direct to the president himself. It is in fact up to Mr. Harriman to take note of what is going on here and to decide whether he is to remove the inis- chief-maker from office or retain him there and so antagonize the business elements of the city. Whatever may be Mr. Harriman’s decision the public have satisfaction in the fact that Her- rin’s power for evil in city politics has been already largely diminished. It was learned yesterday that the Market-street Railway system has been transferred to a Baltimore syndicate. Mr. Herrin has long been attorney for the Market-street company and has made use of it in his political work. It is no longer under his control. The operatives need not now take orders from him in matters of politics. They can vote as they please. The men into whose hands the control of the Market- street system has passed have operated street railways in other cities, and it is known that they are business men, devoting themselves to the work of street railway transportation. They will not themselves use the road in politics. nor will they permit their officers to do so. Mr. Herrin has thus been shorn of that much of his former power, and it may not be long before Mr. Harri will see fit to further curtail it. nan THE AMERICAN BOY. HE murder of President McKinley drew public attention to the anarchists, and resuited in stirring that class to many manifestations of defiance In the present condition of our laws it is not easy to suppress anarchistic expressions and teachings, and the devotees of that bloody cult took advantage of their exemption. They had the opportunity to show how closely they are allied to all the preachers of pessimism and discontent, whose mission is to arouse all the grudges that lurk in the heart of man. They impeach our laws, our social state and everything that has made America the refuge of the people of the world. This class were very active in Chicago and furnished many street preachers of anarchy, who used the streets and public parks for meeting places. One Italian anarchist occupied Union Park regularly and attracted « large audience of the idle and vicious -and curious, by his ha- rangues. But he was finally put to flight by an American boy. He had made an attack upon this country, its industrial system, its government and the features which make it distinctly American. When he finished Eddie Sloan, an American boy, fourteen years old, stepped in front of the crowd, and in a clear voice said: “The hard working American boy doesn’t waste time in whin- ing and lamenting his lot, like the class that you represent. He doesn’t hate his employer, nor does he fear the capitalist, for he aspires to become one. He knows that all the great captains of industry were once like him. Anyway, if your kind don’t like American ways, why don’t you go back to your native land?” The anarchist edged out of the crowd and disappeared. Upon inquiry it was found that Sloan was a poor boy, working for three dollars 2 week, and desirous of earning enough to get an education, and that he was a reader and thinker as well as a worker. “A Mr. Simmons upon learning these facts declared that the boy should have the education he coveted. Not often has the true spirit of American aspiration, energy and independence found better expression than by this boy. It is interesting to study the different uses that are made of oppor- tunity. It is known that the assassin of President McKinley, by the time he reached twenty-one vears of age had accumulated of his own earnings two hundred and fifty dollars. That fact is evidence against his assumption that no one has any chance in this country. In what other country can a boy do as well? Had he been content to be industrious, thrifty, saving and temperate, by this time he would have accumulated, from thai fine beginning, a capital that would have made him independent, but instead of doing this, he listened to the lies of anarchy, became sodden in his enmity to the country and ends his career a capital felon. What a lesson there is in the spirit and the careers of Sloan and Czolgosz! The assassin appears 2 victim of evil communications, turning a ready ear to the lessons of ignoble discontent, with a grudge against the success of others, led to abandon the industrious habits of his non-age, and instzad of holding to a noble ambition in gratitude to the civil institu- tions of his country that laid all opportunity open to his energy, becoming an enemy of mankind and closing his career a murderer! On the other hand, the American boy, discontented with his lot only in that noble way that leads to its betterment by his own exertions, not envious of others, but desirous by his own qual- ity to equal their successes, stands as the embodiment of that wholesome independence and pat- riotism to which this republic owes its*primacy in the world. The hope of the nation is in boys like that, whether native born or not. Let them be re- membered by the generation that is ahead of them, and in the public schools and every other agency for the training and development of manhood, let them feel that their country appreciates them and stands by their rights. E : The manly words of this Chicago lad might be put upon the walls of every schoolroom and their spirit be taught with benefit to every schoolboy. His lines were cast where a weak spirit might complain, but with a healthy American spirit he regarded whining and complaint as a waste of time that could be given better to exertion that would send him forward toward the high mark of his ambition. Every such boy may become a captain of industry, the strength of his country and the final cause of its glory and greatness. Discerning critics have noted that in the description of the battle of San Juan Hill given in General Alger’s history of the war, the name of Roosevelt isn’t mentioned, and they are drawing _therefrom the conclusion that Alger is not a candidate for any office in the gift of the President. LRl BT Tt is asserted that the convicts in the State prison at Albany are indignant over the fact that Czolgosz has been: confined there. They object to being associated with him even to the extent of rooming in the same building, and they would leave if they could. The court of inquiry may relieve Admiral Schley of the charges made against him, but what can ever relieve the navy itself of the exhibition made by the cofflict of testimony given by the officers? e ; G : 2 - — o GRFAT PLAYS, ALTHOUGH POORLY PRODUCED, MAKE | FOR BETTERMENT OF MIND BY GUISARD. o - [ ‘\ + - - — ACTOR WHO WILL APPEAR IN TH‘E ROLE OF GA\'I.‘{ DIVS‘E"EA\RT IN “THE LITTLE MINISTER.” WHICH WILL BE PRODUCED THIS WEEK AT THE GRAND OPERA-HCUSE HOULD the cheap theaters meddle witn Shakespeare?—the ~Grand | Opera-house with “Hamiet,” e : Merchant of Venice,” the Alca: with ““The Taming of the Shrevws, | or the Tivoli with “Tannhauser,” “Otello,” | “Mephisto” ?—or should these leave the | masterpieces of the human heart and brain to those wle alone can interpret them in all their €xcellence and glnry’.‘; Does it make for the betterment of the | artistic moralities that the cheap theater shall forever confine itself to the banal, the inane in dramatic art, because of its inability adequately to interpret its high- er forms of expression? Shall that “lead- ing heavy” of the demagogue cast—who indubitably. if impertinently, exists, how- ever—the workingman, be compelled to take along with the other cheapnesses of his career the bad music and bad play. as well as the bad singer and bad actor? It is easy for the dramatic purist to say “yes,” to affirm sternly that no Shake- speare at all i$ better than a weak, in- sufficient rendering of the great play-| wright's work, and still further to ins that no play is better than a bad play. But the subject may not thus be lightly dismissed. One of the inalienable rights of humankind, based on a universal in- stinet, is the right to rational amusement, the right to happiness in one or another shape. So intimate and vital is this need, so imperious its gratification, so all-im- portant its bearings, that a civilization may justly be measured by the degree in which it ministers to this single necessily. it is a right recognized by all Govern- ments alike, more or less, and given ex- pression to in such forms as free art galleries, parks, museums, subsidized theaters, free concerts, public libraries, and so on, and according to the kind and prevalence of these things, so is the de- gree of civilization in the community. Now, and more's the pity, we have not vet arrived in this country at the pitch of civilization indicated by the subsidized theater, neither the player nor the play having yet attained the point of national respect that is demonstrated by the sub- sidizing of the art. Until that time, that may not be so far distant as it seems, the perennial problem of the cheap theater will be with us, the good play with in- different players or the bad play with the same indifferent players, and in spite of possible mangling, distortion even, and inevitable comparative unworth of the good play's _interpretation in poor hands, the former policy would nevertheless seem to be clear gain. Half a loaf is better than no bread and a bedimmed ideal better than no ideal; therefore is it for the ulti- mate good of his own soul and ours that the cheap player shall sometimes lay awkward but reverent hands upon the holy of holies itself, the Shakesperean drama, and the Tivoll give us the very good four-bit “Tannhauser” that is sub- stitute for Mr. Grau's magnificence at $7 a head. r PN Who shall say, for example, that the large audiences that have greeted “Ham- let” and “The Merchant of Venige" dur- ing the last two weeks at the Grand | Opera-house are not incomparably better off than they would have been had the conlpany wasted its not superabundant | genius on “Sapho,” “A Brass Monkey or | “Under Two Flags”? Or, and this counts out the not always available inspiration of a leading man like Joseph Haworth, were not the Alcazar audiences that “stood for” two weeks of “The Taming of the Shrew,” with Florence Roberis cleverly shrewing it, indubitably the ricn- er for it than those who spent their time and monev at the same theater on the pseudo-classic ‘“Ingomar,” or the ranecid moralities of “Sapho™? A remarKable feature of the Haworth Shakespearean audiences has been the large size of the gallery population, not the accidental audience, but a crowd that knew what it came for and applauded dis- creetly when it got it. It got, incidentally, the best 10 cents’ worth that has been on the theatrical bargain counter for many months, a principal player like Mr. Ha- ‘worth, whose conceptions of Shylock and Hamlet are nobly intelligent, two casts without absolute disaster and effective settings for both plays. It got also two performances at, though somewhat | shaky in outline and thin in color, were yet sincere and reverent, and though often [ inadequate were never impertinent, nor | in any sense a caricature of the author's design. They possessed besides no smail beauty of atmosphere, largely inherent in : istered to by the modgsty of the playe the ineffaceable magic of the plays them- selves without doubt, but certainly min- that, if they could not greatly make, yet kept them from much marring the dramas. Of Mr. Haworth's work much has been said, but there were also among the humbler players a few who did more than just keep from sp g things. Miss Belgarde s a ; sympathe Portia, also an intelligent. though Dhy=- sically unconvincing, Ophelia. Hal de Forrest's Polonius was really good, and Herschel Mayall as Bassanio was also a pleasing figure. A sma very well taken was the Lancelot b of Gilbert Gardner. H. D. Byers also did good service in small roles. William Ber- nard, who is a genial actor and a very bad elocutionist, played the part of Gratiano well, but did his elocutionary worst—and it is very bad—as the “first actor in ‘““Hamlet.” Mabel Heritage made a pretty Jessica, and Charles Smiley was successful in keeping up the ghostly dig- nity of the spirit of Hamlet's father. The other parts in both plays were all inoffen- sively handled, and it is contended that the performances, even in their admitted incompleteness, have made for the better- ment of the mind and heart of the actors and their audiences. “The Little Minister” goes this week at the Grand Opera-house, with M® Mayall as Gavin Dishart and pretty Miss Laura Nelson Hall as Lady Babbie. She should make a good one, too. ____ ADVERTISEMENTS. €6 7’, BREAKS UP STUBBORN COLDS As the Cold numbs your fingers and toes, so taking Cold numbs your vital organs, causing weak heart action, difficult respiration and torpid liver. 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