The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1901, Page 18

WIT ATONES PRODUCE By Guisard. GRACE DUDLEY’S FOR A BADLY D VOICE. T have heard and seen ot seldom, for I am | of th out—the consciousness of | her lkeness to some forgotten charmer has possessed me to my snsiderable distraction. This week the subliminal mind—that Mrs. Piper tells elsewhere in these columns all she does | not know about—has supplied the defi-| ciency, and the dainty little lady is placed | where she belongs. There is a Grimm | ; story, as every one knows, about a e girl who was rewarded for her many virtues by having her vocabulary ed into gold pieces as it fell from her ; lips, while for her sins her wicked er talk~d toads whenever she had & mind to open her mouth. Naturally, Miss Dudley does not remind one of the er small sinner, nor entirely of the lipped, hard. in- ees in—say dlamonds. every ord Miss Dudley sings can be heard by every one in her voice is and she | | fashion, but her clear enunciation, quick wit and ely intelligence Miss Dudiey makes her work amply ecoeptable to her audiences, eful are they for simply hearing sald or sung effectively, without ference to the beauty of the voice. o the Grand night to hear Eom I saw a blind man go Opera-house last Monda The Little Minister,” and wondered, what he would get out of it. The week before there would have been the beauti- ful diction of ¥ Haworth in his fine Hamlet and the noble lines of the trag- edy itself delivered with more or Jess clearness by the rest of the players. It| scems to me that “The Little Minister,” | with its mixed and muddled first two | acts, home-made Scotch dialect and un- | careful enunciation generally, must have | been absolutely unintelligible as a whole | to the blind listener. Herschel Mayall, | the little minister, would be heard, and pleasantly. for his voice is a very good one and he is, luckily, not expected to Scottisise his lines. Miss Hall, the win- gome Lady Babble, also has a pleasing | wvoice, sympathetic, clear and penetrating, but she frequently speaks too fast and then becomes uninteiligible. I happened to hear her again in the same thing at the managers’ benefit from the back of the house, and was surprised at the car- rying power of her voice. Mr. Bernard, whose cockneyism happens not to offend | in the role of the English captain, Halli- | well, can also always be clearly under- | #tood, and less clearly Gilbert Gardner | and Burr Carruth, but the rest of the | company lacks sadly on this side. I am persuaded that my blind man, without eyes 1o help out the sense. got very nmo! from the play, less than the little there is, but he may rest assured of the sympa- | thy of the seeing auditors, who did not | get all that was coming to them either, [ . .. | I heard some more elocution on Friday | night last by Mrs. Loulse Humphrey- | Bmith, who teaches “elocution—revelation of personality through vocal and pan- tomimic expression, harmonic gymnastics, principles of art, dramatic training, inter- | pretation of literature and preparation for | parior, platform snd stage.” Mrs. Smith | gave a reading of “Paolo and Francesca Stephen Phillips’ Jovely drama, at Cen- | tury Hall. Mrs. Smith 1s a reader of more than usual attainment, with sympathy | and understanding of her subject, but her readings are not always Impeccable from the elocutionary standpoint. Misplaced emphases were not uncommon, and even | mispronunciations—among which I noted “Jegend,” pronounced “Jeejend.” against | present day good usage; “‘woe” pronounced simost ke “wow”'; “tumult” with more #han a suggestion of “t0oo” on the first syllable: “Pesaro” with a short “e” in- stead of a Jong “'a” sound on the first syl- lable, and others of like kind. Neither do I Uke the colloquial reading of the! mald’s part in the drama. The atmos- phere is completely lost thereby. Fran- cesca’s dreamings sound almost ridiculous by contrast. Nevertheless, on the whole, Mre. Bmith’s reading is well above the average, her volce is well used and-the | various parts in the drama are clearly characterized. Stuart Robson, with a very good com- peny, in Bronson Howard's comedy, ““The Henrietta.” is the chief attraction at the theaters this week. Robson's Bertie the | Lamb is said to be of the best. v .. - America is the land of the free and the h’ of ghe brave, of course, but there - i . | T v I~ o THE HENRIETT. ACTOR WHOSE THIS WEEK'S AT THEATERS. COMEDY I8 ATTRACTION | 1 - — | are things that can be said for benighted Roumania also. Witness the following item from the Berlin correspondence of | Mr. Fiske’s good paper, the Dramatlc Mirror: | The King and Queen of Roumania have begun a most praiseworthy work. In every province in the kingdom a theater is to be erected, giv- ing the peasants the opportunity of seeing a £0od play at least twice a week. The first theater will be erected and conducted at the expense of the crown. The other theaters, which will be used principally for traveling | companies. will be maintained partly by the crown and partly by private subscription Under the title of “Unfair Tactics | Against Mrs. Fiske” the Chicago Tribune | of October 8 has the following significant paragraph: | It is apparent that every effort is being made | by the New York foes of Mrs Fiske to In- Jure her. A few days ago telegraphic dis- | patches were sent over the country from New York saying that “Mrs. Fiske would make no fight ageinst the unanimous verdict of fallure,’ but would withdraw ““Miranda of the Balcony” at once. The verdict in the first place was not one of fallure excent in tha cases of one or two'| envenomed reviewers, and in the second place emphatic denial of any intention of withdraw- ing the piay was made instantly by Harrison Grey Fiske, who declared that the piecs was | doing & setisfactory business and would run | for weeks to come. Before Mrs. Fiske's season | she announced that she would present at least two plays before she left York, and it 1s evident that some hint of the identity of the second play was the excuse which serveq for the purposely misleading statement glven to the public by the unfair opponents of the actress. This s the warniog which comes privately from & relfable and unprefudiced source in New York: “'Don’t belleve what you hear of Mrs. Fiske's faflure. Th are trying to down her. It's the most artirtic play of the meason, though it probably will not be a Ereat money-maker. The whole thing Is Individual and charming, and Mrs. Fiske has great moments. Her theater, 00, is beautiful and restful.” Miss Charlotte Thompson, the Califor- nian playwright, has sold her first play, ““A* Bult of Sable,” to Grace George, who will bring it out in New York October 1t at the Theater Republic under the new title of “The Bmart Set.” Miss Thomp- son's play was first produced at the Alca. zar by Mles Florence Roberts and made a quite favorable impression here. Heor later play, “Sliver Mounted Harness,” dyg not fulfill the promise of the first. e Householder—Do you mean to say that’ this meter measures the amount of gas we burn? y Gas Collector—I will enter iInto no con- troversy, sir; but I will say that the me- ter measures the amount of gas you will have to pay for.—Tit-Bits. e —— NEW ADVERTIZEMENTS. |A SBAN FRANCISCO PHYSICIAN Uses Herpicide Successfully in Treat- ing Sycosis of the Beard. He says: “I recently treated a case of sycosie (similar to ‘barber’s itch’) of the lower lip with Newbro's Herpicide. There was an extensive loss of beard, with in- flammation extending well down on the ‘chin. The result of the application of Herplcide was most gratifying, The I of beard ceased and a new lpgwth of hfi: h:’ now taking place over the once Inflam- ed area, “(Signed.) Melville %‘OANelll.all. D., % loward street. “$an Francisco, Cal."” i Herpicide kills the dandruff germ causes the halr 10 Erow AuRdRBLy, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1901, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL < JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY ... Publication Office... Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager +OCTOBER 29, 1901 ..Market and Third, S. F. WHO CAN BE MAYORC®? E have sufficiently warned the people of this city of the danger that lies in the ielection of a class ticket. That danger threatens all, and not one portion of our people only. The mistaken men who enlarge the henefit to them of such a result will suffer the first and the longest. The social state is like water through which a solid body can be moved gently with little resistance. But slap it flat upon the surface and it is unyielding as brass. The class aspiration iz the slap direct, and the instrument used will suffer from the impact. ! It is therefore in the interest of the whole community that we have warned the city that the man who is elected Mayor must represent the whole community, and not a fraction of it. The future of San Francisco is so involved in the result that labor which expects to rise in independ- ence in that future cannot afford to spoil its opportunity, and business that looks forward to permanent prosperity has exactly the same interest. We are aware that the helpful hope that inspires all Anierican affairs can accomplish much under a handicap of political and governmental conditions, but how much greater its achieve- ments when not handicapped at all! We want San Francisco to be in the race for primacy without handicap upon her back or hurdle in her way. The present duty is to secure an executive head of the city who will justly consider and protect all rights, and not stand for a class against the whole community. .To this end we have advised that citizens pool their votes for the head of one of the regular tickets, and as a result of that advice the disposition to do so has deepened into a conviction that it offers the only means of preserving the city from confusion, loss and distress. Unmindful of his duty to the whole city, the head of the so-called Republican ticket has per- sistently put himself in a position that is repulsive to the independent voter. He has forgotten that the great principles of the party are not in'issue in a municipal election. When ‘those princi- ples are involved in a general election the city votes one way. and when only local administration is at stake it votes independently and without regard to party names. It will so vote at the coming election and it is our present conviction, reached after a careful study of public sentiment and of the public needs, that it will not cast its majority, nor its plurality, for the head of the so- called Republican ticket. For this he and his convention are to blame; the fault is at their door, not ours. In the present condition: the election of the head of the Democratic ticket appears to the greatest number of indeperdent men as a necessity, required by the public interests. This, not because of his party affiliations, but because circumstances have caused him to become the best assurance and safeguard of public order and progress. He has seemed to clearly realize this himself, and has risen out of mere partisanship into the higher air of the public welfare. As far as Republican party interests are concerned, they have already been sacrificed. The party was laid on the operating table by the convention that bore its name, and was made the subject of vivisection, and its morals and its brains were taken ot and thrown into the slop bucket. When its consciousness was restored it was a walking cadaver with the name *Re- publican™ pasted on a forehead behind which was an empty skull. Men who are Republicans on principle were repulsed by the exhibition, and have no other desire than to prove that their alle- giance does not belong to this effigy. Had another course been pursued and a ticket nominated that commanded the respect of the people, party allegiance would have sat as lightly upon intelligent Democrats, and they would have sought the city’s safety and prosperity through independent action at the polls. " Republicans are now convinced that the party will suffer less by the defeat than by the victory of the so-called Republican ticket, as far as regards its head and its candidates for Super- visors, and the whole city will vote so discriminatingly as to teach the traders in artifice and chicane that the day is gon: by when unfit men can hope to be carried into office upon the shoulders of a few good and proper candidates. The latter class will feel themselves relieved of serving as beasts of burden to carry such an offensive load, and the people will purify city politics of the future in proportion as they ‘pick a successful ticket from all the nominations regardless of the party name. No such crisis has been presented in recent years and we have confidence that its impressive importance will be felt by all voters, and; that a majority of them will vindicate the honor of San Francisco. WAR LESSONS UNHEEDED. RITISH correspondents who witnessed the military maneuvers with which the French entertained the Czar on his recent visit, and also the annual maneuvers of the Ger- man army, report that the military aythorities of neither nation appear to have learned anything from the lessons taught by the experience of the British in the Transvaal. It is said that both the French and the Germans continue to make attacks on fortified positions in close formation, and send their artillery so near to the enemy’s line that the gunners could be shot down by sharpshooters as fast as they could take their places at the guns. It is, of course, probable that some allowance must be made for the fact that the German and the French generals conducted the maneuvers largely for the purpose of spectacular effect. Such was certainly the case in the sham battle prepared for the Czar. If those same generals were charged with the responsibility of ordering an attack in real war it is not likely they would mass their troops as they did in the maneuvers. Still the incidents serve to show how difficult it is for disciplined men to learn new tricks. The armies of Germany and France have been taught and trained to rely upon certain tactics, and it would seem they are not going to find it easy to adopt the new style of fighting which the Boers have forced upon the British. The London Mail in commenting upon the exhibition made at the maneuvers says: “No doubt France and Germany have millions of men to sacrifice, and can throw away thousands where we should shrink from losing hundreds. But what sort of effect will Magersfonteins on a stupend- ous scale have upon the shuddering rank and file? - When the bullets come in literal streaks of hissing lead, what power of man can win through them? The Highlanders were superb troops, bravely led, confessed by even the Boers to be the Lravest of the brave. Yet they re- coiled. Will the short-service levies of Europe be steadier when they see whole companies fall- ing in swaths before the scythie of death?” The subject is an interesting one. It has been the theory that fortified positions could not be taken by widely scattcred attack; that something in the way of a mighty mass is neces- sary to carry entrenched lines. The military authorities of the Continent evidently continue to hold to that theory, and nothing but the experience of real war will convince them of the folly of such attacks under the present conditions. The lesson, therefore, for which Great Britain is paying so great a price may be of no value to any but herself. Since it appears that the Turkish authorities object to the bandits who abducted Miss Stone receiving the ransom money on Turkish soil because that would make Turkey responsible for the crime, and the Bulgarians on similar grounds object to the ransom being paid on Bul- garian territory, perhaps the best way would be to invite the bandits to come to Omaha to collect the money. S ———— What are alleged to be “carefully compiled statistics” shcw that gooo people went to Nome this summer and about 10,200 are expected to come away, and while the figures'do not reveal any signs of an encouraging growth in the community they undoubtedly give it the reputation of a lively tourist resort. TG il T ! In St. Louis a few days ago fifty factory girls went on a strike and within three days there- after upward of 60o girls applied for their places. It is scarcely necessary to add that the strike didn’t hit where it was intended. b | $ > e el — If the story be true that the Missourians made $77,000,000 last year out of poultry, St. Laquis had better turn that exposition of hers inito a chicken show and teach the rest of the coun. try how to do it. [ Municipal politics in New York has reached the point where the Tammany orators refer to Seth Lo'w as “a poor, uneducated and unsophisticated young man,” and “they even ‘call “Sethie,” § —Fe 3 % SHO N &L gt e L VRSN e S MUSICAL WORLD TURNS ITS ATTENTION TO | | LITTLE FOLKS. ! By Blanche Partington. | A +- + HE debut of a young girl on the operatic stage Is always a more or less painful and nervous affair, | That of Miss Barnetta Mueller, who made her first appearance at the Tivoll on Wednesday night last as Nedda in “I Pagliaccl,” was no exception to the rule. The singer {s a graceful and pretty girl, modest and unassuming. Her volce, though light, is sweet and pleasing, but if she were to be judged by her work on Wednesday evening it would militate against her. That, however, cntn:;t fal Iy be done, for Miss Mueller in state of nervous collapse that all but pre vented her from singing her part and al- most wholly disguised whatever powers she may be possessed of. The part of Nedda, with its strong dramatic impulse, seems to me hardly to have been well chegen for Miss Mueller's debut, either from a vocal or dramatic standpoint. Her volce 1s of the lyric order to begin with. She was completely overwelghted vocally, losing much in her inexperience by sing- ing into the wings. She looits the part quite prettily and is tactful in gesture and movement, but her debut in such a role at the present stage of her attain- ment—as it could be surmised the other evening—seems ill-advised and be pro- dvctive of nothing but discouragement for the singer. The Tivoll Is to the fore with a good deal of news this week, what with the story of its new hqme of the future, which 1s still very much in the air, and operatic news generally. This week is the last but one of the year's grand opera season and will be signalized by an elaborate production of “La Boheme,” given here for the first time by the Tivoll people. There will be settings and costumes mod- eled after those of the La Scala produc- tion in Milan-and the best cast the Tivoll can give to the opera, including Agostint as Rudolph, Montanari as Mimli and Dado as Colline. The alternate bill will be “Norma,” in which Barbareschi and Pol- lettini are so well heard, and Signor Ave- dsno will also make his first appearance of the season this week. On the 28th a testimonial performance to Mr. Steindorft, who has done such excellent work with the operas, will be given and will doubtless call out a large crowd. The last weck will see a revival of “Carmen,” and then it is to take leave for a year of these good people who have served our pleasure and profit so faithfully for twelve long weeks. Some of them we shall not see again, but all will be remembered grate- fully as worthy artists and as partners in the best season the Tivoll has so far given us. The company will go down south, un- der Mr. Leahy's direction, for a two weeks' tour after the Tivoll season is over, and then the little opera-house will have the unusual experience of being oc- cupled by a foreign opera company for four weeks, The Pollard Australian Juvenile Opera Company is the organization that will have this unwonted honor and the priv- {lege, be it understood to the honor of the Tivoll management, {8 more than a little in the nature of a welcome to “the stran- ger In a strange land.” The clever yo ers of the company, who came in from Honolulu this week, are suffering from climate, and the season of matinees that was contemplated at the Grand Op- era-house has therefore been abandoned. ‘| November 4 is the date of their appear- ance at the 'nvn:l. 37 The first concert of the Minett! series of concerts chamber music %flm GIFTED CONTRALTO WHO WILL BE HEARD IN CONCERT NEXT TUESDAY EVENING. - ‘cello. All the players were in good form and the programme was heartily enjoyed. The eoncerts this year are entirely on a subscription basis and will be given once a nonth. Tickets for outsiders may be obtained (hrmh'sub-scrfl:eu. Signor Creatore, director of the Royal Ttalian band, is a new thing in conductors here. Our own Sousa has hitherto held first place in point of plcturesqueness in the affections of band lovefs, but a greater than he has arisen and the Amer- jcan conductor must now take a back seat. Creatore has it in hair to begin with, and the wise well know the power of the well-adorned in this regard from Samson—who suffered at the hands of the first lady barber on record—down to Paderewski. He has it again In the ex- tent and eccentricity of his gymnastic re- pertoire. Where Sousa may be absolutely depended upon to coax a mel- ody from his cornets with the same par- ticular caress at every performance, Creatore under the same circumstances may be found upon his heels to be sure— when he is not poised upon his enthusi- tic toes—but it is never safe to wager where the rest of him will be. It will, however, be found where it will be of most use, for Creatore, though the most dramatic of conductors, is not in the smallest degree theatrical. It is Impossi- ble to doubt his sincerity even in his most tumultuous moments, when with locks and arms fiying he leads his band up I? one of their splendid climaxes. Neithe: is it possible to doubt Signor Creatore’s enthusiasm nor musicianly qualities. He has done excellent work with the band in the one short year of his leadership. Nat- urally it has not yet attained quite the marvelous precision of Sousa's organiza- tion, its magic certainty of rhythm, its wonderful swing and balance, but it comes 80 near that it may prove in the not dis- tant future a formicable rival to the older band. ‘The peculiar composition of the Royal Italian band, with its large wood wind force, enables it to get effects that are not possible to the ordinary brass band, and in their repertoire this fact has been taken fullest advantage of. Whole acts of the standard operas are given with con- siderable beauty of effect for the most part, and such arrangements as the “Tannhauser” overture are brilllantly successful, the wood wind telling with splendid effect. Creatore has done much of the arranging and his work shows strong musical feeling and an ingenuity and originality that amount to trus gcnl;;. There Is sometimes a slight ten- dency¥ to the unduly sentimental in his interpretation, an occasional crudity to be observed, but on the whole his methods are thoroughly healthful, brilllantly en- thustastic and highly conscientious. The fifty musiclans in Creatore’s band are all picked men, and it is easy to prophesy for such men and such a leader a lasting and worthy success. To-night will be given the final programme of the engage- ment at popular prices. The programme follows: March, “Royal Purple”” (Creatore); overture, “Willlam Tell” (Rossini); barp solo, selected, Miss Heintzen: prelude, act I, * P (Wagner); “Carmen’" (Bizet); boys’ chorus, Bo- hemian song. prelude and finale, act IV, march No. 11 (Mencinl); duet, “‘Cavalleria Rusticana™ (Mascagni); soprano solo (Creatore), Mme. Barill; “American Fantaste” (Victor Herbert). . . Mrs. M. E. 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