The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1901, Page 18

| WILL CLOSE BY BLANCHE | AT TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE 't SEASON OF GRAND OPERA THIS WEEK PARTINGTON. ' T WELL EKNOWN ARTISTS WHO WILL APPEAR HERE WITH THE | ORPHEUS CONCERT COMPANY. ITH “Carmen” according to Col- Jamarini and the latest addition to the Tivoli repertoire, *“La Boheme,” the grand opera sea- son at the popular little opera- house will close this week. There is 2lso another bill, one of the best ever given at the Tivoli, arranged for to- morrow evening, for the testimonial per- ance to Paul Steindorff, the leader the orchestra. Mr. Steindorff has made y fr his advent here, and good work during the season has won ncere respect and liking of votees, who will doubtless full force to do him honor evening. There is to be a chestra to begin with, forty d the orchestral numbers will he overtures from “Tannhauser,” liam Tell” and " There so be acts from armen” (second), “Lucia” (second, the “sextet” act), “Il Trovatore” (sixth act). Then Agostini will sing “Spirito Gentile” from “La Fa- a” and with Dado and Barbareschi the famous trio from “I Lombardl.” All of the singers of the season, except Sal will be heard. P 1t is an astonishingly good “La Boheme™ they are giving us this week at the Tivoli. Agostini is delightful. He is in excellent voice, and sings the spirited, nervous music with admirable art—he is, of course, Rudolph—as if he had been born to the part. Montanari is a charming Mimi, and her best work by much is done in this part, though her Santuzza is also pleas- ing. She is not shging 80 well as when I first heard her, five years ago—through at- tempting roles out of her range, ¥ think— but as Mimi she has much charm, and looks and acts the little Parisian grisette with grace and trué pathos. Repetto dis- @ppoints, the musical curlycues in which €he shines so brightly having no place in the Puccini opera. But apart from her voice being too light for the “sopranc ADVERTISEMENTS. 7 BREAKS UP TENACIOUS COLDS If your Cold doss not yield promptly to the use of “77,” alternate with a few doses of Specific No. “One.” The effect will be amazing. The use of Dr. Humphreys’ Specifics restores the numbed vitals, starts the Blood ting- ing, relieves the congestion; erouses the sluggish liver, per- mits the system to cleanse .. | Mrs. Blanchard has been away from San + capriccioso” Musetta, she is a coquettish and dainty little figure. Ferrari comes out strongly as Marcel—Puccini gives him no | chance at the tremolo—and with his fine barytone and ample comedy spirit s ex- { cellently satisfying as the impecunious | artist. Zani does unusually well as Schaunard, and Dado lends his splendid | bass to the fourth member of the Bo- | hemian quartet, Colline. The orchestra, as usual, is always there, in fact, more | there than usual, and the chorus scene in the second act is very well ordered. The | opera is exceptionally well staged and | costumed. sw Se | It is many days since I have had the | pleasure of hearing so graceful and fin- | ished a singer as Mrs. M. E. Blanchard, | who gave her first song recital in Sher- man & Clay Hall last Tuesday evening. | Francisco for some two years, studying | her art both in New York and Boston. | and she has clearly made excellent use of | | her time. Her voice is not particulariy strong, neither is it of exceptional range, but it is of smooth, silky quality, round and sweet, and eminently sympathetic. It is beautifully used, too, Mrs. Blanch- | ard’s work belng conspicuous for its deli- | cate nuance and artistic phrasing. There |1s a slight weakness of the attack oc- | casionally, a sort of ‘“feeling after the | piteh,” sometimes to be observed, but | apart from this the singer is both mus - {cally and technically gifted in an un- common degree, and will prove a valu- able addition to the contralto forces o? the city. Fred Maurer accompanied Mrz. Blanchard and distinguished himseif, a- usual, by the quick sympathy, erispness | and discretion of his work. The singer | who has Mr. Maurer at the plano has | nothing to fear on the score of accom- paniment. Mrs. Blanchard's programme was all that might have been expected from hcr kind of singer. Ranging from Scarlatti (“Se Florinda” and “O cessate di Plag- armi”) to some modern gems by Clayton | Johns (“Nereid's Lullaby” and “Wh- | Hunt") and including old French, oid nglish and old Scotch ballads, besides songs by Brahms (“Mainacht” and *Ver gebliches Staendchen’) Mendelssohn, Bchumann, Schubert, Franz and others, the programme covered a wide field of the choicest song literature. - The singer showed herself well at home , with a'l classes, and particularly well at home in the rare art of ballad singing. ‘The Rave: and Dr. Arne's “Where the Bee were purely delightful, the Brahms “Vergebliches Staendchen” was given with all its quaint point and intent, and so on throughout the programme. Mrs. Blanchard is indeed an artist, anl her future recitals should bé well at- tended by all who like a good song well sung. ive o This week will be a crowded one in the music market, what with the Tivoli's last efforts of the grand opera season, the Loring Club concert on the 8lst, the Or- pheus Concert Company-s concert for tne same evening, F. M. Biggerstaff’s concert November 2, the 'concert of Harry Woui Brown for the 29th inst., and the Charles Hoffmann song recital on November 1. It is much of a pity that the Loring Club and the Orpheus people conflict in their arrangements, for both have good programmes. The Loring Club with this concert enters on the twenty-fifth year of its existence, and will celebrate its anni~ versary shortly by prnducing COmPposi- tions by Arthur Foote and George W. | Chadwick that have been specially writ- ten for the occasion. The solofst at Thursday evening's concert will be Miss Anne Loulse Daniels, and of the club number_chief in fmportance will be Jokn Hyatt Brewer's cantata, “The Birth of Love,” to be sung for the first time here, The concert takes place at Native Sons’ The Orpheus Concert Company includes such well known people as Miss Grace 1. Davis, Mrs. Sedgley Reynolds, J. F. Veaco. L. Van Linghem and Roscoe War- ren Licy. A principal feature of its work is to be concerted vocal numbers. Thelr &rogramme for Thursday is as follows: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER- 27, 1901, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY* ..l vieas ..OCTOBER 27, 1901 Publication Office...v.uvusesesuussenissetaneseennene Ounm and Third, S. F. OAKLANDS PLIGHT. ~ T this short distance it looks as if Oakland needs an application of the public policy which we are earnestly seeking in San Francisco. That city is a fair city. Joaquin Miller overlooks it from his heights, has cele- brated it in poetry. and in prose has said that its site is fit for a “city of the Caesars.” But Oakland is suffering from conditions that the managers of its business seem incapable of chang- ing. Last spring a crisis appeared in the school affairs, and as the city is known as the Athens of the coast, this was painful. The Attic lamp flickered for some time, because the Council had not furnished the means to run the High School to the end of the term. Meetings were held, the hat was passed, card parties and other ways were proposed to furnish the funds to keep the High School going until its senior class could graduate. Tle members of the defaulting Council passed the responsibility to the School Board, but that body side-stepped and let it pass. The public discovered that the School Board does not assess property nor levy taxes, but merely spends what the Council provides for it, and that it had made requisition on that “body for the funds needed to keep the schools going. Some arrangement was made to tide over the difficulty | without starting a lottery to raise money or compelling the teachers to do a month’s work for nothing. But we believe this settlement did not settle, and that the teachers are still unpaid. If we are mistaken in this we congratulate the teachers. Athens felt happy, at the beginning of the present school year, in the expectation that all the classes would go smoothly forward to the end. But the School Board proposes and the City | Council disposes. The night classes are part of the school system. They are a most valuable and | very necessary part. They ure attended by apprentices-and other youth who are working their way. In the ranks of such young people are always some of the very best.” There may be fcund | the material that is going to take a great part in the world. Give it the chance to get some knowledge in school and it will go forward with resistless energy and impulse. Oakland seems to abound in such youth, and the School Board has made a point of supplying them with the facilities they require. But bills must be paid, and the bills of the night classes to the end of the school year will amount to $4000. The funds on hand for that purpose will be exhausted Novem- ber 1, and the night classes must cease at that date. From the papers we learn that the Council appears to think it is the business of the School Board to keep the classes going. The board retorts that since the foreman of Pharoah’s brickyard ordered the Israclites to make adobes without straw there has not been a more unreasonable de- mand. In behalf of the Council the retort is made that the board should cut off classes and thin out and abridge the work in the Central High School and put the parings into the night classes. Now it happens that the Central High is the polytechnic department of the school system of Athens. In it are business classes, and it teaches beyond the rudimentsof the handicrafts. It is the only technical school on that side of the bay. On this side we have the Lick and Cogs- well schools and the Wilmerding in preparation. So the Central High is regarded as the prac- tical feature, and there is widespread objection to crippling it. This seems to have made some impression upon the City Council, which holds the Athenian cornucopia, and that body now in- sists that members of the School Board make personal contribution to support the night classes. As those members serve without pay and give much time to the public service with no return except that ineffable dividend called the sense of a duty discharged, we take the responsibility of regarding this suggestion as immaterial, irrelevant and incompetent. Froem the same source it is proposed that the secretary of the School Board put his salary of $50 per month into the poor- box and that the teachers of the whole department are expected to make up the balance! We fear that before long the inquiry will begin to run, “What’s the matter with Oakland?” That city needs to wake up to its responsibilities as a near neighbor of San Francisco. Carnegie gave Oakland a library and a few citizens bought a site for the building, the late Mr. C. P. Huntington being the largest contributor to that purchase. The building is finished, but the city seems unable to furnish it, and the library trustees applied to Mr. Carnegie for more money for that purpose. Men and brethren, Athenians all, what is the matter with you? If your charter is not right, if it fits you like a boy’s knickerbockers fit a man, get another charter, bring your in- come up to your necessary outgo and keep out oi the papers as a mendicant. Fill your Attic lamp with oil and let it blaze until it lights the welkin and makes people blink when they look at you. THE CASE OF MISS STONER. HEN one remembers the extreme difficulty experienced in rescuing persons who are kidnaped by miscreants in this country, the difficulties in the case of Miss Stone will be appreciated. We cannot revile other countries in which these crimes occur, for they are too frequent here. Of course if it can be proved that either the Turkish or Bulgarian government connived at the abduction of that American missionary we have the right of reprisal against the guilty government. But to establish that right the proof must be clear. It is evident that at present we have no such proof, and all that we can ask is that the brigands be punished, if caught, by the government that has jurisdiction of them. It is coming to be a novel feature in missionary work that it is frequently the cause of in- ternational broils. The vast woe and waste inflicted upon China grew cut of the presence there of missionaries, and now if we fix responsibility upon Bulgaria in Miss Stone’s case we can strike that country only.through the co-operation of Russia or some power nearer than we, from whose frontier she is accessible. If we do this we assume an obligation to that intervening power. These complications indicate that the Christian nations should come to some special agree- ment as to their sole or mutual obligations to missionaries. The issue presented is peculiar. It has no analogy in the obligations of government to the commercial class. Merchants are abroad from their own country to establish trade, in which the material gain is suppesed to be equal, the people among whom they go getting their chare of it. Not many international issues arise over | the presence of merchants. They usually obey the laws and respect the customs of the country to which they go, and it is a necessary part of their business to ciltivate good relations with the people. With missionaries it is different. They are not always worldly wise, and they of neces- sity antagonize the class that have in charge the spiritual affairs of the people. When this class, as is usually the case in what we call heathen countries, have relations with the civil governinent its power is sure to be.invoked against the religious invaders. Where the religion is national and is interwoven with the civil institutions of the country, an attack upon it is of necessity an assault upon the government itself. Every subject of such government who adopts Christianity of necessity is looked upon as a traitor to his own country, and in the. Christian propaganda the seeds of endless trouble are planted. The Christian powers seem to owe it to themselves and to the world’s peace to settle by general treaty between them how far they will become responsible for their missionaries. The United States by its constitution refuses to give aid and strength to any special form of religion at home. Here Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic, Christian and Pagan, may all build their altars and worship before them, uninterrupted and unaided by the Government. Therefore it may well be asked what right'have we, as a government, to take any part in protecting and en- forcing by treaty or otherwise the imposition of Christianity abroad? What right have we to send armies to protect the propagandists of ary religion among a strange and alien people? Surely it is quite time that the rights and duties of our Government in that were defined. respect The splutter over Roosevelt's dinner invitation to Booker T. Washington has led some one to recall the fact that Lincoln once iuviteg] Fred Douglass to tea. Of course Douglass was not exactly a negro and tea is not exactly dinner, but none the less the Lincoln invitation is a good enough precedent for Roosevelt if he feels any need of one. Tt is stated that the Irish Nationalists of Galway are running for Parliament a man who has been fighting for the Boers during a good part of the war in South Africa, and perhaps we may yet hear of an Irish constituency inviting Kruger to come over and make the race. Al uartet, “Estudiantina” (Lacome); Now b e iniie, o e co¢ Warren Lucy: “Gitoeonds o Lanas Mrs. Rey- (Plc‘;lchle!l‘g), Mise Daviy and nolds; “Romance” (Dinorah) (Me; L. Van Linghem; “Mad Bcene( trgn:r m let” (Thomas), Miss Grace 1. Davis; quar- ! hands. | denial e +___—____________—_————+ 'NOT EVERY DAY IS ROLE LIKE “BERTIE THE LAMB” . CREATED BY PLAYWRIGHTS BY GUISARD. L, F only ¢o afford Stuart Robson oppor- tunity for his Bertie the Lamb, not to mention. Maclyn Arbuckle's Old Nick, “The Henrietta” continues amply to justify its existence. It i= not every day that a role like Bertie the Lamb is created, and still more seldom that an actor can be found to fit it when created. It is one of those simple-subtle conceptions that more easily come to griet then an omelet in the hands of the usual kitchen divinity. Ninety-nine times out of a hundrea it receives the same treatment. The hundredth time a Stuart Robson hlp: pens along—and Vofla! there is a “lamb that will live as long as many Marys go to school. It is a fine and simple art that Mr. Rcbson brings to his work here. Only the picture Bf a dude he has to give us— a clever, careless fellow, with a genius for idleness and clothes. He has never earn- ed a cent in his life, that he has innocent- ly spent sucking a very handsome_ cane at stage doors and laboriously building up a reputation for desperate wickedness that every line of his ingenuous counte- pance unkindly belies. In his set it is the current fad to be a desperate follow, so he does his best that way, just as he turns up his trousers when it rains in Lunnon, because the other fellows do. A character built on simplest lines, and only acceptable when it is played with the gentus for unconsciousness that Mr. Rob- son possesses, it is lavishly funny in his There is no shoving the funny points at you, no crooking a busy finger or overworking a wink to label a jest that might otherwise bloom unseen. His Bertie might have stepped from a band- box, with all the blessed lack of humor that the ‘“‘chappie” type wears as com- monly as its chrysanthemum, so gloriously unconscious he is of his own comicality. The big difference between Bertie and the dude in general is that he has thought fit to ' 'p his manners and morals as weil ,olished, Jaundered, brushed and combed as his shoes, shirt, hat and halc. The way in which Mr. Robson just makes him say “On my honor as a gen- tleman,” in denying that he is guilty of a certain sin lald at his door, the way in which he makes him stop short in his to take the aforesald sin (his brother's) upon himself, with the simplest gestures and facial play, is a small marvel in the way of the portraiture of a gentle- man. And the picture is consistent throughout, net a false stroke anywhere. From his deliciously matter-of-fact love- making to his equally wonderful stock- broking, the part is carried through with | the same firm, clean touch, and Mr. Reb- | son has the sympathy of the audience from first to last. Old Nick is the other “fat” part and Mr. Arbuckle makes the best of it. He shines both in the heavy emotional scenes and in the opportunities for lighter work. It is a particularly powerful scene where he finds out “young Nick's” treachery. and Mr. Arbuckle, who iIs ably seconded by Russ Whytal, Roy Atwell and Charles Lane, carries it off with flying colors. His transition from the confident, bluff old “bull of Wall street, who has swang the money market so long that he cannot conceive of things happening any other way, to the broken and ruined old man ‘with all that he had to live for gone, is a powerful and pathetic effort. Neither does he fail In lighter vein. In his scenes with the widow and with the Rev. Murray Hilton—who looks as if he had been left over from the Episcopal Convention—Mr, Arbuckle shows himself a humorous and genial actor. 5 “The Henrletta” runs another week and besides “those mentioned™ there is a good company of players who take satisfying care of the other parts. P Peo With “Sporting Life” that opens to- night at the California Theater‘:e czvn::: Miss Lillian Lamson as leading lady. Miss Lamson is an Oakland girl and & sister of the vivid, dashing actress, Nance O'Nelll. Without the wide fama of our own Nance, Miss Lamson has had a considerable stage experience and achleved a modest suceess. She made her debut eight vears ago at the Cali- fornia Theater, with Frederick Warde's company in “Rome~ and Jullet.” She has since been identificd with Gus Froh- Chicago has a doctor who claims that he can not only make suicide easy and painless, but that he can prompt it by suggestion. This seems to be one of the cases where the doctor might with justice be compelled to experiment on his own person. liself, mnd ‘*dbreaks up”. the ?;;gf?%&lgz‘g:,i’“.gfig&:;,wz : : c‘;tmm-m"m‘“m '.'R:‘."n";'l‘.‘“"'{t;)‘ ‘(;.,"wmh.g‘..i“'fl(v;gg: Indiana is bragging of a young woman who refused to permit her widowed father to of price, Dociors Book malled fres. hem; tslo 'F,““"..,.. e gan Ling | marry again, and who when he eloped with the lady of his choice pursued the romantic couple and ber Willise and Joha sie.. New Fork w ) Miller s Woolts" (Baton Fontas” 7 brought the old man back. , . . i Sl el = SO S man's “New Domnion,” “The st Alarm,” as the widow: with “Blue Jeans,” for a four-year run; with “The Power of the Press,” for a season, and with Willlam Brady's “Naval Cadets,” in which she appeared in this city. ey Above is pictured one of the new I - ing ladies of the o= ALCAZAR'S LADY AND “SPORTING LIFE.” NEW LEADING A STAR IN‘ * + sister of the charming Miss Lila Convere, now Mrs. Francis Bruguiere. Miss Con- vere is a handsome gi-l and is said to be clever. . To-morrow morning the sale of seats fc= the grand opera season to be given by Maurice Grau's people will begin at the Grand Opera-house and there's going ' to be a line worth seeing. There are to be twenty subscription performances for which the sale opens to-morrow. The single seat sale will open November 6. Mr. Grau's list of artists this year is an imposing one. It incluaes a number of singers new to San Francisco. Melba and Nordica will not be here, but there are Emma Eames, Emma Calve, Sybil Sanderson and Marcella Sembrich, names to conjure with. Plancon, the gorgeous, is on the other side of the Atlantic, but there is Emilio de Marchi, said to be a mervel in the way of tenors. , Edouard de Reszke, Bispham, Van Dyke, Robert Blass, Scotti, Dippel, will be here, with Schumapn-Heink, Gadski, Louise Homer and other favcrites of last year. The season, indeed, bids fair to outvie all the well-remembered glories of our first Grau season. The programme for the first week has already been arranged. It is a particular piece of splendor that makes one's mouth water to read it. Contrary to precedent ““Aida” will not open the bill, but instead the opening performance on Monday, No- vember 11, will be “Lohengrin,” that will introduce Emma Eames to San Francisco audlences in the role of Elsa. ‘“Carmen” on Tuesday will serve for the debut of Emma Calve. Marcella Sem- brich will be the heroine of “La Traviata” on Wednesday and the role of Alfredo will be sung by Emilio de Marchi. Thursday evening will be another great occasion, for it will mark the debut here of Sybil Sanderson in “Manon,” one of her best roles, that she studied with Massenet himself. ‘“Les Huguenots” will be sung on Friday evening with a cast that will include Mmes. Gadski, Louise Homer and Sembrich and Messrs. De Marchi, Jour- net, Scotti and Edouard de Reszke. Sat- & urday afternoon will be devoted to “Faust,” with Emma Calve as Marguer- ite, Edouard de Reszke as Mephistopheles and Andreas Dipple in the title role. In the evening “Tannhauser” will be sung with a cast that will enlist the services of Emma Eames, Louise Reuss-Beice, Ernest Van Dyck, Robert Blass and David Bispham. During the season of three weeks Mr. Grau promises very few rep- etitions, several noveltles and some inter- esting revivals. ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. ¢ —_————— Cholce candies. 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