The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 28

= + e H ‘ o | MUSES STOP AT DOORS | ] LE } OF CITY AND PEOP | PREPARE TO LISTEN BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. - .‘ N Ml | > * | { | | 1 { | | EMILIO DE MARCHI, GRAU'S CELEBRATED NEW ITALIAN TENOR, | WHO WILL APPEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS CITY ON WEDNESDAY EVENING IN “LA TRAVIATA.” | = — ELL, there is nothing to say this | Faust Dippel: Valentin, M. Campanari: week but that we have almost | Wagner, Dufriche; Mephistopheles, Ed de 3 g musical in sight at | Reszk nductor, M. Seppilli s Sor On Saturday evening Sibyl Sanderson E RS Sl e | will make her first appearance here in tain has come to Mahomet, and “Manon.” She has sung the role nearly its being imperative on the opera Wor-|inree hundred times in Europe and was shiper to take a ticket to New York to e “Tristan and Isolde e have come to San Fran opera season is announced to begin “Lobengrin.” Mr. opera-loving pop New York, and certai he giv 1 the lorgest season outside of Gotham. | The impre: resent about = of the long t rom all fation © »ns of tha sho: uld Gra full cast for ra will be as follows Eisa von Brabant. M trud, Mme Schumenn- Var Dyck: F banti Bes Koens ser tor. Walter I Deutscher Koo “Les ¥ enots” will be made at tive on Tuesday evening by The opportun a star en to hear Mmes. Gadski Louise Homer : Sembrich and Messrs de Marchi, Jour: Scotti and Edouard d» Reszke in one opera is not ‘often vouch- safed. The ai e roles is as follows: Mme Raoul de Na Saint Bris, M. Journet M. Scotts; Soidat Huy De Tavannes, M. Reiss Maurevert, M. Dufriche; De v Marcei, E4 de Reszke. the incidental diver- tissement by the corps de ballet; conductor, ™. Fien On Wednes@ay evening “La Traviata” will be sung, and Marcella Sembrich will return to us in one of her best roles. She will have as one of her associates Emilio de Marchi, the famous Ttalian tenor. Ver- ar's opera will be interpreted by the fol- lowing list of distinguished artists Viocletta, Mme. Sembrich; Fiora Bervoise, Mme. Van Cauteren: Annina, Miss Bauermel- ster; Giorglo Germont, M. ( narl; Gi tome, M. Vanni: Barone Duphol, Jacques Bars; Marchese @'Oblgny, M. Dufriche; Dottore Greavii, M. Gilfbert; Alfredo, M. de Marchi; conductor, M. Seppilil “Tannhauser,” on Thursday evening, will introduce 2 new artist in the person of Loutse Reuss-Belce. She is well known in Germany, where she has appeared suc- cessfully at several of the Bayreuth fes- tivais. The cast selected for the opera may be said to be an ideal one. It follows: Elisabeth, Mme. Zmma Eames: Ein Hirt, Miss Carrie Bridewell; Venus, Mme. Louis Reuss-Belce; Tannhauser, M. Van Dyck; Her- man I, M. Blass; Walther, Jacques Bars; Heinrich, M, Reiss; Biterolf, M. Muhlmann: Reinmar, M. Viviani; Wolfram, Mr. Bispham: onductor, Walter Damrosch. Emma Calve will make her debut here in “Carmen” on Friday evening. Bizet's heroine has become more or less identified | with the famous French prima donna and the expectation aroused by her first ap- pearance here is not likely to be disap- pointefl. The opera will be sung with the following cast: Carmen, Mme. Calve; Frasquita, Miss Bauer- meister; Mercedes, Mme. Van Cauteren; Micaela, Mme, Suzanne Adams; Don Jose, M. Salignac; Zumiga, M. Journet; Morales, Jacques Bars; Dancairo, M. Dufriche; Rem- endado, M. Reiss; Escamillo, M. Scotti; con- duetor, M. Fion. Emma Calve will demonstrate that she is not an artist with only one role by appearing in “Faust” on Saturday after- noon. It was in the role of Marguerite that she made her first appearanee on the operatic stage. ‘aust” will be sung with the following cast: Marguerite, Mme. Calve: Besccmelpter; Siabal Mime. Marta, Louise 153 Ty He " Tristan | CI5C0 | Provost's famous tale and the music is Il sing their wondrous story of love | generally conceded to be the best work of It seems almost too g0od 10 | Magsenet's. The cast will include: yet to-morrow night the Grau Mawent, Jkie. oAl il declared by the composer to be his ideal of the role. The opera is founded on Abbe Mme. Marylli; Javotte, Miss Carrie ; Rosette, Mme. Van Cauteren; Les- M. Declery; Le Comte des Grieux, M. t, M. Gilibert; De Bretigny, M. er des Grieux, M. Salignac; M. Flo Very few of the operas will be repeated agement of the Maurice Among the novelfies to. mentioned Wagner's “Die | and “Tristan and Isolde’ The Marriage of Figaro.” r gain make a feature of | rformances on Sunday evenings at pop- The advance sale indicates >Eperous season. r prices Charles Hoffmann, tenor, who descend- ed upon San Francisco last Friday at a song recital at Sherman & Clay Hall, me to be of the strictly super- =s so far as music is concerned. be a long way off from things here, but not quite far enough to make Mr. Hoffmann a possibility as a vocalist. His programme announces the singer as a pupll of the *‘celebrated tenor, Theodor Wachtel, and of Mme. Marchesi,” who . of course, have done something to deserve the imputation, though Mr. Hoff- mann’s methods indicate a noble freedom f educational trammels of any sort One would rather like to know, however, to which of the two famous teachers ould be ascribed, the explosive nuance in which Mr. Hoffman indicates the senti- mental side of things, and to whose inspi- ration he owes the nalve falsetto which, with this artless German, takes the place of the conventional tenor's high note. We must have a pretty rough reputatioa somewhere for Mr. Hoffmann to imagine that we could accept the kind of thing he has to offer for the glorious art of sing- ing. but the exhibition was perhaps more amusing than impertinent. it is under- the singer also has ANSWEKS TO QUERIES. SWIMMING SCHOOLS—L. T., 8preck- els, Cal. There Is no school in 8an Fran= cisco where swimming is taught free. HOME WEDDING-P. B, City. It Is rot absolutely necessary to have a best man and a bridesmald at a home wedding. LARGEST STATUE—-E. C. E.. Pacific | Grove, Cal. It §s sald that Bartholdl" statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, Bedloe Izland at the entrance to New \'ur:(lhurlmr, is the largest statuc in the world. | PAY DAYS—L. T., Spreckels, Cal. Com- panies that have regular pay days are not required to depart from their rules if they desire to discharge an employe | before the end of a month or between pay | days, but the rule generally followed s to { tell the employe when he is notified that | his services are no longer required to go to the office and draw what is coming to | him. If the employer does not want to {do that then the employe need not “wait around until pay day,” but can elther leave directions where to gend what is due him, or authorize some one to collect the | money for him and forward it. HOTEL RULES—L. T., Spreckels, Cal. | The general rule in hotels is that where | there 18 no understanding between the | hotel-keeper and the guest, and the guest | 15 only transient, paying at the rate of so much a week, he pays proportion- ately for the fragtion of a week. Thosce who are known as permanent guests, usually, If they pay by the week, are re- quired to pay for a whole week, though | they remain but a fraction of a week. The | reason for this §s that a transient may be | placed wherever there iy a place for | him, while a permanent is g{ven the ahoice | of accommodations and table service, ———————— Walput and Pecan Panoche. Townsend, * ————— Cholce eandles. Tonwsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— Cal. Glace Frult S0c per Ib at Townsend's * —_—— Selling out. Best eyeglass and spees, 10¢ to 40c, at 81 4th, front barber and grocery.* ———— Bpecial information supplied dally to ueiness houses and bl Clipping Burean (Alien'sr. 310 Mont: gomery street. Telephone Main 1043, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1901, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. 2 2 Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY ...c.oiisrohgasionvst pons daiis s'e c SIRIE BB 0 S0 ol b core sotficb s O .‘...............'NQVEMBER 10, 1901 GERMANY'S AIMS. Publication Office. siveesiiiienooo...Market and Third, S. F. UR Government is keeping close watch on the Monroe hemisphere. In the old sailing days all navies were on an equality. The winds blow all around the globe, and no country could coraer their motive power. Now it is different. A country that follows its trade with its.navy must have coaling stations which it can command in war. In peace every port is a coaling station, but in war it is different. We were in a hard place when Dewey’s flget had to sail from Hongkong within a given time, after war was declared against Spain. We had not access to a pound of coal nearer than Honolulu, and there only because the dummy re- public of Hawaii could safely violate neutrality under our protection. Qur Asiatic fleet was in danger of cold boilers until Dewey hammered his way to access to the Spanish coal pile at Cavite. Because of the necessity for coaling stations the English navy is the strongest in the world, independently of the aiumber of its ships, gun and men. It would still be the strongest if these were reduced by a third, because Great Britain has coal piles everywhere under her own flag. We are deficient in that respect. On the Pacific Coast we have only one coaling station outside our own + territory, and that is inconveniently located on the coast of Mexico. Germany is alive to the situa- tion, and is seeking indirectly to invade our hemisphere, and through one of her chattered steam- ship companies to acquire territory for a coaling station which will command the Caribbean Sea. German trade is considerable in Central and South America, but the coveted coaling station is not wanted so much on account of existing trade as for the purpose of getting warships with bunkers full of coal within striking distance of the isthmian canal. Anyway that is the view taken of 3 our Government, and the Monroe doctrine will be applied to the affair. A war with Germany is a very remote contingency. The two nations have more trade with each other than cither enjoys with the other Americas, and would lose the greater in a battle for the less. But precedent is of importance to the United States. If we permit the direct or indirect cession of territory for coaling and ‘naval station purposes to one foreign nation we could hardly refuse it to any other. So the way to get out of trouble in that respect is to keep out of it now,and inform any of the small countries that have erected statues to Monroe that they must live up to his doctrine. While we are watching the Caribbean Sea it may be well to keep an eye on the Pacific Coast. Chile is suspected of ambitious designs, and is known to be seeking naval stations in Cen- tral America within striking distance of this end of the canal. /That is a truculent country, juite self-possessed and confident of its power, with very ambitious commercial schemes, and, as far as its production and commerce go, a strong rival of California. A visitor to the Pan-American fair was struck by the similarity of the Chilean and Caiifornia exhibits. The productions of the two coun- tries are common and not complementary. We are out for the same trade, and our warships near the canal should not be compelled to coal only by permission of the Chilean navy. : —— 5 THE LIVESTOCK MEN. HE National Livestock Association is sending out statements of its expected action during its annual meeting in Chicago. Some of these are significant of its change of sentiment on the subject of leasing the arid grazing lands on the public domain. In its meeting two years ago at Fort Worth this association by a narrow majority favored the leasing of these lands. As this was accomplished by the vote of the Texas delegation, the anti-leasers denounced it, because the United States owns no public domath in Texas, and it was claimed, thercf,c:rc. that the delegates'from that State had no right to vote on an issue that did not concern them. To the annual meeting last January in Salt Lake City the anti-leasers came in force to repeal the Fort Worth decision. They dominated the convention, but were restrained from the intended repeal by the prospect that it would disrupt the association. Therefore they were obliged to content them- selves with tabling the report of the leading committee. At that time the anti-leasers were practically all sheep men and the issue was really between them and the cattle men. The latter, in view of the imminence cf the extinction of their business by being driven from the free public range by the sheep yen. while retaining their individual mem- bership in the Livestock Association, proceeded to organize the American Cattle-Growers' Asso- ciation, which immediately acquired a large membership, so that its convention in Denver in the spring was largely attended, and voted by a great majority to proceed at once with the leasing policy. Great progress has bzen made therein, and during the summer the cattle interest has prac- tically consolidated in favor of such a law, and a large number of sheep men have abandoned the anti-leasers and joined the leasers. This probably accounts for the appearance of change in the Livestock Association, for it is now apparent that, excluding Texas, a majority of that body favors leasing. ] / In the last outgiving from Denver appears the usual sign of a surrender. Tt is announced that the meeting at Chicago will consider the appointment of a Congressional committee to in- vestigate the subject, but the same telegram admits every premise of the leasers. Therein the Live- stock Association admits that over-stocking the free range is rapidly destroying its forage, and as rapidly decreasing all kinds of stock. We called attention to this last year when the price of beef permanently advanced as a result of a falling off of 60 per cent in the receipt of range cattle at the slaughtering centers in the preceding five years. Not only is the meat supply diminishing, but the arid region is being made more arid and less possible of settlement by the homesteader through a decline in the flow of springs and streams. ¥ The American Cattle-Growers’ Association did not wait for the zonversion of the ILive- stock Association, but proceeded by its committee to draft a lease bill, which will be submitted to, Congress in the coming session. As the premise of the cattlemen is admitted, they see no utility in delayirg the conclusion by appealing to a Congressional commission. That commission could only report in favor of leaving the range to be destroyed as commons, or that all the public domain be ceded to the States and Territories, or that it be leased and left open to the homesteader and mineral entry man. As the first would be intolerable to both associations, and the second is im- practicable, for the Federal Government will never cede its domain and lose control of its forest res- ervations and its right to_protect the intending settler, the commission could satisfy Western sen- timent only by recommending leasing. But by the time it acted the flocks and herds will have nearly disappeared with the forage and the desert will dominate the range. The cattlemen seem indisposed to wait that long, and. as their premise is admitted by- the Livestock Association, they will invite it to join them in reaching the conclusion new, while some of the range is Ieft. Tt is an issue intensely important to the West, and its determination should not be delayed until beef disappears as the ordinary food of our people and as an im- portant feature in our export trade. - BOMBARDING HAILSTORMS. - ESPITE the reports of American Consuls concerning the success alleged to have been attained in certain parts of France, Italy and Austria by the use of cannonading for the purpose of breaking up approaching hailstorms, Professor Moore of the Weather Bureau officially declares the whole thing to be incredible. s Referring to the experiments maddin Europe the Professor says: “Several thousand shoot- ing stations have been established in Italy and France during the past few years, but reports re- ceived from them give no definite data in support of the state of the experiments, although there is no doubt that the cannonading is believed to be effectual by the farmers who do the work. Waves of irrationl enthusiasm sometimes creep over a community only to be regretted in subse- quent years, when calmer judgment has come to prevail. We have only to remember the experi- ence of our own country only a few years ago with the rainmakers, and how firm was the belief ot thousands of people in the sub-arid and arid regions of the West that the use of powerful explosives would produce rainfall.” It is pointed out that the practice is irrational because while not one storm in a hundred has hail, there is no way of telling bysight at a distance whether the approaching cloud is going to bring hail or not, and consequently tire farmers who resort to cannonading to keep off hailstorms would have to waste a great deal of money in unnecessary bombardments. FinaMy the Professor says: “The great processes going on in the atmosphere are conducted on too large a scale for any man or any nation to attempt to control them. The energy expended by nature in the produc- tion of a hailstorm, a torrado or a rainstorm probably exceeds the combined energy of all the steam engines and explosives in the world.” It is hard to cure a popular delusion, and we shall doubtless hear of attempts .in this country to imitate the French experiments. It is, therefore, well that Professor Moore has issued his 'warn- ing against the folly. - If we have any powder to shoot away let us save it for the Fourth of July. | auired for the 200 plays to which the orig- [ Sl JAPANESE DRAMA* AFTER ITS THE HISTORIC UPHEAVAL IN H - NE has long ago ceased !rum‘ surprise at any new evidence of the artistic greatness of the | small brown folk on the other side of the Pacific who serve | courteous, yet inwardly dis- dainful, in our kitchens here. Ernest F. Fenollosa, whose brilllant and sympe- i | us, i in:euc lectures on the art and ethics of I { i silent, the Orfent have been lately delighting San Francisco audierices, is the last Ori- entalist to add to our yet scant kmowl- It bardly | edge of this great little people. | | surprises to know, in face of the wonders | | of Japanese art that are daily being re- | vealed to us, that in Japan exists to-day | | a living lyric drama that approximates in | startlingly closz fashion to that of an- clent Greece, both in its origin and devel- opment. Wha: Is surprising is that this vastly significant fact should have here- | | tofore remained unnoted by any of the | | Orlentalists. Wiih the exception of a | short talk some time ago at Columbla | | University by Mr. Fenoliosa himself and a single chapter on the “No™ (the cla: sical drama) ‘n a book on Japan by E ward Auetin, the subject has so far inex- plicably been ignored by students of the Far East. It }s perhaps as well, for it is not easy to imagine another so profound- ly intimate knowledge und sympatby as that of Mr. Fenollosa being brought to bear on the subject—exactly that quality of knowledge, Ly the way, that is vitally necessary (o Us as a people in our future | diplematic relations with our Nipponese | | neighbore, and particularly to (‘nhl’omll' te it said. 1 i . | The subject of the-Japarese classical | ! . drama I8 one of which Mr. Fenollosa iz peculiarly well qualified to speak. He had, the advantage of studying its technique | | and history for many years with the lead- | ing actor of the “No,"” Umewaka Minori | Who also restored the classical drama aft- jer its threatened extinction in the his- toric upheaval of 1868. Like the Greek drama, the “No" had its origin in a religious dance—the dance of the Shinto gods—though the Japaness classical drama dates back only some 45) years. Also, as in the Greek drama, masks are used, some 300 masks being re- Anal 500 lyric dramas have been sifted down. The masks are symbolic of the [ leit-motif, so to speak, of the character, | and in the hands of a good actor seem actually to change expression with each passing emotlon. Different masks may be used during the progress of the play, as when the mask of a jealous woman, of a dull, | bricky red in one act, with short horns | and sharp teeth, becomes In the next of a fearful jaundiced yellow, with long horns and long sharp fangs. There fs a chorus, too, that though il does not dance, yet performs the same explanatory part that the Greek chorus performed, emphasizing, defining, fore- shadowing the dramatic sigunificance ot the moment, all in a musical chant that | 1s mest like the old Sanscri! us. It is also an exquisitely picturesque adjunct, the costumes being a magnificent mass of lovely color and inspired of line. - 3, At first purely a religious festival per- formed by the priests, stories of ancient harmony i f began first the only “leading men" in the plays, began to give way to mortals, and to-day a composite cast of gods and men takes part in the perfécted drama. Three Jap- Shakespeares, or Sophocles—as one fi:n to put ft—are whole two hundred plays that form the classical repertolre, and it is most inter- esting to note that many of the actors e ARTISTIC GREATNESS . OF JAPANESE PEOPLE NOW BECOMING KNOWN BY GUISARD. LEADING ACTOR OF THE "“NO,” WHO RESTORED THE CLASSICAL THREATENED EXTINCTION IN IS LAND IN 1863. — Japanese classical actor regards his work as an apostolate. He is trained from ear- lest childhood In the dance, the chant, in gesture. elocution, facial expression, but above all in the spiritual and ethical sig- nificance of his calling. To preserve the classics In their subtlest integrity, to pre- sent with minutest faithfulness these dramas of his foregods and forefathers, without any mere thought of personal ag- grandizement than have the ictors of the Oberammergau “Passion Play,” is the worthy ideal of the Japanese classical actor. &5 9. 9 And of the plays that have so vital hold upon their actors and the Japanese peo- ple? Perhaps Maeteriinck, more nearly than any other occidental playwright, has eminently conventional and archale qual- ity of his drama, seems to have the more human note. The of & flower, the ghosts of dead lovers, sonifications of jealousy, self-sacrifice, courage, river nymphs, tree gods, Shinto the dramatis personae, largely with subjective realities, and their effect, says Mr. Fenollosa, is Invariably uplifting, even American spectators ig- norant of the language but with a knowl- edge of the plots, being moved to tears h’}‘m singular beauty of their thought and presentment. A Yorkshire miller, noted for his keen- ness in financial matters, was once In & boat trying his best to get across the stream which drowq his mill. The was flooded, and he was taken point at which he wanted to further on misfortune again overtook to the extent that the boat - wife, realizing the dapger frantically along the sid erying for help in a her sheer amazement, brought to a standstill yelling out: by It I'm drowned, Molly, excessive eensibility English writer: b1 To diminish Cotd, says an First—Free exposure to open alr, dally famillarity with the atmosphere, dimime ishes the sensibility of the skin, enabith the body to resist the invasion of cold. b