The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1901, Page 19

THE SUNDAY CALL. MINNIE AT THE GSRAND OPER A | s RT Jel vf:,JADA T = OCRPHE UM be under his especial musical protection, which he is by no means generous of. In fact Lucia Burnett is his only protege. She is from Los / les, where her family have a handsome home on Wash- ington street. The family Is Californian to the core, and Mrs. Burnett is the niece of our first Governor. She met Paderewski while she was abroad in 15%7. It was while she was Ing in assburg that he first heard her play_and was immediately interested in her nterest was lasting, and the result meeting was that she was invited to the Paderewski home, whers she came to be a close friend of the famil In spite of his well known dislike of women, he has offered to take charge of her musical career, and_she is soon to meet him in Paris’' to begin her study with him. Cleorg Henschel died in her Lon- ovember. She . an Ohioan by extended over not v, but Europe as no more strenuotus than those of the ordle lic school and they are far more ing. The dancing and singing ness are like the candy part of hool, the part that comes on a Friday rnoon when you sing the songs you to speak to picking them out vourselves. and De Wolfe Hopper and Fritz Williams, the way 1 vou-speak pleces and read stories. both remembered by n Francisco, are %, 1 In _the middle of the afternoon comes two of the burlesquers In ”“ eber and it is the Po a Company’'s School. The Field's new burlesque on dars,”” whi £ hit in D company carries about its own tutor and from Mars,” which is a h 0 school i conducted in the girls' hotel. “There, T forgot me 'ead coverin'. I'ave BURNET 1 Charles Hawtrey to the oo O B There all these precocious youngsters, change me ‘ead coverin' for this : for the hit and Williams bui . who range from 14 down to 7, are taught ha (‘(,"' i i g 10 spell and to read and to write and to And she nonchalantly tosses away her GiR] y" again in New Yo | “rith.” They don’t take to it unkindly, white cap and replaces it with the biue. 0 L \WwHoOo g Lyceum Theater for the last :_l;ne for it lends variety te their life, but the 5 “\\,’nulv you hunon] th'hi? I"m gettin' so 1Ll Uoird hnsdbe;nmv’{:; ;:::x:»f"" o T ORG R artistic temperament g not that of the can't get me clothes about me." needs 8 A SNV 3 born student. $he struts up to me in a vest that lacks PADERES KL, son she will star in ;:dm:‘\:eh.;u(tl!g);q? Thich, It hates above all things to add and WO inches of the measure of her sturdy I e S ing camaty Sl il b 3 subtract. Arithmetlc is so beastly fnar- little circumference. sl 0 e A e Charming by the tact that girls. In ““The yg¢ic, ‘I can’t get it around you unless I push made the more c 3 rt and flirtatious After school there is a long time to play 21l your vital organs up into your Mrs. Gilbert has a part in it. yout Mr. Barnard is now engaged on a new - ed by girls. in and walk in and eat in and nap in be- throat” I say, with some hesitation at ) children’s play. A Christmas pantomime Mrs. Tiske e T wan boys,” says one fore the evening performance begins. the job. J of unique character by Oliver Herford Is ~“"-1d"{"_m the Manhattan shortly. flock. These children spend far less time in _“Never mind. Pinch me if you like. Mo to be produced in New York during the moved from the “taf B & «The g » their dressing rooms than do older ac- Performance is at stake. holidays and a children’s opera will be _ Bertha Runkle's D - prod asier 10 manage, 4 v So 1 pinch her and she never winces. Helmet of Navarre,” is to be' produced tresses. They are inclined to let well I : td given during the season, and fancy the el 1 ew York. Charles Dalton, enough alone in the matter of adjusting Daphne lives for art for art’s sake. wild applause that, at ‘ro distant day, Very %00n ™ T GO0 0 Fos the herold A rantankerous youngster a curl or a sash. Besides this, the most o e wiil ring through the auditorium of that Who 18 TememOries ine 0% ot Cross, whole cast as easily as a of them have no malll to storm at, 80 At our local theater we have children shildren’s theater in Boston when Meg and e A bronchitis. When other they gain time in that. Madge seems to performing for the amusement of grown- hold the boards of nearly all the play- . Jo ari Amjy step from the pages of “Lit- Wi . antankerous it is a simple be the only one to whom dressing 1s a ups. Boston s trying the vice versn of houses. Bometimes as many as thirty :f:::"g?':nfi“i':e?‘;nm:rrx:xmirn:{':h;";t"é:lwg tle Women,” and move through the Eesinn e Eopear oy e S matter to spank them, but you capt burfen. the proposition, and experlenced theatri- Praducuon. of this character are crowded merely spectacular affairs performed by £cencs of that charming children's classte. [Leslis Carier W SERIAT Gl 8 Sna g nk your comedian or your leading lady “Dear, dear, my obi {sn’t straight. Fix cal folk are now turning their attention into holiday week and the patriotic de- amateurs for the most part, they were What unbounded delight will such a dra- ‘l'.‘ hman who wrote the play must 2c on the stage. You have got to obi, it isn’t siraight.” %) mT{:lrumnK the youngsters. Yotion to Christmas pantomime among reg| plays with a regular story and plot Matization afford the thousands of chil- };"::“MM up their little difficulties. Th: ic on i age. ® S0t to “Why, it is straight, Madge, he recent successful opening of a Englishmen always make a success of the running through the entire performance, @4ren who have read and rercad the book {‘ is built somewhat on the “Zasa'™ st to moral suasion “No it isn’t.” She shifts it a hair's beautiful new children's theater in Boston festival. Charles Barnard, who Is a keen student Il its characters are alive to them. Lo e an & s for the same ki nasmuch as the girls are found breadth. “And I don’t like the way my marks another era in the evolution of the But the Mea of a permanent children’s plan ...r.d calls for ind of an actress, being strenuous and Bernhardt- esque. of child nature and was one of the . \What more adequate way of teaching e 10 moral suasion than the Wig Is put on.” popular idea that a playhouse set apart theater is wholly . new. The movement authors of the *Forest Ring'' says of history taan by dramatizing its dry pages , Mr. Poliard has thirty-five of them After the wig has been taken off and for, and given over entirely to, produc- began in N and was formally in- ces: ¥ and presenting it to the children in the 1 15 @ dozen or thereabouts of the put back on several times she Is llkely tions for little folks, 1s & necessity that nugurated. py York and Bargent, of the irese n«fi:’r‘:fi';f:"g".:‘;’duu A J}.‘;‘:{;"f,fi! form of a play? In this way the world b'\“;};“fi‘f‘l‘i,:’.:?p&" o Tittie Duery rdfer wex ik it e botal sis P Sesover that hav. ayes Bave Deen too i bound to be recognized. hing, -AMerican Academy of Dramatic’Arts, on polite. Applause was - infrequent.~ The (bt B SR B Shildiah esa " She sings “Mollile Shannon.” girls are gathered at one holel, BRYRY - petiet ps too little _ Plays for children are not a_new thing. Apri ) roduction of *, N § eart, W 0 good account an - WL 5 at another. Every morning they all Touged. While for all any one else can Many have been written by French des: .h"e’éffi;&’?‘}ufi?fi“vfiaé’ glven at Cnni‘e'\;l‘; . Cmlerely aiwarhad in > The lorodora’s” first _anniversary ¢ cehicle of truth taught in suen - performance, grasping quickly every sit- made the vehlc o Q on the 12th of November am Lyceum. ' This was sufficletly well = re- uation and 'occasionally remarking to & pleasing and Impressive way that its SUrReS Oh RS (Cl0 00 o g heater for their rehearsal, see, she has been all the time a flawless matists and produced in Paris. . #o French doll. Tound and be-curled and big- _In London for years the chiidren have ceived to warrant the establishment last their nelghbors upon the play and fts Imprint will never fade from the memory. not begin before 10:30, ’ iraser, who made her friends ty of loafing time first. eyed and fluffy. practically monopolized the theaters at season of a regular series of perform- characters. They displayed fine dramatic b A i T Tl ua‘;: le‘x’xdln ‘womai always have breakfast in bed,” says Elph}n{. dlhaflk;ahy 19! the flock, the one the holiday season, when an annual del- ances, opening in December and extend- mense; every pm?'- %nythe stage was ' The Californian, Lucla Burnett, is hon- Rv"dl%n'.“‘hl.i made nlt‘a f m':.ll? mls : the lady of the rickshaw. who playe cer Tommy Stanley with uge of Christmas pantomimes occurs apd ing without interruption through the Win- judged, not by his Manner of impersonat- ored by:-being ghosen as a protege of the |n starring for herself. “Dolly Va pe Their manager says that they have to & swagger that would put to shame most smectaculir piase of “L1ttle Rod Hid 3 “For. be rehearsed to be kept out of mischief, genuine officers for the siride and the FHeod ' ~The Ba in the Wooal.':fi R fl::'.'.‘"l'l‘ lg‘,,‘_—fi,:fi,’,“‘:.fi?' g‘lae, F;%lf. ' Pt ShpTacter. They enjoy the practice and it keeps them swash of it, s @& most philosophical. “Punch and Judy, ack and the Bean- lowed by “The Clown and the Locket.” buey. The paces they are put through are dresser. stalk,” and other popular nursery tales, Both ufe plays dlffered from those ut by the character it- - dlyine ‘‘Paddy. h era written for her . Children are excellent critics of the - It ought to be enough for a musiclan ‘S(:nol:lnus Stange, is full Hu.c‘;fl.:",f story. They care very little for to win even a word of approbation from dainty costumes and crisp action. She I the performer.” the Diviwe; but this young woman is to fllling her box office coffers.