The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1902, Page 22

115 SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1904, 2z - FIRST OF NEW STARS THAT WILL TWINKLE IN E THE TIVOL! FIRMAMENT 1 BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. - 3 HE first of the new stars that will twinkle in the Tivoli firmament when comic opera returns is Har- old Gordon, a lyric tenor with a voice of unusually fine quality. Mr. is a nutive of Boston and an encouraging musical history. was the pupil of Sbrig! who t Jean de Reszke the few things e left untaught, and is a lyric r of the heavier Kkind He has experience both in Boston and York. For some time he sang with Castle Square Opera Company, also h the Kurwen Opera Compa :_;:1 with the Southwell Opera Company. Gordon has not confined himself to comic | opera, but has achieved success as Ra- dames in ““Aida,” as Don Jose in “Car- men” and in other grand opera Toles. The singer will be first heard here in “The Ameer,” that will follow “Little Red Riding Hood” when the present furor for Hartman's pleasant extravaganza has died down. Besides “The Ameer,” other | comic opera favorites to be given are “The Fortune Teller,” *The Serenade” and “The Singing Girl” and by a com- pany that will be distinguished from most comic opera companies by being able to =t The volce limit is usually repre- sented by 0 in the light opera bands that | are visited upon us, except with such as the Perley people and they don’t come around as often as they might. But the home company will have voice, fun and good looks, down from principals to cho- rus this year, that can give most travel- ing companies “cards and spades.” Mr. Gordon, as before said, is the tenor, Ar- thur Cunpingham’'s good baritone is as favorably as it is well known, and Schus- ter has been mentioned as the basso. Then there is Edward Webb among the come- dians with a thoroughly pleasing organ, end Ferris Hartman and Harry Cashman, whose - voices are never mentioned, but who are funsmiths of the first order. Anna Lichter is to be the soprano prima donna, which fact ensures the soprano roles a thoroughly musical presentment; Frances Graham, the handsome contralto, will again lend her beautiful voice to light opera, and Annie Myers, the fetching sou- brette, will be another indispensable mem- ber of the company. Meantime, Red Riding Hood” still holds sway, with in Birdseye Maple, Oak or Mahogany, suitab’e for bay-window or corner........951.85 We make a specialty nishing homes, flats, rooming- houses. the cost for you. holiday reductions in ali depart- of fur- hotels and Let us estimate Special after- ments, Credit if you wish. We close at 6, except on Saturday. T. BRILLIANT FURNITURE (0., 338-342 PO-T STREET, Opposite Union Square. “Little | WELL KNOWN EASTERN ARTIST WHO, WILL SING IN COMIC OP- ERA AT THE TIVOLL Joo sign of any abatement of its popular- { ity. | . | Itis not probable that the captiously in- | clined will find anything in the pro- gramme of next Friday's symphony con- | cert to cavil at. Mr. Steindorff, in his modest, and, under the circumstances, en- | tirely suitable opening programme, was mistakenly held by some peo- Iple to have underrated the intel- {ligence of his hearers. Needless to| say, this captious contingent was in| | small minority. The rest of Mr. Stein-| | dorff’s audience appreciated fully, and | valued as highly, the reverent and unpre- tentious spirit that guided the conductor in his choice of the opening programme. Next Friday's concert will be more am- | bitious, and a varied, dignified and charm- | ing programme has been arranged for our | entertainment. There is to be the Beetho- | ven C minor symphony for particular de- | light, and other numbers will be the Saint- Saens Symphonic poem, “Rouet d'(‘lm-! phale”; a Lassen overture; the Scherzo, | from the “Midsummer Night's Dream”: | and the Wagner prelude from “Die Mei:-i tersinger.” | | | | * -5\ | Mr. Steindorff reports satisfying prog- | ress in the accomplishments of the band, | and Mr. Minetti, the concertmeister, is | } not less enthusiastic aver his confrer: good work. Also the interest taken the concert-going public in the society is highly encouraging, and it seems at | 1ast as if here was an orchestra that had | come to stay. Certainly San Francisco is | rich enough, certainly her citizens are | generous enough and sufficiently musical | to support the organization. It needed | only the awakening of public spirit to the | recognition of the need and importance | | of the undertaking, and it would seem as if this had been actually accomplished | already. The audience for Friday after- noon next promises much to exceed the audience of the inaugural concert. Still, there is room for a few more, and it will | not be fashionable to be found among the missing. . s Who has a one-act opera “up his| sleeve?” Signor Sonzogno, the modern | Maecenas of Rome, offers a prize of $10,000 for the best one-act opera, in any | language, that is submitted to him within | a specified time, the sald opera to be per- | formed at the International Exposition, Milan, 1904. It will be remembered that it was by the kindly offices of Signor Son- zogno that Mascagni got his first big op- portunity, the composer’s now famous | opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” winning | the first Sanzogno prize some years ago. This is well worth remembering by the aspiring opera builder. It means not only the handsome prize of $10,000, but the cer- tainty of production and in the hand- somest possible fashion. Further than that it means immediate fame and almost the certainty of continued prosperity. Who has an opera? . . . A good programme is promised by the Minett! string quartet for Saturday even- ing next, to take place in the Young Men's Christlan Association Auditorium. The quartet will be assisted by F. Big- | gerstaff and the following numbers will | be given: Bazzini, string quartet in D | minor, op. 7%; Rubinstein, piano and ’cello | sonate in D major, op. 18; Schubert, string quartet in D minor, op. 14. —_— Californians in Washington. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The following | Californians have arrived at the hotels: | St. James—D. F. Fox and wife, Sacra- | mento; William Jarvis, E. L. Jones and L. G. Carpenter, San Francisco. Shore- ham—W. Galvin and wife, San Francisco. Ebbitt—R. 8. Lyng, G. H. Preston and Mrs. Preston, San Francisco. New Wil- lard—C. H. Hopkirs and wife, P. C. Hop- | kins and George A. Knight, San Fran- cisco. 1‘ Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* B — ! strong hoarhound candy. Townsend': ———— Cal. Glace Fruit 56c per ib at Townsend's.* —_—————— Svecial information supplied daily to ess houses and public men by the | Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Munl- | gomery street. Telephone Main i | ——~0-—— ! The discovery that there are microbes in ice will make it necessary, of course, | to boil it. i ———— \ Guillet’s New Year's extra mince pies, ice | cream and cake. 905 Larkin; phone East 198 * THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPntCKELS Proprietor. SUNDAY . Publication Office. Address Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager .JANUARY 5, 1902 . Market and Third, S. F. REALTY SECURITY. ISCUSSION of changes in the national bankmg system has gone far beyond the orig- inal propositions, which were lowering the minimum capital to $25,000 and providing an elastic currency by permitting the issue of notes on assets other than Government bonds. The latter has not yet been effected. It is of great interest to all business men remote from the financial centers, because it will provide an emergency currency that will not congest in those centers, but will serve its temporary purpose and flow back into the bank’ which emits it. Such a system, under rigid official oversight, it is believed, will amply protect the public and serve its convenience. In the discussion of the banking law the people have been meas- urably educated out of some popular illusions about banks. The idea was once quite general, and still prevails in some sections, that a bank is an injurious institution which makes money scarce by hoarding it. It has come to be known now that, among the misfortunes that a bank shuns, is the idleness of its capital which compels hoarding. 1If a bank loaned no money, sold no exchange, discounted no paper, it would be in exactly the same flx as if its capital had been lost and its doors closed by insolvency. A better understanding of the use and principles of banking is one of the useful results of the campaign of financial education which began in 1896. The people know more about banks, and among them there has started a movement that has been taken up by Congressman McCleary of Minnesota and put on the inquiry list for investigation. Under the law as it stands national banks must loan their funds on personal security only. This is based upon sound principles, which require that a commercial bank shall keep its assets in a form of security that is readily controvertible. It is this principle which stands against the emission of a credit currency directly by the Government. The Government has only two ways of getting the specie required to make such currency good, by making it always immediately redeemable .in actual value. One of these is by taxation, the other by borrowing. The first is too slow, the second too costly. The system was exposed in all its dangers during the panic of 1893, when the greenbacks ran into the treasury for specie redemption until it was empty, and the Government had to borrow gold on its bonds to avoid suspension of specie payments and national bankruptcy. The inquiry undertaken by Mr. McCleary is intended to develop how far this principle may be departed from in the case of national banks, by permitting them to loan a fixed percentage of their funds upon realty security. It is proposed to limit'this permission to owners. of realty and needful of borrowed capital. Loaning on realty is the proper function of savings banks, which look for a more perma- nent form of security. They are not subject to some of the emergencies that beset commercial institutions. The law benefits them by a time limit, to which they may subject depositors, and within which they may realize on realty securities. ) Extending the proposed permission to commercial banks must be carefully considered in its probable effect upon them, by impairing their power to meet emergencies, and also in its effect upon savings banks. These are the trustees of the people, who are benefited by their power to earn interest. Permitting nationai banks to enter the field of realty security may impair that power to the injury of savings depositors. Against this last consideration it may well be urged that people in cities have ready access to both kinds of banks, while country people have only commercial banks to resort to for accom- small banks, whose patrons are rural people, modation. The subject is of great interest, and it is evident that Mr. McCleary intends to ap- proach it conservatively. It will be interesting to know how the national bankers themselves regard it. 3 OUR WATHR SUOPEPI.Y. UCH citizens of San Francisco as are averse to giving any consideration to the water supply of the city until the need of a better supply becomes urgent may find in the present prolonged spell of dry weather a sufficient reason for interesting themselves in the subject at once. The present water supply of the city is dependent upon the rainfall this locality from season to season, and the absence of rain may yet precipitate upon the people a water famine of a very serious nature. A correspondent of The Call in a thoughtful article publishéd Saturday says: “The writer personally knows from an examination of the San Mateo reservoirs and the records of the reservoirs and water supplies as declared by H. Schussler, chief engineer of the company, ‘that there is not now water enough in these reservoirs used together with all the company can get from Alameda County and Lake Merced to supply the city through the current year—also that a rainfall of not less than 135 inches in San Francisco before April 1 will be required to make up the deficiency.” It is of course altogether’ probable we shall have the desired rainfall. Many a dry season at this time of the year has given place to a season of abundant rains later on. While, however, there is nothing about which to be alarmed, it will be worth while for the far-seeing men of the community to consider the future. The population of San Francisco is increasing. The demand and the need for water will be larger every year. The local rainfall of the winter cannot be relied upon always to supply the year’s needs of so populous a community as is now growing up all round the bay. Sooner or later we must bring water from the mountains where the flow is abundant at all seasons; and the sooner we do so the better. The problem should not be left to the risk of a hasty solution in the way of municipal water works undertaken in a hurry. Capital should be interested in the subject at once. At the present time there is an abundance of unemployed money in the East seeking permanent profit- able investment. No better investment offers than that of supplying San Francisco with ‘moun- tain water, nor will there ever be in the future a better time for making the investment. LEGISLATION FOR THE STAGE. in CTORS, moralists, preachers, critics, scholars and some prize-fighters have each in their various ways sought to elevate the stage. The press and the public have watched their efforts with sympathy and have frequently found occasion to applaud. Sometimes they have even found occasion to hope. All, however, has been in vain. The stage has remained at the same level, cr it may even have sunk a little. There have been times when it seemed as if the “legitimate” would become a side show and the vaudeville would be the main thing. Under such circumstances it is gratifying to know that a new reformer has arisen. He is a member of the New York Legislature, and he announces that if his bill becomes a law it will elevate the stage of New York City as thoroughly as the civil service law has elevated the tone and temper of those departments of political administration where it has been applied. It is hardly necessary to say that the legislator who has undertaken the work hails from a rural district. He has been to the big city, has seen the show and has returned convinced that the stage needs the kind of purification that Mayor Low is going to apply to Tammany Hall. He has thought out the various problems involved in the proposed reform and has prepared a bill providing what he deems a true remedy for every ill that affects the American stage. His plan is a simple one. He would enforce an examination upon every applicant for a stage career, and permit no man or woman to appear before the footlights who could not per- form up to the standard. Next he would subject play-writers and managers to a censorship. They, like the performers, would also have to pass an examination. A man who could not prop- erly answer questions as to the true purposes of the theater and the rightful ends of dramatic work would not be permitted to conduct a theater. In short. the gentleman aims to give New York City a civil service stage, and the country will be well pleased if the Legislature give the thing a trial. It is time that something were done, and since expostulation has been in vain a statute may be effective. T. P. O’Connor, the Trish leader, is reported to have said recently: “I believe that in half a century from now no man will rise to the height of any profession, in the field, in the forum, or at the desk, who is not-a teetptaller.” It is hardly necessaYy to say that Mr. O’Connor has sworn off and has not yet worn off the exuberance of his pledge. L e It is said that Habid Ulah Khan, the new Ameer of Afghanistan, has dec]ared himself opposed to “education by missionaries” and has avowed an intention to set up ‘government schools, so we may look out now for new troubles on the old campground. e Possibly Castro of Venezuela has provoked the United States, Germany, France and Great Britain for the purpose of getting a grand naval parade around the Venezuelan ports merely to show his people what a big man he is. — PARIS SWAPS DRAMA FOR THE CIRCUS---THE 1 BERNHARDT FOR BARNUM’'S BY GUISARD. 1 P FAIR exchange is no robbery. Paris sends Bernhardt to us, we send Barnum to her. The ‘“greatest show on earth,” the old original, brassy, noisy, saw- dusty, glaring, flaring, glorious old circus, with its pink and glittering beautles, fiery steeds, venerable jokesters and weird slde shows, is the very latest craze in artistic Paris. The circus opened on No- vember 30, but the city was agog with excitement for days before the perform- ance over the huge posters that adorn the walls. The big poster {s almost unknown in Paris. It is not permitted, or its use is not customary with the adverfisers, and, of course, it re- sulted in crowding the circus, to suffocation at every performance. The Americans in Paris are highly amused over the success of the show, but they turn out themselves night after night in the same old way, “to take the children™ or to ‘see the Paris folk go crazy over an ‘ornery’ old home circus,” or for any other overworked old reason for going. There are some quaint storfes told in connection with the show. An American girl, looking with tears in her eyes at the familiar posters, overheard a woman in- quiring of a man at her elbow: “Who is Barnum?"” “Barnum is the Emperor of the United States and he is coming to pay a visit to the President,” the man replied, in all se- riousness. The same young woman writes of her visit to.the circus: ‘““We went on Tues- day to Barnum’'s and it was really su- perb. The building, the Gallerie de Ma- chine, is beautifully adapted for a circus and I felt no end patriotic. . The band played ragtime almost altogether, ‘Hot Time in the Old Town,” and so on, until I wanted to do a cakewalk around the ring myself. During the entr'acte we went to see the side shows. They have a great many elephants and the keeper was inside the fopes trylng to keep the Frenchmen from annoying the animals. He was yelling at them in English, ‘Here, keep your hands off!” We stopped to talk with him, knowing that he would like to hear a bit of good American, and we told | him he should say ‘Ne toucher pas’ in- stead of ‘Hands off, but he sald ‘this darned French gibberish was too much for him! “Then_one of us asked him where the peanuts were; there were none to give the animals, and we were sure they missed them. “‘Ah, ma'am,’ he sald, sorrowfully, ‘tain’t only the animals that's got to do without their peanuts in .this blamed place.” “We couldn’t help laughing, he looked s0 heartbroken over it, but 1t's the fool- ish little things like peanuts and ple that make the difference between home and other places after all. They have been away four years from America and 4o not return until next fall. But the show was gorgeous and the people here have gone wild over it.” W et The King himself has followed her, ‘When she has walked before. “King Henry VIIT” will follow “Janice Meredith” at the Columbia Theater this week, with Mme. Modfeska as Queen Katharine and Louls James as Cardinal Wolsey. The production is sald to be of the sumptuous order, and the company concerned in its representation numbers thirty-seven people. Norman Hackett, Thomas Cooke, Wadsworth Harris, John Hons, Jerome Harrington, Aphie James, Mrs. Wells and Lois Gale are of the com- o e s . 5 There have been three Camilles of note here within the last half-dozen years., Bernhardt, Nance O'Neill, vivid and crude, and now Mary Mannering, each 'y | | | | | % = FAMOUS ACTRESS WHO WILL | BE SEEN AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER. - = ward the Shakespearean drama, and with Mary Anderson a memory only, Ada Rehan disappearing into the past and Julia Mariowe deserting ““As You Like It" for “When Knighthood Was in Flower™ it is high time some one came up to fil the place. I suggest Mary Mannering. Robert Drouet was by much the best, the only Armand that has been seen here. It is easy to believe from his performancs the little story as to why he lost his place in the company he was In before he adorned Miss Mannering’s. “They say” that in spite of his subordinate position in the drama In which he was appearing Mr. Drouet by sheer weight of natural brilllance so far outshone the star as quite to dim her luster. This would not have mattered only that the impertinent public recognized the fact. So he last his place. Mr. Drouet's Armand was a masterly effort, full of grim, convincing passion, polished, tender, everything that it should be. He Is one of the most gifted players that have come round this way—would there were more like him. —_— PERSONAL MENTION. C. Carr of Monterey is at the Grand. M. D. Kelly, a mining man of Sonors, is at the Grand. A. T. Gilbert, an insurance man of Sa~ linas, is at the Occidental. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stockton Is spending a few days at the Lick. Frank K. Roberts, a business man of !s:nku Cruz, is among the arrivals at the ck. C. 8. Wynn, a mining man of New York, arrived here yesterday and Is at the Grand. The Ear! of Fingall, whose home is In County Meath, Ireland; arrived at the Palace yesterday, accompanied by Harold Sesslons. During the South African war the Earl served in the Imperial Yeoman- ry as a lleutenant. He is touring the coast for pleasure. e e— Physiclans say that swinging is health- ful cxercise—yet many a poor fellow has met his death thereby. as different from the other as Mr. Drouet from all the other Armands that have drifted our way. It is to be remembered that this was Miss Mannering’s first performance of the role, though from its ease and finish the fact could not have been s ted. Her effort was remarkable throughout, no less for its sharply deflned limitations than for its discgvery of her characteristic ca- pacities. Camille is out of her gamut in an exigent part of its compass—the sug- gestion of the wanton—but coincident with the discovery comes that of a wide range-of high roles that lie easily within her reach. The tragic note is lacking, but there is a strong emotional power, a womanly tenderness, a touching sweet- ness, a delicate reserve, simplicity and pathos that are fit equipment for the best types of womanhood that adorn the stage. Her youth shows itself in lack of depth and climacteric accent and occasionally |5 urdisturbed poise, but these will be at- tained, and conquered. As a picture noth- ing -l::; beautiful than her Camille could To me, her bent is very evidently to- GRIP Is the concentration of Colds, Catarrh Influenza, Cough, Sore Throat, all rolled into one. 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