The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1902, Page 22

22 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1902. MARION CRAWFORD GIVES TO PLAYWRIGHT EASILY ADAPTED MATERIAL BY GUISARE. e ITH a half dozen characters of distinction, a round dozen sit- uations strike fire and a production of rare splendor, “In the Palace of the King,” at the Columbia this week, has much more than fulfilled its promise. One expected little from the fatal fertility of Mr. Crawford, author of the book, more from the dram- atist, Lorimer Stoddard, who fitted Mrs. Fiske with her strong play, “Tess of the D’'Urbervilles,” but most from Miss Al- len, whose place here is second to mone in public liking. But Mr. Crawford has furnished the dramatist with a story of | true romantic flavor, easily susceptible to | dramatic treatment and picturesque to & degree. He has drawn the before-men- tioned half dozen characters with a clear- mess of touch that left only the work of | direct transference from story to stage | for the dramatist, and has further af-| forded a movel field of effort to the art ] - TALENTED ACTOR IN THE || in settings, the magnificences of t ROLE OF THE KING OF || Spanish courts having been exploit SPAIN. | with much less frequency than t splendors of other as. Mr. | so— - Stoddard, the pr ng d lovable | young playwright, who met death too | Miss Allen and her company have it in soon, has done as much for Mc. |hand. Crawford as Mr. Crawford h: AR TR, him. He has fillled ou done for One of the strongest portraits in the | v is that of King Philip of Spain, donc E. Bonney, whose Nero in the ori left its mark on things Mr. Bonney once upon a time ate secretary of Richard | field, who taught him to act. From good scheol Mr. Bonney went to the Adelphi Theater in London. Miss Allen returns to us a full-fledged star, and as Dolores de Mendoza, beloved of the king’s brother, has an opportunity | 1o exhibit to excelient advantage her | many-sided accomplishment. A creature | of quick mood, romantic, willful, capable and deep-hearted, Dolores de Mendoza is | an attractive figure, and Miss Allen brings.| to the conception almost everything neces. | to its best interpretation, | Palace of the Ki Joyable play, stir; Teplete with interest of one kind or an- other from beginning to end. It is not a great play in any sense of the word, and will go the way of other dramatic Palace of the King” will turn better than most POSTUM CEREAL. Examine Them. The “Coffee=Never-Hurt-Me" People. Some famous brain workers have made a wel- come discovery along the line of recovery of health by the proper selection of food. 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Address Communications to W, LEAKE, Manager ...FEBRUARY o, 1902 Publication Office............. R e R o Market and Third, S. F. HE CALL, in discussing the constitutional primacy of the House'in revenue legislation, forecast what has happened as the result of the pending effort for tariff abatement by reciprocity generally, and for free trade with- Cuba. This issue was really made when Mr. Blaine advised that high'rates in the tariff be used to incite requests for reciprocity, but it was not then seen to be the initiative of a struggle for prerogative between the House and Sen- ate. That struggle has now ripened, and, since we predicted it, has been precipitated. On January 31 Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, the minority leader, introduced resolutions citing the pending reciprocity treaties as evidence of the intention of the Senate to override the prerogatives of the House. Mr. Payne, the majority leader, raised the point of order that pending and incompleted action of the Senate could not be taken as such evidence, and that only the completed action of the Senate could raise the issue between the two houses. : The Speaker ruled properly that a threat to infringe the rights of the House was not an infringement. Discussion was had by Messrs. Jenkins, Tawney and Richardson, and the Ways and Means Committee was ordered to investigate the whole subject and report findings to the House, which would equip it with the instruments of defense, as soon as the Senate challenged it by an overt act. Mr. Richardson’s resolutions were referred to the Ways and Means Committee. These reso- lutions declare that: “It is the sense of this House that the negotiation by the Executive of a com- mercial treaty whereby rates of duty imposed on goods entering the United States should be fixed would, in view of section 7, article I, of the constitution, be an infraction of the constitution and an invasion of one of the highest prerogatives of the House of Representatives.” Mr. Payne and the members of the majority who discussed the resolution, and favored its reference to the committee instead of adoption by the House, all took occasion to affirm their indorsement of Mr. Richardson’s position, and there was no dissent on the floor of that chamber. It is evident, therefore, that a battle royal is at hand between the two branches of Con- gress. It is difficult to see what means of defense the House will have, no matter how well con- vinced of the rightfulness of its position. A study of the subject reveals the probable intention and belief of the makers of the con- stitution that the treaty making powers of the Executive and Senate would be used only in con- cluding peace, arranging such international matters as expatriation, boundary and extradition. In the state of our commerce in 1789, the ddte of the inauguration of the constitution, there was no discussion at all of any arrangement by which one nation might purchase abatement of our tariff rates by the reciprocal lowering of its own for our benefit. The first tariff passed by the first Congress contained no such provision, and there is no doubt that if the subject had arisen then, it would have been treated as an extra-constitutional proceeding unless with the concurrence of the House. ; To go further than that, it is highly probable that not only the treaty-making power but the power of the whole government would have been held incompetent to extend such an exclu- sive favor to one among the many nations with which we sustained commercial relations. But for all that, and conceding the correctness of the position of the House, the Execu- tive is charged with the execution of thelaw, and if that co-ordinate branch of the Government choose to consider a tariff invading treaty as the law of the land, and order its observance by the Collectors of Customs, the remedy of the House is obscure. Only a decision of the Supreme Court can settle it, and it may be questioned whether the traditions of the court will permit it to interfere in such a dispute between one branch of Congress and the other and the Executive. Yet it is the most important constitutional question that has arisen since the secession of South Caro- lina. The House may strike back by letting revenue fail or by refusing legislative intercourse with the Senate. But that will not interpret the constitution nor settle the issue. The report of the Ways and Means Committee will be awaited with the keenest interest. A MASSACHUSETTS MOVEMENT. ASSACHUSETTS is pondering a petition recently presented to her Legislature re- questing the adoption of resolutions calling upon Congress to empower the President of the United States to institute a movement for the establishment of a world congress. The proposition is the first step in the way of practical politics to bring about the re- alization of Tennyson’s “parliament of man; the federation of the world.” Ordinarily at this season the country receives quite a variety of new impulses from re- formers acting upon State Legislatures. This, however, is an off year for impulses of the kind, because comparatively few States have Legislaturcs in session this winter, so we must be the more thankful for the one movement that comes to us. Fortunately it is large enough to cause no end of talk, and is so little likely to move rapidly cven when started that almost any number of persons can give it a helping hand without fear of precipitating it like an avalanche upon an unsuspect- ing world. It will be as easy for a President of the United States to institute a movement for the estab- lishment of a world congress as it was for the Czar to institute a peace congress and bring about the establishment of the High Court of Nations to secve as a tribunal for international arbitration. In fact since such a court has been established and meets once in a while to have a dinner and to show itself grateful for being alive, it is but fitting there should be a world congress to make laws for/the court to construe. All that is quite evident, and this movement, then, has a logical reason for going ahead if it can. In seeking the creation of a world congress the Massachusetts petitioners do not ask that all nations be invited to take part init. Such a scheme would be impracticable, and, moreover, it would offer no strong inducements to the great powers. The plan is that ten nations be invited to assemble through duly accredited delegates to formulate a world constitution, lay down laws and then request the outsiders to come and be good. That gives the ten a chance to do big pol- itics at the start. The petitioners say: “We hold that mankind is in reality one organic body. * * * We look forward to the development of the organic political unity of mankind until each nation shall be represented in the world legislature when the concerns of all mankind shall be acted upon by the representatives of all mankind, for the peace and welfare of all.” None will deny that the belief thus expressed is essentially accurate; neither will any one question that the aspiration is excellent. There are a good many things that might be settled by a world legislature, just as the Chinese indemnity question was settled by the joint action of the powers. It happens, however, that such international action as has taken place so far does not commend itself to mankind. Still the Massachusetts movement merits attention. It affords a good subject for discussion at the debating societies during the winter and is altogether the best thing that has been produced by a State solon this year. It is stated that since 1889 Liverpool has increased its population by 78,000 and during the same time the number of cases of drunkenness apprehended by the police have diminished from 16,000 to 4180 a year, its criminal offenses from 926 to 552 per 100,000 inhabitants, and it has been found possible to diminish the police force by 100 men without harm to the safety of the city. All of this decrease of vice and crime while the population was increasing is attributed by John Burns; the London labor leader, to the fact that during the eleven years the Liverpool authorities closed up 345 saloons in the slums of the city where excessive drinking ‘and crime were prevalent. The Indiana courts are said to have decided in the case of Christiansen vs. Crum that the death of one of the parties to a marriage engagement represents such a breach of contract as en- titles the survivor to compensatory damages; so it seems now that the engaged man can find no relief even in the grave, and a new terror has been added to society. A St. Louis street-car company refused to take a smooth nickel from a passenger, and when he declined to give another they put him off the car. Now the courts have compelled the corporation to pay $2000 damages, and it is probable that hereafter smooth nickels will go in St. Louis. : The statement that Lord Salisbury will resign as soon as the South African brar is ended is not encouraging to those who wish the old statesman’s place. The end is too far off. \ | of + UR musical entertainment of | late seems to have been con- ducted on the “feast or famine” | plan. It was a famine week‘ last week, owing to the Nor- | dica disappointment, but there seem few | weeks of the kind ahead for some time yet, the days seeming rather to promise | an embarrassment of riches than other- wise. The coming week will be given over to the symphony concert of Friday after- noon and the Hofmann recitals of Wednesday evening and Saturday after- noon. Then will come (D. V.) three Nor- dica recitals in the following week, the musical month closing with the symphony concerts of the Steindorff and Rosenbeck- er orchestras. The disastrous happening of January 31, when the symphony con- cert and Hofmann recital came togéther, was almost repeated, by the way, the vis- iting orchestra escaping collision with the local organization only by the fact of one giving an afternoon, the other an evening concert. But this, far from detracting | from either event, will go to add largely | to the attractiveness of both. The chance to hear two symphony or- chestras in one day comes rarely enough anywhere. It is a musical miracle out | here, and as an opportunity of close com- parison as valuable as it is rare. The Rosenbecker Orchestra is an institution of some six or seven years' standing, ours hardly so many _weeks, and comparisons will therefore necessa- rily be of a purely relative order. | It is doubtful if there be any better material in the foreign orchestra than in the home band; neither is it likely that the Chicago leader is a more efficient conductor than Mr. Steindorff, but there is the handsome advantage on the visit- ors’ side of seven years' playing in con- cert and all that that implies. It is now to see what seven years will do for the home institution. The Chicago orchestra numbers less by five men than the San Francisco symphony orchestra, by the way. But it is going to be a unique and valuable experience in the local concert- goers’ history and it is entirely likely that the same audience will crowd both theaters. « e . Mme. Ragna Linne, a Swedish soprano, ‘will appear with the Rosenbecker orches- tra. From what I can gather the lady promises exceedingly jvell and should add largely to the interest of the Chicago symphony concerts. Mme. Linne is a de- scendant of the famous Scandinavian nat- uralist and botanist, Karl V., Linne (Lin- naeus). ¢« s Mr. Steindorff has provided another §00d programme for the symphony con- cert of Friday afternoon next, to include the lovely “Unfinished Symphony” of Schubert; Glinka’s overture, “The Life of the Czar”; Jadassohn, “Serenade”; and “Phaeton,” symphonic poem by Saint- Saens. The programme covers a wide fleld, from the overflowing luxuriance of Schubert’s melody to the studied grace- fulness of Saint-Saens’ genius. The Glinka overture gives the salt and pun- gent flavor of the Russian note, without Which most modern programmes are in- complete, and the fresh voice of J: ssohn in the “Serenade” brings of indolent delight. e s * God will most likel; dorft for his yeoman 'mm'g. :.m‘n. of music, otherwise I'fear he would hard- @ il ek @ | Ex. strong Marhound candy.Townsend’s.” e Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* . Townsend’s California glace fruif und, in fire-etched boxes or Ju' mbuv-l ets. 'A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —— ipplied daily to and public men by the Bgrmlwmz.m ont- i b NORDICA DISAPPOINTMENT CLOSES A WEEK THAT PROMISED WELL. By Blanche Fartington. ) 1y get that which should be coming to him as a pioneer of the symphonic art in San Francisco. A thousand vexations, a thou- sand difficulties, and hard work in terrify- ing quantity, are inevitably his who will conduct the earlier concerts of a sym- phony soclety. Mr. Steindorff is doubly unfortunate in coming after a long record of fallure—as regards permanence—of symphony societles hers, and has had, singlehanded, to lift the level of hope to where it was before symphony had been tried and had failed. That he has done so well, so soon, argues volumes both for the conductor and his men, not forgetting Mr. Minett!, whose concertmeistership is no sinecure. It speaks well, too, for the lovers of symphony, who have shown their friendliness in substantial and un- mistakable fashion, though a still mors substantial support is essential to set the youthful society firmly on its feet. The progress of the band has been from good to better right from the beginning, and the last concert was creditable to a | degree, that is, the Dvorak symphony, for that is all I heard. But it should be re- membered, and again remembered, that come and go what will in the line of mu- sie, the symphony concert is legitimately first in the consideration of those who would help to a knowledge of that which comes nearest the song of the “choir invisible.” The sale of seats for the next comcert begins on Tuesday morning at Sherman & Clay’s music store. The Hofmann programmes for next Wednesday evening and Saturday after- noon”at the Metropolitan Tempis afe as ows: WEDNESDAY. Variations D minor Rondo G _minor. Marche Militaire. Concert E minor . Alceste ... Gnomenreig Liebestraum Mefisto Valse . SATURDAY. Praeludium und Fugue, D major. Bach-&" Albert Rondo A moll. 1 Mozart v. Athens. i Be'thovfll‘-nnb(mtln Erl-Konig Morgenstar Barcarolle Rhapsodle . 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