The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1902, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1902 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. | 22 BURLESQUE THEATER IS THE QUITE NEW THING IN CITY'S SPRING PROGRAMME. JOHN D, Sr~EGKELS, Proprietor. Adcress Communications to W, 5. LEAKE, Manager FEBRUARY 16, 1902 SUNDAY . IN MIND OF PATRIOT. Market and Third, S. F | BY GUISARD. | | i HE quite new thing in the theat cal spring programme is the new theater of burlesque, formerly Fischer's Concert-house, that _is | to be opened at the beginning of the coming week with 2 company of bur- lesquers imported direct from New York. | It is not quite determinable what charac- | ter the new theater will take on, but its| first offering will be a musical comedy skit, with an English pedigree, called “The French Maid.” The company promises very well, indeed. The name of Mlle. Pilar Morin, the charming and ac- complished pantomimist, heads the list, and others well known in the interpreta- tion of musical comedy and burlesque are to be found, amcng them Alice Holbrook, Lillian Coleman, Priscilla Verne, Lou | Bates, Winfield Blake, Charles Hildesh- | ley. Harry Hermsen, Arthur Lane and | Walter Lehay. Scenery, costumes and the rest are promised on a scale of sump- | tuousness to which even Weber & Fields | Not quite that, perhaps, | is a stranger. but we shall see, and meantime lath and plaster reign in the former home of the pretzel and vaudeville. ! A There is a sort of sag in the theatrical &ry boy with his nose to the cookshop window, the scent of the finer fare may | somewhat console for the present scant- ness, | The Columbia as usual leads, and with | 2n imposing array of attractions. With | the exce] of Sothern, in his new an what must by report be a remarkably fine play, “If I Were King”; Lesl Carter in her lat ong personal suc: cess, “Du Barry r old Stoddard” “The Bonnie Brier Bush,” in which he has won much new renown, and Annie | P PANTOMIMIST WHO HEADS THE LIST OF ATTRACTIONS AT THE NEW FISCHER THEATER. | her | coarsening from the American stage, will | on her forthcoming visit. | between actor and part Gillette'’s Sher- | Wilder: ! manly, conservative and polished, is also | fort so far, is said people and plays seem to be heading this y. Richard Mansfield comes with the y lay made from Booth Tarkington's book “Beaucaire,” in which the great actor is said to have a great opportunity, though the rest of the company pines vainly for a whack at the center of the stage. Mrs. Pat Campbell, the famous English actress for whom a prominent journal of native London fears a dramatic doubtless attract a large attention here She wiil be seen most probably in “The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith,” “Magda” or “The Sec- Mrs. Tanqueray.” William Gillette, won out blithely over the “booing” cabal that was raised against him in London recently, will bring “Sher- lock Holmes” some time during the sea- son, and it is said that for a perfect fit lock Holmes is impossible to beat. It is ss impossible to estimate the com- arative popularity of the actor and the famous detective he represents. Differently, but equally attractive, wiil be the Henry Miller engagement, more particularly from the fact that M. Miller's company will be adorned t year with the presence of Margaret An- glin, who was so heartily missed during Mr. Miller's last season. ~Miller brings with him several new plays, among them H. V. Esmond’s latest achievement, “The “Frocks and Frills” and “Trelawney of the Wells,” not to men- tion “Heartsease,” which is perennial as a Patti farewell tour. “The Second in ommand,” with John Drew, the gentle- on the cards, with a brilliant record to its name so far, though John Drew as an awkward major who comes in only for the crumbs that fall from the banquet of life has a role that is unfamiliar to his peculiar excellencies. E. 8. Willard brings “The Cardinal,” that the actor likes best of all his plays; nd E. J. Morgan will be seen as John Storm in “The Christian,” which strenu- ous role suits Mr. Morgan's strenuous methods to a nicety. Elsle Leslie, once upon a time Little Lord Fauntleroy, will be the Glory, Quayle. Grace Elliston, whose large-eyed prettiness is better re- membered than any of her dramatic ef- to have come out trongly as Bonita in Augustus Thomas’ ‘Arizona,” that will be seen here during the season. Miss Elliston was with Me. Miller last summer, it will be remember- ed. It has been rumored that Nat C. Good- 1 ’ PublicationsOffion . v sy T e @ ................................ ; Russell, Maude Adame and Mrs. Fiske | Win and Maxine Elliott were about to in their new repertoire—most of the big | have a dramatic separation, the difficulty | of finding plays for co-stars being more ADVERTISEIMENTS. PREVENTS AND | BREAKS U? i { GRIP A spontaneous epidemic of Grip ha!i broken out all over the country. From the | East, West, North and South come re- ports of prominent people who are victims | of the Grip—actors’ and actresses’ places | are being filled by understudies, speakers | disappolnt thelr audiences, preachers their | congregations. 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Blanche Walsh is another coming Columbia at- traction and will be seen in “La Made- leine.” e The usual stock seasons are three dur- ing the summer, the Frawley season at the Grand Opera-house, the Neill season at the California Theater and the Flor- ence Roberts season at the Alcazar Thea- ter. To these will be added a short seu- son of five weks of the legitimate by Frederick Warde at the California. ° The Neill season will be seventeen weeks = year, and the clever company comes armed with an almost entirely new reper- tofre. Florence Roberts will have her usual season at the Aleazar, with its, to Shakes- ., though “Sapho” is this year aza” of auburn-aureoled memory. The Frawley Company will fill pleasant weeks at the Grand Opera-house, that also promises a Melbourne MacDoweil season, Edward Harrigan for a week or two and Maude Fealy for a four weeks' season. Miss Fealy is the youngest lead- ng lady on the stage and has lately been playing with Willlam Gillette in London. The Tivoli will have a grand opera sea- son, for which Manager Leahy is now scouring Italy for the best material to be obtained, and its light opera programme contains “The Serenade,” “The Fortune Teller” and other sterling favorites of the lighter operatic germs. We shan't starve this summer. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ——te—— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 5c a flou“d' in fire-etched xes or Jap. bas- ets. A nice present foM Kastern frien 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 nt- zomery street. Telephone Main 1042. # THM LAW AND THRE EADY. OT long ago an excellent young lady in Oakland married a motorman on the electric railroads of that city. With her it was romance, expectation of happiness, a home and a protector. Her friends congratulated. The newspapers felicitated and life began in the new home, all sunshine. g ¢ - But the man was a scoundrel, a wretch of the lowest order, a cur on two feet. He had deserted a good wife and his young children in Pennsylvania, left them to starve or to charity, an#l had hidden his miserable identity by enlisting for the Philippines. Bullet and bolo struck dead better men and this wife-deserter escaped, served out his enlistment and came back to his own country to deceive another gentle and trusting woman. The publicity given to his big* amous marriage was the means of carrying it to the deserted wife, and the awful news of the deception of which she had been the victim was sent to the stricken girl in Oakland. With it came the information that before the wretch met her he had attempted to marry another good California girl, but the deserted wife found it out and notified her in tifhe to unmask the villain and save her. ¢ His arrest followed upon exposure, and after several vain attempts to evade punishment, after lying like another Ananias, he was at last cornered and pleaded guilty. Then ensued one of the most disgraceful incidents that gver disfigured California juris- prudence. The Superior Judge before whom he was arraigned stood him up for sentence. This Judge in passing sentence said: “I have investigated his character and find that during the last five years it has been excellent. He served his country three years, and during the last two has been employed as a motorman in San Francisco and Oakland. Outside this last trouble his con- duct has been exemplary. Lieutenant Allison, under whom he served, told me that he had always been sober, and faithful to the flag under which he served. So good a soldier cannot be alto- gether bad.” } Then addressing the scoundrel this remarkable Judge said: “As by pleading guilty you have saved the county the expense of a trial, and have shown that you intend to live down this disgrace, I do not think leniency will be misplaced in this case,” and proceeded to give him one year in the penitentiary! \ It is difficult to write calmly of this Judge. During the five years that the fellow was a wife-deserter, guilty of the most sneaking, sinister and injurious offense against morals,' the Judge regarded his conduct as “exemplary.” That means, worthy to be followed, deserving of imitation. According to his darkened judicial mind wife desertion is worthy of all praise and general imitation, so he complimented the wsetch who sneaked away from his faithful wife and the little children she had borne him. A part of this exemplary conduct consisted in his en- deavor to entrap another virtuous girl into a bigamous marriage, before he captured his last victim. This Judge, this lawyer, this remarkable person who is supposed to know the law of the marriage contract, regards this as evidence of good character! If the fellow had forged a note for $25 it would have been heinous misconduct. But he merely forged for himself a character and passed it upon an innocent lady to her undoing, and the Judge compliments him upon his purpose to live down this little slip! Not a word for the poor girl who was the victim of the worst that can befall a woman, disgraced by the lying false pretenses of this deserter of his lawful wife and children. “Leniency,” says this Dogberry, “will not be misplaced.” Had he possessed the notions of morality that were the virtues of a Piute Indian, he would have realized the enormity of the offense against its victim and through her against society. But instead, he issues judicial license to that class of offenders, weeps on their shoulders and is gratified that they will “live down” the peccadillo! Going now to the complimented recipient of this star brand of judicial leniency, let us study his exemplary character in his own comments after being taken back to jail. This wife- deserter and bigamist said: “I'm a lucky man. I was afraid I'd get the limit. I consider myself well out of this trouble.” Then speaking of his victim he said: “I will not say one word against her. It is her relatives who have poisoned her mind against me.” We desire the parents of daughters to read that and see if they can admire “the exem- plary character” of such a moral monster. Let them note his serious intimation that the virtuous girl he had entrapped into a non-legal, bigamous marriage had not the self-respect and regard for her character to resent his crime, but her parents had to “poison her mind” against her destroyer! The fathers and mothers of Alameda will have the opportunity some day to express their opinion of the Judge who defiles the bench and the ermine by his maudlin slobber over this en~ emy of womanhood and destroyer of happiness. The poor woman is left to support 2 child to be born out of legal wedlock, to bear the burning burden put upon her by this subject of judicial compliment and leniency, who has added another to the list of innocent children he strews upon the world in his career of “exem- plary conduct.” If anything were needed to add to the luster of the bench it is found in another sentence imposed directly afterward by theé same Judge upon a man who, during an assault, had broken another man’s leg. He got eighteen months in the penitentiary! In the judicial judgment it is a higher crime to break a man’s leg than to break a woman’s heart, tarnish her name and make her a mother without having been a wife.. i LORD PAUNCEFOTES DILEMMA. i HEN Lord Pauncefote went home to England last summer it was reported that he wouldretirefrom the active work of diplomacy' and settle himself downto a well-earned repose. It would have been good thing for him had the report been true. His lordship is an old man, and last summer he was at the climax of diplomatic good fortune. He was nearly as much esteemed in this country as in his own. He was looked upon as the man who had stood up for the United States against the diplomatists of Europe, and en- joyed a greater popularity than perhaps any other British Minister who ever served at Washing- ton. Had he retired ‘at that time, therefore, he would have carried with him to his home all the honors and dignities that rightly accompany an illustrious life. Unfortunately for himself he did not know when to quit. He developed an ambition to remain in the harness long enough to complete the Nicaraguan canal treaty and to arrange for the settlement of other questions that are at issue between the United States and Great Britain. He doubtless believed that the good opinion he had gained among the American people would be helpful in solving diplomatic problems without friction, and so he put away all thoughts of retirement and returned to Washington in high hopes and with bright prospects. A chance question in the Commons from a Liberal who wished to harass the Ministry a little raised a controversy concerning the relations of thie various powers to the United States at the outbreak of the Spanish war. Lord Cranborne, who spoke for the Ministry, made state- ments which implied that other powers had been unfriendly to the United States while Great Britain had been friendly. The statement was promptly challenged by other powers and by Germany in particular. The result has been a revelation thut Pauncefote, after President Mec- Kinley had declined to accept any mediation or interfsrence from the powers, had undertaken in Washington to get the powers to unite in a joint note of protest against a declaration of war on our part. Lord Cranborne has now asserted that Pauncefote had no authority from his Govern- ment to make any such suggestion. The venerable diplomatist is therefore revealed as an offi- cious meddler in business that did not concern him and that exceeded his powers. He will now go out of office under a blight. He is one more man who stayed in the ring too long. He should have quit the game while fortune was with him. ! The recent reorganization of the street-car lines in New York has brought out the fact that there are more miles of horse-car lines in that city than in all the rest of the United States combined. While other cities have adopted electric or cable cars New York has stuck to her horses and now has something approaching a monopoly of that form of -street-car traction, [ ST President Roosevelt has refused to approve the-finding of the army board recommending him for appointment to the rank of brigadier general. As the President is commander-in-chief, Mr. Roosevelt prefers not to be known as a brigadier. As yet there is but one gubernatorial candidate in the open field, but the woods are full of them, and a good many are visible through the brush o 2o i S BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. I 3 MISS v MicHELENA — T will be no matter of astonishment to any true Californian, who freely con- fesses himself above the possibility of surprise in the regard, to learn that John Palmer Slocum, manager of the Kirk La Shelle attractions, has discovered here a coming comic opera star of the first magnitude. It fell out rather curios- 1y that the desertion of Marguerite Sylva from the leading role in “Princess Chic,” just before that attractively pirated opera made Its appearnce here, should affect, al- together pleasantly, the fortunes of three Berrl was the first, and her comp!lentv and taking performance in Miss Sylva's The other is a different story. When the original Princess Chic de- serted the company at Denver, the appar- ent catastrophe was the means of bring- Shelle manager, J. P. Slocum. at a pace only compatible with the movements of those unfortunates dependent upon the capricious pleasure of the prima donna. The immediate success of Miss Berri in the role she assumed so hastily rendered that part of Mr. Slocum's duty of the lightest, and he then began the usual im- presarial voyage of discovery. It is the impresario’s habit, as well as his duty and sometimes pleasure, to give a hearing to the aspirant for operatic honors in every town to which his fortune takes him. So stars are found, and the search is pursued with the zest and ex- citement of a hunt for buried treasure— generally with the same result be it said. It happened differently this time, how- ever, and Mr. Slocum thinks that in Miss Vera Michelena, the daughter of Fer- nando Michelena, he has found that of which every manager is in search—a new star. He is by way of saying that Miss Michelena is In all respects the most ex- ceptionally well-equipped young woman that he has ever happened across in his managerial experience, musically gifted with a lovely voice, a robust, musicianly sense and a technical attainment that makes her limited years an unmitigated astonishment. She has further a viva- clous, bonnie beauty that spells perfect health, and a personality of sound, whole- some, unspoiled charm. Miss Michelena comes naturally enough by her musical facuity. Her parents are both devoted to the art, and it will be remembered that Michelena, now perhaps the leading exponent of the art of singing here, was for many years principal tenor with Emma Abbott. Neither is his work of late years at the Tivoll forgotten of the faithful. But it came as a matter of surprise to the Michelenas, as to most parents, when the offer of a flve-year contract with the Kirke La Shelle management for their 16-year-old daughter revealed the fact that the little girl was a child no longer to outside eyes. For that is how Mr. Slo- cum is prepared to back his opinion of Miss Vera Michelena. He offers, in the name of his company, to give the young girl a five-year contract, during which time she is to play leading parts for the first year and to star for the remainder of the engagement, the offer to remain open indefinitely. He further prophesies a complete and immediate success for the young Californian, whenever she shall make her appearance on the stage, and is nothing short of extravagant in her praise. It is not at all probable, however, that the talented girl will enter for some time yet upon the flattering career so suddenly opened to her. It was her own and her parents’ intention that she should become a singer in graad opera, and that is how it may come out after all. Meantime, this little lass with the wonderful voice will stay at home and study, under the tutelage of her father, and in a year there will be more to hear of her. . e . ‘The other person to be affected by the defection of Miss Sylva from the “Prin- cess Chic” company 1is Miss Beatrice Micnelena, elder sister of Miss Vera, ‘whom Mr. Slocum is also very desirous of adding to the Kirke La Shelle forces. While there fs here no question of a phenomenal voice or talent, there is a pretty volce well trained, and another re- markably pretty girl to boot, who should add much to the laurels of the State some day. Miss Beatrice has arrived at the mature age of 18, and, like her sister, will probably continue her studies for some time to come. In addition to this Mr. Slocum has promised to lend an enthusi- astic ear at any time to any of the Michelena pupils whom Mr. part is still fresh in the mind of the local { + patriot, and at his tongue's end when the | made in California things are mentioned. } Californian singers. Miss Maude Liman~ ing out from New York the Kirk La | +* + YOUNG SINGER WHO RE- CEIVED OFFER FROM KIRKE LA SHELLE COMPANY. i however, surprises no one whe knows the work of this most competent and modest teacher, whose efforts I am glad offthe rare opportunity to praise. And, though it is yet no matter of astonishment that Mr. Slocum should come all the way to California for a star, it is still ‘a matter ot worthy pride. . . The Hofmann recitals and the sym- phony concerts of Friday afternoon have made the last week a notable one. The programme for the coming week is also one of exceptional interest. Hofmann begins it this evening with a farewell recital, with a menu composed of the fa- vorite numbers from his other pro- grammes, in which will be included the “Tannhauser’” overture, the “Chor der Dervise” (Beethoven-Saint Saens), the Moszkowski “Jongleur” and some favor- ite Chopin numbers. To-morrow evening Mme. Nordica be« gins her long-awalted series of recitals, that, however, are amply worth the waiting for. There 1is no more admirable artist than Nor- dica now before the public, and she is at her best in song recital. She should be heard by every lover of song at its best, and doubtless will be largely wel- comed. 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