The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1902, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1902. LJOHN D SPrECKELS, Proprietor SUNDAY Publication Office THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. el R s R T Adcress Communications to W, >. LEAKE, Manager ...MARCH 2. 1002 Market and Third, S. F ARTISTS COMBINE TO GIVE VENERABLE MUSICIAN A TE>TIMONIAL. By Blanche Partington. + HE most eminently picturesque fig- ure in the local musical world is the venerable English violinist, Henry Holmes, whose fine old face, with its setting of {llustrious locks, has been a familiar sight to the city concert- goer for some few vears past. It is the quaintest romance—with which perhaps I heve no public business—how the charm- ing old artist, product of a statelier day and anclent civilization, left London a few years back to come to the crude New World of the West, with his violin under his arm. his family and all that is his. It is the story of imagined opportunity for young blood, for Mr. Holmes has two sturdy, adventurous sons; the story of dreams of scented orange groves, skies of eternal azure, and & glad, Greek sunshine shining on the happy artistic ferment of & new Athens in the making. Nor has the amiable dreamer found himself disap- pointed in his divinely ridiculous—or in- spired—imaginings. , He loves well the place of his adoption, its physical beauty, its freedom and young genius; and be- lleves with a great belief in its future. And the old musiclan has found an en- wviable place in the affections of his West- ern confreres. Both as artist and man he hes won the respect and love of all who are fortunate enough to know htm, and these things have combined to leave him without regret, though not without the ever-present memory of the classic shades from which he came. Of an age touching Beethoven's and Schubert’s, Mr. Holmes' life is rich in memories and traditions. His father, who himself could not play a note, was his only teacher, with such success that Henry, with his brother Alfred, were touring the Continent in concerts at the early ages of 15 and 17, respectively. Their father took the boys to Bpohr, on one of Spohr's London visits, and the author of the cele- brated wviolin school had nothing but praise for the curiously educated youths. They toured for ten or twelve years, ap- pearing in Parls, Brussels, at the Leipsic Gewandhaue, In Sweden, Denmark, and various other citles, and then came for | Henry Holmes a long and honorable Lon- | don career. He originated the *“‘Musical Evenings,” where the choicest chamber music was given in choicest fashion, be- fore one of the most musicianly coteries that ever gathered together, Holmes introduced the mighty elant Brahmse to English’ audiences, and all that was best in classic and contemporary lterature was sure of sympathetic ear ADVERTISEMENTS. 77" [Epecial Cable from London.) LONDON, Saturdey.—‘“London and, in fact, many parts of Bngland are again in the grip of influenza. Medical observers sey this influenza epidemic, like the first one, eriginated in Southern Russia, trav- eling across Europe and leaving a terri- ble record of death or disablement in its train.” All serious epldemics of Grip have traveled rapidly westward, and this epi- @Gemfc can be expected here before the ist of March. Prepare yourself by carry- ing in your pocket a bottle of “77,” Dr. Humphreys' Celebrated- Grip and Cold Cure. Taken early, cuts it short prompt- ly. “77" breaks up stubborn Colds that heang on and prevents Pneumonia. At Druggists, %c, or led. Humphreys' Med. Co., John st., New York. "GRIP Here Mr#| | and exquisite interpretation. Another not- | able sphere of activity for the violinist | was the Royal College of Music, whebe | | Mr. Holmes taught the art of violin play- | | Ing and conducted the college orchestra. | Again, he has contributed importantly to | | the musical lterature of the day, with two symphonies—"‘Fraternity” and “Bon-J castle”—many compositions for strings, | | eantatas and other works, besides a lav- | i ishiy edited edition of the Spohr “school.” | Mr. Holmes' career here is well known, | his pure and delicate art and unswerving | devotion to the highest ideals generously | recognized. He has lately been ill, of a long and painful fliness, and to mark thelr | | esteem and the festive day of his re- | covery a small army of the best musiclans | has combined to glve him a testimonial concert this week. He knows nothing yet | | of their generous purpose, nor will until | after the event, and it {& now “‘up to you" | | and to me to see that there shall be some- [ thing for the venerable artist worth hear- | ing when he does know. The musiclans | have done their part, as the following | generous programme amply testifies: | Part 1—"Jubel” overture (Weber), Jaulus- i Stark combined orchestran; waltz, Mein | | Baden” (Komzak), Stark-Jaulus orchestras | “Salve Dimora” from *Faust” (Gounod), | Edw. Xavier Rolker; A minor concerto (Ge termann), Paul Friedhoter; aria, '“Wil Nachte | | Mir der Schlummer?" from *Ded Freischutz" | (Weber); quartet in E flat, Op. 44 (Schumann), | | Arthur Fickensher, Hother Wismer, Armand | Salomon and Theodore Mansfeldt ! Part II—"'Norma,” for plano, four hands | (Thalberg), Mrs, Oscar Mansfeldt and Hugo | Mansfeldt; songs, Mrs, Etta Balley Blanchard; ronata in A major, by request (Handel), Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Landsberger; ptano solo, (a) Etude (Chopin-Brahms), (b) Scherzo Capriceio (Mendelssohn), Miss Ernestine Goldma: Adelaide’” (Beethoven), H. B, Pasmo; vitation to the Dance,”” for two plan: & (Weber), Messrs. S, Martinez, companists Seats may be obtained at Bher- man, Clay & Co.’s next Monday. | Now, as the schoolgirls say, T am “dy- ing to" talk about the Rosenbecker or- | chestra, but if T do, it will leave me with- out space to mention the highly important | fact that our own symphony orchestra | | &lves its last concert of the season next | | Friday. Wet weather and the general | “‘cussedness” of things have combined to | | play sad havoc with the last two con- certs, and the directors of the society are | | shaking their heads over symphony mat- | ters. If the Steindorff orchestra goes un- | der we shall not deserve even to hear the name of symphony for a penitential pe- riod of ten years. Granted that Mr. Steindorff is not a Richter—that it is pos- | sible some people have the vanity to de- mand—he Is yet the best that lies to our | hand, and a musician of accomplishment, Wwith a positive genius for the handling of men. He has done good work in face of | | very discouraging circumstances, and is | entitled to a large degree of gratitude, | Tespect and_earnest support. fi'e have | | 8iven the Rosenbecker orchestra—as is perfectly proper—a hearty support, but it is several times more fmportant to our musical welfare to Fflve the local band the ce.. benefit of our servi Next Friday's concert is the last of the season and a fitting and proper time to show a’Ffireclmion of Mr. Steindorfl's ef- forts. € programme is good and it is to be hoped, that every one who cares at ail about the future of music in this commu- nity will put in a friendly appearance. Here 1s what_will be given: Symphony Ne, 4, D minor (R. Schu- mann); overture, Rienzi (Richard Wag- ner); two numbers for string orchestra (B. gfleg); Scenes Napolitaines (E. Mas- senet). To-morrow evening the long:heralded concert of Emma Nevada and her com- | pany will take place. Mme. Nevada needs | no introduction to a California audience, | but her accompanying artists are all new here. Their preceding reputations are \f)rozn!slng, but the proof of the udding s in the eating. Pablo Casals, the 'cel- list, has a Guarnerius 'céllo, and person- ally I'd go a mile any day to see a Guar- nerjus ‘cello, even if the man with the bow were 'a mile further away. ' The | Queen Dowager of Spain thinks Senor | Casals plays well—it {s to be impertinently ! Xped that her opinion counts for more than the average royval opinion on art— and he owes his education to her. Leon | Moreau, the pianist, is 8 composer of note and a player of much more t} ordinary abllity, from what I can gather. The flutist, Maquarre, has been the solo flute ""fh, btoth ghe IA‘marr&ux and Colonne orchestras in 8. e shouls i Par] &l d be all . . . The Treble Clef Club’s “o; T w Monday, at wmchp:ny:g:;n:;fl i of last musical programme was rendered, shows a ultgn‘ improvement in fts' work. ;z‘a Tt g o”d is th: Nndl{&tor of the leasan: n @ratulated on the success olt'm - according to the law and evidence, decided against both. That ends it. THE: SOEOOL, FREADHR, OHN HAY'S description of the conditions from which President McKinley emerged to fame and passed into enduring history strikes a responsive chord in the memory of a genera- tion that is passing away. A half century ago, especidlly in the West, there were not many books, but the few in possession of a frontier family were standard. The old school readers were frequently the most valuable part of the pioneer’s literary possessions. The first one remembered is the “Columbian Orator,” under which rather pretentious title were furnished a series of exercises in reading that formed an introduction to history, biography and literature. When this was succeeded by the McGuffey series, the plan was projected and enlarged. These were the readers referred to by Mr. Hay. They ere full of patriotic history and poetry. Pitt’s reply to Walpole was a peculiar stimulant to youthful ambition. Wirt's description of the blind preacher was a lesson in faith and religion that is to~day an influence in many a life that is drawing toward the end. Tell and the eagle taught respect for freedom ahd for all life. Pat- rick Henry's speech to the Burgesses fixed in many a youth the highest style of oratotical expres- sion, and srill more firmly impressed a lesson in patrigtism. Hamlet's soliloquy promoted plilos- ophy of mind, and Adrian’s address to his soul excited a loye of the classics and gave birth to sober reflections upon the ineffable and unseen. Scores of other selections examined now by the critical eve reveal the old school reader as an educator in all that is best in taste and highest among the proper motives of life and rules of human conduct. It is remembered, too, that in the study of those books their most important use wa¥ considered by the teacher to. be the imparting of the sentiment expressed in their selec- tions. Their pages were not peppered with diacritical marks, Pervaded by the sentiment the young reader’s own impulse and emotion soon adapted manner and style of reading to the lesson conveyed by the text, and his love of what he read was not evaporated in weary training in the modulation, inflection and emphasis, which came to him as the natural expression of feel- ing. In these modern days the fine sentiment of Milton, Macaulay and other masters of style in literary expression is lost by using them as grammar lessons, and compelling a dissection that destroys their sentiment. | Truc we have more books and they, are more accessible than in those days, but one may well wish there were fewer hooks and bettbr. It was a fine generation that was inspired by those old readers. One can hardly find a gray man or woman whose life began hefore the middle of the last century that cannot.repeat from memory lines from Tell and the apple. Casabianca, Marco Bozzaris, Burke on the American Colonists, Webster's reply to Hayne, and nearly all the lessons in reading which were the pleasure and delight of their school days. But none of them can sit down and mark every letter with its proper diacritical value. If the present generation retain to its close the critical analysis of a reading lesson, at the expense of its sentiment, it will still be lack- ing in something that adorned and dignified and enriched its ptedecessor. John Hay has himself produced much noble literature in poetry and prose, and from his fond reference to the fountain no longer affluent in the old school reader it is evident that he goes back to that source as the first inspiration of his muse and the model of that good taste and ex- pressive method of which he is a master. It is worth while for teachers and school officers to reflect that the school days of Ameri- can youth are the formative period for lasting sentiment toward that which is manly, that which is excellent and of good report, and that this influence may proceed from lessons learned, rather than from dry criticism, analysis and routine. LIGHT WITHOUT HEAT. MONG the new powets with which scientists are seeking tb endow mankind is that of providing light without heat. The demand for such an art can hardly be called urgent, -but still it would manifestly be of advantage to us. It would enable us to illumine our rooms and theaters without unduly heating them during the warm nights of summer, and in other ways be beneficial. It is said that in the ordinary gas burner only about three per cent of the energy expended is converted into ligh:. The rest is heat. Even the best burners and incan- descent mantles hardly furnish more than thirteen per cent of light. It will be seen that from gas we get too much heat when we are seeking after light, and electricity does not furnish much better results. The experiments thus far made in the direction of producing an illumination without heat are not encouraging to the general public, but scientists are said to be fairly well pleased with them. Protessor Gorham of Brown University has found that if beef be kept long enough under conditions which permit decomposition along certain natural lines it will become Iuminous and emit rays strong enough to make a photograph. The experiments are the outcome of the well- known phenomena of phosphorescence. The glow of decaying meat is due to a species of bacteria, and Professor Gorham is reported to have found that by separating these organisms from their original environment and feeding them in glass flasks containing gelatine, with certain kinds of salts, they become far more lugninous than when feeding on beef. Thus it appears we are coming within measurable distance of the desired light. It will be a curious condition of affairs if we should ever arrive at a time when our homes and cities are lighted with bacteria instead of with electricity, but there is no telling what the next generation is coming to. If the new light prove successful, and the gelatine flask full of micro- organisms take the place of the electric light, we shall have the satisfaction of having taught the art to our descendants and’cast its beams upon them; if on the other hand it fail, the blame will be on them for not having profited by our experiments with beef. THE MODOC CASES. N the tailure to convict Brown it becomes evident tHat none of the Modoc murderers can be convicted, no matter what the evidence against them. It is a part of our system of law that the State cannot remove a crithinal case to another county by change of venue. With- out such change none of these men can be punished. The law is a wise one. It is intended to mal;; each community responsible for the crime committed within its borders, by putting upon it the duty of punishmeht. If it fail in this duty, then it suffers punishment. We do not suppose that those concerned in this affair in Modoc County care much for public opinion. They do not wince at knowing that their county has a stain upon its fame, but the stain is there just the same. The law wisely left them free to say whether they would punish mur- der or not. They have used their option by putting a premium upon that crime, refusing its pun- ishment and standing together to prevent justice. They need find no fault if others regard them as deliberately assenting that their county shall bear the reputation they have made for it. The rest of the State, through State officials, sought to vindicate the law in Modoc. This cleas the people of all the other counties of all responsibility and vindicates the general law-abiding character of the commonwealth. Further than this the State cannot go. Its hands are tied. If Modoc County is ever purged the process must be self-administered. Five very cowardly murders were committed, in the night and darkness. The guilty men are as well known as the name of the county in which they live. The jury knew them,and after swearing to do its duty In the future the synonym for lawlessness will be “Modoc justice.” R At T A i ¢ The Sen?te has pafssed resolutions in favor of two constitutional amendments, one chang- ing the date of inauguration and fhe other fixing the Presidential succession, but as yet it has shown no interest in the one providing for the election of Senators by the people. N Now that we have got Miss Stone safe at last, and solve the question whether they were bad men or their country, as some reports say they were. ———————e o Prince Henry's experience of Eastern weather will probably lead him to conclude that the next time he comes to the United States he will take a look at the country from the Pacific side of it. . the next step should be to find the bandits bold patriots seeking coin for the good of o PILAR MORIN’S IN MUSICAL COMEDY SURPRISING. By Guisard. | ¢ APPEARANCE | T WAS probably not the only person surprised to find on Flscher's list of musical comedinns this week the name of Mme. Pllar Morin, French pantomimist that Daly out to us here in “L'Enfant Prodigue,” in the davs of the old Baldwin Theater. Among those surprised {s Pllar Morin her- self, who had vowed never, no, neverf tu use ker pretty little voicelet in public, without any effect, however, upon Man- ager Friedlander's intentions. She told me so the other day when I went to see her In the modest little suite that she now calls home, and seemed more desirous that I should understand this small fact | than any other one thing In her artistic history. I told her what I thought, that there is no reason for any undue humility - the volce s true, pretty and well u.le‘d.; and that there ts more to follow with | practice. Further, that musical comedy | rarely implies music. | “But do not think that I think I can sing,” the piquant little lady finally im- plored. And I promised her I wouldn't. I had seen Pillar Morin only at long | range before the other day and found her | prettier in the full sunshine than behind | the footlights. She has a face of endless | poesibilities, with its large, round eyel.; bladk, sparkling and accomplished, deli- cately arched brows, mobile lips and sen- sitive nostrils. But I hardly think .t would make much difference to Pilar Mo- rin what kind of face she had. She can make one think that she has any sort of face she needs for the moment, and I am not at all sure that I know anything about it, only so far as the eyes go. I swear to the eyes. She came down in the conventional lace dressing gown of the interview, with her round, white shoulders peeping through its iInterstices, and a couple of cerise car- nations in her abundant black hair—I no- ticed a va full of them on the plano. She greeted me cordially and after pull- ing out a chalr for me, seated herself. So di¢ 1, and suddenly became consclous of hitherto unsuspected angles and a congenital awkwardness of the most aggravated description. I looked at Pilar Morin. There was not a wrong llne about her from the carnations that crowned her dusky hair to the tips of her little French toes. The angle of the head would have driven!Sar- gent distracted, her arms might have been posed by Carolus Duran and the curve | from hip to ankle would have inspired a Parisian Phidias to marble ecstacies. I am free to confess that I watched the little lady with malice intent to discover 1f the pose were'for interviews only. But through a perfod of several minutes of a conversation rather distrait I found that Mme. ‘Morin was just as graceful and apropos in one pose as another, and at last I blurted out: “Do you know how you look just this minute?"” “‘Mais non! You mean do I think how 1 look when I talk with you? Not at all. But I know now this minute when you ask me exactly how I look to you—the audience. I should know, for that is my life work. The actor who has not learned that has not learned the beginning of this art,” and Mme. Morin fell into another pose that made me long for a pencil and the sense to wield it. " “Then you do not think that elocution is the foundation of the actor’s art?” I ositively affirmed the little errot. “It is one foot, gesture is the other, and gesture comes a little first. (mentioning a prominent with him? But it 1s that yhile his lps speak his body is dumb. Most lctorsmdo”nuot know that they have a left side. They cannot do this, and this, and this, (lllustrating with fluent hand and hip and shoulder the expressiveness of her accomplished left), because they have only been taught to use the other side. But, consider, half of the whole vocabulary of gesture left unused.” “Where did you learn that you had a left side, Mademoiselle?”” T ask. “Oh, at the Paris Conservatoire, nat- urellement,” she laughed. “How, lo}:l does it take and what do you do?” 1 guestion. “Oh!"—with a roguish and audacious lance—'‘we have not in Paris any artis- &u sausage machine, you go in clown and come out artist In two, three years! Smnaum:: students advance slowly, sometims uickly, but if one has no ui_ ent the authorities will not permit you to take the concours. And you must @ i @ Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’s.* ———— £ Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ————ee Townsend's California glace fruits, §oc a BET% Sice Dresent f Mhacrs Bl 639 Market st., Palace Hocel bm‘;‘dm‘.‘n o | ————eemee Bpecial wmafloomm d-llv‘:o '-fi 9 B e g, WIS Ben, e in the connection, that what there s of | o — THE FAMOUS “PIERROT" ’ TALKS INTERESTINGLY OF HER ART. & have some small talent to permit of your getting into the conservatoire at all. “What they teach? En effet—to control every muscle of the body till it is com pletely plastic to one’s will and answers to the emotional need of the moment as A pianist's fingers answer to his require- ment, and until the movements become automatic as do his. They teach you how to walk first. It is very difficult to walk, vou know?" I did, and nodded my familiarity with the difficulty. “Then one learns how tc pick up a handkerchief, to pull 4 rose, to sit, to stand, to glance, to smile, to fall, to faint —anything and everything you can think of in exact obediénce to plcturesquey, values and in the fullest attainable ac- cord with the psychology of the action. Then, lastly, one learns to create an epic in gesture and that is all. Diction, of course!” and madame’s expressive hands —wonderfully like Calve's of dazaling memory—finished the story. “One thing. Were you not David Belasco’s favorite Mme. Butterfly?” “I don’t know,” she smilingly parried, “but I played it for two years and shall lve it In London when I go from here. love it and would—oh, so much—like to play it here.” I wonder if we gould not have Morin's “Butterfly?” Few playgoers have for- gotten the altogether charming Japanese girl of Juliet Crosby at the Alcazar. I'm sure Miss Crosby would like to see the Parisian “Butterfly,” and 1 should like to take ome with her. I left the “Pler- rot,” “Butterfly,” “French Maid,” with “but you will not think that I h‘nlf'n. I can sing?’ appealing to my vanishing ear. - 4 4 VERTISEMENTS. v;iFE and A PIAND should occur but once in s life time—the choosing of g wife and the chocsing of a plano. We have Sold thousands of planos and we stand ready to live up to our guaran- tee and satisty any customer who s mot per- fectly satisfied. We are now moving into our new buflding and hall, the most artistic on the Pacific C nd on ‘account of the dampness of the walls, which {s liable to ruin our planos, Wwe are going to rent, stors or sell fully 100 fanos within the next two weeks at prices ower than.could be made by any other con- cern. We can do this because we are the only factory representatives on the Pacific Coast and are selling at wholesale margins just as oW as any other dealer could buy the goods. o YUl suarantes to duplicate p ad- vertised from $183 to $275 for $137, and an; plano ordinarily soil for less than $183 we will sell for §08—all new goods. ‘Why. have we sold more pianos in the last two weeks than any other concern? Bacause our prices are right, our terms right, and we have not been trying to sell cheap plance at comparatively high prices for such goods. We are closing out all our slightly used planos, among which you will find the follow- ing makes: Chickering, Heine, Steinway, Hal- lett & Davis, Knabe, Comover, Haynes, Sher- Wood, Weber, Shaeffer, Fisher, Jewett, stc. We are renting sood plancs, new ones. for $3 a month upward and selling them $5 up- ward. Some Special Bargains: 1 Wm. Bourne. ... 1 Goberstein & Fuj 1 Rogers & Bacon 1 Fisher .. 7 Steinway . 6 Heine ... 8 Chickering 3 Haynes 2 Conover 1 Hallett & Davis 5 Mason & Hamlin. to 385 8 Sherwood = 3 to 190 All uprights In good condition and guar~ anteed. HEINE PIAND COMPANY, : GEARY ST., Opp. Union Square. Two thin, e »