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

22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1902, k3 MUSICIANS, PREPARE TO MAKE THE MOST OF SPANISH INVADER! BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. FTER PABLO CASALS it will only be necessary to announce of the infrequent Spanish artist that he is a protege of the Queen of Spain for him to receive a re spectful, not to say worshipful, atten. ticn from the musicians here. Mr. Ca: als received his education at the gracious Queen Christine, who crowned b her kindness to the young artist by the | i | gift of the lovely Guarnerius ‘cello upon | which he plays. How well she has served art in befriending the young "cellist those who have been fortunate enough to at- tend the Nevada concerts will attest, and will further register a grateful vote to Mme. Nevada for her excellent taste in the cholce of & company. indeed, does the Spanish musi- | ade the foreign concert platform | —so much the worse for the foreign con- cert platform if Mr. Casals at all repre- sents the artistic average of Spain. His work is extraordinary, and of the great things that have been done here. He has | le broad as music itself, cosmopolitan - largest sense of the word, and with- | test national ting.e gave, per- | . & pervading nobility of accent that have been caught from the fading dors ef the once most splendid court | s a technique to match, | 1, and unimpeach tone of infinitely varied beau , that nothing might b the rounding-off of this un- in nt, Mr. Casals possesses in egree the personal spell, 2 mag- by the dened concert-goer an alike. y feet are usually to the floor at the average . with many others to whom nce is a pleasurable novelty, I to being carried off my smail night by the royal magic genius. He leads his au- 3's last Mon Mr. e pretty much whither he will after | his first n he sits, with shut ey and illumi; ce, like some friehdly wiz ard, weaving his captivating web of m ody about them. Well, it is to make the | of this latest Spanish invader while here, for it is unlikely that there will be another chance to hear him for| some time to come. And when he does come here again I doubt if the larger world will be so_generously unacquainted | with his name as it now appears to be. o' Wt Mme. Nevada's flutist, Daniel Maquarre, has been another distinct pleasure of the week. Elegant, pure and refined in style | and with a fluent technique, he represents | almost the best in his art, and with the years may achieve the best. He has am- ple time, having but just reached his ma- Jority. M. Moreau is the pianist of the com- pany, and a typical player of the French school. While his pianism is by no means remarkable, Leon Moreau is a person of not in other ways, being one of the com- ing composers of France. He has writ. ten a pianoforte concerto that has mad its mark, and a symphonic poem for or- chestra, “Sur la Mer Lointaine,” that is mow one of the favorite orchestral num- bers, both in France and England. Song literature bas also gained importantly by M. Moreau's pen, as well as chorus pro- graummes and the lighter plano literature. it is flattering to the American vanity to hear M. Moreau—with the right of long and distinguished service to the cause— discuss the Wagnerian situation in Paris. He is of the opinion that Wagner is best taken when young, and in the largest pos- sible doses, that the patient by satiety may come to know that there are other schools that deserve occasional attention. “While you are in the mad-Wagner £tage you can bear no other music,” he says. “It is even sufficient cause for a duel to mention Bellini or Donizetti if a Wagner haunt! (And that is where most of Paris is just now.) But if you begin to take him when quite young you have time in an ordinary lifetime to come out on the other side, and with all the rich expe- rience gained through study of the music- drama can appreciate the rest of the mu- sical kind. “In Paris we are only just now arriving. it i1s true we have christened a street ‘Richard Wagner,” and that for the last ten years ‘Tannhauser’ has been the best- paying opera in Paris; but we have not wet had ‘Die Gotterdammerung’ or ‘Rhine- gold, at all, and “Tristan and Isolde’ only by private enterprise.” M. Moreau was here not vainly but dis- | ereetly informed that we of San Francisco “ could count a whole “Ring” to our name ! & good year 2go. “We are frightfully slow in Paris, it is o TWO TALENTED MEMBERS OF EMMA NEVADA'S CONCERT COMPANY. - o true” the composer confesses; “after every one else we are there. But Paris is Wagner-mad now, and there will be no end for some time. ‘Siegfried’ is the latest fur nd nothing else is heard. What Gluck, I believe, and Mozart, but Gluck. There are already in- s of this in the saner circles how inexpressibly bea s been greeted with muc ; also ‘Aleeste’ and ‘Orpheus. e the crowd will have only Wag- ner, and to the rest cries, ‘Off with their heads!" " o, The, success of the Holmes testimonial | concert affords the sipeerest gratification to all concerned and is a grateful indica- tion of the esteem in which the venerable musician is held in the community, and not less of the fine kindness of Holmes' brother musicians. H. B. Pas- more had charge of the affair, and had only the difficulty of choice among the gencrous wealth of talent that was placed at his disposal. So, too, the hall was kindly lent for the occasion, the ushers’ services, printing, advertising, managing, were all freely given, and the public also generously responded. Some six or seven hundred dollars was realized, I hear, and the best of the affair was its complete surprise for the recipient, who knew of the concert only on the evening of its giving. 0w tow Mrs. Katharine Fisk’s song recitals lead the musical contralto of the week. The distinguished contralto will appear in four programmes—on Tuesday and Fri- day evenings and Thursday and Saturday afternoons—at Sherman & Clay Hall. It i< long since any concert contralto.of in- ternational fame has been heard here and the occasion ig therefore one of note. Mre. Fisk's programmes are admirable and contain numbers representing. all kinds of musical interest. It is pleasing 0 note thereon a song by a clever young Californian, E. A. Bruguiere, “The Gar- dener and the Rose,” that will be sung at the first concert. It also gives one pleas- ure to find another clever young Califor- nian as Mrs. Fisk's accompanist, Fred Maurer, who follows thus in the footsteps <f the Richter, Colonne, Halle and other orchestras that have accompanied the singer. Quite worthily, too, I am sure, r P The Loring Club's concert of Tuesday evening next unfortunateiy conflicts with the first Fisk recital. But the Loring Club is always sure of its audience, so the club concert will probably not suffer, Miss Grace I. Davis .will be the soloist of the evening, and interesting choral numbers are programmed. e . Miss Annette Hullah has a pleasing pro- gramme for her concert of March 14 that will later be announced. The charming panist will be assisted by Lovell Langs- troth, who knows a good deal about "cello playing, and Miss Edith Hanks, who sings. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. 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There has been no evasion of the issue. Republican and Democratic Senators are unanimous on that point, and Senator Elkins expressed the whole matter clearly in saying: “The American people will not sanction anything of the kind. We are always willing to receive foreign visitors cordially and give them hospitable greeting, but we are staid when it comes to giving up out rights and advantages under the Monroe doctrine.” The report concerning the alleged mission of the Prince derives its importance mainly from the fact that it came from Berlin and from the well-known eagerness of the Kaiser to establish Germany as a world power with strength on every sea and in every quarter-of the globe. Neither of those facts, however, nor both combined, suffice to give the report reliability. There is a jingo element in the Berlin press that was eager to have the Kaiser settle his controversy with Venezuela by the strong hand, and was much vexed when peaceful measures were resorted to and the German fleet in the Caribbean Sea contented itself witlh making a display of strength instead of bombarding a Venezuelan port and annexing Venezuelan territory as a permanent sta- tion for German fleets and a German colony. It is natural that the jingoes chould see in the visit of Henry a movement toward accomplishing their policy, anid that they shodld even declare it to be so. We must make allowance for that spirit and its exaggerations. Berlin may have wished Prince Henry to have the alleged mission, but that is no proof that he has ever thought of such a thing, or that the Kaiser has ever deemed it a question of practical politics. The promotion of German migration to South America by the imperial Government has long since given rise to the belief that he desires to establish German powet on this hemisphere, and to that end would gladly procure a naval station wliere he could maintain a fleet strong enough to protect German commerce in South America and to encourage German colonies. Doubtless the Kaiser would be glad to haye such a station, but a desire to obtain one and a definite movement to accomplish the desire are two different things. Not even for the sake of his best hopes of South American commierce and of South American colonies would he venture upon an enterprise likely to bring him into conflict with the United States. William C. Dreher, writing from Germany, furhishes to the March r.umber of the Atlantic Monthly an exhaustive review of sentiment in that country with respect to American problems. In the course of his article he says: “If any proof were needed of Germany’s purpose to main- tain good relations with our country, her course in the Venezuelan matter has amply supplied it. Indeed the fact that Germany came to an understanding with our Government before taking forcible measures against Venezuela is of most momentous significance. Why? Because this is the first explicit.recognition of the Monroe doctrine by any Continental power. It is a notable milestone in the history of our country and its relations with European governments. It gives the Monroe doctrine a validity no longer to be disputed. All this was instantly recognized by Ger- many. ‘America for the Arericans’ said a great Berlin daily, ‘has become an irreversible fact.’” Such being the situation it may be taken for granted the Berlin report was unfounded. All the same it is just as well that the question should be brought up, for the Monroe doctrine and the determination of the American people to sustain it cannot be too frequently nor too firmly enunciated. No Prince can induce us to waive the doctrine, nor could the Kaiser should he come in person. As Senator Burrows said: “We are very glad to have Prince Henry come over to visit us and we have given him a royal welcome, but if he expects to sneak in under the Mon- roe tent we will see him when he crawls under the canvas.” A MARRIAGE AND WORKING WOMEIN. R. CARROLL D. WRIGHT in a recent address on the industrial emancipation cf women expressed a belief that the increased ‘proportion of women engaged iu re- munerative employment and self-supporting has been the cause of a decrease in the marriage rate. The opinion is probably shared by a great majority of students of sociology. A series of statistics cited by Horace G. Wadlin in an article on the subject contrib- uted to the Boston Globe seems to show, however, that while the marriagt rate has decreased, the cause of the decline is to be sought elsewhere than in industrial emancipation. In Massachusetts, at any rate, the proportion of marriages is higher in the districts where abundant remunerative em- ployment is to be found for women t}lan in districts where it is less abundant. The decline in the marriage rate of the State as a whole has been such during the last forty years that whereas in 1860 of every 1000 women in the State 19.6 were married, in 1900 only 16.9 were married. Industrial development in Massachusetts therefore has been clearly accom- panied by a decrease of marriage, but Mr. Wadlin goes on to say: “Bearing in mind, however, that the number of women married to each 1000 of the female population in the State at large was 16.9 in 1900, we find the corresponding figures for Fall River, Lowell and Lawrence, all cities in which large numbers of women are industrially employed, to be, respectively, 19.8, 21.2 and 20.4. In Holyoke the figure was 17.4; and in Boston, also where large numbers of women find remunerative employment, the figure is 21.1. The general rule seems to hold in Massachu- setts that the number of women married out of the entire female population is greatest in the in- dustrial cities and towns and lowest in the places where women have the least opportunity for em- ployment, and, of course, the least opportunity for coming into social contact with the op- posite sex.” Further statistics show that the increase of women turing centers in Massachusetts did not diminish either the rate of marriage or of births, nor did it increase the death rate. Industrial emancipation, then, must be relieved from the charge of tending to break up the family. In fact it seems to promote marriage and the birth rate. Prob- ably if it were not for the industrial freedom of woman and her augmented chances of sdf—sup— port family life in the United States would be in a far worse condition than it is. in the ranks of industry in manufac- SALARIES FOR CONGRESSMEN. Y way of relieving, the strife over partisan measures and to establish a fellow+feeling of mutual good will based upon harmony of thought and sentiment, Congress is ' just now discussing quietly in committee-rooms and elsewhere the advisability of making it unani- R mous when the time comes to take up Senator Hoar’s bill providirg for an increase of Congressional salaries. The bill provides for increasing the pay of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House from $8coo to $15,000 a year, and that of Senators and Representataives from $50c0 to $7500. It is estimated the effect of the raise would be to take from the national treasury scme- thing like $1,000,000 a year more than is now taken for salaries. That amount of money would help to enliven Washington, improve trade and provide savings to be taken home to Buncombe when the session is over. % The argument of course is the old one. Washington is becoming every year a more ex- pensive place to live in. The standard of social life is rising like the stock of an industrial trust on a Wall-street boom. Embassadors have given it a full blown pride and millionaires are mak- ing it a place for the maintenance of a magnificent social life. The day when a states!flwn could live at a boarding-house for about $40 a month and be respected has long gone by. It has van- ished like the oaths that Jackson swore and that manner of living is no more deemed polite. Either the Congressman must let himself be crowded out of the fashionable parts of the city, or he must put up more coin. It will be perceived that the argument takes no heed of the taxpayer. No consideration is given to the fact that he, too, may be living in an expensive city and has need for his coin. This is an issue in which each Congressman feels that charity and justice alike begin at home. Neither party, however, is quite willing to make the raise on its own responsibility. An election is to take place this fall, and the charge of salary grabbing is not a pleasant one to meet. That is the, reason of the desire to make this bill unanimous. Eastern rivers have been on an almost unprecedente¢ rampage this spring, and it is said those of Pennsylvania have not been so high for forty years. The damage has been immense, and the destruction of property around Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Reading, Allentown and Wilkes- barre has been so extensive that it is spoken of as “havoc.” MISS MUDGE. BY GUISARD. P e TS o + x HE burning question of the week in upper dramatic circles has been whether or not Eva Mudge, the “lightning change artist” at the Orpheum, is twins—the grammar of this sounds doubtful, but as I happen to know that she isn’t twins I can hardly | be expected to subseribe to a syntax that would imply Miss Mudge's plural exis- tence. Her soft, smudgy little name in-| terested me in Miss Eva long before I} had seen her ingenious “turn.” I won-| dered where she got it, what odd freak of feminine humor had led to its choice, for it is vastly unlike the “Fleurettes’” and “‘Montmorencys” that blossom so freely in the vaudeville garden. I was almost disappointed to find that she comes | by it honestly, that the humorists were | the good Mudges, her parents, and that | thelr only daughter has her quaint little name by the prosaic right of inheritance. In my disappointmentI even dropped into rhyme, for which, under the dire provoca- tion, I hope to be forgiven: O Eve, why art thou “Mudge!” 1 dreamed thee ‘Vere de Vere'; 1 dreamed a humor dear, ‘When ‘‘Mudge’’ fell on my eas. But thus doth fate begrudge The scanty laugh! ere de Vere!” Ve Judge!) I thought (O hasty An attic jester near— The female wit—all fudge? ‘Well, you are right, 1 fear. O Eve, why art thou “‘Mudge?” 1 dreamed thee ‘‘Vere de Vere!” But, nevertheless, Miss Mudge is a very charming little person, and her turn is the cleverest of its kind that has come within my ken. She sings, in a quite un- trained, but pleasing contralto voice, a patriotic ditty, illustrated by four com- plete changes of costume. It is the light- ning-like rapidity of the changes that con- stitutes the chief wonder of the turn, and that has given rise to the rumor that Miss Mudge is twins. She comes out first in a dapper soldier suit, a scant five feet of plump and pleasing femininity, with a bright, boyish face, and the clearest, roundest, bluest eyes imaginable. After her song, a dignified sort of affair, the soldler boy bows his leisurely way through a door at the back of the stage, and, hey presto! in four seconds a comely Red Cross Nurse, in irreproachable get- up, appears. Four seconds has sufficed to shed the complete soldier outfit and put on the gray gown, white apron, white fichu and white cap of the Red Cross maid. Then the nurse warbles a verse or two and disappears, and four seconds later a bonnie sailor laddie with the pretty Mudge face, wanders on the stage, with his hands in his pockets and the air of having eons of time at his dis- posal. Then comes some more patriotism, until Miss Mudge begins to hanker for more new clothes, and the sailor. boy swaggers out, to give way ten seconds later to Stonewall Jackson, in the full splendors of the Confederate uniform. Jackson takes care of the concluding stanzas of the patriotic cycle and then Jdeparts in his turn. The last change, to a dainty soubrette, French-heeled and glitter-gowned, bejeweled and elaborately coiffured, is made almost before one ecan say ‘Jack Robinson” or“the orchestra switch round to the pretty little coon song with which Miss Mudge closes her in- genious performance. iy e Of course there is a mystery, and little Miss Mudge besought me not to give ‘t away, for she said quaintly. “If people know how it is done, why it will not be a wonder any more.” 1 almost crossed-my-heart-to-die that T would not tell, driven thereto by the ap- pealing blue eyes of the young lady, but a stern duty to my paper forbade, and here, with humble apologies to her, is the sccret. There is a fairy godmother in the case, two of them, in fact. They stand in the wings, and as soon as Miss Mudge leaves the stage they wave their wands and the air is full of flying garments, Coats fly off and gowns fly on faster than eye can see. A cap drops from nowhere and perches itself on the Mudge curis. thoes attach themselves to the Mudge feet seemingly of their own accord, and Ppresto! prestisstmo! there you are! Noth . CLEVER LITTLE ARTISTE WHO IS MYSTIFYING ORPHEUM AUDI- ENCES WITH HER LIGHTNING CHANGE ACT. e s ing is a mystery when you know how it is_done. But the godmothers are off duty’ off the stage. At her ordinary dressing Miss Mudge loiters and fusses and dwadles just like the average girl. She is much more like the average girl in everything. by the way, than the usual vaudevillain. Her father and mother travel with her ~ wherever she does, and it is a case of in-~ dulging an only child in the vaudeville whim, as other only children are indulged In cther hobbiles. She has been on the stage since she was five years old—not so very long-ago—in dancing turns, in “legitimate,” in everything except opera, and hopes some day to be a com cpera star. All this with the face and ways of a sweet, wholesome little school- girl. She is ever so clever and partien- 1¥ nice. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CONTRACT—Reader, City. The question relative to the validity of a econtract is not sufficiently clear to enable this depart- ment to give an answer. The question should give an idea of the character of the contract. FATE—Subscriber, Santa Cruz, Cal. The ed “Fate,” the flest line of : “Two shall be born, this whole wide world apart,” was written by Susan Marr Spalding and ay be found in “American Antholog: published in 1900. SAN QUENTIN—K. C., City, and W. F., Alameda, Cal. -According to the es- tablished rules at San Quentin, says Warden M. G. Aguirre, the regular visit- ing day at that prison is the first Sunday of each month. However. in the case of relatives or friends of prisoners living at a distance, or if it is impracticable for such to come on the regular visiting day, the privilege of suiting their convenience is a matter generally accorded them. Those persons who are not well known to some official of the institution should bring proper credentials, unless arrange- ments for such visit have previously been, made by correspondence or otherwise. The prison is open to male visitors (such as desire to inspect the prison) und escort of an officer every day frunexr:-m; m. to 3 p. m. dies are permitted to visit the prison unacco: — mpanied by a male ADVERTISEMENTS. Two things shouid occur but once in a 1 h e in a life- time—the choosing of a wife and the choosing of a plano. We have sold thousands of pianos and we stand ready to live up to our guar- antee and satisty any customer who is not per- fectly satisfied. We have just moved into our new bullding and hall, the most artistic on the Pacific Coast, and on aceount of the damp- mess of the walls' we are goiug to rent, store or sell fully 100 pianos within the next two weeks at prices lower than could be made by amwy Other concern. We can do this because we are the only factory representatives on the . Pas cific Coast, and we are selling at wholesale margins just as low as any other dealer couid buy the goods. We will guarantee to duplicate pianos adv tized as bargains from $153 to $275 for and any plano ordinarily sold for $183 we sell for $98—all new goods. We are closing out all our slightly used plancs, among which you will find_the fc lowing makes: Chickering, Heine, Steinws. Hallet & Davis, Knabe, Conover, Haynes, Sherwood, Weber, Shaeffer, Fisher, Jewett, etc We are renting good plancs, new ones, for $3 2 month up and selling them for $3 up. SOME SPECIAL BARCAINS. 1 Wm. 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