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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1902. i LEAPS FROM STUDENT ] TO MANAGER . OF HIS OWN COMPANY By Guisard. BLANCHE WALSH a> La Wlodsleine Jobhn Drew brought “The | uble Shop™ to San Francisco | some six years ago, among the | ple engaged for the production was a young student of & dramatic | cast for a “thinking ndent “thought” to good owever, and asked a member | sbout learning to be John Drew’s assoclate advised the stock com: the student took the advice he Grand Opera-house, | uped” and played small parts At the vear's end he again e of his former mentor, and go to New York, which he | A. M. Palmer took him on, | parts, and then, as his abil- | ence made themselves felt, stage director. go ‘and From that | ge manager was a matter a short time, and now the actor head of his own company. The | s young man is Howard Kyle, mes to-night to the California | the star performer in “Nathan | the original Nat Goodwin | Report has all kinds of fa- | e things to say of Mr. Kyle's con- | of the part, and the play is said | e one of the best examples of Clyde | facile genius. | Hale” by no means repre- | sents the limit of Mr. Kyle's ambition, whose kind and guality may be conjec— tured from the fact that if the exigen- | the week permit he will produce at | those matinees in which actors in- | ir personal liking Jose Echega- | 21 Gran Galeoto.” With its ms cent reach, high literary value, Ibsen- like outlook and entire absence of the or- | dinary theatrical trickery, this greatest play of the foremost Spanish dramatist | of the day is not one to attract the actor cut out of common stuff. Mr. espirations mey of course outrun his ca- pacities, but-at any rate his dramatic heart is in the right place, and if we are lucky enough to get “El Gran Galeoto” & large gratitude to the actor will be in | order in any case. | . . . The play has been given before in| America, at the Independent Theater in | New York three years ago, which place | and time are significant of its kind. Per- | bips a motion of the scope of the- play | can best be given by quotation from its prologue that is sometimes acted, but mcre frequently mot. Two of the chief | characters in the drama, Don Jullan, a | middle-aged, wealthy and practical banker | with a young wife, and Ernest, the young bero, son of Don Julian’s old friend, and | secretary to the banker, in the end driven by cataclysmic force to become the lover his benefactor’s wife/ appear in the logue that is the playwright's appre- | clztion of his own play. Ernest, imprac- tical and a poet, has conceived a wonder- ful idea for a drama, but is bewildered by its bigness, and is discussing the mat- ter with Don Julian, who in the prologue symbolizes the spirit of “Everybody,” to wnom the play is dedicated. Here Is a glimpse of it; Ernest—Imagine the principal personage one who creates the drama and develops it, who gives it life and provides the catastrophe, who, b fills and possesses It, and yet who can- mot make his Way to the stage. Don Julian—Is he then so ugly? So Tepug- nant or bad? Ernest—Not 0. Ugly as you and I may be se. Neither 0od nor bad, and truly I am not such a cynie— mthrope, nor one %o out of love life @s to fall into an error of that sort. ) Julian—Then what is the reason? est—The reason, Don Jull is that is mo material room in ‘the stenario for personage. pon Jullan—Holy Virgin! What do you mesn? Is it by chance a mythological drama with Titans in 1t? Ernest—Not at all. It is modern. Don Julian—Well, then? Ernest—Briefly—it 1s a question of EVERY- BODY. Don Julian—Everybody! You are right. There is no room for evervbody on the stage. It 5 an incontrovertible truth that has more then once been demonstrated. Ernest—Then you agree with me? Don Julian—Not entirely. BVERYBODY may be condensed into a few types and char- scters. This is matter beyond me, but such, 1 understand, hes been the practice of the masters. ! Ernest—Yes. But in my case it is to con- | Gemn me not to write my drama. Don Jultan—How s0? Ernest—For many reasons it would be dif- ficult to explain: above all, at this hour. Don Jullan—Never mind; give me a few. Wroest—Look! Fach individual of this en- 489 e company his advice as to the best | | i POPULAR ACTRESS WHO OPENS AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER MONDAY NIGHT. % k2 | tire mass, each head of this monster of a thou- sand heads, of this Titan of the century whom I call “Everybody” takes part in my play. It may be for a fiylng moment, to utter but one word, fiing only a single glance. Perhaps his action in the play consists of a smile, seen but to vanish. Listless and absent-minded, he acts without passion, without anger, without guile, often for mere distraction’s sake. Don Julian—What then? Ernest—These light words, fugitive smiles, 2ll these passing glances and this petty evil, that may be called the insignificant rays of the dramatic light, condensed to one focus, to one family, Tesult in conflagration and explosion, in strife and in victims. If I represent the whole by a few types or symbolical person- ages, I bestow upon each one that which is really dispersed among many, and such a re- sult distorts oy idea. Suppose a few types upon the stage whose guilt repels and is the less natural because In them the evil has no object. This exposes me to the accusation of the intent to paint & cruel, corrupt and de- based society, when my sole purpose is to prove that not even the most Insignificant ac- tions are in themselves insignificant, or lost for good or evil. Don Julian stamps this as metaphysies, not drama, “‘a glimmer of light in an in- finitude of cloud,” and says that for his part he wants a love story, an intrigue, action and effective situations. Brnest replies that the love-and jealousy in his play will be largely subjective, that which does not come to the surface, but runs between the lines. Don Julian sensibly asks: ; “But wha understands all this? How are these Interior cataclysms to be sug- gested? Who tells these things to the audience? In what way are they to be made evident? Must we spend a whole evening hunting for an ominous glance, a fateful sigh, a gesture, a single word? My dear boy, this is not amusement, it is philesophy.” Ernest stubbornly maintains that it is @ drama if he could only give it fitting form, and ends with a grand fleclaration that it shall be done, and that *“so will he use our lost words, our vague smiles, our curious glances and all those in- numerable trivialities that mark our idle progress through the street, the cafe, the theater, the reception, and in their ac- cumulated mass make life.”” In the play he becomes the victim of the idly con- celved and idly advanced stspicion of his honor, “nobody acts with guile, conscious evil,” says the author, his benefactor is killed, his benefactor’s wife flung into his arms and he is forced into unearned in- famy through tne fate that Echegary has here newly personified as *‘Everybody." S Blanche Walsh comes to the Columbia to-morrow evening in “La Madeleine,” the work of a California playwright, Harry J. Dam. s i e —_— “I hear that Miss Pankey is to marry Berkenhead. I thought you had a better Chance there than anybody else, old fel- low." % “I think I had. I was on the point ‘of proposing to her once, but I waited for the psychological moment and it aidn’t come.”—Inter-Ocean. ““The mew star in Perseus is traveling at the rate of 50,000 miles a second.” “Great Saturn! Say, wouldn’t there be fun to burn if they could hitch the ‘Dip- per’ to its tall?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —_——— T Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.® —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.» —_—— Towngend's California glace frut, 50c 3 pound, In fire-etched boxes or Jap, bas kets. A nice present for Eastern Tiends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. ¢ —_———— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Frees Clipping Bureau (Aller’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepmm_- Main 102, ¢ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY .... Publication Office. . ‘Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager MARCH 16, 1go2 .. Market and Third, S. F CONGRESS AND PARLIAMENT. IDNEY BROOKS has contributed to the London Chronicle an interesting stidy of the contrasts between the House of Representatives and the House of Commons as seen by a British observer. He notes in the first place that the difference is observable even before reaching the halls where the legislators sit. To enter Parliament buildings one must have credentials and must pass-the scrutiny of a host of officials, but the Capitol at Washington is open to 2ll. Any one can enter at will, as Mr. Brooks says, “without respect to age, sex, cclor, previous condition of servitude or present condition of clothes.” He adds: “At first it somewhat startles English notions to see some ragged shuffle of 2 man whom no second-rate hotel would have allowed to enter its lobby lounging about the precincts of the National Legislature, but after a while one begins to feel that his presence is more than compensated for by the system that makes it possible.” Within the houses the contrast is marked by the evident regard for form in the Commons and the disregard for it in the House of Representatives. The American “Mr. Speaker” wears no wig nor flowing robe like his British prototype, and the English observer hardly recognizes him as a Speaker at all. The clerks, the sergeant-at-arms and the pages in Congress are alike free from any display of official dress, and it is noted that “the mace alone, being inanimate, shows no loss of dignity.”. The larger freedom of mannérs in Congress than in Parliament strikes the critic as a point in which we are infer&:r to his countrymen. He says: “Behind the last row of chairs and desks runs a railing hung with drapery, and between the railing and the wall is a passage opening on to the smoking-rooms. Nothing could have made the visitor feel more thoroughly ‘at home than the sight of honorable members lolling in their chairs and smoking. As they took care to leave the doors of the smoking-room open, that no word of the speeches might be lost, a very pleasant odor of tobacco was spread throughout the House.” : The divergences from the customs of the Commons which chiefly ‘impressed our visitor were those growing out of the relation of the Representatives to the barber-shop of the House, and the presence of children on the floor during debate. Of these he says: “From where I sat it was possible to catch a glimpse of members under the razor, and democracy took on quite a new significance for me when the colored barber, finding business dull, opened the door, and, stand- ing in his shirtsleeves and barber’s apron, half in and half out of his shop, joked with Congress- men and listened to the speeches till they bored him. But for sheer domesticity the palm must be given to a phalanx of small boys, the sons ot Congressmen, who sat on their fathers’ knees during the debates. The colored member, I was enraptured to see, brought his little pickaninny along. Why not? Some of these infants, tiring of the paternal lap, would climb into the nearest chair and there experiment. with its rotary ‘mechanism; and the Congressman to whom the chair belonged, so far from making any effort to expel the intruder, would smile a blank smile and walk off for a cigar. One urchin came up to the bar of the House with his father to be sworn in, held up his little fist and took the oath of allegiance to the constitution.’ And the only comment I heard from the galleries was an admiring ‘Well, isn’t that just the cutest and cunningest thing you ever saw?* For my own part I could safely answer that it was.” The House of Commons is said to be the best dressed assembly in the world and the House of Representatives the worst. Altogether it appears that Congress does not make,a good dress parade showing in the eyes of a critical observer. However, there may be said of all these things what Mr. Brooks was wise enough to perceive to be the truth about the free admission to the Capitol—the defects of dignity, style and dress “are more than compensated for by the sys- tem that makes them possible.” Better democracy even in the rough than any other governmental or social system the world can show. MAN OF THE FUTURE. HILE H. G. WELLS has been undertaking to forecast the future of man by a study of the economic forces now in‘operation, Professor Bruner of Butler University has been attempting to determine what the man of the future will be like in ages far be- yond those to which the Wells forecast extends. Professor Bruner does.not rely upon political economy, nor upon sociology to throw light upon the issue. He obtains illumina- tion from biology, geology and history; and while not venturing to say what will be the social conditions of mankind hereafter, he asserts with some positiveness that the race will be quite dif- ferent from what it is to-day. The professor begins by declaring that artists fail utterly in their attempts to depict the anatomy of thé primitive man, because they furnish him with legs based upon the anatomy of Greek art. The legs of the Greeks in the days of the great sculptors were better than those of primitive man, and the legs of the average man of to-day are better than those of men in the days of Greek art. . The human anatomy is improving with the years. The brain, the chest and the lower limbs are alike developing; but there will be some lcsses. The foot, which the professor tells us used to be a grasping organ like the foot of an ape and has now become “a mere ambu- latory appendage,” will lose one of its toes; the numbeér of ribs will be reduced, the-vermiform ap- pendix will vanish; but on the other hand the man of the future will have more hair and better teeth. The man of the future is described as belonging to a “race oi four-toed giants.” He will be free from. all forms of disease caused by microbes. He will gain so muchin longevity that the weakness of old age will not fall upon him until he approaches the century mark. The final touch is given in the prediction that the sex of infants will be predetermined; that for a time there wilf ; be a preponderance of boys, which will cause a big demand for girls, and in the succeeding gen- eration there will be more girls than boys, but thereafter there will be an equal number and every Jack can have his Jill. What more can humanity ask? A LESSON FOR CALIFORNIA. ROM the far-away region where the waters of Lake Superior pour through the rapids of Sault Ste. Marie comes a story of interest to Californians. It shows how the development of a power for the operation of industry causes industry to rise, and how. raw materials formerly considered out of reach of markets are brought into the commercial world and made the sources of large profits. When canals were constructed along the rapids for the use of shipping it was found that hardly one-thousandth part of the power of the flow was utilized in working the locks. It there- upon occurred to enterprising men that since the canals were already constructed it would not cost much more to put in the machinery necessary to convert the energy of the rushing water into electricity and to apply it to manufacturing purposes. In looking round for raw material to operate upon the promoters soon noted the value of the spruce forests in the neighborhood and accordingly the electrical energy was set to work converting the trees into wood pulp. The success of the first venture encouraged the undertaking of others. A second and larger electric plant was constructed. Further raw material was sought for and found in the .mineral resources of the region, and now it is expected that the district will become one of the largest manufacturing cen- ters on the continent. 5 \ Through the streams of our California mountains there are rushing to the sea waters whose flow generates an energy sufficient to operate factories capable of working up all the raw mate- rial around them. There can be no question that the material exists. Were the force of the streams once utilized the marvel of industrial progress now going on around Sault Ste. Marie would be repeated in our mountain counties. It is the old story that one enterprise leads to an. other, that the opening of one door shows a second door waiting to be opened. In the move- ment now under way to develop the resources of thé northern ‘part of the State the possibilities of manufacturing enterprises should.not be overlooked. The Lake Superior lesson is worth heeding. The Census Bureau reports that'during the decade preceding 1900 the output of the bicycle industry increased in value from $2,500,000 per annum to nearly $32,000,000, but so rapidly is the usé of the wheel going out of fashion in the East that some of the leading papers in that section predict that ten years from now the value of the output will be nearer what it was in 1890 than what it was in 1900. : ; Governor Odell of New York has removed from office the Sheriff of Kings County on the. ground of “moral unfitness”; and yet the Sheriff was elected only last fall on the moral reform ticket. It is passing strange how these black sheep get into the whitest flocks, and no one ever perceives them until they get fat on refon;n grass. g VIRTUOSI 1 N THE BUD HOLD INTEREST OF MUSICAL WORLD. By Blanche Partington. T+ A I)iolipi:{ ORPHEUN CLEVER CHILD VIOLINIST WHO WILL APPEAR AT ORPHEUM i i | | i i | | | | | DURING THE PRESENT WEEK. k +* - HE Orpheum will havef on its bill { this ‘afternoon what to any other | than an Orpheum audience, inured to variety from earliest Orpheum- hood, would spell novelty, a child tainment. Kathleen Parlow is the little girl's name, and if I have kept count cor- rectly Kathleen must be 11 years old now. I heard her first about a year ago, in some De Beriot numbers, and she played ever so well then, with a finish, style and ease that one is not accustomed to look for in a child’'s work. She had also a very sufficlent technique, temberamental gifts of high order, an excellent school, and there seemed indeed every reason why she should make her mark in the violin world. I think she is going to do it, too, for her work shows amazing progress since last ear. yKathleen is now, and has been for two or three years, a pupil of Henry Holmes. Before that time she studied with her | uncle, Mr. Kurnow, and seems to have | been well on the right path ever since her beginning—In Canada by the way. There is nothing of the abnormal about the small violinist. She is just a sweet, whole- some, normal little maid who has perhaps been a little more carefully and sensibly educated than the average child—which, as she is the only one, is maybe not won- derful. Kathleen’s puolic appearance at this early stage was hardly in contempla- tion, but “things” disposed themselves that way, and the little girl makes her bow in vaudeville this afternoon. Two of her numbers will be the “Gipsy Dance” of Sarasate and the Wieniawskivariations on “¥ankee Doodle,” and I am sure a warm welcome awaits her. I happen to know, by the way, that the money earned by the budding Neruda will all be devoted fo her education. I also happen to know that her schooling of the last two years has been the generous gift of one not overburdened himself with store of this world’'s goods, Kathleen's devoted master, Henty Holmes. All honor to him! s e B Speaking of child wonders, T heard the other day that the poor little Schramm children were playing up in Dawson City, being managed by the estimable Papa Schramm, who, like many others, ex- pected to pick up a fortune in the north- ern metropolis. Without result, I be- lieve, so far. o~ . Afleen McCabe—while one is about the child-wonder question—is a very clever young girl, whose performance last week at Sherman & Clay Hall was distinctly promising. Aileen is a pupil of Noah Brandt and shows her good teaching in what must be grateful fashion to her in- structor. She has a robust tome, excel- lent intonation, a supple bow arm and good command of the finger-board. Style is yet lacking in her performance, finish and fineness, but there is a sound and healthy foundation to build upon and everything to work with. . . . Among the pleasant musical affairs of the season have been the song recl!g- of ‘Mrs. Katharine Fisk this week at Sher« man & Clay Hall. It is long since a con- cert contralto of Mrs. Fisk's kind has been heard here and she was accordingly doubly welcome and has made for herself an enviable place In the hearts of those who had the good luck to hear her. The voice is a true contralto, delicious in its lower range and perfectiy con- trolled. The upper notes do not always please, having a certain reediness of quality. But she sings delightfully. Each phrase is given with exquisite sense of violinist of quite exceptionai at-| its tonal and emotional values, dramatic light and shade, and her enunciation is artistic in the extreme. She acts hesf songs, pictures them, in admirably sym- pathetic fashion, and monotony, that bete noire of the song, and every other sort of recital, finds no place during one ot Mrs. Fisk's programmes. ‘Those same programmes, by the ., have not been wholly worthy. wn:.' y., singer can give such songs, in such a tashion, as the “Samson and Delilah™ mongs of Saint-Saens that have formed a notable part of Mrs. Fisk's programmes and others such, the plea of variety hardly suffices as excuse for some of the “cheap”—yes “cheap”—songs that have defaced them. This was possibly in def- erence to our supposed light likings, there could be no other reason, but I doubt if Mrs. Fisk will Include them in her repertoire when next she comes. To end with, this singer is splendidly alive, most charming in personality and full of mag- netism. She can bring tears or laughter at will by her art, and wiil be weicome indeed should she again come this way A feature of Mrs. Fisk's recitals has been the charming accompaniments of Fred Maure CHILD ARTISTS APPEAR AT ALHAMBRA THEATER Pupils of a Dancing Academy Pro- duce “Cinderella” With Good Results. It was children’s day at the Alhambra Theater yesterday. Little children and their elders watched the spectacular opera and patronized the peanut and popcorn vender during the intermissfon. The oc- casion ‘was the production of the comic ogpera “Cinderella” and an accompanying exhibition of fancy dances by the pupis of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. O'Brien’s dancing academy. The large auditorium was crowded and every one present enjoyed the perform- ance. Those who participated In the opera sustained their parts well and won an abundange of applause. The dancing spe- cialties were remarkably good. Little tots executed steps of all nations, and the show went through without a hitch or mistake. At the end of the programme, came a Florodora sextet, which was worthy of special mention. Mrs. Caro True-Boardman, who had ccached the children for their parts in “Cinderella,” also had a part in the opera and gave a specialty that was warmly re- ceived. e g el “Always pay as you go,” sald Uncle Dudley. “‘But, uncle, suppose I've nothing to pay with?"” “Then don’t go."—Tit-Bits. “Well, thank heaven! you've never seen me run after people who have money.” “No, but I've seen people run after you I;e‘cluso you didn't have momey."—Tit- ts. “Your work is brutalizsing.” said the vegetarian to the butcher. “I don’t see how you can have any heart in it.” “I may have no heart,” replied the con- sclentious man of meats, “but I have some choice liver."—Cleveland .lain Dealer. LINCOLN SAID> “You can fool some of the people ail of the time, and all of the peopie some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.” This is what the other dealers here are learning. 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