The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 24

ld otherwise have listened he Zeisler songs. One thing only is that the people at large hav Beethoven playing, while lacking no throb | of the poeti¢ impulse. Again it is almost bizarre, filled to overflowing with strange, palm of avarice, has dissolved into the invisible gas whence it came, or is forgotten as wholly as in the midst of half a hundred more Or| less gifted colored comedians, from which the Walker pearls were again gleaming: “there some of the white fellows will take us for a drink to some third-class 24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1902. [ I THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. | Sl | | DESERT OF SEATS AT || COMEDIAN ASSERTS ‘ JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ' Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager | ZEISLER CONCERT IS PAST COLORED PLAYERS MUST YIELD | SUNDAW 2 LT L SR T TR T LR IR APRIL 20, 1902 | . EXPLANATION. TO PREJUDICE. [ Srn PublicationOflice......................................(@‘.........4.....................Mirkafil"dThiid s.F. | By Blanche Partington. i . . By Guisard. | i IS WEALTH ALL? L — - P FRENCH professor of sociology has been delivering a very interesting course of lec- | | | ! tures in Columbia University, New York. In one cf these he entered upon an analysis || f i of the physical decadence of France, as shown in the decline of the marriage and birth | rate and the decrease in the number of families. | This analysis exhibits several causes, the principal ore being the chase for society, for ease | and luxury, for the things which not only lic outside the duties and the profound satisfactions of ‘ home, but which antagonize these and muake them seem undesirable. Young women become | averse to a marriage that does not at once pledge a continuance in their indulgence in social functions, and their pursuit of pleastires foreign to homekeeping. Young men find themselves in- eligible parties, because the fine old element of romance being canceled out of the matrimonial problem, they must offer in its place purely material considerations which they cannot attain. i The result is a population either at a standstill or retrograding, and material things decking the altar of life as a sham and tawdry substitute for its fine romance and substantial happiness. The | experience of France is admonitory. 4 » : i But there are disquieting indications ‘that the example is without sufficient admonitory | . 3 force to warn the nations away trom the example of French practices. | In an address to schcol children recently delivered in this city by an officer of the munici- | pality the subject was “Application,” most properly chosen but most improperly ' applied. The | sermon nullified the lesson of the text. The speaker said: ’ ‘ “These young men may be the Pierpont Morgans of the future and these young ladies | may be the wives of millionaires.” » | | £ S : 5 | If these are the ends sought by application, then better for the republic that the ycung | men abandon application in the beginning, and that young women abjure it early. Such advice and such a goal held up before the fancy of the young by any one to whom | they look with respect are harmful to a degree which we are sure has not impressed the adviser. It —_— == N puts not independence 'but million's as the one thing worth seek?n.g by young men; an'd it abgl- | | ,?">-\\_\ "}/ ishes romarcce, the plain but lasting pleasures of home, the acquiring of the arts which make - /7/ = — \/ fiJ' home the brightest spot on earth, and it puts away the satisfactions of the heart, and makes girls | 7///\‘\\ live only to marry millionaires, or those whose wealth is put as a substitute for all that makes a | | 4 y R | man. Such teaching is so extremely erroneous that it cannot be too strongly deprecated. It puts | | goze 3 4/ JANNE \ the sham and show of life, its iridescent shadows, its hollow forms, its exterior gauds and pig- 1 o § BlopFr.p \ ments, its passing show and pomp, its necessarily impermanent pretenses, as the end and aim w;;crerc;gxs‘y;g ?:%ES%?;}::}; g 7!»1;“:1 ‘2"2? < st ZEISLER Ohpxisience’ ; : i nay AUDIENCES AT THE COLUMBIA. this weex? Certainly it wasnot | It is at war with philosophy and happiness, and puts the torch of a false ambition to the | 1 1 t fauit, nor h fame, | | { 1 1 i1 7 (3 -, i e ]:fid‘.s":;df;.mh”! { roof of'thc race and burns in its consuming fires every element of human contentment. o i SRt it or place be blamed, the| | | I'ernyson made no mistake when he wrote: ply with the requirements. crammed for the Nor- [ i) B h i | “Uncle Tom,” I suggested, and it turned ¥ a short while ago at| | | e n e tnanicOtoless | out that Walker's great ambition was to her. A pessimist person | | i And simple faith than Norman blood. i play: the. famous darky’ls part: s that it is the lack of the A gentle maiden in her flower | | | “Our new piece for next year, ‘In Da- sational interest that has | Is worth a hundred coats of arms. i | | homey,” it may be called, is a little mors ot Al el ] The young men who listened to this sadly mistaken counsel should apply themselves to | e TN L8 Do g lo, nor travel magnificently | | win honest independence by their own exertions, and let the millions take care of themselves. | :;ose‘rbwgl Ma:’lunh c;:kl,‘ ;he lyrblu by r play the heroine in | . K E H aul unbar and the bool y us, but we i indiigs ol el They should feel that independence means the acquisition of a home ruled by the queen of their 1 | | have turned it mto s musical comedy. ¢ genius that | P B @ : : : | | | But the subject deals—in comedy fashion N eriTaserne st A ‘ hearts, whose presence is ~an incentive to cleanness of lu'e._ l1one-sty and honog and to the highest [ | ouith a very viial quantion fu eor wae, nist person Mme. Zeisler is office of man—the offering of a good example to his children and their proper nurture and | | the practical disfranchisement of the amenable to freak advertising as | d e i | Southern negro. Some day, perhaps, Ky, who also drew small houses i admonition. olng quietly on In our own little groove, Godowsky came here imme- | 4 L | . 5 H mbition, and when they fill the m i | | we may do_something of which people ately after his sudden leap to fame, and | TheseA ars the w hole_mmc objects of DEOPCE bitio A LU mRaaute of ™ | | may say, ‘that is good,’ without tacking eisler’s art is 4 known and adored quan- PIANISTE WHO HAS scorep | | youthful aspiration the nation partakes of their sanity and is the aggregate of the sentiments | ! , | on that poor little tall—‘for a negro.’ nce her former visit, six vears ago. A BIG HIT IN SAN FRAN- | [ SvHich inspire them | % | “Do you play the South?” I asked. only the summer madness &15co0. j5 SAICEARED 3 3 5 ; 3 | § AM like the Virginian gentleman that Not yet,” the manager interposed. en into the blood, calling| | i Every young woman should look into her heart and read thete the cesire to be the wife of | | Williams and Walker tell of—behind | “The ‘Jim Crow’ cars, and other incon- ople to cool, green lanes, |<* " | 2 “; rek : S = o | the scenes. I—but let the clever team | venient features, are still in evidence i St il Ron Soirbuns. Svhars 1 i her lover, trusting that he deserves that jewel which omtshines the Kohinoor, and will be the {] ce the'story. 1t was ater the final | there.” Jark sings high. O thy soothing 2 2 . 2 H 5 T 1 < 1 curtain th th night that wen! W 1: Louisville, Kentueky,™ a e s T e Taliing | and coolly teposeful s some of her, world’s stainless star when'that glittering stone, marred by the blood of men and smirched by the ‘3 s . sl wsuit | e play Louisville, Kentueky™ afi { ere else than at the Metropoli- n Temple t s week. a little characteristic ection. On Wednesday baum of the loczl met me at the door of th= as long a face as natur h ume over the small d turned up to greet the illiantly, and, wondering bought up the hail for . T stopped to hear, nor mood urprised when all the local impresario said was: “Isn’t she & wonder! Such a trill! Isn't 1 a little gem!” etc., etc. The magic of Mme. Zeisler's fingers is responsible for much more in the miracle- working line than the bewitchment of a very rea ly aisappointed manager. Be it reme ¥ the way, that Mr. Bouvier and Mr. Greenbaum have fur- nished us with the finest musical fruitage season—Nordica, M the Heinrichs and now Zeisler, not speak of the Chicago Symphony Or- for which something in the shape of gratitude should be forthcoming. Itis hey are likely to get. of the Fisk to But to return to our Zeisler. To me she is one of the most fascinating cf | pianists. Godowsky, the sane, the splen- did, is still the supreme master of piar istic enc ment. , But Zeisler sw. half-hypnotic, wholly individual charm. Unitke the Godowsky genius, whose regnant personality shines from some @&im, remote background of his art, every note imperious of (Tie Zeisler mint with is stamped heavily with the features of the player. It is to Zeisler one listens | rather than to ' Bach, Beethoven or | Chopin But what a Zeisler! Stung by some im- mortal madness, driven by the seven dev- i of temperament, she draws her listener into most strange and passionate ways. One must feel with her, follow her, though Beethoven some time look askance and Bach hold up a dissenting finger. Yet is her art high on the intel- lectual plane. Not to many virtuosi is given the broad and lucid grasp that dis- tinguishes this “dark sybil,” as some one has called her. Largely outlined and with an almost mathematical musical phraseology in tone color, dyna- mic value and Mme. Zeisler's readings are a marvel of pianistic accomplishment. Every techni- cal resource is at her command. ' There remain no terrors of speed, force or en- durance in her path. When Zeisler puts down her brown finger she knows to the | infinite atom the weight of the sound that shall follow, not less in the thunderous haste of the “Erl King”—so weirdly pict- ured—than in the leisurely pea¥l-spinning of the Scarlatti “Pastorale.” And more. Her tone s as vari-colored as Godowsky's own, though its use is less consummately subtle. It is incomparably brilliant in the bravura passages and Informed with Jovely temderness in the cantabiles, rip- pling exquisitely in the scales and jew- eled trilis. Then there is that marvelous staccato—but where the use of enumerat- ing when it is only necessary to say that al lis perfection? Enslaved as one is by Mme. Zeisler's genlus, however, it is not always unques- tioning slavery. In spite of the acute in- telligence and strongly characterized na- ture of her interpretations, it seems some- times as if the art of the planist were too obvious; as if the technician stood in Yront of the lineaments of the master he is attempting to portray. JHer palette is sometimes overloaded with personal color, her conceptions overcharged with the egofstic mnote, betrayed thereto by an &bounding temperament that slips some- times from the firm leash of the artist's commanding intellect. It is not by any toeans commonly so. Eminently logical 1 saw him after the con- ! Katharine | perfection ot | rhythmic appreciation, | exotic essences, alien hues, that the grand | old man of Bonn never dreamed of. Her | Chopin readings are masterly, dazzling, | as far removed from the syrupy sweet- | ness to which one is too often treated as from the hard, matter-of-factness that | marks other too common handlings of the | | wonderful Pole. Her Bach and Scarlatti are limpidly pure, and she seems to have particular sympathy for Schubert. But whatever Mme. Zeisler plays she is gor- geously worth hearing, and pity 'tis, 'tis true, that so few here have heard her. But better luck next time. An interesting “little concert is an- | nounced for this afternoon by Miss An- | nette Hullah, the English pianist, in the Young Men’s Christian Association audi- torium. She will be assisted by Mifs Edith Hanks, vocallst, and John Lewis, who has a good hatful of talent for vio- lin playing. Following is the programme: Piano and op. mann), Miss Annette Hullah and John Lewis; piano, (a) Sonata, F sharp, Op. 75 (Beethoven), (b) Fragment d'une Suite (Bach), (c) Pas- torale, ¥ major (Scarlatti), Miss Annette Hul- lah; songs (a) Hindu Song (Bemberg), (b) ““Good Morning” (Grieg), Miss Edith Hanks; lano, (a) Prelude, (b) Gavotte and Musette Albert), (c) Melodie (Sinding), (d) Romance, 3 (Schumann), Miss. Annette Hullah; olin, (a) Romance, (b) Air Savoyard (Vieux- temps), John Lewis: songs, (a) “The Lass | With the Delicate Air'"’ (old English), (b) My an_\' Tammie,” (c) “Jock o' Hazeldean" (old | { { | | | | | | | | violin, Sonata, 105 (Schu- | | Scotch), Miss Edith Hanks; piano, (a) Etude, C | sharp minor, (b) Impromptu, A flat (Chopim), () Carnival Valse (Hinton), Miss Annette Hul- lah. E——— { LETTER FROM Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler. | | The Acolian Company: Kohler & Chase, Representatives: | Ever since the Pianola arrived 1 have | wanted to express to you the great pleas- | ure it has given me and my family, but I | really did not have a lefsure moment. 1 consider the Planola a remarkable achievement, ome calculated to exert a powerful edicational influence. By means of this wonderful invention those who | love good music, but have not had the | | advantage of musical training, can repro- duce the most difficult compositions with | much the same sensation as though they were themselves manipulating the key- board. i Many pianos that In the past were | merely mute pieces of furniture have now been endowed with a voice. The Pianola may and ought to do away with that army of incompetent and un- | ifted players, who might be better occu- | | pied otherwise. The technical perfection of the Pianola performances are, of course, the envy of even the most brilliant yirtuoso. The op- portunities offered for taking pedal. i creasing and decreasing the tempo, and producing dynamic effects, such as ac- centing., crescendo and diminuendo, seem | almost”incredible in a mechanical instru- | ment. Altogether, T feel that the world is un-| der a great debt of gratitude to the in- ventor of the Planola. Most sincerely | yours. FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER. Kohler & Chase, the sole agents, have kindly invited all interested in the Plan- ola to call to-morrow (Monday) at their warerooms, 28 O'Farrell street. e T Judge—You say vou struck this man be- cause he called you a jackass? Prisoner—Not exactly in those words, He raid T could wear a horse’s hat with ease and comfort.—Pittsburg Press. —, e Cal. glace fruit50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_———— Townsend’s California glace frult, 50c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. €39 Market st., PalaCe Hotel building. * ol nsas Beirts Ldl, Special information supplled daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 230 Cali- forria etreet. Telephone Main 1042. e the name cf the nabob who first gloried in its possession. If right romance, the sweet hunger of the heart, be not satisfied in the walls of a palace, their mural splendors, the pride of their tenancy, the pomp and parade they echo, are as soun-ding brass and tinkling cymbal. Shelter them in a cottage and make it a home whose duties they touch with their ineffable grace, and that cottage becomes a palace. Its walls are illuminated with the glories that mere wealth can neither give nor take away. The vine upon its lintel is crowned. with the verdure of the tree of life, and every pleasure is heightened and every pain endured with patiecce, because those who dwell therein see each other to the end with the raised vision of their first youth, and their hearts abide in its romance. No greater error can curse mankind than the assumption that happiness proceeds from wealth alone. The two are as distinct as the color of a flower and its aroma. They may exist together,-and they do, but neither is the cause of the other. CATS AND ADVERTISING. ASSACHUSETTS and her “General Court” are having a very lively and talkative spring time together. The General Court suggests the topics and Massachusetts does the rest. Much has been said in every part of the State from Boston to the other place on the question of appropriating money for the erection of an equestrian statue to General Butler, but that issue is not interesting to the nation at large, as no one outside of the State will be taxed either to pay for the statue or with responsibility for it. Two at least of the General Court topics, however, are of interest to the whole civilized world. Ome of these is a proposition to require a citizen to take out a license if he desires to keep a cat, and the other is a proposition to establish a censorship of advertising. It would seem that cither of those propositions would be enough to fill a session of the Legislature so full that no one could put a lid on it, but the sessions of the General Court are always sufficiently capacious to hold all that may be dumped into them. In fact there is no instance on record of a single one of them ever having been full when it was closed by the time limit. So all Massachusetts is just now discussing cats and advertising. The advocates of the cat bill assert that at present there is a great deal of gruelty practiced on cats by the people of the grand old commonwealth. One cultured dame appeared before a committee of the Solons and with warmth extclaimed: “I've got tired of running to 68 Carver street to get them to take care of homeless cats. Poor people ought not to be allowed to keep cats. Nobody ought to be allowed to keep a cat unless able to take care of it.” That is the argu- ment for the license bill. The opposition can do no more than clamor for freedom and assert the right of every man to life, liberty and a cat. i The discussion over advertising arises from a bill purporting to be “‘an act to prevent mis- representation in the sale of merchandise.” Tt sets forth that “any person, {irm, corporation or as- sociation, cr any employe thereof, who in a newspaper, circuiar or other publication published in this State, knowingly makes or disseminatcs any statement or assertion of fact coricerning the quantity, the quality, the value, the method of production or manufacture, or the reason for the price of his or their merchandise,” with much more to the same effect, which “is intended to give the appearance of an offer advantageous to the purchaser, and which is untrue or calculated to mis- Jead, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,” and a definite penalty is provided. f To many persons such a proposition to restrict advertising will sound more like Kansas than Massachusetts, but it must be remembered that Massachusetts started Kansas, and has lots of the same stuff at home. In the interests of the wotld we would like to see both these measures adopted. The attempt to enforce them would add to the gayety o nations, and the end would be instructive and prof- itable. With licensed cats and censored ads Boston. might become so proud of herself that she would get off the earth and seek a home elsewhere, and that would be a relief. So here’s to the General Court of Massachusetts, may it never adjourn. President Roosevelt has been invited to address the triennial Sunday-School Convention at Denver in June, and should he do so, he should come straightway afterward to California, for after joining in the song “I want to be an angel” it would be a retrograde movement for him to head in any other direction than this. The Boers seem o be about as stubborn in the peace talk as they have been in war, and the conferences may last un}il the jaws of the British are as tired as their legs. | are niggers, aint you now? | London I full of Africans, Indians and | Willlams, with his fat, happy laugh. “We soon singled themselves out the suave length and gigantic proportions of Walker and Willlams. I had laughed myself limp over their darky fun, and wondered if things went as smoothly behind scenes as they do before. They didn’t, but of that more anon. “Yes,” Walker said, every brilliant tooth in his bronze head gleaming, “that ‘was in London. It was after dinner, and | two Virginian gentlemen—who had dined | —came up to us and said: ‘You fellows | But damme | it you look it T don’t know how he| knew we were American negroes anyway. such like.” «'Twas funny how they ended up,” said got telking and one of them flnallyi' sald, ‘Well, if all niggers were like| you now—but we haven't got ’em over | there.’ I told him I could give him the | addresses of a bunch more at home like | us,” Williams concluded, “byt he wouldn’t wait.” 1 am not a student of the resources otl the colored race, though a few more Bogker Washingtons, Paul Lawrence Dunbars, Dvoraks who draw inspiration from the coon melodles, Brander | Matthews, who declare that their dialect will be the fountain head of the new idiom, Willlams and Walkers, will compel an idler attention than mine to their riches. Still, I do not think with Wil- liams that there are =0 very many more at home like him and his partner. Ten years ago thesetwo were “ballahoo- ing,” anglice “spleling,” in front of the Midway Plaisance that still blots Market street here. They are now at the head of their own company, a quite unique or- ganization, commanding a salary that pretty Mary Mannering would not dis- dain, and with a whole stack of ideas ard ideals ahead. To begin with, a success was made by the two in vaudeville. st it was Walker and Willlams,” recounted Walker. *“I was the comedy end and Wilhams did the ‘straight’ turn. But we tossed up one fine day about it and he got the funny business, and I have been playing straight man ever since. Then, so that there would be no feeling, I changed the bills to Wil- | liams and Walker.” “How did you happen to come into this kind of thing, ‘Sons of Ham'?" I asked. “Well, ’'spects it growed,” Walker | laughed. ‘“There is even no book to the | play. Bert and I wrote it—he writes mu- sic o my songs, you know—except the | Iyrics, and it is of no use to any one elsc, being written only for a colored com- pany.” «That s where T think your work has been so wise,”” I sald, and by the gleam in the Walker and Williams eye I knew 1 had touched the team’s simple heart. “That {s what we have tried to do. Not | to imitate the white folk, but to put our- | selves, our fun and faults and virtues, on | the stage,” Willlams sald. as eagerly as a jordly and professional drawl would permit. ‘“Not that that sults our colored friends always.” “They .want ‘Virginius®' "—this from | Walker—‘and sixteen-storied words, and | thig"—and the most comical Imitation of | John Drew filled out the bobtailed sen- | tence. \ “I want to do ‘Richard IIL'" chuckled | Willlams. “That battle scene—T'd have | two men on a side. marching round and round the wings, like ‘my army’ does in Warde's ‘Julius Caesar.” Zip!" “Seriously, is the ‘Sons of Ham' the height of your ambition?"” *No, indeed,”” Walker answered. Wil-| llams was still shaking over the “Rich- ard II1 burlesque. ‘But that represents all that the public will at present take from us.” Then I learned where the shoe pinched. Very gently, without any rancor, Walk- er explained that the negro is as vet only permitted to entertain the white man as his buffoon. He will not “stand for” pa- thos, romance and the rest of it, and per- saloon and tell us it is the first time a negro has been served at that bar. Of course we are grateful, but—how do you feel about it, Bert?” “I want to be the blackest black nigger God ever made,” sald Williams. One specimen of the Willlams and ‘Walker humor and I am done, though I should enjoy writing an appreciation of that fantastic and wholly original acted song, “My Zulu Baby,” where the team, clad Zulu wise, move stealthily in the depths of a very impressive jungle. A bit of excellent acting. Walker acts the dude—and is beloved of the colored audlence. Willlams the good- natured no ‘count. Willlams has broken up a meetin’ where the town dudes are making ready for a ball, through a mis- understanding over a crush hat. His swallow-tailed friend gets him out of the way and then expostulates, telling him ha should be ashamed of himself. “I am, I am,” Willlams says repentant- 1y, “I truly am. I don't know how I missed him.” N e E. S. Willard will be seen in “Tom Pinch” this week at the Columbia Thea- ter, a part that should suit his genial per- sonality to a nicety. “David Garrick' be- gins the week and will alternate with “Tom Pinch.” “The Professor's Love Story” is billed for Saturday night. Men shaved without soap. 13c, at Russ House Antiseptic Barber Shop, 217 Montgomery. * —_—ee——— Perspiring Passenger—May I read that magazine of yours a little while? The Other Perspiring Passenger—I am going to read it myself in a moment, Perspiring Passenger—Yes, sir. May I look at your paper, then? The Other Perspiring Passenger—Don’t you see I'm reading it myself?>—Chicago Tribune. ADVERTISEMENTS. HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRAISE FOR THE HEINE. 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