The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1902, Page 22

22 | REAL DISTINCTION FINDS ' RECOGNITION i AT THE ORPHEUm. | BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. - : - | | 1 2 .’x_ > Hlarron NonRICH: 7 g oo & v presents an | unique in Or- | s Julia Hein- voung contralto | who made so pronounced a suc- | her recent visit here. Certainly | Morrisey spares no expense in | public, and Miss He engagement, 1 happen to know [ cost him a pretty penny. Doubtless, | > talented girl will be a tre- for the history of | few instancy of | of the like distinguished kind. | t been predicted that Miss Hein- rich’s work would be “too good” for Or- pheum audiences. I disagree. I find nothing *“too good” for the Orpheum | crowd. The pretentious, the mock ar- tistic, the pinchbeck cla: will possibly | fail there more quickly than with el other audience, but where real distinc- tion is involved, as with Camilla Urso, | Remenyi and other lights of the Or- | pheum list, I find there just as hearty and immediate recognition as with any other house. Without doubt there is a | small contingent that would prefer Miss | Heinrich to fill in the intervals between | her songs with a cakewalk, and com- | monly one goes to the Orpheum for just | that kind of thing, but if her stunniag | singing and charming personality do not | make the cakewalk contingent forget its | cakewalk you may call me a bad| prophet. Naturally, it would not be wise to try | Strauss, say, on a varlety programme, | though for the matter of that I hav heard the Gounod-Bach prelude for vio. lin and plano encored at the Orpheum. | But Miss Heinrich will not sing “The | Holy City,” neither “Because I Love | You So0,” but will give the fallowing | good and beautiful songs that have been scored for the Orpheum orchestra by | Oscar Well: “Irish Folk Song,” by Ar-| thur Foote; “April” and “Mighty Lak a | Rose,” by Ethelbert Nevin, and *Daphne, Love,” by Ronald. s 3 cess on Manager catering to his rich's wil n The student recital of the California Conservatory of Music of last Tuesday evening was a distinctly successful afrair, Sherman & Clay Hall was crowded with an audience that was not forced to affect interest, the programme being quite suf- | ficient to arouse 2 genuine attention and pleasure even if one were not a proud | parent with an embryo Mozart in the cast, | Distinctly the most promising work from a temperamental standpoint, with also a | solid technical basts, was the pianc work | of Miss Amy Petersen, a clever fifteen- year-old girl, who gave two Chopin etudes and a staccato study of Scharwenka with | a surprising maturity of grasp. Miss Petersen also plays the violin, which, | however, there seems no particular reason for her to do. - Miss Lily Hansen, who is | i —— CLOSING OUT OF HALLET & DAVIS | Blanchard’s sweet and finely cultivated | volces heard on the local concert plat- 3 in the advanced stages of piano-playing, shows a delicate purity of tone and char- acteristic refinement of conception that very grateful to the listener. Her work lacks a little in depth, point and T, but there is still plenty of time for Miss Hansen played the difficult quite effective Reinecke arrangement and of the andante from Chopin’s E minor concerto, clever Lydia Reinstein is another who gave the “Kammenoi Ostroi™ the Chopin “Military Polo- na with good grasp and pathy. Josie Coonan struggled bravely with two numbers that are out of the student province, a Macdowell study and Mos- kowski's “Le Jongleuse,” and two delight- ful youngst Cecil Cowles and Lily Blum, did well with their respective numbers, “Harmonious Blacksmith” and the Haydn F minor vartations. The one example of his sex, Harry Factor, con- tributed some very effective violin play- ing. He shows marked progress over his former work and gave his allegro from the Mendelssohn concerto with consider- able fluency.” The Rachmaninoff numbers for two pianos that ended the programme, rendered by Miss Hansen and Mrs. Rob- ert Aylwin, for the first time here, are ingenious, but vastly thin of material. R AT Any one- interested in organ music—and if you are nat interested it will repay you to become interested—should not miss the organ recifal of Louyls H. Eaton on Tues- day evening next at Trinity Chureh. Mr. Eaton will repeat his programme of the “strike Week,” as the recital was only sparsely attended, with the exception of the opening number that will be replaced by the Bach D min. Toccata and Fugue, Miss Millie Flynn will assist—a young singer, by the way, who should be mak- ing much more than she does of one of he most beautiful natural volces that have ever been heard here. The recital is free, the church easily reached and the following programme sufficient tempta- tion for a crowded congregation: Jobann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Loufs Nicolas Clerambault, pre- lude; Alfred Hollins, concert overture in C minor;- Felix Alexandre Guilmant, op. 17, funeral march and hymn of seraphs; Antonin Dvorak, soprano solo, O Grant Me in the Duet to Fall,”” Miss Flynn; Felix Alexandre Guilmant, op. 15, cantilene pastorale; Felix Alexandre Guilmant, op. 80, sonata No. 5. and The Channing Auxiliary announces two song recitals by Mrs. M. E. Blanchard for the 13th and 17th of the month. Mrs, contralto is one of the most pleasing form, and the recitals will doubfless arouse much interest. Her programmes will include some Strauss songs, the love- ly “Water Lily,” given so exquisitely by Julia Heinrich, and the *Serenade.” There will also be some of the Brahms numbers Mrs. Blanchard sings so well, and songs of Pergolesi, Schubert, Grieg and the moderns, Foote and Chadwick, besides others. —_— Hidalgo Club Celebrates. In commemoration of the battle fought by General Zaragosa In front of the walls JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. { SUNDAY of Puebla, Mexico, on May 5, 1862, the Hidalgo Club held a patriotic entertain- ment last night at Washington Square Hall. The main hall was tastefully dec- orated in the Mexican colors, and flags of the sister republics were placed throughout in juxtaposition. The prineci- pal address was delivered by Manuel Telles §il, and an excellent programme of musical numbers and fancy dances was rendered. The exercises were followed by dancing. A very large crowd was in PIAND = AGENCY, { € have been the agents for the old re- | liable Tiallet & Davig for many vears. ‘but on | eccount of the sale 8f that concern to a lar, cheap Eastern factory we have given up. the | 2ttendance. : y ———— agency and will sell every Hallet & Davis plano | B our floors for less than cost. Hcre is a | Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's® chance for a bargain. $165 buys a Hallet & | —_——— * Davis_piano which you could not buy for less then 8350 in Boston. 200 other pianos in all Prunes stuffed with apricots.Townsend's.* makes to select from, including the following OE PRI T T TR 4 bargaine: "~ Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c a 3~ e 847 pound, in fire-étched boxes or Jap. bask- 1 Knabe b5 | ets. 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FRANCISCO CALL, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. NDAY, MAY 4, 1902. Market and Third S. F. RUDICREDROHIED. . . 7. o1 ¥ 1o N B oy s @ HEN Father D. O. Crowley first announced to the public his project of establisfiix_lg a farm school for boys it was received throughout the State with general and cordial approval. Commendation was prompt, for commendation costs nothing. Now Father Crowley has carried his work forward to the point of attainment. He has found a farm of upward of a thousand acres well fitted for the school, and he appeals to the public for $80,000 to pay for the land, make necessary improvements and equip the school for work. Com- mendation now must take the shape of contributions. Let us hope they will be as prompt and as liberal as were the approving words. : There can be no doubt of the excellence of the project nor of the efficiency of the man who has undertaken it. *“Farm training is one of the needs of the State, and Father Crowley is exactly the man to take charge of the boys who are to receive the training. He needs no indorsement in this city. His personality and his work are well known. Had he not been himself the promoter of the plan, he would still be recognized as the right man to found it and start it on its career. The record of his work in the Youths’Directoty is ample testimonial to his fidelity and to his ability, and assures for his undertaking an attentive consideration from all who have any interest whatever in the cause of education. In recommending the enterprise in a circular letter Archbishop Riordan says: “An oppor- tunity to secure such a farm may not come again, and it is hoped that an ever-generous public will give freely the money required. The broad policy which has made the Youths’ Directory a home for abandoned boys of every race, color and creed will guide the managers of the farming school, and for that reason this appeal is addressed not only to Catholics, but to men and women of every creed. The work to be done by the new school will redound not only to the glory of God, but also to the improvement of citizenship and the benefit of the State.” The movement to carry boys back to the land and give them a training which will fit them for scientific farming is in line with the trend of thought of the most earnest men and women of our time. The material tendencies of the age carry young men from the farms to the cities. The last census showed how powerfully those tendencies are operating in the United States. In 1880 there were 580 cities or towns with a population of more than 4000, containing an aggregate popula- tion of about 12,000,000, or one-fourth of the population of the Union. In 1900 the towns and cities in excess of 4000 inhabitants contained upward of 38,000,000 of people, or one-half of the whole population of the country. Those figures, however, do not show the whole teuth. The main trend of population has been not o the small towns, but to the largest cities. Boston, New York, Chicago and San Fran- cisco have grown out of proportion to the country that surrounds them. The results of this drift on the part of the young have been in many respects deplorable. The avenues of city employment have been congested, the host of the unemployed has been augmented by thousands of sturdy young men who could have been profitably employed on the farms, and the slums have received into their deadfalls many a youth who in a rural community would have lived a useful and wholesome life. This crowding to the cities is by no means the result of the operation of an economic law, as has been sometimes asserted. As a matter of fact there are thousands of men in the cities who could have been more successful even from a strictly monetary point of view had they devoted to farming the same amount of energy and sagacity they employed in their biisiness in the city. California to an especial degree offers opportunities for trained experts in rural industry. There is not a county in the State that does not nced a larger number of men skilled in the work of orchards and vineyards than are at present to be obtained. To meet and counteract the rush to the cities there is needed an education and a training that will turn the thoughts of boys to the advantages of rural life. “Back to the land” is therefore a cry that appeals to the business and the bosoms of men. Moral interests and monetary interests alike are to be served by it. It affects patriotism as well as philanthropy, for a State is dependent for its welfare and its manhood upon its farming population. California needs the projected school. This is the right time to found it. The right man is at the head of it. The appeal has gone forth to the public. Let the response be ‘prompt. WANING PURITANISM. HEN a large body of men enter upon the discussion of a particular problem with such zeal that the discussion widens and advances from special instances to general princi- ples there is no telling where the influences of the newly awakened thought will reach nor what its effects will be. An illustration of that truth is furnished at this time in the East, where the discussion of the enforcement of the Sunday laws in New York City has passed from politics to the broader question of morals and has brought forth something like a new light from the most conservative of evangelical churches. Bishop Potter of New York gave encouragement to the liberals in the fight against old Puritanism by declaring his opposition to certain Sunday laws in force in that city, and now Dr. Rainsford of 8t. George’s Protestant Episcopal Church has spoken out more plainly still. In a re- cent address he is reported to have said: “In relation to large social questions the churches are still in retreat. Who was it opposed the opening of the museums on Sunday? Who opposed the opening of the libraries on Sunday? Who tried to prevent the running of cars on Sunday to give people a whiff of fresh air? Who opposes the games of girls and boys on Sunday? The churches. A couple of boys get into a vacant lot on a Sunday aiternoon, but the cops soon find them out, and the boys have to hide their ball and bat or run off. Whether right or wrong, the boys think the churches are responsible. Is it reasonable to expect that boys will grow up with a love of Sunday- school when the churches say to them, ‘You shall not do this and you shall not do that; you shall not do anything on Sunday but go to church'> * * * We are trying to do Christ's work with the sword, instead of the cross. This has led to the passage of unfairly discrixpinating laws and laws in advance of public intelligence.” Dr. Rainsford has further declared that he is no new comer to the advocacy of liberalism, as he has held and taught such doctrines for more than twelve years. He adds that he is now sup- ported not only by Bishop Potter but by Bishop Doane of Albany. It is not in New York alone, nor only among Episcopalians, that liberalism is growing and spreading. It is stated that at a meeting in Chicago at which sixty-five prelates, clergymen and Jaymen of the Methodist Episcopal church were present it was agreed “if the clergy of the church expect to keep their young men and women in the fold they must do away with old restrictions against card-playing, dancing and attendance at theaters. If they are not allowed to follow the dictates of their conscieuce, they will attend churches where they will be allowed to do so, or they will not attend church at all.” < ; & Such expressions coming from some of the most earnest and most eminent leaders of the churches show how rapidly the people of the East are ridding themselves of the old Puritan ideas of morality and of the doctrine that restrictions must be placed upon every kind of enjoyment. No harm is going to come to the people of the East from the new movement. There awill be no confusion of morality with immorality by reason of the enlarged liberty of individual con- science. Drunkenness will still be condemned notwithstanding a man may be permitted to have a glass of wine on Sunday. Card-playing for amusement wiil not carry with it a license for gambling, nor will dancing mean anything vicious or depraved. In the old days when the stage was well nigh universally condemned by the better class of people, it had of necessity to appeal to the worse elements and naturally it became licentious; but when a broader liberalism prevailed the' stage improved. J A similar result has been obtained in every broad experiment in the domain of morals. Nothing is gained by a ckurch or by society in imposing upon men and women restrictions which their own consciences do not approve. It may be said of every issue of this kind that restrictions do more harm than good, and Dr. Rainsford put the matter elearly with respect to the local option law in New York City by saying even if it were carried by 50,000 majority in Manhattan, as long as 200,000 poor men wanted drink and the clubs are open you would do irreparable injury to pass a prohibitory medsure and make men lawbreakers as well. Atlanta has a street-car problem that threatens trouble for the. managers and shows hdw the color line is working. The street railways have been recently acquired by a North- ern syndic'ate'and a rule has been established that no one can get on or off the cars by the front platform. i appears there is a city ordinance requiring negroes to use the back platform, and consequently the whites and especially the women are getting wrathy. Perhaps if Mr. Vining would like another job as street-car manager he might get one in Atlanta. They seem to need a man of his kind down there. incidentally Adcress Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager DR LR SN TR S S o S AR S A s SN, «-...MAY 4, 1902 g HE following joyful item concern- ing recent Californian history ap- pears in the current number of 16 | Harper's Weekly. As an exa of the art of putting two and p together and making seventeen it is irresistible, its syllogistic brilliance putting to shame the proudest effort of the gifted illogicians of the Press, not to mention the Arizona Kicker. To add the last touch to its delicious in- consequence, the article is adorned with a portrait of President Wheeler. But here it is, and how it came to pass the eye of'the Harper editor is more than I | can understand: Of the famous pioneers who have gone into | California from the East, Benjamin Ide Wheel- er is the latest. He is the pathfinder for the Pacific slope in the language and literature of Greece, the first great Greek scholar to take up a residence in sight of the Slerras and in- | spire the youth who flock to the two universi- | ties by the Golden Gate to a gemerous emula- tion in the learning of the dead language which is immortal. Sharing with Glidersieeve a reputation for Greek scholarship on the Atlantic coast, Professor Wheeler made the Greek school of Cornell known to the scholars of the world. | Barély three years have elapsed since he oe- cupled the presidency of the University of | { California, and already the youth of the Ameri- of mountain and sea, climate and products, approaches nearest to Greece, are appearing in | Greek play Mendelesohn’s music. ““The Antigone” of Sophos cles has just been presented by a cast made up | entirely of the faculty and students of Stan- | ford University, a sister institution to that over | which Benjamin Ide Wheeler presides. of amusement at both universities, and as { “The Antigene" will be given on Satur- | day evening next at Berkeley, the con- temporary Gibbons will have another shet | coming. "His version of the affair is | awaited with interest. .« s . | The Harper's chronicler was right in | just one point—that the production of a Greek play as it has been given by the | faculty and students of “the sister insti- | { tutlon to that over which Benjamin Ide | Wheeler presides’ is a matter of national artistic importance. Had such a produec- tion been given by Harvard not only the metropolitan press but that of the whole United States would have noted it. It is the first Greek play to be done in Cali- fornia and one of a rare few to be given |in all America. Not only that, but by impartial authorities who have seen the Harvard, Vassar and the few other Amer- ican presentments of Greek tragedy it is conceded that the Stanford edition com- pares most favorably with these. Yet further, the whole material of the per- Ifurmance was found within Stanford's walls, with the single exception of the stage manager, Leo Cooper. The costumes were made by Mrs. H. R. Fairclough, the scenes painted by university hands, the orchestra, numbering thirty-three mem- bers, was all Stanford talent under the university director, A. L. Scott Brook, with of course the players and chorus— altogether counting seventy-one persons— from the faculty and student membership of the Greek department. Two perform- ances of the play have been given with much eclat at the university Itself and single performances at Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Pasadena to crowded housds. The presentment at the Univer- sity of California next Saturday evening wiil fittingly close the worthy career of tne Stanford “Antigone.” No one inter- | ested in the art of the drama can afford to miss it. Thé auditor also might use- fully take in, say, “Fiddle Dee Dee” the following evening as a specimen of what the centuries since Sophocles sang his no- ble song have done for the dramatic art, & e . ‘Wondering if the modern Athenians down at Stanford had any feil design upon the contemporary drama, I went to see Professor H. R. Fairclough, the ivys crowned and white-bearded Coryphaeus who lends so mueh dignity to the stately chorus of the “Antigone.” Possibly Pro- fessor Fairclough has had most to do with the production of the play, though ncbly assisted by Professors Murray, Rolte and many other distinguished Gre- cians. The professor acknowledges a wide dis- respect for the present day drama, its ig- noble key, facile smartness and patho- legical trend. - “Yes, our idea in giving the ‘Antigone’ was educational in the fullest sense of ths word,” he éxclaimed. ‘I remember the profound impression the Harvard ‘Oedi- pus’ and otheér Greek plays I have seen made upon their audiences, and felt that sity, for the students, for the drama, could bée more widely useful. “Then I had found an Antigone in Miss Cooksey—you kaow, an Antigone is as es- sential ‘Antigone’ as a ‘Hamlet’; and, again. we had the finan- cial help from generous friends Interested in the enterprise, that finally made possi- ble the long-dreamed-of production. ;hordt. the psychological moment had ar- ived. “We are satisfled? Not altogether, of course. Still, with our material, all ama- teur, I think we have done reasonabl well. We feel richly re for our ef- fort, that has, indeed, N _Tecognized with the utmost generosity. One prettiest appreclation came fr keley, by the om way, from a gentleman who before the PROFESSOR FAIRCLOUGH GIVES VIEWS ABOUT “ANTIGONE.” BY GUISARD. Milpitas | can State in which the glortous comfiguration | with a lyrical accompaniment of | Naturally the article has created no end | | a lvin nothing we could do here for the univer- i PP TR R DD L O RN i A S UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR U DER WHOSE DIRECTION ANTIGONE WILL BE GIVEN. | ) | event was a little doubtful of our adven- ‘As one of your congregation—for I ture. { can call it nothing else’'—he said, ‘I must thank you for one of the most remark- able'—and so on.” “Do you think such productions as the ‘Antigone’ have any appreciable in- | fluence on the native drama?” “Some they must have, but the inspira- tion to write the large Ahing is mostly lacking. \ It must be remembered that the flowering season of the Greek drama was during the outburst of patriotism follow- ing Marathon, Thermopylae, fruit of the magnificent insolence that would have sacked Sardis, very citadel of the tyrant | Darius. Every Athenian was a patriot i | a living sense that at any rate made for art. The stage was also the pui- it. ere the Athenian came to know is gods and there was pictured the high- est thing known or dreamed by the Greek. How high that is these deathless dramas attest, and I believe it is only by a return to the simple grandeur of the Hellenic tragedy, with its large, pure lines and noble unity, that the drama will again be lifted from the slough into whica it has fallen. But the patriotic imspira- tion is lacking.” “No Persian wa: “No Persian wars.” “Why is not divinity as it is known to us_a sufficient Inspiration?” “But is It not perhaps?’ sald the pro- fessor. ‘“The Oberammeérgau ‘Passion Play,’ for example.” *“Weé may not have Passion plays here ™ I remembered. ‘“New York refuses ‘Naz- areth,” and the fate of the ‘Passion Play’ in America is a matier of philistine his- tory. Still, there is ‘King Herod,' one of Phillips’ latest works; Mrs. Fiske will produce soon ‘Mary of Magdala,’ a drama with scriptural colqr by Paul Heyse, and there wad even ‘A Voice From the Wil- derness’ a scriptural straw from the Central Theater. Who knows?"- ““These things may be the beginning,™ said the professor, “but Wagner has most nearly approached the Greek ideal in modern days, in both material and treatment. There is the same harmony of the arts, and moreover a wholesome absence of the pathological muck-rake of Ibsen and the psychical spindrift of Mae- terlinck. One gets, indeed, a gllmpse of the golden sunshine of the morning of the gods. Wagner's people are types, as were the Greek characters, as were Shakes- peare’s, and with them he produces something of the same lofty effect.” Then the professor told me that he would have the pleasure of seeing an an- clent Grek tragedy given in Athens itself this year. 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