The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1902, Page 22

22 ¥ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1902. ;R S NS A S D S MRS R A L f T8 S MILLER TELLS OF DREAM FOR ADVANCEMENT OF HIS PROFESSION IN THE WEST. By Guisard. £y | | [ { [ [ ’\/,/f | - + 1 1 minutes,” Henry apologized, as, 50 his appointment | e groped his way into ess of the Columbia Tuesday morning last. s clock always permitted | h leeway, no more, no concluded, as we settled our- | o a loge, where the actor-man- | uld keep an eye and a half upon | Gay Lord Quex” rehearsal that was.| beginning, and the other half upon “You are looking very ‘fit Mr. Miller | s morning—"" I began, as the actor’s | fcular kind of handsomeness with a 1 air of elation loomed up in the dimness. “And what for no?” hs sald happily. = hat the morning—Tuesday morning always finds me quite so cheerful. But | the kindness of last night and the deli- cate and sympathetic understanding of | my own and my company's alms shown by the critics in this morning’s papers have just ‘set me up,’ as the phrase goes. ** now, however hearty a first- | night welcome may be, we players go to bed only half sure—only half at ease, until the papers come in the next morn- ing. We have done our best, but does the public feel it, believe it7” | “I didn't think you so particularly | minded. Most, of you folk pretend to a more or less healthful press opinion “As eels might pretend an indifferencs to s ng, or cats to cream, until their turn came,” Mr. Miller indulgently com- | mented. “My man brings me the papers the thing on Tuesday morning. He is & German, by the way, with a vocabu- lary of criticism limited to just two phrases —‘very nice’ and ‘very bad.’ If 4 10 his taste he would say, ais opinion, ‘very nice’; 8o, t00, of breakfast steak. But this ng’s criticisms inspired him to new d out ‘great! as he | them. He is not always | Miller here loked quite | s valet. “‘He brings in the oc- £ dly notice before break- g bad’ with a thick- skinned frankness that makes it really hard for him a little while afterward. indifference to We—he and I—suffered somewhat on the way down. I acramento and Stockton, for example, notices were unexpect- | severe. You remember that ‘Tre- rt of particular promi- | or “The Oniy | tics found themselves, | a little unreasonably, ointed in the production. Merely a of misunders And that is bly why the u San Francisco papers came so agree- expressed his amused of San Francisco's independ- natter of criticism. “A play e success of two or | East, but that wili | a criterion of its You like things or you don’t, | u like them and not because | playgoer has said ‘this is| Of course you go Wrong some- ut it is possibly better to be your own way than right in s Let me tell you my your city—" er day dreams have interrupted by an in- for the gay Lord Quex Then, for the actor, came 1d stress of a thirty minutes drive the average eight-hour unionist 1o suicide. One of the scenes of the play tskes place in a manicure shop. “Does one wear his hat in a manicure parior?”’ guestions some one. s eER TN e e = wy o ey ) kmade his way to the loge again. | all the Thursday and Sunday fellows will | | say. our darkness with such a | the idea is fascinating (with th | to undertake it. | your best; we can en, | play, and indeed, when th o SUCCESSFUL AND POPULAR AC- TOR, NOW PLAYING AN EN- GAGEMENT IN THIS CITY. “I must go and se you -know, D’Orsay? “Do says Miller. re,”” came Lawrence magnifi English accent. “You don't in a milliner's.” “What are you going to call me?” Mrs. Whiffen asks, *“Some of you say Lady ‘O-bridge,’ some 'Ow-bridge.’ " “ ‘Ow-bridge’ it is spelled,” Mr. Backus, stage-manager-in-chief, suggests. ‘' *O-bridge’ is prettier,” Mr. Miller de- termines. £ Mrs. Whiffen agrees, “There is a place in England spelt Trow- bridge and pronounced Tro-bridge,” con- tributes Mr. D'Orsay. “ ‘O-bridge,’ let it be then,” decides Mr. Miller. Then, acting each part in turn and sometimes all together, suggesting here, advising there, with' “Don’t you think this?’ ~*“This must go thus,” and 80 on, Mr. Backus ably seconding, the act is pulled into shape, and it is safe to say that there will be no saw edges when | it comes home. | “To return to your day dream,” I sug- | gested, as, tired but happy, the actor | much softer,” “Ah, yes! ‘Well, I dream of a theater for San Francisco in which shall be given | from year's end to years end the best | of the drama, new and old; a theater with | the best players, the best plays, the best | settings; a theater in which one shall | know exactly the kind of thing one is | going to getjin short, a theater of settled | policy, and that of the noblest."” | “This is interesting,” I said. “Is such a | thirg among the likeiihoods?” remember- ing the ground newly broken at Market and Ninth for the Bouvier Theater. “That is more than I can say,” said the actor. “Possibly, yes. And why not? San Francisco is already very largely self-dependent in the matter of entertain- ment. You have many successful houses of known policy—the Tivoli, Alcazar, Or- rheum, for example, with 'their regular clienteles and the higher class stock com- pany is only one step further. .You sec it is this way. One must know what one | is going to get. If I keep a restaurant and | give a good dinner only on Thursda: and Sundays, the Monday man is going | to give my place a black eve, in spite of He is not going to risk his sacred | stomach to my uncertain mercies. Quite | right, too. The same with the theaters. “Now, Mr. Miller, to put it definite; is there’any chance that you and this con. ellation of stars that are foregathering now with you here are going to lighten | [0 ch a theater?” o “I think not,” smiled the actor, “though e laa(hz, n the ex- is simply colossal, and the necessary cotrage Btill, T alwa; feel San Francisco like, throwing mountal over my shoulder and o exercises. “You see,” he went on, “suc 3 tution would also accommodass G g eling star. There is ample territory for the home company to exploit while the visiting personage could be using the home boards, and one could say: ‘Hers Mrs. Fiske, Mr. Mansfield, here is a then’ ter and audience worthy of you; give us Joy a it” And every one from mannbPreciate box-officer should make the success the place s personal who ‘wanted ' ticket showga LhC,Man should havi pleasanter duty than choosing his seot. with the courteous gentleman in the office to assist him. (In England bnh’;‘n name is very properly printed on the | programme.)” Those things all count When 1 g0 to the theater I want it to be & pleasure from the moment 1 buy my icket to the time I ta 2 SFtos to the time T take a satisfied leave “Here's success to it, with ajl 4 Leart,” I said. “May your dream coxrrrlnt true, and that right speedily. But what to come down to facts, are you going to let us have this season?” . ' ‘“The Gay Lord Quex’ will follow wny,' and I think you will I ¥ ‘The 'Wilderness,” Esmond’s la;es‘z}feislg“' on the programme. ‘The Twin Sister (o | among the possibilities, and then we a:': going to revive some old favorites. You will'be amused when I mention “The Lady of Lyons' among them.” }_{ duly. am.” & “But,” contested th t - the Immortal element or.5 8004 love stors n the play, in spite of its goin, and other anclent sins, We !hgl?x:i:tgl'if' best to rank those out, of course. But ajl femininity from 15 to 65 delights in the e violi murmuring thelr, soft song to Claudey tale of love : Miller gently d his left it sawed his left arm with his silver-hoss, looking his * beguiling gane, meanwhile andsomest at an imaginary P. Pl “I;sr really q;me impressive."” e _1 foresee, alas, yet another fascinat! danger ahead of the matinee girl, i “Lord Quex!” from the stage. “'All right,” Mr. Miller shouted cheer- fully, and a’moment later was imperson- ating Pinero’s reformed roue, while I wandered off praving for the new stock wee, thuthpithion of a lithp!) i treme. The work 1 doubt if I have ns ther such gentle | “Tre- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Publication Office, Address Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager ..JUNE 15, 1002 SRl S R @ ,,,,,,,,, FlES TR o Market and Third S. F. THE ARTS OF "BPHACHE HE attention of the country has been fixed on war ever since our little fight with Spain began. Young men in appreciable numbers have been withdrawn from the practice of the arts of peace to follow war far abroad. Indeed American fighting blood was up to such an extent that our countrymen were found on both sides in the South African war, and the Boers say they were the only allies they had that were of any assistance. To supply the drain in the Philippines and to man the navy, calls are necessary, and recruits present them- selves as fast as they are needed. It is to be hoped, however, that the martial spirit of our people will be satiated by ser- vice in the National Guard, and that the thirst for war will not increase until the people under- value the arts of peace. ; In three recent notable addresses President Roosevelt has properly extolled the armyAand the navy. These addresses were at the Annapolis and West Point commencements and at Arling- ton on Memorial day. The subjects upon which he must speak were of necessity military, and the ‘performance of our people in war, on land and sea, cannot be too highly praised. In his West Point speech he declared that the graduates of that institution had ren- dered greater service to the country than any other, during its century of existence. If he meant military service, as of course he did, his praise was well bestowed. In other respects the progress of the country and the growth of the people in greatness must be ascribed to »other than military service. When the civilian and the military man come to be compared in regard to their impor- tance and vaiue to the country, the civilian seems to be more necessary than the soldier; peace is the more permanent condition, and its arts the more necessary. The world has profited more from the spinning machines, the cotton gin, the discovery and utilization of the expansive force of steam, the. machines for sewing and for harvesting, and from the inveation of the telegraph and telephone, than from all the wars and military exploits and acts of war known to men from the beginning. What civilianslike Morse, Stephenson, Slater, Bessemer, Dale, Fulton, Howe, Burbank, and the great company of inventors, naturalists and physicists, have done for man, to clothe,.shelter and feed him better and at less cost, to extend and cheapen his means of com- munication, of transportation and travel, is at least equal in importance to the destruction of life and property by military art. In Washington city are the statues;and monuments of many American worthies, but among them are the memorials of only two civilians, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Pike, and neither was erected by the Government. In the Hall of Statuary, in the Capitol, are memorials contributed by the States, in which other professions and pursuits than the military are recog- nized, but the Government itself has celebrated almost entirely our military worthies, to whom let all honor be ascribed, but they have not the monopoly of service to the country. If war were the only proper and worthy calling of man, the world would yet be in barbarism. The art de- fensive and offensive is only one of the causes of progress and means of service to the race. It would itself die and disappear did not the arts of peace feed it. These make states by the study of civics and develop them by economics and skill and industry, and thereby create a prey which is coveted by war, and it rages to their destruction. West Point and Annapolis are great schools, and our war days and anniversaries are high dates in our national history, but these are not all nor the greater part of our national growth and glory. That must be sought and found to be the work of men who know nothing of military tactics, but are profoundly skilled in creative art. Among the causes of the decay of Rome was the prominence given to the two professions, war and law. Every Roman who wanted to be something sought to attain it in the army or at the bar. The other professions and the economic arts were neglected. The beginning of this destructive policy is not noted in history. It simply became the habit of the people and its growth was sinister and furtive, but every word uttered in praise of war and military art contributed to it. We do not desire the growth of such a spirit here. Therefore it is time to present our civilian worthies to the admiration of the people who are the beneficiaries of their genius and toil. BRITISH PEACH POILITICS. HILE the South African war was on there was an anomaly in British politics, in a practical disappearance of the Liberal party, and the almost unopposed rule of a majority that does not represent the best sentiment of the nation, and of a Ministry that does not represent the best sentiment of the majority. The Conservatives would have been glad to get rid of the Ministry, and the people would have been glad to get rid of the Conservatives, but with the Boer war on this was impossible. The King, if he have any partisan sympathy, is with the Liberals. But leaving out any fellowship of that kind and granting that he is a Conservative, he does not like the Ministry which he inherited with his crown. Salisbury is far from being a royal favorite, and Cham- berlain is in but little better grace. Still, as long as the war lasted, there was no prospect of a change in the personnel of the Ministry more agreeable to the throne. While a desire to be crowned as the ruler of an empire at peace may have influenced the King in dictating liberal terms to end the war, it may well be that practical considerations were more than a make-weight to that purely sentimental reason. / The Ministry and its party have been held together by the war. The country was tired of it and of them, but there was nothing to be done but go ahead doggedly until the end was reached. That being done, somebody must be brought to account. The British taxpayer has grinned and borne it while a billion and a half was added to the national debt, and he looks for- ward upon the expenditure of two hundred and fifty millions more to carry the exiled Boers back to their homes, as the treaty requires, and to return the quarter of a millior soldiers back to Eng- land. When he is done grinning and bearing it, and can speak his mind without incurring the denunciatory verse of Kipling or the imperial epigrams of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, then the party that has been in power and the Ministry that represents it wil! hear sonie criticisms, have some questions to answer and probably a house of refuge to seek. Tt will be held responsible for a prolonged war, in which the British fighting’ force out- numbered the entire population cf the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and for defeat after de- feat, though the armed and fighting enemy was outnumbered ten to one in men and guns. The Chamberlain family war contracts, and all the speculations, peculations, and sins of omission and of commission, incident to the war, will come forward to be thrashed out, and there will prob- ably be a change of parties in power before the books are balanced. Lord Rosebery seems to have forecast matters more wisely than any other Liberal leader. He supported the Ministry and the war, avowing that he did so as a loyal Englishman, though opposed in principle to both. He has won favor by this course and has the friendship of all that wing of the Conservative party that has chafed under the blunders of Salisbury and the insolence of Mr.:Chamberlain, It has come to be the law of action of the Anglo-Saxon race that party differences are in- tolerable in war, but are to be sought and promoted when it is over. As England has had no politics since the war began, we may expect that the people will make up for lost time, An illustration of the rapidity with which electrical appliances have improved and at the same time increased in cost is shown in the statement of the contractor for the Underground Rapid Transit Railroad in New York that at the time the estimates were first made it that the electrical equipment would cost $7,000,000, but it is now found that to best the equipments will cost upward of $18,000,000. f : A Pennsylvania clergyman has been caught advertising for a wife and furthermore it has been disclosed that in order to send a lock of hair to each of his correspondents he bought an assorted lot from the village barber. He is now accused of deception, but his defense is that’ he never said- the hair was his. The case will probably be known as a “hairasy trial.” PR A A movement has been started to get the men of the civilized world to celebrate this year the centennial of the adoption of the use of trousers instead of knee-breeches. Just what form the celebration is to take has not been decided, but perhaps as good a way as any would be to drop the custom since the century i§ complete and go back to knickerbockers. It is stated that the British Ministry has no intention to restore to Cape Colony the con- stitution that was suspended during thg war, but that, in place of it, all South Africa will be com- bined as a federation under one general government over which Great Britain will exercise a close was calculated get the latest and company that the actor had pictured. supervision for some years to come ARE GREATER '| ORGANISTS’ OPPORTUNITIES HERE THAN IN BOSTON, DR. STEWART SAYS By Blanche Partington. EFORE Dr. H. J. Stewart went away to Boston, something like a year ago, Dr. Chismore asked the Trinity Church organist how much he would be content to live upon— §5000 a year? Dr. Stewart replied that he would be perfectly “Then,” " Dr. h Chismore said, “‘you California and all you make besides. ‘What is the matter with you?" Dr. Stew- art has now returned from Boston and Californian $5000 and anything else the gods may provide, so long as they provids it here. There are many people who will be glad cf the accomplished doctor's return, and none more than himself. Liking Boston and its people very sincerely after his vear's stay at the “hub,” he says he has been too long a Californian to live com- fortably anywhere else. The difference in atmosphere oppresses him, and his of realization. “Small as the opportuni- ties for organists are in San Francisco, they are infinitely wider than they are in Boston,” says the doctor. “The prevail- gervice is of the most meager character. There are none of the smtall musical graces that brighten the service here, as in the responses and so on, and as to or- gar recitals, they are simply not permit- ted. Symphony Hall, with its magnificent in- strument, but that means $30, and organ recitals in Boston, as elsewhere, are not a paying proposition. I was much dis- appointed to find that I could do nothing with recitals. The other organists with whom I talked likewise deplored the con- itions, but confessed their inability to change théem. Why, in musical Boston no one ever dreams of remaining to listen to the closing voluntary. At Christmas 1 gave my ‘Nativity’ at Trinity Church, ot i course with the consent of the authorities, and packed the church from end to end. But they were not at all sure of the right- eousness of such things, though the suc- cess of the innovation was wholly unmis- takable. That kind of thing of course comes queerly after California, and I am too old a Californian to get used to it. “Yes, there is more money to be made there, but that is by no means every- thing. In my own church the music bills for the month reached $800, and you may know that means that things were done quite handsomely. But ‘there was no lee- way, no slightest opportunity for musical embellishment, and—well—here I am. The actual deciding straw, however, was the determination of the trustees to have a boy choir. That finished my Boston career. 1 know the boy choir perhaps as intimately as most organists, having had about 16 years’ experience of t{nem in England, and belonged to one myself be- fore that. The boy choir is a suceessful possibility only under European condi- tions, as where the choristers are mem- bers of the cathedral schools, with com- pulsory singing twice a day, and an ed- ucation that bends most of its energy to making musicians of them. Here, no. My predecessor at Trinity fully agreed with me, and I am not envying the lot of Mr. Geodrich, who is my successor. ““Outside of the church, music is highly regarded in Boston. One thing connected with my visit I look back upon with much pleasure: the fact that I found some time for composing and that my work received a quick and warm appre- ciation from the people there. The sym- phony concerts are an unmixed delight. Twenty-four during the season there are, given in Symphony Hall before audiences of between three and four thousand peo- ple, with every seat sold for the season before the first concert is given. The subscription is only $1250 for the season ticket—however with a premium for the choice of seats that may mean $30 or $15, more or less. My tickets cost me $2350 each. Gericke, who conducts, is an ex- cellent man, less temperamental than your Scheel, whom I, myself, regard, in- deed, as one of the greatest llving con- ductors. We had plenty of Strauss—mag- nificent!—plenty, indeed, rather an over- plus of the German school altogether, I hear San Francisco had four weeks of Mr. Grau, though, to Boston's two. Still, we got ‘La Tosca’ and ‘Manru,’ that, I understand, were not on the San Fran- cisco programme. The choral activity of Boston is very marked and of very fine order. There are the Handel and Haydn, Cecilia, Apollo, and any number of satisfled with that. | the annual $5000 that it is worth to live in | | tells Dr. Chismorg that he is out for the | hope of a broader field for his work failed | ing Puritanism has its grip on the music | of the church, and the musical part of the | It is of course open to one to engage | ;: | POPULAR ORGANIST WHO | LIKES SAN FRANCISCO BET- TER THAN BOSTON. e = | fiourishing societies—still, I am glad to be at home.” Cal. glace fruit ¢ per I1b at Townsend's.® —_———— | Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—————— Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10 | to 40c. 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