The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 22

22 ) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1902. “FRANCESCA DA RIMINTI™ PRODUCTION TO BE A FINE ONE. By Guisard. NE has been hearing much of late of Francesca da Rimini; aolo Francesca™” ac- ps as “Fran- and anora D Rimini” r according ¢ en by Otis Skinner. Modest] the procession as usual, Francisco, with the Boker y Lawrence Barrett, to Warde and his peo- ornia Theater to-night. the Otis Skinner one tly met with such marked there should be a of success await- rprise if the cast is and it promises to be al one it falis, whose 3 gamut of human and is a part to delight | seems to me, remember- T things the actor's King to will come well]| 1 de’s powers, and if so, | half of this da Rimini is assured. His brother and rival, the gallant Paolo, gifted with =ll the graces Lanciotto | lacks, will be interpreted by Lawrence | Hunley, who played the same part oppo- site to Lawrence Barrett's Lanclotto. Another powerful character fs that of the jester, Pepe, that will, two to one, be well tzken care of by that clever actor, Berry Johnstone, and Charles Herman will have the part of Malatesta, also | without doubt to the benefit of the cast. Judith Berolde heads the feminine con- tingent of two, Prancesca of Rimini and her nurse, Ritta. I have not yet the pleasure of acquaintance with Miss | Berolde’s work, but understand she has played the part in—vaguely, “Europe”— | with success, and that she was for some time leading lady with the elder Salvini, | Ritta is to be assumed by Mr. Warde's | daughter, Miss May. The production | ealls for and will have any number of | minor folk and picturesque costumes and scenery. . Less purely poetic than the Phillips play, Boker's version of the loves of Paolo and Francesca is much more dra- | matic, more “actable,” as those of the | craft say. Neither does it lack poetry, many fine and pregnant lines telling the immortal story. And the characteriza- | tion is sure and clean, If overcareful, | each portrait, with its lavish detadl, standing well out on the dark canvas. | The incident is picturesquely imagined, | &nd with the powerful climaxes of the | story offers dramatic fare that is not | easily obtainzble in these days of reg- | mant comedy, and that should be com- | mensurately valued. But the proof of | | Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth is “coaxed back’ by Anita Cream. Applied at night and removed in tue morning, thus imparting the full benefits of its medicinal nature. Re- moves Tan. Freckles, Muddiness, Pimples, Moth and Liver Spots, Directions with each jar. 5lc of druggists or of us, prepaid. ANITA CREAM & TOILET COMPANY Los Angeles, Cal. { i | I | of the week will be—to drop from i e, POPULAR ACTOR WHO OPENS AT THE CALIFORNIA THEA- TER TO-NIGHT. | the pudding is in the eating. The play is only half the battle, and we shall see what we shall see to-night at the Cali- fornia Theater. It is for, that to decide how grateful we may be for the revival. . s Another novelty {n_the dramatic warld the sublime to Fischer's—the new bill at that amazingly popular house. All “Fiddle Dee Dee-dom” is stirred to its depths by the announcement of the | new programme to be given for the first to-morrow contain evening. The two burlesques the genuine ~Weber and Flelds’ brand, and that will not lose point through local unfamiliarity with the bill will proper, of burlesqued. The first, “Antony and Cleo- | | patra,” is the Weber and Fields' notion of royal Egypt and her Roman. lover, and the second, Captain Robert Mar- ghall's “A Royal Family,” that charming Annie Russell gave us last year; also ac- | cording to the same hilarious authorities. | There is a third, “Pousse Cafe,” whose title suffices. For those who like the kind , and it has been demonstrated are many, the Fischer Theater has a neat, smart, breezy performance to offer—some good nonsense, some fool nonsense, but at any rate complete re- lief from thought for as many minutes as it lasts. Low Excursion Rates—11 Days’ Trip. $40 first class, including berth and meals, San Francisco to Seattle, Tacoma, Van- couver, Victoria, Everett, New Whatcom and return, allowing passengers ample time to go ashore and visit the various points of interest. For full information apply Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s ticket office, 4 New Montgomery street. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. George Ivancovich of Petaluma is at the Grand. J. R. Foster, a hotel man of Marysville, is at the Lick. J. M. Vanwormer, a vineyardist of Fres- no, is at the Lick. E. 8. Churchill, a banker of Napa, is registered at the Palace, Fred E. Abbott, a capitalist of Victoria, B. C.,, is at the ©ccidental, Senator R. F. Del Valle is here from Los Angeles and is at the Palace. George F. Ditzler, a mining’ man of Biggs, is among the arrivals.at the Grand. Bishop Moreland of Sacramento is at the | Occidental, accompanied by his daughter. —_—————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———— Townsend's California glace fruit, lio a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Mart : street, Palace Hotel bullding. . —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 104z, i In Texas superstitious ple carr; mall bone from a fluh'!p;eud. but yth: ck only comes after the charm has been lost. ——————— Cheap Rates to Minneapolis, Minn. N. E. A. Convention, $84 90, San Francisco to Minnespolis and refurn, going direct lines, returning Worthern Pacific Rallway. On sale July 1 and 2, good sixty days. Only requires six days for entire trip through Yellowstone National Park. Just the season to visit *'Na- ture's Greatest Wonderland.” The Northern | Pactfic train “North Coast Limited,” is unex- | | | | celled by any other. Seeing is belleving, 3 K. Stateler, Cotss. 7 general agent, (47 Market st., 8. F, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address*Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SONDAY . Ll Liiiaese s s JUNE 20, 1002 Publication Office .. KING EDWARDS ILLNESS. NCE more the popular and familiar misreading of Shakespeare’s line, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,” finds an illustration of its truth. Shakes- peare did not mean that sympathy with the sorrow of another is the touch that makes . _the kinship of the world, but the universality of the sympathy among civilized men with the British people as they wait and watch for bulletins from the bedside of their suffering King proves that after all that is the true bond of kinship. Nothing else draws men so near to- gether or manifests so keenly the essential unity of human nature. Had Edward gone to his coronation radiant in health and strong in the pride of his power and station to receive the symbols of his sovereignty over the greatest empire the world has known, he would not have had anything like the universal good will that is given to him in the suffering and danger that have befallen him. Had® this been for him a week of triumph and splendor there would have been voices of criticism all round him, and the very congratulations sent to his throne would have been formal, conventional and in many cases insincere. Now all criticism is hushed. There is no insincerity in the messages that are carried to his sick room, no coldness in the feelings of the hearts of those who in every part of the globe wait to hear the latest bulletins from his physicians, longing for good news. The feeling of widespread sorrow is not due wholly to the fact that the sufferer is a King and an Emperor; and that a mighty nation is mourning in the dread that its sovereign may be summoned to death almost at the very hour that was fixed for his coronation. Much has been awakened by the personal character of Edward himself. From the beginning of his career he has been noted for the geniality and all comprehending sympathy of his disposition. Few men who have lived conspicuously in the public eye have had such a ready willingness to fraternize with almost every kind and class of men. Edward has been esteemed by statesmen and scholars, among whom are some of his sincerest friends, and at the same time he has l'een popular with the masses. He has delighted to share in all the sports, games and amusements of his people. The literary men of London have ever counted him as one of the most genial guests welcomed at the receptions of the Savage Club. To foreigners of distinction he has been the most cordial host in England. His welcome has been liberal in every meaning of the word, and men of every country have shared in it. : > A man of such varied sympathies could not fail in any walk of life to have a large following of warm personal friendships, and Edward, by reason of his high station, has attracted perhaps a larger circle of such friends than any other man of our time. In almost every city of note in the world there is some man or woman who has met him and liked him. These people are now bear- ing their testimony to his worth and sorrowing in his illness. With their feeling mingles that of the masses—the common human sympathy geing out to any one who lies at the dread portal of death. In the crisis in which the King lies the scales of life and death are so evenly balanced that the physicians who attend him dare not speak with assurance of his recovery. Of late the bulletins have heen encouraging to the hopes of his people. Americans can readily recall how but a short time ago they passed through a like period of suspense while President McKinley strug- gled for life, and they can therefore more keenly than any other people sympathize with the British in this juncture. Reports from other countries, however, show that all nations share the sympathy. From every part of the globe prayers, heartfelt and solemn, will arise to-day for the health of Edward that he may live to enjoy for many years a happy and beneficial reign over a prosperous empire. AMNESTY IN THE PHILIPPINES. EPORTS from Washington that President Roosevelt intends to signalize the passage of the Philippine civil government bill by a proclamation of amnesty to political prisoners in the islands have been read with gratification by all who desire the establishment- of genuine peace between ourselves and the Filipinos. War and harsh measures can “make a desert and call it peace,” but peace itself can be brought to any part of the earth only by the exercise of justice and liberality, A Doubtless the administration has good reason for making the grant of amnesty dependent upon the passage of the Philippine bill, and yet there would have been a fuller satisfaction were it known the grant would be made whether the bill passed or not. The publication of amnesty at Manila on July Fourth would make so notable and pleasing a feature of the celebration of the day in that part of the world that no chances should be taken of missing it. Moreover as we are strong enough to treat the Filipinos with more leniency than Spain could afford to do, our greater power imposes upon us a greater responsibility, and we can well afford to be liberal and therciful to a weak foe without haggling about terms. Fortunately there is little or no occasion for fear of the defeat of the civil government bill. Washington authorities are agreed it will be passed in time for the proclamation to be made on Independence Day. Along with the proclamation will go another declaring the existence of peace in the islands. Military rule will give place to civil government throughout the archipelago ex- cept in those localities where the population continues to be dangerously hostile to American occupation. That means the islands are about to énter upon a new phase in their history and the people are to have the opportunity of a new development. It is not worth while to speculate as to what results will follow. Japan affords a proof that oriental races can adapt themselves to the new civilization which the nations of the Occident are spreading over the world, while India stands as a warning .that some oriental races are not changed by the contact of western civilization. Whether the Philippines are to continue stagnant like India or progress like Japan is too complex a problem to be solved at this time. Two things are clear—Japan has made progress while retaining independence; India has not accepted progress though forced upon her by conquest. From those facts it seems reasonable to conclude that if we are to promote civilization among the Filipinos the less we rely upon the sword the better it will be. Amnesty is not only a matter of liberality, but of policy. It is gratifying to know it is to be proclaimed. A MORE BEAUTIFUL CITY. INCE the throngs of visitors who filled the city last summer are to be succeeded this year by still larger throngs, it seems evident that San Francisco is destined to become the most popular summer convention city in the Union. It is therefore worth while to take note of the rapidity with which improvements are going on in every direction and the in- creasing attractions offered to visitors. From the business center to the suburbs in every quarter there is something like a build- ing_boom under way. One can hardly walk along any important street for half a dozen blocks without finding the sidewalk obstructed by material for the erection of a new structure of some kind. Hotels, theaters, office buildings, stores, shops, homes and apartment houses are rising all round us. Facilities for housing and entertaining our guests are going to be much greater within another year than they are to-day. When those who have heard San Francisco described by the visiting Mystic Shriners, who have just left us, come next summer to see for themselves they will find a more magnificent city than they expected. At present the improvements are being made almost wholly by private enterprise. The ' city itself beyond the steady,development of the park is doing comparatively little. In the end, however, the sentiment which now moves private enterprise to the work of improvement will affect the whole community, and San Francisco will enter upon the task of adorning herself as a municipality. The more beautiful and the more commodious are the homes, the offices and the theaters of the people, the more eager will they become for municipal surroundings equally at- tractive. Where there are stately and noble structures, there must be good, well-paved and cleanly kept streets, and where such streeets are maintained there must in the end be ampler parks, avenues, boulevards, gymnasiums and baths. A ; The era of private improvement thus gives pronijse of an era of municipal improvement that is sure to come. Our climate and other natural advantages already give us pre-eminence as a city of attraction to tourists, conventions and holiday seekers. In the future we shall have artificial attractions not less notable. They are bound to come. An idea of the vastness of the population in and around London may be obtained from the recently published statistics showing that there are treated annually in the hospitals of the city about 1,067,000 patients; and it is to be borne in mind that the city is one of the healthiest in the world. ... Market and Third S, F | | the butcher of the ferryboats labors so MME. CARUSI'S MUSICAL | HISTORY READS MOST | BRILLIANTLY. ‘ By Blanche Partington. - FAMOUS HARPIST WHO 1S SPEND- ING THE SUMMER MONTHS IN THE SUBURBS OF OAKLAND. | | | | N a good Sunday some two or | three weeks ago I was wan-| | dering in company with friends | { over the foothills that stretch | i their suave, brown lengths | | behind Oakland. The day was per-| {fect; the scene—hills of. fine gold | [in the foreground, a Jjeweled city | shining beyond, and in the distance | dreaming Tamalpals, lifting her stately | breast to a rapturous azure sky—was in- | deed well enough. However, this is not | a climatic ecstacy, and the gently curv- | | ing hills, Oakland posing as an Aladdin’s | valley and Tamalpais in every tome and | temper of her beauty are probably fa- | miliar to you as to me. They figure here | merely as the highly. effective setting of | a little pastoral symphony I came in for | on this particular day. | ‘We first became startlingly aware of it | during one of those little, sudden rifts that occur In conversation, aware of a | | strange, new graciousness added to the | | landscape, of a vivid flush of human beauty that transformed the scene into its simple setting. Stealing up from the heart of a little canyon below came the soft wail of a woman's voice, crooning, to a few wild and mournful chords, the | plaintive measure of some ancient dirge. | With exquisite fitness the unknown min- | strel was accompanied by a harp, played | evidently by mysterious artist hands. The voice, also, was that of a cultivated singer, and sympathetic in highest de- gree; the song, as we listened silently, heard to be in some soft, foreign tongue to which none of us held the key. Who, or what, could be the invisible musician or musicians? Some wandering Mignon | and Lothario? Some sweet old ghosts of | dark centuries gone? Some modern ban- shee wailing the coming death of an ex- {ile from Erin?—for anything, everything | | seemed possible amid such surroundings. Of course, it wasn't anything of the kind, yet the romance of the story still held neatly together when we discovered its solution. It seemed that this was to be the surprise of the day’s programme, these wild notes the foretaste of a pleas- ure to come later. The singer was Mme. Inez Carusi, the harpist also Mme. Carusi, whom the Tivoleans learned to admire last year, and whom Anton Seidl of revered memory held to be the first harpist in America. A friend of some one of us, who had learned of her woodland retreat, the harpist-singer had graciously con~ sented to adorn the day with her songs. Accordingly, later, we made our way to the embowered cottage where Carusi— Mrs. Albrecht In private life—has en- sconced herself for the summer. Thera \we were hospitably treated to a pro- gramme that was a genuine delight in a scene that enhanced the pleasure a hun- dred fold, with its roses, overarching trees and shaded veranda, where sat the musician with her beautiful instrument. Mme. Carusi is that kind of harpist that strenuously to efface the belief in. She is an artist, the best we have had here to my knowledge.. Her musical history reads brilliantly. She was long with Anton Seldl in the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York as solo harpist. She played in a series of forty concerts with the Ga- briel of the pianoforte, Paderewski. She was with Damrosch in the Symphony Or- chestra of New York, with Grau also at the Metropolitan Opera-house, with that delightful danseur of the conductor's stand, “Eddy" Strauss, and many others of lesser fame. Further, inevitably dissatisfied with the | ments is unique, 3 scant and indifferent repertoire of her in- strument, Mme. Carusi has arranged in highly musical and scholarly fashion much Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Lisat and other classics for the harp—that, by the way, I cannot but think would be to some publisher’s profit to publish. There are also original compositions that I bave not yet seen, so cannot speak of, and a comic opera of the perfod of Richard I, titled “The Crusader and the Saracen,” and written, composed and scored by the harp- ist. Almost finally, she plays the piano almost as well as the harp, and lastly— outside of such little things as a large lin- sual repertoire—sings charmingly. The dirge we had heard from the hilitop was old Irish, and sung in the original Gaelic. The recital included many other such quaint old lays, “An Coulin,” “Ma Coileen dhas Cruithin na Moe,” “Shule Aroon,” “Erin, O Erin”—that would read- ily be recognized by any good sen of the Emerald Isle, and all given with a keen sympathy, strong sense of dramatic value, and ease that mark the best in ballad | singing. The harp numbers included the Bach B minor gavotte (from the second Violin sonata), that lends itself admirabiy to harp possibilities, the “Menuet Celebre * of Boccherini, some Parrish Alvars ex- amples ana much else, all, in spite of some slight country rustiness of _technique, copiously musical in tone and interpre- tation. As a harpist Carusi is a virtuoso; and as a ballad singer has easily sufficient dis- tinction to_equip half a dozen ordinary vocalists. Her repertoire in both depart- , and given these quali- flcations alone, Mme. Carusi should ob- viously be much better known than she now is, for her sake as well as ours. [ must confess to learning with surprise that the harpist had been among us for almost twa years, and venture to think that possbily local report is not wholly blamable for its indifference to the fact. Perhaps there is here a little of the im- practicalness’ that goes with genius, a proud indolence in the art of advertise- ment, perhaps a spice of that irritable pride of the artist unappreciated—I don't know, but it seems not unlikely. Mean- while, with curious wisdom or unwisdom, Carusi is scattering pearls mnumerable to the hill winds that sweep over Pled- mont and I—well, I have told you about it. There are many who will learn with regret of the discontinuance of the organ recitals of Mr. Louis H. Eaton of Trinity Chyrch. The recitals have become of late a considerable feature of the church life, and were attracting many outside admir- ers of the organist's art. Last week the last of these until the autumn was given, with the usual good programme, and tha artistic assistance of Harry H. Barnhart. In place of the recitals the organist wiil, however, be heard in a short programme after the Sunday afternoon services, as used to be the worthy wont of the former organist, Dr. H. J. Stewart. The first of these will be given this afterncon. Ladies” Writing Dask, with drawer, mirror and convenient pigeon holes, mahogany finish, $5.95, Entire houses, flat> and4 h - tels furnished. Credit and free delivery within 100 , miles. T. BRILLIANT FURNITURE Co. 338-342 POST STREET, Opposite Union Square.