The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1902, Page 22

- I I E IFANCIFCO £ AN GALL: SSURRAN . FULY 318 1905 | AS FARNEST SEASON TIVOLI | KNOWN ITS OPEKRA LIST BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. | | OF SWELL 1 MAKES S earnest of the particularly swell season of grand opera that the Tivoli hopes to offer this year the little opera-house | this week sends out, Grau fasn- lon, an attractive circular contain rious facts of interest to the opera-goer. Here is the list of artists to appear, in which a large proportion of new lights will be noted de Frate, Sig- rorina Tina de Ines Sopranos—Signorix noripa Linda M § rina Pietro Venerandi, Sig. Giu- | seppe Agostini, Sig. Alfredo Zonght B: Michele de Padova, Sig. Emelio D’ Bassos—Sig. Agueto Dado, Sig. Pilade de Paoll. U test. The list of operss to be selected from runs as follows* Sig. Quillio Cor- ity—Sig. Quinto Zani, “Alda” Verai “Faust’ Gounod | *“La Glocon: Ponchielli *‘Lokengrin” . Wagner Le Juive Halevy (The Jewess) ey Verdi . Verat Wagner Verdi Forza del Destino™ ... *“La Boheme' . Puceini Barblere di . Rossini La Favorita’ . Donizetti ‘Norma'" Bellint ‘Carmen’ . Bizet| *“Mignon™ : Thomas “Lucrezia Borgla” Donizetti “Cavalleria Rusticana’ *1 Pagliacc! “Andre Chenier” . “II Guarany “Faistaff” . *La Tosca™ ... *Linda 41 Chamoun “Don Pasquale’ “Manon Lescaut’ *“La Sonnambula’ . Leoncavallo Puccini Gomez Verdi . Pucetnt . Donizetti . Donizetti . Puccini . Bellini The providence that shapes the ways of grand opera has so shaped them this year that we shall not have the Grau people to delight us this season. Upon the Tivoli meanagement, therefore, will devolve the futy of providing us with all the grand opera that we are likely to get—without Signor Azzali, who, 1 see, is flourishing bravely in Mexico, or some wandering constellation like the Del Contis shall in- clude us in their eccentric orbits. With 8 sense of his opportunity and responsi- flity. 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Hours—9 to 5, 6 to 7:30 p. m. Sunday, 11 v m tolp m Kemp's les have been sold under a tull guarantee for the past 12 years. i 30 Kemp's Suppositories, ddress. postpal 24 only ng va- | ¥ : 5 {| LYRIC OPERA STAR wHO || | WILL BE HEARD AT THE I | \ TIVOLL g L and the result of his labors seems highly | promising for the coming season to judge from the reputations that precede the nine new artists that are to be found on this yvear's list. One should be wary of prophecy, but it seems to me safe to say that Inez de Frate, the season’s leading soprano, with a repute reaching from St. Petersburg to Paris, from Berlin to Vienna, hesides in- cluding Milan and the leading Italian citie 1 probably be quite worth hear- ing. norina de Frate's lasi engage- ment was with a group of ncert sing- ers under the direction of Mascagni, and she has recently appeared with Tamagno i nd others before the King and Queen of Italy, whose taste, however, I am not here to vouch for. Both the Wagner and Italian opera are included in Signorina de | Frate's repertoire, and she is said.to be | the best Norma now on the Italian stage. | And now permit me to introduce to you a real Duchess, for, besides royal favor- | ites, the Tivoli's aristocratic list includes nothing less. Tina de Spada, the Duchess | of Villa Florita, at your service, is one of | | the two lyric sopranos of the year, and 1s | sumptuously heralded as young, beauti-| | ful, gorgeously gowned, possessed of a | | pleasing and well trained volce and of a dramatic talent that is adventurously compared with that of Duse. The Duch- ess 1s apparently all right. The other lyric lady is Ida Barbacini, snd Linda Montanari, well known hera, is to have dramatic roles. In Marie Pozzi we have the second con- tralto of the cast, Collamarini, the sweet- | voiced and portly, ranking first. Signorina | Pczzi is another of the Mascagni concert | | tour people, and is credited with a ‘“pure ' | contralto voice, with a remarkable lowvs | and ‘middle register.” La Favorita, Or- trud, ’Amneris and Azucena are named as | her chief roles. Anna Wilson is a young | local contraito of much promise and will | undertake the smaller parts. S A It is a sincere regret to miss Salassa's | name from among those of the gentlemen who are to sing this year. He had both brains and heart and much left of a voice that must once have been magnificent. But the king is dead, long live the king! In Michele de Padova, chosen of Puccini to ivterpret the role of Scarpla in “La Tcsca,” 1dol of La Scala, and far-famed— according to report—in Russia, Austria and Germany, besides on his native Ital- ian heath, the Tivoli management believes it has secured a barytone of exceptional achievement. D’Albore, the second barytone, is an- nounced on the plans and specifications as | of heart-breaking loveliness, strong dra- matic gift and brilllant voice. One is very glad to welcome back Signor Agusto Dado, the excellent basso, who made his first bow here a coupie of years ago with Mme. Sembrich. Signor Dado wae of the most artistic and rellable of lost years Tivoll people. and his good work is still remembered with much grat- itude. Pilade de Paoli is a buffo basso, and said to be well known in his line. ‘e Pardon, tenori, that T have left you to the last.’ Yet have I erred in good com- pany. Only two seasons ago and the| princely Plancon and lordly De Reszke | simply walked all over the high C'd ones | with ‘the feminine portion of the com- munity. And who knows? { Old friends first, Giuseppe Agostini's is a name that all will be de‘l’ighled to note. Agostini's smooth and sweet voice, sin- cere and finished methods, gave us last | year the best of tenor lyricism. Not | many who heard it will forget his Ru- dolph in “La Boheme,” nor his work in | “La Fevorita,” but Agostini graced all| he_touched. Pietro Venerandi comes to sing the ro- bust tenor parts. He comes also with a reputation as sonorous and musical as his name. Venerandi is only 27 years old | (Italian time), and is said to have an ex- traordinary range, power and quality of voice. One of his big parts is Otello—alas, Salassa! Alfredo Zonghi is a Iyric tenor, strong on looks and usually and well heard in “Il Barbiere,” “Lucia,” “Faust’ and| “Don Pasquale.” I am not responsible | for the picturesque statement accompany- ing this information that the quality of Zonghi's voice reminds of Jean de Reszke, Not that I shall object if it does. . e Then, Mr. Steindorff, the backbone of the Tivoli orchestra, is to direct again, and will have an augmented orchestra and chorus at his disposal. That impor- tant personage, the stage manager, who sees to it that both ends of the steam- heated dragon arrive coincidentally, and £0 on, this year will be Mr. Joseph Witt, The curtain will go up on the season two weeks from to-morrow evening, July 25— the sale of season seats begins to-mor- row morning, by the way—and for nov- l elty this year we shall, an’ it se begin with “Alda." g ' THE SAN - §- 1 FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D S~- ECKEL -, Proprietor +ddress Communi.caiions to W. SUNDAY ...... JULY 13 Publication Office s : : - LEAKE, Mahazy r | , 100 tarkst end Third S. F PLACATING POLAND. INCE the partition of Poland, Russia has ceaselessly striven to Russianize the people who fell to her share. In the matter of language her task was not so difficult, because the Russian and Polish 'tongues arc of the great Slavic family. Germany has followed Rus- sia’s exampie with indifferent success because of the difficulty of substituting German for Polish as the language of the people! Recently German effort in that direction has become more strenuous, and has naturally roused great resistance on the part of the Prussian Poles. Outbreaks of violence and riots with fatal results have followed the stern application of German policy. The Poles resist being Ger- manized, passively and actively. The schoo! children have refused to answer questions in German, and the German authorities have been forced into a war with them, in which the children seem to be holding their own, in the face of great severities. The editors of Polish papers of course take sides with the children, and most of them are in prison as a result of such expression of their sympathi ! 5 At this distance it is difficult to understand why Germany should insist upon destroying the Polish language. A government, if it cannot command the affection of a conquered people, usually desires that they should live peaceably under its authority, and to this end it excites as little antagonism as possible. Nothing is more exasperating than to compel the vanquished to give up their language. Compulsion is a means that promises the least success. If another policy be adopted the same result may be reached almost insensibly to the people concerned. If knowl- edge of the alien tongue be made a commercial necessity, of advantage to the material interests of the conquered, they are:led willingly to accept that which they will reject when force is used. But this does not seem to have occurred to- Germany, and force is the only influence in-_ voked. By a recent decree all Polish school children who do not answer questions in German are compelled to spend eight hours a week in jail. A regular schedule is made out. They are com- pelled to recite the catechism one day from 2 to 3 p. m. and spend from 4 to 5 o’clock in jail, one day in the week. The next day they must siudy arithmetic and physics in German from 7 to 10 o’clock and spend from 10 till noon in jail. S 2 It is easy to see that such harshness will not conquer children, who by it arc made mar- tyrs to patriotism. Every one who avoids it by submission will be looked upon as a deserter and every one that resists and takes the punishment will be a hero. The Roman imperial ;)olicy was much wiser and more enlightened. The people who were conquered by Rome were left undisturbed in their language and religion. Their social institu- tions, methods of intellectual culture, racial and national customs, were left as Rome found them. Even their essential local laws were but little disturbed and were administered by themselves, un- der the general supervision of Roman officials, to whom an appeal might be taken. England has measurably followed this policy in many of her conquests, notably in India, where she has made no atéempt to substitute languages, and in introducing a code of laws has left local customs practically untouched. She has also wisely let religion alone, interfering no further than to protect Brahmins, Parsees and Buddhistg against each other. This policy has finally secured for her rule over three hundred millions of Indian people a hardly qualified loyalty, and the great Indian Princes and millions of people recognize in Great Britain the best foreign ruler ever imposed upon the peninsula. Why Germany and Russia do not follow examples as conspicuousiy successful and wise as those of Rome and Great Britain is not clear. The Poles are a weak people in numbers, but will resist passively and actively a policy forced upon them which they would almost unconsciously accept if urged by milder and kinder means. TEHRE SAPTURRE OF MANTII.A. S we have already published, The Call was at the time of the event notified by its corre- respondent that the surrender of Manila was prearranged with the Spanish general, who only required that an appearance of assault onthe city should be made to save the honor of Spain. Dewey’s restatement of this fact in his testimony before the Senate committee was merely. confirmatory of our exclusive publication at the time of the surrender. But the admiral’s admission, while not in the nature of news, has acted as a spur to the in- dignation of the army, and has brought out a denial from General Anderson, who was under Merritt in command of our land forces at the fall of the city. General Anderson’s denial, how- ever, is no more than a denial that he knew of any such agreement, and a declaration that he planned and led the assault upon the city in good military faith, in ignorance that he was a chief actor in an opera bouffe action. He is indignant that he should have been placed in such a position and that the lives of one hundred and twenty-five American soldiers were uselessly sac- rificed in the attack, to satisfy Spanish honor. : His indignation and resentment are natural. He conjures the picture of Admiral Dewey and General Merritt, comfortably seated on the flagship, in possession of the Spanish general’s surrender of the city, while he was on shore with his soldiers, sweating, shooting and getting shot, to the amusement of the admiral and the general. His feeling in the matter is natural, and he will have the sympathy of a good many army officers. The revelation leaves Aguinaldo the real military hero of those days. He did organize an army, meet the Spanish forces in the field cutside of Manila and defeat them in fair battle, taking many prisoners and much spoil of military stores. His operations were certainly not opera bouffe, and there is little doubt that he would have taken Manila in assault except for the pecu- liar arrangement between Dewey and the Spanish commander. The long-standing feud between the army and navy will get added fuel from Dewey’s revelations, and there is a feeling that a court of inquiry may be needed to investigate the affair. THE SUMMER DROEPINGS. ) ECENT reports of the drop of peaches in Delaware and Georgia, followed by similar reports of the drop of other fruit crops in the Lake States, moved a New York re- porter to get about the city and see if there were no drops in the shops as well as in the orchards. He found the metropolis well abreast with the rural districts in that matter and proudly made note of it. . In the course of his report we find the following statements: “Shirt waists have dropped as low as half a dollar; ducks and dimities are in the same class; many a pretty piece of lace finds itself on the bargain counter; lawns have slumped as low as four and five cents; sacrifices in rib- bons are noted in every shop; in fact any number of summer fabrics have fallen into the sere and remnant class.” By those drops of the summer the shopping woman is having as good a time in town as the summer girl at the holiday resorts. Profits are dropping into the lap of the shopper and inci- dentally it may be into the pockets of the shopkeepers as well. Tt will be noted, however, that all the drops recorded are among the goods that are exclusively for the ladies. There seems to be no shaking of the plum tree that bears men’s goods and no plums drop for them. Only one little item has encouragement for man and that announces that boot and shoe prices are making dull thuds as they come down all around town. 4 Meantime no one finds any drop in the prices of meat or icecream. Whether a man wishes to set up soda water for his girl or something with a stick in it for his friend he must rise to the price, for the price is not going to come down to him. Peaches and dimities may fall and lawns and apples take a summer slump, but beef and mutton stand high along with the thermometer. Tt is getting to be so that it will soon be cheaper to dress than to eat, and the economical youth who wishes to treat his charmer would better invite her to have a shirt waist than a dinner. It is said that Mrs. Howard Gould has an ambition to own the fastest automobile in America; and the next thing we hear from the lady may be.a smash-up. Automobile ambitions are not always harmless. Kaiser William is said to have agreed to Morgan’s plans for perfecting the big steamship combine, und that is well; but the world would like to know what would have happened if he hadn’t agreed. Some learned man has dug up the information that the automobile is nothing new under the sun, since an automatic mechanism of the kind was used as a shrine by the ancient priests of Bacchus AFTER TWELVE YEARS " FRAWLEY WILL GIVE UP | O UTHEERE P’\f\Nf\GERIf\L BY GUISARD. o ofors & # AR WELL KNOWN ACTOR WHO RE- TIRES FROM THE STAGE AFTER TWELVE YEARS AS MANAGER. g + ment, Timothy H after this season will give up the life managerial. I saw him this week down at the Grand Opera- house, busily preparing for his last sea- | son here and learned from him the why and wherfore of his unexpected decision. | The Frawleys will be missed here. For seven years they have been a wel- come feature of theatrical life in San Francisco and in that time have produced many plays of note and intro- duced a number of gifted players to the community. Among these are such names as those of Blanche Bates, Theodore Rob- erts, Wilton Lackaye and others that will readily occur to the playgoing public. To Mr. Frawley we are also indebted for the ing interest, but all of the clean and wholesome kind, and the news of the com- ing disbandment of his competent and modest company will be learned with much regret by a goodly number of ad- mirers. ey It is all a matter of plays, says Mr. Frawley. “I can no longer get the plays of the standard that T have used my public to and again that my self-respect will per- mit me to produce. The only thing left me therefore is to get out of the busi- Mr. Frawley, quietly seated at his desk, with the litter of management spread pic- turesquely before him, did not look ex- actly happy as he said this. “The syndicate?” I queried. “The syndicate,” the manager briefly acquiesced. Then, with a sort of good- natured envy he burst out: “Henry Mil- ler—now that fellow ought to thank the gods every moment of his life. He has all the strength of the syndicate at his back. He has only to ask to have. Plays the best, old and new, are his. Players— look at his present splendid set—are sim- ply crowded into his companies. And as to mountings—well, expense is not men- tioned in the connection. What a stun- ning performance they gave of ‘The Gay Lerk Quex.” ™ “Pinero is so0 easy to play,” I sald—‘“and so difficult.” “Yes,” Frawley agreed, “the mechanism is perfection. Only the verlest tyro can go wrong in the technical detail of a Pinero play. But the personality and touch count enormously.” “But to return,” I sald, and was glad to see that the generous Miller and Pinero enthusiasm did not die out of T. Dan- jel's now cheerful gray eye. “Of course I regret that I can't get the plays I want,” he said, “for I like the bus- iness. But there are many other things that I wish to do. I may want to write a play myself—who knows?” And it seems that that is precisely one of the things that has suggested itself to Mr. Frawley as desirable to be done. He sketched in for me the plot of a pur- handling is as good as the story is bound to see fame. For two manager {ann the busy has been at work on it, with perhaps hardly a half-hour in the week to,devote to its writing, and he is now ardently looking forward to the voyage to Manila, where the company goes after its San Francisco season, for opportunity to complete the lay. x “{)ne thing I am eternally grateful for— to return to the manage: proposition”— Mr. Frawley resumed. “I am not doomed to the one-night stand.” 1 suppose there are compensa- tions for even that?” I sugges = “What are they?” inquired the man- ager, dangerously. “Scenery— travel,” I “Scenery! Oh, laughed. “You mu is not exactly in the one-night nnarl.thohmfi.‘hm FTER twelve years of manage- | Daniel Frawley | production of many new plays of vary- | the actor-manager's tone imparted even to my ecivilized ignorance the depth of | dyspeptic depravity that inhere in the ! small town dinner, the doubtfuiness of ' !lsiblankst!. the weariness its steepy | trains. | _“It was nothing but the one-night stand that killed Roland Reed, Sol Smith Rus- | sell, too,” he went on, “besides any num- ber of others. Kept them out of New York, too.” |~ “How so?” *“Oh, simple enough. The dramatic point that the educated playgoer spots imme- diately must be exaggerated, caricatured out of all proportion to its relative im- | portance, to tell at all with unschooled consciousness. The temptation is irresist- ible, and the habit, once formed, fatal.” Frawley settled it. He is very iike him- self in “Secret Service,” brief, restrained and eminently untheatrical. “But there is much to come before the ;;11: of the managerial career,” 1 remind ““Yes, and I am hopin; before If closes,” he sa. Hnie Mania trip is much to my mind. I have always wished to go West. I was indeed planning a four months’ visit to Yokohama when | this offer for Manila came. We get all expenses and a guarantee for twenty-four | weeks. Not bad. Then we spe: two | weeks in Honolulu, two weeks in Yoko- Lama, a night or two in Hon‘ym( and lheDreet of the time in Manila. “De-lightful. But why not farther i Wh%l;eyz;lg are A‘guultnlt?'y Il uk.o considering a six weeks’ to Calcutta—the bes‘t to'n’“zll: J‘ earth,” Frawley owned, “with other side islsuea ‘that wm‘x;d carry us Into August of next year. Ve retu 1 | 8 v‘:r(;: I:n;n:lr[ than Mamlx““ Py Ty “What s you give the Fili inquire, “and, more lmpomntly.m::;r L “The Filipinos will have what 'you have been good enough to take fr E manager repiied. “and you will have sie weeks of us, ‘Lo Doone’ and ‘Uncle rna Tom’s Cabin’ for extra attractions.” "&Uncle 'gom's Cabin!" " ‘“Yes, and you" like prophested Frawiey. Lam ¥ ~ “Well, ave il .'ven'f seen 16" 1 had to contesa T | Baven’t “New York was ‘crazy as they say, over Wilton Lackaye's o e e nd we have Legree. 'He was only less spectacmiants e o ““And who is to be the im: ’)g‘l;! Frawley?” I query, genuinely anx- “Miss Alice Johnson,” he leading lady of this eommyumm m'm- I have another one in Minneapolis with Mary Van Buren and the members of the older company—and Gladys Weller will be m'%evffl'ybo Doone’ ha: ose ‘Lorna me’ have you?" “Tt is dramatized by Algern ‘assin Chicago, and I mfl the b:.ixf - versions of the novel."” Frawley “The story is a very let me tell vou the Cabin’'" and manager's twinkied. “We shall int specialticn. ta which the Semme 1omds T self readily, songs and dances, and so but the leading item will be a four-round 'm 8ive prizes every N whic sm'nhl.tot"mh'lw l‘uug realism it is not T. Daniel s Al Topsy.” 2 Music at ths Park. Following is the music programme to-day at the park: 3 - Overture, ‘“Robespterre’ Waltz, “Invitation to the “French Patrol™ » “'Episodes in a Soldler’s Life" d tantasia, “La Boheme' Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's.s —_— Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, to 40c. Note 81 4th, front barber, mu: peltaed SRt sl tvtnitnng, s California Glace fruft and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched A nice present for Eastern friends. G SEnet 5t Talacy Hotel baritend —_—————— information supplied daily e