The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1902, Page 22

22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1902. TR e TR P O SRR (S Y L B Y | | | JUDGING FROM LEADER'S ENERGY OPERAS SHOULD BE MUSICALLY SUCCESSFUL By BLANCHE PARTINGTON. 3 operas that will open the long-ex- | pected season of grand opera at the Tivoli to-morrow evening: 'ATDA. | Inex de Frate | Marie Pozz | Pietro Venerandl Michele de Padova | .Agusto Dadc | .Pilade de Paoli | i | Tina de Spada | Anna Wiison | Alfredo Zonghi .Emilio @' Albore | Agusto Dado he ltkelihood of any change in personnel, as will be seen in my future | graph on the subfect, it is in inverse | the size of the salary of the art- ve, at $1500 & night, may infallibly xpected to disappoint, as our last rau season taught us; Collamarini, at| pluckily sings through “La h a toothache that the last the back of the house could see gh the wrong end .of an opera-glass. fore, as Tivoll salaries still prevail, is it likely that the casts will remain as | heretofore ounced, and appearance | ts to an 1l competence. Almost | of the new people will be heard in the | hat together give opportuni- | »n of most kinds of oper- Rumor is rosy with praise | de Frate's Aida, and for the Ra- f Pletro Venerandl. De Padova’s | <ro is also spoken well of, and the | Amne sends pleasing shadows | Dado’s Ramphis is among the | d heirlooms of last season. i it affords the Tivoli's new lyric Tina de Spada, who by report is tu 1, pretty and well-gowned redo Zonghi, the new lyric his opportunity here as the 0. The “Infelice” and the sso duties fall to the indis- | he industrious strains that | the classic Tivoli pre- | ow, the productions as | cin k 2 whole should be musically successful, orff, whose capacity and appe- tite for work is of the herculean order, having been engaged upon them morning, noon and night. Whatever they are, how- ever, they cannot but be lavishly worth | the phenomenally smali price that the Ti- | voli sets upon its efforts, as the Grau con- tingent, in friendly amazement, said last | year. And it may be, by the way, that | this will be the last year at that price, for | persistent rumor has it that with the close of the grand opera season the Tivol, | the home of opera in San Francisco for | twenty-four years, will close its doors for- | ever, to make way for a new Tivoll that | will rise from its ashes. And it is to be | éoubted If we shall get grand opera, palm | gardens and all the comforts of a fine | theater that are promised for the good | old six bits down to the humble guarter | for which we now enjoy grand opera. No other city in America enjoys like priv- | fleges, ana it is to this fact, the long and | faithful service of the little opera house, | that San Francisco, new as it is, stands so | comparatively well in its appreciation of he ert operatic. It is to be wise in time, | herefore, end take gratefully the good | the gods provide. . It is with perticular pleasurs that I note the return of Miss J. Virginie de | Fremery to the circle of local musicians, | Miss de Fremery, whose work is known | only to en exclusive few among organ | enthueiasts, outside of the congregation | of the Oakiand First Presbyterian | Church, which clalms her, returns to | California after an enthusiastic period of | study spent with Widor in Paris. Her | year and a half seems indeed to have been wisely used. A close familiarity | with Miss de Fremery’s musiclanly and | scholarly work for some years before | her Widor study, induced me to believe | that even the great master of organ- playing himself would find in 1t but little | 1o change. It seems that I was both right and wrong, as the good fortune of hearing the gifted organist the other day in some wonderful Bach end Widor convinced me. Her style bas.gained both breadth and distinction, both plasticity and poise, and her technique, always re- markable for clearness and precision, is | still more sure and clean. Thers is a new beauty of touch, that noble legato that seems to be a peculiar gift of the school, and a rounding out and development on all sides. Yet it is purely a development, for Miss @e Fremery has simply added to her knowledge, not changed her school. An eminently pure school is this of the foremost modern master of organ play- ing, deriving its inspiration by direct de- scent from Bach, whose work is studied as the Koran among the Feithful. As an instance of the intense conservatism of M. Widor's methods Miss de. Fremery cites his registration of the “big” G soinor Bach fugue, In wlich the distin- guished organist uses throughout only ERE ere the casts (D. V.) of the | | THE STAR BARYTONE OF THE TIVOLI GRAND OPERA COM- PANY. | 8 fpot tone, and further, as to dynamic| values, keeps all the manual work soft| until the pedal comes in, when all are | played forte, varied, of course, by the| swell. I am free to confess this appeals | to me somewhat as musical purism. In | his own work, of astonishing scope and in- | tense modernity, Widor is again the‘ classicist. His truly symphonic organ symphonies form an important part | of Miss de Fremery's repertoire. 'Liey | are but rarely given here, largely on ac- | count of their difficulty, partly on ac- count of their day-after-to-morrow spirit, | that, with the latest sleeves, has not yet arrived from Paris. | Neither does one see any immediate | possibility of our education In this regard. | There is oniy one organist in San Fran- | cisco, Louis H. Eaton of Trinity Church, | who is doing anything in the matter of recitals, and there is no public hall in the | city where an organ concert can be given. | Even the Metropolitan Temple, with its | impossible instrument, will shortly be out of count, and I understand that the fine | Stanford organ—strangest of all-may be | used only by its officlal organist. So, if one wishes to hear Mr. Widor, through his distinguished pupil, Miss de Fremery, one must go to Oakland to do so. At any rate, it will be abundantly worth while. e 01 The following good programme will be given by Louis H. FBaton at Trinity Church to-day at the wusual half-hour organ recital after the afternoon service: “Fantaste in G minor” (Bach): *Prayer and Cradle Song”” (Guflmant)? adagio from Sixth Symphcnie (Widor): “Funeral March and Hymn of thg Seraphs” (Guilmant). The offerfory number will be “The Lord Is My Light,” by Allitsen, to be sung by Francis K. Lieb, of whom Mr. Eaton seems to think very good things. Music at the Park. The following selections will be rendered by the Golden Gate Park Band this after- noon, weather permitting: " “Star-Spangled Bam “Ophir Camp March’ .C. Horst Overture, ‘‘Raymond .Thomas Waltz, “Stories From - .Strauss () “Roma” .... .Claucer () “Galop Milit: Herfurth Grand selection, **Alds “International Congres: all great nations) Flute solo . .Verdl o, Intermezzo, “Buey Bee'......., Grand march, ‘‘Queen of Sheba™ .., -Gounod Alrs and variations on German folks songs umbia. Instruction in Music. The Board of Education notified princi- pals yesterday that teachers’ meetings for | instruction in music will be hefd in the | Franklin chool, Eighth street, near Har- rison, as follows: 1 Grade I, Wednesday, July 80, at 3:15 grade I, Friday, August 1, at 3:15 grade III, Monday, August 4, at 3:15 grade IV, Thursday, August 7, at 8:15 grade V, Fridsy, August 8, at 3:45 p. grade VI, Monday, August 11, at 3:45 p, grade VII, Wednesday, August 13, at p- m.j grade VIII, Friday, August 15, at »m p. m.; p. m. p. m. ». m, m. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candles, 60c & pound, in artistic fire-etched h(ng A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. < —_—— Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau Allen’s), m'c:..n' fornia street. ’relephonc(lhln 1042, . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY @ SanbpeRp o S N NG B Market and ThirdWSEE JACKSON'S INJUNCTIONS. Publication Office. / EDERAL JUDGE JACKSON has enforced his injunctions against the striking coal miners in West Virginia. They are restrained from acts, violent or otherwise, against such miners as choose to work. The issue involved is the most serious that can affect the in- dustrial interests of the country. No one disputes the benefits that have been brought about by labor organization. The issue is whether such benefits shall commend organization to all labor, or whether the unorganized shall be put under compulsion and duress by being denied the protection of the law while at work. This Government is founded upon law, and its equal protection of all persons and of all property. There can be no substitute for legal equality. Private persons, no matter how numer- ous or powerful, cannot substitute their united will for the equal operation of law. To do so may be necessary to their plans and purposes, but that does not make it admissible. “The property which every man has in his own labor,” says Adam Smith, “as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patri- mony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing his strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor is a plain violation of the most sacred property. It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty of both the workman and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from em- ploying those whom they think proper.” In the edict of Louis XVI, in 1776, giving freedom to trades and professions, prepared by Turgot, he recites the contributions that had been made by the trade guilds and companies, and says: “It was the allurement of these fiscal advantages thatprolonged the illusion and con- cealed the immense injury they did to industry, and their infraction of natural right. This illu- sion had extended so far that some persons asserted that the right to work was a royal privilege which the King might sell, and that his subjects were bound to purchase from him. We hasten to correct this error and to repel the conclusion. God, in giving to man wants and desires ren- dering labor necessary for their satisfaction, conferred the right to labor upon all men, and this property is the first, most sacred and imprescriptible of all. He therefore regards it as the first duty of his justice, and the worthiest act of benevolence, to free his subjects from any restriction upon this inalienable right of humanity.” In his “‘Commentaries” Blackstone says: “Civil liperty, the great end of all human society and government, is that state in which each individual has the power to pursue his own happiness, 2ccording to his own views of his interest and the dictates of his conscience, unre- strained except by equal, just and impartial laws.” The Supreme Court of the United States in a case before it decided that “there is no more sacred right of citizenship than the right to pursue unmolested a lawful employment in a lawful manner. It is nothing more nor less than the sacred right of labor.” Mr. Justice Field, in his opinion in.the slaughter-house cases, said: “This equality of right, with exemption from all disparaging and impartial enactments, in the lawful pursuits of life, throughout the whole country, is the distinguishing privilege of citizens of the United States. To them everywhere, all pursuits, all professions, all vocations, are open without other restrictions than such as are imposed equally upon all others of the same age, sex and condition. The State may prescribe such regulations for every pursuit and calling of life as will promote the public health, secure the good order and advance the general prosperity of society, but when once pre- scribed the pursuit or calling must be free to be‘followed by every citizen who-is within the con- ditions prescribed and will conform to the regulation. This is the fundamental idea upon which our institutions rest, and, unless adhered to, our Government will be a republic only in name.” These all seem to be the statement of a fundamental principle. Tt may remain to be seen how far courts can go in asserting that principle and what means they may employ for its pro- tection. Judge Jackson, as appears by the text of his decision, regards the process and writ he has employed to be the use of the proper means. It is to be hoped that in some way the issue may reach the Supreme Court, to the end that its view of what is the law cf the land as to every man’s imprescriptible right to work may be had. \ FORCE AND IDEALS. ITH William Travers Jerome of New York the reading public of ‘the United States has long had some sort of acquaintance. He has had what is known as notoriety. His connection by birth and wealth with the aristocracy of the city and his relations through politics and business with the dwellers in the tenements and the slums have given him a unique position that has attracted attention, while his sensational canvass for the office of District Attorney last year made him about as conspicuous a man as can be found any- where in American municipal politics. f Hitherto he has been known only by his actions. Now we are to know his thoughts. He has been lecturing to the Bar Association of Colorado and has expounded unto them his philosophy of life. It isnota new philosophy, being no more than the doctrine that force is the supreme thing in life, but it is stated with a frankness that has not been common since the death of Car- lyle. Mr. Jerome says: “Ideals amount to nothing. You have got to have steam back of them.” He quotes with approval the saying, “a masterful devil from hell is a much more inspiring spec- tacle than an angel suffering from nervous prostration”; and to emphasize his point he cites the fact that the reports of the New York libraries show that while among the rich the great demand is for fiction, the demand in the tenements is for works on sociology, politics, art and philosophy. The tenement dwellers have ideas and aspirations, but they lack steam. The dwellers on Murray Hill have no ideas nor aspirations, but they have force. “Give a forceful man education,” says Mr. Jerome, “and he can achieve wonders, but give education to a man without force and you have nothing but unrest.” All of that is to a certain extent true. That men win by force of character rather than by superiority of intellect is an old story, but in a broad sense it is not true. In the long run the ideals of the masses expressed in public opinion hold in check the most dominant of heroes. The most inspiring spectacle humanity has ever had was not that of a masterful spirit seated on a throne, but that of a prophet nailed to a cross and crowned with thorns. It is not possible that every man shall have more force than other men, but it is possible for all to have right ideals of conduct, and therein lies the explanation of the paradox that in the long run the Napoleons of the world never fail to arrive at Waterloo. It is all very well to laud the strenuous life, but it should never be forgotten that the most strenuous cannot run counter to the ideas of the masses without coming to grief. CALIFORNIA AT HER BEST. HEN arrangements now being made for the reception and entertainment of the Knights of Pythias are completed, it is probable that all previous 'demonstrations of the kind will have been surpassed. It is of course natural that it should be so, for with each succeeding occasion we have a larger population, a richer city and a -more ample experience in providing such entertainments. Nevertheless it is gratifying to note that we are moving forward and that each new gathering of visitors to the State and city finds here a little more to epjoy than any previous gathering. On this occasion the visitors are to have a double display of the variety of our natural re- sources and the results of our cultivation of them. The exhibits arranged at the ferry building will constitute an excellent exposition of many of our products, while the excursions arranged for visiting different sections of the State will enable all who desire to get out into the interior and see for themselves the beauty of the land and the richness of its natural endowments. For the successful accomplishment of preparations planned on so broad a scale there will be need of a considerable sum of money. It is nothing more than right that each citizen should in proportion to his means contribute to the required funds. The benefits which will flow from the entertainment of so large a body of influential visitors will be shared well nigh universally; and moreover every Californian gains something by each demonstration of the hospitality, the liber- ality and the wealth of the State. All circumstances of the time are propitious to making an exceptionally good showing of the many advantages the State offers for home-seekers of persons with capital for which they are secking profitable ix{vestments. We have in fact 2n opportunity to show California at her best and we should profit by it. \ — HAT charming pagan, “Jimmy” McNeill Whistler, thus alrily flaunts his “art for art's sake” red rag in the face of the British Philistine. Art, he says, is “a whimsical god- dess, and a capricious; her strong sense of joy tolerates no dullness, and live we never so spotlessly, still may she turn her back upon us. “As, from time immemorial, she has done upon the Swies in their mountains. “What more worthy people! Whose every Alpine gap yawns with tradition, and rings with noble story; yet the per- verse and scornful one vrill nons of it, and the cons of patriots are left with the clock that turns the mill, and the sudden cuckoo with difficulty restrained in his box! “For this was Tell a hero! For this did Gessler die! ““Art, the cruel jade, cares not, and hard- ens hen heart, and hies her off to the East, to find, among the opium-eaters of Nan- fondly—caressing his biue porcelain, and painting his coy maidens, and marking his plates with her six marks of cholce—in- different in her companionship with him to all save the virtue of his refinement.” A dangerous half truth, Mr. Whistler, this doctrine of art for its own sake pure- ly, but here and now are not the place and time to take exception thereto. Here, however, is another point of view that strikes me as being suggestive. “The Gay Lord Quex,’ recently presented here, is without question, in manner, a singu- larly artistic play. Brilllantly construct- ed, brilliantly wnitten, its subtly char- acterized figures almost too perfectly within the picture, it is one of the best examples of modern dramatic art. Yet, is its motive on a conspicuously low moral plane. It is a play without a hero or heroine. Sardonically enough, the only fine action of the comedy is made !d&? lous by the bourgeois breeding of its dosr, the heroism of Mademoiselle Fullgarney, manicurist, rousing only a limited admira- tion against the polished s pishness of her much more innately lgar com- panion, Lord Quex himself. True, Pinero has painted the passionate poseuse, the Duchess, in danger of her reputation, with much the same scornful wit, that,” how- ever, adds little to the ethical elevation of the atmosphere. Of Quex it is necessary only to remember that he is wealthy and 48, and in his own naive phrase, “has never loved before,” though his career as a passionate pilgrim has earned him the sobriquet of “‘the wickedest man‘? Lon- don.” Muriel, the girl for whose sike the gay Lord is attempting to reform, is yet another besmirched figure. She is by no means the Verlaine ingenue, whose “dreams are of pale blue,” but Is carrying on a clandestine love affair in the very teeth of her engagement to Quex. Her other lover also has a lively flirtation “on his own,” and all round they are a pretty low crowd. Yet it is art, and of no uncertain sort. Now as to the trend, the influence of this kind of drama. Miss Elizabeth Mc- Crackan, a Boston settlement worker, in a distinctly interesting and thoughtful pa- per in a late Atlantic Monthly on the in- fluence of the theater upon the masses, tells the following forceful little story concerning Mr. Pinero's play: A boy, almost grown to man] living in the tenements, went at times to the gallery to see a play. I had known this boy for sev- eral years, and realized that to an unusual de- gree his future rested upon the relative strengths of the influences which might be brought to bear upon him. With misgivings I listened, therefore, when he sald one evening: “I saw a play the other night named ‘The Gay Lord Quex.’ g The people/in it are a bad lot, but they get out all right. The worst is the Dbest, and they gets out pest.’ “But In real life it 1s different,” I replied to DS Mfasbe it la." sald the bey. “maybe it ain’ There's no tellin " o8 doubt Te stil hoids; s a dangerous ‘tenement Slatrict capecially dengerous. " Passing over Miss McCrackan's some- what feudal soclology as implied in the l JAMES MeNEILL WHISTLER SAYS ART IS A WHIMSICAL AND CAPRICIOUS GODDESS By GUISARD. o ONE OF THE CLEVER MEM- BERS OF THE HENRY MIL- LER COMPANY. EHSCHEERERSIR SRS & ¢ last. sentence, her ethical positfon sug- gests itself as worthy of note. Long, long ago, Plato advised that the young be left in ignorance of the escapades of the gods, whose place is now filled on the tene- ment horizon by the plutocrat. Cer- tain it is that if the wicked are to flourish like a green bay tree in the drama of strongest appeal of matter youth will infallibly ap- histicated moral, not oniy youth, be it said, but the youth of the orchestra as well. Nor will age refuse its credence, though to its comparatively calloused consclousness less danger is apparent. Still the ulti- mate effect of a play like “The Gay Lord Quex,” even upon the adult intelligence, cannot bé\claimed to be exactly uplift- ing, and perhaps the manner of men is n}ore precious even than the manner of plays. It is even possible, Mr. Whistler, that Tell and Gessler are no mean exchange for a porcelain plaque—nor a cuckoo clock for an oplum-eater. & 9.9 ‘“Where ignorance is bliss, it is wise to be foolish,” as they are saying at Fisch- er’s this week, and but that misery loves company nothing could Induce me to confess the sad knowledge that comes my way this week. It seems that I, and possibly you, friend reader, are suffering from a strange and nameless afflicticn that dates from July 14 of this month of grace. This I learn from the following %araxraph, culled from the New York ramatic News of July 19: (By Telegraph to The Dramatic News.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin appeared here to-night at the Columbla Theater in ‘“The Wilderness," being the first production of this play outside of New York. Miss Anglin had her role shs created at the Empire Theater, while Mr. Miller was not happily cast in the part in which Charles Richman played. The produc- tion was tgstefully mounted. Now, I must confess that I had belleved that on this particular 14th of July, when this first production of “The Wilderness™ is here said to have been given by Mr. Miller at the Columbia Theater—with that starful actor unhappily cast in the kin, a favorite with whom she lingers fpart in which Charles Richman played— that I saw Henry Miller, at the Columbia Theater, in Oscar Wilde's lightsome com- edy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Further, I belleve that Miss Margaret Anglin, ‘on this selfsame night, was at the Geysers, nursing the tag end of that deliciously juvenile ailment from which she has lately been suffering, the whoop- ing cough. As I have sald before there are many others implicated in the f{llusion, that seems to have been as successful with the audience as the famous Hindoo mango . Certainly Mr. Miller seems to have believed that he was impersonating John ‘Worthing that night, and the other play- ers to have thought that they also were immortalizing ‘“The Importance of Being Earnest,” though as actors are not per- mitted to think this testimony ‘haps fails of its effect. Then I remember the following day perusing with particular in- terest Peter Robegtson and Ashton Stev- ens on the subject, both#of whom seem to have been strongly possessed by the impersonation that they had seem “The Importance of Being Earnest” the even- ing before. Even the billboards as I re- member subscribed to the prevailing illusion, and the playgoers without ex- ception gurgled over a Wilde comedy that they supposed themselves to be seeing— there must be something very rotten in Denmark! Perhaps we are not it, how- ever, but the person, who, to lying news sent New York-wards, adds a glad men- Sacity of criticism that should direct spe- cial attention to his lucubrations. —_—e The PRESERVES On the Market