The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1902, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1902 _—hnmmm—m—m—m—m—m————— — SIGNOR CATIPANARI'S ADVENT IS AN EVENT OF R MUCH SIGNIFICANCE. By Blanche Partington. PR o Leandro Cam- in San mau 1 circles. Sig- he brother of Giuseppe rtone of e Marcel the many dis- The, to us, sec- less and is more hed than his operatic to a strong predilec- and an in- Eastern chance a Cali- ad Conservatory of Mu- t for some and modest steadily pro- mbitious and eld of activity. The con- s have come to be re- the most interesting local st of the conservat work y, as e and earnest ef- fon has found it extend its accommodations blished conveniently, not 1 commodious quar- ters on Sutter stre: There are no fewer than ten ome teaching rooms in the new cons ory—all conveniently ‘deaf to one anoth sic room where vill be 1d a beautiful little mu- he smaller music h one important ex- Otto Bendix, director and head no department; Mrs. Ellen Ben- Hansen, Mrs. Aylwin and Miss also of the piano department; iola, Nathan Landsberger and Leon; violoncello, Arthur in; har- d composition, Os- s Hansen, and ensemble es by Otto Bendix and Nathan La: berger The important ex- ception is ignor Campanari, who comes to take charge of the vocal department, Mrs. A. G. Coleman also remaining on the vocal staff. 2 ception; of the iss; organ mony, counterpoin car Weil and and orchestral Just how important Signor Campanari will be it is difficult to predict. He is one of those sumptuously gifted persons—like Pablo Casals of recent and reverent mem- ory—that occur but too seldom. The Ital- lan maestro comes to the conservatory ‘as & teacher of the vocal art, and with a wide reputation for this particular com- petence. more of an artist as thefiery Scotti was his superior in temperament, is one of For half a century Creme de Lis has created perfeet com- plexions. It removes tsm, pimpies, bloiches, sun- olly exuda- burn and a tions, leaving the skin soft 2nd velvety. It stimulates and feeds the skia, thus imparting the health- ful glow of earlier years. Indorsed by dermatologists, physicians and druggists wherever it is known. All Druggists, 50c. Or direct of us, prepaid, for S0c. Trial size, postpaid, for 10c. E.B. Harrington & Co. Los Angeles, Cal. occasion to men- | Giuseppe Campanari, as much | TEACHER OF SINGING WHO COMES TO CALIFORNIA CON- SERVATORY OF MUSIC. | Leanaro's puptis, amply known to us here. | Marie Tiziano, now appearing with distin- | guished succes with the Richard Strauss ! orchestra in London, is another. But Sig- | nor Campanari is just as widely known as an orchestral conductor. For some five years now he has .been | conductor of the Milan Philharmonic Or- | chestra, famous not only in its native city, but in Rome, Naples, Paris and Lon- don, to which cities its travels have so far been limited. It is rumored, by the way, that Mascagni will bring the Campa- nari orchestra with him on his forthcom- ing American tour, so that we shall have cpportu ity of hearing it in December next, 1 Mascagni's opera company is prograrimed to appear here. Then, Signor Campanari for some years of his yet not very long life was head of the violin department of the Boston Con- servatory of Music, and also a member of the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1 don’t know how many more things he does, but I suspect him of having an opera “‘up his sleeve,” and what not else besides. I asked Mr. Bendix, to whose combined wisdom and persuasiveness the conservatory owes the good fortune of Signor Campanar{’s engagement, just what the gifted Itallan came here to teach. With the same wisdom and a per- manent accent Mr. Bendix replied: ““Campanari will teach only singing at the conservatory, and only at the con- servatory. Outside of it he is of course perfectly free. People are largely fools. They think—is it not?—that one man must know only one thing. True, most of us are lucky if we know that! But if the doctor cures my ear, he must not cure my eye—hein?” s s s Mr. Bendix can hardly be sald to be an instance of the “one man, one talent” theory. He played all through the theat- rical orchestra in his youth, ending up as the first oboe, although his education was more particularly planistic. Franz Liszt and Niels W. Glade were the youth- ful Bendix's chief instructors, and through Gade he also became acquainted with the organ classics. Von Bulow, Tschalkowsky, Tausig and people of that ilk were among his friends, and the pres- ent Queen of England among his puplls, for Copenhagen is Mr. Bendix's native city. He tells an amusing story of his first meeting with Norman Neruda, now Lady Halle, when that celebrated violinist was visiting Copenhagen. The little Bendix, then 10 years old, was engaged to play the Mendelssohn concerto. with Neruda and went to her hotel to rehearse. the child was shy and sensitive and when the lady appeared—never handsome, and looking like an affable gargoyle in curl- papers and dressing-gown—he began to run away. However, he was persuaded nd they played together. “I did a little curious to know what sort of a pupll Queen Alexandra was, and in- quired one day. “‘Oh, stupid enough,” .Mr. Bendix replied with democratic frankness. “But, as a young girl of 18, I have never seen any- thing so absolutely beautiful. And she was very sweet and gracious. Still, stu- pid.” were not very well off in those Alexandra’s former tutor contin- 1_remember her father, Crown Prince Friedrich, calling to me one day when the term was up. ‘Mr. Bendix,’ said he. ‘Your Highness? I said. ‘I shall not be able to pay you for these lessons,” he sald, ‘but the honor, Mr. Bendix, the honor!” ‘Yes, your Highness,’ I sald, and bowed low my appreciation. But he was a good sort. We've all been short on oc- casion, and he did give me the order of the Dannebrog.” . Organ music has received this week an- other lift in the appointment of Dr. H. J. Stewart as organist and choirmaster of St. Dominic’s Church on Steiner street. It went without saying that Dr. Stewart would not long be left without an organ, and in the instrument at St. Dominic's he will have one of the best in the city, The organist proposes resuming the in- teresting series of recitals that he found- ed during his long refgn at Trinity Church and will commence his dutles on September 1. — e Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s* —_———— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candies, 50c & pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * Special information supplied daily to siners havien, and puble_men by the pp! s ’8), - Toraie strcet. Telephone Meln 1o O But | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager et ADGUST 10, 08 Publication Office...... secensan Market and Third S. F. WHY RUSH TO DEFEAT? HILE struggling to avoid trial of the suits for libel which he has already brought against The Call, Governor Gage answers the published testimony by a flamboyant threat to bring more suits of the same kind. The people, and even his supporters, ex- pected a different answer. They expected a plain explanation of the shipment from San Quentin to his home of more than a score of lots of the finest and costliest furniture. The people know that the manufacture of furniture in the prison is forbidden by law. They know that the cabinet-shop was closed by law. They know that when it was closed there was stored in it a fine stock of the most valuable cabinet woods, such as rosewood, mahogany, ebony, quartered oak and maple. They know that throughout Warden Hale’s term this valuable wood lay in dry storage un- touched, and they know that shortly after Aguirre took charge, by his order, convict skilled labor began working this State property intojthe most luxurious furniture. They know that when the stock on hand was illegally worked up, more was bought, paid for by the State, fraudulently charged to the jute mill, and worked up into more splendid furniture, unlawfully by convict labor, and that more than a score of lots of this illegally manufactured furniture was shipped from the prison to the Governor’s home. The people have been furnished fac-simile copies of bills for this material and of the shipping receipts which show its shipment from the prison to the Gov- ernor’s home. S The people know that Gage is Governor, and that they pay him a large salary for his service. They know that in addition to that he is wealthy and a large property owner. They know that, as Governor, it is not only his sworn cuty to execute the law, but to himself obey it. They know that the law of the State is intended to make it impossible for any one to obtain furniture made at the prison, and that the law long ago closed the cabinet-shop and forbade that industry at the prison. They know that the Governor should go into the free market for bis furniture and pay free labor for its manufacture. They know that even if he paid the prison for the furniture, of which there is no evidence, he was doing what he had no right to do, and paying the Warden what he could not legally receive. ; All ihese things done, are now of common knowledge among the people. They do not rest upon any statement by The Call, but upon the written, incriminating documents, the origi- nals of which are accessible to all. For publishing these shipping receipts and fraudulent bills, Governor Gage threatens another libel suit, and that is his only answer. He adds that we have admitted that this publication was for the purpose of preventing his renomination. Why not? When a man goes the second time for nomination to an office he is filling, he goes upon his record, and the record we have printed which he calls a libel is only what he made for himself, or permitted cthers to make for him. He will not answer a plain question, nor will his organs answer it for him. If he or they would, the people would be glad to have an answer to this question: “Governor Gage, being sworn to faithfully execute the law, and knowing that the law forbids the prison manufacture of furniture and the purchase of furniture stock with the State’s money for such manufacture, if you had known of the manufacture in the prison and shipment therefrom of more than a score of lots of costly furniture, to any citizen or citizens of this State, would you have felt it your duty under your oath to stop such manufacture as illegal?” Yes or no, answers that question. The people have reached the yes or no stage of these proceedings. They want an answer, but will not get it. ,Under these circumstances the nomination of Governor Gage is a party folly which wise and non-machine Republicans should not permit. Nor from the narrow horizon and the soiled and selfish standpoint of the push itself should he be nominated to sure defeat. The push wants to back a winner, and if possible control him, but the push prefers a winner of the party upon which it parasites, even if it cannot control him. Then from the standpoint of the push itself the nomination of Gage would be a mistake. The people cannot be deceived, and tens of thousands of Republicans see through all the mist and hear through all the sound and fury of the Govsmor the coming judgment, that the people will not sanctify San Quentin and Glen Ellen at the polls next November, but will punish the offenses revealed in their management, and push the push into oblivion. Not only this, being compelled, the people, a majorityof whom are Republicans, will destroy rather than admonish, the push itself. : THE CORONATION. ING EDWARD has been duly crowned and all the babbling breed of prophets and astrol- ogers who have been advertising themselves by predicting that his coronation would never take place will now have to devise some other means of gulling the credulous. Once more superstition has proven to be as futile as foolish. However, it will continue to flourish about as vigorously as ever; and in fact now that one set of prophets have been refuted by the coronation it is probable another set will rise and ask for recognition on the ground ot predictions that it would take place. . While the ceremonies and parades accompanying the coronation were quite different from the gorgeous spectacle that had been originally prepared, they were perhaps more impressive to reflective people. Edward’s hold on the hearts of men has been strengthened by the sympathy felt for him in his hours of suffering and danger, and by the fortitude with which he bore it. The announcement that he felt regret for the faiiure of his hopes of a great pageant more on account of the loss and annoyance the failure caused to his people than for any personal pain added to the kindly feelings of the public. Consequently the shouts which hailed him as he rode along from his palace to Westminster and back again were more sincerely expressive of a genuine loy- alty than would have been the uproar that would have manifested popular delight in a splendid spectacle had the coronation taken place as originally planned. In approaching death the King drew nearer to the hearts of his people and they drew nearer to him. He is just now perhaps more sincerely loved than any man who sits upon a throne. He has long been noted for a rare faculty of making and retaining friendships among all classes of people, and those friendships he now holds with a firmer grip than ever. Coming to his coronation from a bed that might easily have been a bed of death, there has been a certain solemnity in the ceremony far above any that mere royalty and pomp could give. Out of his danger, therefore, there has come much of good for himself and for his people, and his actual coronation may be said to have been more profoundly significant of his place in the organism of his vast empire than would have been the sumptuous, splendid and gorgeous pageamt that was so startingly in- terrupted. Now that the army is to have a new uniform an agitation has been started to give the navy the same great blessing. One writer on the subject says: “The present uniforfn of the United States man-o’-war’s-man is the most nonsensical and useless thing imaginable. There is certainly nothing handsome about it, and on most figures it fits like a bag on a pole.” P L T Another exploring expedition has returned from a fruitless search for the north pole with the announcement “we were baffled, but not beaten,” and now it remains for the explorers to publish a beok with diagrams explaining just what they mean by the phrase and how they would have beaten the pole if it hadn’t baffled them. AT R The employment of a gifted young woman to whistle during a part of the musical features of the service at a fashionable church in New York has proven so successful that other churches are likely to adopt the plan. It seems to be a case of “Whistle, lassie, whistle, and you’ll get the men to come to church.” el R ' So many of the great industries of the country are now operated by trusts that the next step in development will probably be the organization of a trust to control the trusts and then will come an organization to bust the trusts—after that the fireworks will be in order. On his arrival in New York recently Whitelaw Reid was interviewed and among other questions he was asked, “What about those knee-breeches?” He replied: “I cannot talk about them. They were old ones.” The latest epigram on the advisability of not talking too much comes from a Tammany politician, who on being asked for an interview on local politics declined by saying “Flies don’t get into a closed mouth.” g I By Guisard. —_ ACTOR VANISHES BEFORE HIS ART IN SIDNEY CARTON GIVEN BY HENRY TMILLER. HAVE not deserved wholly {l1 of the gods when they throw in my way Henry Miller’s Sydney Carton, that I have had the happiness to see fre- quently this week at the Columbia Theater. “The Only Way” is not new, neither is Mr. Miller in the play, but I find new spoll in the performance, at every seeing new spell and an ever-ready thrill at fits service. It seems hardly. bellevable that this 1s the same Miller who revels—perhaps tongue in check—in the treacly senti- ment of ‘“Heartsease”; or even he who gives a cool and exquisite indulgence to the gay Lord Quex; nor, indeed, any other Miller with whom we are familiar. Some- thing in the character, something in the time and story, stirs the actor in his innermost sympathies; touches the very deeps of him; and quickens his art to its highest expression. It is not the charac- ter that one would have chosen as likely to have this peculiar vivifying power; yet such it has. Miller's art has rarely lacked poetry; his Sydney Carton is poetry. The actor's genius has never wanted illusion; his Sydney Carton casts its own shadow His portraits have always stood upon their own legs, but Miller IS Sydney Car- ton to the last nerve of that drunken and lovable hero philosopher. His art is forgotten, the actor himself ] vanishes, and from his first tipsy lunge toward the cooling wash bowl to his grim march to the scaffold Carton walks the stage in his own proper likeness. The conception refuses to be considered as a plece of acting. Deducible it may be from some intricate rules of histrionism, yet there is that so far above rule which welds the conception together that its machinery is wholly lost sight of. One may try, I have tried, to see the wheels go round, yet however sternly one may present an un- fascinated front to the character’s charm in the search for its springs and dynamos, one is soon lost to all but the spell of its affluent reality. The curtain rises upon Carton, alone, asleep, fatigued by a hard day’s work at the Old Balley law courts, where he has succeeded in acquitting the lover of the lady whom he himself wor- ships at a hopeless and silent distance. The lover is innocent of his alleged crime, by the way. To Carton comes his partner, Stryver, who has achieved respectability and corpulence through Carton’s brain and his own elbow—as the tipsy wit puts it. Stryver, shaking his head over the telltale wine bottles = the table, tries .to rouse Carton, but is temporarily pre- wvented by Mimi, a waif whom Carton has rescued from the streets of Paris, and who acts as his servant. Stryver, ques- tioning the girl, finds she is in love—a doglike adoration—with her master. Then he wakens his somnolent partner. Carton’s responsive “Go to the devil, Stryver!” strikes the keynote of the whole character. An impregnable good humor, bonhomie, devil-may-carelessness, humorous phil- osophy, pervades every tone and gesture of the yawning lawyer, and arouses at once the sympathy that never deserts the conception. His attitude toward Stryver, an incarnation of the commonplace, who by virtue of the commonest of common- sense picks the brains of his betters to butter his daily bread, is shown in subtlest fashion. Miller’s gift of saying the clever thing as if he had just thought of it is nowhere more in evidence than here. His “Did you ever have an idea, Stryver?” delivered with drunken gravity and lum- inous good nature, is a gem of elocution- ary expression. So, too, his whole first scene. So, too, his Marc Antony speech before the tribunal. But it is ill-choosing between the high lights of this wonderful portrait. There is a peculiar and separate grip in each scene. To Stryver Carton is one man, genially contemptuous, keen-witted, judi- cial, generous always. Darnay, the girl's lover, knows him as a mysteriously gen- erous enemy; Mimi as a demi-god, with enmity only for himself; the plotting Parisian, Defarge, as a brilliant lawyer; and Lucie Manette, his far-away ideal, as a hopeless drunkard and her lover’s successful advocate. Mil- ler to each and all of these peo- ple is all of these things, and with a miraculous balance and truth of s that is eloquent indeed of his genius of vision. Whatever Miller has done, or shall do, that shall find easy oblivion in the years to come, one thing it infallibly ‘will not' . s crowning achievement, Sydney Carton. . Among the novelties of the fortheom' season will be Blanche Walsh's new play, that is to be more or less of an adaptation of Flaubert's “Salammbo,” less, its adap- ter, Stanislaus Stange, assures. Which reminds that Sarah Bernhardt offers largesse unlimited for a good adaptation of “Salammbo.” As the immortal Sarah has recently given fame to an American playwright, F. Marion Crawford, through his arrangement of the story of Francesca 1 da Rimini, it is, perhaps, “‘up to” another - CLEVER ACTOR WHO IS WIN- ‘ NING NEW LAURELS AT COLUMBIA. - Columbian dramatist to invade Paris with a “Salammbo.” Stange assures that his story of Hamilcar’s daughter is not such an arrangement, so the fleld is still open. - her “A Japanese Nightingale’” is another novelty on the theatrical programme for 1902-1903. The play is from a novel written by Onoto Watanna, a Japanese girl. Here are some facts about the writer’s roman- tic career. Onoto Watanna, author of “A Japanese Nightingale,” the dramatic rights to which have been secured by Klaw & Er- langer, was born in Nagasaki, Japan, twenty-three years ago. She is, perhaps, the youngest successful novelist In the world, her third book having just been purchased prior to its writing by the Harpers. Miss Watanna is of Anglo-Jap« anese origin. Her father was an English Consul, who married a Japanese woman, The marriage was not, however, of thai variety which furnishes the main motive in “A Japanese Nightingale,” for, whila Jack Blgelow married Yuki in Japanese fashion, Miss Watanna's father married his native wife after the Christian cere« mony. The early childhood and youth of the novelist was spent in Japan, but when Onoto Watanna was 15 years old her father was- transferred to Canada. Miss ‘Watanna at this time, however, became a member of the staff of a West Indian daily newspaper and went to Kingston, Jamaica, to report the debates of the legislative assembly. She spent the great- er part of a year in the West Indies. She was then persuaded to go to the United States in the hope of a literary career. At the age of 16 she began to write for magazines published in Chicago. A num- ber of years were spent by the young girl in Chicago, which she had heard was America's greatest city. Here Miss Wa- tanna found instant appreciation and speedily became a figure in literary and social life. All this time Mlss Watanna was writing storles gathered from her knowledge of Japanese life. * She developed a distinct dialect eight years ago, which other writ- ers have since endeavored to copy. She is thus the ploneer in the fleld of Japanese dialect writing in English. Lately Miss Watanna has lived in New York, devot- ing herself to her literary work exclu- sively. In private life she is Mrs. Ber- trand Whitcomb Babeock, having married the writer of that name. Many of her storles have been translated into Japa- Tnese and circulate In the land of her birth. Japan has claimed Onoto Watanna, hav- ing made her a member of their Tokio literary societies. SPECIAL DE the largest desk house in the United States, buying and sell- desks in vast