The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1902, Page 22

22 THE S FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1902. — F | MME. DE FRATE TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES AND OF EARLY BY BLANCHE TRIUMPHS PARTINGTON. * e >, o0 se""" GIFTED SINGER OF THE TIVOLI COMPANY AND HER TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. 5 i | HROUGH a river of rich Itallan r-r-r's, liquid I's, some doubtful French and Signor 50's youth- fu d obliging Englis Ilearn- e things the other morning Tivoli of Mme. de PFrate interest her many le and picturesque gesture should not be left out of the interpreta- tive list, nor her highly expressive coun- tenance. neaver view of the singer, being of those who objected to the picturesque side of her Alda, about which De Frate was a little righteously huffed, by the way, your true Itallan being royally glad of good sic, though its clothes be put on with fork and its calyes describe what curve they . Perhaps the singer's most striking feature is her fine hair, burnished copper in its high lights and usk of red in the shade of its abund- ant waves. She was once beautiful— “bella”—she tells with a humorous twin- le of her large gray eyes that flank the ciever, suffcient nose that mever yet be- longed to the fools among mankind. Signor Russo protests she is still *“‘bella,” with his gallant hand upon his heart; but Madame laughingly orders him into Mr. Leahy's office to bring out the portrait Don’t Pay More “There is no sense or economy in your paying more for your dentistry than we charge. We have been in this business for a good many years and have made a scientific study of every feature conpected with den- tistry. We do the very best, possible work, always giving a customer ex- actly what he requires and we never charge but the very smallest of prices. While our prices are low we can do the very best work for we have up- to-date methods and facilities for practicing painless dentistry, which engbles us to do your work much quicker and more satisfactory than in the old fashioned way. Painless silver Sllings . . . . §.25up Painless cement fllings a5up” Van Vroom 100I Market, Cor.6th Open evenings 'til 9—Sundays, all éay Sen Frenmcisce, Ceal. | |along with Mme. | admirers. | I was a little curious about the | of her daughter, 2 whol'y charming young | girl, whom Mme, de Frate not unreason- ; adores. TWrough Signor Russo the singer informs me that Alda (for such | 1= her name) was requested by Mascagn, de Frate, to sing in | America during his forthcoming tour in “Iris,’ but she refused, as her mother to come owing to other en- | But, according to Mme. de | Frate, the young Aida will be well heard | | from some day in the rear future. | It is unlikely, however, that she will | have so conspicuously varifed an expe- |rience as her distinguished mamma. | | With the same whimsical sparkle in her“ | gray eve, De Frate informs me that she | is clever ag an actress,” because before she was a singer she was on the | dramatic stage, playing all over Italy.| under Emanuel’s direction in the strong | | emotional roles, “Camille,” *“Frou Frou,” | “Gioconda,” “Hamlet” and the like. | Then, as explanation of the lyric ease| of her florid work, she told me that six | years ago she was singing lyric roles— Gilda in “Rigoletto,” Lucia and even Dinorah. She brought down to show me a grace- ful little tribute of Mascagni to her Lu- crezia Borgia. The cadenza in the part that for the e soprano is posed ninety-nine out of a hundred but De Frate is not under the ne- of transposing, her range reach- | ing easily high E. Mascagni has written in the singer’s autograph book this caden- za of Lucrezia in its original key, with “Alla brava! De Frate!” and his signa- ture below it, dated from Vienna, one of the singer's favorite fields. She has sung | 2lmost everywhere through Italy, partic- | wlarly in Milan, and in Paris, St. Peters- | burg, Buenos Ayres, Madrid and most of | the world’s capitals, though this is her first visit to “I'Amerique du Nord.” It came rear not being, though. Four years ago Mr. Grau offered De Frate an en- gagement to sing La Gioconda and Lu- crezia Borgia, but, as there was another lady in the case with designs upon Lu- crezia, De Frate declined the engagement —with vivid gesture of tearing up the contract. The singer had the honor to ‘“‘create’” the role of Manon in Puccini’s “Manon” in Genoa, and among the artists with whom she has appeared are Tamagno, Victor Maurel, Masini and De Marchi. She shows among her numerous trinkets a_ handsome brooch, the gift of Queen Morgherita, and the ‘“magnifica princi- pessa Letizia,” as Russo puts it, is also of those who have substantially expressed their admiration of her art. By the way, Signorina de Spada is not the only patri- cian in the Tivoli company, De Frate be- fug the daughter of the Marchesi de Frate of Montemurlo—I think that's all, PETS ‘While I was setting down the above lengthy label I was amused but not sur- prised find Signor Russo and the lady pulsi y shaking hands, with “Lu- erne,” “Si, Lucerne!” passing between them. It seems that at Lucerne in the country of Willlam Tell, Madame has had the honor to win the only prize awarded to a woman for rifle shooting at a tar- get. She has eight first prizes from dif - ferent places for the me unusual ac- complishment, _explanation richly sut- ficient of the enthusiasm of Signor Russo, who is a crack shot of the Schuetzen Bund. In return compliment, Mme. de ¥rate pointed to her broad brow, then at the clever tenor, saying gravely, “Molto talento, molto talento, artist.” Then Sig- nor Russo modestly regretted that he had rever had the opportunity to appear here 1120916 ?rxx)e:ahin Whllé:h he“[hgugh(—by our e—that he could rea “H“l‘r)'hBlu»';t % y do something, “Who is who is so fine 2 Blas? "— I tried to recall. o “Signor Russo,” promptly returned the little tenor, laughing gaily. It was a little refreshing to hear in re- ply to the stock question, “Do you like California?”’ that the singer thought, in her first days here, that Californians had no need of Dante’s or any other Inferno so far as nolse went, what with cars, wagons, winds, bells and other peace-de. stroyers—the whole pictured in vivid pan- tomime by the plump ring-laden hands. But the singer thinks we are a musical kimnd, nevertheless, and that we will con- sent’to hear opera in a foreign tongue she regarde as rather curious preof of the fact. They will not in Italy, even ‘Wagner being given in Italian. De Frate also paid handsome compliment to Mr. Steindorff and the Tivoli orchestra, that, for itz size, she thinks particularly ef- fective. in THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. IOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adcress Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager BUNDRY ;. x e s A Sl LA e | R Ly AT Publication Office @ ............... teeeiiieeeei..... Market and Third S. F, THE GOVERNORS ORGAN. N the old Democratic push there were dissensions and divisions. After Buckley sent Hearst to the Senate, the part of the push represented by the Examiner attempted to run alone and turned upon Buckley and chased him out of the city. Then that faction attempted to run things in the party, but it has never been successful. 1t fought Stephen M. White, but he went to the Senate over its sack, head and squadrons. In various ways during recent years has the oid Examiner-Buckley feud been in evidence. The Examiner and Buckley have never got together in Democratic politics, and though Buckley has not the power he once wielded like a king, the city is full of his adherents who look upon the Livermore rancher as reverently as others do the memory of the Sage of Monticello. Unable to agree upon anything else, there is truce between Buckley and the Examiner in the support of Gage. The divided Democratic push pushed together in the primaries in this city and also in Los Angeles. It is a singular fact that this harmony of the opposition bosses in his support is the only harmony that has followed the policy of the Governor. He has torn and dis- tracted his own party, and the only united support he can boast is that given him by the bad elements in the opposition. The best newspaper organ the Governor can command is the Examiner. It has very art- fully used its news columns to promote his candidacy; when he has desired to reach the public he has used interviews in that paper. So conducting himself as to be excluded from nearly every Republican paper in the State, he resorts to the leading nondescript sheet for comfort and publicity. The jarring and disunited Democratic push tasted the novel sweets of harmony in uniting in his support, and even then his repudiation by his own party was so apparent that the Examiner had to conceal it by claiming everything in sight and giving the Governor a glad head- line, as if he were of its own household. Taking its figures as they were printed, it is quite suggestive to note that outside the cities of Sar Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento Gage had only 97 votes. That means that out of 830 votes in a Republican State convention the Gevernor can muster only 97 outside the boss ridden precincts of the three cities. The members of the party in the rural counties guarded its interests and prevented its capture by the Examiner-Buckley push so well that Gage can boast, according to his morning organ in this city, only 97 votes outside the three cities. Even that is probably an overestimate, but granting it to be correct, we declare that that percentage of the rural Republican vote represents Gage’s strength in the party. He had no greater percentage of Republican votes in the three cities. What he got i addition was given him by the combined Examiner-Buckley push, and is not Republican strength at all, nor intended to be cast for him in November. Putting Alameda County in with San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento, as counties controlled by large cities, it will be seen that the city vote in the State convention is 290, while the country vote is 540. Of the city vote Gage carried 207; of the 540 country votesshis organ gives him only 97. His country vote represents his real and whole strength in the Republican party. His city vote represents the loan of the Democratic push, added to about the same percentage that he has in the country. It requires no seer nor prophet to find in these figures that if he is nominated it will be to certain defeat. The Republicans of California will not accept a_candidate nominated for them by Buckley and the Examiner. POLITICAL . REDEMPTION. R. WASHINGTON GLADDEN has collected "and published in book form a num- ber of lectures and addresses dealing mainly with social questions. In one of these lectures delivered at Yale the doctor in'speaking of the need of reform in municipal government says: “It is the mer and women who sit every Sunday morning in the pews of our city churches to whom this call comes first and loudest. They, more than any others, are responsible for the redemption of the cities. The cities are in the melancholy condition in which we now find them because they have worn too ioosely the bonds of civic obligatior” ¢ What is there said of the responsibility of the better elements of the people for municipal misgovernment applies with equal force to their responsibility in State affairs. It is not in city governments only that there has been corruption and a surrender of the welfare of the people to predatory politicians. The anpeal of the lecturer therefore runs to State politics as well as to Iocal politics, and now that a State election is approaching it behcoves every good citi- zen to give due consideration to his responsibility as a voter charged with the duty of electing honest men to administer the affairs of the State. Commenting upon the evil influences of bad government, Dr. Gladden says: “The tone of public morality is affected, the convictions of youth are blurred and the standards of honor and fidelity are lowered.” There is no disputing the truth of that statement. Every citizen is aware that when the evil committed by a man in high office is exposed there arises at once from his partisans a cry—first, that the exposure has been made for political purposes, and second that every other public official has been just as bad as the one exposed. Such statements unquestion- ably have a tendency to corrupt public morals. In the first place they are not true, and in the second place they seek to extenuate the commission of rascality by asserting there are other rascals than the one accused. It is the invariable defense of a detected regue in office to say “everybody does it.” A slander is thrown out against the whole body of public officials, and the public is asked to pardon a known offender because other men are charged with having been “just as bad.” Where such doctrines are taught and accepted the standard of public morality necessarily declines to the lowest levels. It is the duty of good citizens to emphatically protest against such excuses and palliations offered on behalf of corrupt officials. It is the duty of such citizens to stand firmly for good government and for the maintenance of a high standard of official con- duct. As Dr. Gladden says, the question of political redemption rests with them. { EXPLOITING L,ABRADOR. OPULAR interest excited in Labrador by high expectations of the probable results of the exploration undertaken by the Glazier party has given rise to many rumors con- cerning the coming exploitation of that little known wilderness. One story is to the effect that a syndicate of Canadian capitalists will construct a railway across Labrador and establish hotels and stations for tourists and sportsmen at places favorable for shooting, fish- ing and boating; while another report has it that J. J. Hill will construct a road from some point on Lake Superior to a port on the coast of Labrador and thence run a steamship line to Liver- pool by a route fully a thousand miles shorter than the route from New York. While it is not likely that either of those great schemes will, be undertaken within the near future, it is unquestionably true that Labrador may prove to be a very rich country as well as something of a paradise for sportsmen who are willing to rough it for the sake of genuine ad- venture. The interior of the vast peninsula is now virtually an unknown land. Professor Pack- ard of Brown University, who is said to be as fully acquainted with the region as any other man, describes it as being “vast, shadowy, gloomy and forbidding.” The recent rich developments of Alaska and the Klondike country have, however, excited in the minds of the adventurous an ex- pectation that riches may be found in Labrador as well as in the Klondike, and accordingly re- ports of the explorations now under way are awaited with eagerness not only in Canada, but in this country, where there are plenty of capitalists ready to assist in the exploitation if there be any show of profit in the enterprise. & By reason of all these expectations and rumors Labrador has suddenly become one of the most interesting corners of the world. It promises a rich reward for explorers even if no indus- trial or commercial profit can be gained from it; and it may well be that on its return the ex- ploring party will have a tale to tell equal to anything in the way of discovery the world has heard for many a year. A New Jersey man who advertised for a wife described his actractions in such glowing terms that he got an immediate offer from a woman who represented herself as a paragon of all feminine excellences. A meeting was arranged, and then the advertiser discovered that his catch was the very woman he had divorced six years before. They talked the matter over and decided to remarry. Thus is the value of judicious advertising once more demonstrated. Neither the husband nor the wife knew the virtues of the other until they read of them in the newspapers, o+ AMBITIOUS ARSHMALLOWS, tears, super- latives and all, I found three full-grown specimens of the | matinee girl behind the scenes | at the Columbia this week. They : had every right to be there, for they | are all young stars of the Miller-Anglin company, and I had gone with the par- ticular intention of discovering which way their youthful starships wished to shoot. It is not usually difficult to find out that sort of thing about people, the distaste for discussing the alluring subject of one- self being as rare as it is reprobate. But | 1 had some trouble in persuading these | young women to remember their own af- | fairs, in face of their all-engrossing pres- | ent jdolatry, Margaret Anglin's Camille. | | They were ¢éngaged in analyzing it point | | by point as 1 went in, with httle raptures, by the way, and a marshmallow to punc- | tuate a special enthusiasm. Only their schooled appreciation of the Anglin meth- ods distinguished them from the current matinee girl, not at all their frank and | overflowing enthusiasm, that in Miss El- | liston’s woodsy contralto, Miss Hornick’'s breezy mezzo and Miss Waldron’ mpid | treble, was a very pretty thing in ay. Martha Waldron came fresh to the work | with the graceful disgrace of a lost cue at rehearsal, through Miss Anglin's too vivid | realism. She is the Nanine of to-morrow night’s cast of “Camille,” and found her- | self in tears instead of in place at her call. Then Ethel Hornick is to lend her | stunning personality to Olympe, and { Grace Elliston will be happily cast as | Nichette—facts elicited in a break in th | Camille worship. While I am about it | may as well also mention that Henry Mil- | ler ‘will make his first appearance as Ar- ! mand Duval to-morrow night, and Mr. | Walcot, Miss Wyndham, Mr. Gotthold, | Mr. D'Orsay, Mr. Allen and Mr. Court- |leigh will also be prodigally scattered | | | i | throughout the cast. . . Miss Waldron, dramatically considered, is just eight weeks oid, having made her first public appearance here in San Fran- cisco that length of time ago. She as- | sumed the onerous role of a young lady with nails to be manicured and five word: to say in “The Gay Lord Quex” as he: first effort; them, at very short notice, took up the part of Gwendoline Fairfax in | i “The Importance of Being Earnest,” left | vacant_by Margaret Anglin's indisposi- | tion. | | Since then Miss Waldron has been seen as a waitress in “The Wilderness” !and as a condemned aristocrat in “The | | Only Way"—a thinking part._ { Like Miss Anglin, Miss Waldron is a | product of a New York dramatic school, i and the same school, by the way. The young actress had six months’ training | there, that, with a slight amateur ex- perience, constitutes her whole histrienic education. Her coming here, after so short a period of study, is the result of an opportune visit of Mr. Miller to the | | school where Miss Waldron learned her | dramatic A B C's, when her work in the graduating exercises o pleased the actor- | manager that he invited her to make the tour to California. She gladly accepted and is now fairly launched upon the life theatrical. Unlike Tom Sawyer, Miss Waldron does not “have to work,” and again unlike that scrumptious voungster, likes to. She has quite exalted ideals of her art, the ideals of that kind of person who “does things" sooner or later. Rumor has given her a millionaire papa—who may or may not be true, I did not inquire—but nature has dowered the young woman with a lively love for the stage that has effectually in- terfered with her career as a society girl. Even the suggestion that from her con- spicuously clever work in *“The Import- | ance of Being Earnest” I thousht her | destined to shine in the society drama met with a rather disappointed “Oh, do you think so?” ' But certainly the delicate distinction, airy humor and assur-d grace of the young plaver in her interpretation of Oscar Wilde's sprightly heroine mark | Miss Waldron as an actress peculiarly | well attuned to the need of the soclety drama, though unquestionably not limited | to its regime. She has all the qualities | imperative to that kind of suecess, with | others that prophesy further distinction; in a lively fancy, insight, sympathy, tem~ perament, manner and a certain fragile | and elusive charm that reminds of Miss Anglin herself, whom, curioysly enough, both in appearance and voice she rathe: resembles. Altogether she is one of mi most promising debutantes that have been seen here and though she has no fixed goal as yet will doubtless be heard from In no uncertain fashion and very soon. O Bthel Hornick of ours, whose ha; ' ndsome figure and face are among the most pic- turesque adjuncts of the Miller cdmpany, knows very well what she wishes to do. She gave me three guesses as to her artis- tic intentions, but without avail. It is not at all uninstructive to know what the actor thinks himself capable of, an opin- {on very often opposed to what his friends think on the same subject. E. J. Morgan vowed that he would never play Romeo. The Grand Opera-house management per- suaded him to as woeful an exhibition in the part as it is possible to conceive label- ed by a good actor’s name. But Mr. Mor- gan did wish to play Shylock, and it is a Question of interest as to whether he ‘would ave succeeded better in the Shakespearean role he did wish to at- tempt than in the one which his in- stinct taught him was gh ly out of his '‘BEFORE FOOTLIGHTS AND THEIRFOND HOPES BY GUISARD. gamut. It seem: L s S reasonable to think he Now as to Miss Hornick., Looking at BEGINNERS + -+ | | DEBUTANTE WITH THE MIL- | LER COMPANY WHO SHOWS REMARKABLE PROMISE. - * her “more than common tall” and hand- some figure, her merry eyes and a mouth with rich kinks of comedy in its turned- up corners, I conjectured Rosalind as the actress’ desire; then the capricious Bea- rice, and lastly, uncertainly, Portia. But it was none of these, but a character that of all others from the Shakespeare gal- lery should best fit Miss Hornick, Kather- ine the Shrew. Ever since she was a member of Augustin Daly’s company, watching night after night at the forbid- den wings, under Daly’s omniscient twin- kle, while Ada Rehan Shrewed it to John Drew’s Petruchio, the Califo: rl has dreamed one day of playh Katherine. Modestly she hopes she may be capable of the role in three or four years, and with her vigorous ability and consclenceful ef- ambitions also hakespeare-ward; she would be Juliet or Ophelia if managers and fate permitted. There are managers not a few who would chalk out a very different path for the fresh-faced and dewy-eyed young actress an’ she would go that way, for Grace El- liston won her spurs some time ago in musical comedy. She has a very pretty voice. sweet and round and well trained, and six times as mwuch of it as is neces- sary for the comedy musical. 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