The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1902, Page 22

ob THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1902. i -~ | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. rwo vounc caLirornians| | MILLER-ANGLIN SEASON - * |{ TWO YOUNG CALIFORNIANS " HAS COME AND JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Propriefor Adcress Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager WINNING FAME AS _ CONE. SUNDAY .......: R T A L BRTE o AUGUST a1, 1902 | VOCALISTS. ’ . § bvouss Office....... e @ s mmgirie s nei e 40444 s ve oo WETKGE anid Thied, 3 F: s it Bl [ ) -— - AMERICAN FOREIGNERS. ' il et o ': { HE statistics of Greater New York and of Chicago show an enormous percentage of for- { eign born residents. While the number of such people would not cause uneasiness if dis- tributed in small ‘groups in the rural districts, their tendency to stay together in the | large cities presents a problem. When so kept together they use their own language and assimilate with Americans so slowly asto make them, in effect, a persistent foreign com- | munity, without the means, and, perhaps; without the desire, to learn our institutions and be- | come, in spirit and purpose, Americans. It is this tendency that causes the attempt to extend to | all foreign immiigrants the principle of the Chinese exclusion law. | Within the last few years the enormous immigration of the Magyar and Slavonic races . has raised great apprehension. This immigration began while the law authorizing labor contracts with aliens was in operation, and the impetus gained then has continyed. | Under these circumstances a recent incident is of the greatest interest, not only to || i | Americans and the aliens immediately concerned, but to all and every class of foreign immigrants. ] In Hungary a deputation has been appointed to bring to Hungarians and their congeners ' of the Slavic race the flag of Hungary and a large shipment of Slavonic textbooks. The flag | 4 is inscribed with the legend, “Be ye dauntlessly loyal to your fatherland.” The textbooks are | e intended to teach this sentiment and impress it upon the children of the immigrants to whom it - is addressed. & There is a national Slavonic society in this country, numbering 13,000 members, of which i | Mr. Anthony F. Ambrose is president. Heretofore unknown to the public in this country, Mr. Am- | | | brose steps into the focus of interest by his response to the purpdsed flag and textbook event. | In an interview he says, speaking for the society he represents: “The presentation of this flag should not be allowed. I, as president of a society of 13,000 Hungarians, speak the sentiment of my confreres. We came to this country. We receive good wages, we support ourselves well. The object of our society is to make the members become citizens of the United States, as soon as | | " we are able. We cannot serve under two flags. I have caused notice to be issued to every mem- || CLEVER YOUNG CALIFORNIA { ber of the society not to participate in the parade or reception of the deputation.” | g;g’és‘;};gfiszp’éfing;gmca Further sholving his American faith by his works, Mr. Ambrose has wired to the Secre- 5 3 tary of the Treasury protesting against the admission of the flag and textbooks free of duty, and = e s e e SR \ has also written the Pfesndent to the same purpose. This action is as ple:asant as it was un- l slso appear. e R looked for. The American people have been too much accustomed to the disturbances, disorder | i e e R I s i ik AN Wit | | and opposition to the la_ws of the country manifested by t}.le immig}'ation of the last few years. l ;’;‘:fih:}?";!!s L‘ix:z';i'."ifi'ffi: n'l-t‘l‘:"m processions. whoss winding shieen | ‘ They have been led to judge the whole mass by these things. It is now most agreeable to hail |, 4 | Will succeed in giving an ample dramatic with ecstacy that grim old painter Piero di Cosimo, the Miller-Anglin season of pl has come and| gone, and only in the succeeding | drabness and aniline horrifics shall e become fully conscious of the t splendor of their day. The com- that foregathered at the Columbia ear is one seldom paralleled in this ra of the star, and certainly not been equaled here for many Leading” men and women have ed on the casts with reck- with the result of an hroughout has ‘been su- ing. There has been abroad If-effacement for the beauty of effect that is as rare as it is desirable. From Miss Anglin’s Mimi, low toned and delifcately tinted as the author faintly hoped for his impression of the little white flower of the , to the subdued smartness of the Nanine of Miss Waldron—youngest member of the company, the center-of- the-stage spirit has beautifully been ab- sent. There has been no angling for the illegitimate laugh or tear, with murder- ous effect to the sense and balance of a scene; no slapping paint on a point to shove it into ruinous prominence; no flashing of scarlets where the playwright has signaled cool grays. Remarkable as the season stant and singular feature, one rarest and to be remembered with most grati- tude, and ong most reminiscent of a fa- bled day when art, and not Mammon, or the demon of advertisement, ruled the roost. The note was struck clearly in the first play of the season, , “Trelawny of the Wells.” Mr. Miller had a minor part, that of Tom Wrench, with a haf dozen or s0 lines to deliver—that the most minor of leading men would consider himself In- sulted to be asked to undertake. Law- rence d'Orsay, the Dundreary of the com- peny, had as many words, with the chance to wave a magnificent pair of red side whiskers for a brief moment on the stage. Then there was Mrs. Charles Wal- cot with another few lines, but a brilliant bit of pathetic opportunity as Violet Syl- wvester, the superannuated actress who falls to the post of wardrobe mistress. Thumb-nail sketches mosgly, these figures in “Trelawny of the Wells,” but splendid- ly characterized and their every line re- | produced with magnificent certainty by the Miller people. Now one figure and then another claims grateful recognition. There was Grace Elliston, absolutely mum, with a solled gown and a smudge across her pretty face as a London slavey. Courtleigh’s sardonic *ha, ha!" as his un- | appreciative manager offers him one end of the pantomime dragon to interpret, still rings in the ear; and Fred Thorne, Ethel Hornick, Mrs. Whiffen, Arthur El- liott, Charles Gotthold, Lillian Thurgate, with Miss Anglin and Mr. Walcot in the leading parts, will not be easily forgotten in an ensemble that would have per- FULL SET OF TEETH on Patent P.arl Plate, which does not cover the roof of the mouth, for a short time $4.00 per set. By DREXLER’S LATEST DISCOVERY We Fill Teeth Absolutely Without Pain. Pure Gold Fillings. Other Fillings Gold Crowns Crowns that look like natural teeth..$3.00 give a written guarantee with all We our work Care of the Write for our Free Teeth. Book on Drexler Painless Ilemalico. OF NEW YORK. San Francisco Parlors, 1104 Market st., corner Turk one that | has been for many things, | this note has been perhaps its most con- | TALENTED ACTRESS WHO WON THE HEARTS OF SAN 1 FRANCISCO PLAYGOERS. | | [+ = | suaded Pinero even unto Powell street, | | for the pure satisfaction of seeing his.| | comedy played just as he wanted it. ) | The single figure that stands out most prominently in the season is, of course, Miss Anglin’s Camille, though her Sophy Fullgarney in the “Gay Lord Quex” isl more purely clever, its regime and man- | | ner being so vastly foreign to Miss Ang- | lin's experience. Her Camille, in the key | | of Mrs. Dane, was less unexpected, though its emotional sweep was such as to surprise even those who believed most thoroughly in the genius of the young actress. The modernity of treat- ment, the naturalness, the sincerity, the | stripping of all mawkish fustian from the | | part, were all among the things to be expected, but the depth, finish and bal- | ance of her work, in a yole that has been | & test effort with the greatest emotional actresses of the day marks Miss Ang- lin’s Camille as an epoch in the American drama. Mr. Miller’s Sydney Carton shines out not less vividly from the season’s can- vas. The part is not new to us, but its eloguent humor, genial satire and heroic swing are just as compelling to-day as when Miller first painted them for us. | “The Gay Lord Quex” was almost as prolific of good portrajts as ‘“Trelawny | | of the Wells,” with Miss Anglin's Sophy | Fullgarney, with her tang of the gamin, | her cheap gentility, her sound, kind heart | | and devious morality, well in front of | | everything else. Jennie Eastace, as the Duchess of Strood, did an exquisite bit of fooling, clever to a degree, light and fine in touch as a Helleu dry point. D'Orsay as the malarious Governor of Uumbos, Africa, was another figure of eminent fun, perfect of its “alluring!” | kind. Miller himself was not wholly | | happy as Quex, its key being something | l out of gear with his temper. | | It was a delightful Miller one saw in that divinely ridiculous comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Here came in one of th€ actor’s most remark- | able accomplishments, the art of saying the clever thing as If it were made on the premises. I remember nothing that | touches to surer laughter than the ap- | pearance of Mr. Miller as John Worthing, | lamenting the (invented) death of his | (fabricated) brother. Sable garbed, even i to the black bordered handkerchief, he re- | counts the sad story with a farcical lilt | that shatters all seriousness to impossible | atoms, Miss Waldron, the novice of the com- pany, had the luck to drop in for the part of Gwendolen Fairfax, left vacant by Miss Anglin’s indisposition. She had the further luck to enter into its airy persi- flage with the seasoned air of the veteran, and has certainly here begun a career that is highly promising. Mrs. Whiffen as Miss Prism was charmingly absurd, and Fred Thorne's Dr. Chasuble was no- ble. Miss Elliston as the epigrammatic ingenue, and Miss Hornick as the schem- ing mamma, both fell happily into one of the best pictures the company has given us “The Wilderness,” in spite of its really strong close, has left a comparatively thin though graceful impression; and “Lady Ursula,” always attractive, and ‘‘Hearts- ease” complete the roster. The mountings of the plays have been | models of their kind, and the stage man- | agement all but perfect. In these, as throughout, the governing genius of Hen- ry Miller is to be thanked, am® it is he to whom we owe a season of which we shall not soon see its like again. Mrs, Fair’s Will Filed. All doubt as to the disposition of the estate of Charles L. Fair's wife was dis- posed of yesterday by the filing of her will. The document was turned ovi Probate Clerk Edward Casey by the Un. ion Trust Company and was filed with the County Clerk shortly before noon. The contents of the will ‘were published in The Call of Saturday morning. Another deed relating to the compro- mise of the heirs of the late Charles Fair and wife was recorded yesterday. The deed covers the conveyance by Hannah E. Nelson, Abraham G. Nelson and Charles J. Smith to Mrs. Theresa Oel- richs and Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt of proverty on Pine and Sansome_streets, Eleventh and Mission streets, Jefferson and Laguna streets, 109 lots in Fair's sub- division of Holly Park, property in Rich- mond district and in San Bernardino County, together with the family- plat in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The consideration mentioned 1 the deed is §10, A an alien leader who, speaking for thousands, expresses gratitude for an asylum in our country and does justice to the better conditions and enlarged opportunities found here, under our liberal institutions. Mr. Ambrose must be a man of strong and enlightened mind, for he sees that the future happiness and progress of his fellow-immigrants lie in becoming Americans and not in remain- ing Hungarians. Instead of preventing or retarding assimilation, he desires to promote it. He ob- jects to making Magyar the permanent language of his people, and resents the attempt to impose upon them textbooks in that language, as injurious to their welfare. The incident is' of ‘deep significance. It is easy to see that, as we are receiving annually hundreds of thousands of alien immigrants from Continental Europe, if each nationality adhere to its own language and its individual traditions and spirit, we will be practically receiving and planting in the midst of us, not alien immigrants alone, but foreign States, with their centuries of national hatreds and feuds, to supply the means of constant strife and disorder. Any alien who appeals to his immigrant countrymen to be first of all and everywhere for- eigners, adhering to and propagating their foreign language, habits and hatreds, is not a friend of the class to which he appeals, and is certainly lacking in every characteristic required of an Amer- ican citizen. If the example of Mr. Ambrose be followed by other leaders influential with all classes of cur alien immigration, a threatening problem wi]lfiso]ve itself in accord with the Ameri- can genius, purpose and necessity. ¥ WATERFALLS IN HARNESS. WRITER for the New York Sun credits California with leadership among the States in the development of electrical energy for mechanical purposes. California, he says, has made three world’s records in long distance electrical transmission, and is now preparing for the achievement of further marvels in that direction, so that in some respects we lead not only the States, but the world. In the course of his review of electrical enterprises in the State he says: “It has been estimated that the waterfalls in California have more than 240,000 horsepower, and that about 45,000 of this power has already been converted into electrical energy and sent to Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, Pomona, Redlands, Folsom and San Diego for lighting and motive purposes. Five more electric companies will have their long distance transmission systems in working order by next September. About 50,000 more horsepower will be developed by them for use in Cali- fornia and Oregon, while still other electric companies arc beginning work on electric power plants that will cost from $100,000 to $500,000 each, and will harness more mountain streams to do man’s work in distant cities and villages. In a few years more the Pacific Coast will have the finest, cleanest and cheapest power for factory use of any part of the United States.” It is gratifying to have that clear statement of the development of electrical energy in Cali- fornia presented to the Eastern public at this time. As a rule the people of that section get but a fantastic idea of California from their newspapers; for in the main the State is spoken of as a land of big trees and big lies, and but little information is given concerning the resources and the op- portunities that are here awaiting the coming of men with the skill and energy to undertake man- ufacturing enterprises. What is here said by the Sun is by no means a complete summary of what has been done in the way of developing electrical energy from the waterfalls of the mountains, and it certainly does not exaggerate the possibilities of the future. Neither does it take into account at all the energy that is to be obtained from oil as fuel. Still it will show to enterprising investors in the FEast what possibilities are here for successful manufacturing since power is now to be obtained so abundantly and so cheaply. Nearly all kinds of goods sold in our markets are imported from the East because in the past we could not well afford to manufacture them ourselves, owing to the lack of cheap fuel. The conditions are now changed. Waterfalls and oil wells together give us ample/power for all purposes. We have now to set them to work. STARVING INDIANS. HESE are not East Indians, famine smitten, and the agony of their suffering made known across thousands of miles of ocean. They are American Indians, the Navajos, a tribe that had many of the arts before they saw a white man. It is reported to the Government at Washington that 30,000 of them are about to be destroyed by famine. The waters, formerly used to irrigate their fields and pastures, have been diverted to irrigate for white men. Their fields are barren and their stock has perished. They have eaten their ponies, and now pant and starve in a desert that used to be a fertile land. These Indians make pottery, are skilled metal workers in iron and silver, and are weavers of such excellence that their blankets are the treasures of any collection. But the race is gasping in famine. Do not the Americans owe them as much sympathy and relief as we gave to the East Indians, who were lately starving on the peninsula of Hindostan? The first appeal has been made to the Government, of which these red people are the legal wards. Let it be promptly answered and help given, without the usual delay of red tape. Then if more be wanted let us feel the touch of common humanity in behalf of these fellow-men, and out of the vast abundance that is upon the land let them be nourished. When this is done and present famine is averted and immediate need supplied, let the Government see that these, its wards, have restored to them the means of making their fields again fertile and their pastures productive. : People who have passed through their reservations in the past have noted their industry, their careful tillage of fields of wheat and corn, their garden crops, and evidences' of their thrift and capacity for self-support. Give them back the means and they will make no further call upon the white man’s mercy and charity, for they are men, of a proud race, and ask no charity when permitted to take care of themselves, T S . 2 vitality to a part ustally conspieuous only for vocal sugar plums. As in “Lucia,” De Padova will, of course, have the name part. HEN the Orpheum has a good thing musieally it is usually a very good thing, and late pro- grammes have been well sup- plied. Last week's contained one of the best of these welcome oases amid the “Holy Citles” that would have found timelier mention here last Suriday had not the current stage mishaps eaten up the space. Even then, also, there was not | the wherewithal to complete the week’s chapter of accidents. It had to go un- mentioned that that amiable histrion, Mr. Robert Fitzsimmons, had a rib broken in | the strenuous course of “The Honest Blacksmith” at the Central Theater; that Signorina Tina de Spada had her tragic brow lald open by the clay pipe of Mar- | cel in *La Boheme” at the Tivoli; that a chorus girl, also at our Ilittle opera- house, had her nose broken in the cigar- ette girl melee in the first act of “Car- men”’! But to return to Miss Decker, for it is of her I wish to speak. Miss Decker ap- peared with that rather untidy tenor, Signor Clodio—it is spelt thus when not spelt otherwise—and with Signor Abram- off, whose Mephisto has seen better days, in the prison scene from “Faust.” Not- withstanding the fact that the law of the “suitable surroundings” was hopelessly violated, the act being sandwiched in be- tween a “‘comedy-duo” and a conjuror, and further that neither Signor Clodio nor Signor Abramoff was adequate to his role, the latter measures of the scene lifted into illuston through the sheer beauty of Miss Decker's voice. It is a pure, round, powerful, dramatic soprano, remarkably even in quality and used with ease and considerable grace. The singer has all that is needful in the way of range, and is, moreover, a very attractive and beautiful girl. That she shows as yet only slight signs of temperamental development need not alarm the many ad- mirers she has gathered in, as Miss Decker only reached her nineteenth year last week. Santa Rosa claims the young woman, | though she was educated mostly in San Franelsco and has received all of her voeal truining—only two years of it—from Signor Abramoft, once of us, but lately of | New York. Miss Decker now counts New York her home, and has sung rather fre- | quently and with success in that city. She sung for Edouard de Reszke on one occasion, and the distinguished basso put a very encouraging tone ia his comment. Mme. Nevada, to whom the young girl first appealed for opinion as to the possi- bilitles of her voice, expressed it differ- ently. “Yes, she would study,” said the Nevada songstress, but in reply to the di- . The following note, bearing date of Au- gust 2, from Dr. H. J. Stewart, will in- terest all choral singers, and more, a number of others who ought to be choral singers. The doctor says: I have just returned from the first rehearsal of the Cectlia Choral Society, that took place this evening in the art gallery of the Mechan- fes’ Pavilion. There was a good attendance and we did some excellent work with the num- bers selected for the first concert, that wiil take place in September. Will you kindly mention that the membership list is still open, and also that we need move tenors and bassos? The soprancs and altos are really excellent. I am very hopeful of the future of the mew so= clety and I think that at last we have the germ of an organization werthy of the city. e PERSONAL MENTION. Judge Barker of New Brunswick Is at the Palace. W. J. Berry, a mining man of Selma, is ‘at the Lick. Preston Woods, a mining man of Fol- som, is & guest at the Lick. George R. Colby, a manufacturing jeweler of Boston, is registered at the Lick. $ Jacob Weisbein, proprietor of a depart- ment store at Grass Valley, is at the Call~ foraia. E. B. Nelson, a dry goods merchant of Merced, is among the arrivals at the Cali- foraia. J. B. Daniels, a rancher and extensive land-owner of Chico, is among the ar- rivals at the Grand. H. S. Deming, president of the City Bank at Santa Cruz, is at the California. J. J. Chambers, an attorney of Redding, is at the Grand. D. Destombe and P. Goeman, both of Paris, are at the Palace. They are wealthy wheat buye®s and are here on business. They will visit Southern Cali- fornla and Yosemite before returning to Europe. ————— Musical Programme at the Park. The following programme will be ren= dered at the park to-day: . March, “A Prince of Good Fellows”..Clauder Cornet solo (selected) ... Fantasia, from x:x: Trovatore rect question as to whether the voice was R £ . haells Iltkely to turn out well ultimately said, | Selection, Lucders “Ob, only the Lord knows that.” R e T - 0 Miss Decker is still in the hands of Signor Abramoff and will most likely be taken for an Italian tour next spring by Signor and Mrs. Abramoff. G Another young Californian leaped into pleasant prominence at the Tivoli last week, Miss Marie Welch, whose Micaela came as a distinct surprise. Miss Welch is a San Francisco girl, a pupil of Miss Ida Valerga, and well known in choir circles. Her only previous operatic ap- pearance was with the ill-fated opera company of Del Carlo, the iceman im- presario, that made its single memorable appearance at Odd Fellows' Hall last season in “L'Amico Fritz.” That was on a Monday night, the next performance advertised for Wednesday, and I well re- member that only a “Flylng Dutchman' sort of storm prevented my happening in on the creditors’ chorus (allegre furioso) that greeted the second night’'s audience in place of “L'Amico Fritz.” But I heard very good things of Miss Welch's work and was not therefore surprised at her feat of essaying the Micaela with only a twenty-minute plano rehearsal as prepa- ration. The young lady has a pretty voice, clear, pure and flexible, and acts with much intelligence and grace. She has a habit of “feeling for the pitch,” an uncertainty in hér attack, that mars her work considerably, but otherwise she is fairly well schooled. But it Is very promis- ing effort and the young singer improved remarkably with each appearance. Miss ‘Welch should in time make a neat name for herself. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* l Townsend's California Glace frutt and candles, 50c a pound, in artistic A nid t for Eastern friends, ce present for ‘:sx“'uuut st., Palace Hotel buflding.* } Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Cli Bureau (. ‘l)."-' &D-. e e Tetaghcns When the Tobin, charged with criminal assault upon Mrs, Adele Somers, was called in Judge Law- lor's court yesterday neither Tobin nor ttorney made appearance. The Judge g’e’:l:red 'f‘n’bln'l bonds forfeited and is- sued a bench warrant for his arrest. . “Lucrezia Borgia,” to be given this week at the Tivoli, will be a novelty to many of its hearers. It was given six years ago at the Tivoli—inadequately—and has not been presented since. The BURN is one of the best examples of Dnnhml:: fi: fertile genius and was composed, it is FR ECKLES amazing to remember, in twenty-five days. The libretto was written for Mer- | | “PON-SRTTA" is nature’s true food and cadante, by the way, by Romani, but the | | er—a skin powder commission for its musical elucidation | | Rarmless and instantaneo: 5 Rl ol st S8 “TON-SETTA™ never Send ¢e for -‘ Ful es was turned over by La Scala to Donizetti because of the incapacitating illness of Mercadante. As Mme. de Frate will have the title role this week one may look forward to a al pleasure. It will be remembered that the singer was engaged by Mr. Grau to sing this part and that she is famed throughout Italy for its interpretation. | Zongh! will agaln emerge from obscurity