The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1902, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1902. . SOME IMPRESSIONS || | CONCERNING A ROMAN || | JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SONDAY & 5200 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. _ Address Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager .SEPTEMBER 7, 1902 MELODIOUS OF VOICE | P ublicatian Office . . By Blanche Partington. i - —— : . o, p e 2 . FAMOUS BASSO WHOSE SPLEN- DID VOICE IS FREQUENTLY HEARD AT THE TIVOLL E= - + S a cure for what our great-|about the basso in The Call, when with grandmothers used-to call the H5E s” the singer thanked and ma: cepted me. I know of nothing te el e gl ro Bartolini,” hour’'s goss er, as he is vrote Dado, “‘cel- baritono di Roma.” *I, too,” he proudly, then wrote, “nato a * this handsomely voiced young friends give him 29, his ene- es 30 years—an operatic youth, is a le Roman. s a noble singer, as we here well t the best of these is mu: t, Jtalian opera. It is not a small e e, el g T ¥ 5 ious, that reminds satisfyingly of e | to be assured that you hold|Regye “an eminently scholarly and ar- | trumps in the world game; and more, ic method and a thorough if mnot | the game is worth the playing. Nir. found sympethy of timbre—that is, | settled by these | however, stead deepening. Those re- n unaware that | membering his work of last year will note this year considerably increased dramatic facility, a more agile instinct, more humor and greater freedom added to his aforetime ample equipment. These shoulé tell valuably in “Mefistofele,” that | Dado, with touching faith in my. infiu g | ence, and the assistance of Signor Ni | poleont, requests me to say that“he hopes quisite solemnity of re-| 5, Much 00 again to sing in. riewing tour to the jan gesture of far more t This brought up roles, and, after rning—as if 1 were | D. owns to i | an angel and a den- guenots,” Don Carios, Leporello in | responsible for these | “Don Giovamnni” and “Roberto il Dia- sapient concet ery anxious crease v : liments, to the| .. Very different, Roberto and the other | e mabie. dia | diavolo,” 1 suggest, and Napoleoni, et bos 55 B N Win . apt arms whirling like windmil ered the ughingly accedes, “more devilisht Stapolennt which is picturesquely expiained to Dado. #rom all n anything from a | - Mefistofele is more—more”—I begin, | assc profundo, with- | With tempting hiatus— was there to interpret. His Like a gentleman”—the interpreter manner, mq betokened a flatter- | quaintly puts it. ing semse of the importance of the inter- | Then, for my benefit, the singer re- | wiew: of my importance; of his own | called his first North American visit in | gesponsible importance as interpreter, | 18%—he, like the rest of the singers, being | and above all, of Sig >r Dado’s immenseé old-time visitor in South America. He significance—{n sbort, of the delight came with leson in '88, and created a consequence of ev 1 nd everybody sLrong impression—‘furore’’ Napoleoni What price, M mans, for ten|Phrased it in New York, Philadelphia, minutes 1o be or Napoleoni? | Boston. owever, Madame Sembrich | | - | heard him there, and approved him to the The dentist attitude rather prevailed | substantial extent of engaging him rorb at first. 1 suspect, indeed, that Dado is | ber opera company. The basso also ap- but young at the business, halling as he | peared with Sembrich at *‘Carnaggia’ does from & country where, wholesomely, | (Anglice Carnegie) Hall, in concert, where @bstrect music rather than its current | his pure and finished style must have | interpreter is yet chiefly considered. He | made him very welcome. sat solemnly, not unafraid, handsomely | I heard Dado last week, by the way, in flling e rether dental-jooking chair in|a fascinating little programme at St. | the ladies’ reception-room, with Napol. | Domin: Church. He sang with the eoni at bis elbow. To start things, I|mnobility and breadth that characterizes asked the name of his teacher, and Dado, | the best of oratorio work, Stradella’s peaching for my yet concealed weapons, | “Pleta Signore,” “The Confutatis Male- | gravely inscribed his maestro’s name | dictis,” from Verdl's “Requiem Mass,” op the blank sheet—much with the air (and the “Pro Peccatis,” from Rossini's | of one making his will, then signified his | “Stabat Mater.” Signor Dado has the un- | srillingness, with a do-or-die glance of his | usual felicity to be equally acceptable in mice DBrowny-gTay eyes, to Write answers | opera and oratorio. 1o all the questions interest of jmper- | “With the recent American history of tinence might suge However, Na-|the singer we are familiar. Mr. Leahy poleont soon made things less painfully | heard Dado on Sembrich’s first memor- om_du{hby hexdpABh;glz that l_t!]'fl'?_ the per- | aple visit here and then engaged him. He Son _Who hed sald _masnifico’ things | has, of course, a wide Italian experience | - | and has appeared in St. Petersburg, Mos- | cow, Vienna, Madrid, Santiago, Buenos Ayres and other opera-loving communi- ties. Not in France, however, where, per- haps, Bignor Napoleoni faultily transiates, “they are jealous.” . The singer has also other ambitions, I asked Napoleoni to inquire what he was pleased to do for amusement. Dado, with much majestic thumping of the heart, ex- | { plained that be had Jleanings to the Shakespearean drama, “drama historica.” “All exclamations,” said Napoleoni, po- tently illustrating in gesture, ‘he very fine at.” “Oh, Salvini!” I said. Dado laughefl comprehendingly. “Not quite,” his deprecating hands signaled. But it took politics to wake the sparkle in his eyes, to shake the plump, clerical figure out of its bishop-like pose. L ven- tured to ask again an account of Dado’s leisure hours. Then the spirit of a patriot awoke, and through Napoleoni he pro- | claimed his worship for Mazzini,Garibaldi and the new leader of the people, Depu- | tato Bovio, “grande fllosofante, grande poeta.” Of how he desired to help the peo- | ple that things might be “tranquillo—felice —moderato—pacifico.” Of how he loved to speak among them. Of d’Annunzio, great poet of a new school, not yet accepted by | his country, and a reformer of the first magnitude. 1 confessed a reading ac- | quaintance with Mazzini, and he shook hands with me, to an admiration for Gari- baldi, and he almost embraced me. Little Jtaly waved her flag, and doubtless, if time had served, I should still be listen- ing to patriotic ' dithyrambs. After re- gretting that I could not comprehend the sparkling Italian that Dado, regardless, was pouring into my ear, I took my leave, taking thoughtfully under consid- eration Napoleoni’s suggestion that it would be nice to acquire enough It “so can make understand yourself.” Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth is “coaxed back” by Anita Cream, Applied at night and removed in the morning, thus imparting the full i | benefits of its medicinal nature, Re- [l | moves Tan. Freckies, Muddiness, i | Pimples, Moth and Liver Spots, Ml | Directions with each jar. 50c of ff | druggists or of us, prepaid. ! | ANITA CREAM & TOILET COMPANY Los Angeles, Cal. T is significant that the announcement of the-death of Virchow is made at the same time as that of an increase in the average length of human life. Virchow was greater than the rulers of men, greater than the conquerors of nations, for he led the world in a conquest of the mighty forces that attack and destroy human life. Up to his day medicine was directed, as a science, to the cure of diseases. It had developed diagnosis and reasoned from symptoms forward to cure. His researches in histology, pathology and bacteriology first enlightened the world in the prevention of disease. As a biologist and anthropologist he was without a peer. His study of life included the concurrent investigation of the preventable causes which make it brief. All of our modern system of sanitation is founded on his patient re- search and conclusions. When he began, medicine had no future, in the sense of progress beyond the study of weap- ons to fight discase when developed. But he surveyed and opened to it a field so vast as to stagger the imagination. His work was in a laboratory with a microscope. Helmholz, Koch, Pasteur and Niessen followed where he led. He took upon himself the responsibility of obsoleting a large part of medical science'as he found it and of replacing this with a'body of scientific principles so large, so dignified and so necessary as to require the rewriting of libraries and the abandonment of lore that had all the strength of tradition and practice to sustain it. Medicine had stood still. It had failed to comprehend the significance of Jenner’s discovery of vaccination and had treated it much as Pliny Secundus had the origin of life. Virchow delved in minute things. He found the specific origin of diseases. He differentiated the bacteria and watched each species in its sinister attack up- on the citadel of life. Tracing these minute and malign organisms back to their own origin, he taught the possibility of its extinction and touched there the power to prevent disease by extirpa- tion of its cause. Laymen see at once that this did not eradicate curative medicine, for knowl- edge of the cause of disease and the preventive power with which that knowledge equipped the physician armed him also for conflict with the developed malady. So Virchow equipped the profes- sion with the new power to prevent, and wonderfully enlarged its power to cure. Past four score hre lies dead, the greatest man of his time. The human race, owing to him the lengthening of life, uncovers and stands reverently in acknowledgment of a debt it can pay only by cherishing his memory. When he discovered that disease is a change in the living cell, and developed cellular pathology, and going further taught that there is a specific and preventable cause of the cellular change, while he did not grasp the power to create life, he mastered the power to prolong it. Over the mystery of the origin of life no man may ever shed the light of absolute knowledge. But who shall say that the power to prolong it is secondary to the power to create? Virchow’s last appearance before the assembled scientific representatives of medicine was at the session of the International Medical Congress in Moscow in 1897 to read his paper on “The Con- tinuity of Life, as the Foundation of Modern Biological Research.” Before thatassembly were princes of the housz of Romanoff, brilliantly uniformed generals, the masters of strategy, and with splendid records as the destroyers of armies in battle. But Virchow, the conservator of life, the promoter of longevity, the conqueror of pain and suffering and sorrow, was the hero of an occasion which seemed to Lave been made for the sole purpose of expressing the honor in which he was held by a profession that he found learned in the cure, and made powerful in the prevention, of disease. The announcement of his death dwells upon the vexations in his political life as a member of the Reichstag. Let it be remembered that his conflict with the political rulers of Germany was caused by his conviction as a philosopher, that the great physical power of that empire would be better devoted to the prolongation of life by education and sanitation than to its destruction by war. THE PERSIAN QUESTION. F late there has been a good deal of ill-feéling between Germany and Great Britain, and the ‘animosity has been carried so far that it has been deemed advisable in Germany to organize an association to combat it. The association recently put forth an address on the subject and warned Germans against the folly of cherishing ill will toward the Brit- ish, the argument being that a cordial understanding and mutual good will is necessary,between the two great branches of the Teutonic race in order to prevent the Slavic races from obtaining an undue predominance in Europe and Asia. The appeal of the association comes at an opportune time. There is need just now for a clear understanding between the British and the Germans with regard to Syria and to Persia. It is stated that the Russians are seeking to compel the Sultan to appoint as Governor of Syria a man who will be subservient to Russian influences. Now it happens that Germany has large railway in- terests in Syria and that those interests conflict with Russian railway schemes. It is the aim of both parties to get an outlet on the Persian Gulf and incidentally to control Persia. Great Britain also has important interests with respect to Persia, so there is a triple game to be played in that part of the world. The British and the Germans can make their schemes work together, for by connecting the German lines through Syria with British lines in India it would be easy for the two to form a great through route to compete with the Siberian road. Neither of them, however, could very well arrange a profitable combination with Russia. Hence the desirability of establishing friendly re- lations between the two opponents of Slavic control of Asia. . The Shah’s visit to Europe is not a miere holiday. He is there to do high politics, and it is likely that “something is doing” every day of his stay. It will require great tact and firmness on his part to maintain his independence, for the three powers now bidding for his favor are quite ca- pable of settling the question by dividing his country among them without asking his permis- sion. PARDEE RATIFIHED. / LAMEDA COUNTY, the hotbed of political enthusiasm and for years the home of lead- ers of both parties, has been the theater of many stirring events in the history of party war- fare. But it is safe to say that the whole past panorama of music, red fire, cheers and exul- tation was excelled by the single event of Friday night when county and State turned out to ratify the nomination of Dr. Pardee. . > It was not merely a night of enthusiasm, but an occasion of strong and sober declaration of principles and purposes on the part of the nominee and of plighting of allegiance by the leaders of leaders, who are themselves the expression of the party’s purposés. The candidate declared himself upon every question, and with especial force and clearness upon that issue of issues, the historic attitude of the Republican party upon the interests of American labor. The party can afford to enter the campaign with his words as the legend on its battle flag, fearless of the result. Ala- meda Courity is good for a majority for Pardee so large that those whose votes prevent it being larger will regret that they were not amiaBle and did not make it unanimous. Voting in the air is an unwholesome exercise which thousands of the fellow-citizens of the Republican nominee will re- fuseto indulge in. " The great meeting in the home of the candidate was a worthy prelude to the general ratifi- fication to come on the 15th, when Senator Beveridge, a national leader, a man who worked his way from a barefooted working boy to the Federal Senate, will have something to say about the debt of labor to the Republican party. A New Jersey automobile frightened a farmer’s horse. The owner of the machine stopped it and told the farmer to bring his horse up and let him get acquainted with the machine. The farmer did so, and thereupon the horse whirled around and proceeded to kick the machine to pieces, breaking his own leg in doing so. The courts are now called upon to decide whether the farmer must pay for the wreck of the machine or the automobile man pay for the injured horse, gz i e It is said the big corn crop of this year assures a larger supply of beef next year, but there are some men who would prefer working up the surplus corn into whisky and keeping beef prfces where they are. They claim that the American people eat too much meat as it is, and that some- thing should be done to stop the gluttony. B —— G It is said the verses of welcome read at President Roosevelt during his recent tour through New England are worse than the British coronation ode, and now we know why the P ident rushed the thing so fast that even electric cars couldn’t keep out of his way. R While the coal supply is getting short in the East the diamond supply is increasing, may yet hear of men patenting an invention for making coal out-of diamonds, res- and we 4 ™ MENU THEATRICAL THAT PROMISES MUCH PLEASING DIVERSION i : By Guisard, L T may be interesting this week to look over the long list of good things the- atrical that New York will have this season, and that we may have later if we are lucky. “The Theater,” that has a particularly interesting September issue, has a pictur- esque description of Mrs. Fiske's new play, “Mary of Magdala,” a scriptural drama by Paul Heyse, with the Magdalen as its central figure. It will shortly be pro- duced at the Manhattan Theater. Miss Ada Rehan will make her reap- pearance this season, most probably in an arrangement of Meredith's vivid story, “Diana of the Crossways.” Miss Julia Marlowe, at the Criterion, will have several important plays. Per- haps chief in Interest is the “‘Electra’” of Perez Caldos, a drama concerning the Jesuits that caused a very lively time down in Mexico recently and is responsi- ble for riots by the score. “La Reine Filammette,” by Catulle Mendes, will, however, be her principal production. A drama by Henry Esmond, ‘“Grierson's Way,” will be “tried out” and there will, of course, be Shakespearean revivals. Miss Blanche Bates, after a phenomenal run in “Under Two Flags,” will have a new Belasco sensation this season and Mrs. Leslie Carter continues in “Du Bar- ry.” Miss Viola Allen will have a new Hall Caine play, dramatized from “The Eter- nal City,” by Caine himself. Mascagni has composed incidental music to it. E. M. Holland will impersonate the reigning Pope and E. J. Morgan and De Belleville are also in the support. Mary Mannering will have a play from the Clyde Fitch factory, its title yet un- announced. - Maude Adams will revive “As You Like It,” “L’Alglon” and ““The Little Minis- ter,” and Annie Russell continues in her success of last season, “The Girl and the Judge.” Later, Miss Russell will appear in Madeleine Lucette Ryley's London success, “Mice and Men.” Mrs. Patrick Campbell, in spite of the dreaded coarsening effect of the American tour, will be in New York shortly and will appear in the Garden Theater in “Aunt Jenny,” a play by “Dodo” Benson, and in Sudermann’s new play, “Es Lebe das Le- ben,” ranslated by Edith Wharton. “Monna Vanna,” the censored Maeter- linck play, may also be presented by Mrs. Camppbell. Eleanora Duse’s visit will bs among the most lustrous affairs of the season. The Italian actress will present as her chief production “Francesea da Rimini,” with “Citta Morte,” and others, Miss Ethel Barrvmore has a comedy called “Carrots,” as the new season’s of- fering. It is a last year success of the Theatre Antoine in Paris. Miss Blanche Walsh will offer an adap- tation of Flaubert’s “Salammbo,” done by Stanislaus Stange. She has also an- other-play by that passionate paragraph- er, Rupert Hughes, entitled “What Will People Say?” Pinero's much discussed play “Irls” has been secured by Miss Virginia Harned, who will give it at the Criterion, with Hilda Spong and Oscar Asche in support. Miss Herrjetta Crosman has a new ro- mantic play, “The Sword of the King,” and may do Ellen Terry's famous suc- cess, “Nance Oldfield.” Mrs. Sarah Crowell Le Moyne has a new play, “Among Those Present,” by Glen MacDonough; and Grace George will be seen in a new costume play by Frances Aymar Matthews. . . . Richard Mansfleld will make *“Julius Caesar” his chef d'beuvre of the forth- coming season. Mr. Mansfleld mysterious- ly promises to play both the title role and the part of Brutus, from the view- point that in either part alone his public may complain of not having enough of him. Everybody is wondering how he is going to do it. Mr, Mansfleld also pur- poses reviving “Othello” and “Timon of Athens.” o GO E. H. Sothern can find nothing to im- prove upon his Just Huntley McCarthy’s play of last year, “If I Were King.” He will also add “Hamlet” to the large Shakespeare list of the year, James K. Hackett has a dramatization of Winston Churchill's n.oul. “The Cri= NEW LEADING LADY OF THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE I STOCK COMPANY. e sis,” successfully tried out last year in Pittsburg. “Lazarre,” Mary Hartwell Wood's story, recently issued in has been dramatized by Otis Skinner and Aubrey Boucicault. Mr. Skinner will shortly present the play. “The Right of Way,” Gilbert Parker's latest story, has been dramatized by the author for William Faversham, who will present the play this season. “‘Sherlock Holmes,” that will be given here shortly, is Willlam Gillette’s standby for the season. It is said to be particu- larly stunning. “The Mummy and the Humming Bird” is the lightsome title of John Drew's ve- hicle for this year. The comedy is Isaac Henderson and comes with a solid reg:xa.xign from London. It was to ba ' produced on Thursday lasf rdna v last at the Empire Stuart Robson has not been able to dig- cover a new play, but will add yet an- other Shakespearean play to the tale in a revival of “The Comedy of Errors.” As Bertle the Lamb in “The Henrletta™ Mr. Robson will also continus to delight. “Monte Cristo” James O'Neil will this year be identified with a play to be adapt- ed for him from the French by Harrlet L. Ford. Another of Miss Ford's efforts will be exploited by Kyrle Bellew in “A Gentle- man of France,” with which Mr. Bellew will go on the road. Nat Goodwin and Maxime Elliott will play again together this year, for the last time their manager has decided. Their play has not yet been decided upon, but a dramatization of “The Light That Falled” and a new version of Miss Ry- ley’s play, “The Altar of Friendship,” have been mentioned in this connection. Again more Shakespeare, and this time marking a conjunction of two stars long shining together, Louis James and Fred- erick Warde, who will present “The Tem- pest.” Mr. James will be the Caliban and ‘Warde Prospero. Martin Harvey, a new English actor, who is hailed as Irving’s successor, will be one of the foreign visitors to appear, Mr. Harvey was the inspirer of Freeman Wills in His arrangement of “The Only . Way,” and among other plays will pre- sent this, so fresh in the local mind from Henry Miller's Sydney Carton. ‘““After AlL” “A Cigarette Maker's Romance” and “The King’s Children” are in repertoire. Mr. Harvey is to make a: American tour—that Is not likely to mean us, though. Charles Hawtrey is another English visitor, and will bring “A Message From Mars,” in which he won fame last season, and “The Man From Blankley's,” a new London comedy. Only Gillette of all this list is booked for local appearance, but there is to be also that charming old veteran of the boards, J. H. Stoddart, who will bring “The Bonnle Brier Bush,” in which. he plays a wonderful Lachlan Campbell, to El Francisco. For the rest one can only pray. —_—— Cather- ha Call, uickest 't the girl who fires up Tt isn't &ir] e that makes the best match. News. Prunes stuffed with apricots, Townsend's.* —_— Townsend's California Glace frult and candles, 50¢ & pound, in artistic fire-etched Doxes. 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