The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1902, Page 24

BY BLANCHE o * FRANCISCO CALL, SUXNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1902. EY LEANDRO CAMPANARI IS SILENT REGARDING SYMPHONY WORK HERE PARTINGTON. T { CLEVER VIOLINIST, WHO WILL | BE HEARD AT HENRY HOLMES' | CONCERT TUESDAY NIGHT. | | < ) HAD hoped this week to be able to persuace Signor Leandro Campanarl, | as a distinguished conductor and pos- | sible factor in symphony work here, | to talk on the subject for those inter- | ested in this noble branch of the art, now | looming up so insistently on the horizon. | ut Signor Campanari will not discuss the | ter for publication, saying modestly | wat as a stranger and one only imper- acquainted with local conditions not yet the right to an opinion. | it will be before the signor im- he has such right I cannot of | but at the amazing speed with which the brilllant Milanese is be- | coming familiar with our local musical | strength and weakness it cannot be very long. There is already hardly a prom- inent church choir or cafe orchestra that he has not heard, nor a theater that hs | bas not visited, while the Tivoli of course has received a large share of his atten- tion, and Signor Campanari has been here te four weeks. Astounding encr- conclusion, however, the signor ed at as a result of his pilgrim- ages, one that seems o be happily general among those who should know, namely.; that there is in San Franasco, in Califor- | » altogether unusual proportion and quality of native musical genius, togeth 3 urprising forwardness of mu. sical development. . “We are a very curious people here,” 1 explained for the conductor’s enlighten- ment. “We think & whole lot of our-| selves, of our State and of all the things | that are ours, and yet. when a person of | | distinction—like yourself, signor, pardon me—honors us by desiring to become one of the community, we immediately ask, “If so-and-so was so distinguished -and | prosperous in his native country, why in —sometimes ‘thunder,’ sometimes ‘blazes’ —does he come here? 1 have been asked | a dozen times at least, ‘Why, Signor Cam- panari, who was director of the violin de- partment of the Boston New England | Conservatory in its desirable days and of the Cincinnati Conservatory, who was violin solist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under, Henschel, under Nikisch, | and again under Gericke; who was, until a few months ago leader of the celebrated Orchestra Sinfonica Milarese, that gave | a brilliant series of concerts at La' Scala | and all over Italy and in Paris; also 150 | concerts at the Imperial Institute in Lon- don; who is an operatic conductor of dis- tinetion, and who, as a side issue, turns out vocal pupils like his brother, Giuseppe | Campanari, of the Grau company; Marje | Tizi recently appearing with Richard | orchestra, and others; why such | as this comes to California? ” 1‘ “Is that a question?” Signor Campanari | asked smilingly. “As you please,” I fence. “I, myself, | am 1ully convinced that it is our trans- | cendent climatic, physical, mental, spirit- | ual and moral virtues that brought you out here!” { “Mancinelli—you know him?—first told | me about California, after he came here two years ago with Mr. Grau,” began | Signor Campanari. “Many had spoken to him about the then existing symphony | situation. I believe my friend mentioned | me frequently in the connection. He | knew I liked your country, that my fam- | ily wished to live in America, and that this place was more like Italy than any other | of the States. He was very enthusias- | tic in praise of your city, I tell you, and truly it i 2 poem! Most beautiful! I liked mot the hills at first, but now I | forget and feel only how beautiful they are. Rome's seven hills!—but you have | seventy! But it was because I unfler-l | | stood that there was much work to be done with music, and much to do it with, that I came out here, so that when Mr. | Bendix invited me to become a member of his conservatory faculty I was very glad of the chance to Jook over the ground.” “And no! “And mow?” sald Signor Campanari, nuizzically regarding me, “well, I am most happy to be here and shall be here at | least for a few months. But after; well, #f you are two good to me, and do not make me work ‘terreebly’ hard, I must go back where they are more cruel! I am & true American, you see—don't know how to be happy without: too much to 28 >0 » Fere 1= a London notice of the sym- phony conducting of this new gquantity in the symphonic fleld .culled from the jthan four musical affairs, all of excep- * * | Musical Courier. It concerns the open- ing concert of the series of one hundred and fifty that Signor Campanari conduct- ed at the Imperial Institute of that city: So, unheralded, Leandro Campanari had to wage his battle. And when it is considered in how short a space of time he put prejudice end adverse criticism to flight, it appears to be rothing short of marvelous. For his weapons in this fray be used confidence in his ablli- ties and absolute control of his orchestra. These men are carefully selected musicians, end their ensemble playing s well nigh per- His baton is truly a magic wand, with Which he sways his men and the audience at e fect. When we add to this wonderful influ- ver his men musicanship of the highest obtain the secret of Leandro Cam- success, O T Tuesday evening next will have an em- barrassingly rich programme—no fewer tional interest, being bilied for that even- ing. The Loring Club will give the first concert of its twenty-sixth season at the usual place, Native Sons’ Hall. An at- tractive programme is announced, with Mendelssohn’s “The Happy Wanderer'” and Schuppert's “Twilight” as novelties. The club will be assisted by Mrs. Beatrice | Priest-Fine, whose appearance for the first time in concert here since’ her return from New York will doubtless: create much interest. The club soloists will be H. H. Barnhart and W. E. Dyer, The first of a series of chamber music concerts that Henry Holmes announces will also take place on Tuesday evening next at Heine Hail. Mr. Holmes will be assisted by Miss Ernestine Goldman, planist; Hother Wis- mer, who will be the viola player, and Paul Friedhofer, cellist. Little Kathleen | Parlow, the very clever child violinist, and pupil of Mr. Holmes, will also be heard. Fred Maurer will accompany. Another affair, much looked forward to by many, is the “Hour cft Song,” that Edmund Zavier Rolker announces for ;}I‘A:“Same evening, to be given at Steinway Last, not least, will be the Tivoli “Don Pasquale,” that will have its first per- formance on that evening. « e+ e The eighth in the interesting series of organ recitals now being given at Trinity Church by Louis H. Eaton will take place cr Thursday evening next at 8 o'clock precisely. Mr. Eaton will be assisted by Miss Elena Roeckel, contralto, and Miss Elsie P. Sherman, violinist, and the fol- lowing programme has been arranged: Bach—Fantesle and fugue in G minor. Fum- agalli—Allegretto villerecclo. Merkel—Adagio in E major; (a) Saint-Saens, prelude to ‘“The Deluge” ; (b) Bach, air for the G string; Miss Sherman. D'Evry—Concert overture, Le- mare—(a) “"Chant Sans Paroles’; (b) ‘‘Gavotte Moderpe.” (a) Stradella, Pleta’ Signore; (b) et ey Ellnfllmml(ul, Miss ullmant—(a) egy In fugue style; (b) Processional March. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton is at the Grand. Truman Reeves, State Treasurer, is at the Grand. F. L. Caughey, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Lick. E. W. Wright, a jeweler of Bakersfield, at the California. A. Fisher, an extensive cattle man of Wells, Nev., is a guest at the Palace, Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent oPt lP\mlh: Instruction, is registered at the alace. S. Walters, a banker of Healdsburg, is at the California, accompanied by his daughter. George 8. Nixon, a well-known banker and newspaper man of Winnemucea, is at the Palace. James C. Tyrell, proprietor of a paper at Grass Valley, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. J. W. Kaseburg, a capitalist and mine owner, who resides at Sacramento, is reg- istered at the Grand. Judge W. R. Kelly, general solicitor of the Union Pacific, with headquarters at Omaha, and deemed one of the most able lawyers of the West, has returned from a trip to Catalina and is registered at the Palace. » is ——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* ————— Townsgend’s California Glace fruit and gnmlleikfiml: a puund,‘ i;x lrg:(lc fire-etched oXes. nice present for stern f €29 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding o™ —_————— Special information supplied daily - to business houses and public men byy u:z Preex Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY ... Bk s b R BT GETORER S ida STEPS FROM SHIP'S DECK TO BOARDS OF STAGE AND Publication Office. LITTLEFIELDS CAMPAIGN. \ T will pay the public men of California, and all of our private citizens, to study the campaign methods of Mr. Littlefield of Maine. As a legacy of early days, and a bequest from the potent passions of the Civil War, * public discussion of politics, in this State, has been largely infused by personalities. A ten- dency to secure ends by personal abuse and defamaticn of motives has been too often manifested, and reason has been too much retired from the active scene of our political fights. But, aiter all, reason is the only element that should be present and potent in a solemn decision made by the people at the polls. Prejudice and passion shift their base and change their object. One day they cry out against this and the next against :hat. Variable as the wind, they are the unsafest of guides in public action. When a result is attained by appeals to either or both, nothing has been gained, nothing advanced, no progress made. The truth of this is evident in the effect of every election ever carried here by appeals to prejudice. It has simply brought office and power to the men who used it as an instrument to excite the passions of men, but has brought no good to the State, no progress to the people. Our meaning will not be misunderstood. We desire simply to appeal to the judicial and judicious mind of the people, that it may be roused to the use of reason only in public contests, realizing that only ‘the results reached by reason can benefit anybody. This sober-minded state of the people may well be refreshed by study of the methods of Mr. Littlefield. His personal career is exceedingly honorable. In the best sense of that term a self-made man, he began-life in that best of schools, manual labor, using its avails for his intel- lectual advancement. His natural talents were trained and cultivated by his unaided exXertions as a laborer, and he went forward solely by the force of his own qualities, conquering and compell- ing every larger foothold that he secured in the world, by the use of rgason. A close reading of his Stockton speech reveals his method and the instrumentalities upon which he depends. Saluting, in a gallant spirit, his poliucal opponents, he credits them with rightness of motive and personal good intention, vindicates their patriotism, and then proceeds to a keen analysis ot their position on the lines of reason and experience. In this there is no per- sonal abuse, no ascription of wrong motive, but an indictment of the lack of reason in their scheme of government. Against that he sets the reason and experience which justify the posi- -tion of the Republican party. His opponents must admit that to much of his statement only prejudice can frame an answer.” Reason brought to the task fails and flinches, at least as far as its use has been attempted by any who are now on the stump advocating the Democratic tickes and State piatform. Mr. Littlefield realizes that a very bad man may advocate very good politi- cal principles, and that a very good man may hold very had political principles, and that, there- fore, the merely personal equation is absent entirely, and only reasons and principles remain for discussion. In that discussion he exhibits the utter chaos into which the Democratic councils and principles have fallen. The declarations originating with the present leaders and conventions of that party 2re as @treaked and striped as Jacob’s cattle, as fantastic as the dress of harlequin and as kaleidoscopic as the gowns of Dolly Varden. This condition is not novel. The Kentucky Democracy has recently elected to the United States Senate asgentleman who, in the lower house .of Congress, advocated free trade in everything except the hemp raised in his district, for which he demanded protection! It is the same here. Not one of the Democratic candidates dare advocate free tre&de or a revenue tariff on raisins in Fresno, nor on oranges in Riverside. But Democratic stump speakers in the Middle West are heard denouncing protection to the raisin. and citrus fruit monopolists of California. Sober-minded and reasonable men appreciate the risk of putting in power a party which in national matters holds such a variorum and impossible policy. There is no doubt but Mr. Clevelang stood firmly upon his tariff message of 1887. But the Congress of his party elected with him in 1892 held chaotic views that were inconsistent with either protection or free trade. The result was a nondescript tariff law that was incapable of classification{n line with either prin- ciple. It was as if there were contention whether an upple should be peeled with a knife or a handsaw that resulted in a decision to peel it with a cordwood stick., The very threat of such inadaptation of business means to business ends threw the industry and commerce of the country into confusion, panic and distress. / ¢ Sy Surely Mr, Littlefield is doing his patriotic duty by reasonably. discussing a present situa- tion which implies the same outcome. He and all Republicans stand upon a principle of uni- versal application, to Maine and California alike, and to all the wide country between. Its test is its universality ot application. If the Democracy took its stand upon the equally universal prin- ciple of free trade, and proposed its equal - application to all things and to all parts of the country and to every industry, there would of necessity be a high contest of pure reason, and the propo- nents of each principle would have to resort to reason as their single weapon. But, in the existing situation, reason is the Republican weapon, and none other is needed, or could be used, in advanc- ing the Republican position. Therefore we have of necessity on the Democratic side a large number of talented and patriotic gentlemen under the sad necessity of letting reason alone and madly appealing to prejudice, passion, class hatred, human greed, envy, jealousy and ignorance. Their plight is not an inspiring spectacle, and they deserve the sympathy of their fellow-men. and no good American should neglect any missionary effort to reform them, to clothe them and put them mn their right mind, for it is sad to see so much energy and talent wasted in trying to do harm, when if rightly directed they might do so much good. Mr. Littlefield’s method will be very instructive and of lasting benefit to the public life and the public men of California. In this sense it is a necessity in our campaign. His presence is not needed to secure a Republican victory here, for that was certain from the beginning, but as an educating influence he is of the greatest value. — BANK OF FRANCE ROBBERTY. VER in the pleasant land of France there is trouble and vexation of mind. The Bank of France has been robbed. The amount of money stolen is not large, being but little more than $43,000, but that fact does not console the sorrowers. They were brought up in the belief that the Bank of France could not be robbed, they -have held that belief with all the faith of a moral conviction, and now it is proven they have been wrong all along. The Bank of France can be robbed, for it has been robbed, and if some thousands of francs have been taken this time, why may not some millions be taken later? Why indeed may not some of the precious jewels stored there be stolen and forever lost to the owners, who have fondly deemed them safe in a place where neither moth doth corrupt nor tlieves break through and steal? ; The amount of fuss that has been raised in Paris over this comparatively small robbery is difficult for Americans to understand. In this country we are not startled when we learn that the securest vaults have been looted by burglars or plundered by men entrusted with their care. It appears to be different in France. Dispatches from Paris inform us that the rules and regulations under which the deposits in the Bank of France are guarded were drawn up by the great Napo- leon, and irom that day down to the recent theft there was' never a robbery. of so much as a single franc or jewel or paper in the custody of the institution. Once indeed in 1837 an officer of the bank, while carrying 1 sum of money across town, was waylaid, knocked down and robbed, but that was outside the bank walls and the incident did not disturb public confidence that within the bank everything is absolutely safe. So confident has the whole of Europe been in the security of the vaults of the Bank of France that the institution has become by far the largest custodian of wealth in the world. A re- port from Paris estimates that the jewels deposited in the bank are worth more than $300,000,000 and that the other valuables are wo_rth in the market in excess of $2,000,000,000. Perhaps the fig- ures are exaggerated, but it seems-indisputable that the bank holds enormous sums of money, papers of well nigh inestimable value and costly articles of every kind. The owners of these arti- cles have believed them to be absolutely beyond the possibility of loss. France has gone through revolution after revolution since the bank was established. Paris has been under control of mobs and of conquering armies. Still nothing was lost from the bank. So public confidence was without a suspicion of doubt. Now comes the robbery and the nation stands aghast. In the mean- time the authorities are trying to find out how the thing occurred, for it seems the robbers were so skillful they managed to get away with the gold withou leaving a particle of evidence o show how they operated. : ‘ J By way of meeting the rise in the price of coal somebody advised the burn wood, and now the report is that they van’t meet the-price of wood. Eastern peaple to @) ......... e taieesisaereineoi... Market and Third, S, F » <] I had already finished off three tragedi- SUCCESS COMES TO HIM BY GUISARD. 'F HE gallant Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Captain Absolute, our old friend | Bob Acres, Lydia Languish and the | immortal Mrs. Malaprop were just | delivering their brave epilogue to | “The Rivals” when I reached the Grand i Opera-house the other morning in search | of the ascendant star at that theater, | Wilfred Clarke. “The Rivals’” will be the bill this week, third and last in the series | of standard comedies that the Grand | | Opera-house is now doing so well, and | iMr. Clarke, like his father before him, | will be the Bob Acres. It all sounded | very rich and satisfying, even in the rough, after so hopelessly much of the | modern work, and it is truly a privilege | to be able to see these fine old plays | given so well. With the exception of Jef- | ferson, who makes an occasional appear- ance in this repertoire, Clarke is about the only person that may be looked to for | i these comedies. It isn’t his fault, though, he tells me, nor was it the wish of his distinguished | father, J. Sleeper Clarke, that he should become a comedian. | “No, I had never thought of becoming | &n actor until two days before I went on the stage,” said Mr. Clark, eying grave- | ly a lengthy cigar, that he doubtless | thought a deserved recreation . after re hearsal. He is a pale, grave, young-eyed quiet sort of fellow, not one whit like his rollicking Tony Lumpkin, or, indeed, like one’s notion of the ccmedian at all,-and with already a life behind him that would | serve most of us for three. | “I began in '67,” he went on, with a meditative puff, ‘“was born-then. After- | ward went to Paris, and came in in my | youthful years for a slice of the siege. Then 1 went back to England, went to college there for a while and then became a midshipman in the merchant service. I loved the sea, love it yet and was very | fond of travel. There is no discipline like | that taught aboard ship, either. Best | i thing in the world for a young fellow,” Eand a certain shipshapeness and readiness {in his build, with some sea-blue anchors, |stars and crossbones that decorate his wrists, became explainable. “Five years ago I was at sea,” the actor continued, ‘“sailing between ' England, Australia and India. I had a queer ad- venture on my last voyage, by the way. I sailed from Sydney on the 8. S. Iberia, expecting to get home to London. | Instead, the steamer that had on board | the first contingent of Australian volun- teers for the Soudan war stopped there and I found myself at Suakim before I knew it.” “How did you come to be aboard the | Ibegia?” “Ran away,” promptly returned the actor. “I left my own ship—and I had been raised to the rank of fourth officer —and expected to get home on the Iberia —I had decided that I wanted to go home, But It was out of the frying-pan into the Soudan. Then, to shorten the story, when 1 did get home one of my brothers had died at sea, and my mother made me promise to leave it. That was on a Tues- day. On Thursday afternoon I played the part of the servant in ‘Nicholas Nickleby" —I think his name, is. John—with my father at the Strand Theater. That was in '85.” “Quick work,” I said. 8 “But you must not suppose_ that I did not work when I began,” said the actor. *In two years I knew all of the low com- edy Shakespearean parts. Barry Sullivan‘ was then in his glory, and I played with him for three years in a repertoire of twenty-two Shakespearean plays, many of them, like ‘Measure for Measure,” and the second part of ‘Henry IV,” very rare- ly given. Then I was with Booth and Barrett in their last seasons, and, curi- ously enough with Barry Sulllvan and these two at their last performances. Frederick Warde wrote to me some time ago wenting me with him for some | Shakespeare work, but I warned him that i | | ans.” “Yes, Edwin Booth—you know he was my uncle?” Mr. Clarke added, “died at Brooklyn during a ‘Hamlet’ engagement. | Sullivan was playing ‘Richard IIT" when | he died. ‘Richeliew’ was Barrett's last part. Then 1 was with Daly also for about three years—until he died, too. I took James Lewis’ parts.” “He was a wonderful sort of perscu, wasn't he?” I inquired. “A Dbrilliant stage manager,” conceded Mr. Clarke. Then added: “Not that he | was infallible. He made curious mistakes | sometimes."” ! “Then before Daly I was with John T. | Ford in New York, Philadelphia and Bal- | timore, from "% to '95—' *‘Still in the same repertoire of old com- edies?” I interrupted. “Always in the same repertoire,” re- plied the actor. ‘She Stoops to Conquer,’ “The Rivals,’ ‘Paul Pry,” ‘The Heir-at- ‘The Road to Ruin, ‘A Widow besides Shakespearean material. Law Hunt.” o — STAR OF “THE STROLLERS™ COMPANY WHICH COMES TO THE COLUMBIA. = - My father played the same repertoire in Lcndon alone for twenty-seven years, without a single visit to the provinces, in the Strand, Haymarket, Adelphf, Char- ng Cross, St. James and Avenue thea- “An unusual record for an American actor,” I suggested. “I think without precedent,” said Sleep- er Clarke’s son. “He was also the Bob Acres in the longest run on record of ‘The Rivals,” 500 nights at the Haymarket The- ater. But my father later became dissat- isfied with the modern theater and left the stage.” “Curious that you should follow so completely in his footsteps,” I said. “But my father was never in vaude- ville, and I have done an act of ‘A Widow Hunt' with considerable success on the varfety stage,” Mr. Clarke confessed. “Do you like the stock and star work?” I asked. ‘“Where one can come across a company of this kind,” he said, *“‘yes.” ““And these beautiful old plays are real- ly worth while In spite of the ‘Under Two Flags,” ‘Janice Merediths’ and that sort of modern house-crowding drama?” ““Well, one feels one has done something worthy,” the actor sald simply. LW g Marguerite Sylva. who is certainly beau- tiful, and it is sald can sing, will head ““The Strollers” Company that comes to the Columbia Theater to-morrow even- ing. 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