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24 T WITH “KING DODO’S” DEBUT CITY WILL MEET MANAGER NOT KNOWN HERE BEFORE By Guisard. e g i g2 " P VS ———— T»»u —_— CLEVER SEATTLE GIRL WHO RETURNS TO THE COAST AS A MEM- BER OF THE “KING DODO” COMPANY, WHICH OPENS AT THE COLUMBIA TO-MORROW NIGHT. X X | . % ITH “King Dodo’s” debut to- morrow evening at the Colum- bia Theater Sah Francisco will make the acquaintance of a manager heretofore unknown here, and one who has made a large dent in managerial traditions in the United States, Henry W. Savage.” Though | Mr. Savage is introduced to wus here | through the medium of comic opera, he is of course more widely known through his very successful management of the now famous “grand opefa in English” venture with the Castle Square Company he brought together in Boston. The Savage-Grau season of grand opera in New York is well remembered, and though financially a failure, was yet so hopeful from the artistic side that the work was carried on later to both a finan- clal and artistic success. Mr. Savage's comic opera ventures have proved not less fortunate, and although seven years ago the impresario was even as you and I, be 15 now a manager to be reckoned | with whenever opera is mentjoned. Mr. Savage's history as ap impresario | A lover | 1s & curious and interesting one. of the fine arts, and more particularly of music; he had up till seven years ago mno professional connection with them in any form. He was then, and still is, a real estate potentate of Boston. It hap- pened about eight years ago thatin turn- ing over in his mind the best method of making profitable some land that was mot fetching up with the “unearned in- crement” as rapidly as Mr. Savage thought it should that he decided to build in the middle of it what is now called the Castle Square Theater. No sooner said than done, for the inexhaus- tible ruble was one of the factors. The theater built, the problem wae to find the menager. Savege was persuaded that therein his fortune lay. sger 4id not materialize. The theater, covering & whole block and with a hand- Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES - clear, firm complexion of yout! " back” by Anita C;’eanlh. Applied at night and removed In tne morning. thus Imparting th bencfits of its medicinal n‘%éfi: s moves Tay. 2 3 Pimples, Moth and Liver 8 Directions with each jar. 60c druggists or of us, prepaid. ANITA CREAM & TOILET COMPANY Los Angcles,. Cal. But the man-| some Hotel above it, lay. idle for months. Then Mr. Savage had an inspiration. He would become’ & manager himself, and grand opera in English, a possibility of | which he had often dreamed, should be the sort of entertainment offered. Accordingly, the would-be manager sought the assistance of Arthur J. Clark, formerly with the Bostonians, and a plan of campaign was soon formulated. Clark | modified Mr. Savage's plans considerably, | and the policy of the new theater was ehortly declared to be on the following lines: A stock opera company was first installed, with a chorus of sixty and an orchestra of twenty-five. There were | three conductors—one for German opera, one for Itzlian opera and yet another for the lighter works. Eight months of the year was devoted to grand opera in Eng- lish and the remaining four months to comic opera. The repertoire ranged from the “Bohemian Girl” to “Lohengrin,” with the standard comic operas for lighter fare, and the prices of admission were on the same scale as at the Tivoii, from 2% to 75 cents. The venture proved itself immediately prosperous, and after two years of unin- terrupted success Mr. Savage sold the Castle Square Theater to a Mr. Allen, who still carries it on under the same policy. | But Mr. Savage had by this time ac- | quirea the managerial habit. Though the | original purpose of his adventure into im- presarial waters had so happily been ac- | complished, he now by no means designed to give up his operatic career. Chiefly perhaps in favor of the Savage company is the chance it affords the American singer for grand opera work. Looking over the whole list of the Grau artists, one finds only three American names, though the quality of singer rep- resented by all three would seem to fur- nish overwhelming reason for the em- Nordica, Eames and Suzanne Adams, But Mr. Grau has repeatedly and substan- tially expressed his preferéhce for the foreign artist, and that unhappily being =0, Mr. Savage has an important mis- sionary part to perform. He has realized | this, and his company not only stands for a protest against the ruinous foreign star system, but fer a worthy outlet for | American energies in this direction and for all around artistic and conscientious work. His choruses in both grand and | light opera—and besides “King Dodo,” the “Prince of Pilsen” and George Ade's “Sultan of Sulu” are Mr. Savage's enter- prises—are. recruited chiefly from the va- rious schools of music and are regarded 2s a graduating class for the coming principals. A favorite project of the American impresario_that may soon take shape 1s the foundation of a school of | opera in Chicago, in which all concerned in operatic work, from chorus to primei- pals, shall be able to obtaln the neces- sary training. Another plan of large interest to the American composer is Mr. Savage's de- termination to bring out every year a new opera, to be given its premiere by the Castle Square Company. Only a step further, the offering of an international vrize for the composing of the opera, and Mr. Savage will be the Sonzogno of Amer- 9 ea. We shall see to-morrow evening what he can do in the way of comic opera pro- duction; the Eastern papers are unre- ployment of the home artist—as they are | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 190 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. p €3 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY .OCTOBER 19, 1902 Publication Offioe..... s essseosstanioacscesesainns .. Market and Third Streets, S. F. HADLEY ON EDUCATION, T the inauguration of the new chancellor of the State University of Kansas, President Had- ley of Yale delivered an address on modern education, its different standards and its pur- - pose and intended effects. In this he took pains to make it clear that education should equip men with ideals besides those that are purely commercial. While this is true, it is also true that education cannot be entirely divested of its practical feature as a preparation for the material well being of its recipient. : In those zones of the earth where human energy must overcome .the resistance of nature, education has reached its highest development, because it becomes necessary to the maintenance of life. It is one proof of evolution that where the means of existence must be sought by great exertion, intelligence directing that exertion constitutes the fittest, who survive. This seems to be the reason why we have domestication of animals and plants, necessary to hu- man life, in the temperate zone, where nature will not spontaneously support the existence of num- erous humanity, and art must be invoked to extend and increase the means of life.- To support life, then, seems to be the primary purpose of education. This does not imply that all who use the means of existence derived from art, which is the result of education, are themselves edu- cated or wise in the scientific principles which they apply. But it does mean that they are the ben- eficiaries of education acquired by others, which becomes a part of man’s ccmmon stock of instru- mentalities by which his life is more easily sustained and prolonged. Ti.e wonderfu! developiient of econom:i~ processes, which cheapen fuel, food and clothing, angd extend the supply of. human comforts and continually transfer to that grotip what once were luxuries, is due to education. The process was, in a sense, compulsory. As humanity increased in numbers, the chase and the scant store of féod plants spontaneously produced became a pre- carious dependence, and the animals hunted for their hair, hides and flesh and the food supplied by the wild plants were insufficient, and by compulsion man domesticated both. That was an edu- cational process, and is still in operation. It is applied to artificial power, which substitutes and multiplies the productive capacity of the human hand, and in every field of production it is still ac- tive, under the primary compulsion of man’s need for food and shelter. It is seen that, according to this view of it, education is a matter of environment, of physical conditions, and.this is a reason for its prevalence and greatest development and pernmanent progress in those zones of the earth where humanity is dependent on its own energies and not on the spontaneous bounty of nature. Men go from the busy life of the temperate zone to the tropics and are charmed by the easy life they find. The sumptuous abundance of a natural food supply, voluntarily offered to the hand by nature, the absence of the need of artificial warmth and sheltermake the torrid parts of earth seem Edenic. And so they are to the races which are a part of mature’s planting within the tropics. But there is no education there in the temperate zone sense because the environment does not compel it. Civilization with all its arts and institutions is due to the energy of man and not to the bounty of nature. Where that bounty is great, overrunning the needs of humanity, there is no compulsion to the exertion of energy, and the races that are cradled in a warm sunshine and fed by natural fruits, not feeling the need of exertion that they may live, gather and use what na- ture supplies and are content. In those regions we strive in vain to plant temperate zone educa- tion. It is not needed by the native races. Existence is supported by natural bounty and there is no need to force it by art, so art is not there and is rejected as unnecessary. But, take away from the temperate zone the arts that have been perfected along the line of human need and applied to producing the necessaries of human existence; remove beyond the reach of.manarchitecture, arti- ficial power and the means of transportation and exchange; return the domesticated plants and ani- mals to their natural state—and two-thirds of the people of the earth in its temperate zones would perish in a year. ¢ It may be a startling exposition of the cause and nature of education, but it is none the less true. It may be disappointing to those who vainly dream of extending that education beyond the zone in which it is needed to direct and multiply the energies directed to the support of life, but it is true. It may disquiet those who decry the commercial-ideal, but, after all, that is at the foun- dation. . Education substitutes art for tooth and-claw in supportingtlife. Upon this are built the other ideals of life. There is no use presenting an esthetic ideal to a man who has no bread in his mouth and-no clothing on his back ‘and needs both in order to live, but can get neither without educated direction of his energies. We have daily proof of this practical purpose of education. The most productive nations are those in which education is most . general. Our commercial rivals, who view with fgar and envy our conquest of the world’s trade, after prying into the cause, agree that it is found in the more general diffusion of education among the people of this coun- try. We have no doubt that they are right. It may be claimed that our esthetic progress is not abreast ‘of our material advancement. But the material must precede and lead the ideal. When it has pioneered the way and has lifted the whole mass of humanity into more leisure and greater material independence the esthetic ideal will overtake it, and not hefore. SILVER IN MEXICO. T was Mr. Bryan’s habit to point to. Mexico as an example of a country under the silver stand- ard worthy to be followed by the United States. Mexico seems to be less and less anxious to pose as such an example. She is borrow- ing on bonds $16,000,000 to build a railway from Vera Cruz to Santa Lucretia, on the Na- tional Tehuantepec Railway. This loan is now offered to American investors at the rate of $475 and accrued interest for each bond of $1000. The interest is 6 per cent. This enormous discount is caused by the bonds being payable in Mexican silver d8Mars, which are worth now 41.5 in gold on the dollar. This makes a thousand-dollar bond worth only $4i5 in our money, but its price is put at $475 in the expectation that the 6 per cent rate of interest will sell it at that price. The bonds of the United States, payable in gold and bearing only one-third the interest, are at a premium of 7 per cent. ° If Mr. Bryan had had his way we would have been competing with Mexico in offering our silver bonds at a.greater discount and higher rate of interest, because our silver dollar has a less bullion value than the Mexican. , . In his cooler moments even Mr. Bryan will probably admit that such a condition would not have a tendency to flatter our national pride. Since we saved the country from him and got the gold standard our public credit has become.the best in the world and we lend money to other na- tions, at proper discounts, instead of being compelled to discount our own securities to outsiders. Mexico is getting awake to the situation and every report from her financial centers shows an increase in goldbugs and a growing desire to get the gold standard. Tt will not be many years before she will join the procession of yellow metal countries, and then Mr. Bryan will have to look farther south, to the unsound money countries whose currency is so debased thata United { served in their praise. Raymond Hitch- ©ock, & new man, is chief comedian; Che- ridah Simpson is the leading lady, and Miss Margaret McKinney, a beautiful Se- attle girl, is another of the cast. s States dollar buys from $1500 to $2000 of it. Such currency is abundant and ought to satisfy his longing for the quantitative theory of currency, regardless of its quality. One authority says the coal in the anthracite mines will not last longer than a centary, so there is a blessed hope that after a time we shall hear the last of the strikes. —— They say Secretary Moody had to hire a dress suit in Chicago in order to attend the Mar- quette Club banquet, and now the public would like to know whether the thing gave him a fit. A man and his wife in Chicago are giving a practical demonstration how two people can live on 85 cents a week. It-is said, however, that they are old ani have no teeth. Evidently their experiment is easy and the beef trust does not trouble them. Out of a class of 141 freshmen at Northwestern University only fifty-one were able to suc- cessfully pass an examination in spelling words in common use. Thus we have another proof that spelling reform is imperative. Dictionary makers should not be permitted to put such stumbling blocks in the way of aspiring youth. o 3 Boston papers narrate that when President Roosevelt was making his New England tour there was presented to him a young woman from Japan, now studying at Wellesley, who told him there were two things she has learned in America she wishes to teach the Japanese. When asked what they were, she replied, “One is Christianity and the other is how to make icecream.” et xR 5 i e e o B s P | DIRECTOR STEINDORFF AIDS IN THE TRIUMPH i OF “ANDRE CHENIER” By Blanche Partington. RAVO, Mr. Steindorff! and bravo again everybody concerned in the excellent ~ production of ‘“‘Andre Chenier’”” that the Tivoli gave on ‘Wednéesday night last—not forget- ting the stage manager, Joseph Witt, whose important work was well on a level with the rest of the fine perform- ance. Possibly it was one of those magic occasions when nothing can go wrong— as offset to those direful days when even the saints seem to wobble on their pedes- tals. There s a first night inspiration, when every one is keyed up to the ut- most, that seems not to be replaced by any amount of care, time or conscience in the rehearsal; when something—per- haps akin to that spirit of the mob that leads its atoms to larger deeds than the sum of their individual effort—lifts and carries the performance along almost willy-nilly. Last Wednesday may have been such a night; it was certainly a night of triumph for the Tivoli, and they may not be able quite to repeat the per- formance.* But It is more than likely that they will. The enthusiasm aroused by the opera will have its sure reattion upon the sensitives concerned in its pro- duction, and there is long and conscience- ful rehearsal to back it up. Those who go to grand opera as one goes to be hanged, or to church—and if not caught young the attitude is famillar enough—will be agreeably disappointed in “Andre Chenier.” True, the story ends unhappily, nor has it, like “La Boheme,"” the happy mixture of pathos and comedy that makes the Puccini opera so perenni- ally fascinating. But the “Andre Chenier” is just as little conventional, just as hu- man, and with a like sustained dramatic interest that enchains the attention fre its opening scene to its close. The ir- terest is cumulative, and the strong tF .1 act before the tribunal is possibly ‘e most powerful that the modern Ita.an school has given us. Luigi Illica is the librettist and well, indeed, he has done his work. The music, too, will be found readily enjoyable even on first hearing, and it is truly wonderful what the little Tivoll or- chestra has done with the instrumental end of i{t. Forty strings alone are re- quired by the score, and Mr. Steindorff has altogether only sixteen or eighteen men at command. Yet with skillful use of his resources he has obtained an effect both pleasing and sufficient, and the op- *| era has already taken place as one of the favorites of the Tivoli repertoire. More conservative than Puccini, less original than Leoncavallo, whose “I Pa- gliacci” still stands head and shoulders above the rest of the school, Glordano is more purely melodious than -either. If the bold, immediate inspiration that char- acterizes “T Pagliaccl,” the good red blood that spulses through an opera written be- cause it must be, is not found in “Andre Chenier,” there is yet a rich musical fan- cy, a charming prettiness of phrase, graceful invention and a stunning use of orchestral color, discernible even with the limited resources of the Tivoli. There is also a fine interpretative sympathy be- tween the text and the music, though Giordano, unlike many- of his confreres, never descends to the merely ugly or bizarre, even when the bizarre and ugly are uppermost in the dramatic situation. Psychology has to go in short, when ft is a question of psychology or music. The element of hystericism is notably lacking, repose and a polished suavity being agreeably dominant throughout the opera. Depth is not a prevailing characteristie of Giordano, as evidenced in “Andre Che- nier,”” yet the work does not lack power, cising in places to stirring musical cli- maxes. There are numbers destined to .mmediate popularity, “‘Chenier’s Invoca- tion to Love” in the first act, the pretty gavotte in the same scene, the duet be- tween Chcnier and his inamorata, the Countess of Coyny, in the second act, and, most of all perhaps, the magnificent barytone solo by Girard in the tribunal scene. There is a quaint tenor song by an “inercdible” ‘spy, also in the tribunal secene, and many other charming bits that stick in the memory. Agostini’s Andre Chenier is as good as his Rudolph in “La Boheme,” the exalted personality of the French poet-patriot finding in him a gnost sympathetic inter- preter. Gerard, his rival with the Coun- tess, his ignoble accuser with the tribu- nal, his former worshiper and later sac- rificing friend, finds a powerful exponent in De Padova, whose former experience with the opera in Milan has also helped toward its general successful produe- tion here. The Countess is sung by Mon- tanari, who does quite good though not compelling work in the part. Then Dado is thrice magnificently useful in the cast, Cortesi conspicuous as usual for effective filling in and Zani and De Paoli not want- ing in two'small parts. Collamarini has an important though small role, with one charming little song, as Bersi, the.mulatto maid of the Coun- tess. Pozzi does a strong scene as an old woman giving her grandson {o fight for the revolution, and Anna Wilson pleases in a small pgrt. The chorus comes in justly for a large share of com- mendation, its difficult work being car- ried off with spirit, precision and thor- ough sympathy. 5 As for Mrs. . , and Mr. Leahy. Kreling, Y who is “Doc,” to whose enterprise it is ! ) | GIFTED BLIND GIRL WHO IS AMBITIOUS TO BECOME A SINGER. - S owing that we can hear a new work that only New York in all America has so far heard, one can hear and find onfy gratitude. There is only one thing, and I'm dread- fully puzzled about it. Did they really wear them that way, ladies of Bersi's persuasion, their—their—well—garters! o e There is a concert to be given on Thurs- day evening next that every ome who goes to will be glad to remember that they have been. It will be given almost entirely by Miss Gussie Mast, a gifted blind girl, who desires thus to raise money for further musical study. The young lady is now the stenographer of Professor Warring Wilkinson at the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum in Berkeley, a position for which the young lady has been trained since her early childhood. But she has always wished to sing, to play,.and does both now in a fashion evidencing a pure and beautiful talent. She plays both the pipe organ and piano, and possesses a charming soprano voice, with which—brave, blind lassie!—she wishes to make the imperative daily bread and butter. Miss Mast's programme contains numbers from Verdi, Rossini, Schumann, Lizst and others, and her con- cert will be given at Steinway Hall. She will accompany herself in two of her solos, and will furnish no doubt an in- teresting programme. I disagree with the young lady as to the necessity of her go- ing to New York to study. 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