The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1902, Page 22

/e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1802 — ELLERY BRAVELY ASSERTS NEW LEADER WILL EFFACE ALL TETMORY OF CREATORE BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON: i —_— - RS B 1- 2 E shall not have our Creatore, | | the gifted gymnast of the Royal | | Itallan Band, with us this year; | | but the band will be here, and | | thet next Sunday. Mr. Ellery, | | director of the organization, confident. | ly asserts that in his new leader our| | Creatore will be forgotten, outdone, com- | | pletely obfuscated. But the Cavaliere| | io Rivela—even with the lascious eu-i { of a name that flows like a little | | ni eria—will probably find a grateful | | memory of his predecessor confronting him § e for popularity. Creatore was v picturesque, dramatic, witk his long hair, long arms, long legs, | $—— - i over the orchestra like & wind- | | Cisin o THlBLY A it o g In a March wind; and he: \ 1AN BAND THAT COMES €id get the effects he went for. But ‘he. { NEXT WEEK. Cavaliere Emilio Rivela—I cannot shirk || ° E syllable—comes with a ue—} - -3 ; v.ran]‘::gh:; & thorough | («zapateado” and the “Fause” fantasie) ing | Showed Mr. Wilczek's fine technical rticuler art of b; eved the highest p d conducting ble position Two years ago at Turin he and nium In a con- both foreign and then decorated and uel in rec- services to o Rivela is | and to rank high Cavali rite well e weeks, visit the band’s | ng Mr. popularity on its Eliery to 2 belief in our hospitality, even for such an extended period. The co certs are 1o be given in the Mechani Paviiio s being rapidly converted into a2 winter garden, with an excellent | cafe and attendant luxuries at_ the ser- of the patrons. Next Sunday the| cor certs begin. | Mr. Will Greenbaum, the manager to | whose enterprise we owe this week the | delightful violin concerts given by Franz | Wilczek and Max Schluter, can always be depended upon for the fine thing in the Jocal musical programme. Peculiarly mttractive has this latest venture been, and a most encouraging feature of the event has been the interest taken by the local violinist in the work of his foreign |left us even so with a sort of proprietary equipment—from the florid side, and the little Goltermann eolo for the G string was a perfect little wallow in exquisite tone. Then there were the violin duets of Godard, and the Dvorak terzette, with that accomplished viola player, Bernat Jaulus, assisting. In fact, the whole pro- gramme of the concerts has been con- | spicuously interesting, marked by high | musical worth, and a pleasing novelty. e It was Rossini who used to say—allegro vivacissimo—that he loved dearly the Spaniard, for without him none in Eu- rope would be lower than the Itallan! Lut then Rossini d!d .not know Senor Pablo Casals, the great little Spanish ‘cellist that captured the very citadels of music when he came here last spring. Fossibly no musician visiting us has made a more profound impression than thls young man; none given so luminous- ly the sense of direct contact with the very heart of music. Casals came here under the coloratura wings of Emma Nevada, unheralded, unknown, and we had the privilege of discovering him all over again for ourselves. It took just about five minutes to do it—not greatly to our credit, "tis true, with a vision and a volce like Casals’ in question, but it has THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNIEN o000l s e g Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .NOVEMBER 23, 1902 Publication OMoR........ o 00 aasdesiosin +Market and Third Streets, S. F. - THE ORANGE AND OLIVE. E recently called attention to the wide publicity, andconsequently extended influence, of the expésition of the Livestock Association of Kansas City. The herds exhibited there called special attention to the merits of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska as localities for the breeding of fine stock to recruit the breeding forces of the ranges. The local press of those States has since recorded the effect in the form of large land purchases for the use of the stock breeders from the farther Eastern States. They are getting into the center of the corn and fodder producing region and closer to the range market. The result is a standard and substantial”boom in land, which is taken as a stable investment of the safest quality. The State Board of Trade and the participating counties in the Northern California or-' ange, olive, wine and products exhibit, which begins next week in the ferry building, may read in those results the incomparable usefulness of this exhibition. They should spare no pains nor ex- pense to make it representative of the semi-tropical resources of Northern California, and an evi- dence that the same makes profitable the growing of every product of the temperate zone along-: side of the semi-tropical fruits. : % ; The first orange exhibit of Northern California was held several years ago in Sacramento. The oranges, lemons and limes shown there were grown in the gardens a nd dooryards of Sacra- mento, Marysville, Colusa, Chico and Oroville. Up to that time no effort at the growing of cit- rus fruit, on a commercial scale, had been made. The clear indications of the adaptation of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys to such production had been overlooked. Yet there was an orange tree growing at Bidwells Bar, sprung from a chance seed, that had been bearing large crops long before the commercial development of citrus fruits in Southern California. The silent suggestion of that solitary tree had been lost for years. It had not occurred to 4ny one that the chance sown seed by growth into a fruit-bearing tree had established the best proof that the climate.was kindly to citrus fruits. The fair at Sacramento, however, called such pointed attention to the subject that planting began in the thermal belt of the foothills in Butte, Placer and Tulare counties. This was followed by commercial planting in many other localities, and Northern California fairly entered the lists as an orange country, able to supply the earliest fruit that ripens either in this State or Florida. We all know this fact ourselves, but it is yet little known in the. East." The marketing of our early oranges, in November and December, was for a time spoiled by the undue eagerness of Southern California growers to compete with us outside of their proper season. To do this green fruit was picked there and stored for coloring. It was sent into the Thanksgiving and holiday market with ours, and upon being used was found to be yellow, but sour, wilted and unfit for consumption. This illicit competition was soon recognized by the dealers, but it cost the enterprising orange men of Northern California many a dollar and had a most discouraging effect. Since this sort of competition ceased the northern growers have made -{ deserved profits upon their production, and it has now reached a development that warrants its ap- pearance in the trade as distinctly Northern Californian. Iet no one imagine that only citrus fruit producers are interested in the effect of this dem- onstration. It concerns the owner of every acre in Northern California, whether he grows oranges or potatoes. The unique endowment of this State is its climate, and men everywhere judge of cli- mate by production. Even tables of temperature are less impressive standing alone. But when we show by the reports of the Federal weather service that Auburn, in Placer County, 125 miles northeast of San Francisco, has an average temperature of 62, a hottest day of 105 and a coldest day of 30, while Anaheim, in Orange County, 500 miles southeast of San Francisco, has an aver- age temperature of 63, a hottest day of 102 and a coldest day of 30, and that citrus fruits, the olive; fig and pomegranate grow with equal results in both Auburn and Anaheim, we show that cause and effect go together, and prove the same climate in the two places, which are 600 miles apart. Comparing again the temperatures of Chico, in Butte County, with Chino, in San Bernar- dino County, more than 600 miles apart, we find that Chico, in Northern California, has an aver- age of 62, 2 maximum of 114 and a minimum of 28, while Chino, in Southern California, has an average of 64, a maximum of 105 and a minimum of 25. To make the comparison more emphatic, the weather service shows that Redding, in Shasta County, 250 miles north of San Francisco, has an average temperature of 64, 2 maximum of 107 and a minimum of 26, while Redlands and River= side, in Southern California, two of the most celebrated orange producers in that part of the State, have an average of 63, 2 maximum of 107 and a minimum of 26, or identical with Redding, which is over 700 miles farther north. These facts imply, of course, that the points of practicé]ly identical temperature in North- ern California have the same produ[ctive capacity of the localities farther south. The exhibit at the ferry building is intended to show that Northern California has not only the same capacity, but is using it in productior, from Porterville to Redding. The effect of this showing upon Northern California promises such stupendous results that we cannot too strongly urge that this vast terri- tory take advantage of the opportunity to let the world know what its: own people know of its climatic and productive advantages, by‘strong and full representation at the exposition to be held this week. FOREST FIRE LOSSES. HE Bureau of Forestry of the Agricultural Department sent experts into Oregoh and Washington to estimate the loss this year by forest fires in those two States. ~ The report is a loss of $12,767,100, of which $8,000,000 was merchantable timber, We ob- LEADING THEATERS GIVING THEIR PATRONS A SURFEIT OF MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS BY GUISARD. “ OBIN HOOD,” to be produced to-morrow night at the Colum- | bia Theater, makes the fourth in a continuous line of the comic-opera - musical - comedy specles to be presented at our best the- ater within the last couple of months. | The “Liberty Belles,” lately rung off at the California, and “The Belle of New York,” soon to be rung on, will bring the list up to a round half dozen, and coin- cidentally about satisfy the most insa- tlate local appetite for the souffles and charlotte russes of the dramatic menu. “Robin Hood” has the happiness to be of the best of its kind, and the Boston- ians, who present it, of the best of their kind. The opera is fortunate also in having four of the members of the orig- ina! cast on its list of interpreters, in the famous persons of H. C. Barnabee, Gecrge B. Frothingham, W. H. Macdon- alaé and Josephine Bartlett. Then Miss Van Studdiford, who sings the part of Maid Marian, is said to have recently earned flattering encomiums in the role, and Harold Gordon, who has the name part, is well known here by his late good werk ‘at the Tivoli. So “here begynneth a lytell geste of Robyn Hode and his meyne, and of the ‘proude sheryfe of Notyngham,” of which the ancient lay thus commenceth: Lythe and lysten gentylmen, That be of free-bore blode, 1 shall you tell- of a good yeman, ! His name was Robyn Hode. Robyn was a proude outlawe, Whiles he walked on grounde; So_curteyse an outlawe as he was one, Was never none yfgunde. AnG so on, and De Koven and Smith have contrived to get a good deal of the atmosphere surrounding the boid outlaw of Sherwood Forest into their opera. It will doubtless attract a deserved large contingent of theater-goers this week. P P | But, with all due respect to “Robin Hood,” think you not, messieurs the | LEADING LADY OF THE NEW REPUBLIC THEATER STOCK COMPANY. Pl ey . from the manager’s side, a certain pecu. niary success attendant on the enterprise. Meanwhile, “Robin Hood” will be with us this week, and by the grace of Mr. Frohman Dave Warfleld comes soon in “The Auctioneer,” and later Crane In “David Harum.” Let us be thankful. Considerable interest has been aroused in the forthcoming appearance in this city of Helen MacGregor, the leading lady of the new Harrington Reynolds stock company, which is to open the The- ater Republic next Saturday night. Re- peated offers have been made Miss Mac- Gregor within the last two years by local manager# to come to San Franecisco, but apparently the offers were not alluring enough, for the talented actress could not be induced to consider at all a Western trip. Reynolds was more fortunate, how- ever, for upon his recent visit to New Ycrk he secured her signature to a con- tract and the much sdught after lady is now' here putting in six hours a day re- hearsing for “The Sporting Duchess,” with which the new Republic is to open. Helen MagcGregor’s last notable en- gagement was as leading lady with E. H: Sothern in “If I Were King.” In the character of Katherine de Vaucelles she won unstinted praise from the New York critics and vied with Sothern in carrying off the honors of the plece. In dramatie | etrcles Miss MacGregor is considered one of the most versatile actresses in the pro- serve that the estimate is based upon the stumpage value of the merchantable timber and t managers, that we have had enough for does not include any estimate of the loss of the smaller timber, which, if left unburned, fession and it is largely due to this fact a while of the sort of thing? Delightfully | that Ber services have been in such de- brother. It is long since there has been interest in the brilliant such 2 good bit of fiddling here as that young genius. Therefore everybody who heard him will would I el i RO et O el aneah A : h I hi as the creamy trifle comes in its proper | mand by so many stoek managers. © De Bac evmpathetic ac. |Ce interested in the following extract| have produced a future merchantable crop. As experience shows that this growing cr - | Pplace, as a steady dlet it is not “werry —— Bns, or as finished and sympathetic ac-| from 2 recent issue of La Union Vascoi- P! I P g g crop,ofa gen nillin’.” Yet is it provoeative of surfeit; Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’'s.* ————— Townsend’'s California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etcned boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * companiment as Mr. Ormay furnished in | .. 5 ! S - gada, a journal published in San Sebas- the work. The fact that Mr. Wilczek and | gian: s Mr. Schiuter were both Joachim pupils | “.y¢ 45 not likely that the concert of iast Will account for their unique sympathy |night will fade from the memory of those ©of interpretation, but the beauty of the l'wio were so fortunate as to be present ensemble effect obtained went even fur- |for our great Casals reclived & tro- ther than that. They played, In every- | mendous ovation, not only as a ’cellist, day parlance, as one man, pres_er\'ing the | hut also as a director and as a composer. attic outlines and sweet dignity of the | His sublime interpretation of the andante work with a spirit as sane and classic as | o« Schumann’s great concerto and his that swhich was fits imspiration. Mr.|marvelous rendition of the Beethoven Bchiluter's rendering of the Bach “Cha- | Sonate in G moved his audience to ac. conne™ for violin alone was also among | knowledge once again that with the 'cello eration of trees next succeeding those that by ripeness or dimension are now fit for harvest, is equal, the total timber loss may be put at $16,000,000 and the total destruction by forest fire for the year in the two States at $20,000,000. < The experts report carelessness as the cause of the fires. The summer west of the Cas- cades was very dry, putting the slashings in timbered gections and the duff everywhere in a con- dition to burn. Many of the fires started from the campfires of berry-pickers and hunters and one was known to have originated from the sparks of a locomotive. The forest reserves in both States, being patrolled by forest rangers, did not suffer from fire at all. The report says -that all and that which following the roast is a thing of eplcurean contrast, as a tenant of all one’s dinner space becomes a very crapulence of gastronomy. One gets tired .even of the wholesome pagan de- lights of watching the pretty chorus mald, only survivor of her Greek ances- tress, whose unveiled physical beauty in the Olympic games spurred on her less beautiful sisters and brothers to acquire that perfect physique that meant_so much to the beauty-ioving Greek. This is not, by the way, the commonest view of the ———— Special mformation supplied daily to business houses ard public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 . —————— “They had a ‘battle of flowers’ down at the country resort where I was this s greatly ‘ : : es cahly i I metier of tI | month.” B e S o et e 2‘?1fé‘:a‘:x;c\‘,'fif,,,”;j,‘;‘v‘;‘e;mg;;;'; (oeption| these fires might have been stopped in their incipiency, but as they were remote from settlements | Par o wat 1t 1o b vors e cho- | month.” e ideat® finement and solid attainment, but hes|sired. In his own composition, a sym- they gained such headway that they had to burn themselves out. ( theless. Not the least noble function of | “Oh, I dunno. You see it resolved itself quite evidently not yet reached his larg- est possibilities. With Wilezek it is dif- ferent. He is the mature artist, with the authority and polse of experience behind into a test of supremacy between the rival hotels and they finally had to call in a constable.” “What! just for throwing flowers?” | phonic poem entitled ‘The Vision of Fra | Martin,’ inspired by the verse of Nunez | de Arce, we have the thought of a poet | expressed through the greatest medium— the stage is its presentation of the beauti- 1ul and therefore healthy body and face as.things to be desired, whence comes the modern actress and her dumbbells, and It would have been well if the investigation of forest fires ‘had been extended to Califor- nia. The Bureau of Forestry recommends that Oregon and Washington take immediate steps tp his fiexile bow, and a tone that is a royal | setistaction in its every thread. Person- | elly, I lilked Mr. Wilczek best in his Bach | number, his Bruch romanze, though very | beautifully played, lacking a little to me | in the picturesque quality. 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One price. 10 per cent discount | for cash on all goods | cessant struggle for faith in the face of music from the soul of a master, “The liturgical chant taken up very sim- ply by the reeds is very interesting, and leads on to the storm, a magnificent out- burst of instrumentation, most original in its structure, expressing convincingiy the torture of a great minG and the in- visions and diabolical phantoms. “The finale is sublime, and leaves one overcome and mute before the insight and rare temperament of the composer. “In directing the orchestra in this pro- duction of his composition, we were im- pressed at once by the fine attaek, broad comprehension and great power of this young leader. “Surely the cohcert of last night leads us to hope that soon again we shall have the privilege of listening to other works from his pen.” A beautiful little programme is prom- ised for the Minetti quaortet concert of Friday evening next at Heine Hall. Mr, Minett] and his confreres. are the only local musiclans who are doing much in the chamber music line, and their efforts should meet with a larger—they could not meet with kinder—appreciation. Appeal- ing only to those interested in the purest forms of the art, the clientele of cham- ber music is necessarily limited, but there should be at least a sufficlent num- ber of people to make thase artistic con- certs more than simply pecuniarily safe, as they now are. However, as the quar- tet undertakes the work for love of it, for the popularizing of this wide and most beautiful branch of musical expres. sion, perhaps they feel themselves suf- ficlently repaid by the cultivated, though small, attention now bestowed upon them. establish a forest patrol. The twenty millions lost this year would pay the cost of such patrol for a period extending inestimably into the future. As like losses will surely occur again and again, un- til the forests are gone and can be burned no more, economy would dictate immediate preventive action. The same course should be taken in California, where not only our forests but our mois- ture and climate are at stake. Some. of the opponents of Mr. Cannon’s aspiration for the Speakership call him “Uncle Joe,” and say that instead ol: “chewing .tobacco’.’ l‘xe “chaws terbaccy”; and furthermore they aver that he wags his jaws in chawing and squirts the juice around over his shirt bosom and the floor. All the samé, it 1ooks as if Mr. Cannon will be Speaker of the House and have the right to estab- lish new parliamentary rules with respect to the manner of dealing with the quid. PR R B P The city authorities in New York are discussing the ‘advisability of enacting an ordinance prohibiting the housing of dogs in any building occupied by more than one family, and now the howls that are going up in protest are enough to lead outsiders to believe that every inhabitant of the city is either a dog or a dog fancier. " N Al R Rubino says he attempted to kill King Leopold not because he is a bad King, but because he is a bad father and has mistreated his daughter; and now it is up to civilization to decide whether . Rubino shall be punished as an anarchist or made an honorary member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. b / —_— A dread report come from New York that the silk hat has become so identified with the dress of the Tammany politicians that men who wish to make a “respectable showing on the street” are looking for another kind of headgear.. oune raison (d'etre of the musical comedy. But one is weary of the shapely Amazon, the light-hecied comedian and the chesty tenor. Give us again the dirk and dag- ger for a brief space, the jolly pothouse or palace comedy of Shakespeare, the bit- ter problems of Ibsen, the Olympian fan- tasy of Stephen Phillips, something to taste, to fill and satisfy the dramatic stemach. The manager may well reply that he cannot get these things. He wilf point to John Drew In New York with a weak and eorrect society drama for his me- dium; Margaret Anglin still in “The Wil- derness”; Annie Russell in a poor Fiten play, with one scene to its credit; and numberless others with such like records. There, too, the musical comedy reigns supreme and it would seem that the only thing we, out here, can do Is to do as we do about our potatoes, grow the plays ourselves. A3 Mr. Keith says. we are painting not only our own pictures, but our Eastern neighbors' pictures; build- ing their boats; growing their fruit; writ- ing ‘their stories &s well as supplying our own néed. Why may we not be self-sup- porting in the matter of plays and per- formances? Once upon a time San Fran- cisco possessed cne of the best stock com- Janiesg in America, numbering some of the proudest names in the drama on its list. At this day it should be still easter to gather in such good folk as there are. With a company like that of Henry Mil- ler's last summer, with a repertoira easily obtainable under such circumstances—of the best modern and older classics, and a theater of settled policy, beautiful and convenient in itself, there would be an “Well, when the flowers gave out they threw stones."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth Is “coaxed back’ by Anita Cream. 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