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

22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1902. FUN, YOUTH, BUOYANCY, BREATHED BY COLLEGE GLEE CLUB CONCERT By Blanche Partington. * C:ALIFOR!\’IA SOPRANO WHO HAS RETURNED HOME AND WHO | | | 1 WILL GIVE A CONCERT. | s L LIKE almost as little to miss a sym- phony programme as a University Giee Club concert. One gets some- thing at a glee club concert that can't be had anywhere else, some- thing that rings very true, something very wholesome, naive, spontaneous, The Berkeleyans of ldte have given us little chance to hear them, their concert given et Pischer's this week being the first for the last three years. However, the club loomed up mobly on Tuesday last, and will coubtless be heard from again after the country tour it is about t X All the best features of coll i vere abundantl; T last Pu ¥ tune; and th are. unusually handsome in They. sing,.too, with the sym- of intimate association, and one can hear every word of their song. But the chief, unique charm of it lies in its i , youth, bu and swing z ents sing in Singers’ Patrol The College Clock™ and a number of col- lege songs completed the programme of glees; and to this was added a violin solo by Delw s, a cello solo by P. B m and a banjo solo by Harry Black, modestly ective. There were co utfdns from the University Mandolin Club and the University Banjo Club, a string quartet, whistling and vocal vocal solos by W. Baldwi Clinton R. “The ( Morge dire ted There was only a small audience, curi- | i it was Henry | comedian of | | , but among s soon think performance iversity glee club con- bee was there to enjoy himself with the other young people, with a special intention of hearing M: Condit sing “The Cork Leg.” Five thou- sand times Mr. Barnabee himself has sung the song in public, he tells me, and I believe a very little persuasion would kave gone to make him add another to the score the other afternoon at Fischer's, or rather sing something else for the st ———————————————— NEVER DONE BEFORE $2.50 month All We 2k is Inv-stigate. Purchase or rent, with privi= or returning Some wpecial bargains; 3 new apd slightly Dsed. All in good condition. Behr Bros., new ) ; 8 Steloway, rosewood an Heine, ogany, Schiller, mahog- & Barnes, antique oak, large Bmerson, $135; 2 New England, 14 d & Btack, $185; 24 ,_mah: any, $165; Smith style, $215; topher, lin, chapel organ, $35; Smith high top, $47; 50 others. HEINE FIANO CO., Heine Hall, 235-237 Geary Street. Only direct factory representatives on the Coast. Agents for the old reliable Gabler, Chickering & Sons’ Playano plano player. A lano free to who brings us "-gmmn ‘who will »'.-';"m“fnu Ham- American organ, voices, very well | lege of owning | ! dents! Think what a chance lost, glee- men! But the comedian listened and | { | tlety of light and =hade, that are of the praised, commending the choice of this | most genuinely humorous ballad, one of/ the first of the modern comic songs. -It| was brought to this country by Harrison | Finn, and the comical illustrative actlon evolved by Barnabee himself. - - The concert to be given by Miss Lillie | Lawlor at Native Sons' Hall Monday | evening, December 22, promises to be very | interesting. The singer returns heze after | a long course of study abroad with world- | famous teachers, and should certainly be | able to do something very much worth wlile. Her voice is a mezzo soprano, sald | to be of remarkable strength and fine ! quality, and she will be assisted by the | Minetti String Quartet. Her programme | will include “The Divinitiés du Styx,” by “The Chanson & Amour,” | by | Beloved, It Is Morn,” By Flerence | 'ward, with organ accompaniment; | songs by Franz Rles, Gabriel Faure and | Caesar Franck, and “The Ballad du | Desespere,” by Bemberg. Fred Maurer preside at the piano and Mons. Ven- | 2 will read “The Ballad” while Bem- g’s music is being sung by Miss Law- * .. It would be curiously difficult to de- termine from little Miss McCabe's per- formance the other evening at her re- ital, whether or not the clever little vio- | | linist is possessed of any temperament. | m strongly Inclined to think she is; but there were not above half a dozen measures in her whole tremendous pro- gramme that would warrant one in so ! saying. There is no doubt, whatever, as’} to her technical equipment; it is remark- | able in the extreme. She plays with the | utmost freedom, unusual accuracy of | intonation, and brilllancy of executior. | Her tone is large, her style broad, vet ! neither have quite the finish and fineness | that her technical freedom should en- sure. gain her command of technique is such | to make some exhibition of tcmpera- ment natural, even inevitable—if it were | there and permitted to exhibit: itself. | Though restraint of sentiment is whole- | some enough for the child, a little color | may surely be ‘allowed on the palette when hood is reached, and Miss g her fifteenth year. The | of Vieuxtemps, for example, is | ul through fts tonal values, red without even the variety that mere taste would dictate. The Sara- sate “Fantaisie on Gounod’s Faust,” the “*Bali ise” of Vieuxtemps | were both wonderful exhibitions of tech- | | nical facility, but the whole programme demonstrated that it is full time to allow the little girl’s imagination. some play, to permit her emotional side some de- velopment. e Vi s Every one interested in conductors and eonducting, in good bunds, should hear the Royal Itallan Band at the Mechanics’ Pavilion , this week. Rivela has proved himself a2 master of his craft, possessed of a potent magnetism, thorough musi- cianship and a distingulshed gift of leadership. He has the widest range of | musical sympathy, his repertoire repre- | senting the best in populdr and classid| band literature, that is handled with almost uniform excellence. The band itself is admirable. Of the fifty-five men almost half are soloists, the rest competent, with the result of a facil- ity of execution, & beauty of tone, a pe: fection of ensemble, a quickness and sub- finest of fine things in the band way. The climaxes obtained are wonderful in mere volume of sound that is never mere noise, and Rivela’s fashion of building his cli< maxes is distinctly worthy of attention, The delicacy of his effects is none the less wonderful. It is a band to be heafd, and its every minute will" be enjoyed, whether Verdl or Rossini, Chopin or Sousa be the programme. There is a ma- tinee to-day as well as to-night's con- cert, and the programmes will be found elsewhere in these columns. Prunes stufied with apricots Townsend's.* ——— e Guillett’s Christmas extra mince bles, o4 cream and cake, 905 Larkin st.; tel. East 105. ————— Townsend's California glace fruit an candies, 5c a pound, in artistic fire-etche boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends 689 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * ——— i —— Epecial information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Cli Bu ON Tornia streat “Telephons Mt Wit S- | Roadhouses® where meals are served at $150 each, have been established at convenient distances in the Upper Yukon country to facilitate travel. Hollman (violin obligato by Giulioc Min~ ! - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. [ Nance onelL cHATS JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY ......... P N Congress and at home there has been some tendency to criticize the “club women”. of: Cali- fornia for their interest in securing the preservation of irreplaceable natural objects in this State, such as the forests, and especially the groups of big trees, which are constantly threat- ened with extinction when not already reserved by the Federal Government. It would have - been better if the women’s organizations in this State had been formed sooner than they were and their energies devoted to this object. There was no hope of results from merely individual e forts, and the threatened works of nature had to wait, until the energies of many women were pool and directed to a common purpose. Since then there has been some awakening and education of public sentiment. The purchase of the Big Basin by the State for reservation as a permanent and beautiful natural forest, though effected by an organization of men, is the direct result of an aroused public opinion which was forced into manifestation by the organizations of women which first took up the subject and by ceaseless agitation kept it foremost until the response came from the aroused sen- sibilities of men. The appropriation by the Legislature' followed and the purchase and reserva- tion of the basin are now of the things'accomplished. Had the women’s clubs been sooner formed there is every reason to believe that the two groups of big trees lying near each other in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties, and known by the single name of the Calaveras Grove, would have been purchased by the State long ago, instead of “being sold, to face their fate as part of a large tract bought to be lumbered and stripped of all its timber. The women are now busy with all interest and intelligence to save at least one of these groups, and every one should assist them in that worthy work. L It is worth noting that women elsewhere in the Union have undertaken like enterprises and have succeeded in rescuing great natural objects from destruction for the commercial purposes of man. Women look at the esthetic side of things, men at the practical. The history of the pres- ervation of the palisades, on the Hudson River, above New York City, is an illustration of the triumph: of the women’s point of view. The palisades were picturesque cliffs of columnar basalt. In their primitive condition their falus, rising from the river, was clothed with foliage and trees rooted in their higher crevices garnished them with verdure, making a stretch of scenery which tempted many a tourist to travel from New York to Albany by boat. Fifty years ago”the quarry- ing of basalt blocks out of the palisades for paving purposes began. At first the demand was so moderate and the gainful destruction was so slow that no attention was drawn to it and no appre- hensions were felt as to the results. ; So ancient Rome began, by slight a nd easy stages, the destruction of forests on the shores of the Adriatic, but accelerated the process until it was possible for herds of sheep and goats to complete the work and leave a blear desert where had been a scene of sylvan beauty. Finally basalt came into use asa building material and the destruction of the palisades progressed so rapidly that public attention was drawn to it. In 1895 the Federation of Women’s Clubs of the State of New Jersey took the matter in hand and a committee waited upon the Governor of New Jersey, with a request for State aid by an appropriation. That official replied to them: “That plan has been tried and failed. It is impossible. There are too many political jobs. I am sorry, but I don’t believe anything can be done.” But the women were undaunted. They went on until they secured the appointment of a State commission authorized by the Legislature. ) . Then it became necessary for New York to participate and to have an interstate cotnmis- sion. Here the men halted, saying there was no law nor precedent. The women found both. As five-sixths of the imperiled cliffs were in New Jersey, there greed and avarice made the stoutest op- position. Only $15,000 could be secured from both States and things came to a standstill and stood until 1900. Then the motive power of the women was again exerted. They appealed to Governor Roosevelt of New York, who took up the matter with active sympathy and his accus- tomed energyand put lifeinto the New York end of it. The women made an appeal, which they were told was hopeless, for private contributions, and the first response was from J. Pierpont Morgan with $125,000. "This, with the $13,000%n ha#fidy made the first purchase which stopped the quarry- ing. The women then asked $400,000 fronr the State of New York and $350,000 from New Jer- sey to buy the whole stretch of cliffs, put in a driveway and create an interstate park, and they got it, and the palisades were saved. * It took over six years of devoted work, but success crowned it. The women of California, striving to save the big-trees and to preserve the sylvan beauties, which if destroyed can never be replaced, may well take heart in contemplating the work accomplished by their sisters of New Jer- sey. The palisades were saved by the joint action of two States. Perhaps the big trees may be res- cued by joint action of this State and the Federal Government. In that case, we have to remind the women of California that the young man who was Governor of New York in 1900 is now President of the United States, and that he is an ardent admirer of nature, and his sympathies have enlarged with the expansion of his opportunity. ; 2 Federal forest reservations in our mountains should be enlarged to preserve the inestimable influence of the forest upon our climate and the fertility of our soil. The President will be here in May. Will the women wait upon the politicians who will manage his reception and entertainment and solicit from them a respite for him from banquets, brass bands and politics, that he may sat- isfy his fondness for nature by going into our mountains to stand in the presence of trees for which commerce has no mercy, that he may share the inspiration which makes their destruction seem a personal sorrow to every sensitive woman in the State? FALSE REFORTS OF PLAGUE. UR contemporary, the Boston Globe, is one of the few influential papers in the East that did the Pacific Coast, and, indeed, the whole country, a valuable service in helping to refute the stories of the existence of plague in this city. Now that the excitement over’the rumors has passed away it returns to the subject, dealing with it generally, and points out the folly of any such thing as a panic in the popular mind arising out of any story of plagte that may be put into circulation. After pointing out that such reports “are spread by persons from hearsay, or from a miscon- ception of a medical case that needlessly frightens people.,” and citing as a specific exaniple of _these injurious -reports the recent story of the appearance of bubonic plague on this coast, the Globe. goes on to say: ‘“‘In these enlightened days there should be no fright or uneasiness in re- gard to the pfa\gues of Bible times or those of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are of the past and could not spread to-day in most parts of the civilized world, ateast with any degree of virulence. In fact, what vestiges of the plague have been in the world during the past twenty years have been confined to Africa, Persia, Irak, Western Arabia, Russia, India and China, and all those were in a very few localities.”_ It is worth noting that in nearly every case the reported plague is located a long way off from the point where the report is given the most sensational development. That fact in itself shows that panicsresulting from such reports are in the main the outcome of ignorance. If such stories were told of the locality in-which they appeared it would be comparatively easy for the public to learn the truth and reassure itself againsf the effects of the fake. When, however, a tale is told on the Pacific Coast of typhoid fever ravaging the cities of the East, or, one is told there of a dread plagueon thissideof.the continent, it is not easy for truth to overtake the falsehood before great in- jury is done. It will be just as well therefore for the public to be on guard at all times against such reports. As the Globe says: “The disorders in remiote lands are caused by abject poverty, famine *and unsanitary conditions. These conditions do not exist in America.” General Dewet, having thought thé matter over, declares that the failure of the Boers in their war for independence was due mainly to their lack of disciplinte, and avers that if he could have got his men to obey orders he would have penned General Roberts in Pretoria andstarved him into surrender. Such statements are not surprising. It has ever been the custom of the defeated to attribute failure not to the virtue of their foes, but to some weakness in their own ranks. Men would rather find fault with their friends any day than to praise an enemy. It is announced that Fraulein Bertha Krupp is the richest heiress in the world, so until she marries it is probable that impecunious German Princes with matrimonial ambitions will remain in their' own country instead of coming to America to look around. - One of the freaks of the season is that the snowfall thus far has been heavier in of Texas than in any part of Minnesota, It looks as if winter and Santa by the Southern Pacific. some parts Claus wete coming west Address Communicatlons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .DECEMBER 7, 1902 .Market and Third Streets, 8. F. ENTERTAININGLY ABOUT HER. FAVORIT =y By Guisard. HITE and gold from her bur- nished hair to the hem of her silken gown, Nance O'Neil, af- ter three years’ absence from her native California, put out a friendly hand to me the other after- ncon. I found her at the Palace, with a retinue of parrots, canaries, cats, every- | thing in parlor zoos, in fact, except the prohibited dog. _ . “But where are the dogs?” T asked. And Miss O'Neil laughingly owned up to them, too, but as, they are kept for other | than advertising purposes I heard no.| confession of = terriers triumphantly | concealed in a hat box, or of a King | Charles slyly reposing in a dressing case | —storles that I must confess would not have been new to me. *¥ou are very fond of animals?” T In- quired jnanely to gain time to admire the picture Miss O'Nefl and the big, | blue-eyed cat, its snowy whiteness tell- ing subtly against the warm white of her | gown, presents. Impatient of its conven- tional garb seems the Brunnhilde figure of this young California goddess, deep- bosomed, large-armed, stately, heroic, as those that ranged:the “ringing halls of Wahall’' . One looks vaguely round for a glittering breastplate, hears echoes of the Valkyrie cry, imagimes Siegfried near. One pictures this white and yellow woman on the prow of strange ships, her imperial outline set toward dim citles, | beckoning men to battle with new gods. But a bellboy abruptly disturbs the il- lusion and for breastplate I see a hope- lessly modern crepe de chine gown, with | an unmistakable, 192, long-fronted con- ventlonal waist. The gold is in Miss | O'Neil's hair, in a button from XKing | Kalakaua's coat at her neck, and fluffing from a swishing petticoat; and for Val- Kkyr call there is the loquacious parrot (who swears); for Siegfried, McKee Ran- kin. “I adore them!" sald Miss O'Neil, and I remembered _suddenly that I had asked | her if she liked animals., Then she | sketched with the nervous enthusiasm that distinguishes her, and a fine sym- pathy, a little history of her pets. There used to be in special use during | the “Patience” days a w scribes very aptly ‘manner; | “Intense” fits it to a hair. The actress ‘‘adores” her parrots and the pyramids, | Ibsen and Australia, She ‘‘worships” | San Francisco and the Sphin Rejuue{‘ and “The Lady Inger of Ostrat.” She | “loves” photographs and Stephen Phil- lps, Cairo and cats all with- the same abounding vitality and fresh enthusiasm. “I like to think that I have had bravos from all found the globx nce I was here last,” Miss Nance responded to my in- | quiry ‘as- to -her- itinerary since leaving | here three years ago, her point evidently not ‘the: bravos but their source. “You know we went first to Honolulu from here, and then for a long stay to Aus- tralia. They were very good to me there.” “I heard of your Hedda Gabler down there.” “Yes? The Australlans llice Tbsen. They seemed to like my Hedda Gabler, too. I'm going to do it here. I adore Ibsen.” | “And most of all Hedda?" | “No, no! If I had my way I would | play only ‘The Lady Inger of Ostrat’ | all my life!” and Miss O'Neil clasped her hands and lifted impulsive eyes to the celling. J “And kil yourself,” the dark-eyed companion of her travels, Miss Allen, in- terpolated. “Possibly,” Miss O'Neil murmured, dreamily. “That part—you know it—has the strangest effect on me. It seems to drag at the very life of me. I have sald to myself many, many times while I have been playing it, ‘T must not die before the curtain goes down; must not, must not.’ Because I have felt that I should.” “Are we to have ‘The Lady Inger’ here?” “For one afternoon only,” Miss Allen said, as if she would gladly have replied o, “‘And if you se¢ me after the play, limp ‘and faint, “‘you won't think it is acting?" said Miss Nance. “Sometimes that kind of thing is,” she added mischievously. “And Hedda?" “‘Oh, I like to play Hedda. She is so real. But there are some lines in the play that I regard as among the most difficult to deliver in all drama. You remember ‘where she tells Eilert to ‘die beautifully’ as she hands him the pistol? I am hum- bly proud that the profane laugh has never greeted that passage In any of my performances. There are innumerable g:h;x; lines, too, in the play of ‘the same “You do ‘Magda,’ ‘Queen Elizabeth, ‘Oliver Twist,’ ‘The Jewess' and “‘Judith! also 4 this mt; I see?” “Yes, and ‘Judith’ will be #iven for the first time in its present Shape” Miss O'Neil replied. Mr. .~ who had come In and been listening admiringly to 5 E -PLAYS | | o FoE. | e | TALENTED CALIFORNIA TRA- GEDIENNE WHO WILL PLAY AT GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. | &+ il his young star like a good-natured Sven- gall, heré éxplained: . “1t .1s “the " Ristori “Judith,” ‘tha§ Judith and Holofernes of the A d I think a splendid part for Miss O'Neil. We have all the Ristorl notes, her owm play- book, and the translation has been but little altered from the original Giacom- metti play. Twenty years ago you could not have had such a'play upon the stage —for scriptural reasons. OtHier days, other ways.” “I have the Ristorl jewels for ‘Queen Elizabeth,’ by the way,” the actress broke in. *“A niece of hefd lives in. Aus- tralia, and I was able to buy the whole set.” “In Australia!” ““Oh, there are plenty of things in Aus- tralia”—from Mr. Rankin. “And what came after Australia?* “South Africa,” Miss O’Neil “Teplied. “We had a splendid time there. Saw a Kaffir war dance, the dlamond mines and everything. They declared martial law while we were in Capetown, and Miss Al- 1én here was challenged one night—qujte grand opery. Then through the codst towns by Madagascar to Egypt. I adore Egypt! That desert! That Sphinx! Those pyramids! Then came London, New York, and here we are.” “What are they doing in London now.” I was there they were giving olo and Francesea’ and the of Stephen Phillips. Such pro- ! I love Phillips, dont“you? If 1 were not_afraid I'd_ask him_fo write me a play. I think he is. the gréatest dramatic poet since Shakespeare. I like his ‘Paolo and Francesca' better than any em—and I've seen.them all.” “Yes; I had the unique gbod luck to come in for the Crawford ‘Francesca’ with Bernhardt in Paris, with the D’An- nunzio ‘Francesca da Riminl’ with Duse in New York and with the Phillips ‘Paoclo and Francesca’ in London.” A Growing Fleld—First Citizen—1 see that a few more millionaires have en- dowed colleges. Second Citizen—Well, i it keeps up I don't see why we can’t all get jobs as professors.—Puck. 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