The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1902, Page 24

1902. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, BEGINS WORK WHEN HE IS OF THREE. By Guisard. AS A CLOWN BUT A BABY | | AT THE GEALD OFERA Hovne CLEVER ACTOR WELL AND FAVORABLY i YEARS IN THIS CITY WHO IS NOW APPEARING AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. A : KNOWN FOR MANY 5T = % 66 OUP la! Here we are again.|of the ‘great Hanlons'—aerial act, Eng- | i1l doing business at the old | lish boys,” as one might he had sung nd. Merry Christmas, 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. | s and gentlemen. Ble: me, how young you all look. I want to tell you about a lawyer named heard it before? Well, | then, what is worsc off than a giraffe | with a sore throat?” { “A centipede withychilblains. ' Yah!” | This is not what'John W. Worid, the | and the Paderewski of clowns, greeted me with the other morn- | ing when I went up to the Central to see | him. It is, however, what I rather looked ' for, from a vague and joyous memory of the pantomimes of my childhood. or | did the famous mime sidle in, pigeon- toed, in a chalk face and capacious white and red pajamas, as is the immemorial | wont of clowns. Mr. World did his best here, however, with a hopeful checked suit, a shirt of cheerful stripe and a joy- ous necktie. But he didn’t arrive through & pink tissue paper hoop—hough you'd | Detter mot tell the children so—nor on donkey-back, nor hurriedly with friend | harlequin at his heels. ‘No. Mr. World | Just walked in even as you and I Into | George Webster's dressing-room at the Central, where I had gone to chat about <lowning with him. - Then the hard-Beart- | ®d villain of the Central melodramas | lighted a little gas stove, and bade the | World and me be comfortable. Tradition is a various liar. How fre- | quent and classic the story of the clown'’s | melancholy behind scenes! I had even | primed myself to-cheer up this poor slave | ©f the motley—the first on my visiting | list, whose doctor very likely had ordered | him to go end see himself to drive away | the blues. But there is nothing blue about | World save his eves, and these are of the incorrigible, insistent blue of the for- get-me-not. In the gay, morning sun- £hine that streamed into Mr. Webster's room they danced and twinkled my theo- zies to scorn, for if one thing more than znother is certain it is that Mr. World is having, has had and is going to have a good time. “And you are really going to give us the genuine old-time pantomime in “Humpty-Dumpty? ”* T began. “wWill there be the harlequin, and—"" ““What is pantomime without a harle- quin?” World parodied. “Yes, there will be the harlequin and columbine, the po- liceman®and the pantaloon, the donkey 2nd the sausages, your humble servant @s clown and all the usual trimmings,” 2nd World’s big, droll mouth echoed the merry message of his eyes. - _ “This is no new thing to you? I know only your variety work.” “I was born in the business,” the tum- bler replied. “My father was a crack-a- Jack at it. He was with the first Ameri- cah circus that went over to England. Then we went to Paris, where I made my first appearance—at the age of three —at the Hippodrome. We used to live in New Orleans, and my father picked up the French of the markets there. The Paris folk thought it very original dia- Ject, and he e a tremendous Mr Warld s it “tremenjiou: what need for hypereriticism? “I've done all sorts of things since then,” he went on. “Was Rose Cogh- Jan's comedian for two years under Froh- man for one thing. Then I was clown at Drury Lane for two seasons, and at the Theater Royal, Manchester, for an- other two. Old Knowles, the manager there, who had never been before to fork out a dime he didn’'t have to, gave me a gold watch!” and World showed every one of his strong white teeth in delight at the remembrance. “The ‘brother ? “Teamed it with other tumblers, you know,” be enlightened me. “I was one “I did the first bicycle stunt that was | seen on the stage at the Olympic in New | York. It ran for eighteen months. Then | T t on the end’ with Jeff de Angel minstrels, yYou know; and clowned it be- | fore all kinds of rovalties, at the Parls | exposition. I've done almost everything." | “What do you like best to do?” | “Box."” | “Ever been in the | “No. 1T like to bo: But T had the pleasure of knocking out yvour Me- | Coy when he was just ‘breaking’ into the | ring. One for me? Jimmy Britt hepe| says if 1 am real good he'll give me some | more lesson and World's long left went | out in happy anticipation. “Do you know | Dal Hawkins, the boxer?” | “By nam I “Well, he's as like me as T am myself. A stranger came up,to me yesterday in —is it ‘Green near the Columbia?’ Give it uy “No ‘matter, but the man asked me to decide a bet, with a treat for the crowd at the end of it. Was I or wasn’t I Dal Hawkins? He said T wasn’t. His friends thought T was. ‘You've won,’ I said. But Hawkins gets the slap on the back in New York, and they ask him what thea- ter he's playing.” “What are the chief points of clown- ing?” * “Oh, good tumbling and quickness and | lightness. That's at the bottom of all | good stage work.- England has much the best of us in that way. No matter what you're going to do on the stage there you learn to dance and use all your muscles.” | “Even the tragedian?” “It’s dollars to pennies,” World said, as solemnly as he knows how, “that Irving | can put on a pair of pumps and go to the front and dance a breakdown.” “Oh, lovely!"” But for once the famous clown was de- rious. “Do you remember ‘Robespierre'—" Mr. World likes it better “Robesperry “where the aristocrats are practicing climbing up boxes and chairs so that they won't stumble and get laughed at going to the gallows? That's where you could see who had been properly trained and who hadn’t, who could balance and poise themselves; and it's all in the business. | You show me a photograph of a man or a woman and I'll tell you what they know about dancing. Or let them just walk into the room. A good dancer knows exactly how to pose in front of a camera, how he looks when he sits, stands, walks. They showed me a pic- ture of a dancing teacher here the other day. ‘Bring bn your teacher,” I said. ‘He's here, they said. “This fellow’'s pig- eon-teed,’ I said. That's the trouble. There are so few good dancing teachers in America. They teach you ‘grace cul- ture’ fnstead—‘grace culture!” and words fail to express the limitless scorn World contrived to eject into the phrase. “A clown without good tumbling is no- where. If he’s tender and soft he can’t. take the hard blows that all the rest of them have to give him. It's half the fun to the audience when the policeman clubs the clown, and they say, ‘Did you see _,)‘I?’W he nearly broke that fellow’s arm? “And we are going to have all tI glories this week?"” 2 T “It's the genuine ‘Humpty-Dumpty’ pantomime éven to the transformation | 8cene,” averred the clown, “like the chil- dren cry for in England, and for which the poppers and mommers and uncles and aunts are 8o ready to sacrifice themselves D Eo Wike, 195 ettt % F e sort o ng best? ro‘;‘mt '::_dw:nt t!o do Hamlet?” e “Nof y. T wasn't born that way. But I've heard 'khlt I can sing a gooyd song and that I'm a decent sort of come- ld.lfn. And I know I can tumble.”” Houp THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. T T Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Publication Office.. = +....Third and Market Streets, S. F. = =y Y the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California there has been pub]ishgd a pamphlet of “California Products for Household and Family Use.” The iter'ns cont.a.me.d in the publication are taken from “The Catalogue of the Products of California,” which is 7 now in course of preparation and which is designed to bea complete compendmm‘ of \th.e pfoducts of our industries. The smaller pamphlet deals only with articles of every day use in Cali- fornia homes, and is designed for the instruction of California housekeepers who wish to promote the industries of the State by patronizing home products. It is evident that if the housekeepers of the State ask for California products from their deal- ers in all lines of household goods there will be an immense impetus given to the manufacture and production of such articles. Nor is there any reason why such a demand should not be made. The pamphlet shows that almost every variety of groceries, furniture and house-furnishing goods, cloth- ing and miscellaneous household supplies are produced to a greater or less extent among us. In many lines the home product is equal to any that can be obtained from abroad and in some in- stances superior. Thus the home would lose nothing by an extended patronage of home products, while our industries would gain greatly. It is a familiar maxim of trade that the home market is the best of all markets. It affords a safe basis on which any given industry can rest for support while developing a trade in foreign markets. In his recent notable address as rector of the University of Aberdeen, Mr. Carnegie laid special stress upon that point, and even went so far as to say that foreign trade is but a trifle in comparison with the value of the. home market. California is so young a State that her people have not yet learned the value of her prod- ucts. Thousands of our families are still demanding the goods they were accustomed to in the East. Thus we get. pickles, sauces and catsups made outside the State simply because our people are not familiar with the home articles. So we purchase codfish brought from Massachusetts, Lal- though our Pacific Coast packers can supply us with the same fish equally well packed. It is not worth while to go over the whole jst. It suffices to say this little pampbhlet of “Cal- ifornia Products for Household Use” will astonish many- persons who deemed themselves fairly familiar with the manufacturing industries and products of the State. The housekeeper will find in it almost any kind of article she desires, whether as a necessary of life or as a luxury for the holiday season. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association have given the pamphlet a wide circula- tion, and it is to be hoped it will be carefully studied. A home market for home goods is one of the things which we must establish in California in order to perfect her attractions and improve the conditions of her people. ' A SOCIALIST PROGRAMME. ' LUSHED with the success obtained in the recent elections, and especially in New England, the Socialists have seemingly entered upon a campaign of education for the next struggle. We learn from our Eastern exchanges that they are full of activity and have adopted A pro- gramme of policy which they are now inculcating by every means in their power. The latest declaration of note by the party is embodied in a proclamation issued by the So- cialist committee of New London, Connecticut, and addressed to “Our Fellow-Workmen and All Whom It May Concern.” Ttis said by those nearest the center of Socialist strength that the mani- festo is nota local Lut a national declaration of pringiples, and therefore is of interest to every section of the country where the Socialists have any considerable following. The proclamation demands city charters embodying theinitiative and referendum: municipal ownership of street railways, gas works, water works, electric light and power plants, and all other industries requiring municipal franchise; the operation of such industries by the city under a sys- tem by which the employes of any public industry will elect the officials who direct it; the estab- lishment of municipal coal yards and drug stores and the sale of such articles to the people at cost; * compulsory education of all children under 16 years of age, the city to furnish books, clothing and food to such pupils as need them; and the direct employment by the city of all unemployed people at a rate of $2 a day of eight hours. Finally, by way of summing up the creed and aims of the party in one brief plank, the plat- form declares it to be the purpose of Socialists “to oust capital from its seat in government and abolish all pauperism and social wrong by using the public. power to destroy wage slavery and estab- lish the co-operative commonwealth.” The sooner the Socialists enter upon an active and open campaign of education for such a programme the better it will be for all concerned. Of late gyears a geod many seeming successes have been obtained for socialistic experiments by reason of the fact that the Socialists did not show their hands in the contest. People have voted fof this or that municipal interference in business because they did not understand itswelation to socialism, nor pefceive to what it tended. In an open contest there is no danger that the American people will give support to the new propaganda. The doctrine of ousting capital from the seat of government may work well in some European countries, but in the United States, where a big majority of the people are property-owners and have a due share in the government, ‘he efforts of the discontented to oust them are more likely to be amusing than dangerous. THE OTHER GCGLOVE. R.LORENZ entertained the Medical Club of Philadelphia at a recent banquet given in his honor by telling them something of the story of his life, and a most interesting story it is. He has risen to eminence by no easy means. From the first the obstacles in his way were numerous, and for a time they increased as he went along, so that there were moments when he was in almost complete despair. In narrating the events of his early life, he said: “Forty-four years ago I was a little and very poor boy. One day, wandering along the street, I found a single glove. T put it on. It was much too large, and contrasted harshly with my feet, which were bare. Proud and happy, I walked to my home and showed my treasure to my mother. ‘My dear boy,’ she said, ‘you will have to work very hard to find thé other glove.” ” Very often in his youth and young manhood the doctor had occasion to remember those words. The search for the other glove was in his case about as difficult a task as was ever imposed (upon genius and industry. At 30 years of age the aspiring student had overcome all obstacles in his way and had risen to be first assistant of one of the most famous surgeons in Europe. Just as his prospects were brightening before him a dark cloud overcast them. Dr. Lorenz says: “Itaught general surgery, and the dream of my life was to become a famous surgeon. But the dream never came true. I contracted a peculiar form of eczema and could not follow my chosen work. I thought that the other glove was gone forever, and I could scarcely resist the temptation to blow out my brains. In complaining of my lot to Professor Albert, he said to me, ‘If you can’t get along with wet surgery, try dry surgery.’” So it was not by love, but by necessity, that I became a dry surgeon. But necessity is the mother of invention, and after twenty years of hard work I found at last the other glove.” i Here is a story of encouragement for every weary and despondent worker. A youth labors upward from poverty to a position where the aim of his labors and studies seems assured. Then suddenly he is stricken with disease, and all hope of fulfilling his desire has to be abandoned. He rouses himself, but has to labor another twenty years on an untried path before success at last crowns his efforts. All's well that ends well. Dr. Lorenz is now near the summit of his profession and his services are a blessing to humanity. His example, however, is as good as anything his sur- gery can do for mankind, and every young man can find something of profit in meditating upon this story of the poor Austrian boy’s search for the other glove. It has been suggested by a thrifty economist that it would be cheaper for the United States to pay Venezuela’s debts to Europe than to protect her from a thrashing, : but in the end we would probably have to get in and thrash her ourselyes, so perhaps the cost would be just . about as much that way as any other. ' Rt T sa sie SEEN At a recent exhibition in London i biles that were absolutely noiseless in motio enough. t is said there were exhibited two new style automo; n, but as they used gasoline doubtless the smell was loud —————— Lewis Nixon may be right in saying “no man can rise i ; n this country unless he is a worker,” but how can he get started as a worker unless he rises first? ) RIVELA AMONG THE MOST GIFTED ITALY HAS i TALY has sent us some fine things of one kind and another, but few finer in their way than the Cavaliere Emilio Rivela the conductor of Ellery’s Royal Italian Band. Ever since that first concert of his, three weeks ago, when this pied piper of Italy set every atom of that Sahara of a Pavilion vibrating with mu- sic, I have planned to get him to tell you Jjust how he does it. My chance came the other day, and a gold-braided, tautiy-uniformed procession of two—the Cavaliere and his manager, Mr. Ellery—wended its way to my office, to the manifest admiration of The Call's “local” Toom, that to a man knows and loves its Rivela. The manager came to interpret; “Pass me the salt” represent- ing rather more than Rivela owns in Eng- lish yet. Roundly cultured, strongly mu- sical, and gifted variously, Mr. Ellery is quite as interesting a personality as Ri- vela himself, and were this a monograph on managers who spend every nerve on the artistic perfection, rather than the financial success, of their undertakings, Mr. Ellery would come very near the top of the list. But Rivela has the floor—the great little conductor at your service. “Tall inside,” as I bave heard a bright yard and a half of young woman describe herself, is this gifted director. His work, with its breadth, sweep, swing, compel- ling quality, somehow makes one feel as if there were at least six feet of him be- hind the baton, but as Califernians go, Rivela is sa small man. Nor does his quiet face, with the Dante nose, melan- choly and sensitive, give much evidence of the musical dynamo within; save when his eyes flash blue fire as he speaks of the Esaus who have flung away their art for a mess of pottage. “Conscience fncar- nate’” his manager calls him, and that is what Rivela looks like. “What is at the bottom of good conduct- ing—you ought to know?” I asked him. “The distinguishing temperament, a broad general culture, and an intimate knowledge of the works of the great mas- ters, 1 should put it,”” said Rivela. “The ‘distinguishing temperament’?"” “I mean this kind of thing, if you will pardon a personal allusion,” and Rivela bowed. ‘“When I was a little . chap, 3 years old, I used to drag the chairs into a half circle, stand in front of them and beat time with a rattle. In fact I can't remember ‘when I did not want to con- duct. It was siot 2 matter of choice with me, but an impelling instinct, that inner passion that determines that oné shall be a pianist rather than a violinist, a doctor rather than a burglar.” “But can you spot just the difference between the soloist and director tempera~ ment?” 3 ‘ “O molto differente, molto differentel It is 1 to 100 per cent different. The con- ductor must be 100 people all at once— think with them, feel with them, rule them. Only one man alone, a little king- dom of one, a fine, tiny aristocracy, the soloist must reign, over. I think it good,” and the blue lightnings that were playing under Rivela’s long lashes began to sub- side, “that (a conductor should be a planist—the bdriginal literature is so wide and the opportunity for getting a piano sketch of orchestral scores so useful.” - Mr. Ellery here explaired that Rivela is himself an excellent pianist and one of a family of musicians. He began to study when only 5 vears old and at 11 entered the Naples Conservatory, from which he graduated with high honors at an early age. But he desired always to conduct and two years ago found him with a band at the contest of Turin, knighted and decorated by the King of Italy. I pointed to the place where Rivala's honorable trinket should have been and asked him on his honor how much King Umberto knew about music. “Nothing at all,”” he laughed frankly. “The Minister of Public Instruction or- dered the King to decorate me.” “There were 148 bands in the contest, 8000 men,” contributed Mr. Ellery, “and it was for the performance of Bazzini's ‘Sol’ that Rivela won his knighthood. Not for nothing, you say?” ““Who are your big orchestral conduct- ors, besides Mancinelli?” I asked, ‘“Mascagni, of course, and Martucel.” “I was waiting for. Seppilli's name,” said I. “We like him very much here. And we have one of your people right ! Rivela promptly 'maintained. among us, Leandro Campanari.” “Campanari is grand, great, but Sep- pilli is not so well known. Alessandro Vesselli, who has the Municipal band at Rome, is our finest band master. He is a great Wagner student.” “And they all get their results as differ- ently as possible, doubtless?” “There is only one way to conduct—the way that is natural to the conductor,” Rivela said. “Then—in confidence—Creatore’s acro- batics were entirely permissible?"" “Not so, for they were not natural,” “Every ~ SENT US. By B'lanche Partington. SAXAPHONE QUARTET THAT IS A FEATURE OF THE ITAL- IAN BAND. afe- - oge e ———————— atom of movement that is not the out- come of sincere sympathy with the com- poser is so much impertinent intrusion of personality between the audience and the music. And Creatore is a genius, he has no need to do that sort of thing. It is not just to the men, for when he did not feel inclined to play the acrobat they were spoiled and completely at sea as to his intentions.” “Then you think that his affectations were not natural to him?" “Non e possibile, not possible.” “‘You give us so much more of the mod- ern Italian stuff than Creatore did. You admire the school?” ““Tremendously."” ’ “And Puccini's ‘La Tosca? We are In a state of mingled bewilderment and ad- miration here about the opera.” * ‘La Tosca’ does not represent progress on ' Puccinl's part to my mind,” Rivela sald thoughtfully. “The Sardou are not fit subjects. for ‘musical repre- sentation. And Glordano has dome the same thing with his ‘Fedora.” ™ Prunes stuffed with apricots, Townsend’s.* Townsend's California glace frult and candles, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * } l blisher has & new o!‘"‘c\ex;‘:’!’l ,wuordl. 'hlé:h lh. 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