The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1903. | GABRILOWISTSCH WILL OCCUPY CENTRAL POSITION 1IN WEEK'S MUSIC, BY BLANCHE PARTINGTQN. GIFTED CONTRALTO WHO IS TO APPEAR IN A SERIES OF CON- 1 { CERTS IN THIS CITY. t E + | a4, | | rabbits tough “ord we've had enough, the irreverent Burns, when | ed to give the grace at a| where bunny had become a more frequent than wel- One feels a little that ANC On Tuesday even- | first Gabrilowitsch recital Stewart’s concert.. Mme. | ‘the world's greatest com- | vocalist’—it must be o y. o to feel one is all that!— | ‘sweep into our ken on Wednesday | ng. Gabrilowitsch again comes in t with an important affalr at Lis | sday evening recital, in the first con- | of the Twentieth Century Club. The anist, however, seems to have ay to himself, which is more than o be coming the way of the wicked come “the J. Dr. H nd about that Twentieth Century Club | affair, that promises novelty of the fresh- est and finest sort. It seems that Ma- dame Maecenas, in her charming and im- i perious fashion, has declared that Henry Purcell, the great Elizabethan composer, | is to be the reigning mode o' the week. | On Thursday evening the club will pre- sent in its entirety the gifted old English w r's “Dide and Aeneas,” the first op- era proper ever written in England. Wal- lace A. Sabin will have.the direction of the opera, and & few outsiders will take part in the orchestral and choral ar- | rangements, otherwise the duties of | the production will devolve almost wholly upon the club members. Thess @eprecate, by the way, any suggestion of the professional pose, but sy they have been studying the beau- | tiful old work for the good of their own | souls, and will eing and play it on Thurs- | day night purely for thelr own and their | pleasure. Mrs. B. G. Lathrop | €ing the part of Dido, Miss Millie nn will be the Belinda, and J. Van | inghem'’s fine bass will be heard in the | part of Aeneas. - Mrs. Worthington Ames | is. another member.of the cast, and the chorus numbers. thirty. The first part of the programme will be taken up by some | quaint old madrigals. This is the first pub- | lic performance .of-the club. Admission is | only by invitation, and the affair is to be given at Stelnway Hall *“Dido and Aeneas” will not be the last of the Twentieth Century Club's efforts in the service ef good music.. The club | was originally formed to make possible the bringing out here of the rarer and less certainly popular musical attractions, as, for example, the Kneisel string quar- t by a guarantee from the club mem- hip for a large proportion of a first audience. The personnel of lhei club makes this possible, as it is com- | mostly of the wedlthier class of | loving. women, who can afford to this & Iy, whim. The kind of activity that h had its result in the “Dido and Aeneéas is also a chief intention of the organiza- the forwarding of the best in- t music generally ¥ 1 venture to suggest, as | in the club’s missionary ef- | agement of Arnold ‘Dolmetsch his.wife, now .delighting the chosen ew York? Dolmetsch is said to be . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ether desirable, if cost- | SOFTNESS OF SEALSKIN Is Rivaled by Human Hair Where | Dandruff Is Eradicated. world over for ; and yet the soft and glossy | 3d the radical cause of | » heaith: | | the original of Evelyn Innes' father ln[, | |.George Moore’s book—the old musician'} whose piano was a harpsichord; to whom the viol da gamba was daily bread. He | is the priest of ‘ancient music and its in- | struments, employing such rare and beau- tiful ones as the harpsichord, viol' da gamba, the lute, the treble and bass viols, the violin, the viol d'amore and the clavi- chord in his programme. Mrs. Elodie Dol- metsch—the name itself like the sound of | the wind-swept lute—sings antique songs in carefully antique way, and there-is a and loving fashion, tells the story of the | instruments, their evolution,” their rise, | their regretful fall, and himself plays | upon them, and to the three performers, | e concerts of this week, | third member of the little.company, Miss | provide them not | Mabel Johnston. Mr. Dolmetsch; in gaalnt | dressed all in appropriately ancient mode t and presenting a programme said to be | as remarkable for ifs musical beauty as for its oddity, has been accorded an ad- | miring attention very rar bestowed in New York. Imagine the Bearlatti “Pas- terale” on a “harpsichord, or Master Byrd's “Carman’s Whistle' on'the clavi- chord, or a Monteverde madrigal with lute accompaniment! How- like you the programme, ladies? o £ The local -debut o a violinist of ex- tracrdinary capacity; the Bohemian, Wen- | zel Kopta, was the chief event of last week’s programme. Kopta, who from his long residence in California may be said | to belong to us, is indeed an acquisition. “Dazzling” {s the only ward that ade- quately describes his technical equipment, that is indeed laughably wonderful, and! In the Pa- | his tone is equally excellent. ganini schiool of musical expression it is | mot easy to imagine & more competent in- | terpretation. The. Kontskl " “Cascade’—a deal more like the rush and thunder of | 2 passing train than the surge of waters, | by the. way—was absolutely comical in | its mechanical perfection. There was a long crescendo on a tremolo note that | could have been welghed, and everywhere conclusive evidence - that Kopta can do as he pleases with the wee, wicked fid- dle. ‘What he pleases to do in Bach and Beethoven Wwill. not-be to every one's | taste, but in -his own particular metier it would be rarely difficuit to find his match. & e Here ars the three programmes of Ga- brilowitsch, the. famous young Russian pianist to make his first appearance here this ‘week: 2 Tuesday . - evening—*'Variations . Serleuses’ (Mendelssohn); souata op, 31, E-flat major (Beethoven); prelude in D’flat ‘major, valse in C’sharp_minor _and ballade in'G minor Cho- “Pres de' la Mer” .{esquisse) (Aren- i *“Caprice-Burlesque’” (Gabrilowitsch); LiAlouette” (Glinka-Balakireff); valse -in- A flat major, “Le Bal" (Rubinstein), Thursday evening—Toccata and fugue, D minor - (Bach-Tausig, ival ‘op. 8 (Schu- mann); . nocturne, G major. etude, C_major, polonaise, A flat_major ~(Chopin); Nulits de Mai~ (nocturne), (Tschalkowsky); gavotte (Ga- brilowitsch); barcarolle, G minor (Rubenstein); “Si_oiseau j'etais” (Henselt); ‘marche milj- taire (Schubert-Tausig). Saturday. afternoon—Variations and fugue on & theme by Handel, op. 24 (Brahms); sona. ta, op. 110, A flat -major (Beethoven): gavotte, B minor (Bach-Saint Saens): chant polonaise (Chopin-Liszt); scherzo in B minor (Chopin); toccata, D minor {Leschetizky); Humoresque (Dvorak); Hungarian thapsody No. §(Lisat). -, A programme abundantly interesting will be that of the Dr. H. J. Stewart con- cert, to be given on Tuesday evening next at Steinway Hall. Consisting entirely of Dr. Stewart's own work, and .embracing compositions that range from vocal quar- tets to violin solog, with ‘songs for so- prano, contralte, tenor and bass included, it will afford those not already au fait a rare opportunity of “placing”the doc- tor as a composer. There are many new numbers to be found on the programme, and a few taken from compositions al- ready famillar to the public. The array of artists engaged in its interpretation is a remarkable one, everything combin- ing to make the event one of exceptional interest. Following is the programme: is rree in all hair trouble is dandruff, which s |TuP X A v caused by a _pestiferous parasite that ",3,';‘;;‘5."-_’;g‘hfl:,,‘;,:f,‘::”‘;.'g:.?‘z,,”“,, e saps the vitality of the hair at its root. Newbro's Herpicide i the only prepara- tion that is fatal to the dandruff germ Without dandruff no falling hair, but a luxuriant growth of glossy, soft hair is certgin. Scouring the scalp won't cure drufl. Kill the dandruff germ. Thou. s of women owe their beautiful suits hair to Newbro's Herpicide. leading druggiste. Send 10c¢_in stamps for sample to The Herpiclde Co., Detroit, Mich Sold by | Rose” and “'Awake, Dear Heart,” Mrs, Birmingham: pianoforte solo, *Spring- time,” scherzo in G minor; “A Song of Happi- ness” and “Menuet Heroique,” Dr. H. J. songs, ‘‘What Stewart; quarte and “The Sun Has Kissed Alma Berglund; violin solo, Ella V. McCloskey; part and “Sweetly “hamber of S "THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY .. " Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .FEBRUARY 1, 1903 Publication - Office. -Third and Market Streets, S. F. INCREASE THE NAVY. T will be well if the Dayton resolution be approved by Congress. It provides for a steady and progressive increase in our navy. This. country, by, reason of its long continental coast line and its insular possessions, is now the greatest of the maritime powers, if that position be meas- ured by shore line. Instead of being means of defense, our insular possessions require defend- ing, and it is poor national policy and poorer ecoriomy to go without such structive power is more than equal to their adéquate provision. > -The shadows that play around the Venezuelan question exhort us to diligence, in bringing our navy up to the national necessity. There is no’ use paltering with the issue. Our. position de- - mands the greatest naval power in the world, and it is economy to secure'it at any cost. It should equal the joint naval forces of the two greatest rival powers, in order that we may stand in no fear of their alliance. With such a navy, and cur coast defenses strengthened to their maximum at every point, we will have the best guarantee of peace: O All this may sound rugged, or even harsh, to those’who theorize about universal peace. That has been desirable in every age and is no less desirable'now. -But the other fact has run parallel through all history that national existence and independence have, after all, always depended upon national force and full preparation in the defensive and offensive arts. Every nation that reaches primacy- in commerce invites: attack and overthrow. If Carthage had been content to play aminor part in commerce she would not have attracted the envy and enmity of Rome and finally fallen a prize to the Goths. : : 3 G : The great progress of the ‘United Stateés in commerce, our invasion of the world’s ‘markets, the economy and plenitude of our production, bring ‘great prosperity to our people, which is en- joyed under penalty of misfortune if our rivals can visit it upon.us. Therefore it is the part of wisdom to-make that prosperity minister to the means of its maintenance by contributing to the building of a navy that shall be equal to all needs of the Government, = The army is another matter. With ten millions of stout'men of military age and strength, and all equipped with some knowledge of tactics and discipline by our militia system, we can hold 'the world: at bay if a land invasion be attempted. - Our continental position is impregnable. It is our. position in deep water that has to be considered and made equalily impregnable. Not only do we need ships, but we need a fevival of the maritime spirit of our people. ‘We have been so long en- gaged in manufacturing, producing and buying and selling that American enterprise and adventure ‘have been diverted from the sea to the land, - i ; g The victories of our navy in. Manila Bay and- at. Santiago did much to cause a réaction toward the water. But the navy still lacks men, and this lack will more clearly appear as we get more ships. 'The capacity of ‘Annapolis should be’enlarged, to the end that the necessary staff of trained officers may keep pace with the demand; and everything should be done fo induce enlistments, secure training in gunnery and get a full force of faithful ‘and experienced naval soldiery. It may be foreseen that when all preparation -is made, when we have the most formidable navy in the world in ships and men, in skill and offensive power, and a long ‘period of peace ensues, there will be those who will carp at all this preparation for war when there is no. war. Bt such critics will leave out of the accourit, as they always do, the effect of such complete preparation for war as an admonition to peace.- X : : i There is no-doubt that our success in the Spanish War, which demonstrated our ' naval ca- pacity, has roused foreign jealousies and begotten a desire to.measure strength with us. ' This is al- ways an unfortunate sequel to military success. - Germadny’s victory over France has compelled the - German Empire to sleep on her arms ever since, in fear of reprisals. = So ‘thé victories' of Frederick the Great were followed by equally great humiliations and the conquests of Bonaparte melted away. In each case exhaustion contributed to the lapse and disaster. - But we are not exhausted, nor even fatigued, ds a result of the Spanish War. It made no impression upon our :resources in men and money. - We issued from it stronger than we entered upon it, and are theréfore in complete condi- tion to equip ourselves so that no aggressions: will ‘be attempted to our injury.- means, when our con- A A SUNDAY SCHOOL CLUB LANT a vigorous seed in a fruitful soil and if the weather is propitious it will grow. That much is certain, but if the seed be a new anie there is no telling what the growth will be. Neither is-there any forecasting’ what strange and almost startling forms the - products of it will take when men of wealth set -to " prepagating its offshoots and grafting them on novel stems in the forcing temiperatures of hothouses. - % a0 Feie : 5 We are having an illustration of that old trith in the recent developments of the Rockefeller Sunday-school, and there is no tellixfg what sort of a sumptuous and lordly institation the thing is going to be when other millionaires take it up and force a rivalry as to which shall .beat the band. When that time comes, the old familiar Sunday-schoel will be a thing of the past. Somie- thing rich and strange, and possibfy something :rare and racy, will have taken its place, affording new oppoftunities for the expenditure of wealth and the exhibition of an 6stentatious-devotion to the spiritual good of a select few. . : : In the year 1780 Robert Raikes of the 'gbod old English town. of - Gloucester started the - first. Sunday-school. It was a simple ‘and ‘a humble venture and had rio other ‘object than that of providing a means whereby the poor boys and. street arabs ‘of the town could be taught to read and to write and something of the Bible and the Christian religion. Very poer and.narrow was the room where the movement started. It was, however, a good seed did fell upon good soil. The conditions of society were favorable to its growth and the institution spread '}apidly, so - that in the course of time every church in Great Britain and America had its Sunday-school. At first the schools were simple..' Very. soon, however, church buildings were designed to provide for the schools on-a:commodious plan.. Some of the schoolrooms were fitted up quite as sumptuiously as the great hall of the. church itself. Then came the formation of Bible classes for _those who were too old for the schools, and one miore step ‘was taken in the upward-march of the - institution, Now comes Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and gives the school a boom that lifts it high- up into the world of piu;bcratic beatitudes. Gy . ; It is afinounced that Mr. - Rockefeller. is to.give his Sunday-school a “clubhouse.” He has paid $150,000 for the land and is ‘to expend $230,000 for the building. . The new: structyre: is to’ possess all the equipments of a modern club. - It is to have apartments on the upper floors for the use of ‘members. It is to have “a.complete cuisine and restaurant: features.” - Membership in the club cantiot be obtained ‘until the applicant has attended the :Sunday-schiool for -six’ months. It is.added, probably by-way of inducement’ to. an increase of membership, ‘that Mr, and "~ Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs: John R. Rockefeller are freqitent visitors of the club. . B In the change from the original réom in which Raikes made his beginning to-thi‘sisfirfip'-- tuous clubhouse the transformation of the Sunday-school may be said to have been -completed.. By the virtue of easy millions, Sunday-s¢hool work: has been transmuted into club life, and now 'w§ wait to see if some miflionaire will be able to change club life into Sunday-school ‘work: - “ It is stated that among the exhibits of the Pi"\‘xssiah'GQvermfient__'fif St Lb\_.xis \.;vill be a ma- chine called an “aesthesiometer,” used' for the purpose of deterinining the condition of fatigue in the human nervés. - By applying it to his.forehead a man ‘can tell when he is tired and ought to quit. The machine is doubtless usefil in.Germany, but i : the average Amierican knows when he has the tired feeling without having tq'cdn§u1tva-xt_ia'chine G ; SR R 3 ; An i'nqfiir}} into the percentage of students in iarge' in Corriell high; but in the Columbia School of Applied Science itis:said to be “atracions.” - The Massachusetts Legislature has been asked to grant authority to the city of Bost;)n to provide pensions for city laborers of twenty years’ service who at the age of 65 shall be found in-- capable of further service. This is another evidence of the growth of the pension passion among Americans, and perhaps in the end there will be a demand for pensions for everybody. 3 —_——— Tt has been suggested that_the btg fight in th,é Senate on the statehood bill is designed not so- much to beat that bill as to prevent anything in the way of anti-trust legislation at this session. It seems that you cannot always tell what the Senators are up to even when you watch closely. Mrs. Mary T. Whitney told the girls at Wellesley the other day that New 'Engiand s a “paradise for old maids,” and the statement may be correct, but the girls should come West and try California. Itis a paradise for married women, ; | “The last time I played in ‘The Tempest’ til Mr. James' deep barytone intoned it. | | bus creature’s :taking the drunken Trin- ural instinét, and born pernaps to evil.' ‘| rather .like it. You sée, there is a large | duction,.and_have had really exceptional | here, and the ‘Middle West, are all wiser JAMES ASSERTS J— BY GUISARD. | IT 1S ONLY AN EXCESS OF LIGHT - PLAYS THAT IS HARMFUL. T was a damp, wild day, at 3 of the clock, when I set out to see Louis James, who had promised to be “at home” for a half-hour or so at his hotel. I felt ashamed of the weather —such as even the oldest lnhubhm;lt, 1d have repudiated—and was blueyl Hop! the elevator hoping:as € stood waiting for the b that Mr. James liked it that way, W . 1o!—doubtless evoked by some ?rosper;) of the storm—a scarlet damsel stood bek:;. ‘me, rose-cheeked, red-lipped, red—clo::l . o red-parasoled and crowned with a ‘;)?a ping poppled hat. Heaven knows ;ho o rosy Ariel was, but. it was a cdee:”u; even jocund, person she left behind, s a- newborn penchant for the wet day a e the . impertinence to inform Mr. Jln‘lleh’ that he had brought the tempest W | h"‘nfl'ut we don't like it at all” laughed Mrs. James, slim, brown-eyed, !emlnme.‘ pulling ‘up a chair to the fire for l’l"Are.i “Mr. James and I like to walk evei morning, especially here, in the park an beach."” sented, “or I don't feel theroughly weh.‘ Sixty years and one is.the actor, but| there are few who would give him n;lo‘ro‘, than 50. The night before I had seen rg | ‘in the great flapping ears, cock’s com and-red hide of Caliban, and I now “fm: dered. more than ever how he had man: aged to conceal his stalwart should:rs. height and general dignity in the wonder- Ke-up. A { {u‘l‘l;:%'e yo‘:l ever played Caliban before | season?’ 1 asked. e the actor_ repiied, and. added: | was in 1871, and that was as Ferdinand.” “How- do you go about: evolving a part.| like that of Caliban—where can one study role 5‘:?;0:‘"““. only In the text, that is. | There is no one now playing the part. 1 myself have seen only one Caliban during my lifetime. That was Augustus Ander- son, a lovely actor.” But my Caliban dif- fers from his in many respects; for exam- ple, Anderson’s make-up was black, much more formidable lookir l"lhan my freck- ndy sort of get up. . ‘e‘d'isfxn! th’ere are traditions, of. course? “Hudson's Shakespeare was my author- ity for what you may call the drawing of the figure; the color was my own. Snmz of the cuts give Caliban a tail. That, ol course, : would not do. It lr\!ro‘.hxceu the element of burlesque, and that's always dangerous.” “But so small a matter “Trifles make perfectio: and I felt as {f T.had never before heard the phrase un- o ‘the rest, you can never fail in a Sh:‘&;peare conception -if you study the text. It's all there, every tint and line that yon need. I think the text justifies me in making Caliban a little less heavily villainons than some actors s¢em to have painted him, and T've tried to smooth out the monstrosity of the character. His lit- tle, dumb sadness, when he tells of his awakening from his beautiful dreams, seems to me worthy of accent; and there is surely a pathetic side to the poor, hide- od! Therels a glimmer of bet- f:xl'o(;‘l‘;;:sgabnu( him when he Tecognizes later someéwhat . of - Prospero’s - nobility; though Caliban. must ever remain a poor menster without meritality, bestial in' nat- * you enjoy the part?” Hugity the- actor said, the bright blue eyes—that in Callban’s make-up lie like forget-me-nots on a muck. heap—be- ‘ginning- to twinkle. ~ “There is not a great deal t0°do Jdn ‘The Tempest' for either Fred or myself-and I am: afraid we cast, and we all' ‘Play ball.’ Five months we have been on the road with this pro- luck. .Oh, Shakespeare is bound to come in again. ‘The reaction against the music- al comedy is already fn evidencé. Mans- fleld—all honor to him—is carrying the war into New York itself, with his splen- did production of ‘Julius Caesar.” “And,. by all accounts, paying heavily for his temerity,” I interrupted. L “They won't have Shakespeare there” ‘James acknowledged. - “You peoplé out in that way. I am not saying that I do | not enjoy ‘Florodora’ myself occasionally. A Eastern universities who are deficient in spelling shows 10 per cent-in Princeton, 20 in the University of Illinois.and 30 in the’ University - of Minnesota, while from Yale the report is that the standard of spelling is high, in Wesleyan fair,’ | ‘Bast Lynne’'—if you vlease, for six .That kind of thing, with its pretty girls, pretty songs, bright costumes, is a relief once in a while after my own work. It is only in excess that it is harmful.” “Did you happen to see Nance O'Nefl as Lady Macbeth? We crowded the house for her last week in the play.” “I missed that, and I'm very sorry, be- cause we saw her Judith on Sunday night and were greatly surprised and delighted. ‘We had never seen her before. But hasn't she power, magnetism! Ye gods! how she held the stage while she was planning the death of Holdfernes. You know, it's a very uncommon genius. You don't find it once in a thousand actresses of to-day. The difficulty we had in filling in ‘The Tempest’ cast—to get players with the dig- nity, the old-world stateliness the comedy requires—is hardly credible. There is no school for that kind of actor Now, no eur- riculum, which is why Miss O'Neil is so absolutely remarkable. She reminds me of Lucille Weston in her hold upon her audience. Miss Weston was both crude and uneducated, but with the gripping tem- perament of the O'Neil, and I have seen her hold a Philadelphia audience with weeks!"” | dare say, but not T i NOTED ACTOR AND ACTRESS AS THEY APPEAR IN FAMOUS ROLES. —_ - % “You sald a little while ago, Mr. Jame: that you were enjoying the comparative rest ‘The Tempest’ affords. How long will that last?"” James shook his dignified grayed head and sald: “Fred and I were talking only the ether day about that, and we both sald that we should lke to put our feet under our own mahoganies and not have to take them out to go to the theater again. The sere and yellow leaf, you | know." “Bah! of {t." “I think not. I have seen everywhere now, done most things and the’ freshness is off the paint.. Yes, I'd like to play fif- teen or sixteen weeks during the season, T ore. At Monmouth Excuse me! You'd get tired | Beach, where my own little place is, do you think I do anything in the summer? One-half hour a day I study on & new play and the rest of the time just rum wild. But England s the place for rest, real rest. The wondeérful peace of West~ minster Abbey, where are the pavements warn by the slippered feet of many monks, where their plain, solemn little cells are still seen. England is a great place for actors, thrilling with history. At Hampton Court”—and one remembered James’' Cardinal Wolsey—"“one can still see the miter above the crown, symbol of the cause of Wolsey’'s downfall."” ““This doesn’t sound like the man who almost never makes a speech,” T laughed. “But you couldn't expect a speech from Caliban,” James argued, knowing [ re- ferred to his refusal of Monday night to respond to his welcome. “That would have been too fllogical. No, I leave that kind/of thing to Fred" r. Warde, be it understood. ° ‘“Consclence! It doesn't make any difference to him what he has to speak about. He i3 con amore with any subject, never at a loss, It's a gift, and I haven't.got it. ‘That is one of the reasons- why - we "are so glad to be to- gether again."” “Long may it wave,” said L Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 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