The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 22

THE FfFAN .FRA‘SCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1903. — e . T’ LEADING LADY’S PART ; AT ALCAZAR IS ACCEPTABLY FILLED. | BY ;‘UISARD. L ;i " i || Belasco's 1 black hair n These resembles, ions as p twelve-y onsibility of the little d mo opportunity of t, and for five dren 1 cution and days and ' exactly, I was very ubbed me— nom “who mnever until I was leaving, Nance O'Neil did ed her before she e stage and sent up their cards sked you'd better ask her. But call again. But what hap- school days?” ns all over Canada; with isible’ in New York—that Caleb Wes! another New n—that didn’t; then some ; on the road with st year; lately in New e Audubon—leads.” ‘The Little Minister, eorts of things—Rosa. at's one of my stunts. when I was 16" e role?” better than anything I her Shakespeare?” . not to amount to much. I did when I was 14, for example, and m 1 GRAYHAIR Before it spoils your bzauty and puts the scal of # ge on a youthfu: face. MRS. NETTIE HARRISON 4-DAY HAIR RESTORER Is & harmlcss preparation tha restores gray o fadcd hair o it natural color without any incon venience or disagreeab cafter ef- | Greeng of the Civil War was another re- fects. Not a dyc; cleanly to uses | Jation, and General Nathaniel Greene of free frcm scd mentorsticky mat= | the Revolutionary War was an ancestor. A1l | Roger Williams, the famous Quaker, was ter. Price 81 druggists, Mrs, Nettie Harrison Co. DERMATOLCGIST, 18-80 Geary 8t., Ssn Francisco. a bottle, | | . { I've played Portia, Osric in ‘Hamlet’ and in ‘Julius Caesar.” It's all by the way. ] I played ‘heavies,’ too. rrible show. In the first t I the men I had | and also smol a cigarette. 1| rly died. And my one passion in life was supposed to be ta get my husband to | kill himself with drink. But there was | a great choking scene in it. The other villain had take my head under his arm th illu way"—and the actress welrdly “I had a cup of blood and a r, of course, and when he lifted again the blood wa treaming | Great scene ! t ts the—er—blood?” | and glycerin—to make it | sticky! Then the wvillain| ted me up from my mouth. ooth holds me up and I stand, supposedly dead, | &m a y effective, Iy like it?” 1 love to faint! I‘ “I do. 1 love to fali! love to die!” and the big brown eyes | looked uncannily out of the white face. “I love to die starvation!” I sald, bewildered, *"Rosalind doesn’t die. | “She faints,” said Miss Hun “You don't like farce, then remem- | bering that I had first seen her in “My ighter-in-law,” a farce of the livell ), can’t say that I do,” and the acl eyes were still weird with sugges- | | | tion. “I've gone through so much, it | | probably makes me feel better the sad things. I've been torough everything. | And I wouldn't give up a page of it. Not long ege, a year, 1 had smallpox down in Kansas City. I didn’t know, the others | | didn’t know for some time what was the matter with me. I simply had a terrible fever, and couldn’t eat. But they shoved | me on the stage for nine nights, and the | gleam of the lights would rouse me to my | work. Then they would catch me as I| went off at the wings and then shove me | on again. I was delirious when I Jearned | the part, and couldn’t remember a word | of it when I read it after I had recovered. | They took me away at night to the place | where 1 was nursed, in a carriage, a strange man and woman, through strange | streets, to a strange house. I didn’t care | | where I was going, didn't know. We | climbed in through a broken fence to the house—they had to hide m=, or I should have had to go to the pesthouse. I saw | myself just once, and I wanted to die, | My face, I thought, would be ruined, and there were the children. But they told | me I should be all right, and the disci~ pline and suffering have done me no harm. Three weeks I was in that room, and as 1 came out under the stars I pever saw the world look so large and beautiful.” “You work from the subjective side, | don’t you? 1T'm stil puzziing how you managed Lo act under those conditions."" | I think I do,” Miss Hunt said, slowly. | “'Or, rather—well, you will not think me foolish? I have never spoken of this be- | fore outside of my own people. But they believe—and I try to believe it—that our ! loved ones who go-before us can help us | here, Not spiritualism, you know, but | just that. I think mamma helps me, es- pecially first nights. I feel so strange | sometimes, as if my own soul left me— | like @ breath—" and Miss Hunt's long, white fingers curled upward a suggestive | spiral. “Then something else takes its | place, and 1 can go on with anything.” 1 suggested that it was the subcon- | sciousness bobbing up serenely, and then | asked about her family. | _“They're an illustrious crowd,” Miss unt sald, “soldier crowd. General Fran- is V. Greene, who was in the Cuban war, was a sort of cousin, General Vincent also of our family. Doesn't help me | any.” ’ And then we sald good-day. I am not classifying Miss Hunt in one column, but shé strikes me 25 being one of the oddest {):rsonali(ies with which I have ever come contact. = | SUNDAY l unusual now for the paragraphers to refer to him as “Pierp.” THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. || mADRIGALS OF OLD TIMES JOHN D. SI;EECKELS. Proprieta’. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager FEBRUARY 8, 1903 Publication Office..... ....Third.and Market Streets, 8. F. THE PEACE OF THE WORLD. HILE there is a great deal that is irritating in the proceedings of the allies to exact in- demnity from Venezuela for wrongs alleged to have been done to their subjects, the net result of it all thus far has been creditable to American influence and our twentieth cen- tury civilization. There have been bluster, blockades and bombardments, and yet the in- jury dor‘le to innocent parties is but trifling when contrasted with what would have occurred under sumilar circumstanees in bygone generations. 5 Lord Salisbury, when questioned once about the concert of Europe and- twitted with its inca- pacity to redch a gefinite settlement of any issue before it, replied that it had at least kept the peace of Europe. The answer was sufficient for the question. Salisbury went en to say that the concert could hardly be expected to achieve in our time much more than the postponement of wars, but t_hat as this is a world where things grow and forces increase in power as they move onward, there is a reasonable hope that eventually there will be back of the concert a power strong enough to enable it to act decisively on every issue that threatens war. ) Our Monroe doctrine does for this hemisphere much of the work expected of the concert of the great powers in Europe. We do not, indeed, assume to forcibly intervene bétween contending powers in South America, but we do guard them against European aggression and use our best ef- forts to save them from fighting among themselves. Only a short time ago our mediation was in- strumental in settling a dispute between Argentina and Chile, and we are now engaged in preventing strife between Brazil and Bolivia. What we have done and are doing for Venezuela will of course have a tendency to increase our prestige among the Latin-American countries, and at a time not far distant it is probable we shall see all of those nations quite willing to arbitrate almost any issue rath- er than fight it out. In the wrangle over the Venezuelan question it is significant that despite their alliance both Great Britain and Germany show an eagerness to retain American friendship. - Neither the one nor the other has raised any question of the rightfulness of the Monroe:doctrine. Each has offered to submit the whole controversy to the arbitration of the President of the United States; and while it was their desire to get this country to accept the arbitration and assume responsibility for the debts of Venezuela, yet after it was emphatically announced that we would not assume such responsibil- ity, the request to the President to act as arbitrator was renewed. Because of the seerhingly wanton bombardment of Venezuelan ports after the submission of the whole question to Minister Bowen, there was a good deal of indignatior in this country against: Germany. The outburst of indignation here was met by an equal indignation there, and as there has existed in Germany a long feeling of hostility to American enterprise in German markets it was natural that the German explosion should be much stronger than our own. Here again, however, the principle of arbitration has served well the peace of the world. No one has felt any fear of war be- tween ourselves and the German empire. It is accepted as certain that whatever may be the disputes among the diplomatists, and no matter how eagerly each may try to get the better of an opponent, the proceedings will go steadily forward to a peaceful solution of the whole difficulty. Each new achievement in the way of arbitration will be another precedent for settling inter- national controversies by negotiation instead of by the sword. That fact seems to be recognized by the war lords of the world, for it is notable that they are averse to appearing before The Hague Court. They called it into being out of courtesy to the Czar, but now neither the Czar nor any other of the crowned heads shows a willingness to resort to it. The United States and Mexico, on the other hand, readily submitted their controversy over the pious fund to that court and promptly vielded to the decision. Now we may send the Venezuelan matter to the court and compel the attend- ance of the nations involved. In short, the net result of the proceedings in the case is distinctly en- couraging and gives. promise of another victory of peace that will tend to check a résort to force. FLYING MACHINE BREAKS LOOSE. OR a long time Professor Langley has been promising that his flying machine would some day be able to fly, and for an equally. long‘time the public has been waiting eagerly for a ful- fillment of the promise. Three or four times a year the Washington dispatches have an- nounced that the Langley aeroplane “will be tested to-morrow.” Next day there would be a statement that something had gone wrong and that the experiment would be made at a future date, Several trials were actually made and once the machine flew about a half mile, but the test was not sat- isfactory, and the public was told to wait a little longer. s While abortive efforts with the aeroplane were being made along the Potomac, Maxim was busy with a big flying machine in England and Santos-Dumont was making sensations with a diri- gible balloon in Paris. By degrees popular interest in the Langley aeroplane fell off. The successes of the Dumont balloons took the public mind and excited the public fancy. People quit talking about aeroplanes and began speculating on the future of dirigible balloons, and Professor Langley was in danger of becoming something of a back number. Under such circumstances it was up to the aeroplane to show itself and it literally “rose to the occasion.” Recently the professor securely fastened his machine to a boathouse and betook himself to his laboratory to attend to something else. Then there blew over Washington the heaviest gale of the season. Instantly the aeroplane saw its opportunity. It rose in the air with a tremendous surge, and as it could not break away from the boathouse it dragged the house from its fastenings and took it along down the river. The dispatch goes on to tell how the river men watched with amazement the strange craft and its erratic course; how the machine dragged the boathouse up against the steamer Henry Randall, smashing twenty feet off her guard rail, and the® descended and lighted on the steamer’s flagpole. Professor Langley is receiving the congratulations of his friends and bills for damages done to river craft. It has been demonstrated that the aeroplane not only can fly, but that it flies furiously when it starts. Thus the life history of the machine begins with a smash-up. It is a steamboat that has suffered first, but perhaps the news of the future will tell of the wreck of freight trains and auto- mobiles by aeroplanes careering in blizzards across the continent dragging houses along with them. THE OTHER FELLOW'S GAME. HORTLY after Mr. Schwab was chosen manager of the United States Steel Company he went to Europe, and while there visited Monte Carlo. At once there came a multiplicity of stories concerning the outcome of the visit. It was said that Schwab had shown hisskill as a finan- cier by breaking the bank. It was also said that he had shown his gameness by losing about a million without making a fuss or reporting the loss to J. Pierpont Morgan. There were other stories of varying natures, so contradictory that about all that-can be asserted with safety is that Schwab went to Monte Carlo, stayed a while and then went away again. Now comes a report that throws light upon the wherefore of his going away. Sir Hiram Maxim, an astute Yankee with a British title and several millions of good money, went to Monte Carlo not long ago and after studying the situation came to the conclusion that the game is too steep for safety to the outsider. He is quoted as saying that the bank announces that upward of $305,- 000,000 annually is brought to Monte Carlo for gambling purposes, and that the percentage in favor of the bank is so slight that of that sum it wins only about $5,000,000, ,leaving $300,000,000 for the winnings of its patrons. With that statement Sir Hiram takes issue. Hegestimates that the total amount o_i new money taken to Monte Carlo every year does not exceed $5,500,000. Of that sum the bank gets $5,000,000 and the winners of the game divide the remaining $500,000. In other words, instead of the percentage in favor of the bank being 61 to 60, as the managers say, the per- centage is really 10 to 1 in favor of the bank. It is the old story of “the other fellow’s game,” against which the American youth has been warned in homely wisdom ever since the days of Sam Slick. The only way to beat the other fellow’s game is not to play it. We do not khow on what evidence. Maxim based his calculations, nor what means he used in studying the game. He may be wrong as to some of his assertions, but as to his conclusion it is-as sure as a Maxim gun. A short time ago there was a scare story to the effect that certain German naval officers had been detected making soundings in Havana harbor, and it was intimated that the Kaiser was getting ready for war. Now comes the announcement that no soundings were taken. The German officers were engaged in the peaceable pursuit of fishing. It is curious that among those who condemn Quay for making such a hard fight for the om- nibus statehood bill Senator Hanna should be conspicuous. Quay is standing pat. J. Pierpont Morgan is evidently beconting popular in the East, for we notice that it is not BRING BACK BY BLANCHE DAYS OF HARMONY. PARTINGTON. '1 TALENTED SAN FRANCISCO COMP DIRECTED THE PERFORMAN TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB E 2o E really don't know it all to-| day! But it akes the useful | snub to contemporary vanity | like the Twentleth Century | Club. programme of the other | evening to bring the fact wholesomely to the foreground. Here is Master Henry Purcell with an opera written 200 years ago for a pack of boarding school misses, that for sheer, pure beauty of melod; dramatic genius, wealth of fancy and su- perb. technical skill ranks—oh, so easily!— with the best that is being done to-day. | And those boarding school bables sang | it, played it; a work that to-day takes | cur best energies for its performanc One cannot easily be too grateful for opportunities of the kind afforded by the Twentieth of “Dido and Aeneas,” not to speak of | the lovely old madrigals that formed the | first part of their programme. Nothing | more valuable in its suggestion, nothing | more conspicuously enjoyable could have | been devised. I could cheerfully have | heard the programme all over again and | I was only one of many in a hall full of | those surfeited with good things. In this their opening recital the club has set for itselt a standard of the very highest. If they are faithful to it, if they do not be- | come weary of well-doing, if they con- | tinue to keep burning the true dilettante spirit in which they have surely set out, the Twentleth Century Club will become a power for good in the music way for which it is difficult to see any limit. Nothing augurs more happlly for it | than the reverent and sympathetic atti- | tude of the performers the other evening to thefr work in hand. Naturally there | were rough ends here and there, though of these surprisingly few; but it was the love and reverence that went to the work that made it so uncommonly pleasing. | Some of the choruses—and exquisite they are—went splendidly, the quaint echo chorus, “In Our Deep Vauilted Cell,” “With Drooping Wings” and “To the Hills and Vales,” more particularly the spirit, attack, shading being notably geod. To Wallace A. Sabin, F. R. C. 0., who directed—and who seems to me very happily chosen for the work—large credit is here due. The soloists were Mrs. B. G. Lathrop, whose peculiarly plaintive and sweet volge was effectively heard in the role of Dido; Miss Millie Flynn as Belinda, her pure, fresh voice at its best in the part, and J. F. Veaco as Aeneas, also vocally most agreeable. The smaller parts wers | well essayed by Mrs. Worthington Ames, | Miss Edith Hanks, Miss Harrington and | Mr. Van Lingrem, and a suffictent little | orchestra undertook the instrumental du- | ties. Space fails me for the rest of the pro- gramme, only to say that J. F. Veaco de- | lighted in Morley’s “It was a Lover an. His Lass” and “Near Woodstock Town’ Miss Gertrude Wheeler gave with sympa- thy “Robin M'Aime” and “Las 'En Mon Printemps”; Mr. Van Linghem contribu- ted artistically “Par Mal Temps,” “J'al Encore un Tel Pate” and “Mon coeur se Recommande a Vous." John of Fornsete (1226), Orlando di Lassus, King Henry VIII, Arcadelt and Orlando Gibbons were | the other composers represented. And now, ladies, I thank you. "R A delightful experience {s ahead of the song lover this week in the recitals of Mile. Zelle de Lussan, who will be heard | in three concerts, to take place on Tues- | day and Thu y evenings and Saturday | afternoon at the Alhambra Theater. One | of the most fascinatihg among stage per- sonalities, De Lussan’ is said to be no whit less enchanting on the concert plat- | form. Her programmes are admirably | planned, containing the most varied fare— but here they are. It will be noted that the “Carmen” ‘“Habanera"—De Lussan's | Carmen ranking second to nome with a large body of admirers—is very properly included in all three programmes. Angelo Fronani, planist, assists. The programmes follow: X Tyesday night— (a) “On Wings of Song” | (Mendelssohn), (b) “Der Asra’ (Rubinstein), | " (Denza) Mile. de Lussan: “ (“Mignon’’) (A. Thomas), | n Cappricio (Glazounow), Mr. “Widmung'* (Franz), (b) “Av- ! (Chaminade), ~(c) Chanson ‘Aut Wiedersehen'' (Arthur Nev- | Paloma” (Yradler), Mlle. de Lus- san: (Refnec) dance (Thome), Mr. Fronani (Tostl), in), (e) : (a) Andantino ) “La b) Spanish | Sleep Well, | @) Abt), (b) Waltz song (" hem “Sprin .| mann), (e) Habanera (‘'Carmen’’) (Bizet), Mile. de Lussan. Sweet Angel” (Franz Lite (Hawiley), (Puccinl), “Song _of La Bo- g Song” (Schu- L (MacDowell), Century Club’s -performance | | Mr. Fronani: 'OSER, WHO SO SUCCESSFULLY QOF “DIDO AND AENEAS"” AT THE ECITAL LAST THURSDAY NIGHT. + _Thursday night—@) “The Magic of T Voice™ (Meyer-Helmund), (b) Chanson Lege: (Erlanger), (¢) R n Sly Song™ (Mendelssc (Grieg), (c) My Loveiy ish) (arranged by Lane Wil n). (b) mazurka (Choy “Vedral ( pin) * (“Don_G bert Nevin), Mile. d men’’) (Bizet), Mile. de Li Saturday arternoun (Massenet), (b) Chanson d’ Amour’* an; ‘“Wedding Journey Vol che Sapete’” (M (Mozart). Mile. de Luss Bring Thee Flowe (Lambert), (b) “The Dafly Question” (Meyer-Helmund), (c) “The Fallen (Rubinstein), (d) ‘“Partir” (Tostf), M de Lussan; (a) Salonstuck (Grieg). (b) “Fruhlingsrauschen’ ding) (a) tarantelle, “‘Carmen’ (b) Habanera (“Carmen’) (Bizet), Lussan 1zet), Mile. de The San Rafael Orchestral Soclety lifts its modest head from among the roses and desires to announce for Tuesday even- ing, February 9, its fourth concert. It is a very thriving and industrious fittle band and fully worthy of its neighbors’ sup- port. Arthuf Welss, our accomplished ‘celltst, will help out the programme, and the concert will be given at the San Ra- fael Opera-house, As we are here in “furrin parts,” I may as well announce, as I am courteously asked to do, that Fresno is to the fore with a sturdy municipal band. The “‘Ralsin City and Fresno County Band™ is said to have so successfully sweitered through much -good music last summer that the enthusiastic community will in- crease the band’s membership to thirty for this season’s entertainment. They will shortly begin rehearsals, and this year, as last, will be under the direction of J. H. Cray. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.® ———— Townsend’s California glace fruit and candles, 50c a pound, In artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, €39 Market st.. Palace Hotel bullding. * ———— Special information supplied dally te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s) 230 fornia street. Telephone 1042 —_—e—————— This month Iceland is celebrating the ninth century of the introducticn of Christianity in the island. Olaf. King of Norway, sent over the first priests. Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm eomplexion of youth s “‘comxed back™ by Anita Cream. 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