The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1903, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL Photographs loaned from the collections of ?”me. Fab- bri-Mueller, Mrs. Karl Formes and the Elite Studio. York's favorite con- alto and Henry Peakes at that time the best American basso. During that sea- son the repertolre embraced about twen- Seguln was New e fied by the title of an nd it was no Infrequent " &0 incomplete were t 0 cities like New York, er of s and orchest Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago that a R English Opera season. c ree weeks was given without ] t a single The cast < ; mian Girl” at the New York i st The principals was as follows: ; ' e Caroline Rich- Caroline Richings s Abell, Isabel Zelda Harrison v « re Bernard Isabel Arnold erwar ; of Caroline --8. C. Campbell gs), Sherv vell, the great ;" - . D oite, Hionry Deviishoot . ..Henry C. Peakes jes ward Seguim and James _The 1866 company carrled an orchestra Peakes Truly an excellent organization, °f tWelve and a chorus of twenty-five tle amnk were graduates from &nd were under Wililam Dietrich as . trels. Zelda (Harrison) musical director. The season of 1867-188 oot of Self-Defense Among a thorn on a its are armed Noble Art lives with suits of mail, alliances but they and protect each othepr form The - Which they ‘gorge, or furze, which s well armed, ‘se- all other iv- joots the most exposed situation it can not o© open hs and stony wastes, where ves with kes g fearl holds up its yellow blossoms other weapons s John J. Ward in many plants have for less protected plants seek its shelter, and the bees to fertilize. Straightway Magazine, ¢ attack nte, like the poison oak or vy, onous acids, which are a warn- mals to keep their distance. o some specles of cactus, have creeable smells, that punish the in- r for bruising them. t only do growing things shield thelr 80 a mutually arises. Seif-defense is abundantly exhibited in vegetable life. Sometimes, although less often, plants actually attack animals, A very pretty, simple example of attack is found in the English sundew. This in- sectivorous plant grows in bogs and on wet ground. The leaves are covered with protective plant army found the company almost identically the same, with an increased chorus and or- chestra and a repertolre of fifty operas. During this year “Faust,” “The Lily of Killarney,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Czar and Zimmerman,” “Night in Gran- ada” and “Satanella” had their first American productions. Early in 1868 Parepa Rosa, who had Leen on a concert tour of Australia, reached New York and with her husband, Carl Rosa, proceeded to organize what was then the greatest opera company which had appeared-in America. Parepa Rosa secured Caftle, Campbell, the Seguins and Kinross for her principals and added Menry Nordblom, primo Alberto Laurence, barytone, and Rose Hersey, an English’ prima donna, for the lighter operas. Annis Montague was also added as seconda donna, and an immense chorus orchestra, under the dual direction of Rosa and Reiff Jr., com- pleted an organization of over a hundred people. The season was a triumphant success. Parepa Rosa cleared over §i30.- 000, and having been engaged at the Dusseldorf f 4 the season of 1563-70. tenor; Antony Meantime Caroline Richings, annoyed at the disaffection of those who had joined Parepa Rosa to better their con- dition, had organized a company which contained such eminent singers as Henry Haigh, Brookhouse Bowi Dray- ton and Anpie Kemp. But the public ferred Parepa Rosa's organization the Richings season was , Henry pre- nd ul L iy w. H. KINRC During this season the two companies, through lack of judgment, met In Pitts- burg and were pitted against each other for a week. Upon a certain evening both companies appeared In *Il Trovatore” B e e e e e e 2 ) Fighting Plants. glandular hairs, which secrete a sticky fluid to entrap various small, flying in- sects, which on alighting get entangled in the gummy slime. The hairs then bend over and pour out still further quantities of this digestive liquid, which dissolves out all the nitrogenous matter from the insect to serve as food for the plant. Ni- trogenous matter is hard to get in boggy places, and so the plant is equipped with this mechanical means of obtaining it. The pitcher plant attracts animal life by a sweet liquid. The insect crawls down the pitcher. but cannot return, for the passage is barred by recurved hooks. As wonderful as any Is the “American Venus’ fiytrap.” The leaves are hinged at the and a comparison of the two casts is in- teresting: Cast Parepa Rosa Opera Companyt Leonora . {. Euphrosyne Parepa Rosa Azucena . Zelda Seguin Inez Annis Montague Wiillam Castle Alberta Laurence .W. H. Kinross i .T. C. Lyall Cast Caroline Richings Opera Company: Leonora. Caroline Richings Bernard Azucena Annle Kemp Inez . .Isabel Arnold Manrico . .Brookhouse Bowler Count di Henri Drayton Ferrando . Henry Peakes Ruiz . «.H. Ollver Parepa did an immense business and the Company disbanded with unpaid salaries early In the spring. In the year intervening between the two Richings Parepa seasons C. D. Hess organized what was known as the combination scason, when he had Caroline Richings, Marie Van Zandt and Mme. Rosewald as sopranos; Zelda Seguin and Lizzie An- nandale as contraltos; Castle, Bowler and Bernard as tenors; Campbell and Lawrence, barytones, and Drayton and Kinross, bassos, under the direction of S. Behrens of Philadelphia. This sea- con was but moderately successtul, ow- ing to the terrific expense of this double company. However, no money was lost \d grand opera in English was still in the ascendant. Then came Parepa’s second season with the famous agsregation which made overatic history in the Iinited States. The principals were Parepa Rosa, Jennie Van Zandt, Annis Beaumot, Castle, Tom Karl, who made his debut as Torlo in “La Fille du Regiment”; Santley, the famous barytone; Campbell, Georga Conley, Kinross and Bartleman, with a chorus of seventy-five and an entirely new set of costumes specially made in Paris. C. D. Hess was again the asso- ciate manager. This season was im- mensely successful and many Itallan op- eras werée translated and received their first rendering in English, notably Cheru- bint’s *Water Carrier” and Rossini’s “La Gazza Ladra)’ At the conclusion of this season the Parepa Rosa Company and THEODoRE THorAs. | the Wachtel German Opera Company, both under the management of Carl Rosa, were brought together in the Academy of Musie of New York and a season of thir- teen nights of Itallan opera given with casts the like of which had never been heard, for instance, “The Huguenots,” with Parepa Rosa, Van Zandt, Adelaide Phillips, Wachtel, Santley, Campbell, Carl Formes and Weinlich in the cast. The smallest receipts for any of the thir- teen nights were about $3000. At the conclusion of this season Parepa retired from the stage and died a few months later In London. 1n 1873-74 Clara Louise Kellogg and C. D. THEODORE WACHTEL. A King Oscar’s Versatility. Quite recently, King Oscar of Sweden and Norway figured as the hero In a ca- tastrophe which occurred in Stockholm His Majesty was yachting near the Mar- strand bridge, which was crowded with women and children sightseers, when suddenly the whole structure collapsed. precipitating many of them Into the wa- ter beneath. The King Immediately threw off his coat and assisted in the rescue of twenty-three persons, all of whom he took aboard his own yacht. King Oscar is probably the most ac- complished and versatile of all'living sov- ereigns. He Is an accomplished musi- cian and composer, a poet, author, h torlan and dramatist, sketches well, paints In water colors, reads and writes eight languages, cnd speaks five. He Is a fine horseman, a yachtsman, and the most’ eloquent orator in Sweden, where oratory is held {n high esteem. At the same time, he is a man of mod- est and unostentatious manners, and, when he travels, shields his royal rank = © ielirfeilorioeiriefeeirie frloi ool iviieeleeieieieit @ Lehind an incognito, and is known as center and close rapidly enough tg entrap an insect. They remain closed while the insect struggles, but when it becomes ex- hausted they open to catch other prey. Occasionally plants make allies of their enemies. A tropical acacia, known as the “bull's horn thorn,” accommodates and provides for an army of ants to check the depredations of ferocious, leaf cutting ants. The branches bear hollow thorns, where the ant garrison lives and rears its young. The plant supplies not only lodgings, but board as well, in the form of a special honey, which makes the gar- rison a good breakfast, and, more won- derful still, solid food in the form of lit- tle, yellow, fruitlike bodies, which are de- veloped on the leaflets and do for dinner. Count of Haga. His best literary work was done before he ascended the throne, when he lived in a quiet home on the geashore as the Duke of Oestergotiand. His cares and duties as King have not permitted him the leisure and the liberty to think and write as he did in the olden days, when he was merely a modest coun- try gentleman. Hess organized 3 addition to Castle, Campbell, the Segulns, Conley and Kinross, Joseph Maas and W. T. Carleton were brought over from London and Theodore Ha man, brated German sanor, was added as sta manager. This company had two most successful seasons, with little or no alter- ation in the roster of the principals. They d California during en a bank suspended pas for the kindness of a y might in co een dep had a & ave u d th of trouble having ing. It may be sald truthf end of the second Kel the decadence of Englis )8 season began any sense, b Michael the National Company was organized by Mrs Thurber in New York, and lars was st r was never an Fan ing in Germar rett in Eng Weinlich in Ger and a chorus recru Side of New York, stra of more bers. Do you call this grand ] English “the ny”? The 1deal Opera Company. a very creditable organizatior ter years whi has been deservedly a public favor wit ore than a hundr or National Opera ( h evolved into the Bos Ax management of H eral attempts at elebrat but not compared with and from ti descend to s “The Sultan ard of the their ne to time the ch works as “King of Zulu operas. fhen will @ MODERN SAGE'S SAGE SRYING Strive as we bo g may, and when death, we f us who * has passed by, Is h every tok over the departing e rigid b when I loc dered me. hroug that may wrong—do tion, ourselves memory conv able to him small of the te ts looking, not looked after nor at.—Theodore Parker He that has a home and a fam as given hostages to the community for good citizenship, but he that has no s necting interests is exposed to tempt to idleness and In danger of becoming u: less, if not a burden and a y.—Johnson | govern my life and thoughts as if world were to see the one a for what does It sigr to make anything a secret to m bor, when to God, who is the se: rts, all our privacles are o Sen ca. The superior man is he who develops in harmonious propértions his mor: lectual and physical nature. be the end at which men ¢ should aim, and it is this c whic stitutes real greatness.—Douglas Jer Men are not to be judged by their | habits and appearances, but by the c acter of their lives anc ersations by their works. 'Tis better t a man’'s own works than that another man's words should praise him.—L’Estrar Nature gives to ever some beauties of its ow ing to night, as from the grave, Is but a succession of ¢ gentle and easy, that we can scarcely mark their progress.—Dickens. A country which has no national litera- ture, or a literature too insignificant to force its way abroad, must always be, to its neighbors at least, In every important spiritual respect, an unknown and unesti 1d. ks rar mated country.—Carlyle. Life is a school and nature always a fresh study, and the ‘man who keeps his eyes and his mind open will always find fitting, though it may be hard, schooi- masters, to speed him on in his lifelong education.—Hugh Miller. Avold singularity. There may often be less vanity In following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to instead of co dicting them.—Joubert. Do to-day’'s duty, fight to-day's tempta- tion, and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see and could mot un- derstand if you saw them. — Charles Kingsley.