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

"” (] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1903. SMALL BOY SETS TOWN AFIRE WITH { | MUSIC MADNESS. By RBlanche Partington. E MARIE WOOTON, CON CHOIR, WHO WILL BE ¥ EN BY THAT ORGANI ATION THIS WEEK. AL10 SOLOIST OF THE CORONA- RD AT THE TWO CONCERTS TO ntioned. he further spill- soseful. He ising to make e e at him wonder gTows ripe age of his blonde study at t ks, with avi " began tc One hardly wants apm inguishes him € acolyte of one’s be lost in their ac- in its dewy of the most t we have Its tmmaterial ase of his playing, the jron under Koclan's e herculean effort that o make him what he is—one of mes at 19 years old, the g (Koclan is a pupil of her, Professor Sevicik,) membered with all reverence. [ id play that Paganini- ! He swept the house ts first measures. ¢ as one heard the ridic- r untying the classic knots and making purest music s stuffl. Nor will the thin, weetness of his harmonics be this side the Styx. Then there ‘Perpetuo Mobfle,” a mir- t-winged balance, and that mpanied by Franz Spindler, to whom I here render tardy compliment as &2 sccompanist without a flaw, quite per w ADVERTISEMENTS. creates perfeet complexions snd prompts the skin to per- form its highest functions; it imparts that fresh, healthful glow that s0 often disappears with youth; removes TAN, SUNBURN, PIMPLES, BLOTCHES, MUDDINESS, MOTN AND LIVER PATCHES One | I have never heard it done before | ver expect to hear it done again. indler has accompanied Koclan ever they were bables together and they | are Siamese In their sympathies. Kocian bas also Introduced himself as a composer this week, with a plaintive little song that shows a happy measure San sie Boheme” also locally iIntro- duced his master. It is uniikely, by the ay, that the “Fantaisie” will become hackneyed here, as the pyrotechnic dithy- | b makes Paganini look like the classio cents in_dificulty. Bach also, a | us, Attic Bach, in the lovely unac- | ied “Andante,” the Bohemian fid- | v d, in short, the whole | has been a glittering success. t come again too soon to worshiping concourse he has , for the little fiddler, as an- r bowman puts it, “‘comes from God."” > ccess of the Mascagni nights at has compelled the management the evenings this week. With a change in the orchestral numbers that form the first half of the programme, the bill will be the same as last week. Fol- lowing is the amended programme: iam Tell” (Rossini); (a) | " (strings), (b) “‘Dream” | 1 (c) “Intermezzo atcliff”') (Mascagni); ‘‘Cavalleria | (Mascagni); “Hymn to the Sun” | ) » one should miss Mascagni's “Caval- | ' that they are giving wonderfully Tivoll. The choruses and or- | are alone worth going for, with new Mascagni mettle infused into em. Caro Roma has developed a very satlsfactory Santuzza, Arthur Cunning- bam is growing into a stunning Alfio and Avedano’s Turiddu may be better than it sounds—poor .fellow. But it is a new | “Cavalleria,” glowing, picturesque and powerfully appealing, and one of the things that should be heard. The “Wll«1 liam Tell” overture, ns Mascagni does it, is worth going miles to hear, and the composer 1s heaping up glory with every | concert. San Rafael folks and other for- | cigners will now have a chance to hear the maestro, for in response to urgent ap- peal the Tivoll management will give a matinee on Saturday next. 75 T Manager Will Greenbaum, impresario of Carrie Nation (vide advertisement) and Koclan—mot to say Mascagni, this week offers an attractive Lenten novelty in the Coronation Choir, a party of Eng- lish =ingers who took part in the coro- nation of King BEdward and Queen Alex- andra at Westminster Abbey last Au- guet. - The choir is’ on its way from the Canadian to the Australian colonies, and the concerts of this week will be the only ones given in the United States. The concert party includes the contralto solo- ist, Madame Marie Hooton; tenor solo- ist, Edward Branscombe; six boy so- | pranos, two male altos, two tenors, a basso and two accompanists. In con- junction with the choral entertainment, | will be the efforts to amuse of Mr. Dud- ley Causton, who is billed as *“the fam- ous English entertainer,” and who is to appear in humorous musical selections; sketches and monologues. The concerts will take place Monday and. Tuesday evenings at the Alhambra. ., ° W The new interest of the last Koclan programme at the Alhambra yesterday afternoon was the Bach “Andante,” in which the Bohemian fiddler won new glory. Beautifully given, in a style emi- nently pure and classic, was the charming movement, and Koclan demonstrated amply in its rendering his command of | the classic accent. In his own accepted metler, the “Rondo des Lutins,” with its air-raising difficulties, excited tumult- vous applause, to which” the violinist | wisely replied by repeating the movement. The Paganini-Wilhelmj concerto in D minor was repeated by general request and againaroused a house-cracking furor. He repeated also his astonishing perform- ance of the Paganini “I Palpit!” and the delightful “Romanze” of D'Ambrosio. Mr, Spindier again accompanied in his su- perbly satisfactory fashion, and Miss Geyer furnished three piano numbers that pleased unto the encore point. . Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's. Townsend’s California glace fruit and cendles, 0c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for ern friencs. €39 Market st., Palace Hotel building. ¢ ————— Special information supplied daily to m‘.p(uAinc by tho hm-u‘ men Press Clipping len’s). fornia street. 'l.'el:;aom m;’»fl' c.g" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ‘ Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY ...MARCH 8, 1 Publigstion (OMBE:. 31400 iaetsnssis s Caals sae st @ ........l............!l.'hirdnnd Market Streets, S. F. commerce, extradition property. | century. imperative need. will curb their license and riot. Latin-America. him work. Such conditions are dangerous to the world’s peace and to our safety. It is now up to the candidates of Lee County to meet the situation as best are inclined to believe a majority of them will never hoe a row. Each will promise some husky fellow a deputyship provided he will go the rounds and swing the hoe. In addition he will carry a goodly jug of the spirit that reconciles. The campaign will be even more enticing to the farmer than before, and it is probable the fields of Lee County this year will be more carelessly hoed and more shockingly abandoned than those of any other part of the State. In short there may be sev- eral ways of reforming the average candidate for office, but it cannot be done by trying to make IN OUR HEMISPHERE HE relations of the United States to Europe need cause no apprehension, as far as they are affected by direct issues between us and any European power. Under our treaties of and expatriation, all of our interests have been safeguarded, and those common to us and Europe are definitely delimited and protected. We respect those conventions and they are respected by Europe. Every American citizen sojourning in the British isles or in Continental Europe is under the efficient protection of his own Government, and from the Martin Koszta incident until now our people have Been safe. When our nationals have been despoiled in Turkey and the injurious act has been made the act of that empire by acquiescence of | the Sultan, the principles of international law have been applied and the United States has com- pelled reclamation of indemnity, without even resorting to arbitration. Our direct contacts with Europe being settled on the line of complete safety, it becomes us to consider the risk that lies in secondary, or indirect, contacts, arising in the practices and pecu- liarities of the Latin-American States, which are incidentally protected by us under the Monroe doctrine. No sooner does the Venezuela incident reach the angle of repose than lawlessness breaks out in the so-called republics of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador, and a cry goes up from the domiciled nationals of the United States and Europe for protection of their rights of person and Already a large number of cases has accumulated in those countries, requiring diplomatic intervention, the filing of claims for spoliation and the consideration thereof by the foreign offices of this and other nations. The executive tenure of those countries being usually revolutionary and not constitutional in its origin, their judicial sense is perverted and resort to their courts is a vain thing. In Salvador, when the Flamenco law was proposed, by which any citizen of Salvador tes- tifying for an alien in any matter from which a claim against the Government might arise was penalized, subjected to seven years’ imprisonment and confiscation of his property, the Supreme Court gravely ratified the proposition and impressed it with the highest judicial sanction! This disclosure of the judicial temper shows that resort to the courts is vain. Wharton, International Law, says: “Justice may be as much denied when it would be absurd to seek it by judicial process, as if denied after being so sought.” In such a country, therefore, neither ours nor other nationals need hope for judicial justice, and their wrongs can only be righted by their own governments. At this point arises the danger of whose existence we are amply admonished by the Venezuela incident. Our people and our statesmen, and our State Department, will therefore safeguard the future of this country by addressing themselves to a study of the habits and practices of many of the Latin-American States. Heretofore we have regarded them from the standpoint of sentiment alone. They are called republics and we are republicans, so we have sentimentally fellowshipped them and taken them under our wing. Now it is necessary to look beyond the republican form of those governments and inform ourselves how far they are republican in practice. tion reveals the survival there of the tyranny, the absolutism, the disregard of the rights of person and property, and the lack of international comity and conscience which were the odium of mon- archy in the+dark ages and survived in some parts of Europe until past the middle of the last Such examina- Their reform is an In that reform the position of the United States requires that we lead. We can do so only by compelling respect for our own nationals in those countries. sion of observance of treaties, of indemnity for outrage and spoliation, will teach a lesson which The prompt compul- It is known to all Americans that this has not heretofore been done. The remissness of the Government is caused by the false sentiment of our people, their im- pulsive sympathy for republican government and their lack of information as to the unrepublican practices of which their countrymen and European nationals are the victims. It is the duty of the press to place the facts before the people, and then will begin a reform of the highest value to all A MISSISSIPPI MOVEMENT. OWN in Mississippi the farmers have become impatient with the incessant canvassing of candidates for office. vesting, there passes along the highways a procession of men with smiling faces, glad hands and fluent tongues, calling the farmers and their hands from the fields to listen to seductive promises of political reform and lighter taxes in return for votes. By reason of having to listen to so much talk the farm work is delayed, the crops are diminished and the farmers suffer: Therefore they are seeking relief and devising ways and means to attain it. Recently the farmers of Lee County met to consider the situation, and after duly weighing every suggestion offered they adopted a set of resolutions declaring “That we purchase a supply of hoes to be used in this campaign; that a district candidate applying to a farmer for his vote be re- quired to hoe two rounds of 400 yards each; that a county candidate be required to hoe ten rounds of 400 yards each; and that State candidates who travel in buggies be given a double dose of work in the manner above outlined.” It will be seen the reform follows,the rule of fitting the punishment to the crime. Hitherto the candidate has interfered with the work of the farmer, but under the new rule he will be required to assist in the work. When he arrives at a farm, instead of calling the farmer and his help from the fields to listen to talk that flows as thick, as smooth and as sweet as molasses from the mouth -of a jug, the candidate will pick up a hoe and proceed to the field, where he will duly hoe his two or more rows while the farmer takes a rest and bosses the job. Instead of tendering a useless, glad hand, the candidate will have to tender a useful, helping hand, and the conduct of the campaign will solve the labor problem on the farms of the county. Year after year in the seasons of spring plowing and of fall har- they can. We OR many a year New York taxpayers have been irritated by tax-shirking millionaires, and the irritation has been augmented by the increasing numbers and boldness of the shirkers. A large percentage of the wealthiest people in the city go before the assessors year after year and blandly swear they are not residents of New York and consequently are not liable for personal taxes there. This year the irritation has been forced to the limit of endurance by the eva- sion of an unusually large number of rich resjdents, and the city authorities have taken steps to bring thé issue before the courts. J Recently a test case was heard hefore Justice O'Gorman, and he has laid down a rule which if sustained by the higher courts will carry dismay into the ranks of those who are residents of New York for social and business purposes, but non-residents when the time comes to pay taxes. Virtually the Justice declares that if a man or a woman habitually lives in New York for the greater portion of the year, does business there, owns, controls and directs property from there, ranks as a “resident member of a club,” registers from New York when traveling, and for the gre “er part of his time enjoys the protection and benefit of New York police, schools and other mugicipal institutions, then he is a citizen of New York and must pay New York taxes. Whether the decision will hold as good in law is for the courts of last resort to decide; but it is unquestionably good common sense. For a long time past the British authorities have been enforcing an even more stringent tax law, and wealthy Americans living in that country have to pay British taxes notwithstanding their earnest pleas that they are residents and citizens of the United States. The herding of the rich people of the country into one city, where for the most part *they vie with one another in extravagance, is against public policy. There is, of course, no way to prevent it, but it is only fair that those who live there should pay taxes there. If they insist on having a share in the New York dance they must pay their share of what is due to the New York piper. 1t i now asserted that the French are promoting the Macedonian agitation, and if it be so, the chances are that back of the hand of the Freichman is the will of the Russian. - OLD COMEDY REFLECTS THE NEWNESS OF DAYS GONE BY. xy Suisard. Y P Joll A it TALENTED STANFORD CO-ED WHO MADE A VERY FAVORABLE IM- , PRESSION AS MISTRESS LUCE IN “THE KNIGHT OF THE BURN- | ING PESTLE,” PRODUCED AT THE UNIVERSITY THURSDAY. | OW comically old we are to-day— or how strangely new was yes- terday. The old play given do"n; at Stanford University this week | set me thus sapiently a-thinking, the Beaumont and Fletcher “The Knyght of the Burning Pestle,” of the glorious loot of the Elizabethan days. Master | Beaumont—to whom the domedy’s author- | ship is now generally ascribed—was In the poet's perennial fume against his| public at its writing. Not like our ‘own | Bernard Shaw, who pinks his public in | a preface and then flings “The Devil's | Diselple” in its teeth, Beaumont designed | the subtler vengeance of caricaturing his audiences and then compelling them to grin at the caricature. They didn’t like it—it was too clever; and for some years after its writing the comedy was distinctly unpopular; but for us the dramatist has left in “The Knyght of the Burning Pestle” a picture of the times, a glimpse of popular ideals, per- haps unequaled. | And how laughably new so much of it is! What, for example, are the “butting-in" grocer and his wife, whom Beaumont has |« | set upon the stage after the fashion of the time, but the gallery gods of the day? True, he permits them to add a fearful and wonderful dime-novel hero to the| cast, with Elizabethan James boys' ad- ventures galore, that the poor little gal- lery tyke up at ‘the Central s debarred from doing. But then why should he, with the Central mills grinding out his ideals by the bunch, those true-blue Pala- | dins that fight single-handed with a| cocked dynamo, a loaded pile-driver, a bucking locomotive and seventeen knavish lawyers with a regiment of bandana-ed dago sub-villains “‘up their sleeves” all at once! Who shall dare to say the' days of romance are dead! But methinks I have heard the Central grocer and his| lady hiss the villain momently triumph- | ant; give him the naive ha-ha! when he gets it felicitously “in the neck,” and grow cheerfully explosive when the hero throws up his high note and his right hand in a spasm of flatulent morality. And didn't Morosco, that melodramatic Maecenas, always carry off his Mission street bad men in a carriage after the show to save him from the gallery's | retributive eggs and cabbage? That is not long ago and the illusions of Bea: mont's grocer's wife involve the simple- witted dame in no further extravagance. But the whole occasion is crammed with analogies. Maurice Grau last year quaint- Iy confessed that his be-diamonded house | was half the attraction of the Metropoli- tan grand opera performances. In this Elizabethan play we find the gallants— merely a change of sex—be-ruffiing it right on the stage itself, paying their Iit- | tle sixpence to show their “‘good cloathes, a proportionable legge,” and the rest of | old Deckar's attributes of an Elizabethan | dude. The grocer's wife's protest to the | beaux who ‘“‘make chimneys of their mouths,” echoes lightly even unto the | Tivoli doors (not to mention the Orphe um), where the delicate female still pr testeth that Raleigh's weed likes her not. And the interruptions of the good dame and her goodman find no mean parallel | to-day in the poll-parroting of plot flends and other vocal offenders against the play-goer’'s peace. Then the right to hiss, that Beaumont here trenches upon, is onc of the latest London topics and even the plot of the chlef romance holds a deadly parallel-with the week's “Arizona,” wlhiere the gallant 'prentice gets his mas- ter’s daughter. History doth not record i£ he gets “half of the ranch.” There is, and should be, much gratitude going Stanford's way for this week's op- portunities. Not least valuable among them, of course, was the chance to see the Elizabethan théater, with an Eliza- | right or Grand. bethan drama in all its pristine simplie- ity of production. As far as could be all the original conditions were reproduced, -+ its bugle tower, its simple settings. Sin- gularly like the conditions existent on t Chinese stage—as locally to be observed— were the conditions of the Elizabethan drama. The female parts are all taken b bcys; there are two stage entrances, at the right and left of the stage; the audi- ence is partly seated upon the stage, as also the crchestra; there is no drop cur- tain; the change of scene is indicated b written signs, ergo: “This is a forest,” “Venturwels House,” and so on, and the simple properties are brought on between scenes by stage boys and consist of “mos- sy banks,” tables, barber's poles and other such conventional symbols. As in Flizabethan days alsa the simpllcity of the appointment seems no bar to enjoy- ment. I have seen the Chinese playhouse rock with most un-Orfental laughter at one of their classic comedies; as the as- sembly hall at Stanford shook the other night when 'prentice Jasper rattled Beau- mont's Happy Hooligan in his joyous ar- mor. It is fun stripped of all its trim- mings, this early drama, the humorous essence, the vital core of wit and the brilliant opposite of that apotheosis of lace and legs, “The Little Duchess. Beaumont, though he has played ail kinds of pranks with the dramatic unities |In “The Knyght of the Burning Pestle,” has yet kept his three-ring circus sort of plot lucidly before the spectator. The original romance, with its quaint and tender quality, the delightful Don Quizote interpolation—the good Don had just dawned upon London: and the doings of the citizen and his wife are all posed in masterly fashion. The characters are drawn with- bold and certain touch, and again one must express surprise and pleasure at the effective inteiligence the students brought to their interpretation One recalls with particular pleasure the work of J. K. Bonnell, in his deft and broadly-humorous conception of the gro- cer’s wife; Prof. 8. 8. Seward’s very clev- er mock-heroics as Ralph “of the burn- ing pestle;” E. O. James, as the singing ne’er-do-well, Merrythought; E. R. May's delightful Humphrey; C. D. McComish's excellent Barber of Waltham; Miss Mary Gliman's charming Mistress Luce—the whole cast indeed did notable duty. Prof. C. B. Wing, with right Shakesperean beard, added a quletly clever bit of act- idg as a spectator, and with the other gallants lent handsome costume and at- mosphere to the production. And now ft would be a huge pity if the play in its present shape should not be more widely seen. ADVERTISEMENTS. OFFER OF A NEW PIAND of the most exclusive make and highest quality in existence, in even exchange for the oldest ncisco one. The following letter was received from Gabler Bros. by the Heine Plano Co., their Pa- cific Coast representatives: NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 1008.—Heine Plano Co:., San Francisco, Cal.—Gentlemen: As we will in a short time celebrate our fftieth year in the manufacture of the Gabler Plano, we to secure for that event the oidest pfano that can be obtained. 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