The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1903. bt 3 -— “scueer wierps saton || ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. |[passEs To FOOTLIGHTS WITH PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA JOHN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor. Acdress Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager FROM DESK IN ARMOUR’S OFFICE 'IN BEETHOVEN CYCLE || et “:R‘;“ :": AND FANCIES NEW ROLE | BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. : -“‘ 1 ""“".n.; - — = = i o : : ! BY GUISARD | SHEe ; CONGRATULATIONS ALL ROUND. :L — 8 2 THE TIVOLI MAD A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION AGEMENT TO APPEAR iE POPULAR EDDY-STREET HOUSE. WHO HAS BEEN EN- IN “CAR- humbly conscious of th Sarah r to be « r. pianist t com: - ring Mr Prest son inavid of pain G vocal- however—but lest . 7. A major, fth cor s rsdsy, March 26—overture, C major, opus 72; concerto orchestra. 'E flat, opus nberg sololet; symphon on- stantin von D minor, opus Doesn’t that seem to say, “You poor | Frisco”—1 have no doubt whatever that | Mr. Eckels would call us Friscans—"you | is this paragraph. From | poor Frisco folk, with your one Beethoven | this unkindest out. at | SYmph " Btill, Mr. Eckels, we had | e = Mascagni at the back of our symphony ¢ Preston Eckels, in his ; g 3 % ¢ the our little ewe lamb, and with all due re- ess manager of “% | &pect to the emigrant Fritz, we must in- | Philade O tra, which, as every sist that that is not little. At any rate you can at- trail a red herring over the scent, it take all of the new brotherly lover pull the ic madness out of the Tschaikowsky Pathetique’” as Mascagni set it passionately pulsing this week, and | —and—oh, bother!—when Mascagni shall | have gone we shall still have Mr. Zech. | And now we take leave of Mascagni. | Something we have deserved of the maes- | tro for our faith in him, with handsomer | credit to Mr. Greenhaum,k who brought | him here, but the interest has been ex- | travagantly repaid by the conductor’s ser- | vice 1o our local need. With all the irri- | tant fire of genius, th= ardent discontent | and business innocence for which his | | Eastern disasters had prepared us, Mas- | Vo. 9, |~ ¥ G PRESTON ECKELS. |Cagni @s a conductor has here shown | At e himself pecullarly patient and nial, | Nor nowing well tkat genial, - g e 'hAt | adored with dogiike devotion by thosa | in America and g me that Prince e in wonderful form the end of the He tells me fur- ert is to be preceded under his baton, and of an industry noth- t uet, tb (,\'mx)«l ing short of fiendish. His collars were | ! uel detail ufr_{jf a joke da capo with every rehearsal. | E R 15 the Standing like a gay white battlement dawn, after an hour of symphony they mange, while his handkerchief would drip like the matutinal dishclout. Conscience a lec by some recognized au-| 553 bigger yet as a conductor than as Shpaty that 'u,“%‘ f\f:vh";‘el- ljffi'l a composer, in spite of “Cavalleria” and | s fa' o o mpfi-uu_l‘ama‘fs»n‘:--;":“;::‘ the “Hymn to the,Sun.” He seems to high symphoni r - | have every requis s - ncert form, in which the entire or- | novn rooecaLisite Of leadership, mag thinking of with t share them with me. Satu: minor, opus eymphony No, No. 5, “Leonore, 0. 2, C major, opus 72; & And lest I should the = air Mr. Eckels caps the programmes’ You who have followed me rdey, March 21—Ov. C minor, 1 concert, Wednesday, March 25—Over- netism extraordinary. a big temperament, a_delicate sanity and a singular breadth of sympathy that enables him, with a personal leaning to the romantic school, vet to get a wonderful justness of char- | acteristic color into everything he inter- | prets. And further, a comprehensive ac- | quaintance with orchestral literature that sensational feat of conducting everything without score is not the least nor the last of his gifts. We shall not look upon his like again for some moons, and mean- time, vale, Mascagni! o s 9 ith Mlle. de Lussan’s en- ‘armen” to begin on Fri- day evening next, looms up as the princi- pal music depot of the week We have ADVERTISEMENTS. Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES been accused of considering “Carmen” the chief of operas, and with some jus- tice. As there is in Mile. de Lussan what many consider—not barring even Cal!ve— the chief of Carmens, the bill should | prove lavishly attractive. Personally, I | have no opinion, as I have not heard Zelie's Carmen, but one thing I am mag- | nificently sure of is that she will iook every inch the handsome wanton. George Tennery, late of the Casfle Square Opera Company, has been special- |ly imported to sing Don Jose, and tlie Tivoli company, with Arthur Cunningham | as the toreador, will do the rest. . ‘Wagner is like the Bible; you can prove anything and everything from him; and like the Bible he has had an army of | commentators and explanationers—as Kolb and Dill be-Dutch it. The latest is Mrs. Charles W. Rhodes, who comes to the Alhambra on Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon next. Mrs. Rhodes romises very hopefully. She tells the story of the Beyreuth festivals—“in choice English,” the circular raiher naively puts it—with musieal illustrations by Adolf Glose, and a series of beauti- fully colored stereopticon views, showing scenes from the “Ring of the Nibelun- gen,” “Parsifal,” portraits of leading Beyreuth singers, scenes In the little city and in and about Wagners home. Harvard University, Bryn Mawr and Vassar Colleges are ‘among those that testify to Mrs. Rhodes’ ability as a lecturer-and to the beauty of the musical and illustrative accompaniment. Seats go on sale at Sherman & Clay's store to- morrow morning and schools and colleges may obtain special rates by forwarding requests to Mr. Greenbaym, care of Sher- man & Clay. | enables him to accomplish the somewhat | | about his comely neck at the morning's | would sag into a sort of abashed blanc- | |incarnate he has indeed shown himself, | PON the decision of the employes of the United Railroads to arrange an amicable settle- ment of their controversy with the company the people of San Francisco have good cause for general congratulation. A strike would have been disastrous to the car men, to the company and to the public. It would have so seriously interfered with traffic as to injure every business interest and gravely disturb the social order of the city. Strife would have been en- gendered and antagonisms created that would have survived long after the strike itself had closed, and as a consequence we would have been in danger of other conflicts growing out of the strained relations between capital and labor. By the good judgment and the public spirit of the great majority of the car men we have been saved from the menace of conflict. The traffic of the street car lines will continue. Business will go on undisturbed and prosperity will have no check. - Instead of strife we are to have peace. Instead of the impending conflict we have another precedent for the friendly settlement of every point of dissension that may arise between employers and employes hereafter. - The action of the car men was indisputably due to a recognition that while popular sym- pathy was with them in the strike of last year, it was against the foreign agitators who are trying to precipitate a strike now. Their decision therefore is a victary for public sentiment. It is a proof of what can be accomplished in the way of averting a threatened violence when a wholesome moral in- fluence is exerted against it. It is to be borne in mind that the car men are themselves a part of the public whose senti- ment averted the danger. Fully three-fourths of them were decidedly opposed to striking at the dicta- tion of walking delegates. Being permanent residents of San Francisco with family ties binding them to the families of their fellow-citizens, they felt as the great body of the public felt. Their interests are identical with the interests of the city. They shared in the sentiments of their neigh- bors. They were aware that a strike would injure thousands of workingmen and themselves as well as others, and as a consequence the triumph of public sentiment is not a vic'ory over them, but a victory for them. Congratulations on the result can be the more sincere because the settlement of the controversy without a strike is a good omen for the future. It is safe to say if the example thus given be fol- lowed, the labor organizations of the city will be controlled hereafter by workingmen themselves and not by outside walking delegates who have no interest in the city. Such control will mean a much better industrial condition than could be the case were irresponsible men permitted to order strikes at their will, and dictate who shall find employment and who shall be dismissed without charice of redress. i Public sentiment in American communities is made up of the common judgment of the people as a whole. As American law and American spirit recognize no class distinctions among the people, so in an American community there can be no such thing as a public sentiment formed by a class. That much was clearly manifest in this instance. The opposition that confronted the mischief- makers was just as manifest in the ranks of labor as among capitalists. It was found in the homes of the workers as well as in business circles. It was shared by women as well as by men. It was indeed the outcome of the commonsense of the people as a whole, and no one escaped its influence who had any genuine relations to the life of the community. That the would-be mischief-makers will at once abandon all efforts to obtain notoriety for themselves by fomenting trouble in the city is not to be expected. The promotion of strikes is their trade, and they have a very keen sense of the fact that their importance diminishes in proportion as friendliness increases between employers and employes. The defeat of their schemes in this instance, however, gives encouragement to workingmen to resist outside dictation, and whenever they do so they will find public sentiment to sustain them. The victory that has just been gained will thus have a far reaching effect in the future, and San Francisco will not forget that it is due to the common- sense, good judgment and genuine public spirit of the workingmen themselves. SAN FRANCISCO NORMAL SCHOOL UROPEAN critics of American life have noted that in this country education holds the place of honor that in the older world was given to religion. In any small town in Europe the largest and most conspicuous structure is apt to be a church. In this country it is most likely to be a schoolhouse. Something of the same distinction is notable even in large Civic pride with us runs largely to the construction of handsome edifices for the education of youth, and from the high school building that constitutes the chief ornament of some county town to the stately structures that are now being erected at our university centers we find everywhere a tendency to express our distinctive American civilization through the buildings used for public education. : cities. There are of course exceptions to all rules, but it is gratifying to note that the exceptions to this rule are being rapidly eliminated from progressive communities. A case in point is the bill en- acted by the Legislature providing an appropriation for the construction of a suitable building for the State Normal School in this city. Such a building has been needed ever since the school was founded, and if any intelligent criticism can be pronounced upon the appropriation it will be that the sum granted is too small. The structure now occupied by the school is one of the remnants of a vanished age when San Francisco architecture aimed at very little more than the erection of temporary structures. It was not a very good building at the start, and it is now old, dilapidated and utterly inadequate to the uses to which it has been put. The school itself is one of the most important educational institutions of the State. It merits a building of the best modern construction and of ample dimensions, and there should be no delay in providing it. The people are very well aware of the financial situation which Governor Pardee has been called upon to face. They know that the last administration left a deficiency which he will have to make good. They are aware that the high rate of taxation whichis to be imposed is not in any sense due to him. He need therefore have no fear of having his cotirse mistaken by the taxpayers if he give his sanction to appropriations so imperatively needed as that providing for the Normal School. California never grudges money used judiciously for the purposes of education, and the proposed expenditure in this case would be in the highest sense a true economy. It is but right and fitting that an institution whose educational standards are among the foremost among the normal schools of the Union should be provided with a structure suited to its work and its dignity. COMMISSIONER OF HORTICULTURE. MONG the bills now in the hands of the Governor, designed to promote the rural indus- tries of the State, is one creating a State Comniissioner of Horticulture and giving him ample powers to materially serve the interests of orchardists. It passed both branches of the Legislature by good majorities and has had the approval of those who are most familiar with the needs of our orchard industries. . . In all offices of the kind, the selection of the right officer is the most important matter. A good man can and will do good work even under serious handicaps, while a worthless man will be worthless no matter how excellent be the instrumentalities of work placed in his hands. The present bill undertakes to provide that none but a fit man shall be appointed to the office it creates. The act requires that the Governor shall appoint as Commissioner of Horticulture a citizen and resident of the State, “who must at the date of his appointment be a skilled horticulturist and entomologist.” The Commissioner has authority to appoint a deputy, who is also required to be “an expert ento- mologist and horticulturist.” Thus the test of official fitness is adequately fixed, and if the Governor see to it that the qualifications are strictly fulfilled, there can be no question that the work of such an officer would be highly beneficial. ; The duties of the Commissioner will include the collection and dissemination of information concerning horticulture, the establishment and maintenance of such quarantine regulations as may be deemed necessary, and the adoption of such means as are required for the eradication of infectious diseases as may appear among trees, vines and plants in any part of the State. An effective service of the kind prescribed is highly desirable, and the bill is clearly a step in the right direction. The gener# approval given to it attests the widespread interest taken in it by the orchardists and vineyardists of the State, and it well merits the approval of the Governor. Southern Democratic papers are urging their Northern contemporaries to “quit cussin’ one an- other and get together,” but at thesame time the Southern group is doing more cussin’ than anybody else and never get together without making tronble. | 5 ILLIAN BURKHART and “A Strenuous Dafsy” tempted me into the Orpheum the other afternoon. for if there Is one varlety person ! that I like better than another it is the dainty Burkhart. But the young woman had thoughtlessly arranged her | self in the first olio, which she nev never did before, and so I dropped in stead for the “wireless” Salambos. Fol- lowing them came a young person with a degree. 1 waited out his act, listening to the high, artificial delivery of Mans- field, the down-East drawl of Goodwin Warfleld's Hebrew note, George Cohan’ { humorous squawk, De Wolf Hopper's | lamboyant jest, Sam Bernard’s unctuous | Duteh, in their curtain speeches accord- ing to Tannen, and decided that it was an uncommonly good four weeks’ worth, in fact as promising stuff of the sort as vou will get. I went “behind” to tell Mr. Tannen so and thereupon ventured to | decide that there was much “more to fol- | 1ow,” even perhaps that there was here |2 Goodwin—who also began by “making faces—in the bud. But away with prophesying; however. remember the name, “Julius Tannen"—and to my tale. The new recruit immediately owred | that he had long had the stage | his bonnet,” after we had seated our- | selves in one of the whitewashed boudoirs | ia which the Orpheum stars do dwell. He | | was still in his war paint, with a young, fine, collarless neck lifting out of his frock | coat, and a face alive with youth and en- ergy. Those to whom Tannen looks some- Belvedere Apollo, and there's a bold, handsome nose, dark, brilliant eyes, and a lithe, well-set figure also to his credit. “Four weeks ago you made your vau- deville debut?” I asked. “Four weeks ago,” Tannen replied “Before that 1 was private secretary to Mr. Armour, you know, the packing peo- ple of Chicago.” “Rather a change?” “Not at all!” “And you like it?” wondering what kind of office the young man had exchanged for the whitewash, the rouged towels, the pervading gassy odor, the primitive wash- bowls and other things in the little six by six room that held us. “Immensely!” he laughed. “There is a tremendous return in this business, in knowing that you have made people laugh, in feeling their enjoyment and so on—I can’t just express it.” “Hew did it all begin?" “I began—"" he hesitated, “well, un- til fourteen years of age I spent most of my time in an orphan asylum in New York. Then ‘knickerbockers’ went to Chicago and after a time 1 went to work on the railroad, coming into rather fa- miliar contact with such men as Chaun- cey Depew. My position with the Ar- mours followed, and now I am here.” “But how did this come about?” “Oh, I have had this bee in my bonnet for years. Study? Chiefly watcHing peo- ple. I and my quarter would be found mcst nights somewhere in the Chicago theaters. ‘Hooléy’s’ used to be my ad- dress eight times a week when Goodwin was ‘there and undignified enough to play on Sundays, Then I used to frequent the variety houses considerably. I used to go there with George Ade, for three years more or less, and you can understand that my enjoyment was heightened a thousand fold by his genial comment.” “Ade of the ‘fables’ and ‘The Sultan of Sulu'?” ““The same, and one of the finest gentle- men God ever made,” Tannen testifled with boyish enthusiasm. “I owe the idea of the curtain speeches to Ade,” he went on. “He suggested ‘when this affalr came up that I make my imitations something different if possible from the usual thing, suggesting this as a fertile fleld. It began this way though —you asked me. I was in George Syd- ney's dressing-room at the Great North- ern Theater and began impertinently imi- tating him. George took it up and said that I daren’t go out and ‘pull that on the bunch.’ But he didn’'t know me. I accepted the challenge and told them that if they would give me a clean vest and a puff tie T would furnish the talent! I did go out, right ine the midst of ‘Busy Izzy,’ and amazingly made good. Then four weeks ago I beggn with this work and the Chicago and New Orleans critics have been quite kind to me.” “You are satisfied to do this kind of work?"” *“Oh, if there were very strong induce- ments, I should be satisfied to take Good- ‘win's position—"" and unconsciously the mimic ,sagged into Goodwin's flattish drawl, “or Mansfleld's. You see it is difficult to get into the legitimate, at first, only to say, ‘My lord, the carriage is delayed outside pending your distin- guished arrival,’ and such. However, I am hopeful of outgrowing this business some time, and meanwhile I shall try 40 give a clean, wholesome entertainment “bee in | hcw familiar will find his mouth on the | | personality that interested me to the | e -4 | point of asking John Mnrri:e);‘ wh;: s ‘; | CLEVER IMPERSONATOR WHO | e N e a mese | | BAS: MATSS A BIG HIT AT | | villan, who just one month ago dropped | | THE ORPHEUM | upon the variety stage as a mimic of high 1 R 51 3 a4 | |that will amuse by its own weight. I { have learned an affrighting lot since I | began. One thing, that imitations, to be successful, must be of persons recently | within the audience’s cognizance.” ““Hence your Warfleld—" “Of which I got the last week from some |lumbia people,” Tanmen contributed. {“But the imitation of George ( han, for example. I did that down in | New Orleans, where an is a great | favorite, and by good luck had preceded me only the week before. It was, pardon | the seeming vanity, rather successful. I | think—does it so appear to you—that an imitation should succeed by | idelity to the original. and not by virt of any inherent humor in the selection?” “Something of both,” 1 hazarded “And 1 want to be able to make peo . T haven't seen Mansfield or pper; but this chap's Mar fleld was not like his Hopper—the voico and expression were different. character |istic. They seem like good portraits, and | if we have to take them at second-hand, text only of the Co. this is pretty good stuff. There is a large fleld at any rate, there being about four mimics in the business. What I should dearly like just now would be |to stay right in San Francisco. It's a | splendid place”—but catching a glint in his audience’s eye he broke off and laugh~ | ed, “they all say that." “Not too many nor too often for any San Franciscan's belief,” I vowed. “But I should like to stay here, at Fischer’s for example, and work my way |into local favor and friendliness. This battering about from pillar to post I find not partieularly captivating. But I shall probably go to New York after this tour and see what I can make out there.” Some talk of Gillette, whom Tannen is designing next to pillory, brought our chat to a close, and when I prophesied that he would not be able to see Mr. Gillette on the question, the young Chi cagoan dauntlessly said that if he so de- sired he should see Angel Gabriel or Pler- pont Morgan himself, let alone Mr. Gil- lette. I refrained from wishing him luck, for he has it painted all over him. A CHANCE TO SMILE. The Old Man—Your love for my daugh- ter seems to have grown very fast since you found out I was worth so much money. The Young Man (admiringly)~No fast- er, sir, than the subject warranted.—De- troit Free Press. “Well; madam,” said the doctor, busi- ling in, “how is our patient this morn- ing?" “His mind seems to be perfectly clear this morning, doctor,” replied the tired watcher. “He refuses to touch any of tha medicines."—Chicago Tribune. George—What's wrong? Jack—I can't make out what Misy Pinkie's little present to me means. George—If it's useful it means that she is interested in your comfort and would probably say “yes.” If it's only orna- mental, ft means that the present is sent merely as a little token to a friend. Jack—The one she sent me is both use. ful and ornamental. It's a handsomely decorated individual salt cellar. George—That means that she considers you both useful and ornamental, but a little too fresh.—New York Weekly. f Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* f Special information supplied daily te Mm Vm and yami: ‘nu'by the fornia stieet. 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