The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 46

46 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1903. - WITH 7HE 17AVEL S anp ras MOATC FOLA - S - i R 2 = P el el 4 I HERE were flowers—a huge, | 4 — ERE are two cuttings from |an effort to put the young macstro in national | with vistons of glory and wealth. Perhaps he | purse of $3000 to maintain Mascagni here until splendid bouquet of the roses of | | 3 the Musical Courier that will | disgrace so far as Italy is concerned, which to | Is not a genius. He certainly must have b another opera, which should ¥ gl e g | doubtless interest this Mas- | some extent will color the judgment of all Eu- | STeat talent and industry to have | W SRS, CORNLEY S cagni ; rope concerning this unfortunate artist. As to | PASt successes. He is a modest, k | e gni community. The first is | ing young man, and while he; ansas City | advance the $3000, the reeponsibility for his failure in this country | we need not inquire. He may have had poor >3 will be seen, the conductor put | jusgment in business matters: may have vio- Ilfl“'“‘y» and left the whole orchestra devot his comether upon the simple | jated bustness rules. Even admitting it to have | 1¥ attached to him. S folk just gs he has here: {bun mostly his own fault, what then should be | Now, what shall we do? Shall That thereafter the to Mascagni. That the opers 4 except In the United re, but shall be per- g cities of the United and ger mar from Kansas City, where, as directing a picked up orch we kick a To the Musical Courier: said for Mascagni? This may be sald: glitter- | man Wwho has stumbled, even Reports come from Italy to the effect that | ing propositions were made him: he had made fault, or shall we give him a Ii . the Minister of Public Instruction in Rome has hat if ¢ nored | ratified the action of the Town Council of Pe- n saro in dismissing Mascagni from the directory of the Pesaro Conservatory. This is evidently was any artments Mascagnl so far as the cerned; would put him harity, but & quo, and also giv n for a national FAIR PLAY. a great reputation in Europe; he was led to | back to Italy with evidences believe that he would increase it by coming | at home he is still honored and a here; he risked an assured position in a direc- America? torate; he came here as young men go West, | I make this suggestion: that five men make a or less humorous During the heat of y be wrote to a friend in Italy: “At I am learning some English. I know sw. Here are some of them: ‘violation,” ‘sherift,’ ‘ware ‘attachment,” ‘breach of con~ bail,” ‘constable,” ‘injun “Your Honor," ‘jurisd nts’ and ‘damn.’ sordef of sleep the swish and | | Madame the | | s to receive or, Occl- severe, neat as lush of the ichoes of Kocian still linger in the air. latest story to comcern itself with wonder-working youth, vouched for Man Who Kr is as follows: A ow height—wh me at my in was even less Was this | | to his hotel a | | startled to h | | seemed to be | | apparently ter one of the concerts, was r a peculiar groaning that within the carriage. Quite was t the violinist, and equal aly it was not himself. Still they were only occupants of the car- | riage, so who could it be? Kocian looked perfectly unconscious, even when the | | mum wail became a sound of angry pre , and unmist ly at their very | “But don't you hear it?” at last the | | ma iimed as they bumped on ta | | Market street | “Hear what T aid Kocian. “Oh, that the violin over on the ys does that after a all alive, you know, grumblin opened the box xy, as conscious adorable curve as sensitive body of it 18 with heavy sobs huddering with tood, for this is what he me so? I was not 1 of thing. I ask him gives me a cadenza. I ask ers my ong into a I cry for Beeth I ache e—deep-throated note of heart sorrow, and a glittering icicle. I this kind of thing. I meant | | shall crack my sides with despair if it | know means | ! coolly | t aske iing forward to the X s face change. ‘I tk the man sald. “For you | | to know, throw away your fiddle for a yea las: t s on t zona pla iner, is not much I haven't done. Arline in “The Bohemian Girl,’ Martha and Marie in ‘La Fille du Regiment’ were among the feats of my brief operatic career. h, that accounts for your voice con- | 1 said. I must tell you something amusing L about t * Miss Elisler chimed in; “real- One i= not apt t fatter or bigger |1y, I have had quite an interesting ex- | playing the role—I am pounds less erience when I come to think it over. t when I was around about 15 it came | | ‘I Mark Hambourg, who will appear at | | Fischer's on Tuesday and Wednesday af- | | of this week, comes back to earing with considerabl - B to me to puzzle how to recite a long, | 2 oy fervent speech without losing voice or e i » breath before the end. I asked my fath- : | »-’»‘Ar; KI{U:).J 4\; ,r” <kll r. but he I must work it out for Now Youlk Wesh m self; my mother, too. I asked Law- ce Barrett, and he said: ‘Little girl, will have to come; I can't tell you.'| t after the singing, with its breath ining, I thought I had gripped the prin- | le of the thing, and one night when I ., Cleveland and other nters of light, have to say that 1bourg, to a gigantic technical equip~ and corpulent temperament, now big intellectual grasp and refine- t that place him among the foremost playing Julie de Mortimer to Mr. rrett’s Richelieu—" | of the y. Rubinstein and Ro- . vrence Barrett's Richelieu—!1" nthal are f mentioned in the con- Lawrence Barrett's Richelieu—! neetion and e D'Albert. However, the | proof of the t is in the playing, and | we can at once judge Mr. Hambourg and the Eastern critics on Tuesday afternoon | —with our usual little Western habit of our ain gait. Mr. Hambourg's iscious Hera did yourself no in- aid you were a bad per- son to interview,” I reproached her. “The * | average interviewer would have justly be- | gun with that fact.” { | *“Oh, I may remember others,” she said | mply. “But you remember Julie’s long speech about the insuit. I had given Bar- | | rett no hint of my discovery, but when | at speech came I just let him have it, | wding there was nothing new about You should hav seen his face. I re- member it to this ¢ ’ i R e e T've tackled ‘er three times and am on the look out for number four,” and variations naia appassionata, adaglo con moto, al ecthoven): sonata in B erato, scherzo, marche (Chopin); two studies (Chopin); Klaw & in the Knic Monday afternoon w and women séeking “I have no dbubt that you have acted -;”Pl“'f‘ "«",:x"’"flvw_?“?";r - - - > : valse in A flat (Rubin- with MeCullou with Boot I charged | the coming month. Stage “b Maria" (Hensel ;( La Sour Isler | | and_dancing form curriculum, which March (Men= s, I have,” she owned. “They 1 be thoroughly taught by Herbert Gresham b Bl St ol LS | erabstage and music dir % b O b those fine old s of the stock and star | langer, and a large corps wiRer s system. The th s will have to come | school 'is under the general 2 of Be masn); nocturne back to that, you know, if we are to have | Stevens, the well known man B fa Zn‘::,;-ch y”«, the competent play o (Chopin! f {mfl t “,I 3 that that school | The coming of Forbes R« Taussig) variat s on ed out ith M llough T trude Elliott to this count et af- Tagn (Hambourg Melod layed Virginia to his Virgint He was | | der tne direction of Klaw & > reamelle i © Meder (e kind enough to be very pleased with me, | senting a dramatic version of K (Gluck-Sgam barcarolle in G maj S | and sent the way to S Francise Light That Failed,”” will be o1 bi » No. 6 (Lisat) ay to £ rancigco portant stage ev of the yea * N made a hit In this drama in they_are now playing It with gre | Mr. Robertson 1s one of th | ers in England, and has | spicuous place on the I | liott went to England | Goodwin and Maxine E | and. remaining there. has since atta usual prominence. Mr. R: liott will be supported by ilk crepe dress for me to rt. Oh, but I thought my- | = omest, loveliest thing m:u; @il | tmost pleasure to an- x that that charming Irishman, O’Sullivan, will be “home” agair ng to my little note from M O’Sul , In August xt. They are to be here r four wee! and Mr. O'Sulli- van will give two song recitals, one from his lov Irish repertoire, the other oked at the : ‘Hd’? 'T)u my Virginia’ poor John.” en and the new leading woman of the Al-) wife, while Mr. Richman finds splendid ;»ln- orous line And Booth?” 223 at is the position Miss Bertha | Portunity in the part of the blind vicar. r. us lines cazar, for that is the position Miss Berth: Blite e Cotrtanh, Me. Ceaton) and s among | “"With Booth I played leading Shakes- | Crelghton will assume to-morrow even-| . Hoinick have parts’ well suited to thelr les—Ophelia, Desdemona, Kathe- | ing. For every one’s sake it is to be hoped | abilities. 1t gives me the n ever was in it! And he gave me his por- me his por accore sler bowed | Taming of the Shrew, Cor- | th e is e than skin-deepness in e e and will bring to thi o Juliet—oh, yes, and there was fhat :::‘h“:‘e‘: 3% wore; thin 8 > Lewis Morrison is again upon the road, mak- scenic equipment. They classic, during the time. Those who re- 3 | comical ‘Richard ITL'” Miss Ellsl : 5 % Ing toward Canada, having played a most suc- at the Knickerbocker Theater In November. | member his song recital of last year will g sler | The Alcazar management’'s search for | cessful week's engagement in New York City ' e S rejoice greatly that they will be able at the ~remembrance. ‘“We |, Jeading woman who can lead to thelr | the week of March 9. Great things are ex- ber two | less when I|Played ~the original ‘Richard TII’ | [itrons' liking has become as exciting | Pected from his tour of the Canadian provinces. with th, vo Que 2 2 b ”“"f‘;»,‘.s had ,‘,\.“rler," ’,’v{‘vd Elz- | and seemingly futile as that for the miss ey, played the Margarct | jng jink. In view of this and by the PAT- | boy he went one cold and very stormy Sunday and was too Indolent to learn the |yicylar desire of the actress—who wishes | morning to church. The bullding was in- zabeth role, so it came to me, 17 years |, *win out on her own,” in the unpar- | sufficiently heated and during the service he and less than I am now. In those | 2 ok thh & the usual | Pecame very chilly. When he arrived home s it was a rule never to say ‘no’ whe dcnable parlance of the hour—the ui his mother inquired what the text was. ‘‘Many were asheld to & hin T | blare of trumpets has been omitted from | were cold, but few frozen,” was his reply. e > G0 @ thing, but to try | the announcements of Miss Crelghton's o TER e Margargt McKinney, the | | the Eastern g Dodo™ ¢ denly became ill in Washi week, returned to the ca: again to hear this most accomplished and sympathetic singer in those most genial nd varied programmes that it is part company in Brooklyn. = | his genius to put together. London | itself has just been indulging in the un- usual adjective over Mr. O'Sullivan’s | singing, and with a programme like the | following, no wonder! Chauncey Olcott tells how when he was a During the last two weeks E. H. Sothern has had five plays sent to him with his personages as the central figures. are based upon the lives of Oma Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederick th But none of mother of tk are mistake the stage ur_best, 50 1 said; ‘All right, sir, to e i T o b [? s' iver Cromwell and Sir Walter T At St. James Hall, London: Cofi lccal debut. , Bare fact and scant at that, homas Jefferson begins a four weeks' spring : 3 I was th r. Booth. But after the first perform- | . o 4 ishe 3 vom. | tour in “Rip Van Winkle" April 13 in ome with four other historical characters that Luna in Mare . Lulgt Vannveeinl in e For example, I ce he came to me and said: PPerhams | is all that is furnished of the YOUNE WOmM- | ;r'4e New York State cities. Sothern had been studying—Chaucer, King | “Breton Folk-Songs ha fornia for twen- | Y0u would befter put your hair in o kngi an’s history, but it is of - sort 1‘-10 susi; Joseph Jefferson starts his annual five Robert o Sicily, Chatterton and King Davia 3 Arranged . ¥ public has iy iy g est comfort and inspire hope. Here it weeks' spring tour April 13 in Nashville, Mem- & v make & list of possible portrayals unusually | (#) ““Un Jour su Wy y ¥y publi as k | —you might look older Then 1 learned Af_ exactly as 'twas given to me: phis, New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham, At- TWO WELL KNOWN AC- notable. | (b) “L’Angelus. me & long time s life is not the | the part of the Queen in *Ruy Blas' for | =% 3 5 Ganta Tosa | 140t Macon, Augista, Savanpah. Charléston. TRESSES AND A MUSICIAN S s (¢) “La Femme A one most cond eserving yo I n ook it o S el Miss Creighton was born mear Santa Ro chmond, Norfolk ai New York fol A George Ade has turned his atten to writ- | ‘"Wonne r ethov: e ; ng 3 im. took it on Thursday, rehearsed it | 0% f1'Scars ago and was taken to Now s h e Y as i WHOM CRITICS PRAISE. 1nGo0TES, Ade bas turned his attent 1t | Conne der ceihven and the de | | Saturday morning, played it S8aturday af- | York in early childhood. Her brother was he Cricket on the Hearth” and T an "The Cireutt Tutenr Jie B g . e t|tcrnoon and Mr. Booth went up on his | the first male child born in the new town of | “Lend Me Five Shillings.” o > & 8 4 | “Hang Me, Ladie (1882) Wp Wik &8 1 picture | lines with surprise at finding—he told me | San Diego. She has been upon the stage since P R 3 R e T P . dss] o . of misery—"t wrink- | so after—the first person in his elghteen | She Wa8 seven, when she appeared as Meenle | The Frisky Mrs. Johnson:’ with Miss [ @ jdeieieirieiiuirioisiniuisininjeialniioi=l @ | big musical comedy that already has a five | “Helen of Kirkconnell” (MS.).Florence Gilbert i s & w owered in | years’ experience who was 1 in “Rip Van Winkle” with Joseph Jefefson. | Amelia Bingham in her charming imperso monthe’ _run in Boston and a th ‘months' | (First time.) Accompanied by the composer. hate, painte ish i 0 was letter-perfect | Atter singing then for some time in a juve: | tion of the title role, has settled down for 1 ting the action to the word. *‘Oh, by | run in Chicago to its credit. will b eoring | ‘‘Handwerkerlieder' . Felix Weingartner . e e nile opera company. she went to Eurcps for | long run at the Princess Theater in New York. | the he asked, as Henry was about to | offering at the Broadway Theater, w York. @) ‘““Webe all with a qu she was ingenue with the | In spite of considerable ‘knocking’* the play | turn away, -‘who held the other record—who | It comes here in the fall. () “'Schum t me | *“And I'm sure there were many other | voice culture. At 1 and a-thix s ) ” younger Salvinl and was the original Con- | and Miss Bingham have made a success with centy-five > S e “Ola Scote years of tha famous folk at tiggg theater of your | IR, "Ny "levival of “The Three Guards. | the public and as the box office always tells | "oyt ieeaunoh,Of, the twenty fivet) '@y P father's 9.8 Sol & 1 Lokl g reelf, s enry answered, B. H. Sothern is making extensive prepara- iy ST Where d . mén. She supported Sol Emith Russell and | the story of a fallure or a success it is safe ay interrogated, confusedly. Ry, gy ioog’ .- 7 O e > : £ “If I could just remember them,” said | other well-known stars and created original | t> say that Miss Bingham's engagement is a “Yes, Henry responded: ‘you gave it (er‘n(u m—hl he 0“51 ru': ‘mleu.r he is about to Jeanie) (first time) . in Cleveland,” | the modest lady. *“There was Clara Mor- | parts in a dozen New York productions, in- | prosperous one. Just now the clever actress | when Fou imade your hit as -the silly ass in | ake. Which, on March 30, commences at Bal- | J€10%) (B0¥ to the Border Came™ e nd her boyish eves | abe bat t y fa el & ciluding *“The English Rose,’ “A Social Hign- | is arranging the details of her Pacific Coast | «rhe Wilderness e iy Tacite Toust._This arst_time) bl Wifh chirm hacrnese. | T5; she began at my father's theater in | JUONE "0 “"fhe Village Postmaster.” She | tour, which begins directly after the close of | T Onis wag all that D'Orsay said as he joined | Shusually lengthy Western tour has been s S A Satiey mals ey Londerness. | Cleveland. James Lewis was another. | has starred as Juliet and in “A Colonial Girl.” | her engagement in New York. For this tour | s '¢he Jaughter that followed i e g R g B T BT TN g Herzen's Kroenlein Strause it o . . _”i]‘“' Mrs. Gilbert, 00, spoke her first lines un- | “Three of Miss Crelghton's six years as lead. | she has engaged every member of the company ol e solidly’ n the East and Londen for some see- | Du meines v of eis | - 0 i S| b vor o1 les Were at | now appearing with her fn ““The 5] rs. me. o Sothern | > - 8 years old began as | 0T MY father's wing. She was & dancer | ing momen i Mok SOmPamSs, TA SRORC 4 | Soknson st . It has been announced that David Belasco | of going West now or not for years [ “Morgen® ....oiiii i " Sirenee an actor at managing originally and hurt the tendons of her |.t® ). Clore of her smecond season there the P will c{:ntiknu? “;{'he Dariing of uhlesssu“ at his 4lso be_the actor's last appearanc Fur r:?u-h:zf‘f;r;:;x:‘m see ,h;".s;‘:::: D a t anag s 56 S ok . - A R raies e Vi New York playhouse until June 15, after whicl ere King, s in 7 | Stx Jungle Songs . 5 he coulg | knee so that she could not dance again— | public's estesm was attested by the presenta- | Louls James and Frederick Warde are doing | New Xork playhonse Gaty Juns 10, Afier which (Words by Kipling.) Accompanied By & & Composer., and act dea J e T v ving . 8o . r, indomitable soul she is. Joseph |lion of a memonal siiver loving cup. Two |fo well in “The Tempest’ that Wagenhals | the houss will be closed for the summer. | Mies Haworth is another of my father's schol- | Years ago the Alcazar management & tried néxt fall. and it is doubtful if Mr. Belasco's Irish airs— %o secure her, but she was loyal to the Quaker | them in that play for another season, Their t 3 «3When He Who Adores Thee"..Joseph Moorat ars—'scholars’ I call them, for he was g ~ ) ch present tour, which began September 1, 1s the | other stars, Mrs. lie Carter and David W, > City. Miss Creighton's most successful char- | P , gan Sep 2 e MWis. Lew : Teeth as Objects of Worship. «¢ySulltvan Mor" ith Cha v, i Vi . 1 most successful ever known to these popular | field, will be seen in new roles next year. Mrs. O’Sulltvan Mor™* (first time). .. cosonan wih arles Kean, Macready, the Kim- | acterizations have been in such roles as Juiiet, tan 5 siihne Carter may return in “Du Barry,” and New | Teeth of all kinds have been worshiped Arranged by T. R. G. Jor . 5 > y ) tragedians. It is estimated that the profits edvisve balls, the Batemans. He closéd his ca- | Rosalind, Parthenia, Lady Babbie, Carmen, 3 o York would welcome Warfleld's refurn in “The | and are. in fact, vemerated as relics in Singing Bird™" (MS.) (first time) > . v will rea e handsome sum 70,000 Evi- s er, ri ’ y o 1. Aiglon, Trilby, Lydia Languish, Mme. Sans- | Will reach the han: e sum of §70 & - - - n reer. right In your city by the way, with | & o EIoT l ehbel and Drusa Wayne, the lat. | 4ently Shakespeare does not spell bankruptey | Auctioneer.” ao there doubtless will be but lit- | 4o religious shrines. Buddha's tooth | crny Shore . Arranged by Millig: ox terview. I'm stupid at But that was where ter. I don’t remember I was going to the acting Jullet, Des- all those roles at demons, Ophelia an a < N N e ¥ tle in the roduction line in the he We .o the same time 2 D e i o hraommibe NIEhEs | tar Lilne & creticn 1 Weaukite Fyisa new'| 200 Wageabaly ) KACIORE, Forty-second. street. 2 ouse on West | i preserved tn an Indian temple; the Cin- —ir......Arranged by C. Milligan Fox et they call these the days of over- | PSR O Gwo or (heee years ago. DRy o e i asts (5 mesiea ey | “T teel ke, braking some wort of & elub rec- Fan ol galese worship the tooth of a monkey, | “Widow Malone” (by request)............ ation 2 ries—to be 187" T asked ecy and romance. ord,” sald Lawrence d'Orsay, the young Lon-| Onme of the effective spesches in George Ade's | while the elephant's and shark’'s tooth srressasesianee «ese. Arranged by Moffatt Yes. Bronson Howard and Sir Charles | ™ ! a5%ed. $ don comedian who has just scored so emphatic- | ‘‘Peggy from Paris,” now running at the Stude- he Mala- L S o “Jim the Penman’ man—ca “A thousand times, No!” Miss Ellsler . ally in ““The Earl of Pawtucket. Augustus | baker Theater in {hicago, {8 Spoken by the | por e & Similar purpose among the Mala Young—the ‘Jim the Penman’ man—came | -4 i It 18 said that “Arizona” is the latest play | fy, i, [ The Earl rgyrnamie s g bt gl o, ok g 2 22 Cioiiin PR Y theibar and Tonga islands, respectively.| Tt seems that De Lussan is not to sound to see my father when I was 14 to get him | cried. to be secured for stock purposes. The Academy | Lo i MW comedy, as he entered the o Fomp i LMo oatn (o the Prak g s ly th = S, ol e Music. Milwaukee, is to be the first city | CIub the other evening. father of Peggy. The captain is the Pooh Ban | The Siamese were formerly the posses-|the last note of the present season after to permit me to go to the Union Square of Music, = - ity “Why not break the club's tip record?’ Wil- | ot Hickory k. 1., and has another daugh- | sors of the tooth of a sacred monkey, | all. Antonia Dolores, who has been win- Theater in New York to create the part | One of the sweetest faces ever seen on | 10 Preseni Augustus Thomas' military comeds. | 1on Lackaye answered, getting his inspiration | ser, Lutie, the soubrette of the village, who ro- | which they valued very highly, but. in a | of = of Lallian in ‘Lillian, the Banker's Daugh- | the stage, Mary Anderson’s, will be rather : from the amused glance of Heory, the Lambs’ | fers to Certain songs her {ather requests ber 1 | o w1y Portuguese they 108t the | Lie fo o mome b o (astralia of ter. But papa wouldn't let me go. I |potently brought to mind when Miss |, At the Empire Theater. New York, the ons | head waiter. " | sing as “‘chestnnts,”” whereupon the old man re- ] e | late, is to come here some time in May pas - ¥ stviving Su Creighton makes he: hundredth performance of ‘The Unforeseen,” | ~*‘A bright idea,” D'Orsay replled. Then | plies: “My daughter, everything worth having | holy grinder and had to pay 33,500,000 to | under the direction of that “bloated mo- really thought no more of studying Juliet ghton makes her appearance to-mor- | by the Empire Theater Company, is approach- | turning to Henry, the young Londoner asked: an- world {s a chestnut. We've having | get it back again. It is now kept in a | nopolist” of impresarios, Will Greenbaum. then of Jearning the multiplication table, | Tow evening at the Alcazar. Thére is |ing. Mr. Marshall's comedy sill proves to| -What is the amount of the largest perqul- | roses every June since I can re: . but T|small gold box, enclosed in six other | The Loring Club has been fortunate in se- ®0 far as the naturalness of the thing | much more than a slight resemblance be- | be most attractive and satistying. The play | site to a club attendant?" don’t get tired of ‘em. Bables are chestnuts, | poyes in one of the many temples of lhelrunng the charming singer for thelr cles- brings out the full strength of the comj *"Twenty-fi: dolls "t H answered. it somehow we 't improve “em. - west Then I have sung in opera—there | tween that most charming of stage wom- | Miee " Angitn 1o Superbiy” cast as the vienTs | e roe B oraay et arr thirty- | Tt Toaried 1o Chestnat Det $ot me et | Stamese capital. ing concert of the seasom.