The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 20

;, prompted by the pleasure upon others, rtant requisite in en- the hostess who poss- fornia wo- enerosity in ntertaining »d thing to t is ans as peces- s t arrange the mfort and pleas- 4 ests d convince them to- jal are brought ngenuity i g uniqu rness recently ing his appear- ¥s wrote a three pass for his brains. He is not so gentle and so cor- y that it n y be in gallant old gen- d charming had never my hostess of these ve inspired San Fran- he ladies to be maiden pres- young women In the land nen gave most t restricted to assiduously s and ad- e adjuncts he young lons at the they will ious criti- I have igh-bred asking if y do 1be: s city. come to the conclu- Francisco the young ars, content to t won ss suit and s to be ed of the So hosts. harge a should have only to en- city. Yet, sition that raid te with a fied hdrawing once tele- actually to see illate at a so- I themselves to- s year let us mce and avail abins s G. have as their H. Cochrane, city about ten days. until four years Both she and iucated at Stan- warmly welocmed 7 0ld school friends during their ns have come back to stay e, and will entertain con- y throughout the winter. Miss has been in the city very her debut two ras busy renewing the tea given by ys ago . ayne, who 1s a most will give a luncheon rs. Cochrane at her home f this week. The new- s0 be tendered a dinner, nd other affairs this Sabins ss Florence Gibbons is one of the debutantes presented. to so- She was a picture at the Jeu- ssem in her dainty white g0wn, and was not at a loss for gallant TG and Mrs. George L. Fish left last for Europe. They were accom- by Mre. Fish’s sister, Miss Eliz- Smith, who has been visiting Miss Smith resides in Scotland. v b Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hart have re- turned to the Palace Hotel for the win- th Mrs. Gallatin and Miss Leta Gallatin have returned from a protracted trip East and will remain at the Palace Hotel during the present season. Miss tin will go out a good deal in- formally this winter, but will not make her formal debut until after her return from Europe, where she intends going ES = THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1903. early next year with her father and other to complete her musical studies. Miss Gallatin is one of the best bred and thoroughly lovable young women in society and her friends will make the most of her limited stay in their midst this season, P The ladies of the civic section of the California Club are interesting them- gelves in the new compulsory educa- tional law with the hope of having a parental school established in San Francisco for habitual truants. The school authorities have at pres- ent no statistics concerning the num- ber of truants in the city, and it is proposed to have the matter taken up by State Superintendent Kirk with the uggestion that the census blank be o changed that the returns may show w many children between the ages 8 and 14 years have not attended school during five months of the year, as the law requires. Over 19,000 children of San Francisco attended no school last year. Truant or attendance officers should. now be investigating these cases and doubtle: ere is no reason why a larger per- centage of these children should not be receiving the advantage of our pub- lic school education, if pressure were but brought to bear upon parents and children. San Francisco has two police officers who are acting as truant officers, while Boston has twenty-one trained men who are looking after its truants. J F. McC onds of Oakland, City Superintendent of Schools Lang- don and Mrs. Everett Goodell, the first teacher of the parental boarding school of Boston, have addressed the members of the Califor Club, and the work of creating public sentiment in favor of this much-needed reform in San Francisco is well under way. The Grayson Duttons will their residence at St Tuesday next. take up Dunstan’s on Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter took their sweethearts, wives and mothers down to Stanford several evenings ago to attend a banquet which they gave at the house to James F. Lanagan, head coach of the Stanford football team. The dinner was served in the main hall, which was prettily decorated for the occasion. Covers were laid for thirty guests, including active members and the old alumni. After dinner a few co-eds added their presence and dancing completed the evening’'s enjoyment. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Beedy, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Spreckels Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sherman, Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Spaulding, Captain R. Emerson War- field, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Downing, Harry Cox, Winthrop Beedy, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Blake, J. Bird Gildersleeve, J. H. Polhemus, Arthur Geissler, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lanagan. o omiciig Mrs. Alden Jackson and Miss Jack- son have issued cards for a tea on De- cember §, from 4 to 6, at their home on Clay street. e S ] The George Newhalls are home from Europe and are occupying a house on Frankiin street until their new home is ready for them. TR Miss Sarah Drum has returned from the East and is looking very well. Miss Drum enjoys the distinction of being the first woman to run an automobile in this city, but upon her return will find many understudies gayly usurping her throne. e d iy Courtney Bennett, the English Con- sul, Is preparing for the arrival'of his wife and daughter from London, 5 il Miss Helen Shafter gave a house party at her home near Inverness over Thanksgiving. Among those who went up on Wednesday were: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Fenwick, Miss Juliet Garber, John Partridge, Percy Willlams and Paul Miller. Wil Dr. and Mrs. Russell H. Cool are en- tertaining a few friends at their Los Gatos home, “Dotswood,” from Thanks- giving until Monday complimentary to | g Dick Hotaling, who has a birthday to celebrate. Mrs. James A. Coover and Miss Coop- er have sent out cards for the first and second Fridays at their home, 2723 Pa- cific avenue. Both Miss Ethel Cooper and her mother are particularly charm- ing and their receptions will prove most delightful. s e Mrs. Boggs and Miss Alice Boggs have taken a house for the season at 1613 Van Ness avenue. They will re- ceive on Thursdays during the winter months. Miss Julia Mau, who gave a tea a few days ago for her cousin, Miss Lulu Bothin, will be “at home” Fridays in January. The handsome Mau home on Broadway is well adapted to entertain- ing and, I understand, each at home day will be like a tea. Miss Bothin is one of the sweetest of the winter buds. . s s Mrs. John P. Young will be guest’ of honor at a luncheon which Mrs. Lange will give on December 8. R Miss Daisy Burns will give a card party next Thursday at her home on Washington and Hyde streets. Her mother, Mrs. Burns, will also entertain at euchre on Wednesday. P e Mrs. William T. Sesrion has sent out cards for the first and second Thurs- days in December. Mrs. Sesnon was before her marriage Miss May Porter. PRI Mrs M. T. Lally and Miss Charlotte Lally have returned from the East. Pl Mrs. Harry F. Sullivan will be at home on Wednesdays at 1516 Van Ness avenue. PIEI L Mrs. Barnard Breeden, formerly Miss Gertrude Sullivan, daughter of Judge Sullivan, has issued cards for fourth Wednesdays. o Miss Jessie McNab is still in the East and is not expected to return until after Christmas. INTERESTING PLAYS AT THE THEATERS ———— The new Tivoli will open with the Christmas piece, D. V. o . ‘The Alcazar offers this week “A Roy- al Prisoner,” a Russian romance. s e s The Hamadryas in the zoo ig —or are 2N ~JAN FRANC] /7 ;»w 2 pro by Vgt SH57TH s e Y &) S — : SN ¥ oo KO — - - WELL-KNOWN HOSTESSES WHO MAKE THE SEASON PLEASANT FOR BUDS AND BACHELORS | A —chle: i quite the right way to get at them and on Thursday evening next after a vr;:ehlipr AT 05 e Chules b In the World Of I“U’Qh' to both pupil and master warm con- Silence of several years. Mr. Bogart . . . . “Just stop at home and never 80 t0 gratulations for good work done must Was one of the erstwhile most popu This afternoon’s matinee at the Grand Opera-house will introduce an electrical wonder in “Over Niagara Falls.” e S e The California has a success of the old time sort in “At the Old Cross Roads” and will continue the bill. e e “Midnight in Chinatown,” at the Cen- tral, gives way m-mo’]ow evening to the successful melodrama, “The Coun- terfeiters.” sry . ® The “private secvetary of vaudeville,” Hal Godfrey, in “A Very Bad Boy,” is the Orpheum’s lead this week. Others new are Agnes Mahr, Clarice Vance and Joseph Newman. . . = To-morrow evening the pastoral play, “Way Down East” will be revived at the Columbia, with a cast said to be good. The play was received with con- siderable favor on its former appear- ance here. S S That much heralded product of local genius, “I. 0. U.,” will make its first ap- pearance on any stage to-morrow even- ing at Fischer's. The author of the burlesque prefers to remain unknown, but the musical setting was made by Dr. H. J. Stewart. The management has spread itself on the production. At the Columbia to-night will be given by the Alameda Lustspiel En- semble the famous comedy “Im Weis- sen Roessl” (“At the White Horse Tav- ern”). The affair is under the direction of Arthur Becker, and the cast will be headed by Josephine Lafontaine-Neck- haus and Adolph Schubert, and prom- ises to be very interesting. sea and then you'll be the ruler of the Queen’s navee!” One-half of Sir Jo- seph Porter’s advice may sometimes be very good to follow, for the music stu- dent. I rather thought so as I heard Miss Grace Freeman's fiddling the other day. Miss Freeman is purely a local product, pupil of Giulio Minetti, and last week made what might be called her formal debut. I had not the pleasure of hearing the debut per- formance, but heard Miss Freeman af- terward in her recital programme. Her performance explained why Sousa last year offeréd to engage the young wom- an as his solo violinist; also why Mr. Minetti had refused then his permis- sion for her to undertake the work. It further exampled happily what may be done by the stay-at-home student. Miss Freeman's chief numbers were the Max Bruch G minor -concerto, Grieg’s C minor sonata, the Zigeuner- weisen of Sarasate and a romanza of Sgambati, and their rendering shows her possessed of most of the essentials of her art. A sensitive ear, plenty of vitality, conscience, temperament are among Miss Freeman's belongings, to- gether with a ready right wrist and a facile left hand. Her intonation is de- lightfully true, her tone big and round, her dynamic range large, and she has both style and magnetism. She has poise, too, and a strong dramatic sense, and when her work is, further fined, characterized—the “local color” of a composition more clearly indicated—a greater subtlety of shading andjtone obtained, Miss Freeman will be a very good violinist indeed. And these things are not far off. The violinist has gone be accorded. Miss Freeman was accompanied with spirit and sympathy by Mr. Salz. There is a youngster going to play the plano this week that I think will be worth hearing. It is little Cecil Cowles, now 9 years old, and who will give a recital on Thursday evening at Stéinway Hall. I heard the little girl some two years ago when she was a pupil. of Otto Bendix at the Cali- fornia Conservatory. She played then the Handel “Harmonious Blacksmith™ in a comically clever fashion, showing a good deal of technical capacity and mental grasp. One liked, too, then her delightful childishness, her whole work showing that there had been an entire absence of any emotional forcing going to itz development. She played as if it were fun to her, and many will be in- terested to know how she has grown up—to the mature age of 9. Cecll is now under the ministrations of Hugo Mansfeldt, and, according to the fol- lowing programme must have been spending not a little time at her chosen instrument. The little pianist, by the way, has absolute pitch, improvises, composes and so on, all of which will be exampled on the programm: D minor (Mozart): Fantasie, Fantasie, E minor (Cecil Cowles); Impromvtu (Cecil Cowles; Fugue, Op. 5, No. 3 (Rheinberger); rabeske, Op. 18 (Schumann); Vogel als het, Op. 82, No. 7 (Schumann); Papillons, E{,‘?’": (Schumann); Romance Pathetique, No. 1. E major (Floersheim); Fruehlingsrauschen, Op. 32, No. 3 (Sinding); Intermezzo, Op. 110, No. 1 (Brahms); Walt: minor, posthumous (Chopin); Etude, Op. . 9 (Chopin); Hu- moreske, Op. 101, No. 7 (Dvorak); Humoreske, Op. 101, No. 1 (Dvorak). t will be taken A good deal of inte in the appearance Andrew Bogart local barytones and has since seen sev eral years of study in New York. The recital is to be given at Maple Hall. Mr. Bogart is fortunate in having Fred Maurer as his accompanist. The fol- lowing programme has been arranged Songs of the seventeenth cen —*“The Happy Lover,’ Lacia 1 Dir,” ‘“Drinking Song.”” Songs by Robert Schumann—'"My Love. Thy 4, ‘““Twas in Month of Thro' the Plazzetta,”” ‘“‘Row, Songs by modern 'American Bring Her Again to Me” (N. Clit- ““Absent”” (John W. Metcalf); (G. W. Chadwick), and “An Open Huntington Woodman). On Saturday afternoon next a new soprano, Miss Ingeborg Resch-Petter- son, will make her first local appear- ance. Miss Petterson is a country- woman of Jenny Lind, and lately from bonnie Dundee, in Scotland, whence she comes with an enviable reputation both as singer and teacher. Will L. Greenbaum has arranged a re- cital afternoon for next Saturday at Lyrie Hall, admission to which will be entirely by invitation. Miss Petterson will be assiste¢ by Miss Ramus, who will play the violin, and by Fred Maur- er at the piano. Following is the very attractive programme—the folk songs in particular are most interesting ex- amples of a peculiarly rich traditional literature. The affair begins at 3 o'clock: Arla, Ave Maria (Das Feuerkreuz) (Max Bruch); violin soli—(a) Adagio from Concerto Op. 26 (Bruch), (b) Hungarian Dance (Brahms- Joachim); songs—(a) The Willow Thomas). (b) La Violette (Alessandro latti), (¢) Fruhlingszeit (Heinrich Se! violin soli—(a) Albumblatt (Wegner-Wilhelm}), () Legende (Wieniawski): Irmelin Rose (V. Peterson Berger): Mainat (Ch. Sinding); Ved Sundet (A. Backer Grondahl); Ragnhild (Ea Grieg); foik sonzs—Strilevise, Agaths Field- sang (Norweglan). Florton Ar, fran Dalarne (Swedish).