The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1904, Page 41

O N O O e 2 5 E 5 e 2 - 3 & 4 > B | ] » = * ] H . - ) ] L - [ a H 2 H ) a @ | Special Reduction Sale COLORED and BLACK DRESS GOODS IMPORTANT REDUCTIONS.. All broken lines from this season’s importation, both colored and black, to be closed out previous to stock taking. AT HALF PRICE All short lengths from 1'% to 5 yards both in plain and fancy materials suit- CITY OF PARIS DRY GOODS COMPANY, PRESERVE ADV:.B.T!“:.)!E’{"'S able for waists and skirts. Gnry and Stockton Streets, Union Squars. , owns the the world. It was born Jur e pounds. twel THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1904. N ! PO O IN BEAUTIFUL COLORS THIS SERIES TO BE BOU Greater San Francisco’s ~ Greatest Daily scores again with an entirely new Sunday feature. By an exclusive arrangement, secured at an enor- THE SUNDAY CALL will be the first to WORID'S FAIR OFFICIAL ART SERIES, ctions in color of the grounds and buildings Louisiana Purchase Exposition. MACHINERY HALL. THE FIRST OF THIS SERIES WILL BE ISSUED SUNDAY, JANUARY 3lst IN PORTFOLIO FORM The original of that Sunday’'s Art Supplement is the first artistic reproduction ghowing the architec- tural beauty of the Ivory City, and is selected as one of the best of the many views submitted, it being the object to combine in a limited series the most import- ant and interesting features of the St. Louis ‘World's Fair. The Palace of Machinery, representing power, force, in reality the pivot on which this immense ex- hibition revcives, is the inaugural issue of what will doubtless prove the most interesting su-lea that was ever given free by a publication. The main entrance to this bullding shows a triple arcade, with large pavilion in center. The north front, which is thirteen hundred feet in length, has an arcade of nine arches as a center feature. Following the classical in architectural effect, there are found several beautiful examples of the Ital- fari and Spanish Renaissance stylés. The brilliancy of color, the realistic scene, with moving crowds of sightseers, give variety and a lon to the picture. Nothing is so universally attractive as power. Men, animals and nature are most fascinated when, by fts exercise, they demonstrate possession of extraor- dinary power. Admiration for might and the desire to see it in evidence, to feel it and sense it, to remem- ber it and to tell of it, are instinctive factors with men, women and children. This is $he keynote to the collection and arrangement of the exhibits in the Ma- chinery Department—Power. Here are shown the methods and means for creating every variety of ma- chinery for the generation, transmission and use of power. ¥Forty thousand horses harnessed together and pulling with one mighty concentrated effort convey the idea of the total power which makes the wheels of this World's Fair go round. The engines, con- densers, pumps, movinzg machinery and accessories making up the power plant. which is the largest ever shown at an exhibit, are installed-on the main floor of Machinery Hall and oorm;);,he entire m":'&'f:‘o': buflding—ean area ol mething :nlahr:-! feet, or about the size of ‘an ordinary city block. There will doubtless be an unprecedented demand for this SERIES. Nearly every one will want to pre- serve them to be bound in PORTFOLIO FORM. Make certain of your getting the full set by giving an advance order. ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL GREATER SAN FRANCISCO'S GREATEST PAPER NEWSBOYS AND ALE NEWS DEALERS SELL THE CALL. ALL TRAIN OPERA AT NEW URLEANS Ppnuliarl_\' interesting to San Fran- cisco, the home of the Tivoli, is an leans, s r by sixty years to our own grand opera imstitution. It is from the pen of Chanles a!e“an Booth and throughout interestigg and suggestive in its light on another opera-mad town than ours. We are haughtily left un- mentioned, however, though more than once the hospitality of San Francisco | has been extended to the New Orleans | opera singers. Grand opera in New York again is dismissed as “the fad of & few millionaires, who allow them- | selves the juxury of listening to the highest-paid singers to be found in the world.” Like ourselves, New Orleans folk seem to pride themselves on loving | opera for opera’'s sake, and they have at least ninety-one years of an attach- ment to show in support of their claim. Here, however, is Mr. Booth on the subject: | Famous the world over as the home of gay revelry and brilliant pageantry, | the annual festival of the Mardi Gras and the French opera have given New Orleans added and unique distinction | among American cities and are insep- a.r:m;:» connected with her civic and ar- | tistic history. “Deep rooted in the historic past as both these purely local institutions are, time has not weakened their popa- larity. «They have to-day as firm a hold upon public gsentiment and pat- renage as in those earlier times when the city was wholly under French dom- ination and influence. For the visitor o New Orleans there is much to in- terest at any time, but now the opera season has begun the town is decked in o Dholiday garb and will remain in festive £ | attire until Lent. Where else in Amer- ica are there thoroughfares more pic- turesque or possessing more points of historic interest than Bourbon, Royal and Chartres streets? Here we are in the center of the oid French city and v strolling along the “ban- ' past the old bookshops with their bright displays of yellpw-covered French novels, signs in a foreign 00 X CHHOROHORN O CRORORHORCHORCE OROHOH CORCRORORCK CRCHCRCHORCH LK torigue meet the eye at every turn: ‘Cafe de I'Qpera,’ ‘Restaurant de Paris," etc., ete, until one rubs one’s eyes, 10t quite sure if he is not in the French capital itself. In the very heart of New Orleans, and yet only five blocks away from Ca- nal street—the Broadway of the South ds the French Opera-house, an imposing building, and with the exc tion of t York the largest and best equipped home of opera in America. The French Opera is indeed the center of social, artistic and musical life in New Orleans. In New York grand opera is indulged in as the fad of a few millionaires, who allow themselves the luxury of distening to the highest-paid sing to be found in the world. In the North it is a matter of fad and | ashion rather than love of art and music, and although Director Conried promises to remedy this, it is doubtful | whether he can so long as society con- trols the pu strings and dictates the policy. It is different in New Orleans, where grand opera is loved for its own sake, and has grown to be one of the ‘(hf..lshnd traditions of the population. | The visitor to the Crescent City is soon impressed by this fact. He realizes how much more opera is part of the {life of the people than in any other American community and how much | more enjoyable it is than in New York, without being as showy and expensive, This is the result of time, the outcome of years of musical education, because New Orleans has cultivated a taste for opera in the same way that New York cultivates a taste for baseball and be- comes expert at it, because everybody | derstands and appreciates it, pluto- crat and pauper, and more especially because a large part of the population understand and speak the language in which the operas are sung. Opera in ew Orleans is generally given in French, very rarely in Italian or Ger- man, and then only when the artists | cannot sing in French. As one-fourth | | of the population of New Orleans speak French in their ordinary inter- course, and more than half understand that language, it is evident that the opera must be a more popular institu- tion than in other American cities where French is not understood, and to a great majority of the audience the performance is a perfect blank, except the musie. “Opera in New Orleans is nearly a hundred years old. Davis, a French of New article in this month's Theater Maga- | zine on the French opera in New Or-| Metropolitan Opera-house | every opera of importance has been heard in New Orleans. On its stage, too, the great Patti made her debut and won her earliest laurels. | "A feature of the opera-house, com- | mon enough in Europe, but not seen in America outside of New Orleans, are the loges grillees, or latticed boxes. These are boxes covered with latticed windows in front which can be closed if necessary. and are really small rooms where one can have all the seclusion one desires. They jvere originally in- tended for families in mourning. The ereoles wear mourning for distant cous- ins, and for a long period. The conse- quence is that in the families so inter- married one death will put' a score of persons in mourning. While dressed in black, they did not care to give up ! the opera; so the loges grillees came into use. Through them one could hear the opera without being seen. This practice, however, has long since pass- ed away, and the loges grillees are now as fashioneble as any other part of the theater, and preferred by those who like comfort mere than show. “The opera-house is seen at its best on Mardi Gras night, when 6000 to 8000 persons find room in the auditorium and the various foyers. Then the house presents an animated and brilliant spectacle. Beautiful womén—the vol- uptuous beauty of the South—with their glorious eyes, sit in the radiance of the dazzling light, reflecting its own splendor, while it seems as if all the world had been robbed of its flowers, so profusely are the epolls scattered. Yet brilliant as is the opera night, the scene is eclipsed by the grand carnival balls which end the opera season and usher in Lent. Then these same floors are crowded with the same beautiful women, still more gorgeously attired; while mingling with them are heroic or grotesque figures, representative of all climes, all eges, an epitome of his- tory and the world, as beautiful, as fantastic. The light, the jewels, the air heavy with perfumes and the odor of the flowers, the passionate music— all this recalls some Oriental feast rather than a scene in prosaic twen- tieth century America. “The strength of the opera in New Orleans lies in the support it receives from the public. It is regarded by the people of New Urleans as part of one’s musical education, and children are taken there to hear the music as soon as they learn their notes. The humblest wage-earner stints himself In order to secure admission to the opera. But the popular support is not sufficient to pay expenses, and appeal has to be made to the richer classes and the Opera Asso- ciation or Club. The boxes are sold as far in advance as April, seven months before the opera opens, to enable the director to gq to Europe and engage artists. The French Opera Association, with H. Laroussini, president, and G. | W. Nott, secretary and treasurer, Is | the great promoter of the opera in | New Orleans, and it is due to their un- | tiring efforts that the opera has proven | & success. This association guarantees against loss and runs the opera if no manager is willing to undertake the re- Best Way to Preserve Peace. For preserving-the peace in a partly civilized country a railway, according to a famous statesman, is worth more than an army corps. Although the | railways which are building from Haifa | to Damascus, in Palestine, and from | Damascus southward toward Mecca are primarily for military purposes, they will open up a country which was | prosperous and fertile 2000 vears ago, | but has since become one of the waste | places of the earth. They are al- | ready using American harvesting ma- chinery on the plain of Jezreel. When | the proposed railways are finished there will be a demand for the accom- | panying modern agricultural machines. | Galilee and the country beyond Jordan | will again blossom as the rose. | ADVEBTISEHENTB. 19 Por Wee This complete Talking Ma- chine outfit. No extras to purchase. You pay us $5.00 refugee from the massacre of Sanlat time of purchase, and Domingo, went to Louistana in 1790, and soon after began giving theatri- cal and operatic performances, first in the old St. Philip-street Theater, afterward in the New Orleans-street Opera-house. The first season in New Orleans was in 1813, ninety-one years ago. Since then, almost without ex- ception, New Orleans has had grand opera every year. The Orleans The- ater, or opera-house, was erected by | John Davis in 1816. The most fam- ous portions of the old edifice were the ball and supper rooms connected ! with thé\ opera-house; indeed, the parquet in the latter was frequently floored over and occupied as a ball- | room, thus furnishing, when brilliant- 1y lighted, in connection with the suite 1 adjoining, a coup d'oeil not to be sur- passed for effect in America. Those were flery days, when the New Or- leans creole was very jealous of his honor and d§gnfty and the slightest impropriety called for an interchange of cards. The Orleans ballroom is said to have been the origin of more duels than any other edifice in the world. “The audience was, in the earlier days, almost exclusively French and creole, and in that ante-bellum period social customs were established which have clung to the opera ever since. Patrons were required to be in full evening dress. The grand operas of Meyerbeer, Rossini, Mozart and others of the old composers were required to be performed in the most perfect de- tail. There weré hno ‘cuts’ in the score, and in order to give the full opera the. performance usually com- | menced at 6 o’'clock, closing mid- night. In those days the opel::\rn almost the only form of social amuse- ment. Every family had its box, and the opera-house was always crowded; but as the city grew larger and richer ered too small, and the present fine building, the third generation of opera-houses in New Orleans, was erected at Bourbon and Toulouse streets. During the period of nearly | a century, almost every famous singer !the world has produced and almost bring $1.00 in each week, on Saturday evening if you wish, as we keep open that evening for the convenience of our customers. COLUMBIA PONOGRAPH 0. 125 GEARY STREET. Open Saturday Evenings, DON'T FAIL TO sec the beautiful OAKLAND RACE TRACK NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB, Commencing January 4, Racing Each Week Day, Raln or Shine. Six or More Races Daily. escorts. urning leave M 4:10 and P e ......'3'}';'.:, atuer the et u THO! m 2nd Tailor Suits, Jackets, Silk -TAILOR SUITS A $9.95 25 00 Suitsonsale PO T 27.50 Suits on sale at... .. 3295 30.00 Suits on sale af ..o .. 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Northern Soldiers aand Southern Sweethearts! MATINEE EVERY SATURBDAY. Usual Popular Prices.. Proscenium and ltl-llm Box Seats......§1 UnionGoursing Park P. J. RETLLY, Judge. JAS. F. GRACE, Slipper. SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1904 Gigantic Opén Stake 0Of Seventy-Six High-Class Performers|, $1000-TOTAL msn-smc Marching .28, u.-nan.‘ i Week Commencing THIS AFTER- NOON, Jan. 10. Sumgtuous Vaudeville! Tbe Reigning Sensation, Howard Thurston Direct From Europe. Wallno and Marinette Vienna Caricature Dancers. Asra European Comedy Jugsler. White and Simmens America’s Favorite Comedians. Dumitrescn, Yan Auken and Vannerson The World's Greatest Trivle Hortzontal Bar Performers. Chas. and Minnie Sa-Van In & Comedy Act of Mishaps. Charlotte Guyer Georg The Distinzuished Contralto. The Tobias Refined Musical Experts. Orpheum Motion Pictures Showing the Latest Novelties. Last Week and Tremendous Success of FRED. MOLLY HALLEN and FULLER In Their Best One-Act Comedy, “His Wite's Hero. Regular Matinees Every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Prices, 10c, 28c and 80c. <YRIC HALL BURTON HOLMES LECTURES ! BEAUTIFULLY COLORED VIEWS REALISTIC MOTION PICTURES THIS WEEK—Evenings at 3:15 TUESDAY.... .Yosemite Valley .- .St. Petersbus, .Yellowstone Paf! ‘ . Moscow .Grand Canyen MONDAY . TUESDAY.. WEDN ESDAY Special Saturday )!anneen—-suhj»cu | to be announced. Reserved Seats, $1.00, 75c and 50c. General Admission, 3.‘ Box Offjce, Sherman, Clay & Co. A T C With the Favorite Comedian, JACK CAMPBELL, And an Excellent Company. Funniest of All Hoyt Farces. Betgaco & Maren, ALCAZAR™ s !o-mx!—lgmn TO-DAY. Great Success of the Romantic Play. LADY ||.;R.°'.:.;'::"... F stage m: Call. QUALITY || mtime = | Bvgs., 25¢ to TSe: Mat. Sat, & Sun., 15c to 30a MONDAY—Clyde Fitch's Strongest Play, CENTRAL=Z# Market st., mear nnu Plone South -. | MATINEE mo.v—do-mm LAST TIMEL MONTE [E CRISTO MONDAY NIGHT—ALL NEXT WEEK. 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