The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1904, Page 17

+* F X EERTN Pages 171020 ST SIS TR TS N N SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1904. — & PAY °T All Do Well, Many Earning Good Salaries. - NDON, March 5.—Any privileged through roam sterfous places back of the stage s old Drury Lane Theater or other Londc over their desks e paraphernal them e not a part aly i= due to the fact that a hand the- THREE HOURS OF STUDY. birds and for which ernoc and rang- week AND CHEERFU of the chil- ALL BRIGHT for their good children have any ged on the stage authorities report that nd general knowledge ge 1 nite equal dr the who at- are not strange of 12 and professional 1k are ¢ age and w o same children the news- ived and met ave The as a seem with the bodies stage, however, changing the y were as trou ischievous, she s; small boy however, can de the deport- at play. Instead tag,” ball and they dance ame poses and most courtly ry variety server de- boys’ PROUD OF AINTANCES. ACQU r named told the for had ck Campbell, r Hicks and vas once at a Dickens’ and was in- ndra, who ind gave her a girl played such as the Alice in Wonderlangd,"” vears the st period ttle dren’s g parts Dormouse in THEM B ONDON THEATERS EMPLQOY CHILDREN FOR STAGE WORK. HEM WELL AND EDUCATE EHIND THE SCENES DEVIILE CHEILIREN FFEZIARBSNG SLFTERL SSCHOOL HOZRS .. asto d me by observing that she had met the late Queen Victoria five years ago. Nearly all the children at the Vaude- Theater have been continuousiy employed at salaries ranging from $7 50 to $15 weekly for the last four years, and most of the girls wear little lockets ont i of cake which ining small med part Queen Alexan- dra gave them personally when they played in * ity Street” at Windsor Castle by roval command. The boys however, possess no such mementoes and on being questioned one sturdy lad ar Albert Valchera, who earns weekly hough he is not yet 13 vears old, said: “That cake was too good to stick in a locket. We ate all our I can t you."” T enough, the boys when they stick to the stage, but howe footlights and often be- actresses. llen Terr : s and many other cel brities of the English stage started their career as fairies in’ pantomime when 3 or 4 vears old. —_———— OBJECTS TO METHOD OF TEACHING BIBLE German Professor Insists That All Coutradiciions of Scriptures Should He Explained. BERLIN, March Professor De- litsch of “Babel and Bible” fame again has come to the front with elaborate objections to the esent methods of imparting religious instruction in the schools. He says The findings in recent excavations in Mesopotamia should be put before school boys and girls. They should not be brought up in ignorance of the re- sults of the late investigations into the bistory of religion. Children should be taught that in Genesis there are two divergent ac- counts of the creation, and thdt both are the outcome of Babylonian myths About the flood they shouid be taught that the Biblical narrative is also a vestige of ancient Babylonian folklore. These ancient sagas should be dug out of the scripture books and given to scholars at school or explained. If they are not a day will come when the grown-up man will throw them all over and more besides, which he should re- tain “I am opposed to having school boys and girls taught that the narrative about the world being made in seven days is true, or that there is any verac- ity in the tements that man was made of clay, that life was breathed into his nose and that woman was made of a man's rib. I object to the tales about the ten patriarchs, about the summits of the highest mountains being covered deep with deluge water and about the ark of Noah Only truth, and the whole truth, can make one free.” ‘ —_—————————— es Effected by Radium. March 5.—Rheumatism re cured by the radio- active energy of radium, so Dr. Darier reports in comn nication to the French Academy of Medicine. He says he has employed it in the treatment of such cases. The pain, he finds, is relieved by the action of the rays on the nerve centers. A case of facial paraly: was cured by two applications of the new agent in only a slightly ac- tive form. Dr. Darier thinks the in- jurious effects of radium on the ner- vous system observed by other physi- cians were due to lack of experience in its use, Cu PAR and neuralg’ 3 s SN ) JeLZH, N LIBERALITY OF EDWARD OF ENGLAND Insists on Paying for All ‘*“‘Command”’ Performances. — LONDON, March 5.—King Edward is getting pretty sick of Sandringham as a residence. He liKes the surround- ings, but the house is a continual source of annoyance to him. It was built originally on the “jer: principle and the builders are never out of it. The King, who is a smart business man, has begun to think that if the place were not looked upon as a kind of na- tional inheritance he would abandon it to-morrow. The builder’s men are in there now, and his Majesty has had to cover the expenses of the repairs by insurance. The present situation in regard to the estate appears to justify Mr. Labouchere’s statement when he said that the sale was a plece of job- bery. While King Edward has been obliged to p hment in many di- rections since he came to the throne, he does not share the parsimonicus pro- pensities of the late Queen. The cus- tom of the managers of theatrical per- formances “by command” is to send in an account and the sum demanded is expected to be paid without demur. actice retrer QUEEN'S RULE IGNORBED. The late Queen submitted to the rule for many years, but after she gave up going to the theater she in- sisted that terms should be agreed upon before a ‘“command” perform- For THE (SLL 77 ONER THEIRS Hrrd PRETTY HEAZS, ,fi"/}’//;/:; DESES JUST B 77T T LPRY SCHOOL] i Froon FHROTD TAKEN AT 7HE. DRRUBY LANE THFATRE—~ [orzon AUSTER - ALTRT VAICH ERE LEARNING A NEW TART et JVENILE %+ , y WHO ACT O! ] THE STAGE AND STUDY 3 BEHIND THE SCENES. ance was given. Moreover, ‘he never troubled when a manager, moved by generosity toward his sovereign, ne- glected to send in his account. King Edward has now altered all this. He has returned to the original of the court, and he insistg that all “command” performances must be paid for, either in cash or in kind. Artists and managers know, how- ever, that King Edward is not a rich man, and while they respect the rule he insists upon they are much more modest in their terms than when the late Queen treated “command” per- formances as absolute commercial transactions. What they lose in one way, of course, they gain by the fre- queni appearance of the court at the theater now. It would be considered most unbecoming for a manager or an artist to refuse to send in an ac- count under the conditions laid down by King Edward. Kubelik when he appeared before his Majesty neglected to send in an account and King Ed- ward, feeling that being a young for- eigner he did not custom y know the court rules, paid’ his services by sending him a valuable diamond ring with an in- seription. DUCHESS IS POPULAR. In spite*of statements to the con- trary the Scotch people are taking very Kindly to the new Duchess of Roxburghe. Reports had prepared them for the appearance among them of a woman made vulgar through wealth. The simple inhabitants in the neighborhood of Floors Castle ex- pected to find her driving up in a diamond-mounted motor or some such fantastically constructed equipage, and were asfonished to find that she was merely an ordinary woman with ap- parently simple habits. Like the majority of imported Duchesses, her first anxiety was for the poor.. The new year in Scotland is a time for rejoicing and festivity and the Duchess took to the condition of things as if she were a Scotswoman born. She. however, saw that beneath the rejoleing and feasting there was a good deal of misery and she directed that all poor persons in the neighbor- hood of the castle should have all they wanted in reason to celebrate the - season. - It is expected that she will dispense charity in Scotland with a vish hand. Those among whom she has moved in Scotland say that she is anxious to contradict by example the impressions that are abroad about her that she married merely for a title. The intense interest that Lady Ran- dolph Churchill thkes in polities is manifesting itself in her son's actions. Under her influence her husband re- belled against his party and her son is following an identical course. So- ciety people, who are somewhat envi ous of the young man’s political prom- inence, even go so far as to say that his mother prepares his speeches. s satisfies herself, however, by discus: ing with him the subject upon which he has to speak before he makes any important pronouncement. The po- sition he has taken up over thel fiscal policy of Mr. Chamberlain has caused much trouble in the Marlborough family. The Duchess, with her im- mense influence in society, was sSup- posed to have taken yvoung Wi under her wing. As the world m now, she exercised her influence in another direction by finding a job . e - il her husband and Winston Churchill and his mother are Faving their re- venge n now 1d to fight the s under the opposite ban Duchess of Mar oint- ed o have taken. GILLETT'S RADIUM PARTI Mr being he smartest be deen te Gillett lin 1 no pleadir guess ar from the Un mented that can women 1terested and igent questions of the p t plain the pow nd fers of r Mr rties are always ine for t b, one of n London Jachelors’ Cl ey the clubs London, and of Mr. Gillett is chairman. One d lub opens on to Plcca- entrance is a little The clubrooms s are so sacred that they are the eyes of feminine visitors, and when ladies, by some very allowed to enter never s special invitatio the clubho they not on by th but ascend to rooms above by a cial lift, or the special staircase, are entertained in special dining ani e distinet from en men guests may drawing rooms q t_ose into which ev penetrate. Among the many interesting Amer- jcans invited these radium parties are Mrs. Howard Cockerell, the sister of Lady Abinger, daughter of the cele- brated Commander Magruder of the United States navy and the niece of General J. B. Magruder, who was com- mander of the Confederate forces in Texas during the Civil War Lorillard and Miss Van Wart is so well wn in American society. It 1is sald of Miss Van Wart that she has refused lLalf the British aristocracy. This society favor- ites has now taken a house in Curzon street, not far from the mansion newly erected for the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and which is tast becoming an American colony now Although members of the exclusive Bachelors' Club do not cease to be Bachelors with a big B when th-7 marry, they have to pay a penalty of one dozen bottles of champagne for their fellow-members to drink their health with, h backslider feeling that he is in the eyes of sidered a poor creature. The chairman, of course, alwavs a Bachelor in every sense, Mr. Gillett being perhaps one of the club’s wealthiest members. —_— the club con- is London's "Phone tem Is Poor. LONQON, March 5.—An interesting comparison“of English and American systems made this week telephone shows London to be a long way behind New York. In the latter city an area of 429 square miles, with a population of 4,000,000 against London's 840 sqfiare miles within population of as 6,500,000, is covered with no less than 200,000 wires, while this city. includ- ing the 15,000 postoffice lines, can boast of only §0,000. Despite the fact that London pays a proportionately heavier rate for service, as regards efffeiency it certainly is not to be eom- pared with New York.