The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1904, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY., MAY 1. 190a DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, FOR MANY YEARS HEAD OF BRITISH ARMY, BARRED FROM TWO THRONES BY AN UNLUCKY STR England’s Crown | Falls to Girl Queen. Blind Boy Named as King of Hanover. )N, April 30.—Lacking little week of attaining " his eig birthday, the Duke of Cam- ¥ e of the blood royal, who . | rty-nine years commander sh army, is dead, less, the usual bio- wes of him are printed ates, the story of the turesque old soldier's ns one or two especially plc- pters that may, however, ounts of him | tates. | h g bluff, p membered, at home, Duke ¢ being t God King of Ir¢land, Defender of The one who 21 { ) 3 ! b ¢ [ } ; i - S il PR R ] OKE OF FATE IWORLD WAITING ON BOITO Friend of Uerdi Still Makes Promises. “Mephistopheles” Only Work in Lifetime. ROME, April 30.—For the last thirty years Arrigo Boito, the former friend of Verdi, and composer of “Mephisto~ pheles,” has kept all Italy waiting for anbther opera; vet, though there still is little or no prospect that the work ever will be finished, Boito has man-, Y gl When the th WI n¥ f Prince ger ‘heir : ¢ ate child I s s and Justy. At l King Wi v, - | he -Duchess- of DEYOTED 10 HIS WIFE. | the Difc g . His d England’s s girl cousin, months ne as Queen Victoria. nd King William IV Duke of Cam- farch 26, 1819, as son of e heir presumptive none of the rest numereus iving issue of Then, ss Victoria of the fourth the take advan- Pring ] LOOKED TO. HANOVERM. t n .\ ! entertained the wife was festive It was a | which domestic | hidden | when she-grew | later, King progeny weeks he however, son of Cambridge, presumptive, arents enter- for Victoria to might THE ZAIF . Probably as a soldier and he showed a fine con- tem for the logic of consistency, which Emerson cdlls “the hobgoblin of pétty minds The Duke would have called it something else which the man in the street would have had no diffi- cuity in remembering. On one occasion an officer of the Guards got into a nasty quarrel with a civilian about a woman and the civi- lian sent him a challenge. The guards- man refused to accept it on the ground that he was forbidden by the regula- tions of the army. The next day a big poster, signed by the civilian, was stuck on the wall of the Guards’ bar- racks, announcing that “Captain is a coward.” The Duke of Cambridge saw it and asked what it meant. The facts were told him. He sent for Captain and asked him if it were true that he had taken shelter behind the “damned o had one tion—he aged to retain his held on public confl- dence in a way that can only be de- scribed as extraordina The maestro’s “Mephistopheles,™ which he wrote when a youns man, and which was such a success that his name became a household wopd in two continents, came as a surprise, for he previously had done no in the least noticeable. however, promptly was announced as the man A NG I work Boito, i PN "I of the future, who would rival Verdi, ® and the friendship which existed be- s tween the two musicians was . much ;. lauded. Time passed and there was completé silence on the part of Boite, " sq that his admirers began to get rest- ive and make inquiries, and then it was said that he was at work on a |- sreat opera called. “Nero.” This, what we may safely call “fiction,”"as it has lasted over thirty years, has been kept up ever since. The words “Boito” and ‘Nero” have, in fact,. become insepay- | able The Story that he has abstained from bringing out the “Nero,” which was quite completed, so as not to embitter the last years of his friend and patron, Verdi, by outshining "him, tided Boito over many years, giving him at the same time a halo of abnegation which was highly applauded. The great maestro died in 1901, amd | at last Boito was free to show what the world had lost by his silence. The libretto of ero” was issued .with a great flourish of trumpets; and it was even said the singers had been selected, | -and every ome was on the qui vive when it began to be whispered that the opera_needed finishing touches—which | apparently are still wanting. | Although he is said to work ardently from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m., the following anecdote will jllustrate his methods: | Not long before his death, Verdi urged ++ Boito to complete his work, whereupon the other -repijed: “I try to compose, but who could do so in the awful noise KAISER PAYS Vi inwis COMPLIMENT ressio, ae . with cribing its. beauties with such enthusiasm_that the weary Boito declared it was just the spot to finish Emperor UDacates Order Ms “Nero. He soon settled . himselt _ s in what seemed the primeval forest, flnnoymg tfo BOS' completely alone. However, Inspiration = did not come, as the decorations of the ton Girl. walls of the house disturbed his artistic and some ‘time passed before vhere he A state evening, | ry wnight faithful =st, com- f -Glou- in most occa- our or they were made to his liking. Then he was to.get to wor but he suddenly discovered that the table was not fit and incidentally to American women 5 write upon, but that difficulty was and American art. .The recipient of the overcome by the owner of the forest imperial favor is Emma Cadwallader- Guild, the Boston sculptress whose magnificen: bust of President McKinley has just been acquired by the United States Government for the new Con- gressional Library. Mrs. Cadwallader- Guild has for the past five or six years had her studio in Germany—at Munich, Dresden, Berlin and other art centers. A couple of years ago she decided to locate permanently in the “Latin Quar- ter” of the German capital, down on Universitatstrasse, which gets its name from its proximity to the University of Berlin in Unter den Linden. In order that her studic might have the inspira- BERLIN, April 30.—Emperor William has paid a new compliment to America placing all the tables of his_palaces at the maestro’s disposal to choose from. At.last Verdi thought he ‘would pay im a visit and found him o the ter- race of the house; lost in the stupén- dous view of the,sea, sky and weods. “That is inspiration emough for thes " Verdi remarked. “Ahl” sighed the composer and .poet, “it is grand, so grand that I caninot work for contém- plation of it!” But with all this, Boito, who has not composed a note worth anything for over thirty-five years, is the most admired maestro in Tealy. Schools, styles and tendencies change, but his “Mephistopheles” s ever fresh and delightful, while'no one makes fun 5 oF, OVl STALLELS STHUC oF BEAT A7 LMERZCHNY PERZILNY, s 7 P strange of him but a few profan: T e tion of historical surroundings,” she P e persons who from wed mno NIGHOR ARTIGD S - (=4 | -~ - o has been started by a wealthy theater proprietor of Amsterdam. Handt is to build a floating theater, to be tugged up and down the Rhine, vis- COMP = + sousht out a corner of the old and Nould 1aush at anything. Atter all FAMOUS BRITISHER, COMPOSER AND BOSTON ARTIST'S BERLIN STUDIO l deserted “Koenigliche Marstall,” or [h®TAn who cah keep th r: ~ a : T 5 royal stables, an immense, spreading, 5 ¥ years, for fhe same : bt i oy A R constantly announced opera, and have that same public still believe in him, must be a prodigy. ————n two-storied structure of yellow stone and cement, covering an entire block on Unter den Linden and dating from the time of Frederick the Great. She donkeys. His grandmother — or per- haps it was his great-grandmother— was in very delicate heaith at one time that venturesome citizens may no long- er risk their lives by attempting to cross the stream on its crazy back. Herr de 3 Massenet Sells Operas. 3 found the crumbling building used for - ; iting numerous important populous and the doctor prescribed asses’ milk Thus is humbled the pride of the an- ... ang storage purposes, and musty PARIS, April 30.—Massenet has S . s wife bore him | towns between Rotterdam and Basle. f[of her in large quantities. Her de- cient structure, which in Burns' “Twa with the grime and dust of second- Signed an agreement to give the Scala h " rge was be- | The theater will be a wooden affair voted husband forthwith purchased a Brigs” addresses its boast to Its then hand commerce. Although her imme- Theater of Milan the choice of his legitimate = y 3 " built on two enormous iron platforms drove of donkeys and a farm on which modern rival, the bridge which is seen diate neighbors were a blacksmith shop Wworks the next four years, receiving g 0 t res :ij) doflrflvllfln regulations” from a fight with a civi- @Pd Wwill be capable of holding 2300 to keep them. Where that farm stood in the foreground of the accompanying and a beer saloon, she set about to con- 3.20,600 as a bonvus. hvo me I(allanf ¥ es that .word, while . 0 about-a woman. The officer ac- Spectators. The cost of keeping it up s now Bsyanston Square, one of the photograph: vert about one hundred square feet into Will hear his ne\? opera, “Cherubin, elr or royaity cordially knowledged he had, will be comparatively small. The per- most valuable the most artistic studio conceivable. before the French do. The libretto . el » properties in London, cgnceited gowk! puft' i ¢ pride! the madé much Tlp ot id the Duke, “you had bet- formers will sleep on the premises. gncelted gowk! puft'd up wi windy pride! The 1l entered the army o i ¢ ¥ and from this and other real estate jn This mony 1 i 'r €AY ter jeave the army. A number of medical men having s ®aid have owed their t their own it may ral on t the ur years of seivice, next him is a IN PROFANITY. { Cambridge had is appointment nder in chief was, account of his rank. ‘Leave the army, sir!” exclaimed the astonished captain. “What am I to do if I leave the army?” “Turn dancing -master and be damned to you!" replied the commander in chief, turning on his heel and leaving the office. —_———————————— BERLIN 7O HAVE AMERICAN HOTEL unaided eldest retired raised the cry that there is imminent danger of infection in the partaking of communion from the same chalice several synods in various parts of the country have decided to try the plan of introducing a small These cups after use are chemically prepared water. Those who desire to see the dignity of worship maintained on old iines are The old arched walls and ceiling lent themselves splendidly- to the desired effects, and within a few weeks Mrs. Cadwallader-Guild found herdelf amid surroundings typically . suited to her work. She had just begun to féel her- self at home—her studio was becoming the mecca of Berlin’s most exclusive art society—when a messenger called and handed her a forbidding looking official document, which proved to be an order to vacate, to make room for the new was written by the French dramatist, Francis de Croisset. Jean Richepin, another well-known French playwright, wrote a drama for the Comedie Francaise, entitled “Don Quixote,” but the Comedie was so long “in putting.it on he withdrew it and sold it to Beerbohm Tree of London. —_————— stood the flood and- tide; ‘m sair forlal e a shapeles r And tho' wi' crazy the city the Viscount draws annually PR%p"3 Brig“when y something like $1,000.000 in the shape of rent. Prior to the purchase of the abid- ing place for donkeys the house was an obscure one, but the donkey farm provided the golden key that unlock- ed the door to titles and social dis- tinction. Lord Portman is 74 years old, but despite his age is an inveterate hunts- rn, cairnt According to the response which the “New Brig” makes to this, the “Auld Brig"” must have been in very bad shape even in the poet's time: Auld Vanda! ye but show your little mense, Just much upout it wi’ yoiir sganty sens: Will your poor, nurrow footpath of a street, Where twa wheelbarrows tremble when they meet. Your ruined, formless bulk o' stane and lime, Compare wi’ bonnie Brigs o' modern time? in Protestant churches cup for each communicant. washed in Will Decorate Women. PARIS, April 30.—Next to the glories & e B of an office of the Legion of Honor is Prussian Royal Library, which the the coveted violet decoration of Officer shocked at this innovation, regarding it 2‘;;’"‘,“1,"“.1,'“{,;',’?.3,,”T.‘S.'.:;i“ t:: This “Auld Brig” is sald to have Government has decided to bulld on the of the Academy. Two hundred and ked straight, called a as irreverent and unseemiy. was G2 before he came into his title DER built in the reign of King Alex- gjte of the old Marstall. Mrs. Cadwal- geventy-five women received it this i spade, and did not do his BERLIN, April 30.—Plans are belng puro; von Gennigsen has offered $25,- and a seat in the House of Lords, B>~ 2nder III of Scotland 600 years ago lader-Guild was nonplused. She had year. Musicians were the favored ones. Ew by proxy. It is a fact, a elaborated for building an enormous (g to any physician who can prove by fore that he was for twenty-three DY WO maiden sisters, whose effigies Jamer e fact, perhaps, that his pop- hotel, facing Unter den Linden, on Ly the army was no little in- American lines, to cost, with the site, incontrovertible évidence that any case orders on hand from Princess Henry of a th X Eighty among them received it. n the eas! X years a member of Parliament and e g ORNE . pacd Then K Brigr v o Prussia; from Herr Studt, Prussian followed twenty-eight painters, or de- The “New Brig” was built in 1788 and Minister of Education; from prominent gj, There were twenty-two has occurred in Germany or anywhere was therefore better qualified for the 3 SEnera. aged bis proficiency, volubllity §5000000. The. location is close to the else of a communicant becoming infect- position of a hereditary legislator than 124 to ‘;f‘ ':b‘:"':”"h ':’“"m“ P s LT Sa Germans and English, women of Jetters and fifty tegchers. and originali a . To say . d with any disease by drinking £ oS e el it at the ~Auld and her plans seemed doomed to moth- - n £ ty as a “‘cusser. rincipal fiway station, Friedrich- © v y nking from most of the occupants of the upper o S 1 T R S he -could “swear like a trooper” P o Je., H the same chalice with other communi- Bl etk Was not/so-fir wide at dng short ot ruih. Sbe pleades foe » ng him scant justice, The troop- Strasse. Half of the capital will be = o o, = the mark after all. Not long will the Were glad and proud to learn of raised in the United States. The man- 7 eers to pick up some new “swear words” or choice epithets to become part of the recognized emergency vo- cabulary of the army when retailed at the canteen He owr At-reviews the men strained their would most cordially damn his regulations as commander in chief when they ran counter to his feelings An enterprise of a novel character ager, the submanager and the clerks will all be Americans conversant with Amerjcan hotel ways. The promoters are sanguine of a tri- umph, as the Berlin hotels are neither good nor moderate in rates, and com- fort, as it is understood in the best American hotels, is unknown. OWES HIS GREAT RICHES 70 DONKEYS LONDON, April 30.—Lord Portman'’s coat of arms might appropriately be an ass, rampant iz a field argent, for he owes his great inherited wealth to “respite.” The building commissioners were obdurate. She was told she must go, and go soon. To make the order imperative the razing of the Marstall all about her was begun. Meantime, with typical American pluck, she had decided to go to the highest quarter for relief from the rigors of Prussian discipline. She got her story to the ica for the purpose of exhibiting some Kaiser's ears. Within twenty-four of her works at the St. Louis Expoai- hours orders were given “‘not to molest tion. ¥ the American sculptress until she had herself given notice of preparation to vacate.” Building operations e gona 6n, but Mrs. Cadwallader-Guild’s studio has not been touched. She is making arrangements to move, but she has not had to hurrv. ‘The sculptress recently visited Amer+ ancient veteran have to endure its presentthumiliation. The Town Coun- cil has' decided to expend $25,000 in repairing it, and as everything on which Burns has shed the luster of his genius is sacred in Scotch eyes, it may safely be assumed that the work will be done in such fashion as will pre- serve as far as possible its original form, “AULD BRIG O AYR” IS GOING 70 RUIN LONDON, April 9.—Cbndemned as unsafe by the, Town Council's orders, barricades have been erected at each end of the “Auld Brig (Bridge) o’ Ayr,” made world-famous by Scotland’s bard,