The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1904, Page 19

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1904. . 19 nd Austin Lewis has been f the “Hamlet” audience Berke le of £ Ever of his protest reacheth us has been ngs e Oakla hooves us to refute. ere’s the rub. e thousand of us Greek Theater for g0 What ts of our expec- d the perform- d his players sat- to see? were the r tancy, and in & ghte ance of Mr. ( isfy them I have before quoted Professor Armes on the sut but here again is his opinion of we were to expect from version of the play: Opposite miet’ in the repertoire that Mr. Greet gave his advance agent he wrote ‘Universities only.’ The rea- son, I suppose, was preciation of who would zabet T THEDLAYER read Phrases were not paraphrased merely, but parodied. Pauses waited too often upon the prolmpter, not upon sense. Emphasis fell where it would, not Lere it should. Rhythm was lost, thought obscured. And all this, be it noted, occurred amid stretches of ex- quisite reading, at times inspired and all but always distinctive. Most pal- pably and unpardonably it was the re- sult of hasty- and uncareful rehearsal, in the circumstances almost im- ent ‘twere “Hamlet” “as when Bur- bage played” it with sweet Will as the ghost, Mr. Greet has here too faithfully played the imitator, like the wise Oriental who put patches on the new trousers because the old ones given te him for pattern were patched. But nay. Curtains they haa not in Bur- bage's da nor any of the gorgeous obscuring trappings, but if 1 know my peets, they had the word, the radiant word. just upsprung from its glorious soil. Otherwise can well imagine cracked crowns in their strenuous stage direction And now here is what Mr. Lewis thinks of us may be right. It is a point of view and extremely interest- ing. ¥ as before said, it leaves one of thousand un- their dlscover eir 1 that all an grounds subtle criticism that there were their eyes to the its progress t d when Lizst animad- 1 his playing But you did not You went to sleep. ny criticism,” said Lizst. the audience of “interested t Oaklanders, that ppiness to see at another the week fol- I saw another ong heard of. I E ander myself, and it Vas a d week when on: ard noth- pride of the De Lan- e ns. ticularly of his Ham- ¢ one in ty play- , was ity. The st inter- v's manage- a month for a allowed to vote ndard p! t from which of man s ambi- tragedy of gedy Juliet,” a N GREET “-* YHAMLET . HE,_MUSIC % — — — — - -+ ‘ Two Impersonators of Shakespeare’s Mad Dane Recently Seen Across Bay | - — s — -+ thrones and was; digr things. Apd very good it d and reverent throughout one had swallowed the mutila- tors text Miss Gle was quietly con- vincing q here was a pret- tily voiced and sincere Ophelia, whose forgot, a bett £ and a bett >'s intelli- ted physi- romantic a mosphe is 1of g omfort- able inte there were of his lir 1€ and mostly delivered well. (¢ pth, his dramatic whole, true—it fa e v he crawls ross the stage to e B Booth Mr. Ste s use- bered much, but it is dis- with the queen and at )pt Mr. Stevens was 1d sympathetic. His wa so a ing bit of 1 him less convincing in the ghost than at t shorn of its tricks the Stevens Hamlet would be personable and effective figure. o o WHAT WILL BE SEEN AT THE PLAYHOUS DURING THIS WEEK a most Another belated and celebrated mu- sical comedy will arrive in town this lowing “The Burgomaster’ of t. Th sever is “San Toy,” that has made 1 strenuous at ts to get here, and that will be seen at the Colu By all accounts (some dated long years go) “San Toy” is of the best o chool. It is one of the origin productions, and with it come: H. Powers, who “created” for America the role in which he will appear. Oth- ers also of the original cast will be here. George Fortescue, the 300-pound comedian, is of them. The production itself promises to be of the splendid order. The Alcazar is to the fore with its new players and a new play. To-mor- row evening will be p: the first time in San F' edy by Clyde Fitch entitled “The Way of the World.” The play deals with so- ciety life in New York, and to judge by the work of John Craig and Lillian Lawrence, the new people, with the ced there for ancisco a com- promise of Miss Woodson, it should be very cleverly interpreted. The Grand Opera-house is trying to live up to th glor of this week's “Burgomaster” with an important pro- duction of *“‘Arizona,” and Mr. Acker- man promises 0od company, which is all “*Arizona” eds The C:i rnia also has a revival that promises to be good one, with Hoyt's “A Texas Steer,” presented by company that 1des Harry B. Em- H. Bray and May L. Stock- v all odds, however, the most im- rtant dramatic event of the week ill be the appearance of James J. ries the Central. = Mr. Jeffries will appear in “Davy Crockett.” “Der Rastelbir continues to de- at the Tiv light “A Japanese Nightingale,” the Ori- ental play that has made something of a sensation up at the Majestic, will continue this we “Down the Line” is still & drawing card at Fischer's PR Techau's cats, a company of felines i | Sousa, the “march king,” “monarch of ragtime” and “prince of conductors,” with his “royal band,” will furnish most of this week's music. Imperial prom- ise! There are to be twelve concerts, beginning to-night, at the Alhambra Theater. The cest follow with concerts every afternoon #nd evening until Fri- day. There is nothing new to be said about the Sousa band. All that needs saying is that it elaims to be. all that we haVe before known it. In its own genre the band is incomparable, and in his Mr. Sousa s unique. Both are warmly welcome and will doubtless be heartily appreclated. As soloists Mr. Sousa brings Miss Estelle Liebling, so- prano; Miss Jessie L. Straus, violinist, and Herbert Clarke cornetist. . . . Wenzel Kopta's genial phiz on the front of a programme is happy earnest of whak is inside, and there is one such before me. By it I see that this most spirited of flddlers gives a recital next Sunday afternoon at Lyric Hall. Every one will be glad to see Mr. Kopta at work again, and the following Sunday we shall hear him in company with the others of the Kopta Quartet, whose chamber music was so pleasant a fea- ture of last season. At his own recital the violinist will be assisted by M Maude Hohmann, soprano; and Gyula Ormay at the piano. Followi is the programme: Concerto for violin, Op. 15 (Bazzini); violin solos—(a) “Ro- mance” Op. 50, F major (Beethoven), (b) “Gavotte” (Becker), (c) “Slavish Dance” from Op. 67 (Dvorak), (d) “Can- zonetta” from the “Concerto ( 335" (Tschaikowsky); song, “My Heart at Thy Sweet Veice,” from “Samson and *Delilah” (Saint-Saens); Concerto for vielin No. 2, (a) adagio, (b) rondo la campanella (Paganini); songs—(a) “Summer” (Chaminade), (b) “Spring,” with violin obligato (Weil); violin solo, “Ballade et Polonaise de Concert” (Vieuxtemps). The constitution of the quartet is the same this year as last. First violin, Mr. Kopta; second violin John E. Joseph: viola, Charles Heinge and ’cello, Adolph Lada. Those who heard it last year 11 re- member both the fine performance and large promise of t and for those who programme for tob players & quartet zart; string quartets (a) “Andan from Op. 1, first time (Svendsen), (b) “Scherzo™ Op. 6, first time (Corsanego); plano quintet, Op. 5 (by request) (Sin- ding.) Mrs. Oscar Mansfeldt will again be the pianist > W e The programme for the farewell con- cert of Josef Hofrrann th afternoon at the Tivoli is as follows—and prices are to be popular L Prelude and Fugue, D major eesases..Chopin Last we York inc whi peared for the The uded h our opera umphar Heink Wallace heads the male cast and commended. Anc cast is Louise Gu will remember as tish lass, wh few vears ag: Stange ar , seem o= that fully disprove- the theory that the cat cannot be taught t , will star at the Orpheum this week. They have just been astonishing London, Berlin and Vienna and sing in all tongues. 3 The Ellsworths, comedy sketch art- ists, will lead the Chutes bill of the week. S BEN GREET'S OPE ATR PERFORMANCE OF “AS YOU LIKE IT” “As You Like It,” in one of the open air performances for which Ben Greet has been famous for twenty vears London, will be the chief dramatic attraction of the week. The play will be performed at Mills Col- lege next Saturday afternoon for t benefit of the endowment fund of the institution. In the evening a perform- ce of “The Merchant of Venice” i its entirety 1 be given at Lis Hall. All r and other accom- modations have been specially ordered for the best comfort of visitors and the whole occasion will be a notable flesta. One open Iway air performance within recent years we have had of “As You Like It."” “Nance O'Neill gave it at Sutro Heights. was many times memorable. C of course, ir parts, the produ whole was hardly ins. remembers, for example, the incongruous police- man butting into the forest of Arden; Corbett's rubbers—J. J. graced the festival Charles the Wrestler (in tremendously pink tights with shrill green trimmings) — toweled and sponge laden, elbowing Touehstone and Celia i much painful anachronism. Ben G S You Like It" will not be of that kind. Ad- mirably as he always preserves the archaic quality in his productions, his open s by repute ar more adm v correct. He ha even hundreds of these performances in England. Mr. Greet will appear as Touch- stone, and Mr. Greet i& always inter- esting and distinguished, though he may not wholly convince except in his rarest of Malvolios. Miss Crawley will be the Rosalind and should be as always charming. Mr. Crawley, who, it Is gradually dawn- It ming, ction s a conv One as other Constance ing upon complished ac will be admirable Andrew Ped treet is an r notable , his Dogberry and his Sir Tobs Belch of this week being of the ra and he will play sort of comedy company. Altogether promises unique a tainment. the You ke T delightful enter- b NOTES AND GOSSIP CONCERNING WELL- KNOwW ACTOR FOLK Frau Johanna Gadski in her appear- ance in August in the Mozart and Wag nerian vals at Munich scored such an immediate and overwhelming Director Possart at on her to sing Mozart's usic fest succes: that re-engaged again Countess Marriage of Figaro” and Senta in Wagner's 2 Dutchman” next Place, and also n and S e Wilton Lackaye has been asked to play Svengali at a German perfor: ance of “T in Chicago. Lacka speaks German fluently, and ering whether he will perfo lish or German work he took house on Staten Is ne day Mr. Wa nt to h Nye exple som 1 Mr. Warde, tu sl e papa you've got, ded the demure littls company.” Joseph Hart e de Mar have epted & ed “Th ouaves,” by f Har- s led “The ( will be their next producti | A Recent Painting by H. W. Hansen Which Has Attracted Much Attention R M = Artists, Their Work and Coming Exhibition MERSON says that “sculn- ture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and to abolish Hhurry.” Strange we didn’t th’nk of that before—"to aboli hurry.” Now that which will teach us to abolish hurry is in itself a gift of the gods. As to the teaching of manners, well—perhaps we Western folk need that, too. But we're not suf- fering for it, exactly. We manage to get on fairly well, unless a prince or a president happen along, and we get a little mixed on precedent. But these are mere trifles. What we really must learn is how to put on the brakes—to slack up speed at Intervals that we may grow to know the higher things of life. And Emerson, the high priest of the art of living, tells us how—get on speaking terms with the arts of the ancients. And, to do this, no pulling down of the household gods—nor pulling up of carpets—is needed, for everywhere in the highways and byways of San Fran- cisco are scattered the workshops of artists. Out on the green hills of the Mission, over on Telegraph Hill, along Mont- gomery street, the erstwhile habitat of the “mudhen,” are studios to be found —and even under the sordid roof of mercantilism are many, notably Kelth’'s, Cadenasso's, Latimer’s, Dix- on’s, Nellson's, Plazzoni’'s, Hansen's and many more equ.ally‘lnte:euling. ‘Wanderers from abroad tell of meet- S ---By Laura Bride Powers ing Robert C. Aitken in Paris, where he is strolling about leisurely and luxuri- ously, making estimates of the works of the masters. To all he courageously declares that he is not overawed in the least, which brings up the old, old ‘Is individuality neutralized by intimacy with ghe masters?” Pt B On Tuesday night in the Sequoia Club rooms, at the St. Francis, May- nard Dixon will show what he’s been doing these summer months. His pic- tures will hang from the greenroom walls until Saturday night, when the club members and their friends will have ample opportunity to note the cleverness of the California-bred lad. Mr. Dixon and Mr. Martinez go to Mexico soon after the Sequoia Club ex- hibit. o R On Friday H. W. Hansen gafe a pri- vate view of his water colors to his friends and lovers of the beautiful in art. The pictures are hung at Schus- sler's, showing some of the most ' re- markable work Hansen has ever done—rather a broad statement for so virile an artist whose palette is never dry—but ’tis true. As a portrayer of horses of the mus- tang type Hansen is said to have few superiors in the United States, and those there are who says he has none. The pietures will be on exhibition for a week, to W) soon followed by a view of Grace Hudson's Indian studies. P Charles Dickman has been given the commission of painting the scene of the last revels of the happy Family Club. . These domestic gambolings took place in the primeval forests that fringe Mount Shasta. On his return he will open a studio in town. e e Francis McComas has brought back with him from old Spain some twenty- five canvases, all breathing the breath of the land of the Don. Possibly these will be seen at the usual fall exhibition at the Bohemian Club. Roaming with him over the moonlit gardens of old Madrid was Dr. Arnold Genthe, who, too, was intent upon his art. A coterie of Californians just back from the fair, who worship at the shrine of Keith, are full of wrath at the cold reception given the seven Keith canvases sent on to the art gal- lery. Inquiry set afoot in St. Louis brought to light the alleged reason of their rejection—"too much Innes,” said they who ought to kndw. Speaking of the poet-artist, he has just completed a large forest picture of marvelous col- oring. . e e Ada Romer-Shawhan will exhibif some red chalk drawings at Kennedy's at an early date. W To-morrow and Tuesday Madame B. de Areales and Madame I. de Junosza, two charming women fresh from the atellers of Paris, will exhibit at the Philomath Club rooms, on Van Ness avenue and Bush street, a most ambi- tious collection of their work, including olls, water colors, pastels and tapes- tries. Among the works of Madame de Areales are three coples of Velasquez— “Infanto Baltasar Carlos,” “Las Meni- nas” and “Las Hilanderas” (the tapestry weavers). She some fine coples of Millet. also shows Childe Hassam, the famous sunlight painter, is visiting hereabouts. It is hoped that he may be persuaded to ex- hibit some of his work in San Fran- cisco. The Nisbet collection of water colors at Vickery's has drawn thith: lover of the lochs and moors and hills every of “auld Scotland.” An acknowledged master of his art, Nisbet is a Scot at heart. His skies are Sco lowering clouds and his CLAIM THAT MARQUIS IS MERELY A BUTLER Paris Excited Over Prosecution of Man Attempting to Get Hundred Million Dollar Fortune. PARIS, Oct. 15.—The prosecution of the Marqu Casa Riera, alleged to be the former butler of the old Mar- quis and to have substituted himself for the real heir, is exciting a sensa- tion in Paris equal to the Humbert case. The old Marquis died in 1381, aged 91 years, leaving a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. There were three , nephews, two of whom died shortly after their uncle. The third supposed nephew is the present Marquis. During the suit a death certificate was produced from his native place in Spain showing that the third nephew died in 1876, five years before his uncle. Consequently it is argued that the present Marquis is an impostor.