The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1905, Page 19

THE SAN CISCO" CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19 green, their § ere are orchid children z into the nothing e intc tr f a thrush her It was to Mr Francis that quite sign visit her. here s looking d the room, of its being “an in & Sothern’s kindness, of its ng only ke yesterday since she there are who remind ;™ flowers, of their lift and wi their <udm n beaut ‘dear, old gentleman! He said to me one day when we were talking of ‘The Always remem- *—up went the ‘always remember And she is!” Taming’ of the Shrew, ber, my dear Juli Marlowe eyebrow, that Bianca is the shrew.’ The Marlowe laugh confirmed this. She is a mealy-mouthed shrew, al- ways slyly exciting the quick-tempered Katharine. Don't you remember in the first act? Her father asks Kath- arine why she treats her weak sister ‘Her silence flouts me,’ Katharine Fh"ie‘k( Then you remember in the ct, Eugenie, where Bianca say: More fool you to wager upon my vir- e at mo- matter he ed the cast- namics, any- ght that it did not if she Verges so Give Miss becoming 1 ivory lace talk of she articularly wish she said the Beatrice, is but so little shrewish, and so much else besides is such a frequent mis- t —take Katharine as in- a character all in one shrew, | 1 remember nbridge Shakespeare man?” | Miss Marlowe said; | { are fascinatingly 1 ing new parts, and the Juliets and Por tias in which you pit yourself against the famous play of all time he epoke then. Imogen, of all Shake- speare’s women, she best likes to play. The difficult, delicate complexities of the character particularly appeal to her, though “all Shakespeare’s women lex,” she de- compl! cided.” “Juliet?” I hazard. ‘Juliet was very young,” lowe laughed. Imogen, Juliet, Viola, Portia and Miss Mar- Beatrice, Ophelia Rosalind, she has | played, and best loves to play among these. If she had ever played in any modern plays I asked her then. I have never worn a gown on the stage more modern than that of 1863, she put it, “tHat was in ‘Barbara Frietchie” Oh—last year, yes, I played with everything, in fact, we don't|Kitty” will be put on. The bill is want—"" - throughout exceptiomally attractive “And nothing that we do,” sighed | and is worthy as it is sure of large Mrs. Woodward. patronage. “Not .quite that” said sunny Miss - Marlowe. “We have a great deal—I| «The Stubbornness of Geraldine" am to play in Shakespeare for three | (he ‘Clyde Fitch comedy which Mary whole vears!” Mannering recently brought here, wilk be the attractive bill at the Alcazar this OFFERINGS AT LOCAL week. The scenlc arrangements are ‘. THEATERS DURING WEEK | °" " unusually ambitious scale, the | first act demanding the r»pres-*v tation A production awaited with extra- | of the deck of an ocean liner in full ordinary - interest is that of the |Sall. Miss Lawrence as Geraldine and “Romeo and Juliet” of this week at Mr. Craig as her fetching Hungarian | lover should be happy in their oppor= tunitles. | Florence Stone, with the Ferris | | stock company at the Grand Opera= house, will be seen this week in “Joam ? of ‘Arc,” in which Fanny Davenport was woill (o appear. The version swal will be the Fanny Davenport one. Py wriek g The Tivoli's production of - “The Mikado” will be one of the events of comic opera history. It is some three years ago since this delicious Gilbert and Sullivan opera” was heard here, and the production will doubtlgss be most popular. . Central frequenters will have a brand new play this week, terrifically titled “The Criminal of the Centur: which Mr. Winch of Central manage- b e N R TR 7 rday, 8 e ment fame has just evolved. It will be seen to-morrow evening for the first | time on stage, and will certainly | be an Event. | | any | ! - | i O AL Emmett Corrigan, whose clever sketeh “Jockey Jones” made such a hit at the Orpheum last vear, will re- there in the same skit thts | afternoon. The fifteen bird-power-so- prano, Mme. poffski, who wus ong of the discoveries of the Orpheum iast appear year, will also be on the bilk (e John T. Chick and company will present “All is Fair in Love and War™” at the Chutes Theater “Cleopatra Up to Date” | { for the last time | evening. . MUSICAL SEASON WILL HAVE BRILLIANT END this weelk. will be given this afternocon and @ { Nothing could be more fitting for the }clme of a musical season, brilliant in | its every phase, than the Kneisel Quar- Elet concerts of this week. The best of opera, three seasons of it. we have had; pianists, the best the world afford song recitals of the finest, Fritz Kreis- ler as the violin apostle and next week [ + the Columbia Theater. years since It is many | the play has been ade- plored the essential lack of beauty in the Ibs nre. Magda, Mrs. Wood- ward remind2d her that she had al- | ways liked, and the actress eagerly as- sented to this. Another of the Suder- mann plays, new, “Johannis”—I be- | liev Sunken Bell,” But I rarely see modern plays, read modern book: continued Miss Mar- | who has one of most lowe, braries, the finest li- exhaustively read, among the actor folk. She explained: | “I am too busy. Take | spearean productions. We, Mr. Soth- | ern and I, mark even the emphasis in | every line of every small part right Immughoul the cast. One must, 'gl’l the enscemble; things converge to an effective center, I(fl have everv actor working toward | the high lights of the story, to so to , she mentioned, and Hauptmann’s | these Shake- | one must to make | she put it, “yet each from the outside, the mental processes | unmistakably but, if you like, were so different, so characteristic in each of the cases, that you felt in the | | presence of'three wholly different per- | | change lhe shell, the make-up,” added, “so radically as say the Ger- mans think. One must change the mental make-up, rouge and wrinkle ‘The greatest menshave not always been the most versatile,” something | then evoked. “Take Irving again | here. Or take Mounet-Sully, in mod- ern stuff quite pitiably ineffective. The] man needs the large planes, the large | lines of the classic drama. He abso- |lute|y cannot think in little. Fancy Mounet-Sully, like some modern ac- tors, gaining a reputation by looking | | | | | | i { ! | the brain, so to speak. | i | | | i sons. I don't think it is so necessary to lee fiber of her throat. -?. i | ato Mrs. Woodward | quately produced here, and probably | Ysaye; even a good symphony concert vl ‘lhe best cast the Shakespearean stage | under Signor Polacco; . the lovely Miss Marlowe added delightedly ‘then | | |now affords will be seen in the play | ancient music of the Dolmetsches: that next vear she will be playing | | | |to-morrow evening. Miss Julia Mar-| .4 1oy the best of chamber music. | Katherine to Sother Petruchio, | [ lowe has been long famous as Juliet, | o Sadeed Shiiien that she is to have three ye: of | : i 5 4 |and is now In the full flower of her | ;“’ PIOS ey | s nean Stam, and s for | 1 aLEN XD BEAUTIFUL, ACTRESS NOW PLAYING AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER IN SAN FRANCISCO. WHO HAS j 2eblevement. _ My 'Hotherwy - Hames N S e three years therefore will have the SCORED SUC SES IN { ESPEARBAN ROL WHO LOOKS FORWARD TO A CONTINUED SEASON OF | Wil 'be new to us.” It is only a season | has been the same quartet with but artistic happine th she has long THE GREAT D! WITH A KEEN DELIGHT. jold, but is said to be a finished and | one change several years ago, in the hoped would be hers r Shakespeare | S = < % | highly sympathetic performance. | second violin. The ensemble of their he rlc s fai o i i 0 i & e e e ot ooa el | for six weeks in a modern play, ‘Fools | speak, (0 have each one—say whers severely at his finger nailst” thia; From Mr. Sothern's previous artistic| work i2 said to be of the miracuious hias wWorkell fonght o aad of Nature.’ But people somehow did | Beatrice I(-adsf~le(\ to help her scene.” | laughing. *“But you would not mind | o me " th hi ;v,ave ;:)erhaps those piano, violin, singing = d for it without ceasing. And the | DOt care for me in that kind of ‘hins:.} Not the skillfullest actor, she dg-l»\en being a modern actor with 'mi f i {"'fi"‘d ';\ "{"‘d‘,“““r : °“ - il gt pred !e;‘jhe" - s il iy 'Ih Q 4‘\\“\"' to | @nd T did not care for myself.- I have | cided then, but the most pliable, is|eye m your finger nails to be laughed | essentials, dn' the reading of the nesI o -Hi PPO! - . c e St o .7 | always done the picturesque, primitive | the most useful in minor roles. *“As|at so.’ -“lll in any case be a sheer pleasure. | music—w dream of neglecting this DRPILy. Eh Slaer ol WL Senr t of thing: dealt with the larger, or | you know,” her white hand weaving! I asked her then where she got it, | Physically Mr. Sothern should again |chance to hear such work. There are. to ; Jeast more freely-manifested emo- | effective illustration, s a piece of|the laugh, the voice, warm as satisfy, and altogether a delightful | be four concerts, three at Lyric Hall, on At she has-never seen.Katparine lijone | furniture too fine for a room stands mann-Heink's and Hexible as | performance may confidently be, Tuesday and Friday evenings and om ed actress told me. “On the Ha Ju ever played in the ‘Antig- | out unpleasantly; so will too big an | brich's. | looked for. The supporting company | Saturday afternoon, and at the - St whole I think it is best not 1o before | ;. on | gcked |actor in a too small part. The effect; Ag a little girl, she told me to this, | Pas shown itself unusually adequate, Francis under the auspices of the St ne plays such par After all it is How— are rather surprising,” ! is crooked, get on the bias.|she sang in Colonal Miles' juvenile ; and the concerted work—one instinc- | Francis Musical Society, a fourth con- the personal point of view that conuts iy s had for this. - “No, I | One can easily imagine a personality | opera company for four ears, though | tively uses the musical term in the | cert on Thursday evening. s here. The plays are known, | pave not played Antigone. But I have | 100 potent to fit into a small role. You | “infantile experience is practically | connection—has been distinguished by | ‘The quartet promises many novelties, it > personal conception of the | g1yayg wished to play the part, and— | don't often get it,” the eyes twinkled | yseless.” The seven years after rare smoothness, point and balance. | Tuesday’s concert will have the De- c that alone ¢ itutes any | tpig will amuse you—whenever 1 want | Quizzically, ‘“‘they commonly rattle|this were spent under the care|The setting will be of the most pic- | bussy quartet, one of the most notable n in the performances, and onle |, joo0k very noble on the stage I al- |around in the parts.” |of' Miess Ada Dow, who took! turesque and splendid order and ex-|of the modern French examples of camnot > being more or I Influ- | ways think of Antigone!” | I wondered if the greatest men |the friendless little Sarah Frost! traggdinary intérest has been mani- chamber music. On Friday evening the enced by seeing another conc Of | Were there any of the modern plays | could not most successfully obscure|—her real name—to her heart and |festdd in the whole production. ! Bach double concerto will be the event. EORI, = ghate e Dalen ™- | that Miss Marlowe found grateful, any | their personalities. Not §o, Miss Mar- | home. Here is where Miss Marlowe | g R Schroeder, the ‘celist of the quartet, personation there is plenty of time then | o¢ tpo Thgen pl in particular? | lowe decided. Henry Irving came up |learned the love of Shakespeare,| The California has also a bill of dis- | will play the Locatelli Sonata on Sat- to find out what others have = The Doll's House, " she replied |apropos of this. Three churchmen, | Which is her dearest faith. From a|tinguished interest, for the farewell | urday afternoon, and at the same com~ would be entirely foolish to ignore it | \(jipout hesitation, “Nora,* 1 should | Miss Marlowe said she had 'seen him | Welshman, punil of Garcia’s and | week of Margaret Anglin's notable | cert the “Italian Serenade.” by that In such case. But first 1 eel it Is best | py,0h enjoy trying. T've never wanted | play within a brief space of time, |teacher of Edwin Booth, she learned | season. To-morrow evening will be | brilliant eccentric, Hugo Woif, will be m,;u\:: (f:r:]:;;‘r;.\' mmt‘:?:l,.r otay |10 play ‘Hedda Gabler,” 1 must con- ‘ Becket, the Vicar of Wakefield and j the secret of proper use of the volce. plaved “Maiana,” the play by the | done for the first time here. A noveity ¥ ¥- | fess,” and generally Miss Marlowe de- | Wolsey. “All of these were Irving Above all this is the exercise she com- | noted Spanish dramatist Echegaray, |of the first order will be the Bach mends to the dramatic student. Very proud her master is of her, she told with charming archness; proud | produced so successfully last week by Miss Anglin; Tuesday evening will be quartet only recently discovered by the Bach Society of London, which will be e devoted to “Frou Frou”; on Wednes- | one of the attractions of the St. Franeis that she can go,.as she has this 8ea- ' gay “Zira”: on Thursday and Friday | concert. It is to be noted that the St. i'son, through thirty-two weeks With-|evenings and at the Saturday matinee, | Francis concert is open to the public out missing a night or hurting a sin- | «ppe Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” in|at the ordinary coneert ates. The Of one of her | o picp iss Anglin will appear for the | Bach quartet has never heen donme she | Ingomars she quaintly told me, With| g ot {ime; and for Saturday, the last | here, nor indesd anywhere until two four notes only in his voice, “quite | enough for the barbarian”—she de-| cided, mimickin~ the four noles.,'l‘» “but when he came to play| Malvolio, with its delicate -hadca‘ its fantastic variety, it was like al piano with half the notes missing.” “This must the student study most | ardently,” Miss Marlowe advised. } “Nay, but 'tis a hard life, night of the season, “The Marriage of | years ago. the stage. If a girl has the heart to stick to it for months it almost means that | there is something in her. High-class gypsies we are, with our private cars, DEFICIENCY IN DRAWING IS THE SIN OF THE WEST he recent utterances of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, the newly elected di- ector of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have made the thoughtful among American artists double up on their king He has even made the artists out here in the West do a little quick mental work, and what do you sup- pose it can be? I basie of worthy work. s all about their drawing—the Now, here is what hits hard in San Francisco. A sense of color Western possess artists a deep sympathy and under- standing, besides vast virility and originality of presentment. But as for drawing—well, herein lies their sin. And this is not surprising to those who share with the artist his ecstasy and sense of intoxication when seized with a desire to put on canvas a bit of landscape, or an arresting figure. He sees the thing in color, and he is not schooled—the most of him isn't —to stay his impetuous paint-brush until he has done his drawing to the very best of his ken, and even better. This comes only with self-inastery —this plodding, cold, careful, critical work in charcoal. This is what makes for success, and what has been the basis of every great reputation in the art world. To be sure, there are men who draw well, but who lack the soul, the sensi- tiveness of the artist, and who of course can never rise above the level of intelligent draughtsmen. But the fellow that's properly equipped in sensitiveness must put away the mir- ages of fancy, and buckle down to his drawing—his drudgery. But it will pay, oh. so well in the end. That was the way Jules Pages be- gan, and it's a good thing for youp my voung friend. . Sidney Yard, arriving. For conscientious work, .gilded with the gold of imagery, Mr. YaFd has won his laurels honestly. In the same building with C. P. Neilson—whose water-color exhibition at the Sequoia Club has beer gener- ously admired—Mr. Yard is following along original lines in a picturesque, but wholly artistic fashion. the watercolorist, is —BY LA Most of the canvases I have been permitted to see breathed nct of the studio, but of the fragrant meadow or the copse by the roadside. This gives virility and a sense of con- viction to his pictures that will surely bring him into the front rank of Amer- ican watercolorists. And for painstaking work I beg to commend him—him and his fellow wa- tercolorist Neilson—to some awfully good fellows I know who could paint, and paint rather creditably if they coflld only buckle down to hard work and take their art seriously. while they're at their easels. AV 54 ‘What's the matter with Thad Welsh? —he's not living up to the best he can do. He tulnerl out some rather bad . URA BRIDE POWERS things a few months ago—mere pano- | ramas—then he hit upon that crude but exquisitely poetic thing, ‘“Morning in Marin,” and now he's gone back to the sign painter’s art, and more’s the | pity—for the Welsh hand is cunning. ' And it cannot be that a man of his | years has lost it.« Carelessness, probn-i | bly, tells the tale. < . Al William_Keith is doing a glacier—a | mighty glacier in which the power of | nature awes. And such a sky!—it is as luminous as that blue dome over your head—and ' when he caught that quality the great | artist sat him down before it and smiled +_ like a child finding a toy. This is the joy that the artist knows, and a goodly part of all he gets down ‘here below. A PASTORAL WATER COLOR BY SIDNEY YARD OF SAN FR. SCo, WHICH HE DEMONSTRATES HIS WORTHINESS TO BE CLASSED AMONG THE BEST MEN OF HIS LINE IN THE WEST. e — ]