The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1905, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1903. INIST, WHO HAS BEEN GIVING A SERIES OF CONCERTS IN SAN ABOUT HIS WORK AND ABOUT THE SOVEREIGN FRANCI TALKS WITH GNS IN THE OLD WORLD WHO GIVE A HELPING HAND — ANXD WHO Completely absorbed, completely ed upon the work of the mo- he wes and apparently delighted | to talk of his instrument and muste gen- | erally ment, ical to think of on that huge under those e is a stands by the average displaces cansiderably more all sides, short, is curious in the conjunction, particuiarty under the br mane three ove male, womanish curi- lar bear—with all respect m—perhaps it was that that made me “1 am not going to ask you what you k of Emperor William's musical qual- e thece pt| SOm= rg person had, and sab- was to Now I wouldn’t i ned the resultant story: befare breakfast for any- | o P oageror the other peron again, 1| "wNor and Ysaye smilpd back. “Well, other request And I it deesr't maftter what 1 think of him waile enty minutes, thirty minutes, what forty minuics, Sfty minutes, and sixty | T wiror be BInks of me. But, of course, I waited, it may be wmkind to teil? I G “Does _your | music?” 1 asked. > pien- | “No,” Ysaye returned, “he told me saw on reach®f | himself that he did not care for it. ‘Chacin a sen metier,” he said, ou to your viokin, me to this. The queen on the contrary takes much imterest. She is always in the conservatoire and gen- erally interests herseif.” “Do you think that it has much effect on the musical taste of the people, her interest?” “Taste? No.” Ysaye shrugged his big shoulders. “It is good for business, for acknowledgment. I dombt if it has any effect on the people’s taste. May 17 I could not have resisted Mr. Ysaye's smile here, but when I saw the sreat oo g B own king care for ics as o the time of dress. ts however, were splen- factory as I there is no time.to talk after the introduction, your serenaders are be- me,” T replied. exciaimed Ysaye. sTancsco! We did not huuscu to stay im to-day! to the Clff House, the vielmist turned from his s manager to me for support. 1 gave it, and 1 suggested that we try what couid be done while the ser- it il i meerschaum, to pipes what a Stradi- e g e megad® o oupgther. | varius is to violins, 1 wonld simply not < ve v v Bad mo Tear of Mack of mareiid Bave | on “any wecount have foregonme the pleasure. It tucked into the right cor- ner of his mouth as if it had grown there. He bad looked before like a holidaying burgomaster, in cheerful zray vest and tie, and the Dicture was | now complete. | He puffed away bappily and began to talk of Queen Margherita, “the old queen of Jtaly, the most musical of all { of them. I bave been to many courts,” he sald; “hers was ‘not only the most into the heart of things imme- The telephone m.m; unheeded. f‘udu' filled his great | space | Still it is rather of | hat Ysaye | massive and He of person al- | r, dominates wherever you place | You think of him in the royal — | musical, but herself she was most kind, | most charming. All her art was to make you happy. It was with ber as if | You were at home. Carmen Sylva is very musical also. She bas now . a American boy that she edu- ' He looked up puzzled for the zel Reuter,” I supplied. "est Reuter,” he said. "It is a little comical perhaps, eh? She com- poses a libretto—is it?—for the boy. There is a sense, taste, gout, what you call it? of advertisement about that? But I sce you do not understand. I | see by your face when you do mot understand. My English, ah!” and both the Ysaye hands went up. | T told him it 'was tremendously “pic- turesque”—as # is in the original. | He lavghed over the “pleturesque” | and then I asked him if he did not him- | se¥ compose “libretti” and things. “So much as possible,” Ysaye replied frankly. Then he turmed on his chair —he was sitting at the piano, and showed me the penmciled score lying upon the rack. “I always compose. I compose when 1 travel—this I wrote on the car. It is a string quartet when you can see it. The real pleasure of a musician is to be a musician. T write, it may be bad or good,—bad it is, but it is best to make something. And then the wiolin literature begins to be poor. You have so little of great works.” “Ten or twelve concertos,” I began. | _ “Ten or twelve concertos,” he agreed, and catalogued: “There is your Beethoven, four or five Mozarts—but you cannot play two on a programme. Mendelssohn has given wus ome. Schubert nothing. Sctromann one poor Fantasie, quite no good. Haydn nothing. I play them all this weck but the Goldmark, Brahms and Tschaikowsky—in one week. To find a little riches you have to go far away, Tartini, CoreMi, Vitali. But play one of these, play all. Then to play them, in a large hall, with a large or- chestra, you make it nonsense. And then most of your Corelli things are for two violins.” . It was here that Mme. Ysaye poked her charming bead in at the doer. Brown- eyed, dark-haired, rose and olive skinmed, 2 heart-breaking confection of lace and champagne silk and shoed in tiny cham- pagne shoes, she was French from head to hecl. They tell me that Mme. Ysaye mothers a tall boy of 17 years, besides a small tribe of other children. You may believe it; I couldn’t. It is easy to believe that she sings. In the photographs she ‘was pictured among numerous phases of Ll domestitity singing to Ysaye's accompa- niment at the piano and what WAS her husband saying! “I understand the violin,” I caught, “as Rubinstein understood the piano. To make an impression the instrument { must be absoiute servitor of you—you must ‘not serve the instrument” He nodded over to madame. who, like a wife accustomed to the ways of genius, discreetiy disappeared. “The Kubeliks?” I ventured slyly. *No, no, I say,” Ysaye protested. “That is what I call irreverently, ‘bluff.’ “Monsieur ¥saye!” “Barnum business,” he clinched it, comically putting up his hand to silence the telephone at the other end of the room, ‘4 mean this—a specialty of tech- nique is not music. To make an impres- dion of that kind is not art. not poetry. I say it—Kubelik has no soul. The public— ah, the public is a child!—will hear a Kubelik play something of Paganini’s. They say: ‘How fine! How I should like to hear him play a Beethoven concerto.’ But that, maden‘mflselle. is most different. the Tivoli is able to give the musical comedy there is every reason to ex- pect it will ind much favor. There is plenty of real fun in the plot, good lyrics, spirited ensembles and oppor- tunities for pieturesque setting and costuming that will be fully taken &d- vantage of. appear at the Orpheum this afternoon in some of her old time successes in “Wang” and other operas. Emmet Corrigan appears for the last times this week in .a pocket editioh of “Jekyll and Hyde,” and Charles Burke, Grace La Rue and the Inky boys are others of last week’s splendid bill to the fore. . s e “Cleopatra Up to Date” keeps bub- bling up at the Chutes and is on with its 200 children for four afternoons and evenings this week. T “Way Out West” will be the bill at the Grand Opera-house this week, with Della Fox, the comic opera star, will | Z stance of this he once told me a story that happened up in Catskill. He was eating at the table when he heard a col- ored waiter giving a detailed account of the legend of Rip Van Winkle. “Yes, sah,” he continued, “Rip went up into de mountains, slep’ lor twenty years, and when he came back hyar in dis bery town his own folks didn’'t know ing wl red, “dat’s de berry man.” e e . “A Courier of Fortune,” a new roman- tie drama by Arthur W. Marchmont and Ralph Stuart, was produced for the pur- pose of British copyright, March 29, in Bath, England_ at the Theater Royal Bath is a beautiful and pictaresque city, and the theater is one of the oldest and most celebrated in England. Its stage traditions are intimately ‘connected with lat the time when ail that was fashion- him.” “Why,” said the mtener. “you don’t believe the story is true?”’ “Trye? Ob course it is,” and point- | over to Jefferson he tragically the famous period of the British drama | e cumstances, necessary. It is, indeed, dif- ficult to maintain any longer that it was a reckless advemture. True, Admiral Rojestvensky has been very materially helped by the singularly elastic concep- tion of neutrality which prevails at the Qual d'Orsay; but even when allowance is made for the advantages he has en- joyed in this respect it must be admitted that he has accomplished a great, in- deed. an unexampled feat. We know little about the condition of his fleet, but it is certain that it could not | have done what it has done unless it were | well disciplined and unless it were com- manded by a sailor of very exceptional {gemdus. If Admiral Rojestvensky can fight as well as he can organize, then it is beyond question that Admiral Togo has at last met his match. The question whether the enterprise was worth at- tempting is really governed by its prae- ticability. The possibility that the fleet may be de- stroyed has nothing to do with it. Fleets, like armies, are made to fight, and while there is a chance of employing them suo- | certain formulae. Go to the Beethoven genre and the mere technicians cannot | change the formula. They are lost. They cannot forget the technique. Easy or not, they must make the things difficult.” **They cannot play simply,” I put it. **Mon dieu, yes!” Ysaye was on his feet Beethoven's on an imaginary violin, with all the tricks and ardor of a Sarasate 8ypsy dance. “It is that way; longer know how to play simply.” ““Yet you must have the technique.” “And you must forget it,” Ysave put it. He careened over to the chair again, hugely subsided and then began to chuckle over the following: “I have a beautiful story. I was in Chicago in "84, just after Caesar Thomson played there. A man from one of the papers came 1o | interview me. He said nothing, I said | nothing—"" “Impossible!” I murmured. Ysaye disdained reply and went on: f ['rhese things of Paganint are playea by | now and playing an imaginary andante of ! they no | Florence Stone and the Ferris company |as cxponcn!s B — Notes of the Plays and the Performers The London correspondent of Brook- |lyn Life gives some interesting infor- mation about the newest playhouse to {be opened in England under American management. He says: “The Messrs. Shubert, who have come to London to open the nmew Waldorf ! Theater this month, are proposing a dar- | ing innovation in organizing cheap opera ‘wlfl’l expensive casts to run in opposi- rnon to the expensive opera at the old | Covent Garden Opera-house. Despite the fact that London is fast becoming the ar- tistic center of the world it is doubt- { ful if it will be able to digest two operas |at the same time, particularly so since ““Then to make conversation he begins to | grand opera is not overpopular and is ask me what I think of Caesar Thomson. | necessarily confined either to the ultra- I say how good he was, great, and the 'musical or the ultra-fashionable public. feathers on her head, a dainty gown of | man was so much surprised that I did | not bad speak. He asked me about Thom- son's technique. ‘Absoluge,” I said. ‘But you also have great technique,’ sajd the man. Then I took his arm very proudly,” Ysaye's face was one unctuous rippl “and told him that I was the only vio- linist before the public that played with- out technique.” But the manager, who had been await- ing audience for many minutes, sald that the violinist must prepare to meet his— serenade. Sir Herry Heyman was there to help him, Madame Ysaye, De Befve, the conductor, and together these went @own to the hall. “William Tell” the or- chestra played for overture, and after it, | with a delightful little speech, the Be- )gicm Consul made madame happy with a | basket of red roses as radiant as her- | self. Then M. Ysaye shook bands mag- nificently with Mr. Steindorff, greeted the orchestra and made himself tremendous- 1y comfortable all round, and the last thing 1 saw was, apparently, the whole hotel going in to lunch with Ysaye. e Offerings for Week at Loc:al Theaters To-night Chauncey Olcott will begin the second week of his engagement at the Columbia in “A Romance of Ath- lone,” an Irish drama by Augustus Pi- tou, in which Mr. Olcott was formerly very successful. The comedy has the usual Olcott elements of love, romance popular comedian will contribute among others the following ballads: “Olcott’s Lullaby,” “The Irish Swell” and “My Wild Irish Rose.” Mr. Olcott's voice is at its sweetest and the audi- ences bave been good and happy. e e The California will have a popular attraction for this and some weeks in the engagement of the ‘fair and clever Californian actress, Florence Roberts. Miss Roberts begins her season to- night with “The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch,” in which she won much favor a season ago at the Alcazar. She will 2lso repeat the great success of her last engagement, “Marta of the Lowlands.” Other plays will be “The Country Girl,” Thrift,” “Gioconda,” “La Tos- “The Doll's House,” “Tess of the d"Urbervilles,” “Camille,” “The Ad- ventures of Lady Ursula” and “A Suit of Sable.” Miss Roberts’ company in- cludes many w.eu known players. “A Fool and His Money,” as played by Willlam Collier with signal success, will be staged at the Alcazar this week. opportunities to the most capable com- pany the Alcazar now boasts and will doubtless prove lm;gely- popular. . The Tivoli will have a new bill this week with “The Tenderfoot.” first in- troduced here last season without any particular furor. With the production and attractive Hibernianism, and the The comedy affords excellent | | But the arrangements made by the | Messrs. Shubert seem to indicate that | they have studied every possible chance in connection with their project. In any event they are going to have a theater which wiil undoubtedly astonish London- ers by reason of its gorgeousness, its size and its position. It is located I the cen- ter of the old Dickens di the very neighborhood where Little Nell and Bill Sykes and Oliver Twist used to do busi- nes \ The Waldorf i to be opened on May 22,rwhen Calve will be heard in *“Caval- leria Rusticana.” . s Here is a list of the ages of a number of prominent actresses: Lillian Russell, 45, Fay Templeton, 45; Isabel Bateman, 51; Kate Bateman, Sarah Bernhardt, € Agnes Booth, Kate Claxton, 57; Rose Coghlan, Elsler, 47; Rose Eytinge, Gerster, 48; Mrs. Kendal, 5; Mrs. Langtry, 53; Maggie Mitchell, 73; Mme. Modjeska, 61; Clara Morris, 50; Mme. Nordica, 47; Ada Rehan, 45; Mme. Sembrich, 47; Annie Yea- mans, 69. ‘Some of these statistics will be surpris- ing to peopie who think they know all about stage matters. Miss Russell, for examryle, generally is supposed to be over 50. This fallacy is due to the fact that she has been before the public mest of her life. Few men who have seen her in “Lady Teazle” would acknowledge that she had got beyond 20. s > . New York’s current theatrical season is coming to a close with a rush. Six play- houses, the Criterion, the Garrick, Lew Fields', the Majestic, the Manhattan and the Princess, turned off the lights of their electric signs for the summer last Sat- urday night. “The Education of Mr. Pipp” and “San Toy” at the Liberty and Daly’'s close this week, the Lyceum and Wallack’s close the following week and the Empire 2 week later. This will leave but seven first-class houses open with “The Heir to the Hoorah,” and the now almost classic “College Widow,” the only non-musical plays in town. N S Kirke La Shclle translated from the “Vir- ginian,” playing away out in San Fran- cisco, to create the role of Joe Lacy in the new comedy, “The Heir to the Hoo- rah,” is rapidly developing into a real matinee idol. The first demonstrative evi- dence of this fact came last week when a properly chaperoned/ committee of demoiselles called at the stage door of the Hudson Theater after thne Wednesday matinee and formally requested Mr. Post to address the class in English Lierature at Miss Loomis’ Academy, Yonkers, on “American Plays and American Play- wrights.” John Drew and Dustin Far- num, the star of the ‘Virginian” com- pany, are the only two actors who have been similarly honored by the voung la- dies of this exclusive educational institu- tion. | { . Ralph Stuart, who was a personal friend df the late Joseph Jefferson, says Mr. Jefferson always clung to the feeling that the uncanny spirit at the bottom of the “Rip Van Winkle” story was its potent power on the audience. He want- ed the unreal to appear real. As an in- s . (NOCKER OF FELLOW-ARTISTS BUSY AGAIN it specific authority is but a revelation of a diminutive mind and an ungeneroas irtistic tempergment,” | soul, and whelly unworthy the great for the s Of cre- | teachers of the world—which worthy rmits much of criticism of s are, w about the egotism and rest and kindly criticism is another jealousy that defiles it? Does “artistic . It is not only just, but serviceable, temperament” excuse the elements of di- wund is to art what the pruning-knife is to minutive souls? the cherry tree. And every earnest and For a time it scemed that a generous AMbitious artist of the right type is will- dpirit w rcading its benignant wings | [PE 10 lend an ear—not o'erjoyed, but s el wndon g g i 'r‘:n“f: much as he would take a dose of medi- o come e, but loi let a stranger | cine when he knew he needed it. mong us, or a wanderer | But deliberate knocking is another mat- stray home to his native heath, exhibit | ter. bis pictures and invite purchase. And It’s an insult to art and a debasement then the fat’s in the fire—the knocker | ©f the soul of the kmnocker. brigade gets busy and reveals to the in- | ':“'fi ’fifl"'m‘ 3’ the ‘“"’Ck‘"l I n"'l cipient purchaser just where the pictures prading oy 3 g % devote their analytical powers to thelr | own canvases San Francisco would seon Ibe a Munich. Like good chaps, try it, for the homor are wrong—all wrong—according to his| preconceived and uvtterly infallible and in- disputable notions. Such assummntion of . H. C. P. Neilson's water colors are | still hanging in the Sequoia Club rooms—such of them as are not sold. This earnest young feliow, with the Christ-like face, is achieving that success that comes only with endeavor. In coloring Nellson possesses power. His drawing is at times at fault, as to the Mission Dolores picture, but the ideal- ization of his subjects atones for much of this sin. In romance pictures Neilson excels. He feels things in color, and he makes yu‘lv;:eal it. accompanying photograph is from a painting hanging at the Sequoia. If you can eoax a card from a member— or can bribe the Japanese janitor at the -—-BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS| The greatly admired Theodore Wores exhibition at the Gump galleries will be continued during the week, after which the few unsold canvases will bé shown at the artist’s studio in the Phelan build- to show what they can do. of new galleries to Cali- fornia artists shows an awakening to | their capabilities by local dealers. P Liliie V. O'Ryan, the distinguished miniaturist and ,portrait painter, has been enjoying i short vacation after an arduous winter, but is back in her studio at 424 Pine street, at work upon a life study in oils that promises to gonfirm the reputation she won in New York as a portrait painter b4 & Miss O'Ryan will give an exhibition in the early fall of her recent work. & e e L. P. Latimer starts in a few days for a sket#hing trip around Guerneville, tak- ing his class with him—patient chap! L To the lovers of still life and that part of the public that is hunter as well as artist, 1 would commend that they visit Schussler’s, 119 Geary street, and see the fine things in the line of ducks and dogs done by R. La Barre Goodwin. Mr. Goodwin has come to us with a big reputation, having sold to Senator Starford bis “Fox on the Door” just after the picture had been accepted at the Corcoran gallery. \ Not being a connoisseur upon Guy Bates Post, the young actor whom | | Rojestvensky being taken from the Bal- | able in English society flocked to the old city to “take the wates At that time | the verdict of 3 Bath first night audience could make or thar either play or player. Last week Mr. Stuart made the | scored a very great sucess as an actor and playwright. New Yorkers will see | it next fall at one of the Broadway the- aters, where it is to be put on for a run. Mme. Evans-Burrill Resumes Active Work There will be many of the oider Tivoli- goers, as well as many other friends of Mme. Telluia Evans-Burrill, that wil] be glad to hear that the singer Zain among us, and after. the year's rest in which she has indulged now is entering upon active work again., As Tellula Evans Mme. Evans-Burrill had a large | following here, and will be remembered in a repertoire that includes almost all the gchlef soprano roles in thé best of both old }and new comic operas, besides ‘“Aida.” “Maritana,” ‘“Fra Diavolo,” and others of that school. The singer was with Froh- man, had a very successful London expe- rience, and two years in European thea- ters with flattering results. She is now singing in church and is otherwise pre- paring to enter upon active work, both as singed anu teacher. Mme. Evans-Burrill had an interesting experfence recently with Rider Haggard, ‘whom she had the curious privilege of in- forming that his novel ‘“She” had been made into a grand opera here years ago by Willlam Furst and acted and sung at the Tivoli. Mr. fixarrl knew nothing of the matter as highly interested. ‘The singer was the Ustane of the original cast, which runs as follows: Ayesha, Laura Clement; Ustane, Tellula Evah: Delyesha Mamie Taylor; Hilyia, F. Stoek Leo, W. H. West; Job, R. C. Tim, Edwin Stevens; Holly, James O. Barrows; Billali M. Cornell; Ma- homed, H. W. Frillman; Simboli, A. Mess- mer; Azef, Al K. Feeley; Abdalli, A. Fielding; Achmet, J. Roberts; W. W. Furst, musical director. —_—————————— BRITISH NOW HAVE PRAISE FOR ADMIRAL ROJESTVENSKY Admire the Ability He Has Shown im Taking His Fleet From Baltic to Pacific. LONDON, May 2.—All military records have so far been broken by the present war. No general in history ever dreamed of battles on the scale of those which have been fought in Manchuria during the past year. M. de Bloch, the famous peace apostie, contemplated the magni- tude cf these operations only to use the prospect as an argument against the possibilfty of war. He counted without the infinite resources of the human mind. The stupendous naval operations, of which we are now witnessing the dra- matic unfolding, are similar to the land | operations, both in the unexampled scale on which they are being carried out, and in the dementi they offer to all the horo- scopes of -the military seers. The im- possidility of a fleet like that of Admiral tic to the China seas in a condition fit to meet the Japanese has been inmsisted upen by scores of experts. If this view has lately been modified, it is only because the equally positive opinion has taken its place that even if the enterprise were possible it was so foredcomed to failure that to attempt it were madness. On both these points the world has been made to change its mind. The enterprise is now seen to have been not oniy possible, but, in the cir- first | American production of the drama and cessfuily, no nation would refuse to face | the risk of failure. In the present case. however, Russia’s sporting chances are | enormous. If she be defeated her posi- | tion as a whole is no worse than it was ! last week, while if she win she stands iw win practically everything. Without { the commznd of the sea, Japan, with all her legions and all her land victories, must be helpless, and Russia will be in & position to retrieve all her reverses. Thim, being so, Russia has certainly acted with wisdom in declining to make peace until | her great naval blow was struck. What- | ever the result of that blow. it will al- ways be ranked in naval history as an achievement of wonderful : still more wonderful m — e | MANCHESTER AGAIN SUBJECT OF BUSY GOSSiPS IN LONDON LONDON, May 20.~Society has been gossiping considerably over the an- nouncement from Detroit that the Duke of Manchester.may return to stay in be- in the United States and work up the railway business. The Duke, {fore his marriage, was never in soci | and after winning Helena of Cincinnati and the slowly produced Zimmerman dollars, made rather a fail: when in- troduced with his bride inside the sacred portals. His mother, Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, did a great deal for the young people. Mr. Zimmerman, it ap- pears, allowed his daughter a very ex- { cellent sum of money for herself and her clothes, but when it came to deal- ing out large amounts to his ducal | son-im-law for the upbuilding of his | @windled estates, he retired gracefully to the rear. Consuelo was very angry. and half out of downright spite she financed the young couple to the extent of getting both Tanderagee and Kimboiton castle back into ducal use. She gave them the use of her town house and flung them at society in a way which only a Duchess and une chere amie de le roi could pesibly do. For a time all went weil Soeiety is always giad to welcome Americans, for they are classed as amusing and possess both chic and dollars in abund- ance. But the Americans must really have money to throw away and must be well introduced. Consuelo was in despair. She gawe dinner parties, lit- ttle dances and a ball; she got up a house party for the shooting at Tan- deragee and had a great list of big people, including a royal highness, the Duke of Connaught, but it was no use. Society would have none of Helena of Cincinnati, and Helera in turn wanted none of soclety. Her ambitions were the true German ones of being a good house- | wife and a good mother. The maternal part of her ambitions was soon fuifilled. And later, when a son and heir appeared, Consuelo secured Queen Alexandra for godmotherd. In the meantime Consuelo had appealed to Mr. Zimmerman when she got him } over here on a visit to his daughter. She | read the riot act to him, and finally put the estates in front of hlm purely as a | business matter. Mr. Zimmerman found : that his son-in-law had 28,000 acres, three | castles, a country seat in Huntington- shire and a town house in Portman square. He agreed to “invest” a little j money in this property for his daughter |and her son. He agreed to give dollar | for dollar with Consuelo. | So, as this was absolutely the best he would do, the estates were bolstered up with repailrs and new cottages and a | dozen of other requirements and then | they were carefully let. An American !r(pmen(adve of Mr. Zimmerman has | actual cbarge of the properties, though | nominally the Duke’s estate agent is sup- | posed to be in charge. Some of the houses | nave only very recently been let. P‘ NEILSON'S WATER COLOR u)u.mx. NOW ON Pt cotonive 4