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of seven ing been | RS T 2 € & F S CHRSESS ¥ SRS STSSETSES R _—_ D e 2 o» S i 22 NS . SRS £ SRR e S 202 2 7 SSSCESN SSS P22 | | Kolb and Dil “day of our opening in [ Beauty Chorus Which Captivated Rural Johnnies During Recent Tour of the State. 3 C | o -3 | course on the train. The little red grip | new theater,” said Kolb, “and the Mayor ' and we lived up to that pledge, with the | town we played to capacity with both s never out of his hand while travel-| of the town and the Common Counch active assistance of Mrs. Kolb and Mrs. | ‘1-O-U’ and ‘The Beauty Shop,’ and they and the g dubbed him ‘His.nnd the police force and all the other Dill. But it was a trying job for us, es- | want us to go back there. We did the { o Kate Lister and Ferdinand Gottschalk are among Mr. Drew’s company. * . B 'lorence Roberts and her able com- pany will present “The Country Girl” this evening and during the week at the California. In this play Miss Rob- erts made one of the most positive hits at the Alcazar. B ‘“Tennessee’s Partner,” an ever-popu- lar play, will be the week’s bill at the Alcazar, commencing to-motrrow night. B . B “The Holy City,” with Florence Stone and the compléte Ferris compan in the cast, is announced for a week’ run at the Grand Opera-house, opening with a matinee this afternoon. . . . “The Convict's Daughter,” said have a dozen thrills in every act, to will be the Central’s melodramatic offering | this week. AR SR well acted and sung that a successful run may confidently be predicted for it. Its second week opens to-morrow. s . . La Jolie Titcomb, a South American | singer and dancer, is one of the new people at the Orpheum, and comes ad- vertised as a great beauty. John ,Hall Winslow’'s comedy, “Our Honey- moon.” The Empire City Quartet will make their first appearance in vaude- ville. and Warren and Gardner return with many novelties. . . . Bothwell Browne’s “Cleopatra Up to Date” will be given at the Chutes this ternoon and for three afternoons and | ganization is called, was the most im- | portant factor in New York theatrieals | | { f | | { Rice and Sally Cohen will give Herbert | arama has ftrequently At the Tivoli “The Tenderfoot” is so | during the season, just, closing. It haa been compared to the Comedie Francaise and other famous theaters of Europe. Mrs. Fiske’s aim is not to exploit any one person, but to work for the artistic ex mce of the whole. The result has been a unanimity of effort and an en- semble of performance that is almost without a parallel. The company is tak- en on tour intact. e ——— YSAYE GIVES LAST CONCERT TO-DAY At his farewell con is afternmoon in the Columbia The: ES e will sted by "Mme. Lillie Birmingham, con- tralto, and Jules de Befve, planist. The programme is largely made up of “re- quest” numbers and includes all four of Ysaye's masterpleces. The prices are popular and the performance will begin at 2:30 o’clock. . . Richard Strauss has finished all but the final orchestration of the opera he found- ed on Oscar Wilde's play, “Salome.” The been acted with great success in Germany and was once given in Paris. It is of course prohibited in England on account of its Biblical sub- Ject, but might readily be acted here. The opera will be sung first In Dresden next autumn. Ernest Van Dyck is trying to build a theater at Ostend which will take all the honors of Bayreuth. It exists as yet only on paper, although the tenor says he is certain that the scheme will soon be car- ried through. The capital necessary is $400,000 and this has been divided into 200 shares of $200 each. The cost of the ground and the bullding will be 3520,000. The opera-house will be similar to that of Bayreuth in its internal arrangement and will seat 3900 persons. The prices will range from $10 to $1 and the season is evenings. On Wednesday the usual | vaudeville performance will be re-|t0 consist of twenty-two performances Sumed: every year, beginning in the first week of . . Weber's Music Hall will continue to present “Miss Frisky From Fresno” until further notice. The burlesque is well acted, sung and staged. MRS. FISKE COMES WITH A NEW PLAY Mrs, Fiske is to play her newest and most popular success, ‘‘Leah Kleschna,” next week at the Majesticc. In New York, where Mrs. Fiske presented it for five months, “Leah Kleschna” was de- clared by all the reviewers the strong- est and best-acted play seen there in a decade. The New York engagement end- ed on April 15, so that San Francisco | will see the big dramatic success within | less than two months of its New York run. Usually the Pacific Coast has to wait two seasons for the big hits, but Mrs. Fiske likes San Francisco and its theater-goers and she made this city the objective point of her tour. Powerful as “Leah Kleschna" is, interpretation of it is largely responsi- | ble for its success. The play is rich in strong acting roles that are distinguished among a remarkable group of players. John Mason, George Arli Charles Cart- wright and William B. Fiske's principal assistants. There has been no dissent from the praise accorded Mrs. Fiske for her portrayal of the girl thief who is the central figure of the play. The reformation of this girl gives Mrs. Fiske opportunity for one of those psy- chological studies of character in which she has no equal. It is a new type for her, but it is said that she has done noth- ing finer. The present season has been probably the most successful in Mrs. Fiske's ca- reer. She played for thirty-oné weeks at the New York theater, the Manhattan— a remarkable achievement when the mul- tiplicity of theatrical offerings in that city is considered. She put into execution a plan that she had long had in mind, and the first public intimation of which was given when she was in San Francisco a vear ago. This was the establishment of a permanent dramatic organization that should have the Manhattan Theater for its home and represent the highest standard of acting and production. The plan proved an immediate success and the Manhattan Company, as the new or- the Mack are Mrs. | May and continuing to August. In spite | of the dedication of the theater to Wag- | cluding “La Damnation ner and his operas, the first work to be sung there will be “Don Giovanni,” which will not be entrusted to German singers. This will be followed by two cycles of the Ring. It is intended to give later a cycle of the Berlioz operas, in- de Faust” in operatic form. Since Jean de Reszke buiit his famous opera-house in Paris on a sheet of Gilsey House paper and out- lined a plan of campaign which remains unfulfilled to this day, public confidence in tenors’ opera-houses has mnot been great. But M. Van Dyck's scheme is | nevertheless interesting. R el W. J. Henderson, musical critle, writes a most Interesting article on “Has Music Ethical Force?' He trles to prove the negative by showing In many instances where the music of a prayer has been used as a love song, and he says also that the music of “Tristan and Isolde’ would not be wickedly passionate with- out the text—that in fact, music simply emphasizes the text by providing a lyri- cal declamation for it. The Kreutser | Sonata he disposes of by saying that it was misunderstood, that the mild melo- dles of Beethoven could not possibly have done any harm. Then he contradicts him- self by assuring us that music can ex- press emotions, passionate and otherwise, and that as music cannot proclaim prin- ciple it has no ethical value. FOLK WHO MANAGE AND FOLK WHO ACT George Ade has gone to his farm in Indiana, where he is at work on a com- edy named, “Just Out of College,” which Charles Frohman has the call on. . e Claude Gillingwater has been engaged by Charles B. Dillingham for the leading comedy parts in the Fritzi Scheff operas next season. Y C. M. S. McLellan, whose play, “Leah Kleschna,” has made just as great a suc- cess in London as it did in New York, has now turned his attention to his next stage offering. This is “Tae Butterfly of Fash- fon,” the musical comedy that McLellan will do in connection with Gus Kerker and which Klaw & Erlanger will present in New York early in October. This firm also own the rights for England. § hlets.” On the | public servants occupied one of the two p lly in the smaller towns.” same kind of stranding everywhere we dkerchief | Los Angeles he told me he had engaged | stage boxes and shared honors with! “Oh, as to that,” said Dfll, “the so-|stopped. In fact our tour was a succes- s rolled out. |a box, but that night he didn’t appear | ourselves. After the first act the Mayor ' called big towns were not remiss in the | sion of one/and two night strands.” w was of | and we've neve n him si stepped into Madame Voluptia's parlor matter of providing annoyance in the| *“Aad we're going lo provoke more o complete | “Nor discovered who he was?” I in-|—we were playing ‘The Beauty Shop’ |shape of Johnnies. stranding of the same sort,” sald Dill quired | that night—and stood among us and| “In such places as Los Angeles the | “With an augmented chorus we're going “Oh, yes,” Dill chipped in. “The hotel | addressed the audience and flung oral sapheads were especially ~difficult to | to Invade the north, starting within three but where yover for luncheon, the two maidens whom to invited the cavaliers | Los Angeles told us ‘His Satch- about to start for the theater middle-aged lady tapped his and quietly said, ‘Come home! nd which he did not attempt to He pad his bill, picked up le grip and meekly toddled after ¢ She was his wife, and it e her jealousy that he trav- questio | the li bouguets at the community and passed | sure enough nosegays to us. It was a | great occasion. If the little theater had | been thrice as large it would have been [pm‘ked at a dollar & head. They want- ed us to show again next day, but pre- | vious engagements prevented.” | “Bo you held the chorus intact through- | out the tour?” I ventured. squelch, as they lacked both the back- wardness of the village yeuths dnd the discretion of the real city chapples. They were freshness personified. One callow creature sneaked past the door- keeper in the City of Angels and refused to léave the stage when I crdered him to | do so.” “But he went,'” said Kolb, significantly. weeks from now and cpening at Seattle for a week, thence to Portland for an en- gagement of Indefinite duration at the Marquam Grand Opera-house during the 1 After that we go over the northern “When we shall present a new play which is now being written for us,” sald Kolb, “and which we will take over the t eled with us. He had a habit of dolng | “No, we started out with twents- “He did,” acquiesced Diil, with like | terrifory we have just covered. Uh, we ¢ that sort of thing, the hotel man said. | girls and returned with eightecns: noniieq | SIEnificance of tone. i have a long season of strands booked sult was ¢ e he quarreled with his better | Kolb, “Two were foreed to toave. wh oo | “It was In Los Angeles,” ‘sald Kolb, |abead.” . _ rip right there, because t Ked his little grip, hastened [ “that two of our girls wore some of their | “But the Chorus—will you resume re- ough cash left to purch That was elf him v and thereto | account of sickness, one became engaged to a Los Angeles business man who would not permit her to stay longer in the show stage hosiery and shoes on the street be- cause the articles harmonized almost ex- sponsibility for its safe return?” I in- quired. ever saw. A less prepossess: oo s : actly in style and color with the prevail-| “Parents and other blood relatives are he | be hard to find, but his wife Imagined | her insubordination. st s oo s, O | ing fashion. Dill met the girls and de- | invited to sit down and talk it over with wave | he was an frresistible lady-killer. They | well, DIll would better tel] vou . atoat | teCted our ‘props,’ so he hastened to the | us,” said Kolb, “but we cannot extend lived on & farm somewhers and had 1oty | Heaik s | theater and instructed the wardrobe mis- | the same privilege to husbands. and | of money.” P e ta | tress to keep all similar shoes and hosiery | “Or to mothers-in-law,” said Diil. red | Then the tall comedian told of how | s 51 ssly refused to allow one | ypger lock and key while they were not JAMES C. CRAWFORD. s from | the principal performers of the aggre. | ., = t0 have her mother-in-law travel in actual stage service.” e o] B g o e gt T~ | with her, by request of her husband and | “Oh, it was a Joyous tour,” said Dill, FSEUy day cohsh BF 2ie :e;‘ukl;‘;"‘;z;; | at our expense,” sald the small man, “so | quizzically, MANAGERS PROVIDE "Dill replied | train while the ladies of fhe cheros| What could the poor girl do other than | And a profitable one, I hoped. SOME GOOD BILLS e made the trip in automobiles B return to her home? The other lady also | ‘“In every way,” said Kolb. “Undertak- steered by gallant youths of the forere | had left a husband behind and one even- | en as an experiment, It has more than was queer customer,” Kolb ex: my informat “He occu- 1 box every evening and smiled at the stage whose eye he ter his second evening he smiling, I can tell you. | he left instructions that if | fancied a extras, such as onade, they were to be his expense. But he never | , and shunned con- | e curiosity | draw him Into dis town whom they had entranced about a week previously. “It was really exhilarating,” said Kolb, “to see the girls and their escorts dash past our train and then slack up until we overtook them, when would sglute us with a cheer and away again. Our train was a kind of a cold molasses special, you know. ladies with us said they enjoyed hugely, but I didn't believe them.” “It was our rare privilege to open a dash IS GHE INS many sources, even as dust is upon the summ wind, come 15 Of the methods of instruction ue at the Art Institute on the | | | It has long been whispered into my s that individuality is not a virtue | vog is not for a mere studio gossip to yea or nay, but here’s the story, h all due respect to the good men who guide the destinies of our embryo rtists. e TITUTE OF low key, whether that low key inter- prets the sunset as he sees it or not; that the entire school patterns its work after the Mathews method, even to the instructors, who feel the inherent power of the dean’s personality—not. let it Be understood, by compulsion, but by unconscious imitation; that artists who paint in high color are looked upon as brigands and “knocked” per- sistently, even though the greatest masters in the world have been color- ists; that “high color” pictures will not ing in the midst of the performance of ' realized our most sanguine anticipation. O-U" burst into tears, resigned on | next train for S8an Francisco. spoiled her make-up, the spot and boarded the 'age In almost every town we she suddenly remembered that | We never played to less money than the | his daily letter had not arrived, so she performance cost us, and we were of- fered return dates at advanced percent- visited. The letter | Some of these offers we were enabled to they | from hubby arrived the following day.” | accept and at Bakersfleld, San Jose and | _“And that left us eighteen,” resumed | Sacramento our Second visit was even Kolb, “all of whom had a good time more profitable than our first o The | and saved money. Before we signed any | were on the road about a week when an it | girl for the trip we gave assurance to her | obscure weekly paper in this city an- | legal protectors that she would be as nounced that we were stranded | carefully guarded as if she were at home, | toward art {s provincial and will stay provincial unless the faculty awakens to the truth that there are many schools of art, even as there are many interpretations of *nature, Now, here, good friends, is the ar- raignment heard in and about the stu- dios and galleries. And far be it from me to pass upon its merits, but so loud have grown the protestations, a frank statement of fancled grievances was inevitable. Any defense that the instructors of We in a southern' town. Now in that particular | mous. ! method. John Drew opens at’ the Cblumblnl Theater to-morrow night in “The Duke of Killlerankie.” The play s af farcical romance in three acts, and is said to be Jjust suited to Mr. Drew's Captain Marshall, the au- thor, has won favor in San Francisco by his play, “The Royal Family,” and everybody is prepared to enjoy the re- fined wit and funny situations that} have made the plays of this author fa- Margaret Dale, Fanny Brough, — ART PROVINGIAL IN ITS GEARHING —BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS. Xavier Martinez is back from his na- | ily these days making up for lost days tive town in Xallsco, Mexico, where he and Maynard Dixon got some stunning sketches. Watch tinez develop these—although there are a few that to work them up would kill them. This spontaneity of Martinez is his greatest charm, and he gets it with apparently little effort. Just what Martinez will do without Dixon's a problem—one seemed to com- | plement the other, although each was opposed to the other in work and per- in the winter of camaraderie—the lure of the artists. . Jules Merstelder is doing some strong lan es, such as won him recogni- tion in the big cities of the East, while Mrs. Mersfelder is absorbed in some child studies that reveal an Insight into the souls of children. 6,0 e Leslie Hunter, back from his japnts over Europe with a Iot of interesting sketches, goth to Monterey on Satur- t 1 SKETCH OF A STREET IN PARIS BY LESLI HUNTER, RECENTLY in the School of Design; tnat If a pu- | be hung at the exhibitions because |the instit may present will be glad- | sonality. day to do some local work. TUEI'D FROM ABROAD. MR. HUNTER GOES TO MONTEREY TO DO pil sees a iuna sunset and paints ni they “kill” the low tone work of the ly received and published. Come, let Ly SOME LOCAL WORK. HE WILL SOON HOLD AN 3 thus he is required to transpose it to a | big men of the Institute; that the spirit us hear from you. The Mersfelders are working might- ‘Mr. Hunter will soon hold an exhi- at Vickery's. s