The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1905, Page 19

r w owed t was the pro en you go to New go to family ¢ go to New ¥ ew York, Mex New Yor oheshin \LL EXHIBITION AT ART INSTITUTE NEARLY RE 4 tonally ion ) Gemo od th thers that they 1 wh to 1d sign chila change ador- the e a a like her--the name is with me. “Te- = singing there too, mg, she = the same. en the im- got to go way: not want co wan Fetrazzini was not amused. ied manager had should sing. but not Gilda make her sing Gio- ch's Gilda! nd she did ihe contract was legal. Very had told her to be, also ; both Cénried lights. assure her then of the kind- r. Goerlitz, the ha icus prime donne, the Meinherr Conried. But all want Te- Mexico. There and there she has left a an in size. i goes to New will not return’ to Mexico. efore with ferocious pictures of opera ne is sung in New York some one has ken care to supply her. Child-like, she i ¢ g0 to New Yor nerhad] I'avvocato On November Rigoletto, ‘He told me. agic sugge rer bosom illustrate (a pretty, simple, thinking of her can behind that Tetrazzini e boums bass with with Gre- g tired sang Norm too, she ! te! te! t to sing ! oh, fine! big role like he lyric, of , Julietta of cot Tetrazzini sings. thi; wonder- r :dy, with one Ceccherini hat was in Flor- was born. Her debut she 19 vears of age, as Inez in “Didn’t know th little useppe en brown eves, ar itial Inez not unworthy. the family Tetrazzl she dragged bringing her here’ OFFERINGS AT THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES “The Prince of Pllsen,” at. th~ lumbia, has repeated its former here of two years ago, large hot greeting the pretty musical comedy. The Alc this week will revive “The ttle Minister” with a young actress o com ere with much mysterious ) Margaret Langham. gham is of the Belasco forces in Los Angeles, and has made there a consider- able reputation. S5, “The Light Eternal,” Martin V. Merle's Santa Clara College play of the persecu- tion, will continue to be the attraction at the Majestic Theater this week. The ttracted considerable attention, iction being of extreme splendor. '!'he‘ranm\n comedy, ““Buster Brown,” will be the attraction at the Grand Opera- e this week, beginning with this aft- n's performance. The Outcault car- toons are famous, and the comedy is sald to be very funny. The author himself will be here shortly on a lecturing trip. “The Darkest Hour” is the Central play of the week. It is sald to have more than the usual quota of thrills, and the usual elaborate production will be given to the drama. The California offers “The Tiger Lilies"” continuation of the ‘“Burlesque “Princess Trixie,” the lady equine at the Chutes, is the best of the bill, and inue another week. This won- horse is the cleverest of its kind seen here. Hugh Emmett, ventrilo- and Florilla Sanford are others . v . the bright musical Crawford, with which Theater has inaugurated its new “The Yacht Girl,"” lesque by J. C. r's 3 will be continued this week. The plece is clean, smart, and pretty, and has | & capital soubrette exponent in Nellle was from long ago. inging then in § e reiated, all nn.xf‘hlcf.‘ : the pub-} er the azzini, and elsewhere the a Tetrazzini-Campanini, wife tinguished conductor, and her- | ! stinguished musician | coming away, Tetrazzini told s of sing a night, she ed with But her last injunction was a “big nks to San Francisco and to Mr. Leahy ITALIAN PRIMA DONN A S WOULD HAV - BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON ~ ~ ~ =~ | 19 —— e e MYIoLS soprano, wiil give numbers by Verdi ! Brahms and Schumann; Miss Gertrude Lonsdale, songs by Kossi and Hildach. | The tenor numbers will be the song from Lohengrin” and a Richard | Strauss song, and Mr. Mills will sing | the aria from Gounod's “Queen of | Sheba” and Handel's “O Ruddier Than the Cherry. Mr. Mills and Mr. Wilde will sing the duet. “Watchman, What of the Night?' and Mr. Farlovitz will play the scherzo in B. fiat minor by Chopin and a new Irish rhapsodie by a‘voung compeser, Arcdy Rosenthal. Thursday’s programme includes solo compositions by Del Acqua, Handel, ! Hildach, Richard Strauss, Beethoven, | Cowdeli, Mendelssohn and Goetz, and a | quartet, “Ode to Daute,”, not before sung | in America. ,The song cycle for Thurs- day night will be Liza Lehman's “The | Daisy Chain.” | At the Saturday matinee, by special | request, Mr. Mills will sing “The Twu | Grenadiers,” and one of the most beau- tiful compositions for quartet, the Lie- ‘liant and fascinating violinists of mod- - Italian opera given by a company head- beslieder Walzer of Brahms, will be sung. -Seats are now on sale at Sher- man & Clay’s, the prices ranging from $1 50 down to 75 cents for a reserved | seat. . . . During December Mr. Greenbaum promises. two musical events of firsc importance. The first will be thres vi- olin recitals by the great French mas- ter, Emil_Sauret, one of the most bril- ern times. ! The second event will be a s2ason of | ed by little Alice Nielsen, who has been | winning such favor in London this last season. The repertoire will con- tain such rarely heard operas as “Cris- pino e la Comare,” which Patti gave here twenty years ago; “L’Elisic | @'Amore;” cne of the most charming of ,Donizetti’s works; the ever delight- | ful “Don Pasquale.” The company is | said to include an excellent conductos, | a gobod orchestra and a tenor whose ! friends whisper ‘““Caruso” for the onl comparison. ————— REWELL PERFORMANC] o AT THF CAPPED BY SINGING “HOME, SWEET HOME" HAD SHE BEBEN ABLE TIVOLI THE OTHER EVENING STER THE PRONUNCIATION OF ‘HE WORDS, | — = = Nicholg, and a’sweet-voiced leading lady | had now the Tivoli Fifty for vet an-, Vienna, by Ries. Great was his rage in Eunice Drake. The first half of the | other season. This.in most potent evi- - thereat. Solemnly he said: ‘“After all, bill will consist of .he usual vaudeville | dencé. The Tivoli Fifty believe there then, hie is only an ordinary mortal! He, Sorne is not another leader like Mr. Polacco— | t0o, will trample under foat the rights The Fadette Ladies’ Symphony Orches- tra of Boston, a far-famed little organi- | zation comprising twenty-two membe | will appear for the first time in San F cisco this afternoon at the Orpheur: . M i | Caroline B. Nichols, who handles the | baton, is said to be a leader of distine- | tion, and the work of the orchestra | throughout to be altogether delightful | Maron Garson, prima donna soprar.. Joe Fiynn. monologist, will also be new, and Jan 1 Melville and Evie Stetson will add | another week’s hilarity to Orpheum his- ! tory. SYMPHONY CONCERT | WILL BE GOOD ONE “Opera mad”’—perhaps we'are. So it is said; so it may be. It is a good mad- ness; perhaps it is the inevitable music madness for a California. All local history points that way. It is now twenty-seven or twenty-eight that opera has continuously held the Tivoli. Next Wednesday, for the testimonial benefit to Signor Polacco, we are to have the one symphony concert of this year of our Lord 1%05. But let us be thankful for the one, nor be too much concerned for our symphonic souls. At any rate, if the Polacco concert is only one, it will be a good one. Last season’s rarely interesting concert in- sures this. One well remembers the scholarly reading of the Beethoven symphony, with its fine, temperamental quality, that Mr. Polacco then gave. One well remembers, too, the grace and seductiveness with whcih the lighter numbers were Invested, the dramatic fire of the rest. And Mr. Polacco has years | and they play that ‘way. Almost from performance to pérformance one has been able to noteya Keener sympathy between orchestra and leader, a more e and devoted response to the The first performance—it was t startling “Rigoletto,”. when Tetraz- zini first burst upon us=showed all of the superb resource, d¥stinction, grip upon his men which distinguish Signor Polacco; these of ‘the later days\have | added the fineness, polish, roundness, impossible in the earlier work. At their best, then, we shall have both leader and’ orchestra next Wednesday night, and a royal house should signalize the event—if only out of gratitude to the man who h done such distinguished service to local music. The programme is an excellent one. Chief of its features is the Eroica Sym- phony, and with the Prélude and Lie- bestodt from “Tristan and Isolde” and the “Tannhauser’ overture, the Weber “Invitatign a la Valse” (arranged by Weingartner), and the Saint-Saens “Le Rouet d'Omphale,” the popular, picturesque and classic demands will be | equally well satisfied. ¥ | * . . 1 The heroic pose—how necessary to | the artist! Beethoven, great man as he was, was not exempt, as one remem- | bers in the history of the “Eroica.” It was in honor of Napoleon, then First Consul, that the symphony was writ- | ten. Beethoven's sympathies were un- changeably republican, and when Gen- eral Bernadotte suggested Napoleon as | ! | | the hero of his new work the composer i was delighted thus to honor the apos- tle of freedom. But just as the symphony was finish- ed Napoleon the First Consul had be come Napoleon the Emperor. News of | this was taken to Beethoven, then in | entitled “Flora’s Holiday.” of men to indulge his ambition and be- come ‘a greater tyrant than any one! And with these words he seized his music and mightily tere the title page in two! It is not recorded that the work was otherwise altered. Therefore as a musical portrait of Napoleon, the First KEEPS ON GOOD TERMS WITH HUSBAND'S FAMILY Duchess of Roxburghe Makes It =a Point to Cultivate Her Rela- tives-in-Law. LONDON, Nov. 11.—The Duchess of Roxburghe had issued invitations for a succession of house parties at Floors Castle which were to have lasted over Christmas, but owing to the sad death of her sister-in-law, Lady Isabel Wil- son, they have all been canceled. Like | the typical American woman who mar- | ries over here, the Duchess has the ca- | pacity of being always on the best of terms with her husband’'s family. This | is considered to be essentially a gift of Jonathan's daughters, and is ad- mired and marveled at in turn; for as a rule fifteen British women out eof twenty make up their minds to be dis- agreeable to their husband's relations. The Duchess of Roxburghe is greatly distressed over Lady Isabel's death, for | they were the closest of friends. When | Lady Isabel was married the presents | she received from the Duchess were said to be worth $25,000. The fact that Floors Castle will be practically closed for three or four months, owing to the mourning. will give the architect an 'opportunity of completing the renovations in the Nor- man arches and broken buttressed choir. The Duchess of Roxburghe, be- ing an.artistic woman, is most desir- ous that these renovatio’ - should be as imperceptible as possibi:. In so his- toric a building anything in the shape of an anachronism would be trying to tha soul of ‘the archaeologist or indeed to ary one with any knowledge of the fitness of things. The little town of Kelso, where the home of the Rox- burghes is situated, was in days gone by the very pivot of the great world of Scotland. But to-day Kelso lives in the glory of the past. Were it not for its-great white palace perched on the brow of the hill.it would be prac- tically unknown—would be left to | which completely sapped her v | The critic has been barred from slumber peacefully on the banks of the Tweed. ————— grail DUCHESSE DE TALLEYRAND DIES OF DISAPPOINTMENT Never Gets Over Fallure of What She Planned as Crowning Trinmph of Her Life. LONDON, Nov. 1L.—That the Duchesse de Talleyrand should pass over to the great majority before her husband. who for the last eight years has been a hopeless paralytic, affords a strik- ing illustration of the irony of destiny. The Duchesse never got over the mis- carriage of what she had fondly hoped would prove the crowning triumph of her life. That was the marriage of her favorite and second son, Comte Boson de Talleyrand to a rich American girl, Miss Helen Morton, daughter of Levi P. Morton, former Vice President of the United States. Her money, added to that which the Duchesse settled on the Comte, enabled them to revive the glorfes of the historic Chateau de Valancay. But, ltke many men of aris- tocratic rank, the Comte failed to rec- ognize that matrimony placed him under certain restraints, according to American notions, from which as a bachelor he had been free. The result was that after two years his wife ob- tained a divorce and returned to America. That would have caused the Duchesse no great shock had she left her for- tune behind her. But she took it home with her and the loss of the lucre preyed so heavily on the Duchesse that she had a severe nervous breakdown, followed by frequent recurrent attacks, ality. Her wreck of a husband hated her. This paralytic seizure deprived him of all power of speech save one word. It expressed the most malignant dislike, which her presence never falled to wring from him. Apparently it was that passion which kept/him alive. —_——————— PARIS MANAGER BARS CRITIC FROM THEATER Declares It Will Not Be Safe for Writer Who Vexed Him to Enter House. PARIS, Nov. 11L.—An interesting quarrel is at present being waged be- tween M. Antoine, the well-known the- atrical manager, and M. de Nion, the dramatic critic of the Echo de Paris. M. Antoine's threater as a result of sev- eral articles which M. de Nion wrote. | In these the critic spoke of the theater in terms which displeased the man- ager. When the time came for M. An- toine to produce his first plece this season he intimated to M. de Lion that tickets would not be sent to him for any of the performances. Asked to explain his action, M. Antoine replied “In refusing to issue an invitatior to M. de Nion to visit my theater I have acted as a commercial man. The house, Antoine & Co., has taken, as had a right to do, a measure of secur- ity which is necessary to a firm.” It was suggested to M. Antoine that the dramatic critic might pay for his seat and still write an account of the play for his paper. “1 would deny him permission.” said M. Antoine. “If he entered the theater and wrote, even eulogistically, of my piece, he would do so at his own risk A theatrical manager is master « own house, to which he in ever pleases him. It is a question commereial responsibility R i iy Blame the Radium Rays. GENEVA, Nov. 11.—The parents of a young girl from Morzine have begun sult against the Geneva Hospital claiming the death of their daughte by’ Subjecting her too long to radium rays while endeavoring to relieve her of a cancerous tumor. The hospital authorities will call s eral famous Paris and London special- ists on radium treatment to testify in their behalf, and medical men here and elsewhere look forward with great ln{!‘esl to the outcome of the suit. -+ Consul, the work may still be listened to, though there is a difference of opin- ion as to whether the intended por- traiture is only in the first and sec- ond movements or throughout the en- tire work. As to the funeral march, Beethoven himeself said, seventeen years afterward, when the news of Napol- eon’s death was brought to him: “I have already composed the fitting m asic for that catastrophe.” S AL ‘What promises to be a treat of most unusual kind are the vocal quartet concerts to be given at Lyrig Hall this week by the Watkin Mills Quartette of London. Watkin Mills himself is per- haps the hest known English bass of the day, and his confreres—Miss Edith Kirkwood, the soprano; Miss Gertrude Lonsdale, the contralto, and Harold Wilde, the tenor—are all promisingly heralded. The vocal quartets are the chief attraction of their programmes, but all the singers are also heard in solo, Assisting, also, is Eduard Par- lovitz, a voung Russian planist. There will be three concerts, on Tues- day and Thursday eveninge and on Sat- urday afternoon. On Tuesday night the special feature of the programme will be the perform- ance of a song cycle of old Eng- lish melodies by H. Lane Wilson, There &re nine numbers to the cycle, and one of them, an old English “catch” called “T'he Pedlar,” is said to be of partic- ular charm. Miss Edith Kirkwood, the 3 L uc not this WEOWS B S0 fuifilis i be lost work that hon- nstrate dals; - “of is U wilt ad- of do and zh fm- a the in the you its re ate e in de-|of the art colony will. d noth- | where the public may help refute the they would noat, | charge that it does not pay to expose at lay had uever sold & pig- 2 m; others that the expense of ng frames—which were sometimes aged in transit—was prohibitory; and rs that they declined to run the risk | of rejection or “skying” where favorit- ism sways the jury. As to these defenses they come from painters who appear to feel justified in their atiitude. Now, just how much truth and how much egotism and how much prejudice lies in them it would be interesting to discover—but alas! I am no Sherlock Holmes. But as to the charge of favoritism of the jury—that is a serious charge, and jone that would, of course, be hard to | prove. To be sure, the cry of favoritism in selection has been heard since the days of Praxiteles, and always will be, until men learn to pass judgment upon their own work subconsciously and therefore impartially. But it is a question if that ,wering mass | achievement is & psychological possibility, ! since a picture is so intimate a part of a | man’s soul—in it lles his heart and head. | But notwithstanding the painters who | will pot submit pictures, the greater part And herein s Hopk: Christmas i near, and If you want'a picture to gladden the heart of a friend, why not make your purchase at the ex- hibition? The welfare of an art exhibit depends upon a triangle of personalities—upon the artists, upon the managers and upon the public. The artists must do worthy work, the managers and the jury be fair, and the public generous. At least should the public be generous to the degree of visii- ing the exhibjtion—for interest creates in- | terest and promotes growth. o s e BEugen Neuhaus, the sturdy young German who jolned the San Francisco art colony a year ago, and immediately upon coming stamped his Individuality upon it, | is presenting his work to the public, at | his studio at 424 Pine street, the exhibi- tion to be extended until December 10, The canvases shown are in oil and water color, and range in subject from strong Dutch landscapes, dominant in detail and in color, to soft-toned, sym- pathetic symphonies of the seaslde, done during a honeymooning time, down by the cypress-fringed shores of Monterey. The hours of reception are from 10 to 12 a. m., and trol.nltoop. m. . . —BY LA Thirteenth street, Oakland—a busy lit- tle club that has set itself the task of promoting interest in art and artists over the bay—will present a water color ex- hibition of M. D. Neale Morgan at its clubroom, opening to-morrow evening, and continuing every afternoon and even- ing until Saturday, November 18, Mrs. Morgan's canvases show a fine conception of the mystic messages of na- ture, a notable instance being “The La- goon.” s e e Maynard and Mrs. Dixon left yesterday for Arizona, where among the Moquis and the Navajos they will work and play—and where the young frontiersman will get some Interesting studies. Before leaving he completed one of the biggest (not in size) things he has yet to his credit—“The Town Crier.” ( S The San Francisco Artists’ Society ‘ex- hibition, scheduled to open at the Maple room of the Palace on December 18, and to continue afternoops and evenings until the 21st, is getting on famously. The project will be launched under the patrbnage of a number of smart set men and women, and will have a social as well as an artistic importance. : | Hunter, — ADY URA BRIDE POWERS vases are: Henry Raschen, C. P. Neiison, H. W. Hansen, Giuseppl Cadenasso, Joseph Greenbaum, H. W. Seawell, Leslie J. W. Clawson, Gordon Ross, Carlos J. Hittell, C. Chapel Judson, Ame- dee Joullin, Theodore Wores, C. F. P. | Piazzoni, H. R. Bloomer, Alice B. Chit- tenden, Lucia K. Matthews, Eugen Neu- hgus, Tom Huback, Gordon Coutts, J. M. Gamble, L. Maynard Dixon, Xavier tinez, Matteo Sandona, W. Francis, Adon- ica Fulton, Maren Froelich, Florence Lind- borg, L. P. Latimer, Harry Stuart Fonda, M. Evelyn McCormick, Sophie M. Bran- nan, M. Del Mue, Mary L. Brady, H. G. Peters. e Madame Junosa’s exhibition of tapes- tries, oils and water colors at the Ocel- dental Hotel is attracting much attention, notably her copy of Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa.” e Xavier Martinez is working upon a famously interesting group of portraits— Anna Strunsky, Francis McComas, Jack London and Porter Garnett. e McComas portrait is capitally exe- cuted—in the suggestive Martinez style, to be sure. To add to its interest is a tiny h"n.dmm in one corner by McComas i The Palette, Lyre and Pen Club at 462% | Among the artists who will expose can- | himse! FRANCISCO'S CEEDED IN Ul T TR e e S B S D N S S SIS D i N ST AR R kR -t W~ ESSSE PAINTING BY EUGEN NEUHAUS, A YOUNG GERMAN WHO JOINED SAN COLONY LAST YEAR STAMPING HIS INDIVIDU. AND WHO ALREADY HAS SUC- ALITY UPON LOCAL