The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1905, Page 19

Jew- ost a: has been red-haired vogue— is simply 2t 1 at one period in the text. It accent. ost agree, Miser abdbove all, yet avar- ing passio he ar bond the Jew refuses, an ts that she had heard him [7 Shylock ‘was not y mistaken length on going so far as the trial- s ideas te been g cheming, 1‘!’! THE BY OGOLAACH here, | fling, villainous money-grubber,’ but | as a Jewish merchant of good g seeking a very natural re- venge. But Shakespeare himself en- tertained no such notion. Shakespeare | sought no sympathy from his audience for Shylock. He desired Shylock to be jeered at. laughed at and reviled, and he wished Portia and Bassanio, Lo- renzo and Jessica, as well as Antonie, to have tk rest and affection of the audience.” e Mansfield to some of his critics “Your dictum does. hot grieve For wuerefore write—to say me! That you no longer love me— S0 LONG a sermon, pray? 'Steen hundred lines, precisely, I'm not afraid, not I; They write far more concisely, Who mean ‘Your day’s gone by | —Apres Helne. | | Jeedless to say, Mr. Mansfleld did not r the foregoing—a vile word, “au- ‘Polonius?—nor authorize. But a Mansfleld as little familiar. Elsewhere The Call prints an exclusive th the actor, but to an enticing “say things” about his not, however, as he mis- in reply to criticism— y Evening, 7 o'clock. The so I can rning the things I done or the things And what DOES it can possibly condemn my aoct- | I condemn it myself—BUT CAN do no | re th hould not clem, dramatic dream of find- | for I confess, I ritic in Boston! | everything that comes to t retribution! Let young write for papers take warn- | 0, may some day want to g0 | the stage! this scrit and this haste pt a thousand thanks for your To your faithful servant, “RICHARD MANSFIELD.” | BOSTON’S VIEW | OF NANCE O’NEIiL ving “‘appreciation’ now being scattered broad- slude to her forthcoming en- | the Grand Opera-house, is h interest to us. It is from the| Transcript, the most weighty and ative of Boston's journals, and | s Miss O'Neil's last year's en- e combination of San | {ub” against Gotham of Nance r New York's rejection of Nance | Ne now a hist —is at least as is pleasing. One has long an Francisco to ap- was almost suffi- to condemn; more to have Boston of much honor. But w York is at pres- n approval of the | Morris, Margaret Anglin, first | r as it - for New so with Chicago; ew stan in San Francisco. Pos-| arn to think ce O'Nell, to tragedy, | what Margaret Anglin al drama. But here is on the most | nts for years. | on posters only a on tables and swung cou be expected. | Rachel—an American | is @ ‘tragedienne’ or the first time by way | New Zealand and Europe, ithout flare of trumpets either or contemporary. Evidently exemplar of American art be- | art needs no advance s nevertheless managed to icious few' who have dis- er, and holds zhem so far in breathless suspense over her | Of stalwart height, with figure and mobile face, a nicely lated voice and the perfection of and statesque grace, Miss O'Nell has dvantage of exemplifying in her per- st all of the physical desiderata but the mental and spiritual s quite as complete. Kvi- ar as natural endowment goes, great fMosition of leading trage- her time, in English speaking | she has no rival. Nothing in of training, either, seems to be From her beautiful arm and st exquisite use of w: and gers in gesture—nobody since h has displayed such hand 1d reconstruct all the fig- e traditional poses, as given in old French works for heightening of all the | ns and emotic As with | d hand, so with the whole su- of its movements were riods. One of t rte e expres and express and admirable,’ and vet its ar- of motion and its repose did the powerful work. At moments in the Dl seemed a very e that cuts the thread tter of business; a sibyl, a iermann drama, the most ntense of weak women, wild passion and sweeping over the precipice is told not so much by action, that is interesting, vivid and beau- compelling power of person- | by magnetism, hypnotism, posses- by the very soul and feeling of t [ character in hand. Nance O'Nell, Irish wough she may be, as is so much of hing great in art in English speak- | and ‘and other romantic compositions, | them | esting, | include the | fy. PIAVE ing lands, is an American to be proud of, for she is American, and her art is American, so far as great art can have any national character.” Miss O'Nell's repertoire to be includes fonna Vanna,” the Maeterlinck drama in which Bertha Kallch Is now creating such wide interest in New York: ‘“The Foes of 8t. John.” a play new to us, by Sudermann; “Mariana,” the Eche- garay play which Margaret Anglin first introduced here during her last season, “Judith of Bethulia,” the play espe- cially arranged for Nance O'Nefl by the author, Thomas Balley Aldrich, follow ing upon the furore created by her Bos- ton appearances. The remainder of the programme is familiar; “Hedda Gabler” will be the Ibsen example; “Magda” will be the Sudermann revival, and there will be “Elizabeth, Queen of England”; “Camille”; ‘Macbeth” and The | Jewess.” The engagement begins a week | from to-morrow evening. TRAITOR TRUMPET CAUSES ThROUBLE Of the symphony again. The following explanation of the trombone efflorescence in the “Tannhause overture will not be unwelcome in this Polacco-less week. It will be remembered that in the overture | at the blaring forth of the final theme, | Maestro Polacco astonished us with the spectacle of the trombones risen upon their hind legs, a la Sousa, the better to blare. All wondered; some condemned. But when it is explained that not Po- lacco but Mr. Coiverd was responsible for the innovation; that with a devotion to the leader that could be expressed only with a trombone at ff ¢ f, and then only standing, one can only wish to the trombonist two trombones to blow | and four legs to stand on. It is not beside the case that Polacco re- gards our Mr. Colverd as the best trom- | bonist of his wide acquaintance. Edward Dexter Perry, the pianist, compoeer and author, will give his fare- well concert and talk at Lyric this (Sunday) afternoon. his subject being “Mediaeval Legends Set to Music.” He will play Chopin's Ballade in A flat, the Brassin arrangement of the “Magic Fire” from “Die Walkure,” Liszt's transcriptions of the Spinning Song from “Flying Dutchman” Schubert’'s “Erlking,” Godard's *Tril- by,” Saint-Saens’ dDanse Macabr will explain the connection between and the legends by which they were inspired. Both as a pianist and as a speaker Mr. Perry is most inter- and no lover of music should Enss this last opportunity of hearing im. Emil Sauret, the greatest of French violinists, and Arthur Speed, a young English pianist who has recently met with success in Germany, will be the next of the foreign artists to be heard here, Will Greenbaum to direct. joint recitals will include upon their programmes such rarely heard works as the violin sonata of Rubinstein in A minor, Schumann's in D miner, the greatest of the Beethoven sonata the C minor. A new suite by Gottlieb- Noren and one by Schutt will also be played, and M. Sauret will give the concertos of Saint-Saens’ Dvorak and Ernst, besides many other important compositions. Mr. Speed's numbers will Variations Serjeuses by Mendelssohn, Chopin's Fantaisle, op. 49, and some Schumann and numbers. Tuesday and Thursday nights, December 12 and 14, and Sal urday matinee, December 16, will be the dates of these the last concerts of the year. Mile.-Emma Calve, like ail other prima donnas, has her own views upon the yolce and the art of singing, and is generally not unwilling to share them. She recounts that her education for the stage was eminently a practical one, as she was forced at the age of eighteen to ald in providing a living for her fam- She left her home at Aveyon in the south of France to study in Paris, where she recelved instruction from several fa- mous private masters, and then, little actual operatic experience to give her courage, she went on the stage as Marguerite in Gounod’s “Faust” in Brus. sels. “I learned something at every perform- ance,” she says. “The singer whose voice is so good and whose talents are so ripe that she can prepare a role per- fectly for her first, or second, or even her fiftleth performance does not exist. Something may be added to a portrayal each time it is repeated if one only will study. “I had to work hard and long before I made my great success in ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ in London in 1892, art of singing. or rather operatic art, is advancing every day; formerly one had just to sing, but nowadays the new operas ' make | and the new lyrico-dramatic art greater demands upon the singer, both vocally and dramatically, than was ever dreamed of in the old coloratura days, and we must all keep pace with the times or be left behind.” Mile. Calve was once asked how she | attained her marvelous command over the high and low notes of her voice, how it is that, in “Carmen,” for instance, she is able to utter contralto chest tones of exquisite beauty and vet sing equally as well the sometimes florid music of Mar- guerite in “Fausi “Perhaps it is because I am a soprano with a few good low tones,” replied she. It was pointed out to Mlle. Calve that the low tones often have the velvet quality of the real contralto. “In the old days these distinctions of contralto, mezzo-contralto, mezzo-soprano, jem men. are tions hereabouts big Keith, and seeking to them. Work- ike it—and by gods many of it—the world things that its spiritual ngs—tt the of feel the like y good class of paint- the younger set (as we e working seriously, bringing out latent qualities and un- veloped emotions that, like gold locked the bosom of earth, must. be dug for, milled and laboriously refined. 4 it is just this work—this indomi- work—that is bringing a lot of new to the thos ther folk of ety) who 2 of the older and, to- who hold a sneer for the les ticularly for the work of ere are those who bold that there are no “promising” painters as there were in r Design. But don’t you belleve them—they belong to the Ancient Order of Croakers, who would rather dream of the past than work in the present. And just take this tip from me that there are men and women in San Francisco with as much promise now as there ever was—only the standards are higher to-day than they were hereabouts twenty years ago, and the road seems longer because of it. But the serious, patient, thoughtful work of these newer people—with their conscious feeling and devoted study’ of nature, augurs well for the future art growth of the West. set, The Annual Autumn Exhibition at the Institute of Art has been plentifully pat- ronized, and—it gives me joy to relate it —many advantageous sales were made. While the Hopking show is primarily a “show,” mevertheless it is a market. And when painters expose there year after year and fail of financial returns, they grow indifferent toward what should be RT THAT SHOW PROMISE 'y By LAURA BRIDE POWERS the most year. Those who are showing canvases are Harrison Fisher (a smashing sketch of Chauncey St. John), Betty Splegelburg, C. P. Neilson, A. V. Meyers, H. Macart- ney, J. M. Griffin, Mary Hodgkinson, Charlotte Knudsen, H. W. Seawell, Edith M. Moulton, Catherine Roundey, P. Edith ‘Whitefleld, A. L. Zabel, Gordon Coutts, L. P. Latimer, Willis E. Davis, Arthur Beckwith, Helen Clark Chandler, H. Gaw, Oscar Kunath, Eugen Neuhaus, Lydia F. Gihon, Bessie Holcomb Cook, Mattel Sandona, J. A. Stanton, Gluseppi Cade- nasso, Joseph Greenbaum, Anne M. Bre- mer, William Hubacek, A. W. Best, Alice M. Best, Will Sparks, Ada Romer Shaw- han, Josephine C. Eckler, Maren Froelich, Eleanor Walls Plaw, Margaret C. Her- rick, H. Hammarston, Julla Heyneman, Kate H. Maher, Bertha Stringer Lee, Alice Coutts, Lillie V. O'Ryan, A. Alt- mann, Willlam H. Wilke, Henry Raschen, Mary C. Brady, Helen O'Malley, E. J. Cross, Anne M. Bremer, Amy Bronson Dewing, Olga M. Ackerman, Carlos important event of the art Hall | and | and | The | and | Brahms | with | But even | then there was more to de done, for the| i I ARSI S D TS W LEADING WOMAN AT THE ALCAZAR THEATER, WHO HAS MADE A MOST FAVORABLE the scarcely recognized,” ambition was to sing all sorts of parts. I tried and found that 1 succeeded, and since then I have put little faith In these | arbitrary distinctions of volce Let us try to develop splendidly rounded singers | llke those of two generations ago. “I can never hope-to be, and really d not wish to be, a Wagnerian singer, though in Italy 1 have sung Elsa and Elizabeth in the Italian language. There is something entirely different in the French way of doing, saying and singing, | so that the declamatory Style prevalent in | Gérman opera, or music drawn, as they | call it over the Rhine, is foreign to our | throats and tongues. 1 belong to one of the most Latin of Latin races, for I was born on the borders of Proyence, | which, as you know, was in the middle ages the home of poetry, reverfe and song. Music which fits the Provencal character is what suits me best—tem- peramentally and physically.” PROGRAMMES AT LOCAL THEATERS The Mansfield repertoire of the week includes the first production here of ‘“The Misanthrope,” that will be given to-mor- row evening at the Grand Overa-house. high soprano and dramatic soprano were ! a famous | Carmen. ‘“The great singers, Grisi, Pas-| ta, Persiani, Alboni, and. above all, Mal- | ibran, had a great range of volce and,| | high or their tones were equally | beautiful. 1 belicved from the first that I could do as these others did, and my | Coquelin presentation of ‘‘Les Precieuses Ridicules,” during the' last Bernhardt- Coquelin season here. It will probably be as long until the next. ‘“Rhe Mis- | anthrope!’ is also billed for next Satur- day's matinee. The remainder of the programme con- sists of repeating performances, for Tues- day evening, “King Richard III": on Wednesday, “Don Carlos”: “Beau Brum- mel” at the Thanksgiving matinee 'The Merchant jof Venice’' on Thursday even- ing”: “Beau Brummel” on Friday night, | and for Saturday night, the farewell per- formance, the only] performance of- “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” “The Sho-Gun,” the musical comedy by Ade and Luders, will enliven things | for another week at the Columbia The- ater. RN “The College Widow," a college comedy by George Ade, one of the pronounced | successes of the last season In New York, | will follow. s s . Farce will relgn at the Alcazar this week with “My Friend From India.” | Meantime there will be two more per- | formances of “Mrs. Dane's Defense,” In which Edith Evelyn, the new leading woman, scored so largely last week. « s . The new Tivoll company is giving a| capital performance of ‘he Highway- man.” PR “The Light Eternal” will be cnntlnued’ yet another week at the Majestic, the J. Hittell, Mrs. Charles W. Farn- ham, A. A. Ehat; H. R. Bloomer, Eloise J. Roorbach, Albertine Randall Wheelan, Carlos Vierra, Almond . Withrow, Laura Prather Waterbury, Fanhie Soule Camp- bell, Ellen A. Kleinschmidt, Minnie C. Taylor, Grace N. Wishaar, Marion Nor- ton, May Slessinger, Edith C. Shotwell, Nettie W. King and Gertrude Willison— among which there is a lot of high-class stuff and the worst is not as bad as it might be. The exhibition continues for a week, with a promenade concert on Thursday night. The show is easlly worth the sac- rifice of slippers and a fire. , ¢« s = The Sequoia Club opened its bijou art exhibition on Thursday night with a smart reception. When the project of massing the pictures of club members together for an exhibit was broached the scheme seemed pretty big for a baby club, but as the time grew near enthusiasm grew with it, and lo! the result—a bijou of an exhibition. Among those exhibiting are Lillie V. O'Ryan (showing some stunning large ofl portraits and some exquisite miniatures), Bertha Stringer Lee, Lou Mersfelder, Elizabeth Wores, Elizabeth McElroy, Alice Chittenden, May Mott Smith Cun- ningham, Miss Butler, Grace Wishaar, ‘Will Sparks, Lorenzo P. Latimer, C. P. Neilson, Joseph Greenbaum, John M. Gamble, Lillian Tobey Dixon, Maynard Dixon. TR M. Valencia, the hard working and earnest painter of blue moonlights and somber sand dunes, has set up his easels in the Columbian building, adding one more interesting fellow to the colony of | artists who have made it a rendezvous. « s+ . | Charles | the churches, The exhibition of Mrs. Burton's leather work, wherein she has wrought wondrous- 1y clever and artistic things, is attracting many visitors to the California Club, where it is on display. ‘With the instinct of color and the mas- tery of the craftsmanship of leather Mrs. Burton's work in applied art has made place for itself close unto high art. DAY DEFENS! OF WHICH THERE WILL BE TWO MORE PERFORMANCES. SHE AP- A WELL-KNOWN FARCE. —p | The last Moliere performance was the ! play still crowding the house. The Justin MecCarthy play, “If I were King” will fol- low, it being now in rehearsal by the Nellls. FRA T To-morrow evening the entire Central company moves over to the Alhambra Theater, which will be its permanent home. “The Millionaire Detective” will be the opening bill. Sk . ““The Telephone Girl,” Nichols and Frank B. Blair, will have an- other week at Flscher's. ks The Fadette Woman's Orchestra will be heard 'again- this -week at' the Orpheum. Chief of the new people are the Esmer- alda Sisters.” who sing and dance, and Eva Westcott and her company in ‘a new sketch, “An’ Episode of Modern Life.” Leonard Fletcher will be a wel- come holdover$ *eieive The musical extravaganza, “The Prin- | | cess Fan Tan,” with its crowd of pocket prime donne ' and danseuses, will again be put on at the Chutes. ————— BISHOP OF LONDON FINDS PROBLEM T0O MUCH FOR HIM | Bold Prelate Vetoes Further Discus- sion of “Low-necked Dress” Ques- tion, Saying “What's the Use.” LONDON, Nov. 25.—A bold man is our Bishop of London. He has attacked drunkenness at Oxford, and rifualism in denunciations against those sinful par- ents who refuse to add to the superflu- +* AN EXQUISITE LITTLE STUDY OF THE BEAUTIFUL | their with Nellie V. | and has uttered scathing | ous population by bringing more chil- {‘dr’n into the world than they can afford to support. But he quails before that most cherished insignia of fashionabie femininity—the low-necked dress. He has vetoed discussion of the subject by the Soclety for the Protection of Public Mo- rality. And why? Because, he frankly states, “so long as their Majesties, the King and Queen, expect low-necked dresses at court, it is useless for any so- clety to discuss the abolition-of the fash- fon.” To the ordinary layman or woman that reason seems to savor undue servility on the part of such a doughty spiritual lordship to the powers that be. There have been bishops in the past who have dared to express opinions that ran counter to royal notions, and have encouraged others to do so and have had their heads chopped off for temerity. Nowadays a bishop would not even be deprived of his hol see for allowing the freest sc discussion that might Involve criticis of his or her Majesty. Far be it from me to express an opinion on the deli- cate question of the relations between morality and the generous display of feminine charms which the decollete dress demands. Queen V who was a great stickler for would scarce permit one to 2 her drawing-rooms with neck shoulders covered even when 3 with a doctor's certificate. The Grar Old Lady was the cause of my ing a horrid cold once, but I bear no grudge on that aceount. Their p ent Majesttes, I am glad to say less stringent. It Is one of the mul form duties of the Lord Chamberiai to define just how low the “cu 8. come. Presumably he consults feminine relations on the subject. I think that in the interests of art a beauty scraggy women should be ex- empted even in royal drawing-rooms. —_———— CURATE B FOR HAND OF GIRL AT THE oria B ALTAR Swiss Clergyman Finds It Difficult Task to Marry Sweetheart to His Rival. GENEVA, Nov. 25.—A romantic scena took place at the altar of the church of Claro, a village In the canton of Tessein. The curate, a young man named Guetta, fell In love with a farmer's daughter, but although his suit favored by the father, the girl repeat- edly refused the curate's offer of mar- riage, and subsequently she became en- gaged to scme one else. The marriage day arrived, and curate was obliged to perform the c mony. When the bridal couple arrived at the altar, Guetta lost control of his feelings and passionately pleaded with the girl not to take the irrevocable step which would ruin his life. At last Guetta, realizing his Yalse po- sition, asked to be excused for a fe minutes, which he spent in prayer. turning to the steps of the altar performed the marriage ceremony in a voice suppressed with emotion, - but without breaking down. e Bupmble Still Flourishes. LONDON, Nov. 25.—Some people have imagined that Dickens’ satire killed Bumble, but they are mistaken. De- void of the saving grace of humor and utterly impervious to ridicule, he still flourishes in our midst and omits no little was the ere- w opportunity for self-glorification. FHe has found his latest opportunit. in the completion by the Strand Board of Guardians of a mew work house and casual ward in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. Such evidence of the increase of poverty and distress scarcely seems an occasion for festivi- ty and rejoicing. But Bumble sees In it the excuse for organizing one of those pompous little hole-and-corner deremontes in which his small soul de- lights. So he has arranged a “formal opening” with a procession, speech- making, refreshments, souvenirs con- taining his portraits and—ye gods!—a gold key to open the door with. Think of it! A gold key to unlock the door of an institution which is to be filled with the lowest types of human mis ery and wretchedness! The chlef Bum- ble will doubtless pocket it afterward as his particular perquisite and then with righteous zeal address himself to the task of saving the ratepayers' money by thinning the paupers’ gruel ———— Theresa Humbert IIL - PARIS, Nov. 25.—The famous Theresa Humbert, of phantom millions fame, is very ill in prison and is about to under- &0 a serious operation. She has written to a relative to say that if she survives she will, as soon as she Is released from prison, set about paying all her credi- tors, and that it will take her a couple of months to collect the necessary funds. ——— Social Hounor for Yankee Girl BERLIN, Nov. 25.—The former Mrs. William Mathew Lay of Washington, who was Miss May Lowney of Balti- more, and who is now Countess von Goetzen, wife of the Kaiser's Viceroy in German East Africa, will occupy a high officlal post in Berlin hereafter. Count von Goetzen is siated for the position of Director of Colonies. ~— COUNTRY ROUND . ABOUT, MARYSVILLE, SHOWING SOME OF THE SUMMER WORK OF ADA ROMER SHAWHAN.