The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1905, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1905. xe otherwise Mr. Fred and Miss Dorothy Ten 1 Widow.” 1 be serious, w say Tree is, vs but s Maker. e might have udente, instead with & recent llow fever Quaran- lik “Th ter flew t to ed Mr. Truesdell drawing-room, He was uch. That was Juntess Fixer." arrow and the actor is not was after I been comfortal fixed” by my hostess that her capa ue eye wandered Mr. Truesdell's way I owed, but still ot Miss Ten- then “com- hair how t a Tennant She less she is fixing some- Miss Tennar Tm going of them don't know them any- was Mr, won’t Truesdell's stand for. Angtry after-see ge went on, e I expected ther dense he ana A * he dissected, of But about it h ection of Mrs. Lang- s scting with the term *psychic.” nt here, he explained—Miss Ten- ng on with fraternal admi abnormal sensitiveness. person r ly gets over the he adde think this is :able to cut off the scores e | nce. That is the need supreme sensitiveness to do as ¥ absurd it is to no effect upon the ying the | two that col- It rat” nstead of a Quips and quirks, nothing College to the | and draping | I The the he laughed »ped into the hat is is to ake people more umanness ; BY BLANCHE PARTINGTO. at your service, and the |impression, and at the same time the power to cut off at will all the impres- | the currents of influence that sions, all do not contribute to success.” Miss Tennant shivered and said, ap- parently painfully apropos: ‘Last it, Freddy—" He replied: “Last nigh I asked. bia, a like an unalloyed triumph to me. “Oh, what we suffered those first two acts!” cried Miss Tennant. “You were| frightfuily cold. 1 thought we were gone— H “Went broke quite on the reception (the | " Truesdell faculty reception), didn't we chimed in. “Of course, 1 was frightened to death anyway,” the ‘“college widow” sald. “Coming home, you know—all there, and, you Itke to roast folks, you kno “I'm more afratd of playing San Fran- cisco than other place in America—" “I told the stage manager that I really couldn't go,.on again. ‘You little fool," he home said, ‘you've played the part 600 times in | New York. Go on, and laugh, laugh!' But I hadn't a laugh left in my sys- tem—"" Some of this and then I one of your own size! Chis appealed to the two Ade collegians. here to say that as Mr. Truesdell handsomely locks the college ath- s0 is Miss Tennant a splendid speci- Californian of young womanhood. she is, and tal the, supple and rounded of figure as only Cali ia es its best. Fair she is, blue and cool of eye, red of mouth and rose and white of skin. “What was the matter with last night?” 1 had been there, at the Colum- their first performance looked the girls TR 1 3 “Well, you tell it the gentle: The cushlons stayed on lounge only because 1 was there! But “Freddy” does prefer Shakespeare, | he owned, the Orlando and Romeo roles particularly. And he-does like tragedy. “He takes the world very seriousl this from *“Freddy’s” interpreter. “It’s the next .best thing to having it take you seriously,” the actor threw down. Washington is Mr. Truesdell's - home, and to my query as to how the drama had been able to wrench him from the diplomatic service, he replied: “That was what his people wanted to know—only, he had been intended for a clergyman.” Miss Tenrant shrieked gentiy and told me to set down oars of laughter here!” thin he added, “about our com Every now and then one man will say to another: ‘You know, I was educated for the minist; ‘Were you? the other says. ‘So was 1.’ There are simply bunches of them in the company.' And so, after feeling the muscles of Miss Dorothy's arm—part of the loot of “The College Widow" -engagement—the whole company has *gone athleti left them, fine, wholesome, merry, as their play. | said. OFFERINGSFOR WEEK AT THE THEATERS. Nance O’ ance in th Neil' will make her reappear- city after three years’' ab- Her hair, dusky gold, has a little forgot- ten the California sun 1 got from under to ask: “Well, with all your troubles, isn't this what you would rather be doing than anything | else? . “What about it, Freddy?" Miss Dor othy asked. “For me 1 want to get out of it. I used to think I wanted a career all that sort of thing. But| I'm bravely over it. I didn’t care a bit for the domestic life, but now’- a le, tender, unserious, girly sigh d the sentence. I dly think , it was intended for me.” But Miss Tennant promptly quashed e pathetic strain with: “If you had only been on the road with us—Whee but we have had a tough time! Ther was the yellow fever quarantine. Ther Ever on ti again an to vad ~wreck—ow! noise we think she’s gone he night we be k. from Truesd 1ldn’t take th “coliege widow mischievous hear now we Didn’t we!” Mr. Truesdell blit “But do you remember th eal ples with the flies in them? Ugh!” didn’t she! “You know,” added oy railroad information, wild States, the are trical people the tame g, this happens: ‘What, they Yy, ‘vank off have o el onl trib when of only Pull- veal eat I'm old Inutes to then and 1 can the minute to meet you think she says? I don't believ u are shan’t til you're gone! way I feel.” A it Tennant histor Bix ves ago Dorothy here at a New undat m in. O at home. left just ed do you mother, you ca too. But “My poor child, r here hat's the followed. ennant York dramatic gh comedy she likes, and it is wisest not to play of her teachers rather im- r that w: ; gave me Juliet once,” she re- giggling. “This is what about me. ,It was all right e potion ne though. He “This s you: ‘“Romeo, Romeo! thee behind me, there are others!” never die for any man’ T would,” she ended up. she went on, “it vho first encouraged m®¥. what I wanted, few things in my and win’ When one and that one said ‘don’t always ready to holler ‘don’t! Le Moyne was one and I said to ‘But how did you? " rs to study hool ¥ inks that O Get You no 1 told and he told me I favor 1 him had and to went East, her, irst with Mary Mannering then Miss Tennant's public experience; \spiring time in Henry Miller's 1d companies, and later two w Robert BEdeson as leading woman—"which was mnot his fault” she put it With Daly’s for several years was The College Widow half-back, I learned then. He took Joseph Her- bert’s place as comedian in musical comedy, played four performances a week jn musical comedy and four in kespeare at that famous theater. He isn’'t such a youngster as he | looks,” chaffed the lady. { “Was it musical comedy or Shakes- re that he preferred?”’ “Oh, peare,” I asked. Freddy goes more into Shakes- his hostess answered for him. pe on of the Montgomery like to be ‘on,’ you know. vould meet and say e Col- > Widwo” was in the wreck. ‘No ! ‘Let’s go and see them.' 1 till late, gentlemen.’ This box-office—Want your money | “No sir’—T weren't fooled into r a wre reatr yupe! There wasn't one ticket ned in. And we ended at some- | thing to 1 o’clock. And then didn't we ham and eggs! 1 she | what | left | was John | sence at ghe Grand Opera-house to-mor- row night. The programme for the first week of her season will be “The Fires of St ' a drama by Sudermann, never before furor wherever it has been presented, and in which Mise O'Neil has achieved one of the most important successes of her car: In Australia, from which Miss O’Neil has just returned after a tri- umphant tour, the press declared her one of the atest English-speaking actresses of t he Fires of St. John” will be hand- somely staged, and the strong company which is now supporting Miss O'Neil en- ables to present a cast of thorough her excellenc Tha roles will be distributed as follow Mr. Brauer, McKee Rankin George Ben Harten, Andrew Robson; Pastor Heffner, John Glendenning; Paul, rge Friend: Mrs. Brauer, Clara hompson; ertrude, Jane Marbury; /psy Woman, Ricca Allen; Katle, Peg Bloodgood, and Marie, Nance O'Neil. SR Ry Estha Williams and James M. Brophy | will appear at to-day’s matinee and to- | night only in the popular drama, “At the Old Cr Roads,” which will be remem- bered as one of their greatest successes. Sy The College Widow” begins a. sec- ond week to-night at the Columbia. The coredy has scored a hit in all quar- ters, not a single dissentient voice be- ing heard as to the fun and entertain- ment to be derived therefrom. It s rattling good. clean American material, | handled in the best rashion of George Ade and acted to a hair. It is for those blue and those not blue, for young and old, for subtle and simple, for. every one. And the crowds ure there thls week. ’ i & ry | . _The Tivoli has a delightful show in | “Rob Roy,” with Barron Berthald and | the other new people to the fore. As comic opera, it is as good as what the | Tivoli has lately been giving us in grand opera. The cast Is excellent and | the production beautiful. There will not be many more chances to hear the opera, as the Christmas show is in act- ive preparation. . - Alcazar will have what prom- to be a highly attractive offering . he Is this week in ‘The Secret of Polichi- nelle,” comedy that delighted all | Yaris iast season and all New York this. It tells the story of a runaway- son, who has married and who has a child t! the doting grandfather goes se- cretly to see. So does the grand- | mother, and neither knows the other's secret. George Osbourne returns to take the role of the grandfather. « s { hristopher Jr.” will be the bill | this week at the Majestic. In addition to the interest of the comedy, one of | Madeleine Lucctte Ryley’'s. best, the week will see the return of Elsie Es- mond, one of the Bishop players who found particuler favor here last sea- son. Miss Fismond has been in New York for the last five months. . . . They are to tuke things very serious- 1y up at the Alhambra this week, with the Tolstoi drama, “The Resurrection,” . CasEo The best of last week's bill at the Orpheum—Salerno, the wonderful; Char- ley Case and the Peldin Zouaves—are retained this week. New will be John T. Thorne and Graco Carleton, “the American jesters Raymond Finlay and Lottie Burke inma said to be good played here, which has created a | man the | | I blithe, ! | recitals L 2 | | | | | skit, “Stagelana Satire,” and Paulo and Marlow, English music_hall come- dians, in “A French Frappe.” . . . “Princess Fan Tan the leading attraction at the Chutes. It is a perennial favorite with Chutes patrons, and all children should see the Japanese extravaganza. e e Miner's Merry Burlesquers are at the California this week. FAMOUS DIOLINIST IS TO PLAY HERE. SAURET COMES THIS WEEK UN- DER THE GENEROUS WING OF WILL GREENBAUM. THREE CONCERTS ARE TO BE GIVE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS AND A SATURDAY MATINEE. I announce these concerts in capitals as they are that kind of concert, and if such attention as they deserve is not ac- corded to them it may go hard with the local music lover in the near future. The attendance at the recent Bauer was not encouraging. The house was hardly more than half full at any of them, and at the small Lyric. It* was worse with the Watkin Mills concert}, excellent of their kind. if this kind of audience is going to greet this kind of music we shall not long have this kind of music. We went without for one bad period before the without agalfi if the encouragement does not justify the Greenbaum enter- prise. 'Twould be much of a pity. Meantime, Sauret 1s one of the first French violinists, long and far famed, He came here at the very outset of his career many years ago, and is now iIn the full flood of his achievement. His assisting planist, Arthur Speed, s very well spoken of. Their programmes are most admirable, novel and full of meat. At the opening concert the two ar- tists will play the beautiful Schumann D minor sonata. M. Sauret’'s solo num- bers will be the ‘woncerto in F sharp minor, by Ernst, one of the greatest violin numbers, Max Bruch's Romanze, the Saint-Saens’ Introduction and Ron- do Capriccioso and & Scherzino of his own composition. Mr. Speed’s numbers wiill be Mendels- sohn's Varlations Serleuses, i8 again to be| Now, | Greenbaum era, and we are like to go | | | | | | | I Liszt's [ in the days to come, | prices ranging from 75 cents to $1 60, in- geniuses have passed in review, people will talk of the Bauer tone.” Spasm 2. ‘“Velocity under his wiry fingers is like a string of pearls, even | and of unfform delicate -tint. ~His ianissimos are gossamery, but they GENTHE never lose character.” | Spasm 3. “His pedal control seems | to make another instrument of the i plano at times so wonderfully does it merge and define phrases and sustain whole passages with a legato, organ- | like_efect | Well, one has seen Harold Bauer do- |ing a good many unusual things at the piano, but “inject a stamp”—he dldn’t do It here, Leone. According o authority that cannot be questioned he licked 'em all, even as you and L { nieces, | | | otker the Countess O'Donnel the present heirs, decla could not have been ‘wh dyifig in her home sc a false name in » ght T one the Princess Odescalchl, have sued ng the old sound she made the will and Instead harity hospital ———— DANCING MASTERS WAGE the lad mind nder WAR ON FROCK COATS Declde That They Should Be Entirely Banished From Marriage Ceremonies. 9.—French dancing and dep this week in congress here dancing, fashion, breedin everyihing relating th 20n, one of the British ¢ PARIS, Dec masters of lega and for: rtment to di etgn met uss . deporsment a Mr. Robert- tes, ree lied the fact that King Edward aceept dedication of a dance called La Pavar Mondaine, and it was decided to send him an address of admiration. A debate followed respective merits of the frock coat and even dress. The president of the congress ex- pressed the op was a lue thing for soclety dancing and deportm watch, as otherwise Paris soo its reputation for g bers heartily agreed wi passed a resolution that should be banished from monies. n frock marriage cere- ———— PUTS ASIDE TO TAKE UP Former War Minister B France Becomes Writ Radical Paper. PARIS, Dec. 9—Ex THE SWORD professors ¢ were ever on the ats THE PEN ertenux of er for teaux, not satistied with his return to Stock Exchange, to which immense wealth, has taken t. and will write editorially fo he owes o journ the Itra War Minister Ber- radical jowemal La Lanterne, which dur- ing his administration was enemy of the existing m and no sparer of Berteaux h The Ministe~ fallen from and more being thought of paladin and the most paradox richest er and multimillic age of current polit setters of social or aire socialist journ: in the form of a post cird written Iaid the Hohenstein alluded to the King's friend, a gendarme, who mation. it a feroc w aq £ th to infor- fous system s mor ixot People are saying that if he could only learn to control his vicious Abiltt | and acaquire political tact he might be- come a ver creator of forms in statecraft. —_——— Two Years for Lese Majeste. DRESDEN, Dec. 9—Theodor Hohen- stein, a poor waiter whose opinion of the King of Saxony is not ve igh, has been sentenced to the extraordinary term of two years' imprisonment for les majeste. For libeling the Kaiser severest gentence In recent years w nine months. Hohengein's offense took 1 family affairs in an unbecoming way. —————— Orchids for Her Guests. PARIS, Dec. 9—Mrs. John has the distinction of paying floral biils in Paris. Her Jacob the terary Hofr hes eas consume Hurdreds of dollars’ worth orchids and roses and whatever eise Then that “tinted velocity?” Are |rare and out of season. Wherefore cvers . —¥ | vou culte sure it was tinted. Leone? |one knew who was referred to when a DOROTHY TENNANT, WHO HAS | |One cannot be too careful about|cynie spoke In a certain salon of -ex MADE A HIT AS THE COLLEGB | | things of this kind. _Straight frank- | otic hostesses who,ask their guests’ ad- ; 4 |mess. was it tinted? You see we want | miration for % bills stuck singly In sin to know. He didn't give us ours tint- | gle Japanese vases.” In point of fact Feux Follets and the Chopin ballade, | ©di Nary a tint, and b’gosh we are not | many single biossoms that appear in her Bavr | going fo let Chicagé get ahead of us | salon cost more than that. At the Thursday concert two great | that L e sios et had i sk S —— e g Mm-S oo L simos not lose L e e e o0 a Sulte | character because they were “gossam. RSt e e Sutiog. by Gottlieb-Noren, not before played in | eT¥-" But why should they? And how | PARIS, Dec. %.—An American better D e o0 Sie the. Baint. | cOUld even Bauer “sustatn whole | Known in Europe than in her own cou Saens' Concerto and a work of his own. | Passages” only In the legato fashion? | {fY I8 the Princess Isnab S B Speed will be heard in the Fantalse, | Doubtless you are a very nice girl [Just fallen a victim €0 the prevailing | Leone, but you should be at home |Mmania for giving bridge teas. These bring Op. 49 of Chopin, and two Schumann numbers. At the Saturday matinee the two chief attractions will be the “big” Beethoven Sonata in C minor and the Dvorak Concerto. By special request | M. Sauret has consented to play the | Ernst Hungarian Airs, which no one interprets as he does. Finer pro- grammes of violin music would be dif- ficult to imagine. The concerts will be glven at Lyric Hall and scats are now | on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, the making fudge—the other kind. Pt S | The St. Louis musical scribbler of | the Dramatic Mirror is a quaint fel- low. Here is what he says of Eames’ recent visit: “Emma Eames sang at the Odeon Tuesday. It has since grown steadily colder In the South- west. Her attempt to sing ‘Away Down South in Dixie’ caused a thin coat of Ice to form on the river.” ————— WEALTHY WOMAN GOES TO HOSPITAL TO DIE cluding a reserved seat. o w e How far west IS Chicago? Here are some extracts from one of the big| dallles that may help to decide. Leone, | who is also Langdon, thus spreads her- | self upon a recent recital by Harola | Bauer, who has apparently taken Austrian Countess Represents Herself to Be a Destitute Lady's Mald. VIENNA, Dec. S.—In the Merchants' Hospital a woman who dled of consump- tion and who had come a few weeks pre- Leone as well as Chicago. That's all | Viously poorly clad and calling herself a right; it is only how Leone is taken destitute lady’s mald was found after that puzzles one. For this is the par- | death to be Countess Bela Batthynay, ticular kind of fit Leone throws. formerly Etelka von Tarnocsy, widow of Spasm 1. “He Injects a wonderful | & Wealthy aristocrat. personal note—an individual stamp— | Ier little bag contained her will, which into everything that he does. I think | entalled 10,000,000 crowns, left so that they when all these Should not be divided among her heirs. | The first to enjoy the estate was to be CHANCE FOR IMPROUEMENT IN ART By LAURA BRIDE POWERS ;004 news! One hundred thousand dollars presented the regents of the University of Cali- a for the improvement of the Mark pkins Institute of Art—a neat little as package from Mr. Searles of Barrington, who thus proves him- averse to using Hopkins doliars heosize Hopkins memories—which out not such a bad fellow, t akes him er all Well, the Institute needs it. And it needs more. In point of fact, it needs a lot more. It needs a new house, ed to its needs, and In a more accessi- Jocation. It needs a larger corps of teachers in its School of Design—princi- pally colorists and men whose knowledge of the principles of art is unquestioned— 17 su of » Let 1 Larmony, let the seal of Old World ap- al emblazon the brow of the worthy. us have men whose conception of art 4 and big and virfle, as befits the ad West, the product of liberal n, not only in art as a concrete thing, but in the corollary lines of general knowledge. As dean of the Institute—and its most there be—and for the sweet sake | potent inspiration — is Arthur F. Ma- | thews, one of the greatest mural painters in America. But Mr. Mathews, famous | in his phases of art as is Mr. Kelth in his, |1s essentially & low-tone painter. He | sees things that way, and paints them— | | very properly—as he sees them. And be- ing the potent—and whoily worthy—in- spiration of the puplls, they too, paint in low tones, whether they see it that way or pot. Now, untruth in art is as grievous | as untruth in materfal things. | It cannot be that all of these young, | | | | vigorous, red-blooded young animals in the School of Design, who ought to paint what they see and feel, see things done up in gray. It is contrary\to the primal laws of nature. The vigor of enthusiasm of youth—and the syndicated prayers of | all the world cannot adequately thank the | Good Father for it—decries the gray, the cold, the unylelding, the barren, the nega- tive side of warm, caressing, prolific, rosy-red personality of nature in its per- ennial youth. As is a man's personality, so is his art. Therefore shculd schools of art be not dominated by one personality or one tem- | perament. | Just as there are temperaments among |pupils. so let us have temperaments | among the instructors, that the pupil in art may geek out the type of teacher that is responsive to him—that is in harmony with his temperament. When we shall | have done this, fellow Californians, then | shall we have fairly well solved the | problem of education in liberal arts. Suggestions? Without having an opportunity of con- sulting with the gentlemen whose person- ality, development and production suggest themselves as desirable assoclates with Mr. Mathews in bringing the School of Design—which is really the digestive and circulatory organs of the Institute of Art—to the plane of developing a definite school of Western artists, I would sug- gest Willlam Kelth, who joys In the glad things of nature as shown in our beauti- ful and bejeweled California; Charles Rollo Peters, Charles F. Dickman, Amedee Joullin (w.> made many worthy painters during his = incum- bency as a“teacher there, twenty years ago, and who has learned a few things since)—these are a few of the men of experience and achievement that should be asked—and urged—to become in- structors of our embryo painters, now that the money is avallable, To be sure, it is among the possibilities that they would refuse—but for the wel- fare of the young artists who In the nature of things must ultimately estab- lish 2 Californla school in art, use in all the world and is the Orient with Occidental cultivation, and the Occident with Orfental exuberance. To the august regents of the University of California do I suggest, now that the time has come, an augmentation of the faculty along the lines of tempera- ment, progression, expansion and achieve- ment; and it is to be hoped that these qualities, rather than favoritism or Mc- Curdyism, will prevall when the expendl- ture of the new endowment presgnts it- self. s e . Eugen Neuhaus, whose exhibition is on at 424 Pine street, alongside of the master Keith and Maynard Dixon and Lillle V. O'Ryan, has been having a stupendous success. So successful has he been—this virile, vigorous young exponent of the Dutech school—tkat he announces an ex- tension of his lll.ml-.y m.xul December 15. Have you seen the pictures of J. W. Cantrell, a graduated newspaper ar- tist? .They are on exhibition at Kennedy's and it will pay you to drop In. He shows some fine studies in California sea- shores, where sky and ocean meet in azure harmony. His sand is real sand, and its molded breasts are draped with green and violet. Don’t miss these. . . California has no wvrototyne elsewhera| The Mavpard Dixons are back from | | Mott-Smith Cunningham. her sister Antoinette, an old maid; after her death her husband’s relations were In turn to be the heirs, Now three nephews, Tarnoczy and two SJCHOOL Arizona,-and are singing hallelujahs to thefr luck, having bumped into a great Indian dance—the grandfather ‘‘dance” (the Indian name stumps me)—in the out- skirts of a Navajo reservation, and one rarely seen by white men. It was given by the chief of the tribe fn celebration of the recovery of his mother from a grievous illness, and to it were invited some 3000 Indians. All night they danced before twelve big camp fires, weirdly garbed and masked, singing the incantation of their fathers, and invoking the friendship of the good spirits of the air. From this splendid panorama we have a right to expect much from young Dixon, now that he is back In his studio. e The exhibitlon of Theodore Wores is stfll on at Claxton's, and the seashore presentations are attracting a lot of at- tention, llkewise his beautiful bit of coun- try road. . v e The Guild of Arts and Crafts closed its exhibition at the St. Francis yesterday, and the presentation was a thing of joy. It proved a dandy place to take popper for a walk. A lot of my clever friends annexed things worth while, from a dex- | than these unworthy together the most noted elements of the French, American an society. She has also just j skating club, which is lished as the winter ciety purposes of Club. equit ac es —_— Russian groups in ined the new tab- alent for so- the exclustve Puteaux Home and Forelgn Consumption. Americans do not reform their munici- pal . governments, sald a disttiguished Edropean critic “recen because they do not want reform. The fact that so many cities in the United Sta erned in the interest of pa instead of In the interest would seem to substantiate comment on our citizenship tions. In ,our great seemed to be immaterial wh revenues should be devoted cent to public use: We ha the grafter in office and the ing politician on the erated in Hurcpe. Of corrupt meh in the Old Wor where except in the United the spectacle be ' prosperity outside ourse, seen of men the pe this and it er pu the to ve tole: tribute- far es would bde there rid, but States ne harsh institu- has Ny nger toi- from poverty to immense wealth in a few years, suspected by every one of dishon- est practices, and yet permitted to dom- inate municipal governme Sun. s.—Baltimore trously bound De Profundis to a ravish- ing dog collar of turquoise matrices, wrought by the dextrous fingers of May ONE THEODORE WORES CANVASES NOW r&"nmmamwmxwmnmrmxmlmn OF THE CALIFORNIA ARTIST. ON EXHIBITION AT CLAX-