The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 39

THE SAN FRANC ISCO <CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1905. 39 (Withthe Play lanche ? oy 8 +* = thind of Carreno's hus-, Chicago. (He lives there, I !emrrxedv (o acquaintance) or the sec !Vht‘n‘ for the present.) It was a list of { the great French violinists, is the | all the things musical that Chicago has teresting is hard to say. They and we haven't; from German, Ital- - here this week—M. Emile Sauret. | jan, French musical societies to the h I hag forgotte ot’s mari- | Chicago Symphony Orchéstra, “one of ction when 1 went to chat with | the best symphony orchestras. in the he other & self reminded | world,” he said. Only three hours a It came u e violinist's | day, every day, and at two concerts a 2 week, the public rehearsal and the reg- . ular concert, these Chicago men play “msa fol, but | together! Poor men of ours! worrying met my | & livelthood from the cafes, the thea- Francisco of | ters, from dandes, from _teaching. younger day | dragging (o a scant threg rehearsals— de, told me | end these cut to a gloriously ridiculous Ban Franc yester- | two hours by the union—for the one S symphony concert of the year! big house of to-day, the | What our men had done in this case | t we talked. When Sauret | 1 boasted here to the man from Chi- 1d us, the people were | CREX ver the beginnings of it he said, “you must do what Parisian spoke there 1id for Thomas. When he went was ars ago he did not mean to t One concert he gave, then an- Then o money ts. Thoma s a year. found they could concerts. So must be first a sta people the name of Mr. F. M. guarantor of the t's “Armour” their best if cafe, in the g hands In play In a wite, must clan's Amerfcans It needs put before u will soon society!” and out impulsive Sauret hand Ay pity ey must per ) S ool I for us,” I sald. et They I sre temperament in the D A lhert Mabt S “hicago zation, thinks M. Sau- A = ret, than in the famc Boston sym- . E orchestra. There was a delicious A hand-play. almost like Salassa’s, Boston's orches- its fabulous arvelous aca- of fi escription mpossible mble, what 8 Fran cy. For Pittsburg or- str i also good words, = ch . | 2150 for that of Cincinnati—where Mr. M Sooad il . | Hans Wagner comes from. & w re, with York,” he said, and stopped, . )¢ them | Shrugged his shoulders, “oh, New York plus gr is New York, international. But there e \g that a tremendous improvement musi- " visit here | €2 over America. In even the is ope s towns one can now play the big It is through”—only tiny, -of-fact bow pointed this—"the e Cest la mme. c'est vrail have the rime They go to to the lecture, to the thea- » the man. They give take from the 1 of the Amer- girl. He works all the time. He to work.” M shrug was pathetic, ye o work, : : no man. 1 have seen him, in Burope, e - -color say before a Corregglo. ‘It is beauti- e says, ‘but what is going on at o= s my office in Chicago? ™ go—as w do you think, then, in these res circumstances, of the chance of Ameri- I asked, without flinching. re ret did not know, but asked g t member that the country is s ve it a ch ™ Men that p 1 ady done things, he mention- : ighted r cDowell, Foote and others. The " tht through the pre- s native music, Indiag, development. - Most na- founded upon the your Grieg, all so German; vour 1 the Magyar en,” T interpolated. threw up his hands and Beethoven! He is is one. Your Lizst Oh, vour kespeare There is only one.” linist thinks there is for an American national persuaded that its day is far off, and that its way is the folk song, as with all na- singin je ame up then, and Sauret «d himself as pupil of De Beriot Vieuxtemps. — - ONE OF A GROUP OF CHARACTERISTIC HEADS TO BE ESEEN IN THE GREENBAUM STUDIO AT 916 MARKET STREET, SHOWING MARKEDLY | THE OLD WORLD TRAINING OF THE PAINTER. -— s > wealthy | then another, | ed | Then | rs and ¢ nd M. Sauret!” 1 added. “Of cou the great French master agreed, “you are always your own pupil. Systems—humbug! Each one has a dif- ferent system. One has twenty vol- umes,” Sauret's arms stretched to them, “to teach in forty years how to make a trill. Bah! Those who are to be great artist will be great artist. Two and two always make four. You cannot change. Yes! one must have good principles, har- mony, orchestration, history and then KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. And there I found M. Sauret's keynote —he knows what he wants. Week’s Offerings at the Theaters Naught new Nance O’'Neil offers this week, but for her an old play, “Camille, most appropriately after thi “Magda,” and “Elizabeth.” Many years it is since Miss O'Neil was seen as ( mille, and little curiosity as there is now concerning the play—and the less the bet- ter—there will be much to see the Ca- mille. “Magda” begins the week, its cen- tral role one of the actress’ greatest char- acterizations. Nor can one afford to miss her in ‘“Elizabeth.” One can less afford -to miss her here than in any of the plays, in fact. For here is where Miss O'Neil's characteristic distinctions have their wid- est scope, the heroic gesture, the grand air, the large, tragic diction, those things that make her what she is, a modern Ristori. Her death scene is a tremendous thing. It was in this scene, done by Charlotte Cushman/ that a celebrated doctor made for the stage, shouting: “The woman's dead!” One feels that way when Miss O'Neil plays it. To-night begins the third and last week of “The College Widow,” and sorry we shall be to part with the engaging lady S and her train. The play has been a suc- cess from its first minute, the most cap- tious fafling to find a hole for criticism. Next week comes Willlam H. Crane in “The American Lord.” The charming French comedy, “The Se- cret of Polichinelle,”” has two more per- formances at the Alcazar to-day. No one | should miss it. ‘“Brown n” will | fill in between this and Christmas week, a | handsome production of “The Prince and | the Pauper” to be given for the holidays. | . N The Tivoli's Christmas show, “Orpheum in Hades,” begins to-morrow night. It is said to be a splendid picture show, with plenty of fun and fine music. i For the last week of their engagement with the Bishop players, the Neills, who have already oversiayed their original contract time by forty weeks, will be seen this week in “If I Were King.” The play will be elaborately mounted and the fa- | vorite players will doubtless be the sub- | . to weep with those who weep you will find.plenty to do at the Al- hambra this week. The biil s *East | i want | Lynne.” | | It you ot The Kloes Sisters, “imported direct from Berli: will do a sald-to-be won- derful acrobatic stunt at the Orpheum this week. There are three of the Kloes | sisters, all young Kloes. Clayton Kenne- &y ana Mattie Rooney bring a and Haidee Weston will sing. The Road Show next week. The “Princess Fan Tan™ continues for to-day at the Chutes, “Cleopatra Date’ following, beginning to-morrow The Barnes Diving Elks continue. A . “The Thoroughbreds"” will continue the burlesque wheel at the California. Srian e The Central, under the new manage- ment, is apparently destined to live up to its old reputation as the home of the mellowest of melodrama. the Bishop management. | splendiferously redecorated and recar- | The new company includes ~ Robert Wayne, the leading man, Edna Archer | Crawford, the leading woman, George Seymour, Prince Winters, Willlam Abrams, and Marle Howe. First of the plays to be given will be “The Eye Witness,” by Lincoln J. Carter, sketch, | Up to| Next Saturday | night the house will be reopened under | It has been | { peted, and will be entirely recompanied. ’ which will be'producgd for the first time in New York aiso on' the same evening. The ‘‘great scene” in ‘“The Eye.Witness™” is where an automobile leaps a chasm when the drawbridge is open. Dick Hotaling’s New ‘“Shylock” To-morrow evening will add a new Shy- lock to history, entirely home-grown and of other interest, eke one “Dick” Hotal- ing’s. The man that does not want to play Romeo, if he wishes to play anything marks out a Shylock. And Shylock is Mr. Hotaling’s desire. Prophecy would be safer on Tuesday than to-day, but the warrant for Mr. Hotaling's desire would geem tothe considerably more powerful | than in the usual case. I have not seen | the new Shylock act, but I have he: Mr. Hotaling read, and at this rare: accomplishments he is one of the most accomplished it has been my luck to he He t s wi volce that it is a | to waste upon a private life, and re: with w if it were a Mansfield one would freely dub a bril a spoke of, | intelligence, not to speak of an unfailing poetry. Mr. Hotaling has his own ldeas of Skylock, naturally—one that his lines | should be flavored Jewishly, but we shall sce. That the performance will be inter-\ esting there is no manner of doubt, and | that the Doctor's Daughters, for whom | the affalr will be given, will be vastly | benefited thereby the Majestic records for to-morrow night handsomely testify. Noted Musician Has Passed Away| jo. & Therefore to whom turn I but thee, the ineffable Name, Buflder and maker, thou, of made with hands! ‘What, have fear of —change who art ever the same? houses not from thee @\1 CTURE IS ¢ AND THE SMALLE SAURET, VIOLINI Doubt that thy power can flil the heart that thy power expands? There never was lost good! What was, shall live as before: The eyil is null, is nought, is silence infplying sound: What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken ares; in the heaven a perfect round. XI And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fuliness of the days? withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but Have we that singing might dssue thence? Why rushed the discords i but that harmony should be prized? Sorrow hard to bear, and doubt Is slow to clear. Each sufferer says his say, his scheme | of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom ha} whispers In the ear: The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. XIL Well, it is earth with me; silence re- #ic FOlR. sumes her relgn: I will be b: tient and proud, and sober- I mon chord again, Sliding by semitones, till I sink to the teel for the com- minor—y And I blunt it into a and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile heights 1 rolled from into the de: Which, hark, I have for my res The C major of th try to sleep. So, nobly s went Henry Holmes to his “perfe round. But a few knew until the dear clay was dust this splendid old spirit had struck C major of this life a sad Saturda a week ago. On Tuesday last, by his valiant wish, rode forth alome om i last ride body of him who was Henry Holmes, friended only by the song of him who was his fr These things were his wish, fine as the ma was fine; that Browping, friend of | sout, 1iv should speak for hix dead, in the brave creed of “Abt Vog! and that Charles Keeler, gent poet lover, should voice the song. And |so it was done and “Abt Vogl was : agd other songs of Browning. | g the bright faith of the old.mm sician, and almost, think e W {were there, the fine old face smiled lfrnxn its heights of peace. Seven years ago here, with sons and 1 he wished to gi the New W he was born i tinuing a able as it and his brot career 1s rable. Mr. a violinist Hol of ai he —also tinction—were pup of the father, ngularly t play at {all himself, but who. aching of th two younggters was such succe ful nature as to meet the approval of such men as Spohr, and to ez the young players all eclat through a brilliant coneert upon the Conti- {nent. Mr. Holmes after this spent con= | siderable time in Copenhagen, Stock- ng which time holm and Vienna, dur came to know the P 8s Alexandra, now Queen of Engla whom, as Princess of Wales, lessons in ensemble playin Afterward he settled in London, en- tering upon a career of brilliant and varied artlvity. He led the famous Holmes chamber music concerts for ec iderable pe- his first distin riod, winning her After this he was chosen to succeed Joachim as conductor of the Monday Popular Concerts; buf it is possibly as the founder of the orchestra of the Royal (ollege of Music that N Holmes 1s best known p As a composer possibly his string quartets and quintets, some of distin- | guished beauty, best nt Henry Holmes. His works, sver, In many other®forms of composition sy | phonies, cantatas and violin works | among jhem. One of his symphonies, | “Fraternity,” was played by the local | symphony orchestra some few years | ago, under Mr. Holmes' own direction. His quartets, too, have also been given {here, in the chamber musie concerts | led by Mr. Holmes, in which his gifted little pupll, Kathleen Parlow, used to play. Mr. Holmes' local career has been | chiefly that of the teacher. It has been marked, it seems almost superfluous to say, by the same high devotion to the artistic ideal, the same superb earnest- ness, the same magnificent conseience that has characterized his life through- out. Compromise for him there w none—things mundane might have been less duncult had there been. Bu “The high that proved too high, heroie for earth too hard,” is for him no longer; and for us only the tempered regret for one who has | done his work, and done it well. S R s the The elect should note the anmounce- ment of a series of chamber music con- certs in contemplation by Wenzel Kopta | for the new year. The concerts are to be | on a subscription basis, and Mr. Kopta ‘expresses his confidence that “there are sufficlent lovers of classical chambes music in this city to support a of three chamber music concerts.” Two | hundred subscribers only at 32 50, at which price the season tickets are se {will put the series on the necessa safe, footing. These should be easily found, and those desirous of becoming | subscribers will find subscription lists at Sherman & Clay's, Kohler & Chase and Benjamin Curtaz’'s music sto address directly Mr. Kopta at 127 Hyde street, or Mrs. Oscar Mansfeld 1801 Buchanan 33 | The members of the guartet this sea- n are Wenzel Kopta, first violin; Hans Koenig, second violin; Andre Verdi | viola, and Wenceslas Villalpando, v | loneello. Mrs. Oscar Mansfeldt, as last year, will be the pianist of the organ | zation. | Mr. Kopta's own | or Friday evenin | way Hall. He w | Oscar Mansfeldt Mr. Gyula Urmay, | companying. Following good programme s violin recital January 5, at Stein be assisted by Mrs. the piano and by P very is se at who will do the is the { Piano and violin. sonat o | (Beethoven): (a) Allegro, | prestvo, (c) Scherzo | troppo, Mrs. O. Mansf certo for violin, op. 13 | Ballade, G minor (Chopin) | teidt: violin soloe—(a) ‘“Roma (Saint-Saens), (b) “Eifentana, © ¢ from op. 3 | @ avish Dance.” from op. | © “Fantasia,” sur le sextet de “Lu | Lammermoor,” for violin alome (Lubin): fan tasie-bravura, “Molse,” for the G string only | (Paganini. AN AUACANGHE OF ARG EXHIBIGIONS PRECED Could it be that the unholy desire to become possessed of money—that un- beautiful, sordid thing for which butchers and plumbers and other mere materialists (even as.you and I) are seeking—hath precipitated the avalanche of art exhibi- tions that are with us? Avaunt, sacri- legious thought!—for is not completion the logical terminus of beginnings? In truth, are the exhibitions displays of com- pletions—completions of summer work and autumn developments. And the money? Even artists have uses for it at Christ- mastide. . The H. J. Breuer exhibition at Schus- slers’ has been the most important pre-sf sentation among the progressive painter folk during the month. And if you have not seen it, drop in there when you finda spare half-hour. Particularly let me commend to you “Berkeley Hills,” as fine a thing in col- oring, drawing and conception as the impressionist school of California paint- ers has yet created. His “Sunset,”” a superb mass of clouds of molten gold aflame, rioting across a turquoise sky—that 1is the contended thing of the exhibition. Below the won- drous clouds—and you and I have seen just such tremendously dramatic sunsets .o light. This picture is the picture of the collection that lures me again and again, and haunts me when I leave. There is in those flaming clouds that wonderful metallic gorgeousness that we see in au- tumn sunsets, and that seems, in the picture, to be produced through some “trick.” And trick it is, this metallic re- production, but a trick of legitimate art, an achievement of genius. Oh, yes, I have heard many worthy folk cackle at it. I have heard them cavil over the ‘“exaggeration” of It. But we must remember thalt God hath denied to some the “seeing’ eye. The other people | have the “looking” eye. To them, per- haps, whose imagination is limited to the length of their senses, Breuer's “‘Sun- set” is exaggerated. But for us to see in it a portrait of nature, in her royal robes of gold and vermilion, there is much of joy in living. . . Joseph ‘Greenbaum's studio at 916 Mar- ket street—where he is a neighborly neigh- bor of Latimer and other earnest fellows | —is one of the most interesting workshops in Bohemia. It is interesting from the standpoint of achievement and from the personality of the painter. Though mightily busy—and no busier chap in the colony is there than Joe Greenbaum—a visitor is always sure of a | welcome—that is, nearly. always. The { enly possible chance of the studio door not swinging wide open is the presence of a sitter, or the exquisite little French model who has been Mr. Greenbaum's in- . | Hght of the lowering fireball. Californian is evident in'the execution of these exquisite portraits, notably “La Jeunesse" and ‘“‘Beatrice.” Later than these are three heads, each with its own individuality and mood, that are simply stunning. It is in this type of Work, por- traiture, real and ideal, that I like Green- baum best—and this not to undervalue his landscapes, for in this phase of work he has -demonstrated his worth In some paintable bits of Golden Gate Park, nota- bly about the Chain of Lakes. In thesc canvases there is demonstra- tion of a fine poetic feeling, a supercon- | sciousness of the moods of nature. Take those deep red sunsets of his, for instance, | with the landscape aglow Wwith the ruddy | There you | have a little poem of departing day, but bearing & new message—one of gladness and cheer, a suggestion of eternal day. ®en N The Partington School of Drawing and Tilustration, 424 Pine street, presented to | its friends an exhibition of its work yes- terday afternoon, and much honestly | earned praise was distributed by the visit- ors, ’ for the most part, distributed tairyt | The gem of the exhibition was a por- trait by Mr. Partington—a portrait that is strongly reminiscent of the old Dutch masters in coloy. Superb is the tone of the painting, and in point of drawing it is a fit study for his very-much-in-earnest pupils. in the studio—and mightily gracing it— hang two portraits done by Mr. Parting- | spiration of such stunning things as during the hazy days of October—a su- shown at Hopkins and at the Sequola. ‘perbly toned forest laved in the evening l The old world training of the youn;l ton Sr., one of Ima Coolbrith, and the other of her ecompanion in poesy, Joaquin Miller. Such pictures as these are treas. | ES By ures, both from Jects. Among the praiseworthy work was noted that of D. B. Martin, Miss B. Charitor Fortune, Miss Gertrude Morin. Miss Dollie Trost, Miss Litchfield, Miss Sayles, Herbert R. Chapin and a half- | dozen others whose names have lost themselves somewheré in my brain-cells (assuming that I own some). et Out on Van Ness avenue, at 1421, the Roorbachs—Eloise and G. S.—are holding an interesting exhibition of their work, most of which is production in olls. During the week many visitors enjoyed a profitable hour among the pictures, and during next week it may fall to my lot to see them. Unhappily, we inksters must | follow the physical law of being at but one place at one time—hence the omis- sions of many worthy exhibitions and many hours of pleasure. . Beginning December 14, and running through the week, is a display of the pie- tures of Best's art school at 916 Market strect. The hours of reception from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. Since Mr. Best's return from Mexico, where he became charged with the glam- our of the primitive country, with its riotous coler and its plcturesque people, | he has been an inspiration to his pupils, ! who, ton, feel the spell of the Land of | minute over 20, frail but the Aztec. . Lille V. O'Ryan Is o'er busy these ante-holidaye, working in her Pine-street studio with a fine enthusiasm upon a large the standpoint of art ofl portrait of Mrs. worth and public appreciation of the sub- | This sparkling, clever, high-strung lit CHRISGMAS Laura RBride Powers Fernando Pfingst. woman will enable Miss O'Ryan to duce In San Francisco something of t type of work that wom her recognition in New York—where cognition isn't picked off rose bushes. It is somewhat amusing to hear pat- | ronizing painter folk—rhostly women. by | the way—say in a superior manner: “Why ’doesnl Miss O'Ryan keep to her minia- | ture work. She does that so weil!™ { | In answer, I would say that miniature | work—ot which Miss O’'Ryan is the finest exponent on the coast, with Miss Grace Wishaar a worthy second—was taken up in San Francisco upon her arrival. stmpiy because there was a demand for it. She had done many superb *&rie* in New, York, and her reputation had pre- ceded her. The people here clamored for miniature, to the exclusion of large por- | traits; and now the pendulum is swinging { back—hence the resumption of her paint- | ing in oils, which she alternates with her | miniatures. I trust the apelogy will be accepted. { The very qualities that distinguish Miss | ORyan's work have come into it from | her big work; and that is the secret of | the success of Grace Wishaar, whose ‘lboldnm of treatment has come to her | from—now, what do you suppose’—from scene painting in a theater. | This little woman, who doesa't look a terribly in ear- | nest. with a pair of black eyes that look ! holes through you, iy the scenic painter | of the Majestic and Ye Liberty theaters. 11( is this training that is taking the namby-pambyism out of her miniatures.