The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1905 BY BLANCHE. PARTINGTOY — i It the rnir he very ell, s it vy ven- - r see fu::nf: v m:}:‘m st- }’x‘n]: r::nhhs"ofm?mi g:‘nwc};:_?;;n:ss::_ provoking “A Stranger in a Strange] not so much by physical overbearance as " tros, Rihois nd glitiering in | €UNE its 3% a week meanwhile before her, | | Tamp? : < e o ue veien ol et g 3 ¥ and the 3 3 8 Lo . i urniva Ve, . seemed only & |° ‘_“ 'm')‘m']"'OB"’;l'l""r’:‘“:':v‘; hIfxrx.cl Y‘:z New Year's day will be most appropri- | Petruchio is a kind of Faulconbridge m v | ,“"“_h that'T ‘wis Singiraiaion m"-sm ately ushered in at the Majestic by Miss | ‘farcically making himself out worse me! she Jaughed. Followed then ‘Miss Amelia Gardner in one of her best roles than he really is." He is a practical cate Nielsen's well-known successes with the o TWhen e Ween: Twustl ot NG KU SRS 99 WM Sui ferfoes ke M oo s Bokoolias, i bey et Bthriing e Gardner- made many friends while she | ploits off the stage thac for climactic ef- lin “The s\h;m GIrl” and *“The Fortune was here and will doubtless be warmly | fect it is difficult to parallel them on the { Teller.” It ww g % welcomed to-morrow afterncon. stage. ‘There, take it to you, trenchers, | as in “The Fortune Teller” . P . that she went to London, under the direc- « s e cups and all.’ wrote the poet. and imme [ tion of George Musgrove. And it was in “A Fight for Love" will be fought for | JIately followed it with the stage direc: the man next me | The Fortune Teller” that Henry Russell the last time to-night at the Alhambra, | 107, ‘throw the meat about the stage xt him. | heard her, and The Chance came. “The Heart of Maryland," beginning|In act IL_scene I. Hortensio is de- nedl oML vy Shunwell! Thece was b bIL ST | with to-morrow afternoon's performance, | S¢Tibed as ‘Enter Hortensio with a broken ssed or mink, sister- | tiful gratitude in Miss Nielsen's voice as running the rest of the week. — ;:';:&';:";::‘:“;:: vl she said the name. There was gratitude Hinh . x® o s e - b M b2 B, e SeRt ko e 11 way, will present this week Ralph Stu- | ics after Blanca.’ In this act. too, 17 K say, as [ hand- 3 > X < | art'’s romantic drama, "By Right of | ndicated ‘business’ for Kathagine in he \ttle | " {here now—if you want an interview | Sword,” in which the author-actor re- | 5cene with Petruchio is that ‘She strik 2 o s & swees | there is one worth while. Ohb, I stmply. | e oan A rAhe Gt et Ol R N 0 ok Oesghout “(he. D&Y tthe & . o ‘r;m:mxr tell )u'\; w‘hm A‘\{r, Russelrl‘ v‘"‘“i | G iial g wherever the poet is at pains to indica : & done for me. He has done evervthing. | 5 2 stage dlrections it Is but to emphasize <o he s He. hai tanght Shs evetythink>" hil tine. The Orpheum Road Show, now in its | qyrhylent, impetuous a spirit that it i - given me every gpportunity. It is only second and last _week, will have a dis-| gicylt to kaep pace with, the yery ex k { h (e ! tinguished additiBn this week in the erst- T2 S e sl : right I should sa¥ this, that you should | 4 g sy ey s 2| travagance he himself intended the farc: S understand it, that you should tell the| | O Oaklang "wh‘o'(_o‘m“ »r _*‘l‘ '-l "'""‘! "n should possess. e people about it | aooromiate Tole of setor. Mr Davis may |- It Is an elenlentary. fact that norle 1 had hoped Mr. Russell would bel | R o atis T o™ Davis may | the poet's plays—indeed. almost none o here,” I told her. The next minute she | | \ e _trusted, as always, for good acting. | pis great'roles—is capabie of but a singl 3 : | and is sald to bring a little company and » was in the next room. There was a chat- | > . Interpretation. Their glory and d & s || 3 ‘ a little tragedy that have recently made | o+ each new appearance upon the stags . ter of Italian, another evidently home- { | 7 S Il s Gl 1 vatibenrie: e PE P singe Italian at the other end (her’ | \ L e a;—oh:h.:fl:‘ar-. ‘h;‘do|1rl,;:r;.:.‘;v‘\,;h» :\D\avc'm click, P she * | 7 3 # S sight, the novelty with ch one § i qua i e Moks & RS, & ST, #08 W8 N l_fl‘;:;m;al:flrl !":O-dml: i be given | views a part. in distinction. perhaps i € int - i) e o en « e last time to-day and to-morrow at | spite, of the appeal it might have mac w n Ny st .‘Jh‘”w_“"(i‘“‘f and 45 e Chilon’ Oir Tostihy', (e miale 1nec | 1n et Wt e (e ot ol xt cozies O e A e igh e clalty bill will be resumed, this week's | Giotto on the Last Supper no less than . - R e : ! including CHff Farrell, the Salvini Broth- | that of Leonardo da V despite the fact e I g et e T ki s NI crs’ Galety -Girls, Ruby Hawkins and | that one is quite different in conceptic e b . I oy Ly eslommgpdiniger < o | Polly Hazel and Nellle Montgomery. from the other. But it Is the provinee : ‘ 1gh it Xind. - What 3o vou thin | boii i the well disciplined mind and partieular] S s K slix S Do | “The Merchant of Venic “The Tam- | of him who speaks with the v a ) denn E & 1 e D e e g of the Shrew" and “Tweifth Night” | thority, to recognize the resp : < stroke yes :-.u the rep B “1 good 1| & will be the new Shakespearean delights | of each. JULIA M look s al, her 1 D Ik help w1 S that Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern $o Ty k . will bring to us this seasor, as they are 5 1 . rimas to London.] ;m:,—ed.] e w] ‘ | | now delighting the East. The commenda- GRAND OPERA SEASON se £ would Chae L Auoehnit Ay, & | |tion extraordinary has been bestowgd upon I p ould Sty retated then | | | | both players. tn ail o their roles. Li TO OPEN AFTER LENT ng . s a orus girls weat to study | | | | wise, hopefuily, much discussion of new w oyed me to Qeath | | phases of their interpretations has been | Charles W. Strine, on behalf of Helnrich B s | aroused. Their “Taming of the Shrew,” | Conried, president and managing director vas w she annoyed him to death] | in particular, has been the subject of the | of the Conried Metropolitan Opera. Com . hen there was a man that most varied comment. It is played in|pany, announces that arrangements hdve g7 N ng Mr. Russell to g0 to hear | the broadest comedy key, by all account, | just been completed which will give to s . s g S i | | and to this some of the more conserva- | San Francisco the most ambitious seasol K 0! a—Mr. Russell did—that he | tive critics have taken active exception. | of grand opera in its musical history ave be t st te sure I had ‘a voice like a cat’ I} | Miss Marlowe, one of the Aforemost| The season will be given by the Comried g . ‘ . guess it was to get rid of them both that | | Shakespearean students in America—or, | Metropolitan Opera Company at the ke me bt i o P | for that matter, anywhere—has taken ex- [ Grand Opera-house. It will begin on K en ke = s da t into raptures. | ception to the exception. Here is her | Easter Sunday, April 16, 1906, and w sa 1 otice it.” Miss | | wise and witty comment: continue for two weeks and will inc] so tre s e said hedidn't | | “Jt may well be questioned whether one | sixteen performances. Grand operas & s & ; who attempts he new, the unexpected in | French, German and Italian schools will s » = t any department of art should not abide | be presented in a aanner that will admit e K rhaps good spots. | hy whatever comments the result evokes, | of no comparison with any .ormer sea ere was 5 becaus wast | lookirg to another rather than to the | son, save alone the remarkable series of r y that pitter patter | present day for a just appreciation. It is | performances given under Mr. Conried's = s X ) | || well known that so eminent a ‘critic as | direction here last season. the memory N | | | William Hazlitt was betrayed into the se- [ which is still fresh in the minds of mu- 2 | | |rious blunder of grossly denouncing the | sical San Franciscans. ” deviit { intensely tragic Shylock of Edmund Kean | Mr. Strine, under whose local manage- i simpl; cause frcm youth he had only | ment the San Francisco season will be Pping | | [seen the roie interpreted as a comic, gro- | glven, and whose opinion of San Fran d dancing a cakewalk | que figure, a subject for laughter. cisco as the greatest musical city of its s A the line of th | “Mr. Sothern and myself are in the midst | size in the world, has been vindicated by s { | |of an experience parallel-with that of | the financial and artistic results of other s . | As far back as one may go ‘The [ notable seasons here, says: Nielse | | ng of the Shrew'—ever overdeco-| ‘“After much argument I induced Mr. 14 rously enshrined as a classic beneath the | Conried and his general business man- . s . 2 told me what he thought | | |auresle of the name Kespeare—has | ager. Ernest Goerlitz, to consider the 1 Lisg aps do, and,” Alice Nielsen's | been performed as if it were of classical | giving of the season which is now - . - s cle re fiber—comparative in dignity and |ranged for. At the conclusion of the g . perhaps | e to ‘As You Like It or to ‘Twelfth | series of performances in San Francisco ss be at can help me. Allmy | ! ' 1ts true spirit has been lost be- | by the Conried Company last spring, [ far to | life 1 wanted this thing. But noone,| | the incongruous avsterity with | broached the matter to them, but they . d to elevate me. | | whicia such performances have clothed it, | scarcely believed that it was possible to < s good enough | | I fand utte from these renditions | obtain such results as were then secured | with only a year iftervening betwe the £y t has beer the central idea of k but all the time I w t nig ng this. 1 wasn't well | its author, who. as a keen theatrical man- | seasons. I calied to their minds my ex- T nd 1 had about given | | . wrote this piay for an Elizabethan | periences with the Melba tour and the N 1 no money, | which he knew only too well | engagement of the Ellis Opera Compay w wber. Then | . the full the wild, furfous { of 1898-99, and likewise the experiences et took me—you can imagine that | | : of Elizabethan farce- Mr. Grau and the Metropolitan Opera = 1 teful | 1t is difievit to reconcile the sub- [ Company in 1900 and 1%1. And that was the ehd of Alice Niel- | | Cignificd. restrained interpretation | “San Franciscans will doubtless reca L v w ic opera career. She entered| | | - play, either with the text itself or | the fact, then exploited in all the news ® irse of study with Mr. | | the cuinion of any reputable com- | papers, that the twelve performances of S0 were w A w she speaks as a| | | ntators. | the Conrfed season in 195 far outclass: rites. Hish breathing, | | B thes2, such as Fleay, Ward, | in financial results any series ever given s Sembrich is the | jE all and our own American Furniss, | here. To convince Mr. Conried that a P is method, 1 for eight| | | | the imvariable ng is thal ‘thls is the | other season in the spring of 16 wa - s ¢ hing else. | | |on bread farce-comedy . with which | I'kely to surpass even that astorishing r she recounts, and 1} kespeare's name ‘is connected.” Why | result was by ne means an easy ta: - 1 of a mouth to show | |shoula these admitted authorities in | T finally brought Mr. Goerlitz to my wa pearly teeth as it] | | Shokespeareana make so sharp a dis- | of thinking, and logethei we then pre e asked me to do that and | | tinction between the spirit of the ‘joyous’ | vailed upon Mr. Conried to consider t 2 be Ah! TF wasn't a sound! I'd comedies and this palpable farce, unless | subject.” It may not be amiss to remind € e the proper vocal | he context of the latier demand that it | the people of this city that the Metropoli s r sat t ke little }Z/ZLJZ’/‘/ | |ve given in a different spirit than the |tan opera n in New York covers a £ talked of the psychologic | former? riowever, we rest the justifica- | period of seventeen weeks. Besidesfthis I soare hod. How she 1 tion of our ideas on nothing less substan- | it Includes fourteen performances in Phil- g . B hout singing | | the authoritative folio edition of | adelphia, only ninety miles away, which T a car them with , | : rely on no other authority than | is compeiled to put up a very large cash - e ( i “to hate to | £ Shakespeare's cwn text. By this we do | guarantee to induce the Metropolitan im- Be : every mo- | | | |not mean the Booth edition, which was | presario to include that city in his plans. or thought of | | | |so cut and altered that it could be played | “This city, however alwa¥s ro- . w s with her t's funny, isn't| | 1y an afterpiece to ‘The Merchant of | sponded so magnificent offerings € 'm not talking like a | sfe— = S s % 7 4| Venice'; nor that of the laté Augustin |of the great overa companies that no > PRETTY LITTLE OPERATIC STAR WHO HAS MADE A BIG HIT HERE, WHERE SHE VORITE, AND WHO EX Daky Which Totainte tie spukices. Iudie- [ Gghagev. hae over had. the. teodty s » listening like one, if you are,” PR HER DETERMINATION TO COMPEL THE NEW YORK CRITICS TO LIKE 3 10 WRITE KIND THINGS tion, degpits the fact that It is utterly | exact or even request a guarantee, ne = | 1 encouraged ABOUT HER WORK. unrelated to the play proper, but other- | withstanding that San Francisco i a| Twenty-nine lessons a day Henry | % e wist interpolated and transposed the | three thousand miles from New York v g R 1 was giving in London, she told ner the Winter version, which is | But nevertheless the risk of bringing = f Tnd &1l these the famous teacher | the¥ gave, with Caruso as the Duke: | would be glad to hear the San Fran-, and her confrerss. The production itself ‘lly interlarded with long passages | organization of %0 people, including prin- ven up to d s eureer | Maurel as the Rigoletto, and little | cisco girls' voices, and say that they | js unusually handsome from the picture | ntterly forcign to Shakespeare's originai | cipals. orchestra, chorus. ballet and me- i P v - B K e Bt “to Manciient 1o’ Rens ] Alich Gilda. There was “La Bo- | might come to him at the St. Francis, | side. text. Dut we mean the text itself, as it | chanical forces, together with every ac . &< jce in the Mancinetli | heme” with Caruso as Rudolfo, and|and that he was here on a voyage of ¥ | most probably left the poet's hands and | coutermeng that goes to make up the Eirl g ron € Then ne the encour- | Nielsen as Mimi. There was “L’Amico | discovery? 3 The Tivoli will have Alice Neilsen again | as it was printed with his stage directions | personnel of a grand opera company - 2 ) successful appearances in | Fritz” “La Traviata” “Don Pasquale. “What does he think of the Aneri- | this afternoon for the second and last|in the year 1623 distance of 2200 miles is a tremendous = Naples. After t came the|But it was in “Il Barblere” and| can voice?” I asked, finally. .| rerformance of “Don Pasquale.” The| “All we ask of those who disagree with | undertaking. and only the magnificent me :mous London triumphs. Her | Don Pasquale” that the little Ameri- | “That it is the finest in the world,” | cinger has won a splendid success as | our interpretation of the play is to read | manner in which San Francisco alway magir B ion grand opera appearances|CAD Wwon ~her greatest favor, “the | the small soprano averred. Norina, and the tenor, Signor Pratti, is | the text, and particularly its stage direc- | responds to such evidences of faith in a were at Covent Garden, under 4he Kr"d“‘-‘l‘ D“rfori“v"‘(;"’: of these 09:';‘(;‘ R excellent in the support. tion—helps that are very seldom found in | her ability to support the greatest of the what ¢ Conried direction. Here she sang the | ©Ver £iven in London.” so some said. To-night the regular Christmas bill of | any of the poet’s plays. It is our tempo- | World's singing organizations induced Mr ot A Zerlina Do: and Su- | _ Next vear, that is, last spring, 1905, ATTRACTIONS AT THE the Tivoll will be given, the “Orpheum :m‘-yomnsrcrrx’une \:be oftering our pu:fic Conried to consider my' requests for an- t zar (“Le N a:0”). But her | MT- Russell opened the new Waldorf iin Hades,” and will be distinguished by | the real text of Shakespeare, devold of the | other big opera season. e ¢ oot oo o heT | Pheater in London, with Calve. Allce LOCAL PLAY-HOUSES ! the reappearance of Teddy Webb. conventionalitics and traditions with| ‘“The particulars of the engagement will N himssit ave- o | Nislatn and. Duse sinsits, ‘-;;’m"“;":)’;! % | oo e which it has been incumbered for years; |soon be forthcoming. Herr Conrled will . . . e opera at Covent | a8ainst AL i Dol 3 i : | The Columbia management i ¢ nd to our surprise many persons have | send to the Pacific Coast the greatest as- g." v 1 ith Caruso and|®r® Calve to sing one night, Duse| ‘MonnaVanna,” the Maeterlinck play in-| p,ving persuaded Mro W H vl‘:::i«‘ 13 Tatled to rr‘ccgnl‘;ell. e i s | aniitoqs ' oiiets Be et Sru tulid She sang all = arts. Sata- | company! “Rigoletto,” [ 0 act one, and Miss Nielsen to ap-| troduced here this week by Nance O'Neil, | givoc 3 New Year's eve performance of | a commonly admitted spurious and cer- | together. The company will Include many b ot e pear xho third. Galye 8 Hingss mflg‘r it | has created such extraordinary interest!‘“Ths American Lovd,” the gay Broad-, talnly wholly unrelated Induction; we|of the famous singers of last year's sea- s -—— | an alternate season of Duse and Niel' | at it will be continued during the com- | hutst comedy in which Mr. Crane is now | haveygiven the fext absolutely without an | son, including Sjgnor Caruso and_also | en however. An artistic success | . week. No recent production of a play | appearing. The plece goes for all this | interpolateu line, and we have acted it in | some renowned strangers. The repertoire L Ay D e e 0 o | liere, ‘from. the point’pure ‘and simple of | Week and will doubtless meet with the ) spirit plainiy in accord with the au-|will include the ‘Ring and “The Queen g 4: me. R 2 he piay Jtself, has groused such atten- | Bandsome patronage so far afforded it. . | thor’s stage directions, gnd Wwith its in-|of Sheba’ n which the new American | [0y Beu. FranGiked; mhore it began 4 noiney z & £ s N dubltably farcical nature—but so ingrained | singer, Mme. Rappold, has made such a | Wouid 1 do one thing for her?” she | tion as has greeted this Maeterlinck | s arternoon and to-night the Alcazar | is the impression left by former miscon- |hit. The Grand Opera-house management | !asked me as I came away—besides ex- | drama. It has gainéd much also in the | will give the final performances of “The | ceptions, perversions and un-Shakespear- | has co-operated with us to the extent of | pressing her gratitude to the man that | acting since Monday night, and ‘would | Prince and the Pauper,” in which little | lan Shrews that we do not look for its | renting us their splendid theater and as } has done so much for her. indeed carry by its own native wealth of [ Ollie Cooper has won such handsome suc- | universal acceptance and appreciation. in former seasons will contribute all theyw | ' I would, mhny things. beauty with a much inferior interpreta-| cess. “It needs but an appeal to the text to|possibly can to the success of the com- i would I say that Mr. Russell | tion than is given to it by Miss O The week's bill is farcical, the mirth- | demonstrate that Katharine was tamed, ling one. , Then | Studlo (ossip at Home apd Abroad, One [T\essage Hailing From Pans —By Laura Bride Powers must be sustained. . Robert 1. Altken, debonair ‘Bobby,” Looking back over ‘the' eloquent butjof a wholly different type from his friend | vealed more exquisite colorings than VABSO'E CANY, 5 AND SINCE ON THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. PHOTOGRAPHED IN HIS STU- AT THE PICTURE EXHIBITION —e. whose first modelings were wrought in the back yard of the old Lincoln School jround the corner—hallowed by many a well-known San Franciscan as the scene 1of his first “lickin"—is fulfilling promises }in Paris. . A fiit to Rome and Florence crystallized Jthe imagery in the mind of the young | sculptor and sent him back to Paris aflame with desire for work. At once he went a-chiseling at marble— a-chiseling a picture from a great block of blue-veined stone from the guarries of Italy. Just what the picture is—or will be— is not vouchsafed us yet, but that it is a serious expression of the new idealx of | the virile young Westerner is evident from his frequent allusions to it. He writes that we shall know all about’ it in May, which is an o'er pretty time ring a creation bl ming time, the time of beautiful fulfithment, to maturity—the sometimes primal creations of his earlier career, I cannot dissociate him with Byron—the media of the men alone mark< ing their difference. B . We shall look to May for a comvlele fulfillment of a prophecy—that young Aitken will some day make the world kncw him. St Haig Patigian, who became possessed of young “Bobby’'s” studio when he packed his suit case for Paris, has just put the final touches upon the clay model for the monument to William McKinley that, in bronze, will dominate the little town of Arcata, Mendocino County. Dignified but simple, tender yet strong, joyous but reflective, the character of the martyred President has been molded into the ‘cold clay. The casting of the Patigian statue will be awalted with much interest, when the public—such of It as cares—may view it before It goes to its Arcata home. A clever chap is this young ual!ntnrJ Aitken—so 1= his work of different type. Y R At the recent Arts and Crafts show at the St. Francis, a girl sculptor—Grace Butler—showed some evidence of ability In a few simple portraits. Sherrill Schell, the good-looking young society man, among the number. W eiie Jules Mersfelder, back from the pungent pines of Oregon, has set up his easels in the Argonaut building, where he has buckled down to hard work, using some of the sketches done during his absence from town—although the Mersfelder methods are out-of-doors. Setpe e Giuseppi Cadenasso has at last come into his own, and it is a cheerful fellow who bids you welccme at the studio door, for success has knocked there. This good-looking Bohemian, of the flowing tie, thinks in color, though he probably doesn’t know it A look at his recent pastels—the marshes at sunrise and at sunset—and you will agree with me. No opal ever re- those pastel skies. Is the sense of color an index of feel- ing? Personally, [ think it is—not only among painters, but among the rest of us. T P Frederick Junior has just returned from the East, where he took with him a lot of California pictures, among them H. W. Hansen's “Calling His Bluff,” “Cat- tle Adrift in an Icy Gale,” “Running for " “A Short Cut,” ‘“Running for and *“The Bronco-Buster'—every one of which was sold, and at a good figure. Pittsburg (evidently doesn’t spend all its spare chhu upon risque dinners and stage beauties, for nearly half of the col- lection taken East stayed there; so it really can’t be as bad as it's painted. Henry Raschen’s big canvas “In Am- bush” was readily disposed of, as were pictures by Sidney Yard, J. M. Griffin, Gordan Coutts, Chapel Judson and A. Jonnevold — furnishing an ample reason Wwhy San Francisco should pat her paint- ers on the back and urge them to work Mr. Junior informs me that as soon as he can gather together another high-class collection, including other names than those of the first venture, he will go East again, for there he finds a warm welcome for California painters—and ready buyers. Herein might be a suggestion to some good San Franciscans, who are surround- Ing themselves with a lot of European Junk, known to the trade as “pot boilers.” Ll e A Jetter from Walter H. Pritchard, the interesting young Irishman who visited San Francisco last spring. and who is now sketching in Tahitl, tells ol the mar- velous scenes in the dark blue caverns of the sea, where towering ‘£l Capitans’” rise from the bed of the ocean, beflow— ered and enfolded with most marvelous growths of kelp and seaweed. Strangely shaped fish, colored like prisms i the sunlight, glide about, wholly undisturbed by the presence of the divers among them. Mr. Pritchard will bring back some of these weird beauties of the sea, to be de- veloped in the clever manner that won ’