The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1906, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1906 G | BY mous old Primrose, T her and West like to give 'em a genuine old Minstrelg, to be part 1 this week strel shqw_ once again, just to see,” lack face claesic | B'rer Thatcher. . Thatcher minstrels would, of Did I know, emnly ow th y are past,” thus “at least, I'm now the imi.ate. There used to be a good deal gone to ask Mr er what | of sentiment connected with the old ne- to the minstrel man. If |80, a peculiar, mindly sentiment, perhaps George 7 should | an outgrowth of the Civil War. The new bad told black face aristoc ea: - Ta to be em a one of Thatcher * ed to be different here wk - s s came to town,” I suggested oo Bgrcrmion e was off Jazad bo to and and drew combir pk was not | ated, but ow. 1 Iphia a th by W with Mrs. Harper spitt = mi il I about $30. ‘Why, man! I've just seen | & $30,000 at the box office!’ I told him. | That's for “The Christian,” Thursday bo b That was! teher mu- | they to- show T y would p | applauded night that | had failed | next up there re gone, er | the gc of the A considering. old nigger that we used to r | negro is different; ‘fresh,’ so to speak; it / to get sentimental over him! sque the events of the day, ; “good topical sketches are > careful. least you need offend no one,” Thatcher's most political allusions from | e political hits are too “easy.” d to make good with part of the au- th is er told me it was much more han I out of a show. in “The County Chairman,’ he | d me, “we say ‘hell’ twice. Seems 1at it might just as well be left verage minstrel, now, hardly ity when he sees | e of eith nes one 1 Mr Childs, who had greatly gran 13 > you were in the war, too?” | Thatcher. t in in '64 until the end| There was one of his | slow smiles as he owned, t Ferry, and when the bullets | if 1 hadn’t been ashamed!” en did you begin hree,” d 94 d me out. ou a house. There was a line pretty near e bloc x office man a n't like the Hickeys,” Mr. | laughed e Folles Bergeres. They had a way e of hiring American talent and would not | the first night—after it had made good. pa you made good or not, but if | whether | | you didn’t you couldn’t play in their | vard. The Hickeys weren't so morning, was staring at him from the opposite wall, | one, for granddaughter of t hog “People don’t know so of minstrel fun.” But one “If you can't please doctrines as to the 1 audience. That is why he ntertainment. Bl “give-me-your-kind-ap- Then his a pretty cheap one. should imagine to keep hard saying, Mr. t see it,” Mr. Thatcher re- asually wonders why any the vulgarity where he It is a much finer ques- | »w there is Keith it. He knows. first performance of manager sits with a s off any-| niks offend his won't do this for him- ve been so long in the that I might not see | hires a man, Bryant ! been brought up in | hement, and any- i the then, again of “The | how very easy it | arize the little milli- doés say That the right | that I enaide Williams' little stunning bit of acting. ought she was a charming | Mr Thatcher looked un-| 1. He has this much Miss Willlams is Mrs. uiry as to her name. out some interesting | lliams’ name wi v W phed the Confederate hich he was brought over to do. Her father was | Klu-Klux clan. Then ad- father, who was an art- parts, had taken all little Zenaide. She has | M. Palmer, Augustin Daly e, 1 must know. | 1 | I was in just one battle, | round I would have run in the profes- Mr. [Thatcher owned, with dancing a jig. Then strels, and 1 stayed with ew Bedford | Bedford was a | y. But I told the bu,s,] get to New Bedford and Sure enough it when I got there. | 1 grinned at the | ty good,’ he sald, | “They went to Paris | advertise it until af!er! you for your two weeks tough niggers, and the Parislans | 50 daintily the = first | they were sure they | They were surer the| for when Hickey got | a three-sheet poster said | two | says he. ‘We are,’ there were ONE | "~ i . 2 NOTABLE PICT O b EAY, STREET (CALIFORNIA CLUBHOUSE; DOMINATES THE RED AT 1720 CLA % JULIE H, HEYNEMAN'S, URES ON EXHIBITION AT ). R THE SKETCH CLUB og"lz:a CANVAS, ONE OF WITIL TIHE PIAYERS AND 8 BLANCHE PARTINGTON *+- negroes in tke picture, and it said ‘les negres'—1less niggers, the Hickeys translated it.” Mr. Thatcher had a good deal to say of Mr. SBavage then, whom he regards as the ideal manager. “He never says a thing is good enough, but that noth- ing is good enough, only the best. It's right, too,” said Mr. Thatcher. “Deliver the goods and you'll get the money. The man that holds on to advertising to fill his house instead of to good stuff | is lost these days. They're all from Missouri—you’ve got to show them.” P I MME. GADSKI TO SING DURING PRESENT WEEK What could be done in French song Calve has just most exquisitely shown us; to-morrow night Gadski comes with the German lieder, German arias, one of their most distinguished exponents. There every reasonjto belleve that Madame | Gadski will this week even further dis- | tinguish herself than at her last recitals here. Artistic growth of. extraordinary sort was In evidence then, and at the same rate the singer should now be on the very top of the ladder. She is in the prime of a singer’s years, 34 namely, and her voice is one of the most beautiful voices of the day. Her three programmes are highly attractive and very unusual. Besides the German songs will be noted the interesting set of American songs, in- cluding the famous “Spring Song” of our own Oscar Weil, At each recital also there will be something from the Wagnerlan operas, with which Madame Gadski is so honorably identified. The singer will have an American pian- ist and accompanist in Mr. Frank La Forge, of whom report speaks most kind- ly. The recitals are datdd for to-morrow evening and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at the Majestic Theater—where every one will be pleased to go. It is rather an amusing comment on concert conditions here that Will Greenbaum has had to rent the Majestic Theater, pay off Mr. Bishop's players for Monday night and Saturday matinee, in order to have a place for his prima donna to sing! Here are the three programmes, and if you cannot go to all, you cannot go ‘wrong i{n any of them. Monday's will include: Aria, “Fidelio” (Beethoven); ‘‘Slumbey Song” (Brahms); “Willkomen Mein ‘Wald” (Robert Franz); “Fruhlingsnacht” (Schumann). Modern songs—‘“Beloved It Is (Florence Aylward); Classlc songs— Morn" “Traum Durch Die is | Damerung” (Richard Strauss); “Kinder- lied” (Taubert); “Irish Folk Song” (Ar- thur Foote); “Retreat” (Frank La Forge); serenade, “Ruy Blas” (I. B. Wek- erlin). Wagnerian “Schlummerlied,"” “The Flying Dutchman.” works — “Der Engel,” “Dream On, My Child” (La Forge); “O, Come With Me in the Summer Night” (F. Van der Stucken); immolation scéne | from *“Die Gotterdammerung’’ (Wagner). Mr. La Forge will play ‘“Meine Frouden” (Chopin-Liszt) and MacDow- | ell's “Witches’ Dance.” The Saturday matinee programme, particularly attractive, includes: Aria from “Willlam of Orange” (C. Eckert); “Widmung” (Schumann); “Es | hat die rose sich beklagt” (Franz); | “Wiegenlied” (Mozart); “Erl Koenig” (Schubert), by special request. Plano solos: (a) Concert FEtude (Boothe); (b) Prelude (Hendricks): (c) Arabesk (Leschitisky). Songs: “The Years at the Spring” (Mrs. H,.,H. A. Beach); “Der Kinder Gebet” (Max Reger); “Sl mes ver avail- | lent des allles” (Hahn); “I Love But Thee” (F. La Forge); “Allerseelen” (Strauss); “Spring Song” (Oscar Welil). Schmerzen, Traume, Seh still, Liebes- tod, from “Tristan and Isolde” (Wag- ner). Mr. Greenbaum, it js well to note, has very sensibly provided a much larger proportion of popular priced seats at the Majestic than he did at the Alham- bra. . . Herr Conrled, one sees by the itin- Senta’s bailade Irom[ Mr. La Forge will play an etude de concert by Edward.MacDowell and a | Liszt composition. i The Wednesday programme is: Aria, “Hear Ye, Israel” (Mendels- | sohn); “Dichterliebe” I and II (Schu- mann); “Neuglerige” (Schubert); “Gute Nacht” “(Franz); “Mene Liebe ist | Gruene” (Brahms). Modern songs: “Thy Beaming Fyes” | (MacDowell); “Waldseligkeit” (C. An- | sorge); “Ouvre tes yeux bleus” (Mas- | senet); “Loch Lomond” (Old Scotch); ol WELL KNOWN OPERA SINGER WHO WILL BE HEARD IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS WEEK. -+ erary ‘of the forthcoming tour of the Metropolitan Opera Company, regards | San Francisco as “good” for just twice the number of performances to be given in. any other of the seven cities to be visited. Heading these are Chicago and Pittsburg, to both of which Herr Conried gives but one week. Washing- ton again has to put up with only four performances; so Baltimore; so St Louis; and with two performances each Kansas City and Los Angeles tail the list. Our own record is not the less remarkable in that it follows upon the heels of last season, so phenomenally successful. - The forthcoming season promises to be of distinguished interest. In all fif- teen operas and music-dramas will be given, including: “Die Koenigin von Saba” (“The Queen of Sheba”), “Car- men,” “Le Nozze di Figaro” (“The Mar- riage of Figaro”), ‘“Lohengrin” “La Boheme,” “Die Walkuere,” ‘“Haensel und Qretel,” “Don Pasquale,” “Faust,” “Marta,” 'Tannhauser,” “Tosca,” “Slegfried,” “Pagliacci” and “Lucia.” The company will include the follow- ing artists: Soprani, Mmes. Abott, Abarbanell, Alten, Bauermeister, Eafnes, Jomelli, Ralph, Sembrich and Weed; mezzo-soprani and contralti, Mmes. Fremstad, Homer, Jacoby, Ma- pleson, Mulford, Poehlmann and Wal- ker; tenori, MM. Bars, Burgstaller, Ca- ruso, Dippel, Knote, Paroll and Reiss; baritoni, MM. Begue, Campanari, Du- T -+ friche, Franke, Goritz, Muehlmann, Parvis, Scotti and Van Rooy; bassi, MM. Blass, Journet, Plancon and Rossi. Ot the operas, none Is new here, al- though “The Queen of Sheba” and “Hansel and Gretel” have been given s0 seldom as to have all the interest of novelty. Then there will be many most notable features In the way of readings. One of the most interesting of these to us will be the new Carmen, which, I suppose, will be Miss Frem- stad's offering. Eames' La Tosca will be another characterization of exceptional note. } It will also be the first time of the opera’s presentment here by the Metro- politan opera forces. The Elsa of Eames, of beautiful memory, will also be widely looked forward to. Of the artists, the list of barytones is what can only be called altogether | lovely. We know them all, and they are here, the personages of all the ns we have been granted— regard them: Campanari, Goritz (no “Meistersinger,” however!), Scotti and Van Roeoy. The bassi include the fas- cinating Plancon, it will be noted, [ who played such havoc with the sus- ceptible fair when he was last here. He will, however, have the dis- tinguished rivalry of Signor Caruso this season, which will probably restore the balance of power to the traditional feminine idol, the tenor. Burgstaller also returns. and there is his Siegfried in splendid prospect. Among the new, women of the com- pany is Miss Bessie Abott, a young American who has made a successful debut in New York this season. More is known here about Miss Walker, whose volce has been freely compared with that of Schumann-Heink and who s saild to aet as well as she sings. Abar- banell is another new, of the light lyric soprano genre. And then there is Sem- brich, the ever Incomparable artist— think for a moment of the particular “Marrfage of Figaro” “coming to” us, Fames, Sembrich, Caruso, Campanari and Piancon! Altogether the season looks promis- ing. It opens on Easter Monday, April 16. ¢ FLORENCE ROBERTS WILL APPEAR AT THE COLUMBIA “The County Chairman” begins its sec- ond and last week to-night at the Colum- bia. The play has repeated Iits former successful history and is pleasing large audiences. WOMEN'S ART SHOW PROVES THAT PERSONALITY, NOT vincial to speak serfously of a “Wo- men’s Art Exhibition.” To be sure, there is no sex in art. But the trend of the ages has been to side- track women in all lines of endcavor and to give the clear track to men. And it doesn’t take a very analytic mind to reach the reason. But through the inexorable laws of evolution, women are reaching the plane of development that God in his wisdom planned for them Iin his own good time. Education, and the comprehension that it brings, has kindled their imagi- nations, stimulated their passions, in- tensified their ideals, promoted reflec- tion, roused their ambitions and thrill- ed them with the wholesome desire to do a part of the great world’s work as normal, fully equipped human crea- tures. And from the time that women wers thus mentally and spiritually awaken- ed in the natural course of the evolu- tion of the race, sex as a mental qual- ity has been fast disappearing. To-day, the simplest analysis of s cial conditions demonstrates that it is personality rather than sex that domi- nates the individual’ and his thoughts, his acts and his works. 8o, too, with the arts. Distinctly, it is personality, rather than sex, that is made manifest in the art of puinting. - But as yet the world is slow to dis- soclate scx with the product, upon the canvas. A woman's signature upon a note- worthy painting lessens its value—a truth that I grieve to record, but & it is a truth, nevertheless. public mind to shut out the element of | sex, and to substitute the differentia- tion of personality and achlevement. But, girls, cheer up! Daylight is dawning! The exhibition of “Women's Paintings” at the Sketch Club this week is about as 800d a bit of public education as I can concetve, And I pray that all who scoff at wormen painters would wend their way to the California Club house, 1750 Clay street, to- day—any day for ten days longer—and thereafter hold thelr peace. To be sure, every canvas hung is not exactly a masterpiece, but I beg to com- mend the open-minded visitor to Julle H. Heyneman's'\''Mrs. Raymond Borleau and Mopsy” (No. 2); Mary Curtis Rich- ardson’s ‘‘Portrait of Nance” (No. 3); M. n McCormick’'s “Street in Monte- Isabel Hunter's “Twilight in Monterey.” And there are others that possess notable qualitles, albeit they may ! not appeal to your taste. Among these is a highly decorative thing by Amy Bronson Dewing that she calls a “Cypress Pine.” It has a voice, this pic- ture. In the same class is ""Charles Bar- ton Hill Jr. by Caroline Rixford Johnston, a charmingly elusive study of a baby boy. I have not the pleasure 'of knowing the child, but the canvas gives me a definite suggestion of the little chap and his character—no small achievement in baby portraiture. Likewise does Sophie Marston Brannan's ‘“Adobe in Monterey' stand out as a strong presen- tation of the tragedy of a domicile desert- ed save by a sad, sheltering tree. Among the others who contributed— been long enough competitors in the!dmwlnx for the fleld of endeavor to have trained the | Albertine Randall Wheelan—are Mary T. catalogue cover by Menton, Allce B. Chittenden, G. A. Sturtevant, Almira Austin Judson, Bertha Stringer Lee, Lou Mersfelder, Haldee Tobriner, Olga’ M. Ackerman, Ella K. Wormser, Lucia K. Matthews, Eleanor Walls Plaw, Anne M. Bremer, Mary C. Brady, Nellle Fay, B. Charlton Fortune; Kate Chandler Thompson and Almira Austin Judson. This Interesting display will continue for ten days, and every lover of art should make it his business to “visit it— that he may grow in wisdom. PR Y Joseph Greenebaum has been working early and late for several weeks In /preparation of his exhibition, which opened at Gump's yesterday. His 128¢ canvases—seen before fram- ing—were stunning studies of his ex- quisite little French model. The Greene- ‘baum exhibition will continue until March 8, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. \ . s . \ Ada Romer Shawhan is busily at work upon her big picture ‘La Boheme,” the last portrait to be added being dear old “Uncle” George Bromley. And a stun- ning lijgeness it is! 3 . Lillle V. O'Ryan will hold an exhibi- tion of miniatures and large oil portraits at the California Club, beginning on Tuesday afternoon and continuing until Friday. On opening day Mrs. Ermentine Poole Long will give an explanatory talk upon miniatures, with Mrs. O'Ryan’s beautiful specimens as illustrations. . . The following announcement relative to the spring exhibition has issued ext week comes Florence Roberts in ‘The Strength of the Weak,” a new play by Alice M. Smith. Miss Roberts is too well known here to need advertisement, and her company includes many well known players, Max Figman, Eugene Or- monde and H. S. Northrup importantly among them. The Majestic will present this week a new local farce by Emil Kruschke, a student of the University of California. Mr. Kruschke's farceyis entitled “Off the Road,” and our land friends who have seen it at Mr. Bishop's Liberty Playhouse say very nice things of it. The first night will be Tuesday. S Farce from London, a new farcical hit, “There and Back,” will rule at the Al- cazar this week. There will be a mati- nee on Washington’s Birthday. R Murray and Mack will be the enter- tainers at the Grand Opera-house for the week, beginning this afternoon. They are old favorites and will doubtless attract the customary attention. . e The Alhambra will comtinue this week “The Black Crook,” .which has made a distinct hit. . . This week “The Yankee Doodle Girls™ will be the attraction at the California Theater. . Large things are expected of “The Isle of Spice,” that, after immensely success- ful runs in New York, Chicago and Bos- ton, will be given for the first time here to-morrow evening at the Tivell. The production promises to be a highly elab- orate one. #ite Herrmann the Great will be the chief feature at the Orpheum this week. It is some time since the famous magician's ast visit, and as always he will be warm- welcomed. He promises some start- ling novelties, and the setting of his act is sald to Be of the distinctly scrumptious sort. The three Seldoms, who have never been here before, will bring a living picture act that is said to be of remark- able beauty. Rosaire and Dorete, com- edy acrebats, and the Rooney Sisters are others new. e Ethel Whitesides, who sings and dances, will enliven the Chutes this week. Schmidt, the “human pillar,” recently a sensation at the Chutes, returns. s B4 Bkt KIND WORDS FOR USEFUL BUT UNDERPAID CHORUS Commenting ‘upon the recent strike of the chorus at the Metropolitan Op- era-house (New York), the Theater Magazine for February says: “American sentiment is usually with the under dog. A marked characteris- tic of our people is a love for ‘the square deal’ It is net a square deal to pay starvation wages to the humble yet useful and In fact indispensable chorus when the principal singers, the director and the stockholders are fat- tening their own bank accounts with prosperity’s surplus. During the past two seasons the opera has showed large profits over all expenses. This year it is equally prosperous. The public de- mand for seats is so great that often one cannot buy tickets. The box office, at times, is lMterally flooded with money. Caruso and Sembrich and the minor stars receive fabulous sums each time they sing. Why should the hum- ble, useful, indispensable chorister be inadequately pald? “From this point of view, we wel- come the publicity this matter has re- celved. It will be a lesson to the man- agement not to try to run cheap opera behind the curtain (among helpless subordinates) and expensive opera in front of the house. Let the stockhold- ers and the director make a few thou- sand dollars less, but let us hear no more of hungry choristers. The self- satisfied, overfed millionaiye, yawning over Wagner in his box, would not feel exactly comfortable if he quite realized that the cadaverous looking noble dames and seigneurs on the stage were singing so blithely on empty stomachs! It is not quite clear why Mr. Conried objects so’ strenuously to recognize a Chorus Union when he is compelled to recognize the Stage Carpenters’ Union and the Musical Union. It seems a dis- tinetion without - a difference. The choristers have been criticized because they presented their demands for more pay in such unceremonious manner, thus ruffling the serenity of the opera-house, but, according to the statement made by the leader of the strikers, the man- agement had been repeatedly asked for more pay ever since the opening of the season, and the requests were ignored. Would the choristers have recelved more pay If they had not presented an ulti- matum and embarrassed the manage- ment by going on strike at a eritical moment? We give Mr. Conrfed the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he would voluntarily have bettered the condition of his chorus without being forced to it, and only precipitated a sensational operatic crisis because he was unwill- ing to appear to weaken before a show of force.” SEX, DOMINATES. ART BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS Offhand, it sounds narrow and pro- | loglcal truth, because women have not | not the least of which is a stunning ;from the Institute of Art, which, wmlolln shape, elliptical ffames being ad- not exciting literature to laymen, may be of use to artists not In touch with the institute: “L. The exhibition will open on Thursday evening, March 15, 1906, and will last four weeks. “II. Exhibits will be recelved from Wednesday, February 21, to Wednes- day, February 28, and none will be re- celved after 6 p. m. of the latter date. Pictures within the city limits will b sent for by the assoclation as follow: Studios situated on Market street and south of Market, Monday, February 26; west of Powell and north of Mearket, Tuesddy, February 27; east of Powell and north of Market, Wednesday, Feb- ruagyr 2. Artists wishing to avall themselves of this service must have their pictures ready for delivery on the dates specified, as tney will not be sent for more than once. “IIl. Every work for exhibition must be submitted to a duly appointe jury for a decision as to its acceptance or rejection. The hanging and placing of all accepted works will be under the exclusive control of this jury, and no changes will be made in the arrange- ment, nor can any work be withdrawn before the tinal closing of the exhibi- tion. “IV. Any work that has not been heretofore exhibited at the Mark Hop- kins Institute may be submitted. “V. Pictures and frames must in all cases be sent together. No composite, silver, red or white frames will he per- mitted;. frames of natural wood must be dark in tone; black, dark green, gold or bronze frames are suggested as sult- able and harmonious. As a general tule, all frames should be rectangular mitted only at the discretion of the Jury. Owing to the great risk in hand- ling them, pictures which have glass over them should be so arragged that the glass is placed In the frame and not in the shadow box. “VI. The Art Assoclation offers the following prizes: One hundred dollars for best plcture in olls, in the composition of which human figures are of predominating interest; one hun- dred dollars for the best land- scape In olls; awards are to be deter- mined by a duly appointed jury. Only paintings which have not been ex- hibited elsewhere are eligible for this competition. Artists who do not desire to have their work considered in the award of prizes are requested to note against the titles of their pictures: Not for competition. “VIL. The list of works stibmitted for exhibition, with other particulars, must be set forth on the blank form furnished for the purpose, and sent to the assistant secretary of the Art Asso- clation, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, on or before February 22. A legibly written card bearing the title, name of artist and owner must be securely at- tached to each exhibit. All works will be received only at the owner's risk. “VIIL The jury is empowered to designate certain pictures for illustra- tion in the catalogue, the number not to exceed ten, and no artist to be repre- sented by more than one. “IX. Artist exhibitors will be admit- ted to the gallery on Thursday, March 15, for the purpose of varnishing their plctures. The reception for members of the assoctation will take place eon the evening of March 18"