The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1906, Page 23

JCISCO CALL, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1906. . Florence Rob- w Frawley, East the some special matinee. It was rim from Cevlon, where he a week durir his last tour, and concerns 1t Is of Buddha. Mr. Fraw- of when he own one alls. enough here Little Princess, done be week, but one the Al , Te- one of the gladdest moments of t atri s. It was at ischer’s, Piscl was her's. They \ burlesque of the piece, which pure deliciousness, as Kolb its funniest " McLean erically f 1, pinafored with a pal bows in serub lady, s the bad little princess e shall forget them bon bon s we nd Morosco in Los have An been Bel court n0us. was who body of sixty-seven musicians to Dr. Wolle’s® hand. Nothing could | be more promising for the success or rather *h, the noted > of th ar of busi- East this been very 1 and opt Fran ingest isco m com- ta, He nephew to the 1 New York, has res sum of $20,000. the hit of orl being que ither denie indation. His stay hellbact limate w the m um of $20,000 W m e —— at VTheaters for Present Week time the may-help. Here's crowding one of the at the new be they make and ivoli history. afte e Grand Opera most attractive bi liputian Opera Com- re T 'he Belle of n here be m that 1 oon > will have a Pollard Lil r with Alcazar will be p k “The Girl With the the first time at popular Conquest introduced here at the Columbia, taken in the Alcazar cast by At the prices. the “girl's” | the role to Miss ollowing it will be “The Little Prin- cess,” in which Effie Bond, now playing the chief role at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, will appe here. Little Miss Bond the girl who does not know how to grow up, and as she has to p the part of a r-old child do vastly . . The Majestic will revive to-morrow Justin Huntly McCarthy" The Proud Prince,” recently ad- 1y produced at the uptown theater. Iyn Underwood, Miss Amelia Miss Bond should well ald Bowles will have W The “Baltimore Beauties” will be seen at the California Theater for the | next seven days. ¢ i An ever-welcome visitor at the Or- | pheum is | ciousnes: | one | the | ready shown himself to be a Wagnerian | The audience promis | benefit of those he las left behind. | | | | | | as 1 a new art were In the air, so strangely lovely was some Of ..e tonal | sugg Perhaps to meet the acous- | tics . 3 | sitive, respons: | the | every one’s reach it may be rementioned. Miss Lillian Burkhart, who | after being too long away returns this afternoon with a new sketch, “A Stren- uous Daisy.” Ip Miss Burkhart's ab- sence the fair vaudevillian has acquired a title, the “Lady Dainty of Vaudeville,” which is Miss Burkhart exactly. Dan ‘Shrrmun and Mabel de Forest will be re- sponsible for some of the fun with “The Fall of Port Arthur.”” McCue and Cahill, | “Itallans from Cork,” will furnish the Al Carleton, the “Stringtown also new. el el At the Alhambra one of the best among modern melodramas in “A Fatal Wedding” will be the week’s bill. The Kremer drama is sure of a hearty wel- come up Eddy street. WU UEag g Mrs. General Tom Thumb and the Count and Baron Magri are still holding midget receptions that are very hand- omely attended at the Chutes. They mu Jap. appear in a skitlet entitled “Two Strings 'he two Dots, equilibrists, are the stars of the new people. i to Her Bow. i {Another Symphony | in Greek Theater With twelve new stringed instruments the University Symphony Orchestra will es concert next Thurs- day afternoon, making in all a goodly its second of the organization than this swift recog- of its needs. With the new string that includes two first violins, four three violas, another double bass and two more cellos, the balance lacking in wie first concert may easily be at- tained. It is also a matter of volume. Also climax. The climax, like the top- note, is a sensuous necessity, and you must the men for it. Whether will supply suffi- to be seen. If more will undoubtedly be pro- have the twelve to come cient volume remains not, vided. All sorts of tonal problems and possibill- ties were suggestea by the first concert, bly in every 1ashion the most inter- & ever given here. Almost it seemed pos: aichemy, some new orches- indeed arise. A pecullar pre- of tone—not alone a smallness rticularly noted, a fining, an realizing. In the case of the violins, y too few, this degenerated into thin- 1 But there was a subtle, distinct change of tone throughout the whole range of the orchestra, most fascinaung in its suggestion. With impatience one awaits the next concert, which is to be a Mozart Festi- val, in commemoration of the birth of the composer 150 years ago. Dr, J highi Fred Wolle—who one hears is delighted with the addition to his should make a most sym- heuc Mozart conductor. He has the and also the reposeful classic- to its best reading. The programme is delightfully representative. It includes the symphony in G minor: Menuetto from the Jupiter symphony Menuetto from the symphony in E flat, and the overture to the ‘Magic Flute.” There will also be played two Wagner numbers and Dr. Wolle has al- conductor - of _distinguished gifts. The | numbers are the lovely “Slegfried Idyll and the not so lovely “Rienzi” overture. s to be as large as | that which honored itself and the art at | first concert. The price is within Lest we forget. Tomorrow evening at Stelnway Hall will be given the Henry Holmes Memorial Concert, given in honor the famous old violinist and for the The udience promises to be one of unusual | proportions, as it will be one of unusual | omposition. Perhaps no musician in local history was more affectionately and reverently regarded than Henry Holmes. His work as symphony director, violinist, composer, tdacher aroused the warmest admiration among his confreres and the local musle-lovers. His life, lived in unswerving obedience to the highest ideals, aroused an affection and reverence even greater. Of these, confreres and music-lovers, pupils and a large contin- gent—how large only they can tell—of struggling students who long looked to the fine and never-failing generosity of the old violinist, tomorrow night’s audi- ence will be composed. The programme is one of the best ever arranged by local talent and representa- tive of the most distinguished members of the local fraternity. Chief among the numbers will be the second movement of Tschalkowski's A minor trio, for piano, violin and 'cello, played by Mrs. Oscar Mansfeldt, Wenzel Kopta and Wenceslao Villapando, Mrs, M. E. Blanchard will sing, and the ladles’ chorus from the Twentleth Century Musteal Club, with Miss Mabel F. Hill at the plano, will give Rhelnbergar's = = - e WHO HAS ACHIBVED GREAT POPULARITY IN THE WEST AND WHO WILL APPEAR THIS | _UMBIA THEATER PREPARATORY TO HER TRIP TO NEW YORK, . WHERE SHE WILL SEEK | | NIiTION AS A STAR ON BROADWAY. . | == * “Homeward.” The Kopta quartet will play a Beethoven minuet and Andante con Variazone, and Mrs. Jonn Darwin Gish will sing Needham’s ‘‘Haynaking.” The violin solos of Wenzel Kopta will te Spohr's Barcarolle and the Elfentanz of Speis and John Carrington’ will be heard in songs Chaminade and H. Lane Wilson. The Brahms quintet, composed of Mrs. Gish, Mrs. . Cecelia Decker Cox, Arthur A. Macurda, H. L. Perry and Miss Julla A. Tharp, will ren- der Georg Henschel's “The Imprisoned Nightingale.” Other numbers by well known people will be given. Seats will be on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s all tomorrow. The programme has been arranged by the following friends of the old violinist: Wallace A. Sabin, Walter Handel Thor- ley, John H. Pratt, Arthur Fickenscher and Hother Wismer. . s by Following is the programme of the song recital to be given at Lyric Hall next Thursday evening by Mrs. Dorothy Cammn, Who has just rcturned froma New York after some months of study. Her teach- ers- there, Georg Henschel, Istdore Luck- stone and Loulss von Feilitzsch, all ex- press themselves as delighted with the volce and musical gifts of the California singer. Much interest is being taken in the recital, and for it Mrs. Camm will have the efficlent assistance of Fred Maurer as accompapist: Arfa, “Lustughe Piu Care” (Alexander), Handel; “Traume,’” Wagner; ““Windros Sinding; “War fch nicht ein alm,"” Tschaikowsky; ‘“‘Standchen,” ftrauss; “Meine Liebe st Grun,” Brahms; ‘‘Wen du Nur,” Brahms; “Ach, wende diepe: Blick,” Brahms; “Es gel ein Traum, Brahms; “Von Waldbekranzter Hohle, Erahms; Mes Vers Avalent des Alsles,” “‘Chant a'Exil,” Vidal; “Spring,” Henschel; “Sing Helgh-Ho, Henschel; “Long Ago,” MecDowell; “The Nightingale's Song,” Nevin; “Phillis éHas ‘81 Heahn; Such Charming Graces.” a pastorale, Old | propose to jeopardize them by doing any- thing that might be construed, especialiy Conse- quently,” after considering the situation very carefully with Mrs. Carter, we have decided to give up absolutely our positive intentlon of producing a ‘Joan of Arc’ We hope for Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern, under your banner, every Carter will have next season the new play I am now writ- we feel that the can do will be to withdraw our other pians for her appearance as Joan of Are, and leave that fleld clear and open to you. “Mrs. Carter joins me in warmest con- gratulations on your having secured two such pepular and excellent artists. dition, I shall be glad to place entirely at your disposal all the matertal I have gathered on the Joan of Arc subject. Much of it is rare and of unusual value, but if it can be of the siightest servics to you, I shall be only too glad to turn dest regards, Eaithfully, AVID BELASCO.” English, =S | Belasco’s Concession to New Independents Following David Belasco's announce- ment, a fortnight ago, the appended let- ter, which Mr. Belasco sent to Mr. Lee Shubert, on learning that Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern had Jolned the ranks of the Independents, s of particuiar inter- est: “‘Mr. Lee Shubert: “Lyric Theater, New York City. “Dear Mr. Shubert: “The welcome news that you have added to your attractions for next season such excellent stars as Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern impels me to a step which, un- der other circumstances, I should not for a moment consider. I understand that the chief production you propose for Miss Marlowe and Mr, Sothern Is Justin Hunt- ly McCarthy’s play, ‘Joan of Arc’ A few days ago I announced that Mrs. Les- lfe Carter would also.appear next season as the same horoine in Louis N. Parker's new play which Beerbohm Tree is soon to produce in London, ang of which'l had secured ‘the American rights. I do not forget, *my dear Mr. Shubert, that you and I are standing shoulder to ghoulder in a great fight, with the one hope and ambition that we can Testore to our stage that same independence which gave it dignity and prosperity in the memorable days ‘of Wallack, Palmer and Daly. “Every fing actor and every new theater which we can enlist on the side of inde- pendence makes Our success more certain. And this success means so much to the art 6f the drama that we must guard against every unnecessary obstaclé. Our relations from the first have been so friendly and harmonious that I do not GREENBAUM, WORES A now the art colony 1s tremen- earnest e solemn places these | ana eagerness is in | { | | | ter, no fuq—all work! is undecorated these the Bohemian set impish “red” means a fternoon—and no work—which | P do, now. For know ye all that spring exhibition at the Institute s well nigh due, whereat prizes red to stimulate effort among | \gSters. And capital idea it | for, while the truly ambitious | able will work with more or less | persistency, there is a marvelously stim- ( ulating effect in & money prize. Here | the lure twofold—the honor is and the 2 sides the regular spring exhibition | an will sent the | s members to its friends, | € in March » Sketch Club, Miss Anne Bremer president, has an exhibition on now at the California Club house that has set the town by the ears Francis McComas, Amedee Joullin, Eugen Neuhaus and a lot of men paint- ers who have been invelgled out there pave astonishingly declared it one of the Dbest shows ever given in town. And I am convinced that the decision was not a tri- bute prompted by chivalry—men artists aren’t bullt that way. . Over at Gump's Joseph Greenbaum is exhibiting a roomful of pictures—por- traits, landscapes, compositions and an exquisite collection of ideal heads. Even a passing study of the artist re- veals him a man of highly developed poetic with an accompanying conception of color and atmosphere. And these characteristics he presents in every canvas in the exhibition, some of which I have seen grow—notably the portrait of the elder Mr. Gump. Another characteristic of Mr. Green- baum’s work is his high conception of womanhood. Though the subject be langyorous-eyed, with passion smolder- ing deep In them, the sensitive mouth and chin repel the coarseness and the animal- sense, |ity of such a type, and she is exquisite, withai she is a Carmen. For these splendid heads the artist has been helped by that greatest of in- spirations—e beautiful, sensitive model —and I might truthfully add sensible. She has brains as well as beauty, and is herself an artist as to feeling. Such a model is, of course, a stimu- Jant to high endeavor, and Mr, Green- baum has made the best of his oppor- tunity. Full of feeling are his pictures of the Chain of Lakes in the Golden Gate Park, {llusionary and suggestive as a Wordsworth couple®. Drop into Gump’s any day until March 3—it will pay you smp]y‘ . . The McComas exhibition at Vickery's has, like its predecessor, been a finagcial as well as an artistic success. There's no getting away from the fact that Mr. McComas gets at ths soul of the cypresses. And this is an achievement few men have attained. 4 Charles J. Dickman {s another. Mr. Dickman must feel the tragedy of the cypresses to paint them as he does, weather-beaten and harassed by the d mons of the seawind. They tell an elo- querit story of grim and determined con- tention against the elements—a strong symboliem of the struggles of human life. And this bit of poetry is what makes both the McComas and tne Dickman cypresses epics in color, o N Over at Claxton’s, ‘“The Light of Asia” is shown, a picture of symbelism—a Mae- terlinck—by Theodore Wores. The painting {s most commendably set, for which Mr. Claxion deserves a fri grant dewy bunch of violets—and I know of no rarer gift. A room is darkened, and is given up wholly to this important picture, which is far and away the biggest and best thing ever done by Mr, Wores. Japapese tables and settees of cbony stand about, prints stand out from the black walls, and bits of gold embroideries gleam from out the shadows. The air is heavy with the odor of incense, and tne spirit of Buddha weaves a spell about one as you gaze into his placid face, er elaborate? but in no sense theatrical, It is Ra. Yes; simply a fit setting for the crystallized dream of a dreamer. Rather than describe in detail this up- usual canvas shall 1 urge its inspection. No word of mine can convey to you its full meaning, ‘ As o key to the beautiful allegory, Mr. Claxton presents the following note: “Calm thrqugh centuries has sat Dal Butsu (Great Buddha) at Kamakure, Ja- pan, that mystic leader o. a faith that nas held in its thralls milliors of worship- ers, reaching from India to the very heart of civilization. “Rapt_in plac¢ld contemplation, he sits enthroned as one beyond the pale of earthly things. 5 “The artist has placed the Buddha in imaginary surroundings, and intends the figure to be symbolic of the Buddhist faith rising superior to error. ““The Lotus flowers are also symbolic of human hopes and possibijities, deep root- ed in the muck of superstition yet capable of rising in spotless beauty to K higher things. “The mist of ignorance wiil seem fo the observer to be continually rising, only to dissipate before the enlightened face, as placid and unchanging as the hills on which he sits enthroned. “The whole composition seems to catry out its conception and to forcibly suggest its title, “The Llsht .ot A.ll,u_' i At the Daingerfleld studio—a charm- ing new nook in the Argonaut build- ing at Sutter street and Grant awenue ~Elizabeth Strong is showing some ND STRONG PICTURES ATTRACTING ATTENTION —BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS notably good pictures, her dog por- traits having much distinction. Among the canvases brought from Burope—where she worked for twenty vears under favorable auspices—are some excellent coples, many of which should be of interest to lodal artists who have never been abroad. - The Strong' exhibition will continue for a week. % e Ze " Beginning March 1, and continuing until March 15, Evelyn Almond With- row will present her work at Clax- ton’s. s The collestion will include work done while abroad, as well as that ex- ccuted sirice returning to San Fran- ¢isco, and will comprise paintings in oil, pastelle and drawings In various mediums. Portraits and compositions will predominate, byt in order to show versatility, many subjects in landscape, genre, still life, et wl.ll be presented. | . | Maynard Dixon has sold hig “Town Crier,” to my mind the most compre- hensive thing the young frontiersman | has yet produced. It goes to a local art lover, Ernest A. Stent—a man who knows the Southwest, its people and its traditions. Young Dixon is now engaged upon the {llustrations of a book—a sigEle edition book by Dick Hotaling—to be- come the property of the Bohemian Club. . It fepeats the story of the club's jinks of two years ago, when Mr. Hotaling served as eire, and it promises to be a worth-while, adjunct to the club's in- by our enemies, as an opposition. play. success: ing for her, it over. With k! but as Mrs. Brief Notes About Actors and Plays least we The announcement is made that In ad- the great Bernard Shaw success, “Man and Superman,” is to be seen in this city in = G e | | | | | next September. the near future ands will be played by the New York cast, headed by Robert Loraine. Ida Conquest is a member of the cast. Three matinees a week are giving at Powers' Theater, Chicago, during _the run of “The Lion and the Mouse.” It is expected that no fewer than five will be given during the closing days of the engagement, the adv: ing for seats being so great. The play is shortly to be seen here, Margaret Illington (Mrs. Dan Frohman) and Arthur Byron heading the cast. R Annie Russell, who has been the vogue in London during the present season, will end her brilliant engagement in Bernard Shaw's play. “Malor Barbara,” at the Court Theater this week and sail at once for America. Immediately upon her ar- rival she will begin rehearsals of a new piay secured for her by Wagenhals Kemper, with whom she is under contra for the next five years. Miss Russell will only play a very briet spring tour this season. Her first appearance in New York under her new management will be made when she will be the f n of the new Astor Th nz bullt for her manager: I's contract provides for her arance in London. ot e Guy Bates Post, leading man of “The Helr to the Hoorah™ Company, began his theatrical career as an usher in a Seattle theater, and reached the stage by way of the box office route. Mr. Post has made a notable cess he Helr to th algurai att: ater. new Miss in | Hoorah," which comes to the Columbia Theater soon Sty g Henry W. Savage Is now in Europ | duction | the coming season’s | presented. | tions outlined by th Lucius Henderson. where he has gone to secure new arti for his English Grand O: tention to present larger lines than ever in English of “Die Ring Nibelungen, international reputation, plans. Incidentally Savage also intends to ar- range for novelties from both Italian and German repertoire to add to the repertoire of his grand opera c range for presentat Paris and London everal of his re cent comic opera successes. In Easter week “The ‘Student King.” the new ro- mantic opera by Reginald de Koven, Stan- islaus Stange and Frederic Ranken, the scene of which is laid in Bohemia, will be The opera will be the first of a series of high-class light opera produc- impresario. e ‘e e “Scotty,” Walter Scott otherwise, miner, has at last found a manager in Charles H. Stewart, who will present him in a play entitled “Scotty,” a weird melodrama of mining life e . Guy Bates Post has made a name for himself in the production of “The Heir to the Hoorah.” He was last hers in “The Virgintan.” v Florence Roberts has in her present company no less than four well known leading men. They are Max Figman, Eugene Ormonde, James E. Wilson and anization on An elaborate pro- Wagner's trilogy, vith singers of s ameng his ae e . Charles Klein's play, “The Lion and the Mouse,” which has been a sensation in New York during the past few months, w: produced by a speclally organized company last Monday at Chicago and scored another hit. The cast at Powers' Theater includes Margarst Ilington, Ar- thur Byron, Joseph Kilgour, Grace Thorne, George Parsons, Flora Juliet Bowley, R. A. Roberts and A. S. Lip- man. Bates, in “The Girl of the has never missed a per- formance e the play opened in the Belasco Theater in New York. She keeps up her strength by dally horseback rides and plenty of sleep. She is always in bed within an hour from the moment the curtain falls. ———————— Whistle Blows for Commons. LONDON, Feb. 24.—The beaten Con- servatives are trying to keep up their spirits by poking fun at the new House of Commons. Tory wags suggested that, now that there are so many new Labor members, a “whistle should blow when the House quits work.” The fact is, though few know it, that a whistle, a powerful siren, too, has been blown for many years to let people know that the House has adjourned. The other sign everybody knows; the light in the clock tower is. put out. Now having learned that the siren is sounded, its voice having been lost in the frantic rush of adjournment, the Tories insist that not steam but Labor and Liberal “hot air” makes the whistle blow. Blanche Golden West,” —_— AT l ONE OF JOSEPH GREENBAUM'S PICTURES NOW .ON EXHIBITION GUMP. THEH COLLECTION AY HBE SEEN EXHIBITT S DI MARCH 3, GALLERIES, WHE! THB ION M. ON REVEALS A MARVELOU: R