The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1906, Page 23

FRANCISCO CALL, UNDAY, MARCH 4, 1906. s much as the next bo wore already whi a little tte body is t e Daphne. one would give credit to as , and His is a shrewd, wise lit- | wrinkled, a Ht- a city child's he But with all has the same Fur- ! . her, Teddy runs to flaming shirts of " nost approved comedian type, and idently dismissed his manicure )ld me that she was e was 11 years olu. the instinctive desire he with 1 thought u mean es character work, has myseu, llec about. mouth. eaches you facial play?” * Daphne s the comedian owned. e the mirror, yself until I'm tired!” the good for business, , REAL heav , and Teddy 12 g 10 looked older in the face?” the < “That’s his make-up. to t. I used to do char- and my face | It's getting w.” and Daphne lifted her face 1 two distinct “laughing” lines aid, “taught me “He 20 home and study the things and I go and make t he likes to be little, Teddy but exercises every morn- Iis, to make him strong. ' Daphne stuck out his . upon my tongue to say ‘you & w What I did say was: “We girls see > a little man, ‘do we, Daphne?” protested: ‘“‘Some girls do.” a boy is a gentléman big men best slost of us do, really, I was going to mak > heroic dumbbelis if I could al culture Teddy,” like s il heoicd n came to me in Portland and s ever wanted a job to come to you know. And this! u think?" he don't thought mouth little girl added. ship “I should be > to come que n. She put it f some one wel with a t to come and of the a few other ed in howl at the route! wouldn't you?” only the Chinese the big men, that come. Teddy announced. Daphne laughed, ey told me that it. $15 aplece all afraid of getting ready disappointed I'm readfully, Teddy Is took notes. mistake in s to his age.” nisa 1 kimonos and things. They used naman.” Daphne decided. St so ashamed when y to sing ‘The Gelisha’' there—I w: or 111, I told the child drop Then round Mr. table until that aston- in ‘with an invita- I'm doing what do you think g to be good for busl- ervous, Teddy?” I asked “Some- know what I am u think you're go- t the words just themselvese ou is Daphne’s per- to ine, when you're grown head my ittle Pollards?” s a big Pollard company,” Ted- | “and we often go right nly in India, China, Japan, Ameri- little places these ba- How Conrled’s song | k the Chinamen would come Daphne asked. earls and The oth- and when Shannon” the soldiers boxful of dollars at them—when Yound the it on the steamer coming across | e proceeds totaled up to $15 a head? that in| The other man that ewed him didn’t, “and there wasn’t 1 the paper the next darling place,” Daphne retty, all the lovely embrof- to as | “Are you all Australian?’ I demanded 2 | then. s K ke | “All, now,” they told me, “there was N rd for ings. | one American girl—we loved her.” s, t r s “Th was another,” Teddy recalled. hten the children d people in Seattle!” charitably: u know & accoun (with an umbrella, audience), stead of de me that Teddy ably Teddy's real name. told me so. It isa McNamara : OF ELIZABETH STRONG'S PAINTINGS, NOW ON EXHIBITION AT THE DAINGERFIELD STUDIO, A CHARACTERISTIC PICTURE OF THIS ARTIST, WHO HAS EXHIBITED IN THE PARIS SALON FOR TEN YEARS. Seattle, yes—she was an aw- * and Daphne’s eyes popped blue- he used to dress-up in a white sheet in the dark, that people carried daggers 8he added, “But she was a bit ¥ of his grandmother ng his aspiring mother and aunt in and his little s to teach her to say “Ypu little You little séhnake,” is And then name to remem- e | | | AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN WHO PLAY = ZATSNE. PULIARD > - BUTHNELL. -PHTO=~ -+ - o o3 ber, Teddy McNamara. | _They both told me that they like San | Francisco better than any other city— | after Melbourne. “In Melbourne there are all kinds of sports”—and Teddy 1s evidently Mel- bourne born. “You can see a race any day in the week.” “Sunday? I asked, Interested. “Oh, no!” sald both children, horrified. “What do you think of playing on Sundays?” “Don’t think it's right,” said Teddy. “I think actors need a rest day like any one else—and children more so. Every day we work, up at half-past 3. rehearse, play at night, we need one Besides,” and evidently to the ed children this clinched the thing, “that’s God’s day. “All right,” I said then, and like an arrow released from the bow the chil- dren flew downstairs. Not fast enough, however, for Teddy, in the lead, to for- get at the door that the ladies must g0 through first. + We had probably been chatting half an hour, but last I saw of Teddy he was dragging the man in charge Fischer-ward, as if his life dgpended on it. LOCAL THEATERS DURING THE WEEK | Spectacle, in the handsome way of Klaw & Erlanger, will be the attraction at the Grand Opera-house this week. “The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast” is the piece, in which more than 100 people will appear. Klaw & Erlanger's spectacles are always welcome here. The children, large and small, have not yet forgotten the last, “Mother Goose,” which this is sald fully to equal. With it comes Bar- ney Bernard, “good for” a house himself in San Francisco; Isabelle Underwood as “principal boy,” and Rose Sartella, a so- prano New York is said very much to like. Barney Bernard is to be Lena, the German nurse, and those that remember | Mr. Bernard’s Miss Minchin, at Fischer's, | are not looking forward to it—no! All the scenery and costumes of the produc- tion have been imported direct from the the | Drury Lane Theater, London. The en- gagement opens this afternoon. R The Alcazar will have this week what promises to be a most engaging play in “The Little Princess,” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a dramatization from the story of the name, and ran for months in"New York on its first produc- tion. The little play has just had a strik- ing success in Los Angeles at the Belasco Theater, with Little Effie Bond as Sara Crewe, the rich school girl who becomes poor and the school drudge, and then rich again. Miss Bond plays the Crewe role here, and the Alcazar company will be reinforced by some thirty stage chil- dren, including clever Ollle Cooper and her sister Edith and Frances Clinton and Blanche Sweet. s “The Strength of the Weak,” at the Co- lumbia, begins tomorrow evening its sec- ond and last week. The play ranks with the substantial successes of the season, and Miss Florence Roberts and her capital company, including Max Figman, Eugene Ormonde, H. 8. Northrup, Adelaide Ma- nola and Ruth Allen, contribute conspic- ugisly to its success. “Li“tle Johnny Jones,” with George M. Cohan, comes next. . . “The Proud Prince,” go successfully revived at the Majestic Theater, will run another week. The production rivals the best that this house is justly famed for. “The Bold Soger Boy,” a brave Irish play, comes next. . . Herschel Mayall will do Hamlet this week at the Alhambra, and all Eddy street is agog. It is by no means the first Shakespeare that Mr. Mayall has done, and done well. - The production will be a careful and elaborate one. R “The Isle of Spice” begins its third week tonight at the Tivoll. It continues to crowd the house and is getting better every night. . .. The Central will have “A Tale of Two Citles” thfs week, with Landers Stevens and’ Georgie Cooper in the chief roles, Pt ® At the California “The High School Girls” will be responsible for the week's entertainment. site e “The Enchanted Grotto,” an electric marvel direct from Berlin, will be the chief novelty on the Orpheum programme. The Piccolo Lilliputians are others new, and Lilllan Burkhardt, best of the hold- overs, will present for the first time here a -sketch entitled “The Santa Claus Lady.” The Rooney Sisters have been invited to stop for a third week. .« e At the Chutes Ethel Whiteside, singer and dancer, will head a good new bill. GADSKI TO SING THIS AFTERNOON Here is the Gadskl programme for this afternoon at the Tivoli, number (a request number) that has been given on the other programmes. The ‘‘Aida” aria is particularly to be noted, and the lovely Wolf “Verborgenheit': Aria from ‘‘Alda’ (Verdi); classical German songs, “Im Herbst”” (Franz), ‘‘Der Tod und das Madchen’ (Death and the Maiden) (Schu- bert, ‘Die Lotusbiume’’ (Schumann), ‘‘Der Kleine Fritz’’ (Little Fritz) (Von Weber); plano solo, (a) ‘“Romanze,” sharp major (Schumann), (b) ~ “Rhapsodle,”” B minor (Brahms): “Beloved, It Is Morn"* (by request) (Aylward); “Ich Stand in Dunkeln Traumen' (La Forge); ‘‘Strampelchen™ (Hildach); *“Mor- gen”’ (Richard Btrauss); ‘*‘Verborgenhett' (Wolf); ““Thine Only”’ (Bohm); plano solo, (a) ‘“‘Albumleat’’ (composed on the letters C, H and F, D), (b) “Gavotte” (La Forge); scene from first act of ‘‘Tristan and Isolde’” (Wagner). b J During the last few years we have been visited ‘by some of the world's greatest pianists. We have heard the great vir- tuosi of the German, Austrian, Russian and Polish schools, but now for the first time, through the enterprise of Manager ‘Will Greenbaum, we are to hear a great artist of the French school. Raoul Pugno is one of the most impor- tant figures in the world of music today. He has the distinction of being the only honorary professor of the Paris Conserv- atory to be decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and s continually engaged with the important orchestras The Annual Spring Exhibition of Cali- fornia painters has rolled round once more—with the same old joys, the same old jezlousies, the same old disappoint- ments and the same old triumphs. On Thursday night, from the thousand- !winclowtd Palace on the Hill, will the lights signal to the city below that the painters. thereof have gathered together the labors of the year for the judgment of their fellows. And an auspiclous night will it be for many of the younger painters—they who are just beginning to find themselves, anc to whom ‘‘acceptance at Hopkins” is a goal long, long dreamed of. Of course, this brings a smile to the lips of the “‘big” fellows—they who hung at Hopkins in their cub days, and have since exhibited in the salons in Paris,”and been feted and petted and praised in the art centers of Europe. To them “acceptance” at the local Institute of Art does not bring much of a thrill— but perhaps they can recall the time that it daid. And a little honest reflection is holy and a mellowing thing. But back to the exhipition. The Factotum of the institute, with his trusty bays and a commodious wagon, made his annual pligrimage to the studios on Wednesday. And around -the .down- town workshops of the palinters it looked like moving day in the tenement district. To be sure, there were wet canvases to be ‘called for agaln, some not ‘‘quite pulled tcgether,” some ‘to be varnished, and The Factotum must make another round—which he cheerfully did, and with- out an audible cuss-word. . And of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. By Friday, however, every canvas was in the gallery, facing the wall like a lot of naughty scholars in a country school. But yesterday they were made to “Right about face,” and stand up for sentence. : Mutaly, pleadingly,« hopefully they looked up out of their frames and hoped violently that they could make those solemn-faced jurors feel how very dear they were to their parents—of what hopes had been engendered In their creation, what dreams dreamed. ;. # But whether the mute appeals’reach- ed the vulnerable spot In the jurors’ heads—it's always the head, not the heart, that dictates jury judgments— will never be known. But today be assured there are tears and dejections SPRING EXHIBITION TO OPEN O in many a studio, for I am told that the jury ruled firmly. To the rejected let us say, “Cheer up.” There's another exhibition next year, and the year after, and the year after that. Some of the best work the big men of the country have ever done has been after a hard blow. And if the right epirit is in the artist, he'll pick up the poor old canvas that was thrust out of the company of the elect, hug it to his breast, shed a tear of sympathy upon its brow, and lay it away where its fate may not assail him. And then—to work hard- er than ever before—harder than ever, studying, thinking, drawing. And next year he'll make it. As to the number of canvases sub- mitted, it rather exceeds the presenta- tions of last year. But as to quality, we shall pass upon that on Thursday, you and I The prize the Art Association is of- fering for figure and composition work has had a stimulating effect upon a lot of worthy young fellows. It isn't a fortune, to be sure, but it’s an incentive. And, besides, it holds in it the exhilarat- ing sensation of a gamble. This prize-offering by the Art Asso- f with only one| LEADING ROLES IN THE LILLIPUTIAN OPERA COMPANY. N THURSDAY —BY LAUR4A BRIDE POWERS | of Europe as soloist. Planists of all schools look up to him as a master, and men of the caliber of Harold Bauer, Josef Hoffman, Ysaye and Paderewski all speak with the greatest enthusiasm of Raoul Pugno. His programmes will be remarkably in- teresting. He plays many very old works by Rameau, Couperin and Scarlatti and also many by the extremely modern com- posers, such as Vincent d'Indy, Cha- brier, etc. Mr. Pugno's first recital will be at Lyric Hall on Wednesday night, March 14, and the programme will include Bee- thoven's Sonate, op. 2; Schumaan’s Phantasiestucke, op. 12, and a group of Chopin works. s At the second concert, Friday night, March 16, Beethoven's Sonate, op. 31, and Schumann's Faschingschwank will be speclal features, and at the Saturday matinee Bach's ‘“Concerto Itallen” and Schubert’s Fantasie in C will attract the music lovers. The prices of reserved seats for this en- gagement will be $1.50, $1 and T5 cents, tickets to be had at Sherman & Clay's, the sale- to begin on Monday next, March 12 erle e Henry W. Savage, in accordance with his policy of presenting at least one nov- elty during a season, will produce in 1906-07 Puccini's ‘“Madame Butterfly” for the first time in America. “Madame - Butterfly,” in its dramatic form, is weiw known to theater-goers, and the musical world eagerly awalts the production of the opera here. The lyric version in Itallan was taken from John Luther Long’s story of the same name and produced March, 1904, at La Scala, Milan. It was almost a failure there and deeply disappointed the composer, but in May of the same year the opera scored a distinct triumph at Brescia, and on the same night of its production in this Itallan music center it was also heard by the music loverr of Buenos Ayres. South America. London heard the opera for the first time at Covent Garden In June, 1905, - with the following cast: Madame Butterfly, Mme. Destinn; Pink- erton, Signor Caruso; American Con- sul, Signor Scottl. Early this season the opera was again given in Londen by the clation is to become a permanent fac- tor of the spring exhibition, if the present plans of the art-fostering co- terie do not miscarry. That the Art Assocliation is doing its utmost for the artists and for the art development of the people is clear. Then {t remains for the people to do their part—which is to attend the exhi- bitions and to buy the pictures, if they like them, and have the ducats. . e . Theodore Wores has sold his “Light of Asia.” But that's only a part of the good news. He has sold it for $000 to a local patron—Mrs. Alexander Russell, she who owns the Hoffman “Christ Head." That looks as though art conscious- ness in San Francisco were awakening. ® e e Xavier Martinez is deeply interested these days In a portrait of Miss Marie Fefling, a beautiful type of California ‘Wwomanhood, with.a wonderful amount of “quality.” This the artist is getting with a finesse, a subtlety, which has set the Martinez method in a niche by itself. Nobody else hereabouts paints like Martinez. . “In fact, nobody else here sees things San Carlo Opera Company of Naples, and aroused such interest that it was sung for two performances each week during the season. ‘The lyric version of “Madame Butterfly'” is in two acts, and the second act is di- vided into two parts. This differs from the dramatic version by John Luther Long and David Belasco, inasmuch as Italian Hbrettists have used incidents in Mr. Long's novel which antedate the situation in the first act of the play and presents prior situations that make a. more rounded story. The composer, Glacomo Puccini, had as Ifjrettist L. Illica, with lyries by G. Glacesa. The English version has been done by the well-known translator and poet, R. H. Elkin. It is possible Signor Puccini will conduct the first performance. GOSSIP OF ACTORS AND THEIR PLAYS This is the ingenious George M. Cohan's, who will be here in a few min~ utes with his “Little Johnny Jones™: “MYSELF AND ME." v I'm the best pal that I ever had. 1 like to be with me, I like to eit and tell myseif Thinzs confidentially. I often sit and ask me It 1 shouldn't or I should And 1 find that my advice to me Is always pretty good. I never got acquainted with myself THIl_here of Iate, And I find myself a bully chum, 1 treat me simply great. I talk with me and walk with me And show me right and wrong, I Dever knew how well myself And me could xet along. 1 never try to cheat me. I'm as truthful as can be, No_matter what may come or §o T'm on the square with me. It's great to know yourself And have a pal that's all your ownm, To_be such company for yourself You're never left alone. Youw'll try to dodge the masses And you'll find a crowd's a joke, It you only treat yourself As well as you treat other folk. I've made a study of myself Compared with me the lot, And I've finally concluded I'm the best friend that I've mot. Just met together with yourself And trust yourself with you, And yow'll be surprised how weil Yourself will like you if you do. When Nance O'Neil, the American tragedienne, plays in Calcutta, India, next summer, she will do so under the auspices of Lord Minto, the Viceroy of India. Many of the officers of the staff of Lord Minto are warm friends of Miss O'Neil, she having met them during her tour of South Africa, just after the British-Boer war. The American actress gave a number of special per- formances in aid of the sick and wound- ed of the British army and endeared herself to officers and men alike. In an editorial in the New York Sun the other day there was a compliment- ary reference to David Belasco, which was well deserved. The subjeet was the treatment of enlisted men In places of public entertainment, and the article deplored the custom of many theatrical managers in making soldiers and sail- ors in Uncle Sam’'s uniform unwelcome in the more exclusive parts of the house. Speaking admiringly of ome not- able exception, it sald: “How general this discrimination is may be judged by the recent election of a theatrical manager to honorary membership in an army and navy organization because his practice has always been to treat soldiers and sallors in uniform as he treated other citizens. He is an excep- tion to the rule in his calling.” The circumstance that called forth this tribute to Mr. Belasco was that while one of his attractions was play- ing in Philadelphia, at the Lyric Thea- ter, he had occasion to come In contact with a number of enlisted soldiers and sallors. It has always been his theory that discrimination against these men in theaters or hotels is detestably wrong, and he has made it more than & theory by making them doubly wel- come at his houses and plays. In Phil- adelphia he invited a number of enlist- ed men to come to the theater. At that time several prominent officers of the army and navy were in town, and he found that the party Included Admiral Evans (“Fighting Bob”), General Grant, the late General Joseph Wheeler and several others. That was before Christ- mas. Some weeks later Mr. Belaseo wae made an honorary member of the Army and Navy League, and ever since he never fails to wear the button of the organization on the lapel of his coat, and exchanges the grip of brotherhood with other members whenever he meets them. The league has come to know by this time that he welcomes his brothers and they have often greeted him at the Belasco, the Bijou and the Academy of Music, in New York, as well as on the road In theaters where they see a Be- lasco attraction announced. —_———— Motor-Boats in German Navy. BERLIN, March 3.—At a meeting of lovers of sport Interested In motor boat racing, held in a Heldelberg restaurant, the Berlin Boat Club decided that a com- mittee De elected to formulate the statutes of a new club. This proposal received the support of the Imperial Automobile Club nd the German Sailing Association. Tne naval authorities have ordered from the Von Aertz yard, In Hamburg, five motor boats of“six to one hundred horsepower for the imperial navy. NIGHT as Martinez sees them. O B The exhibition of Miss Elizabeth Strong is still on at the Daingerfield studio at 246 Sutter street. To all lovers of animal portraits the exhibition is especially attractive, as Miss Strong gets the personality of her animals in a striking degree. Some of her landscapes are notably good, likewise some coples of Louvre and Salon flnsleryle'cet. . Beginning March 3, Miss Amna C. Crane will present an exhibition of leather work, carved, modeled and stained—and said to be of very high order—at Paul Elder’s. Accompanying this display, Miss Rosa G. Taussig, a former pupil of Douglass Cockerell of London anu Caesare Tar- tagll of Florence, will exhibit a few choice bookbindings, that should—and no doubt will—attract much attention. e . ‘Another bit of good news—Vickery promises an exhibition of Keith's new work at an early date. Never in all his career has the great painter done nobler work than mow, mellow and full of feeling as he is of beautiful years. s