The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1906, Page 23

" THE SAN.FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1966 ir to the Hoorah,” playing a this is a Jap- > role of a e s with the best of 2 Monday it Eiven had d that Tam a cl very | ever | t slight op- ¥ o as -he.quaintly { s self, re is no more T spontaneous work-done | red what he thought of it al, i the -Hoorah" of h ger thought the- valet, phenomenally manager's the Japanese stage of took me behind Raobert Brower more famous pe e's grandmother cou he scenes to find out that play. He told me actors e star work rs before can be A Japanese actor to be great play. -titere, Mr. learn to nd feet dis- will not “The | + ¢ FOLK e Al By _Olenche Portington— and th | Danjuro n his speciz ‘An€ when r in Japan for long tim ut or will Ity.” one Kokoro 1so, and honorable name been actors oment have t for there to do with un many | must know how to do all kKinds of parts, | strai other | a rare der a vears. actors approve you they 2 diploma and you are a star. this 1is .a great to “you. for hundreds of name in Japah.” from the stage 2 eard the bright, It retallié voice saying to the g butle “You get out of here,” the Jaughter following, and thén the noise of the | butler's supposed. tumble downstairs ter the valet's application of jiu- |- sitsu - | - “Like a- graveyard out there,” grum- Lied the butler, as he shot through the door, and he ought to know sometiring medy or tragedy Just as w s 7 oto explained | for it-he will part, but he | | | of audiences—Harry Rich, confrere of 1 | McCullongh, Booth and almost American famous actor of the “Was that v Tamamoto as real d “but I in cases used not of emer- own artistic predilect “I 1ike best traged “of course, I haven't any part here (!); there is no chance for any one to show their ability here: I play the part just es the actor become a | is nature ter my “This t part.” not the played in America?” “Oh, no.” Were of black eyes a littl to Japanese”—as he have said slant eyes. oneself, to play this. might | “It is only to be I like much! bet= first part you have Tamamoto’s clearest e reproachful? “No,” he continued, “I played in ‘The White | Tigress of Japan.’ Shelle saw me and Heir.” I liked ‘murc! | Japanese spy—I Kk Russians every enjoyment of this “It was a play of and very exciting.” “Were in the cast?” I ask “No, 1 was the and,” 'Mr. me as “therefors I had t! night!” there other Japanese Tamamoto’s smile included a . journalistic It was there Mr. La. engaged me for ‘The h that part. I was| illed half 2 dozen Tamamoto's | was very palpable. the war, of course, ‘actors ed him. "~ only one Japanese, representativ he honor to' recelv ‘|'ing he declares to be the ‘“natural ac o ACTRESS TO BE SEEN HERE AND JAPANESE ACTOR AT PRESENT AT THE COLUMBIA. _L o edges as his ideal -player of the Occi- dent, the “western Danjuro,” .Mans- fleld’s acting “he did not remember well enough ‘to be entitled to deliver any opinion!” The Japanese ideal of act- ing; it always looks bad to ‘put on. Of course, on the stage, things must be exaggerated a little to look natural” . Of what career lies open to the Jap- : knows when critic is there. .what some one else .of “The! Heir to the Hoorah,”, | father “ine’ not let me try.” “Why not write something yourself, for yourself?” 3 “I have ‘written a sketch for vaude- ville,” he announced. ‘“Many managers have expressed wish to put me on .if have a play. I walit for one—you write one and it.will opportunity for both!” ‘“What about the love interest?” I asked. “Must I make the pretty Amer- ican girl fall in love with you?” -Soberly Mr. Tamamoto sald “that would be nice,” but afterward agreed with me.that it might not “appeal” to the American audience. They were setting scenes for the last act and the actor piloted me into the dim distances behind even the stage. There: some one was putting up a no- tice. Tamamoto looked up and laughed. It read: “EVERYBODY called for rehearsal tomorrow at 10.” < “I'm not guflty,” he said. Then he enlarged: -“Some people when there Is not so large crowd don’t play thelir best. But,” he nodded a wise head, “one never I play al- ways same—to justify myself. It is my duty to do always my best perform- ance.” 3 I thought he always rhust “do his best performance,” but I wanted also to know thought, and so asked My. Wilfred Lucas. stage manager and its genial ‘“Bud” Young. He is much of “Bud” off stage, by the way; twelve years in the drama, and waliting only tfe ‘| lucre to get him a few acres San Diegq way to bring the wife and baby to. His own “Helr"” was borr ten days before the ‘“‘Hoorah’s,” -he told me as he brought the. latter for me to iook at. ; “Japaneése as actors? Well; ” Mr..Lucas put it, “if all actors were like the Japs I'd have no trouble. Tell 'em a thing, they never forget it. They are always there, always on top. Teach Tamamoto? Not a thing. Why, he was a full-fledged star before he came to us. He's all right.” PLAYS FOR WEEK . AT THE THEATERS Frenaied finance has at last found its way Into-the drama by way of “The Lion and the Mouse,™. a new American play by Charles Klein, that will be presented at the Columbia Theater tomorrow even- ing. The play, which more than one critic has sald eomes. “‘dangerously near’” to being the great American drama, has had ‘an extaordinary career up to date: In.Chfeago it achieved the unique distinc- tion of being the only play. known to have been presented thres times In one day, this following upon a week of daily per- formances. Ifs subject is certalnly apro- pos—the corruption of politics by the plu- tocrats. .The character of “Ready Mon- ey” Ryder, the particular plutocrat ex- ploited, is said to have been drawn from Rockefeller and Henry Rogers, while the “mouse,” whose greater wit confounds the “lon,” is supposed to have been drawn from Miss Ida Tarbell, the ex- poser of the Standard Oil methods. The stories of the play and the people at any rate.to a certain extent coincide. The ' story goes that Miss Tarbell's was ruined by Rogers, and Miss Tarbell’'s expose of the Standard Oil methods followed thereupon, much as in -the play Shirley Rossmore’s father is hounded almost to his death by the plutocrats, whose schemes he will not forward against the interests of the peo- ple, and afterward proved guiltless of the charges brought against him through the efforts of his daughter. The love in- terest is-ingeniously complicated by its being Shirley Rossmore upon whom the son of ‘“Ready Money” Ryder-sets his af- fections. The cast that will present the play here promises most fortunately. It is headed by Arthur: Byron, whose Hungarian no- bleman in “The Stubbornness of Gerald- is still a delightful memory . here.’ Miss Gertruyde Coghlan will be.the Shir- ley Rossmore, and if there'is anything in heredity she should be a good one. Miss Coghlan is a daughter of Charles Cogh- lan of famous memory and a niece of Rose Coghlan—a:promising ancestry. The rest of the cast includes Joseph Kilgour, Grace Thorne, George Parsons. A. § Lip- man, Edward See, Florence Gerald, W. H.- Burton, Flora Jullet Bowley, Edith Shayne, Lilian Dix and Ada Curry. &Gk lve ment can congratulate itself. The play do not perhaps look it, and they womd he gave here two years.ago the manage- The return concerts have been arranged by Manager Gorlitz.In response to many | is exceedingly pretty, in the best roman- Tequests. -only “white people on earth:ever admit- | appedrs to be of the ‘be the joy thereat. tic vein, and Mr.*Clarke’s Monsieur Belu-} caire is oné of the most attractive figures on the contemporary stage. ‘Monsleur Begaucaire’” .can be heartily recommended to all classes of playgoers. - e ne The popular “Isle of Spice” will be per- formed" for the last time at the Tivoll tonight; being succeeded tomorrow even- ing by a new musical play entitled “Miss Timidity.” ~The ‘management- promises fun and good music galore. ®: e v At the Majestic Bishop's players will signalize their return to the house by an elaborate revival of ‘“Shenandoah,” in which a large company of - national guardsmen will make their appearance. & e e “Charley’s Aunt” will be revived at the Alcazar this week—a sign- of crowded houses. Sardow's “‘Sorcerers,” recently présented in New York by Bernhardt and Mrs. Pat Campbell; will be given shortly at the Alcazar for the first time locally. o e The Howard brothérs, sald to bé the ted to the:mysteries of the priests of Thibet,” will appear at the Orpheum to- day. . From advanee notices the# work telepathic order, one Howard, blindfold, on' the stage. Wwriting anything the other Howard, go- ing about in the andiente, sees, such as | bank note numbers, coin dates: the feat accomplisfied without any word or sign | from either performer. Bert Coote, who has made such a hit with “A Lamb on Wall Street,” continges, and the other new people of the bill promise well. . . - The California has ‘“Miss New York Jr”” company as the current entertain- ers. The Rialto Comedy. Four, vocalists and funmakers, will lead the new Chutes pec- pla this week. Frank Tinkham, a clever wheelman, is also-on the bill - o e e Seats for the German performance to be given by the Arthur Becker Lustspiel Ensemble at ‘the Columbia Theater on Sunday night, April 8 will go on sale Tuesday morning. ‘Die Orientrelse” will be. the bill. J 4 e 2 The Alhambra will have the famou Bartley Campbell drama, “My Partner,” this week, the play-having been secured for production at large expense and trou- ble by Fred Belasco. . The Central announces .“The Minister's Son” for the current entertainment. MUSICAL EVENTS FOR PRESENT WEEK Gerardy, the famous /cellist, will be here on Bunday afternoon next to give then the first of two recitals. M. Ger- ardy will be more than welcome. Great 'cello-playing has lacked an exponent | since Pablo Casals played he: l;lL !éoll» or- mann counting only lightly. « } ardy, however, is one of the most gifted | disciples of this royal ifstrument, per- | haps even the foremost among the ’cello virtuosl. His programmes could not be bettered, the first including the Varia-| tions Symphonique (Boellmann), that Pablo Casals so nobly introduced here; the' first concerto of Baint-Saens, a mag- nificent work, and said to be one of Ger-! ardy’s chef d'oeuvres, and the Popper “Papillons.” The recitals will take place at the Co- lumbia Theater next and the following Sunday afternoons. - Kubelik, unfortunately both for. M. Kubeltk and Mr. Gerardy, also gives the first of two return concerts next Sunday afternoon. Why not, good Mr. -Gorlitz and Mr. Marx, combine the two affairs, as Mr. Greenbaum gave us Harold Bauer and Hugo Heermann together? Kubellk and Gerardy together could duplicate that most notable of concerts, and the lrl(l-l tude of tbe music lovers would be a double one—in the joy of hearing two such artists together and -in not being ! forced to declde between .them. Both concerts are bound to suffer. The con- cert-going clientele here is mnot large enough adeguately to support both af- fairs, and there might, it would seem, just as well be two half houses in one house as in two. 1 am sure the managerial | caliphs could arrange it, and great would | many good notices from the presses.” “Did you like the play?’ I asked. knew I The White Tigress of Japan” to be all its title paints it. anese actor upon we talked them. the American stage In this conncction I mentioned “The Gefsha.” B If Creston Clarke’s production of sleur Beaucaire” at the Grand..-Opera- “Mon-| Of course there is chance to hear both players again, Kubelik giving a second AT am not much interested .in the house this week is anything like the one Tamamoto did- like it. part for me,” -he puts it, dentally. Hoorah.” He decli self as to other plays—just - why, I don’t He declined to commit himself as to that fascinating quantity, know. American actress. izations as to plays is: “Any play must end “in harmony He likes “The Heir to the “It has a nice quite occi- ned to commit him- the One of his general- to satisfy ‘the au- musical comedles,” Mr. Famamoto re- buked me with. . “But what is there open to the Jap- anese player?” I asked: “I have thought long of " it,” sald Tamamoto, very soberly, shaking his head until each hair glistened like black glass. Quaintly he went on then: “I admit I-could play any kind of part. I'am not vain, but. I know. But there dlence.” Sir Henry Irving he acknowl- | are no parts! If it is an Irish part I HOW ABOUT you “ever f an exhibftion of canvases Neither aid I But my ‘word for it, it usly {nteresting—to the ake my new Easter jury would vindicate that a seco se ‘of a good half of the discarded and_throw out a good* balf of epted here are always pictures in that are head and shoulders And if the canvases them- t, the appended names are— e notwithstanding. his class of work, the jury feels ty for, scru Matthews are 3 wrs, and of course they question—and usually de- Keiths P. with the great bulk of the ass pictures—and incidentally un- mes—that the jury gets balled herg’s where the trouble “be- differentiation between the ac- d the non-acceptable. here is no absolutism in art, 3 tick of requirements, it ). see that personality is gding to big factor in declding the fate of middie-class n(ctureskpersonnmy what's the use in hesitating to th?—friendship and often reci- current spring exhibition four ertists out of the five that composed the jury were competitors—a customary but ne briised and bleeding { A DISPEAY OF REJEQTED CANUASES? j & manifestly unfair and unwise provision; and an arrangement permitted in no other sart of competition, save in art. But why in art? Are there not competent men out- side of competitors who could be prevailed upon to serve as jurors? : Perhaps the verdict of the disinterested men would be the same as the verdict of | the self-judging jurors, but it would at Jeast carry with It a saner sense of justice. It would at. least relieve the ex- | bibitors from the suspicion of practicing reciprocity—the “you be good to me and T'll be good to you'\ stors That such wordd are spoken among men of honor is; of| course, unthinkable. But that such thoughts are uncon- selously communicated is human, merely | human—and therefore, the injustice of a self-judging jury, not to mention the su- preme indelicacy of it! But, to get back to thé exhibition of re- jected canvases, a private view of some exhibition, sent my idealy askyward of what the display would be. To be sure, -there wele unthinkable things among the *junk,” but some that held unquestioned quality ®nd no small degree of personality and general worth. “Ah!” thought I, “this jury must have ‘struck oil' in.the entries, to have re- jected some of these.” \ 2 And then the exhibition ppentd—with its promiges not wholly fulfilled. Of the splendid things on tht walls, 1 have spoken luxuriously; of tde middle class work, with comment; of \the bad things—and there are some thilgs that \ \ of them, seen before thi opeuning of the- aré bad as the worst of the “junk”. have purposely remained silent, believing that one misses the joy of life by snoop- ing around for bad things, and taints the Joy of others. Why note the dead dog in the lily pond? However, by comparing the “junk” with some of the accepted canvases—notably some of fhe portraits and portrait stud- ies—I cannot suppress the desire to see a frank and open exhibition of the re- jected pictures. It would be tremendous 1t might effect a needed reform. Would the rejected artists have sand enough to do it? I'd like to help, just for fun! A fun—and . s . Santa Barbara, with its Andalusian sky and sapphire sea;- its furrowed canyons draped th chaparral; its oak- studded flelds ateem with blossoms, blue anc gold; its gray old mission, embattled and -turreted, freighted full with sweet | romance and rosy reveries—these are lur- ing the painter folk to its soft caresses. It's Santa Barbara now—if it isn’t Paris. Among the things o happen In the art colony there is the Charles Rollo Peters exhibition, planned to take precedence over May affairs. ‘Wajter Pritchard is there, the interest- ing young Irishman with his scintillant Tahitian dreams to be translated to can- vas. So, too, is H. J. Breuer, who is held in thrall by the.splendor of the oaks that stud the vales and canyons. 5 [ There is not in San Francisco—grad- BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS ually becoming an art center—a more beautiful studio than the new atelier of Jules Mersfelder, who has found in the drawing-room of the old Ralston man- sion, 1222 Pine street, an ideal environ- ment for his art treasures. The great pler mirrors in this wonderful old House of Mirrors, with its palatfal proportions, give an imposing setting" for bronzes, drapes, pletures and rugs. And it is, with the possible exception of Ame- dee Joullin’s studio, more nearly a Paris- ian workshop than any of the men paint- ers’ hereabouts possess. Here in his new quarters—and, by the way, it was here in his new quarters that his much-heralded St. Louis Fair medal arrived—Mr, Mersfelder has set to work upon a big collection. This is to be com- pleted some time in the fall, when he will take the town by storm—just as he did with the great canvas of ‘““The Oaks,” now in the H. E. Huntington collection. Mr. Mersfelder's twenty years' resi- dence in New York—a far ery from' the West In matters of art—brought him back something of a stranger to the younger art lovers. But his record with the So- ciety of American, Artists, where he ex- hibited every year with distinction, 1s suf- ficient guarantee of the worth of the forthcoming collection. Both as a techni- cian and as an Interpreter of soul and spjrit he has won his laurels. Mr. Mersfelder, like most of the paint- ers, holds Saturday afternoon a reception A NICHE OF JULES MBRSFELDER'S STUDIO IN THE OLD and Yast concert at the Tivoli tomorrow. (o Loring Club concert of next Tues- ening, to be given as usual at Natfve Sons' Hall, will be of unusual im- terest. Half of the programme Wil be devoted to the performance of Wagner's “Das Liebesmahl der _Apostel,” will then be heard for the first time locak- Iy. e work is one of the most difficul® among the male chorus ‘genre, and re- Quires fine full chorus of male voices and a large orchestra for its rendering, The club will be assisted in presenting the work by many former members, and an orchestra specially engaged for the oo- casion. The “Pligrims’ hauser,” Goury's The lay" Cioru:," from “Tann- ‘Awakening of (for which Mrs. B. Apple has b:fx:m.:.- 8aged as soloist), and George E. Whiting" “March of the Monks of Banger” Wfl‘ be other numbers, Willlam C. Stadtfald direéting,. and Frederick May cer at the phn? and J. C."Fyffe at the organ, as usual. . ey Next Friday evening the Minett! or- chestra will give its second concert of the season at Native Sons’ Hall, with the following attractive programm Herold, Zampa overture; Kucken, (a) "Gebet.” “Verlass uns Nicht”; Massenet, g'b‘l “Aragonalse” (from “Ballet du Cid"); rstenau, Fantaisfe' Brillante for two flutes (With orchestra accompaniment), Miss May Ludlow and A. Rossi: Schu- mann, (a) “Traumerel”; Gillet, (b) “The Mill”; Wagner, “Albumblatt”; Strauss, “Artist Life,” waltz. / e ‘e o The following interesting programme will be played at a piano recital to be given at the Kohler & Chdse concert Hall next Tuesday evening: Sonata, Opus 22 (4 movements (Schumann); “Barcarole”, F' minor, ver- sion by Willilam Piuttl, (Rubinstein nocturne, F sharp major (Chopin); tme promptu, F sharp major _(Chopin); “Wal@esrauschen” (Etude), (Lisat); “Love Dream” (No. 3), (Liszt); “Polo- naise, E major (Liszt); Preludio e Fuga Fantdstica (C sharp -minor), ballad (A flat mino?), “Toccata” (A minor), mel- ody (“A Homage to Anton Rubinstsin™), “Valse” (Emajor), fantaisle, “Tmpromp- tu” (C sharp minor), “American Rhap- sody (3 movements), Willam Pluttl. A NOTES OF PLAYS AND ACTOR FOLK here with Blanehe Walsh will soon oman in the Case. *e @ Flora Jullet Bowley of “The Lion and the Mouse” company is‘a native daugh- ter. Miss Bowley has won considerabls fator on the stage. R . The latest. college play suceess is “Brown, of Harvard,” recently produced by Henry Miller at the Princess The- ater, New York. - The play is by Rida Johnson Young and the star thereof Henry Woodruff, one time among Henry Miller's consteHation at the Columbia. - e e A dramatization of - Bunyan's “Pii- grim's Progress” will be among the unique produetions of - the forthcoming season. The allegory has been adapted for the stage by James MacArthur, who dramatized “The Bonnie Brier Bush.” Mr. MacArthur has been at work for two years upon the play, which it is said is a very adequate reduction of the story. The part 6f Christian, a kind of Everymah character, will be essayed by Henrietta Crosman. g 9 Le Manager Will Greenbaum is arrang- ing the details of the magnificent com- bined opera-house, theater and audi- torium which will be one of the great features of :the Falrmont, and to be ready about November provided no de- lays In the securing of the necessary building.materials interfere.. The dgco- rations an® furnishings of the place will be In keeping with the magnificent fittings of the new hotel and there will be 1600 seats on the lower floor and about 1000 in the one balcony. - e & “The Lion and tHe Mouse” &id such an enormous business during the Igst week of its engpgement in Chicago that matinees were given evesy .day with the exception of Monday and Sunday. The new Charles Klein play is the talk of New York and seats are selling thers up tp the first day of May. iy RAESTON MANSION AT 1222 MOST BEAUTIFU . WHERE HE HAS STREET. L STUDIOS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CLOSY- day, when he' serves a. cup of Ceylon of GATHERED HIS ART TREASURES, MAKING ONE OF THE special brew—for you and all good, friends LY RESEMBLING THE PARIS ATELIERS. o A of art who call. © -