The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1906, Page 23

U4 1Es_MapE | N OF FRANCE | =~ RISE 5 W BY BLANCHE | \ -»]}’@&’T]A(&]’ ON~=a | — Florence | { and the possessor | voice. Sh London a She bas * — |OFFERINGS AT THE i LOCAL PLAYHOUSES “The Lion and second week tomo lumbia Theater. begins its ning at the Co- is one of f drama. deal fn most forct ing fa ». Arthur e a hit of the larg: “Ready Money er most capably supported by rest of the on Wednesday | east. { will be given to a An extra math The Alcazar this week. a be most attractive to Alcazar patrom The play has not been give yea on will te Hail Sardou by 3 remarkabi rdt's repertol € engagement here. morrow event d and last second week on The Arth: | tretse” tonign | will goubtle E T c. I CITY L RNGE TS T T3 ; 3| _“Who Goes The open a . weeks' engagement at the Majesth ! { “And the other creditors?" the priv-]to talk at once—but we paid ‘em all | MOrrow night. ileged Inquisitor asked. s But it was pretty Sate I'm co ng to that,” Mr. Then, with . naive pride really proud of this. The Mond ng after we opened witl Born’ 1 got a money bag. | , “we don't need ‘this going round to all our. cre of them of all ocur deb “Isn't that rather an unu £7" I asked. asco smiled hard as he replied rs—y n—Sam Foltz, at 't time bpsiness manager of r own paper“thought 1 was crazy. At least he satd so. I went t The I's pro rata—abo for advertising) and could have | | knocked him over with a straw whe: I asked him If he wanted any mone: | It was always credit that I asked But h told me, and Il never forget it,| pro- w (I owed $50 man — this. very! picturesque - but - affectionate, ‘your credit's good here for double that” If you knew Sam you'd know what a let at means,” the manager added. i He told also of the generosity of creditors; of how they had - re- | to take money, tellinz him that | ey had every confidence in him and | e needed money to carry on his| business. { “One day—and how it rained! he ex- l claimed, “and how blue I was! The boy in the box office came to tell me that| there were a lot of men in my office waiting to see went into n I was the cred- mpatient. It .was, too. in one of them came up to me and said: ‘Tm William Sterett, and I've taken the llberty of calling a meet- ing of your creditors.’ Sterett was one | of the biggest, by the way, and I had ! met him before. We owed him| I wondered What more was com- | Then he said: “We have declded The e Monday night Same on Tuesd Tm sorry 1 gave e, and that newspaper people talked about ‘the play $1100. ing : take 60 or 70 cents on the dol-| a seat -on Thursday | lar, and will give you ninety days to| 1ght ake good” I'm afraid I swore a| Miss Partington, and then I asked | all to take a nk. Then I told | ‘Gentlemen, I'm going to pay u dollar for dollar, and the first man at mentions compromise again —— . But I thank you, and—let me buy | | you & drink.’ And then they all began | “The play ran to packed houses for fourteen weeks after that’ ere was boyish jubilation in what | followed. “And then Ipaid them all dollar I owed '‘em—the actors, know. Some of 'em even owed I was tickled to death!” ever, ME! Belasco re- | @ i sop.. Charles Miliward, jces Starr, John B. Maher, Harry Hil- | | liard, Ernest Glendinning. John Craig, At the Central will be “‘Searchlig! The Empt the boards at th The star feature } jugsling act | AMERICAN GIRL WILL WED EARL OF CAVAN'S BROTHER Eagagement of Miss Adelaide Randolph of New York to Liomel Lam- MANY OF CONRIED'S 1l, Lewis Morrison, George Osbourn: J. B. Polk, Beatrice J Leib, Gertrude Tidball, Hugo Toland, | SINGERS AMERICAN Francis Powers, May’ Bu ley, Adele | Beigarde, Walter Belasco, Ja E.{ A remarkable and most grateful feat: Wilson, ‘Dorothy Hope | of the forthcom Crews, Mrs. Bat ick Paulding, mder Herr C American )y the company. Out of ‘the doze more important artists no fewer than nine . the best including Emma | Edith Waiker, Marie Rappold. Florence Mulford, Jose- Jacoby, Bessie Abott. Olive Fre | stad and Marion Weed. Of these the work of Eames, Homer, | Fremstad. Jacoby and Weed is already honorably known to us, and that of the remaining quartet promises to be of at least equal interest. Edith Walke among the most important of these. is a contralto, of large tempera gifts and possessed of a voice that has been frequently compared with that of the | Ernest Hastings, Gertrude Lyons, Ade- | laide Fitzallen. Eugene Ormonde, Lila Convere, Margaret Wycherley, Luclus Henderson, Joseph Kilgour, M. L. Al- | Suzanne Santje, | Bertha Creighton, Adele Block, Fran Charles Waldron, L Juliet Crosby, Florence White Whittlesey. They bégan, in addition to producing most of the older and later classics, to make the first local productions of new plays. The Yeats plays, “The Land of Heart's Desire” and “The Hour Glass,” were first given locally at the Alcazar: | “The Way of the World™ (Fitch ‘The toriou: nn. y o - | glorions Schumann-Heink. Marie Rap- | 157, Light That Falled.” ioe Sl and the | 5od is a soprano and entirely Americas- | than 360 remain, e Sl and lately Ihat excel- | made. She is a Brookiyn woman. a “find” | badly needed e Secret of Polichi- | ,¢ Herr Conrled’s of last season and a | n Prince and the Pauger,” & p= - *_ | sensation of this in her singing of part ‘The Admirable Crichton” and The of Sulamith in Goldmark's “Que Little Princess.” There have even been . e e some half-dozen “first productions in | Shevs” She makes her debut Bere in the | America,” the most famous “The First | Part on the opening night of the Season. | Born” The Roberts and the White |28 does also stss “b':men who appears | & c ek ut of Sheba. Whittlesey seasons have brought in- | 25 the Queen < creasingly good things, and the reper- | Bessie Abott is another American girl tolre of the present season promises | ®Bo began her career upon the vaudeville most hopefully. Indeed, today one can .;:'f;- !;(“:‘ni;‘&" D and ;:img: the | ¢t the > njo. Miss A was discovered by Jean Bartly e Wiomg of the Alekme. s | e Nemike o dhe was goig to Londen 9 500th consecutive week is the stock . company time record for America, but ; {ulfill an engagement at one of the music an Lawrence, Roberts and Hertfordshire i= a enormous lawn iin. Lord Cavan's Sladen, is 2 shining Army position of sergeant in the Salvation ids the proud major. The Dowager Countess, who died rate smoker, an year, was an In amusing story is told of her in ta nection. She went one day to visit 3_01 the cottagers near Wheathampste: jand sitting down in her usual friendly it is the consistent and increasing ex- | halls. De Resszke heard her sing some | way for a chat. she asked her humble cellence of the entertainment offered | “coon somgs,” with the result that he | hostess if she would object to her smok- | recommended her to study for opera, |ing. The woman, of course, sald she there that constitutes the Alcazar’s at- wouldn’t, and then, to the horror of the traction. | which she immedfately did. first in Amer- | Fred Belasco as an actor; I prom- |ica for four years, them in Paris for 4 |Countess, she called out to her daugh- ised? short season. Her engagement at theter, “Run and fetch your father's spit- I'm afraid! Paris Opera, in which as Mimi she made | toon for her Ladyship!™ “Soft-eyed Eve, her cheek yet warm |light, with the last 'X;ysko( x(::;ned : ? { sun st illumir| e sky, with blushes, slowly retires through the | 5D stil illumiciag 1he oy, and the pele Hesperian garden of the west and sh\:ts'!“‘.en. sheen over the waves. the gates of day.” So dextrously are the shadows and the Should you chance to dfop into Charles | high lights wrought, and the mystic spell { 3. Dickman's studio, 131 Post street, take | OF the Hour suggeeicl, thes it s one of these lines with you, for there upon 2n | sy the town. 5 sel by the fireplace you will find the | <what a wonderfully patient.chap this tion of them in a picture he | fellow must be with his Mistress, Art! has just finished. |~ Such a canvas as this—and it is only | The theme is furnished from studies | one of a dozen equally strong’phases of made by Mr. Dickman during his year's | Dature in the studio—must have required | sosourn among the Ssher-folk in Northern e nee—in Atop, to be specific. mystic time twixt sundown and moonrise | It shows the quay, stone-faced to meet | is tragically transient, slipping away into the washes of the sea.. A long row of | the purpling night as 2 soul : passeth jquaint huts huddle together,- while the | away, unseen. | boats ride easily in the quiet of the sum- |~ As a poetic conception of this hour. of | mer twilight. | witchery, bearing an eloguent message of | Twiigher | the sentiment of the painter as heicaught > f f the dying summer day,:1 Hardly that, nor yet is it mnflshn'fi ::”fi_"mm the picture And herein les the charm, the indivdual- | cerning. y ity. the masteriiness of the picture—for it | See .it and.you shall thereafter- stand e hetwixt the gradations of dav and twi- | heavy in my debt. o the dis- CHARLES J. DICKMAN PAINTS INTERESTING PICTURE —BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS On Tuesday night the Soglety of Cali-, Sarah Bender de Woife, R. F. Thomson. | studio at 8§ O'Farrell street gives ample fornia Artists wiil open its first exhibi- | G. Leslie Hunter, Will Sparks and W. 8 tevidem of his Parisian tastes and fan- tion at 723 Sutter street, diagonally across | Hansen. | tastes. the street from the University Club—| Manager Leggit has worked up a splen- | This good looking young chap's work most excellent atmosphere. did clientele for his “Permanent Exhibi- | is distinctive in its directness anag stmolie- The show. rooms are fitted up with rare | tion,”” which has, for a starter, a good | ity of line and rapidity of execution, giv- good judgment. The walls are unobtru- | location and excellent rooms. {ing a virility that only quick action of sively dressed in pleasing wood tones, and | The artists themselves must do | hand and eye can produce. a window drape of the same shade makes | part and. a discriminating public should | The humeor of child life is a Nne for a fit background to poor old Venus de [do the rest. | which young Raphae! shows special apti- Milo, who-has taken up the job of an- eiie: .. tude. In pursuit of this I would commend nouncing the show with rather a weary | Color is a primary factor in Calfornia | to him the types that foregather dally in air—due, perhaps, to the warm day. art. The flowers, the skies, the “Faters. | the public playgrounds at Seventh and By.Tuesday night, when the artists will | the birds, everything in nature is 'ar-‘mnhonumm Here is where the Phil thelr friends in their dress togs | with color, and it reaches into the psy- | Mays of the future may gather the com- poor chaps!—everything will be In ship- | chology of the people. | edy and tragedy of child lfe. shape for a good show. Mlmmelrdn'houchm(hel * .. The following painters have joined the | witchery of color, and keeps to h5 char- Charles Rollo Peters is playing in luck society,, which is, by the way, all the |coal, his pen or his pencil, is hardly val- | these davs. Another picture sold, and a name implies—with a president. a secre- | Ued at his true worth. $1500 check reposes snugly in his vest tary, a board of directors and all the| The black and wtilte artist must, first | pocket—or did. other trimmings of a well ordered society: | of all, be a draughtsm=n Color cannot ““The Adobe om the HUl" was the pic- fhre in gquestion. and J. B. Coryell of San Mateo bought it. the art lover who paid $19.000 last winter for a silk rug. come t0 his rescue and call away atten- tion from lineal defect—a trick. alas! myn‘m‘::nhvem others to do. den, "Sophie Brannan. M. del| Among cleverest, because original | The sale was put through by Mr. Cour- Mue, . Bertha Stringer Lee, Virgil T.|and keen, among the black and white | voisier. nigh-cousin to the artists, who are NahlL Gordon Coutts, Maren M. Froelich, | men hereabouts, is J. F. Raphael, whose | lured to him by apt framing.