The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1906, Page 23

Gold- ¢ urth sea- | begins | seems a K is prac- ng been given only and ars ago. My e cast, I palm ever u am tree. of Mr. | voli may console | company. There | remember— | palm rocking Mr. Gold- | persuasive, »ugh not so immortal the i to v Carmen to fight on Tuesday n Jose imperfect Wagnerites amas for their satl appears Caruso.as D Th T have three music-d evening with faction. There will be “Lohengrin “Tannhauser” and “The Valkyries.” The modern Italian school will be importantly y aforemen- twice per- formed, w ich as one Mimi and Bessie Abott, 2 new American singer, who this the much fame there is year, as the ever-glorious Figaro”—altogether a st | And tomor- rings up grand opera the e In New York Is important pro- a ein, as we all to establish a Tivoll popular as the attraction. found that wh popu- to at- Hammerstein be in direct tropolitan. The d will be similarly 1t will be of the caliber. Already xed by the Hammer- the other Caruso,” is and Mascheroni and 4rror () VAN EOOY reating a | | and Edouard de Reszke. also Mme. Nor- ! Calve such as we had las | the leading role, begins its last week to-morrow evening at the | Majestic. It will be followed by an ela- | borate revival of “The Light Eternal by Martin V. Merle. . . Alhambra patrons will this week re- jolce in Kremer's mellowest, the “Queen of the Highbinders.” . . “Miss Timidity” runs for three nights more at the Tivoll and on Wednesday évening next “The Show Girl.” a new musical comedy, produced by Gus Sohlke, will be put on. 6 ' O R California this week “The will hold sway. . English At the Cherry Blossom: . comedy com- | Harry Tate's this from London, will present pany, afternoon at the Orpheum !h:l, latest auto skiit, entitled *“Motoring. Mile Lotty, in “poses plastiques.” will also be among the new, and Charles R 1 Sweet returns. | . s Ted E. Box, the famous English whis- tler and mimic, is chief among the Chutes entertainers this week. The Im- perial Russian Dancers are others new, with Frank Jones and Lilllan Walton. . o * “The Dangers of a Working Gir1” will hold down the Central boards this week. I — NEWS OF THE WEEK IN MOUSICAL WORLD Jean Gerardy's second and posltively last recital takes place this afternoon at 2:30 2t the Columbia Theater, and will doubtless receive the attention it de- serves. Mr. Gerardy's success at last NCISCO. ORROW NIGHT IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASONS WHICH NOWN Campanari, conductors, will lead. Jean dica, sre among the probabilities. It is whispered also that the errant | Tetrazzini, who turned up her little nose at Herr Conrled’s plea, will join the Hammerstein forces. And next season the fight will be on. There should be some good fun going. Meantime there is a Calve unannexed, a season. 1f T were Caliph Hammerstein—! And there is a Gadski. Schumann-Heink, all good opera-goers will rejoice to hear, returns to grand opera next year—she is Herr Conried’s “kill.” Hammerstein could just about offset this with Calve, the sister- sun. Schumann-Heink has been singing with enormous success in concert recent- ly in Europe—who, better than we, can know that? ,She will make no more comic opera mud ples for awhile, her season, until she begins with Conried next year, being taken up With an American con- cert tour, that unfortunately does not extend to San Francisco . . . . Interesting word of Polacco comes from Bari, Italy, where the conductor is now directing. He there introduced with large success Mascagni's new opera, ‘‘Amica,” at Mascagni's own request and in his presence. The opera had before been conducted only by the composer himself. Mr. Polacco also conducted the same composer’s “Irts,”” also with great suc- cess. Bari has one of the best theaters in Italy, with artists, orchestra and chorus to match. Since leaving here our conductor has had also a splendid season in Messina, durjng which he directed “Ballo in Maschera.”” “Manon,” “Trav- jata,” “Don Pasqual “Mefistofele” and “Loreley” (Catalani). Franchetti's new opera, written about the d'Annunzio play, | Sunday’s concert was quite sensational in “La Figlia di Jorio,” is shortly to be pro- duced at La Scala, one hears—not, how- ever, by Signor Polacco. Which all sets one to wondering just now to which end Signor Polacco will finally gravjtate —Conrfed or Hammerstein. He is at least the equal of any of this year's con- ductors. * LOCAL PLAYHOUSES FOR CURRENT WEEK Tomorrow evening “The Babes in Toy- land,” a musical extravaganza by Glen MacDonough and Vietor Herbert, will be presepted at the Columbia. The plece ran for a whole season in New York, and was voted one of the chief successes of its kind. With it come Ignacio Martinetti, the amusing Zou- zou of “Trilby” days, and Katherine Bell, Albertine Bensen, Gene Luneska, Maud Campbell, Katherine Murray, Ida Ward, Gas Pixley, Walter Schrode, John F. Ward, Edward P. Sullivan, Robert Burns and James Wilson. The chorus is one of the largest to be found in any production. . v . Tonight, owing to the large demand for seats, an extra performance of “The Lion and the Mouse” will be given. &2 “Are You a Mason?” the ever-popii- lar farce, will be the KEastertide bill at the Alcazar. By large popular re- quest “The Admirable Crichton” will be revived for one week only following this, SR g “Who Goes There?” a carnival of farcical fun, with Walter E. Perkins in R character. The cellist has with him in | the person of Andre Benoist a pianist and accompanist of rare ability, and the two musiclans -give a remarkably fine | programme. The arrangement of num- bers for today's matinee is as follows: Sonata in D major, op. 18, for violin- cello and piano; Allegro Moderato, Mod- erato assai, Moderato (Rubinstein). Ger- ardy and Benoist; Suite in A, Adagio, Al- legro (LCceccherini), Gerardy; Sarabande (Saint Saens), Fantasie Impromptu (Chopin), Andre Benoist; Kol Nidrei (Max Bruch), Gerardy; Aria de tre Giorni (Pergolese), Serenade (V. Herbert), A Spring Brunnen (Davidoff), Gerardy. San Franciscans will be glad to wel- come back Max Hirschfeld tomorrow evening at the Columbia, where he ap- pears as musical director of “The Babes ’ in Toyland.” Mr. Hirschfeld has earned much fame since he left the conductor's desk at the Tivoli some seven years ago. He left here in 1900, going to New York to direct “The Girl From Up There” for Charles Frohman at the Herald Square Theater, afterward directing the for- tunes of the piece in London for a whole season. Alice Nielsen's London season in comic opera was also under Mr. Hirschfeld's musical management, and a production of “The Chaperones” was another of his London successes, and with it the Californian came back to | his own country. Three productions for George Lederer. “The Wild Rose,” “Sally in Our Alley” and “The Jewel of Asia,” were next added to Mr. Hirschfeld's list -of achievements. It was Victor Herbert himself who then chose the Californian as the director of “The Babes in Toy- land,” a Herbert and McDonough opera. Mr. Hirschfeld produced It and conduct- HATAL W 2 qu the belt of from the soul, If they Both emanate th reach the soul 2 few days ago into Giuseppe | s stodio (121 Post street), I there a little unfinished canvas that up from somewhere the beautiful of Oscar Wilde. A poem without words is this little thing of Cadenasso's, | A De Orchard”—a gleeful voice of | early spring, athrob with the quickening | of the life-forces. The sky is moodful, as is the wont of &n April day in talifornla, grave and ERY. TTLE BLACK GCLOUD DID TO CADENASSO To the right, turquoise sky stretches above the ripening fruit trees; up from the left comes a little black cloud, ugly and portentous, flanked by & timid little gray cloud; after some parley- ing the naughty lilde black cloud lets fall a shower of big sflver drops, right upon an artist-man who was eager- ly sketching a cherry tree all abloom, and as white as snowdrops and soft as thistie- down a | It was such fun to see the artist-man | run. But he dldn’t run—this artist man— until he had caught the mischievous clouds at thelr pranks, and had painted their faces and theif moods upon his can- vas. And then it was the artist’'s time to laugh—which Cadenasso, always atume for a laugh. did with good glee; for had he not caught Spring in her coyest moad, with & tear on her cheek, while yet a smile played round her mouth? * And thus the picture was painted—the living presence of spring, with her breath upon your cheek, the wet of the grass upon your feet, the odor of the cherry blessoms anointing Aour nostrils. In truth was this portrait of spring as lovely a thing as ever a poet painted in words. The Society of California Artists opened its new showrooms at 723 Sutter street on Tuesday night with a reception, at which the artists were in turn hosts and guests. Can it be that San Francisco soclety js too provinclal—too raw—to manifest a so- cial interest in art? If the smart women of San Francisco would but develop a little wholesome interest in art—and manifest it by at- tending the opening of exhibitions— the cause of art in the West would progress in proportion to its just de- serts. But it takes crowds to bring crowds, and it is the fashionable wo- men alone who can draw them. There- fore it becomes the duty of soclety women—such of them as have head- works enough to recognize a duty when they see one—to attend such recep- tions as patroness It is at once pleasant, profitable and smart, and such a splendid chance to wear smart gowns. Sie e > Another picture I would commend to my friends—and on Easter; even to mine enemies—two pictures of Maurice Del Mue's, Nos, 10 and 12, and a bit of a canvasette by Sophie Marston Brannon, No. 83. Joseph Greenbaum’s “Chiquita” attracts a lot of attention, and it is unyuestionably a stunning bit of posing and coloring, but a little more drapery above the waistline would add just tne touch of suggestion to what is now a stern fact. This, I have heard. Mr. Greenbaum intends to do; in which case he will have a charming bit of portrait study. See the picture, and you will under- stand. Among the distinctive things at the exhibition at 723 Sutter street, which, by the way, is to become a permanent institution, is a picture by Maynard Dixon, called ‘A Camp in the Desert.” To such as know the desert with the silence that screams, the fever that ——BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS. | | crackles, the thirsty blooms that lie hot upon its bosom. the jutted peaks hold- ing /ate into the growing night the blood red rays of the dying day. this canvas will appeal. And the gleam of campfire, hard by the covered wagon and the footsore animal that dragged | it over the burning sands, holds one in reverie—ip wonderment, that men will tempt the desert with its dangers, and then nr-ixmway. fall victim to its lure. . . The ¢canvas that won honors in the landscape contest at the present exhibi- | tion at the Institute of Art is presented in the accompanying illustration. EI- mer Wachtel is the lucky chap, and in- cidentally a very worthy fellow, though a bit brutal in his conception of nature, I am inclined to think. But If he sees nature that way he must paint it that ‘way, lest he belie himself, and his untruth ‘will find him out. A riper growth may refine his inter- tions of nature, which, with his ‘'nt _definiteness and grasp, would make of him a big man. hd X | tion. | come ' its maker 2 | laughed like my father. | student New York. Then this busy person be- came musical director at Lew Field's Theater, producing the famous musical comedy, “It Happened in Nordland -1 other Herbert and McDonough crea- This he continued to direct threatened with blindness, which neces- sitated seven months’ treatment and an ! operation, whichafter he returned to “The Babes in Toyland.” Mr. Hirschfeld is now composing a comic opera, under contract W Eastern firm. record one expects from a Tivoli emi grant, and there will be many to wel- the Columbia this week. NOTES OF ACTORS AND THEIR PLAYS This is the story Giuseppe Campa- nari, the popular barytone, tells of his beginnings as a singer: “I come of a family of musicians. T was a growing lad when my father told me to prepare to tory at Mlilan to study “‘Papa,’ I replied violoncello. 1 wish to be a | singer.’ , de was scornfully. very angry_ and laughed “You a singér! fool. Do you not know that you have no velce? oo “‘It T can talk I can sing’ I an- swered, respectfully. but irmly. ‘I will make a singing voice out of my talking voice." “When I was sent to the conservatory with my cello, where my big brother was studying the violin, I presented | my request to the head of the vocal de- partment. He tried my voice and ‘You have no more voice than that, he said, and he struck the wooden case of the piano. Then he continued kindly, ‘My boy, strive to be a good ceilist. That is also sing.’ “I was determined that if not teach me at the cons rould teach myself. I began to train my voice In the same manner I taugit on the cello, very, very siowly, note by note, listening with ears and mind that the sound should be round, clear and true. Each note occupled all my attention® I fixed my mind and thought upon it. until I was perfect cello was my acher could not h: selected “l became so at home with my never-e: hour after hour, that my father for- bade me to touch the piano, but I stilt continued my studies at the house of a friend. “Believing in the theory that the one who accomplishes js the one who. knows his business best, I frequently went to The I in the last my model. better. nuisance at a a ding practicing, tne opera, and especially to the same | opera for a whole season at a time to study and watch the manner In which successful artists delivered their solos. I took note of how and when they failed and vice versa. Every one. no matter how great or how humble. who is a follower of our chosen art can teach an earnest Faust” by the Castle Square Company, adopted their Mephistopheles’ manner of smiting a flame from the ground on which he strikes his sword in the first act. “One day, when I had about completed both my vocal and cello studies. a great musical celebration was given in Milan, in honor of Donizetti, whose ashes were to be reinterred. I went very early in the morning to the cathedral with my mother to rehearse my cello solo. As I eatered 1 heard the sound of heavenly musie. Groping about in the twilight I came | across an o!d man with a white, flowing | beard and black tunic, playing on a cello before the grand altar. I thought it w a vision—some patriarch or prophet who had descended from heaven. I fell upon my knees and began to pray to the di- vine musician. After a while the figure took the cello and placed it in a box lined with red flanne:; it then approached and addressed me in-a human voice. It was Piatti, the greatest cellist who has ever lived. Through this encounter we be- came good friends. “‘He who studles in the dawn.’ he umed to say to me, ‘will play long after the moon has risen!” “T1 had become a singer as well as a cellist when my brother, who was first violinist of the Boston Symphony, ad- vised my joining the same orchestra. You are a | It is quite the kind of | {1 e second and ! ed it throughout ‘its entire season in I will go to America and sing in opera,’ 1 sald to myself. T will scrape cheese on my fiddle.’ “But In Amerfca it was as in Italy. No one would believe in my veice ' Wwas not even given a caance to s no longer When I would say I can sing at the Symphony concerts my companions would laugh merrily and s You are a good feuow, Campan very intelligent; on one su you is u talk “One day which was in . needed a Valen- tine for ‘Faust,’ as the barytone was | taken suddeniy ill. I knew the role'a: my fingers' ends and Mme. Juch en- | 8aged me in a sort of desperate way was better than no Valentine. I rushed to the hall for my orchestra re- hearsal. ‘Be 1 called out, ‘this even- ing 1 sing Valentine with the Emma Juch Opera Company! I wish you all to witness that I shall have a big suc- ow, indeed, the poor boy is craz: they muttered, looking at me very dols- | fully. iter the conserva- | | I was master of my I never attempted a new note | | Alexander and Beerbohm Tree. I had become so certain of my voice that even on that momentous occasion vocal instrument. I sang and sang at my best. That evening’s trlumph was the beginning of my operatic career. That very evem™ ing, too, I gave up scraping cheese on my cello, and my friends no longer called me crazy. Through persistency and intelligent tralning ! had created a singing voice from a talking voice.” Ernest Lamson, who has made such a hit here in “The Heir to the Hoorab.” is | one of the most versatile comedians on the American stage today. Next season he is to star in a new Western play of which he is the author. . J. Heron Miller, the son of Henry Mil- ler, has been piaced under contract b Henry B. Harris and will next season ap- ! pear as Jefferson Ryder in ome of the a beautlful volce, which you can make | g, 2 four companies that will “The Lion and the Mouse.” Previous to Gertrude Coghlan's leaving the East to join the Western “The Lion and the Mouse Company” she made ap- plication in New York City for naturall- zation papers. Miss. Coghlan, who is a British subject, had contemplated return- ing to London with the intention of mak ing for herself a place-on the Logndon stage, having recelved offers from George Mr. Har- present | ris pessuaded her to abandon the idea and | entitled “The Music Master," either a fault to avoid or a | quality to gain. “No less an artist than Bdouard de | Reszke, after seeing a performance of | nearly 600 times, comsecutively. place herself under his direction for a term of years. Warfield has composed a song suggested has appeared It will be published in the course of the spring by Witmark & Sons” Publishing pany. Those who have heard the music say it is a charming composition, fitted to most sympathetic verse. David by the play in which he Stephen Phillips’ “The Son of David" is among the probable productions of this season. Henry B. Harris is now nego- tiating for the American rights of play and will present it at a series of matinees at the Hudson Theater in May, with a gpecial cast. William for Australia in Collier and company will sail April for an extended engagement. Mr. Collier will appear in “The Dictator,” “On the Quiet” and other plays. He will return via London, where he will again appear. A young woman named Ruth St. Denis is the sensation of the minute in New York. Miss St. Denis is doing the Isadore | Duncan kind of thing, with Hindoo dane- ing as her specialty o e e Two more stars have been added to the Shubert firmament for next season. They are Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Guy Stand- ing. The solendid work of the latter in “The Duel” with Otis Skinner was the immediate reason of his being elevated to stellar honors. The English actress will be seen In a new play and in several revivals. . “The Thorny Way a play adapted by Clayton Hamilton and Isabel Colbron from tfe German of Phillpotts, will be presented by the Shuberts for the first time in English iIn Washington, D. C., on Monday, April 16, with a splendid cast including Mary Shaw. Katherine Grey, Herbert Standing and Henry Jewett. The play will be staged by FHenry Miller, whose stage needs no bush. + CANVAS OF ELMER THE PRIZE TION DURING WACHTEL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT WON FOR THE BEST LANDSCAPE IN THE COMPETI- ENTERED THE CURRENT EXHIBITION AT THE ART INSTITUTE. “+