THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 1, 1901.
B Music!
THE GRAU OPERA SEASON
Calve, Sembrlch, Sybil Sanderson
and Others Who Are Singing: In
San Francisco.
It seems that Maurice Grau does not
Intend to have the California opera sea
son end without a genuine San Fran
cisco triumph for Calve. That -was the
reason he extended the season to Decem
ber 5, and has been In such hot tele
graphic communication with Pasadena,
whither she has gone to recover her
voice. He has managed to extract a
promise from her to sing "Carmen"" the
last night. This would be her second ap
pearance In that role before a San Fran
cisco audience. As far as can be Judged
at present writing, Collamarlnl Is rather
in the lead In the race to become San
Francisco's favorite Carmen.
So far, the crush nights at the opera
have been for "Lohengrin," "The Mar
riage of Figaro," "The Valkyrie," Calve
in "Carmen." Sybil Sanderson In
"Manon," and the Sembrlch nights. The
poorest house was for "La Boheme,"
only one carriage being at the door at
the close of the performance. Neither
Sybil Sanderson nor Calve have made
the triumph that was expected. Sem
brlch has made herself a greater favor
ite. If possible, than last season. Fol
lowing are given extracts from Ashton
Stevens' comments on the most Important
performances up to last Thursday night:
"Lohengrin" The audience forgot Itself
and the conventions in the spell of one
of the most absorbing and complete pro
ductions of "Lohengrin" In the record of
the town and we had several last year
after the season was well under way
which edged on the fabulous. In the
cast were Schumann-Helnk, Do Beszkc.
"Van Dyck, BIspham and Eames all
known quantities in the work save Eames.
Had Emma Eames Elsa been one semi
quaver less than that the singer's repu
tation there would be a different story to
tell. Nordlca had sung Elsa with these
others and had done well; GadskI had
warbled the same part In the same good
company to make two audiences stand In
amaze at the richness of her art. But
Eames made the part absolutely her own.
She gave it an Identity both vocal and
histrionic that swept away the thought
of any other woman In the role. She
gives to Elsa the gentleness and at the
same time the distinction that one blends
In contemplating an ideal interpreta
tion of the role.
"La Travlata" Only the greatest of
coloratura singers can juggle with an
audience as Sembrlch did. Mclba as a
Violetta Is not to be mentioned In the
same type with Sembrlch. Melba, In the
part, gave us the cool, clear, liquid ar
ticulation of the canary; she dazzled us
with her .facility.
Now Sembrlch does all this, but plus a
vivid, warm, imaginative personality. In
this effortless and apparently limitless
technique there Is blended a human qual
ity whose effect is posltU'ely electrical
a dramatic tact, a passionate prodigality
of feeling that, until you hear It, would
seem Impossible of association with music
of the "Travlata" character.
"Tannhauser" Even with Emma
Eames singing Elizabeth and Van Dyck
enjoying comparative good fortune in
the name part, the "Tannhauser" was not
as distinctive and full a performance as
that of" last year. " If did not hold to
gether with the same single purpose;
and the Venusberg scene and the ap
proach of the pilgrims were away short
of the right theatric effect.
"The Valkyrie" The performance was
one of sumptuous worth; short of last
year's only In that Louise Reuss-Belce,
not Nordlca, was the Brunnhllde. Ma
dame Reuss-Belce was a disaster the
night before In the Venus of "Tannhaus
er," but she was decidedly better than
that as the demlgoddcss.
The rest of the cast was one to mem
orize and brag about In later years. A
real name went with every one of the
Valkyries; and GadskI, Schumann-Helnk,
BIspham, Blass and DIppcl had the great
parts, and one and all scored a fine suc
cess In the most exacting piece In all
"Wagner.
BIspham, who never falls, was even
stronger than before, I fancied, In "Wotan.
At least, I did not find myself this time
wishing that BIspham had six Inches
more to his stature and a bit more pres
sure In his lungs. His "Wotan was ab
solutely commanding; and in that tre
mendous scene with Brunnhllde In which
Wotan harks back to the evil day of the
"Rhlnegold," there were subtle dra
matic touches that no opera singer of
my experience but BIspham can give.
GadskI Is at her tenderest and her best
in Slegllnde. As Damrosch would say,
she makes beautiful a legend that many
of the medieval poets brutalized.
"Manon" Sybil Sanderson Is Mas
senet's "Manon- to the last Parisian
shrug, but whether the same cozy little
budolr voice that found freedom in
"Manon" last night will serve as happily
in the severer score of Gounod's "Romeo
and Juliet" remains to be demonstrated.
But as "Manon" Sybil Sanderson of San
Francisco Is a unique and distinctive suc
cess. One might call It the celebration
of a personality. Certainly It Is char
acter acting and character singing of the
most Intimate and unoperatlc kind.
"La Boheme" Since when did San
Francisco go back on the "Boheme" of
Puccini?
Campanarl 'was a rousing Marcello all
the way through. His voice came in
splashes of color and his acting was In
fine fever.
De March! sang Rodolfo as no one sings
it but Agostlnl.
Suzanne Adams was cold, formal,
everything Jn fact that Mlmi should not
be.
"The Marriage of Figaro" It was an
other Mozart night, and like the one of
last year It made history for opera in
San Francisco. Such a cast, such music
and such an audience! Grau gave us the
best he has last night in "Figaro," and
that Is the best in the world.
The art of Emma Eames Is -versatile.
She sings Mozart with a delicacy and a
fragrance that is unparalleled among the
greater "Wagner sopranos; and apart from
the unfaltering beauty and purity of her
tone, she kings the Mozartean music with
a fine musicianly understanding of its
piquancy and spirit.
Sembrlch Is essentially a Mozart singer.
She has the lithe, graceful phrase, and
the sense of fun and caprice as well as
the perfect vocal Instrument.
These two singers In the "Zephyr" duet
made a vocal blend that paralyzes ad
jective. It marked the best that I have
heard since Patti and Scalchl. This
duet might easily be made a duel. The
same melodle phrase Is handed from voice
to voice. Comparison would seem In
evitable. Yet as they sang it there was
no thought of comparison. Each sub
ordinated to the other in turn as the
music demanded; and they rose together
at the close in a climax of impeccable
unity
"Carmen" We expected I did, and so
did a great many others who were there
last night a temperament run almost to
riot. We expected something Vesuvlan,
electrical, galvanic; something that would
burn up and down our spines. And we
did not get that kind of a Carmen at all.
Wo got Instead a Carmen of fine nervous
energy febrile, voluptuous, even pas
sionate. The keynote of Calve's Carmen is grace.
Its very cruelty Is graceful. It has
abandon and a measure of swagger, but
it never affects thp hard-heeled stride
and preposterous Dose of the clcarette
picture. The flashes of temper are fleet
ly suggested. You do not see the veins
In the neck stand out like whipcords, as
Laura Jean would say. The insolence
with which Calve sang the Havanalse
last night was beautiful, admirable, with
never a note of bumptousness.
In every detail her performance was
complete and fascinating. But it gilded
the character. It gave much refinement
when less was expected. And this is
not to say that we were looking for a
Nethersole brutallzation. In a word. It
completely upset our notions of what
the world's greatest Carmen really Is,
and some of us did not recover from the
surprise In time to appreciate thoroughly
what was offered.
"Faust" Eduard de Reszke's magnifi
cent voice gloated luxuriously In the rare
music of Mephlstopheles, and he played
the part with bounding spirit and poig- 1
nantly satanlc Insinuation; his persona
tion was up to the masterpiece mark, and
It drew thunder from a crowd that, ex
pecting Emma Eames as Marguerite and
getting Instead Camllle Seygard, was
not entirely In the thunder-giving mood.
But for all his art and energy and the huge
personal magnetism which reaches out
over the lights and holds you where you
live, Edouard de Reszke could not save l
the "Faust" performance from being a j
dull one.
"Don Pasquale" Sembrlch sang Nor- I
LEAVES FAI1H OF YOUTH
REV. FRANK B. COULTER JOINS
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
He "Was Formerly a, United Brethren
Minister and Original Thinker
on Economic Subjects.
Rev. Frank E. Coulter, formerly pastor
of the First United Brethren Church,
East Morrison and East Fifteenth streets.
has left that denomination and entered
the TJnlversallst church as a minister. At
a recent meeting of the Portland Minis
terial Association he tendered his resig
nation, but it was held that the fact
that he had resigned from the United
Brethren church and joined the Unlversal
Ist was sufficient to sever his relations
with the association.
Mr. Coulter came from California about
two years ago to become pastor of the
United Brethren Church. His sermons
along doctrinal lines and also on economic
subjects early attracted attention for their
eomewhat liberal tone, and seemed to
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MARQUAM GRAND
CKL.3IN HEILIG ... - 7Ut7CN3CGER
THREE NIGHTS STARTING
Monday, December
2
The Greatest
American Play
James A. Heme's FamrJmray
SHORE
ACRES
Trescnled with an ideal cast under the stage direction or
MRS. JAMES A, HEKfE.
HENRY IRVING says: " 'Shore Acres' Is the best American play I have ever
teen.
HALL CAINE says: " 'Shore Acres' Is the work of a genius and I predict It will
run a year in London."
Prices
Lower floor, except last 3 rows. 51.00; last 3 rows, 75c. Balcony, first 6
rows, 75c; last 6 rows, 50c. Gallery, first 2 rows, 33c; all seats In rear
25c. Boxes and logea, $7.50. Advance sale opened.
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MARQUAM GRAND THEATER
CALVIN HEILIG, Manager
Friday and Saturday Nights, December 6-7 AJltrSSAY
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LLIAM COLLIER
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In Augustus Thomas Phenomenally Successful Comedy
ON THE QUIET"
MANAGEMENT OF JACOB LITT.
DIRECT FROM A SIX MONTHS' RUN AT THE MADISON SQUARETHEATER, NEW YORK CITY
"COLLIER'S ACTING IS DELIGHTFUL. HE XEVER STRAINS FOR EFFECT." LouIk de Foe in The New York "World.
EVENING PRICES
Entire lower floor. $1.50; balcony, first
three rows, 51.00; second three rows. 75 cents; laft six
rows, 50 cents. Gallery, first 2 'rows. 35 cents; all seats in
rear. 23 cents. Boxes and logce, $10.00.
MATINEE PRICES
(Saturday) Entire lower floor, $1.00. Balcony,
first 6 rows, it cento; last 6 rows. 50 cents. Gallery, first
two rows. 35 cents; all seats In rear, 25 cents. Boxes and
loges, $7.50.
ADVANCE SALE OPEN'S WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK.
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WILLI.-. vOLLIER IX "OX THE QUIET," AT THE MARQUAM.
ina In "Don Pasquale" to make the house
hoarse with the shouting. The part of
Norlna Is second to none In the repertoire
of Sembrlch. "Travlata" may show this
singer in a greater purely vocal dazzle;
"The Barber" may give her a longer and
more sustained opportunity for caprice;
but this gives her a character of sunshine
and fun that fits as happily as the Sem
brlch smile. She and the part arc a
glad unit.
The Aeolian Recital.
The usual "Wednesday evening recital
was given In Aeolian Hall, last Wednes
day evening, to an unusually large audi
ence. Many were obliged to stand, every
available scat being occupied, and more
were unable to get In at all.
The programme, which was especially
prepared for the ' evening, was wel" re
ceived, especially the piano selections
March from "Tannhauser," and "Les
Adicux" "(La Africainc), the former ren
dered by Mr. Hughes and the latter by
Mr. M. B. Wells.
To any person who has rtever attended
one of these recitals they will prove a
most agreeable surprise, as an opportunity
is given to hear selections that are sel
dom heard outside of European musical
circles, and the crowds always In attend
ance attest their popularity.
"Will Go to The Dalle.
Mrs. Rose Bloch Bauer and Reginald
L. Hidden will take part In the recital
to be given at The Dalles this week by
Miss Nannie Helen Flynn.
"NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE."
For
Hovr Gas City Folic Petition
Their Divorces.
Topeka Dispatch to New York Sun.
Dr. Sherman Foote. of Gas City, has
sued for divorce from his wife. The pe
tition begins with the following state
ment: "Comes now the plaintiff to the altar
of justice bearing his sorrow and woe,
which he humbly lays down before the
ermine and the woolsack. He declares
with solemn truth that he has been for
more than one year past an actual resi
dent In good faith of the State of Kan
sas, whose valiant sons swarm the Bam
bag; that state pointed out and con
gratulated by all the world as being the
deserted home of Carrie Nation and
Mary Ellen Lease, and that he Is now
a resident of Allen County, same state,
where the roar of natural gas wells and
the whistles of great industries have
become as familiar td Its Inhabitants as
was the croaking of frogs to the people
of Posey County, Ind., In the days of
auld lang syne."
Continuing Dr. Foote's petition recites:
"From the altar vows she turned for
getful .and showed him a warm time
thenceforth. Her supposed honey sweet
ness of disposition became like a spray
of vinegar. She began to knock on aKn-
sas and then on him. Among his titles
bestowed by her were bigot, back num
ber, loafer, idiot, crank, fool, tyrant, no
gentleman, filthy, low. Indecent old cur
mudgeon. Privately and publicly she
hailed him thus. Was she the helpmato
to him? Nay, nay. Did sho love, honor
and obey? not on your tintype, nor did
she cook, wash or sew, although In good
health, and mighty spry for a lady of 63
Summers."
Pnn-EuropcanlRni Is Rubbish.
Atlantic.
Nothing less than the supreme realiza
tion of the commercial side of empire will
be needed to plunge England and America
Into a war of tariffs. For the rest, Eng
lishmen laugh at pan-Europeanlsm. The
weapon has been used against themselves,
and even in the grasp of a master hand It
snapped like a twig. What Napoleon
could not effect against England the con
cert of Europe Is hardly likely to effect
against America. Such, at any rate. Is
the English view, both popular and offi
cial. England will have no hand In forc
ing the new weapon; still less will she
direct it. One may even go further, and
with less assurance. Were united Eu
rope, in some freak of madness, to at
tempt, as It has actually been suggested
she might attempt, to prohibit American
exports by force, England would be com
pelled by sheer National necessity to join
with Aanarica In- frustrating it.
place him out of harmony with the tenets
of that church; still there was no break,
and he retired quietly from the pastorate
at the close of tne year. For a short time
he was assistant pastor of Centenary
Methodist Church, after the death of Rev.
George W. Gue. He preached two ser
mons along essential doctrinal lines, and
these were sufficient to cause an uproar
among the Methodist brethren, and he re
tired. Recently Mr. Conlter has said that
he rather favored the Universalis! church
and its beliefs, and now has nbrnced the
faith of that church. Those who have ob
jected to his methods and views-give him
the credit of having the courage of his
convictions, and they admit that his lec
tures and addresses have shown him pos
sessed of originality and force. Mr. Coul
ter will do work for the Universalis!
church at Albany and other places.
TO FURXISH ODD FELLOWS HOME.
Rooms Are to Be Ready by the First
of the Year.
It Is now announced that the dedication
of the 'Odd Fellows' Home, located south
of Ktenllworth, which was arranged to
be held January 15, 1902, may not take
place until in April. This is the talk
among members of the lodges, and the
change In time Is suggested for the reason
that bad weather may prevent a large at
tendance. The furnishing of the rooms, however,
will go ahead, and It Is desired that the
building should be furnished by the first
of the year. Several of the Rebekah
lodges are accumulating money with
which to furnish the rooms. Columbia
lodge has raised $200 for this purpose,
and Omega and Utopia "Lodges both have
considerable sums already to be applied
to the furnishing of rooms.
There is no doubt but that all will be
comfortably and handsomely fitted up.
It Is not yet settled Just how It will be
done. It has been expected that each
lodge would take a room In the building
and fit It up, and then it would be
known that such a lodge had furnished
such a room, but there are a number
who want the money raised put into the
hands of the trustees and all the rooms
furnished alike, or at the same expense.
Those who are advocating this method
kjiv that it will be much hetter thnn for
the Individual lodges to fit up rooms sep- I
arately. as a few would be furnished
more attractively than others. Just what
course will be taken has not yet been
decided, but the entire building will
doubtless be fitted up by about the first
of the year any way.
MOXTAVILLA SIDETRACK ASSURED.
All Subscriptions to the llonns Fund
Have Been Paid In.
The bonus for the Montavllla sidetrack,
amounting to $350, was completed yester
day. Secretary Devenny, of the sub
board of trade, reported yesterday after
noon that the last subscription had been
paid In and turned over to the Title
Guarantee & Trust Company, which Is
the custodian of the money. The O. R. &
N. Co. has- agreed to put In the sidetrack
within SO days after assurances shall have
been given that a deed for a stria of
land 100x1500 would be transferred to the
company.
It has been mainly through the efforts
of Dr. Devenny that the transaction was
finally brought to a successful termina
tion. With a sidetrack from the main
line of the O. R. & N. Railway, resi
dents of Montavllla hope to secure some
manufacturing establishments. Hereto
fore they could not offer Inducements.
FUXERAL OF CHARLES S. 1VAITE.
Services "Were Conducted by Exalted
Ruler George Chamberlain.
The funeral of the late Charles S. Walte,
secretary of the Union Savlncs & Loan
Association, was held yesterday afternoon
at Dunnlng's Chapel, East Sixth and East
Alder streets. There was a large gather
ing of Elks, the services being conducted
under the auspices of Portland Lodge No.
128, B. P. O ., George Chamberlain, ex
alted ruler, officiating.
Many members of Home Lodge, No. 1.
Order of Lions, were present. John La
mont, John E. Kelley, Phil Harris. SIg
Werthelmer, Thomas McNameo and C. E.
Holmes were pallbearers. Many handsome
Popular With the People
CORDRAY'S THEATER
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One Week, Starting Tonight, Sunday, December 1
AND SATURDAY MATINEE
FIRST TIME IN PORTLAND OF THE CRISP AND DELICiOUSLY FUNNY
COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
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By Special Arrangement the Engagement Has Been Extended to December 21.
Change of Opera Twice a Week.
One of the .best Opera Companies that has ever visited Portland Oregonian.
Evening
Prices
15c, 25c,
35c, 50c
ilbur-Kirwin
Matinee
Prices
10c, 15c,
25c
50 PEOPLE 50 SPECIAL SCENERY AND COSTUMES FOR EACH OPERA.
Standing Room Only All Last WeeK.
This Afternoon. Tonight Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Evenings with Wednesday Matinee
LA MASCOTTE
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings with Saturday
Matinee
FRA DIAVOLA
By special permission, with Mr. J. J. Murdock, the big hit, will continue all next week, "THE GIRL WITH THE AUBURN LOCKS." You will have to hurry
to the box-ofilce or go way back and stand up. Have you seen the 20 pretty maidens in their march? Matinee 2:15; evcnlng.S:15.
floral tributes wero received. At the close
of the services the body was taken to the
Portland crematorium.
AGAINST GRIMES' SALOON.
Montavllla Sub - Hoard lrotets
Against Renewal of License.
At a meeting1 of the Montavllla Sub
Board of Trade Friday evening, in Ayles
worth Hall, Base Line road, resolutions
were passed in opposition to granting "Wil
liam Grimes a renewal of his liquor li
cense for his roadhouse at Montavllla.
All the fraternal orders passed resolu
tions to this effect this week, and the ac
tion of the sub-board was in line with
these orders.
Death of MrH. John Kane.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kane, who died at her
home, 414 Hawthorne avenue, last Sunday,
after a lingering Illness, was the wife of
John Kane. She was born July 11, 1E51, at
Hexham, England. She was married to
John Kane May 4, 1ST2, at Newcistle-on-the-Lynn,
England. The family came
to the Pacific Coast In 1S74. set
tling In Truckee, Cal.. and In 1SS3
moved to Oregon. Her husband and two
children, a son and a daughter, survive
her. .She was a faithful wife and a loving
mother. The funeral was held "Wednesday
from the family residence, and the serv
ices were conducted by Rev. G. "W. Plum
mer. The Interment was at Rlverview
cemetery.
Mopnment Association.
The Soldiers Monument Association will
meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock. In G. A.
R. Hall, 2V& Union avenue. While .the
canvass for funds for the 1905 fair was in
progress the association suspended its
work, but hopes soon to take it up actively.
Talked, on Mexican War.
Colonel D. B. Bush, a well-known resi
dent; j( th.j Eagt Slde and veteran, of the
Mexican War, accepted an invitation to
address the class in history In the North
Central School one day this week. He
spoke on the history of the Mexican War.
The class was delighted with his remarks,
which were full of Information not found
In school books.
East Side Notes.
Mr. and Mrs. George Older arrived from
Denver Friday.
C. Plo, a well-known business man or
Stephens Addition, Is seriously ill at his
home.
Rev. Jerome R. McGlade, pastor of the
MIzpah Presbyterian Church, will deliver
an address to all the Sub-Boards of Trade
south of Hawthorne avenue next Sunday
evening, on "Civic Pride." Members ot
all sub-boards and Improvement associa
tions In the city will be welcome.
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Some Wheat.
AInslee's Magazine.
Joseph, son of Jacob, had to warehouse
a good deal of wheat In the seven fat
years to carry the Egyptians through the
seven lean ones. The American farmers
produced enough in 1S9S to make Joseph's
little stock look like a pea In a tub. If it
had all been plied In form on the plain of
GIzeh It would have made nine pyramids
the s!ze of the pyramids of Cheops, ana
with the surplus another could have been
reared four-tlfths as large. That was tn
biggest American wheat crop ever record
ed. It amounted to 675,143,703 bushels,
grown on 44.045,278 acres of land. Next
year the yield was lighter, and the Amer
icans only turned oft seven and nine-tenths
pyramids of wheat. In 1900 they even fell
short of that, producing only a paltry sev
en and a half pyramids. Still, that would
have been a comfortable addition to Jo
seph's stock, and considering that it was
grown on a smaller acreage than the crop
of 1S9'J was a rather creditable perform
ance. The deficiency was made up with a
two-bllllon-bushel corn crop, and 210,000.009
bushels of potatoes.