THE STJXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL 4, 1909
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New York Closes Successful Musical Season
With Regretful Farewell to Popular. Artists
Sentiment 'Especially Marks Tinal Concerts of Philharmonic Society, "Which Win Go Out of Existence.
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I NEW ' TOIIK, Mar.-h si. (.-('-;al
t-orrpspandnce.)-This has het-n a
work of farewells in thp musit al
norld. becinnlng at the Manhattan and
fxtendinit into the Thllharmonlc Society.
There was much sentiment in the last
pair of ionoerts given by the Philhar
monic Society, as these marked not only
the elope of Sufonoff's activities with this
old orKanlzation. but the close of the
orariizHtion itself as It stands. The Phil
harmonic has existed for 7 years, and in
cludes In its membership yet today men
who have played In t lie ranks for 40
years or more. Richard Arnold has for
ai years occupied the chair of concert
master, which he resigned with the
ringing concert. Among the names iden
tified with the old organization as con
ductors have been those of Dr. Ieopold
tRmroch. Theodore Thomas. Adolf Neu
endortf. Anton Selril. Kmil Patir. Walter
7amrosch and t lie three seasons of
'guest" conductors, after which Safonoff
was engaged for the period of three vear.
Just closed.
The last concert was devoted to Tschai
howsky because it is in the works of this
composer that the Russian conductor has
o thoroughly endeared himself to lovers
of that wonderfully telling and emotional
wilier, and because Tschaikowsky him
self opened Carnegie Hall in his own
composition. Andrew Carnegie referred
to this feelingly w hen he made the pres
entation Kpeech which accompanied the
silver laurel wreath and a diamond
watch-fob. The fob was given to accom
pany a superb watch given by the Rus-
ianj of New York, doubly welcome be
cause his own handsome watch was
siolen about two months ago. There was
also a loving-cup for Mr. Arnold, who
has been one of the strongest factors in
the, society during his association with it.
The new society will be placed under
a diferent basis, and one which it Is
hoped will make It possible to realize
the highest ideals, musically, which ' was
never possible with the Philharmonic on
account of its charter and the Impos
sibility to have it free for the purpose
of rehearsals. As has already been
stated. Gustav Mahler will be the new
conductor, and as he Is a man of great
force as organizer no less than as mu
sician and conductor, it is expected that
he will be able to build up one of the
greatest organizations in the world. It
must not be forgotten that this only
means that he will build up an orchestra
which can -he measured by the side of
the Roston Symphony Orchestra. Mah
ler will be heard in two concerts yet this
season, hut he will use the old Philhar
monic orchestra with some additions, as
the entire Summer will be devoted to
finding new material. which will be
draughted from all over the world. Mah
ler's conceits will occur March 31 and
April 6. The second will include the
ninth symphony of Beethoven.
Although there are no details as yet.
It is understood by Sufonoff's closest
friends, that although he will go abroad
in a few weeks, he will not sever his
connections with this country, and will
return both as conductor and as teacher
of piano. HI pupil. Josef Lhrvlmic. has
established such a reputation (or the
Russian conductor that he has requests
to teach from all sides.
At the Manhattan there was leave
taking, some of w-htch was not as en
thusiastic as It should have been, but
leavetaklngs are never the most agree
able of events. There have been many
demonstrations of affectton for Cam
panlni, the withdrawing conductor
from the Manhattan Opera-house and
many feel that what may have occurred
In a moment of Irritation will cause
long regret at that house. This, how
ever, is something that can only be
proven after next season shall have
been where this season is today. Fri
day night was designated as "Campa
ninl" night at the opera-house, and the
production was given to Miss Garden
and her associates in "Salome." At the
i lose Campanlnl was called to the stage
a great number of times and when the
curtain waa again raised a table hold
ing a number of gifts was disclosed,
l'pon this there was a superb gold laurel
wreath, but there was no presentation
speech. Mr. Hammerstein stepped to
the stage and shook hands with his
vonductor. aaying: "Before we separate.
1 want to express my thanks for what
vou have accomplished. 1 do not believe
that without von my opera-house would
enjoy the position It dors today." There
were murmurs of: "Well. I guess It
wouldn't." etc.. etc.. heard from boxes
and gnllery alike.
The closing night was devoted to
"l.ucia." with Mme. Tctrazzini. sam-tuar.-o
and Constantino In the cast, each
of whom elicited many curtain calls and
wreaths.
l rie company leaves for Roston at
once and will play a two weeks' en
gagement there.
An entertainment of altogether unusua
.hara.ter was given at ttie Waldorf-Astoria
Saturday night for the benefit of
ine oirm,an actors fund. The large ball
room on the first floor was filled with
people, among whom were represented
most ot me prominent Germans of New
York. The programme was given bv the
artist's of the Metropolitan compai.v", and
it consisted of a very long concert, with
orcnestra unoer direction of Alfred Hertx.
i hitf w -..ni n .umes. lestinn.
is4CSKi. tionipr. tvascltowska. Ranscnberg
an.i .m.-i. Ainnes. rturrian. Hinckley.
luhlmunn, F'.lss, Martin, burner, Joeriu
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also 1-eo Schultz. 'cellist, and Gallico.
pianist. At the close of the concert there
w-as an intermission for supper, served in
the large Ulning-room of the Waldorf,
after which the audience returned to the
ballroom to witness a minstrel show by
the stars of the Metropolitan opera com
pany. Goritz. who is one of the greatest
comedians on the operatic stage, was the
interlocutor, and he was indescribably
funny. Most of the conversation was
conducted in German, with a few stock
phrases thrown in. just to show that
they knew the language.
The remarks, of course, had no relation
tp whtt was going on upon the stage, but
just as a matter of reassuring the audi
ence that under their black faces and
their German manners they know how
to say "Oh, sit down!" "What are you
going to do about it?" "Well. I should
thing so neither." and other suggestions
of equally intelligent nature. The com
pany of minstrel "stars" or of "star"
minstrels included Anthes, Burrian,
Joern. Rlccaido Martin, Reiss. Didur,
Soomer. Muhlmann. Rlass. Hinckley, Gal
lico. Schultz. Eugene Burg, the noted
comedian of the German- Theater, Hy
Mayer, the well-known cartoonist, Falck
and Hstgeman. The endmen were Messrs.
AYurmser and Lowenfeld. The conversa
tion and the jokes were sufficiently
amusln;;.- but when these great artists
started singing songs to fit the occasion,
they were drowned completely by the
shrieks of the audience. When it comes
to examples of physical endurance, if is
worthy of noting that many of these
singers and Alfred Hertz gave, in the
afternoon, one of the most wonderful '
pej-ror .nances of "Siegfried" ever seen on
the Metropolitan stage, which lasted from
1:45 until neatly 6 o'clock.
While speaking of the German popula
tion of New York, It may be interesting
to know that one of the most notable
weeks In the history of the German
Theater closed on Saturday night. There
is a fine company of German actors and
actresses In the city, but ' there was a
special feature In the engagement of Dr.
Wullner. who played the part of Herod
In Oscar Wilde's "Salome." the exact
stage version of the Richard Strauss
opera, without music. Dr. Wullner is one
of the sensations of the musical season In
America. He was one of the most noted
actors .of Germany and then turned to
song interpretation. It is a generally ac
knowledged fact that his voice has little
or no bearing upon hia interpretations, as
the entire Interest lies .in his wonderful
exposition of the text, which is done with
such a dramatic fervor that he has not
infrequently been accused of hypnotising
bis audiences. He has had more appear
ances and larger audiences than any other
attraction of the season. There were no
more interested listeners at a recent per
formance of "Salome" than Mary Garden
and Dalmores. Hedwig Reicher. the very
beautiful German actress, was in the title
role, and It is certain that her Interpreta
tion of the degenerate heroine was infi
nitely more nauseating than that of Miss
Garden. The difference lay in the fact
that Miss Garden interprets the charac
ter as an Irresponsible; degenerate child
between 14 and 15. while Miss Reicher
does not give a consistent interpretation
in presenting her as a woman, who in the
first few moments is winning, charming
and almost refined, but who, with the
appearance of Jokanaan. becomes bestial
in her manifestations.
The exodus for London is beginning.
Billy Burke will be one of the first to
leave, and she will take iwith her "Love
Watches," In which she will appear In
London, who knew her and who were
captivated by the charming actress long
before America knew there was such an
exquisite creature as Billy Burke. Her
return to the British capital as a full
fledged Frohman "star." at the head of
her own company, is already the topic of
lively speculation. Mtes Burke will re
turn next season with practically the
same company that has successfully sup
ported ner during her tour this year.
Charles Frohman has fixed upon the
middle of April as the date for the Lon
don appearance of William Collier in
"The Patriot." Mr. Collier and nearly
all of his present company will go to
liondon in the witty little three-act farce,
written by the comedian in collaboration
with Hartley Manners, without' changing
an if. and. or but of the manuscript, in
deference to British sensibility of under
standing. Mr. Frohman's unexpectedly sudden
decision to jump Mr. Collier from New
York to London at one move, as neatly
as one moves a pawn on a chessboard,
has brought out the surprising fact that
"The Patriot" has been running all sea
son in New York without ever being put
into manuscript form. Mr. Frohman
cabled Mr. Collier asking for Ihe manu
script "by the next boat." and the come
dian had to reply. "There, never, has been
a manuscript wiu wnie it on the way
over.
The fact is that Mr. Collier and Mr.
Manners. In the beginning, "talked over"
the plot of "The Patriot"; agreed upon a
certain line of action: Mr. Manners
sketched some scenes which Mr. Collier
speedily filled In with dialogue written
on the backs of envelopes, old letters and
wrapping paper. The rest of the play
was made In the process of rehearsal
Mr. Collier as stage director, saying to
an actor. "When 1 say so and so, you say
such and such." Perhaps that accounts
for the remarkable naturalness and ilke-
'
liness of everything that is said in "The
Patriot." although It is called a farce.
At any rate, it is probably the only play
that ever ran an entire season in New
York without a manuscript.
Charles Frohman has practically com
pleted the cast of "The Dollar Princess."
J he probable date of the production will
be next Fall and all productions from'
aoroaa point to the fact that, with its
production. America is in for another
"Merry Widow."
Miss Valli Valli will be the Dollar Piin
cess. Leo Mars will be the French Mar
quia, and a bevy of other prominent musi
cal comedy favorites will be found in the
support.
for their central idea, the authors of
I he Dollar Princess." Willner and Grun
baum. went back to the realms of Topsy
Turveydum. and came back with a suf
ficiently whimsical theme. A wealthy
American. Phineas P. Conder. president
of the Oil Trust, has the curious hobby of
engaging Impoverished members of the
British aristocracy in the capacity of do
mestic servants. Thus, the Duke of
Stonehenge' is installed in the butler's
pantry. Sir James McGregor displays
a fine pair of calves In the gorgeous
snorts ana stockings of the footman;
Sir Anthony Phlpps brings sartorial ex
perience to bear upon the responsible nost
of the vlet, Vicomte de Champignon
presides over the destines of the culinary
department; John, Karl of Quorn, Is the
horseman, and the Lady Augusta Broad
mairs. the Hon. Edith Dalrymple, and
Dorothy Datchet are ladies' maids. This
is certainly one way . of "mixing up the
aristocracy." and it affords the artless
Conder much satisfactoin, for he ad
dresses his blue-blooded underlings by
their titles with scrupulous care. His
purse-proud and supercilious daughter
Alice, "The Dollar Princess."' is inclined
to be selfTassertive and domineering.
The story gets a move on when Conder
searches for a bride and has Olga, a
"Hon queen," of the variety theaters,
palmed off upon him as a fictitious Rus
sian Princess. Side by side with this is
worked the love affair between Alice and
Freddie Fairfax, a young scion of the
"huppcr suckles." as Jeames Y"ellowplush
called them, whom the imperious young
lady has engaged as her own private sec
retary, just for the pleasure of seeing him
"dance like a wooden monkey whenever
she pulls the string." Freddy, however,
is having too much of this medicine, and
in a strong finale to the second act he
FAIR BRITISH MAID VISITS
ODD CORNERS OF THE WORLD
Not Yet Out of Her Teens, Miss Walker Is Completing Tour Around
Earth Pauses Briefly in Portland.
TO HAVE weathered Cape Horn
gales, been a spectator of tropi
cal earthquakes, ridden bucking
horses- in the far distant Falkland Islands
and to have wandered along Buenos
Ayres' luxurious shopping districts are
some of the unique experiences Miss
Edyth Walker has enjoyed in the past
two years. Miss Walker is a young
Kngllshwoman not yet .out of her
"teens," and was registered yesterday
at the Cornelius.
Miss Walker left England some two
years ago and. traveling through Spain,
fortugal. Cape Verde Islands. Brazil.
Uruguay and the Argentine, eventually
reached the Falkland. The atormv lit
tle Islands, a few hundred miles west
of Capa Horn, and near enough to have
a very fair tae of the weather for
which that quarter of the world Is fa
mous, were her home for considerably
over a year.
"When it did not rain there, it snowed
or hailed "or something," said Miss
Walker, with a twinkle in her eyes.
"You know that Darwin, the naturalist,
was there, and he said the islands were
fit for neither man nor beast. Darwin
was not quite right, for some days, per
haps one day a month, we Iiad really
lovely weather and did all kinds of
things. We used to so on picnics some
days, and as everything is in cans, we
would forget to bring the openers along.
One day I put up a can and shot at it
with my rifle till I burst the can open.
It was jam. and we got awfully "jammy"
and messy before we could get down to
sea and wash it off. It used to be great
fun. don't you know, to go out into
the "camp" and make fires of "dlddle-
Jee" and roat mutton, eating it with our
hands from stone plates. Oh, on the fine
days we did have ripping times.
"One time I stayed in the West Falk-
lands and we were invited to dance at
big sheep ranch. The dance was to be
held in the place where the skins were
kept, "and you can't imagine the nasty,
oily smell there was. We had to ride
across a river to get there and we
changed out riding skirts Into ballgowns
later. Every lady had a cavalier who
earned her things for her and looked
out for her. We danced for nearly three
days. Just stopping to go back to the
house and sleep a little in between. One
time the man who was riding with me
forgot to look after cinching up his sad
dle, and it fell off with him. The horse
galloped away and set all the others
stampeding around the wire corrais. No.
I won't tell you what he said: it wouldn't
be lads like."
i Miss Walker said that "didUledee" waa
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repudiates the damsel and her patronage
and departs for California. Out there lie
becomes rich and brines Alice to his teet.
Conder forgives Olga for not being a real
Princess, and marries her, and Daisy.
Alice's friend, sets to partners with the
Earl of Quorn.
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
a small, wirelike shrub that grew on the
peat of the island and It made fine bon
fires. When people on the small islands
wanted to signal for a doctor or any
body else they made fires. Ir there were
three fires the call was urgent.
In the harbor of Stanley there were
wrecked ships of all nations. Every ship
that gets damaged rounding the Horn
goes there for shelter. Some of them
get repaired, but many of them stay
there. The people who live in the little
town, she said, were about the meanest
specimens of humanity the world could
furnish. Just to make money out of the
ships, they charged enormous prices to
repair them. If a stranger came there
they tried to drive him out. For them
selves, they Just spent their monev in
drinking.
In the harbor there was the Snow
Squall, once a United States ship, which
during the Civil '"War had been chased
there by the Alabama. "You can still
see the cannon balls in it." said Miss
Walker.
Miss. Walker told of the "great fun"
there was in watching a revolution In
Montevideo. "It did not sound nice,
though, to hear the bullets pattering on
the church." she said.
"The girls there are hidden behind
screens. You never see them on the
streets. You would have been amused
at the American Consul in the Falkland
Islands. He really was awfully nice, and
he used to haul the flag up regularly;
but he was awfully mad when the great
fleet did not even send a torpedo-boat
lo loqK htm up.
t nen Miss alker went into ecstacies
about Portland. "I think you have Just
the finest car rides and the finest hotels
I've seen anywhere." she said. "If the
uwier American ciues are as good as
ihis and San Francisco. I won't mind
we went to Seattle, but I hate it. It's
like a big village, with its dirty streets
and things. Did you know they were go
ing to have' a sort of village' fair there
on a big scale? Everybody talks a lot
about it. You know they talk an awful
lot there, but it won't be any good at
all.
Miss Sxlyth laughed when she talked
of England and going back home. "Of
course It Is great fun to travel and meet
people, but home is best, you know.
jiusi inve everyone, ana I ve had a rip
ping time. Yes, it is . quite a shame no
hero has come along and rescued me
from a burning ship, or anything; but
1 don t think those things happen now
adays. I want to have some girl friends
again. South American girls are silly,
and the girls in the Falkland used to
think of nothing but dress. Fancy that
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and there was no one to see your pretty
frocks'"
Miss Walker was registered with her
sister, from London. England. Clerk
Finnegan expressed it as his opinion that
she was the most charming specimen if
foreign remininity he had ever seen and
Mr. Finnegan must be considered some
thing of a Judge.
QUEEN AIDS AN OLD MAN
Slops Auto and Orders Chauffeur to
Help Raise His Fallen Donkey.
MADRID. April 3. ( Special. ) An In
cident revealing the kindly nature of the
young Queen is related in the Spanish
newspapers.
Her majesty was returning from a drive
in her motor car. when she noticed an old
man by the wayside valnlv endeavoring
to raise his fallen donkey. The animal
was laden with wood and the old man
was in despair over his useless efforts.
when the Queen ordered the chauffeur
to stop, and said: '
'Help the poor old man to raise his
donkey, but do not beat the little ani
mal." When the donkey had regained his feet
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the sympathizing lady was. just disap
pearing in the distance and. in spite of
his age. the man endeavored to run after
the motor car shouting "Viva la Reina!"
KAISER BEFRIENDS MINERS
Forces Clause or Their Pattern Into
New Mining Bill In Reichstag.
BERLIN. April . (Special.) The mines
bill at present before the Prussian Diet
provides yet another instance of the ef
fective Initiative of Emperor William in
matters legislative. The measure contains
a clause giving to workmen's organiza
tions the right of supervision over the
arrangements made for their safety in
pits. This provision, it Is stated, was
not to be found in the original draft of
the bill, but was Inserted on the "strict
orders" of his majesty. The Minister of
Commerce. Herr Delbruck. was at first
Inclined to make representations against
the proposal of the sovereign, but he was
Informed by Prince von Buelow that all
opposition of this case would be without
result, and he resigned himself to the in
evitable. The Emperor's action is understood
to be the result of a report made to him
YOUR BACK
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SIGHT OF JJEAD SICKENS
Executioner, Unable to Face Ordeal.
Grows III and Dies.
,oVILLE-. April 3 Lat night the
local executioner died, his death being
due to remorse. For several years he
Had not carried out any executions, but
recently he was summoned to Cordova
to inflict the final penalty on some
criminals. The impression made upon
Him was so painful that he was un
able to face the ordeal when sum
moned to execute the last criminal
condemned here, and the sentence will
have to be carried out by the Madrid
executioner.
Fggs consumed In "New York Oitv It
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