The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Frank v. Pollock, the leading tenor of
the Bostonians, who has made so many
| friends in this City, is not q veteran of the
| professional operatic stage, as his experience
| is limited to less than three months with the
| company. Not long out of college and only
| just % years old, his coming to this coast with
| the Bostonians was practically double novelty
| to him.
| "Oh, had been on the stage before" said
] the young singer and there was humorous
! twinkle in his eye. 81 began as chorus girl
| in the Chimes of Normandy and as far as
my stage appearance went made hit 1t
was before my voice had changed to tenor,
and OF course with soprano voice nau 10
sing with the other sopranos. SO seVeral
hours before the performance r1gged myseH
up in girls dress and stood round to allow the
| weak places TO give way to my elghty-pouno-
pressure waist and be mended before the
critical ordeal. But when everything nao
been arranged and was breathing carefully
to hold myself intact the carriage drew up IN
front of the theater and had to get OUT.
got out, but all my skirt did not 1oiioW prop
erly, for the high heel of my torture-sllpper
caught in the bottom railing OF the sKlrt' ana
before l could realize where the ripping ana
tearing sound came from l stood ike Scotch
Highlander.
succeed without nv small voice, so sacrlnceo
much for dramatic effect and went on the
stage as I was. The girls were not at al
envious of me, either, though l unooupleuiy
attracted good deal OF attention, especiaiy
| from my school friends, who recognized me py
my feet-handles.'
"My first appearance in operetta aiters my
voice had passed that youthful period OF sur,
prising unreliability was in THE Nalad
ha nf
| ing across its entire width were placed three
sites, with an interval several feet wide ABOUT
the middle. In that space stood PAPER
mache statue of the goddess OF something or
other, holding aloft what appeared TO De
bunch of bargain-counter necklaces and plate
glass gems l stood behind a side scene, walt
ing until the chorus should finish the number
that was to be followed by my entrance.
Decked out in cork helmet, spangled suit
of battered armor that may have shielded some
other poor, frigh tened Queens guard in real
life, 1 stepped out and. with majestic mien
getting under headway bore straight ahead
like great ironclad, unable to turn suddenly
in short space. In my first ponderous step
down / cleared the three steps and tottering at
the feet of the goddess made a wild clutch at
her waist in my efforts to maintain my equi-
lbrium. With one arm partly round her waist
and with the other waving madly on high,
came to the floor with crash and the goddess
with me-papier-mache, armor, jewels and all
in helpless confusion.
81 was applauded to the echo, and the next
day IN the college paper friend of mine
headed his review of the performance, This is
not a roast, it is real cutlet.'"
John Marquart and Mrs. Breitschuck-Mar-
quart have just returned from their concert
tour in New Zealand and Australia. Speaking
of their adventures yesterday, Fritz scheePs
former concert-master said:
"Australia is suffering from two things
lack of enterprise and lack of capable, practical
| farmers. There are only four cities in the
country-Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and
Brisbane. The other towns are overgrown vii
lages.
'We undertook concert tour through the
interior, and were everywhere well received.
The only difficulty was that we could not
| make our programmes popular enough. Don't
you call that popular music" And the con-
cert-master pulled from his pocket a pro-
gramme containing the names of Vincent Wall
lace, Tosti, Ernst, Gounod and Rossini.
"They would come to hear works by men
like that, but to my humiliation they expected
| as an encore to hear Pop Goes the Weasel or
Yankee Doodle
Eyes, we played them Pop Goes the Weasel; |;
others had do ne it before us.''
Nine. Neruda, in her souvenirs of her concert
TOUR III auStrdlld, speaks Oi udflHS udu tO pay
something of the sort as an encore to 1.-The
Kruetzer Sonata Beethoven, you know.
Mr. Marquart did not come across any phe-
nomenal voices in Australia. He says all the
phenomenal ones are snatched up for the
European and American fields. He also said:
There is not symphony orchestra in the
length and breadth of Australia. Sydney and
Melbourne have amateur orchestras, but the
one in Sydney recently got into debt to the ex-
ne nd bod 70 dicha hat
count. The New Zealand people show greater
fondness for classical music than we met with
in Australia, but we did not make tour of
that country, we arrived there in July,
when the cold was intense"
The "new woman was never once met by
the Marquarts on their travels. '"The bicycling
craze does not seem to have struck either
country at all,' said the concert-meister.
'For one reason I think the general run of
people are not rich enough to indulge in
bikes We scarcely saw one, and as for
bloomers, they were conspicuous by their alb
sence. If the new woman is in Australia or
New Zealand she is very quiet about her new
power. The women seem to stay quietly at
home, and very few of them enter into any
kind of business"
1t is the intention of the Marquarts to settle
in San Francisco, and in all probability they
will organize symphony concerts here this
winter.
C. C. Powning of Reno ex-surveyor-G General
of Nevada, and at one time editor and owner
of the Reno Journal, is in the City. Mr.. Pown-
ing is president of the Nevada State Agricul-
tural Association, has been a candidate for the
governorship, and is conspicuous as a member
of the National Silver party. He has been in
the Sagebrush State many years.
He is much impressed with the evidently
great future of Reno. believing that eventually
it will become one of the largest and most inn
portant cities of the interior
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.