The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
Dramatic BreVities.

theatrical record in Oakland.
Dramatic BreVties.
Katherine Fleming Hinrichs will appear for
| the first time in opera in this City at the Tiv-
OIL Miss Hinrichs has sung over one hun
dred leading contralto roles with much sue
cess i'll this country and Europe.
The summer theater OF Budapest produced
ately with great success new play, 'Ael-
| vila," by Moritz Jokai, the great Hungarian
| novelist The plot is based one of his
stories which he revised tor the stage.
| Olga Nethersole will sue the Frohmans be-
cause they have not given her a London sea-
son. She was given the salary for the eight
| weeks specified in her contract, but her ar
| tistic blood is up and she has appealed to the
courts.
Francis Powers Chinese drama "The First
Born" will go on the road splendidly equipped.
The artistic new printing which the clever
artist Sims has got up has made big hit.
The costumes, scenery ana music, as well as
| the riginal story, should appeal TO every city
| on the coast
| The other morning the New York Herald
published q German cable 10 the effect that
| the Emperor William had intrusted the port
1 folio of Foreign Affairs temporarily to Herr
This dispatch was embellished with por-
trait of Or. Hans Won Bulow, the cele ebrated
pianist, who died some time ago.
The late Hans Won Bulow was never seen
anywhere without the famous opsra-hat,
which report says he sent to an American
critic as farewell mementO OF his visit 10 the
United States, with note 10 the effect that, as
the opera-hat was the thing which had seemed
to imp press the critic most, he (BuIow) had
much peasure, ETC.
{ ha orpq a
viye for Francis Powers new play OF Oriental
liie The title decided on is the suggestive
one OF when Turk Meets Greek" The first
performance will be given on August q. II
Mr. Powers SECOND effort is halt as successful
a his first his position is established as one
of our foremost American dramatlstS.
Hermann the Great Company, under the
management of Messrs. Thurnaer Thall, will
visit the coast this coming season. 1t viii be
in every way strong as on its many former
visits out here. The company will be headed
by Adelaide Hermann, assisted by Leon Herr
mann, who is considered by the Eastern press
as one of the greatest prestidigita ateurs OF the
age. Many new aud marvellous sensations
will be seen for the first time on this tour.
The Eastern tour will begin in New York early
in August
Julia Arthur will return to this country
after an absence of two years early in Septem-
Der, and will, after tour of four weeks in
October, open with her own company at Wal
lacks Iheater November 1. in Frances Hodg-
son Burnetts play, "a Lady of Quality" Miss
Arthur will appear in the role o. Chlorinda.
Her company will incluGe: Edwin Arden
(who was formerly with w. H. Crane). George
Woodward, Joseph Allen, Wi:!iam herbert
bert Brown, Lawrence Miller, Florence
Conron and Marie Bingham. Napier Lothian
will stage the production.
Mile. Francesca, whose appearance in con-
ha fla6 Nv bn nSf iiSti
critics, has achieved a triumph in Paris. The
concert was given by NJ. Joseph HOLMAN and
those on the programme included also Nine.
Pugno. Coquelin and Boelmann, names which
speak for themselves In Galnc phrase, inc
describer OF the concert says that it goes with
out saving that the blonde American, who so
favorably i'm PRESSED the De ople of Monte Carlo,
had legitimate success. she sang an ARA
tions. The young lady is native OF San
Francisco.
The Alfred Nee prize that has been adjudged
to the poet Mistral, carries with it the sum of
5000 francs, which he viii expend in improv-
ing and decorating his house at Millane. This
is not the first occasion on which he has been
thus honored. Another of the works OF the
author of "Mireille" received a like award
during the lifetime OF his mother. She had
never left the borders OF fair Provence and the
sum seemed to her enormous. Just think, :"
she xclalmed In the true langue doc, lust
| think. Frederic sent MS verses TO The SeHtle-
men in Paris and has received in exchange
five notes of 1000 francs, you understand,
5000 francs! This in tone OF one speaking
oil millions.
Either Oakland has broken Its record as q
show town or else the new Chinese play, GA
Celestial Maiden" by Charles Ulrich, has
made distinct hit. = professional matinee
for theatrical and newspaper people was
given last Thursday, and large delegation
went over from San Francisco. ]. Lou
Hallett who owns the Pacific Coast rights 10
the play, has licensed Manager Thomas D.
Bates. VINO is now playing in Oakland to pro-
duce the Celestial Maiden in the smaller
towns of California and Nevada, and 1T is now
being booked Mr.. Hallett has not yet de-
cided on its San Francisco production further
than that it will be seen at an early date at
one of the leading theaters.
When Charlotte Wolter, the great German
actress. who died recently in Vienna. began
her stage career her voice was disagreeable,
harsh. hesitating and girlish. From that
same throat proceeded few years later a
voice such as has never before or since been
heard on the German stage-metallic and full,
so charming, so intensely efecllng. NOW tne
listeners ear reveied in the sweetness OF her
tones. now it was carried away by their ire
els tibIe force The 'fWolter-sehrer (Wolter-
cryl is a new German word, coined expressly
to designate the expression OF the utmost nor
ror-a terrible cry, piercing to ihe very mar
row in ones bones-which she uttered In
Goethe's .'Goetz Won Berlichingen.