The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

NEW YORK, n. Y, March 30.-"Where
are you going this summer"
Fasteners begin to ask each other that
question before the snow is melted away
from shady nooks and when great chunks
of river ice are humping and fighting their
way TO the sea. The trees are still bare
and brown, but the little waxy buds of
promised leaves are silent signals that
spring will soon be with US. However, it
seems strange 10 a Californian to hear the
typical New Yorker planning for the
summer months before daisy-starred
spring swoops down over US.
Lent is swinging along in jolly little
manner, and many pretty luncheons and
lavender teas are being accorded as unu-
sualIy delightful. There have been half
dozen different SORTS of shows for charity
and private gain. Perhaps the most pop
ular affair among the lovely ladies of the
450 was the doll show, which took place
last week at the Waldorf.
Dolls, however beautiful they may be-
look absolutely funny when rigged out in
the finery my lady Dame Fashion dictates
that human dolls shall wear from season
to season. The dollies at the Waldorf
q IL
and though their little arms would appear
angular and their staring eyes seem actu-
ally impertinent at times they served the
purpose of illustrating the remarka BILE in
genuity and taste of our American tailors
and modistes.
Three OF the leading Broadway theaters
have changed their bills during the past
week. The Bostonians-"the only and
original opened at the Knickerbocker
Monday night in their new opera, 'The
Serenade." 1t has proven an instanta-
neous success, and nothing the Bostonians
have given US since robin Hood" has
met with such an enthusiastic reception.
At Wallack's a musical skit called
"Miss Manhattan" has not met with the
popularity that has been looked for. II is
the regulation potpourri of the regulation
comic opera. A dash of ginger and a long
wait between courses, old jokes with new
caps and bells, and new Jokes a wee bit
timid as to how they will be gobbled by
the patient public just across the foot
lights.
Miss Manhattan may be an acquired
taste. and New Workers may like her bet.
ter when they grow more familiar with
her.
The Broadway Theater has jumped out
OF the rut OF everlasting burlesque and
comic opera, and Is for the nonce the
home OF classic and artistic drama.
"LArlesienne" (rhe Woman OF Arle.J j is
at present attracting the attention of the
critics and students of drama.
Written by the unhappy Alphonse Dau-
det it is necessarily gloomy and somtel
story, but nevertheless it throbs with the
tenderness OF an anxious mothers love
and palpitates with human passions. Tc
add to the artistic triumph of the play and
its perfect Arcadian scenery, there is the
dominant spirit of music sounding through
every scene. The original .entr'acte mu
sic by Georges Bizet is used as interpreted
by the great leader Anton Seidel and hi!
assistant. Ernest Meyer.
The music, with its passionate languor.
Gus strains, its deep swelling notes of anger
and revenge, and at last the crash o.
sound concordant. commingling life, love
misery and tragic death, is marvellous
The last curtain falls on dismal scene
and the audience stumbles out on noisy
Broadway wondering why life isn't all
''beer and skittles, as the late lamentec
Trilby expressed it.
That powerful actress, Agnes Booth a:
the mother in l. Arlesienne, gives a new