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BY ASHTON STEVENS.

and ladies of the courts of all nations.
 Only it seems to me a trifie inconsis- tent for Othello to wear his face black.
 If you can stand another laugh after seeing the coons I would recommend the AlcaZar's "Charley's Aunt"-espe- cially MT. Paulding as the aunt" l have seen this British farce several times before without experiencing any notable hilarity, but the other night at the Alcazar it gave me tears of joy. The Alcazar's production never was intended to be as funny as 1t ls-it couldn't have been. Much was hoped for in MT. Paulding, but no one could have foretoId the eXorbitant delight that was to be got from him in the part of "Auntie." His clinging, emo tional nature, his wild eye, and his most soprano vail are given full vent in the extrava gances of this part, and, although I never saw MT. Paulding in the role of Romeo, will take oath that this is the funniest thing of his life. Several of my colleagues. I notice, are advising MT Paulding to modify his acting. Heed them not, MT. Paulding;
 modification would spell your ruin. If you can continue Auntie at this gait
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of 'The Conquerors" from Sardou's
 La Hafne," calls attention to the fact that similar charges were made against Sardou in reference to La Haine. D and that the French playwright re- marked in reply that dramatic art consists less in the choice of subject than in the original treatment by which the subject is rejuvenated, and that there were never two dramatic works Of which criticism could sy that they Sprang fully armed from their authors brain and owed nothing to anybody else"
 That ingenious mixture of 'The Rivals, 'The Love Chase" Lon don Assurance" and several other old comedies which Eugene Presbrey was pleased to call "A Virginia Ccurtship" and an original play by himself when William Ii. Crane first produced it here at the Baldwin, has been presented in New York, with the following belated statement on the programme:
 Evolving the scenes and incidents around which A Virginia Courtship' is built, the author has humbly tried to follow the models and in some respects has copied the personages made famil- far in the old comedies, which are des- tined to live and be popular as long as the English language is spoken"
 PineroS new comedy, "Trewlawney of the Wells,' has been favorably re- ceived at the Court Theater, London. The action of the play is laid in the early sixties, and it is notable that the fashion in dress at that period has been strictly adhered to. The story tells of the infatuation of young sprig of the nobility for popular actress of the period, the former having proposed and been accepted. He tells of the en- gagement to his noble father, who, hay
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  5 THE GOOD COON SONG, 5 3 THE BAD COON SINGER, AND AN $ 6 EMOTIONAL COMEDIAN. s


Perhaps influenced by May Irwin I used to think that what is called the modern coon song was entirely the in vention of the white person and that only the white person could sing it with the real fancy flavor and the right pumpkin -colored insinuation. We live and learn. Here at the California are the Black Paths variegated trouba- dours singing coon songs for all the earth as well as any imitation coons ever dared to do, with just as much fiash-nigger swagger and crappy enter prise and emancipated move-on, and ten times as much inspired ginger in the choruses. There is no reason why the modern coon shouldn't do this, but it is none the less surprising that he does. There is no constitutional reason that I know of why the colored person should not sing in any kind of music as lovely and facile note as the white person, but did you ever hear a coon who could sing real music, who had in his or her voice a quality that, for all its occasional hints of sweetness and sympathy, did not suggest to you dark Darwinian thoughts on the origin of species?
 There is still remotely extant a super
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THE OUTER WORLD.
News and Comment of Distant
 PlaVs and Players.

In New York the row over "The Tree of Knowledge continues, and Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Theater f1ourishes like a green bay. Aiming point blank at William Winter, the se- verest denouncer of MT. Cartons play, the Herald says that from the tone of some of the fearful remarks that have been dropped into the columns of the newspapers in connection with the Tree of Knowledge" at the Lyceum, it would seem that some old gentle man who wandered into that play house last Monday evening must have been laboring under the impression that MT. Daniel Frohman is running a Sunday school instead of a theater at his Fourth Avenue house.
 The Herald says that "The Tree of Knowledge" is not intended for kin dergarten consumption, and that the stage has the same privilege as the pulpit to discuss and lay bare social errors and human frailties to which men and women are prone.
 Dignifed MT. Sethmar of the Times writes that no one but a fool or a libi- dinous Weakling ever called "Othello" or Measure for Measure" immoral, and only such persons could seriously regard MT. Cartons play as immoral. It treats, to be sure, not very frankly, but with @ strong sense of pictorial effect and considerable emphasis, of fe- male depraVity and the evil influence of a wanton woman, and it is offered as entertainment for old and young.
 In conclusion, MT. Sethmar says:
 T have frequently expressed my sympathy with those ministers of the gospel who, holding earnestly that mans sole duty on earth is to prepare for the hereafter by repentance, hu- mility, self-denial and good deeds, have cried out against the theater warmly uphold the course of parents who, desiring their children to know as little as possible of sin and passion, keep them away from the playhouse. But this is apart from the question. Habitual theatergoers will find noth- ing indecent in MT. Cartons play"
 In London Ferdinand Gottschalk du plicated his American success in Never Again He has just sailed to rejoin the American company at New York
 It, is declared that Fanny Davenport, not certain as to the reception that awaits her forthcoming production of Sardou's "Thermidor," and desirous of having another play less familiar than the Sardou melodramas in which she has been appearing for the past dozen years, is making efforts to secure Madame Sans-Gene," now that Kath- ryn Kidder has announced her retire ment from the stage.
 Miss Gertrude Coghlan, the 1S-year- old daughter of Charles -Coghlan, plays the part of Juliet to her fathers Romeo in the balcony scene which Mr. Cogh- Ian has introduced in the fourth act of his new adaptation of Dumas play, "Kean,'' to which he has given the title .'The Royal Box" A rather notewor- thy feat is that of father acting Ro- meo to his own daughters Juliet.
 Paul M. Potter, in speaking of the accusation that he has borrowed scenes
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week in solos and duets from the stand ard operas. Filson and Errol, who played a very successful engagement a little over a year ago, return with a new comedy sketch entitled "A Tip on the Derby" Adelman and Lowe will appear in their musical specialties, and Al Wilson, the German comedian and yodler, returns for one weeks en- gagement prior to his departure for the East Maud Beall Price, monologue entertainer, and who is said to be very clever, will appear in character imper- sonations. The Great Gautier, whose thrilling equestrian act has caused so much talk, enters the last week of his engagement, and will use two horses at every performance, matinees in- cluded. The hold-overs include Fills Canine Circus, the Damn Brothers, ec- centric acrobats, and Clivette, assisted by Mile. Clivette, in an entire change of programme.
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Baldwin.

With every prospect of brilliant season the Bostonians open at the Baldwin tomorrow night in their new opera, "The Serenade," the book by Harry B. Smith, the music by Victor Herbert.
 The story of "The Serenade." like that of "Manon," is closely identified with a certain melody, which, in vari- ous forms, recurs throughout the piece Dolores, a beautiful young lady of rank fiirts with handsome barytone of the Royal opera, Alvarado. The Duke of Santa Cruz, the guardian and fiance of Dolores, is extremely jealous of her un- known admirer, whom he has deter mined by means of a serenade. He has Dolores taken to castle in the noun tains, but the barytone follows the party and is enSconced in the household disguised as a cook. A broken-down tenor and a stage-struck tailor who have been indulging in the self-same serenade are captured by the Duke S minions, and he, mistaking the tenor for Alvarado, has him placed in dur ance .vile The appearance of the tenor in the tower frightens the natives and an attack by brigands adds to the gen. eral excitement. Haunted by the sere- made the Duke has his ward conveyed to the convent of St. Ursula, which ad- joins the grounds of a monastery.
 In the meantime, Alvarado, fleeing from a former admirer Yvonne, a dan seuse, seeks refuge in the monastery. and by a stratagem scales the walls and discovers that Dolores is in the ad- joining garden. The Duke, appearing on the scene again, is driven to fren- zy by hearing the monks singing the serenade, and with a detachment of the guard breaks into the monastery, where Dolores has retreated. disguised as a boy. Many ludicrous complications follow, ending, of course, in the happy manner usual to comic opera.
 Acts first and second are the same in scene and depict mountainous region in Spain. the home of the Royal Mad rid Brigandage Association, Limited, D with the haunted castle in the fore ground and the moonlit Sierras in the background. There are glimpses of dark ravines, the gurgle of swift, rushing mountain streams, the bivouacs of brigands and the harvest festival of the peasantry Among the principal scenes is that which shows the entrance of the brigands, led by MT. Cowles, the bri- gand chief Romero, who tells of their
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Morosco's. s.

Harry Mainhall will open his second week at Morosco's as Colonel Kerchi- val West, in Bronson Towards war drama, Shenandoah" which part should furnish him a first-rate vehicle for his melodramatic powers. "Shen- andoah," at Morosco prices. should prove big drawing card. A number of new people have been added to the cast, and the management promise an elaborate presentation on the big stage, especially of the scene. overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, during the rout of the Union army, where the signaling is done and Sheridan sweeps by on his black horse, rallying the retreating stragglers. Among the new additions to the company are A. L. Willard. Ben jamin Hanlon, Leila Nave, Lulu Orc and Queenie Purcell, the latter taking the place of soubrette Mamie Holden.
 All the old favorites are in the cast
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Columbia.

What Happened to Jones" was fully detailed in yesterdays Call. The farce is a good one, most happily free of vul- garity and smoothly and legitimately constructed and the company which MT. Clark has banded for it's production could hardly be better. The engage ment is for all of this week, after which the new star will begin his road sea- son at Denver, touring toward San Francisco.
 Following What Happened to Jones" the Columbia will Gffer Miss Marie Wainwright in a melodrama of a prob lematical nature entitled Shall We Forgive Her?'
 The theater is prettier and snugger than ever in it's new dress.
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week from tonight, and it is safe to vouchsafe that public interest in the performances will be continued throughout the coming week, when there will be several additional feat ures introduced, including new vocal offerings by Black Patti, one or two new coon songs by Ernest Hogan, and some new ensemble numbers in the op
 cratic Kaleidoscope. The cake walk, which has made a hit, will be continued
 The skit, "At Jolly Coon-ey Island" is replete with real coon comedy, coon songs, buck dances and jubilee shouts
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TiiVoli.

Said Pasha," which had it's first suc- cess at the TivoH, will be revived at the popular opera house this week. Ed win Stevens will have the part he ere ated in the first production, that of. the 'Hadad," part man, part sailor, part tramp and many parts a liar. Thomas c. Leary will be Nockeye, his companion in fun, and Arthur Donaldson the Othello-like rajah.
 The cast will also include Edith Hall, as the Pashas lively daughter Sere- na; Florence Wolcott, as the ideal Queen of Altara, Att; Tillie Salinger, as Balah Sojah, her warlike step mother; Phil Branson, as the Pasha; John J. Rafael, the gallant young lover, Hassen Bey, and Arthur Boyce, the adventurous Mexican, Terano.
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Theatrical Mechanics Benefit.

The sixth annual benefit of the San Francisco Lodge of the Theatrical Me- chanics' Association, the men behind the scenes" will take place at the Co., lumbia Theater next Sunday afternoon at 2so'clock. Every theater in the city will contribute something to the pro- gramme and everything from selec- tions from the Bostonians to song and dance turns will be on the bill.
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Olympia.

The Olympia Music Hall announces several changes in its programme for next week. Byron and Byron, dancing soubrettes, will appear in their Eastern successes Others are: Mabel Lloyd, comedienne and danseuse; the Jack sens, known as the ebony laughmak- ers"; w. H. Howard, the comedian; Signor Salvini, tenor from Covent Gar- den, London; Purita, the child sou brette; Anna killian, violin soloist, and Ella Kirchner, in musical specialties, and others.
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stition that negroes are singers, but l have vet to hear the first of these noe turnal song birds, for whom the nation split and bled, warble in more than three removes from the crow. Take Sissieretta Jones, the prima donna so- prano assoluta of the race, woman whose voice is fairly educated. who phrases with some skill, who has a long range and no end of suppleness- take Sissieretta and paint her white and try her out somewhere seriously, and do you think she would pass mus ter? Never. It is not because Sissier- etta is bIack-or I should say black and blue, since she will sprinkle cornstarch on that proud, onyx complexion of hers-that she is not a valuable vocal ist: it is only because she is black that she should be encouraged to sing at all A few more Black Pattis might eventually lift the hoodoo from the coon voice.
 Anyway, it is an experience to hear these troubadours sing the modern coon songs, which were originally writ ten in caricature of the peacocky
 
 white people sing them, and to know that some of the very best of them are written and composed by Ernest Hogan a negro. Hogan wrote that ragtime masterpiece, "All Coons Look Alike to Me- and until you hear the author sing it you will never know the true essence of the song. He makes drama of it, gives it with fervid decla- nation, subtle emphasis, grotesque se- riousness and all the essentials of coon character. He Is really cclored Chev- alier, and it is pleasing to learn from the newspapers that his diamonds are properly authenticated, and that he is rich. Let Hogan write the nations coon songs, and he need not care who complies the American symphonies. l daresay, Dr. Dvorak would drop dead of gout were he offered anything like the net royalties of his coon contem- porary.
 Another Hogan gem of latter day folk song is What you gwine to tell Massa Peter when he meets you at the gate?" The refrain is quite banally Caucasian, but the song proper, which is written in the recitation style, with long, urgent pauses on the chord of the tonsorial seventh, is tremendously impressive and full of character to the last note. And there are several other good ones by the same glittering hand, including Pas -Ma-La," a fine rag ripple, that was first heard here in Gay Coney Is- land," and Honey, You Made Hit With Me-" flash gem of the first wa ter. with a refrain that is immediate and lasting.
 Taken all through Sissieretta's show is too good to miss. It is entirely un- like anything else that ever happened; 1t is quick and varied, and if you don't care for the grand operatic convul- sion that closes it you are not obliged to stay l find this last part enter taining, even if not quite what you would call convincing. The coons are very arrogant and "pahticulah" dressed as Docks and Princes and Princesses and Duchesses and courtiers
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the coming week is unusually good, and includes Montgomery and Farrell, sketch team; the Friedlander brothers, musical comedians; Dale and Dalton, song and dance artists; Gro and Bell, burlesque knockabouts, and Charles Cass, black-face monologuist. The Chuteoscope shows new pictures, and the theater is comfortably warmed.
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Adventures and free life, "The Song of a

adventures and free life, "The Song of the Carbine."
 Following the brigand scene charac- teristic music prepares the way for the approach of the Duke (Mr. Barnabee). the position (Mr. MacDonald) and Do- lores (Jessie Bartlett Davis), who, sur rounded by the retainers at the castle, tell of their tribulations and hard travel. The introduction later of a comic trio in which appear stagestruck tailor (Mr. Frothingham\ a broken down tenor (Mr. Brown) and his daughter. Yvonne (Alice Nielsen) re- veals the little comedy and counter plot which is one of the main incidents of the opera. The incarceration of the tenor and his subsequent appearance in the tower of the haunted castle. drunk and attired as Mephistopheles, brings on a concourse of peasants, who, fleeing from the brigands and ter rified by an approaching thunderstorm, form a lively picture.
 The production is said to be one of the most costly and artistic ever given by the Bostonians.
 Robin Hood' will follow later in the engagement, and the final offering will be the new version of Rip Van Winkle."
 California.
 The engagement of Black Paths Troubadours at the California will close
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Pearu Lecture.

Lieutenant Peary, the famous Arctic explorer. will lecture at the Metropolis tan Temple on Tuesday and Wednes- day evenings. Lieutenant Peary's lec- lures are said to be extremely interest ing. They are illustrated by over 100 stereopticon views from photo- graphs taken while on his expedition.
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Musical.

Interest in musical circles in Oakland at present is largely concerned with the concert to be given Friday evening, February 25, at the First Methodist Church, by John W. Metcalf, pianist,
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and all the amusing traits character istic of the colored people.
 F. Marion Crawford will shortly ap pear at the California in a series of three lectures. The initial lecture will have as it's subject, Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican n
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Chutes.

The engagement of Chiquita, the mid get, is drawing to a close at the Chutes,
 and she will give her afternoon and evening receptions but one week long CT. The bill in the Free Theater for
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Orpheum.

Signor Wanrell, from the Royal The ater. Madrid, and Signora Mazzi, re- gently of the Del Conte Opera Com pany, will appear at the Orpheum next
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Alcazar.

"Charley's Aunt" is packing the All cazar to the doors at every perform ance, and will be continued until fur ther notice tThe District Attorney
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you stand a good chance of distancing the run of '"The First Born.
 ASHTON STEVENS.
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original character In "The Heart of Maryland" when the play is produced at the Adelphi, London.
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is to follow, and John Drew's old suc- cess, ''The Butterflies" to follow that.
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California.

The engagement of Black Patti's Troubadours at the California will clos,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-08

ce1d we Gu not gain real knowledge
| on level. We must generalize, We
| must reduce TO method we must have
grasp of principles. and group and
shape our acquisitions by means oil
them. 1t matters not whether our field
of operation be wide or limited in CIV
cry case, to command it, is to mount
above It. You must be above your
knowledge, not under it, or it will op-
press yoa
7. Bear in MIND constantly your re-
sb0nsibikty. Do you seek advice and
follow il ? Older heads are better than
young ones Have you in mind the
years of opportunity that lie before the
pupil, or the closing hour?
Do you pray over your work Re
member, as the twig is bent, the tree
will grow Early impressions are the
strongest The influence of a teacher
is undying, transmitted, as it is, on
ward Increasingly.
This above all. To thine own sci :
be true. And it must follow, as the
night the day Thou canst not then be
false 10 any man.
The Committee on Program
made The following report. which
was adopted ; The Camden
County Teachers Association
will meet again Oh the 3rd Sat
urdav In June next at Camden
Court House.
1880 a IN. Devotl nal Exer
cises 1910, Reading the Pros
ceeds o: last meeting Io:43.
What Teachers may do for Sell
Improvement Ce.us Fereb4c to
lead HOO, General Discuss :;
1850, appointment of Com
1900, Recess 100,
How to create interest and keep
the children interested in their
work essay by Miss Mary
Wood Els. General discussion :.
200, What Teachers may do to
create sentiment III favor Of pub
lie education essay, by ]. w.
Walstoh 2:I5, General Discus
sion 800. Adjournment
Respectfully submitted,
T. B. BoUsHALL,
JNO. M. BELL,
CALEB TERRELL,
KATE HARRIS,
MARY WOOD,
Com.
The Association adjourned to
meet again Oil the 3rd Saturday
in June, 1898.
{. B. GARRETT, President.
NJ. B. BURGESS, Secretary.
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