The San Francisco call., 1903-01-25
DISTINGUISHED PIANIST WHO
WILL SOON GIVE A SERIES OF
CONCERTS IN THIS CITY.
By Blanche Partington.

effective, and the action in the trio in
which the execution of NankyPoo is de-
scribed is also a little overdone- Barring
this, his work is entirely pleasing. Pooh
Bah is capitally done by Arthur Gun
ningham, who looks as If he had Just
walked in off a screen.
Caro- Roma s temperance al the Tivon
IS a matter for large congratulation,
though the role of Katisha hardly affords
her the vocal chance of her life. But
she is singing delightfully."-, and with that
ample good nature that distinguishes her,
throws herself whole-heartedly into the
part Our Annie is Pitti-Sing, and
piquancy itself as usual Yum-Yum is
well done by Bertha Davis. Frances Glib
son is effective as the third little maid
and oscar Lees Nanky-Poo adds to the
picture. The chorus might save their
voices-they are such good ones, too-by
putting on the soft pedal a little more
frequently. And Mr.. Steindorff should re-
mind Mr.. Colverd that he doesn't have to
be fourteen trombones he did in La
Tosca.' The memory rather seems to
stick. But these are trifies. "The Mika-
do should most certainly be heard.
Every one with the music habit should
Immediately put it 'on the list"
There is so much useful information in
the following letter, received this week,
In reading your article in The Call Of yester-
oay the 18th. the thought struck me that il
was about time some began TO protest
against this continual dose OF hub-dub about
getting ever since l can remember. Your article
on Fritz Scheel would have been all right n
you haa ieit out the entirely false statements
the biggest hotels in the universe and the
most amplitudnous potatoes" Any one who
has ever been traveller knows all this sort Of
thing TO be space-flling tommy-rot Shirts
worth wearing are not made in California, EEK
shirts are all made In the Eastern States and
sell at the same price as here. California has
mol the largest hotels in the universe" Peo-
PIE who have never Travelled and who live in
one or two rooms in wooden house of two
stories may imagine these things. But people
who have been to Chicago and seen the Audlto-
rum, and TO New York and seen the Waldorf
Astoria, the Netherlands the Plaza the savoy
the Marie Antoinette and the Ansonia apart
sense OF the word know different At ali tbs
great summer and winter resorts of the Eastern
States are greater hotels than any on this
coast II the traveller has been to England he
this isolated little piece OF civilization called
California. The Northwestern Hotel at Liver
pool. the Hotel Cecil the St. Pancras. the
Californian hotels.
Ing IN this State: It is the same with our ap-
pies. peaches and pears. Other States produce
much superior fruits OF these classes to US
ana as 70 the beef and pork! Our beef is very
poor Who ever saw fine 'marbled' steak
a We raj
Is ieo Tor the most part on alfalfa and other
nltrogenous foods, and is, in consequences
stringy. tough and lacking in fat.
There is altogether too much OF this provin-
clal' loud-mouthed boasting OF our products
among the very poor and untraveed element
Of our moderately well-ofi class / am thank
ful that we have a large class that know much
peter; t ia ana 10 VINO are very much disgusted with
phere," that is a hackneyed expression and
means nothing. In San Francisco we have no
at.nosphere-only fog and soft coal smoke In
fOn mob
the atmosphere to be ''heady," and the only
bracing atmosphere We have is up in the high
sierras. Most sincerely yours,
Now will you be good, California? But
really, dear correspondent, you are mis-
taken in some things-though you have
zone me the honor to approve in most
part my position. Every little village in
California does in truth own one Of "the
largest hotels in the world" I have seen
their circulars with these, nv own ewes
and who be I-or you-to dispute If?
rave also had the pleasure of stopning
at two OF the places you mention and /
am very sure that neither of them titled
themselves THE largest hotel in the uni
verse" Again, go down south Of Mar
ket street and you will find the place
strewn with the best dollar shirts on
Garth" though you and 1, dear corre-
spondent, always pay 50 a piece, to meas
ure, for ours. One deplores of course.
the alfalfic pork and regrets the mar
bled" steak-but don't we do rather well
with cur statuesque girls? It is a little
terrifying to learn that like the moon.
San Francisco has no atmosphere" but
gratifying news that there is at least one
Caifornian-to whom it may not be un-
useful-''who has the good luck to get
away from home once in a while" / am
going to Milpitas myself this summer,
d. V.
The following people will take part in
concert to be given at Steinway Hall
on February with a programme to be
entirely made up from the compositions
Of DR.. II. J. Stewart:
Soprsnos--Mss Alma Berglund Mrs. Grace
DAVIS NHfthrup. Mrs. Lily Roeder Apple Miss
Bowen, Contraltos-Mrs. J. L. Birningha
MISS MISS !slla y. McCloskey, Mrs. G. L. Parent,
MRS. M FtzRibbon. Tenors-Messrs J. f.
Reaco, G Henley T. C. Elliott and H. NJ
tortescue. Bassos-8fessrs S. Homer Henley |
c l. Parent. c. B. Stone and Walter Kneiss
Ntolinlst. Nathan Landsberger 4