The San Francisco call., 1905-04-18
Initial Performance
for Benefit of
MOdjGSkd.
By SALLY SHARP.

Madame Modjesl1a, the we'll beloved,
is in need. Want is knocking at her
door!
That sad. simple announcement was
quite enough 10 bestir San Franciscans
TO lend hand. They always do-it's
a way they have.
she who had given US so freely OF her
art and Of her material possessions
must not know the pinch of poverty in
her declining years
and thus il was that the Twentieth
Century Musical Club, the Pacific Coast
Woman's Press Club and a host Of
other good people have joined hands TO
90 something TO help-something
worthy the name Of the beloved Mod
geska-ano this is what they've decided
10 do, in brief: To present an opera.
ana 70 present il in smashing style, by
people who know how.
As for the opera, it is to be the privi-
lege OF San Francisco to hear it's first
production-"The Crusaders and the
Saracen the music and the Hbretto
by the eminent harpist. Madame Ca
rusi she who figured so conspicuOusly
few months ago in the Italian Opera
Company.
Madame Carusi will herself lead the
orchestra, a fact that viii lend a larger
interest IN the performance
ard the Lion-Hearted," and is OBJ
vlously concerned with the Third Cru
saoe, most conspicuous period for
portraiture.
AS TO the music. the opera is said by
The Wise Ones TO be a second Sulli-
van-Gilbertian production, and from
the rapturous praise bestowed upon
II San Francisco appears to be on the
eve Of another musical treat.
What q deluge Of music we are hav-
ing!-and We are drinking in every
note.
AS to the personnel OF the production,
Miss Helene du Bris, the soprano in the
choir Of st. Mary the Virgin, will have
the leading soprano role; Miss Bos-
worth, second soprano; Edgar Stern,
the chap that made such a hit In Mi
kado" some time ago, will sing "oppo-
site" to Miss du Bris; Frederick Mon
son. late OF the Rosina Vokes company,
viii be the funny man: Bash Tilson,
another funny man; Miss Florence
Young Of Berkeley. the leading con-
tralto. Besides these leading parts
there are three fetching roles to be
taken by three Z. c. men, Clinton R.
Morse, Walter de Leon and NJ. G. JEFF
ferds.
The De Koven Club of Berkeley
whose chorus work has yielded much
pleasure TO music lovers during the
winter-will form an effectual adjunct
10 the soloists.
And the date?
The afternoons and evenings Of the
25th and 26th, at the Majestic Theater
And to-day, good friends, the box Of
fee VIII be open at Shenandoah for
business.
Among the patrons and patronesses
are the following:
Mrs James Ellis Tucker. Mrs John D.
ITSoAes IPg sa-.1s Mrs osl- ID ne 9e 14qns Mrs ,l WI
Fangst- Mrs Louis F. Monteseie Mrs a r
William Hinckiey Taylor Mrs II NJ. A. Mil
ler Mrs A ". Chesebrough. Mrs Joseph
Crockett Mrs. Henry ]. Scott, Mrs. Lewelln
Jones. Miss Grace Llewellin Jones' Mrs Ralph
c. Harrison. Charles S. Aiken Mrs William
Wolf. Mrs. Wakefield Baker. Franklin Lane
Mrs J. F McGanley, Mr, and Mrs ". c
Morrow Mrs E. W McKinstry Mrs. II. B.
Pinney. Joseph D Redding, Miss Ina D. Cool
Mrs. A. D. Tourtiotte Mrs. Ella Sexton
Mrs Mark Gerstle. Mrs. H D. PrIsbury
Mrs. Warren D. Clark. Mrs. H. c. Davis. Mrs
J H Malett. Mrs J. D. Ruggles Mrs Felix
Galindo. Mrs. Y. c. Drifheld, Mrs. Philip
Caduc Mrs Charles W Clark Mrs J. Dow
ney Harvey Mrs Eleanor Martin Mrs Joseph
S. Tobin Miss Sailie Maynard Mrs George
Deering Mrs. Clare o. Southard DR.. NJ E.
Kihbe Mrs Grace Hibbsrd Mrs. n. H Mar
dan. A. Pollock. Dr. F. W clampett. William
Greer Harrison, DR. Harry Tevis, Wakefield
Baker Charles Webb Howard, Mrs Samuel
Buckbee. Mrs Robert Oxnard. Mrs Chauncey
Ninslow. Mrs. George Somers. Misses Beaver
NJ NJ ,= HenIy : s.or,'s Srocker Mrs. a NJ Vail
Mrs Walter MscGavin. Mrs. z Preston. Mrs
william Thomas. Mrs. Eleanor Martin Mrs.
Rudolph Spreckeis Mrs. William Wolf, Mrs
Walter Hobart. Mrs \. G. Kittle. Mrs. David
Starr Jordan. Mrs. Sidney NJ. Smith. Mrs.
wright. Miss Bourn, Mrs Richard Boyne Mrs.
s 9 Murphy Mrs " Ames. Mrs A e
Graupner Mrs James Otis.