The San Francisco call., 1906-07-01

among the actors, and Amelia Bing-
ham among the actresses. have taken
the lead in America in this direction
Mr.. Miller and Miss Anglin began their
managerial career last season with
Miss Anglin's production of "Zira" and
with the highly successful production
of the college play, Brown of Har
Theater, New York.-Lyric Theater
On. Y) Notes.
The greatest managerial feat in the
history of American theatricals." This
is the unanimous opinion regarding the
/ triumphal tour of Sarah Bernhardt,
which closed at the Lyric Theater. New
of the great French actress was ever
before attempted. and that i succeeded
as it did was due. II Is conceded. TO the
/ splendid resource. energy, foresight
and mana gerial ability of the Messrs.
Shubert and W. F. Connor Nine. Bern
hardt travelled over $4,000 miles and
gave 226 performances very small
percentage of which were in places
adapted to theatrical performances. She
played in tents. skating rinks. arm
orfes, city halls, once in oathcuSe
and once in a dining room, without
missing a single scheduled perform
ance, and to the most enormous crowds
that ever attended theatrical perform
| ances in America. The pecuniary re-
suits of the tour were unprecedented.
| 1t is quite certain that these would not
have been so large and that the gen
erai result of the tour would not have
been so satisfactory to the ShubertS II
the theatrical syndicate had not
placed them to the inconvenience CT
forcing the worlds greatest actress to
appear under the most unfavorable
eonditions-Lyric TiIeater (N. "
Notes
Regarding the late Henrik Ibsen, r.
B. Won Liebich writes in the Musical
Courier: I'm the principal cafe on Carl.
Johan's Gade (the main thoroughfare
Fof Christiania L have seen. besides
Ibsen, Grieg, Christian Sinding, Bjorn9
son, Fritz Thaulow. the artist. and
others gathered together. and You
see.' he said. 'everybody who goes to
Leipsic takes some learning with him
and no one, on leaving. was ever
known to take any away with him
so II accumulates.'
NO one laughed at this more than
Grieg and Sinding. both of whom
studied at Leipsic.
To be musical Ibsen said on an
other famous occasion. is the birth
right of every one who Is well born.
Just as every one who is born at all
is endowed with thirst. But you musi-
clans who everlastingly want to hear
music seem to me in the same predica-
ment as the man who everlastingly
wants to gulp beer or brandy Chi
cago Chronicle.
The moment Tetrazzini arrives here
great battle will start. Conried has
two contracts with Mile. Tetrazzini.
Hammerstein one, and for all / know,
the Tivoh Opera Company in San Fran
cisco may have twenty. but those for
obvious reasons would now have no
force.
The moment she sings for Hammer
stein, however, she renders herself
liable. so says Charles Henry Meltzer,
to instantaneous Injunction. for Charles
Henry Meltzer holds in his pocket a
mysterious but tremendous affidavit
which he or his successor will serve
on her the moment she tries to earn
her living by singing with Hemmer-
stein. AS soon as Tetazzini had
signed her last contrAct with the only
Oscar she discovered that the rate of
remuneration was not sufficiently high.
and asked for $3.50 week more. She
got it, But she will not get 1t again
New York Morning Telegraph.
Moriz Rosenthal. the lion of the
piano." who will display his marvellous
technical mastery of his instrument to
American audiences again next season.
has completed his duties associate
of Saint Saens and Massenet on the
jury in the Diemar prize contest at
the Paris Conservatoire, and returned
to his summer home in Gastein in the
Austrian Tyrol, where he will perfect
himself in the repertoire he is to give
in the United States RosentnaPs spare
moments will be given over to prepar-
ing treatise on the technic of piano
playing designed for use as a text
ago Kosenthal, collaborating with Lud-
wig Schytte. the Danish composer
wrote pamphlet on this subject that
was translated into every European
language. His new book will be more
comprehensive and simpler in express
sion for the especial guidance of stud
ents-From the Lyric Theater IN. ".
One of Margaret Anglin's greatest
admirers is Sarah Bernhardt In the
New York World last Sunday the great
French actress over her signature dis
cussed the question. Does the acting
of impassioned love scenes intensity
the emotions?" In course of her dis
cussicn Bernhardt makes this remark:
when I see Duse or Margaret AnE-
lin. or any other great actress. 1 do not
ask Does she really feel those emo
tions in her private life%"
Rernha~dt saw Miss Anglin in "Zira"
and Immediately declared her the
greatest English speaking actress and
one of the few dramatic geniuses OF