The San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 25, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 14, 1904 Page: 13 of 18
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TNF WFFK'R ATTRACTIONS . ami th. oolfihrafnd tonnr Mr
At the Grand. *
Tonight: Lewis Morrison in
"Faust.”
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday
nights and Wednesday matinee: Jules
Grau Comic Open company.
Thursday: Al H. Wilson in “A
Print© of TaiUrs.”
Saturday; laaca and His Band.
i Lewis Morrison.
Lewis Morrison iq addition to being
the beat living Mephisto is trained in
all the details of stage work. Hia
insistence on the absolute accuracy of
lights scenes music and properties
is greatly responsible for the beauty
of the new production of ' Faust" in
which he will appear for the 1 last time
here as Mephisto at the Grand to
night. Several thousand dollars have
been invested in new scenery cos-
tumes anL prologue and the Morrison
eye is swift to see and the Morrison
ear is swift to hear any active or pro-
posed misuse of these effects which
are dependent on each other to gain
the necessary ensemble. Several
skilled electricians and mechan.cs
were rehearsed for many hours dally
before the Devil was entirely satis
fled. The effect of these wearisome
hours of discipline is visible in the*
exquisite shading of the lights in the I
Brocken garden and apotheosis
scenes as well as in the new prologue
which is one of the strongest scenes
of the play lyrically musically and
dramatically. Lewis Morrison has
appeared live thousand times as Me- i
phisto and the’present production is
said to be the most elaborate he has
•ver given to this play. The scenery
costumes and electrical effects are all
new. The instrumental and vocal
music is newly composed while the
artists selected to interpret the music
were drawn from a well known New-
York conservatory and. with’the add-
ed attraction of Lewis Morrison him-
self as Mephisto the forthcoming pro-
duction of "Faust” will prove an un-
usual event.
Grau’s Opera Company.
The Jules Grau Opera company a
name to conjure with In the annals of
musical novelties and comic opera
successes will be the attraction at the
Grand opera house Monday February
15 for three nights and Wednesday
matinee. This celebrated organiza-
tion. which has a world wide reputa-
tion for the production of high class
operas will present here the great
comic opera successes as follows:
Monday night and Wednesday mati-
nee: "The Wizard of the Nile.”
Tuesday night: ‘'El Capitan.”
Wednesday night: "The Isle of
Champagne."
Thia company is even better and
stronger than ever the costumes are
all new and the chorus of pretty and
shapely women is one of the best
both for beauty and singing voice®
that is on the road today. Mr. Grau
has again surrounded tijmself with a
number of competent principals
among whom are May Lindon. Ethel
Balch Bessie Fairbairn Lucca Schott
Lillian Lord. John Henderson. Wm.
Herman West Albert Wilder George
Tonight-Free to AU
ELKS' HALL
Hear Madame Lilia 0. Windsor M. S..
Ph. D. M. D„ the Phrenologist and
Author of Washington 0. C.
Madame Windsor needs no introdue-
tion to the American people—the
statement of her coming is sufficient
to guarantee crowded houses.
Free lecture tonight also Wednes-
day night.
SUBJECT TONIGHT: .
“Friendship Love and Sunshine"
(By Special Request.)
Wednesday Night
"PHYSIOGNOMY OR THE EXTER-
NAL SIGNS OF CHARACTER.”
Everybody Invited.
Private consultations every day at
Vance Apartments Houston Street.
Hours 10 q. m to 9 p. m.
Lyman Wheeler. Mr. Crau has don
more for the public In preaentini
these operat.c stars and succeose
than any other living managemen
and the crowded houses that alway
greet his attraction* show the ea
teem tn which he is held by the thea
tergoing public all over the country
Mias Bessie Fairbairn who ip the la
test addit on to the Orau forces 1
said to be cne of the cleverest charac
ter actresses on the opeiatic sfage tc
day and is the comedienne of th
company. She has been for maa
years with such well known organiza
Hone as Henry W Savage. ■‘Princes
Bonnie" and The Castle Square Opera
company and will no doubt add to her
already high reputation while under
the direction of Mr. Grau.
Andrew Robson in “Richard Carvel."
The in'ftuence of an artistic temper
ament Is seasily discernable to all
who have observed Andrew Robson
in his impersonation of the heroic
yet tender fatriot lover. RichaiM Car-
vel in his production of the Winston
Churchill romance by that title. Not
only does it permeate his work in a
dramatic sense but it provides the
exquisite stage environment and pic-
torial embellishments of the principal
situations and costuming of the char-
acters of the play.
No production now before the pul>
11c offers a purer symphony in color
unity of tone power personnel of <jom-
rany scenery garnature costuming
and Incidental music. Mr. Robson’s
training while studying art in the
principal art centers of Europe has
stood him to goo 1 purpose and the re-
sult is most pleasing to the eye.
This admirable production will be
seen here on February’ 34 and 25 at
the Grand and If reputation Is ctfunt-
ed as something It Is. easy to predict
for the event success of no mean de-
gree.
A Famous Woman.
A great treat is in store for San
Antonio people. Madame Lilia D. Wind
sor M. S.. Ph. D. M D. the leading
lady phrenologist of the world and
noted author will give a free lecture
tonight and Wednesday night at Elks'
hall. Everybody invited. Free tests
st close of lecture. Sec add in an-
other column '
"The Wizard of Oz."
The “Wizard of Ot" stands alone
as a production abounding in novelties
and such novelties unique illustjated
real true ones without any approach
as to competition . or originality.
Thousands and thousands of visitors
who have seen the many (both large
And small* in tills musical extrava-
ganza. have attested their approbation
and approval by acclaiming beyond
any doubt that this production Is in-
comparable. It simply astonishes all
[by the lavishness and magnificence
displayed by a most liberal manage-
ment in an endeavor to please the
public.
i Chief among the unique effects is
| the impersonation of a vivified scare-
; crow. After the man of straw has
been endowed hy magic with vitality
?and has learned to walk and to talk
SAN ANTONIO SUNDAY LIGHT SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. SUNDaTT FEBRUARY 14 1904.
he discovered that he had no brain
I and immediately began hla quest for
the missing organ The “Wizard of
Oz” finally trepanned hia skull and in-
jected gray substance of the Mark
Hanna variety. The Scarecrow Im-
mediately became a friend of the la-
boting man and a candidate for Presi-
dent.
In point of originality the part of
the Tin Woodman is second only to
that of the Scarecrow. A wood chop-
per who has offended some magical
power la gradually changed from a be-
ing of flesh anil blood into a man of
tin.
When the change took place he wa*
in love with a fair maiden but he is
relieved of this sensation for the ma-
cruelly neglected to furnish him
with a heart. •
The pursuit of the twain in search
of a brain and heart furnishes many
opportunities for humerous situations.
all of which are Improved. Comes to
the Grand February 26 and 27.
Sadie Martinot.
‘ His Excellency the Governor” the
big London and New York success
vi* be seen here in the very near fu
। tur© with Miss Sadie Martinot the
: cleverest comedians on the English
। speaking stage in her original char-
-1 acter. It is not saying too much that
. to her exquisite work is due the sue
| cess this comedy achieved both in
■ New York and In London. Miss Mar
[tinot is the original of the charsC''
A SCENE IN "THE ISLE OF CHAMPAGNE.”
■' in which she will be seen on her ap-
-1 pvh rance here. The same may be!
• I raid of the production and in many
{cases the supporting company is the
• same which appeared in the cast of
> the play during its New York run.
• Comes to the Grand March 5 and 6.
“The Four Cohans."
Ruskin said “Architecture is frozen
- music.” Had he seen the spon an-
eous steps taken to music by Joseph-
AL. H. WILSON.
Ine Cohan of that clever family. "The
Four Cohans" he would have given
us an axiom to fit the delicate gift
this girl expresses in her inimitable
way. The human foot is generally
cnly a means of locomotion but this
little lady uses her dainty extremities
as an outward expression of joycus-
ness and one fears that her ecsiacy
may lend wings to her tiny feet and
that she may go dancing on air be-
fore one’s very eyes And kt would
no* surprise one greatly for she does
everything but that. In fact she
seems to delight In disdaining the laws
of gravitation. In Hanning For Of-
fice” she danees to the delight of
large audiences beside winning their
beans with her girlish ingenlousnvss
tn the portrayal oft her part The
Four Cohans come to ths Grand
March 19 and 20.
“A Friend of th e Family.”
"A Friend of the Family." the far-
cical comedy in which George W Bar-
num and Miss Alice Johnson are star-
ring jointly this season • although
written solely for laughing purposes
does not depend on "horse play" and
slap-stick* to cause merriment but
contains bright witty dialogue which
is presented with such dash -and vim
that it simply bubbles over with effer-
vescence. The stars are both recog-
nized artists and notwithstanding the
fact that until this season the play
was an unknown quantity in Amer-
ica R has certainly “caught on" with
the )ove r of good clean cut comedy.
"A Friend of the Family’ will oc-
cupy the boards at the Grand in April.
HUMAN NATURE ETCHINGS.
(By Alex Miller.)
Once upon a time In .a far distant
town there was a threat that there
would be a run on a certain bank.
The bankers discovered the plot and
prepared for it. They go: a lot of sil-
ver and had it ready for all comers
who might want to remove their de-
posits. One old woman came to take
out all sho had. She hau a deposit of
$l5OO and they gave it to her in sil-
ver She tried to carry it off and
found that she could not lift it. Then
she let It lie on the floor and wept.
Finally she asked for one of the bank
officers and said "Well. If I can get
my money I don’t want it.” And there
is a good deal of human nature in
that case.
Talking about traveling men know-
ing their business a man in this town
said the other day. that he never asked
a traveling man any ques ion that he
could not answer. They are always
ready with an answer.
A man asked a hotel clerk if he
could give him a Chew of tobacco.
"I should think I can." he replied.
There are two things 1 always have
that’s money and chewing tobacco.’
A theater bill in this town said
the other day: me will you!"
and a big overgrown man Is standing
over a prostrate form while the man
who makes the above r mark brand-
ishes a broom. That Is a new deal
on us. We never saw a man use a
broom for a weapon so we do not
know if the fight is progressing ac-
cording to Queensbury rules or not.
Talking about the tariff question a
man told us the other day that the
president of the United States could
net settle the tariff himself. He said
"congress and the house of represen-
tatives would have to take a hand in
it.”
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man Who used to say when asked
where he had got a certain thjng "O
I stole eggs and bought it?"
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who used to refer to the
Roman Catholic church?" We al-
ways thought a Catholic church was
definite enough but he used to dis-
tinguish It by filing it the “Roman
’atholic church.” *•
Arrow Shots.
The trouble about making folks do
things against their will is that you
have to keep making them do the
things over again and again.
Why do all clocks smell peculiarly
alike’
Don’t you always feel funny when
you call a dentist. Doctor?'
Theatrical companies talk only
about guarantees and wharf they lost
here and made there.
We wonder if a drug store bloude
feels any better after her hair has
been bleached.
Every town is over-canvassed.
Considering the feeling of self ap-
proval when we get up early it is a
wonder we ever get up late.
A woman always responds to the
first call for dinner. She has had ex-
perience waiting on her husband and
does not wish to make anyone else
wait.
Everybody does things that other
people think arc rather small
How odd that the things We cons!-
der small In others we do not even
criticise in ourselves.
A show band on parade always has
to run the gauntlet of all the local
players in town.
How many people there are who
tell us they are not fakes!
When we ge: baldheaded we do not
believe we will even try to comb our
[hair over the bald spot.
As long as a person is young he
doesn’t need beauty.
We can’t help about half envying
a negro porter his job. He has so
little responsibility and yet such im-
portance.
A woman doesn't tie up a package
like a man.
Every man thinks he does every-
thing to the bee* of his ability.
We wish we belonged to a show
band and then wc could come home tc
our old town to show the fellows how
we could play.
Books on etiquette to the contrary
notwithstanding people like to talk
abort the weather.
We wish we did not always think
of a woman preacher that she woulc
rather be married than to preach if
she had had luck.
There is as g*eat a variety in the
faces of dolls as in the faces of real
folks. .
We wonder if the women of ou:
town are noticed when they go tc
strange towns like strangers are here
Don’t you hate a man gossip worse
than a woman'
A- preacher in a fur coat always
looks as if he doubted what he sayi
about folks. »
Wbat do you suppose becomes oi
the hair under barber chairs. .
We just wonder bow many people
say to others what they say they do.
Where Good Breeding Is Shown.
Every laughter of Eve or at least
every one who belongs to that branch
of her family that eventually became
American is fond of pretty clothes
' as an adjunct in the furtherance of
the natural desire to please an in
Instinct implanted by a beneficent ere
ator but not every girl knows that
her breeding is shown in her clcthes
and that fine ones do not make he-
a lady nor impose upon any one by
making her appear to be one.
Cheap finery not only betrays pov
erty. which it is unnecessary to con
I fide to the wcrld at large which re
gards It most unsympathetically am
not only proclaims ignorance of good
taste but also lays a girl open to
misconception and possible identifies
। tion with the least worthy of her sex
We are not all amenable to sugges
tions for our good; and when our
desires clash with our “sense of
oughtness.” It depends upon the qual
ity of our make-up which one shall
prevail Another evidence of gentle
। breeding Is a well-modulated voice
Thomas Wentworth Higginson said:
"Shut me up In a dark room with •
' mixed multitude and I can pick out
the gentlefolks by their voices.”
In the compass of every voice there
are three registers —the middle or
throat the lower or chest: and the
upper or head register. The use of
the middle pitch for talking is very
desirable but the voice should be
trained to slide up and down vary-
ing with the emotions; low when the
mood inclines toward seriousness
and higher when it becomes tinged
with excitement. An interesting
speaker constantly changes hte pitch;
not abruptly but with ease and skill
and the greater range one has the
more’certain he is to get and retain
the pleased attention of listeners. Our
high-pitched. strident voices are
sharply criticised and it is quite with-
in our power to change them.
I confess to liking a bit of slang
now and then from a young man’s
mouth lit sounds racy adds snap- and
spice if used judiciously and a few
ot Its terms are pithy and expressive
but wizen a girl uses slang It only
sounds common. What is becoming
to one sex is not necessarily so to
the othA.
When we see a woman who laughs
and talks loudly in public places we
put a severe strain upon our charity
and judgment not to think her vul-
gar. When to the conventional “How
Jo you do?" she replies “Fine!” we
know on just what rung of the so-
cial ladder to put her.
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Drama's
Mill Is
Grinding
More New Plays.
“The Light That
Lies In Woman s
Eyes" “That Man
and I" and “The
Younger Mrs. Par-
ling."
[From Our New York Dramatic Corre-
spondent. ] „
"And still they come!" New plays
continue to pour in on blase old New
York by threes snd fours. If variety
In theatricals Is something to be wish-
ed for. every one should wear the most
ecstatic smiles 1n bls repertory.
Debutantes at the metropolitan play-
houses are "The Light That Lies In
Woman's Eyes." by E. H. Sotbern
In which Virginia Hamed (Mrs. Sotb-
ern) is starring: "That Man and I” a
dramatization by Mrs. Frances Hodg-
ANMX BVHHKIX APPKAKINO IK “TH!
TOUNOEB MKS PAHLINO"
son Burnett of ber novel entitled “In
Connection With the De Willoughby
Claim” and "The Younger Mrs. Par-
ling.” Annie Russell's new comedy.
Ada Reban and Otis Skinner contrlb
ute notably to the general activity by
presenting that sterling comedy "The
School For Scandal."
“The Light That Lies In Woman's
Eyes." at the Criterion following “The
Othef Girl” which has moved to the
New Empire develops a story ground
the borne of Shakespeare at Stratford-
on-Avon. Miss Hamed baa been pro-
vided with a role that of Lady Ix*mn
which pictures the romance of a sweet
and spirited Irish girl.
The cast-includes William Courtney
Eugene Bentley. Henry Do Witt. Fan-
ny Addison Pitt. S\argaret Gordon etc.
Mrs. Burnett’s Indefatigable pen Is
winning her wide reputation as a play-
wright “That Man and I.” at the
Savoy theater gives us a chance to see
what Robert Hilliard looks like now-
adays. In the character of Dick Lati-
mer well known to readers of “In Con-
nection With the De Willoughby
Claim.” Hilliard teaches the revengeful
how to overlook deepest Injury nnd In-
justice. This Is Hilliard's first appear-
ance on any stage in the guise of one
who learns to forgive a man wire be-
trays trust and friendship.
Tbe play consists of a prologue and
three acts. Tbe scene of the prologue
Is laid in the New England mill town
where John Baird wrongs Dick Lati-
mer's sister. The remainder of tbe ac-
tion of the play occurs in Massachu-
setts and North Carolina.
“That Man and I" has chiefly to do
with John Baird and Dick Latimer
tbe manager of Baird's milling prop-
erty. The sister dies but tbe child.
Felicity survives and grows up. loved
by her Uncle Dick who has never been
told the secret of her parentage.
Seventeen years later the story is re-
sumed. It is Felicity’s wedding day.
MAUDE FEALY IN" "THAT MAX AND I."
and circumstances disclose tn Dick I-at-
Imer the secret of his sister's death and
the sin of the man who for so many
years be ha regarded as his friend.
Felicity puts down the enmity which
springs up '-iddenly. Dick knows that
her father 1 .s done bis utmost to brim
the girl up revere her mother’s mem-
Plumbing should be done right
Maohenheimer & Jonas. Phones 453.
Money or bargains in second-hand
goods. EMERSON & CO.
THIRTEEN
ory and respect the high Ideals of life.
Realizing that bls constant striving has
been to make all the reparation that
lay within bls power be forgives the
millionaire mill owner and bldi him.
by helping others to stone in n meas-
ure for tbe ruin of a woman's life.
H. Reeves-Bmith plsys John Bal'd.
Maude Fealy enacts the role of Felicity
and In the prologue appears a* Dick
Latimer's sister.
Annie Russell is agnln at the Garrick
where she last scored In "Mice snd
Men." Lovable Mrs. Gilbert Is still
with ber. and she runs Miss Russell s
close rsce for popularity.
“The Younger Mrs. Parllng" Is an
tdaptatlon by Haddon Chambers from
tbe French. In it Miss Russell Illus-
trates tbe life of a persecuted wife and.
as may readily be Imagined such
event* transpire and such situation*
occur as to afford ber opportunities to
display ber private characteristics lov-
able simplicity and sympathetic sweet-
ness.
Jaqueline Carstairs is tbe heroine at
Miss Ruesell's play. She is naturally
an unassuming girl. Her mother is not
strong She never knew her father.
She makes tbe mistake of ber life Io
marrying James Parllng an intolerant
personage. wl*o however love* her.
She does not love him. She appreciates
bls regard for ber. however.
Another man also loves Jaqueline.
He Is Cyril Martyn Rut he. too. is not*
up to ber standard of what a man
ahould be.
Parllng takes Jaqueline to live in bis
parents' borne at Soutbsea. Surround-
ings are not congenial. She leaves
joins her husband in London and de-
mands another abode. He then obtains
a small house near tbe home of bis
mother and father. .Here Mrs. Parllng
1b comparatively happy. A visit from
ber mother creates a stir. Mrs. Car-
stairs Is not liked and Parllng insults
her by turning her out of his house.
Finally Martyn arrives on the scene.
He. as an old time friend is grieved at
ber condition. He proposes an elope-
ment. She promises nothing and turn*
the man nway. Jaqueline's busband
returns and announces that be ba* ar-
ranged to return to the elder Parllng*’
bouse to live. The wife make* her su-
preme decision in silence. Her hus-
band turn* to bls desk to write a letter.
She quietly puts on ber hat aud walks
out of the door leaving him forever.
Fernanda Eliscu. tbe young Rouma-
nlnn Jewess now starring as Marta In
Hnrrison Grey Fiske's “Mart* of tbe
Lowlands" company has had * re-
markable career in that she sprang
from obscurity to stardom “in a night.”
When the production now tonring
the country opened at the Manhattan
theater Miss Eliscu occupied an insig-
rKKNANDA KLISCC HTABIIINO IM "MAMTA
9 OF THE LOWLANDS ”
nlficant niche In the background. She
bad wbat our indispensable humorists
term "a good thinking part.”
One evening Corona Riccardo tbe
star met with a serious accident Of
course a substitute was In immediate
demand. Miss Eliscu bad studied Miss
Riccardo’s role nnd she was given a
chance. She succeeded so strikingly
that she was at once engaged to star in
the play during the remainder of the
season which bad but little more than
just begun.
Miss Eliscu has been predicted to
have the makings of “a second Mrs.
1 Fiske.” and whether or not this rerom-
rrtendntlon will he justified by future
development remains to be seen.
Miss Filsen came to this country in
1808 phen driven with the other mem-
bers of her family from Roumanis.
’ She wns but ten years ok! at tbe time.
Her family endured tbe greatest hard-
ships In a New York tenement for
months until able to make a comfort-
able place for themselves. Then Miss
Eliscu was sent to a dramatic school
at her own request. First it was Coop-
er institute from tbe elocutionsry de-
partment of which she graduated in
1896. Then she went to' Sargent's
School of Acting. In a performance in
wbat Is now the Vaudeville theater
then Mrs. Osborne's playhouse. Miss
Eliscu starred in “Romeo and Juliet ”
The critics dealt severely with her at
that time. Miss Eliscu determined to
persevere and a fitting reward has
crowned her efforts.
ROBERT BUTLER *
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