San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

LOCAL NOTES YOUNG MUSICIANS' CLUB The second annual concert of the Young Musicians' Club was given Friday evening of last week at the Second Unitarian Church under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary. The little folks acquitted themselves creditably and received a great deal of encouragement and applause. Violin, piano and cornet, and banjo solos were rendered, Donald Day, Harold Pracht, Edith Standart, Marjory Buffington, Winnie Moody, Conrad Rued, Lester Chapman, Helen Carter, May Schlut ter, Elva and Fannie Woodman, Florence Xachtrieb and Gertrude Albrecht and Clarence Hobbs contributing to the program of sixteen numbers. Little Clarence Hobbs, eleven years old, a pupil of Mr. Hastings, proved himself very clever in his banjo solo Schubert's Serenade [Parke Hunter]. He has fair execution for his years and plays with taste, and is unusually apt in his tremola work and will be a musician if he applies himself. His sister is one of Samuel Adelstein's bright mandolin pupils. The concert closed with trio op. 4.8 No. 4 [Pleyel], by Harold Pracht, Eddie Sparrow and Florence Hachtrieb. RECITAL OF MARY G. INGLIS Wednesday of last week Mrs. Mary G. Inglis of the Senior Class of the California School of Elocution and Oratory gave a recital at Century Hall. Her work included A Country Sketch [Cora Chase], The Famine [Longfellow], The Night Wind [Eugene Field], What They Say About Cupid [Anon], Playing the Society Belle [Bertha Wilson], and in Our Hated Rival with Veronica Varnish, Lillian (Juinn and Mrs. Victor Marchmount. Vocal solos were rendered by Miss Edythe E. Mills and Dr. D. A. Hodghead; piano solo, Miss Winne Moody; violin solo, Miss Amy Peterson. A particular attraction of the evening was the appearance of Mr. Chas. Mayer, the zither player, who enjoys the distinction of being the foremost artist with that instrument in the city. MRS. TOOKER'S RECITAL. The work of Mrs. Tooker and Miss Elsie Tooker, guitarists, is steadily growing both in the city and out of town, Mrs. Tooker's San Jose classes being particularly flourishing. Mrs. Shroup, whose bright little daughter Ethelwynn is one of Mrs. Tooker's pupils, threw open her home in San Jose a few evenings ago for the first of a series of pupils' recitals that will be given weekly hereafter. The program was guitar solo, Old Folks at Home, Ethelwynn Shroup; duet, Elsie Waltzes, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Tooker; solo, Then You'll Remember Me, Mrs. Calvert; Glissando Waltzes, Miss Di Fiore; Miss Barker, mandolin, played in a trio with Miss Ethelwynn and Mrs. Tooker and in a duet with Miss Shroup. ACROSS THE BAY Mr. Putnam Griswold is to have a year's course at the Royal College of Music in London. He will study with Randegger.the celebrated vocal master, also taking up harmony, piano and languages. Mr. Griswold has a fine voice and his success is earnestly hoped for, especially by the people of Oaklaud and Alameda, where he was an immense favorite. Tuesday evening of last week Alameda was well represented at the concert of Hambourg, Petschnikoff and Lachaume. St. Agnes Guild gave a musicale Thursday evening at Guild Hall, Alameda, that was an interesting affair. The program was an excellent one, among the participants being Misses Lulu Daniels, Florence Doane, Ella Graves, Marie Victors, Mrs. Martin Schultz, Mrs. Chas. Bradford, Mrs. Edith Klock, Messrs. Alfred Read, Edward Thornton, Thomas and Halton. Miss Ella McCloskey, contralto, gave a recital at the Unitarian Church of Alameda, Saturday afternoon. Lillian Walther and Bernhard Walther took part in the Vesper Services in the Unitarian Church of Alameda last Sunday afternoon. MUSICAL ECHOES Sig. Fachutar has returned after a visit of some weeks to the East. The Loring Club gave a concert on Tuesday evening. Mrs. E. S. Bonelli has returned from a visit of three weeks to Amador. The McKenzie Musical Society and Joseph Greven's Choral Society will give concerts next month. Louise Humphrey-Smith left this week for a visit of a few days to Pasadena and Los Angeles. Cecile Von Seiberlich sang at the entertainment of L. U. No. 73, B. of P. and D. of America on Saturday evening. Miss Jessie Foster has been away in Fresno this week where she was the maid of honor at the fashionable wedding of one of her pupils. Alma Stencel, pianist, gave a concert at Sherman-Clay Hall and San Francisco Conservatory of Music at Metropolitan Temple on Thursday too late to review this week. Mrs. Marriner-Campbell will give a concert on the 3d of May which will be an interesting event. A concert will also be given by her in June, as she has too many pupils to present upon one occasion. The many friends of this pianist will be glad to learn that Mr. Frederick M. Biggerstaff writes from Paris that he leaves for London in June arriving in New York July, and San Francisco about August 1 . He is at present studying with Minkowsky. Miss Mabel Richardson was the guest last week of Mrs. Fannie DamHilton who has taken a lovely home in Fruitvale, the grounds covering five acres. Mrs. Hilton's classes in Oakland, Vallejo and the city are steadily growing. While calling upon Cecile Von Seiberlich lately I heard her little piano student, Annie Bell Bailey, play very correctly and intelligently Heller's Etudes and the Gypsy Dance of Behr. Mme. Von Seiberlich has succeeded well as a vocalist, but the work of this little girl proclaims her to be a very excellent teacher of the pianoforte as well. Mme. Ellen Coursen Roeckel and Mile. Elena Roeckel gave the second of a series of song recitals in Kohler & Chase Aeolian Hall on Saturday afternoon. Among the numbers rendered were Tosti's Spring, duet in cannon form, Go Pretty Rose[Roeckel], Dreaming [Schumann], L'allra notte [Mephistopheles], Boito, Aria from Othello [Verdi]. Selections were ren dered on the pianola and aeolian between the vocal numbers. Mrs. Von Meyerinck has added several new pupils to her school, I understand, since the Gadski concerts, in one of which several of her pupils assisted, and it gave me not a little pleasure the other day to see a letter from C. L. Graff, the Manager of the Gadski-Damrosch concerts to Madame Von Meyerinck, complimenting her upon her school and thanking her for supplying such singers as they needed to fill out the season. "Ishould have been surprised," he adds, "to find such well trained voices prepared to sing Wagner had not your reputation been previously known to me. The choruses you were good enough to supply for the Flying Dutchman were excellent and indeed did you credit." —Mary Frances Francis. Still Singing The Review has received this request from Portland which gives us great pleasure to print: There has been a rumor abroad that I dropped dead of heart disease in Seattle. Will you kindly deny the rumor in your next issue. Am singing in the new Fritz Theatre here— was booked for four weeks, and have been re-engaged for eight weeks longer. Very sincerely yours, Lolita Mather. "Nibsey" Levy s Costly Ticket Very few people are aware that in San Francisco there is a local ordinance against the selling of theatre tickets on the sidewalks. "Nibsey" Levy, who in the days of Patti-farewell concerts was chief of the curbstone agents, was fined $5 Monday for returning to his former occupation. Sunday evening "Nibsey" had an extra ticket to the Alcazar which he offered to sell to a pedestrian on O'Farrell street. A policeman saw the transaction and arrested "Nibsey" for violating the ticket ordinance. "Nibsey" pleaded guilty when arraigned, paid his fine and departed from the City Hall $4. 50 loser. Subscribe for The Dramatic Review