Show I OPER A Null IN SAN FRANCISCO I From all an I Francisco rose roseto to the last Monday fundy IM when tile great grel Opera C company made Its first appearance there The certainly outdid them themselves elvel In III reporting the event which all agree was 11 the greatest In all Sin Han history The Collo following One ane account is II taken from Tue Tuesdays da Chronicle There Is toward as Wil WIIlIam lIam would lilt say In San j Francisco The sIdewalks on MIssion street ale croft J and patient m inert anti and women n are ale all at tile the foyer ot of the Grand bright In It sImplIcity with tIghts and atmospheric with something of oC the quiver t at the best belt music W We have hae seen een this man many times As AI R a rule rille that foyer always is Ie coldly lug aug ot of elegance To TonIght nIght It em to glow With a certain and It if It kne knew that the company compan It II to shelter wIt tie be worthy orthy 0 of It tho cigarette mind And igar moke that nIh nil It ht this the acts wIll 11 lie be beof 0 of the IM the cr t that lines linea the curb curbstone stone looks look Or at It ant and a the fr Cr I Part IJar uC of tile the show It lie hind the he sc Cl Ih know that thai joins ome uC of the 1 It 11 In lag are astern Mem bled fOIl to their enton b by Ii a brilliant t line here Are Melba anI Edouard tie and Salua and lot Pol all more mure or lose ex cx exIt It lit I d 1 fur Cur Melba Is III time the II I 0 J theft hu h knOll knois the temper And 11 lii if the San co coI I jo Ant III SIt tUI to feels that she sheI I I l n at hI P i II i t sing fol Cor folI CorI I t i Ii lOr if tit us th thI I tit tongue II nut reach Ih t It and th thI J I 1 rI I I I III Into thu faintly I nd it i iF J F M TI n I 1 It iii ly y dressed a j I rUI iUt tb h a 0 Innumerable I Ii It ilL hI II i chattering and il i I I one against t tI I II I hI lii III t I Ir Ira There Ii Ii 1 V i I nt md fashion of It Its h III I tI th ii if those who have I I go I I I Riot iso ii U It 1 I I III I i II I I l I Hwy h to J I and it itI I I 1 Ihl ht tt Iu I r hoer I it as aM I I I it lInt and all allI Ill I tS thI th It i Ii Ui Ih In InI I S md J tt tl I A un an nl JIl nil as nilI asI I I I L 1 th r 1 I I I I I and tilt tt i great I T ho bill ba r t fore 11 I lie p II Ij j hoppIng ill III I he i 1 I tie he 1111 I 1 1 for tk th I I I t I tit ii hullt r I 1111 flu d J already In Ill the 9 th Ihl 1 Ue kiting II I s om iii and I h III 1 II Irl iresa I and In cli I ill i Inn 0 of I hr if ot 11 ar rc a Cot fot III anit Ij ii I 1 ri SI lesion Ci Th Thoy I It II th f 1 I the 31 hse 1 pr J i I heads 01 v at II lO gri lag I 1 Iu ti md look down t 1 ii Ill tim 1 I it II I Ii a t I Ill III I tji I amt amid en I 1 lit lii lull ti h I i r 1 is II Ii lIt Ft I 1 1 I II ft In hr beet Men 01 ot II ih ft 01 r 11 UP pioul of oC oCI I I Int I I ma IIa II 0 luPi hh I ive I be Il II I 1 hll 15 theIr I I In the ti I nJ n nj j 1 tore tl ur of un on onIt II IIi i It Ii I t 1 o I eve I Il IlI Oh II I fh roll up InN mci TH THi I I I there 1111 ii i lung nr her Hili k ii n a aI I I MIi Qt if N 11 I 1 all th the HI I ii t I t t Y I h I h hi ater ot nl otI 11 I i In II Ih ti I house or JI 1 1 I ILe Le ar 1111 TIt III r mes a COU He is II d c with Ith her hur favorite I T II flower In hll buttonhole she I Is all as a 11 picture and ha happy They Ire are Jut just ld and this Ihl I Is their unit l opera It w was so 0 lovely of hi to buy seats Illat th the very bt best seats eRti 11 the house hUUk thy they ari ar hut for th r are man many belt b st sate but she ahe thinks 10 o and he temIs that he I livIng u UI to the lo love hI he bears her and III aH that sort or of thIn thing lit knows che Ill is II pretty prellY and he 1101 nut believe that nn In girl In ill the pace I Is more Inore beautiful or any more or to he be envied lie bows lIow lit Ili raises hll hi hat to I his friends an and ac c cI I 11 he turns and looka It at her hot HilI he passes her In till the wicket ani 1 Ith what delightful pride lie hands hand the doorkeeper the And hI he does dOlI not know that sees eu aU all hi lie Is II 1101 far r out Is II Interested td In much the seine ame way on III his or her Own ao and real really I there therl are so man many pretty women crowding In a glorious display of color so 10 man beautiful gowns such superb o opera pra cloaks half hair thron n back to 1110 show the white shout just enough nouh hot to despoil the picture hn they are re tenderly rt re by delighted escorts escort and lId till fill the grace It III shown hown are famIly partIes worth study Ing The old gentleman with the white while hair and hi buxom handsome wife coining In with their two daughters for tor instance II lie Is II walking on the out stile Itle gravel granI hut but juite aware that time the graceful girls are to 10 be proud proul ot of The mother muther a belle you ou can see I that hiss has a combination of I vanIty which she ha A Perfect right to and 1 mm motherly In the blonde anti and brunette walking beside beltle her She turns you OUIe see to straighten some lome fluffy thing about the neck 0 of the youngest The h lies lIlu at opera seasons before and shio knows she may mar be married with a husband absent abent on business At least elt she he Is III calmly almly self everything is III right about her dress and tier her a and shin h hII II wi 1118 with the 0 of a thoroughly IRU woman who has haB gone one through all kInds kind ur of and I Is a little blase The youngest Youe t Is III not so 10 sure lUre ot of herself She J Ia still a trifle uneasy uneuy a and 1111 those pretty del hive have not so 10 often been thAt she be I perfectly comfortable she he looks look around her Itt at the grous ot of Jut just such lh necks neck and dIamonds and dresses I amid like R a girl Irl ta lakes heart ot of grace And controls her emotions And II tires sIte hl Is the tet or of society aU all the rival youth around tier hr And this white sober old fel low who com along with a genIAl wife on hits hll arm dressed II a becomes 1 a matron who has hll passed frivolity They Ther he have come tu to th opera because this are and they b believe that San Franelle CI cam tatI the fIle greatest art should l clot It II HI looks loob It at the crowd UI the In glo or ut of ali 1111 ahad shades of oC In i all 1111 rich and nd III gay To hili hi oh p ps It Je is more morl I than even to others lie Ile II Is I liFt successful r end h he views this steno nl sih lIh the pills or of ne who laid the of It all He does doel not loOk III as Ir h he know anything about aboul flush but It If you ou could rould read his he ill I thinking buck butk to the dave Wh an opera ora we was a and Ind he will teW JOu It if OU IU it to tn hear It about II U a acre of prima loans whom Mo 11 has heard In thi th times who lived Slid died hero a prime prima donna got a night lie tb the time hell thor were wre sot so 10 many Ia ha dies but bul they more rIch ly Iy I han ihn t it IC tile the was wall not as f Th mn men koew Itaw of dro dress thon and nd It was and nd ot if rs to wear patent leather hoots and aud carry crush hats 11 Ift will gIve Ivl you OU recollections ot of that are sung no more mor of If that art forgotten of Companies of art rt lets lata who round liS as mu much h In year arll gone on 11 hi u as Ih of Ora lisa ho do n noa not i hll hat t h lp not flat bout about Is III nt knOll In Nor is II hI he the inis on one ther Tilt trl T 1 tit tho uh I Oi II LbS house is II filling u up are an buzz buU sad talk an and fru frou try Tile There earn II a group lit if their WIth HI I old Id Lellow lOr f whom they Ilk tak n t It Is IA first opera 1111 ml m 1 th thy hup ti ii ii Seats Plat alto I th I Ii r III oud u lii h ild 1 1 1 v give fIve I P Ilk I Iii th ii i hi I I i II I I I the I tl t Inal Ill II fr 1 11 iee IIii II X I th 1101 Io rt fr ot Of delight and makes It almost fr th I h ra I t 1 k 11 still a In I a fh I t thi th s ting nn nail I 1 I ii tI h I gt 1 Thy Th a i 1 II i lii I I ii J lr ir t i i tIler Iller 01 0 s II ninny many gIrls an I uh a 11 Ualle restless lU ln that they ff t r Concentrate on one pretty tea ice and ud graceful before another draws eyes YeII AWl away from It The sophistIcated man mal about tu iu n n 1 ho been wen In and done vent ent Oar Gar den the Orand Opera In larIe and tim tho Metropolitan In New York I is just Juet a little out ot of It Ill III does e not hot give Ive hIm a bit of nce he feels lie III ought to have Those peu peo III Pie dont care about hi strict en regle o opera ra outfit They are re just as al rood good as anybody else ele know a rood good deal more bout about opera after all titan than mot moat of those foreign and metropolitan audi slices and the they ere are not ruing loinS to bl be cur ur at So the man Inert 0 of the world stands tand In the turner lorner Jut just or of as little importance a as he ha would be In Covent Garden n or an anywhere chic There Ire are lot lots or of young oung men The eldest aon from rom college hu has not com with his hi sisters lie III Is with his churns and he wears all hIs hla first dri stilt with the nonchalance or of a veteran leteran Tit they Ire are all watching the girl and Iut she stunning and oilier such break from theIr excited lIlt every mo 1110 Then you OU nn can sin M the ambitious young who vim aspires to social recognition It has cost coat him a greAt deal to get u up but he II In iii the swim tor br once VerI Ody II I In th There Is II the popular bachelor who Is known not to lit be Ii a marryIng maim II II But lie he Is In danger fur no woman ever er tHo be Ii a man he be I down however confirmed In cei celibacy ac And the temptation is II great at the on all an opera night Moving through the crowd you ou cn cen latch catch t f the man who ho I is not alto altu gether comfortable It t is a new eX II enc for tor him for tor hI he bas hea been hard at work ork all aJl his hili lit life end l let us My h ho has hall struck It rich In Nome and nd is II making his hili tint splurge In San ran Ileo Chico Ont the patron the miner I Inow h now the tenderfoot or of tile the opera nut most largely In lire are the who have seen lleen sail known the beet 0 of everything the people to whom horn au al opera ofra season Felon means only what they are perfectly familiar with sail who ho have gathered as AI the would at a function lii In which the they had hOt leading heading pi l been tie tele a lIte lIan tunes THe nut hut the crowd I Is disappearing the foyer Corer Is the orchestra Is II In th foyer oar is II time Ule overture I Is tin fri the curtain goes CON up Tardy Trdy San long lear after the Ule bl big should bould hn have been t to the ot of silence It late corners comen Ar straggling In This Thill sort 0 of thing may do for 01 everyday affairs but lot hot for fo opera oper which Is ell costly till rand grand It t is 1 a pa pays the properly inca who must catch whet what th they nn an ur of the music mule the or of I seating the tardy ont or th the Inae whose annl annoy slice is III It Is well In the feat PIt at act the house III us UI It should bf be and eaK r yes N avid And cars all may mayRe Re and hear undisturbed Hut Dut the huh ha comes at al last laM arni In a few min minI mm I Ut OLe the hll has forgotten the trial 0 of Ill the tardy forgotten everything but th the music and the art late An Ant so n It gifts till th the curtain tail rail and the hol ani animated nl mated with hatter chatter and with looking a at else pille noting the tho the the and nd the jewels ewel anti and the foyer Coer I Is flied 11 with It II frim om cIgarettes while the kalel moves tip stairs where groupe are Lout about or standing b by thu looking donit to pick lek out the tho themen met men 1110 below And ad th they jt are the music muI sad UtI tb artists for Cor they know too the opera and walks around proud if C bl hIs proud ot of hi his irl for Cr the San Francisco people till 1111 n Il rank frank In their praise as In everything I Is lIr arid Ind there you youen NIl en se th Iii artists Ill are not In the rut east Th The al more excited ihas tile the Mani nut 1111 tb thoSe who vho are re who hll i Oth out with primitive Ideas ot of the of th the wild lId West IN are I at al the of hand and handsome men too tile the display of nt and the brilliant flash or of the enthusiasm the liP ew and a are wondering If the applause that has bal run rung out fur those who lIa have 1 just JUlit been singIng will 1111 out OT them when their turn come comel Ahil th the all AT impatient to liD sing for tor they hp believe It will willAnd Anti And Mr Grau I ii supremely happy hIPP for bl his rInd grand opera season Is II a IUt success THE THC OPERA AND SING The Silt t act ot of Romeo tt et Juliette vu almost c at an aa sad the ear car cart earr t r lags X alt all their places of It the principals had made theIr I ii H movement W nfl 0 Uce while the hoUt and nd tat IM on In Iii ind the theP mule lICit of 01 the th beautiful ms art att wal lo of III t be antI and In fn Inthe good P f dt do th Ih any eny r dill pt thY hd had flu on the nut I th hi trot of 01 at t And h opera k ad with th know 1 Very Ie few opIe lut ast out oM ot t Romeo It et s In th matter of f wu wa hu h had In n lat Isle the opera po the greatest holt the th thIt not ft a 1 a tImes If When Mr hall bat It h has In Nw New York lr r he het pia playa dp d Reule sn 11 ill lIot flot put pur In tb the bill and u a act 1 t won anla to hear a great nIt It acl ct of VOICU In fl that f sr If p tit he mut have them I L h t opt opera crested ed for or t bs be t an ani any i EIBA ONCE OCE MOme heard Mme Mm Melba lit Jull tC tte e he wU U disturbed by f ls I nos nosy In tile the houw when she he but the theother n r j y other Ul U t Ii heard hurd her u aa 01 clear and eifel Uve Us e of vuk as aI and lit In tore cx II III I than Ihan the last Iut U What a 1 charm lit lies In that w PUN tone It goes Of on gIvIng keen unlike n In else ee and andI I It did that ut test 11 me MI McI MIt 11 tm Is II quite quilt a l of I t bard work at I great al am amE the pIUS nut neat to toUte Bhe he ha liSa won f E Ute tie moat wonderful IS we know known n ot of ud and In there pho ahe a 5 fast of the personal Mot Most II e crIme Irlma bays hd to them and nd hit II i lt It If not halt hail the battle baUI tm Imo Melba ha hal ha to ovel overcome Om the isek Ik of It In II a great t yet m Pita is there ont one of tb the mOlt moat delightful t of tI md nd moet music musiche he I Iv not Cot a try ery sInger Iner but bul a Jullette III Ic somewhat more than that VOIt 01 I Ii what it II I Is written fol Melba Is III just at the height heigh of 01 hr her charm and abe prom promises I Ito to hold It for many Ir eara yet t TIn ritE W We have heard han hans but none with U the combination of attraction that Ibal Sale h has We hae arcu somewhat to the lull full round Italian who excites ont on more mor than anything else and In other tI me me who ho have relied en entIrely Y on voice have even won wilder lder applause t But Dut Sal work Is II hy by far the m most t w we ba have had from tenor In Inman Inmany man many years hi his vole vol e hu has I a m which the lItner to in the sinner hiM hili l aUt II If charming anti and hI he Is III the st actor who hu has lINn n het ita on n the opera opra tue qt W We have not h d Jn Jean de but la is laan isan an ideal Borneo his hili passion I Is as 81 ro rD AS hit his phrasing I Ii expressive Jr It as I to almost forget this wa an opera end and mush mUlk had liati I a lIln which could not IX rl ye elated Romeo closes the balcony ballon aCt ats n a rul titer Ihen la is a chance for lur stage but singing ot of that Edt was really UT exquisite and In Ind Indeed d deed I Ii II a that might be ap applied plied to portions portion ot of U lii work of Bt both bolh Sa Miles and ut lul nl nIght ht The due w Wire perfectly and the 0 blended so beautIfully I that ha t It ItI I Ia hard to any ny two |