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PAGE TWOi THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1013.

EAGLES' MINSTRELS WAS BIG SUCCESS Talent Displayed By Members of Cast Second Show Given Tonight.

Dead Explorer and His Ship

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. A big audience applauded the Eagle' Minstrels given last evening in the Gennett theater under the auspices of the "Home Boosters Club Wayne Aerie, 666," as announced on the program. This Is the second entertainment of this character given by this lodge since its formation, the first about four or five years ago. So that the principals were more unfamiliar to the general public than those of the Elks who have given yearly minBtrel shows for the past few seasons. And that the principals surprised and delighted their auditors with their talents, , and the latter's expression, was indicated by the enthusiasm elicited fn the audience, the encores and prolonged recalls. Excellent Chorus Work. Musically the choruses were among the best ever heard in this city, the Eagles' membership including a number of excellent soloists and a large number of voices that blend harmoniously in ensemble. The choruses were alone well worth tbe famed "price of admission." iThe costuming was unusual for a minstrel show and an agreeable variation from the accepted type, its military character for the chorus and soloists, aside from the black face principals, being effective and making a striking stage picture. Ben Bulla, very long on pulchritude, in a stunning white garb, made one of the beet amateur interlocutors the local public has yet seen, and played to the end men with eclat, the latter including Harry Stephens and Emerson Wenger, tambourines, with Clarence Scherb and Joe Mulroney as the bones, and Tom Fryer as chief comedian. Mr. Fryer is the possessor of a baritone of agreeable quality and waa heartily received in both his black face solo in the first part and when he appeared in "cits" in the last act with Harry Stephens, Mr. Stephens giving a clever dance of the vaudeville variety. Good Ballad Singing. The ballad Blnging in the first part was one of the most successful features of the evening. Earl Bradford, in "That's How I Need You," being repeatedly recalled as was Raymond White in his patriotic number, "Why Don't the Band Play Dixie," which Irought down the house as well as the final curtain, while Clarence Scherb in his black face solo, "What's All This Nois8 About," was one of the hits of the strictly minstrel phases of the show. Ben Hartzler in "That, Old Girl of Mine," was perhaps the stellar vocal attraction of the evening, Mr. Hartzler being possessed of talents as a musician and of a voice of appealing and charming quality. Mr. Hartzler's performance was a surprise to that portion of th public which was unaware that so excellent a tenor voice was possessed outside of the professional

singers in this city. It la, therefore, j and containing a "motorcycle hero" is

with pleasure, that they learned or Mr. Hartzler's engagement with "The Stage Door Johnnies," Menlo Moore's act at the Murray and that he will be heard there the balance of this week. Mr. Hartzler has that unusual possession, a tenor of rich quality In its lower register with no forced tones and his success would seem to be assured. . Second Part Features. "Ray and Boswell," opened the sec-

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GRAND OPERA EVERY YEAR

This Is What This City Can Have If It Indicates That It Will Support a Visiting Company Annually. English Not a Melodious But a Working Language.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Richmond is to have grand opera. That is, if it Indicates by its support that It desires to be included in a circuit of cities for that purpose. Klaw & Erlanger, representing the local theatrical manager, put Richmond on this list of cities in a recent meeting lneld in Neiyjjfark. If the cominn9pfwHlction of "II Trovatore" given h tfc6 Aborn people in this city is pJtropjfied, Richmond will be Included 4n yearly tour made by the Aborn Ofago Opera Company, and grand opera Jfci English will be given one or morefcjevenlngs. .... The Abormi yABited this city last season. "' Giving a presentation, of "Martha."

and having with them some of their leading soloists. The stage settings and the chorus, however, were not particularly satisfactory to the public which heard this

I presentation.

The representative of the Aborns told the writer last week, however, that the coming production of "II Trovatore" would not be disappointing in the latter phases.

DR. ROBERT FRANKLIN SCOTT AND THE TERRA NOVA. The good ship Terra Nova that flashed by wirelesB to the world the irst news of the tragic death of Captain Robert P. Scott, the English explorer, and his four companions in an Antartic blizzard, after they had been successful in their quest for the South pole, brought the Intrepid Scott and his fellow explorers on their fateful journey to the Southland. The Terra Nova started from London June 1, 1910, Captain Scott joining the expedition at New Zealand. Among the details flashed by the Terra Nova as she passed along the coast of Nw Zealand was told th fact that Scott and his party had reached the pole December 18, 1912.

The Latin languages are, ou the oth er hand, eminently so.

Especially is it true of the Italian and the Spanish with their liquid vowels and rolling terminations. German, while possessing certain gutteral qualities, is still finely dramatic and lends itself with eclat to recitative and the great musical climaxes of Wagner, in instance, in a way possible to no other language. It adapts itself to the exclamatory. Or rather the exclamatory adapts itself to the German expression in a manner Impossible to other languages. No effect is ever achieved that equals that achieved through the creative medium. Therefore a translation of a text can never carry the force of the original. We think we know the great masters of fiction of the continent. That is, we who do not read the original. But we merely get the substance. And, sometimes, the spirit. Not the fne aroma, the bloom, the "dew on the rose."

This is understood when a transla

That the settings used for this par- J tiQn of some of our great classics

lar charm could not be understood or translated. i , English, to return, is not poetic. "How do you do." sung by a lyric tenor, is not especially thrilling. ' But let the tenor lilt this greeting ' in tnose fascinating forms known to the continentals and "with what difference."

And the audience is just as wise. Words are really unnecessary. As we have found out in the moving

i picture drama. I The latter has taught us a lot.

; How superfluous many things are

that we have thought necessary, and how necessary many of the things we have regarded as superfluous. This is not saying that grand opera in English is not an excellent thing. It is merely saying that the English phase is not so important as the artistic. Many persons are prejudiced, unreasonably so. against artistic presentations in other than native guises. This really has no bearing on the actual value. But it is one of those curious quirks of the human brain that it la hard to get around. The value of the Aborn presentation in short, lies not in the fact that the text of opera Is given In English. But in familiarizing the public with the music which accompanies the text. They are doing the public an enormous service in giving the average music lover an opportunity to hear the operatic classics.

A TRIPLE SUICIDE IN ROME PREVENTED.

tX&Uonal Nwa Association ROME. Feb. 14 A triple suicide by three young women who had been crossed in love, was attempted tiere today and came near being successful. Two of the girls were drowned, but the third was rescued by a carabineer. With arms linked the young women Jumped Into the Tiber from the San Angelo Bridge and sank into the water. The Carabineer leaped after the girls but could only save one.

STARS TAKEN FROM DRUNKEN OFFICERS

AN ULTIMATUM IS GIVEN RAILROADS

(National News Association) NEW YORK, Feb. 14. At the meeting of the representatives of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen of the eastern railroads it was voted this afternoon to insist on arbitration of the wage dispute under the Erdman act. The railroads were given until this evening to comply.

MOTORCYCLE NOTES

BOILER ROOM FIRE AT MURRAY THEATER

A motorcycle play, written, staged

and produced by motorcycle riders,

During the first performance of the vaudeville show at the Murray theater last evening a fire started in the boiler room of the building, which is under the South Tenth street sidewalk and separated from the bonding proper by a atone wall and fireproof door. As there was no danger of the building catching afire the blase was allowed to smoulder until after the second performance for fear summoning the departments might alarm the audience, who thought the heavy smoke in the building came from the furnace. After the last show the auto truck crew soon put out the fire with chemicals.

ticular opera would be those used at

the time the opera was given under Presidential patronage at Washington. To substantiate this he displayed a collection of photographs and stated that he would forever forswear the confidence of the public if the originals of these photographs were not ?een on the Gennett stage on tbe Twentieth. The truth is that the Aborns are 1oing much for the public in presentng grand opera in English through

he various companies which

lave under their management. Last Spring they had companies in

Boston. New York, Baltimore, Pltts)urg, Philadelphia and Chicago for

extended engagements and their repertoire companies come to Indianapolis yearly for a week's engagement at the Mnrat or English theatre. These companies playing at moderate prices have done much to famllarize the general American public, which has no opportunity nor the price If they had the latter to hear grand opera as presented in the Metropolitan, in New York, or by the Chicago Grand Opera Company, with the musical classics. " Not that their merit is Beeeasarlly because they are given In English. For, oftener than not, the English is as Incomprehensible to the hearer as the German, French or Italian original. And in addition hae a harsher sound. English is eminently , a practical language. A workable one. It drives a point home. Accentuates the meaning. Gives a clear exposition of an Idea. English Is clear, luminous, illuminative. But English is not melodious. It is not lilting. It ''oes not adapt itself to the musical accompaniment. It Is not, in short, a singing language.

into another language is read over by him who is native to the tongue in which the classic is originally produced. The amazing complexion given it will dismay the reader. Dickens in French! Thackeray in German! "Pickwick" was recently dramatized for the French stage. And Its peculiar appeal quite lost. Although It had an appeal quite as potent for the French public. But the

they .original had vanished.

Because the latter was entirely English in character. "Pickwick" is a type. Racial and national. And his pecul-

MEXICAN CITY IS TAKEN BY REBELS

(National News Association) BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Feb. 14 Victoria, capital of the- state of Tamaulipac, Mex., has been taken by rebels, according to a report that reached Matamoras early today. Major Refugio Trevlno. nephew of General Geronimo Trevlno, commander of the federal troops In Northern Mexico, headed the victorious rebels. The advices received did not give details of the capture of the city but their tone is believed to indicate that there was little resistance.

(National News As

ation)

CHICAGO. Feb. 14 Otto Klein and

Oscar Erickson today surrendered

their stars to the police department and returned to private life. They are the patrolmen who tried to break up a private dance in Oak Lawn, a suburb. The patrolmen wt heavily fined and are facing criminal charges brought against thera by Oak Lawn residents.

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the latest contribution of Kansas. MemberB of the Manhattan Motorcycle Club, at Manhattan, Kansas, are responsible for the idea and the play. Claude Stone, Merle Edelblute and K. W. Houghham are to be the Joint authors, and Prof. Kammeyer, of the Manhattan Agricultural College, will give the play its final touches. A motorcycle elopement and other

thrilling scenes in which the motor-

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who appear In the looal vaudeville house, a hard second, while Emerson "VVenger, as a negro preacher In "The Last Sermon of Godfrey Williams," gave an . amusing Impersonation of much theatric value. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sutton, formerly in vaudeville, gave an entertaining musical act, one of the best of Its sort ever heard here either on the amateur or professional stage, Mr. Sutton's bell playing being as good as anything one would wish to hear, both Mr. and Mrs. Sutton being recalled several times. The Maennerchor, under the direction of 'Will Duning, ended the evening with an exquisitely amusing skit, "The Farmers Orchestra," this being a burlesque of an orchestral presentation, Mr. Duning and his associates giving one of the most capital fardes, theatrically, ever done by amateurs here. That the entertainment was given entirely by members of the Eagles' lodge, including the Suttona, is but another evidence of the talents to be found In this city whenever the community is drawn upon and is congratlatory. The entertainment will be repeated this evening.

in the piece. Motorcycles will be somewhat conspicuous la Washington during the inauguration of President-elect Wilson. Members of the Savannah, Ga., Motorcycle Club sometime ago announced that they would ride to Washington for the inauguration as a compliment to the President-elect, who spent part of his life in that state. . Now comes the Chesapeake Motorcycle Club of Baltimore. Md., saying that Its members will proceed to Washington on their machine for the big event.

Sporting Gossip

A cup of Price s Hot Chocolate with waters, will warm you up. You will enjoy it.

FIQHTS TONIGHT Johnny Kilbane vs. George Kirkwook. 10 rounds, at New Tork. "Blink" Mcdoskey vs. Joe Thomas, 15 rounds, at Lowell, Mass. Packey McFarland vs. Tommy Shee-

han, 10 rounds, at Superior, Wis.

UNIQUE PRIZES GIVEN FIDDLERS

(Palladium Hpaclali CAMBRIDGE CITY, . Ind., Feb. 14 An old fiddlers contest was held at the Hurst opera house here Wednesday night and twelve old musicians took part. The first prlxe, a kettle of molasses, waa awarded to Jefferson Klrkwood who is almost 80 years old. Henry Gwinn was given a tub for his excellent rendition of "The Irish Washerwoman." Thomaa Dalrymple of Straughns received three prizes, a sack of Hour, a saw and a broom. Taylor Crook was awarded a washboard and a necktie and John Blackburn received tub.

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