Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 155, 10 May 1913 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM,

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ALMOST OVER NOW Society People Will Begin to Visit Opera After Wagner Centennary.

(National News Association) By Herbert Temple. LONDON, May 10. The Wagner season at Convent Garden this year is almost over. Another week and society people will begin to visit opera. Owing to the Wagner centennary, the German season has been an unusually long one, and sevsral works by the world's greatest composers have been taken up besides the Ring, but although the audienocss have been big, they have consisted mostly of music loving foreigners. Londoners, even those who pretend to love music, do not like Wagner, whom they understand no better than they do Ibsen; they are much more fond of ragtime, though they can bear Italian opera. There is something indescribably incongruous in London having its Wagner season each year. The greatest Wagner singer that Germany and Denmark have produced are engaged at salaries, which, in some cases, are enormous. The orchestra, which consists mostly of Germans, plays wonderfully under the conductorship of men like Dr. Rottenberg and Dr. Shuck, both of Germany, and less wonderfully when conducted by Arthur Nikisch, who is excellent when conducting a concert, but who gets nervous when he can not give his full attention to the orchestra but has to divide it between it and the artists of the stage. The "musical" critics of the London jpress are in despair, for their sense and knowledge of music are as .poor 'as their technical vocabulary, and their criticisms show it, having the (appearance of having been written by .public schoolboyB with the aid of a dictionary. They never praise or con.demn the foreign singers straight out, for they know them all to be artists

of international reputation, but give them a judicious mixture of praise and condemnation, jnst to show that they are real experts whose eyes are not dazzled by the continental halos

around the beads of the singers. But they drew a breath of relief fwhen they have to make comments on the ducal exertions of the few, English artists whom nobody outside of this little island has ever heard of. Then their hearts swell with British national pride and praise flows unstintingly from their pencils and they go into raptures at the singing of the English choruses who always sing out of time and call forth beads of cold perspiration on the foreheads of every conductor and stifled "Donnerwetter" on the lips of every musical German in orcestra and audience. , London society, of course, buys up all the expensive boxes to get their names into the papers. But they do not carry the sacrifice any farther. They give away their early bought seats to their governess and poor relations, for you cannot sleep comfortably in an opera box, your jewels cannot be seen, admired and envied, because that fool of Richard Wagner, who was childish enough, to believe that people went to the opera tto listen to music, issued a decree that his works must be played with no light appearing except on the stage, and his disciples, the imported conductors, refuse to play under any other conditions. On the day when the Wagner season opened King George and Queen J Mary ran away from London to, look I at English potteries and set the examiple to all London society. For quite a while the outside world has heard nothing of Smyth Piggott

and his once famous Abode of Love.

fNevertheless this institution is still

prospering and Smyth Piggott has as many wives as he could possibly care for. A man like this up-to-date "Messiah" of course, could not bear living Without being in the public eye, so he has just sent out a book which he calls "Defense" and which he hopes ehall, for a time at least, place him in the center of the limelight. A most remarkable book it is indeed, not because it is written with any talent, but because it tries to convince you that all you have heretofore been taught to believe was morally black, is in reality spotlessly vhite. Especially interesting is the chapter which he devotes to love, a subject on which he certainly ought to be able to speak with authority not 'because he has ever loved himself or ever will, but because he has had unusual opportunities to study women in love. Knowing that there are more than enough women to go around, he generously points out to his less fortunate fellows members of the male sex: "Tht reason I succeeded where all lse would fail is because I love gracefully. Most men are Billingsgate fishporters in their love affairs. Women love love that is delicate, because in the deep of their souls they are deli

cately voluptuous. All the sweet sisters who have consoled me have yielded because 1 charmed them with the graces that came pleasantly into the hollow places of their hearts and satisfied ideals, mystical longings, or spiritual aspirations. Men usually give violent, crude, animal passion where the woman asks for soft, dreamy idealisms as elusive as moonlight. There are men who satisfy hunger with a hunch of bread and a wedge of cheese wolfed while sitting on the edge of a table. Others want a delicate service as well as good food. I am one of the latter. I am astonished at the behavior of the Bishop of Oxford and I rather tremble for his future for he will surety be ostracized by his fellow bishops for the most extraordinary, nay almost revolutionary sermon he made t the City Church of Oxford to a con-

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Eaton Man and Children Depart During Night.

(Palladium Special) EATON, O., May 10. The authorities are looking for Mr. and Mrs. Everett West and five of their children, all of whom are of school age. A few days ago West and his family were arrested, but were released upon their promise to appear before Justice L. T. Stephens later to answer to a charge of truancy. West and his family departed during the night.

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gregation maintly consisting of striking street car employes. The bishop said he claimed in the name of Christ that, where there was a dispute in the matter of wages, it concerned not only the disputanta, the particular group of employers and employed, but the whole of the community. They had learned to feel there was something they could really ascertain and call a "living wage," that there really was a line below which a man's faculties deteriorated, when he could not be at his best. On merely economical grounds' the cheapest labor was not the best or the most profitable labor. The real welfare and industry of any country depended not on the great profits of a few individuals, but on all concerned in the industry. He believed the principle of trade unionism or combination to be thoroughly Christian, and it had been a boon to the industry of the country. He urged the men to stick to trade unions, stand by them, believe intheir spirit and in their principle. He did not say in all disputes there should be compulsory arbitration, but wherever there was a dispute the minds of the citizens generally ought to be looking out for arbitration.

The city will probably issue $20,000 worth of bonds in July to pay off the improvement debts which have been overdue for several years. Many bonds will be returned in July, and it will be necessary for the city to resort to this method of obtaining money to re-deem them. City Controller McMahan stated today that the exact amount of the issue can not be de-

jtermined at the present time. Interest on bonds, similar to those to be issued in July, was paid yesterfday by the citj The total interest Ion $17,500 worth of bands amounted

to $306.25. Interest is paid semi-annually, in' May and November. They were issued in 1906, during the Schillinger administration, for the purpose of paying other bonds which became due at that time. The issue consisted of forty bonds for $500 each. Five of these were taken up last year.

EARL S, ALDEN WILL TAKE SCOTTS PLACE President Kelly Announces Appointment of Professor of English.

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MUSIC NOTES

ABOUT THE COMPOSER. An abbreviated account of the composer's life is as follows: Among the noted English musicians and composers the name of Frederick Hymen Cowen occupies a prominent place. When he was four years old his father became the treasurer of Her Majesty's theater In London. As a boy he showed unusual liking for music; he was brought up in a musical atmosphere and was encouraged by his parents and friends to obtain an education in his chosen field. At the -age of six he wrote the "Minna" waltz, and at eight an operetta, the libretto of which was written by his elder sister, was published. He was a distinguished pupil of both the Leipsic and the Stern conservatories and of a number of noted private teachers. After a concert tour through Europe he was appointed conductor of the London Philharmonic Society, succeeding Sir Arthur Sullivan. He held this position from 1888 to 1892. After his resignation from this post he became the musical director of the Centennial Exhibition at Melbourne. In 1898 Dr. Cowen visited the United States and was favorably impressed with the musical appreciation in this country. In 1900 he was re-appointed director of the London Philharmonic Society, the University of Cambridge conferring upon him the degree of doctor of music. His genius displayed itself in many different avenues of musical composition, but he is bast known as a writer of cantatas and chamber numbers. The "Rose Maiden" is one of his best cantatas and is regarded as

PROGRAM ARRANGED. The program for the concert to be given Friday evening, May twentythird, at the Coliseum is as follows: PART I. Overture, Raymond. .Ambrois Thomas Suite Ballet mu6ic,"La Source". . . Leo Delibes a Scene Dansee. b Pas de la Guzla. c Marche Dansee et Final. Balade et Polonaize Vieuxtempa Miss Dorothy Kirkpatrick. March, "Militaire," Op. 51, No. 1.. Franz Schubert PART II. Symphony Eroica, Op. 55 L. von Beethoven (First movement.) Queen of Sheba Charles Gounod Cavantina, "More Regal in His LowEstate Mrs. Charles Igelman. Kronungsmarsch G. Meyerbeer Aus de Oper: Der Prophet. Overture Fra Diavolo Auber E. R. T.

Pres. Robert L. Kelly of Earlham, has announced the election of Prof.

i Earl S. Alden to fill the vacancy caus

ed by the resignation of Prof. Roderick Scott, who is going to China in the fall as a missionary. Prof. Alden will take the place of assistant professor of English. He is recently of the Harvard Graduate school and the Harvard board of Recommendation says that he is the strongest men that they will place this year. Prof. Alden is a graduate of Colorado College, and was for a time on the faculty of that college. A review of the personnel of the faculty of Earlham reveals a widely representative group of Educators. There are doctors with degrees from John Hopkins, Princeton, Cornell, Syracuse, Chicago, Michigan and California. Extensive post graduate work has been done in Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Wisconsin and at several European Universities by many.

STATUE JSJIIVEILED Carl Schurz, German American Soldier, Honored.

Untimely Jesting. "Motoring is all well enough." said Jorrocks as Brinley's car sank into the mud up above the hubs, "but there is sucb a thing as running It into the ground." "Don't waste your wit out here in the cold. Jorrocks," retorted Brinley. "Go hire a haul. We need it." Harper's

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(National News Association) NEW YORK. May 10. Carl Schun, the German-American soldier, statesman, scholar and publicist, was honored here today when his statue, occupying a commanding position on Riverside drive at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, was unveiled. The ceremonies attending the unveiling were under the auspices of the Carl Schurz memorial committee, and were very elaborate. They began with an imposing parade consisting of regulars, state militia, civil war veterans and various German societies. The parade formed at Broadway and Seventy-second street, swung into Morningside avenue at One Hundred and Thirtieth street, and passed the reviewing stand on which were Mayor Gaynor and members o the memorial committee. At the monument the ceremonies consisted of singing by a German choral society and speeches by Joseh Choate, chairman of the memorial committee; Mayor Gaynor, Count von Bemstorff, the German ambassador to the United States; Congressman Barthodlt, of Missouri, as representing the state from which Mr. Schurz went

to the United States: President McAneny. of the borrough of Manhattan, and Prof. William H. Carpenter. A letter from President Wilson was read by Mr. -Choate. The pedestal of the monument bears reliefs In polished granite and the inscription: "Carl Schurz. Defender of liberty and Friend of Human Rights." Among the civil war veterans who

i fought with Schurs and who were ; present at touay's ceremonies were , General P. J. Osterhaus, Genral Horjace Porter, General James H. Wilson. General J. Grant Wilson and Lieuten

ant General Nelson A. Miles.

ARRESTED COLORED J YOUTHS FOR THEFE Colored boys who have been com mining petty thefts for several monttt and who have been responsible fo the disappearance of several bicycles, were taken into custody early thimoroing and brought to the office o

Chief of Police Gormon. who s j them a severe lecture. The boys live 'on North Fourth street. Two of tha

youngsters have been arrested before for small thefts. All were released

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His Jag. While a young American was on a trip abroad he visited the country home of a friend, and among the other guests was a prominent Englishmaa. During their visit he and the Englishman became good friends. One day the American's curiosity was aroused as he heard his friend refer to an umbrella repeatedly as a "jag." Upon inquiry the Englishman remarked: "Why, that Is an American word. I picked it up when I was In New York last winter. 1 am positive that I have the correct meaning of the word, because the boys often remarked when they saw James coming down the street when it was raining hard. "Here he comes, carrying a large jag.' "Harper's Magazine.

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