Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 339, 12 December 1914 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1914 IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC-

SCHOLARS GIVE GOOD CONCERTS AT WHITEWATER Professor Sloan Gives Two Violin Solos at Thursday Afternoon Concert of Lower Grades.

"Abe Martin's Primer" Delights Lovers of Quaint Hoosier Humo r

Ralph C. Sloan, supervisor of music In the public schools, gave two violin

solos at the school concert by the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades in the Whitewater schools on Thursday afternoon, playing Godard's "Berceuse." on the program of the fifth and sixth grades, and "LaCinquantaine," an old French dance on the third and fourth grade program. Program Follows. The former program, given by the pupils in the rooms taught by Miss Carolyn Salter and Miss Nora Murphy, follows: "Whistle Away Boys" Fifth grade. '"Huntsman's Song" Sixth grade. "God Is Ever Good" Sixth grade. Marie Baker, Ruby Dennis, Susan Vossler, Bertha Lubensky. Violin solo Mr. Sloan. "Angels of Peace" Sixth grade. "Come Away," Chorus Fifth and Sixth grade. The quartet number by the girls from the fifth grade and the Huntsman's Song," by the pupils from, the eixth were especially noticeable for their ensemble effects, both being two part songs and interpreted with much precision and appreciation of melody. The program for the third and fourth grades is given below and included a sextet of Negro boys and girls whose voices were sweet and harmoniously blended. "December Brings Christmas" Fourth grade. "Father Christmas" Fourth grade. Louise Shaffer, Benjamin Bodiker, Dorothy Turner, Ray Wilson, Harriet Mulholland, Claude Ellis. "The Hemlock Tree" Fourth grade. "Christmas Song" Fourth grade. Geraldine Webster, Minnie Burrell, Dorothy Turner. "Christmas" Fourth grade. "Kris Kringle" E. R. Close. Recitation by Walter Van Etten. "Silent Night" Fourth grade. Geraldine Webster, Minnie Burrell, Catherine Hance, Thelma Patterson. Ella Garrett, Lucile Hall. "Holy Night" Third grade.

"Cobwebs" Third grade. "Snowflake Story" Third Myrtle Sarver, Enid Parker,

Livezy, Fanny Rizio. "Christmas Song" Third grade. "The Christmas Child" Sloan. Ruth Cassell, Pearl Criokmore, Carl Graham,, Robert Horn, William Penery. "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" Third grade. Twilight Third grade. Santa Claus Song Third grade. Mr. Sloan's song was charmingly given by the children and the Christmas noem w ritten by one of the teach

ers in the Whitewater school, Mrs. E. It. Close, was effectively recited by Walter Van Etten. The third and fourth grade concert was given by the pupils of Miss Marguerite Rush and Miss Ethel Weasel, in the latter's room.

"There's two critical periods In a feller's life when he wants t' belong t' a band an' when he feels entitled to an office." Thus says Abe Martin in "Abe Martin's Primer," which is the eighth annual appearance of the collections of the sayings of Abe Martin, of the Indianapolis News, the nom de guerre of Kin Hubbard, one of the most versatile humorists America has ever had. Reading Abe Martin's Primer has something the same effect as an attendance on a Bernard Shaw play. You find youself in a continuous chortle of exquisite enjoyment. The point never fails. It never falls flat. Humor Ever Fresh. The scene, so to speak, changes every minute and when you think you have exhausted the view you find you've just turned the corner to see the landscape at a new and more al

luring angle.

Abe Martin's humor Is peculiarly American and of the type to which that of George Ade belongs. It has the universal appeal and can be enjoyed by the bank president and the ditch digger alike. They both understand it. Especially does he touch off all the foibles, inconsistencies and anomalies of the great average and it's the great average, after all, that counts in the final critical judgment. He does this through his medium of little town characters. But the medium is only a sieve through which percolates that kindly philosophy, tinged with a certain sardonicism, which has made the creator of Abe Martin famous. Nothing is funnier in "Abe Martin's Primer" than "Th' Ole Silver Corner Band." This alone is -worth the famed "price."

among them Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. These names are classics now but at that time they were making their reputations although they largely had been won, in the case of Emerson at least. Mr. White brought a number of well known singers of that day here as well. We used to have a good many fine entertainments of one kind and another."

COLORED CITIZENS GOOD MUSICIANS

This city has some excellent musicians among its negro citizns, a quartet of whom appeared in an amateur vaudeville at the Finley school annual entertainment a few weeks ago. This quartet was made up of Mrs. Henry Bass, soprano. Miss Howard, contralto, Herbert Bundy, basso, and Walter Polk, tenor. Mr. Polk was formerly a singer with one of the leading Uncle Tom's Cabin companies and has a well trained voice. The quartet made a hit at the vaudeville and was repeatedly encored. They are all members of the A. M. E. church choir.

POSTPONES RECITAL Miss Gaston's recital at Earlham, which was to have been given Friday evening, has been postponed until after the holidays.

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CITY'S FIRST OPERA CAME HERE UNDER MAAG AND WHITE

"I helped bring the first opera to Richmond," said Fred Maag, veteran editor, now retired, and lover of music

who is one of the best known residents of this city. "Oliver White who was managing what was then known as a 'lyceura course.' which included lectures and musical affairs, made this venture and came to me with a proposition of working the advertising and publicity end. "I agreed to this and the opera 'Martha' was brought to Richmond and was a financial success. This was the first operatic entertainment that was ever given here. "I do not remember the name of the company, nor the singers, but people turned out in large numbers. This was over forty years ago. "Mr. White managed a course which brought many noted men to this city,

HARRISON RECEIVES DANCING RECORDS

FOR LATEST EDISON "Meadowbrook Fox Trot" Disc Provides Excellent Music for Peculiar New Dance Fad.

A number of this week's issue of Edison diamond disc records received by C. A. Harrison are intended for use in dancing, among them "The Meadowbrook Fox Trot," perfect for this peculiar new dance, and also as a "descriptive" piece, as it gives the hearer an interpretation of a regular fox hunt. . . "The Girl From Utah," a one-step, arranged from that popular musical comedy; the Castles' "Half and Half," part two-step, part waltz; a new French dance, "Lu Lu Fado," and

CHRISTMAS MUSIC THAT WILL BRING JOY TO THOUSANDS

Music . Appropriate . to the

Holiday Season and Other Exquisite Numbers Heard ! With Beauty. It has been said, "there should be music in every home on Christmas morning." There will be music in thousands of homes this Christmas, and the kind of music that will be enjoyed in every household and that every one will be glad to hear. All the favorite Christmas numbers can be heard by all those who own a j Victor or a Victrola, for the new list of December records includes four ad-

RED CROSS OFFICER ' ditional Christmas songs along with TITTTn AG VWRWWJT VTt its otner sPlendid mmsic. IlEjLiU AO nulD&ljljLitliMX xhe Victor oratorio chorus gives an

effective interpretation to the beautiful hymn, "While Shepherds Watched," and the well-known "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," both choruses having the chime effects which always make an impressive appeal. The two other Christmas numbers are Gounod's majestic "Nazareth," and "The First Novell," one of the oldest of carols, both admirably given by the Lyric quartet. No Victor record seems complete

"Ta-Tao," a one-step, made up of themes from Chinese music, as other good .dancing records. The popular "Aba Daba Honeymoon" sung by a tenor and baritone, heard here in vaudeville a month or so ago, is one of this week's records, and "My Croom Melody," sung by a tenor and chorus, is another. Fred Van Epps gives two of his incomparable banjo numbers, one of folk melodies, the other a brilliant march. Much Christmas music is also issued at this time, the "Christmas Symphony." which includes "Uncle Fritz" and the children's orchestra, being an appropriate record and one full of variety and interest; a mixed quartet, which sings "O Come All Ye Faithful," and "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," by Mendolssohn; "The Birthday of a King," from Neidlinger, by Thomas Chalmers and chorus, and Williams' "Ring Out the Bells for Christmas," by a mixed quartet. Bonci, the celebrated tenor of the Metropolitan opera, sings a Gounod number, "Serenade," and there are other operatic and song nnumbers. The week's records, in fact, include something for every variety of taste.

without a Caruso, and the famous tenor is heard, with Alma Gluck. In the great banquet scene from Traviata. an attractive number delightfully sung by the two artists, the Metropolitan opera chorus supplementing the soloists admirably. Madame Gluck in addition contributes an old Scottist ballad; John McCormick sings "My Irish Rose," and Julia Culp gives "Auld Lang Syne," piquantly, enunciating the words distinctly, with Just a trace of foriegn accent.

SUNDAY SERVICES

l "Y LEASED WIRE.1 CHICAGO, Dec. 12. Dusan B. Papoich, until his arrest secretary of the

Chicago Servian Red Cross committee, j is held under body today on a charge of embezzling $6,000 from the Red Cross funds. Detective Sergeants H. Wartheimer and G. Marpoal, who arrested Papovich, said Dusan spent the money publishing a book he wrote in Servian, entitled "Brotherly Love."

NEWT PARIS. O.. Dec. 12. The folloVing is the order of services in New Paris churches Sunday:

Methodist Rev. E. Kneisley, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; sermon at 10:45 a. m., subject, "Called to Service"; Epworth League, 6:15 p. m.. Dorothy Kessler, leader. Christian Rev. H. R. BixeL pastor. Bible school, 9:30 a. m.; sermon, 10:3C a. m.; Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:13 p. m., sermon at 7:13 p. m. The services of the day are evangelistic in nature the pastor being assisted by Miss Eliza j beth Bailey of Dayton. ! Presbyterian Sunday school. 9: IS ' a. m.; preaching services at 7:00 p. m. by Rev. C. A. Hunter of Eaton, when a formal call to the new pastor. Rev. E. J. Vance, of New Market, Tenn.

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NUSBAUM BECOMES FIRST M. E. ORGANIST

Roland Nusbaum, the well know and versatile young musician, who is director of the Earlham College Glee club and who plays several different instruments, among them the organ, has become permanent organist of the First M. E. church.

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