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Woman Offers
Art Collection
Rich in Beauty
Sale of Pictures Gatherer!1
bv Mr*. Roland C. Lincoln
Expected to Rival the One
Just Closed in Interest
9 Canvases by ThauloM
gest Work of Norwegian,
Admired for His Work on
Water. Cains Attention
By Royal Cortissoz
The sensational ta'e conducted by the
^menean Art AssocTation last week, in
irhiei the paintings of Monet and
Renoir brought such exceptional prices,
presently is to be fo ?owed by another
which, it not in exactly the same class
-j ?t all events likely to prove of
kindred interest. It witl ta*.*- place in
the ballroom of *he P'aza Thursday
evening. The exhibition, open mean
whuff at the American Art Galleries
brings forward chiefly the pictures col
?eeted bv Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln, o?
Forest ??ls. Mass She is called c
cornoisseur on the title page of th?
cats'>cue. and the word is well de?
served.
The "clou" of the collection recently
disperse;' resided in the group o:
Fre-ch Impressionists. This time it i.<
the Norwegian painter, the late Fri-;
Thatrow. who provides a similar cen
tral attraction : : a brilliant compan;
of nine canvases Observers of tin
???on well remember the stir Thaulov
<rce wnen n? *rst came to fans. Hi?
?access was immediate, and it was th<
more popular because of the friend!?
nature of his personality. Some one
?xe think it was J E. Blanche? paintei
his portrait, showing hi:n in sh:r
sleeves before his ease!, his familj
gathered around him, He was a sym
esthetic, human creature, burly an<
likable. He painted the rivers of hi
native land and moving waters wher
ever he happened to find them. One o
the pictures in this group is a "Viev
on %ie Allegu8i ;? R ver " i ne when h<
came to America to serve on the jur;
of swards at a Carnegie exhibition ii
Pittsburgh.
Demanded Swift Currents
Thauiow's streams, to make hin
happy, had to have one unmistakabb
characteristic. They had to be swift
with swirling surfaces that caught th
light and wove it into hceiike pat
terns. At home, in Norway, there wa
usualij a red mill or some cottage ii
the middle distance. The banks wer
thick with leafage, save in winter, whe:
he made great play with m sses o
snow. But the rippling water wa
above all eise his compelling mo*iv?
Collectors jumped at it. Sometimes i
would seem as "hough there couid r.ot b
Thsulows enough to go round, and, i;
deed, there have been occasions whe
it was plain that some craftsmen h
never saw were saving him the troubl
of filling all of the current demand.
His stv'e. in other words, prove
easy to fake, and the temptation ws
doubly string for the forger, ina-muc
as that style was always so winning, <
lure of a market. That it was easy
imitate him suggests that he was n
one of the great landscape painter
and this is true. He had little ir
agination. He was not a creative typ
But he was or gir.al in his way; he hi
color and at"; spheric quality, and 1
was a wonderfully aceomn'ished mi
of his hands. In his best works !
added a delightful realistic note of h
own to European art.
It is entirely of his best work th;
the collection now on view is cor
posed. Mrs. Linco'n Rppears to ha1
had that true-t kind of enthusiasm fi
a painter, the kind that implies di
erinrna'ior. Sh*> he.s been intereste
obviously. In Thauiow's rippled, da
pled stream?, but when she has sou??
ttHutntions of them she has chos
those which do not a* all hint a* tl
stereotyped pattern. She has coll?c*e
isitead. pictures like the superb "Wi
t?f Landscape" or the beautiful "Bei
in the River," picturp-' in which t
artist's wtll known trick- if it was
trick?is brought of with perfe
t'reshneps ar.d spontareity. In her c<
lection we think of T'rau'.ow's style, n
of Thsulows mannerism. No amate
ws? ever luckier :han Mrs. Lincoln
a specialized excursion like this or
In her "Venice" the duly expect
flickering of tight upon the water
there, but in this instance it is not i
congruous. Thau'ow is too much
th? mood, he paints foo well, for V
prevailing habit to spoil the pictu
So. again, in "La Seine en Decembn
*:th its bridir? piers dominating a fi
?imposition, he reaches the top of 1
''Owers, end as 'hough to give us t
best possible id?-H of his talent M
-ineoln add? in "The Halt. Evening.'
moonlit picture which remind.- us tl
'to able Norwegian could, after ?
?onetimes st*p outside his sweustom
?jhere and make the transition to go
?arp?se. We do not expect th?
paintings to make anything like t
teeord just made by the Monets a
ti>eRenoir= o'" last week. But we sh
o* surprised if 'hey do not excite so
?pirited competition.
Mrs. Lincoln's C'nnoisseurship crc
?at noticeabiy in her Barbizon exa
p.e?. The two Millets are iovi
^?ings. One is the "Berg?re." a dra
?at in pastel, the sort of ligh
torched :-"ouv?-iir of his gemu- whi
5 Perhaps mor?? persona! in qua!
?*an some of hs fail dress paintin
Tut other is a landscape. a!so in past
1* Bouleau Mort." Broken and cio
7 defined trrcund forms fill "he fo
round, with a gnarled o!d wreck
*?? forest commanding the compo
She is to be married to Thomas Chandler Wayland, of this city, Feb?
ruary 12, in the Brick Presbyterian Church. She is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Shedd. The ceremony will be followed by a reception
at the Cosmopolitan Club.
tion. In the background is one of
those screens of slender tree trunks
that he loved, one of those "bare
rained choirs in which the late birds
sang." It is a picture in which the
poetry of nature is interpreted by a
poet. Coro-.'s "Ville d'Avray." with "the
Maison Cabassud in :he background
?from the collection of the late Colo
re! Hefft, ot" Brideport), is one of his
jewels. There are scores of Corots
that are very like one another. This
- one of his salient performances
Daubtgny's "Landscape," also Colonel
Hefft.3. is another picture apart, a
river scene in which 'he forest stretch
it g across the middle of the canvas
iifts han far above his usual conven?
tion. Apropos this departure from
routine, we may note in passing thai of
Colonel Hefft's two fine Troyons "Le
Mare dans la Clari?re' 'seems more in
the nobler vein of Cot'..-table than in
the ordinary manner of the French
painter.
There are other French paintings
that fit beautifully into the ensemble
with Corot and the rest, paintings by
Dupi?, Boudin (especially his "La
Meuse a Dordrecht"), Lepine and
liarpignies. and after them come some
striking examples of Mauve, Bosboom,
N'euhuys and other Dutchmen. A.
particular merit of these pictures,
French and Dutch, is that they are
mostly small, companionable produc?
tions. There are some Salon types
present, like Charlmont, in "The
Pages," which have been assembled
from divers, sources, and there are a
few decorative portraits of the earlier
French and English schools. But Mrs.
Lincoln's collection, with its admirable
standard, rules the field.
She has had the same good fortune
with her American as with her foreign
pictures. Both the Venetian scenes by
\\ illiara Gedncy Bunce are of tho
highest order. The "Dawn" by John
La Farge reflects at once his technical
mastery, evidenced particularly in the
treatment of the drapery, and his
powerful imaginative" genius. There
are two interesting designs by Vedder,
and the "Wild Geese in Plight" repre?
sents Winslow Homer in one of his
truly exultant moments, painting wild
nature with incomparable energy and
swing. The atmosphere of the show Li
exhilarating, the atmosphere that is
created by good pictures.
Besides the paintings tTiere may be
s"en at the American Art Galleries a
collection of early American and Eng?
lish furniture, with other objects,
formed by Mrs. Eben Sutton, of Balti?
more. It is to be sold on the after
f J at iarj 22, 'S.\ and 24. More
than 600 pieces are displayed, a mul
tifarious lot of su :h works of crafts?
manship as defy anything like de
j tailed enumeration in this place. One
' pause.-: upon a line exampie of Sher
j aton only to be distracted by a little
j screen of American origin, or an old
French clock, or some Staffordshire
pottery, or one o: many sets of fire
rons. It is a hopeless sort of cosmos,
with the point to be remembered, how
ever, that Mrs. Sutton's taste, lik? Mrs.
i Lincoln's, has been exacting. The ob
i jects in her collection are authentic
I and often beauti'ul. They have been,
| we may add, arranged very effectively
i in the galleries.
|-.
Alda To Be the Queen
In "Cleopatra's Night"
?
Manager Gatti-Casazza An
nounces Program for 1.1th ;
Week at Metropolitan
General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza :
announced yesterday the repertoire for
;' the eleventh, week of the season at
! the Metropolitan Opera House "Cleo
1 patra's Night," by Henry K. Hadley
; and Alice Leal Pollock, based on the
| story by Th?ophile Gauthier, will be
given for the first time on Saturday
! afternoon, January 31.
Mme. Alda will appear as the Egyp
ian Queen. Her associates will be
Mme.-. Gordon and Tiffany and Messrs.
'larrold. Reschiglian, Picco and d'An
gelo. This will be followed by "Pagli
? acci." sung by Messrs. Caruso, Scotii.
\ Laurenti and Mme. East on.
"Le Coq d'Or" will be ?riven at a
: special matinee a week from Tuesday,
?vith the usual cast. Special prices will
prevail.
Other operas next week will be as
?""?lows: "La Forza del Destino," Mon
lay, with Miss Ponselle. Messrs. Ca?
uso, de Luca. Mardones and Chalmers;
"Faust.'' Wednesday, with Mme. Farrar.
Mr. Martine','i and Mr. Rothier; "The
Blue Bird," Thursday evening, with the
original ca-t; "Oberon," Friday even
r.g. with M;=s Ponselle and Messrs.
.Martinelli, Dua, Diaz and others.
Puccini's "II Tabarro," "Suor An?
gelica" and "Gianni Schicchi" will be
.:ivcn at popular prices on Saturday
? vening. The cast- will include Mmes.
Farrar, Muzio, Sundelius and Messrs.
i Crimi, Amato, de Luca, Didur, de Segu
I rola and others.
At next Sunday evening's "Opera
Concert" Arthur Rubinstein, pianist,
' will play. Miss Claudia Muzio and
| Mr. Orvi'.le Harrold will sing. The or
| chestra will be under the direction of
; Mr. Richard Hageman.
Anna Case in Fine Voice
Young Soprano Delights Metro?
politan Opera House Audience
Miss Anna Case was the outside
artist at last night's concert at the
Metropolitan Opera House. The popu?
lar young soprano was in admirable
voice and sang both "Depuis le jour"
from "Louise" and the Waltz Song
from "Rom?o et Juliette" admirably.
One of her shorter numbers was a
song of her own composition, entitled
"Song of the Robin."
The other artists were Robert Con
zinon and Gabriella Besanzoni. Richard
Hageman conducted the orchestra, and
among its numbers was a new work by
Balfour Gardiner, "The Joyful Home?
coming," a graceful but scarcely im?
portant composition written by one of
the younger English composers.
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Folksongs Teature
Recital bv Hamlin
At Aeolian Hall
Mme. Sembrich Is Present
and Hears Example She
Set a Dozen Years Ago
Artistically Carried Out
By H. E. Krehbiel
Mme. Sembrich was among the in?
terested and delighted auditors who
heard Mr. George Hamlin's song re?
cital-in Aeolian Hall yesterday after?
noon, and the circumstances, combined
with the feature of the program which
lound the quickest and most joyous
response, invites to a few reflections.
It must be all of tw-elvc or fifteen
years ago that the artist who must
remain our supreme exemplar in the
field of lyric song 'meaning that of
he German lied and its analogue the
French m?iodiej ventured to put a
.roup of foitcsongs upon one of her
rograms. It was a wide departure
rom concert room traditions and a
omewhat daring experiment. But it
vas succ?s ful, extraordinarily suc?
cessful, indeed, and thereafter she ex?
plored the folksong literatures of a
score of peoples -German, French, Ital
an, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian.
Swedish, Eng ish, In h, Scotch, We sh,
Canadian, Po.ish, Hungar.an Bohemian,
Greek, etc., until at the last she added
n Afro-American "spiritual" to her
voluminous gleanings, and gave a
oneci't in which she sang nothing but
'olksongs. 'I his was lung before the
Vorld War had stimulated the almost
' iversal inte; est in national schools
f composition, which, is now a vigor?
es "element in musical culture.
Twe example wh'eh Mme. Sem?
brich set has been fol'owed by many
. ingers, but the fie d has been nar?
rowed by the desire on the part of
,'oncertgoers to understand the words
f the songs which they hear. This
is one of tie effects of the prejud.ee
gainst their language created by the
diabolical manner in which the Ger?
man people waged war. Besides, it ?S
not given to many singers to fi 1 all
-tanner of folksongs with such musical
beauty as Mi e Sem >rech p
them. S:-e sang all the songs in their
original tongues, a prrceeding which
is essential to tne full preservation of
their characteristic elements. To
translate ;i oiksonrr is t m cu'.ate
it, to rub off its bloom, dissipate its
odor. That there is left a 'arge ter?
ritory from which the fragrant wild
fi iwers may be gathered, however. Mr.
H.mlin demonstrated yesterday. There
wi r ? twenty Iwn in s i ? in J
of these nine were folksongs and one
an Iri h song which emp'oyed a fo k
song idiom. The repetitions which he
was forced to give because of the ap?
plause which would not otherwise be
stilled were fo k ongs and ?
numbers which he was invited to add
to his list a so were folksongs
In the partiality thus shown by
the listeners there was no reflecti n
upon Mr. Hamlin's performances of the
artistic senrs in hi- list. The art dis?
played in his phrasing, diction, intelli?
gence and emotional evocation was
fine in the songs of Brahms ("Die
Mainacht," "Der Mond steht ?ber dem
Berge," "Liebeslied" and "Die Bot
schaft," sung in effective English trans?
lations made by Alie" Mattulath ) and
the French songs of Piern? and Hahn:
but there was the same excellent
ertistic quality in his singing of the
folksongs und they went straight to
the hearts of the hearers. There were
three *'rom Scotland, "The Prai?e of
isluy." "Lee/tie Lindsay" and "Turn
Ye to Me," the first two in unstrained,
effective settings by Fritz Kreisler and
Reinh'ld Warlich; one. "When We
Were Boy and Girl," from Ireland (be?
sides Lover's "Low-Backed Car"i and
four from the old slave country in the
United States. They were "Nobody
Knows," "Hani Triais," "Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot" and "I Want to Be
Ready" -"spirituals" arranged by H. T.
Burleigh. The song which won a
call for a repetition was "Hard Trials,"
and we fear that it was largely be?
cause the audience was disposed to find
something humorous in the incongru?
ous text. Mr. Burleigh might have
avoided this by a better choice of
words. One stanza or the song, as it
used to be sung forty years ago by the
Fisk Jubilee Singers, runs:
Methodist. Methodist is my name.
Methodist till I die,
I'll be baptized on the Methodist side
And a Methodist will I die.
In place o:' the third and fourth lines
Mr. Burleigh sings:
I've been received in the Methodist Church
And I'll die on the Episcopal side.
The sentiments of the negro spirit?
uals were naively incongruous at tim?,
but their sincerity was pathetic. Mr.
Harnlin sang them with simplicity and
directness and we do not believe that
he meant any part of them to be con?
sidered funny. Mr. Burleigh has quite
spoiled "Swing low. Sweet Chariot" by
his sophisticated harmonization.
Orchestral Society Gives
Concert at the Century
Organization of Young Musi?
cians, Vigorously Le<l, Pre?
sent1* Pleasinj? Prosram
The Orchestra! Society of New York
gave its second subscription concert
yesterday afternoon at the Century
Theater. This organization of young
musicians, under the leadership of Max
Jacobs, has evolved a very capable or?
chestra, a little rough, but vigorous?
and vigorously led. Weber's "Eury
anthe" overture, Tschaikowsky's Fan?
tasia." "Romeo and Juliet" and
^Liszt's "Les Preludes" were presented.
The soloists were Mme. Margaret
?amara, whose warm voice always has
given pleasure and who recently has
sung in better taste than formerly, and
Jacques Thibaud.
Mme. ?amara sang the big air from
Debussy's "L'Enfant Prodigue" and the
Gavotte from Massenet's "INLinon." Mr.
Thibaud gave Lalo'? ??Symphonie
Espagnole" with fine poHsii of style,
though his intonation was not always
impeccable. The audience was of mod?
erate size.
Strike Settled and Par?s
Opera House Reopens To-day
PARIS, Jan. 18.?The strike of opera
musicians, machinists and others of
the staff, which has caused the opera
house to remain dark since January
2, has been settled and it will reopen
to-morrow.
Both the directors and strikers, it
Is stated, made concessions. The
public took 1:1 le int?r?ts in the strike,
and the strikers and directors were
brought to the realization that the pub?
lic considered life possible In Paris
: without grand opera.
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' Mme. Rejane Made Chevalier
Of the Legion of Honor
PARIS, Jan. 18?Madame Rejane.
famous as an actress, has been created
a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, in
a decree published to-day. Many per?
sons were of the Impression that sne
had been decorated long ago. Madame
Rejane said she was the first one to
be honored without the usual qualifi?
cations such as connection with gov?
ernment work, or aa an author, or
as a playwright.
Madame Julia Bartet, retiring mem?
ber of the Cemedle Fran?aise was
promoted to be an Officer of the legion
. t 17. ,.,.r
On the Screen
Mary Pickford Make? "Polly
? anna" at the Rivoli a Picture
Worth Seeing
By Harriette Underhill
''Poilyanna" is the feature picture
at the Rivoli this week, and yesterday
was souvenir day. The souvenirs con?
sisted of sugar and the spectators were
allowed to walk up and help them?
selves. They carried away all they
wanted, but there surely* will be enough
left to last for the rest of the week,
for the picture is dripping with it. The
proper way to do it is to wa t until t
solidifies and then break it o? around
the edges.
Of course every one who went to
the theater knew what to expect, for
the story of the little gad girl is fairly
well known and every one knows that
the appeal of the picture would be car?
diac rather than cerebral. So, w -hour
a doubt, every one was satisfied At
any rate the applause and laughter
wouid attest that fact. Behind us sat
? man who, every time Poil anna of?
fered her sugary philosophy, exclaimed:
111 say it ?si" or "You said some?
thing And every one could find
something to be glad about, just as
? aj; anna said.
You could be glad because the pic?
ture ran for six reels or you might be
glad that it didn't run any longer You
could be glad that the photography was
so good and glad that it let Pallyanna
rom an a little girl instead of letting
her grow up and wear Paris frocks.
And we were glad that it was Mary
i ickford who played Polyanna. for we
should have hated any one else in the
part, or rather we should have hated
the part with any one else in it. But
Mary never lets you forget that she is
Mary, and her humor is infectious.
She plays the most sweetly sentimental
scenes wi'h her tongue in her cheek.
and you always feel what a good little
--port she is.
The p;c'ure is just a long series of
not particularly interesting events, in
which Poilyanna carries jelly to the
sick neighbors and harnesses "up a doer
to a go-cart and steals the neighbors'
apples in the manner familiar to all
?hose who know junior ingenues and
their ingratiating ways.
The plot is even more elusive than
is usual in such cases, and the big
scene toward which they are all work
.-?'?? up seei.is tc be where Jimmie pulls
his tooth. Later you find out that
that wa-- rot the '-. scene. The hi?
scene ??'mes w: ?? Po'.lvanna saves
i {? - :- ver by the m ' '
?-\\ ? Po ?yanna paralysed,
-iti she sus, "Well, I'm giad
a g*. v. tune while nv legs
?h" balv
ear. T!
' ut evei
' h a ' 1 s v
lasted."
But Wi Ham Courtleigh said: ''God
would ne-er allow those '.ittle tee* to
???main idle. They do too many errands
'or l im." And those of the spectators
"?ho did not share his faith in God at
lea3t felt the same way about Eleanor
Porter, who wrote the story, and they
were rie-ht! Poilyanna did walk again
->nd lived to accept an engagement ring
from Jimmie.
This nart of Jimmie Bean was de?
lightfully played by Howard Ralston.
: *,s Poilyanna said. "That boy has
, brains." Helen Jerome Eddy is seen
in a small r?le. Frances Marion adapt?
ed the story for the screen and it was
directed by Paul Powell.
The comedy is "The Star Boarder."
a Mack Sennett picture, with the u.-ual
Mack Sennett attributes. There are
?ilso the Rivoli Pictorial and "The
Cloud," a Post-Paramount picture. The
overture is the fascinating "Invitation
to the Dance." Emanuel ! isl sings pn
aria from "La Juive," and Bel y Ander?
son sings "Love's Old Sweet Song."
We carried our gladsome spirit
across the street to the Strand, and
there you are going to be glad, because
it is Katherine MacDonald who plays
Beauty in "The Beauty Market." We
are quite ready to indorse the opinion
of her press agent, or whoever it is.
who has labeled her "the most beauti- ;
ful woman in the world;" or. if you are
thinking of Dolores, then "one of the
two most beautiful."
"The Beauty Market" is a bad pi. ture.
It is in atrocious taste and reflects life .
as it was not in the beginning, is not
now and never shall be. It seems to
be a scenario wr ter's idea of society
after he has taken a correspondence
course, or, possibly, after he has r- (i
a synopsis of one of the naughty Lone
Island society comedies which occ
I sionally find their way to the stage.
There are words, words, words! Th
picture starts off with them abou
1 300 - telling you that society is a
beauty market where the women
parade to sell themselves to the high
est bidders. Then you see society
frolicking away the hours, dancing,
and over in a corner of the garden is
a young lady adjusting her garter
while nearby another one shrugs her
shoulders so ;h:r her d?collet? gown
may slip from one shoulder.
Standing in the background are two
"society blades" who say. "It's a
beastly bore, this being in our set
Eh. what?" or words to that effect, am1
then they say, "Why doesn't Am?lie
i Thorndike get married, she is so
beautiful and so poor1"' And some
I one else says "She is waiting for love,''
I and the whole plot is revealed.
Am?lie Thorndike is a "real woman"
in a "false world" But there is .-.
"real man." too. He is Roy Stewart,
am! he brandishes a club, virtually
and virtuously, all through the pic
ture. He is 'he sor! who will "crush
a woman in his arms and then thro\'
her from him, exclaiming "Poor litth
moth. I'll never harm you!" And
finally he told Am?lie 'hat if a woman
deceived him he would marry her an i
then make her scrub and cook for him
and?love him.
So Am?lie deceives him and he does
marry her. but he relents and does
; not make her scrub or cook. Kath
' erine MacDonald in the role of Am?lie
makes this mess palatable. She even
makes it enjoyable, for she can utter
?he most atrocious things and make
them seem real.
Miss MacDonald has beauty, brains
1 and breeding, personality, perspicacity
; and pluck. It takes pluck to play in a
; picture like "The Beauty Market."
The comedy is a Universal, called
: "Over the Transom '' There are also a
? Burton Holmes. "Mirrors of Nature,"
and the Strand Topical Review.
The overture i* "Merry Wives of
i Windsor." Marjorie Pringle sings
: "The Garden of Your Heart" and
| "Wake Up."
<U the Capitol Louise Glaum will
*n in "The Lone Wolf's Dau ;hte
Marion Davies. in "The Cinema Mur
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Taylor Holmes Acts Well
" In "Nothing but the Truth"
Taylor Holmes does some effective
acting in "Nothing But the Truth " the ;
feature film at the Broadway Theater
this week. Using the material with j
which Willie Collier made his
audiences laugh in the play by the '
s ime name, the film version provides :
Mr. Holmes with excellent opportuni- j
to show his ability as a character ;
actor. One weakness of the picture is j
that too much of the story must be to:d
bj the sub-titles.
The theme of the film, as is indicated '
by the title, is simplicity itself. Robert
Bennett, played by Taylor Holmes,
makes a bet of $10,000 each, with three
fri mds that he can tell the truth for
on< Aveek and he proceeds to carry out
*erms of the wa~er. After a day |
of truth-teiling, the three skeptics who
do not believe that it is possible to teil
the truth, have been so embarrassed
by Bennett's revelations about them
at a ?louse party, that they are more
than anxious to call otf the bet. They
resort to attempts of kidnaping; thay
frisk the modern George Washingtjn
away to an insane asylum; but in
spite ot" aTl their efforts, he adheres
strictly to the truth and wins the bet.
Luckily, as soon as the time limit is
up. he straightens out the tangle in
which two of his friends have become
involved with their wives because of
.- truth-telling,
"Nothing But the Truth" makes an
amusing screen comedv, but is not
as effective as it was on"the stage be?
ca ;se the vocalization is ios:, neces
sit .ting the excessive dependence on
captions to keep the story running.
Cleveland Bronner's "Fantastic
E vue," in which, by means of music,
scenery and dances, he shows his
c inception of one day from midnig t
to midnight m?sica, selections by
the orchestra, a universal comedy,
an ' the news pictorial complete the
program.
Li'tz Quartet Gives
Concert at the Ritz
The Letz Quarte*;, consisting of Hans
Letz, first violin; Sandor Harmati, sec?
ond violin; Edward Kreiner. viola:
Gerald Maas, violoncello, assisted by
Harold Bauer, piano, and Louis Bailly.
viola, appeared at the concert given by
the Society of the Friends of Music
at the Hotel Ritz yesterday afternoon.
Two movements of an unfinished
quartet, dedicated by Mr. Harmati to
hi wife, were played for the first time.
The first, "Allegro Misterioso." was
more interesting than the "Adagio
Maestoso." It was immediately evident
that the composer had succeeded in
coking a mood of mystery, but whether
he wished, to suggest the mystery of
i fe, dea Mi or love, his music did not
clearly reveal.
A waltz strain, lyric passages and
[?irres which served to maintain the
enigmatical character of the movement
were set in pages which served to main?
tain he eoninual conflict by very mod?
ern methods. The second movement was
in its entirety.
Daniel Gregory Mason's Intermezzo
or String Quartet, op. 17. Rubin Gold
mark's Piano Quartet in A major, and
Ernest Bloch's Suite for Viola and
Piano were 'he other works on the
program. Mr. Bloch's Suite has been
played here before this winter by Mr.
Bauer and Mr. Bailly. His music has
v. ,.?? overpraised and underrated, but
whether one admires it or not there
ei n be no doubt of its importance as
an eloquent expression of a new mu?
sical Idiom.
The opportunity of listening to Mr.
Paner is a cause for rejoicing upon
any occasion. He did not disappoint
his hearers yesterday. In Bloch's
Suite he was admirably seconded by
the playing of Mr. Bailly. The quartet
played in its usual reliable manner, but
with no flashes of genuine inspiration.
Swiss Women Demand Vote
BERNE, Jan. 18. -President Motta
has received petitions demanding equal
ri h'- and the vote for women from
150 women's societies. The President
has promised that steps in this direc?
tion will be taken befure the next elec
t:on.
! The Stage Door
Openings to-night are. "The Ruined
Lady." at the Playhouse: "Pietro." at
he Criterion; "Mamma's Affair." at
the Little Theater, and "The Power
3? Darkness," at the Garrick.
"One Night in Rome" goes from the
Criterion to the George M. Cohan The
ater and "For the Defense" from The
Playhouse to the Morosco Theater to?
night.
"Always You" will be removed from
the Central Theater to the Lyric The?
ater next Monday night. On the same
evening A. H. Woods and E. Ray Gcetz
will present Sam Bernard and Irene
Bord?n i in "As You Were." The thea
er to which "The Light of the World."
now at the Lyric, will go has not yet
been announced.
Billie Burke will end her season in
"Cicsar's Wife," now at the Liberty
Theater, in two weeks. In the middle
if March F. Ziegfeld jr. will present
her :n a revival of "The School for
Scandal."
The men of the 13th Coast Defense
will occupy the Hippodrome ne\t
Friday night, when they will celebrate
the first anniversary of their returti
from France by witnessing the per?
formance of "Happy Days."
Florence Nash has been placed under
contract by Henry W. Savage, Inc., and
will be presented as a star in a new
crook play, playing a part similar to
the one sne had m "Within the Law."
Harry Beresford has been engaged
for the principal r?le of "Shavings,'
by Joseph C. Lincoln, which will so.in
be presented here.
Jacinto Benavente, author of "The
Passion Flower." now at the Greenwich
Village Theater, has cabled his con- ?
gratu'.ations to Nance O'Neil.
The Mellette Sisters, dancers in "The
Pas ing Show of 1919," at the Winter
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