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Art vs. Science
Is Debated at
Social Club
0r. George Dra|>er and C.
Grant t^a Fafge Discus?
Subject at the Home of
William Churrh Onborii
Florence Gayley Engaged
Mrs. Henry W. Lowe Gives
Supper - Dance To - night
for Niece, Dorothy Leary
"Art Versus Science" formed the sub?
let of dehnte last night at the Thurs
?v Evening Club's meeting at the
ho?? of Mr. and Mrs. William Church
uborn, 40 hast Thirty-sixth Street.
? ?as on* of the most interesting
'.leeting* of the winter, and opened
with an introduction in verse by John
,iay Chapman. Dr. George Draper
championed the side of science and C
tirant La Farge that of art. Their
(iiscussior.s were followed by com
??ient? from the floor, the members be?
ing limited to three minutes each.
The program was followed by a buffet
-upper.
Some of the members of the club
.re Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana. Professor
and Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mrs.
j Pierponl Morgan, Mrs. Robert R. Liv?
ingston, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs.
Charles H. Seneff.Mr. and Mrs. George
p. Mc< lellan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.
de Forest, Mr?. William Post, Mr. and
Mrs. Pierre Mali, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
E. Ooe, Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert John?
ston. Miss Eleanor Blodgett, Mr. and
Mr?. Harold de Raasloff. Mr. and Mrs.
W. Pierson Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert 1- Satterlee.
Mrs. Gardine- Gayley. of 20 Wash?
ington Squar? f.'orth. announces the
enrBprmrr,'. oi her daughter, Miss
Florence Gayley, to Henry Eglinton
Montgomery 2d, son of John Howard
Montgomery, of Flushing. He is a
grandson of the late Rev. Dr. Henry
Eglinton Montgomery, who for many
years was rector of the Church of the
Incarnation. He was graduated from
Columbia*, class of '00, and during the
war was a captain in the 77th Division.
Miss Gayley is the sister of the Count?
ess Giulio Senni, of Rome.
Miss Kathryn Thornton Motley and
Matthew C. Jenkins, who are to be
married or. ?aturda*-, had a dinner giv?
en for them at the?Plaza last evening
by Miss Motley's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Thornton Niven Motley, of 375 Park
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DUTTON'S
HI 5tft At?, m? 54th Stwet
Miss Elizabeth Lee Grinnell
Her engagement to Lieutenant Commander Henry Livermore Abbott,
U. S. N., son of the late Grafton Abbott, of Boston, was announced
last Sunday. She is a daughter of Mrs. William Morton Grinnell, of
Washington and Southampton. Lone- Island.
: Avenue. The guests included Miss
! Motley's attendants, Miss Margaret
; Starr, Miss Emma Peabody, Miss Ma
' rion L. Haley and Miss Virginia Sterry,
?of this city; Miss Dorothy Bolton, ?f
i Troy, and the Misses Kathryn and
?Angela Roberts, of Utica. In the party
| were also the best man, Stanley Mal
I colm Dunn, of Woor.socket, R. I., and
the ushers, Thornton Lothrop Motley,
! Charles C. Ransom, H. Terrell Van In?
gen and Hugh Merriman Quigley, of
this city; Andre Wright Pearson, of
Greenwich, Conn., and ?Arthur Kendall
: Steams, of Chicago.
Miss Motley gave a luncheon yester?
day at the Plaza for her bridesmaids.
Another of last night's dinner
| hostesses was Mrs. Frank K. Sturgis,
I who entertained at her home, 17 East
| Fifty-first Street.
Mrs. Henry W. Lowe will give a
! supper-dance this evening at the Ritz
Carlton for her niece, Miss Dorothy
Leary, the d?butant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel J. Leary, of 876 Fifth
Avenue.
At the Century Theater this after?
noon an entertainment will be given
under fashionable auspices for the en?
dowment fund being raised for the new
Navy Club for enlisted men. Some of
the younger set will take part in a
musical sketch entitled "A Sailor Has
a Girl in Every Port." Each girl will
represent a different "port." Love
scenes from Broadway's popular plays
will be presented by professionals and
the navy band and the Biltmore orch?
estra will furnish the music. The pro?
gram committee will be composed of
several young society women in charge
of Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They
also will serve as ushers.
Announcement is made that the en?
gagement of Miss Katherine Bissell,
daughter of Mrs. Joseph B. Bissell, to
John G. W. Husted, son of James W.
Husted, has been broken by mutual
consent.
Mr. and Mr3. Benjamin J. Stanton,
of Grymes Hill, Staten Island, an?
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Margery Stanton, to
John Sherman De Lamater, of Auburn,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra De Lamater,
of Hudson, N, Y. Mr. De Lamater. who
was graduated from Rutgers College, is
a member of Delta Phi and served dur?
ing the war as ensign in tho United
States Navy.
James R. Hatmaker, of Paris, gave a
dinner last evening at the Ritz-Carlton,
for Miss Muriel Lorillard Ronalds
Conkling, followed by a theater party.
The other guests included Mr. and
Mrs. Reginald Ronalds, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gamble, Miss Madeleine Reece
and Camilla Alden.
Mrs. Harold Pratt, of 820 Fifth Ave?
nue, has abandoned her southern trip
to attend a mid-winter meeting of the
Smith College Council, to be held at
Northampton, Mass., February 25 to 27.
Mrs. Dwight Morrow will also go to
Northampton for the meeting. Sne is
president of tho council.
Mrs. Frederick Edey. of this city and
Bellport, Long Island, will continue
work for tha Girl Scout movement dur?
ing her trip to Florida. She has gone
to Palm Beach to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Douglas Paige and while South
will organize the Girl Scouts in Jack?
sonville into a local Girl ScoutCouncil,
Mrs. Edey is Manhattan Commissioner
of Girl Scouts.
Miss Caramai Carroll has gone to
Lake Placid to spend the week-end.
. -?
Genia Fonariova Pleasing
In Varied Song Program
Miss Genia Fonariova, whose pictu?
resque brunet beauty for some time
has been a conspicuous note in New
York concert halls and operatic gat'.er
ings, gave a recital at Aeolian HVil
yesterday afternoon. Dressed in crim?
son velvet, she was delightful to look
upon. She sang "When the D-ve La?
ments Her Love," from Handel's "Acis
and Galatea," in English, and songs by
Durante and Scarlatti in Italian, with
much care, but the greater part of he?
program was wisely devoted to Russian
?ongs, which she gave in her native
tongue. In these she appeared per- j
fectly at ease, singlna with womanly ;
feeling and beauty of tone.
The sudden illness of Beatrice Mar?
tin, soprano, who was to have appeared
at the same hall last evening, caused
the postponement of her recital. .?V new
date will be announced shortly.
Women's Orchestra to Play
The Women's Orchestral Club is to
play at the evening service of the
Church of the Strangers, in West
Fifty-seventh Street, on Sunday,
February 22, at 8 p. m. The orchestra
is under the leadership of Saador
Harmati of tha Let? Quart??.
Stage Stars to Appear
In Navy Club Benefit
Many Surprises Promised To?
day at Performance in the
Century Theater
A score of Broadway theatrical starB,
some of the season's most popular
debutantes and several musical organi?
zation have enlisted for ?he benefit
performance to be given 'this after?
noon at the Century Theater to raise
part of the $700,000 fund o'tf the Man?
hattan Navy Club.
Admiral Glennon and his stuff and
representatives of all the Allied navies
will attend. Messages of good will have
been received from naval cjfficers and
men on active duty in everjl corner of
the world. The club recjently was
opened at 13 and IB East Forty-first
Street. It is the only home for sailors
and marines on shore leave in this city.
The following Broadway stars will
appear:
Ethel Barrymore. Irene Bordoni,
Julia Arthur. Peggy Wood, Blanche
Ring, Virginia Brookes, Vivlenne
Segal, Clifton Crawford, Charles W.in
ninger, Ralph Herz, Sam Bernard and
Donald Brian.
Young society women will appear in
costumes of the natives of the ports
at which American naval vessels call.
Another feature will be a three-round
boxing exhibition between Joe Welling
; and Jack Britton.
Miss Ethel Heaney Engaged
Mr. and Mrs. John Heaney. of 3875
; Broadway, announce the engagement of
; their daughter. Miss Ethel Eugenia
I Heaney, to Harry S. Bragdon, of this
city. Miss Heaney is a pianist, having
studied under Leschetizky. Mr. Brag?
don is a graduate of Columbia Uni
I versity and served in the ordnance de
i partment during the war. No date has
| been set for the wedding.
Going; On To-dav
DAY
American Museum of Natural History;
admission free.
Metropolitan Museum of Art; admission
freo. .
American MuBeum o? wafety; admission
freo.
Van Cortlandt Park Museum; admission
free.
The Aquarium: admission fres.
Zoological Pa.rk ; admission free.
Social Day. Theater Assembly, Hotel Aster,
2 p. m.
Meeting of the Women's Forum. Hotel
Biltmore, 10:45 a. m.
Meeting of the National Industrial Confer- ?
? nee Hoard, lintel \stor, Hi a. m.
Meeting of the PJLr-i< Club, Hotel Astor, 2
)>. m.
Secretar} Newton D. Tinker will preside at
a. mooting of the National Consumers'
league, Russell Suge Building, LIO East
Twenty-second Street, il a. m.
Lecture bv Dr. Richard Burton on "Th?
Celtio Drarsa?Synge, Dunsany, Teats; '.
Academy ol Musk:, Mrooklyn, 4 p. m.
Reading, United States Daughters of l?ia,
Waldorf-Astoria, 10 a. m.
Meeting of the Knickerbocker Chapter, j
D. A. B., Waldorf-Astoria, 2 p. m.
Luncheon of the Instituto of Cold*- Rollad j
Strip Steel Manufacturers. Waldorf-As- j
toria, 1 p. m.
Convention of th" American Bankers' As?
sociation. Trust Companies Section
Waldorf Astoria, 10 a. m.
NIGHT
Address by Mrs. .1. Wavron Goddard on
"Archibald Robertson-?Founder of th<
First School of Art In America"; Colonj
Club, Sixty-second Street and Park Ave?
nue, 8 :'?0 p. rn
Dlnner to Senator Wadsworth, Republican.
New York, Hotel Astor, 7 p. m.
Dinner of tho American Bankers' Associa?
tion, Trust Company Section. Waldorf
Astoria, 7 p. m.
Dinner and dance of the Michigan Society,
Waldorf-Astoria, 7 p. m.
Dinner of the New York Alumni Associa?
tion of Colgate University, Hotel Astor,
6:30 p. m.
Dinner of the Wholesale Shoe League,
Hotel Astor, 7:30 p. m.
Dance of the Drama Comedy Club, Hotel
Astor, 9 p. m.
Lecture' by Everett Dean Martin on "Is j
Society an Organism?" Cooper Union, S
p. m.
Illustrated lecture by Professor Elizabeth
Haxleton llalght on "Reconstruction i->
the Augustan Age"; Room T06, Scher
met horn Hall, Columbia University, 8:10
p. m.
Meeting of the New York (leneologlcal and
Biological Society, 226 West Fifty-eighth
Street, *:J0 p? m.
Dinner and dance of the American Crtt?.
rion Society, Hotel Plaaa.
HOAJttD Of KULCATION LECTURES
Manhattan
??Sonata for Violin and Piano/* by Arthur
R. Pollock; Wadlelgh High School. lUth
Street near Seventh Avenue. Illustrated
by piano and violin. ?
"Macbeth, the Traglo Superman," by Pro?
fessor J. Duncan Spaeth; Public School
5'j, 228 East Fifty-seventh Street.
"Tho Life of the Plant." by Professor
Samuel C. Schmucke!; Public School 66
Eighty-eighth Street, near First Avenue'.
Illustrated.
"Ancient Civilization? of India," by Prince
Sarath Ghosh; Public School 132, 182<j
Street and Wadsworth Avenue. Illus?
trated.
"Preparedaeaa at Panama," hy Walter 8.
McOrane; Public School 17, Fordham
Street, City Island. Illustrated.
"Wirelesa Telegraphy," by Charlea L. Har?
rington; Public School SI, Anthony and
Tremant avena??, the Brans. TUua
trated.
W?ngate to Go
Ahead on Own
War Memorial
Will Push the Victory Hall
Project Regardless of the
Decision of Wanamakei
Committee onCompet ilion
Withdraws From Contest
Ready to Pay for Pershing
Square Site, He Asserts.
in Answer to La Guardia
The Victory Hall Association, o:
which George W. Wingate is president
intend? to go ahead with its project o
erecting a memorial hall at Park Ave
nue and Forty-second Street, regard
less of what tho Mayor's Memoria
Committee may do eventually in re
gard to a permanent memorial to th
men who died in the World War. Mi
Wingate so informed the Mayor's com
mittee yesterday in a letter to it
chairman, Rodman Wanamakei-, and v?
quested that the plans for Victor
Hall, which were listed as one of th
ideas In public competition for the per
manent memorial, be withdrawn froi
the competition.
"While we are in most thorouR
sympathy with the ideas, as we undei
?Und them, of the Mayor's Memorii
Committee," said Mr. Wingate, "y<
as our objective seems to be quite di
ferent and in no wise in conflict v,
respectfully ask that the entrr of ov
idea, made obviously by inadvertenc
may be omitted from the list and n<
be regarded as before your committt
j for competition or otherwise than ?
information of what we contemplate.
"It is true I have -written a letter
your committee and have appeared b
fore it, but merely to advise you
what a group of citizens had bei
doing for the last six months and mo.
in organizing an association and
making a study of what seemed to
to them a proper tribute to those w
had lost their lives in the war, to
erected at the center of accessibili
from the point of view of transport
tion, as well as the five boroughs, r
! only for the members of the Amcric
Logion but all citizens who mig
I choose to gather there from time
i time in the great auditorium for c'v
' purposes.
Would Hasten Action
"Our plan involves that this hui
ing should be constructed by st
i scriptions from the people of the ci
; rich rnd poor, and irrespective of t
amount of any one's financial mea
and particularly that the time to do
is now, when tne incidents of the v
are fresh in the minds of the put
and when those whose sons and otl
relatives served and died on the otl
side are here.
"It is well for us at this time to c
your attention to the aims und p
poses of the Victory Hall Associati
so that hereafter there can be no n
j understanding. The group of men i
: women who stand behind this at
ciatlon, who founded and incorpora
; it, have no desire to enter into c<
i petition with any other public spiri
? citizens who desire to accomplish soi
! thing for the welfare of New York
! who feel it their duty, as we fee'
\ our duty, to erect a memorial to
! honored dead."
Explains Purposes of Plan
Mr. Wingate explained at length
! purposes of the association and
i reasons why it selected Persl
j Square as the most desirable site
the proposed building. He said
| association did not purpose to ask
? taxpayers for one cent, but purpc
to purchase the property and pay
it. The association is raising the m<
for the erection of the building and it?
maintenance, he said.
The city own? the site of the'old
Itirand Union Hotel, and when members
<>l the Victory Hall Association ap?
peared before the Board of Estimate
recently to interest the city in the sale
of this plot for the memorial project
eonsiderable objection developed. F.
*' t? Guttrdi?. President of the Board
of Aldermen, objected to this particu
: }ar site as ?excessively expensive and
j less desirable than some other loca
j tions. Mr. La Guardia received a let?
ter yesterday from Joseph Howland
Hunt, president of the Municipal Art,
Society, declaring that the members of
tho society had requested him to in?
dorse Mr. LaGuardia's attitude and ob?
jection to the Park A venue-Forty
second Street location for Victory Hall.
- ?
"Norma" Charms Again,
With Miss Raisa as Star
Large Audience Approves Chi?
cago Company's Rendition of |
Beftini's Florid Opera
A large audience attended last night
I at the Lexington Opera House the sec
i ond performance of Bellini's "Norma,"
which has been revived by the Chicago
Opera Company after a lapse of sev
> enteen years. The cast was as on the
opening night, with Rosa Raisa in the
title role, Mr. Dolci as Pollione, Miss
I Sharlow as Adalgisa; Mr. Lazzari as
j Oroveso and Mr. Mnnnuzzi conducting, i
If exuberance o sound, both from
| singers and orchestra?if storms of
? applause make a successful perform
( anee, to that extent last night's merited
the description. Hut the art of sing?
ing Bellini's music as it was meant to
be sung was not there. Only its dra
i matic contours remained. The graces
of its florid ornamentation were lost
and blurred. Miss Raisa was stately
in bearing and effective in her decla?
mation, yet her song was angular in its
melodic lines. Because this old opera
has dramatic quality it still holds at- |
tention, but only on the instrumental ,
, side, in the orchestra, is its music!
given with precision and finish.
a
I
The Stage Door
_? .
Sam H. Harris announces that the
New York engagement of William ;
Collier In "The Hottentot" will begin at I
the George M. Cohan Theater on Mon- j
day, March 1. It is by Victor Mapes i
and Mr. Collier.
Tho Lyric Theater has been selected ?
for the presentation of "George Wash- |
ington," by Percy MacKaye, in which !
Walter Hampden will play the title :
r?le. It will open on March 1.
The Russian "Isba," Serge Borow- ,
sky's musical representation of Rus
sien peasant life, moves to the Man- i
hattan Opera House with the Monday !
matinee (Washington's Birthday) per- ?
formance, and will be there for two j
weeks.
John D. Williams will transfer Eu- I
gene G. O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon" I
to the Criterion Theater next week, j
where it will continue the series of ?
special matinees. Performances in the |
future will be given on Tuesday, j
Wednesday and Friday of each week.
"What's in a Name?" opens in New
Haven at the Shubert Theater on March ;
8 and will come to New York the middle
of the month. In the cast are Olin ?
Howland, Roscoo Ails,' Rosaline Fuller;
and others.
Charles Dillingham announ yes?
terday that "The New Did has
been chosen as the title of the usical
version of Richard Harding Davis's
play "The Dictator." Included in the
cast are Frank Craven, Gladys Cald- i
well, Flora Zabelle, Marion Sunshine, i
Winifred Frances. William Burress, ;
Jed Prouty and George Mack.
Early next season Oliver Morosco ?
will present Francis X. Bushman and j
Beverly Bayne in Edward E. Rose's
mystery play, "The Master Thief."
Bedtime Stories
By Thornton W. Burgess
fr?ter Is Glad That He Couldn't Do What Me Had
Wanted to Do
You'll find, as cm through life yon go,
The thing you leant may prove to be
The very thing you should?'1: hare;
Then seeming Ions is gain, you see.
Peter Kabbit never realized this so
completely as when he saw Rcddy Fox
go straight to that big clump of dead
grass under which Peter had eo longed
to bo hidden, and under which he
would have hidden if Reddy hsd given
him the least little chance to get there
without being seen. But Reddy hadn't
given him such a chance and now
Peter was thankful that he hadn't.
"My, my, myl I certainly am a lucky
Rabbit!" thought reter. "Old Mother
Nature or somebody is taking better
care of me than I could lake of my?
self. Never in all my life have I been
more thankful for anything than f am
that I couldn't do what J wanted to do.
It certainly is no fauit of mine that 1
am not on the way down Reddy's throat
this very minute."
He heard Reddy sniff and poke
I this way again. Here i am tight in
' plain sight, I don't see how he can
help serins;' me. 1 never felt so big,
? and I never have so wanted to be small.
, I feel perfectly tre-men-dous, as big
I as Buster Brown, and I wish I were
| as small?as?as a pinch of nothing.
i He's going to have a look at that next
clump of grass. Bless my lucky hind
I foot, how fortunate it. is I didn't have
?a chance to hide as I wanted to!"
It was fortunate. There were several
? of those big clumps of grass scattered
about, and it was soon clear that Reddy
didn't intend to overlook one of them.
From one to another he trotted, mak?
ing sure that no one was hiding in
any of them. Many a good meal of
j Meadow Mice has Reddy found in such
i clumps of grass, and even had he not
suspected that. Peter was hiding under
one of them he would have visited each
Gradually he got farther and further atvay, and Peter began to breathe
more easily.
around and under that clump of grass,
and MW the look of disappointment on
Reddy*? face ?s he made sure that not
aven a Mouse ww hidden there. For
an instant Reddy stood with one foot
raised aa If undecided just what to do
next. His black ears were cocked for?
ward to catch any tell-tale sound. His
bright eyes searched the Green
Meadows. Peter could almost read in
that crafty face what was going on in?
side his head.
"He heard Mrs. Peter thumping over
in the dear Old Briar-patch," thought
Peter, "and he knows she wouldn't
have thumped if she hadn't thought
that I was near enough to hear. He
suspects I am out on the Green
Meadows somewhere near, and he is
tiying to think where I am most likely
to be. I do hope he won't come over
I one just as he was now doing. i
Gradually he got further and further ?
i away, and Peter began to breathe more
, easily. He had just made up his mind '
j tbat in a few minutes Reddy would be
SO far away that it would be safe to
' bo?v for the dear Old Briar-patch, when
! Reddy suddenly turned and began to
? trot back straight toward that little
I open space where Peter was crouching.
I You see Reddy had visited the last
clump of grass, and, finding no one, he
was returning to go over the ground
again. Remembering those warning
thumps of Mrs. Peter's, he suspected
that somehow he had overlooked Peter.
fOopyright, 1920, by T. W. Burgess)
The next storyt "A Merry Little
Breeze Does Peter a^Good Turn,"
j6Parsifal9 Sung
In English Is
! Great Success
Mr. Krehbiel's Version of
Famous Wagnerian Opera
Makes Fine* Impression
on Metropolitan Audienee
Translation Is Adequate
Noted Cast Gives Superb In?
terpretation of the Score;
Bodanzky Wields Baton
By Grenville Vernon
Wagner has returned to the Metro?
politan Opera House. The great Sax?
on's consecrational festival music
drama is again in our repertory, and
; from the demeanor of the huge audi
ence that greeted it yesterday after
| noon its return is welcome. "Parsifal'
I was chosen by Signor Gatti-Casazza a?
| the least likely of all the Wagneriai
dramas to offend the sensibilities o
the American public, and of the wisdon
of this choice there will be very nearly
unanimous approval. "Parsifal" has ii
it nothing of the spirit of Prussianism
and a disciple of TreitschkeorBernhard
would be the first to iabel it as th'
apotheosis of all weakness. Its con
secration of the virtues of pity am
love ought, indeed, to be anathema t
the violators of Belgium and of Franc?
It comes to us, too, In an Englif
translation, which thus removes th
only possible remaining objection t
its presentation in a country which i
still at war with Germany. The tran?
lation was made especially for thi
performance by Henry Edward Krer
biel, and it is not too much to say ths
it is beautiful in itself, reverent in it
adherence to the spirit of the origina
and, rarest virtue of all, exquisitel
singable.
Language Sufficient
Those doubters who have insiste
that English is unsuited to opera, an
who have pointed to the librettos (
"The Pipo of Desire." of "Shanewi.?
and of "Cleopatra's Night" in suppo:
of their contention, have only to list?
to Mr. Krehbiel's English "Parsifal" '
realize that it has been not the la:
guage but the librettists who ha'
failed.
English in the hands of a mast
can be as superb in song as it is
pootry, and given singers who kne
how to enunciate it can be made
clear and as telling as any oth
tongue. Of course, there are oper
which do not bear translation into
tongue essentially alien in spirit?i
English "Carmen" or "Manon," for i
stance, is never a pleasing thougl
any more than is a French "Trista
or "Meistersinger."
But Wagner is eminently suited
the English language, and inasmuch
Wagner himself insisted on the nee?
sity of an understanding of the libret
it is to be hoped that all future Amt
ican performances of his works will
in our nativo tongue. It will be ma
years before American audiences ?
able to listen to the language of t
burners of Louvain with any degree
equanimity, and when that time d<
come there will be fewer of us ^
will be able to understand the wo;
of a work given in that language.
The Germans pride themselves ui
having adopted Shakespeare, but ti
give nim in German; let us do li
wiso with Wagner. Let us give 1
in English and in such translations
Mr, Krehbiel's.
Opinions of "Parsifal"
As to the position of "Parsifal"
the Wagnerian hierarchy, opinions i
fer and will continue to differ. Th
are those who look upon its philoso;
as insincere, mawkishly sentimen
even decadent. There are those t
consider much of its music lacking
spontaneity. Be that as it may, th
are scenes which proclaim Wagner r
master of the theater, and pages, n<
bly the Good Friday Spell and
temple scenes, which find his music
its loveliest and most majestic, v
ting is always desirable and n
especially so in "Parsifal," and Mr.
danzky has realized this, not, howe
as fully as might be hoped. The 1
scene yesterday was still a good
minutes too long and Gurneman:
very tiresome person. Let Mr.
danzky sharpen his blue pencil
set again courageously to work. Tl
?3 in boredom nothing sacred.
The performance itself, conside:
the extraordinarily short time s]
in rehearsals and the fact that m
of the singers were utter stranger
the work, was admirable.
Harrold a Splendid Parsifal
Orville Harroid's Parsifal is a re?
markable creation. Despite the fact
that he learned the part in fifteen
days he has made it quite his own.
Parsifal is a peculiar figure, a figure
who might be said to remind one alto?
gether too strongly of that other
guileless fool, Fielding's Joseph An?
drews, whom a Rodolfo or a Don Jos?
might well find difficult of compre?
hension! Yet especially in the last
aet Mr. Harrold gave,, a performance
of extraordinary spiritual intensity,
a performance which he lifted by sheer
force of" imagination to heights where
tenors rani;.- ??v. ?11; in short Mr. Har?
roid's is an impersonation worthy of a
high place in the Metropolitan's Wag?
nerian gallery, a figure conceived and
executed in the grand manner.
And what a ruiiei to hear Wagner
at last sung by a tenor with a voice
and a temperament and, best of all,
by one who neither gargles nor barks.
The German tenor has gone the way of
the rest of German schrecklichkeit!
Moreover. Mr. Harroid's nnunciation was
equally extraordinary; the writer did
not miss one singlo word Tie uttered
through the?whole performance. The
Amfortas o: Clarence Whitehill was a
worthy companion to Mr. Harrold'?
Parsifal. In it -Ur. Whitehill sur?
passed anything he had ever given us
before, and his depiction of the suffer?
ing king was extraordinarily poignant
Moreover, he was in excellent voice and
his diction was a marvel of clarity
Mme. Margarete Matxenauer has al?
ways H?,n admirable as Kundry. anc
yesterday she felt the part in all iti
variety of mood, while despite a slight
accent her diction was surprisinglj
good.
Leon Rothier made of Gurnemanz i
poignant human figure, in itself an ac
accomplishment of no mean order
Adamo Didur's Klingsor will prove oik
of thr.t artist's memorable Impersona
cions Miss Gordon, Mr. Ananian, Mme
Sundelius, Miss Romaine, Mme. Delau
nois, Miss ElJis, Miss Tiffany, Mis
Mellish, Mr. Bada, Mr. Dua am
Mr. d'Angelo were all admirable
In addition, the chorus sang a
Mr. Setti's choruses usually ging
and, needess to state, Mr. Bodanzk'
in his place in the conductor's, stam
was at once a dynamo of energy and
skillful pilot.
The scenic investiture of Josef Ur
ban calls for mingled feelings. Th
temple scene was of a lofty beauty an
grandeur, but the other scenes, whil
lovely in themselves, did not alway
seem in harmony with the spirit of th
work. Of course, Klingsor's garden i
almost impossible of reproduction, an
Mr. Urban probably did with it a'.
that can be done. The symbolic cui
tain which took the place of the custc
mary moving changes was also a happ
inspiration, happily carried out. Mr. Ut
ban's ia a modera "Parsifal." Credi
should go to Mr. Odynski for his man
' agement of the action, which was ap
? propri?t? and which ran without any
; hitches. The audience applauded
warmly after the second act, bringing
the singers, Mr. Bodanzky, Mr. Setti
and Mr. Ordynski before the curtain
times without number.
I -?-'
Washington-Lincoln Day
Observed by Rotarians
W. Lanier Washington and the
| Rev. Otho F. Bartholew Eulo?
gize Former President*
"Washington and Lincoln Day" w*a
I celebrated yesterday at the Hotel Mc
j Alpin by the Rotary Club at its weekly
luncheon.
W. Lanier Washington, a descendant
of the "father of his country," related
a number of personal anecdotes of
Washington's life and the Rev. Otho
F. Bartholew, of Mount Vernon, N. Y.,
spoke on the influence of Lincoln on
the American nation.
Dr. Bartholew, whose address was
i almost purely biographical, digressed
i for a few minutes to compare Lincoln
with President Wilson. Although he
did not mention the latter'? name,
there was no mistaking whom he
meant when he said the tendency of
present-day statesmen is to have
"echoes" about them.
Continuing in this vein, he cited the
fact that Lincoln had appointed as
members of his Cabinet Democrats,
while the tendency nowadays is to be
purely partisan. Among those present
was Frank McGlynn, who plays the
name part in John Drinkwater's
"Abraham Lincoln."
Palm Beach Colony Gay
At Fancy Dress Affair
Visitors From New York Take
Part in Cocoanut Ball at
the Country Club
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PALM BEACH. Fla., Feb. 19.?Mr.
.and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn's daughter, Miss
Mande E. Kahn, whose engagement to
Major John Charles Oakes Marriott, of
the British army, was announced in
New York on Monday, was to leave ;
Palm Beach late to-night for Texas
and Southern California with friends
who are being entertained by Miss !
Kahn and her sister Margaret. Major
Marriott, who is a member of the staff
of the military attach? of the British :
Embassy at Washington, is here.
Mrs. Gurnee Munn and Miss Mary
Warburton, in butterfly costumes with j
butterfly dances, featured the enter-|
taining at the "Cocoanut Ball" which j
Caleb Bragg, James R. Hyde, Addison !
Mizner, James Blair jr. and Rodman
Wanamaker 2d gave at the Country ?
Club last night. Mrs. Peter Cooper ?
Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. David Calhoun, in |
Oriental costumes; Leonard Thomas
and Miss Constance Roberson, as a I
Scotch team; Mrs. Harry Payne Bing-?
ham, as a peasant girl, and Mrs. Doug- j
las Paige, in the dress of a Semin?le j
aquaw, furnished the high lights of the
ball. Mrs. Calhoun posed in a tableau, |
in which she appeared with her hus- j
band. The dancers also included Mr. j
and Mrs. Charles Amory, Mr. and Mrs.
Harlon Kent Bolton, Mr. Bryce, Mr. |
Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre L. Bar- j
bey, Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Valdes,
Mr. and Mrs. John C. King, Mr. and j
Mrs. Jay Carlisle, Mr. and Mrs. Quentin
Feitner, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah H. Cos
don, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Gibson,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moore, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Dencklo Mills, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Munn, Gurnee Munn, Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Replogle, Douglas Paige,
i Mr. and Mrs. John Rutherford, Mr. and
Mrs. Leland Sterry, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Singer, Mr. and Mrs. F. Roosevelt Sco
j vel, Harry Morgan, Barclay MacFadden,
| Conde Nast, Norman Maxwell, Morgan
| J. O'Brien, Herbert Pulitzer, Dana
I Pond, James Parrish, Lord Queensbor
I ough, Francis Riggs, Stephen Sanford,
Harold Vanderbilt and W. Barclay
[ Warburton.
!. -?
Barnard Raises Tuition
Will Aid Endowment Fund in ;
Increasing Salaries
The trustees of Barnard College an- '
nounced yesterday, after a meeting at
the home of Mrs. Ogden Reid, 35 West |
Fifty-third Street, that the tuition fee
would be Raised from $1200 to $250, be- j
ginning July 3. The new rates, it is ;
estimated, will yield $30,000 a year, j
The money is to be applied to in- I
creasing salaries of the teaching staff, i
Neither recent gifts and bequests i
nor the endowment fund now being !
raised, it was said, would suffice for
the paying of proper salaries to pro- \
fessors, and an advance in the tuition j
fee was thought to be the only re- !
course. It was announced that every I
effort would be made to aid with ]
scholarship funds students now in
college to whom the higher rates
might mean hardship.
: Etching by Whistler Bring?
$1,250 at Sale of Originals
The sale of etchings by D. Y. Cam
! eron, Seymour Haden, Haig Legros,
j Joseph Pennell, Rembrandt, Whistler
! and Zorn from a London 'Collection, held
' at the Anderson Galleries last night,
brought a total of $11,081. The larg
; est purchase was an original etching,
, "Little Venice," by Whistler, which
was sold to Max Williams for $1,250.
A Whistler original charcoal draw?
ing was sold to order for Si,225. An
etching of Miss Emma Kassniussen, by
Anders Zorn, was purchased by Mr.
; Williams for $675.
Americanization Rally Monday
The Sons of the Revolution will hold
the first of a series of meetings in the
j interests of 100 per cent Americanism
I Monday morning, at 10:30, in Carnegie
1 Hall. United States Senator Charles
S. Thomas, of Colorado, will be the
i speaker. James M. Beck will preside.
Linen and the Man
MEN OF REFINEMENT
are invariably particular about
their linen. It must be "just
so" in every detail. THE
WALLACH LAUNDRY spe?
cializes in the correct laun?
dering of gentlemen's linen.
Snow white washing, intelli?
gent starching, accurate fold?
ing and ironing, edges smooth,
buttonholes pliable, buttons
in place.
Teleph, ? i i'lti.ti :
Wallach Laundry
330-332 East 59th Street
Branch Store or Route Man
always near your bom*." a
\
?U. S. Erecting
Big Coast An
D?fense Base
i
Miller Field, at New Dorp.
S. I., Will Be Complete
Center for Patrol Work:
Haven for Navy Flyer
Will Be Permanent Unit
; Big Landing Field and Wire
lea? Plant Will Be Pro
vided by the Government
An aerial coast defense station i*
being built for the Army Air Service at
New Dorp, Staten Island, as a base f<
land and seaplane patrol aircra"
which will guard the Atlantic shore
Erection of the station was revealed
through an advertisement asking for
\ bids on the construction of barraciis
j and administrative buildings.
The new station is located on the old
i Vanderbilt estate and covers approxi
1 mately 450 acres, with a frontage on
the ocean of 1,750 feet. The stattot;
is to be a permanent unit in the aeria
defense of the nation, and everything
connected with it is being constructed
on that basis.
Work has already commenced on the
hangars and the pier. The pier, to?
gether with a concreto ramp at the
other end of the beach, will form a
haven for seaplanes and flying boat?
, The beach will be equipped with a
: marine railroad for hoisting seagoing
aircraft ashore. The open water af?
fords ample space for landing nava!
aircraft.
The new station has been named Mi1
1er Field, in honor of Captain James E
Miller, who was killed in action near
Corbeny. France, March 8, 1918. Cap
tain Miller was a member of the 95th
Aero Squadron.
Miller Field will bo complete in every
particular. A wireless transmittii ig
station and a separate wireless re?
ceiving station will be erected. Di?
rectional wireless apparatus will be
installed to guide aircraft in coasta:
patrol in foggy weather.
The landing ground is in the centf
of the quadrangle formed by the build?
ings and the ocean.
It has facilities for landing in an-.
direction, according to the wind. Th?
landing ground is rectangular in shap?
providing a runway of 3,200 feet i:
one direction and l.<325 feet in the
other.
The bids advertised for yesterda
are for the construction of thirty-two
buildings, including barracks, officers'
quarters, mess halls, post exchange an-.:
administration buildings. The bids will
be opened at noon March 1, at the of
fice of the constructing quartermaster.
39 Whitehall Street.
Miller Field is being constructed ai
cording to plans made during the clos
ing stage of the war and from appro?
priations made at that time.
! Lansing and Taft Mentioned
For Provost of the U. of P.
i WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 19.?Robei I
j Lansing and former President Taf:
I were among the persons mentioned to
I day by members of the Associate;
j Clubs of Pennsylvania, in conference
i here, as possible successors to Edga<
! F. Smith as provost of the University
? of Pennsylvania. The balance of favo
; was with Mr. Taft.
Recommendations of increased pay
for professors at the university, the
discontinuance of co-education and b
reduction in the number of student-;
upon which the members could tio:
agree, were referred to the board of
trustees of that institution.
Harvard Man Is Albanian
Representative lo the U. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. Constantin.
A. Chekrezi, for five month? the dele
gato here of the Pan-Albanian Federa
tion of America, announced to-day hi
appointment as official representative
of Albania to the United States.
Notification of the appointment was
given the State Department by the R'
Rev. Louis Bumchi, Bishop of Alessio,
head of the Albanian delegation to th?
peace conference. The United States,
however, has not recognized the Ai
banian provisional government. Mi.
Chekrezi i? a graduate of Harvard
University.
Major Firan Made (Colonel
ALBANY, Feb. 19- Major Raphae1
A. Egan, of Newburgh, who was pro
moted for gallantry in action during
the Somme offensive, was commie
sioned as colonel of the New Yor^
Guard and assigned to ca.nmand th>
1st Infantry by Governor Siu.th bO-day.
TO-NIGHT AT 8:15
CONTINUING
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY)
At 8:15 P. M.
No.??: ?lie Kiurtll Miniatures. Silk
Arras :nid <>tli?-r objects will be sold
To-morrow i sal iirday i, 1-Vl?. 21,
iomiueiuins at 3.30 I*. ?I., If?
#Art Gallerte?,
40 E. 45th 5t
Vand?-rb?lt Ave.
Jume? i*. Kilo & Son, Auctioneers.
EXHIBITION AND SaLE
or THE
Notable Collection of
OLD MASTERS
FROM THE FAMILIES OJT
The Baroo of Molise
Posta Cavelli,
Duke of Curatelle,
AND OF THE
Prince of Caracciolus Arcella
REMOVED FROM THEIR
CASTLES IX ITALY
These Authentic an I Urijflnal
W irks of Art Include Example? by
such Notable Artists as
j Mantegna, Fra Angelica, Car?
j vaggio, Correggio, Guido Reni,
Ribera, Murillo, Jacopo
Palma. Ven Dyck, Rembrandt,
Durer, Holbein, Snyers avd
other Fine Exemples of the
Oldest Italien, Flemish, Greek?
Spanish and French Schools
AND EAVBI BEEN EXPERTIZED
BT
Piet D. Philippin, S?-?-'y of Mthmoi
?f Naples; O? Kmaldin. Director ?if
the Museum of Naples; Lionel!?
Venter! of Torino; Adolph Ventor!,
?irr.-tor of Klof Art? in Italy; Cum
nussioncr f'hilipii < ?larielio of Na?
ples; Com. Kom-<> of Naples; Chev.
."?riuillurciiHh. Home; Marquis?
Civillo Maturl. Naples; fount !..
De La Toar, Naples; Kinrtnuel N'i?o
lett?, RrMionttor of the Ne vine
Memorial Collection, and ethers.
ON EXHIBITION TO-DAY
(FRIDAY), FEB. SOTH.
TO SALE TIME