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'Eugene On?gin
Given Hearty
Greeting Here
T-s-tJiit-koffsky's Opera Awak?
ens Unusual Interest in
public, Especially on
the Lower East Side
Intensity Marks Action
??Genuine Russian Folk
Tunes Heard; Italian Is
Used by the Singers
By H. E. Krehbiel
Tichaikoffsky"? opera "Eugene On?
?in" was performed for the first time
in America (we believe) at the Metro?
politan Opera House last night. Its
music had been heard here at three con?
certs of the Symphony Society, with
the Oratorio Society singing the chor
use?. under the direction of Mr. Wal?
ter Damrosch, twelve years ago (on
February 1, 2 and 16, 190S).
There was at that time a great in?
terest in ?H of the composer's music;
had been, in fact, ever since he came
to New York to take part in the cere?
monies attending the dedication of
Cgn-egie Hall, and the admiration has
not yet subsided, though th<* public has
been overfed with the "Pathetic" sym?
phony to a degree which woul?! have
produced nausea if our concert goers
had not developed an appetite which is
in nothing so like that of an ostrich as
its indifference to the quality of the
pabulum served to it.
When Mr. Damrosch performed
"Eugene On?gin" in concert form there
did not seem to be even a remote prob?
ability that we should ever hear it or
any opera by a Russian composer in a
lyric theater. The battle between the
Metropolitan and Manhattan Opera
Houses was in its first stages of fury.
Mr. Hammerstein had brought his
French batteries into play and was
doing considerable damage to the
prestige of the Metropolitan with "Lei
Contes d'Hoffmann," "La Damnation dc
Faust," "Thais," "Pell?as et Melisande"
and "Louise."
Mr. Conried'a fairly effective gun?
were Puccini's "Boh?me." "Tosca,*
"Manon Lescaut," "Madama Butterfly'
and Mascagni's "Iris." He still had his
i?erman Berthas of Wagnerian calibre
bat all of them were in bad condition
and some of them ("Parsifal," "Rhine
gold" and G?tterd?mmerung," for in?
stance) were not even brought up ti?
the subscription firing liae in that sea
?on.
Damrosch Loses Interest
Meanwhile Mr. Damrosch. who hac
lost interest in opera after the failure
of his friends to secure the manage?
ment of the Metropolitan Opera House
four years before, was preaching the
doctrine that operas, some of them a
'east (and in this category he include?:
'he later works of Wagner), might b*3t
tor be performed on the concert plat
from than on the dramatic stage. Hi
argument was the singular one that th<
*cenie representation of the drama:
of Wagner's tetralogy at least wai
always inadequatet and therefore dis
turbing to the imagination, warmed bj
the music, which, ht? main: ai at-,i i:
spite of all that Wagner had sai?
a ad done, was the chi? f element of the
yric drama. He made the contentioi
ven in the cas? of "Pell?as el Meli
-?.nde," though he confessed that hen
'.lie music did not exist for its 0W1
?;,ke hut only as an agency which gavi
?tmosphere and mood to Maeterlinck'
????y.
We thought. Mr. Damrosch's argu
i'ent specious then and were unable t
believe in its sincerity as applied t
"Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meister
inger" and "Parsifal," to say nothin
of "Tannh?user" and "Lohengrin.
?Vhen he performed the music o
"Eugene On?gin" we could conceive <?
only three reasons which might be ad
anced in favor of his action. One ha
been suggested: the opera was a wor
of such treat musical beauty an?! valu
'at it deserved to be heard in Nei
f-rk; anil inasmuch as it '-vus ne
,i;r!y i??t>- to have a dramatic repri
ntation at either of our opera house
. seemed a,welcome addition to tli
ODcert list.
The second reason was that tl c dri
?rttic significance of the opera was s
?mall that it lost little by being d(
;?r?.ved of action, costumes and -cenen
A third reason, but one that wa
urtiBtically reprehensible, if its coir
panions proved to bo untenable, wa
'hat Tschaikoff?ky stood so high i
popular favor that the Derformance c
'.he music of one of his operas woul
nrove to be financially beneficial to th
large and costly undertakings in whic
Mr. Damrosch and his backers wer
engaged.
Prophetic Vision Short
In the first case our prophetic visio
'?vas short. Two years later we .sa
Tjchaikoffswy's "Pique Dame" at th
Metropolitan, two years after th;
Moussorg^ky's "Boris Godounoff" an
three years after that Borodin
"Prince Igor." Here were three open:
nf the kind we had never expected t
see, two of them containing nation?
elements which mad? the modicum <
Slsvicism in "Eugene Onegin" seei
pallid as tin? pale-faced moon con
pared with fiery Mars. Concerning th
dramatic inefficiency of the opera v?
were not deceived. Tschaikoffsky coi
structed his play out of a political n
manee by Poushkin, for which he ha
an almost idolatrous admiration. Whc
told that the work was fatally feeb
from a theatrical point, of view he cj
Pressed contempt for dramatic effe?
?nd said that he did not care for
?tage performance. \\t he journcyc
from Italy to Moscow to witness i'
first representation by students at tl
Moscow Conservatory and rejoiced wit
exceeding joy at the triumph which
*oon won at ttya Russian theaters at:
b-s maintained ever since.
?hat triumph, however, was, and i
due to the music alone, which Tscha
?offsky loved so much that he did H1
!>e6itate to write down the fact th;
?ts beauty moved him to tears whc
h? Played it for himself. But withoi
wishing to depreciate that beauty,
^n be said that in the case of an a
normally moody emotionalist, such i
*?naikoffsky was, this fact is n
w? much ns ev'dence.
"hen we listened to the music in tl
concert-room we were compelled
**-p a tight rein on our risibles whi
"e people in evening dress on tl
Platform carried on conversations ?
?e rnost prosaic kind a lover scol
W his betrothed because she hi
??need with another man, men er
2_.it In a quarrel which ended in
jnaiienge to mortal combat, a co
fo, i on in stilt(,<? and musical
ormal phrases on-the duelling groun
ihr- fv1 waM not dramatic in the rea
?Vi]- plRy is not dramatic in tl
wnoiding, but in the concert rooi
?"?r we had tried to extenuate i
n? .kCe there* we could Ilut holP wis
c?f.,8t the ?nusic had had a better e
??use for sounding.
for'Ln?uch excuse as could be ma>
w_. ?n lts association with the tc
pietu?. r?ed by the action "nd sta
?m?n 8 la8t n'Kht- And thut w
""I, extremely small. A more ina
.? amateurishly constructed oper
*a??.i not ?conceivable. After all,
?U__ .ly a 1,tt,e moi* absurd on t
"ieeta ? ?n the concert-platfor
aaA 1?_?50 dances, which were preti
***~?-?ta_ea, painted or designed 1
> She is to be the maid of honor at the wedding of Misa Elizabeth Carrington
Frank to Seth Low, on April 27, in St. Thomas's Church. She is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Davison.
Mr. Frban, which were more than
pretty i those of external nature indeed
were beautiful), and there was much
talk in a melodious style of recitation.
The rest was music, for of action out
Eide of a duel there was none.
IMot Summed l'p Briefly
As for the riot, it might be summed
up briefly: There was a woman' who
would and a man who wouldn't. And
so_ the man, ufter quarreling with a
friend who objected to his dancing
with his sweetheart and killing him,
went away from there. After a space
he came back and found that the wom?
an who had loved him was married to
a prince. Now he would and she
wouldn't; and he went away from there
again. And stayed away, presumably;
at least, there was nothing more doing
on the stage. The opera was over.
Very thin and pallid dramatic blood
is this, but very beautiful is much of
the music in the opera, and it was the
music that must he credited with ninc
tenths of the favor with which the
opera was received .last ni^ht. The re?
maining tenth may go to Mr. I'rban's
pictures and the singers. Of the na?
tional color which constitutes the
strength and charm of the operas by
Moussorgsky and Borodin there is
none except the son<rs of the reapers
and the maidens in the first scene.
Here we have genuine Russian folk
tutus, combined with a delightful
mimicry of a harvest home festival,
with antiphonal singing and a peasant
dance around a mammoth sheaf of
wheat, deeorated with flowers. It is a
ceremonial of ??reat antiquity and
lovely significance, concerning which
we should like, to discourse, but must
not.
It carried tiie senses and fancy of
the audience captive last night and
elicited an energetic demand for a rep?
el tun, with which Mr. Bodanzky
would not comply. When the incident
was over the interest in the draina was
' ?. The r-^\ was concert in costume
amid pictures, the high musical lights
falling on a waltz, a mazurka (during
which the quarrel which has a fatal
ending takes place), a polonaise, what
may be called the death song of Lenski
before the duel, and (better than all
else in melodic beauty and truthful?
ness of dramatic expression) the scene
in which Tatjana puts a confession of
her love for On?gin into a letter.
Rut this, though the chiefest, is only
one of many evidences of Tschaikoff
sky's fecund melodic gift and his mas?
terful command of the technique of
composition. With this scene Mme.
Muzio won a generous guerdon of ap?
plause, and deserved it, at least by the
intensity of her singing. But intensity
marked nearly all the.vocal utterances
of th? evening?a great deal more in?
tensity than the situations or words
-cerned to call for. Sigtior Martinelli
(Lenski) was intense; Signor De Luca
(Onegin) was intense, explosively in?
tense. Deep feeling, it seems, can ex?
press itself only noisily in these days.
The time when the shallows murmured
and the deeps were dumb is gone by.
Other singers who deserved mention for
having contributed to the success of
the music were Flora Perini (Larina),
Frances Ingram (Olga), Kathleen How?
ard (Filipievna), Adam Didur (Prince
Gremin), Angelo Bada (Triquet?he
sang his couplets quite in the proper
French style), Millo Picco (Zaretzki),
Louis .d'Angelo (a Captain) and Adam
I.illman (Guillot). Perhaps somo of
these people would have acted if the
opera had given ther.i an opportunity.
But the chief musician was Mr. Bo?
danzky, who played that excellent in?
strument, his orchestra.
The opera seemed to have awakened
an unusual interest in the public, es?
pecially among the denizens of New
York's Fast Side. There were hun?
dreds who sought admission to the
cheaper places in the theater who had
to be turned away, and the specifically
Russian scene awakened a joyous
tumult among the spectators behind
the rails, where, also, the familiar
Italian claque displayed great industry
whenever Martinelli or De Luca sang.
Tho-opera was sung in Italian. Why?
It must have been because the majority
of the singers implicated in the per?
formance were, or are, Italians, for
the opera has been published in an
Fnglish version by Schirmer.
College Boys in Girl Roles
Students Present fcFly With Me,'
Annual Columbia Show
Twenty-two male students of Colum?
bia University, looking as much like fe?
male beauties as rouge, powder and
brilliant costumes could make them, took
the leading part in '"Fly With Me," the
annual varsity show, produced last night
at the Hotel Astor. A professional
flavor was given to the performance by
a two weeks' course of study in feminine
graces which the students underwent at
some of the vaudeville houses.
Buck O'Connor was the "leading lady."
Percival E. Cowan and Thomas Farrell,
who impersonated two Chinese women,
were supported by a bevy of "chorus
girls."
The show will be repeated every night
this week and on Saturday afternoon?
Miss Helen Yorke Gives
Recital at Aeolian Hall
Young Coloratura Makes Pleas?
ant Impression; Much in
Italian Manner
Miss Helen Yorke, a clever young
coloratura soprano, made a pleasant
impression at her recital yesterday
afternoon in Aeolian Hall. Her pretty
voice is evenly developed, well schooled,
flexible. The act of taking extreme
upper notes does not disturb the purity
and freshness of her tones.
Much of her singing was in the
Italian manner, and two well-worn
offerings of the Italian operatic school
were on the program?"Una Voce Poco
Fa" from "The Barber of Seville" and
the mad scene from "Lucia," further
reinforced by Strauss's "Voce di Prima?
vera." In "these the young singer
proved her ability to cope gracefully
and brilliantly with exhibitions of sus?
tained florid singing. In Handel's "Caro
Selve," Haydn's "My Mother Bids Me
Bind My Hair," "Yea and Nay" (old
French) and Sibella's "Girometta" she
also was pleasing.
Dorothy Black
Is Engaged to
Drr C. T. Butler
Miss Anne Douglass, of
Great Harrington, Mass.,
Is Betrothed ?to Irving
Seaman,_of Milwaukee
Dance for Miss Littleton
Miss Frank To Be Married
to Seth Low in St. Thom?
as's Church on April 27
An engagement of interest to society
in this city and Chicago has just been
announced, that of Miss Dorothy
Powell Black, daughter of the late
Elmer E. Black, of this city and Chi?
cago, and Mrs. Black, to Dr. Charles
T. Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Allan Butler, of 30 East Seventy-sec?
ond Street.
Miss Black was graduated in 1017
from the National Cathedral School at
Washington, D. C, and is now a senior
at Wellesley College. She belongs to
Ihe Phi Sigma Fraternity. Dr. Butler
was graduated from Princeton in 1012
and four'years later from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons. Imme?
diately after leaving there he went to'
France and served for seven months
in the French military hospital at. Ris
Orangis, under the American Red Cross.
In the autumn of 1917 he was com?
missioned in the Medical Corps of the
United States Army and served for
fifteen months overseas. He redeived
his discharge in April, 1019. Dr. Butler
belongs to the University and Prince?
ton clubs. No date has been set. for
the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas, of Great
Harrington, Mass., announce the en?
gagement of their daughter, Miss Anne
Douglas, to Irving Seaman, of Mil?
waukee. Miss Douglas on her father's
.side comes of Colonial descent. One of
her ancestors was Captain Richard
Douglus, of the Continental Army, an
original member of the Society of the
Cincinnati. On the distaff side she is
descended from the Pages, of New
Hampshire, and the Marshalls, of Vir?
ginia. Mr. Seaman is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Stewart ?Seaman and was
graduated from the University of Wis?
consin. During the war he was en?
gaged in directing coal priorities for
the War Industries Board of the Coun?
cil of National Defense. Ile is presi?
dent of the University Club of ?Mil?
waukee.
Miss Elizabeth Carrington Frank,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Frank, will be married to Seth Low,
April 27, in St. Thomas's Church. Mr.
Low will have thirteen ushers. Ilis
bride-to-be will limit her attendants
to eight. These will include her sister,
Mrs. Talbot'J. Taylor jr., who will be
matron of honor, and Miss Alice Davi
son, maid of honor. The others will be
Mrs. Allan McLean jr., Miss Patty
Lincoln, Miss Dorothy Peabody, Miss
Priscilla. Murdock, Miss Carol Read,
Miss Dorothy Duncan, Miss Katharine
Van Ingen and Miss Jean Fletcher. Mr.
Low will have his brother George C.
W. Low as his best man, and another
brother. Abbot A. Low, Archibald Will?
iam Ryle, Allen McLane jr., Daniel B.
Grant, Huntington Lyman, Gilbert E.
Jones, Alfred H. Chappell, C. !'. Smith,
Bedtime Stories
By Thornton W. Burgess
Old Man Coyote Suddenly Turns Very Polite
Bite off more than you can swallow
And change of mind is sure, to foliote.
Johnny Chuck with his back to an
' old fence-post and facing Old Man
Coyote had little time to wonder what
had become of Jimmy Skunk. He had
time for only just one bitter thought
and that was that. Jimmy Skunk was
proving himself no friend at all. He
? knew that in less than a minute Old
l Man Coyote would spring on him and
' then he would have to fight for his life
? with no chance at all of winning. But
he meant to tight just the same. He
! meant to tight just as long as there
was a breath left in his body.
He saw Old Man Coyote crouch for
' the spring and in Old Man Coyote's
! eyes was a savage look terrible to see.
It was so terrible that Johnny Chuck
closed his eyes for just a second to
shut it out. He closed them for only a
second, but when he opened them he
met with a surprise that made him
: wonder if he could be seeing quite
, right. Instead of springing on him
Old Man Coyote was backing away
and that savage loo!: in his eyes hail
been replaced by one of disappoint
' ment.
At first Johnny Chuck didn't know
what to make of it. Then a voice
just happened along this way und see?
ing you two fellows 1 thought 1 would
make a neighborly call. Isn't this tine
spring weather?"
"Very fine," replied Jimmy Skunk,
'?? and down inside he chuckled. You see,
I he knew that Old Man Coyote hadn't,
seen him at all when he had come over
I to try to catch Johnny Chuck. "I won
I der i/ you have seen any fat beetles,"
j continued Jimmy Skunk.
Old Man Coyote, still backing away,
I shook his head. "No, Brother Skunk,"
i said he, "I haven't seen a singlo fat
beetle this morning. That new spring
suit of yours certainly does look fine.
I hope you and Johnny Chuck are both
feeling well this morning. It certainly
I is good to see old friends."
"Isn't it?" retorted Jimmy Skunk.
| "This is the first time I've seen Johnny
? Chuck since last fall and it is good
| to see him again. I thought you
i seemed glad to see him when you first
? came up."
"Oh, I was,'' replied Old Man Coyote.
And this time he told the truth. "I
jam always glad to see him. I hope I
? shall see him often. There is no one
: I am more fond of than Johnny Chuck."
? "Good morning. Old Mr. Coyote! Were yon looking for something in
particular over here/" said Jimmy Skunk, ,
i
! right beside him said, "Don't you
j worry about that fellow any more, i
Johnny Chuck. He's changed his mind. |
He isn't going to bother you any more j
this morning." The voice was the
voice of Jimmy Skunk, and there was j
Jimmy himself calmly walking out l
from behind the fence-post where he [
had been hiding.
"Good morning, Old Man Coyote!
Were you looking for something in
particular over here?" said Jimmy
Skunk in bis most polite manner, all
the time walking toward Old Man Coy?
ote as calmly as if the latter were as
harmless as Peter Rabbit. Jimmy
looked very fine in his black and white
coat. His big plume of a tail was
carried very high. Jwhnny Chuck knew
that that was a danger signal. So did
Old Man Coyote. As fast as Jimmy
approached, Old Man Coyote backed
away.
"Oh, good morning, Jimmy Skunk,"
replied Old Man Coyote, and in Jiia
turn he was very polite. "No, I wasn't
looking ios anything; in Partioulai*, I
Now that sounded very polit?? and
pleasant, but Johnny Chuck knew ex?
actly what Old Man Coyote meant and
Johnny gritted his teeth. "You may
see me often, but not if I siee you first,"
he growled.
"I'm told that, it is very pleasant
upfin the Old Pasture this spring,"
remarked Jimmy Skunk, and continued
to walk toward Old Man Coyote.
Old Man Coyote took tho hint. "It
is," said he. "1 was on my way there
and just ran over here to pay my re?
spects. I couldn't pass old friends and
neighbors without at least saying good
morning. Now, as I have rather an
important engagement up in the Old
Pasture, I will run along."
"I would if I were you," said Jimmy
Skunk dryly, and Old Man Coyote did.
He trx>tted off quite as if that was what
ho had intended to do all along. Even
Johnny Chuck had to laugh.
(Copyright. ID-JO. by T. SV. Hurgess)
The next story: "The Gratefulness
,o| Johnny ChucW*
ris Hadley, Maury Jones, Worthing
Morri
ton.
Archibald Mcllwaine" 2d* wilT serve"as
ushers. Young Mcllwaine and Misa
Read, one of the bridesmaids, will be
married in June. Mr. Low is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Abbot A. Low and a
nephew of the late Seth Low, once
Mayor of New York.
Mrs. R. Horace Gallatin will en?
tertain at dinner this evening at her
home, 36 East Seventy-fifth Street. Mr.
and Mrs Henry A. C. Taylor will al?o
give a dinner this evening at their
house, X Last Sevcnty-fir??t Street.
Mrs William Douglas Sloane will
give a dance at her home, 2 West Fiftv
seventh Street, on April 23, in honor ?f
Miss Rachel Littleton, whose marriage
to Cornelius Vandorbilt jr. will take
place in St. Thomas's Church on April
29. The guests will include the entiro
wedding party and several of the
i younger set.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Steven?
son, who were at Miami for several
weeks, have returned to the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius
and Miss Betty Stettinius are at the
Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, for
u few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Andre have re?
turned from Palm Beach and are at
the Ritz-Carlton 'before returning to
their country place at Manhasset, L. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth Wickes and
Miss Kitty Wickes will arrive in the
city from Palm Beach next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Hatch will sail
for Europe early in May to spend part
of the summer in France with Mrs.
Hatch's mother, Mrs. William K. Van?
dorbilt.
\ Wadsworths Entertain
At Dinner at Capital
?Representatives Among Guests
of the New York Senator;
yiiss Glass to Return Home
From The Tribune's Washington Rucean
WASHINGTON, March 24.?Senator
and Mrs. James W. Wadaworth jr., of
New York, entertained at dinner last
i night Representative Frederick C.
? Hicks, Representative and Mrs. James
j W. Husted, Representative and Mrs.
I Edmund Platt, Representative Frank
j Crowther, Representative Archie I).
I Sanders, Representative William II.
Hill, Carter Field, Brigadier General
R. C. Marshall jr., Miss Mary Sheridan,
Miss Anne Squire, Miss Ilette Sanders,
Miss Sophy Casey, Miss Murray Led
| yard and Miss Polly Randolph.
Mrs. Bainbridge Colby, wife of the
i Secretary of State, soon will join the
I Secretary at the Shoreham Hotel,
? where he has taken- a suite until they
find a home.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian B. Boiling have
as their guest the latter's mother, Mrs.
I William II. Beiden, of Bridgeport,
i Conn.
Walter Pennfield entertained at din
! ner last night at the Caf? St. Marks.
Miss Augusta Glass, who is visiting
! the American Minister to Cuba, Boaz
Long, and his sister, Mrs.-Teresa Long,
will return to Washington next week.
| Miss Virginia Sutherland, daughter of
: Senator and Mrs. Howard Sutherland,
? of West Virginia, who accompanied
Miss Glass, will stop in Texas en route
home to visit her sister there.
Miss Helen Hadley, daughter of Rep
: resentative and Mrs. Lindley II. Had?
ley, of Washington, will join her
parents at Congress Hall for the
Easter holidays. Miss Hadley, who is
in her senior year at. Smith College,
lias just been elected to Phi Beta
Kappa.
Miss Helen McLanahan will enter?
tain at dinner to-night at the Chevy
Chase Club in compliment to, Miss
Margaret Waterwort h.
The Charg? d'Affaires of China and
Airs. Yung-kwai will give a reception
' and dance on Friday night, April 2,
for the Yale Glee Club and baseball
team. Mr. Yung-kwai jr. is a Yale
student.
Henry White entertained at dinner
last night in honor of the former As?
sistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Beekman Winthrop, who have been his
house, guests.
The Princess Cantacuzene will talk
to the members of the Women's City
Club on Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins will
introduce the princess.
Air Commodore L. E. O. Charlton,
air attach? of the British Embassy,
will depart this week for California,
where he will join the Prince of
Wales and his party after they have
passed through the Panama Canal en
route to Australia.
i Mrs. George Barnett, wife of '.he
j commandant of the marine corps,
; Major General Barnett, will return to
? morrow from a short visit to their
country place, Wakefield Manor, in Vir
1 ginia,
? Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Per
? kins entertained at dinner last night
I The Ambassador of Italy and Baroness
! Romano were guests of honor.
m ? '?? -
Illinois Mothers Open
War on Silk Stockings
?Campaign Also Under Way to
Eliminate Peek-a-Boo
Waists in Schools
fsiicciat Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 24.- -Peek-a-boo
waists and silk stockings in the high
school are to go.
The Illinois Congress of Mothers,
aroused over the fact that "The moral
conditions in the school? in the United
States are very bad," has started war
on silk clad ankles, high-heeled slip?
pers, filmy waists and low cut and
short dresses. "Unless parents co?
operate with their children to change
things, there will be horrible results,"
said one of the members of the or?
ganization to-day.
"I had a boy confess to me that it
was impossible to study as long as
some girls sat in front of him with an
exceedingly thin waist, while I am
sure that' a young teacher's mind
would be distracted by the appearance
beneath a desk of a silk clad ankle."
And so Chicago narants will band
themselves to suppress improper cloth?
ing in high schools.
Boy Scout Magazine
Bars Fur Dealers' 'Ads'
Law of Organization. Urging
Kindness to Animals, Is
Responsible for Act
Because the Sixth Scout Law urges
kindness to animals the editorial
) board of "Boy's Life," the official Boy
! Scout publication, will cut off con?
siderable of the periodical's revenue
by refusing to accept advertisements
from fur dealers.
William D. Murray, chairman of the
editorial board of "Boy's Life," ampli?
fied his announcement yesterday by
quoting the Sixth Scout Law:
"A scout is kind. He is a friend of
animals. He will not kill or hurt any
living creature needlessly, but will
strive to save and protect all harm?
less life."
Miss Ruth Sollfrey Married
Miss Ruth Ethel Sollfrey, daughter
i of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Sollfrey, of 13o
! West Seventy-ninth Street, was married
! to Meyer Engel, of this city, last even
; ing at the Hotel St. Regis. The Rev.
j Samuel Schulman performed the cere?
mony. A reception, dinner and danca
I followed.
Do You Know This Boy?
Little "John Doe," Found Wan- j
! dering on Sunday, Is Unable
to Give Clew to Identity
In a window of the building of the
; New York Society for the Prevention
? of Cruelty to Children little "John
I Doe" sits waiting'serenely for his
parents, whoever they may be, to come
and take him home. So he has sat
during his waking hours since Sunday,
when a policeman found him wander?
ing about at First Avenue and Fifth
Street.
The child is about four years old,
speaks a little English, has fair hair
and skin, large blue eyes, and when
| found wore a green sweater, black
I buttoned shoes, white stockings and
j trousers of gray mixture. He has
i been unable to give the authorities his
i name or any clew to his identity.
The Stage Door
Ethel Barrymore yesterday still was
I unable to resume her performances of
! "D?class?e" at the Empire Theater, but
last night it was announced that she
would appear to-night.
"My Golden Girl." now at the Nora
Bayes Theater, will be transferred to
i the Casino Theater Monday evening,
i April 6. On Tuesday evening, April
! fi, "Lassie," a musical comedy by Cath?
erine Chisholm Cushing and with mu
' sic by Hugo Felix, will open at the
I Nora Bayes. The cast will include
: Tessa Kosta, Dorothy Dickson, Molly
: Pearson, Coiin O'Moore, Carl Glas:<
i ford, Ada Sinclair, Ralph Nairn. Louie
Emery, Percival Vivian and others.
The title of "The Unseen Hand,"
, which opens at the Bijou Theater next
, Monday evening, has been changed to
j "The Ouija Board."
I J _
The premiere of "Green Fields," by
Peretz Hirshbein, will ? take place at
i the Jewish Art Theater to-night.
James K. Hackett opened this weak
j in "The Rise of ?Silas Lap ham" at the
Montauk Theater to one of the largest
opening night audiences recorded at
| the theater. Lillian Sabine, the Wash
; ington school teacher who dramatized
| Howells's novel, was in the audience.
The show to be presented by the
| Green Room Club at tin? Astor Theater
! Easter evening, April 4, is called "The
; Green Room Revel," instead of "Dress
Rehearsal," the name used for the
i annual affair in previous years.
Lea Herrick will place in rehearsal
, soon a farce by Mark Swan called
i "Kiss Her Again."
The title of "Florodora," which the
Shuberts are reviving, was originally
written down by Owen Hall, author of
the libretto, as "Flora-Dora," a oombi
najtion of the names of the author's
twO daughters, says Lewis Hooper, who
; staged the original productions in Lon
! don and New York and who is now
! staging the revival. But the printer
' made it "Florodora," and so it has re
! mained to this day.
On Sunday night next there will be
a special performance of John Drink
water's "Abraham Lincoln" at the Cort
Theater for the employees of the In?
ternal Revenue Bureau, Manhattan Dis?
trict. The performance is arranged
through William Harris jr., producer
; of the play, at the reiiuost of Collector
William H. Edwards, and the employees
; will be "Big Bill's" guests on that night.
F. Ziegfeld jr. announces that Mile.
? Spinelly will, beginning Monday next,
i appear in "The Ziegfeld Girls of
1920," the 9 o'clock revue atop the New
Amsterdam Theater, as well as in "The
, New. Ziegfeld Frolic." the only mid
1 night show in* the city.
Last night Ann Lathrop joined the
least of "?.pple Blossoms." replacing i
- Juanita Fletcher in the r?le of Polly,
! the boarding school miss, in the Kreis
i ler-Jacobi-Le Baron operetta.
George White's "Scandals of 1919"
closes its season at the National The?
ater, Washington, ?Saturday evening.1
Its run began at the same theater
last May. White is preparing a new,
i production, "The Scandals of 1920." for ;
I a summer run in New York.
The second performance will be given
! by the Isadora Duncan Dancers at the .
j Metropolitan Opera House Tuesday eve-;
I ning, April 6.
Eva Puck, Irene Enright, Dorothy
' Whitmore and Erica MacKay, appear- j
I ing in "Irene," at the Vunde.rbilt The- \
'? ater, will be the guests of honor to- I
night at a midnight supper at the Hotel j
?\stor, following the performance of the :
Columbia varsity show, "Fly With
Me," at which their hosts will be the
presenting cast of the latter produc-,
tion.
Emma Trentini will make her ap?
pearance in vaudeville at the Palace
on Monday.
"Three Showers," a comedy with mu
| sic, produced by Mr. and ?Mrs. Coburn,
i comes to the Harris Theater on Mon
! day, April 5.
Charles Lamb's Books
Bring High Prices
"Poetrv for Children" Bought
for $3,300 at Wallace
Library Auction
"Poetry for Children," by Charles
Lamb, in two volumes, printed in 1809,
brought $3,300 yesterday at the auction
sale of the Walter Thomas Wallace Li?
brary at the American Art Galleries, 6
East Twenty-third Street. The pur?
chaser was J. F. Drake.
Several other volumes were pur?
chased by Mr. Drake. He paid $900 for
"Blank Verse," by Charles Lamb and
Charles Lloyd, and "Poems," by ?S. T.
Coleridge. Mr. Drake ourchased for
$450 Charles Lamb's "Beauty and the
Beast."
Rosen bach & Co. purchased Charles
Lamb's "The King and Queen of Hearts,"
printed for Thomas Hodgkins, Hanway
Street, London, in 1805. One of the
first three known copies of "Othello,"
brought $450. Gabriel Wells bought
"Tales from Shakespeare." printed in
1807, for $510, and F. Coar, agent, pur?
chased Longfellow's "The Divine Comedy
of Dante Alighieri" for $550.
Yesterday's sales totaled $17.339. The
total sales to date amount to $89,083.
The auction will be continued to-day.
Colby to Speak at College
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 24.?Secretary
of State Bainbridge Colby to-day ac?
cepted an invitation to make the com?
mencement day address at the Univer?
sity of North Carolina at Chape! Hill,
\'. C, on June 16. The invitation was
presented by Secretary Daniels in be?
half of President Chase of the univer?
sity. Mr. Daniels is a member of the
faculty committee of the institution.
Going On To-flay
DAY.
?American Museum of Natural History;
admission free.
Metropolitan Museum of Art; admission
free.
American Museum of Safetv; admission
free
Van Cortlandt Park Museum; admission
2? cents.
The Aquarium; admission free.
Zoological Park; admission 25 cents.
Luncheon of tie? Rotary Club, Hotel M. -
Alpin, 12:30 p. m.
Lecture by ?lush Walpole on "Creating a
Novel," Aeolin Hall. 11 a. m.
Luncheon of the Thirty-fourth Street
Board of Trade, Pennsylvania, 12:30.
Convention of the Medical Society of the
Slat?- of -New York, Waldorf-Astoria,
Pennsylvania and McAlpln. 9 a. m.
Convention of Hoy Scouts of America,
Pennsylvania, 10 a. m.
Convention of Eastern Association of Car
Service Officers. American Railway Asso
ciatlon Rooms, Underwood Building,
Vesey ?nul ??lunch Streets, 10:30 a. m.
Meeting of the State Hospital Commission,
Pennsylvania, u* a. m.
Meeting and luncheon of American Uro?
l?gica! Society, Commodore, 12:.''0 p. m.
i Luncheon of the Young Women's Chris?
tian Association, Commodore, 12:30 p. m.
Meeting of the New England Women,
Waldorf-Astoria, 2 p. m.
Opening of Barnuni ami, Bailey's Circus.
_ ; 1 T, p. m.. Madison Square Carden.
Lecture by William Bell Pinsmoor on
'"The Rise of Pericleiui Architecture,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 4 p. m.*.
Lecture by Prof. William J!. Goodyear, on
"Greek Architectural Refinements." I.en?
ture Hall, Academy of Music. Brook?
lyn. -1 p. in.
NIGHT.
Dinner of Men's Apparel Club, Pennsyl?
vania. 7 p. ma, address by Senator l.usk.
Meeting of the Republican County Com?
mittee of the Bronx, P. S. 55, Wash?
ington Avenue and St. Paul's Place.
"l p. m.
Meeting ?if thr? New York Young Repub?
lican Club, Pennsylvania, H p. m ; ad?
dresses by Col. Herbert Parsons and
Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore.
Lecture by John Cowper Powys on "Tol?
stoi," Forward Hall, 175 Broadway,
8:30 p. m. .
Address by Airs. Martha Moore A very on
"What should Be Expected of American
Catholics," Acodemy of Music, New
York, s : 1 5 p. m.
Discussion of "Aerial Photography," under
the auspices of tin- Aeronatlcal Society
and the Museum of Natural History, by
Col. Edgar Russell. Sherman M. Falr
child and ?'ail E. Akeley, at the
M useum, S :15 i>. m.
"Democraoy and the Community." by
Wilbur C. Phillips, at the Community
Church House. Park Avenue and
Thirty-fourth Street, 8:15 p. m.
Meeting of the New York Credit. Men's
Association, Astor, 8 p. m.
I.eel ure by William B. Outline, of City
College, on '"Money, Banks and Banit
Ing," at ll.nl.-mi Y. M. C. A.. 5 West
1251 h Street, 8:15 p. ni.
Dinner by business men of the East Side
io Francis M. Hugo at Little Hungary.
K ist Houston Street, 7 p. m.
Meeting of the New York Academy of
Publie Education, Tower Rooms of the
College ?i the City of New York, x p. m.
Lecture by Francis Oreenleaf Allison on
"'The Clouds of Aristophanes; An Old
Outlook on Prosent Day Problems."
Grand Centra] Palace, tenth floor, 8:30
p. m.
Lecture by .lohn Livingston Lowes on
"The Renaissance of Wonder; I. ValageB
.-nal Travels." Lecture Hall. Academy of
.Music. Brooklyn, 8:16 p. m,
BOARD OK EDUCATION LECTURES.
Munliattoii.
"Life With the V. S. Immigration Officer?,"
by Francis Rolt Wheeler, Ph.D.. at
Washington Irving-High School. Irving
Place Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets;
illustrated by stereoptlcon views.
"My Ad ventures Among the .Menominl
Indians," by Alanson 1*, Skinner.
At Public School r.J. roadway, Acadejns
Si i e,i and Vermilyea Avenue, Inweod;
Illustrated ?teroptlcon views.
"The Mystery Play?Three Faces East.'' by
Dr. Henry R, Hose, at Public School G2.
Hester. Essex and Norfolk Streets; illus- ]
trated by stereoptlcon views.
"Shi lli-v. the Poet Idealist," by Arthur
J> Rees, at Public School 115, 1 V7tl? :
Street, near Audubotl Avenue.
"Cuba," by Lieut. .1. II 11. Muirhead. R. i
B . al Public School Hi?, -.5 W*st lOStli !
Si reel ; trad? let lure.
"Carbnn and Sono- of Its Compounds," by :
Prof. W. L Bstabrooke, Ph.D.. at Labor
Temple, southwest corner Fourteenth
Street and ?Second Avenu??; Illustrated
by stereoptlcon ?i-ws an- experiments. |
"The Simplicity of Music Study,'" by Mrs.
.Mary Gregory .Murray, at Yuung Women's
Hebrew Association, 31 West UOih
Street; Illustrated by piano selection?.
"Public Speaking." by Walter II. Robin?
son, at Morris Jligh School, 106th Street
and Huston Road.
"American Ideals Must Prevail." by Jonas
Llppman, at Evander Child? High School.
184th- Street an?! Field Place.
"Romance and Reality un Pacific Slope
Parir?a." by Azul Hull Fish, ut Public
School 46, 196tH Street, between Bain?
bridge and Briggs Avenues; Illustrated
by stereoptlcon views ami motion pic
i ures.
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Schindler Gives Taste
Of New Spanish Music
Results of Trip Shown in Final
Schola Cantorum
Concert
New York may well be grateful *<t
Mr. Kurt Schindler for the program
which he presented at Carnegie Hall
last night at the season's rinal concert,
of, the Schola Cantorum. The program,
represents the fruit" of Mr. Schindlers
| recent trip to Spain and it was devoted
to the music of the Iberian Peninsula.
Mr. Schindlern labors in bringing forth
this music as it is brought forth by tho
famous chorus of the Or feo C?tala, o*?
Barcelona, is of unusual musical im?
portance. Especially delightful in this
particular were the Basque folk songs
arranged by Jesus Guindi, ot Balbao,
and by the young monk of San Sebas?
tian, N'orberto Almandoz.
Four folk songs of Asturia and Old
Castile were grven by Rafaelo Diaz, to
Mr. Schindlern piano accompaniment.
Probably the most significant por?
tion of the concert was that devoted to
the compositions of living Spanish mu?
sicians.
A hearing of the Flap Song of the
Orfeo Catalan, written by its conduc?
tor, Luis Millet, a superbly vigorous
bit of writing; the amusing "El? Fa
drins de Saut Boi," of Antoni P?rez
Moya; of the intricate yet mel
"Remordement" of Enr?e Morera; of
the rousing Bel! Chorus of .1. Sancho
Marrac?, and of the truly spiritual
Good Friday music of Antoni Nieolau,
brought the realization that Spain pos
sesses an extraordinary number of
vital and original talents.
-,??
New Treatment of Heart
Shown State Physicians
Progress made by America in treat
ing heart disease was demonstrate!!
yesterday to physicians who are. here
attending the annual convention of the
New York State Medical Society. The
demonstration was mad? at the N ??
York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital, where Dr. Godfrey P.
Pisek showed the new electric cardie -
graph in action.
This is a new instrument of pre?
cision used in diagnosing diseases of
the heart, and only a few of these in
struments are in existence. Physicians
were shown fifty children's cases and
were uermitted to examine them ear*
fully.
The second day of the convention
was divided into sectional meeting
held in rooms in the Hotels McAl]
and Waldorf-Astoria. The morning
! session was devoted to a discussion on
vitamines. Dr. Alfred P. Hess said ii
! fants fed on pasteurized milk tended
i to develop scurvy unless given some
i food that would prevent it.
Actresses in ""Back Stage'
Campaign for Y. W. C. A.
A "back stage" campaign for fthe*>
I Young Women's Christian Association
! drive for $1.500,000 is being conducted
by actresses in nearly every theatrical
production on Broadway.
I Ethel Barrymore is honorary chair
man of the theatrical women's group,
which is organized under the Business
land Professional Women's section of
the drive. Elsie Ferguson is ;: can
tain. The theatergoing public will
hear nothing of this drive, for then
will be no speeches between curtain:
; or appeals for funds from the ushers,
?ut behind the scenes the women of
each company are vying with each
other as they never did for anything
but publicity before.
?-'
500 Bellevue Graduates
Form Alumni Association
Five hundred medical graduates of
New York University and Bel evu
Hospital Medical College formed an
alumni association at a meeting at
the college. Twenty-sixth Street and
First Avenue, last night. A committee
to watch proposed legislation affect?
ing the medical profession will be ap?
pointed.
The officers elected are: President,
Dr. Robert J. Carlyle; vice pr?sident,
'Dr. Robert J. Wilson; secretary. Dr.
('. J. Tvson; treasurer. Dr. Godfrej
Pisek.
Mrs. Whitehoiise Improved
Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse '?
mer president of the New York Sta1
Woman Suffrage Party, who
ill in Colorado Springs, expects to
home on April 11, according to a te!-1
gram received yesterday.
She is now able to pa.-s a portion of
each day out of doors. Mr. Whitehouse
will return to New York Sunday, and
return to Colorado to accompany his
wife home.
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273,768 homes, caring for 35,433
people of every race and creed.
Send check to the order of
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