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li W.S.S. FOR CHRISTMAS The time-honored Christmas greet ing card bids fair to be superseded this year by another card which com bines practical patriotism with the usual sentiment. These cards, while Issued In varying; forms, are generally known on the market as "Thrift Greeting Cards." with a. lit or ,. velope attached In which to pUcatT war savings or thrift stamp. ! bf an appropriate greeting or verse. ''I The Idea Is ln line with the suKfes- War and Music Go Hand and Hand iM E svavu .sw iiriv.t wata TMtVIU.f' sSVMI J rnlttre will later urge with vigor, 4 Tinn fl av I aIjaat aul .. Dealing ine giving oi war tmp' pl&co of less practical gift. f t ljujii juv-a.w ii .u fc cjnr4j In the Home; All the New Victor - IrW' THE UAdriLMjluN ilMEo, TIIUioDAY, Isldr LLuLii 12. li)xS. IP! U t BjL TfM wm'jf CASE WILL TOUR PACIFIC COAST Those who were present one Fourth of July morning a few years ago tvhen Anna Case made her first public appearance in the big ouduorium at Ocean Grove. N. J- and were fortu nate to be among the great audience that Erected her in tho same place two weeks ago and witnesses the ex traordinary ovation she received dur ing her recital and the popular dem onstration that took place as she left the hall, when a huge crowd of peo ple tried to shake her hands, could but marvel. The story of her life and career need not now be retold. Suffice to cay that, unaided by worldly goods, position, or influence, she has made her way upward to the foremost rank of concert and recital artists with a most creditable record at the Metro pplltan Opera House. It is, however, pre-eminently as a concert and recital singer that she must be considered, and to which she rwes her great popularity and vogue. Distance has never lent enchantment to her name, nor have cable wires been kept hot recording her f'umphs in foreign climes. Her training, her sticeses. and her exceptional growth hae all taken place right here under our ery eyes. No Finger who has reached her vogue and standard can with more Justification claim that she Is a pure ly American product than she. The unusual featuro Is that, save f r a short preliminary period, she has been developed by one single teacher, and we search in vain for a similar case in the annals of singers For the coming season Miss Case will make her firi-t tour of the Pacific Coast and fill, as she Is wont, nu merous re-engagements. Her season promises to be more successful than ever before. For these recitals Miss Case Is pre paring, with her usual skill, programs said to be of much beauty and Inter est Miss Case's venture Into the motion picture field (she is now making her first picture) Is being watched with Interest by her friends, but no matter how successful this may prove she tells her friends: "My singing will always remain first; all the rest are subsidiary to the main object in view." Incident to the Successful Prosecution oi the War Various popular -rporu and pastimes have necessarily been curtailed. This means that, i:; increasing measure, indoor recreations will be substituted for out-of-door pleasures. More and mote, as the months go by, will the VJCTROLA come into its own. Already popular in thousands of homes, it will become more than ever the source of family deu'it when motoring and other oper air "leisures are suffering their war time . . :.sion. . . Gfvs ihpught to this. Then select a VIC TROLA and an engaging repertory of ViCTQR RECORDS. ; Our joc'.i and service are yours to command. Victrolas and Victor Records Cohen & Hughes,!. 1221 F Street N.W. -? dr laaaaaaaaaaaaT "' 2aaaaaFa. taaaST fl( jgr fK Jf. Ev tt aaar MrH " JK f Wm HI 4 jpy jj . 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To look at the happy faces, one can hardly believe theso men have come in contact with war ' nnrOlrtT nAAn blest and basest In man. That is Just' mm KUUU hroon-thpeor-l" Hh KHI MtN KX i VUAV N SS.-S1SS .Thlgfu,ngd 3; K WAU A UV Wr$& . ,.s?r.i!;'ii'?i ,5 :iy33gR&8i3 and its hardships. Music transforms the men at the front, and they will go to any lengths to obtain it, as can be seen from the crude home-made 'cello on the right. 5 The Musical World Fully Approves the Brambach Baby Grand Its miniature size steps in between the k'Oy Grand and the Upright, yet with all . giving one the Tone of the Grand and occu pying the space of the upright. It has forced recognition of competent ' musicians everywhere through sheer Merit. Is the Ideal Instrument Of tin. Home Did you ever notice a Student of Music u'iP make much better progress on a line ir-trument than on an inferior one? If there v. young folks at your home you'll assist t.v 11 very materially if you provide such a ino as the BRAMBACH BABY GRAND. That the musical situation Is most encouraging throughout the country i vouched for by Harry W. Bell, rep resenting the Loudon Charlton Man agement on the road. Mr. Boll has Just returned from a four months' tour, which embraced most of tho ter ritory east of the Rockies, and Is very enthusiastic with the improved con ditions over former seasons, and as this concludes his twenty-sixth year of "seeing America first," his opinion Is worthy of consideration. In a talk with Mr. Bell he says: "I have never found local managers, club committees, and colleges more sanguine or more determined In their efforts to supply their patron with the very best artists available, and tcemlngly with less regard to fees than ever before. In cities where 'courses have been formed, and this is now becoming the general rule. I fcund them better balanced and stronger than for any previous sea son, and In most places an additional number has been added without ad vancing the cost of the 'courae" ticket to the subscriber. Increased patron age is the answer. This Improved con dition was especially noticeable In the Middle and Western States, which cer tainly have a big lead over the self styled cultured Hast in good music. In the smaller cities throughout Ohio. Indiana. Illinois". Iowa and Nebraska, cities of fifteen to fifty thousand inhabitants, where in times past the engaging of one celebrated artist at a cost of eight hundred to a thousand dollars was looked upon as a creat adventure and a fctlll nreater venture by the executive committee of the local music club, they now have no hesitancy In con tracting a complete scries made up of at least fie important numbers aggregating several thousand dollars, an amount that would have caused the suddi n demisf of the entire H. C. if tendered to thorn In the ante bellum days when music in these cities was considered a luxury, only for the Idle rich and the fmi-intelllgcnt stu dent seeking a career. "The moat conclusive argument for present improved conditions is the faet that in many places where VouTsej. have been in vogue for a I few years the public has been edu cated to the point that In securlns I choice reservation there exists an element of the 'survival of the fittest,' with the result that as soon as the I "series' is announi-ed there Is a de lluge of mail orders for choice loca jtlons. which in many cases is suf ficient to cover tho entire cot of the 1 artist's- guarnnte". even before the names of the artists are announced." Dy J. JlacD. "Camp Columbia" had Its flrit chal- blest and basest In man. That Is just' II exactly wnar. tne iiussian revolution has done to the Russian people. When one arrived In Petrograd last January he found mobs of civilians! and soldiery smashing and robbing wine cellars and getting beastly drunk. The unklndest cut of all dealt by the revolution to the old court camarilla, must have been the looting of the wonderful wine cellars of the Winter Palace. They were wild, dangerous mobs that worked 111 rciruKrau ill muse ucLeiuucr aim i - ... ,. ., . January days. They showed partIcu-;""BC ,ur "'""" "ineuc aa nr oacK lar preference for wine and cham-J" '" June, when one of the first pagne stored by the Romanoffs fori women war workers to make It a the entertainment of the Rasputin 1.1 camp home said. In looking upon a BUVtJ?atn.,i;OUr?,nut fJVt be,en,h.a'fi ooded hillside: "Our open-air thea so bad. The Bolshevik! handled the', , ... . ... , mobs on this score quiet easily, al-j1" wl" be a "eat P1"6 f"- Pa' though in one case, there were no J ow h camp Is to put forth a less than IOC calls for help received 1 highly interesting art work in this at Smolny in one day. the day when natural amphitheater Camp Colum recordi"6 """ Sm"hlnff beat aI1ib'a Sylvan Theater that sprang reitrwas on that day. however. tht!'nto belnff ln the "nKlnat4on of one the mob turned from the smashing! e,M anJ ha already become a fact or wine cellars to the smashing of 1 The play will take place on Monday the former Czrlna"s private cham-! evening, September 23, at 8 o'clock, bers and the wonderful works ofj The production Is to be a "Masque." art In the palace. Here was a typl-jwlh mu,lc, and lg a fabIed 8cttnB ral, wild mob of the French revolu-0f the world war entitled "The Golden tion. It was disgusting, abhorrent, uox u iH a fantasy, a nm and repulsive to see that mob at work. modernlied "Pandora." out of whose About six months later during the box flow first the world evils of to- jiiay i demonstration i saw ine i day. These are let 1c same mob In one of the magnificent ballrooms o' the Winter Palace. There was something quite different written on those faces. There was ecstasy and expectation. These people hl been marching several hours, with red banners, singing songs of free dom, brotherhood and the Interna tionale They were all half starved, but there was a marvelous, signifi cant fire ln those eyes. Trom a ' oose by the hand of King Attil of Hunnla, who. when rebuked for so lightly breaking bis word, replies: "My word' Why, words are but as leave.! blown down the wind; tomor row they are mold. They are as scraps of paper tossed aside by a frantic poet seeking penny rhymes." The masque has been written for Camp Columbia bv Bessie McClellan, Weilcsley graduate of 1313. who IB SURR E NDERS TO MM II he Price Is Reasonable $550. Convenient Terms If Desired E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. - 300 G St. sfp7- Steinway Pianos. Revolutions ore as capricious as a pretty woman. They can throw 1 people into ecstasies of joy and fits of despair Tin v bring out the no- neighborlng room came the strains t received her B. A. there ln 1015 and of wonderful music It was the fa- who has had two plays produced at mous Petrograd conductor. Kouts. lead , Wellesley. Miss McC'ellan Is a mem ing his orchestra The smashers of.ber of the camp, and Is In war work wine cellars sat motionless, enchant In Washington in the War Depart ed, mrnt. They were listening to the strain: 1 The story of the Golden Box tells their lives anew. Tour lands are ours to pay for all the ruin you have wrought; your people, too, are ours to train to nobler thoughts." I With a warning even to the con querors, this very modern morality play comes to an end as the Golden Box is closed. The evils have been let out upon the world, but the good is safely locked within. The final word Is: "Remember the vision of sacrifice and splendor that is yours. "Let us to the task that lies ahead! "The hearts of men are purified. "The world Is waste, but yet the world is new. From the beginning shall be built a klnedom strong ln 1 the beauty and glory of truth." Incidental music used for this play of pertinent ideals Includes "Danse des Fleurs" from Tschaikowsko's "Nutcracker Suite," Grelg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King," as a dance for the dwarfs and the spirit of evil; "Le Secret" of Oautler, dance for the butterflies: and Dellbes' "Syl via Ballet" for Pandora. With the author of "The Golden Box," Miss McClellan. as chairman of the executive committee, and the Camp Commandant. CoL Suxanna P. Moore as chairman exotflclo, the personnel of the producers of this masque are headed by Christine Ro well. costumes: Mary Marshon, prop erties; Misses LIndsley and Wash burn, dancing; Marie Crowe, stage manager; Captain Jones, bnslncss manager, and Helen Jones, assistant business manager; Helen Reed and Frances Bateman. The cast is played by Helen Reed, as King Pan; Cora Frey, his daugh ter Pandora; Bearer of the Red Cross, Mrs. Elsie Parker; bearer of the black cross. Florence Stocker, Amerand. Bessie McClelland; Flame Spirit. Marjorie Day, and Attil, Delia Taggatx. of the Requiem of Mozart. BEGINNERS NEE BET MINI "Get to begin with. th very best piano vour m'jns i.m afford," is ad vice given to ung pianoforte teach ers by Clarence G Hamilton In hla book on "Piano Teaching. Its Prin ciples and Problems " The writer further exhorts, that after the pur chase of the piano. a competent tun".' be hired to look it over nt least once every three month.'., "whether it seems to need it or not." If a riano t not kept in tune, he states-, then- is danger lurking for the impairment of even the teacher's own !ense of correct musical values and plleh. Also tare must be taken a.s to the sort of instru ment the pupil is using at home. In this connection .Mr Hamilton thu.-. illustrates- "A pupil once asked me if my piano wus not badly out of tunc Just after It had been put In prime condition. On Investigation. I found that her own piano hud not be n tuned for years, and that her ur- I1.11I beriinn- Fi (ducaUd to false l'it li that correct plt.-h sounded wrung to her' And lie adds, "Insist therefore, that your pupils keep their pianos in p. per condition " X Patriots 18 to 45 will Register Todaj Others Must J. Edgar Robinson ; 1306 G Street N. W. Music and Musical Merchandise September EMERSON RECORDS NOW READY All Late Popular Hits, including "Smiles," Indianola, Oh Frenchy, etc. Double faced 35c each, 3 for $1.00. Play on Any Machine. Hawaiian Ukuleles from $6.50 Up. Fine Old Violins and Accessories. Big Line of String Instruments. f I of a battle-royal between the power of the rulers of the sphere where these fabled folks live, and of a whimsical maiden. Pandora, who. In stead of joining the prince of the realm ax Queen of the Games, rays: "Prince Attil honors me; "Rut I have pledged myself to the children for tomorrow's games, to ride with them and be their Queen of Flowers " Pandora's father, the happy King Pan. has for hU followers Paris of Gallia. Hero. Iliran of Anglla. Beller an (who Hands by his words for Belgium . anil lust, to this noble companv. comes Amerand (America.) And Amerand is Pandora's lover! There are, too. tho bearer of the Red Cross and the bearer of the Black Cross. The symbols are so deftly nanuieu tnat tne fantasy Is held at every moment In words of beauty ana significance, and the "old mor ality" play Idea works through It to a climax of high resolve. Through all of the play are Inci dental dances and songs of children and of elves. The Masque Is In three acts. The motive of the first Is told in Attll's words. "My will Is power!" to which Paris responds. "He strikes at me because ho hates me most." The Herald adds. "Their path is marked across the field of Bcllcran." A'lth Hils union of forces I'an arms for "Right. " Act II Is the "pastorale." the abode of the women. Pandora and her suite, who are cast down with tho women's burden of sorrow. They dwell in the "Valley of the Morne." To this comes the lover Amerand. "I can now pay the debt r owe," he says to Pans. Coincident as it is with tho birthday celebration of La fayette, our hero and that of France. and with the words of General Persh I lug when ho first stepped upon the i foil of Kr.inie. the now famous "Ix ! fayette, we are he- !" these words ; attest the henrt ti .it Is following America into battle Red Crons, with her symbol of mercy "all that is divine in human hearts" i.s the emblem of universal service anil religion. "You serve God now bj service to his children." she says. Very forceful arc her words, "Long, and very long ago. the Prin ce ss of Thsradon took solemn oath that 1 might walk the world mi scathed that all men should do me honor. Attil and his confederates alone have stained ;liat oath. He has loosed strange horrors against men. Ho has broken every law of love and mercy for which I strive." An ideal has obtained at the camp all summer in line with that of the Studio Club in New York city, and that is to bring the young women there into contact with big personal ities in the different interests of the day. To that end. together with the military regime, there has been a va riety of lectures and concerts through out the summer. Recently. Theodore Knappen, of the New York Tribune, has spoken there, giving a highly interesting talk on air craft, shipbuilding, and the food problem In this way, while diversion is alwavs nn element there hn hn jsome real pabulum In the recreational iiit-iiu inui nas oeeu voieu a genuine success. The camp authorities are now un dertaking the task of providing winter homes and. what I? more Important to the stranger In Washington, some con genial "atmosphere" where these girls may continue to work and to play to the best advantage. If such Ideals and attainments come out of these groups under Government guidance, it may prove an Inspiration for much unawakened literature and art that is to lay the foundations' of our future strength O woman' in our hoars of eas-. Uncertain, coy. and hard to please. Ami variable as the ahade Itjr the Ujcht quivering nren made. If pain and anqutsh rend the brow. A ministering angel thou When all Is said and done, stern deeds may belong to men but oft times to women Is given the vision. aaBaai fePststjCUycaL 3m mmr psipHfivl n m m vFrK:v ivicuormacK Evm ,: TI . V T rV "si KKiaaaaTat- iS Mil I I IUIIV HrI3W V4 AMa l- Ana j .'-raTaTaTaTaTaTam V Includim- These Wonderfully Beautiful "r. and JiA. iiecr.ek Sungs at IDelr nnmmer koaae. Dear Old Pal of Mine $ Keep the Home Fires Burning I There's a Long, Long Trail -. 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LnDsHil! rjgjcjQbjumawi t la (A The malediction lhat is plaeed upon Attil the Hun makes him markedly nkin to that other literary "Man Without a Country." for the Judg ment of "The Hours" upon li!m is: 'Tlnil refune In the O'ltl.inds. V sable pibc that you have written in the annals of nur Innd alone sha'l apeak of you The seounjc of you' ambition uont, our folk can buiid NEW COLUMBIA RECORDS A thief once passed near a church, secluded In a niche carved out of the heart of a hip city. Mellow light fil tered thrtnish the stained glass of the windows and the -trains of a hymn reached his ear above the guttural chorus of the city's voices. Hunger for something he hail never known suddenly brought an nche to his heart hunger for something ho had never recognized until that moment O.Hen ry tells of it in his queer, whimsical fashion. A.s a parallel, many have asked, what about the man who passes a music fthop where a phonograph Is reproducing the voices of the master musicians, while the harmonies filter through the noises of the street and w antier avvay ini Mience. Aiaruai mu-i sic lias alwavs thrilled men's hearts, and none more tlmn the recent pro ! ductions of the Columbia forces, which are receiving their premieres today in Wnxhlngton music houses. Chief among the advance group are 8-ng.s which would bring the fire of the war spirit surging Into the breast of a wooden Indian, according to ver nacular recommendation of local o lumbla dealers. "What Yankee Doodle Says He'll Do. He'll Do.' iH one of the titles which fair ly sings Itself. A grent bit of sentiment, j admirably sung by tho famous I'eer- less Quartet is "Bobbie the I'omhe:,' , bv Ilyron ll.irlen on the back o: the "lanl.ee p.iodle leconl It Is a athv hs'ir.onv of a hr.srbal! throver who found ndmirab use for hU ta! cms in the trmch.es SPtCMUSTS M PLJKYSR PIANOS j-IiemULL&c WasriintotVB AEOLIAN HALL Twelfth and G Streets Steinwav . tul Weber Planol-at TRe Aaottat'bcntiorn N The Melochord Player Piano Introducing the saatCSCfaTa New Model At POt3VJ WE have just received a new model of he handsome "MELOCHORD" Plaer Piano an instrument built exclusively for us under our trade mark name, by the Aeolian Company, of New York, manufacturers of the world-famed "Pianola" Pianos. The "MELOCHORD" is an SS-notc player-piano, of uncommon musical qualities. It cannot be duplicated under S700. 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