gny T-jwpi'Wll'P PraBrspfpwHMrpiwwpPisis T&e Evening Ledger Amusement Section Saturday, December 21, 2915 f rT wn BERLIN CAPTIVATES PHILADELPHIA, BUT HOW DOES HE MANAGE IT? Some Considerations of the Unusual Music Treat in "Stop! Look! Listen!" and of Rag time in General TUB question which acitates musical breasts in Philadelphia, today is not concerned too much with the respective merits of SchoenberK and Sknabin. The performance of "Rosenkavaller," next Tuesday. Is interesting, but it Isn't Im portant. Nothing is Important except this: In what key does Irvins Berlin com pose? Granting that it i3 not vital to the sub ject, It would be interesting to know the answer. A writer in The" Theatre says F sharp. another says B-llat. Still others say that Mr. Berlin wrltc3 in C and G. And there is a wonderful story about this shifting, transposing kej board. Mr. ller lin Is a figure. Hie second creat success Is with us just now In "Stop! Look!! Listen!!!." and the success preceding that. ""Watch Your Step," Is scheduled for Christmas week, so wc ought to know a great deal about him. Unfortunately there is little to know, but that little Is good. Mr. Berlin 'was a cabaret singer and then he wrote "Alexander's Rag-time Band." After that, the deluge. But who has forgotten Alexander, the glorification of ragtime? In "The New Republic" Mr. Hiram k. Moderwell has called ragtime the one true American music, and it is rather appropriate that its chief exponent should be a Russian Jew. In separate songs, "Alexander," "The International Rag"" and "aiting for the Robert E- Lee" and "Everybody's Doing It." all of which. I believe, are from the same brain, syncopation, the essen tial thing, has been exploited. In "Step! Look!! Listen!!!" it has gone mad. Listening to it casually you recognize the types of song. You hear again "I'm Here and You're Here" and "This is the Life." You catch echoes of "He's a Devil" and of most of the sentimental songs tnat manage to keep pace with the rollicking ragtimes. But the accents are shifted and re-shifted, there is no end to syncopation, and the marvel of It Is that it is not monotonous. Two numbers, 'The Hula-Hula" and the magnificent "Ragtime Melodrama" are the highlights of the whole series. The first of these is distinguished by the extraordinary way In which it Injects pure Americanism, the jerky, high spirited snappiness of our normal life, into a lazy, sensuous and exotic atmos phere, and does not sacrifice one thing to the other. The second, even more un usual, is a perfect dictionary of ragtime. Virtually every manner and every style is represented, and the bizarre action, the absurd words which are carefully ad justed to the music, make it the more en joyable. Mr. Berlin is credited with a desire to write the great American opera, in s ncopatlon. When you remember that ho did the "International Rag," an Im perishable work both in immediate appeal and in sheer musical excellence. In an hour or so, ou may well believe that ne will succeed. The only weak thing in the ragtime manner is Its sentiment, and that is chiefly due to the lack of melodic lmention. But ragtime exploits the ele ment In music has the most potent ap peal, namely rhythm. It Is a libertine, and like some famous libertines, it estab lishes itself above ancient laws and fogged traditions. G. V. S. The first free Sunday concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra will be given at the Metropolitan Opera House, Decem ber 19, at 3 o'clock .Tickets will be dis tributed by the newspapers on Wednes day, December 15, beginning at 9 in the morning. The program will be that Wagner program which was heard with uiirli nlpasura a few weeks ago at the Academy. Details of the Evening ' J.EDGEa'3 distribution will be given later. At last Philadelphia will have an op portunity of passing judgment on Richard Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier." It will be presented at the opera house, on North Broad street, next Tuesday evening by the Metropolitan Opera Company. Although it has been done in New York for two seasons past, the composer had up to the present not granted the permission for a Philadelphia production. Howecr. Phil adelphia will be none the worse for the delay, for In the form In which the Metro politan Company now presents this much-talkcd-ot work and with the cuts made by the new conductor, Mr. Artur Bodan sky (reducing its length by half an hour) "Der Rosenkavaller" as a popular enter tainment has doubly Increased In value. "Der Rosenkavalier," which may be translated "The Itose Bearer," "The Knight of the Rose." or "The Rose Cava lier," had its first performance In Dres den. Germany, January 26. MIL Its Amer ican premiere in New York took place De cember 3, 1311 Although the book Is by Hugo von Hoffmanistal. who furnished the. text for Doctor Strauss' "EIectT3." this later opera i3 a wide departure from the former, and is quite as different both In subject matter and In style from the sen sational "Salome." The librettist called hU book "a comedy for music," and the work might be described as a "grand comic opera." It Is worth noting that there Is a waltz theme running all through It that 13 sure to grip the hearer and al most tempt him to whistle it as he Is leav ing the opera house. This fact alone should dissipate all fears on the part ot the "man In the street" that the opera, might be "over his head." For, although Doctor Strauss exploits all his own tech nical resources and thoso of the modern orchestra, the music Is thoroughly under standable from beginning to end. General Manager Gatti-Casazxa has given "Der Rosenkavaller" a most sumptu ous stage setting, while the cast is ad mittedly an Ideal one. lira?. Margaret Obcr's Impersonation of the boyish lover, Octavian. hero of the piece, being irre sistibly fascinating. Mme. Hempel Is thought by many to be at her best as the Princess. Mr. Goritz makes of Baron Ochs a most comical character. The Frinzess Werdenberg. . ..Frieda Hempel Baron Ocas Otto Gorllx Octavlan , Margaret Ober Von Fanlnal ..Hununn Well Sophie Edith ils (Iter first appearance here.) Marianne nit Fornl Valiacchl Albert Relss Annlaa Maria Mattfeld f-nmmlrclrv nf T'nTIM - filrl Schle!?ei Major Domo Pletro Audlsto Msster or ceremonies.. a "'."-J A ."olirv Basil RUTSd-Ml An Inkrcper Julius Bayer A SlnfTPr .......,..... -rail juuwuw Three Orphans ., Louise Cor. Rselaa Van Dick, Sophie Martin. a VMiin,- -.. ..Frieda Martlo A Flunky Ludwle; Bursitaller An Animal tenuor .......... ..-."cl ..'' A Little Necro Ruth Viclnstcln Conductor Arthur Eodinsky. A program of great variety and con trast, ranrtnr from Bach to Detmssy. ana a distinguished soloist In the person of Em'lo de Gogorza. the baritone, will De features of the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts on Friday afternoon and Satur urday evening next, when the following numbers will be presented:: Suite No. 2. In It minor . Bach Ann "niaiMi Imnltovshle from "Iphlxenle en Autlde" Ghick Emlllo de Gocorza. Symphony No. 2. In D ("London") ttayia "lAprcs mtdl d'un Faune"'...........rbujsry Serenade from "La Damnation de Faust" Berlloi Kmlllo de Gocorza. "L-Apprenti Sorrier" Dukas The onlv recital of PadcrewsM that 13 scheduled for this season in Philadelphia will be given in the Academy ot Music next Wednesday afternoon. December 15, at 3 o'clock. The program in full is as follows: 1 Sonata. Op. 53 Beethoven Allegro con brio. Adaelo molto. AllcKrctto moderato. 2 Imrrcmptu. On. 112 Schubert 3 Sonata in It minor ................... .Liszt (a) nallade In F major (b) Impromptu in K-sharp major MUSICAL " GermantownConseraloryofMnsic 104 W. CHELTEN AVK. Often Facilities tor Complete Unsleal Education. Special Courses tor Children. Pupils prepared tor Concert and Teach ins; Profetilon. Faculty ot Sixteen Artists. Booklet. GEORGE C KIUCK, Director. ROLLO MAITLAND FELLOW Ail ERIC AH QU1LD OP OROABiaTM CONCERT ORGANIST "Recital one of the finest yet given hi ta Auditorium. BFrinmeia nepunncan. Iiutruetion in Organ, Piano, Theory Eitey HalL Ttesldcnre. 1832 N Redfleld 8s. CARL TSCHOPP ?" MANDOLIN. BANJO. GUITAR. ZITUSU 'fSSW $$y " (el Two Mazurkas (d) Two Etudes ....... ...CboDln 5 (a)Barcarolle m A mraor CD Ktude la c major e) Yalae Caprice .....Ituhlnatsta The third annual concert of the Musi cal Art Club will be held at Wllhersnoon Hall December IS. The program; X. Strtnj- orchestra. Serenade) ("ctllo solo. Wm. A. Schmidt) ...... ........Yolzmann Conductor. Henry Gordon Thunder. 2. Piano soloa: (a) Chromatic Fantasia and Foroe Bacb-Busont (b) Llebestod ...... .Wajner-LUi. D. Uendriz Eterman. J. Tenor solos: (a) Art from "Manon"........Maenet (h) "Die Drel 'Wanderer" Herrmann Phillip Warren Cooke, t. Violin solos: (a) Adaelo ...Spobr (bj Elnntanz Hallr-Popper Frederics E. nahn. 3. Aria for baritone, "Credo." from "Otello" Verdi Lewis James HowelL 8. Trio. "Walzer Marcher" Schuett Emll F. Schmidt William A. Schmidt. Joseph W. Clarke. 7. Tenor gongs: fa Berceuse from JoeeIyn'......COdartI (b) "Here An. There Awa".... Gilchrist Henry Curney. 8. "Olio solo. "Elegla" Fur Bertrand Austin. 0. Piano soloa: Three Intermexzl (MS.) ....... .3tcrntXTX ConstanUn von Sternbere- 10. Baritone tones Selected Harry Sailor, n. Concerto for two Tlollna, Second movement) .........B3CA John K. WHxemann. V Wilson Coo. 12. StrlEX1 orchestra, reel. "Jfolly on the Shore Graincer Conductor. Thaddemt BJcA. ENTER MOVIE SILHOUETTE Cootlnnrd from Face One the pearl. They find the dragon, and just as he is about to attack them they pour the tabasco sauce down his throat and he coughs up the peaxL. As they See with the gem they look hack and see the monster being consumed by lire from the burning condiment. Seeking the Sultan to claim the reward, the saHar discovers the supposed beautiful princess to 6 an unprepossessing old woman; so. turning his companion hack into a. monkey, he) sets sail on the magic carpet for New York, intending to dispose of the peart. Ho takes It to a pawnshop, only to find the gem Is a counterfeit and la worth only 30 cents. M DANCING MARTEUS ACADEMY 1710 North Broad Street Prof. J. Figel and BrEss E. Cope INSTRUCTORS AND DEMONSTRATORS Beginners' Class Tuesday Night Followed by Reception r Orchestra. Competent Lady and Gentlemen Assistants. RECEPTIONS EVERY Wednesday, Friday and Saturday PRIVATE LESSONS DAII.T GRAND OPENING DANCE SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. IS, 1S13. Overbrook Dancing Academy 1523-27 NORTH 00TU ST. SPECIAL. ONE-STEP CONTEST THREE CASK PRIZES Scholars' Reception Monday Nljbt. Class Thursday Night. INSTRUCTOR. PAUL. J. 11 ac DONALD Formerly of Lower's Academy. Special Dances erery Saturday evening;. SELECT ORCHESTRA NEW PALAIS DE DANSE 71S NORTH BROAD STREET GItAND OPENING TONIGHT gSTiE- DandnS C0nle3t Prises Manager, PROF. HERCULES CONDAX MRS. KEENAN. 222 W. Seymour St. an nounces that Mr. JACK SULLY. New York's popular Teacher and Demonstrator, Is now associated with her Lessons any hour, day or evenlnff Germantown 6247 J. ASK ABOUT OUR QUARANTESD COURSE FOWLER'S PRIVATE STUDIO Personal Instruction any hour, day or evening, make appointment. 4673 G1USCOM STREET. Phone FrankfonX 3S9 J. r Keith Ballroom BmKiL Private W rOcS Classes Monday Friday Erenlnea, Private lessons day & evening, unuure Keith. Nixon. Colonial Theatre Building-. FREDERIC GENSBURG lOM OXFORD STREET Poplar 1181. MODERATE RATES Students' Chapter Susquehanna CARL TSCHOPP, Principal. Private and Clas Lesson tr "d Rvenmr. RECEPTIONS WEDNESDAY A SATURDAX WHAT THE DANCING TEACHERS THINK An Official Statement From the Philadelphia Association Teachers of Dancing By J. Joseph CanteHjr Chairman Presa Committee. The evolution of modern dances has been convincingly traced from Orient to Occident and down through ancient Rome. The "one-step" and "fox trot" have com to stay, whatever may be the current opinion. The vulgarization of these dances by inartistic and Ignorant exponenU was the principal cause of a lull in dancing cir cles, which, on Thanksgiving Day a year ago. was self-evident to Ura leading teachers of dancing. Three years ago, in this city, there were 1200 teachers of dancing nine-tenths of whom were teaching shuffles and twists, wriggles and Jumps, strenuous clasping of partners, abnormal twisting, salacious suggestion, andoh. well, what is the use? They were trying to make the ballroom a stage. Dancing was degener ating Into a mere muscular movement without any uniformity. No two were dancing alike. The dancers ceased to be gullible. The older teachers, with large halls and long leases, saw "the handwriting on the wall." They met and agreed that the man who can laugh at adversity can laugh for the universe. Don't surrender, they said, the light is on aim higher than ever wo have no cause to fear despair our feet and hands are not tied. Let us unite. Show teachers how to win. What was the result? The "birth" of the "Fhlladelphta Association Teachers of Dancing." which, in Its Infancy, baa won the confidence of the public by standardizing the steps of 'the modem dances. Heterogeneity was cast to the winds. Homogeneity and simplicity the slogan. The dances purified and sim plified to such, stability that public opin ion was more than restored. There is no denial of It. They are dancing alike, keeping to the Tight, and progressivei in all movements. Visit any one at the dancing schools and you will And both young and old mastering the purified and sfrnpUfled steps, with such grace, skill and aredsion that would inspire Billy Sunday (If he had a look) to sayi "On with the dance." LOESER'S NUCON THEATRE nun.Di.vri 34 fin. sai BTnm-p Classen Tuesday and Friday, with Orchestra. jtondat Ntgn ContmooTis Dance Two Orchestras Dancing 8 to Reception Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday All the Old Dances nUh School Class Friday Afternoons. to (I. Private lessons any hour. Ph.. Bel. 3230-3939 J. Dancing; Every Sat, Evg. Till 12 Claral School of Dancing lOiSN. BROAD STREET Moonlight Dance Tonight SCHOLARS TUESDAY A THURSDAY EVGS. EAST TO LBARX By OUR HBTBOD Reception Every Saturday Evg. PRITATB LKSS0X3 BY APPOIXT31BST Clarence H. Brady A Eva M. Barat, laatrnc. THE C ELLWOOD CARPENTER SCHOOL OF DANCINO 1123 CHESTNUT ST. 1123 "ABSOLUTE COREBCntESS"' THAT IS WHY WE LEAD. IT KEEPS THIS STUDIO BUSY TWELVE HOURS A DAY ALL, THE YEAR "ROUND. SPECIAL RATES 6 PRIVATE LESSONS, $5 "SBB TOUR OWX PROOBBaa" Take your lessons In one of our separate prl vale mirrored studios; thereby watching your own advancement. Latest New York Tango & 3 Step Open Day and Evft. Phone. Locust 3192. THE CORTISSOZ SCHOOL 1520 CHESTNUT STREET Wagner Dancing School 1eJ- Private Lessons Day or Eve. Phone Dla, 838. We specialise on teachnur simplified dances BE CONVINCED Call and secure trlat lesson. 23c TTSITAI. SCHOLARS PTtACrirnc nivma Mon.. Toes. Thurs. Eipu. Line Lesson 8P.1I. EXTRA DANCE WED. A SAT. BVGS. TR1V- Musical Dance worthy DEC IT ' .o cam. THE MOVIE NUT ! Continued from preceding pare Cmtlnaea en nTt pace (BftfdswfiEsnre n r " m l im i"1 -i N &M DM ? js-jri1' -. , ij:&rtt?zM . ft jifciBt dwv .v.'ktf tm .f jmji ...m,. .fM m ... ymvt&ran' -lrj&3rX i-c- 0 4ksTaaaeBaHaBoTaattreTsT0asaavj
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