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SATURDAY
April 22, 1916
V
ONY AS WELL
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF GRUMPY THE STEPS BY WHICH CYRIL MAUDE ACHIEVES HIS EIGHTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY
POLICE WHISTLE
DIRECTS WORK OF
NEW PICTURES,
MELODY IN
LEttAR'S MUSIC
at Last" Brines OoeratiL
Herbert Brenon, Fox Film Corpor
ation's Director, Deperid9 on
Novel Method to Direct
cIlMmjpostUon Almost Wag-
-AlA.
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4 nerian in Type.
ByfcAETANO MEROLA
flnet ano itcrota, who toai formertv
ivltMptor at' tho Manhattan Opera
JJejts ttitclei Oscar llammeritcln,
Hold conducting Franz Lchar'a ope
rtiia, "Alonn at Last," now at the
There Is flomellilnir nbout the music of
"Aland at kast," Franis Lchnr'a light
6liorAv that lins attracted both tho real
music, lover and tho
Individual Whose mil
Blcal diet usually
consists' of mcro
tunes. However the
novelty of Introduc
ing muslo In a light
opera that approach
es that of grand
opera has oulte con
founded many thea
tregoers, even though
It has pteaBcd them.
The success of tho
opera speaks well for
the opcn-mlndcdness
is of tho American pub
lic for they have n&t only accepted but
supported a distinct Innovation In tho
realm of light opera.
Many of those who have heard tho won
derful, music of tho second act of "Alone
at Last" have accused Lehar of plagiariz
ing tho music of ntchard Wagner. This
)g not true, for It Is distinctly Lehar,
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jsusaiPTsssiTr
U, uiougn. mo inuuenco ot uie niuucm iu-
manuc scnool or music in me narmonic
, treatment of tho themes and tho uso of
r Alio .progressive tonal scale are discernible.
To tho Untramed car this, of course,
fcnitn.1te"1llf d,tnmnhnnv. hnt nn nnn henmnen
irinrn nrnimlnlcil with the music, or to tho
'..One who fa accustomed to hearing more
than ,ono theme treated at a tlmo. It will
be found that Lehar never abandons a
, coherency of melody. It Is the substrata
en .which ho has worked an exquisite musi
cal embroidery.
If Lehar, In this act. and especially In
tho third scene. In which ho followed the
two principal characters of the opera to
the summit of tho Jungfrau, has found It
necessary to employ tho orchestration and
harmonic treatment that la usually asso
ciated with grand opera, he has done It
logically. No matter how little one may
care" for highly developed music, one would
be offended If when Franz and Dolly
reached the summit ot tho Jungfrau Lehar
Bhouftl have presented music with the
Tythm, of a popular one-step or fox-trot.
Theso two, with their hearts crying their
repressed love, leaving tho sordid, scandal
xnpngcrlng crowd below them, ascend to
,tha glorious heights of tho majestic Jung-
Is S irau, where In the sublimity of the clouds
hey are rj-co to spcau tneir love, tneir
hearts untrammelcil by the baso conven
tionalities and motives of the pigmy world
beneath them. Could Lehar havo expressed
himself any .differently than he has If he
wished to Interpret their emotions and tho
glorious nccno about them by means of
music?
A3 Franz and Dolly loft tho common
tace and ordinary, so did Lehar In his
music The music la symbolical of tho
Isolation, of the characters; merely one
thread connects them with tho world be
low, and that Is tho recurring phraso of
the Alpine call sounded on the French
horns, Musically this scone is the most
ambitious that has over been attempted
In Vght opera. In this scene and In tho
harmonic treatment of the melodies
throughout tho entire opera, and also In
tho attention bestowed on tho orchestra
tion, Lehar becomes as much a revolu
tionist to light opera as Richard Wngncr
was to grand opera. Deforo Hlchard Wag
tier burst' alt musical traditions in grand
opera tho voice apd melody wero pre
eminent, tho orchestration merely a means
to an end, which, especially In tho Italian
Kcliool of opera, was to display the singer.
However. Wagner changed all that and
save tho orchestra as Important n place
In tha score as ha did the voice, and in
many Instances permitted it to dominate
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opens letters urging him to take every care of his U'lHf f , ( Mil Iir' Fnint'"g In cldcrly cycs-
health, ns men of 83 aro susceptible to the climatic VllssMP W&M II
as In
Isolde."
Lehar has dono tho same thing In his
operatic mUslo. Although the first strik
ing example 'this country hns had of the
now treatment Is In "Alone at Last," It Is
because his former operas In this country
were not conducted according to tho orig
inal score. When I was given tho woro of
"Alone at Last" by tho Messrs. Shubert
to get ready for production, they granted
my request to present it as Lehar had
written It, a thing to which few managers
would havo consented. I was forced to
make one concession to the custom of
musical productions In this country, how
ever, and that was to introduce the chorus.
Tho original score called for no chorus, so
that I had to form it from Lchar's melo
dies, but In doing so I followed his stylo
of harmonic treatment. In speaking of
my Intention of presenting the opera ac
cording to tho original score to a follow
conductor, ho was astounded and pre
dicted a oompleto failure, averring that
tho American nubile would not appreciate
It and would not accept It. Fortunately
his prediction proved ot lime worm,
though I confess that I felt a secret fear
that ho might prove correct.
Kxcept in tho music of Victor Herbert,
the composers In this country havo paid
but scant attention to the harmonic treat
ment and the orchestration of their operas,
as a result of which tho American public
has been fed musically on Just tunes and
melodies. There has" been absolutely no
musical coloring: they, have been mere
pen-and-lnis sketches. Lehar's operas 'aro
musical paintings.
Many dllllculties wero met with when
"Alone at Last" was first put In rehearsal.
Tho nature of the music demanded prin
cipals with trained and tried voices. It Is
not an exaggeration when I say that
nearly 100 candidates were examiued for
(tho roles now sung by Marguerite Xamara
and John Charles Thomas before these
two splendid singers were chosen. The
chorus requirements were also very high,
and from the first there was constant
elimination of voices.
I 'havo no doubt that the example set by
Lehar In devoting as much attention to tho
orchestra as to the voices, and the co
ordination of the music with the action of
the story, will havo a tremendous effect
on American composers of light opera.
AT LAST!
i torfc, iclect a curfoc and yet
a mra
Die Lclbestod" of "Trlstran and VrnWrnV-WmM' mEwmmMmfflmffi&&Km VwWBFw.M &?&&&. V nf fU TJ1.,-
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V. The withered hands. WWMM
During the past two or three years,
since the dance crnze has overwhelmed
almost everything else on the stage. It
was accepted that the limit of novelty
and newness had been reached In this art,
but It remained for Mildred Macomber,
who Is making her first appearance in
this country this year, to introduce some
thing entirely new and unusually novel
in a combination of dancing and ncquatlcs.
Miss Macomber, who wilt be seen at
Keiths next week, comes from a family of
pantomlmlsta and Is recognized as a,
marvel In "silent-acting" throughout
Europe where her greater success has
been attained. From the time she was
able to walk, this girl studied the art
of pantomime and dancing and so clearly
does she tell her story without the uso of
a single word that it la not necessary to
read the program to find out what It Is
all about. Whether It bd In her "Classlque
Dance" when she appears like a breath
from the clouds and gives a real atmos
phere to the beautiful picture, or when
she tried to learn the nationality ot the
strange young man who so mysteriously
Invades her domain. It Is the same. There
Is all the tenderness of the young girl In
her love-making and all the lire ot the
tragedienne in the tragic parts of tlia
pantomime.
The Optical Look
IJJ ALL our kindergartens, and
primary departments the teach
ers make much use of pictures.
They must use pictures or they
cannot teach anything, Pictures
are always attractive; one can
read them so rapidly. There- is
never any brainfag in learning
things we can see and grasp at a
glance. That's why the "movies"
have taken such a strong hold
upon the people it's so much
easier to read tie story in pictures
than In a printed book. "Billy''
Sunday.
DANOINO
Colonial Dance Castle
va . mrm-a I s.TV I
PhJa. Hippodrome Dance Palace
Iteflnsment und correct dander h keynot
inpirtsv tha lfAVH& 1
that brines 700 or mora cood ppl to our Sat,
rcnlnjr reoeotions. Wsdnei
us- in our Mai.
SU&Y-Kavetv TtA.
-Novelty Ile-
eeotlon. ooen vitnr evening:,
with banjo ojv
choirs,. Owtns to Increased business, private
studios enlarged, now occupying entire bulM
lnT, Private tewonn. jrtay and evcnlnc 1 for
tS. Exclusive claue. 13 lesions, J5. Phone,
Utn. 4370.
DANC5 the old Danceland
dances tonight aieaa
The School ot refinement Broad & Tioga St.
MODEHN DANCES Honda? and Thursday.
OLD DANCES WED. AND SAT. EVGS.
SoX Special Easter Repep.DiM
UQUYENina TO Aldi
' IB PRIZE BON BON PARTY
WEDNESDAY EVE.. APtUL. 20TH.
THE CLAYTON CASINO wf""
OPENING DANCE
SATURDAY BVBNINO, MAY 6TH
Eicd attd Grcrmtra, Pontlousua
SttiafBta, Chafer uvmuBHAtatA
Am4 Ttwwte AcsUay
ligssr
ia Tuuetit In ia 'h...
iiMt t x m. mtaKTmt,
VI. The finished
Will Deming Be
Poet Laureate?
The following Is tho application made
by Will Deming which Bccurcd for" him
his summer engagement with Manager
Walter Baldwin, of tho Baldwin-Melville
Company.
Mr. Ualdwln. let ma say.
llavlnx nothlnc on today
Cold outside, can't take a tramp.
Have to spare a two-cent stamp.
Jut a Una to let you know.
Things with ma aro rather alow.
Thoush I'va hustled like a Turk,
mill you tlnrt me out ot work.
Advertised Dramatic Mirror,
Situation .not much clearer,
not iom wires, two or three,
JUnaser sent them C. O. D,
Had one offer, wouldn't so-Well-fed
Komedy Kompany show,
Could have Joined a camr of nchters.
Or Duean's Dlzsy Dlma Dellshters.
Hope your plans have now matured,
This suspense l''e lonir endured.
If you'd keep ma out of hock,
Orsanlze another stock;
Put ma on your comic stair.
I lonff to make the people Isuxh,
Won't take up our busy time
With this d n bad dosrerel rhyme.
Just remember, if you will.
Will Demlns. known aa Hill.
Who wants to join your little flock.
The famous Haldwln-Mehillo stock.
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Grumpy of tho stage.
Philosophy of the Theatre
THEN.
There are excellent comedians
who, outside of their art, are very
silly. Coquelin.
NOW.
There are silly comedians who,
outside their art, aro very excel
lent. George Jean Nathan, in'
Puck.
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MaaaiMiaa aunaftlaWai.)' 1 J.
My ather, a native of Tlpperary Coun
ty, Ireland, was educated In London, Eng
land, and became well known as a news
paperman and lecturer.
My mother was nn Australian, whom ho
met and married In San Francisco. Tho
couple went to Honolulu, for their honey
moon, and liked tho country eo well that
they remained there a nulnber ot years.
My father was a warm' personal friend
of King Knlakow, and a frequent visitor
to tho royal palace. He was ono of tho
pallbearers at tho King's funeral. Ho
took n great Interest In tho "Itauakas"
(natives) and wrote nnd produced tho
first Hawaiian play.
Tho Hawallans aro naturally musical,
the Queen herself being a rare musician
and composer. Few Americans know that
slip wroto tho Hawaiian song, "Aloha
Ohe," meaning "till wo meet again." She
ga-o my father an autograph copy years
ago.
When I was six years of ago, we moved
to Seattle, Wash., and a few tyeara later
located In a small mining town in British
Columbia, Canada! Tho place was having
a "boom" and the cost of living very
high, There wero only two pianos In the
town, and when I expressed my desire to
take up music, I learned tha't I had to pay
EO cents nn hot..' for 'the privilege of
practicing.
My lessons were vo'ry Infrequent, hav
ing to depend on a strolling musician that
visited tho town occasionally, bo I might
say I wan self-taught. I also learned Ho
play tho guitar. At tho ago' of ten I
was playing the piano in the local orches
tra and the big pipe organ In tho church.
Two years later the choirmaster died,
and I was made choir director, a position
I held until I was 16. In the meantime.
I had developed what my friends called
a flno voice, and I retired from the choir
to Join an opera compajiy. Later I be
came Identified with tlio Savage Opera
Company, remaining with It several sea
sons. I then went to Doston and Btudled
tho piano at the Now England Conserva
tory of Music.
Completing my musical educatkn, I
; enteied vaudeville doing a singing and
. planologuo act. Manager drover, of
' "Lost In N'ow York," saw me and offered
, mo the part of "I'cggy" In tho play. I
hesitated, as r;y experience had been
mostly In the concert and operatic field,
but Mr. firovcr. prevailed, and after I
played t'i role, he declared I was a
"find." . I am ery happy.
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' L. COLL. Alu.ii.1 Director
FOWLER'S rWVATE STUDIO
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Almost any good motion-picture direc
tor can handle a small cast ot players In
front of a camera and produce a pleas
ing nnd worth-while shor.t feature film.
Almost any director of nblllty can tak
a man or Woman of Intelligence before a'
camera and tnako the player do a ''big
iceiro" well.
But In all the world there are scarcely
more than two or throo directors who
can handle 10,000 psrsons at onco before)
a camera and prodtlco results that as
tonish the human eye and brain,
At the very front rank of these few
men stands Herbert Ilrcnon, the motion
ploturo genius to whom William Fox, th
big American film producer, lias In
trusted the tremendous job of making;
the Annetto Kcllermann million-dollar
picture at Kingston, Jamaica,
This picture was begun the middle ot
last August at Kingston. It la now muCh
moio than half completed, and up to
date the Fox bookkeepers and auditors
havo their books to revenl that more than
JT0.0CO hns been paid out In actors' sala
ries and for equipment. This picture will
bo finished n round tho middle of April,
and by tho tlmo the last Instalment of
Mini is laid down In the Fox offices In
New York Its total cost will bo in th
neighborhood of Jl,100,0O0.
Many detnlls about thin picture and
tho Incidents connected with Its produc
tion havo been told to tho public. Thar
have been descriptions of the rejuvena
tion and reconstruction of a large part of
tho Island of Jamaica under William
Fox's own experts' direction. There also
havo been stories of tho gnome city, Tvlth
its thousands of child actors In tho roles
of dwarfs.
Out thlTs far there have been no stories
printed about tho wonderful Moorish city
which cost J200,MO of William Fox's inoney
for construction work; of the slave mart
and bazaars with thousands of men and
women costumed with Oriental opulence.
In tho marlno scenes, with hundreds of
mermaids In tho picture simultaneously,
Herbert Brenon revealed once more hla
artistry as a director. For some scenes
these mermaids practiced and rehearsed
for weeks that they might have perfec
tion nnd slmultnneousncss of atroko.
Scores of theso girls wero dashed again
and again against jagged rocky ledges
and mado to stick at their tasks till the
camera had recorded Just what Director
General Brenon wished recorded.
nut tho peoplo in these scenes were
tho very pick of their kind brought down
from the "States." They were the quick
witted, alert and quick-observing Ameri
can girls from tho natatorlums and sands
of our two ocean coasts and our lake,
beaches.
Tho 10,000 persons In tho slavo market
and Moorish city scenes, were of quit
different type. Several thousand of them
wero negroes. Other thousands were
Hindus, and still .more of them were alert V
but untrained native Jamaicans totally
unused to being "shot" by tho motion
picture camera operators.
Day after day theso vast "mobs" wera
swung through their evolutions. Under
broiling suur they wero sent again and
again through their paces, tho signals for
them to start or atop being given bf
Director General Brenon or his assistants
with New York police whistles, .such as
r.rc used to handle the 5th avenue nuto
niobllo trafllc or the crowds at 43d street
und Broadway at 1 1 o'clock at night, when
tho Metropolitan- Opera House has turned
Its vast audience into tho streets to Join
the hundred thousand other theatre
goers Just out of tho other amusement,
places.
When you seo this gigantic Kcllermann
picture exhibited some time In Juno and
throughout the summer ypu will witness
a vast uprising of tho slaves and see the
armed troops hold back the maddened
thousands. You will 6co a made-to-order
city of huge proportions a city built of
concrete and structural steel Just as "reg
ular" cities are built filled with surging
humanity, tugging, swaying, striking and
being struck. And It will be worth re
membering at tho time that every movement-
In this great panorama was made
at tho direction of one man Herbert
Brenon. ,
You will sea a speaker delivering an
Inflammatory oration from the balconada
of n hugo building to an audience of 10,
000 persons. You wllj see this great
throng worked up gradually Into frenzy.
You will with cataclysmic abruptness sea
20,000 hands upraised as If all were
pulled up at onco by Invisible strings, and
your memory will go hurrying back to
this advance description of the staring
of Jhls part of the picture, and perhepa
In your brain thero will be the sound of
the policeman's whistle that tells this
mob when to begin "action" and when
to 'stop.
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INSTRUCTORS AND DEM0.SBTHAT0B8
t Easter Monday
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