V*'• - . • SATURDAY EVENING, HAItRISBURG *&&&& TELEGRAPH JANUARY 19, 1918. I if/ ; • ■••. /it i . ■■••. /ii j : The Ten Most Popular February SONG . | WORD ! 1 ■ ] Music Rolls For Your Player Piano ON SALE HERE TO-DAY . No. 1. Liberty One Step, 80<fr No. 2. Honey Boy One Step, 80<* No. 3. Over Here One Step, 80c I No. 4. Over the Top Fox Trot, S. - )^ No. 5. Peace on Earth and Liberty 80c No. 6. Just As Your Mother Was 85C No. 7. I'll Take You Back to Italy 8of? No. 8. There's a Green Hill in Flanders Bjf No. 9. Say a Prayer For the Boys Out There, BJ>C No. 10. It's a Long Way From Dreamland to Loveland 800 Special Victrola Offer TO-DAY For a small cash payment of Five Dollars, we will • deliver to your home a Victrola IXA, priced at $57.50 with records of your choice to the value of s4.so—Price of Outfit, $52.00. The balance of This Victrola the cost may bo ~ , . may be had in Ma paid al the rate oi SI.OO weekly, lie- lioguny, Walnut ginning Feb. Ist. ■ „ , .... and Oak finish. "j J. 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SIXTH STREET BELL PHONE 4012-.T \ r nlnmkln 11 j jtM 'pfj (•rafannlti \\ <^/ * Y M -■ ■ - • %M AM & | STACCATO NOTES j There is plenty of coal, but not just where it is needed, so it would be a good time to burn up some of the futurist music, und also the tons of other music that is published, but never sold. Music is amazingly prosperous in Germany, according to the latest authentic reports. The Royal Opera in Berlin has been playing to packed houses nightly, and the orchestra concerts conducted by Weingartner, Nikisch and Strauss, are attracting great throngs. There are some Ameri can artists still active in Germany and meeting with success. The vaudeville manager had just given a hearing to an aspiring singer of comic songs. "Your songs won't do for me," he said, "I can't allow any profanity in my theater." , "But I don't usje profanity," was the reply. "No," said the manager, "but the audience would." | A new American opera, "The ; Daughter of the Forest," by Arthur 1 Nevin, was given its first performance )in Chicago, by the Chicago Opera 1 Association on January 5. I "Then you've given up the idea of I taking singing lessons?" j "Yes. 1 find it would take me three j years to learn to sing as well as 1 ! thought I sang already." Alma Gluck has already sent in ! $12,500 of the twenty-live thousand j promised for Red Cross work. She says the remainder will be sent in the near future. HUNDRED PIANOS , IN CAMP UPTON Boys in Khaki Chip in For Music as Soon as They See Need "Of course the boys in camp need music. 1 fully appreciated this be fore my recent visit to Camp Upton and I had read of what the govern ment was doing through Harry Barnhart to give them music, but it was not until after my talk with Major General Bell and thfe "Sam mies" at Yapliank, L. 1., that I fully sensed how strong the soldier's de sire for music really is." This statement was made by Rich airl W. Lawrence, member of the New York district exemption board, (of which Charles E. Hughes is chairman) after his return from the camp on official business. "The boys want music," he said, "enough to pay for it themselves. The very first thing they do after getting set tled in their barracks is to appoint a committee and take up a collection tc either buy or rent a piano, for the recreation room with which each ! barracks is provided. Each of these j barracks houses about 250 soldiers. ( and there are between 30,000 and rookies altogether in this "amp, so it means 150 to 173 bar racks and about the same number of pianos, usually paid for by the sol diers themselves. Besides these there are pianos in the officers quarters, Y. M. C. A. rooms, Knights of Co lumbus quarters, and in the host ess' house, all provided by these bodies themselves. "On one side of the barracks are kitchens and mess halls, and on the oilier is the recreation room, in which the two important things are the stove and the piano. "As one recruit said to me, 'You can judge what music means to us, when we are willing to give up part of our pay to get It. Music and plenty of it is what we need here at camp, and you can bet your bot tom dollars we're going to do all we can to get it. We work darn hard down here, and we've just got to hear some music to relieve the strain of things. There's no two ways about it, we want music and we're going to have it.' n "In addition to music In the sepa rate barracks, there is the wonderful group singing led by Harry Barn hart, who put the community chorus on the map," commented Mr. Lawr-| ence. "When the proposed stadium is erected at Yaphank, L. 1., to' house the singing activities of Camp ' Upton's 4 4,000 soldiers, it will meanj that the greatest song auditorium in the country has been constructed in I order to bring music to the Newj York soldiers. "Major General Bell, the man whoi has been given the task of mould-1 ing 44,000 New York civilians into i soidiers has long been ,an advocate j of singing. His address to the first men who this year attended the Plattsburg training camp for offi cers contained one of the articles of his military faith, that "singing men are fighting men." On this basis he is giving the most hearty co-opera tion to those who are seeking to give the new Army the spiritual up lift and support of song. "One cannot come away from camp without the impression that music is no less a factor in the life of the nation in war than it is in peace. After hearing them sing one feels confident that our boys will give a good account of themselves when the time comes." 1 ► < After February First 1 ! ► —THE PRICE— - ' Of Singing Lessons WILL ADVANCE ' The Phillips j 121 STATE ST. ► 1 The present rate will apply to all old students and those < y who begin before February l. < AAA AAA A AAA k *■' v * ' . ' A reader writes us from Ger mantown. Pa., to tell of a woman who was invited to a musical tea. When she arrived, all the women were busily talking. "Well," said Mrs. Smith, "I have just had my appendix removed." "My heart is giving me such trou ble lately," complained Mrs. Rich. Mrs. Jones' lungs were bad and Mrs. Brown's liver was in a torpid condi tion. The recent arrival arose. "What, not going, Mrs. White?" inquired the hostess. • "Yes," was the reply, "I thought 1. was coming to a musical tea, but now 1 find it's an organ recital." Dr. Kunwald, former conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has been interned at Fort Thomas, Kentucky. "While you are asking papa for my hand in marriage, Philip, I'll be playing something lively on the piano," said the sweet young thing. "No, I wouldn't do that. Jessica," replied the young man. "You know some people can't keep their feet still when they hear lively music." — Statesman. Mary Garden, soprano and Luclen Muratore, tenor, were recalled eigh teen times after climax of the second ' act of Fevrier's "Monna Vanna," in Chicago on January 9. Cecilia—"Why do you rush to the 1 window and hang out every time 1 begin practicing my vocal lessons?" ■ Horace —"I don't care to have ! the neighbors think I am a wife beater." GOING OUT OF LIQUOR BUSINESS Doubtful Conditions Cause Lack of Confidence For the- Future in Northumberland Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 19, —It is un derstood here that landlords owning properties in Northumberland coun ty, where liquor licenses are held, are having much trouble in securing renewal of lease agreements for this year. Licensed places, as a rule, must pay twice the amount of rent that is required of a like property without a license. As a result of these high rents, the landlords are finding .that the leaseholcbers are averse to guaranteeing them the rent for the whole year, but are insisting that they gaurantee the rent only from month to month. The business has become so precarious and doubt ful as to its existence at a profit, or at all. it is said, that they fear heavy losses. This year there are 364 licensees, while 359 places got licenses last year, and all new applicants were re fused by Judge Cummlngs and Judge Moser. Five old ones were refused renewals. One has quit the business this year and a second refuses to ap ply, saying there is no money in it. , MINISTER RESIGNS Landisburg. Pa., Jan. 19. The Rev. Roy E. Leinbach, formerly pas tor of St. Peter's Reformed Church, of Loysvile, who more recently has been pastor at Windmoor, Pa., has resigned to accept a call to High Point, N. C. WILL REVIEW EMPEY'S BOOK New Bloomfield. Pa., Jan. 19. The Rev. J. W. Weeter will review Arthur G. Empey's great war book, "Over The Top" to-morrow evening in Christ Lutheran Church at 7 o'clock. The evening offering will be for the benefit of the Red Cross Auxiliary. IIUMMELSTOWN Miss Lillle Gresh was ill part of the past week with a severe cold, i Dr. U. R. Shaffer was confined to his home for several days with a se vere cold. Miss Ebersole has entered the I School of Commerce at Harrisburg. | Meeting of the School Board was | postponed Monday evening because 1 the illness of three members made ! transaction of business impossible, j Dr. M. L. Nissley spent Tuesday ' at Philadelphia. Mrs. Samuel Levan was housed j part of the week by illness. I Word was received on Tuesday by. [ Mr. and Mrs. David Burns from their I son, George Burns, stationed at j Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., of his | promotion to the rank of corporal. Mrs. Charles Still has returned from Halifax, where she visited her sister, Mrs. W. R. Jury. The Rev. Arthur S. Lehman spent Tuesday at Philadelphia. Miss Lucretla Wheeler has taken the position as bookkeeper, in the Brownstone store, succeeding H. B. Forney, who resigned to accept a position with the Philadelphia and Reading at Rutherford. Mr. Forney had been bookkeeper at Brownstone store for. sixteen years. Roy Brightbill, of Mercersburg Academy, spent several days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brightbill. MUSIC BY ■ By JOHN W. PHILLIPS 1 By JOHN W. PHILLIPS There was a time when a goodly percentage of the music profession stoutly opposed the idea of the Vic trola and piano player. These in struments were considered illegiti •mate intruders, and far beneath the notice of a dignified profession that had long worn long hair, Vnd allow ed cobwebs to obscure new ideas. The argument was advanced that people would stay home and listen to these instruments instead of at tending concerts, that pupils would use them in learning music instead of going to a teacher; and therefore all creative effort would cease in time, and that we would become musically indolent as a Nation. Some of these short horned gentlemen got their imag nation so magnified that they foresaw ail teaching done by their imagination so magnified that music furnished the same way, and got visions of an aasy living being torpedoed, and wrecked for all time. It took them a long time to get the smile back on their faces, and their confidence restored. The trouble was the long hair had cramp ed their thinking ability. Now most of them are short on hair and long on ideas. The Victrola and piano player have proved to be warm hearted friends, preaching the gos pel of music both at home and abroad. They are used to assist in teaching; in illustrating tone quali ty, phrasing and technique. Music schools have not suffered because of their advent, but on the contrary have gained perceptibly. Attendance at. concerts has increas ed, not decreased. Opera, more ex pensive than ever to produce, has been supported to a greater extent than ever before. In short, music is gaining more recognition and sup port in America to-day than ever I before. There are more teachers, more schools, more artists and more students in music to-day than ever before. It is worth while considering for a moment, in just what way the Victrola and piano player have help ed bring about this larger musical growth. In what particular have these instruments helped? In teach ing, a teacher, be he ever so excel lent. is not always able to execute or illustrate certain passages in music; he can, by the aid of these instruments call for a model, wheth er it be piano, violin or vocal teach nique. We learn largely by imita tion—and a concert model —some- thing the pupil can hear—is more ef fective than an explanation. Now, this sort of teaching can easily be overdone, and encourage laziness In both teacher and pupil. The Art of Music Takes Precedence Over Dancing Last spring at a performance of Isadore Duncan and her pupils at the Metropolitan Opera House, a young boy of about sixteen who had been brought by his mother to see the world-famous dancer, upon look ing at the program, exclaimed, "Why mother, we're not going to see Isadora Duncan. We're going to hear music." The remark was jus l tifiable, for under the various parts . of, the program were listed not the . name of the dancer, but with artis ! tic sublety, the titles of the compo | sitions of the masters of music. Tchaikowsky's Andante Cantabile and Marche Slave was there, and Dvorak's Slavic Dance was there, . and so was Schubert's Ave Maria . and others of equal fame and beauty. It was not until the boy was told that the dancing was to be an in : terpretation of the musical compo [ sitions that his mind was set at , rest. The incident is worthy of note for the reason that to one individual at least, and, in all probability, to all who were within hearing distance of the boy's remark, there came an ap preciation of how great a part mu sic plays in the aesthetic world. The audience that day came to see a great dancer perform, but little knew that the beauty and power of that dancer could not have been called forth had there not been equally, if not more beautiful and powerful, music to inspire her. Isa dora Duncan as the fettered slave who eventually breaks her bonds and arises in new glory and strength was wonderful to behold, but never in the wide world could Isadora Dun can have depicted that exultation of Tchaikowsky had she not first ex perienced the pain and the sorrow and the struggle of the Russian serf and the final ray of hope which marks the dawn of a new life which this composer depicts in his Marche Slave. Sunbury Widow Refuses to Accept Coal of Wrong Size Sunbury. Pa., Jan. 19.—While local residents were begging so hard for coal that dealers with empty yards refused to answer telephones, George M. Conrad, coal merchant, and church man, out of goodness of heart decided to give Mrs. Lucy Rogers, an aged widow, a half-ton of chestnut, the j only small size he had. After it was dumped into her coalhouse she be- i tame indignant, declaring she would \ have pea coal or nothing, and ordered him to take it out. It is even said that she called T. J. Purdy, coal ad ministrator. and demanded that it be removed. Mr. Conrad complied with tile old lady's wishes and found one hundred other families ready and anxious for it. CHAUTAUQUA OFFICIOUS Newport, Pa., Jan. 19. Mem- j hers of the Newport Chautauqua As sociation have elected John Eby, president, IJ. W. Brimmer, secretary and P. R. Hombach, treasurer. The ticket committee Includes Prof. Geo. W. Barnitz, I. M. Meminger and L. M. Kelt. RAILROADS AGAIN OPEN Newport, Pa.. Jan. 19.—-Travelers are able to reach New Germantown by the way of Duncannon over the i Newport aid Sherman's Valley and the Susquehanna River and Western Railroads after being shut ofT for several'days by reason of the heavy: snows and drifts. j if. .. -• ■■ - -. - . Possibly the greatest good accom- t plished by these modern instruments, , is in the carrying of good music into ] the homes and districts where there are no teachers, and where good ar- ■ tlsts never visit; into the places that would otherwise be cheerless and > monotonous. It is surprising to find > upon inquiry, that the farmers and , other residents of country and out- i lying districts, are buying high class i records; records made by good ar- , tists, of good music. At first, the I funny songs and monologues were , purchased, .but these did not wear , ' well—they got to be tiresome, and ; i so, the other and better extreme has 1 been reached, and the professional ] ■ musician still lives. In fact, these j : once despised instruments are prov- [ - ing the source of a good income to ■ • many, and so the viewpoint has com t pletely changed; and so it should, ■ L because the artistic and scientific ; value of both instruments can no . longer be denied, t These Instruments are not for the 1 young, but rather for the middle -5 aged and aged. Those who would - be considered too olci to take up suc t cessfully the study of music; or who C have studied music and are now too ) busy or too eld to take active part in l it. To this class the Victrola and - Piano-player make special appeal. 1 Those having the sentimental side I developed can find many selections - to soothe and charm; or those medi tating on the gay youthful days, 1 when dancing or some other happy | e scene is recalled, can live the past . again in music. Or those, trying - to see into the future, the life be - yond, can find solace and comfort s in hearing their favorite hymn. t It is sometimes disappointing to c find so-called groat artists, giving - poor interpretations into these in r struments. These artists seem to i, need a living audience in front of B them; and to hear the applause r However, it is the human imperfec tions that serve to overcome the ob r jectionable, mechanical precision in e music, and which gives to both in - struments that individuality and 1 charm that commands the respect of 3 both musician and layman. It is also to be noted that the - ultra-modernists and futurists in e music, rave not had much of a n vogue among the Victrola and Piano e player audiences. These instruments - are serving all classes of people and - the music that is demanded and - bought is a pretty good criterion of - what people enjoy—a sort of muslc - al gauge that should serve as a text book to composers and art.sts who e are trying to give us medicine that i is hard to swallow, and which does us no good anyway. ' Soldier Dies at Camp Dix; Mother Will Get SIO,OOO Burlington, N. J., Jan. 19. Through the death from pneumonia at the Camp Dix Base Hospital of Private Raymond L. Henry, his mother, Mrs. Catherine Henry, of Ollphant, Pa., becomes the benefi ciary under a SIO,OOO war risk insur ance policy that was written di rection of Colonel A. V. P. Anderson, commanding the 312 th Infantry here, while her son was on his death bed three days ago. The policy is the first paid on the life of a Camp Dix soldier, and while it was taken out under conditions that would have made it Impossible under general insurance laws, it was permissible, it is said, under the war risk insurance plan, which requires no physical examination of a candi date. Henry came here last month with 2,000 volunteers for the Regular Army, for whom there was no room at Fort Solucum. He was with the detail quartered with the New Jer sey boys under Colonel Anderson. "I merely saw that the boy got a square deal," said the colonel. Orders were issued recently to give the volunteers quartered here a chance to take out war-risk insurance before Febru ary 15. > The Musical Masterpiece APOLLO Player Piano Art, Literature, Sculpture, Music All Have Their Masterpieces Among Player Pianos the Apollo is the masterpiece. All but human it performs and reproduces with true pianistic effects all music of every character with a true ness that leaves nothing to be desired. Once you see and hear the Apollo, once you have the Apollo, is to know that . • . you are the proud possessor of a musical masterpiece. C. AY. Si&l&r, Inc. Pianos Victrolas 30 N. snd.st. L 4 ' 1 * • * Music in the Churches MARKET KQ. PRESBYTERIAN Morning—Prelude. Adagio in A Flat, Volkmar; bass solo, "The Un seen Kingdom," sung by G. Watkins, composer, Lane; offertory, "Pray- 1 er," Builmant; postlude, March in D Major, Guiimant. , , Evening—Prelude, Andante in C, i Silas; offertory, "Reverie," Flagler; i anthem, "Jesus Said Unto the Peo ple," Stainer; postlude, "Marche Pontificale," Lemmens. PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN Morrting—Prelude, "The Minster Bells," Wheeldon; anthem, Jubilate Deo in D. Schubert; offertory, "Vor spiel," Reineke; anthem, "What Hast Thou Given For Me?" Am brose; postlude, Concert Overture in F. D'Evry. Evening Selections at 7.15. "Madrigal," Rogers: "Evening Song," Bairstow; anthem, "Home, Where Our Loved Ones Dwell," Briggs; offertory, "Andante Con Moto," Lowei solo, "Jerusalem, Thou That Killest the Prophets," Mendelssohn, Mrs. Cox; postlude, "Praeludiuni" (in song form), 1 Palme. - - A Great Sacred Number sung by Louise Homer ""He* Was Despised," from "The Messiah"—the nobility and j solemnity with which Madame Homer renders this beautiful selection J from Handel's masterpiece is almost beyond description—it must be fl heard. It is truly the interpretation of inspired music by an inspired I I LI Victrola Red Seal Record 88574 Twelve-inch, $3.00. |n| H Schumann-He ink sings (N "Nearer My God to Thee" ft a Admirers of this great artist have always 1 | * _' ' > een consc ' oUß °f the wonderful personal sym- fJi ■ pathy which she establishes with her audiences. [ ■ i = |W£ll : 1 In "Nearer My God to Thee" she fills her I " hearers with a veritable exaltation of soul. Ww J W 5 : > Two famous Christinas Anthems 5 "Holy Night" is splendidly sung by Lucjr Isabelle Marsh and the Lyric Quartet on one I , side of this new Victor Record. On the otherside, the Lyric i, I Quartet presents "Silent Night," by Franz Gruber, now being sung > for the qinety-ninth Christmas. Victor Double-faced Record 45145. Ten-inch, 31.00 Come in and hear aome of the other New Victor Records for December 312 Market Street i ~ " i Music in the Churches REFORMED SAIJEM Morning—"Andante Con Moto'* (E Flat Major), Gullmant; duet fo soprano and contralto, "Jesus, th Very Thought of Thee," Moszkow ski-Grant, Mrs. Myers and Miss Cassel; buss solo (selected), Charles Cassel; postlude, "Polk Song," Men delssohn. I Evening—"Funeral March of a [Marionette," Gounod; duet, "Forever With Thee, Lord," Gounod, Mrs. Myers and Mr. Cassel; postlude, "Praise Ye the Father," Gounod. GRACES >rETHODIST Morning—Organ, Adagio in A Flat, Volkmar; quartet, "As Pant* the Hart," Thomas; anthem, "Send Out Thy Light," Gounod; organ, Grand Chorus in A, Guilmant. Evening—Organ, (a) "Moonlight" (requested), Wilson, (b) "Scherzo" (Sonata in E Minor), Rogers, (c) "Song of Sorrow," Nevin; quartet, "The Lost Sheep," Jordan; organ, AntlleTia In D Flat, Salome; an them, "They That Trust In the Lord," Frey; organ. Prelude and. Fugue in A Major, Bach. 7
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