The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 15

I IF THK REOISTKIt sunuuy MOKNTXtt, OCTOBEI? 1015. iiSoFioi AMONG THE MUSICIANS-CELEBRATED STARS IN COMING LOCAL EVENTS Mite COMING THIS WEEK jj vivgest Attendance in History of Organization Is bxpected by Officials. Wilson I si 7 NOTED SPEAKERS APPEAR A Crying Evil. Nowhere does the gold of silence glitter bo much as during a musical programme. If the performer Is worth anything at all, he has succeeded In keying up his auditors to a high pitch, and the sound of "An Infant crying In the night, With no other language but a cry causes a jar that Is almost physical.

The mothers and fathers of Des Moines can do a great service to the cause of music by leaving the little ones at home. The youngsters evidently don't enjoy themselves; the audience is set on edge, and the embarrassed parents usually have to beat an ignominious retreat in the midst of the selection. Why not save inconvenlci.ee to all concerned by letting one's neighbor take charge of the youngsters for a few hours? Since the beginning of the music season in Dos Moines, a number of interruptions of this kind have occurred, and it is in the Interest of Auxiliary and General Sessions Will Keep the Visitors Busy Three Days. conif of lmpi The sixty-first session of the Iowa State Teachers' association at the Coliseum this week promises to be largely attended. Not fewer than teachers are expected.

Local hotel managers reported yesterday heavy advance The hotel headquarters will be at the Chamberlain hotel. The speakers selected this year have attracted many teachers to the be alrj -4 jsjfl if i is art that this suggestion Is made. G. C. shapd demol ThJ thing.l "Sleep at Any Price" Alda.

Mme. Frances Alda, the renowned prima donna soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company, who In con Tamnil when of Now of the al support 1 candidate! fUTZ KtEIStf 0 VOLINIS York fe) Mm. TinNces Mda -Sopkano there has ministraq agreement other ma THIS WEEK'S MUSIC wnat i.m ist and composer, who dedicated a volume of exquisite poems to the young pianist. Mr. Burnham is booked up for a tour which embraces appearances from coast to coast.

This will take him up to April, when if matters junction with Mr. Frank LaForge, the eminent pianist, and Mr. Roderick White, the talented violinist. Is to 'appear in the second of the series of all star concert attractions at the Coliseum Wednesday evening, Nov. 3, is a firm disciple of Morpheus, and a sworn enemy of early and noisy milkmen.

Scorning such Insipid vanities as the cat nap before dinner, the beauty sleep (superfluous in an age of cosmetics,) and the subway snooze from the bridge to Harlem, she declares, maintain that the spell of Morpheus is most welcome in those delectable moments when the new day Is pausing timidly on the threshold. Ah! what luxurious, subconscious is happenif the count is gettln 1 Krelsler, violinist, Congregational church. chines abroad adjust themselves, the pianist for instl will return to Paris. ing foil ganizati vocated Marsh i UNA LASCi vuuvmmun. ine association members this year will hear four college and university presidents in addition to several other leading educators In this country.

The four college and university presidents are Dr. David Btarr Jordan, president emeritus of Leland Stanford university; Dr. E. Brvan' President of Colgate uni-jfjMrsity; Dr. A.

H. Yoder, president of tbe state normal school of Wisconsin, and Dr. W. L. Bryan, president of the State University of Indiana.

Educatlrnal Council. The educational council meeting will be preliminary to the general association session and will be held in the Auditorium Thursday morning with A. M. Deyoe, state superintendent of Instruction, as One of the questions which will come before this body for consideration will be the adoption of a uniform course of Bible study in the high schools of Iowa. Dean A.

E. Bennett of Highland Park college is chairman of the committee which has investigated the use of the course in other states. The recommendation of the committee, It Is said, will be in favor of Bible study. The first general association session will be held Thursday evening. A band concert will be given between the hours of 6:30 and 8 o'clock.

Dr. David Starr Jordan will give the opening address. Dr. B. B.

Bryan of Colgate university gives the Fri Hons It, SorttANO WEDNESDAY. Havrah Hubbord, lecture on "Secret of Suzanne," and "Haen-sel and Gretel," Unitarian church, 2:30 p. ra. Alda-Laforge-White, all-star concert, Coliseum, 8:15 p. m.

The i tions be1 today ocrats ventlon Blderabl democra Children Interetttetl iu Muslcale. The announcement that a thousand school children will be admitted to the Coliseum free, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 3, to hear Mme. Frances Alda, Frank LaForge and Roderick White 1b creating; a great deal of interest among the children. Manager Roland G.

McCurdy announces he will iBsue these tickets from Olsen's pharmacy Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock to children between the ages of 9 and 14. The children will be seated on a large stage and give a salute to the' artists as they enter, which will be a welcome to them as well as the several thousand teachers who will be In attendance. THIRSDAY. Mr. Hubbard, lecture on "Tann-hauser," Drake auditorium, 8:15 p.

m. ventlon year, al ecstacy comes in those all too brief moments, just at dawn when we breathe defiance to the Ironic ring of the alarm, and turn ourselves over for one more glimpse of Elysium. Thomas Edison finds that five hours are enough to give to sleep In Menlo park. He may be right, but we do not live In parks, but on streets And down those streetB and into our dreams what terrible things do come! "On a million restless pillows feverish brains have forged angry protests against that ruthless destroyer of the most peaceful dreams, the milkman, only to lapse again Into troubled sleep and forgetfulness. In just a little while the summons mlttee, to aay MISSI handy I wish you would play that Anna Case record from The selection from "Louise" could not be found, but Anna Case's Char-mant Olseau from "The Pearl of Brazil" was played Instead.

Mr. Edison expressed great pleasure at the end. "That's fine," he said. He was asked to play the record back from San Francisco, and a machine at that end was started, and the West Orange audience heard the record repeated. This brilliant American artist was born a few miles from the New Jersey end of this trial.

revenue cutter by the officials of the port of Xcw York to meet her husband, Glulio Gattl-Casazza, general manager of tbe Metropolitan Opera company. Mme. Alda is the first woman ever given this privilege. comes to start the busy day, and more real realities crowd out the indignant and resentful protests of the early dawn. But an end must come to this conspiracy of silence.

I see it In a letter sent me asking me to join an antt-nolse society. A heroic N. to San Francisco at the request of Mr. Edison, who took part In the Edison day ceremonies at the Panama exposition. Members of his staff and a number of prominent people had assembled in his laboratory in Jersey to give the great inventor a surprise and send him greeting.

Strange as it seems, this was the first telephone conversation that the inventor of so many appliances of the telephone had ever carried on. A special sound amplified connected with the line made this possible. After greetings had been sent him from Orange end, Mr. Edison replied in part as follows, according to the New York Tribune of Oct. 22.

"It may seem strange to those who know my work on the telephone carbon transmitter that this la the first tim I have ever carried on a conversation over the telephone. Trying to talk 3,400 miles on my first attempt at a telephone conversation seems to be a pretty big undertaking, but the engineers of the Bell system have made It easier to talk 3,400 miles than it used to be to talk thirty four miles. "I should now like to bear a musical record. If you have on Hubbard'N Two Lectures. Havrah Hubbard, noted music editor and critic, will lecture on "The Secret of Suzanne" and "Haensel and Gretel" at the Unitarian church Wednesday at 2:30 p.

under the auspices of the Women's- club. On Thursday at 8:15, at the Drake auditorium, Mr. Hubbard's subject will be Tha m' its ann in the 3 lowing votlonaj The call th The I will bf be led) App and" and Forel Two o'ot Merrill. Mre. apeaker I Fleoher, Poealbllltli the niwrnaal' KrcUler Tomorrow Night.

Fritz Krelsler, the renowned Austrian violinist, will play at the Plymouth Congregational church tomorrow evening, under the local management of George Frederick Ogden. Following is the programme: SoMati a major Hand! Tutf A major Tartlnl Concerto In minor Mendelaaohn Allefor molto appailonato. Andante. i- Allticro non troppo; allegro molto vlvaoe. Larthatto Lanmntoao Oodownky Rondlno (on a thema by Beethoven) Krelaler Sons Without Words Mendelaaohn Moment Mualcal Schubert Maiurka Chopin Spanlah Serenade Chamlnade-KreUter Indian Lament Dvoralc-Krelaler Viennese (popular eons) Arranged by Krelaler Iowa Pianist Lionized.

Tbuel Burnham, (he famous pianist of Vinton, lionized on two continents, will make a tour of America this Beason. Many stories and romances have been connected with his name but Burnham has never married. During his long residence In Paris hla beautiful apartment on the Place de la Tour became the rendezvous for the day morning address and President f. h. Bryan of Indiana university gives the address Friday evening.

The five department meetings will be held Thursday afternoon. Each department will its representatives to the nominating committee which reports at the business meeting Friday evening. Departmental Meetings. In addition to the department meetings there will be the section which are Included in the departments, wl'rlday afternoon the round tables of which there are twenty-nine will be held in high school buildings, city library, Chamber of Commerce rooms, churches and Auditorium. The Iowa Association of English Teachers, Iowa Association of Science Teachers, Iowa Society of Social Science Teachers and the Iowa Association of Mathematics Teach- and courageous soul has bridged the abyss that separates reality from the nebulous realm of dreams.

The new society will demand rubber tires for all milk wagons and rubber shoes for the horses and rubber heels for the milkman. Now, if the society can only arrange for rubber cans and rubber milk bottles we may at last be free from the ghoulish desecrators of happy dreams." Mme. Alda was recently accorded the especiak privilege of going down New York bay In the United States Voice Crosses Continent. Tbe voice of Anna Case, soprano, who, with Andrea de Segurola, basso, and Charles Quilbert Spross, composer and pianist, will sing here Nov. 15 under the management of the Chamber of Commerce, was recntly transmitted through a phonograph record and by telephone from Orange, artistic and literary lights of that famous city to gather on Sunday after noons.

Spanlah Dance Granadoa Among them was a certain Count- Caprloe Vlnnnola Krelaler Carl J.a bo com a lat. ess de Bremont, poet, eln geroyel' Oeorge echool eU loa'a hem The ty Preaid Vice 1 Secret! TreajrJ The fj fleer ai nominal! All -wi fare of I Is an auxiliary of the state teachers' association, meets Friday afternoon In the gymnasium of West High school. era will also be held Friday afternoon. The Iowa Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers association, which ter of Mr. and Mis.

Ed Shew, and severely burned the baby of Mrs. Art Bender in the Rickman home, this Oil Explosion Fatal. AVOCA, Ia.f Oct. 30. Special: Pouring oil on the coals of a fire in a stove caused an explosion which set the clothing of Mrs.

Willis Rickman afire, burning her bo badly that she will probably die. It caused the death of Clara Shew, aged daugh- city. 05 Am A CA America's Greatest Soprano Appears in Des Moines Monday, November 15, at the Coliseum. Secure Your Seats Now Phone Chamber of Commerce Walnut 1666 This Concert has been designated as a Testimonial to DR. M.

L. BARTLETf Iowa's Grand Old Musician You can arrange to bring this wonderful singer into your own home. Her voice is perfectly re-created with absolute fidelity by The New Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph Dr. Bartlett says of this instrument: "Will wonders never cease? And now it is the Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph! This is called forth by reason of the impression made upon me yesterday after listening to Anna Case through this wonderful instrument. The personality of the sineer so much impressed me that I mentally shouted 'Wonderful! and was about to applaud, when I gained my senses and realized that Anna Case was a thousand miles away.

A more perfect reproduction of the human oice lies beyond my comprehension. The Edison Phonograph is another evidence of an advancing civilization." ANNA CASE SINGS ONLY FOR MR. EDISON'S INSTRUMENT Dr. M. L.

BARTLETT, Dean Emeritus of Des "The Father of Music in Iowa" Listening to the Perfect Re-Creation of Anna Case's Voice on the Wondei Disc Phongraph. Dr. Bartlett says "It's wonderful aimply wonl HARGPS BLESE3, Inc. Established 28 Years 811 Wah 99 ft I-.