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ERALDINE FARRAR SIREN IN 'ZAZA' Finds Her Opportunity in Leoncavallo Piece as Fashioned by Belasco. ABOUNDS IN WICKEDNESS Star's Artful Impersonation Is Whole Opera, as Gamut of Emotions Is Played. the Metropolitan Opera House. Kathleen Howard Farrar Ingram Minnie Egener Mime. Dufresne.

Ceell Arden Dufresne. Giulio Crimi Amato Angelo Bada Busy. Millo Piceo Lartigon. Paolo Ananian Duclou. Pompilio Malatesta Giovanni' Paltrinteri Vincenzo Ada Quintina Pietro Audislo Michelin.

Mario Laurenti "Zaza," a lyric comedy in four acts. after the play by Berton and Simon, text and music by Ruggiero Leonca vallo, was performed for the frat time in this city at the Metropolitan Opera House last evening. The history of the opera promises bear a resemblance to that of the drama. The latter was produced in Paris with Mme. Rejane In the title role and it achieved distinguished failure.

Nevertheless, the astute David Belasco, reading the reports, discerned in the drama possibilities which might be developed in favor of Mrs. Leslie Carter. acquired the American rights to the play, taught Mrs. Carter how to impersonate the heroine, and glory descended upon what was left of the creation of Berton and Simon. Leoncavallo's opera has record of failure.

It may have been the eagle eye of Mr. Gatti-Casazza, but more likely was that of the eminent Mr. Lou Tellegen, which perceived in it possibilities to be expanded into realities boy the charm of Geraldine Farrar. But matter how the opera came to be chosen for production at the Metropolitan, the fact was DIED. AMIDON.

-On Wednesday, January 14, 1920 James Rufus Amidon, beloved husband of Georgiana M. Amidon. Funeral service will be held at his late residence, 29 West Fifty-eighth street, on Saturday, January 17, at 11 A. M. Interment private.

on January 16. Services "THE FUNERAL CHURCH" (Frank, E. Campbell), Broadway and Sixtysixth street, Monday, 10 A. M. Charleston, 8.

Thursday, January 15, the Rev. Olin B. Colt, D. In his sixty-fifth year. Relatives and friends, brethren of the Methodist Episcopal clergy and Masonic brothers are Invited to attend funeral services at Irvington, N.

E. Church, on Monday, January 19, at 2:30 P. M. Interment Bloomfleld Cemetery. Pelletion Sister Mary January 16, at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Kingsbridge, where the funeral mass will be said for the repose of her soul on Monday, January 19, at 9:30.

On January 15. Services "THE FUNERAL CHURCH" (Frank E. Campbell), Broadway, Sixty street, Sunday, 9 A. M. DE beloved husband of Anna de Koven, suddenly, Friday morning.

in Chicago. a Funeral notice lately. Wednesday, January 14, William beloved husband of' Minnie Morris Johnston. Funeral services at Christ Church, Franklin avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island, at 2:30 P. Saturday, ary 17.

Boat leaves foot of Whitehall street, New York, at 1:40 P. M. Interment private. her home, Montclair, N. J.

January 15, 1920, Julla belovell wife of Isaac C. Kiggins, daughter of the late Benjamin and Mary M. Cory. Funeral private. Kindly omit flowers.

LAWRENCE. -Lucy Ryerson, of the late Henry C. Lawrence, suddenly, at her home, 166 West Eighty-eighth street, New York city, January 15, 1920. Funeral from her late residence, Saturday, January 17, 1920, at 2:30 P. M.

MILLER. -Jeanette Cuyler, widow of Morria Smith Miller, and daughter of Catherine Cuyler and Judge Elisha Powell Hurlbut. Funeral services at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. James Bayard Speyers, 17 East Ninety-second street, Saturday Lt 10:30 A. M.

Albany and Utica papers please copy. Interment Albany, N. Y. Woodmere, on Wednesday evening, January 14, Guy Richarda, dearly beloved husband of Alice Reese Richards and son of the late Benjamin and Eliza Verplanck Richarda aged 53 yeara. service will be held at Trinity Church, Hewlett, L.

on Saturday, January 17, at a quarter to 5 o'clock, on the arrival of the 3:45 P. M. train from Pennsylvania Station. Members of the Fraternity of Delta Pal are requested to attend. Tuesday, January 13, at Winter Park, George Pliny yer of Buffalo, N.

husband of Ida Wilcox Sawyer and son of the late James Denison and Olivia Field Sawyer. Burial at Buffalo. on Friday, January 16, 1920, Selmyra A. (nee Girnthe), beloved wife of Le Roy J. Sluckiger.

Funeral services her late residence, 660 Avenue between Forty-frst and Marty-second streets. Bayonne, on Sunday, January 18, at 5 P. M. Interment Kerhonkmon, N. Y.

16, Mary aged 68 years. Funeral services chapel Stephen Merritt Burial and Cremation Company, 161 Eighth, avenue, corner Eighteenth street, Sunday, 2:30. East Orange, N. January 15, 1920, Josiah Otis Ward, husband of the late Sophia Estelle Hewitt. Funeral services from the Grace Episcopal Church, Orange, N.

on Saturday at 2:80 P. on arrival of train leaving Hoboken via L. W. R. R.

at 1:53 P. M. clear last evening that the magio kiss of Miss Farrar had awakened it from a long sleep. The town will know to-day that the popular American soprano has been equipped with a new role which fits her perfectly, and that Leoncavallo's "Zaza" 1s just Geraldine Farrar with vocal and scenic accessories. Critic's Work In Laid Out.

For this reason the solemnity of critielem dissolves itself in amiable smiles. There is nothing of serious mornent to be said about the late Mr. Leoncavallo's music. Considerable can be said about the play, and there will be much protesting by all those to whom the women mercilessly described by, William Winter as "trollopes" are not fit subjects for dramatic treatment. But discussion of the play must be futile.

If you do not admit that the sorrows of a lady of untrammeled emotions should be set forth on any stage, you will decline to believe that there can be merit in such a drama in any circumstances. It you do believe in the analysis of wayward souls, then you will be greatly interested in Miss Farrar's impersonation. But in neither case will you be at all disturbed by the music. the portrayal of holy virgins and she has had her failures, With regret for Miss Farrar a has had her successes in a past entirely lost, one recalls her Elizabeth in "Tannhaeuser." One remembers with greater distinctness her glorifled Goose Girl in "King's Children." And there 13 the lachrymose Suor Angelica, holy, but not a virgin; Mater Dolorosa in a nun's veil. And shall we add Ariane, or was site te: much a woman to be of entirely spot1488 soul? Miss Farrar's scarlet ladies rise quickly before the memory, but they permit dark desires to slumber in peace.

One cannot omit mention of her Thais, who bravely labored to be shamelessly seductive, but was obviously doomed to sanctity from instant of her first appearance on the stage. Her Carmen shows more temper than temperament. One recollects with a certain relish for sheer brutality her shocking incarnation of the besmirched Louise in the last act of "Julllen." But not till last evening did Miss Farrar emerge into the glare of the footlights n.g a real siren. Never before did she reach the abandon of the creature of abuolutely uncontrolled passion. In the opera of Leoncavallo she has found her opportunity, or did she perhaps find it In the faith of David Belasco, whose master craftsmanship seems to have moulded the Metropolitan production into a thing of vivid, scarlet, theatrical life.

Music Isn't Electrifying. The reader will notice that the reviewer harps "upon my daughter." The play and Miss Farrar are the things, not the musle. There is music, to and some of it Alts the crime perfectly. It neither illuminates nor Interferes with the drama. It is often futile, often mere blank, but by no means infrequently in excellent accord with the sentiment of the situation.

If there are few vocal climaxes, the two or three that exist are theatrically well planned. Zaca's sentimentalizing in first scene about her bibulous mother makes first appeal to Mr. LeoncaVallo's lyric muse, which, however, finds something more important in the rapturous provision of Dufresne of his facile descent into the arms of Zaza. The second act affords less opportunity for the spreading of the wings of song, of which Mendelssohn wrote so tenderly, but in the third there is room, and to spare. In politely agitated cantilena Dufresne apostrophizees his desk, which is littered like his heart.

Later comes the well remembered scene between Zaza and child. Ah, the child! What would the emotional drama be without the precoclous actress? But in opera? Well, there was but one solution, to let the child speak its lines, while the orchestra played suppressed sob music in a sort of suffocated whisper. In the fourth act Leoncavallo almost reached the heart a of the situation in his setting of the passionate outbreak of the faithful but neglected Cascart, an opportunity of which Mr. Amato made apt use and with which he stirred his and Zaza 19 written by a practised hand, hearers. The duet between DON Dufresne but for the matter of that one can say the same of the entire score.

There is even a love theme--such a dear old acquaintance-which wends its way from scene to scene and sighs its mellifluous life away over the corpse of exhausted passion. But it is impossible to regard the music of this opera as subject for critical analysis. It is facile, smooth, suitable and sometimes even felicitous, but it never leaves the stage for flights into the realm of imagination. In truth it is probable that general opinion will declare its best pages to be those of the first act, which takes place behind the scenes of a music hall. Indeed Leoncavallo has caught the spirit of the environment and has composed music gay, vivacious, bordering on vulgarity, devoid of depth and altogether appro- priate.

Scene That Will Be Popular. This whole scene will be popular. Every one likes to peep into dressing rooma and touch the dangerous borders of the naughty world which is belleved to hide in such regions. "Zaza" presents an animated photograph of the fabled wickedness. All sorts of things gO on, drinking, smoking, lovemaking, high kicking, kissing, sudden embraces, biting -but this is a family newspaper.

The theatre of to-day does not shy at such doings, but the opera has been more decorous. Even Carmen is a New England schoolma'am compared to Zasa. To return to Miss Farrar. Her impersonation is the opera. Let it be added that it is a work of art.

She plays skilfully along the gamut of emotions. In the first scene she ranges from gayety to petulance and thence to passion. In the scene with the child and the brief episode with the wife she reaches the delineation of real feeling. No actress' of the spoken drama could Interpret the scene better than she. Her final act is equally good, albelt the material here 19 less difficult to manage.

Miss Farrar usually improves in her roles. However, It might be hazardous to modify last evening's impersonation. The master hand had touched It, the hand of Belasco. It is unlikely that I Mias Farrar will alter it to its beneflt. The production of the opera is what should be expected from the present di-, rection of the Metropolitan, There is much merit in the scenic attire and In the general treatment of the action.

There is little distinction in the portraiture of the chief actors. Mr. Crimi could not quite visualize the erring Dufresne, nor could he infuse Into Leoncavallo's rather insipid musio the note of feeling. His performance was creditable, inasmuch as it disclosed a sincere intent to meet the purposes of the dramatist. As the patient Cascart Mr.

Amato WAS histrionically admirable. He looked and acted the part. He sang it only tolerably. Kathleen Howard contribnted a hrondly drawn caricature of UNDERTAKERS. UNDERTAKERS.

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11 the role of Anaide, the mother of Zara, and An Frances Ingram 88 Floriana, rival of Zaza in music hall conquests, unveiled a generous picture of the siren charmer. But it was not within her power to equal the proportions of the massive pedestals upon which Miss Farrar reared her portrait of Zaza. Notables at the Opera. There was a representative audience for the new work. Mrs.

Frederick Pearson's guests were the Princess Miguel de Braganza, Mrs. Henry S. Redmond, W. Rhinelander Stewart, Benjamin S. Welles, Stuyvesant Fish and Henry R.

Sedgwick. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Iselin and John W. Riddle were with Mra.

W. Bayard Cutting. Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Warren, Miss Adele Kneeland, Misa Eleanor Hewitt and Frederick H.

Baldwin were with Charles E. Sampson. Mr. and Mrs. William B.

Bristow and Miss Juliana Cutting were guests of Charles T. Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright were Mrs. with Adolf Mrs.

George Ladenburg, J. Could. Miss Louise Sands and Frederic A. Williard were with Mr. and Mrs.

Charles B. Alexander. Mr. and Mra. James A.

Stillman and Mr. and Mrs. Reginald B. Rives were with Robert Walton Goelet. Mrs.

Charles Walsh and Mr. and Mrs. Griswold Wentz were with Mrs. A. F.

Lauter bach. There were also in the audience Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, Mrs. W. B.

Osgood Field, Mr. and Mra, Richard Newton, Miss Virginia Ten Eyck Rice, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post, Miss Harriette Post, Mrs.

William Lowe Rice, Mr. and Mrs. A. Delano Weekes, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Curtiss James, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Cushman, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mr.

and Mra. George Brewster, Mrs. John A. Hartwell, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry R. Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. F. Gray Griswold, Dr.

E. De Marnay Baruch, Mr. and Mrs. William Fahnestock, Mr. and Mrs.

Marshall Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. William Greenough, Mrs. William A. M.

Burden and Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Gerard. OLGA SAMAROFF IS HEARD IN CONCERT Edna Thomas Sings Creole Songs in Patois. Three concerts took place yesterday.

At the Philharmnic Society's regular Friday afternoon in Carnegie Hall Mme. Olga Samaroff was the soloist, playing Liszt's A major concerto for piano with orchestra. Her performance was generally admirable in Anish and in adjustment of tonal values, and it was very warmly received. The numbers orchestra were Mozart's "Magic Flute" overture, Bee(thoven's Fifth Symphony, the "Viennese Rhapsody" of F'orent Schmitt and Wagner's prelude to "The. Mastersingers." At Aeolian Hall in the afternoon Edna Thomas, a mezzo contralto of New leans, gave a programme of well chosen songs, which included in the last group four "Creole Negro Songs," sung in the Creole patois.

Her voice, which is one of her good power much and rich better in quality, served purposes such songs as Duparc's "Lamento," and, again, in en 1 on's "Je Veux" than did in three old' Italian airs, where there was tonal unevenness as well as much lack of general finish. The singer showed deI lightful feeling, and she has an attractive personality. Walter Golde, at the piano, furnished artistic accompaniments. In the evening at Sara Sokolsky-Freid gave her annual piano and organ recital. Her programme was of broad and fine selection, Bach's "Chro matic" fantasy being one of the principal numbers for piano, and for organ, as an elaborate closing piece, Liszt's fantasy and fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad Salutarem nudam." MANY PARTICIPATE IN BENEFIT DANCES Two Hospitals and Home Charities to Get Proceeds.

The second of a series of supper dances under auspices of The Bachelors, for the benefit of home charities, was given last evening in the Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt. Among those who entertained friends were Mr. and Mrs. Gustav J. S.

White, Mr. and Mre. J. Henry Alexandre, Mr. and Mrs.

John Aspegren, Mr. and Mrs. George Jay Gould, Mrs. Edward N. Breitung.

Mrs. James B. Haggin, Mr. and Mrg. Le Roy W.

Baldwin, Jules S. Bache, Mrs. George R. Smith. Mrs.

Van Rensselaer King, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Terry, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Payne Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg and S. Montgomery Roosevelt.

The committee in charge of the dances included Richard Peters. R. Thornton Wilson, Alfonso de Navarro, Horace C. Stebbins, Maurice Roche, Whitney Warren, W. Rhinelander Stewart, Schuyler L.

Parsons and W. Wickham Hoffman. The second of the St. Christopher League dances for benefit of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospltal was given last night in the ballroom of the Plaza. Markel's orchestra played for the dancing.

Miss Grace B. Rogers is president of the league; Miss Marian Whitman, secretary, and Karl T. Frederick, treasurer. Among the patronesses. are Mmes.

John P. Bartlett. Simeon B. Chapin, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, William H. Burr, James V.

Chalmers, William Stanley Dell, James S. Whitman. Charles Thaddeus Terry, George Hillard Benjamin. Daniel Fiske Kellogg, Schuyler Schleffelln, William Barclay Parsons, Henry A. Todd.

Robert Livingston Gerry, Herbert Lee Pratt, Noah C. Rogers, Ashton Crosby Clarkson, Mortimer Ward, Joseph R. Guernsey, Richmond Mayo-Smith and S. Rainsford. The annual reception and dance of the Ladies Auxiliary of St.

Vincent's Hospital for the beneflt of that Institution was held last evening in the ballroom of the Waldorf- Astoria. Among those who had boxes were the Countess Laugler-Villars, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, Dr.

and Constantine J. MacGuire, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Kelly, Mrs.

De Lancey Kane, Dr. and Mrs. Peter Murray, Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. O'Connor, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ryan, Mr.

and Mrs. F. Burrall Hoffman, Mrs. John F. Galvin, Dr.

and Mrs. Jose M. Ferrer, Dr. Charles Nammack, Dr. and Mrs.

George D. Stewart, Mrs. A. J. Cardler and Mr.

and Mrs. Peter McDonnell. ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED. Mr. and Mrs.

C. Temple Emmet of Stony Brook, L. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet, to Edwin Dennison Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tdwin D.

Morga not Wheatley, Westbury, L. I. Miss Emmet is a descendant of the first John Jacob Astor and of Thomas Addis Emmet. She was introduced to soclety three seasons ago and is a member of the Junior League. Mrs.

Edwin D. Morgan of Wheatley, vard in 1913, and is a member of the Knickerbocker, Racquet and Tennis and Harvard clubs. During the war he was la Captain of cavalry. The wedding will take place next month. Mme.

Chambran Sails for U. 8. PARIS, Jan. Charles de Chambrun, wife of the Counsellor of the French Embassy in Washington, has sailed for the United States, accompanted by her daughter. She expecta to return to France next April, NOTES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD.

Miss Emmalena Sizer, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Robert Ryland Sizer, will be married to David Duncan, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.

Butler Duncan, this afternoon in the home of her parents, 53 East Seventy-third street. The ceremony will be witnessed by a small gathering of relatives and friends. Miss Charlotte Platt, daughter of Henry B. Platt, will be married to Huntington Lyman, son 1 of Hart Lyman, this afternoon in the Madison Avenue byterian Church. A reception will follow at 535 Park avenue.

In Emmanuel Church, Boston, to-day at noon Miss L. Maud Windeler, daughter of G. Herbert Windeler, will be married to William A. Kimbel of this city, The marriage of Miss Jane Story, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John P. Story, to Capt. R. R. Glen of the tish Embassy, will take place to-day in Washington.

In chantry of St. Thomas's Church this afternoon Miss Frances Catharine Parsons, A daughter of Arthur Webb Parsons, will be married to Kneeland L'Amereux Green. A reception will follow at 120 East Fifty -sixth street. Mr. and Mrs.

William T. Hildrup, will give a dinner this evening at the St. Regis for Mrs. John King Van selaer. Mrs.

E. Mortimer Ward will give a dance to-night at the Plaza for her daughter by a former marriage, Miss Dorothy Post Clapp, debut ante. Mrs. George L. Shearer, East Sixty- sixth street, will give a reception this afternoon to introduce her daughter, Miss Julla Shearer.

For the benefit of the New York Women's League for Animals Maurice Maeterlinck will give a lecture this afternoon in the home of Mrs. James Speyer, 1058 Fifth avenue. His topics will be "Some New Views on Immortality" and "The Soul of Animals." The officers of the league are Mrs. Speyer, Mrs. Frederick W.

Vanderbilt, Mrs. M. Orme Wilson, Mrs. Lewis Gouverneur Morris and Mrs. John Dyneley Prince.

Mrs. E. Henry Harriman, 1 East Sixty-ninth street, gave a dinner small dance last evening for Mr. and Mrs. Roland Harriman.

Mrs. John Adams Drake and Mrs. William Boyce Thompson are arranging a fancy dress bal! for the beneft of the Fund for Free Milk in Italy, to be given In the Della Robbia Room of the Vanderbilt on the night of February 14. Mr. and Mrs.

Stuart G. Gibboney have returned to 115 East Fifty-third street after passing several weeks in Pinehurst, N. C. Senator and Mrs. Peter Goelet have come to the Plaza from Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Wright Harriman, Miss Miriam Harriman and Alan Harriman, who recently sailed for Europe, will make a trip around the world, returning by way of China and Japan. They will arrive at Avondale Farm, Brookville, N.

in August. THREE LIBRARIES TO BE DISPERSED Books Relating to Whistler Are Included. Three libraries of special interest are on view at the American Art Association preparatory to sales on January 19, 20 and 21. These are the books relatIng to Whistler and including a group of his lithographs, owned by the late Frederick W. Hunter; the angling and other literature of John F.

Thompson of Woodhaven, L. and art publications owned hy the late Thatcher M. Adams and Cyrus Osborn Baker. Among the Whistler rareties is an Inscribed copy "Art and Critics," in which the artist excoriated Ruskin after the famous libel suit in which he won one cent damages. There 18 of course the "Gentle Art." the Henry W.

Poor Chevalet copy; the "Nocturnes. Marines and the "Eden Versus the "Ten the "Wilde V. Whistler," and many rare works concerning Whistler's art. The lithographs include the "Nursemaids," "La Robe Rouge," "The Smith's Yard," "Savoy Pigeons," "St. Anne's Soho" and "Little Evelyn." The John F.

Thompson library ineludes such important angling works as these: "Venable's Experienced Angler. "Husbandman's Jewel, Walton Cotton's "Angler, Scott's "British Field Sports" and Baker's "Art of Angling." There are also Villon Society's "Arabian Nights." sets of Balzac, Mark Twain, Thackeray, Cruikshank, Victor Hugo, Lamb, Napoleon, Pepys, Shakespeare and many art publications de luxe. The Adams and Baker libraries also contain many volumes relating to the arts and many library sets of well known authors. ROBERT KAMBER DIES; STARTED BREAD LINE Suggested to "The Sun" Idea That Helped Thousands. Robert Kamber, who was Instrumental in the establishment of the famous SUN free bread line during the winter of 1914, died on Thursday in his home, 590 West End avenue.

Although only 54 years 'old. Mr. Kamber, owing to impaired health, had not been actively engaged in business for several years and during the last six months his condition had been one of gradual decline. Mr. Kamber was born in Berlin, Germany, and came to this country 28 a boy of 11.

For more than twenty-five years he had been at the head of the firm of Robert Kamber clothing manufacturers, of 85 Fifth avenue. He is survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter, About the first of March, 1914, when there was much suffering from unemploymen, the editor of THE SUN received a letter from Mr. Kamber suggesting the establishment of a free bread depot for the relief of the needy and backing his suggestion with a check for $1,000. Accordingly, the depot was opened on March 9 at 260 Elizabeth street and was immediately besieged by hundreds of starving men and women Many other generous people hastened to contribute their support to the fund, 80 that THE SUN was able to maintain the depot, as there was need, during the winters of 1914, 1915 and 1916, Thouof persons out of work were fed at the depot, and although the offices of kindly disposed visitors A large percentage of the idle obtained employment and many deserving instances of poverty were alleviated. Upon inquiry at the time of Mr.

Kamber's gift it was found that this WAS by no means his frat charitable enterprise, as he held the perhaps unique position of contributor to every hospital In the city, least to the best of his knowledge. GEORGE H. ANDERSON. PITTSBURG, Jan. H.

Anderson, 88 years old, well known in Pennsylvania Republican politics, died here to-day. Born in 1873, he was chosen speaker State Senate, and in 1877 was appointed postmaster of Pittsburg. For many years Mr. AnderHon was associated with the coal and coke business at Bolivar, Pa. BOOKS WANTED LIBRARIES OF BOOKS PURCHASED FOR CASH CALLS AT RESIDENCES IN OR OUT OF TOWN THE BOOK CORNER, 851 FIFTH COR.

28TH ST. NEW YORK CITY. REGINALD DE KOVEN, COMPOSER, DEAD Was Supervising Production of First Grand Opera, "Rip Van Winkle." Special Despatch to Tam SUN. CHICAGO, Jan. De Koven, most successful of all American born operatic composers, died here this morning of an apoplectic stroke.

A few moments before his death he was congratulating himself on the success of his Arst grand opera, "Rip Van Winkle." Mr De Koven was with a party friends when he died in the home of Mrs. Joseph Fish, at 5490 South Shore Drive. Many of the guests were memberg of the Chicago Opera Company, Mrs. Robert McGann of 120 East Pearson street, a sister of the composer's widow, who was one of the guests, said that so far his relatives and friends knew, the composer was in the best of health. Just before the strolte he said to other guests: "This is a wonderful time for me.

My new opera, 'Rip Van is having remarkable success. The house for Saturday is sold out and it pleases the puble immensely." Mrs. De Koven, who was Miss Anna Farwell of Chicago, was in New York at the time her husband's death and left Immediately for Chicago. Son of a Minister. Henry Louis Reginald De Koven was born April 3, 1859, in Middletown, Conn.

His father was the Rev. Henry De Koven, 8 Protestant Episcopal clergyman well known a8 a High Church leader. He was educated at St. John's Col'ege. Oxford, and took his degree in 1879.

While at Oxford he revealed aptitude for musical composition and wrote "Marjorie Daw," a song that was popular during his college days, and still is. The first opera he produced was "The Begum," put on by the McCall Opera Company In 1887. The success of this gave him the opportunity to go abroad to study eminent musicians such a9 Speldl, Lebert, Prueckner, Vannuccini and Richard Genee. While a pupil of Genee in Vienna in 1889 he wrote "Don Quixote." was only partly successful. But the next year he produced his greatest success, "Robin Hood," which became famous as the Bostonian's masterpiece.

"The Knickerbockers," "The Fencing Master" and "The Algerian' followed and each was successful. When "The Highwayman," "Rob Roy" a and "The Three Dragons" were produced in turn, Mr. De Koven became the leading in the United States. He also composer wrote most of the music for "The Man in Moon" and "From Broadway to Tokio." These were followed by De Wolf Hopper's big success. "Happyland," and the opera, "The Girls from Holland." The tale is completed by such operas as "Tho Student "The Golden Butterfly," "The Wedding Trip," "Her Little Highness" and "The Canterbury Tales Championed U.

S. Composers. De Koven always was the protagonist of the American composer. He tained that American composers of equal merit were slighted here for foreign merely because they were forcomposers eigners. Himself the author of fortyfour operas and more than 400 other musical compositions, as well as 300 he would not listen to those who songs, said there was no real musical talent in America.

"In 1917, De Koven headed a ment as chairman of the national committee of organization for the production of operas by American composers and dramatists only, acted and sung by all-American company with an allan American orchestra, chorus and ballet. De Koven saw America's musical prestige greatly enhanced by the war, saying: "For years more than three-fourths of the light music has come from abroad. and Austria are out of It now Germany so far as America is concerned, any way, England and France have lost so and artists through the war that of many necessity America must come into the first rank." Mr. De Koven was for a time musical critic of the New York Herald married in 1884 to Anna Far. He was of the late Charles well, daughter Farwell of Chicago, United States Illinols.

They lived at 1025 tor from Park avenue, New York. In addition to his widow Mr. De Koven is survived by one daughter, Mrs. E. K.

Hudson of 134 East Seventysecond street, New York. MAJOR EVAN R. JONES. LONDON, Jan. Evan Rowland Jones, a veteran of the American civil war and editor and proprietor of the Shipping World, died here to-day.

Major Jones was an author and former editor of the London Globe. He came to America at the age of 15 and located at Milwaukee, where he organized the Welsh citizens of that city into Lincoln Society in 1860. they When the civil war broke out, although age, he enlisted the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry, later attaining to the rank of Major. After the war he held a position in the State service at Madison, from where went, under appointment by President Grant, to serve as American Consul for South Wales. He was the author of a number of biographical and historical sketches.

He was at Penylan Farm, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, 1846. His last years were spent in London. DR. ISAAC SHARPLESS. PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

Isaac Sharpless, former president of Haverford College, died to-night in his home in Haverford. He had been in ill health for some months. Dr. Sharpless WAS born Chester County, December 16, 1848, and was graduated from Harvard in 1873. He joined faculty of Haverford College as instructor in mathematics in 1875 and became subsequently professor of mathematics and astronomy, dean from 1884 to 1887, and president from 1887 to 1917.

Later became dean the Wistar Brown Graduate School of Haverford College. Dr. Sharpless was the author of a number of textbooks and historical works. J. KEARNEY RICE.

Funeral 'services were held in New Brunswick yesterday for the late Judge J. Kearney Rice, former County Prosecutor and United States District Attorney for New Jersey. Supreme Court Justices Swayze and Bergen, Circuit Court Judge Silzer, County Judge Daly, Mayor John J. Morrison and the entire Middlesex County Bar Association attended the funeral. All county courts were closed throughout the day, and the flags on the county buildings were ordered placed at halt staff.

Services were held at the home by Rev. W. W. Knox and at Christ Church by the Rev. Herbert Parrish.

PATRICK HENRY NEVINS. Funeral services will be held to-day, for Patrick Henry Neving, 70 years old of 249 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, who was a retired battalion chief of the Fire Department. He was a brother of former Chief Thomas F. Nevina of the Brooklyn Fire Department. He is survived by his wife.

two sons and a daughter. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, CAPTAIN OF OSCAR IS DEAD Dane Worked for Scandinavian Since 1888. Capt. Hempel, for eighteen years commander of the ScandinavianAmerican liner Oscar is dead in Copenhagen, according to a cablegram received yesterday at the offices of his line at 1 Broadway. He was operated on ten days and was thought to be recovering when a relapse came on.

Capt. Hemper was known among the men of his profession as one of the best navigators among the crack seamen of the ocean liners. He was born 'In Denmark fifty-seven years ago. While still a boy his father, instructor in A school of navigation, taught him all he knew of the sclence. Capt.

Hempel became connected with the Scandinavian- American Line and its owners, the United Steamship Company of Copenhagen, in 1888. During his many years at sea he visited practically every part of the world, although most of his work was between Baltic ports and the North Atlantic, In 1902, when the Oscar a vessel of 16,000 tons displacement, was placed 'in. service the line selected Capt. Hempel as her commander, and until his death Humrel piloted the chip safely through all yeathers and during the war through mine infested waters. The Oscar II, was the "peace ship" on which Henry Ford and party embarked to "get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." Capt.

Hempel was a great friend of Mr. Ford and the latter visited the vessel whenever fortune brought the sea captain and manufacturer to New York at the same time. Capt. Hempel brought back on his vessel Dr. Cook after the Brooklyn man reported he had discovered the North Pole.

WARREN A. LOCKE. Special Despatch to THE SUN. BOSTON, Jan. A.

Locke, organist in St. Paul's Cathedral for thirty-one years, and for many years in charge the male choir in Appleton in his Brattle street, CamChapel, Harvard, University, died to-day bridge, in his seventy-third year. He was born in Charlestown, October 31, 1847, was graduated from Harvard in 1869 and took his degree of A. M. three years later.

He was chosen master in St. Mark's School, Southboro, in 1869, resigning five years later to abroad for the study of music. He go was in Germany four years, and while there married Miss Madeline Weldemann. Mr. Locke is survived by his wife and three sons, Charles Warren, instructor in the Middlesex school, Concord; Arthur Ware, instructor in music at Smith College, and Bradford B.

in the Church Pension Fund office, New York city. DR. LORETTUS S. METCALF. Dr.

Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, editor and founder of the Forum, died Thursday evening at his home, Los Angeles, in his eighty-third year. For more than forty years Dr. Metcalf was engaged in editorial work. In 1871 he edited several weekly journals in Boston, from 1876 to 1885 he was managing editor of the North American Review, and founded the Forum in 1886 and edited it until 1891. Two years later he founded the Florida Daily Citizen of Jacksonville the editorship of which he did not relinquish until 1897.

Mr. Metcalf was born at Monmouth, and was graduated from Bates College in 1887. LIEUT. FRED H. RAMSAY.

Lieut. Fred H. Ramsay, U. S. retired, died yesterday morning at his home, 7514 Fourth avenue, Fort Hamilton, in his seventy-sixth year.

He had been a paymaster of the navy and retired seven years ago after thirty years service in every part of the world Lieut. Ramsay born at Sydney. Australia. He was paymaster of the ill fated battleship Maine on her trip to Havana, Cuba, and was assigned to service elsewhere only a few days before the warship was blown up. Lieut.

Ramsay was recalled during the great war and served a8 paymaster in the supply department at the New York Navy Yard. He la survived by a son. Interment will be at Evergreens Cemetery. With the papers full of "Sale" advertisements, we can readily understand why old friends now burst in on us to ask "When do you expect to reduce prices on clothing?" We'll have to let you in on the inside. We have done and are doing the biggest clothing business in our history.

One reason probably is because we are our own manufacturers and base prices on actual cost--and, in all cases, take only our normal profit. It's the old law of and demand. We are selling as fast as we can produce. Therefore have nothing to reduce. Quality, Workmanship, Wear, are factors that make our clothes worth while.

We invite comparison even while Sales are raging. Everything men and boys wear. ROGERS PEET COMPANY Broadway Broadway at 13th St. "Four at 34th St. Convenient Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.

at Warren at 41st St. JUNIUS S. MORGAN MAKES ART GIFT Donates Superb Collection of Albert Durer Prints to Metropolitan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art placed on view yesterday a number of Important recent accessions and made announcements of gifts of other im. portant works of art not yet on view.

Among the latter the gift of the Albert Durer Prints, collected by Junius Spencer Morgan takes precedence. This collection, which has but lately come to the museum, is the result of many years of patient and Intelligent effort upon the part of Mr. Morgan, Every authentic plate by Durer is represented by at least one very fine impression. There are also about twothirds of the known woodeuts as well as two original wood blocks. The collection is being arranged and consolidated with the Durers already owned by the museum, and the sum total makes one of the finest expositions of Durer prints in the world.

W. M. Ivins, the curator of the museum's prints, spoke of the collection with unbounded enthusiasm and said that "It must be regarded as a fortunate year for his department in which two such accessions as the complete set of Holbein's 'Dance of Death' and these incomparable Morgan Durers were added to the museum's possessions." In the department of far Eastern art the museum is showing a gallery full of Chinese "ancestor' portraits loaned by Samuel T. Peters. It is only within recent years that such portraits have been coming from China, as the portraits are 50 close connected with al that Orlentals hold sacred that they are about the last of their possessions they are willing to relinquish.

It is a surprise, in consequence, to find Mr. Peters's collection so replete with them. The plan of all the portraits is similar. The robes of the seated figures are painted in flat tints, which give the paintings an agreeable mural effectiveness. The faces are drawn with mense care and the similarity in style to the work of Holbein has often been remarked.

Two remarkable seventeenth century screens, painted by and loaned by Sumner Welles, Foreman In this exhibition. In the room of recent accessions two splendid tapestries are being shown, the bequest of Mrs. Augustua D. Jullliard. The tapestries, which are magnificent examples of early sixteenth century Flemish work, were left by Mra.

Juilliard to the museum and subject to the life interest of her husband, whose death occurred last spring. With the tapestries are shown a pair of beautiful bronze-gilt candelabra of nineteenth century French workmanship and a pair of bronze ewers of the same period. The museum's Bulletin announces that the fourth exhibition of work by Amerlean manufacturers and designers is to occur in March, and that the fiftieth annual meeting of the members of the corporation of the museum will take place January 19. FRENCH DECORATIVE ART. Work by New Society Shown for First Time.

A small collection by "Belle France," the first to be shown in this country, is on view in the Karl Freund Studios. The designs, which are principally wall hangings, sand decidedly original, have been made by soldiers who fought in the war These artists, who first came into prominence by designing the decorations for the Victory celebration In Paris, including the famous cenotaph, have organized into a society under the presldency of Louts Sue, Miss Elizabeth Dryden, the writer, brought the things to this country and hag them in charge. Free Concert at City College. Under the auspices of Mayor Hylan's People's Concerts Committee Joseph Bonnet, organist, in the Church of St. Fustache, Paris, and the New Symphony Orchestra, with Paul Eisler 88 conductor, will give a free concert next Thursday evening in Great Hall of the College of the City of New York, St.

Terrace and 139th street. "TWO NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS" NOW ON FREE VIEW At The American Art Galleries Madison Square South, New York ON FREE VIEW 9 A. M. UNTIL 6 P. M.

And Continuing Until the Date of Sale THE NOTABLE COLLECTION OF Modern Pictures By Celebrated FOREIGN AND AMERICAN ARTISTS Formed by Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln Of Forest Hills, Jamaica Plain, Mass. WHICH INCLUDES IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF THE FRENCH, DUTCH AND AMERICAN SCHOOLS. AMONG WHICH IS A REMARKABLE GROUP OF WORKS BY THAULOW.

MASTERPIECES BY WINSLOW HOMER, LAFARGE. CHILDE HASSAM, VEDDER. BUNCE AND SARGENT KENDALL. AND VERY FINE EXAMPLES OF MILLET, CAZIN. LEPINE, BOUDIN, JONGKIND.

ZEIM, CLAYS, VOLLON, MAUVE, NEUHUYS, BOSBOOM, MESDAG, PIETERS AND MANY OF THEIR RARIES. TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF COROT, DAUBIGNY, TROYON, VAN MARCKE, SCHREYER, BOUGUEREAU, ROYBET, TOURNIERES, POUTBUS, TOCQUE CHARLEMONT. From the Collection of the late COL. NATHAN H. HEFT AND PRIVATE OWNERS To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, JANUARY 22d In the Grand Ballroom of The Hotel Plaza Fifth Avenue, 58th to 59th Street (Admission by Card To Be Had Free of the Managers) Catalogue mailed to applicants on receipt of one dollar.

-ALSO ON FREE VIEWThe Very Important Collection of Early American and English Furniture RARE EARLY AMERICAN AND ENGLISH GLASS, LUSTRE AND OTHER FINE OLD CHINA." INCLUDING AN IMPOSING GATHERING OF LOWESTOFT, BRASSES AND OTHER ANTIQUES. Belonging to Mrs. Eben Sutton OF BALTIMORE Which Has Been Declared by Experts To Be "ONE OF THE MOST NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY" TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE Thursday, Friday and Saturday Afternoons next, January 22nd, 23rd 24th Beginning Each Afternoon, at 2:30 o'Clock At the American Art Galleries Madison Square, South Descriptive Catalogue by Mr. Horace Townsend. Illustrated by Halftone Reproductions, will be mailed to applicants on receipt of one dollar.

The Sales Will Be Conducted by MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY and his assistants, MR. OTTO BERNET and MR. H.

H. PARKE, of the AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers Madison Sq. South, Entrance 6 E. 23d Street, New York BACHELLER'S NOVEL ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN A MAN FOR By BACHELLER IRVING THE AGES Author of "The Light in the Clearing." Philadelphia Press: El Former U. S.

Senator Albert J. Beveridge has written in full Mr. of Bacheller has charm, produced redolent a of story the that atmos- is the N. Y. winning Times Review: phere of a most picturesque period in American It is not Lincoln the reformer nor Lincoln the history, and delicately quaint in that humorous statesman that we think of when we read "A attitude which is so much like Lincoln's own.

Man for the Ages," but rather it is Lincoln the human being, as he appeared among the neighThe Boston Herald Says: bors and friends with whom he lived, when the great purposes of his life were being formed and It is easy to see that it will rank as of the when providence was fitting him to achieve big books of the year and perhaps of many years. those purposes. The Cincinnati Times Star The N. Y. Sun Says: Says: It is a curious thing, but in A Man for the Ages you do not seem to be reading history or biogA beautiful and enthralling story, so con vine- raphy at all ao much as pure story, so naturally Ing that one is almost left in as to whether has Mr.

Bacheller woven the Lincoln lore and it is fact or fiction. legend and fact into his text. The Publishers.