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1923 80 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL janet Offers Some "Second Thoughts on First Night Au She Graced MUSIC NOTES Themes and Variations Music of the Week Advice to Wives Stage By ALEXANDER W00LLC0TT By LINTON MARTIN Those wee NEW, YOHK, April 21. On perhaps four or five first-nights of the several thousand I have attended In one land or another during tho past dozen years did thu audience seem to lie having us if- iV4i hVI are laboring under the impression thut the Brottisll race Is lacking in sense of humor need only be referred to Luc Hit Gear, the iiiimi tublet comedienne of "Queen High'1 at Ilia Chestnut Street a House, in order to change their minds. While Janet Ilorton, the striking brunette and artistic gold-digging Flora from 'Frisco, in "No, No, Nanette," at the Gurrick, declares that most women talk themselves out of happiness. "Murriod life is by for th happiest," says Miss Hortoii, "Hut. after the nuptial knot has hMii.

II SIAMESE twin are only casual acquaintances beside the meat Philadelphia Orchestra patrons in- theiic favorite- symbolic faro. This devotion-is again, dem-eustriited iu the result of. Urn popular tote for tne "request" programme to be presented at the final concerts of the seasoD this wek. Pop the third jeason in succession, and for the fourth time in five seasons, tha symphony selected is tha Cesar Franck. The.

syne phony that figured ns "runner up," gnu tha Beethoven Fifth, which victorious in the onlj scasun during tile past live when tha Ceaar Franjsk was As for Stokowski himself, he apparently feels that the episode was- sufficiently eloquent itself, uud thut ho mis nothing editorially to. add to iu For. the imiuy who, have asked, what he lias tu oiler, it may be said that an, important orchestra official declares thut Stokowski does nut intend to make any comment, whatever, THE tumult and the shouting caused by Stokowski's of Varese's "Auioriques" just the woek before, the spectacular demonstration, of, a. week ngu, are over. But thu composition itself continue! to If icD) 1 1 it, The Gertnantown Hrniifh (Zekww Ilahn) I'hilgdelphia Muxicnl Academy uunounees soug iculul be given by John Quitie, baritone, assisted by Joseph Clurke, pianist, next.

Friday evening at the Germnntowu V. M. C. A. auditorium, Invitations may be obtained, ut 30 JCust Walnut luue, Uer-uiuutown.

The annual spring concert of the Matinee Musical. Clubthe most important yearly eveut on the club's calendar- will be giwu next Thursday evening in the Bellevue-Stratford bull-room. The programme is exceptionally uiubitious, and "ill lie followed by a dance. There will be. numbers by the chorus, string ensembles, harp ensemble, ballet aiiil an opera tableaux, the latter living the final trio from "Faust," with, Kthel Kokurd ns Albeit Mahler uud Plotr Wialn as Mepliisto, while "Carmen" excerpts will be givon by Ruth Montague, Til: lio Barinaih, Ellzabelh Porter Enrln, Albert Mulder nnd Plotr Wiila, with Alexander Stimllena at the piuuo.

Efrem Zimlmllst, violinist, will be heard in recilnli with John Barnos Wells, tenor ami composer, at the I'eun Athletio Club this evening. The programme is elaborate uud of unusual' interest, A. co-operative prograiuiiio will be day now I expect to hear that Miss Hummer Is at work on a new phiy of which the lending part will lie played either by Lenore Ulric or John Drew. This production of "Poincroy's Past" has its own history. Mr.

Trucx, in the first flush of his success, in Fall Guy," last year, entered majestically I he producing firm now appearing ou a lot of elegant stationery and officH-ilooi'H as Iloothc, Glettsoii and Trucx, The firm was already prosperous us the producers of "la Zitt SoV" which is now the reigning hit Lundou, but since Mr. Trucx entered into tho partnership aftur thai had. iKien launched, its success availed him nothing except, 1 suppose, a pluusuul. glow nt such au association and a Christian gludiuws that his partners were doing so well. Another production, put, on while he was oil tour uud to which ho was affably purmiited lo shure, failed miserably and was quickly forgotten, Mr.

True grew restless, but ho bided Ins tinio until Mr. Glmiaou should have sailed tho seas to play "Is Zat So?" iu London nud until Mr. Boollm Hhotild have wandered off to Paris to see thu sights. Than ho bought "Poincroy's Past," engaged a theatre, signed a lot, of contracts with a neat, iirm hand nnd finally notified his fur-away partners In what lis hud comm. tie.

I them. Miss Gnat wits bom in New York, her pin- LUELL and her father is a cuts nre Scolch not ctioson. nojiue irauiuouut change-Jessness of. tha tides, gritfitntiun and tlis law1, of he Medea and Persians seems not a circumstance to tha mora engage the interest, of some able oh-servurs. Following the Now York, presentation ot the, world, which provoked as much commotion in Carnegie graduate of the University of, iidm- Biudrrn immurauiuiyi or iromovnniiity.

of tha preferences of patron, of. the tMiilniliJiihia, Orchestra. woman aiust JANtT notilON know how and when to keep-hoy month shut. Huskies, she must resort to nil tho God-givu lure- femininity, is heir to. A talkative, nagging wjlo out of luck, Slio usually thinks it her duly to 'mantigo' her husband.

The majority of men cannot be muiiuged-they can be led." Miss Hnrtnn tins boon dramatic aotrmts for muny Slio was playing the roln of Flora soiuu ten jonra The other week the suggestion, was" TODAT Curtis Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor. Curtis Institute, 3.30 P. M. Symphony Club concert. Academy.

8.1 Pi M. Eftem Zlmbalist, violinist, and John, Barnes Wells, tenor, in recital. Penn Athletic Club. 8.30 M. MONDAY Philadelphia Orchestra.

Academy. 8.15 P. M. TUESDAY "Co-operative: by Matinee Musical; Club and Philadelphia Music Club. Bells-vue-Stratford Ballroom.

2.30 WEDNESDAY Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski; Efrem Zimbalistt violinist, and other soloists, in Gala Concert, Wanamaker Store, 8.15 P. Etailio do Gogorza, baritone, in recital, Curtis Institute. 8.15 P. M. Orpheus Club, 8,15 F.

M. THURSDAY Matinee Musical Club's nual Spring Concert. Bellevue-Stratford Ballroom. 8.15 P. M.

Choral Society of Atlantic Refining Company in Spring Concert. Girard Craftsman's. Club, 8.15 P. M. FRIDAY Philadelphi a Orchestra, Academy.

2.30 P. SATURDAY Philadelphia Orchestra. Academy. 8.15. P.

ago when what is now the most prosperous- musical comedy est nut was good a tune ns tun bubbling and On-lighted assemblage which tilled the Plymouth Theatre on Monday night fur the first performance of the "lolantho" re-vmil, which Wlnturop Ames has beeu brewing behind closed doors these tunny weeks past. It is incomparably the 1m periormiuii'H which has blussed it Gilbert, and Sulliviiu opera iu uiy time and, since "lolanihe" is one -of the Savoy works less frequently heard in this country, tho house was full of to whom its sweet tuuus and high noiiMiusit came fresh. Hut tb main body of such an audience nre thu faithful who arc huIiIoiii seuu at the, preuiiures except whou thu works of Gilbert ami Sullivan nre snitig. 1 do not kuow what, they do in between times. Sit at home, and sulk, most likely.

Or perhaps piay the scores over on their victielas. And that is uot so easily managed as you might imagine. For only 111 England urn all tho operas iitmlii into records and it take some kind of shennauttin for an American lo get a set for his. home over here. 'Tha thing to do is to get tho address ot tha grainiiphonc company out the adveni-cincnt in Punch and then arrange, wit 11 some passerby to buy ami ship the records to you I wurhd.

out. the s.vstetu with great, euro tne yours ago and it did not take nits a day over mouths to achiovo thu euinplutc delivery on my remote doorstep, There wits noihiug then to do hot, just sit hack, ami husk in tho sunny ptospuct of hearing this pnchauliug tint-sio every night. Shortly I liereat'ioc, llm equally loyal Savoiiiids among nty neighbors began to drop in and borrow "The Pirates ot Paic.niico" su.v, or "The (iondolicrs just for thu evening you know, And now of all my treasure, not a morsel remains. On Monday night all tli faithful wero there, with Kdnu Fcrltor beating her palms and Moulaguu. i.lufcs "one vast substantial." Only Hubert Peuclilcy was absent, addressing some women's club iu St Louis and linting every one in his audience, i 11111 euro, Scattered about one could sun sundry greybeards Kooning jealous tabs on every word, burgh.

Lunlla Geur, nccoruing to those who know her well, hns ns keenly developed a sense of humor as is possessed by 'toy person on tho stage. She can see the amusing aide of any situation and can extract something to laugh nt from a telephone directory or a treatise on Greek philosophy, tier humor is not broad; if is rather subtle ut limes, but that only adds to Us eltecliveness. Ltuiiht's parents hud no idea of their daughter going ou tho stage. She nnitle Iter debut in Nuw Vork society a few veins ago and then appeared In a charily tnirforiuauce given by the Junior League, Elizabeth Marbtiiy, who divides her activities between society, the nris ami tha theatre, had singed the performance, and at that tune Hhe was interested wilh tho Shuberls in a musical comedy called "Love O1 Mike." In this show was tho part of sophisticated society girl which the director found sumo diilicully iu tilling, and Miss Mtir- notning nioro limn niu siiucessuu inrce, "My Lady Friends." Therefore, being possosBCil of a cultivated- dramatic, or tragic, mind, her conclusion thut ninu Hull aa it uid. liftw in tho Academy.

John Boyd, relieves himself of some interesting observations. He writes: "The display of frawsled nerves is an earnest of music's extraordinary quality, whether for good, or biuU It simply does something, romnrkuhlo, perhaps sinful, or merely pathologic, to un audience's ganglia. When the lust nolo was played 1 simply hud. to talk to somebody. And 1 spoke, cordially nnd ebulliently, to.

the severe-faced, spinster next to me, to whom 1 have given nothing but glares nil season. She fans hersulf during the concerts, Appnn-ently the- air is- uot so fresh. in Carnegie, linlL as in Eivariliilft, Jnmey, whence she comtnutes ten Tuesdays soason oout, sweater, and umbrella, if possible, She dueuult. cough, strange- to say. "At any rata, I simply had to talk to.

somebody, as a release from the tension that music subjected me to. Incidentally, she twitched nil through it. and givou by thu Matiimo Musical Club and guide in incse cojumus mat nu lonn ot ballot possibly t) "restrictive, and that- greater fraom, 0f choice, with a printed rjiTlTmler, of the works iilnved in reccf seasons, might ha met by voles faf Jess huoknoyod. numbers, tinier Vrt present system, or form of biiHiH the selection of a. symphony and jfl overture is made obligatory, although quite possibly a mora varied and interesting jirogrnnime might consist utir tirely of works generally classiliedi as "miscellaneous," because of their great-(r freedom of But apparently the rigid classification) of tha ballot fan't followed too slavishly in.

(nuking, up the "request" programme, for, tha first number that blossoms out: on. rha list this year, is the Trhaikovski, Solonnello, or "IStii," while mention of rile fact that it happens to be an overture is blandly avoided. In suite of the irreverent rites and times nut of twi divoroos rosult from that "muniigemunl" habit is "The uuiy-l-do-so-und-ho sort of gui is tho happy ono," Hmtou sujs. "If sho wishes for soincttiiug she resorts to that feminine Into, She appeals to, her husband's chivalry, or ego, as necessity rnuuirM, ami never makes demands or nn onlltuist of temperament. Such girl has sense, "Can you imagine anything mora disastrous to a homo than shrewish wife boiling over with complaints when her husbuml returns from hnrd day hi Ihihiiicbs and lute for ilinniu I cannot No, it is the winsome sort of wiffl that makes bury persuaded Gear's parents to ,.11.....

,1.,. 1 sliei too, spoke as cordially to as it I were tho leading local pastor Him Anguished cables were tha response. To these Mr. Trucx replied (by wire-lass and with simple dignity "Give the kill ohuuoo." Then grudging nsucnt from tho worried abseufetts ami, now, at tho Longuere, matinees WcduetHhiy uud Saturday, "L'omuroy'a Past" Spanish Star Soores Success At this writing it aeems highly likely that Uuqiicl Meller will add to her New York engagement, switt, uiiubln ciw-s-coinitry lour. Despite tho quite, intluiiil gniuibllug nt the price asked by her management ami despite the inevitable prulests of the chronic dis- n.eis win, simply cuunol, hear hullabaloo of aduuraliou for any artist without sayuig, automatically: "Oh, she's riot so much," grtmt.

crowds lira flocking to hear her and she is enjoying 11 reclaim! In New York such as sho iiuh uover known before. It is, I suppose, our way. Mi ller is Cntulnn woman who, like Trilby, used to ting oil the street-corners; liars is the art of thu jongleurs of old, Sho ac ls her sours and it is as an actress that sho builds her following iu each laud to which she direels her Vilglllllt. steps. It was the gesture of her manager, E.

Itity Goetz, in asking S2ft rdent anathemas of tb.fr unofficial but 11 u. ,1... IlOUnslllIlg tuu the l'hiluilcliluu I lull in honor of the Pennsylvania Federation of Mnsio Clubs iu the ballroom of the HailovuB-Stratford uuxt Tuesday evening. The Orpheus CluD will give lis third concert of tlie season next Wednesday evening nt 8.15 P. iu the Academy of Music, whim nu uubuckcneyod programme of considerable range, will lie presented with Fnwlnriu liner, baritone, and Emanuui Zeliin, violinist as soloists, under the direction of Dr.

Arthur D. Woodruff. Tho club will pro-sent numbers by Ralph Baldwin, Cesar Franck, C. Villers SinulVnd, Deiiois, Dvorak, John Prindlo Srott and Arthur S. Sullivan.

The spring choral concert of the Atlantic Iteliuiiig Choral Society will be held next Thursday evening tit the Girard Craftsman's Club, Twentieth and Chestnut streets, Tho soloiHts for this concert nre members of tho choral society, Madeline l'atton, soprano; Howard Hung, tenor, and Brooks Greenwood, baritone. The second part ot' tho programme will be devoted to the Coleridge-Tnylor "Hiawatha's Wedding Feust." Fred Lyman Wheeler is the director and Lena Blanche Junes the accompanist. him gld to ha noma -unit stay ttioro. Our Methods Are a Puzzle to Her self. Hub she did say, in.

u. pinned voice, 'How can you applaud that music'' For I was applauding, I hail to do something. And I don't appraise my critical ncumeu so highly, that I imagine I'm qualified to hiss and boo authoritatively on the first hearing of work so strange. It seemed to me thut a crowd of ardent amateurs boo. ing thut work was like a puck of longshoremen booing the diction of an nutor reciting in Chinosa.

How can wo possibly judge work unless, we're fn-ntilinr. with the idiom iu. which it is expressed! I'm annoyed when I hoar a person say that ho was delighted the Auierieuu publiu had at Inst shown it wouldn't swallow everything thut came along. The public is supremely incompetent to, judge a radically new work on ita first hearing. If I were iimnndititp success so much so that David Belnsco engaged her the next season for a similar rolo 111 "The Gold Diggers." Sim next played ru ingenue lend with William -Hodge ill "Beware of was featured in a musical comedy colled "Elsie' in New York, and then appeared with Madge Kennedy and Fluids In "Poppy," taking Nctv York by storm.

When It was arranged to produce "Poppy" in Loudon the British pro" hirers wore able to Bud English uelors for every part in the piece except I he 0110 played by Miss Geur. So Luella went to l.onuou and repeated her New York success. Nils, returned to New York a few months ago, just in lime lo sign a contract to appear in "Queen High." Has a Voice Like the Nightingale musical bones ot tnat classic composer refuse to he interred, hut persist in bobbins up with embarrassing liveliness. Not only was his "Fateful Fifth" Symphony the second in, symphonic selections, triumphantly ahead of the 5'cliaikovski "Fnlhetique," and the nearest Brahma competitor, with that former favorite. Dvorak's "From the New World" apparently' nowhere around, but his "Leonora No.

Overture missed election, by a margin, of just one vote a cmeumsUuico- that will bring apprehensive, shudders, to. the Wngnerites in realising how close the "lleistersiuger" coma to. losing. if bets were iniulo in advance of the voting contests each, season, there are apparently two certainties upon which unlimitod odds could be laid. Ons is that tha Cesar Franck minor will come under, the miles ahead of all competitors, as tha symphonic winner.

The other is that inch novelties as Edgar Vuresu's "Amoriuuea'' won't get a Rasp on the Italian architecture and American huB-b a ce strongest ill the mind and hcurt of Mine. Emilia Treutini, petite comedienne of the opera, who for orchoslra is scheduled for presentation this afternoon by siifty-five pupils of the Curlis Institute of who will give their- firt public- concert nt H.ItO I'- M. under I he baton of Leopold Stokowski iu the ballroom of the I'min Athletic Club. The student orclicsHa will play numbers: The C'horalvorspiel by Bach, "Wlr gluuben all' an einen tho Allegretto from Beethoven's Varese, I should teel tar surer that my work had vitality and power ufter this Josef Ilnfmnnn, director o( the piano department nt the Curtis Inuti-tuto of Music, has announced a con sook tho opor- fnr belligerent demonstration, "As for the music itself' on several vnudevilhy and 4 who has been jfi men who, in their salad tln.vs when "lolantho" was now, had sting it in the auioUtur opura companies with wlm-h this country was infested forty ago. I would wager I here were at least a dozen thorn who, had Ernest Law ford faltered at his Uisli, were perfectly prepared to climb right over the fooUighlM and show that, aitilieuco how the Lord Chancellor should he sung.

For Mr. Lawford, after 11 it eventful year iu, which he has played Poloiiius in the plain-clothes "Hamlot." and the role of Christ in- a California passion play, now finds himself frisking- about tho Plymouth stngo iu tho white wig of rolo which Do Wolf Hopper snug so magnificently buck in 11H2. This time it is possible for the Lord to sing the first song us Gilburt. wrote. Mr.

Hopper, when the role was his, used to feel it injudicious for hint to venture on that couplet wherein the Lord Chancellor must unpack his henrl; thus: "For I'm not so old, and I'm not so plain And I'm quite prepared to marry ngnin," "Pomoroy's Past" Reaohej New York The same night witnessed tho first performance hereabout of "Poincroy's scores, 1 don think it as. modern as soma would have us tiiinkf Here we have a foreigner come to America, nnd he sots out to put into music the things ho finds in this country. My complaint is that he translates his impressions, his iT' "1 Yvonne d1 rli, former Mui.ro-pulil.au Opera slur, who up-pctirs in "Countess Mantua," ut the Shubert, was selected for the title rolo ou the recom-niendutiou of Emmerich Ital- a seat, lor the opening performance which provoked lliu great rumbles iu editorials and hdtern to thu editor, We, who hnvis heard Mollnr and rejoiced at, her, nre uslied, with a nice mixture of rhetoric and passion, if slio were really worth more than three limes tho price for a seat at. tho Metropolitan? Such questions always haHo 1110 for I cannot, nay whether the entertainment, vidua of "Tim Cocoauuts," for iit-t is accurately measured by (ho cii'ciimstiincH that the seats cost live times ih much us those to the latest Chaplin picture, Indeed, such questions undermine nty carefree existence and I. lind myself wondering whether I would not do better to cniieol my sailing 011 the Leviathan for next month and devote tha money thus saved to buy ing frosted rhocolulus- ut decent inlecvalH, of course.

Tho Mcllcr tour, which will bu limited to two performances iu the biggest cities, is at present vaguely mapped out to include Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Kiiusiis City, Sou Francisco and Los Angeles. This should bring her to the coast by and the whole undertaking cau bo traced to tho fitet that this Spanish woman, who has bad such success iu moving pic observations of physical things, into terms of. tone, while utterly neglecting the spiritual values. "Vnrese has lived for several years in Greenwich Village. I hiivo lived there too.

And I know the clatter, tho push, the clang, the grind of Kighth l.i Unto street mid Sixth his immediate f. niuii, the cum- miscellaneous list. The public likes its music safe nnd sane, Oolumbuses anions composers must find' sufficient incentive and inspiration in the interest and excitement of exploration, excepting neither royul. recognition nor popular approval. ECHOES still are audible-of Leopold Stokowski's slup hoard round the musical world ill his symphonic latire of late comers and early leavers, when he had the orchestra, players do likewise at tha Philadelphia Orchestra Concert a week ago.

Soma correspondents, have questioned the conductor's right to retuliute in such a fashion. Others have argued that he was more than within his rights (aside from the fact that the first and Inst poser ot the show. Born" In cert by three of his scholarship pupils to be given next Thursday evening iu the nuililoriiiia of thu school building, Eighteenth and Locust streets, The students are. Joan Bnhreiid, a Philn-delphiun; Lucie Stern, who is well known for recitals given in ninny large cities, und Shnra Clierkussky. Mildred Fans, suprtiuo, who recently returned from a concert tour in Florida, will appear as soloist with the Oratorio Society of the German Lutheran churches of Philadelphia at their annual concert next Thursday evening at Zion's Church, in Franklin Square.

This is her third consecutive engagement as soloist with this society. At this concert tho society will sing two Bach cantatas and Mendelssohn's cantata for sopruuti, and chorus, "Hear My Prayer." The recital to he. given by Josef Ilof-monn in the series presented this season by artists on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music bus been postponed until Thursday evening, May 0. The programme will include compositions by Beethoven, Schumann uud Clio 1 1 i ii Pust" a gay, irresponsible comedy Arln eniiu, to up by Clare Ivuiiuuer (with tho whiles of two eggs, I imagine 1 and distinctly 6iii-ffir cessfnl in I American two- it-diiy entortuui-1 7 7 i 1 mcnt field. Mine.

e.MMA TKtNTiNi Trent 1111, with Eriu Znrdo, the eminent concert. pianist, returns to F. Keith's Theatre this week. When Treutini loft Ainoiicn, after success in "The Firelly" and "Naughty Marietta," under the direction of Arthur Hunnuiireteiii, sho (lectured sh would never lunvo Ititly uguin, but For-t into Gallo, operatic impresario, acting as special emissary for H. Al-liee, succeeded iu persuading the littlo star to change her mind uud rctiiru for a tour of tho Keith-Aline circuit, and she has been here for tho pust two years.

Treutini likes America nnd tho American public, particularly thu American men, very much, but sho finds it difficult to keep pace with the speed of this country. "America changes so fast and so often," declares tho operatic star, "and I niu always lost and have to ask policemen mid peoplo where 1 nut. Iu Milan, if there is a church on the corner, it is there today, tomorrow and every day for three hundred years or more. I do not wake up to find it is a church one time and the next time I see it, it is au apartment house or avenues neighborhood I have heard the fire-sirens whoo and scream above this racket, and in the unuutural silence of a city night All that is iu Varese's music. And more, Uut to put these into tone is no more reul.

music than a snapshot of a busy street corner is real urt. It's tonal lldascoiHin, nnd in spite of its sound uud fury, and the high-class bunk dispersed by Varese's spokesman who was quoted in the programme, it served ut; the Longticro with Ernest seventtt Symphony in A Major; "Dnnse Mucubro," by Saint Siicns, and "Fin-lnndiu," by Sllielius, Three students who will be soloists are Shnra Cher-kassky, a piano student, in a movement from Rubinstein's Concerto in Minors Blsu Mcisltoy, who will srtig a recitative and aria from von -Weber's opera "Dnr Freischulz," mid Lois zu Piitlils, who will tilay a movement from I.ulo's "Sympltouie lispuguole" for violin, and orchestra. Qratorienohor In Bach Works The "Oralorianehor" under the direction of Frederick Ruuser will 'give its fiftJi annual concert next Thursday, at historio old 'Aon Lutheran on. Franklin street below Vine, This young organization has some well-received oratorio concerts to its credit, among them the "Requiem'' by. Brahms and "St Paul" by Memlulssuhm This year's programme offers two cantatas by Buch, "A Mighty Fortress is our God," and "My Spirit was in Heaviness," also Mendelssohn's hvmn, "Hear My Prayer." Thu soloist will hu Mildred Funs, soprano; Susannu Der-ctun, alto; Bernard Poland, tenor, and Roinhold Schmidt, bass.

Twenty-six. members of the Philadelphia Orchestra will assist in the pmgrauuntt, which will be rendered in the original tier-man. The concert starts promptly at 8.15 clock. De Gogorz Recital Emilio de Gogorna, barilono. of the Vocal Department of The Curtis Institute of will class tho series of recitals given this season by artists of the faculty with the programme of songs next Wednesday evening.

The selections for Air. fioiriii'xii'a re- Trucx and Luura Hope Crews. The playgoers evinced a considerable curiosity tu see what, manlier rolo Mr. Pomeroy might be, for it had been played on the road by two such wildly assorted actors us William Gillette and tures at; bonis, enmo to this country wilh only one secret curiosity. She Roland loung.

wanted to see Hollywood, And follow A playwright who would think of her numbers, which caused the commotion, were simply played according to score or tradition) in pointing up to the whence how distracting it is when the atmosphere of concentration required for a symphonic seance is dissipated by these distracting interruptions. One letter writer recalls that Stnkowski touched one phase of tha comedy ns suitable for either of ing naltirully the pattern of existence deserves to be sniffed at. with the same tilt of the nose as theatrical lSeluscoism is treated to. In. fact, it seemed to me that Varese was concerned with the externals, and not with tho kernel of tho matter.

Ho ia ubsorbed iu reproducing the stimuli to emotions, ideus, RenHationsr just as Beluseo puts a real and then hirn it over to the diminu America during -7ftf)L her curly child- vONNC rMetf hood with her parents, Him studied voice culture fa Chicago, and later came to New York, obtaining a small part in 'Tho Lilac Domino," in which Eleunor Painter was starred. Whou the piece went on tour. Miss d'Arlq succeeded Miss Painter iu tho role, Itcmming to New York, Miss d'Arla sang ut, the old Puluis Royulc, where sho was heard by critics who recommended her lo the directors of the Metropolitan, Sho was engaged for trial, and created tho rule of Koupava hi "Siiegourchkn" when the piece was given its initial presentation in this country. She later sung the role of Musetla in "La Boheruo," and was given one of the greatest ovatiuus ever accorded a singer at the Metropolitan, Miss d'Arle bus ployed in almost every known opera. She toured South America with the Brucalo Grand Opera Couipaiiy and has engaged in a uuuiher tive and delightful Ernest True betrays a flexibility iu the matter by winch she and her tolks used to luigraln with the seasons across Spain mid Italy, sho is going to Hollywood if she has lo sing bur way there.

Eliisubeth Gest and Mary Miller casting rare among our dramatists. Any Ford on the stage, and makes ruins FOOTLIGHT FLASHES Mount will give a rocitul of music for two pianos this afternoon at the Musical Art Club. They will be assisted by Ednuh Cook Smith, mezzo-contralto. Giuseppe Boghetti announces that his artist-pupil, Million Anderson, contralto, will give a recital iu the Academy of Music on 'Thursday evening, May 20. Miss Anderson is the negro a five and ten-cent storo.

How cau any place ever be a city when they tear it down just as fast as they build it Julia Hurley, 79 years old, who and sunsets, instead of expressing or even suggesting the mental and. spiritual reactions they generate, America has supplied Varese with a storehouse of new values. And it seem to me that it ia the artist's problem to express tha imperishablo emotions, impulses, or what you will, such ns love, joy, melancholy, sorrow and fear, even, in these new values. I don't think Varese bag done thut, "For nearly a century painters and nlavs Sister 1 bereso in me wo or up phaus nt tho Cosmopolitan Theatre, has been auiiointed understudy to air contralto who hist season won the con cital include a recitative and nir from However, if I'rentiru docs not approve of our cities, sho is strongly in favor of our men, "Whou I get niur-ried," she suys, "it will be to 1111 American 11111 11. In nty country the husband test for voice in the New York Stad Thomas Whiffen, 82 years old, who has the rolo of the Mother Superior in Uluck's "Iphigoiiiu en three fidk songs from the Smmisli Rnuoun ium over more than yiK) the ruutunfic draiuu.

of important concert tours in this country. Miss d'Arle has a most engaging personality and is extremely youthful for one who has achieved such phenomenal success. is the lord and the woman the slave. Provinces arranged by J. Martinet Vil-lar; songs, Brahms, "Die Mainueht," sculptors have envied tne composer nis subject soino time since, when he asked the audience to "control its cough because the orchestra's canvas is a surface of and anything which scars that silence is like soma one thoughtlessly marring the canvas of a painter.

The orchestra aimply cannot do its best in an atmosphere of physical, and, in all truth, mental, restlessness. Those who arrive ou time know that an audience does not really settle, down, to the business of absorbing music until the late coiners are seated. If a conductor is going to compromise weakly with circumstances, tc'U put a routine overture on his programme to bide his time until the aurtienue arrives. And if ha builds his programme in that fashion, he'll be Bound to give a perfunctory performance of the number he uses to kill time, tmtil there is soma decent repose in the uditorium. It's admitted by actors and actresses that tho qunllly of an audience has a definite effect on their performance.

If that is true in tho theatre, then it is even mora true in the symphony hall. For the symphony conductor commands far less explicit and literal means to divert his hearers than the actor." freedom from tne necessity ot repr Renting physical details in his eomposi It is not that they mean badly by this, but it is tho custom. Tho husband is very jealous and when ho goes out I lie actor. He plays every known string instrument and a number of reed instruments. He has composed several popular songs.

The real name of Mnrda Vanne, who plays Jane sanctimonious sisler-in-law in "Easy Virtue" at the Broad, is Mnrgaraihu van Hulstcyn. Her father, Sir Willium van Hnlsteyn, was oue of the foremost solicitors in Johannesburg. -May McC'abe, whose impersonation of a doughty dowager adds a touch of colorful distinct ion to the performance of "A Greut Littlo Guy" in which Joe Ltiiirio, is slurring at the Adelphj Theatre, has been a frequent visitor to Philadelphia, appearing with several important uttractioiis. Lost sea The Messrs. Shubert announce the preparation of a new revue to bo known us "Tho Greut Temptations." It will have uu out-of-town showing early ia May, ami it destined for Broadway soon afterwards.

The book lions. He doesn't, and never did, have to worry about painting trees, grass Human Wickedness door to enjoy himself, he turns the key on his wife. Hut never 011 niu. For I and clouds when expressing a sunset mood, in the plastic arts, tne modern have seen the way they do in this country nnd I liko tho custom ovur here," trend has been simnuticotion -tha cast- Makes for Comedy "By this time I ought to he accus ina awav of oictorial detail, and a con is by Harold Atturidge, mnsio by Mnu-rie Reubens and lyrics by Clifford Grey. Earl Lindsay is staging tho dunces, and Charles Jutlels the diulogus.

production is under the personal direc tomed to reading that 'nil Noel Coward's centration ou those things essential to conveying the mood to he expressed. Doesn't Varese turn the clock hack, so hiiroctei'M are pounders said IVoel She Likes Roles tion of Mr. ,1. J. tstiubert une cast ,.1 1.

1 1 Coward recently apropos of comments 1 far as music is lako a USfh rimnin 17.V. 150 persons, featuring the son Miss McCabe wrolo material for a The choir and instrumentalists of the Second Presbyterian Church, Twenty-first end Walnut si reels, will give a musical service at 7.M this evening. The choir will sing Gladsome Light," Kastalsky; Be Joyful iu the Lord," Gretchnninoff "Hear My Prayer," Mendelssohn. Berkheiser will sing "Lord God of Abraham," Mendelssohn, The Philadelphia Civic Opera Company has begun its negotiations for next season's artists. Helen Stanley will return for two roles, Elizabeth iu "Tufiuhauser" and Cio-Cio San in Puccini's "Madame Butterfly." She will also be heard as Leonora in "Trova-tore," The Civic Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Meyer Gorodetzer, will give their fourth public concert on Sunday evening, May 10.

One of the features nt this concert will be a Glazonow Symphony, which will be performed here for the first time. rir 11.14 wuiikuu Vtlll famous Allan K. osier Girls and Hose Landsaer, he paints every blado of grass, every hair on baby's head, nnd mury and Cupello, from the Casino do submerges the essence ot his picture in "It doesn't matter what jgirrsii," tne detail. nianitciieii" und "Maine Liebe ist a Russian group by Cretchaui-noff, Monssorgsky and Rachmaninoff; two songs by Charles T. Oriffcs; "Chevsux de Bcls" and "Voici quo le Printeinps" by Debussy; and two songs by Valverde, del Presidiario," and "Clavelitos." Symphony Club Concert Tonight 'The annual concert by the members of The Symphony Club will take place at the Academy of Music this evening, nt 8.15 o'clock, daylight-saving time.

This is one of the outstanding musical events of the season for the reason that three orchestras with a membership of about 50 will participate. Beginning fifteen years ago with a small amateur orchestra of sixty-live members, The Symphony Club has grown into nn institution which takes a prominent part in the education and training of musical students. That the value of (his training is appreciated is indicated by the fact that the club now has a total membership in ail classes of about o(MJ, besides a waiting list of several hundred, Soarduzio in Recital Antonio Soarduzio, baritone, will be heard in concert fnemlnv- Mm 4 sort ot a part I play, so long as it has a com- MUSICAL EVENTS scene that was presented at the Gush-man Club Benefit. The Theatre Guild will present "At Mrs. Beam's" comedy by C.

K. Monro ut the Guild Theatre beginning Monday April 20. This is the final production of th eighth subscription season. In the east nre Lynn Fontamie, Alfred Lunt, Jean Cndell, Helen West-ley, Henry Trnvers, Helen Strickland, Phyllis Onniianl, Dorothy Fletcher, Daisy Belmore, Leslie Barrie and Paul Nugent. The Messrs.

Phuhert in association wilh Riifus Le Maire will present the Continental revue "Gay Puree" lit the Shubert, Theatre in New York ou his "Easy Virtue in which Jane 'Cowl is now appearing at the Broad Street Theatre, "Aside from fits fact that the remark seems a trifle sweeping, the first reply that occurs to me is 'What of it'' "Can, you imagine a play written around the lives of the Saints? Or, if it were written, can you imagine peo. plo going to see it? If there is sny-M author who cuu make a good drama, out of a story Involving St Cecilia, St. Augustine, William penn, I hnvo still to hear of him. (You see, my memory of historical characters, famous for their is rather Fill in us muny other names as you can remember. theatre is very much like a newspaper.

Newspapers, you oil serve, dou't flourish by publishhiij what peoplo don't want to read, niid you admission cards for the event. Indicating that an audience of large proportions will lie present to hear the Philadelphia premier of the famous Rodman jinuneijy nt. the Paris, Paris, -At Jolsou, who concluded his special "Artists and Models" engagement the Winter Garden on Saturday night has arranged to visit Los Angeles and Hollywood during the brief vacation he has planned before resuming with "Big Boy." In Hollywood Mr, Jolsou will be lie guest of tho Hollywood ('bib. There is a possibility that Mr. Jolsou may do some picture work.

"Richard Carle is hard nt work these days in Hollywood. The well-known musical comedy star owns the rights to many of his most successful vehicles, including "The Mayor of To-kio." "The Spring Chicken," "The Maid ami the "The Tenderfoot "The Hurdy-Giiniy Girl," "Tho Storks, Adeliibi Then Wanamaker collection of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos. 'The occasion is unique in musical tro between tlie first und second nets of "A Great Little tiny," In hich Miss Donnellv annuls, not only through the dedication of The Beethoven Society, with Theodore Feinmann, conductor, announces that their final concert of this season, originally booked for March 25, will be given at the Academy of Music, Tuesday, May IS, with Madame Eu-pheniti Gianini Gregory, a lyric so where Winnie Lightncr, Chic Rule, Bil- the master instruments to pubho musical service, but also by virtue of the presentation of a programme of rare musi appuurs as the Iim Ji. Van and others of the huge company of principals and chorus have spinster friend cal distinction by an assemblage of ot the lilt.l been playing to capacity audiences. "Gay seldom Und church news on thti front prano, and Henry JNosco, violinist, as.

K.U1M family. "There J'aree conies with the entire original at VVitherspoon Hull, assisted by Hilda Reiter, the coloratura soprano, and Ennio Bolognini, cellist Mr. Hcarduzio will include in his programme several Mumping Jupiter and outers. He is preparing these play plots for early production ou tiie screen. Whifford Kane, who lately acted operatic numbers and also a duet from Act 2 oS "Rigoletto" with Miss Reitcr.

in "One Day More" at the Princess Theatre on Broadway, has gone West, some lifty years after Horace Greeley Ugo Martlnelll's Reoital Fffn pages. G. Wells is alvvajs Inventing Utopias; but huve yon noliced the only way he can make them interesting is by introducing wicked people into them? "The plain, simple fact is that it Is human fully and wickedness that mako. the ilaniaii Comedy. So vou might well ask Puvlnwii to osnce without feet ns to ask un uuthor to write a piny without bounders.

"Lurita Whitaker, in my play, 'Easy is not my idea of a bounder, noted artists without parallel the world today. These include the Philadelphia Orchestra- and its conductor, Leopold Stokowski, Efrem Zimbulist, violin virtuoso, who will play on the famous Strad known ns the Hwauj nnd Charles SI. Courboin the noted Belgian organist, at the console of the great Wanamaker organ. The programme will feature the remarkable instruments of the liodmnn Wanamaker collection in solos and ensemble, being played by prominent members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and will also combine these instruments with the full strength of the band and the great Orchestra's "Request" Programme. The twenty-sixth, season of the Philadelphia Orchestra will end with the concerts of Friday afternoon and Barurduy evening when the programme ill be composed of those numbers whicii received the greatest number of votes in the recent ballot.

The custom of having a "request" programme the final events of the season is one of years' standing, The symphony will be the minor of Cesar Franck, which, has for. several treasons taken precedence in public favor over all other works in the symphonic form. The Fifth Symphony of Beathuven, which, cuma second on the hst, had sixty-five votes, less than the Cesar Franck and only four more than the "Pathetique," of Tehaikovski, which weeded the First Symphony of Brahms by ten votes. Altogether sixty-'oveu symphonies figured in the ballot the overtures, "Die Meigtcr-finger," of Wagner, which lead1 the of numbers to be played at these "certs, came out on. top by the narrow margin of one vote.

Second in the was the "Ionore" No. 3 of Beethoven. The 'TanuhueuNer" overture third, "Corioianus" of Beethoven, "Wttk, and "Lohengrin," fifth, Forty-lul overtures were voted for. two works in the grouping that received the high-Si o( votes llttve been included Mr. Stokowski in the programme.

i 'Vre the "181-" of Tchnikovski and assacaglin of Bach, the Russian Wmposers tone nneeant hsv-I told film to do so. lie tins joined tue recital at Withersnoon Hall. Now York cast of more than eighty persons including a specially trained Continental chorus of sixty. There ore more than thirty skclchi-s in the revue, soino of the butter known ones being "What Every Man Suffers," "A Study iu Legs," "The Puritun Hotel," "A Vision of Hassan" and thu famous "Wide Pants Willie" number sung by Winnie Lightncr. After her seaRon in Michael Ar-len's play now at the Lyric Thcutre Margola Cillmoio who plays the part of Venice Pollen iu "The Green Hat" will sail from New York to join the Goodman Memorial Theatre repertoire soloists, The final pair of the second series of informal musical talks by Frances Mc-Collin will he hold at 2128 Delauccy place next Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, and on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock; topic, "Humor in Music," Mayor Kendrick has written to Charles P.

Shislor, designating his song march one ot the official Philadelphia songs. The composition had first presentation at the Elks' Frolie and was on that occasion received with great enthusiasm. Since thut event many other organizations have sung the piece and it has been frequently heard on the radio. The company in Chicago, John Barrymora has written his 'Confessions," and they have been was a time when I aspired to Lending business," she continued, "but Rose Stalil put the notion out of my head by declaring tlmt I had not only a funny face I wonder wdtut she meant by thut but nn aptitude for eccentric comedy. So 1 took her advice and have apparently followed the lines of least resistance in trying to carve out a career for myself.

Miss Stahl is a native Trenton, my home city, and to her I owo my opportunity to get a start. Following my tour with her in 'The Chorus I played in stock, where I found tho greutest satisfaction in playing character roles, although, of course, I was cast for all sorts of feminine parts during my stock experience, "1 like my part iu Mr. McGuire's play because it is human and tho lines I am called upon to spsaU are exactly day, May 8, at S.3U P. M. Mr.

Martin-elli, wil lmuke his debut with a series of pieces from operas, and will be assisted by Baritono Marina, by Kmilia Vergari, soprano and Anthony Liuzzi, cellist At the piano will be Bernardo Corteso, and Tardina Forlauo. published by Bohbs-Morrill Company, Indianapolis, and are being rend hy any morn than Ninon de Euclos or Nell Gwynue or the late lamented everybody who follows slags und screen affairs. It is copiously illustrated and IJtiecu of Skeba, Bounderisnl is a qucij orgon. The concert wilt start promptly Elia Palma In Recital Elia Pnluia. baritone, will iiorienr in one of the readable books of the year.

Tom Powers, one of the most lion of manner and manners and has nothing to do with morulu at least, not with sex morals." at ciock ana ricaei uoiuera aia requested to be in their seats before that hour. The programme follows: recital at the Fo.ver of the Aisiicmv members of the Gillutore family in Florence, Italy, where her sister, limit will be married to Mux Sonino, ot Florence, whom she met while si inlying and their nc(iiaiulance was renewed when Mr. Sonino came to New York on words were written by Professor Her of Music on Tuesday night. Mnv 11. 1 Orchestra aoit Oman.

1S12 Overturn. Tchaikovsky 2 ConMrto for SolOi VWIn anil OrrtiMtra. man L. Dieck. Oscar Shumsky, the talented young violinist of this city, who created a a trip around the world.

intelligent, and personable young players on the stage, hud added a new and delightful ehuracferizntiou to his repertoire. He is acting the impressuniablc Italian nobleman wilh Madge Kennedy in "Love In a Mist," and is winning exceedingly high praise for his skill and talent. Kfrem Ztntbullst. vtarlov tile Hwan. what might be exiwted from a girl of tt kttt for Four Violins, Two Violas.

Two John Barrymore is one slur who believes iu enjoying himself. All work at 8.30 o'clock. Mr. Palma does not need any introduction to the music lovers of Philadelphia, having been a favorite here with La Scala Grand Opera Company of Philadelphia. The programme will include Credo and Sog-no of Verdi's "Otello," Monologo from MrlArt So meth ing About a Well-Known Author An Armenian medical student who in four years became the wittiest fit Fra'lish society tioveliwlst -that' is Mi the type i am attempting to portray.

Donnelly was born and educa- ted in Trenton, where her father, the nud no pluy is not going to make Jack favorable impression when he recently appeared as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, has been announced as soloist with the Baltimore Choral So Selected tntnunuU from Wanamokfr oi-lectlon, jJliiytns by Itirli. concert muster! Lort-iiK, ihiblaHkv, nnucrort, Lifsclley, Kos-Mi. Pletr a dull boy. Between every picture no late Harry A. Donnelly, was a journa -Laura Burt, oue of tha best eoe off no hwloror trot or some oilier ciety on May 0.

from "The Barber of Seville," and by request a piece from Boito's posthumous opera "Nerone." Some Task This! Meals equally as good "as mother used to make" are served to the 1750 men in the isolated Arizoun desert camp list. WttUIHf UCliVlUMM C.VietlUttU J. Ullii- dclphin newspapers. Her unele, Frederick W. Donnelly, is the mayor Trenton, a position he hits occupied for four terms.

Several delegations have come from that city to seo "A Great Little Guy" bestow hihiB Misa Donnelly the praise she deserves for her clever characterization. Miss Matthison's Recital Edith Wynne Mntthinon, the famous actress who was Sir, Henry Irving last leading lady, will givo a special dramatic recital for members of The Philadelphia Forum on Tuesday evening, April 27, in the Academy of Music-. This will be Miss Matthison's only nnnearauce in Philadelphia this season. received the greatest number of "Schehernssade" suite was the Toccata gMd Fuge of Bach, loiirth and "IApresmidi d'un Fauno" Debussy, fifth. Orchestra's Monday Concert final concert in the Monday eve-t Tv by th Philadelphia Orches-k I b9, lIayed tomorrow evening, Programme will be the same It P'Md on Friday and Saturday, thnnl lrrJ featfe the sixth, avoir of which had its first 2''' hearing on Friday, and which if u- 6 Dutchman" overture vvagaer mala up the first half of The second half is of Russian works, aauumg the "Itomeo and Juliet" over-SJrfsy of Tehaikovski, the over-S opera, ff' and the Polovetrki lrotu Borodin's opera, "Prince Bpeoial Wanamaker Concert unusual concert will be given next to ing a the Wanamaker outdoor recreation.

Now he has purchased a yacht, J2I feet, long, fitted it up with auxiliary motors and as soon as bis third Warner Brothers picture is finished, ho plans a cruise uiong the West coast Mexico. Had it. not been for the San Franci.veo earthquake just twenty years ago Philadelphia pluy goers might now be missing lot of fun. For it was that culamitv which changed the course of life for Ch irics Buggies, comedian in "Queen High" at the Chestnut Street Opera, House. Buggies was in his first year us a medical student in San run-cist when the quake came and demolished tho family home.

They moved to Los Angeles where young Ruggles found employment in a mono studio. Then cuine success on the stage, snd now he is dealing our. laughs br the thousand to delighted Philudclphhins. "The I'oor Nut. a comedy by J.

Nugent and Elliott Nugent which opened iu New York over a your ago, run well into (lie present season and recently finished a ten-weeks' engagement in Boston, comes to the Broad Street Theatre on May in. Patterson McNutt former New York newspaper 4 S.lo lor VlullD. (t Notttirns la Major. (ti Wnlt niopln-SoaiiMlmr (cl IntTwnurtlon anil Tsmnttllo Haraeale Ktrem Ztmblit Bla.viiia tha Swan 6 Orclffstra an OriraB Bach Toccata antl FiiKiie In Minor tHtokowaki arranueinentl Philharmonio Under Stokowski. The eighth end.

last concert of the season of the Philadelphia Philharmonic Society will be given in the Academy of Music next Sunday evening, May 2. The guest conductor will be Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The entire Philadelphia Orchestra of 108 men will play. Mr. Stokowski has arranged programme featuring the "New World" symphony of Dvorak.

The soloists will be (Juy Maier snd Ernest Hutcheson, pianists. The original pian of the society was for the services of Mr. Maier and his co-worker, Ie Pattison. but the illness of Mr. Pattison made a change necessary.

They will play, with orchestral accompaniment, Mr. Hut-cheson's new concerto for two pianos and orchestra, which will have its first performance in Philadelphia. Curtis Orchestra's Premiers known Heiresses ou tne siage, arrives in New York this week with the of some of tho more popular Loudon, plays which she has been inspecting. Miss Burt, has visited all the lending theatrical centres of Europe and reports that the most successful plays and players are those from tha I'nited States, -Through the death of a relative abroad, Hubert Warwick, of the all star cast of "The Two Orphans" at the Cosmopolitan Theatre, New York, has inherited a valuable piece of property in the heart of the City of Paris near tho Cathedral Notre Dume. It is near some of the localities of "The Two Orphans." Mr.

Warwick, who once studied vocal music in Paris ami sung grand opera there, snys that if tlie property proves valuable enough, he wilt have a theatre erected upon it in which to prevent American operetta in French, with nn occasional performance in English. Saul Martcll. who plays the Jewish bootlegger in William Anthony McGuire's romance of a lonely woman, strong men, and the sea. "12 Miles Out," which comes to the Walnut Street chael Alien, author of "The Green Hut," which is being presented at the Lyric Theatre. Society is his plaything and his way of play is to listen to good stories and to find good stories out for himself, and when he hns them well iu hand to reshape them and clothe them amusingly in wortls nnd to ploy so deliriously and lightly with these words that they seem to dance upon the- paper and to pirouette to the end of a paragraph.

"Yes, this is my first trip. What am British or Armenian? Well, I guess I'm both. I was born in Armenia, but we moved to England when I was about live and I've been living there ever since." Mr. Arlen said, "I've been writing since I was eighteen; that's a little while ago. Yes.

you people just lately took me up. My luck that you took me at "Tho Green Hut" sure has enriched Mr. Arlen's coffers. "Tell us, how have you become so Americanized you've used some of our best slang?" "Oh, you ant to know? Well, it "a from paling around with Freddie Ldlis-iale; he's a regular fellow, you know. You can't bent That explains everything.

We've an-, other Freddie Lonsdale ia Ainerw. Savoy Company in "The Mikado" The Savoy Company will present Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, "The Mikado," at the Academy of Music on the evenings of May 14 and 15, Friday and Saturday. This is the twenty-fifth auniversary of this popular organization, which has always devoted itself to the presentation of the operas of the famous English collaborators, and for that reason the production is more pretentious than ever, an extra large cast of 110 people taking part Edward Jacoby will have the role of tha Mikado. HoraccEnfreken will play the "wandering Nanki Poo. Leslie Joy wiJ have the role of Ko-Ko.

the "Lord High Executioner. Norman Barr will play Pooh Boh and Albert Zimmerman, Pish Tush. Marie Zura Randall will sing the role of Yum-Yum. Anna Oowy Decker will play Pitt-Sing: Elizabeth Morgan, Peep-Bo. and Ella Olden Hartnng, tiie role of Katisha.

J. W. F. Letnun is the musical director again, and Joseph Craig Fox. the stage director.

The where Herbert Brenon is filming "Beau Geste." The best food money can buy prepared by the finest chefs obtainable is placed before every one. Leading players, laborers anil all others fare alike. An average menu, arranged by Fred Klicks, former owner of tha Continental Hotel, one of Berlin's chief establishments, is shown below, Klicks is acting as steward in the big camp. Breakfast: Half grapefruit, oatmeal or cream of wheat, eggs (any style) and ham or bacon, hot cakes, toast, jam and marmalade, coffee, tea, chocolate. Luncheon: Knickerbocker- salad, beef stew with fresh vegetables or cold assorted meats or crab meat a la New-burg, chocolate pudding, coffee, ten.

Dinner: Cream of asparagus soup, olive, grenadine of beef with mushroom sauce, pease, jaysannes, salad mignon, rice I'lmperatrice. coffee, ten, chocolate, mdk, iced tea. The camp is situated in a sand valley, thirty miles from the nearest railroud approach, and nil provisions are brought In by automobile. The programme she has announced in cludes lour readings trom finnKespenre, Sonnets, the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet," a scene between Hamlet and Ophelia, and the forest scene in "As You Like It." These rcmlered bv the actresH who has been called the peerless interpreter of Shakespeare woman promise the revelation of nn exquisite art Muttuisou will read also "The Toys" by Coventry Patmore, "A Musical Instrument," by Mrs. Browning, and Shelley's "Ode to th Skylark." tinw, Iaua coarc jjeiegntjons Irleional musicians and music man and one of the authors of "Piggs," Theatre Monday has won as much sue One of the most ambitious pro- cast, and chorus are rehearsing daily at the Musical Arts Studio, ce as a musician as he has as an is the managerial ipottsor.

'rum other aties have requested, grammes ever attempted by a student caterpillar tractor and mule pack..