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THE MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE pOOliS, Sft't Hlltf 'jJIUfitC SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12 1033 PAGE TEN English Women Pen Two Books FullWithLiving British Authoresses A Racial Study of the People of North America Five Tapestry Pieces Bought Soloist With Apollo Club Rcnaud Pushed Operatic Art to Greatest Height Late French Singer Cav Intense Study to Every Detail of Role. hy Art Institute Madison Grant Looks Ahead Four of the Flemish Acquisi On Is a Personal Story of War and Its Effect-Other a Satire. to Struggle of Nordics, Mongols in Pacific. tions Portray Hunting Scenes. fro.

1 i 1 'THE CONQUEST OF A By Madison Grant, iScribners. MAS DO A. MAN DO A By Tttrn' frrd Holtby. Macmillnn liy James Davies. I WONDER how many of the present generation cherish any, memories of the great Frenetl mm.

1 Winifred Holtby. These two vouna women have Mi Holtby dedicate her booh; "Mandoa, Mandoa!" to Mi Brittain. And in. her hook, "Testament, of Youth," Mi Brittain acknowledge her indebtednen to Mini Holtby end wake much flattering mention 1 s--rlK 1 of her. Children's Books St I 'I 'A XI'' 'si Sophie Braslau, internationally known contralto, ts to be the assisting soloist at the first Apollo club concert of the 1933 season.

She will appear with that leading male chorus at the Shubert theater on Novem.her SI. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. By Vera Brit tain. Macmillan. rrv HERE are.

severs! reason for I reviewine these two hooks to gether. They were, written hy verv rlose. friends. Winifred Honrjy dedicate her novel to Vera Brittain AnH Vera Brittain in her book acknowledges the great debt she owes to Miss Holtby and tells of their post-war cava at Oxford, their work together later In support the. Leapue of Nations, and the sympathy that holds them ever at one another's command.

And the, books appear in this country at the same time. And it is interesting to make several comparisons. "Mandoa, Mandoa!" is ft magnificent satire. It is a splendid, fast-moving piece of imaginative work. It runs bit rajrgedy at the beginning (parts of the first few chapters should have been rewritten) but It soon smooths out into one of the liveliest looks of the year.

It is about Tafal, the lord high chamberlain of the imaginary principality of Mandoa in remote Abyssinia, who thinks, after his attendance at the coronation at Addis Ababa, that his own country should have a little civilization, some of the comforts that would come with tourists. It is about Prince's Tours, which gets the idea of ft big hotel and tourist trade to Mandoa. It is about Jeanne (and she may be modelled somewhat on Vera Brittain) who watched her brothers as they grew up in England, and then had them die in the war or in South Africa. It is about Maurice, a young director of Prince's Tours and newly elected member cf Parliament, who is rather stodgy, despite his attainments, until he becomes something cf a hero in an African kidnaping. And it is about Bill, Maurice's brother, who has not amounted to much after his experiences as a flier in the war, who is ever leaning upon Jeanne for spiritual support, but who finally takes a job with Prince's Tours and goes out to Mandoa to get things in readiness for the tourists.

And he makes good. The story Is superb. The author has rigged everything for knockout aatire of Hollywood (a lost motion picture troupe and a few films gave the Mandoans their first touch of civilization), of British customs, of Americanisms, of all the cants and conventions the modern world knows. In Mandoa there is slavery, and the Mandoans can see that it is no worse probably better than the many forms of slavery elsewhere. An owner must feed his slaves.

There is a set of rules that Bill makes out for the Mandoans to observe while the tourista are in the country that is as hilarious as you can stand. And there "'la a lot of serious observation, and good common sense, and char acterization. The book should not be missed. THEN there is Miss Britain's book, which is entirely different. It is her story of a lo.t generation, that group of young people going into maturity as the war broke out.

Their schooling was interrupted as they were ready to go up to Oxford; they went to France or the Dardanelles to die, or. if they were girls, they stayed home or went nursing and had their brothers and lovers and friends killed. Their faith and their Ideals were blasted; their careers interrupted. Miss Brittain thinks she best can tell of that gen' eration by her own story, which she tells us is an honest account She and her brother Edward were due at Oxford in the fall of 1914. She went for a year and Edward for a month, until he was called as an officer to camp.

Roland, Ed' ward friend at prep school, was also going, but he was anxious to go into the war and took the first opportunity. He and Vera had met and been mutually attracted. Under the stress of war the friendship de veloped rapidly, even under the strict chaperonage that England considered proper. Roland was fine character, a poet of some distinction, an excellent scholar. The Infrequent meetings, the frequent letters of these two develop a love so finely strung that it almost breaks, and one can not help but wonder if it could have continued after the war if Roland had lived, He didn't live.

He died in France not in a gallant charge but while he was making a routine inspection or a trench his men were to occupy, But before he was killed Vera had become a nurse. Her diary and her letters to Roland and Edward help carry the story along. The hard labor in the London hospital, the anxiety that gripped everyone, the Intense fear for loved ones at the front. Then the word that Roland would be home for leave on Christ mas. And she got leave, too.

She would go to his home. And all Christmas day she waited for the telephone call or wire that would ISITOKS to the exhibition of tapestries now being shown at the Art institute will be inter ested in learning that five of the Flemish pieces displayed have become part of the permanent collection at the museum. The announcement of their acquisition at this time is especially fitting, because they take an important place in the development of tapestry weaving and design as illustrated in the current exhibition lent by French A Co. of New Tork. Four of the tapestries constitute a hunting set similar in conception to the famous Hunts of Maximilian.

This set has been hung in the south hall, and marks the end of a long search to find the perfect decoration for walls. In color, proportion and design the tapestries couM rot have been more harmonious had they been woven especially for the spacea they now adorn. The Flemish Hunting tapestries, woven in Brussels about 1650, depict four episodes in the course of the hunt. In the first piece, called Awaiting the Chase, two huntsmen attired in short doublets and hroad-brimmed hats, with hunting horns slung over their shoulders, are lounging in the woods awaiting the beginning of the hunt. Two dogs wait with them.

The second episode, Hunting the Deer, portrays a rolling, wooded countryside. A huntsman holding a spear occupies the immediate foreground, while in the mid-distance his companions, one on horseback and the other afoot, are in pursuit of the deer which advances towards the left. In the foreground of the third tap estry. Hunting the Hare, may be seen a bearded huntsman wearing a crimson cap, a blue doublet with half armor, and short trunks. He holds a panting spaniel in leash as he runs towards the left where two hounds are pursuing the hare up a hill.

The End of the Hunt depicta a peaceful scene in a grove of trees! THE fifth tapestry acquired by the museum is the Funeral of Decius Mus, designed by Rubens, and part of the aeries de picting the History of. Decius Mus which was executed by the great Flemish painter for a noble Genoese family in 1618. It was woven in Brussels about 1640, and illustrates the lavlshnesa of decoration typical of Rubens' work. No other painter, perhaps, had a style better adapted to portray this classic theme. Power and magnificence were essential In depicting the life of Decius Mus, and Rubens possessed them both.

In the foreground of the panel the body of the heroic Roman Consul lies on a state litter. At the foot, attired in armor, stands his friend, Manlius Torquatus, with arms up raised, praising the herolo accom plishments of his colleague. In the immediate foreground prisoners are being brought forward by one of the soldiers, and about the bier are ves sels laden with treasure which have been taken from the enemy. The borders, in the true Rubens manner, are heavy with swags of fruits and flowers, and the composition proper Is flanked by the fantastic twisted columns first used in tapestry design by Raphael when he executed his famous Acts of the Apostles for Pope Leo X. The acquisition of these tapestries Is an Important event in the institute's history.

With the distinguished pieces in the Martin Memorial collection they round out a collection that, though small, is splendidly rep resentative of the art of tapestry weaving. Vollard Private Collection of Art Is Disappointing Many Pieces Excellent But Much More Had Been Expected by Gotham. By Malcolm Vaurhan. New York, Nov. 11.

(Universal) Ambroise Vollard has long been celebrated as the intimate friend of Degas, Cezanne, Renoir and other great French painters of the past half century. As an art dealer he has bought and sold many hundreds of their canvaaes, of which it has always been said he kept the finest for his private collection. Practically no one has been permitted to see this collection, yet it has been internationally renowned for decades. Accordingly, hopes aoared high when the word got out that BIgnou was bringing from their seclusion In Paris the choicest of Vollard's treasures. The pictures, some two score of them, now are on exhibition at the Knoedler galleries, and BIgnou remarks in his foreword to the catalogue: "I did not expect ever to have the privilege of presenting to the American public the least known and most important part of Vollard's famous collection." Unfortunately, this part of the col lection proves disappointing.

The pictures are delightful and enjoyable, they are almost as bright and fresh as the day they were painted; they are often excitingly personal In char acter, and they generally reflect un common, little-known facets in the art of their divers creators. But they are not the great masterpieces we had hoped to see. The New York pub- lio already has been shown, not only in museums and other galleries, but in these very rooms at Knoedler. greater paintings by the same ar tists. Since these cannot be reckoned the finest canvases that have passed through Vollard's hands, one is left to suppose that Vollard still keeps at home, because he cannot bear to part with them, the prizes of his collection.

Of the pictures displayed, the rar V1 ADISON GRANT'S scholarly work is a history of a people written in terms of race and nationality alone. In the main it is concerned w'ith migrations to America, settlement of the original 13 colonies and the subsequent movement across the United States of the original settlers, their descendants and the masses who followed. To trace the racial history of the modern inhabitants of North Amer ica from the time their forbears were savage clever bipeds" roaming the plains of central Asia, through the periods of racial radiation, first to Europe, then to North and South America to do all of that In 357 pages is a task for a painstaking scholar. And Mr. Grant's book is both scholarly in its factual matter and vigorous in his interpretation of it.

He seems to be obsessed with acute Anglo-manta throughout his history. And he displays almost an equal amount of "Mongol-phobia," also a rather Intolerant attitude toward any save purely Nordic contributions to modern civilization in the United States. He envisions an Immemorial rival ry between the Mongols and the Nordics with the Pacific ocean as the arena of their final struggle for world dominance. This fear for Nordic supremacy, not only in America but the world as well, seems to underlie his book throughout. His book can be read with Interest by anyone seeking some explanation for the peculiar characteristics of American civilization.

It is well documented with maps and there is a complete bibliography and index. Residents of the prairie states, who hitherto have believed Boston the hub of real America, will be pleased to find this statement; "On the whole the prairie states have been notably successful in assimilating their immigrants and maintaining an American tradition. The newcomers were not segregated In slums (as in the eastern states) but scattered on farms. It was almost a necessity for them to learn the speech and adopt the customs of their hosts. While some of the Scandinavians, as in Minnesota, have tried to have their children learn the language and preserve the traditions of 'the old country these at least have been Nordic traditions, and any feeling of aloofness or separateness is rapidly disappearing." HARRY REMINGTON.

South Sea Girl and Bank Glerh in Love in Paris But the Story Isn't What You Might Expect in French Capital in Spring. MADAME TAHITI. By Andre de Wtssant and Yvonne St. Cyr. Published by William Farquhar Payson.

THE binding Is -nice, the printing and typography quite a tratlons charming, but the novel la rather flat. It starts out as if it might devel op Into a smart and sophisticated story of love in modern Paris in the springtime, but it flattens out into an Edward O'Brien travelog on the South Sea islands. Two people, one a Parisian bank clerk, the other a mysterious, yet beauteous female, meet aboard a Paris bus, fall into conversation and then into love at least the bank clerk does. The beauteous female turns out to be Mme. Tahiti, a painter from that renowned South Sea island, born of French stock, who has come "home" to sell a few paintings and to revel in Paris in the springtime.

And so the romance progresses. But the love passages develop into endless monologs, in which Mme. Tahiti covers chapter after chapter recounung to the goggle-eyed Parisian bank clerk the glories of the South seas. It is only incidentally that she confides to him that she has fled the South seas because she has, in spite of her perfect figure, a very weak heart, and simply cannot match the affection of her robust husband. The bank clerk ardently desires the girl, but comes to realize that her surrender must mean her death.

So all is very platonic, and Mme. Tahiti goes back to the South seas and the bank clerk stays where he is and makes love to other girls, more suitable for bank clerks to make love to. And then one day he comes across an exhibition of her paintings. One of them intimately portrays one of their more precious moments to gether. Alas, it is beyond his purse and he watches a fat lady buy it, tears starting from his eyes.

xne attendant tells him it is a memorial exhibit: that the painter has died in giving birth to a child. FRANK MURRAT. Student Program Student program, November 18, MacPhail auditorium, 3 p. m. Topic: "The Symphony." Wilma Anderson Gilman, assisted by wood wind choir, university of Minnesota band, i.

Nocturne John Weld Borln Schumann MeUsuent Lcuon orn una i ien, puno. 7flt it Full Hihneni Ravel rutin oi mt Bumble Bee Dee River dir. bv V.lm.nl Seherzo Vsn Oeens wiiilne Nflln, violin Ones falsing Rohnrtion at the piano. i Old Insliih Phllii Hu Such Charming Old English Beaux Revei evinoul Vl Arenky-Koihet Almci tfndwirg. voire Marjorle Chrlafennen at the plana IV.

Et'lle flat, Ml 8mnrnwkt Fafiet'a ilsni 1'Eau DtbuiAy Standchrn Gieseklnt Oorothf womritfc. bUuo. baritone, Maurice Eenaud, who re cently went to his reward. Whether any readers of this column remember him or not. If they ever heard him sing they will remember him.

He was one of the greatest singers of our time and in addition to his high gifts as a singer he was one of the most consummate actors on any stage. Musical journals and musical com mentators on daily newspapers have been detailing the accomplishments of this gentleman to their readers during the past week or two, and I can recall only two or three other vocal artists who have deserved as well from posterity as he. We In America were not privileged to hear Renaud until he had passed his prime, but like Scottl and Maurel this man had so much to give outside his qualities as a singer, that he practically dominated the stage each tune he placed his foot on it. As one eloquent writer puts It: "Distinction was the everyday man tel of Maurice Renaud." He wade history in the old Manhattan opera, house, ruled at the time of Renaud' appearance by Hammerstein, and lat er was a member of the Chicago Opera company until the war took him back to his native France, where he enlisted when over 60 years of age, served gallantly as a soldier, was frequently promoted, cited for brav ery and, in brief, conducted himself as one without fear and without re proach In defense of bis fatherland. The war marked the end of hit great career to all intents and purposes and there can be no doubt that he paid the penalty for his loyalty and patriotism by the sacrifice of fata health, for he rarely sang alter the cessation of hostilities.

Renaud belonged to a type of opera singer that seems to have died out, a type in which were comlngled ele gance of manner with distinction as an artist When we recall the acting and singing of such men as Renaud. Maurel, Plancon, and a few others, and compare them with those ot to day, the balance is very much In fa vor of the oldsters; among whom we may venture to number the immortal De Reskes. Renaud's interpretation of the role of Athanael in "Thais" with Marf Garden will be recalled as one ef his outstanding achievements. It was his ability to project himself Into the more than 60 roles he portrayed and make them living ha racteruta tions that ennobled his art He could pets with facility from the elegance of Don Giovanni to the half mad Herod, or to the subtleties ot Mephistophe les with a deftness and certainty that were the wonder of all who saw and heard the productions. Oscar Thompson, writing In Musi cat America, says that Renaud placed his singing before his acting and while that is doubtless true he left nothing to chance in the preparation of a role, but-studied it to the mlnut eat detail.

In fact he was that typs of artist who was an inspiration to aspiring young singers, simply be cause to him operatic interpretation meant artiatie perfection, so far ss voice, make-up and action could make it I FRANCE, in England and Id the United Slates Renaud was regarded ss one of the great artists of our times. He even es sayed Wagnerian roles and numbered amongst his most pronounced successes the interpretation of Wolfram, the Hollander, Telramtmd anrl Beckmesaer, character types suffi ciently divergent to bespeak extraordinary versatility. It was in Chicago that he marts his mark especially, or rather he sang there more frequently than snywhere else, and it was largely through him and a few others that the Chicago company became a formidable rival for premier operatie honors In America. His attitude toward his art may be admirably summed up in his own words; "In the first place eperatle art is developed through the scrupulously exact study ot the musical part, with the wish to understand and respect the composer's score in its minutest details; then the vocal work or realization in sons; of the preceding study. The score being first of all lesrned perfectly and ei-hainttvely, all the effects ot the singing, all the nuances, all the va rieties or contrasts of timber and the vocal coloring will naturally unite in realizing in all sincerity the intentions of the composer." Could anyone more perfectly sum marize an opera singer's art than has been done in the foregoing few lines? Nothing is emphasized at tha expense of anything else.

There must be a union of effort from every angle. This statement by Renaud Is most respectively submitted for the consideration of those who as sume that voice is the beginning. the end and all in between in oper atic singing. It was Renaud who studied paint ings to secure hints to be applied' in costuming, In make-up. A real artist will study the externals of the character he la to present; face, costume, general bearing and even the gait.

The costumes must be historically correct and in this stage directors cannot be too particular, not any kind of spectacular settln or costume can be cited as' satisfactory tor particular periods. The French artist believed that historical documents should be studied and the contents applied in an effort to impart the glow of real ity to stage pictures, for he did not believe one figure alone, apparelled according to the habits of a period, could make a perfect stage picture. All the parts should contribute to a unlly of design, that in its turn woudl accentuate the action and singing. Well, what with new systums of lighting, new demands for color schemes and variegated costuming to produce soenlo effects, with Uttto regard for accuracy of design, snd with mechanical aids coming mora and more into the picture, there would seem to be less rujed of our Renauds and more for mechanicians. But let it be said It.

was men Ilk him who raised operijld production to rotable height as works artf Vera Brittain. new hook out. They art old friend, COLETTE AND BABA IN TIM-BUCTOO. By Katie Seabrook. Coward McCann.

Timbuctoo with all its mystery, its narrow winding streets, its flat-roofed stucco houses and its interesting in habitants is brought to the readers of this new story by Katie Seabrook It's a veritable Arabian Nights ex perlence to read the fascinating do lnps of 10-year-old Colette Malllard and the young native boy. BETTER CITIZENSHIP FOR LITTLE AMERICANS. By Edith Lawson. Beckley-Cardy Co. As a teacher of a primary class in the Barbour school of Rockford, 111., the author of this book has for a long time made a study of children their habits and their problems.

Now she has written a book which will be helpful to every boy and girl who reads it. "Better Citizenship for Little Americans" contains many little stories which emphasize carefulness, thrift, the right use of money, the need for saving time, reliability, health, and self-control. Many worth while lessons on conduct, both as a member of the home and the school family, and as a little private citizen, are also given. In addition to the many delightful stories are a number of little rhymes, and an additional novel feature of the book is an interesting short play, "The Club of Real Americans." Illustrations are by Gaye Woodrlng. THE HANDSOME DONKEY.

By Mary Gould Davis. Harcourt, Brace Co. This is the story of another donkey, an Italian donkey by the name of Baldasarre, but unlike the usual donkey Baldasarre was extremely handsome and his costume Included red rosettes on his headstrap and highly polished feet, all kept in ap pie-pie order by his adoring master. Baldasarre's best friend is Tedesco, a dachshund, and together these two friends have a glorious adventure that results in their both being some thing of heroes. Emma Brock's illustrations are hy no means a small part of this charming story, they are decidedly an inseparable part of it Miss Brock, Incidentally, is a native of Minnesota, living in St Paul.

THE ABC BUNNY. By Wanda Gag. Coward McCann, Wanda Gag is another native of which Minnesota can be Justly proud. Her books, designed for the very little tots, are delightful char acterizations of animals. The ABC Bunny is a veritable family affair.

Wanda drew the pictures, Flavia Gag composed the music, Howard Gag hand-lettered the text, and the book was originally made for Gary, Wanda's email nephew. B. A. R. John Masefield Writes Another Tale of the Sea Real Knowledge of Ships and Water in Story That Starts in China.

THE BIRD OF DAWNING. By John Masefield. Macmillan, B' no means pass up John Mase- field's "The Eird of Dawning" as Just another sea tale. To be sure, it is a story of the clipper days, of a tea race, in fact, and there is a good deal of that al most idolatrous love for ships and the sea that forms the backbone of most sea stories. But it is no landlubberly attempt to use an always ready tool rather the story of a man who knows ships and the sea, loves them, and can make them too real for comfort when he wants to.

Even when he has his captain rail against "steam," that always strained prejudice of the old timer, Mr. Masefield still is convincing. The story begins in China, It be. gins a little confusingly, Inasmuch as the book is half done before there is anything about the ship called The Bird of Dawning." Before the reader reaches that phint there have been a collision and a harsh experi ence in a small boat: when the Bird" finally appears It is in a ntianga manner, ana there are stranger circumstances to follow. Jt is not "cricket" to tell Mr.

Mase field story. But he is a strong man wno can put down the book before xne end. Auguste Desclos Tuesday at :15 n. ni Ansii.tn V. Desclos of Parts and New York will give the second ot a series of lectures for members of the Society of Fine Arts in, the auditorium the six institute.

His subiect will ha "What to Look for in Picture. Desclos, who is a connoisseur of rt and who has delighted' Minneapolis nuuicuue. in me past, believes that many people miss the fun of lookin at paintings because they don't know wnai to iook Tor. He will explain the technique of observing, and show how Irpisturei may. be appreciated.

THIS is Ihe week set aside by the publishers for children. Looking back on the books en joyed by generations past, each euc- ceeding generation has something for which to be thankful in the min ute attention and care given to children's books with each succeeding more modern and perhaps more ar tistic age. THE KING'S MULE. Dwight Akert. Minton Balch Co.

This Is the story of a faithful old mule, Larry, retired by his master, who as a reward for good services called him "The King's Mule" and turned him over to his three boys. But Larry, perhaps a bit perturbed at being put on the shelf and deciding there's life in the old boy yet, broke out of his stable the night cf his retirement and went off on the most exciting adventures, followed, of course, by his keepers. L. G. Illingworth, a contributor to Punch, contributes much to the book with his humorous drawings.

GET-A-WAY and JARY JANOS. The Viking Press. Get-A-Way is an old toy horse from America and Janos is a wooden soldier doll from Hungary, worn out in the service but still proud and most boastful, as is the way with soldiers. Get-A-Way has only three legs and Janos has only one arm, but together they can accomplish wonders in spite of their handicaps, on their way to that land where they both know they will be made whole and young again. It's a great story, children will love it.

ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. Coward McCann Co. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen never grow too old for the most modern youngster or fail to be entertaining to adults. They belong to childhood and the year 1936 will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first Andersen stor ies in an American magazine. Euza- beth MacKnistry makes this edition all the more priceless with her vivid, delightful drawings.

SPUNKY. By Berta and Elmer Hader. Macmillan Co. This is the story of a Shetland pony, beginning in the Shetland isl ands where Spunky, the hero, was born. But Spunky's experiences are many and varied first he works in coal mine, then in a circus, one of the stars at Madison Square Gar den; later he belongs to a traveling peddler, becomes a ''park pony," favorite with the children, then hap'- pily is found by his original owners and taken back home to spend the rest of his days in peace and con tentment.

much whining. Others have suffered, not all as peculiarly or as acutely as a generation as did her English generation, but in many ways ever since the world began. There must be mental twists in her brilliant mind that keep her harking too much on what she has missed or what she has been forced to suffer. The reader is hardly con vinced of an enduring, all inclusive duet of herself and Roland. And yet it becomes the mania of her life.

The new worlds must be faced, and she does face them, but she keeps going back, always back. What of her husband? What of her child, now five? Perhaps she gives these more attention than she Indicates. Need she keep her faith with the dead? It must be that she must. Her mind seems to work that way. But at times she seems so il logical! The war put her free of the provincialism she hated.

Or did it? Personally, we like Miss Holtby and her book better. We learn less of her, she seemed not to have sut fered so much directly from the war. But she is the braver spirit. She does not come crying for our sympathy. Anyway, you should read these two books.

G. L. PETERSON. The Desert Song' EING a war correspondent is rs usually serious business. But Benjamin Kldd, war corre spondent In Morocco for the Paris Dally Mall, is a different matter.

For Bennle is the comedian in "The Desert Song," the light opera which will be presented by the University Singers at Northrop Memorial audi torium, University of Minnesota, on Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon of this week. Bennla's real Job is tociety cor respondent ror the Daily Mail. Imag-ine, then, the terror a male society reporter who fnds himself sudden ly thrust into war reporting and as suddenly captured by enemy ruffians, taken into the enemy camp, arid frightened into thinking his life Is over as they talk of the best way to get rid of him. Among the harem, he flirts Joy-ously until Chief AH snarls, "so, harbor a snake within toy walls." as usual, he quaklngly answers, "now, All. you've ot a lot of women.

Don't be a Scotchman." Coupled with Ecnnle's corned in delightfully catchy songs, a story nu pjot, an atmosphere of laurigue ana aaventure. Grace Notes THE APOLLO CLUB, OUR leading male chorus, will open Jts season November 21 at the Shubert theater, with Sophie Braslau, contralto, as assisting soloist. The club will introduce one novelty that will mark a revolution in male chorus music, both because of its terminology and because, it features one of the most eminent personali ties of the nineteenth century. This selection bears the title of "General William Booth Enter Heaven," the poem by Nicholas Lindsay, musio by Phillip James. Accompaniments will be furnished by two pianos, a cornet, trombone and tympanl.

Written as a tribute to General Booth it introduced snatches of Salvation Army songs, and is developed In modern style with complex features that the club has splendidly mastered. Under Thursday Musical auspices the following programs are to be given in the immediate future: an illustrated talk on modern music by Lota Mundy and Ramona Gerhard, in the Minneapolis College of Music au ditorium on November 18 at 10:30 a. m. and the student program, given In the MacPhail auditorium, November 18, at 3 p. m.

when the topic ot discussion will be "The Symphony," by Wilma Anderson Gilman, assisted by wood wind choir and the University of Minnesota band. All the Episcopal choirs of Minne apolis, approximating BOO voices, will sing at a service in the municipal Programs Minneapolis Symphony orchestra Radio City opening concert Sunday, 10:30 p. m. to 12 midnight Overture to "Eurvanthe" Weber symDhonr jo. 1 to A major, cm.

93 Bi-ethovtn Scherto. "Th Borcerer'f Apprentice'' iiUUI WalUea from "Der Roaenkavallar" R. Strauas Polka and Fugut from "Schwanda" Overture to "Tannhauaer" Wagner Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, will resume monthly musicals Monday at 8:15 p. m. in library of the Music building1 at University of Minnesota.

Three Chorals Beethoven Disappointment Tacnauowuu-uona Trombont Quartet: George Wingert. Robert Vlckerg. Frank Hedlund. Earl Irons. Pleti.

Simore Etradella Pant. A nr. I Irn. ITranCk Agnug Del ueorge ommp. icnar.

Sheldon Gray, cello; George Wingert and Tvnthift RtumD. nianlnta. Runtera Quartet Abe pepinsgv, eneiaou war. nuaesii Barton, Ell Barnett. Program by Sigma Alpha Iota fraternity at Calvary Baptist church, Tuesday.

I flongg: cne rern mrnneo) vmu-i. Er Lonely Forest Pathway GnfSei Frances Devotee Margaretha Kater Lamm at the piano Tm rahin Sulfa for Ham Margaret nuDcrg Frances ouman TTT Voles and String Ensemble, Directed hy opai oieoier Jamison Fmma Sumpmann Gudgeon, Violin. Frances Gilman, Harp. Lucille Johnson. Piano.

The Star Rogers Llebestraum Waltz Bong Btrauts-RelKger Allah's Holiday Frunl IV Organ. Piano and String Ensemble 4vy tonnni, uriBD Sumpmann Gudgeon, Violin. Gudrun Ylvisaker, Piano. Rvlirl. Vliisatari (Set In Romance In Mathewa La Jeun Gounod-Schubert Bongs? Sapphic Ode Brahma phle of Blri if Frances DeVolce VI TTiimnhrev Trio' Pierrette.

Air aa isauet cnaminann Serenade Drdla, Autumn and Winter Glzannow Dorotnr Humnnrer, violin. Srlvla Flngstad. Cello. Dorothy Nicholson Schieba, Plane. VII Voice.

Organ and String' Ensemble: Meaiey or urn songs in uenoie Liinv. Opal Glebler Jamleson. Director. Fmma Sumpmann Gudgeon, Violin. Sylvia Flatfstad, Cello.

ranees Gilman, Harp, vy Conant, Organ, lUcllla Johnson, plane. Paul Segal, assisted by Mrs, J. Rudolph Peterson, accom panist, Tuesday, 8:30 p. m. From Sonata IV.

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Thursday Musical arllgt recital, Minneapolis College of Music auditorium, Thursday, 10:30 a. m. Illustrated talk on modern muslo by Lota Mundy and Ramona Gerhard. Explanatory Remarks Lota Mundy it. General Laving Debussy Lea Voiles Debussy Pollchlnelle Ramona Gerhard, J.

HI. Prest i Melooy Habanera Chanson Polonaise Arbos piano, HonneBger Proknfleff Ravel BtvmsnowsKi LaPountaUie d'Arenthua Til. ending wilUasas Iwi. Mundy. sleUa.

in City Score auditorium Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Hugo Goodwin and Ramona Gerhard will be at the organ and J. Austin Williams and Stanley R. Avery will conduct. Mr.

Avery has had the general direction of the Episcopal choirs In this diocese and has given successful festivals in sev eral cities. Two artist recitals are to be giv en on successive Tuesday evenings in the T.W.C.A., Benton hall, dur- ing November; the first on the 21st by Celestln Bett, the second one week later by Alice Saline, both pianists. Mrs. Anna M. Tardahl and Fran cis Engebretsen will give a piano and violin recital at Bethlehem Lutheran church, Forty-flrst and Lyndale avenue south, Saturday at 7:30 p.

m. Next Thursday afternoon In the music auditorium ot the University of Minnesota a program of exceptional interest will be presented by Agnes Past Snyder, contralto, and Hope Houbel, harpist. Mrs. Snyder Is to sing a number of the old Eng lish songs and Lallads collected in the southern Appalachian region. These songs will ba, rendered In the original form and original keys and will have harp accompaniment.

Miss Housel, a particularly well qualified harp soloist, will also contribute harp solos. The program Is under the auspices of Professor Martin Ruud's class in English and Scottish balladn. Symphony Will Go on Radio in Concert Today No Regular Program This Week Ormandy to Go East THE Minneapolis Symphony orchestra was chosen to play the hook-up which will mark the en trance of the National Broadcasting Co. into its new home in Radio City, New Tork. The concert is set for Sunday from 10:30 p.

m. to 12 midnight, central standard time. Marking as it does the climax of a 12-hour program in honor of the opening of Radio City, the concert wilt be an event of na tional Importance. The program will open and close with two of the most brilliant over tures In musical literature, the "Euryanthe," by Weber and Wag' ner's inspiring "Tannhaueser" over ture. The symphony will be Beet hoven's happy Seventh, in A major, with which Mr.

Ormandy has scored successes both in Minneapolis and out-of-town concerts. This will be followed by the swaying waltzes from Richard Strauss' opera, "Der Rosenkavalier," a work to which Mr. Ormandy brings his genius for the rhythm and spirit of the Vien nese waltz. An additional. number will be the memory haunting Polka and Fugue from the opera "Schwanda," by the Czecho-Slovakian composer, Wein berger.

While the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra takes a week off, Eugene Ormandy will be dashing around the east. The next orchestra concert here is set for November 24, with no concert st alt this week. Mr. Ormandy will leave for the east to conduct the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra In its regular pair ot concerts Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. On Monday, November 20 he will conduct the Philadelphia Forum concert the first conductor ever re-engaged for that concert and the following day he will conduct the Philadelphia orchestra in Washington.

November 22 he will conduct the Philadelphia orchestra in Baltimore. From that engagement he will hurry back to Minneapolis to conduct the Minneapolis orchestra two days later. Vezelay Sunday at 1:30 p. in the auditorium of the art institute, Rhodes Robertson, Minneapolis architect, will give an illustrated talk on "Ve re lay Birthplace of Crusades." Mr. Robertsox has Just returned from a year in Europe, most of which was spent in the small town of Vezelay.

An important stronghold of some 10,000 people in the middle ages, is is now a oulet villa of about tOO say he had come home. And the next day the call came, but it said that Roland had been killed on the twenty-third. She goes, after a time, Jo a hpspital in Malta. That was a glorious, year, despite the heartaches, the still continuing anxiety for Edward and other friends. Then back to dreary London.

And the friends are' killed and Edward Is killed and there seems nothing left. But the war ends and the strings of life must somehow be gathered together and followed out to the end. There is the return to Oxford, where she is looked upon as an outsider, too old for the work, separated by chasms from her Juniors of only a year or two who were just behind the war. She takes her degree, mourns always for Roland, works for this commission and that, travel over Europe, 'writes books and for magazines, and is proposed toby G. Finally she marries him.

Her wedding bouquet she gives to Ro- ipd'i mother. A Lrfu moving in There are fin passages, some really superior poems by her- M't and Roland and others. She bares herself as few would, have the courage or Inclination to do. And the book she has made of her feel Ings has been acclaimed from London to New Tork and all the other places the book has foound its way to. And.lt should be.

read. we have the feeling Is est is a large, stylized landscape with a nude, entitled, "The Dream," by the self-taught artist, le Douanlcr. It deserves be placed among the best of his works. But it is not, of course, the most important canvas on view. That rank be longs to the finely poignant portrait of a young boy, "The Artlat's Broth, er," by Degas, an excellent example gf JDegaa' early, styl.