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SANTA ANA DAILY RECISTER. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1930 IS PAUL DUKAS BY RUTH Paul Dukas, who has been termed by one enthusiastic biographer of the noblest figures in contemporary is one of that important group of French modernist composers Including Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Floi- ent Schmitt. He is of special interest since he is still active as a composer, while his works are often played on current concert programs, as typical examples of the modem French style, Dukas, who was born in Paris October 1, 1865, first began to manifest a sincere feeling for music when he was about 14, and made some premature attempts at composition even during this youthful period, although his knowledge of theory was meagre and secured through his own efforts. Not until he had finished his general education did Dukas turn to music in earnest, entering the Paris conservatory in 1882, when he was 17. He studied under Guiraud, Dubois and Matthias during a six-year period spent' in this historic institution of musical instruction.

When he was 21 he won a first prize for proficiency in counterpoint, followed two years later by a second de as result of a cantata, While at the Conservatory Dukas also composed two early overtures, (1883) and von (1884). These early efforts showed somewhat the influence of Wagner, who was then the idol of all young composers in Paris, but Dukas quickly realized that in order to achieve the goal which he had already set for himself, he must strive to retain and strengthen his own individuality. Thus it was really to his advantage when he left the conservatory in 1888 for a period of military training. When this expired he embarked upon a rigid course of self-training, in which he endeavored to perfect himself technically by a careful study of the classic masters, as well as to give full expression to his own indixid- uality. No half-way compromise could satisfy him, and he worked with undiminished ardor, progressing rapidly, and developing his own unique style to a marked degree.

One of the first results of this period of training, also his first composition of merit to be publicly performed was his overture, based on tragedy of that name, and brought out in 18D2. For a time after this he aided Saint Saens In completing the orchestration of an opera, also supervising its premiere performance in 1895. During 1896 and 1897 Dukas compoeed a symphony, also a sonata, which were severely classic ANDREWS in style, also indicative of the rare talent which was rapidly blossoming forth as the result of tireless study. Indeed, 1897 was an especially important year in life, and his widespread recognition as a composer dates from this year, in which he produced his symphonic scherzo, Sorcier," founded on a humorous ballad of the German poet, Goethe. This work, one of his best known, also one of the most' widely played of all his works, was personally conducted by Dukas at its premiere hearing, at a concert of the Bociete Nationale.

Critics were not slow to recognize that here was a real gem, brilliantly conceived, and eloquent with a mastery of orchestration. Dukas was accordingly heralded as one of France's foremost composers of the day, because of his distinctive individuality. No doubt to a large extent as a result of the furore created by this work, Dukas was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1906, an honor awarded by France to her famous artist's. The longing to write operas had long been a cherished dream in heart, and in 1907, this dream was materialized in the premiere of his operatic masterpiece, et Rarbe suggested by the play of Maurice Maeterlinck and first performed at the Paris Opera Comique on May 10 of that' year. The work was later given in Vienna, and in New York in 1911, and was the product of ten years of creative work.

This work, which was a real triumph, has been ranked with the "Pelleas and of Debussy as one of the foremost masterpieces of French contemporary opera. In it the music is especially emphasized, with the librettu secondary in importance. The wrork is characterized by that inherent individuality that is most outstanding feature, a vivid feeling for color and apt description, as well as symmetry of form. mastery of orchestration is equally apparent in this work. It is thus interesting to note that two years following this operatic triumph, Dukas was appointed professor of orchestration at the Paris Conservatory, a post he held for several years.

A poetical ballet, published by Dukas in 1911 was interpreted the following year at the Chatelet Theater in Paris by Mile. Trouhanowa, noted Russian danseuse. The work, in reality a symphonic poem, was very Imaginative and suggestive in style. Additional works include an appealing for horn, also various piano works. Dukas has done much valuable work in the revision of Important works of the early French classicists, Rameau and Couperin.

During recent years he has devoted diligent efforts to the composition of an elaborate symphonic work, based upon the famous by William Shakespeare. Although Dukas does not hesitate to give Debussy much credit as an inspirational influence in the shaping of his own distinctive career, yet he has always maintained a marked independence of other composers. He has brought to the service of his art a fundamental honesty and conscientiousness that have been greatly responsible for his success. Dukas has always had a great aversion to the adulation of the elite, and has instinctively craved the seclusion in which his talents were best fitted to unfold. He has avoided concert appearances and the popular applause craved by many lesser artists.

Dukas' musical criticisms have been highly valued by the French press and he for many years been a valued contributor to the foremost French journals. French authorities of the present day do not hesitate to term Dukas an especially important influence upon the evolution of current French music. To quote Henry Prunieres of Paris: works have revealed to the modern school the rarest secrets instrumentation. His music is dazzling; delicate tones and rarest shades contrast with vigorous and warm brush-work in an irresistible wizardry of color. Dukas Is a great artist, who knows howr to create In the hearts of his audience that delightful unrest, that total abandonment to sway, which is the hall-mark of real creative CURRENT MUSIC NEWS slvely throughout the Pacific Coast section, following which he will return to New York In time to begin rehearsals for his ninth consecutive season at Metropolitan Opera House to open in January.

During the coming season Johnson will introduce the premiere of recently completed opera, BOOK REVIEWS By MARY BURKE KING Gegna Recital Jascha Gegna, Russian violinist of ability, is scheduled to appear in recital at Beaux Arts Auditorium next Friday evening December 5. L. A. Oratorio Society The Los Angeles Oratorio Society, will be presented in a concert program at Philharmonic Auditorium Sunday, December 7, at 3 pi m. The program will Include famous classics from Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, as well as the famous Manzoni Requiem of Verdi.

The organization, which includes about 200 singers, is one of the foremost choral ensembles In the West. WITH THE ARTISTS Radio Lurat Haifetz Jascha. Heifetz, who has always refused to play for radio broadcasting, has signed a contract for radio work with the National Broadcasting company, which states that his fee will be the largest ever paid to any broadcast artist. He will he heard over the company's network on Sunday, December 21. Heifetz, one of the moat sensational of present-day violin virtuosos, will be heard in recital at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium Monday evening, December 8.

LOS ANGELES Philharmonic Concert At the popular Sunday afternoon concert, to be given by L. A. Philharmonic Orchestra in Philharmonic auditorium next Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, Rudolph Reuter, Chicago pianist, will appear as soloist. He will I play the Liszt Fan- and Numbers to be programmed by the orchestra will Include overture, Spring- Sym- phony" and Romberg Compotes New Work Sigmund Romberg, who has won fame for many succesful operettas, one of the most appealing and popular of which was the vorite of recent fame, has just composed a new ballet, entitled the World Pnrade." This work will have Its premiere at Monte Carlo with Anna Pavlowa, celebrated Russian dnnseuse, and members of the Diaghiieff Russian ballet.

Honor French Modernist The city council of Paris hiw recently placed a memorial tablet on the former residence of Claude Debussy, In tribute to the great service rendered the development of modern French music by this great composer. Johnson In Recital Edward Johnson, celebrated tenor of Metropolitan Opera company fame, will appear in recital at Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium next Tuesday evening. December 2. He is now concertizlng exten- Ds Falla to Visit U. S.

Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer, best known in America by his ballets, Amor Brujo" arid "The Three Cornered algo his opera Vida Is planning to tour America next season. Beauty and the beast That is what they tell us that the blue Jay Is. But let us believe that it does more good than bad. Let us learn to love it first and then if we do find that it some wrong we can more easily forgive It. If you know the blue jay and some one who does not know It ware to ask you what it looked like you would be quite sure to eay something like this: A big noisy blue bird with some black and white on it and a topknot or crest on its head.

Mr. Chapman, who knows the birds so well, tells it something like this: Upper parts grayish blue; under parts dusky whitish; a black band passing across the back of the head, down the sides of the neck and across the breast; head crested; wings blue, barred with black and some feathers tipped with white; bill and feet black. Bluebirds are just about as scarce in this country as red ones. Since the blue jay and the redbird both spend the winter as well as summer with us, about as pretty a picture as one could wish to see is when these two birds are together, and the white snow covers everything; the red, the white, the blue, the colors that we love eo well. The blue jay is one of the birds that will come regularly to the feeding shelf or window sill if you will keep it supplied with peanuts or corn.

Indeed it is the only way to keep it in the cities in winter, for it must have food and if it cannot get it from you or some neighbor it must go to the woods where it can find acorns. It is a very interesting bird, yes, and a saucy one that likes to tease. It not only takes all the peanuts it wants to eat, but carries some away for a time coming when there may be none on the shelf. It will carry these nuts to the ground, lay them down, one in a place, pound a time or two with its bill and then pick up a few dried leaves or pieces of rubbish and cover them. You may watch it hide half a dozen nuts and think you have seen Just where it put them.

When you go to the places you will not be able to find three of the six. It will carry the or nut to a tree, place them in a crotch, pull off a few pieces of loose bark and cover them. Once a gray squirrel was seen to come to a large maple tree near the window sill where blue Jays came morning after morning for their breakfast of peanuts and corn, calling if none had been put out the night before. The squirrel went carefully over the crotches of the tree smelling and digging out the nuts when it found them. Both the squirrel and blue Jay plant many acorns and nuts when they think they are Just hiding them and will come again and get them.

They do come and get some, for they have been seen to do it, but many are forgotten and grow to be large trees in the years to come. During the winter the jays are not so noisy unlees one calls to its companions to come and come quickly. Then their jay, Jay will ring out and you yourself will want to go out to see what is going on. They do talk in soft low whispers sometimes, even to themselves when no other Jay is about. Some day in spring It will even surprise you by sitting quietly and humming a sweet little song, as sweet as the low sweet song of a canary bird, and quite as varied.

You will not want to believe your own eyes that have seen the bill open and the throat fill out. Can it sing so sweetly and then send out from the same throat the coarse notes that sound like a creaking hinge, as the bird teeters its whole body upon its legs as if the sound was made by the squeading of the Joints? The noisy time comes in the spring. They are choosing nesting places and looking for material to build their nests with. They like a crotch of a tree near the trunk. The nest is made by sticks and rootlets closely woven.

The eggs vary, but are greenish, either olive or bluish and thickly covered with brownish specks. Spring is the blue noisy time. (Copyright, 1927 by The Daily News Feature Syndicate.) Color These Blue Jays Name Afe School. VISEL STUDIOS N. Broadway Specializing In VOICE, DRAMATIC ART, PIANO.

DANCING. ACTINO (Tha Kindred AN teachers are highly recommended by prominent INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLORING This should be a very interesting and also an easy subject to color. The sky should be a very light blue, the distant trees a warm blue gray, the foreground warm gray shaded with a little brown and green, the branch upon which the bird is perched should be brown and blending to a light green near the tip. The leaves are brown shaded with red and yellow, The acorns can be brown shaded with a little green and a touch of Now for the Blue Jay, most all of us know something about the beautiful i colors of this bird; the breast is gray, the hack is a light purple almost a blue, the wings and tail are blue with white and black streaks, the crown is light purple or blue, there is a black streak running around the head just hack of the dark eye, below the eye and under the beak feathers are gray, the beak is gray with a black tip. The feet are gray almost black.

The bird flying near the bottom of the picture should be colored slmiar to the one oo the breach. Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? by Walter S. Hankel, published by The Macaulay Company. In order that there will be no mistake about the purpose of this book, the editor has it stated on the title page: symposium to End One who has derived a considerable pleasure from symposiums may find it necessary to force himself to enloy this book at first There are really quite overwhelming bits of humor here and those and one appreciates them more in bits than in gulps. Acknowledgement is made the Statue of Liberty whose constant patience and support sustained the contributors in their labors, and tq Nicholas Cabozo, barber, for keeping the hair out of his eyes while editing the The book is a burlesque.

Here and there it reverts to pure nonsense, and fittingly enough for one portion is in the chapter on literary criticisms. One of the very amusing chapters is or the Future of The particular fun in that chapter Is on the five hundred history. The author of this chapter denies the ru- jmor, now current, to the effect that the promoters of the Mt. Rushmore monument asked the president for a donation of words he examined his contract with one of our great magazines and said, 'Gentlemen, five hundred words is all I can While the ers of the future would no doubt love to seize upon such an ignoble origin for the greatest revolution in the history of history, we may here set the matter definitely at rest. Five hundred words were determined upon by the promoters before they approached President Coolidge: and the distinguished author showed his generosity by making most of the 500 words long Trying to impress us with the importance of this revolutionary history this author says that a statistician is authority for the, statement that the institution of the five hundred word history America will have four and a half centuries, every Those who have time for nonsense and are refreshed by it will find real Joy in: Whither, the Symposium to End Consider by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins.

Published by The Century company. "Consider the Consequences la a freak hook. It suggests Infinite possibilities. It is a dozen books rolled Into one. It takes all point from the familiar quotation from the wife who was considering a Christmas present for her husband and said has a for this one book can readily become a dozen books.

It Is a puzzling book. Now for the explanation of the all-lncluslvenees of this book. It is by the authors of Got Your and Grundy la Dead" which serves to signify something different. the Consequences" is absolutely something different from either of those however. The plan is that you start reading about Helen and her problem in choosing between two suitors, Jed Harringdals and Saunders Mead.

A description of the characteristics and prospects of the two men is given. Then the reader Is to make the choice for Helen, rf the first course (marriage to Jed) is chosen, turn to paragraphs H-l. If the second course, turn to paragraphs H-2. Now having married Jed or Saunders, as the case may be, other possibilities are presented. In the case of Jed, Helen is confronted with a very domineering mother-in-law.

Jed her home to live with the mother-in-law. The question is shall she put up with the situation or Insist that they shall live by themselves. Then Jed dies. Shall Helen stay on with her mother-in-law in order to nrovlrte a home for her child, or shall she leave that home and make a more modest home for herself and her child. If you select one course of action for Helen you are instructed to turn to such and such a paragraph.

If you make tho other choice for Helen you are in- structed to read the other para- graphs. It will be seen from this sketchy outline that the book has infinite possibilities in reading and re-reading for after you have made certain choices for Helen you can go hack and make other choices. Of course in the first instance there are only two choices, whether she shall marry Jed or Saunders, but there are four courses of action the next time so that section can he read four times. two for the choices if she had married Jed, two for the choices if she had married Saunders and the next time there are eight which means eight readings from that point on. In fact to avoid confusion there is a diagram In the beginning of the book showing the choices so that one become lost and traverse the same ground twice, and one can check off those one has read.

Curiosity as to what will happen to Helen if she made the other choice one to the The story of Helen is a bit simple but the plan suggests possibilities for more complicated tales. It is a book with which you can suit yourself. Who has not speculated what would have happened If a character in a hook had not made this or that choice at this or that place? Here the authors have actually shown RICHARD GARRICK STUDIO PLAY SHOP STAGE, SCREEN. SPEAKING VOICE, PERSONALITY EACH STUDENT DIRECTED INDIVIDUALLY ADVANCED STUDENTS PLACED IN PROFESSIONAL PLAYS AMATEURS COACHED IN PREPARATION, SUTTON SENSATIONAL DRAMA "OUTWARD BOUND" Tel. 4987 200 East 6th, Cor.

Both has camped and slept under the water when the tide turns to run stars and wandered from the beat- I in. It comes in swiftly and with en path has treasured in his mem- great force. A story told in the ory this place and place of region about a hand of gyp- exquisite beauty and charm, and ales who set out for the island us what would have happened.j other discoveries cannot from the mainland. Townspeople It suggests infinite work for au- replace the beauties one remem- on the wall of St. Michel seeing thoi-s.

Let them take the classics hers for himself. them coming and knowing the tide and develop this choice plan. By was due tried to signal to Them successive choices the book may The Shadow of the Sword, by to go back, but they could not extended indefltely. Hawthorne Daniel, published by make them understand and the If you want to give somebody MacMillan company. little band was all drowned, a library and can't afford to do Travelers to the northern part jt ja the proud boast of the na- so, give them this book Prance all know about the won- tives of the island that although sider the and they derful Island of Mont Saint Mi- a11 of northern France was cap- wiil have a number of stories all chel, which is connected with the hy the English in the Hun- compressed Into 186 pages.

mainland by traversible sands dred Years war between Roads to Roam, by Hoffman when the tide Is out but when and England, the English Birney, published by the Penn the tide comes in an estuary sur- never able to capture the island Fublishlng company. rounds the There is a to has an tin- most peculiar and terrible rush of (Continued on Page 21) deniable appeal because it is about places not far removed from our- i selves, In fact tho author comes as close as Los Angeles on his travels in his car He very well impressed in Los Angeles and its environs so we, may feel just as glad that he include Orange county in "Roads to for he is very critical. There are several pages on Los Angeles. One paragraph serves to show the tenor: what annoying creatures human beings can done his best to spoil Los Angeles. Advertising of the Babbit, Rotary, Lions, George Creel, Chamber of Commerce and the hit 'em-between-the-eyes-with a two-by-four school has played hell with a natural charm and a beautiful location.

Only if you look far beyond the handiwork of homo more-or-less sapience can you find anything of beauty in Los Angeles. Mr. Birney, this author, is positive that at some future date the Boulder dam will go out. He firmly believes that will prove impossible to harness the Colorado river. It may be pent up for a while, but eventually It will break i loose and defy all efforts; at control.

as Fred says the author, "exercises a benevolent despotism at Grand Canyon, an outfit known as the Yosemite Park-Curry company has a tail-1 hold on everything worth while In Yosemite. You find there none of quiet efficiency of El Tovar, however. The Curry company is to Fred Harvey (and Vic or Patrosso) as Child's or the Automat is to the Art Club or the Ritz-Carlong. This is semi-Spanish, dolca far niente Arizona. This is California, land of promise and of speed.

From tills it will be gathered that Mr. Birney is rather a dis- peptlc. But when he describes Reno and then apparently a city of the type he describes as Reno does not' displease him one loses confidence in his judgment. Those who have roamed much in the southwest will want to take this fellow on a tour. The feeling arises partly because everyone who CHRISTMAS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER A question: Have you ordered your Christmas Greeting Cards? Time flies so take our advice, come in Monday, see our stock of Parchments, Wood Cuts, Etchings, Futuristic and Hand Written Cards.

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