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HE A KM s SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. DA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 24. 1914
EUROPE TROTS,
BUT U'T KEEP
STEP TO MUSIC
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer.
NEW YORK. Auk 23.—Arman d
Wcsey, composer and director of mu
sic at tho RJtz-Carlton, has returned
fresh from a European tTlp with lots
of new music and some comments
upon the musical situation abroad
which may act as balm to the souls
of American composers, and a Joy
for those who are not musicians, but
like to hear the scream of the Amer
ican Eagle.
Mr. Verse v has not lived on this
side of the Atlantic long enough to
have taken out final naturalization
papers, but there is nobody on this
t<de of Weehawken who 1s more In
tensely and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical way. He says
American music and American motifs
have spread over all Europe, but the
mualc the natives over there doo’t
know how to play.
Opera in Europe, as Mr. Vecsey
has viewed it this summer. Is poor
»» compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
there isn't anything now betwear^
l.ondon and Vienna that has Lo do
with music or the stage which local
talent can’t beat hands down.
“I have been In Paris. London. Ber-
lir, Munich, and Vienna,” said Mr.
Vecsey, "and everywhere I have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds til
over the Continent. Yet nowhere did
I hear the music played correctly,
although they try hard, and when it
came to fitting German or French
words to a typical trotting tune, the
effect was ludicrous
Recognize the “Truthshn Tanz?”
"Think of what the result was in
Berlin, when they turned 'When the
Midnight Choo-Ohou leaves for Ala-
ham' into German! In Germany they
- all the trot ‘Truthahn Tan*,’ and in
France it Is the ‘Pas du Dindon.’
Who would recognize the original un
der such appellations?
Then the French can not dance
the trot, nor can the Germans. Some-
now they can’t Just find out the
« haracter of it Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
tight in the first place. Why. at
the F'olies Berg ere in Paris, I saw two
of the best French dancers giving
what was supposed to be a most per
fect rendition of the trot, and I as
sure you it was rldi< ulous. It w as a
very poor imitation of the real thing
Yet. 1 was astonished to find th*t
sil the new French music and most
«»f the new German operettas are
• it her in the American style, as near-
’ ly .is their composers could approach
’ it. 01 have American motifs. The
. tang*i seems to he breaking up the
, rot over there, partly. 1 suppose,
, lr cause their dancers can come near-
» er to dancing il than the purely
r vnicrican steps. In Paris I saw a
. - ouple trying the Texas Tommy, and
. was a sight to cause a horse o
* double up.
“Why can’t they *>!av a turkey
trot? For the SRme reason that no
body except a Hungarian can play
r Hungarian music. Almost every mu-
< .*1 country has something that Is
' peculiarly Its own—a style of music
' i hat when played correctly Is in-
' factious.
American Style Hm Call.
"Hungary has its ceardas, Austria
• its waltz, and America its syncopated
- time. When each is Hayed properly,
7 it is bound to move an assemblage
• of people, and Just now the Amerl-
• an style has tht call everywhere.
“At the Palais de Danse. In Ber-
- ’.in, I first h.ard a turkey trot played
by a German orchestra. It was very
* bad. 1 want to tell you that In
- Europe this summer there Is no mil-
- sic. no opera, no Philharmonic con-
" -ert, and no play that can compare
•* with what has been heard here In
" New York this year.”
"In Paris,” went on Mr Vecsey.
“ with a trace of feeling, "when they
* see an American trunk, they lie in
wait to rob the owner, and go crazy
over the thought of loot. It Is the
same in Berlin.
"1 must tell you that not anywhere
are women so generally chic In their
r costumes nowadays as right here ; n
New York.
True, I did see many smartly
gowned women, but Investigation
showed that moat of them were
\merica ns.”
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
Clergyman Declares There Is No
Worship in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
Tame Trout Craves
Petting: Fed by Hand
, Feels Insulted if Food Is Not Served
in Manner to Which He Is
Accustomed.
ESTES PARK. COLO.. Aug 23.—
! Sunbeam, the pet si^kled trout in
the fish hatchery at^ Kate* Park, has
Just recovered from an Indisposition I
caused by stomach trouble or rheu
matism, and Is again able to take Its
place as the only pet trout In cap
tlvity.
The fish, now' a 3-year-old and
about eleven Inches long, Is as good
an example of gentle and loving
trouthood as It is possible to find
Fed from the hand from the time it
was hatched, It feels Insulted now un |
less Its food Is given to it in that
way.
It. is very fond of being stroked
and petted, and will swim around and
nib Itself against a person’s hand
a henever & chance- |g given it
Stranger Is Son,
Gone for 20 Years
Father Turn* Wanderer Away, but j
Mother Calls Him Back, and
I
Reunion Follows.
GLASGOW, KY. Aug 23. - Virgil
Huffman had be*»n away from home
twenty years, seeking his fortune In
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman, were I
sitting In a rooip of their home near
here discussing him and wondering
if he would ever come back.
There wa* a knock at the door and
Mr. Huffman opened It to eee a dusty
traveler, who said he was tired and
was seeking lodging for the night. Mr.
Huffman thought he could do noth
ing for him, but Mrs. Huffman "reck
oned" they could manage somehow.
Then they led him Into the hall, un- |
der the swinging lamp, and as the!
light fell on hie face the aged couple {
recognised him as their son
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begins Stupendous Task of Reduc- I
Ing HU Own Language to
Written Form.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Aog 28 A
full-blooded African chieftain has Just
passed his entrance examinations at
Harvard with flying colors and. will
er*ter the university next September
ns a member of the class of 1917. He I
Is P. Gbe Wolo, and his people, 300,-
000 strong, are the Krua of Liberia, on
the west coast of Africa.
They have no written language, so
that the only way he cun communi- I
cate with his family Is through trad
ers on the coast, who send the mes
sage by word of mouth along the
trail. He has begun the stupendous
task of reducing his language *o
writing.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond.
MONTGOMERY. MO., Aug 28—A
baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Charles-
Montgomery game, and by mistake
he got Into a hack at the depot filled
with pallbearers going to a funeral.
As he had crepe on his ha.t, the
ballbearers thought he had come ua
a mourner and he was tAken to the
cemetery instead of the ball park.
Finding himself in a funeral pro
cession, he woke up and escaped. He
got to the ball grounds Just In time
to see the home team win.
‘Star Baths' Latest
Complexion Remedy
Young Women Campers Take Night
ly ‘Plunge’ In Milky Way Beams
on Tower.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23. Star baths
are the fad at the summer camp of
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation in Blauvelt. N. Y. Miss Mar
ion Hopkins, the camp leader, is given
credit for the innovation. The baths
are taken on top of a hlpu tower in
the center of the camp. It will ac
commodate a dozen bathers.
There Is a long waiting Hat of young
women campers who are anxious to
enjoy the reported benefits of immer
sion in starlight Chief among these
is saia to be the "star-shine complex
ion.”
BRIDGEPORT, CONN . Aug 23. The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
■ opal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
ie would do If he were entering upon a
new pastorate
For one thing, he said, he did not be
lieve in paid singers for church choirs
“The service of the church was designed
for the people as a whole and not alone
for the choir,” he said “These modern
choirs take the worship away from the
people of the congregation and do all
the worshiping themselves. They sing
n wild and strange ways and in unut
terable tongues the praises of God ”
Husband in Prison;
Wife Willed $20,000
Richmond Woman Given Share
Estate After Helpmate Is Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
Missouri.
RICHMOND. VA.. Aug. 23—Mrs.
Maud Kent Rowley, whose husband.
William J. Rowley, formerly connect
ed with a hotel here, was recently
sentenced to sene two years in State
prison for embezzling $8,000 from the
Jefferson Hotel in this city while au
ditor there, inherits $20,000 from the
estate of her aunt, Mrs. Junius A
Morris, of Richmond, who died Au
gust 3 at Atlantic City.
The value of the estate U placed at
$490,000.
Woman Works as
Circus Roustabout
KREBMONT, NEBR., Aug 23.— Every
laborer available is being sent by the
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight
the Missouri Rivef. which is again eat-
!ng into the valuable farm lands of !
that section and threatening t-» rut its
may lo the railroad tracks. Many car
loads of stone have been dumped into
the river.
The river suddenly began veering from
i'-s channel a few days ago I- .-ode of
•an days it had swamped 20 aor\.. of
innd. Fear is now felt that the river
n il eat its way back to the extensive
i r «n within the lost year at a cost
cf more than §300,Got). I
Breaks Down While Handling Heavy
Tent Pole and Her Secret
Is Revealed.
LA CROSSE, WIS . Aug 23 Mrs.
Ada Broughton, unable to support her
two children and invalid husband on
wages j*aid a woman, donned a man’s
att’.rc and labored beside farm hands In
Dakota wheal field" She broke down
under the strain and came to 1a Crosse
to seek liglfier employment, becoming
a circus roustabout lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted in her com
plete breakdown. Then she told her I
story to the police and collapsed She
was taken unconscious to a hospital
Relatives are on tht way from her |
home at Rice Lake.
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