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.»««»»»• ^><iW:n«ii».rs.ai * 12 A 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. mam HEARSTS SUNDAY_ ($10.00 American Advertising Contest Given Away!! t Last Sunday only the trade-marks or distinguishing characteristics of the advertisers below were given. $10.00 m cash was offered to the person sending m to The American, in the fewest possible words, a description of the advertisers whose “slogan” appeared below. Thousands of these replies were received and the prize goes to Mrs. O. D. Gorman, Jr., 79 W. I 5th St., her answers appearing below: Wall-Paper Thirty years in the wall-paper business have made us profi cient. Ask our customers. Before you buy, try us. :: :: “Better Be Safe than Sorry” 71 South Pryor Street BURNETT WALL PAPER CO. BURNETT The Montgo mery The easy way to buy clothes Your Credit is Good at (( The kind of Ice Cream you really like. It’s pure, clean and wholesome. Try it once. PHONE IVY 6849 VELVET ICE CREAM CO. 2b E. North Avenue u Go Where the Crowds Go” AND You Jpill be delighted Ifoith the coolf comfortable Montgomery Theater, Ab solutely the latest pictures. Anna Von Hoffman is now singing AT u Truly Duffy's” The home of low prices, on the corner of Mitchell and Forsyth Sts. Attend our immense Clearing-Out Sale now going on ♦ ♦ 4 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ DUFFY’S 27 years in the same stand. Shoes for the Entire Family SeeourFalland Winter stock of Men s and Ladies’ models. Just from the Eastern . style centers. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED R. C. BLACK 35 Whitehall Street