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Tame Trout Craves
,, Petting; Fed by Hand
BUI CAN'T KEEP
STEP TO MUSIC
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer.
NEW YORK, Auk 23,-Armand
Vecsey, composer and director of mu
sic at the, Ritz-Oarlton, has returned
fresh from a European trip 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. Vecsey has not lived on this
side of the Atlantic long enough to
have taken out final naturalization
papers, but there is nobody on this
side of Weehawken who is moTe in
tensely and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical way. He says
American music and American motifs
have spread over all Europe, but the
music the natives over there don’t
know how to play.
Opera in Europe, ** Mr. Vecsey
has viewed It this summer, is poor
as compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera Houpe, and
there isn’t anything now between
lx>ndon and Vienna that has to do
with music or the stage which local
talent can’t beat hands down.
“I have been in Paris, London, Ber
lin, Munich, and Vienna,’’ said Mr.
Vecsey, “and everywhere I have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds vll
over the Continent. Vet 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 “Truthahn Tanz?”
“Think of what the result was in
Berlin, when they turned ‘When the
Midnight Ohoo-Choo leaves for Ala-
bam' into German! In Germany' they
call the trot ‘Truthahn Tanz,‘ and in
France It Is the ‘Pas du Dlndon.’
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 And out tho
character of it. Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
light in the first place. Why. at
the Folies Bergere in Paris, I saw two
of the beet French dancers giving
what was supposed to be a most per
fect rendition of the trot, and I as
sure you it was ridiculous. It was a
very poor imitation of the real thing.
Yet, 1 was astonished to find that
all the new French music and most
of the new German operettas are
either in the American style, as near
ly as their composers could approach j
it. o' have American motifs. The
tango seems to be breaking up the)
trot over there, partly. 1 suppose,
b i a use their dancers can come near- ;
*r to cancing It than the purely
merican steps. In Paris l saw a
• ouple trying the Texas Tommy, and
it was a sight to cause a horse r o
double up.
•Why can't they May a turkey
i rot? For the same reason that no
body except a Hungarian can play
Hungarian music. Almost every mu-
- cal country has something that is
peculiarly its own—a stylo of music
That when played correctly is in
fectious.
American Style Has Call.
"Hungary has its esardas, Austria
its waltz, and America its syncopated
time. When each Is Hayed properly,
It Is bound to move an assemblage
of people, and Just now the Ameri-
1 an style has the call everywhere.
"At the Palais de Danse, in Ber
lin, I first h ard a turkey trot played
by a German orchestra. It was very
bad. I want to tell you that In
Europe this summer there Is no mu
sic, no opera, no Philharmonic con
cert, and no play that can compare
with what has been heard here in
New York this year.”
"In Paris," w r ent on Mr. Vecsev,
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
,-ame in Berlin.
"I must tell you that not anywhere
sre women so generally chic in their
costumes nowadays as right here J n
New York.
“True, I did see many smartly
gowned women, hut investigation
showed that most of them were
Xmericans.’’
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
•—
Clergyman Declares There Is No
Worship in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., Aug 23 -The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
copal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
be 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 w’orship away from the
people of the congregation and do all
the worshiping themselves They sing
in wild and strange ways and in unut
terable tongues the praises of God.”
Fed« Insulted if Food Is Not Served
in Manner to Which He Is
Accustomed.
ESTES PARK, COLO., Aug 23.—
Sunbeam, the pet speckled trout in
the fish hatchery at Este* Park, has
Just recovered from an Indisposition
caused by stomach trouble or rheu
matism, a#d Is again able to take its
place as the only pet trout in cap
tivity.
The fish, now’ a 3-year-old and
about eleven inches long, is as good
an example of gentle and loving
trout hood it ifl poMibll to find
Fed from the hand from the time it
was hatched, it feels Insulted now iin.
Imi l:y food li given to it In that j
way. !
It is very fond of being stroked |
and petted, and will swim around and
rub Itself against a person’s hand
whenever a chance is given it
Stranger Is Son,
Gone for 20 Years
Father Turns Wanderer Away, but
Mother Calls Him Back, and
Reunion Follows.
GLASGOW, KY, An* 23 Virgil
Huffman had been away from liome
twenty years, seeking his fortune in
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. .fames Huffman, were
•it!log In a room of their home near
here discussing him and wondering
if he w’ould ever come hack.
There was a knock at the door and
Mr. Huffman opened It to see a dusty
traveler, who said he was tired and
was seeking lodging for the night. Mr
Huffman thought he could do noth- I
)ng 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 his face the aged couple
re< ognl»ed him as their son
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begin* Stupendous Task of Reduc
ing HI* Own Language to
Written Form.
CAMBRIDGE. MARS, Aok **.—A
full-blooded African chieftain has just
passed his entrance examinations it
Harvard with flying colors and. will
enter the university next September
as a member of the class of 1917. Ho
Is P. Gbe Wolo, and his people. 300, -
000 strong-, are tin- Kru» of Liberia, on
the wefK coast of Africa.
They have no written language, so
that Hie only way he can communi
cate with Ills family Is through trad- j
ers on the coast., who send the mes-
saKe by word of mouth along; the |
trail. He has begun the stupendous I
task of reducing his language \u
writing.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
j
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Cm !
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond. !
MONTGOMERY, MO.. Aug 28.—A
baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Charles- I
Montgomery game, and by mistake I
he got Into a hack at the depot filled I
with pallbearers going to a funeral I
As he had crepe on his hat, the! I
ballbearers thought he had come u* 11
a mourner and he was taken to the I
cemetery Instead of the ball park. I
Finding himself In a funeral pro- I
cession, he woke up and escaped. He I
got to the hall grounds just In time I
to see the home team win. * I
‘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 tlie fad at the summer ramp of
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation in Blauvelt, N. Y. Miss Mar- I
ion Hopkins, the camp leader, is given
credit for the innovation. The baths
are taken on top of a hig»-> tower in
the center of the camr*. 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- I
slon in starlight. Chief among these
is said to be the “star-shine complex
ion.”
Husband in Prison:
Wife Willed $20,000
Richmond Woman Given Share
Estate After Helpmate Is Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
of
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
M issouri.
RICHMOND, V A., Aug. 23—Mrs.
| Maud Kent liowley. whose husband.
: William J. Rowley, formerly connect -
| ed with a hotel here, was recently
sentenced to serve 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. i
The value of the estate Is placed at
$496,000.
Woman Works as
Circus Roustabout:
FREEMONT, NEBR.. Aug 23. Every
laborer available is being sent by the
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight !
the Missouri River, which is again eat-
!r.g into the valuable farm lands of
that section and threatening to cut its
way to the rlllroad tracks Man> car
loads of stone have been dumped into I
tl e river.
The river suddenly began veer.r.g from
iiw channel a few days age lu.stde of
wo days it had swamped 20 h n .s of
pnd. Fear is now felt that the river
^eat its wav back to the extorsive
within the last year at a uosf
re rihsin $500,000.
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 paid a woman, donned a man s
at tire and labored beside farm hands in
Dakota, wheat fields She broke down
under the strain and came to 1a Crosse
to seek ligifier employment, becoming
a oircus roustabout Lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted In her com
pete breakdown Then she told her I
story t > the police and collapsed She
was taken unconscious to a hospital
Relatives are on the way from her
home at IDcs Lake. '
ITT, A KM v SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. G.V. SUNDAY, AUGUST ‘J4. 1913.
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