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f / I li \ 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. HEARSTS SUNDAY American Advertising Contest / 1 v I?a2^! Last Sunday only the trade-marks or distinguishing characteristics of the advertisers below were given. $10.00 in cash was offered to the person sending in 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. 0. D. 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