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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. HA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 24.
1QPEMS,
BUT CAN'T KEEP
t
Syncopated Tunes and Dances
Beyond Ken of Old World,
Says American Composer.
VHTSV YORK, Au* IS—Arm»n<l
Vecsev, composer and director of mu
sic At the Ritz-Carlton. 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, hut
like to hear the scream of the Amer
ican E&ffle.
Mr. Vecsev 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 more in
tensely and enthusiastically Ameri
can in a musical wav. 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, as Mr. Vecsay
has viewed it this summer. Is poor
as compared with what is given at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
there Isn’t anything now between
London 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.
Vecsev, “and everywhere I have found
American music the most popular.
Then the turkey trot one finds all
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.
Recoanize the "Truthshn Tsnz?”
“Think of what the result was in
Berlin, when they turned ‘When the
Midnight Choo-Choo I^eaves for Ala-
bam‘ into German! In Germany they
call the trot ‘Truthahn Tanz,’ and in
FYance It Is the ‘Pas du Dtndon.’
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
character of it Of course their bands
and orchestras can not get the time
right in the first place. Why, at
the Folies Bergere In Paris, I saw two
of the best French dancers giving
what was supposed to he a moat 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, I 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
it. or have American motifs. The
.tango seem* to be breaking up the
*rrot over there, partly, I suppose,
because their dancers can come near
er to dancing It than the purely
•American steps. In Paris I saw a
•couple trying the Texas Tommy, and
«dt was a sight to cause a horse ’o
-double up.
,«* “Why can’t they May a turkey
'trot? For the same reason that no
body except a Hungarian can play
‘Hungarian music. Almost every mu-
fc cal country has something that Is
‘peculiarly its own—a style of music
ihat when played correctly is in-
t factious.
American Style Has Call.
"Hungary has its esardas, Austria
Its waltz, and America its syncopated
f time. When each is nlayed properly,
-Jt is bound to move an assemblage
of people, and Just now the Ameri
can style has the call everywhere.
- “At the Palais de Danse, in Rer-
\ Ain. I first h^ard a turkey trot played
-?by a German orchestra. It was very
►ad. 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,” went on Mr Veosey,
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.
“I must tell you that not anywhere
]%re women so generally chic in their
^costumes nowadays as right here ‘n
New York.
... “True, I did see many smartly
gowned women, but investigation
showed that most of them were
Americans ”
Tame Trout Craves
Petting; Fed by Hand
I Feel* Insulted If Food Is Not Served
In Manner to Which He la
Accustomed.
ESTES PARK, COLO., Aug 23 —
I .Sunbeam, the pet speckled trout in
| the fish hatchery at Eaten Park, has
I 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
tivity.
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 ft
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
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, Aug. 23.—Virgil
Huffman had been away 11 <»m home
twenty years, seeking his fortune in
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman, were
sitting in a room of their home near
here discussing him and wondering
If he would ever come back.
There wna 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
ing for him, but Mrs. Huffman “reck
oned" they could manage somehow'.
Then they led him into the hall, un
der t?ie swinging lamp, and as the
light fell on his face the aged couple
recognized him as their son.
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begin* Stupendous Task of Reduc
ing His Own Language to j
Written Form.
CAMBRIDGE, MARS, An*. 13.—A
fnll-blooded African chieftain hue Just
passed his entVance examinations .it
Harvard with flying colors and will
enter the university next September
as a member of the class of 1917. Ho
1h P. Gbe Wolo, and his people, 300,-
000 strong, are the Iiru» of Liberia, on I
the west coast of Africa.
They have no written lansruaite, so
(hat the only way he can communi- |
cate with his family Is through trad- |
ers on the coast, who send the mes- I
sage by word of mouth along the |
trail. He has begun the stupendous j
task of reducing his language io
writing.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park i
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om- j
nibu6 on Its Way to
Diamond.
MONTGOMERY. MO., Aug 23— 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 hat, the
ballbearers thought he had come as
a mourner and he was taken to t'ae
cemetery Instead of the ball park.
Finding himself In a funeral pro
cession, lie woke up and escaped. He
got to the ball grounds Just in time
to see the home team win.
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
‘Star Baths’ Latest
Complexion Remedy
Young Women Campers Take Night II
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- |
elation In Blauvelt, N. Y. Miss Mar
lon 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 camn. It will ac
commodate a dozen batnera
There is a long waiting list of young
women campers who are anxious to
| enjoy the reported benefits of Immer
sion In starlight. Chief among these
Is said to be the “star-shine complex-
: Lon. 1 *
Clergymen Declare. There I. No HUSband iU PlUSOn!
Worship in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
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
he 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
'• wild and strange ways and in unut-
~T-abie tongues the praises of God "
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
Missouri.
Wife Willed $20,000,
Richmond Woman Given Share of
Estate After Helpmate le Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
RICHMOND. VA„ Aug. 23—Mrs.
Maud Kent Rowley, 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 Motel 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 is placed at
$406,000.
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
ing into the valuable farm lands of
that section and threatening to cut its
wav to the railroad tracks. Many car
loads of stone have been dumped into
ihe river.
The river suddenly began veering from
channel a few days ago Inside of
days it had swamped 20 acres of
Fur is now felt that the river
• at its way hack to the extensive
!n within the last year at a cost
more than $»00,000.
Breaks Down While Handling Heavy
Tent Pole and Her Secret
Is Revealed.
LA ''K-'SSK. WlS , Aug. L’3 Ml - I*;
Ada Broughton, unable to support her j H
-i -d and invalid husband on
wages paid a woman, donned a man s
attire and labored beside farm hands in
i Dakota w heat fields. She broke down
i under the sirain and came to 1 m Crosse
to seek lighter employment, becoming
: a circus roustabout. Lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted in her com
plete breakdown. Then she told her
story i.» the police and collapsed. She
was taken unconscious to a hospital.
Relatives are Oil the wa> from her
‘ home at Rice Lake.
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