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centers 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. HEARSTS SUNDAY ' $10 00 American Advertising Contest j Q ve n Away!! 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Anna Von Hoffman is now singing AT The Montgomery “Truly DuffyY’ The home of low prices, on the corner of Mitchell and Forsyth Sts. Attend our immense Clearing-Out Sale now going on 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 PHONE IVY 6849 MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED R. C. BLACK 35 Whitehall Street . . ***<»♦•