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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913.
LONDON
W. Orton Tewson
Chester Overton
PARI.
Pam! Pierre Rignaux
Marquis de Casteilane
BERLIN
C. de Vidal-Huinidt
Fritz Jacobs© h mi
ROME
J. M. E. D’Aquin
George M. Bruce
SUNDAY AMERICAN'S SPECIAL. CABLE LETTERS RECEIVED EROM ALL THE GREAT CAPITALS OF EUROPE
IS ASSURED IT
LIST FOR 0. S.
Aborns Have Comprehensive Plan
to Introduce Classics in Own
Tongue This Season,
Special Cable to The American.
By CHARLES HENRY MELTZER.
PARIS, Sept. 13.—To Paris there
have come the pleasant tidings that
•after a fight extending over some
three years America will this week
see the beginning of an effort to
found opera in English.
For full three years -or more those
who had clamored for this great and
good reform were mocked and jeered
at as mere dreamers of mad dreams,
but, as old Galileo said long years
ago, “The world does move.”
The. irony of things has forced the
opponents of the use of our own
tongue in opera to join its advocates.
To meet the threat of an all-English
“national” opera house lately prom
ised by Mr. Hammerstein, not only
various friends of our vernacular, but
men of influence and wealth, like Mr.
Kahn, have helped the foundation of
the Century Opera Company, which,
under the management of Milton and
Sargent Aborn. will this week do
what it can to change a “dream” into
a living fact.
It would be hard to overestimate
the importance of this new and ear
nest effort to make opera popular.
The Aborns hope to convert what
was a fad into a real form of popular
art. For quite a century our opera
has been sung in foreign tongues. It
has. no doubt, been sung melodiously
and well, lint to the masses it has
had no sense.
The whole value—the whole mean
ing—of the now imminent season at
the Century Opera House lies in the
attempt to put this sense into sweet
sound.
Wagner Advocated Idea.
Since Paul, in an epistle, told the
Corinthians that prayers and hymns
of praise should be made under
standable. many—among them Ad
dison and Wagner—have denounced
the absurdity of rendering songs in
strange and foreign idioms.
In Germany to-day, except in in
stances, not only Wagner’s noble
works, but all the works of the com
posers of the world are sung in Ger
man.
In France and nearly every other
land, in the subsidized opera houses
the operas of the world are rendered
in the national idioms.
The Aborns will endeavor to pre
sent opera in the language of Amer
ica. And if thvAr efforts are at last
crowned with success they will have
deserved our thanks.
They have a hard and very grind
ing task to face. For, after hearing
music in outlandish tongues, some
may be fretted by the sound of our
English. But most Americans, I
think, who love “grand opera.” would
like to understand as well as hear.
To these, at leas’t, the Century
Opera season will be full of interest
and no one who supports the Century
scheme should ask too much at first
of such a novel venture.
It may be years before some of the
artists at the Century become "easy”
in our vernacular. English diction.
.English enunciation, must be both
taught and mastered by the singers
who have been engaged by the
Aborns.
It is particularly worth while to
remark in this connection that these
managers have now seen the absolute
need of teaching diction in their the
ater.
Morton Adkins, a baritone who has
acted as instructor in Ringing and
oratory at Syracuse University, has
been engaged by the Aborns. He is
said to be well suited to his work. Tf
he can help the Century artists to
convey their words and meaning to
the audience, as the professors of the
Paris conservatory do in the cases of
French singers, he will delight New
York.
Oid Versions Reformed.
‘ The Aborns tell me that they have
realized the necessity of .reforming
the old “versions,” or rather, perver
sions of opera books. They “have
taken up the question of better Eng
lish texts with the publishers." who
have promised to furnish them with
what they call “scientific adaptations,"
as soon as possible.
To interpret the "grand operas an
nounced in their prospective, the
Aborns have recruited a company
largely American. For this. too. they
deserve much praise.
Most of the singers in the Century
company. I hear, are young. They
should be welcomed in a kind and
generous wav and have their chance
allowed them. Opera in English is
still in its infancy. It should be
fostered bv the public sympathy.
Thus far. it seems, the response
made by the public to the new enter
prise has been encouraging. A great
deal will depend on the result of the
first week's performance Many al
lowances for the difficulties of he
management may he proper in the
Clr w“r r n'u-a 3 wise to intrust the
musical direction of the new opera
scheme to the conductors selected by
the Aborns, T can not say. It is not
clear whv a Hungarian maestro, how
ever accomplished he mav be should
head the artistic management.
One other feature of the Century
opera Company enterprise should he
remembered. The prices will be
“ P For'my part, I believe that opera
English would have a better chance
of firmlv establishing itself in Amer
ica If it were less "humble” and more
daring in its appeal, but the Aborns
hope to win by charging little for the
Joy, of opera. They may he wise.
SPURIOUS ANTIQUES
BAIT FOR AMERICANS
S TnSVOS e l^ 7 "'of “an-
tiaue” furniture, whose origin only
the Bond street dealers know, are
Increasing Business is booming in
alleged Jacobean sideboards. old
dressers and Georgian corner cup
boards. .
A new scheme has increased the
trade. The spurious furniture is
placed in cottages on roads most
frequented by Americans and other
foreign motorists and tourists.
U. S. Peeress’ Baby First to Have All 7YfWlFI|l|F| THIFVFS
Roxburghe Heir Gets Every Hereditary Name
Lady Alastair-Innis-Ker.
who rejoices in birth of Rox
burghe heir though he robs
her husband of many titles.
Hoy Js Everything From a Duke to a Baronet.
Mother Is Queen’s Favorite.
I ONDON, Sept. 13.—The baby boy that has just come to
render the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe happy is the
first child with American blood in his veins to be bom here to
all the hereditary claims, except those held by the royal family,
of course.
The Roxburghe baby, whose title is now Marquis of Bow-
mont and Cessford, will, if he survives, eventually be Duke of
Roxburghe, Earl of Roxburghe, Earl of Kelso, Viscount Brox-
mouth, Baron Roxburghe, Baron Ker of Cessford and Caverton
in Scotland; Earl lnnes in the United KingdouTand a Baronet
of Nova Scotia.
Besides Roxburghe, only the Dukes of Sut||erland and
Westminster bear all the titles from Duke to Baronet. The
Duke of Marlborough, who married Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt,
is neither a Viscount nor a Baronet.
One of the first congratulatory telegrams the Roxburghes
received at Chesterfield House here—where the baby first saw
the light—was from the King and Queen, who were delighted
that an heir to the Dukedom was born. The Duchess is Queen
Alary’s favorite among American peeresses. Her quiet, simple
taste and dignified mode of life commended her to the Queen,
whose thoughtfulness was well displayed by a magnificent bas-
Duehes of Roxburghe, Amer
ican mother of heir to every
hereditary title of British no
bility. She was Miss Goelet.
Automatic Soldier
Worked by Wireless
Invented by Dane
Experts Say It Is Deadliest Instru
ment of War Ever Devised.
Shoots, Then Disappears.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Sept. 13.—The automatic
soldier, the deadliest instrument of
war ever devised, has been patented
by a Danish engineer, it is reported.
This machine is governed by wire
less telegraphy from a distance of 5
miles If need be. It consists of a
steel cylinder sunk vertically in ‘the
earth and containing another cylin
der which Tines out of the ground
when the delicate machinery is set
in motion by wireless!
In the second cylinder is affixed an
automatic rifle which immediately
pumps bullets in the direction in
which it is pointed, tiring 400 time?
with speed and accuracy.
Then the rifle and its cylinder sinks
back into the buried cylinder,, where
an enemy can find it only with great
difficulty.
Some hundreds of such automatic
soldiers could defend a position
against a large force of infantry.
London as Noisy as
N.Y., Says Foe of Fuss
Mrs. Isaac Rice Believes That Brit
ish Motor Buses Are as Bad %
as Siren Horns.
Special Cable to The American.
fjONDOX, Sept. 13.—“1 find London
j;isi about as noisy as Ne*( York."
■aid Mrs Isaac L. Rice, president of
the New York Socity for the Sup
pression of Unnecessary Noise.
“Your auto sirens are not as noisy
as ours—anyhow, there is none that
imitates the warning sirens on fire
apparatus—but your motor buses are
dreadful.
“One thing can do said for London
—it does not suffer from the Ameri
can voice. People here seem to speak
'about ten times lower than do New
Yorkers.
"Your noise suppression society i?
at a disadvantage compared to ours,
f for we have had offu-ial co-operation;
* our work could succeed only with the
! aid of legislation."
ket of caiations sent from the royal gardens of Windsor Cas
tle in release to a telegram from Balmoral.
Mrsjgden Goelet, who came to England six weeks ago to
be with V daughter, has been in constant attendance at the
bedside, llother and son are progressing admirably. It is
expected hat the Duke will return soon to Floors Castle,
where he entertaining a series of bachelor shooting parties.
As sdi as convalescent the Duchess will return to Tem
pleton. 1
The hr will be christened in October, probably in London
for the eoienience of the royal sponsors. The young heir's
name has yet been definitely chosen, but George, after
the King: ,hn, the Duke’s name, and Ogden, after the boy’s
grandiathci is the sequence suggested.
Lady lastair Innes-Ker, formerly Miss Anne Breese,
whose huslhd was heir to the title until the advent of the
little strang, is in no way disgruntled, being among the first
to proffer ingratulatioiis, and declaring frankly she con
siders the (Ih t millions really necessary to maintain such a
palatial resitnee as Floors Castle.
Empress ligenie Uses 'Movies’ in
v
At Least Six Bands Are in the
International Combine—Two
- of Them Are American.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—About $1,662,- j
500 of jewels, gold and bonds has
been stolen during the last eighteen
months by the menjbers of a gigan
tic international trust of Jewel
thieves.
Of all these Immensely valuable i
gems few have been recovered, de
spite the earnest and sagacious ef
forts of the detectives of seven coun- !
tries, America, England, Russia, Bel- j
gium, Prance, Holland and Germany, j
No fewer than sixteen jewel deal- I
ers in Paris, all unmarried and all
without large capital, have retired j
from business and left France in the
last eighteen months. The detectives
say, too, that the best friends of nine |
of # the sixteen do not know where they
are.
The police regard the exodus as
highly suspicious as confirming the
existence of the International Jewe!
Thieves’ Trust.
Equally significant it is that fraffic
in jewels has increased considerably
recently in several East Indian and
South American cities.
These astounding statements are
made on the authority of the highest
officials of Scotland Yard They say
that the search for Max Mayer's
$750,000 pearl necklace, stolen in ,
transit by registered mail from I»n-
don to Paris last July, revealed the
existence of this international tvust
of jewel thieves.
The trust comprises at least six j
bands of scientific thieves. In the j
actual robberies, each band works j
by itself, they combine onlv to dis- I
pose of their spoils. Two of the
bands are American, one is composed
mainly of Russians, another of Pari
sians, a third of Englishmen.
The Scotland 1 Yard detectives as- ;
sert the bands combined two years
ago so that thye might find new
markets and so outwit the police of
Europe and America, who had learn
ed where they sold their loot.
Said a Scotland Yard inspector to- j
day.
“There is no business so profitable i
as that of Jewel-thieving on a whole
sale scale, and accordingly the ap
pointment of 50 or so trustworthy
agents in the hitherto unexploited
cities of far-off continents, though
perhaps expensive for one or two
gangs to attempt alone, became a
simple proposition for half a dozen
to handle.
“A rope of 50 pearls can be broken
up, and through this organization be
disposed of in a dozen cities as far j
apart as Melbourne and Pekin.”
iENGLISH LORDS
86!,10 INTO FIREMEN
Marie Corelli May
Be 'Adored One’ of
Dramatist Barrie
■■
j Noveliit Scorns Men and Playwright
Shuns Women, but Each At
tracts the Other.
Aristocracy Has Frequent Drills
With Ladders and Hose, Fear
ing Suffragette Outbreaks.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—King Oeorge
has Just given the Duke of Devon
shire a rap on the knuckles, which
causes the duke to regard with
mixed feelings the anticipated VisP
in December of the King and Queen
to his splendid seat, Chatsworth
House, Derbyshire.
Still the suffragette arson squad
may relieve the duke of his embar
rassment. Thanks to them. he. like
all other aristocrats, is not certain
his ancestral halls will stand during
the night.
The fire drill has become a popular
pastime with house parties all over
the country this summer. In one or
two Instances practical jokers have
given false alarms about midnight, it
having been voted first-rate fun tc
see the ladies of the party rushing for
fire escapes in flimsy attire. But
mostly the game Is practiced in all
earnestness.
Ix>rd Brassey, long an expert fire
fighter, took a leading part in extin
guishing what might have been a bad
fire at h!s beautiful place, Norman-
hurst, near Battle Sussex.
Lady Ciclly Baillie-Hamilton Is an
other enthusiast who lias Just joined
the Tarporly fire brigade and wears
her gold badge of office with consipe-
uous pride. The Earl of Londes-
borough, who has had practical ex
perience, has instituted weekly fire
(frills at Blankney Hall. Viscount
Hamden, the Marquis of Broadal-
bane, the Dukes of Marlborough and
Devonshire, Earl De La Warr, the
Earl of Ilchester. the Countess of Der
by and the Duchess of Winchelsea
are but a few of the society people
who have tuken advantage of their (
vacation to throw themselves with
zest Into the task of thwarting suf
fragist Incendiaries.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—Sir James
Barrie and Oeorge Bernard Shaw had
a somewhat doleful meeting at the
Adelphi Hotel, where they both live,
the other morning. They united iir
abusing the public dramatic critics
who treated their new plays, "An-
drocles and the Lion” and “The
Adored One," with marked coldness.
Both playwrights have left town. Bar
rie returning to his Scottish home,
Killecrankie Cottage, which nestles
amid somber hills In Perthshire.
The cottage, only recently rented by
Barrie, is the basis of much amuse
ment in London literary circles, a
most surprising romance may spring
out of the new tenancy. It formerly
belonged to Marie Corelli, of whose
wrork Barrie can not be said to be an
admirer. They had reason to exchange
correspondence over certain matters
connected with the cottage, which re
sulted in a personal meeting in the
town.
Miss Corelli was present at the first
night of "The Adored One” as the au
thor's guest, and his friends say the
shy dramatist has shown himself
most affable toward the fair, plump
Marie, who has expressed sentiments
of admiration for Barrie w'hich are
not in accordance with her usual
scorn for all things masculine.
H. G
WELLS BECOMES
ARDENT CARAVANNER
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—H. G. Wells
is spending this month in caravan
ning in Kent. He has recently be
come an ardent member of the Cara
van Club, and for the last week or
two he and his one-horse caravan
have been peregrinating in the neigh
borhood of Sevenoaks.
Have moved next door, No.
140 Peachtree street, on fourth
floor. Take elevator.
All kinds of furs cleaned and
repaired equal to new. Furs for
sale for millinary use. Reference,
any department store in city.
Phone Ivy 7610.
J. PRIES, Tailor and Furrier
Germany Plans for
Its Panama Exhibit
League of industrialists Passes Res
olution Favoring Section in San
Francisco Exposition.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Sept. 33.—The League of;
German Industrialists has passed uij
resolution approving the movement!!
which is being privately made to or- ;
ganize*a German section for the Pan- !
ama Exposition, and says It deserves !
German support, provided the exhib- |
its are worthy of German Industry. *■
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of the Semi-Monthly
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In the Ball Room of the
K imball House
Sept. 18, 1913
Tickets now on sale at
Cable Piano Company
and
M. y M. Club
Phone, Ivy 3918-J.
Sorrybr Alfonso
Thinks Princess enry of Batten-
berg Overdoes >r t of Precise
MothenLaw.
Special Cable to Th^merlcan.
LONDON, Sept, i—Empress Eu
genie will leave hi beautiful resi
dence at Farnboroin for the Conti
nent this autumn \ first time in
many years. The be lovely Em
press, who has suffffl so much un
happiness. was 87 L*t May. Het
health is failing, butte wil not ad
mit It.
A Spanish aristoeflby birth, the
Empress did much toting about the
marriage of King Altao and Prin
cess Ena of Battenlv, her favor
ite goddaughter.
Eugenie has pluinlixpressed her
opinion that Princessenry of iWt-
tenberg is overacting \ part of the
precise British moth«n-law; that
she should be blind toifonso’s pec
cadillos. for he is ver^ uc h in love
with his wife.
Campaign for Office
Candidate Shows Himself Visiting
Sick, Refusing Bribe and in Act
of Giving Away Money.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Sept. 3 3.—A French politi
cian has adopted a time and labor
saving scheme to urge his claims on
his- constituents.
Instead of haranguing the voters,
he invites them to a, cinematograph
| There to the strains of popular
music one or two picture comedies are
shown. ^
Then the candidate appears on the
screen. He is seen addressing a
meeting, shaking hands with the pre
fect and entering his motor car. An
other reel shows him helping an old
woman load her donkey. Indignantly
refusing a bribe, and paying a visit
to an old man stretched on a bed of
illness.
In the last picture the candidate
proves his heart is in the right place
by discreetly slipping a bank note in
the sick man’s hand.
WOMAN, 81, CROSS SEA CHINESS PRESIDENT’S
TO WED SUIT0 AGED 70 SONS IN ENLGISH SCHOOL
Special Cable to The Alj C an.
LONDON. Sept. 13. 'other case
I of “love’s young dream" 1 j ust come
I to light. Mrs. Mary Bri aged 81.
has left her home in Ke^nd gone
to Victoria, British CV»l4>j a , to be
; married to a man of 70 Ih*. couple
i have been corresponding \ the past
1 ten years.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Sept. 33.—Two sons of
Yuan-Shi-Kai, President of the Chi
nese RepuhHc, bright. Intelligent
youngsters, 17 and 14 years old, have
arrived in England with an English
tutor. They spent last week-end with
Lord W illiam Cecil at the Rectory.
Hatfield.
Extra Quality Sterling
Silver Vanity Card Cases
All Sterling Linings
Special Value $10.00
By purchasing a big quantity of
Sterling Silver vanity cases, we se
cured a considerable concession in
price.
These cases an- Sterling Silver
throughout. No leather or silk, but
all sterling lined. One full side has
an engine-turned space for cards
with spring clasp to hold them. A hinged partition ajoii
tains a mirror and coin holders for nickels and dimes. A
memorandum tablet is on the back of the partition and the
other side e,an be used for vanity puff, cards, etc.
One side is baud engraved with oval spot for a mono
gram.
The illustration is a little less than half actual size.
We are showing 50 of these cases in our North window.
Mail Orders
Mail orders filled. Shipments prepaid. Money back if
not more than pleased after inspecting.
MAIER & BERKELE, Inc.
Gold and Silversmiths
Established 1887. 31-33 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
Souvenir Night and Fall Frolic
AT THE
Piedmont Hotel
“We Grow Better Bu Associating
With Better People”
Feeling the presence of good-times and the conse
quent good-fellowship now so prevalent throughout the
Southland this glorious Fall month of September, the man
agement of the Piedmont Hotel has inaugurated for Mon
day night, September 15th, beginning at 10 P. M.,
A Fall Frolic for fastidious Folios
Wc intend lo usher in the coming of Fall and the
Oyster season and the return of our folios from (he Sum
mer resorts, with a real get-together evening of
Merriment and Good Fating
And we count you one of the live ones who should enjoy
ihc occasion wilh us. We have specially engaged for the
occasion singers who Will please you during (he evening,
and our own
5-Piece Orchestra
Will make its bowforihe firsttime this season (o our guests.
For this Fall Opening on Monday evening, Septem
ber I5lh, we announce
Souvenirs Special Singers
Fxtra Service Good Fellowship
And a Royal Good Time For All
Tables Should Be Reserved at Once
Telephone Ivy 600
Guesls desiring wines served should have same delivered
lo the steward at the Piedmont in advance.
Reasonable corkage charges.
Don't Miss Atlanta s First
Fall Frolic
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