I»y HENRIETTA M. REES.
CA.V you tame wild musicians? 1
wonder. I've been thinking
about it a long time, and I con
fess I don't know. Perhaps, if they
are young enough, when they are
.aught and corralled, and the tamer
is strong and patient enough. But
sometimes the tamer himself is n
wild animal,, and one certainly can
not expect a wild teacher to develop
tamed pupils. That doesn’t mean that
a musician can't he spirited either.
But a lot of them are Just plain wild.
Facility Is all right and a commend
able quality, but when pianists tear
up and down the keys, and knock
the spots out of the treble, here and
there, and smash the bass out of
tune, and vocalists whoop up waltz
songs, or Verdi arias, and violinists
saw the nir with nothing less than
one of the most brillian concertos
written, 1 wonder.
Sometimes the runs are scintillat
ing and brilliant, clear and purling,
under the pianist's lingers, sometirms
the trills and flourishes of the vocal
ists are slick as one would wish,
sometimes the variations of the vio
linist are actually In tune, and dashed
off with a velocity that is amazing
Sometimes we liavo seen wild horses
hold up their heads and gallop across
the field with a style not equaled in
the finest races. And those are the
very ones, people would like to tame.
For the horse who can run like the
wind without direction, would be u
wonder if he could be taught to keep
the road, and when not to break his
gait and all the rest of It.
But if he throws every tamer, and
won't stop running long enough to
find out where he is running to nnd
w hat he is running for, I don't sup
pose even a horse could be tamed.
And wild muslclnns are a great deal
worse than wild horses. How they
trample one’s sensibilities at times!
The nerve of them! They dare to take
liberties that a great artist would not
even consider. Not the greatest of
the great is allowed lo change the
tempo at will, playing the easy part
fast and the hard parts slower, skip
ping a third or fourth bent occasion
ally, and throwing the would he sym
pathetic listener all out of time and
rhythmic swing. The hopes he en
tertained when he heard eiear ranid
runs turn to ashes era they have a
chance to prosper.
He is upset. 11c is affronted first In
one ear and then in the other, and
then in both. The composer deserves
a little consideration, if he wrote
four quarter notes to the measure
and indications as to tempo, subcon
sciously argues the listener, he should
he granted the courtesy of having
theea little Items noted. All of the
big artists give it to him. But the
wild ones, heavens! Either they didn't
have time or their wild teachers didn't
have time to make them stop and
bother with such minor details.
They are the kind who put the sick
in music. They seem to play every
where, on boats, in movies, vaudeville
and eornetimes in the concert hall.
Tou hate them, almost ns much as
you hats those who hadn't any In
spiration in! the first place. And yet,,
after all, you have a aort of sneak- j
ing sympathy for the wild ones, even '
though you would like to take them
out in the back alley and chuck their
heads against the wall. They are so
ambitious, and they want to go no
fast, and to do everything at once.
And some of them are so talented,
tool But like the wild horse, they
don't seem to know where they nre
t unning to, or what they are running
for. If they knew that facility wasn't
much, nnd that any dul» can get it if
he goes in for it, that music Isn't just
notes, but a gloom of life, with co
herence, Hnd lights and shadows in
ts melodies, with laughter and tears,
s ith depths of sentiment or heights
if merriment, not just shallows and rip
ties; with pulse In time with the eter
nal, with high lights nnd backgrounds
n the vista of thoughts and feelings,
t pictures It would express; and with
its moment of climax toward which
Its tonal energies are ever bending,
which like the climax of a drama,
unifies all that which has gone before,
and brings It to a satisfactory end
ing; if they knew that all of those
tilings to a greater or less extent
were found in every piece of well
vritten music from the simplest to
the most complex, what would they
do about tt? Would they still go on
trying to bold a high tone longer than
anybody else, or entering piano con
tests where the winner shows the
greatest endurance by playing 24
hours at a stretch; would they still
‘ciw the sir wildly In tonal calisthen
ics, and rip the most brilliant nutn
Metropolitan Prima
Donna Sings for
Tuesday Musical
bars of musical literature up the
back? Would they still give us just
facility and power?
They probably would.
Musical Notes.
Xettyn S. Witt will present Jose
phine Mach. Miriam Wells and Alice
Header in a piano recital on Friday
evening, January 26. 8:15, at the
Schmoller & -Mueller auditorium.
The Scottish Rile Woman's club,
Mrs. W. H. Sleeper, jr., chairman,
presents the Omaha Woman's club
chorus in n musical program for the
Scottish Rite. January 26. Mrs. Madge
West Sutphen will play several violin
numbers, Mrs. Florence Long Arnoldi
will sing, Mrs. Cain will sing a group
and a vocal trio will be given by Ber
tha Coffey Assman, Mrs. Gilbert
Brown and Mrs. Fred Towl. Mrs.
Sutphen will play violin obligatos,
and Mrs. Willis Redfleld, Mrs. Ernest
Kopecky, Mrs. G. E. McMonies and
Grace Dennison Schafer will accom
pany. Mrs. W. H. Sleeper will give
a musical recitation, “Robert of Si
cily” by Longfellow, music by John J.
Wootton, R. C. M.
The Tuesday Musical club will pre
sent Edith Mason, soprano, in recital
at the Braudels theater next Wednes
day evening, January 24. at 8:15
o'clock. Miss Mason is said to be a
singer of the highest rank—a sincere
and expressive artist. Iler program
follows:
“Batti-batti,” from Bon Giovanni. . . .
.W. A. Mozart
“Have You Heen a White I.My Orow?". .
. Old lOngllah
“I.e Violette ' . Seurlatfl
'Vnro Nome’* from IUgoletto ....(1. Verdi
"Hnmanco" .. C. Dehussy
“Cornment-dUai©nt-l!s”.F. Liszt
"O d**H Oiseaux” . Koechlin
“At the Well” . Richard Hangman
“No, John, No" . Old Fngliah
“Air from Hnegourotchka” ..
. RlmsUy-Koraakow
■*Alr from Louise” . Charpcntler
The third of a series of Sunday aft
ernoon concerts will be given at the
Y. W. C. A. on Sunday at 4 o'clock.
The public is most cordially invited to
these concerts, for which there is no
charge. Miss Virginia Mulholland of
Council Bluffs, a harpist, will share
the program with the Y. M. C. A.
quartet. You will enjoy this hour of
music.
Mischa Elman will be presented by
the ladles of the First Central Congre
gational church February 20.
The tenth sacred concert of liturgi
cal music will be given at St. Cecilia
cathedral Sunday, January 21. at
4 p. m. The gallery choir, the sanc
tuary choir and the cathedra! girls’
song club will take part In the follow
ing program:
"Ave Verum" . Bowen
"Ansalus ad Paatores".Sweellnsck
"Noel of the Bresssn Walts" .
..Dareteux, arr. by Carle
"The Virgin Stills the Crying".... Haruby
"Jesus, Thou Art All Flame and Firs"..
...Nicholas 8nboly
"The Shepherds".Nicholas Sebody
"In Dulcl Jubilo" .. De Pearsall
"Dixit Domlnua" . Leonardo Leo
"Improvisations on Thome" .
Two Choirs.
.Kev, Clement Neck*
Organ.
"Kyrle Pons Bonitatls".Oragorlan
"Adagio from World" Symphony. .Dvorak
Organ.
“Lightnin’s” Record
Run on Broadway
Surpasses All Others
Memories of a more sedate Broad
way, when the horse-drawn hansom
i brought beaver-hatted beaux and
i hoop-skirted belles to Daly's, Wal
| lack’s and other playhouses of those
| tranquil days, are stirred by John
Holden’s claim that "Lightniji',’’ the
I comedy classic to be presented at the
! Brandels theater starting Sunday
, night, January 2S, holds the long run
record of the Hraat White Way.
It was the Charles K. Hoyt farce,
“A Trip to Chinatown,” that headed
the list when “Lightnln’” flashed up
on Broadway as an overnight hit. Its
record of 657 jierformances has stood
for many years, but when the Win
thell Smith-Frank Bacon comedy left
the Oayety theater it had almost
doubled that total with 1,291 per
formances. ’’Lightnln’ ” ran for three
.years and only the actors’ strike In
l!he autumn of 1919 disturbed its con
tinuity.
The following list, showing the long
est Broadway runs, revenls that sev
■iral of the old favorites have been
distanced by successes produced dur
ing the past few years:
'Tlghtnin' '* l.jpi
"The Bat" . #h7
'The First Year". 729
‘ The < Sold IMggeta". 725
Iren®" . 666
"A Trip to China'own . 657
■‘Peg n* My Heart".... 6M
"Adonis" .. 6 0.1
"Fast Is Want’*.i. 68H
"The Music* Master’. f.40
'The Boomerang" . 622
"Haiel Klrko" . 4*6
"The Black Crook". 4 75
"Turn to the Right"’. 4 52
"Three Wise Fools’". 446
"The Fortune Hunter". 4 45
"Thank-U" . 360
"The Old Homestead". 352
When Frank Bacon's "Blghtnin1 ”
company left the Gayety theater for
Chicago another company played the
theaters of the ‘‘subway circuit,” stay
ing 10 weeks in Brooklyn and four
weeks in Harlem and the Bronx
With these performances added to its
Broadway total, "Lightnin’ ’’ has heen
presented 1,389 times In greater New
Tork in the past four years.
In Chicago, where Frank Bacon's
death hastened the end of “Light
nln's’1 run at the Blackstone theater,
It registered 001 performances in 10
months. Only one other play. “The
Bat,” managed to remain in Chicago
for a year, the mystery play having
Just nased out the 12 months' period.
Clarinet Jazz King
to Give Concert Here
Ted Lewis and his famous orchestra
will ,plny for their admirers in the
Schmoller & Mueller auditorium next
Friday afternoon.
Ted Is known from coast to coast
for his adept fingering of the saxo
phone and his frolics on the clarinet.
Phonograph records made hy the or
chestra Which he leads number ninny
hundreds in Omaha homes.
"Knowing that hundreds of Oma
hans would like to hear Ted Lewis and
his orchestra play,” said O. C. Atay,
treasurer of Schmoller & Alueller, "we
have made arrangements with Mr.
Lewis for a public, concert while he
is here with the Greenwich Village
Follies which appear at the Brandeis
theater the last three days this week,
lie and his orchestra will play for
an hour in our building at 2:30 next
Friday afternoon."
Air. Lewis will be prepared to sign
phonograph records of the music
made by his orchestra for Omaha
friends, Air. May said, and demands
for these autographed records already
are being made.
Space In the concert room at
Schmoller A Mueller la limited, so
those who wish to attend the Ted
Lewis concert should call at the store
for tickets, Mr. May stated.
No “War ’ in Boudoir?
lty A Man.
**. . . Ever-changing fashion Is a
medley of . . . female competition and
sex excitement," says Abraham
Afeyerson, M. !>., in his book on "The
Foundation of Personality.”
A photoplay hound must add the
dramatic value of dress to Mr. Afytr
son’s medley.
But for that peignoir or whatdye
call-'em with Its fripperies and kick
shaws there might have been less
war In the boudoir scene In "Th^
Eternal Flame.”
Without Constance Talmadge's em
broidered pajies East could not have
been West.
Without that stunning nurse's Uni
form worn by Florence Vidor In
"Skin Deep" we don't see how Mil
ton Sills' face value could convinc
ingly have Improved.
And without his Intriguing turban,
I can you Imagine “Omar”?
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Colleen Moore’s Wardrobe
Veritable Fashion Hint
Wistfully Colleon Moore smiles from
beneath the broad brim of the after
noon hat which sho is wearing with
the sablel wrap which is one of her
new winter creations. A French
blue felt, this chic hat has a brim
of lace straw und a garland of ostrich
plumes about the crown, A single
orchid of purple velvet fastens the
delicate fronds of plume at the front.
Miss Moore is noted in Hollywood
for wearing her clothes well, She is
alluded to in the little gossip on screen
styles which Dorothy Phillips writes
each week:
"It is quite an intriguing pastime to
note the strikingly attractive acces
sories with which the well dressed
woman of note of originality to her
evening to ilet," says Miss Phillips.
“Last week a ball was given at the
Hotel Ambassador at which were pres
ent nearly all the big motioii picture
stars, and in order to make notes for
my column I sat out a couple of
dances, and here's what I saw:
"Constance Talmadge wore a flim
sy gray dance frock and carried a
fan of red duck feathers, tipped with
silver and mounted upon shell sticks.
Margaret Leahy, who came over
from England to play an important
role in “Within tho Law," with Nor
ma Talmadgo, carried a very attract
ive fan of three flame colored ostrich
plumes mounted on a real tortoise
shell, which made a dashing splash of
color against a white satin evening
gown.
Colleen Moore, starring In “Slippy
McGee," wore a stunning headdress
iif three strands of silver cord and a
flower of silver cloth with long flu&s
of black ostrich bound low over the
brown.
Helen Lynch, whom Marshall Nell
an ‘'discovered" when he gave her a
small part in "Minnie,” used filigree
and coral to splendid effect with a
metallic frock of turquoise bluo tint.
Marguerite de la Molts carried one
of the new "mask” fans of gold se
quins mounted upon carved sandal
wood.
Screenland Gossip
Universal lias chosen a new slogan.
It was suggested by an outsider who
wrote In to Mr. Laemmle. The slo
gan Is:
"Universal Pictures—The pleasure
Is all yours."
Priscilla lJean has a narrow es
cape when an Incipient tong war
broke out In the set In which siie
was working in "Drifting," In which
she Is playing Alice Brady's role, Cas
sia Cook of the Vellow Sea. Miss
Dean was not hit, but u bullet smash
ed n Chinese teapot on the table in
front of her. 'fed Browning order
ed work suspended for the day. Uni
versal City police force Is'still trying
to find out who started the war.
All the excitement in motion pic
tures Is not reserved for the actors
and actresses. Gilbert Fonea, properly
man for Paramount, found life vety
Construct Garden
of the Riviera
in Film Studio
Vlelng In Its remarkable beauty1
with one of the most gorgeous spots
on the Cote d'Azur after which It was
fashioned, is a scene in the forthcom
ing picture, “The Knemies of Wo
inert," from the famous story by Vin
cento Blnsco Ibanez.
This scene, designer! by Joseph Ur
ban, the celebrated scenic artist, Is a
replica of the magnificent gardens of
the Villa Maryland, Cap Feret, near
Nice, said to be the most beautiful
villa on the Cote d'Azur. The whole
floor of the glgnntic studio tyns con
verted Into a garden. Huge palm
trees and grape arbofs cause it to
strikingly resemble the original. At
one side is an artificial lake, six feet
deep. It is In this scene that Prince
Lublmuff, played by Lionel Barry
more, who is featured in the produc
tion, decides to dissipate the remnants
of his once great fortune on n party,
the extravagance of which makes his
previous efforts as a host seem tame.
When tlie party grows wildest scores
of beautiful women in evening clothes
are tumbled Into the lake for the en
tertainment of the host.
Human Polar Bears
from Coney Island
Help Make Movie
The courage to jump into the icy
water* of the Hudson River one cold
day during the past week was the
qualification that won three members
of the Polar Bear Club of Coney Is
land an opportunity to appear With
Marlon Davies in her next produc
tion, “Little Old New York.”
One of the big scenes Allows a
replica of Robert Fulton’s first
steamship, the Clermont, as it rides
up the Hudson. In this scene a sum
mer atmosphere is maintained In ac
cordance with the story. In one
part of the scene three of the charac
ters jump overboard and frolic in the
waters of the Hudson.
Before this scene could lie filmed
It was necessary to find three actors
who had lltlo fear of an ice cold
ducking. They were eventually found
amongst the ranks of the Coney Is
land Polar. Bears who take a dip
every day during the winter. Kddle
Neely, Walter Fine and Joseph
Donomo are the three Polar Bears
who are now appearing in the pic
ture. When the scene was "shot,”
they showed no hesitation about div
ing into the icy waters, the while
other members of the company had
difficulty in keeping their teeth from
chattering.
hectic for two months while encamped
in Utah with the wants of a company
of 3,000 persons to sat.sfy. And his
difficulties were further complicated
by the fact that ho had to conduct
most of his conversations with In
dians by means of tHe sign language.
When the white members of the com
pany making ’’The Covered Wagon”
discovered that the squaws were pray
ing for victory for the Indians just
before the big attack on the wagon
train began, they became nervous.
Some of them were afraid that if the
squaw’s were so earnest about It the
excited braves might slip some real
ammunition into their guns.
SHOWS TODAY
2:00, 4:20. 6:45 and 9:10
WEEK DAYS
3:20, 6:45 and 9:10
Crowds a Certain Criterion
A pretty safe way to judge any enterprise cater- j
ing to the theatrical public is by attendance, j
Consistently, week in and week out, the World
entertains more p'eople, by far, than any other
Omaha playhouse. The reason is not
hard to find:
MOST IN ENTERTAINMENT
FOR LEAST IN ADMISSION
_ __JSA
Now Playing—Ends Friday Night
Six Acts of Standard Vaudeville
Exclusive First Run Pictures
PROSPER
and
MARET
The Sensational Collegians
KENNEDY
and
ROONEY
Famoua Comedy Couple
FIVE KIRKSMITH SISTERS
A Bevy of Youth and Beauty in a Musical Medley
MAYBELLE
PHILLIPS
“The Sunshine
Girl”
LILLIAN’S
COMEDIANS
The Act
Unique
ARTHUR
HAYS
Playing “A Bit
o’ Scotch”
FRED SOSMAN and GLADYS SLOAN
New Songs—New Comedy—New Dances
HERBERT
RAWLINSON
A Photoplay
of Myatary
and Thrill*
Another
Man’s Shoes”
NEXT SATURDAY—ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
The Mott Vertatile of All Vaudevilliant
Rigoletto Brothers The Swanson Sisters
NIGHTS AND SUM. MAT. I
10*—50# i
WEEK DAY MATINEES I
r10* 30*I
Local Theater
Announces Program
A number of Interesting pictures are
to l>e shown at the Sun theater with
in the rtext two months, many of them
Metro releases The first of the series
will be presented next week—"Quincy
Adams Sawyer," with a east which
Includes Blanche Sweet, T’nrbara La
Marr, Lon Chaney and John Bowers.
Following this feature will be I.aur
etto Taylor in photoplay version of
her stage success, "Peg O’ My Heart."
Tl>e play has born performed In the
aters of the world more than 10,000
times, and although this is the first
screen appearance of Miss Taylor, the
eastern critics declare her "the bru
nette. Mary Pickford.”
Boon after comes Kex Ingram's pro
duction "Trifling Women," featuring
Barbara La Marr, Lewis Stone ant
Ramon Navarro, who has made his
greatest success In "The Prisoner of
Zenda."
Mae Murray in "Jazz Mania." Rf-x
Ingrain's "Passion Vine," and Burn
ing Timber,” from Harold Titus's
novel, "Timber," concludes t lie Metro
productions
"The Flirt,” a Booth Tarklngton
story, will lie shown for a two weeks'
engagement the early part of April.
It is a Universal picture, and is now
having a very successful run in New
Vork City.
The next Tony Bargs almanac.
“The Terrible Tree,” tells the Imagi
nary experiences of Baron Bragg with
an enchanted tree.
Preparations are under way for the
production of “The Kxcitcrs" In
which Beba Daniels will have one of
the principal roles.
Jackie Must Be
“There” for Charlie's
Wedding Ceremony
Jackie Coogan Is in a dilemna. lie
wants to visit England, as his par
ents have planned to make the trip
after "Toby Tyler" is finished. But
he doesn't want to miss being at the
wedding of his friend and discov
erer. Charlie Chaplin, if the comedian
decides absolutely and positively to
get married ns the rumors have given
Jackie to understand. And Jackie
knows Pola Negri too.
When the whole world began talk
ing about ilie engagement of Chaplin
and Pola, Jackie said to Charlie one
I day:
"Going to get married?"
"Don't know," replied Charlie.
"What do you think about It?"
“Don't know." but say If you do 1
want to be there '
"Jackie if l get married you will
! he there. That's a promise—You'll be
I a page." ’
"A page?" quizzed Jackie, full of
mystery.
"Yes a whole page."
Now Jackie is wondering if he can
take a chance and go to England be
cause In i' set on being at any wed
ding—off the stage—In which Ids
friend Charlie has one of the two
i star roles.
At least one member of the Arapa
hoe Indian tribe In Wyoming was
overjoyed on Christmas. She was
Mrs. Broken Horn, wife of the chief.
Lois Wilson met Mrs. Broken Horn
on location while making "The Cov
ered Wagon," and was so well treat
ed by her that sho sent her a bolt of
bright red cloth for Christmas.
5TUAKT;
WALKERS
nu /
GRtATtST/
DRATI//
Of AIL1
vnA
“THE BOOK OF JOB"
to Remain for Two More Nights
Tonight and Monday
January 21-22
Two Extra Performances
On account of both performances
being >old out yesterday and so many
disappointed in not getting seats, ar
rangements have been made for
STUART WALKER’S
ARTISTIC TRIUMPH
“The Book
of lob”
To remain over and fivo two astro
performance#
Tonight and Tomorrow
To not son thin striking penile drama
is to miss tha most novel theatrical
of ferine of tho season.
SQMNES declared by Saturday’e au
diences to Ha an unusual actor with
a glorious voice.
Adm., $2.50, $2, $1.50, $!, 50c
k tudenta will receive o BO% reduction
upon presentation of note from parent
or teacher.
Wednesday Evening, January 24th, at 8:15 P. M.
EDITH MASON
Good Seats Still Available—$1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50
3 DAYS Ccmmenciug Next Thursday Saturday
America’8 Greatest Annual Production
THE BOHEMIANS, INC, ANNOUNCE
GREENWICH
VILLAGE
FOLL1EJ
Devieed end Staged by John Murrey Andereon
Third Edition—First Time to Play This City
AN ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDES
TED LEWIS
JOE E. BROWN, EVA PUCK & SAMMY WHITE
BIRD MILLMAN, MARIE HOLLY
O'HANLON & ZAMBOUNI, MOLLY DODD mi
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