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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1923)
M U S I C By HENRIETTA M. REES. WELL, well, here we are again, with the musical season well under way, and more prom ised In the line of musical activities than ever before In the history of Omaha. Claudio DelitaJa has Joined the ranks of the lmpreesarlo, with the first concert given by the big voiced, big hearted Martlnelll behind him, and the whlspefa of the Vatican choir In the near future buzzing about his ea'tj. The business women’s division of the Chamber of Commerce have pre sented Kosa Ponselle, the first num ber of their popular priced series at the Auditorium, and the artists they will bring will make this series one of prime Importance in Omaha musi cal life. The Tuesday Musical club opened last Sunday with Sigrhi Onegin, one of the finest vocal artists, it Is safe to say, that the world has ever known. Local artists are being spon sored more and more by local organ izations, w'hich is as it should be, and churches, Masonic bodies and clubs of all kinds are entering the field with musical events by which they hope to raise money for their organi zations, to assist a worthy art and to give the most pleasure and Inter est to the greatest number of people for value received. It Isn't every week that Omaha hears two such artists as Rosa Pon sells and Sigrid Onegin. Both are great artists, yet very different hi personality, type of voice and In Interpretation. Ponselle has a fresh, bright Boprano voice of great volume and beauty, she has a well developed art, with excellent soft work, fine legato, clear enunciation, and many other fine points about It. Gladly we accord her a place In the sun and a good bright one at that. Sigrid Onegin was the sensation of New York last season, as she was in Europe before that, and the Omaha publlo was fortunate Indeed to hear her so soon after her engagement in this country. Mme. Onegin has so much more and gives so much more than one can anticipate, It is as If one was suddenly presented with an unusual and large gift not even ex pected. If Mme. Onegin Is not re-engaged at once for Omaim next year, I for one shall be disappointed. Art like ber's Is too rare, and we can not have too much of It. After her thrilling Interpretation of the “Erl King," which brought tears to the eyes of nany In the audience, as well as to oer own, It was a few moments be fore she felt like breaking the spell to go on with the next number. After the concert Madame Borglum, imong others, was expressing ap preciation of her great art and mastering of many languages. “Yes, replied Mme. Onegin, with a smile, “but it has been a great deal of work." When a great artist can make a remark like that with a smile we know what we think of the student who can not practice one small hour without a sigh. We know what we think of the students who say when they hear a great artist they Just get discouraged and want to quit. Yet It Is tho great ones like Onegin who show us what Is humanly possi ble and that work and a great deal of work will not hurt the one who has the vision and the enthusiasm and the will to accomplish it. The recent recital by Frances Nash and Mary Jordan for the benefit of Duchesne college was almost like a homecoming. For Miss Nash Is an Omaha girl, who has fairly won a name for herself among the pianists, and who continues to grow artistical ly with each appearance she makes. Although Mary Jordan lived In Oma ha but a short time, her husband was stationed here, and she Is somewhat claimed. Her voice is not only s fine Instrument, but her program brought many Interesting novelties to a first hearing. Maler and Pattlaon, pianists, In re cital for two pianos, with Emil Tel manyi, Hungarian violinist, will be presented by the Tuesday Musical club at the Brandeis theater Thurs day evening, November 22, at 8:15 o’clock, In the second of the season's series of concerts. These quiet-man nered, unassuming young men give a duplex performance that Is all In Its own class. Other people may give two-piano recitals; It has remained for them to raise the form to a most fascinating entertainment. It Is not enough to say that you can hardly tell where one leaves off at the key board and the other begins at the second, though It is true. Neither Is It enough to say that they play everything from Bach down to Ger maine Tailleferre, who la the most supermodern of all the moderns, though that Is also true. P The membership sale of seats will open Thursday morning, November 15, at the box office of the theater. Members may reserve five seats only In addition to their own. Extra tickets may be purchased at the same time. There will be no war tax. Public sale will begin November 19. Guild Sunday will be the first Sun day In November. Guild Sunday was the original Idea of the Nebraska chapter of the American Guild of Organists during the regime of J. H. Simms, organist and choirmaster of All Saints church, as dean. It has since been successfully carried out lit other states. Guild Sunday la one Sunday In the year when every mem ber of the American Guild of Organ ists puts on special music at the church where he or she plays as a mark of respect to this great society, which la doing a great deal for the Improvement and advancement of organ playing and church music. The Nebraska chapter, under the leadership of tho new dean, Mrs. M. It. Zabriskle, Is planning a number of other Interesting events. Guild Sun day this year will not only bo marked by special music at all the churches, but .a special, musical service will be given at All Saints Episcopal church under the direction of Mr. Simms, at which many of the other organists In the city will also take part, and a big setting of the "Magnificat” and cither parts of the service will bo pre sented. An organ recital will also take I place In January at tho First Presby terian church under the management of Mrs. Zabrlskle and her committee, at which Lincoln members of the state eoclety will give the program. Tjater a group of the Omaha members will make a return visit and glvs a A Study in Piscatology By O. O. M’INTYRE My knowledge of piscatology—an elegant word, mates—comes from years of browsing about Calcium Gulch, known to yap wagon pa trons as Broadway. It is here I have studied suckers and other schools of poor fish. A fish on Broadway Is anyone who stems the current and finally gets the hook. The bait may be anything—but Is usually chicken. T^ie kind that crosses the road to see Flo Zlegfeld, The most prolific piscatorial spawn Is, qt- course, the sucker. The sucker Is usually puffed and white and' has a tired look about the gills. He sleeps all day and comes up for air around the dinner hour. Flat seltzer for breakfast annoys him. He Is ever the sentimental ist. A capricious young lady ang ler can cry a sucker out of a fur coat before the soup arrives. Park the tired body of a sucker In the front rows of a girl show and let Sonia Ivanlskl—you know, the one with the baby stare and daughter of Pat McSwatt of the Bronx. Going Back to Sonia. Let's see, where were we? Oh, yes! Just let Sonia toss the sucker a sly wink over the footlight, when the trapdrummer who Is her sweet Isn’t looking, and watch the sucker swim bark next night with a bunch of orchids, Other poor fish are always able to laugh the sucker out of the check. He gives off a glow like tho phosphorescent fish when he Is permitted to pay $1 for a half canteloupe or give the head waiter a »10 bill. There are a thousand and one varieties of anglers on Broadway. They angle with everything from loaded dice to a blue steeled gat. Barnum was a great showma-i hut a poor mathematician. Thu very Idea of saying a sucker was born every mlnutei With every tick of the clock hundreds of them swim out Into Broadway waters for the hook. Without a fresh supply of suck ers Broadway would be ns dull and uninteresting as a section of Kan sas prairie. Hat check kings could not ride In limousines. Theaters could not charge $8 for a $2 show. Lobster palaces would be shuttered and dark. Chorus girls could not wear diamond bracelets. Hotels could not charge $12 a day for a single room. Keeps Great White Way Ablaze. It Is the sucker who presents these Illuminating contrasts, the ups and downs of fortune, the daz zling money spending and what not. Scoffers may cast animad versions but Broadway owes a lot to the sucker and shows Its appre ciation by keeping him in a con stant temptation. And tracing the word sucker as applied to the Broadway genre Is an Interesting pursuit. The term [StHEnfsl The Most Prolific Piscatorial Spawn Is, of Course, the Sucker, came into popular usage about 20 years ago. One story attributes It to the lat* Steve Brody who jumped from Brooklyn bridge. It Is recorded Brody had been fishing In the East river and his entire day's catch was a variety of carp known as the sucker. The nlgb* business was bad at his rum hall and at midnight when the receipts were hardly worth counting up he said: “I’d like to change places with the sucker I caught today.” And the bar room crowd began to compare those who got the worst of It to Brody's sucker. Slang does start In this absurd way. Still another version Is that a comedian in Weber and Field's old music hall gave the term popu larity by a line in a song which said something about fish and the easiest catch of all was the sucker. No one, of course, likes to be classed as a sucker. It will start a fight almost any place yet It is strange how the word has become a fixed part of the language by usage. Sophisticated Sucker*. Down In Wall and Broad atreets they refer to any man who Is worst ed as a sucked. The actually pre par lists of name* that bear the printed title for salesmen a* "The Sucker List." ----- concert In Lincoln. Dr. Mayhew and recital at the home of Mrs. Joslyn Mrs. Ross of Lincoln have already on January' 20, assisted by Hazel been to Omaha for brief visits. Smith Eldrldge. and the Nebraska Many of the important organ re- chapter Is also lending Its support to cltals nowadays are sponsored by the the organ recital by Marcel Dupre, guild. Flora Sears Nelson gave an t0 be given at the First Presbyterian organ recital at the new Westminster church March 22. under the Ladles' Presbyterian church October 28. She society of the church. The regular was assisted by the choir of which monthly luncheons of the local chap she Is director. Mr. J. H. Simms ter have been continued this year, dedicated the new organ at the Ben- The new dean, Mrs. Louise Shadduck son Methodist church Thursday, No- Zabrlskie, Is one of the only two peo vember 8. pie jn the state holding the degree of Mr. Thornton of the First Baptist fellow in the guild, a great and well church and Mr. Ren Stanley of Trln- earned honor. Prof. Karl Haase of Ity cathedral will give a choral aer- Seward la the other. There are 85 vice at the First Baptist church De- members In Nebraska. Enid Lind comber 2, with the united choruses of borg, Kenneth Widenor, Mrs. I* Hoa both churches taking part. Elolie klnson of Clarlnda, la., and Henrietta West McNlchols will give an organ (Tllrn Tfn r„l,„nn Fonr) When one Is on the "sucker list" his life becomes a series of telephone calls from this salesman and that, trying to explain how he can become rich over night by buy ing stock In some dusty hole In the ground In Texas. They will tell you along the White Way that the biggest sucker of them all Is the so-called wise boy. Broadway does not angle for the country bumpkin. That Is small time stuff. They go after the man who Is apparently a figure In the world of business or a profession. Some times they will go for years batting him before they finally land him high and dry. The old story—the bigger they are the harder they fall. Here Is an example known to all Rroadway sophisticates. He la a man who has won a high place In life. He had money and was a world traveler. Yet his single rice was cards. He was a plunger In a poker game, but wary of hla com panions. A well-known gambler went over to London and brought back two polished card sharps. They lived at ths beat hotel and appeared at first nights and the opera. They were careful In the selection of friends, but finally were able to be put up at the club where the sucker held forth. They made no effort to meet him for six months and then for three months the victim was on an Bu ropean trip. When he came back Dancing Instruction All the New Dances All the Latest Steps DON MACFARLANE and 25 pretty and talentad ladies to teach you. Classes Monday and Thurs day at 7:30 P. M. KEL-PINE 25th at Farnam. AT. 7850. Ill I I I I II llll l»« I I I I i n i i 1 TITH autumn comes the hunting % \ / time. The huntsman feels the lure y V of all outdoors. He packs his kit T ? and seeks the grounds where game f and joy abound. /$ San Antonio, a city of many pleasures, affords him these delights. Ducks, geese,' ku turkey, quail, snipe, rabbits, squirrel, and po fleeting deer await the chance to match * their skill with his. Surrounding hills, » woods and crystal streams are filled with game of every kind. Medina Lake a thousand feet above the sea, comprises thirty-six square miles of what is admit* tcdly the best Black Bass fishing in America. Quail are plentiful in stubbled fields of corn and deer and turkey hold their court in rugged, wooded hills. Ducks invade the rice fields and marshes of the nearby coast. Ten dajj stop-over privileqe on all railroads/ Iiacl\. type of sport is represented and can be quickly reached on well kept roads. A responsible or ganization undertakes to direct you to the places of your choice. The game is here — your aim alone de cides the trophies you receive. The hunter asks no more. rake the Next frain south to sun mi I Chamber oC Commerce §an Antonio, Texas Send me full information about huntinq and other sports. Name __--—' Address — an opportune moment cam* and he was introduced. They courted his favor very adroitly and once he asked them to join him In a poker game, but they politely refused. Then the Hig Plot. They were invited to his home and met his family—posing as wealthy Englishmen. There came a nlght-^-as the movies say. A game was proposed at the club. The Englishmen lost heavily. The victim-to-be won. This went on for several weeks at different times. And then the big killing. The sucker was taken over the Jumps for $400,000—one of the heaviest one night losings in the history of the street. Two nights later he lost $100,000 more. The suave sharpers disappeared. It was later learned that they also fleeced the man who sponsored them and who had made It possible for them to carry on and win con ft-—---— fidence. He, as Is usual with the crook who Is worsted at his own game, squealed. The story came out and the sucker was ousted from several directorates. Those are the games that are being played along Broadway every day. They play big game for big catches. Two of tho shrewdest confidence men In the history of the street, brothers, who are now doing their bit in prison, declared on the eve of their sen tence they had never seen the man they couldn't trim. One With Whiskers. It was, according to their version, only a game of waiting and playing the proper cards. Incidentally they took three of the most Influential men in town into camp with the oldest of come-on games—the fixed horse race. Once, as a mere Joke, they trim NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Lived Like a Man $9,500.00 to Bob Her Hair Bob? No! Cut short like a man’s! Act a man! Be a man. That’s what Anna Q. Nilsson got. Cynthia Stock,ton’s strange story, with James Kirkwood Anna Q Nilsson Tully Marshall and a great cast The Greatest Performance Ever Given on the Screen by a Woman A.T two years you've waited for this supreme pictorial achievement and now it’s here—direct from it's sensational York run * The Screen Vertion of A. S. M. HUTCHINSON’S World's Famous Novel TWO WEEKS STARTING TODAY Shows at 11, 1,3, 5, 7 9 o’clock Feature ten minutes later Special Musical Score for this production Sun Cinema Orchestra Direction Louis Schnnuber med a detective who had been de tailed to trail them and land them In prison. Another time they ac tually won $6,000 In the old shell game In the drawing room of one of the finest mansions In Fifth avenue. They were Invited guests and t^ie victim was the host. When a sucker runs away with the hook, line and sinker, the first thing he does Is to say: “I can't Imagine (hat happening to me”, anil it is just that sort of imagin ation that makes him a sucker. 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