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."
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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
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% \ / 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
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your choice. The game is here — your aim alone de
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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.
No one honestly believes he Is go
ing to be a sucker.
(Copyright, 1021)
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