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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1924)
M'U 5- I C The Artist's Problem. "JT I could dwell whore Terafel Heth dwelt, end he where I, lie might not sing bo wildly well A mortal melody: While a deeper note than hie might ewell Prom my lyre within the sky." Mover hag the problem of the crea tive artist, whether poet, painter or musician, been more poignantly phrased than in this familiar, brief and haunting stanza by Bdgar Allen I’oe. Until recent times it has al ways been more or less assumed that the lot of the artist who kept a few steps ahead of the taste of his time was poverty, shabbiness and starva tion, unless he was rescued by the i harlty of some Individual wealthy patron, or assigned some political : inecure which left him leisure for I is real abilities. A Beethoven, a Schubert, a Hugo Wolfe and many of the other masters we now revere ®tave dared to defy these conditions at the cost of their personal happi ress. But nobody knows how much of genius has been lost to the world of art on account of them. In recent years the artistic public has begun to aw-aken to the fact that the world loses something by leceivlng the creative work of only such musicans as cannot be crushed by sneers or poverty or frightened into more remunerative efforts by the possibility of starvation or the im possibility of having a normal family life, Two movements toward giving the musician security and Justice, on a basis which will preserve his self respect, are now appealing to public attention in Omaha. t Musicians’ Fund of America. March has been set apart as Mu sicians’ Fund month, in which an ap peal is being made to local musical organizations and music lovers to sup port the efforts of the Musicians’ Fund of America, Incorporated. This organization is attempting to do away with the nightmare of a pov erty-stricken old age which haunts the life of the creative artist, by estab lishing a national nonsectarian home fer aged. Infirm and needy musicians, admission to which will be free to worthy members of every branch of the musical profession. After the home has once been established, an emergency fund will be created for the immediate relief of distressed musi cians and their families. A loan fund will be raised, from which the musi cian in need of temporary financial aid may borrow without interest. Among the. 44 honorary vice presi dents of the organization are Jascha Heifetz, Ossip Gabrilowich, Rudolph Ganz, Amelita Galll Curd, Frank Damrosch, Ernestine Schumann Heink, Victor Herbert and Johanna Cadskl. President Harding was an honorary official of the fund until h^s death. Ijoral musical organizations are Urged to aid ths fund by giving bene fit performances or by securing dona tions and memberships. Individuals may become active members at $2 per year, subscribing members at $25 per year, life members for $100, or life patrons for $1,000. Memlarships and donations may be mailed to Mrs. » Frederick Helzer, Sioux City repre sentatlve, 1215 Douglas street, Sioux City, la.; or to the headquarters of the Musicians’ Fund of America, 808 Washington avenue, St. Louis, Mo. i Edward MacDowell Association. Fully aa worthy of support is n second campaign to make more en durable tha artistic lifa by the Ed ward MacDowell colony at Peter borough, N. H. While the Musicians' Fund brings aid tg the musician in times of misfortune. Illness or old age, the MacDowell colony aids ar tists at tha creative period of their lives by providing ideal conditions for work. This beautiful cluster of homee and studios which hava risen on tha site of the old farm belonging to the composer Edward MacDowell, offer* to the group of artists who summer there surroundings which Jarafel, angel of music, might envy. Furthermore, it erects an Inspiring memorial to tha much beloved com poser , who was hastened Into a pre matura grava by the strenuous life required to earn a living and develop bis art apart from that. The campaign for the maintenance ef the colony Is being forwarded here by Edward MacDowell club of Oma ha, Augustus M. Borglum, president, and Miss I,ouise Gertrude Ernst, treasurer. This society has sent $900 te the colony since January, 1921, and has furnished two roome called the Omaha rooma. Contributions may be mads to Mias Ernst. Dupre a Prise Winner In Music. Marcel Dupre, famous organist of Notre Dame cathedral. Pari*, will play In Omaha at the First Presby terian church on March 22. He comes under tho auspices of the women a a society of the church. No organist of tills generation, so It is said, has won so many honors as Dupra. At. the age of 12. he was appointed organist at the Church of gt. Vincent at Houen, ills native a(ty. At 1#. he won the first prize given bv the Paris aonaervatory in piano: at 21. the first prize in counterpoint: at 23, the first, prize in organ, while pupil or Gullmant, Wldor and Vfernt. At 28. lie 'ton the highest prize offered by the French government, l he coveted Grand Prix de Rome, with a cantata for mixed volcee and orchestra, en titled • Psyche." At 30, he became organist at Notre Dame, the most desirable post In Kurope. At 34 he played the complete orgin works of Bach perfectly and from memory in 10 recitals at the Pari* conservatory. This Is probably the greatest feat accomplished by a virtuoso since the king of instru ments was first played. HI* Ameri can debut In the New York U ana inaker auditorium created a furore. Following this, he played 13 remark able recitals In New York and Phila delphia before audiences approxi mating 80.000 person*. It I* reported NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS ^ l.OTHROP. .24th and l.othrnp “HOLLYWOOD” Fighting Blood—Comody GRAND.. Idth and Binn.y Dougina Ma^Laan In 'Going Up" Shown Bogin nt 3. I, 7, » P. M BOULEVARD.... 33d and Lonvonwo. Ih “PONJOLA” Fighting Blood—Comody that his present tournee will break all records for organ recital tours In this country. John MacCormack Here in April. John MacOormack, the “Incom parable popular" tenor, will appear in Omaha at the Municipal auditorium Thursday, April 10, under the ana ices ot the Council of Catholic Women. Mrs. Arthur K. Mullen, president of the council, and Mrs. L. C. Nash, are among those in charge of arrangement* for the concert. Most enthusiastic reviews are fol lowing MacOormack on a tom through the south, where lie is de clared to be singing-as never before. The singer has just ghen two con certs in Los Angeles, which were per haps the most wonderful of his entire career. Critics say he never sang so well. The enormous house was com pletely filled both times. lie was obliged to arrange another concert to be given March 11, to meet the de mands of those who could not hear him. Guild of Organists Vespers. Vesper services will be given at the First Presbyterian church this after noon at 4:30 p. III. under the auspices of the Nebraska chapter, American Guild of Organists. The united choirs of All Saints Episcopal church, led by .1. If. Simms, organist and director, and of the First Presbyterian church, Mrs. Louise Jansen Wylie, soprano and director, will be featured together with Mrs. Elolse West McNlchols, organist ot the L'nitarian church, Mr. Martin W. Bush, organist, First Cen tral Congregational church, and Mrs. Louise Shadduek Zabriskle, F. A. G. (>., organist. First Presbyterian church. The program is as follows: Processional, "The Church’* in p Foundation" . Wesley Invocation. Rev. Thomas Carady, pastor Ali Sr.int*’ Episcopal church. "Carillon” . Vierne Mrs. M'’Nichols. "Magnificat” . Waimsley "(> Word of (Sod Incarnate" .Scott First Presbyterian Quartet; Violin Ob ligato. Miss Louise Srbmauber "The Living God". OTIara C. S. Haverstock. "Scherzo Caprice”. Bernard Martin W. BujOi. Motet: "Hear My Prayer... Mendelssohn Mrs. W> 1 le and Choir. Remarks. Hr. Jenks. Offertory hymn. "Glorious Thing* ol Thee Are Spoken" .Haydn 1 * As Torrent* in Summer". . Klaar "Nunc Uimittls'. \*«lmHley Benediction. Recessional hymn. "Ten Thousand line*. Ten Thousand.Alford PosMude. "Allegro AppesSiona'e (From Fifth Sonata).Guilmant Mrs. Za brisk ie. High School Present Thelma Given. The Activities Association of Tech nical High school presents Thelma Given, violinist, March 10, at 3:30 in the high school auditorium. Miss Given is one of the most brilliant of the younger American violinists. She studied under Leopold Auer in Russia and has been most favorably reviewed by James Gibbon Huneker, Pitts Sanborn, Max Smith and other famous critics In the course of het five years of concert wojk in this country. Organ Recital at*Trhilljr Calliedal. Ren Stanley will liegin his 10th year of Lenten organ recitals tills Sunday at 4:30 o’clock in Trinity ca thedral. There will he six recitals in all. The cathedral choir will sing at each recital and a very short form of evening prayer will precede the music. The public, is cordially Invited and urged to be in their seats. Which are free, promptly at 4:30. "Grand Choeur In D Major"... .Guilmant “Veaperal" . .Plgflo "Loch I/tmond" .Ar. by Lem a ra "To a Wild Rota" ... .MacDowall-Scott "From Chapel Walla" .Th. Hoook "Introduction From Suita Arabeaque" .Hollaway Anthem for full choir, "By Babylon'* Wa\ a” . Gounod Mrs. Zabriskie Gives Pupil Redial. Louise Shadduck Zabriskie will pre sent lier pupils in a recital at the First Presbyterian church Friday eve ning, March 14, at 7:H0. A cordial invitation is extended lo the public to attend. The following students will take part: June Ames, Charles Benton, llazcl Belt, Marlon Clark, Mary Jean Clapper, John Fleming. Mary Foils, Margaret C.lee, Dorothy Graham, Barbara lloBbs, Ruth Jones, Howard Johnson, Betty Kelley, Billy Kelley, Mary Alice Kelley, Roberta Kiewit, Leona LiefT, Tlilema Moss, John Patton, Helen Poynter, Helen Price, John llarvey Sandham, Louise Marie Srhnauber, Jean Stirling, Jessie Stirling, Klizabeth Shearer, Louise Stiles, Flora Shukert, Samuel Thomas, Betty Zabriskie, Helen Zabriskie. Harry Marko, Tenor, Appears. Harry Marko, tenor, will appear In concert Wednesday evening, March 26, at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium, un der the management of tiie Jack Oshia enterprises. Mr. Marko gives Ids concert in Omaho in the course of a tour to the coast. Junior Mustcale Hate Changed. The Junior Muslcale announces a change in the date of its April pro gram, which will lie given April 6 at 8:15 p. ni. at the First Central Con gational church. Thirty-sixth street and Dewey Avenue. The program was first announced for April 10. Rialto Music Program. Selections from "Carmen” will form the principal number played by the Itialto Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Harry Binder at the Ri alto tills week. "Carmen” is the finest example of French operatic art and is one of tiie most popular of operas todayA Composed by George Bizet, who was born in Paris in 1838, the opera was at first a failure. The dis appointment is said to have hastened the composer's death, which occurred three months after the first perform ance. “Linger Awhile.” a recent popular favor, and the "Jack Tar march by Sousa, together with "The Song of Songs,” played by George Haupt on the organ, complete the program. String Club Instructor to Be Concert Feature Lecture by Prof. Frank Burcklng Pam, instructor of the Omaha String Hub. on ‘‘Fretted Instruments and Harmony" will feature the concert at the Sclimoller A Mueller auditorium Monday night, March 10. In connection with the lecture, solos, quartets and accompaniments to vocal numbers will be heard. Changes §50,000 Jobs. William I-e Baron has resigned as head of the scenario department for Cosmopolitan and has gone to Famous Players-Lasky. An internal reorgan ization of the Cosmopolitan forces is said to be the reason, as iA> Baron will draw tl>e same salary from Famous as be did from Cosmopolitan —$50,00 a year, which is not so bad for a scenario writer. Mack Sennrtt and Flo Ziegfeld will be Judges at the beauty contest which will be part of the forthcom ing Atlantic City pageant._ Money in “The Miracle” Spectacle Draws Huge Sum During Its Display in New York; Mrs. Fiske's Society Benefit Turns Out Many Notables; 'Newest London Play a Doubtful Drama. By PERCY HAMMOND. NEW YORK, March 8.—The in come of "The Miracle,” being of ■usual proportions, may be of in terest to those who like to hear of ■ he stage's prosperity. In the first seven weeks of the engagement at the Century theater the gross receipts were $355,836, of which the govern ment's share was $35,583.60—or enough to pay the wages of several United States senators and a con gr -ssman or two. The figures, which surpass any similar intake in the an nals of what used to be known as the "hall shows.” are submitted to your correspondent by Morris Gest and are verified by federal revenue authori ties. Mr. Gest’s auditors further re port a profit during the seven weeks of $101,024.11—or one sixth the cost of the production. Therefore, if the spectacle proceeds at its present rate for 42 weeks its financial sponsors may get their money back—a, pros pect which seems to be the least of their hopes and anxieties. Pome of the younger members of the local artistic set are great ad mirers of Mrs. Fiske, and Mrs. Fiske is notably fond of the suffering dumb beasts. So Sunday night a benefit was arranged for Mrs, Fisk's philan thropy, at which many of her talented friends appeared before a brilliant and $tO-per-seat audience. Frank Tinney, in black paint and a red coat, operated upon the sidewalk in front of the Music Box as carriage man: Mrs. Fiske played Mrs. Bumpstead Ijcigh; Miss Eaurette Taylor fulfilled a long ambition by performing as Pierrot !n "E'Enfant Prodigue," and Douglas Fairbanks was one of the many celebrities who acted as "an nouncers." Your charitable correspondent, hav ing given his priceless ticket to a needy visitor from the open spaces, was without a spot in which to park himself, until Miss Neysa McMeln obliged him witji a donation of her chair In an advantageoua center of the auditorium. Ilia immediate neigh bors were Doug and Mary, Stanislaw rky, the duchess of Rutland, Ram H. Harris, Eady Diana Manners, Miss Fannie Hurst, Miss Ethel Barrymore, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Grantiand Rice and the Princess Matchlabelll. Such eavesdropping as he did at the con versation between Rady Diana and America's Sweetheart was instructive and not unamusing. But the night was made hideously humiliating to him because, in this most conspicu ous locality, he went to sleep, as is his habit at benefits. . . . Mr. Fairbanks had the right idea about these eleemosynary theatrics Is. "I think," raid he to the audience, “that it would be better to buy a horse and be kind to it." Another exciting play ha# come *tn town from London—"The Outsider" —written by Dorothy Drandon and acted by Lionel! Atwill and Kath erine Cornell. In It Mr. Atwill Im personates a flamboyant bonesetter who has no credentials from the medical- colleges: and Miss Cornell Is the crippled daughter of a famous KngHah surgeon, the principal ad versary of the so-called quark. The incidents hinge on his endeavors to restore Hie young woman to health and locomotion. , The dignified doctors were not much to blame for their opposition to the outlaw practitioner. He was a blatant, self-centered bounder, shouting his own achievements and in general behaving himself In the fashion of a noisy charlatan. He had learned anatomy as a butcher in the Chicago stockyard.". It was no wonder they distrusted him. Hut the girl, a burning woman of 22, impelled by the cosmic urge, decided to take a chance with him. The regular phy sicians having failed to heal her, she was desperate enough to try a sus pected humbug. She wanted the "lilt, the rhythm and the love song" of life—and she had a prospective lover (Mr. Pat Somerset) who would marry her in case ehe got well. The last art contains much material for agitation. In that scene it is to lie disclosed whether the patient, after a year's treatment, will be able to walk; and whether at the end she will be In love with the doctor, who has been improved, or with her lover, who has not. When the straps and implements are removed she tries to use her pretty legs in the presence of many distinguished physicians. She falls again and again. At one moment you suspect that the experi ment is unsuccessful; at the next you believe that it has failed. Now, you think, she is in love with the bone man (who has become a flesh-and blood man), and. again, you fear that her paaslons are confined to thf comeller suitor. After the doctor has left her, desperate in his failure, she calls him back, and walks into his arms as the curtain falls. . . . “The Outsider,” I suspect, is not convinc ing in its surgical details. It seems to contain some unscientific lesions. Mr. Atwill and Miss Cornell, however, act its thrilling incidents superbly, and make it a "good show” of the better class. Miss Cornell, think, lias proved herself in this and other plays of the last three seasons to be the best of the American actresses. Censors Slire Picture. The Ohio rensor board took a look in Cincinnati at “After the Ball,'1 a seven-reel drama founJed on the bal lad, and then sent it reeling on Its way. The censors rut out a scene show ing a man drinking, and also a sub title reading, “We aekcd for beer, not hair tonic.’’ Another character seen pouring li quor down a lady's neck was given the breeze. Cullen Files Counter Suit. Tieolding divorce 1* a game which I two can play, Cullen handis, high est priced "juvenile * In Hollywood, has tiled a counter suit against Mig non hebrun handle In which he charges cruelty, including "constant nagging.” verbal abuse, malicious gos sip and the display of a picture of herself In the company of a "promi nent motion picture actor not him self." Mrs. Ijindls recently sued, also charging cruelly. 1 fin HEY met “West of the Water Tower”—the town’s ideal young man and the pretti est girl—and soon the whole town roeked with talk. MADE from the novel which brought, storms of praise from readers, clergymen and newspapers everywhere. Today and All Week—Shows at 11,1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 o’Clock From the Most Sensational Novel Ever Written AUOI.PH /IKON PrfMRtN GLENN HUNTER *&5S? *$$£>•'£^.v l&SSS&t&S i *>S^'•£>'&*'&? £n ■with i Ernest Torrence and MayMcAvoy t Supported By I George Fawcett and Zasu Pitts nSENS. T I O N A . .story of crriny youth anti reck less love, whieli doesn’t side-step the truth in its revelation. This picture tellk the bold trutl i about life and love I In a typical email town. You'll never I at op talking about I the picture TUI'. BOOK W I.SI Oh lilt'. W \ I KR IO W b.R” was an overnight sensation. It is not thr story of a rarlet wont.; J ora libertine but of two young people who loved raeh other passionately but indiscreetly and what this led to < While the picture ts bold and daring we know it will not he censored by any broad minded man or woman who sees r | t lins been praised not only by the press Imt hv the clergy. | r- ' Important Pictures Obtained by Iliulto for Early Showings >._____J The Rialto theater announces a pro gram of forthcoming pictures which Manager Harry Watts declares is one of the best group of pictures ever booked by that theater. A William de Mille production, "Ice bound," features Richard IJix. Bois Wilson and Vera Reynolds. It is a screen adaptation of the stage play by Owen Davis, which ran a year at the Harris theater in New York and is from the Pulitzer prize story for the greatest American drama. Harold Bell Wright's widely read story, "When a Man's a Man,” will also be seen soon. It features Johnny Bowers, Margurite de la Motte and George llackathorne. One of the year's surprise pictures Is also announced for an early'show ing, "The Great White Way," with a staggering cast. Headed by Anita Stewart, some of the notables who appear are Kay King. Nell Brinkley. Billy de Beck. T. Roy Barnes, Tom Lewis, Harry Watson, Olin How land, Hal Forde, Stanley Forde "Bugs" Baer, Tex Rickard, Ned Way burn, Irvin S. CObb, IX. C. Witwer. Windsor McCay, Hal Coffman, Ar thur Brisbane, Harry Ilershfleld, Da mon Runyon and many others. Kenneth Harlan, Clnra Bow, Car mel Meyers and Raymond Griffith will appear In "Poisoned Paradise.” which Is a production of the famous Robert W. Service novel of the same name and is the forbidden story of Paris and Monte Carlo. Zane Grey's "The Heritage of the Desert," Is also one of the coming pictures which features Krnest Tor rence, Bebe Daniels. Noah Beery and Lloyd Hughes, and is being adver tised by the Paramount people as "The Covered Wagon’s Only Rival.” Raster week a rare treat is prom ised by the management of the Ri alto In "Lillies of the Field." said to be the outstanding picture of the sea son. Featuring at the head of a notable east are Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle. A large production is promised in "A Son of the Sahara." featuring Claire Windsor, Bert Lytel and a groat cast. It was In this picture that Director Kdwin Care we took his en i tire company to Algiers thRt^ie might I really take the desert scenes on the j mighty Sahara. A lone woman on a jury with her j husband is the powerful story told in [ "The Woman on the Jury." which is, also announced for an early showing! It features Sylvia Breamer, Lew Cody, Frank Mayo, Henry B. Walt hah Hobart Bosworth, Mary Carr a nd Bessie Love. ‘'Nellie" The Beautiful Cloak Model) will also be shown at this playhouse. It makes no bones about being a* real melodrama with a east of screen celebrities Including Claire Windsor, Mac Bush, Kdmund Lowe, Raymond Griffith, Lew Cody and Hobart Bosworth. Paris Taxi Driver Good Friend to Have Paris taxi drivers are the best friends and the most dangerous enemies In the world, says Maurice Cannon, who is cast in such a role In Pola Negri’s new starling picture. "Shadows of Paris,” a Herbert Bn non production for Paramount. “Just as London policemep are noted for their courtesy to strangers, the Parisian taxi drivers are known for their strong friendships and their indifference to those who offend them. I have made many friends in their ranks and learned much about Paris through their agency, which I could otherwise never have discovered. If you are going to Paris. 1 advise you to make friends with one of them, lie will look after you like a brother and tell you stories of the tity more en thralling than anything you ever read in fiction." Maurice Cannon, formerly a na tional French favorite In the Theater Nationals de L'Odeon. came to Holly wood only a short time ago. In “Shadows of Paris" he plays the role of a taxi driver on familiar terms with the underworld dens •>( the Apaehes. Adolph Menjou, Charles de Roche and lluntlv Cordon are featured opposite Polo Negri In this production. Monte p.lue and Marie Prevost are to play opposite »u' h other in a new pietu re, , _• Announcing A warm slice of real, rugged American life transformed into gripping entertainment. “Icebound” Which won the Pulitzer Priz# given each year to the greatest American drama, and ' ran over a year at the Harris Theater in New.Tork. The story is of hate-bitten hearts melted by the fires of love. Of a girl who inherits a handsome, profligate young fellow in a will and proceeds to make a man of him. Featuring Richard Dix Lois Wilson Next Sunday REX BEACHS BIG- / OIL FIELD STORY / TODAY^ALL WEEK cit/UJv MILTON SILLS and ANNA q NILSSON . A girl—a raster in • shack on a sun-burned Texas farm. A girl—young, beautiful, whose soul was starving for beauty and love. Oil—riches, fine clothes, jewels, a mansion—and a man. A Man—one from the other world of culture and breeding. Love flamed into life, but love was • denied her. But love found a way in the peril of a gTeat disaster. Love won through fire and flood and storm as you shall see in this story of dynamic action, adventure and romance. A» Great a* “The Spoileri" 1 We think you'll »ay BETTER) LLOYD HAMILTON in a storm of laughter LONESOME RIALTO ORCHESTRA Playing Selections from “Carmen" Also “Linger Awhile” Cieorgo Haupt Playing "The Song of Songs" Kinograms