THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 17, 1910.
SINGERS DAVE A NIGHT'S FDN
"Itnnbaemer" m it ii Burlesqued tt
a Knenitlerfeit.
NISTROY'S PARODY PERFORMED
,jmrm of Ofra Shew Cktratra la
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NEW YORK. April 11 -Nothing els It
vr luppowd among Qrmui to b so
funny a a Kuanstlcrtect. It la Oormas fun,
I of course, that thia tort of party auppllea
and th serious, thoroughgoing, alaborata
Teurtonlo fun makca a profound lroprslon
on thoaa that Ilka It. Person who had
1 previously been unfamiliar with thla kind of
humor have during tba )aat two opera sea
son had an opportunity to make Ha c
qalntanca, the German wing of the com
pany at the Metropolitan Opera houae,
which la destined to diminish next season to
such an extent that a feet of any kind on
the part of It membera may be lmpos
alble, having each aeacon provided a
Kuenstlerfert for the delectation of the
New Tork public.
The lataat performance took place at the
Hotel Astor, whan there waa presented a
historic German parody. Thla waa Neetroy'e
rmpectful perversion of "Tannhauser,"
whloh ha long been a popular production
for auoh frivolous oocaalona The work waa
composed and arranged a long time ago,
and la deecrlbed on the . program aa
"farce of the future with mualo of the paat
and grouping of the present," which la
enough to ahow that It waa prepared when
Wiw'a, musto waa attll called the music
f the future. The action of the drama was
Interrupted by muslo from time to time,
and there were four scene to ahow how
much of the original etory of "Tannhauser"
bad been retained.
There were few persona In the large ball
room of the Aator who were n familiar
with tha atory of "Tannhauser" and few
who did not remember Elisabeth, aa Mllka
Tarnina uaed to embody her and aa
Johanna Gadskl doe It now. Then there
were a host of Wolkram von Eachenbacha
before Robert Blaes" made that gentlemen
Jut as eotnlo as Bella Alten did Kllianeth
when she disguised her beauty and put on
long pigtail a and cavorted through the
Bellebt Faum of F-schenbsch for fun and
charity.
These two portraits from 'Tannhauser"
were no more Iconoclastic than that of the
titular hero who fell to the diminutive
Albert Helss, who la not only funny almost
alwaya, but almost tha funniest man In
, grand opera, unless Otto Gorlts happens to
! be on the stage. How Ht tie like the average
Tannhauser h looks the picture will ehow.
It waa natural that Otto Oorlts, alio
wanted to make aa much fun out of hla
character aa postlble. should select for
hia burlesque the moot serious part In the
opera, the "Landgraf," uncle of Elizabeth.
In the parody he Is dewrlbed a a musical
enthusiast, which ha shows In the original
only by organizing the singing contest In
his drawing room.
Adolf Muhlmann, who Is audi a srlous
Wotan and Hundlng, chose to appear aa
tha shepherd who alta on the rock and plpea
hla little lay wl en tha scene change and
tha Venuaberg glvea placa to tha cool morn
Ing heights of Eisenach. Thla part la al
waya sung by a woman, and there have
been some notally beautifully exponents of
the role In former years. Doe anybody
remember Olymfla Guerria as the boy?
She waa the fairest to link upon, although
there usrd also to be the brunette beauty
of Carrie Brldwell to gear on In the part.
From both of these Mr. Muhlmann differs
widely. t waa tot only In his face that
h was unlike every other shepherd that
sang tha music; there were his feri also
to distinguish him. There never waa even
an echt IJeutsch Interpreter of the ahrp
herd boy with feet like those.
Every effort waa made by Otto Gortta
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"THK GAME IS ON."
and Andisas Dlppel whose principal part
In the preparation of tho fest was to put
no difficulties in the way of hia colleague,
to see that the burlesque waa from a
musical etandpoliu up ti a high average.
To this end the phrase. "Wolfram von
Eschenbach, reglnne," sung by the pug:
when the contestants In the aaengerkrleg
Is to Mart waa entiualod to four conduc
tors. There have been many occasion on
which this mi sic lisa bern Incorrectly sung
eo the four chorua conductor and accom
panist were selected that there might be
no grounds for crltlclrn.
They were Klchaid Hagemann, Edward,
Falok, Joliann Heldenrelch and Dr. Jokl,'
They may not have been aa beautiful aa
the blue and white women with the taper
ing waist and the plump limbs that look
ao Ilttlo like boy In "Tannhauser" at the
Metropolitan, but they were heard one
they said "beglnne." although tha sound
may not have been ao melodious aa It
aometlmea Is. But it waa muslclanly and
that alwaya covera a multitude of sins.
There were all the scenes of the regula
tion "Tannhauser." When the curtains
parted to show the abode of Frau Venus
who was described the proprietress of
a delicatessen sallsr, that woman in the
person of Rostna Van Dyck tad an apron
about her shapely waist and was prepared
to serve Helmlch Tannhauser with what-
ever he wanted to eat.. More amaslng
however, from the scenic point of vlw
was the set of the Wartburg.
There musical Instrument of every kind
and of mammoth size formed the pillars
and walls In the theure halle In which
Elisabeth singa and they formed an ap
proprlately grotesque background for the
guests who arrived at Herr Landgraf a
musical. In the first act the pilgrims
who passed by Eisenach on their way to
Rome wore silk hats of a more or less ven
erable vintage and smoked cigars. In the
manner of their costuming for the party
they were atlll mor peculiar.
The messenger who cornea with the news
of a death In the family of the guest who
la unable to come Is usually dressed in
black in regular performances of the opera
and there Is often the opportunity for
touching acting on the part of the singe
of Elizabeth. Sometime the messenger is
a child dressed in black, who seems to an
nounce the death of his father, while In
other casea there la a mourning' woman to
ndlcat that the lord of the family has
died. Just how dnlloately the burk-squo
Intimated thla situation Is shown by the
picture of the Ttauerbnte with the weeds
flowing from either brim of his hat.
This was the keynote of the gaiety
throughout the evening and thcr. wrte
times when lovers of Wagner opera de
tected too strongly marked a spirit of dis
respect In the scenes. One of these was
nafs.fl Josef fy, a ho Is a great admirer or
the work and found little to delight him In
the massacre of such Ideals of it aa he had
pr Iniisly possessed.
It has always been said that 'Tj estroy')
clever parody of the original bc !l ws aa
much a part of the aiiroosa of tlnVork aa
anything In It. and tlmt Its appeal to the
ear of thoe familiar w ith the score of tha
opera Is ,1ist as strontrlv burlesque aa tha
antlc-a on the sIhrc. Hut music is a mora
subtle form of satire than drama. Jt would
Indeed he a sensitive lltriirr who wa of
fendid by tho burlesque of Wagner' cora
that lmparta tta greatent merit to tha
burlesque of "Tannhauser."
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THE PERSUASIVE POrPIEK
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W orld Movement for an International Court of Practical Arbitration
T
O THE historian of th future,
the cloae of the nineteenth cen
tury will mark a social triumph
for which the world has long
waited the passing of the glory
and Dreatlsa nf arm aH nrtrt f 1 Irtt
For Th Hague confwenc of m' sounded
th moral doom of . war. Henceforth,
stripped of Its glamour, regulated by Inter
national greemeiit and hedged in by pre
ventive. wr will be regarded a a de
plorable, if necessary, evil. Even tlia great
armaments under which th nation tag
ger r vehemently declared to be a form
of peac Inauranc; and aunly th heavy
premium paid atteat th International
dread of tha conflict.
But If th moral doom of war ha atruck,
It material doom la th task of th twen
tieth century, and Judged by th event of
a fecad. nobly ha th century begun it
wo.k.
Even th careless observer of recent
vent must observe In th peace move
ment a new working principle, hitherto
somewhat obscured that of practicality.
Idealism and sentiment have done a great
work In bringing about abhorrence of war
and will take their part In th century to
com; but th kaleldoecoplc change and
atrlklng anomalies of th last decade have
brought out vry etrongly the need of an
additional element of practical common
ena. Eleven year have seen two Hague
conferences; eight case of arbitration car
ried to Th Hague tribunal; 100 treatle of
international arbitration, some of them of
unlimited cope; sixty or more arbitrations
between nations; a great war brought to
n end and another Drobahlv sverr hv
machinery mada possible by The Hague
conference; and everywhere growing vl
denc of International good-will. And yet.
tp by step with the progr toward
I'-or have gone aver Increasing armament.
u:U: the world groan under their burdena
Whit doe It mean? Must armainaot keep
lace with arbitration? If so, peace and
economle ruin are ynonymou term. Or
do armament exist because a yet arbltra.
Von hag etfeffod no trustworthy substitute?
C till b trua th ituatlon calla for calm
reasoning and practical Institutiona. Douht
leea praasnt armaments are excessive; un
questionably they arc a orushln burden;
economically they are open to Justifiable
attack; but It there any evidence that dis
armament e.f the nations towon-or.- would
spell peace? Are armamenta not a effect
rathr than a cause? And doe net the
practical remedy II rather in a:. Interna
tional court of such character that It will
command the respect of the nations and
attract an Increasing number of clssaea of
cases while armaments will become less
and lass neded and finally, perhapa, ua.
less?
When the first Mague conference created
the Hague court tt took the f rst and
Inns-ret step In this practical campaign.
The court was the most rrsctical Jnstru-r-ent
the great minds of the nvlm cmld
then devise; hue. Ilk all n-w lnstltut'ons.
It required time to evposs its deft-cts.
Today Its Imperfections seem glar'.ng; nv.
ertheless. It his a'trarted eight cases, has
emonstra'ted th wisdom of Its establish
ment, and, more than this, tt hus naved i
the way for a real International eurt of!
Justice.
If further evidence Is needed of the
practical trend of public thought, it may
be fvid ir the scam notice given tha sub
ject of disarmament In the second Htgue
conference and the great amount of at
tention given to the proportion, urged most j
emphatically by the delegates from the'
I n ted States for the establishment of a
Judlc'al arb'tration court, eomh'nlng a'l the
advantace of th existing Hsvne court
and overcoming its obvious disadvantage;
a eourt to corslet of appmrlmatelv flftn
Judges (not diplomats) under salary paid
by the rations Jointly, with annual sessions
and a delegation alwava at Th Hague am)
leady for business. Tre existing court u
unwieldly and hard to set Into operation
for each case a tribunal must b aslected
from a numerous pansll th arbitrators
are paid by th Ittliait nation, and th
derision la often 4 compromise or a d.Vlo
matte solution rather than a Just verdict.
What Individual would rest easy with an
Important rase In the hands of a local
court thus organised? And yet Th Hague
court ha been enlruatcd with International
problem of a very delicate nature, In
cluding tha Casa Blanca dispute between
1 Vance and Germany and the pending
North Atlantic fisheries case, which for
almoat a century ha baffled the diplomats
of the United State and Great Britain.
What mor triklng proof 1 needed that
th new. court, with none of thee defects,
would be eagerly sought for tha disposi
tion of many troublesome question lurk
ing In th archives of different state de
partments, and would, as It won tho con
fidence of the nations, naturally attract all
but the most grave disputes?
Th second Hague conference gave the
new court all but existence; only tha
mothod of appointing Judged remains, and
this could not be solved because the
smaller nations Insisted that the equality
of atates be recognized. Obvloualy a Judge
from each nation would defeat the purpose
of the court by making It cumbersome and
expensive. But while no plan for dividing
fifteen Judges among forty-four nations
could be devised, the conference so left the
matter that any nunib?r of nations, by
appointing judges after a plan they may
agree upon, may establish the court for
themselves. And here the matter rested
until recently Secretary Knox made hi
proposal that the International prize court
provided by The Hague conference be
given tne functlona and jurisdiction of the
judicial arbitration court, thereby solving
the question of apportionment of Judges
and utilizing existing machinery. It should
be remembered, however, that In the prize
court the small natlona waived their in
terpretation of equality of state on th
ground that th great power would have
more use for the court; therefore they may
not yet be ready to accept the same ap
portionment of Judges for the Judicial ar
bitration court. Whether It would be wise
for a number of nations to establish the
court for themsolves on a baets that would
probably be unacceptable to some of the
othera bring ua again to the keynote of
the movement, practically. Whether the
third Hague conference aolves the problem
or tt la solvsd by the nations before that
conference, it is safe to predict that the
world's statesmen will never dispose of
the subject in other than a practical way.
The nation will not be swept Into Ill
considered action, and when their people
are brought from Indifference to an ap
preciation of the practical nature of the
movement their delegates to future Hague
conferences will have no excuse for op
posing any plan of appointing judges that
appeal'to the practical, summon sense of
a in tnsjorlty. , 1
Public education on thia subject Is fos
tered by scores of conferences and societies
throughout this and other countries; and
most of the peace societies are Joining In
this practical movement toward a world
court. Internationally the Interparliamen
tary union, with a vast membership of
legislators of every nation, Including soma
200 members of our own congress, headed
by Hon. Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, Is
th greateat fore of thia nature. Among
the more powerful American agencies are
the American Society of International Law,
under the presidency tit Senator Root; the
American Association for International
Conciliation, managed by President Nicho
las Murray Butler of Columbia university;
the new American Socley for the Judicial
Settlement of International Disputes, re
cently organized In BaltJmore by Mr.
Theodore Marburg, with Hon. James
Brown Scott, solicitor of the State depart
ment, to whom fell the bulk of the tech
nical work of the United States at the
second Hague conference, a president; the
American Peace society and It many
branches, under the guidance of Its veteran
secretary, Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood; and
the Lake Mohonk Conference on Interna
tional Arbitration, founded by Mr. Albert
K. Smiley and presided over at several
meetings by Judge Oeorge Gray of Dela
ware and the veteran diplomat, Hon. John
W. Foater, ex-secretary of etate. The
Lake Mohonk Conference, especially,
since It Inception In 1896 ha been Insistent
in Its demand for an International court,
and the proposed court will be the leading
aubject of it sixteenth annual meeting,
which will be held at It founder's unique
and picturesque summer home at Mohonk
Lake, N. Y.. May 1S-JP. President Nicho
las Murray Butler of Columbia university
will preside, and among the speakers ex
pected are the ministers to the United
State from Bolivia, Sweden, Norway,
Switzerland and Belgium; Baron d'Estour
nelles de Constant of France; the dean of
Worcester, England; tho chief Justice of
Ontario, the Canadian minister of labor,
the governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
New Jersey; Hon. Lloyd C. Grlscom of
New York, Hon. A. J. Montague of Vir
ginia, Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland and Hon.
Jackson H- Ralston of Washington; Hon.
Simeon E. Baldwin of New Haven, Hon.
Peter W. Meldrim and Mr. Pleasant A.
Stovall of Savannah, Ga.; ex-President
Eliot of Harvard university and Presi
dent Schurman of Cornell, Buckbar of th,
University of Vermont and Mitchell o8
the University of South, Carolina! Prof, j
Paul S. Relnsch of the University of Wis
consin and John B. Clark of Columbia uni
versity; and Editor Walter H. Pag of'
the "World's Work," Robert L. O'Brien of
the Boston Transcript and Dr. G. W, I
Prothero of the London Quarterly Review. ,
Some 300 distinguished men and women,
representing all classes and every part o .
th country, will be in attendance. I
Quaint Features of Everyday Life
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First Meeting; with Brewer.
ANY year ago, relate the
Washington Times, the late
Judge Brewer of the supreme
court was a county Judge In
frontier Kansas. Traveling one
day In a stage coach he met a
young man, who, accompanied by his wife
and a red-headed 2-year-old boy, waa' Juat
moving Into tha state.
The Judge became acquainted with the
father and mother, and insisted-for the
austere Judge of later year was in those
day a mighty good politician that that
boy was a fine chap, who would surely
make hi mark in the world. The proud
parents beamed appreciation, and th Judge
reached for the Infant and took him on hi
lap.
Instantly there was insurrection. The
prodigy didn't propose to be Jollied by an
old chap out looking for votes. He kicked
the judge viciously, and finally, reaching
out a very determined little paw, scratched
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the judicial countenance from ear to chin.
Three sharp little nail scraped off three
furrow of skin, and there waa great con
cern and a very email trifle of real blood
ahed.
Thirty-odd yeara passed, and one nlghl
at a White House reception, Judge Brewefl
walked up to a young man and asked:
"Pardon me, but I am Justice Brewerf
may I ask your name?"
"I am Representative Viator Murdock of
your own state of Kansas, and I am very
glad to meet you, sir," replied the young
man.
, "Well." said the judge, "I was sure you
were the one. You're the red-luiaded brat
that scratched all th skin off my fac ia
the stage coach near Wichita about thirty
fvm vsr am Ynunir man. you're In
contempt of court, and if you ever get
before me in due Judicial form, I'll make j
you smart for It. Why, I'm atrongl j
minded to take you and spank you for It ,
right now. You look to me Just about big
enough to begin to ba apanked." j
Knew Where There Wa One.
The father of Senator Dolliver of Iowa
was a Methodist circuit rider in the early
sixties in northern Wast Virginia, frelate
Norman E. Mack'a Monthly. '
On Sunday morning he was on hi way
to preach at one of hia several appoint
menta when he met a young fellow trudg
ing along with a mattock on his shoulder.
Mr. iJolllver anxious to do good at . any
time, stopped his horse and said: "Good
morning, my son, where sre you going thlg ;
fine dey with a mattock on your ahouN
der?" The young ffllow answered, "I am
irnttiir over here to dig up a fine big
ground hog; where In thunder sr you go-
Ing?"
I am out looking up some of the tost
sheep of Ureal," replied the minister.
The young fellow's fsce lighted up and,
he exclaimed: "There's a big buck over
here at Uncle Billy's, snd I II bet that'
one of them."
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BURQIBl CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT WARREN HOWARD, MAJOR BARTON
LIEUTENANT HAttELL,. COMMANDANT Os CADETS (SITTING).
FIRST ROW LEFT TO RIGHT) -CAPTAIN ALLAN TUKEY. CAPTAIN AND ORDNANCB OFFICER JOSEPH
NASH. MAJOR CHARTS HOTFERT. MAJOR UEORUB GEIB. C.VPTA1N ROBERT M'CAOUC.
HKt'OND ROW-CAPTAINS CHEdTKR N I KM AN. CLARENCE PATTON, ALFRED KENNEDY. CHANDLER TRIMBLE. MILTON WEEKS. LUMIR BUREPH. CALVIN UAVISwIlGO HEYN.
THIRD ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) FIR8T LIEI'TENANT AND ADJUTANT CLAUDE SHRUM; FIRST LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT EDWARD BURNHAM. FIRST LIEUTENANT AND ADJU TANT
PHILIP PAYNE. FIR?T LIEUTENANTS JOSEPH CARNABY. VERNON MAGNET. HUGH MIUJA. CLARJENCFJ ALLEN AND CLARENCE WAiBERG. .vr.Du.,.r.
FOURTH ROW t LEFT TO KIUHT)ECOND LIEUTENANTS ROBERT F1NLET. LEON NELSON. JOHN CUT RIGHT. FRED FERNALD, RICHARD BARNES, JAMES M ALLI3TER AND PHILIP
TOPROW (LEFT TO RIGIITJ-SECONU LIEUTENA-N'ia CUAXULEi UUDklON. LEONARD HOFFMAN. FIRST LIEUTENANTS STANLEY BERANEK, STL' ART GOULD. GEORGE SLGAitMAN.
Milliner's Pursuit of Secret
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thin which Insulated each sheet of th i
transformer cor from Its nntghbor. If
these sheets were allowed to form a con
tinuous body of metal the rapid magnetisa
tion and demagnetization of th core
would set up "eddy currents" of electricity,
iu the core Itvelf which would entirely de
moralize the action of the coll and sub
ject the machine to overheating. . v
Wound upon the cot will be twenty-oniejk
turns of strap copper, which may be called,
a wire, hut which Is more properly
flixlble buss bar This big copper condue
tor will carry the heavy volume of current
which is to pour through the primary at
the low voltage from tranaformatlon lnt
lh high frequency current of 100,000 volt,
tin tin secondary winding will be nier
than lO.OhO turns of No. 20 copper wire.
This secondary winding. If streuihed eut,
would reach a distance of approximately ,
tn miles. )
A voltage of lOOOuO Is net to he bandl4
T.Hh th Indifferent care ef an ordinary
power oircult. The transformer I to be
Immersed in oil for the purpose of giving ..
additional arcurlty in Insulation and keeP
down th tempeiV'jr while In operations.
The completed tiformer will welgU bJ
twtea a.T'it) and I, 'WO pounds. ,