THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25, 1917.
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Music, Art and Drama
MUSIC
'WILL SINO FOR THE Y. W
C. A. FUND.
By HENRIETTA M. REES.
N' his interesting lecture the
other day hefore the Fine
Arts society and the
Drama league, Granville
Rarker defined art as that
little extra individual touch
which a person gives to any work he
niay do through which he expresses
his joy of living and pleasure in doing
the work. How it would illuminate
the work of many a conscientious
musical worker to keep this con
stantly in mind; how it would trans
form many a student's drudgery if he
approached his study in a different
state of mind, realizing that it was
not a duty alone, and not leaving anv
part of it until his work was a pleas
ure to himself as he did it, and he
could really express his joy of living
through it. But the touch of art pre
supposes intelligence and skill. Work
can't he a pleasure unless it is well
done, nor can one find joy to express
in it otherwise. The trouble with
most musical work is that it is not
done well enough, and that often just
when we get the different parts or the
whole of our work almost to the point
where the individual touch may enter
in, and make it our own we think it
is finished and leave it. There would
be more art in the world in the re
sults of every sort of labor if there
were less superficiality in the work
itself. . -
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Memories of the Mendelssohn
Choir concert in connection with the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra of
last Monday evening keep returning
to the mind and will remain long in
the minds of many who were present.
There were so many excellencies
about it. One could almost have filled
an entire edition of the paper the next
day in telling about them. The work
of the soprano section of the choir,
constantly alert and artistic, in which
Mrs. Kelly plays such a star part,
which never failed to respond when
wanted and now sang above the rest
of the choir in a beautiful melodic
strain or rose to brilliant dramatic ef
fects with impressive results; the
men's section which though somewhat
smaller than in some previous years,
excelled in quality of tone, and sur
prised by its versatility of expression;
the sensitiveness of the Choir, tone,
color and mood pictures which it at
tains, and the many characteristic
touches which it brings out in each
number reflect the greatest credit upon
conductor and singers alike. It makes
Omaha people able to say that our
Mendelssohn Choir does solo work,
for it is not many voices that we hear,
but the one voice of the Choir like
that of a great instrument. The new
version of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," made by Mr. Kelly for his Com
' munity singing ill Chicago and since
. adopted as the one authorized version
by the Music division of the Library
of Congress, Washington, D. C, was
most interesting, and makes it a real
national anthem much more singable,
and dignified than formerly. The or
chestra seemed larger than when it
was here last year, and both with the
Choir and in its separate numbers
i;avo t'.ie greatest satisfaction. They
also seem to play with greater fas
cination at each hearing and are
always cordially welcomed back again.
The executive board of the Tues
day Morning Musical club proposes
that the constitution and bylaws shall
be amended at the annual meeting,
April 3, and desires to announce by
way of explanation that, in order to
simplify and avoid confusion and put
all members on a level footing, mem
bership for the following year shall
be of two classes only student and
active active membership not mean
. ing active in a musical sense, as in
former years, but active in that all
members shall have all the rights and
privileges of the club. Men as well as
women are eligible. Boys as well as
girls are urged to become members
of the student class. The annual dues
of student members will be $2; active
members, $6.
A pianist friend in speaking of the
three classics arranged by Godowsky
and played by him at his recent re
' cital said, "He calls them free ar
I rangements, and then makes them
' so difficult that they are free for no
Ibody else but himself, and the very
few others who can play them."
(Whether it was a more delightful
concert than any other Godowsky has
I ever given here, or we were more in
the mood for it, the writer has never
enjoyed the work of this great pianist
as much as last Tuesday.
In Philadelphia recently the sale of
I a book entitled "8,017 Birth and Death
Dates of Living and Dead Musicians"
to J. V. Morgan, the financier, was
announced. The compiler of the rec
ord, said to be the only one of its
kind in the world; was John Towers,
.who spent ten years in preparing it.
Towers, a veteran singing teacher of
' Philadelphia, who is 82 years old, said
he can retire on the sum he received
.' for the volume.
Boston, at its symphony concerts of
last week, listened to music of the
I suite assembled by Mr. Busoni from
his incidental music to Gozzi's Chi
'nese. play of "Turandot." Busoni is
,knoton all over the world as a pianist
of remarkable technical and mental
power, and a virtuoso of a distinctive
imagination, but this was one of the
first times in Boston, or, in fact,, ac
cording to the Boston Transcript, in
.ail America, when he has been heard
las a composer. This suite was spoken
f of as both singular and stimulating by
' H. T. Parker, the versatile critic.
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The other day we heard that a cer
tain mother 'just absolutely made her
children read every musical editorial
in The Bee. How evidently the poor
children must enjoy them.
Under the auspices of the Chicago
Symphony orchestra and the general
musical direction of Frederick Stock,
the conductor of the orchestra, many
of the foremoat choral organizations
of that city have banded together for
the purpose of a choral festival to be
given in the Auditorium, Chicago, dur
ing the week of April 23. The or
chestra the normal membership of
'winch is ninety will be enlarged to
:150 players, and the choral organi
zations to participate are the Apollo
Musical club, the Chicago Mendels-
Musical Calendar
February 27, Louise Shadduck
Zabriskie and Edith L. Wagoner,
first annual Sonata recital. First
Christian church. Twenty-sixth
and Harney streets, 8:15 p. m.
February 28, Mme. Charlotte Lund,
soprano, in song recital, Y. W.
C. A. auditorium, 8:15 p. m.
March 3, Marguerite Melville Lisz
niewski, piano recital for Brown
ell Hall building fund, Brownell
Hall, at 8 p. m.
March 6, Tuesday Morning Musi
cal club present Pablo Casals,
violoncellist, and Susan Metcalfe
Casals, soprano, in joint recital at
the Brandeis theater, 8:15 p. m.
sohn club (of both of which organi
zations Harrison M. Wild is conduc
tor), the Philharmonic society, O.
Gordon Erickson, conductor; the
Swedish Choral club, Edgar Nelson,
conductor: the American Choral so
ciety, Daniel Protheroe, conductor;
the Chicago Singerverein, William
Boeppler, conductor, and 200 boys
from the Oak Park Forest (Chicago)
High school, O. Gordon Erickson,
conductor. The choral and instru
mental ensemble will total. 1,000.
Gustav Mahler's eighth symphony
known in musical circles as "the
symphony of a thousand" will be
the feature of, and the reason for,
the festival. It will have three pres
entations, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evenings. Wednesday even
ing a miscellaneous program will be
given, and on Friday evening an all
Wagner program.
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QHARLOTXS XU-MD
Movie Inn Becomes More
Popular With Each Week
The Movie Inn at Brandeis stores
is proving more popular than the
management had any idea it would
when it was first conceived. Visitors
to the auto show this week will no
doubt be pleased at the opportunity
to eat where they can at the same
time view the pictures on the walls
of practically all the famous screen
stars.
Omaha Musical Notes
A muiloal service will be given thle aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock at All Saints' Bplicopal
church, Twenty-sixth and Dewey avenue, by
the church choir, under J. H. Bimtn, or
ganist and director of musto. Thia noted
choir wilt alng Part II of "Penltenoe, Par
don and Peace," a Lenten cantata by Maun
der, the Magnt float from the oelebrated
Sun ford aervlot In B flat, and a beautiful
Vesper eon by Cowen, "Evening Brings Ue
Home." Charles Haveratock and George
Cempton . will each contribute a solo.
Louise Shadduck Zabriskie, violinist, and
Edith It. Wagoner, pianist, at their first an
nual sonata program given Tuesday even
ing, February ST, at the First Christian
churoh, Twenty -sixth and Harney streets, at
8:15 p. m., will play three Important sonatas.
These are the Caesar Franok Sonata In A
minor, consisting of four movements, Allegro
ben moderate Allegro, Beoltatlve-Fantasla
and Allegretto pooo mosso ; Sonata In D
opus 12 No. 1, by Beethoven, containing an
Allegro con brio, Theme with Variations
I, II, III, IV, Rondo and Allegro. Sonata
No. 2 In B minor, by Emll Sjogren, made up
of Allegretto Moderato, Allegro Sohersando,
TranqulHo, and Con Fuoco. Each sonata le
of a distinct type and the recital promises
much of Interest, Tickets on sale at all
mudc stores.
A meeting of the Omaha Clef club will
be held In the public library building on
the evening of Monday, February 26, at 8
o'clock.
Invitations have been Issued for a recital
by Miss Gertrude Weeth, pianist, pupil of
Miss Eleanor Rents, assisted by Miss Ruth
Ganson, contralto, on Sunday afternoon,
February 25, at 4 o'clock at Metropolitan
club house. Miss Weeth is known among
her friends as a talented pianist of more than
customary attainments, and Miss Oatison la
a popular singer.
Marguerite Melville Ltsznlewska, at her
piano recital, Saturday evening, March 8, at
8 o'clock, will play the Beethoven Sonata
op. Ill In Its entirety, the ever welcome
Schuamann Fantasle Stucke, by Schumann,
a group from Choppln containing the F ma
jor Ballade, C sharp minor Bcherso, and two
smaller numbers, and the Llebestraum, by
Liszt, and Concert Etude In G flat, by
Moazkowskl.
The Tuesday Morning Musical club will
present Pablo Casals, violin 'cellist, assisted
by SuBan Metcalfe Casals, soprano, In re
cital at. the Brandeis theater on Tuesday
evening, March 6, at 8:1ft o'clock. Of Pablo
Casals' work as an artist, there can be
no two opinions If one may judge from the
praise heaped upon the Spanish 'cellist In
America. The enthusiasm he has aroused
has been nothing short of extraordinary.
People have flocked to hear him as they
flocked to hear Pattl In her prime, and as
they flocked to hear the great Paganlnl.
The most enthusiastic tributes of all have
come from his fellow artists, who are
unanimous in according him the premier
place. "He Is the greatest living artist
who draws a bow," said Frits Krelsler, re
cently. This genius of the violoncello, was born
In Vendrell, Spain, In 1878, His achieve
ments on the continent and in Great Britain
have been of a character that plaaes him
quite In a class by himself among masters
of his Instrument. In 1011, the French gov
ernment bestowed upon him the Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
Susan Metcalfe Casals has also won many
tributes from the press, among them being
the following, from the Baltimore Amerl
can: "There Is a flutelike sweetness about
her tones, of great tenderness and beauty,
and she Is able to sing with that absence
of effort which Is one of the rarest and
most welcome characteristics of genuine
artistry."
Paul Relmer's engagement to sing at the
Metropolitan clubhouse this afternoon has
been cancelled.
The social committee of the Toung Wom
en's Christian association presents Madame
Charlotte Lund in concert at the Young
Women's Christian association auditorium
Wednesday evening, February 28 at 8:16.
Although of Norwegian parentage, a scion
of a famous family, being a grandnlece of
Ole Bull and a relative of Edward Grieg,
Mme. Lund Is, nevertheless. Intensely loyal
to America and was the first singer to give
a concert of solely American composers In
New York City. Mme. Lund has appeared
in grand opera In Rome singing Mart a,
Ned da, Marguerite and Santusza and many
other roles. Her repertoire Is extensive and
rovers the French as well as German, Italian
and Scandinavian schools. Her program here
will hold two Bongs of special Interest, "Bird
of the Wilderness," voted the best song
written In America recently, Horsmann Is
the composer, and the words are by the
famous Tagore, The other, "I Sent My Soul
Through the Invisible," from the Persian
Garden.
A bulletin of information from the depart
ment of music of Columbia university for
1917-1118 baa been received. The depart
ment of music In this college was established
ISK6 by means of the Robert Center Fund
for Instruction in Music, an endowment pre
een ted to the university by Mrs. Mary E.
Ludlow, in memory of her son, the late
Robert Center. A large library. Including
the entire library of the late Anton Seldl,
and complete works of many of the great
est composers Is connected with this de
partment end courses of Instruction are
offered In musical history and all theoretical
branches, and the several courses of music
may be counted toward degrees.
Henry O. Cox gave a lecture on the arm
phony orchestra before the music depart
ment of the Omaha Woman's club last
Thursday. Mr. Cox Illustrated his talk by
a large chart, tracing the development of
the various Instruments, and of their Im
portance In the orchestra. A large audi
ence was present.
A meeting of the Symposia society will be
held at the home of Miss Dollle Lewis, on
Sunday, February 26. Miss Mary Wood will
lecture before the club. She will touch both
on musical and literary lines. Miss Wood, a
soprano, studied abroad under the personal
Instruction of Madame Marches!, The Sym
posia, a society of twenty young women who
study both music and literature, plans many
meetings of this Interesting nature. Many
of Omaha's prominent teachers hava been
booked for lectures and recitals.
Among the new musical compositions re
cently published by Clayton V, Summv,
Chicago, are two books of high school trios,
by Laura Rountree Smith and H. J. Storer;
the first for two sopranos and alto and the
second for soprano, alto and bass; a To
Deum In E flat for congregational use, by
Stanley R. Avery; an organ "Scherso," by
the same composer, and a song, "Vision
Fugitive," by Gladys Parvls.
Leaflets announcing the publication of
'Kitty Cheatham, Her Book," and twenty
Ave bird songs for children, by W. B. Olds,
by O. Schlrmer, New York, have been re
ceived. A number of Johanna Anderson's voice
pupils took part In a recital held In her
studio, No. 18 Wead building, last Raturday
afternoon. This recital was somewhat out
of the ordinary. In that It consisted entirely
of operatic arias, sung In respective places
as the stories of the operas were told. The
following operas were presented: "Martha,"
by Etta Toung; "Don Carlos," Dorothy Mc
Allister; "Faust," Irene Hlnman and Thyra
Johanson; "Lucresla Borgia," Avis Roberts;
"Carmen," Rose Whalen and Johanna An
derson; "Haensell and Gretel," Florence
Richardson. Ethel Morris, accompanist.
The following young people, pupils of
Mme. Baetens, will be heard In a piano re
cital on Thursday evening: Misses Veta Pad
dock. Neda Klger, Helen Robinson, Mildred
Smith, Messrs. M, Kahn, Philip Berg, assist
ed by Solomon Wlntroub, Misses Mildred
Bliss and Mildred Farrel, pupils of Mr.
Frank Maoh, violinist. Also Misses May
Kelly, Rena Swanson, pupils of Patrick
O'Nell. Accompanists, Misses Anna Wln
troub Bamford... Margaret Bliss,, Gladys
Munson.
A number of pleasant music surprises are
being prepared by Miss Delone for her Palm
Sunday concert at the Fontenelle. A spe
cial arrangement of "The Palms" for three
harps as an accompaniment to the song
by Faure, will be among the numbers pre
sented. The occasion promises to be a
feast of harp muslo, songs and appropriate
reading with harp accompaniment.
Little Miss Maria Virginia Zlmballst
made her debut on the "world-stage" two
and a half years ago, her first performance
being vooal. In making her debut, she
deducted 8150,000 from the bank account
of her illustrious parents, for somehow she
appeared to be of more Importance to her
famous prima donna mother. Alma Giuck,
and her violin virtuoso father, Efrem Zlm
ballst, than this paltry sum. Upon their
baby daughter's appearance they cancelled
concert engagements amounting to 8160,000.
Fortunate indeed is this baby, for music
will surround the little one's life from the
very beginning. The lullabys her mother
sings to her, people are willing to pay 86
to hear. But science has brought these
joys within the reach of other babies;
thanks to the phonograph and player
piano, the songs of her mother and the
artlstto violin playing of her father can
easily be listened to In every home. Here
after, let no man with a family be despond
ent, I In the future, In figuring our assets,
let us count the -number of our children
and multiply the sum by 1160,000, for, for
sooth, are our children not worth as much
as anyone's children?
Mrs, Frances B3. Clark, who Is at the
head of the educational department of the
Victor Talking Machine company, was in
Omaha Friday on her way to Lincoln to
lecture before the United States government
rural conference. In session there this week.
The government Is holding three of these
oonferenceB, at Lincoln, Neb., Rockhlll, N.
C, and Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Marie French, for many years a
pupil of Walter B. Graham, at present
soprano soloist at the First Baptist churoh,
will go to Red Oak, la., February 26, to sing
the soprano role In Hayden's "Creation."
Mr. Lynn Sackett, also one of Mr. Gra
ham's oldest pupils, will go to Red Oak
March 1 to ake charge of the conserva
tory at that place. He is now choir direc
tor at the Lowe Avenue Presbyterian churrh
and tenor soloist at Temple Israel. Mr.
Sackett will assist Miss Loretta Delone,
harpist, at the concert at the Hote Fon
tenelle Palm Sunday.
A class for the study and practice of the
German, French and Italian languages will
meet each Saturday evening from 7:30 to 8
at Annie Glasgow's studio in the Karbach
block. A study room wilt be at every stu
dent's disposition every day of the week
from 6 till 8 p. m. at 220 Brandeis theater
building.
A notable event of the music season will
be the symphony concert to be given at the
Auditorium, Friday night, March SO, by thr
New York Symphony orchestra, of which
Walter Dam rose h Is conductor. As soloist
Mr, Uamrosch will have the famous Rus
sian violinist, Efrem Zlmballst,-who, though
young In years, already has climbed to the
top rung in the ladder or musical fame.
Pupils of Florence Easier-Palmer will
meet next ' Wednesday evening, February
88, In her studio to organise a study club.
They expect to study different composi
tions, the lives of the composers' and read
current musical events.
George Com p ton presented a number of
his pupils In a song recital at his home
last Wednesday evening. Those participat
ing were Mrs. F. D. McGuckin, Mrs. Elmer
Nelson, Miss Mildred Lofgren, Miss Lillian
Johnson and Messrs. Lawrence O'Connor,
Robert Womack and Gordon Wegeworth,
The Junior pupils of Mrs. Mary Eggle
ston were heard In recital at the home of
Mrs. George K. Thompson, 4834 Farnam
street, Thursday afternoon. Those taking
part were Joseph Lawrence, Harriet Binder,
Lillian Wears, Jannet Wears, Alice Gal wicks,
Wylle Thompson, Margaret Price and Irene
Van Dahl.
Referring to the two pluno recitals given
by Alice Virginia Davls-Berryman and Cecil
Berryman before the Ladles' Muslo club of
Topeka, Kan., February 14, the Topeka
State Journal said In its notice: "They are
young, enthusiastic and responsive musi
cians with tine musical Ideas, and Mr.
Berryman Is not only a pianist, but also a
composer." The Topeka Capital said: "So
nearly alike are Mr. and Mrs. Berryman In
their technical training that many times
It seemed as if only one piano was being
used."
New Work of Art in Our Midst
By GEORGE BARKER.
A'TF.RIXG the quiet atmo-
El sphere of the recently coiu
I pleted Presbyterian church
one is inspired wnn such
feelings as he might expe
rience in the presence of
mountains or the ocean. The soft
warm light which falls from the
stately windows gives a fascinating
richness and mystery to the purely
Gothic interior. The effect is strongly
conducive to deep thought and con
tent and the beholder is awakened to
his finest sensibilities, feeling himself
within the impressive realm of a mas
ter orW which expresses something
of the grandeur of the ever-present
Eternal. To the artist the effect is
most satisfying and his first impres
sion is only deepened by further ac
quaintance. Indeed, this noble struc
ture would seem to be an excellent
addition to our architectural wealth.
The amateur picture buyer has but
little to guide him in his purchases ex
cept the reputation of the artst whose
work he seeks. Should a worthy
painting happen to be the work of an
artist without laurels the picture buyer
often feels that he must smother his
desire to possess it If the artist in
volved displays a list of honors an
inch long he is reputed "good" and
the buyer considers himself fairly
safe in his venture; if the list is three
inches long the artist is reputed "very
good" and the buyer feels himself
quite removed from the zone of dan
ger, while if the painter exhibits six
inches or more of awards, medals and
prizes he is reputed "excellent," infal
lible indeed, and the buyer dismisses
all further inqu.iry from his mind,
considering himself immune from er
ror. Now where the picture buyet
fails is in supposing that because an
artist is a medal man that everything
coming from his brush is conse
quently good. Nothing could be far
ther from the truth. One might as
well expect to find members of a fam
ily evenly matched in physical and
mental attributes. And so the pic
ture buyer is often unknowingly at
sea.
J. Laurie Wallace will leave about
March 1 for an extended trip east,
where he will visit the art centers of
the country, stopping in Minneapolis
long enough to execute a few impor
tant commissions.
Miss Gay Williams, student at the
Chicago Art institute, has been at
home for the last week recovering
from a slight illness, which may keep
her from her work for another week.
She expects to return just so soon
as she will have recovered.
The exhibiting members of the
Omaha Art Gild met informally at
the residence of their treasurer on
Saturday evening. Impromptu talks
on various branches of art were made
by several of the members. Mr. Wal
lace, art director of the Gild, gave
a spirited discourse on modern por
trait painting, illustrating his points
with many fine reproductions from
the work of Sargent, Zouloago, Zorn
and others. Music and other diver
sions filled out the evening.
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Observations on Art.
It is plain to the observer of pic
tures that there are as many denom
inations in art as there are in religion.
Each brings some beauty from na
ture to the great clearing house of
art knowledge. One may bring color
and light, a second may bring form
and detail, yet another quality. When
a painter appears who belongs to no
particular school, but who expresses
the noblest qualities of all the schools
in a message which is essentially his
own, he wins the admiration of his
fellow artists, which is more to him
than the approval of the million.
Of the various important depart
ments of painting, the one which re
quires the greatest susceptibility to
truth, together with the most thor
ough mastery of art, is portrait paint
ing. The great painters in all ages
have at one time or another given
their attention to portrait work. No
other branch of art requires so much
knowledge and skill, and since the
advent of the camera the demands
upon the portrait painter have been
even more exacting.
One may notice that in our exhibi
tions the landscapes and idealistic
paintings greatly outnumber the por
traits. One reason for this is that it
takes less ability to paint a creditable
landscape. For example, if a land
scape painter, on account of his ina
bility to draw truthfully, should add
a few feet to the height of a tree, or
set it forward or backward a hundred
yards; or if he should lift a hill a
thousand feet or more, or a distant
cloud a mile or two higher in the
sky, no one would be the wiser. Few,
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if any, would notice how far he had
strayed from the truth. In fact, the
landscape might even appear to bet
ter advantage. And so with color.
Gross exaggerations will be toler
ated. But if a portrait painter should
add even a thirty-second of an inch
to the end of a sitter's nose, or the
oft side of a cheek; or if he should
turn the pupil of an eye so much as a
hair's breadth to the right or left, he
would lose the finer character of his
subject, whose acquaintances would
he up in arms at once. Besides,
landscape work requires fewer facili
ties and consequently less capital.
The out-of-doors being the landscap
ist's workshop, even a studio is not
always necessary. Many a good
landscape has been painted in the
poor, artist's bed room. Then, too,
landscapes have a universal market,
unlike portraits, which are usually
purchased only by relatives of the
subject.
Woman's Commercial Club !
Is Discussed Friday Night;
Plans for a Woman's Commercial j
club were discussed Friday evening :
at a meeting of twenty-five business j
women held in Miss Kathcrine Wor-
ley's office in the Omaha National
bank building. Another meeting will
be held Monday evening in Miss lone
C. Duffy's office in the Van Sant col
lege rooms.
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Benefit Brownell Hall Building Fund
BROWNELL HALL
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Tlokiti 11.00, at Hoape'c
Stud.nte Half Price.
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AND SOCIAL SERVICE."
A GIFT UNSURPASSED.
Three Great Secrete of Musical Pedagogy
Develop Beauty of Expreaeion Challeng
ing Comparison.
Walter B. Graham
Baritone
Studio, Suite 1 and 2 Wead Bldg.
Phone Red 4444
LENTEN MUSICALS
at the Fontenelle, by '
LORETTA DE LONE
Trio of Harpe Tenor Solo
PALM SUNDAY EVENING
Tlekete at Owl Drug Co.,
Hoape'e and Harp Studio.
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ALICE MACKENZIE
TEACHER OF SINGING.
Pupil from the Konigliche Koneerva
toriura von Leipzig, Germany.
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Apt. 14.
2511 Harney.
The Maewood.
Omaha Streets and Parks
Get Very Good Rating
Omaha has 4.12 miles of streets per
l,fl(H) population and is sixth of a list
of cities of more than 100,000 popula
tion, according to a survey received
by City Engineer Bruce.
The park acreage of this city is 12.34
acres per 1,000 population, being
.'Mirth in the list mentioned.
The area of Greater Omaha is
thirty-one and one-half square miles.
Tries to Get Pension
Through Mandamus Suit
Mrs. Mary Blake, widow of the late
George Blake, a retired member of
the city fire department, who died
June 26 last, has brought mandamus
action in district court in an effort to
make the city pay her her husband's
pension. Mayor Dahlman and the
city commissioners are named defend
ants in the suit.
PATRICK O'NEIL .
TENOR
Breath Control Voice Placing
Studio 613-614 Karbach Block
16th and Douglaa Sts.
Phone Douglaa 7780
Florence Basler-Palmer
VOICE CULTURE
Coaching in German and Italian Songa
Pupila prepared for concert and church
Poaittona Voice Hearlnga Free.
Studio, 1807 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
Phone Douglaa 8684.
VERNON C. BENNETT
Concert Organist, Pianist and
Teacher
NEW STUDIOS
436-437-438 Rose Bldg.,
Sixteenth and Farnam Sts
Tyler 2467J.
Florence M. Rhoades
VOICE AND PIANO
Studio 614 MeCague Bldg.
JEAN GILBERT JONES
PIANO
1804 Farnam St.
DAVIDGE BLOCK
(Pupil of Wager Swayne)
International Academy of
Music
VIOLIN INSTRUCTION
Lyric Bldg.
The Charm
of the
Haddorf f Player-Piano
Is not merely that it can reproduce the per
formances of artists, but that it enables
you to actually Play the Piano with the
same pleasurable sensation as playing by
hand.
An extensive line of Pianos and Player
PianoaJ to choose from at most liberal
terms.
SPECIAL!
100PLAYER
ROLLS
"GLORIOUS"
Souse Song
SATURDAY
ONLY
39 CenU
Only On to a
Customer.
Doug.
4240
Columbia Grafonolas, Record and Supplies
Haddorf f Music House
Factory Store, 1807 Farnam Street.
"WATCH OUR WINDOWS"
1 Doug.
4240
If
Marguerite Melville Liszniewska
.A protegee of the late William,
Steinway and assistant teaeher to
Leschetezky, the world's greatest
piano teacher, who appears at
Brownell Hall on March the 3d, is
one of the few celebrated Ameri
cans who achieved brilliant tri
umphs in the musical Capitols of
Europe.
This gifted American artist, who
toured Germany, Russia, England,
Scandinavia, Switzerland and Hol
t land, has been placed in the fore
most Tanks of living pianists by
musical critics and connoisseurs in
this country and abroad and we
recommend that all teachers, stud
ents and lovers of music will at
tend her recital.
Marguerite Melville Liszniew
ska is not only one of the great
est living pianists, but ia also a
composer of rare ability, having
been admitted into the Royal Mas
terachool for Comnosition in Ber
lin. Like Paderewski, Rosenthal, J
Hofmann. Bloomfield. Zeisler.
Joseffy and many other eminent musical artists, Marguerite Mel
ville Liszniewska prefers and uses the
STEINWAY
the standard piano of the world. The piano dearest to the heart
of the greatest living artists nad scientists.
A complete line of these famous instruments can always be
seen at our warerooms, where visitors, as well as intending pur
chasers, are welcome.
Beautiful Mahogany Uprights. ,. .$550 and Up
Art Finish Grands $825 and Up
Easy Payments If Desired,
For Free Catalogue, Portraits of Musical Celebrities, Prices and
Terms, Address
Schmoller & Mueller
PIANO COMPANY
Exclusive State RoprosontatiTes for Nsbraeka and Western Iowa.
1311-13 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
Effie Steen Kittelson
ART OF EXPRESSION
Technique of the Speaking Voice,
Fhyaleal Culture, Pantomime.
Dramatic Art
811 Balrd Bldg., 1702 Douglas Street
Phone Trier HIS
ANNIE E. GLASGOW
VOICE CULTURE AND PIANO
Studio SOS Karbach Block
200 South 16th St. Phone Red 18S.
CORINNE PAULSON
PIANI8TE AND TEACHER OF PIANO
Stndiot Roomt 4 and S. Ba14r.K6 Bik.,
20th and Farnam 8t.
Retldne Telephone, Harney 2786.
Arlington Block, 1511 H Dodet St.
Telephone Tyler 2674
GOODWAL DICKERMAN
Vofea Placing, Building and Ton Pro
duction Singing and Speaking Volee.
Director Dickerman School of Voice,
Acting and Exp reunion
Omaha, Neb.
WHEN PEOPLE ARE WILLING
TO PAY MORE MONEY FOR THE
PIANO
. THAN FOR ANY OTHER
PIANO IN THE WORLD, THE
EVIDENCE IS PLAIN THAT ."
THEY DEEM IT THE BEST IN
THE WORLD.
A. HOSPE COMPANY
1513-1515 Douglas St.
AUTO SHOW VISITORS: You Are Cordially Invited to
Visit Our Art Department Finest in the West.