THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. JANUARY 30, 1921.
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By HENRIETTA M. REES.
ONE OF the greatest things
which I have learned from the
study of music, is the impor
tance of beauty. Music is not mu
sic without it, and there is no other
study with which I am familiar
which SO amolv illustrates the traof-
ly of "good enough." The very
words belie their meaning, for they
admit they are not the best. And
nine times out of 10 the difference
between the two is iouhd in the mat
ter of, beauty.
Beauty is only found in the best.
It is not found in the "good
enough" of any one. Music 'which
is wrirten the best is the most beau
tiful to perform, music when it is
performed the best is more beauti
ful to hear than that which is not,
and the greatest development for
any of the disciples of music is
. gamed by putting one's best efforts
into studying the best.
To study music this way costs so
much more that many people are
not willing to pay the price. Not
financial cost, for that is a small
part of it. But it costs so much
more in personal effort, in time,
thought, constant striving toward
the ideal, that many give up, when
the goal is almost won, 'with "good
enough."
The study of music achieves its
truest purpose when it is approach
ed as a study of beauty. We mav
not all have the greatest talent, the
best natural voices or the most
adaptable hands for practical per
formance of it, but we 'may all
search to interpret or understand
its beauties, and gain something for
ourselves thereby.
1 Music which has beauty the
dominant note of its 'expression . is
the best music, and the kind which
lives. In the sorting or every cen
tury it 'is the most beautiful tonal
expression of the time that is treas
ured, while its "puzzle canons,"
having fulfilled a certain purpose as
scaffolding, are torn down and
thrown away. , '
, Beauty is not everything in music
by any means. It is only that which
( makes it worth while. But music- is
merely a reflection of life and after
all aren't the . truths of everything
merely the means at hand through
which we can find the joy of living?
At any rate, beauty in music is the
important part, so is it not worth
studying from that standpoint?
Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of the
greatest musicians of the present
fiay, will appear in recital at the
Brandeis theater Thursday evening,
February 3, at o'clock, under
the auspices of the Tuesday Musi
cal club. Mr. Rachmaninoff has won,
ani enviable place as a' composer,
orchestral conductor and pianist,
and it is in the role of pianist that fie
. will appear in Omaha. Many of his
compositions fojr piano are familiar
to Omaha musicians, and it will be
remembered that the Minneapolis
Symphony orchestra presented one
of his symphonies as the principal
Timber at a recent Omaha appear
ance. Whenever Mr. Rachmaninoff
has played he has been acclaimed
with the greatest enthusiasm. His
jrcffam for Thursday night:
1 Sftnata No.
.Mezart
Tama con variations
Menuetto .,
Rondo' alia Turca
!. Pnplllons. . .; k
3. a Ballade .
b) Valse, E-flat major..
Schumann
. . . .Chopin
....Chopin
.. Chopin
. . . .Chopin
vet uarcaroite
d) Vale. O-flat major..
4. if 1'olictunelle
(b) Barcarolle
Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff
5. Rhapaodie Kspagnole.
.. Liszt
Thp musical nancrc arf ctill full
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of the appointment of Miss Mary
Garden, as director of the Chicago
Opera association. George Miller
Spangler, has been appointed the
new business manager, to succeed
Herbert M. Johnson. r. Spangler,
according to reports, has long-been
active in Chicago directing civic bet
terment enterprises. Miss Garden
will not receive other compensation
than for her singing during the sea
son of 1921 and 1922. She plans to
give fewer operas, and these oftener.
and is ambitious to wipe out the
$300,000 deficit, which has been the
usual result of a season's activities.
"Many Omaha friends of Mrs.
Richard B. Berentsen, who was
formerly Miss' Ella Ethel Free, at
one time a leading pianist of this
city, will learn with regret that she
has disappeared frc.n her home at
Mt v Vernon, N.r Y., January
17, and has not been found. Mrs.
Berentson has been . undergoing
treatment at a private sanitarium in
Hartford for two years? and had re
turned to her home the week prior
to her departure. Mrs. Berentsen
has tjo childen, who are with her
husband's sister. Mr. Berentsen is
a wealthy rug manufacturer of New
York City.' -
A festal Evensong will be given at
Kountze Memorial church Sunday
evening, January 30 at 8 'o'clock.
The program will include organ solos
by Mr. Sand, ay trio sung by Miss
Myrtle Frances Wyatt, Mr. Swnnson
and Mr. Helgren, and special an
thems with quartet and chorus. The
quartet includes Miss , Wyatt, so
prano; Miss Clark, contralto; Mr.
Helgren, tenor, and Mr. Swanson,
bass. Mr. AJbert Sand is . organist
and Mr- John ,S. Helgren, director.
E. M. Jones gave a pupil's piano
recital on Friday evening , at his
home. 3848 Hamilton street The
program was given by some of his
younger pupils. Those taking part
were: Duane Hutchinson, Frances
Pschek, Bessie Haspel, Dorothy Long,
Jeanette Dreibus, Sarah Levine,
Olia Levine, Arthur Goldstein,
Btssie Ooldberg, Ted Sherdeman,
Florence Mulnnger. Eileen Dreibus,
Dorothy Carlson, Dorothy Hunter,
Lea Kosenblatt, Anna Linsman,
Bessio Harwlck, Waunita Robeck,
Philip Schultz, Donald Davis, Greta
Davis, Ida Mlnkin, Dorothy Dawson,
Eva Berg.
An enjoyable piano recital was
given by the advanceJ pupils of
Miss Florence E. Peake at her home
on South Thirty-third street, Sat
urday afternoon, January 15, at
which 22 numbers were rendered.
Yesterday her Junior pupils' recital
was held. An Interesting feature of
the latter was th close attention
of the diminutive audience each
little performer having brought her
favorite doll.
Miss 'Loretta vDeLone returned
from Chicago where she ppent a few
days, making final arrangements
for the Harpfest to be given here
on March 28. Several concert grand
harps will be sent from Chicago es
pecially for the occasion, . Which
promises to be a classic treat for
Omaha musto lovers.
A New Tork recital of interest to
Omaha .people will be that of Miss
Marie Mikova, pianist, and Maurice
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Kaufman, violinist. Miss Mikova is
I a former Omaha girl, who has b?en
I winning a place for herself in the
', metropolis. She studied In Omaha
with A. M. Borgljum, and is the
daughter of Mr. and r Mrs. Joe
Mik. In addition to a group of
piano Roll, Miss Mikova will present
1 with Mr. Kaufman, Cesar Franck
sonata for violin and piano,, and a
Hhapsodie Hongroiseby Franz Liszt,
the- piano part of which was tran
scribed by Liszt and the violin part
by Joneph Joachim.
The ninth program of the fifth
prize memory contest presented by
Maude Graham Bell of Council
Bluffs took place Friday evening,
January 21. Those taking part
were Ruth Timm, Velma Waterman,
Virginia Davis 'Kautter, . Eleanor
Williamson", Janice , Palm, Eleanor
Johnson, Marion Spetman, Winifred
hTinley, Mary Wallace, Jane -Reed.
Dorothy Spitler. Mary Jane Heiser,
Katherine O'Connor and Phyllis
Wheeler. The final program will bo
given FebVuary 4.
Aurora Borealis
To Be Filmed for
Play of the North
The aurora borealis will be
caught for the screen for, the first
time with the filming of Mefro's big
special production' oi the northern
ice fields, "The Woman Who Went
Away." Alice Lake is enacting the
leading role in the picture, which is
a screen version of John Fleming
Wilson's story, "The Uncharted
Sea." A.
By use of special camera devices,
it is planned to picture night scenes
in the ice fields of the Pacific ocean
such as never before have been at
tempted. ' Under the personal super
vision of Mr. Wilson and George
Elwood Jenks, who prepared the
scenario for the picture both veter
ans of the far Canadian woodW-it
is planned to reproduce , scenic ef
fects that will include giant icebergs,
limitless ice fields, a ship wreck. and
the aurora borealis. v
. Tinted film and a modification of
color photogr?ihy will , be use'd in
obtaining beautiful photographic ef
fects. Much of the action of the
picture occurs in the ice fields, thus
giying an opportunity for original
direction and bizarre camera effects."
NOW
PLAYING
, Mightiest Melodrama the World Has
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; i Witb the World's Greatest Cast: . ; ;. '
ROY STEWART KATHLYN WILLIAMS
MARGUERITE DE LA MQTTE
JOSEPH DOWLING
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COMEDY,
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MORNING
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"HUMORESQUEj:: playing today
"Ah, Black Spawn of a Jackal," Cries Ote
Skinner in "Kismet" as He Drowns Wazir
The submerged player is Hamilton Revelle, famed "handsomestead
ing man." Owing to the fact that Otis Skinner, in his role of Haji; the
beggar of Bagdad, has an old grudge against the matinee idol, we are
allowed to see nothing but the bubble
in, nsvcuv is uuv ui mc mciuucu oi
who aided Mr. Skinner in making the
It opens today at the Rialto theater.
Dempsey Eager to Make
Picture
Jack Dempsey has completed plans
for a five-reel western drama and
js eager to begirt work on it. .This-
he will do if the proposed fight with
Willard in New York March 17. is
called off. The nicture will shnw
Dempsey's rise to the position of
Moon Novelty Prologue
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m.iimmimijMi'"T
GREATEST SkS
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ROLAND'S
METROPOLITAN
QUARTETTE
Reproducing an afternoon aboard the
Overland Limited speeding through '
Wyoming . several years ago. Most
novel quartette prologue ever pre-'
sented in this theater.
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the latter produces while drowning.
me ui'K'iiai stage casi.oi rusmct,
screen version of his famous play,
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will show him on a Colorado ranch
and the last will show him entering
the ring for his fight with' Carpen
tier. Jack Kearns, the champion's
manager, says Dempsey .liimself is'
writing the scenario. The produc
ing company will be known as the
Jack Dempsey Motion Picture com
pany. -
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Motion Picture
Industry Ranks
. Fifth in Country
To the general public who are not
aware of the extensive operations of
the motion' picture industry the fof
lowing statistics will explain why in
6o short-a time it has moved t.p to
the fifth industry in the United
States:
Fifteen thousand regular theaters
showing moving pictures.
Twelve thousand legitimate thea
ters showihg moving pictures exclu
sively. ; - .
Twenty-five ' thousand change
two or three times each week...
Seventy-five per cent change their
program daily. ' ;
j This means that thepe theaters
jneed 365 pictures a year, which will
give you an idea as to the output
. which can be consumed in the Indus
jtiy: ..-.- '
j Daily attendance at picture thea
ters,. 13,000,000.
I Total income of moving' nicture
! theaters in 1919, $750,0OO,0(H). .
' There are, approximately, 390 dif
ferent chains of moving; picture thea
ters in the country.
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the 0uest of Viola Dana at the Metro
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Joseph J. Dowling, famous char
acter actor, plays the role of a gam
bler in "The U. P. Trail", showing
this week at the Moon.
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; Bp Kenn beck
Erich Von Stroheim is expected to
return to Universal City within the
next few days after eight weeks
spent on the rocky coast near Moiit
terey, where he has been , filming
Monte Carlo scenes for his forth
comirtir oroduction. "rtoolish
'Wives." I
That she is engaged to marry a
well-known screen actor is em
phatically denied by Rosemary
Thcby. Varied reports relative to
Miss Theby's engagement have been
circulated, but the film beauty, de
clares that she has never, and never
will be, wedded.
Just 100 years, ago James Feni
more Cooper issued his initial book
and in celebration of the centennial
anniversary of America's great nov
elist, Maurice Toumeur isneleasing
the first of these Leather Stocking
tales to be transferred to the silver
sheet. The story, of course, is "The
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MauthaDoty;
Omaha's Clever
little dancer.
"Humoresque"
sees:
Last of the Mohicans." It is now
making a hit all over tljr country
ami especially with school children
anil "Young Ann'rica."
Douglas Doty has written the
scenario for "Sliatn," by Kliuore
ilarrs, and GciaUliue Bonner, which
Etlie" Clayton will make as a Para
mount picture beginning in January.
Mr, Doty only recently entered the
scenario field after editorial duties
with Century and Cosmopolitan
magazines.
For the first time in two years
Priscilla Dean., is to have a tiew di
rector. Stuart l'nton has been
chosen to wield the megaphone in
Miss Dean's next feature, "False
Colors,", while Ted Browning, who
has been Priscilla's director for two
years, is Coining to New York with
the negatives of "Outside the Law,"
which has just been completed and
in which Miss Dean is starring.
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