THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, JUNE 12. 1921.
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fly HENRIETTA M. REES.
Have you read "Stepplejack?" It
is the autobiography of the late
James Gibbons Huncker, known as
one of the most brilliant writers on
art and music in this and other coun
tries. It eives one a firmer belief in
the standards of the reading public
to know that this book since its pub
. lication a few months ago, has been
one of the best sellers of general
literature, not including fiction. As
Mr. Duffield has said, "one needs a
dictionary on the knee to read it,"
but the reading is well worth the
extra effort it requires of leaining
a few extra words and carrying them
around with the rest of one's vocab
ulary. There are manv interesting bits of
wisdom and ' philosophy throughout
the book, and the write? shows him
self from a delightfully human stand
point. He speaks of his endeavors
to become a pianist, and the part
music played in his life, and why,
even when he did not become a
-professional he found value in the
study of it in the following whim
sical paragraph, which holds in it
volumes of truth: v
"The sad sequel is that with all
my striving -I only atained medi
ocrity as a pianist. Anv young con
servatory misS can outplay me in
Rlib fingering. Yet music is a conso
lation, an anodyne, like religion. I,
keeps off the deadliest beast that
lurks in the jungle of life, the beast
I stand most in fear of ennui. Many
are driven to monotonous labor by
ennui. Its presence is a pathologi
cal symptom. If this be true, then
all animal creation from man to
beetles, is sick in spirit. I've seen
dogs yawn from boredom; yea. even
the flowers droop, weary of lifs.
Art has been my escape, and my na
tive laziness was surmounted by the
terror bred of ennui. Making
money, love, slaying games, are but
so many forms by which to escape
this oppressive monster, and also to
create the illusion of progress."
Musical Notes. .
Mrs. C. W. Axtell. chairman of the
program committee of th Tuesday
wuslcal clut. announces i vraip
Oabrilowttsch, .the distinguished
Russian pianist, has been engaged
for a recital next winter and will be
presented at tho Brandels theater
on Sunday afternoon, February 12,
122. Owln to the fact that Ga
brilowitsch Is a great conductor as
well as a very great pianist and is
now conductor of the Detroit sym
phony orchestra and of necessity has
but a limited time for pianistlc en
gagements Mrs. Axtell feels that the
Tuesday Musical club Is particularly
fortunate in securing mm ror an ap
pearance next February.
To quote from the New York Eve
ning Mail: "Oabrilowitsch la one
of the very few who play always with
an unmistakable Individuality, rais
lr.Er the Dlanoforte above the level
of a mere machine, and making of
It a living organism, completely re
sponsive to their own emotions. The
singing tone drawn by the Russian
suggests the human voice Itself."
Other artists already engaged for
the season of 1921-1922, whose names
have from time to time been an
nounced through the musical column
of The Sunday Bee are: Erika Mo
rini, violinist, who will appear in
recital at the Brandeis theater on
the evening of December 1, 1921;
Relnald Werrenrath, baritone. Jan
uary 19, 1922, and Matzenauer, re
nowned -contralto, who will be pre
sented at the Auditorium, March 24.
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Gyrations of Sun,
Moon and Planets
Shown on Screen
Mother's Prayer Wins
Freedom of Her Boy
Jean P.- Duffield will present a
number of his younger piano pupils
In a recital in the Burgess-Nash au
ditorium next Saturday afternoon,
.Tuna 18. at 4 o'clock. The auditor
ium is located on the fifth floor of
the new building. The puDiic is in
vited to attend. Those participating
will be: Veronica Hoffmann, Arnold
Peter. Bernadette. Hoffmann, Mary
Elizabeth Beaton, Perdita Wherry,
IiUCile Davis, Lenevieve Boyd, Mary
lane Monaghan, Frances Cunning
ham, Evelyn Adler, Theodore Peter,
Gertrude Marsh, Ethel Cunningham,
Beth Cole, Frances Edgerly, Bertha
Van Doran, Merrlam Rau, Martha
Dox, Frederlka Helgren and Edna
Anderson. ' ,
A piano recital Was given by the
pupils of Miss Florence E. Peake
at the Mickel piano rooms Tuesday
evpnine. June 7. in . wnicn ine 101
lowing pupils tooU part: Charles
Lentz, Cecelia Slutzky, Richard Wat
son. Alice Dyhrberg, Sylvia Adams,
raro-Qrot. Wnvmuller. Carl Gettszch
mann, Elizabeth Baker, Gertrude
Irene Welch, Grace Fowler, Boyd
Reitz, Eleanor Bothwell, Paul
Oettszchmann. Chs,rIotte Lenta
Harry Shearer, Adah Allen, Frank
shnnpn. , Marion Cosmey, Bonnie
TiBmire Dowd. Dorothy Boyles, Lil
Han Slutzky, . Caroline Levi. Earl
Humpert, Elizabeth Watson, Elinor
Evans, Kuth Schwager, Doris Peter
son, June Barber, Mema Jtsurne ana
Thelma Burke.
The piano students of Mrs. Rita,
Thomas True win appear in reciiai
at Immanuej Baptist enurcn Satur
day evening, 3une 18. at 8 o'clock.
Velma King, advanced studejit,. will
present the second part of the pro
gram, which, will include numbers
by Chopin, Moszowski MacDowell
and Percy Grainger. Miss Jessie
McDonald, soprano, and Harold
Graham, tenor, will assist on the
program. .
. Vernon C. Bennett presents 10
pupils in organ recital at Temple
Israel, Park avenue and Jackson
street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Those taking part .are Mrs. Fay
Stahl, Stephen Kenchel, jr., Miss
Genevieve Eagan, Herold Hudspeth,
Mrs. Jj. H. Greer, Mrs. J.' W. Rach
man, Mrs. Cecille Smith, Einar An
dreasen, Nell Darnell - Crane and
Miss Loretta Finley. Admission free.
Cecil W. Berryman presents Jean
and Cora Laverty in a piano recital
assisted by Mary Alice Laverty, vio
linist, pupil of Miss Luella Ander
son, Sunday afternoon, June" 12, at
4 o'clock at Mr. Berryman's studio',
400 Barker block, Fifteenth and
Farnam streets.
Walter B. Graham will present the
following -pupils in annual recital
at Hanscom park Methodist church:
Tuesday evening, June 14, first
vear pupils: Itfesdames Teresa Brick,
Julia Casey, Sadie Johnston; Misses
Irene Avers, Katherine Handschuh,
Marion Harding, ' Anna Kuppig,
Katherine North, ; Gertrude Smith,
Edna Thrane: Messrs. Norman Car
Hn, Hart Jenks, ..C. N. Kirkpatrick,
Nathan Levison, Edward Kuppig,
Robert Minford, Vernon Osborne. O.
I Rhoades, Charles Vickery, Har
low Wilcox.
Friday evening, June 17, advanced
pupils: Mesdames N. C. Christen
Ben, Timothy Dinan. Harry Hansen,
E. B. McQuillen, Myrtle Moberly,
Harry1 McCormick, Hiram Salisbury,
Irma Swift Oberreater; Misses Lula
Allen, Erma Engelke, Helen Hoag
land; Messrs. Dr. N. C. Christensen,
Perry -Cruise. Harry Hansen, For
rest Painter, C A. Pixler, Henry
Schneider, Harold Thom.
Wednesday evening, June 22.
there will be a concert by a chorus
of pupils and Hanscom Park Metho
dist choir, with the following solo
tuu; Mia f thel Woodbridgt, so-
Wearing the latest Parisian fashionable gowns. Elsie Ferguson will
prove a big attraction to society women in her latest production, "Sacred
and Profane Love," at the Strand theater this week.
The gowns came from Paris where they were purchased by the star
enroute home from her six months' trip around the world. The latest
designs by Callot reflect the very latest dictates of the fashion ateliers.
prano, Mrs. Willard Slabaugh, con
tralto; George Saltzgivor, tenor, and
Peter Fisher, bass. Mayme Vroman,
accompanist; Mrs. Donald Smith,
orsanist.
Thore will be no charge for ad
mission. The public "is cordially Invited.
Mrs. Geil White McMonies pre
sented the following pupils in piano
recital at her residence studio, 1610
South Thirty-fifth street, Friday eve
ning, June 10: Randolph Claassen,
Jane Blair. Frederick Ebener, Mar
guerite Wolfe, Ruth Claasen, Silence
Wilson,- Howard Kennedy. Uoyd
Wilson, Evelyn Wheeler, Charlotte
Troxell, Gladys Patterson,, Mary Ad
elaide McMonies, Ruby Johnson,
Herbert Hartman, Geraldine Pal
mantier, Geil Charles Mitchell. Lu-
cile Lloyd. Lorene Palmantier, Mar
lon Harding, Oakland, Neb., and
Elma Quinn Morris.
Harold C. Miller, pupil of E. M.
Jones, appeared in piano recital In
Nebraska City at the Lutheran
church on Tuesday evening, June '7,
given by his former teacher, Mrs.
Emil Raben of that place. One of
the outstanding numbers, which he
played was "Sarabanrte,'' by Ra-meau-MacDowell,
which was highly
appreciated.
The management .aijd Chicago
Musical college offers to talented
pnpils of limited means a total of
73 scholarships. These give entire
ly free Instruction in these branches
for a period of one school year of
40 weeks. There will be two exami
nations, a preliminary examination
by the president in which the quali
fications of the candidates are test
ed, and a competitive examination
for those who have passed the for
mer one. The number of contest
ants for each scholarship is. limited
to 50, so early application is recom
mended. . Free scholarships are
awarded only to those who are
financ-ially unable to undertake their
own artistic education. Application
blanks for the free scholarship niay
be had by writing diFect to the col
lege, 624 South Michigan boulevard,
or by applying to the musical editor
of The Bee,
Did you ever see a motion picture
of our solar system; a film propec
tion showing the daily and noctural
gyrations of the heavenly bodies, the
sun, moon and big and little plan
etsfunctioning exactly as nature
has ordained?
You've never seen and don't be
lieve such a strange thing possible,
eh?
Incredulity thy name is man and
woman, too. Such a thinsr is not
only possible, but furthermore the
public will be a witness to an ex
hibition of this most remarkable ani
mated photography.
The first stage of journey through
the heavens by film demonstrates the
mystery of space the astronomical
part of geography; the solar system;
each planet with its satellites in mo
tion. The second stage, the livintr and
the dead, the earth and moon phe
nomena . viewed from space, so that
cause is seen as well as effect; land
scape of the moon, phases of "the
moon, eclipses of the sun and moon,
axis, results if axis were perpendic
ular. The third stage, the story of the
seasons, the causes producing the
seasons, inclination of the earth's
axis, results if axis were perpendw
cular.
The fourth stage, God divided the
night from the day, earth; on its
journey around the sun with the
changing line of day and night, -with
emphasis on the overhead sun,
movement from tropic to tropic;
earth around the sun as viewed from
the sun.
The fifth stage, the winds of the
world; wind system of the world,
commencing with the equatorial belt.
The sixth stage, rains and storms;
the kingdom of the storm; storms
in their inception and moving across
the continents, ' e process of evapo
ration illustrated; the wet equatorial
belt; results on vegetation and cli
mate. These are just a few of the reels
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Lps Angeles Worried
By Exodus of Film
Players, Star Says
By LOIS WEBER.
At the presnt moment there is
an., exodus of ,actors and ' directors
from Los Angeles, ... .'
One of the largest, companies in
the business is strengthening ( its'
London studios while its production
itt Los Angeles has fallen below
the levet of the Golconda years,
1916-1920.
Other concerns ,jre sending com
panies to Italy, to the Riviera, to
Scotland, to Germany and Algeria
The first noticeable result of the in
vasion of foreign films has been thd
flocking of actors eastward to get
speaking stage engagements.
''Anything to get to New York"
is the slogan in filmland.' It. is re
ported that some of the players
whose funds are low- have-accompanied
pine boxes back east, it be
ing' a law that bodies must be ac
companied when shipped by rail.
Among the leading players whose
names have been mentioned in con
nection wth vaudeville and speakfhJT
. - - . . it i . . .i 1 1
siage engagements are xunuieu iiht
ris Chaplin, formerly of the Lois
Wcbrr studios; Dorothy Gish, Poljy
Moran, Eunice Uitrnlinm, Dorothy
Phillips, Pauline Frederick, Olga
Petrova, May Allison, Nazimova and
Montagu Love.
Among those whom vaudeville a1-,
ready has claimed are Virginia Pier
son, Sheldon Lewis, Carlyle Black
well, Vernon Gordon, Mabel Tato.,
fcrro, Zen.i Keefe, Francis X. Bush"'
man and Ueverely Payne.
Thomas MeTghan in the role of
a convict in his latest picture, "The
Uty of bilent Men. rinds final hap.
piness in his mother's arms after he
escapes from prison. How he is
foiled in remaining out of prison
forms one of the most unusual cli
maxes seen in any picture.
"The City of Silent Men" plays
this week at the Strand.
which comprise the total number
in the Popular Science series that
the producers have secured from the
originator, William Park. They are
all ready for immediate release.
These films are only a precursor of
what is . to follow in quick succes
sion for the benefit of the college,
school, church, club, society and
home in America.
Sam De Grasse has been added to
the cast of "Slippey McGee," which
Oliver -Morosco is picturizmg irom
his stage play. Others in leading
roles are Colleen Moore, Wheeler
Oakman and Pat O'Malley. Wesley
Ruggles is directing.
When Is Villain a Hero?
"When He Is a Good Actor,". Says Bad Man of the
Screen ; Robert McKim Says Villain's Job
Brings More Than Hisses. ; " . .
It was always the custom, even
in the recent days of the spoken
"drahma" to hiss the vallain when
he appeared for his curtain call; but
among the many traditions ot the
stage which the vogue ot motion pic
tures has destroyed is this time
honored feeling that the bad man
of the play is really a very naughty
sentleman.
Considering the zealous guardian-1
ship which actors are known to ex
ercise over their popularity, there
must be something besides money
in it for the actors who take the
blame for everything that goes
wrong who let the hero foil them
every time and the golden-curled
heroine snap her fingers fearlessly
in their villainous faces, just like
that.
McKim an Authority.
No better authority could be found
on this subject than Robert McKim,
whose face is seen in most of the
big pictures where the bad man is
required to be very bad. In his
lastest picture, "Out of the Dust,"
which is scheduled for release soon.
Mr. McKim steals man's wife;
wrecks a home and before the pic
ture is over is the recipient of a
beating which looks too real for
stage play.
Yet he says that the villain of
a play can be just as popular as
the hero.
"In all my years on the speaking
stage, I learned to know that only
the hero gets the lavendar-scented
notes and flowers and the invitations
from the other sex, but in motion
pictures it is entirely different. You
see the villiain, in order to be con
vincingly bad, must completely ef
face himself and forget how he looks
when he perpetrates his devilish
stuff., When the lady says, 'Unhand
me, villiain,' it must be because the
audience is convinced that she needs
unhanding."
Must Not Fake.
"In other words, he must not pull
a punch, fake a choke, or betray any
semblance of sympathy tor his - vic
tims. When he does that, he com
pletes his task to the extent that he
has not a friend left in the audience.
And that, I have found, isolates him
in the attitude of the spectator. I
don't know whether it is because
they pity me for beine in such an
unsympathetic part (and pity is such
a close second to love), that I get so
many evidences of it. Whatever the
reason is, let me say for this part of
wife-beater, child-slayer, drunkard,
home-wrecker and always eventually
foiled villain, that my ignominious
deeds have their compensation in the
responses from moving picture fans.
Letters Galore.
"And they come in various forms.
A letter from a nice lady in the
middle west told me that she is
afraid that whatever good there may
be in me might eventually be under
mined by the evil deeds which fall
to my lot, and I am strongly advised
to read the Bible every day and re
member my real self. A little high
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"Robert
school girl wants to be assured that
I really do not handle the other sex
so roughly as I seem to, because I
very much resemble her big brother
and she is sure that nobody who
looks like him can be such an un
qualified rascal.
"A ' tod modern thinker on the
eternal problem offers the philosophy
that 'to get them young, treat them
rough and tell them nothing is al
together to the liking of a great per
centage of the fair sex. Since it is
invariably my task to treat 'em rough,
this philosophy may be the explana
tion to the public's expressions of
apreciation. Be that as it may, the
complimentary following which my
kind of screen characters have won
for me is but another illustration of
the fact that whatever is worth do
ing at all is worth doing well."
Mr. McKim, who has played the
leading "heavy" with Douglas Fair
banks in the "Mark of Zorro and
has other great roles to his credit,
says that his part in "Out of the
Dust," is the best he has ever done.
In studying his character, he had to
keep in mind the conception of
Frederick Remington on whose
paintings the picture is based. Like
true student of his art, Mr. McKim
has developed a character who in
his deeds and appearance, looks as if
he might have stepped out of Rem
ington's own canvas. Which proves,
by the way, that it is necessary to
study even to be satisfactorily bad
in the movies.
Philo McCulIough, after having
had a fling as a Fox director, is step
ping out of his directorial puttees
and into his character of film villain
again, .
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