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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1916)
PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 2r, lfllfi. The Biggest H of The Season the on TUT Yi v. ' 26th Day of November at the FOLEY BARN Above the La Grande Hospital Turkeys, Ducks, Beef and Geese BRING YOUR SHOTGUN AND RIFLE LUNCH SERVED ON GROUND Commences at 9:00 A. M. B. W. Hughes Violinist Insures Wonderful Hand to Genuine Stradivarius Violin Play A RARE COMBINATION OF HANDS, VIOLIN AND MAN. A. v ifk I tt SI Ihrfc Very Ksst-nlinl Features of the SkovRaard Concert in I.a Grande Dec. 4th The Strad. IiiHtruinent, the InHured ITand and the Man Whose Hand Is Shown and Who Plays the Instrument. When the L. D. S. choir presents it wonderful Skovnard company December 4th I,n Grande will airuin hear the Rreat Dane and see his fam ous Stradivarius violin. Not only that but the strange hand which hears an Insurance of $50,000. To chance meotinfr with a London dealer in musical instruments Mr. Skovfraard owes his good fortuno in obtaining his rare Strad. This man had a fine collection of Italian vio lins, among them being masterpieces by Amnti, Stradivarius, Guareriiis, Gergonzi and Guadagmini. They were real antiques, cracked, scratched, scraped and worn through more or less rough life for several centuries. Hi'ving revealed in the wealth before him and tried most of them, Mr. Skovgaard remarked that it would IHIS IS THL IN.StJfl ANTF CARRIED BY SKOVGAARD, inc L (N lo ri V I t l-l N 3 t ON HIS LEFT HAND London Fashions Radically Changed hnvo been pleasure to hnve seen such instruments when they were new, but such pleasures were denied modern artists. To the surprise of Mr. Skovgaard his new friend replied in the negative and stepped to a fireproof vault and came out with a big yellow leather case, which he opened and took out an unstrung violin and handed it to his guest. Apparently it was just from the maker's shop, but plainly it was let tered "Antonius Stradivarius Anno 1712.' "I could not believe my eyes," says Mr. Skovgaard, "but stood as one in a trance. As 1 stood the.-o with the handsomest of all violins in the world in my hands I was carried back as if in a dream to the days of the great violin makers.' Mr. Skovgaard was naturally de sirous of purchasing the instrument and finally obtained his father's con- sent to the payment of the price do- i manded, $i:t,000. Before it changed' hands the instrument was examined by famous experts in Paris and Italy, who pronounced it genuine. (BY MAP.CARET MASON) London, Nov. 10. (By mail) (Written for the United Press) If you are afraid to go home in the dark these doys you'd better not venture out after tea time in London these days or rather nights. You feel as , if you had been transported back into 1 u j-, i i uio iiiuuievui ur more iiiungiy ine dark nges when you step blinking r.ko an owl into the murky dimly lighted thoroughfares. I for one am glad that most of the theaters give daily matinees and but two night performances a week. It is far from a cozy thing after the play to be all alone in London in the dark and on the outside of a taxi looking in with absolutely no hope of being on the inside looking out. Taxi Driver Haughty The price of petrol is so high and the chauffeurs ore so scarce that taxis at nightfall becomes as fleet ing nnd elusive as bats awing. They whizz by you deaf to your shouts and Hind to your tears. Tnxi drivers mre now known as "haughties" so fastidious nnd particu lar have they become about their fares. If they size you up and like yc.ur looks even then you must'nt be too optimistic. Uiey may not like your destination and refase to take you af ter nil. Indeed so near perfection do you have to be in appearance und ad dtcss that it is really simpler and saf er to begin your walking right away. There are not many women driving taxis yet but they are running elevat ors, acting as conductors on busses, cleaning streets, working in railway yards, running delivery wagons and working in munition factories. It is a curious thing that in all the manual strenuous and more virile work here tofore done by the men the women now excel but those trying to replace , forced often to hotfoot it home to the ancestral manse since the haughties are no respecters of either birth or breeding. Yes, times are dark and streets are dark in London but there are bright spots. For though it's Zepps that make London dark London makes light of Atpps. borne times they make them alight and sometimes they make a light of them. When word arrives that Zcpps are on the way there is some zest and thrill in staying up oil night and up on a roof to glimpse a huge flaming mass, pointed out by the sil ver fingers of the searchlights, that falls from the sky like a Gargantuan skyrocket set off by an intrepid yoting British airman. Shifting Clock "Too Much" But bringing airships blazing out of the clouds and women filling bombsj instead ot nursing bottles and pedes trians blundering around like moles in the Stygian streets are but common place. When it comes to turning all the clocks up an hour for summer and now back an hour for the winter sea son then it does seem going a bit too far. It's so really unsettling for one's social engagements don't you know and for the life of her Lady Diana can it remember whether her date with Lord Percy at five o'clock winter time or summer time. Verily tempt ing Fate is as nothing to juggling Time. Terra Haute has a municipal coal mine. A small boy asked his father if lie could do anything for him the other day. As a result of the car shortage, the Clatsop Mill at Astoria has been compelled to shut down temporarily, and about 200 men are out of employment. CHICHESTER S PILLS Wfrv TUB DIAMOND BBAKn. CM-rbM-ter's 'IIU In Rrd I twin. tnlH no otnrr. llnr r oor niAWlfti.AllfTil,iV.,n!-''"!l yers known as Bcsl, Safest, Alwayj HrJW Je SOLD BV DRUGGISTS EVERYWHER6 nf9 lU m on if ft ra a dS lnl tloid metallic VyV uiw mutton, ii VL ADIMIR NEVELOFF Presents SKOVGAARD A : . 1 O-rt VA-Y nn ' hand belong ng to Skovgaard. It men in the finer seemmgly more took Sknvt rtiH. oJ. mvifcm,n,no rts of eookingr, tailoring ,l. t . "T .' . ... nnd hairdressing are but sorry sub stitutes for the sterner sex. Bright Spots in Dark London As a leveller of sexes and classes tne war is doing wonders that vie Denmark's Greatest Violinst and NEW YORK METROPOLITAN CO. Under Auspices L. D. S. Tabernacle Choir At L. D. S. Tabernacle, December 4 at 8 P. M. The entertainment given by this remarkable com pany of instrumental artists and grand opera sing ers is after the style of the popular Sunday concerts held in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. Greatest variety in music Arias from your favorite operas in the beautiful with its horrors for a balancing result.!' Polk SOngS in national COStumeS The fhmmiQ Women are coming into their own as i tnftn frnm Tnnin r.,, t h a ii s bex" independent wage earners and the J "S111 LuC1 all? tllC Barcarolle from The Tales 'X'oionei s lady and Judy O Grady "Jl """"mu viiissiuai JU1S1C Jliamhpr Mno?! the hospitals ; I'opular Music In fact AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERYBODY TIUKETS 50c AND 75c this hand. Incessant training nnd the inlxrn soul of the artist fashioned it. To the ordinary eye it is not very different from other well developed hands. Yet it has the power almost automatically to express through the voilin the exquisited beauty and mar velous tone pictures which the player feels and sees as he interprets the are rubbing elbows in work of the Masters. As an invest- and munition factories. The rich and mciit it represents a man's life work. titlo(' aro working side by side with But it represents, too. the inborn gift th? p.oor an!1 ,owly- . Tmpm& , , . , ' ; . , rets nave given up their motors soi ct i n , , "hi oh no money can buv. That s .v. ij m .- j. Seats On nn Rnln af T -nw mw i"'i ni'Ufiui'ti i uiiiiu it'N ii in v rmi - vmv iiu r mi i iri'r a i isiswt-t ii m, vu L3 J7I.I I'lllllUn s tripntnr t rinv trw. am ' why it is insured for $50,000.00. Und nftor tthe thentor they too are V.
