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THE SUNDAY OBEG.OBTASr,- PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 23, 1902.
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APPRECIATION OF ARTISTS
ONE CRITIC THINKS AUpiENCES CAN f&EAT
PERFORMER "WITH SILENCE
PORTLAND, Nov. 16. (To the Editor.)
In the letter in today's issue, under the
heading "Why Don't You Applaud? If
an Artist Is Worthy, Ho" Should Be Ap
preciated," there are some statements
open to .question. I refer particularly to
the sentence, "Now because persons in the
audience have had the benefit of a few
lessons In music, and often none at all,
they have no right, in the true sense of
the word, to act the ipart of critics, who
are extremely difficult to please, and re
fuse to join in the share of applause, if
the singer is worth applauding."
Artists make reputation, which creates
the demand for public appearances, and
upon which the box office receipts depend,
solely through the power of pleasing the
audience. The audience on their part,
make the reputation of the artist, through
showing their appreciation by applause.
If the performance is that of a debu
tante, or of a young organization, most
people are willing to excuse all shortcom
ings, and to applaud the effort liberally.
But should the performance be that of a
matured artist, the obligation of .the ex
pression of approval is an individual one. 1
So far as no right goes, when the price.
of admission has been paid, it is the buy
er's privilege to show appreciation of the
number presented, by applause, or to
withhold 1L In some countries disap
proval by hissing is also freely expressed,
but happily here,' when the pleasure expe
rienced is not up to the expectation, the
listener Is at least silent, and who can
say he has no right? Because one per
son prefers colorature singing and another
dramatic or lyric, is it not permissible
to express individual preference? If it
was considered -ethically correct to ap
plaud every public performer, without dis
crimination, would it not be the means of
foisting a lot of mediocrities Into undue
prominence?
With the sentence, "And she will cer
tainly sing better if at the start she is
greeted with a kind round of applause," I
heartily concur. With every kind of en
couragement that will make any perform
er feel at ease, and that will conduce to
their best efforts, it is apart from kindly
feeling, business, so that every listener
may get his money's worth, each contrib
uting the "mickle that makes the muckle"
to that end.
Of course the remark that applauding
was "a common thing," or "suburban," Is
ridiculous and can only have been made
In fun. The Italian Band could hardly
have, complained of the signs of appreci
ation shown, when they played In the
Marquam. The effect in the Armory, wifh
perhaps 15 people sitting down stairs,
which made' the whole building echo, -was
not so good. And to make one Instance
serve the Venus motif, the "Tannhauser"
Overture was so blurred as to be hardly
distinguishable. Should, therefore, what
was not pleasing be applauded? That the
"hair-raising march" and the "fortissimo"
that" was "unalloyed delight" should have
caused many women to risk "the useful
ness of their gloves" is not strange.
Khythm and noise will always create a
certain sort of enthusiasm, but is such en
thusiasm always capable of musical dis
crimination? That the playing of the Symphony Or
chestra in some of the numbers deserved
more recognition than was accorded them,
can hardly be gainsaid. But the right of
the individual to exercise judgment in
the expression of displeasure by silence,
or pleasure in the accepted way, will ever
remain undisputed.
W. GIFFORD NASH.
cagnl has lost "his happy, careless expres- 1
aionT and some evenings he says to friends: .
"Behold. Iiiave not been arrested today." I
Tne opera is verars "uieuo, ana tnose
who appear are: Mmes. Emma Eames,
Louise Homer; Messrs. Alvarez, Bars,
Journet, Dufrlche, Vannl, Begue and
Scottl. Conductor, llr. Manclnelll.
A .correspondent recently asked where
an old melody entitled, "Cotton-Eyed Joe"
could be obtained. A letter just received
states that particulars concerning this
quaint ofd air may be had from Ernest
Corker, a violinist, residing in Eufaula,
Ala. t
Professor Stanlej. the head of the mu
sical department at the University of
Michigan, has expressed the opinion that
without telephones and modern street
cars, music, such as that of Richard
Strauss, for instance, could not be ap
preciated. The Choral Art Society, of Boston, will
give a concert December 19. The chorus
consists of about 45 persons, chosen from
among the best-equipped and experienced
-professional singers in Boston. Each of
theea possesses a thoroughly cultivated
voice, and under a wise and competent
leadership these factors have been made
a unity, working with one aim and a com
mon will.
The . programme at a concert given by
the Pittsburg orchestra, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
November 14, witbSabrilowltsch, as solo
ist, was: Concert overture, "Cockaigne,"
op. 40, Elgar; concerto for piano and or
chestra. In B flat minor op. 23, Tschaikcw
sky; suite No. 2, "Indian." op. 48. Ed
ward McDowell; legend;, love song: in
war time; dirge; village festival; Sieg
fried Forging the Sword, from "Sieg
fried," Wagner.
The Philharmonic Society of New York
City celebrated the opening of Its 61st sea
son, November 14, by giving a concert, the
programme consisting of Tschalkowsky's
fifth symphony in E minor, opus 64; the
aria, "Anjenem Tag," from Marschner's
"Hans Helling"; a symphonic prelude by
Roffredo Caetanl, new here, and the finale
from Wagner's "Die .Walkure." with An
ton Van Rooy as soloist. Walter Dam
rosch began his duties as conductor of
the society.
It is getting to be a common sight toJ
see well-known musicians from other
churches listening to the excellent singing
by the new chorus choir of the First Con
gregational Church, Park and Madison
streets. It is interesting to note how a
chorus choir helps hearty congregational
singing, and when the singers have had
the benefit of more drill and the confidence
that comes from associated voices singing
together, the conductor should try unac
companied singing In chorus, without the
organ. The choir Is winning kind worda
W. H. Boyer Is giving the preparatory di
rections in chorus work.
The first of five orchestral concerts, con
ducted by H. H. Wetzler, took place at
Carnegie Hall. New York, last Wednesday,
one of the soloists being Ossip Gabrilo
witsch, pianist, who will probably appear
In this city in one of the concerts man
aged by Miss Lois Steers. The programme
was: Symphony No. 5, C minor. Beet--hoven;
concerto in G major. No. 4, Beet
hoven, ' Oselp Gabrllowltsch; prelude and
llebestod, "Tristan und Isolde" Wagner;
concerto for vIollncello, Rubinstein Miss
Elsa Ruegger; prelude, "Die Melsterslng
er" Wagner.
Theodore Bjorksten, the Swedish tenor,
recently celebrated his return from Eu
rope by giving a concert In New York
City. lilt) programme contained much that
was unfamiliar. Composers who lived in
the ISth and early in the 19th centuries
were drawn upon for songs that in several
cases, though not remarkable for beauty
or expressiveness, were yet worth bringing
to light one particularly deserving men
tion being "Dans le Prlntemps de mes
Anness," by Garat, who flourished be
tween 1754 and 1S23. Another Infrequent
name on the list was that of Paer, best
remembered nowadays as writer of a sot
of dances for orchestra, and of sundry
outworn operas.
Frederic Lamont, the new Scotch pian
ist, played in New York, November 12, and
this time another critic wrote, "Lamont'p
performance of Beethoven's fifth concerto
then was scholarly and competent, but
essentially prosaic He played five of
Beethoven's most difficult and profound
sonatas, and revealed an understanding
of their significance, a clear Insight Into
some of their deepest depths, and a com
mand of technical resources that marked
him out as an artist of altogether excep
tional power. Lamont Is not In the high
est sense a poet, nor has he the burning
fire of genius that alone can Illuminate and
show- forth all there Is In these last so
natas. But he has temperament, after
all. It Is strong and robust, sane and
wholesome."
Mme. Sembrlch, one of the greatest liv
ing sopranos, gave her annual song recital
In New York, November 12. She was, of
course, enthusiastically received. Her pro
gramme comprised 20 airs and songs, two
of which, the Schumann group, she was
compelled to repeat; to these she added
as encores two more, the ever delightful
"Auftrage" and Chopin's "A Maiden's
Wish." For the last she played her own
accompaniment. She sang In five lan
guagesItalian, German, French, English
and Russian her songs ranging from the
classicism of the 18th century to Richard
Strauss, modern of moderns. Gluck was
represented by that exquisitely pathetic
air, "O tol, qui prolongeas mes Jours,"
from "Iphlgenie en Taurlde." Any one
of a half-dozen songs she sang is worth
all the most brilliant operatic cadenzas
the ingenious mind of man has devised,
and it is because of this. If choice must
be made, that one will rather remember
her as standing beside a piano on the bare
platform of the concert stage than as the
central figure of the most brilliant assem
blage the opera can provide. '
Conservatory Clnb Musicnle.
The November meeting of the New Eng
land Conservatory Club was held at the
residence of Mrs. Edgar, B. Piper last
Wednesday. The following programme
was rendered:
Mazurka Kevin
Mrs. T. T. Davis and Mrs. J. L. Shultz.
"FruhUngstraum" Spicker
Mrs. "Edgar B. Piper.
"Schmetterlins" -T Grieg
"Serenade" Olsen
Miss Edith McGinn.
"Lullaby" Norrls
Mrs. Mahr.
"Reverie" Schutt
"Folk Song" GrJeg
Mrs. T. T. Davis.
In the World of Music.
Sousa and his band will start next Sum
mer on a tour around the world.
Maurice Grau's season of 17 weeks of
opera, in French, Italian and German, be
gins In New York City tomorrow.
December 15 is the date set for the song
recital to be given in Boston by Janet
Spencer, contralto, and U. S. Kerr, basso.
Mme, Shannah Cumming, soprano, after
touring Maine with brilliant success, la
now singing in and around "New York City.
The Knelsel quartet and the AdamoroskI
trio, Mme. Szumoweka, pianist, will short
ly appear In concert work at 'Cambridge,
Mass.
Jaroslav Koclan, the young Bohemian
violinist, made his American debut last
night In New York, with the Walter Dam
rosch orchestra.
Mrs. Walter Reed, contralto, ,1s to sing
at the Elks' Memorial service at. The
Dalles, December 7. Elaborate prepara
tions are being made for a beautiful and
impressive programme.
After he got over his legal tangle at
Boston, temporarily Mascagni and his
opera company gave a performance at
Providence, R. I., and he came back beam
ing, for it was a financial success. Mas-
Tlie Aeolian Recital.
The usual weekly recital took place at
Aeolian Hall last Wednesday evening.
Many of the attendants were gratified to
see Mr. Wells again at the pipe-organ and
orchestrelle, and the numbers rendered On
these Instruments were all up tq thp al
ready established high standard, the al
ways welcome "Preludio, Cavalleria Rus
tlcana" being played Jn a most effective
manner.
Mr. Bruce rendered his selections on the
piano and organ, with his qld-tlme fire
and enthusiasm, and succeeded admirably
In Imparting his feeling to the audience.
His rendition of Gottschalk's "Last Hope"
being especially fine.
Every number on the programme was
enthusiastically applauded, and at the
close of the regular programme Mr. Bruce
played Suppe'e "Paragraph III," and
"The Sanctus" from "Saint Cecilia," to the
great pleasure of a large number who
remained.
PHRASEOLOGY USED BY SOCIETY WOMEN
BY MAX CRELL (Paul Blouet)
HEN a woman says of another
that she has a good . figure. It
means that she squints, has an
extraordinary nose or some other defect
that makes her faco ugly.
When she says of her: "Oh, yes, she
has a pretty face," that means that she
has a bad figure or no figure. When she
says: "She is a good, kind woman," it
means that she .has neither a good figure
nor a pretty face.
If she says: "She is a cat," It Is be
cause she has good reasons to expect the
other to speak 111 of her, through jealousy
or other motIve;-'but if she says: "Oh.
she is perfectly lovely," take It for
granted that she has met her just once
and has received compliments from her.
If she says: "Yes, she is an excellent
person," I will spare you the translation
of this insult.
Women use a phraseology which Is pe
culiarly their own. If you are not versed
; In It, the language of women will be He
brew to you, and you will be condemned
to frequent only women who call a spade
a spade, and these, let me tell you, are not
worth knowing. It is this peculiarity In
women that makes intercourse with them
so Interesting and so full of piquancy.
When a woman says to another woman:
"I am a fright today," she expects her to
answer: "I have never seen you with a
dress that suits you better." When she
says it to a man, she expects him to re
ply: "I have never seen you look scr
beautiful." Her remark Invites a woman
to pay her "a compliment on her dress,
and a man to pay her one on her looks.
"I have got to dress like anybody else,"
means "I have got to get as many, new
hats and dresses, and as many diamonds
as the wealthiest women among my
friends or acquaintances; tha't is to say,
hats of bigger dimensions, gowns of high
er price, and diamonds of greater value."
The husband who, on hearing his wife
say that "she has not got a decent gown
to put on," reminds her of how many she
possesses to "his knowledge, and goes on
through the enumeration of them. Is a
hopeless ass.
This phraso simply means that she
wants a new dress or a new hat for some
occasion, a party, a wedding, a horse
show or to eclipse a woman of her ac
quaintance who has a "stunning" new
gown.
Or, maybe, the weather has got suddenly
very cold and sho wants a velvetf dress
to start from her bosom downward; or
the weather is fearfully hot, and sho
wants a hat that will expose the back of
her head to the fierceness of he sun or
it may simply mean "I have not had a
new dress or hat" for a least a fortnight.
Men who do not understand these things
are lirnorant brutes.
Many women buy for the love of "buying
and paying themselves. As a rule, men
pay for everything: they pay the trades
people, the landlord, ' the servants. It Is
they who buy and pay always.
In a dressmaker's or mlHIner's shop, It
is woman who buys and pays. The bill is
sent to her. In that shop she Is a person
of importance. People obey her, bow to
her, not because she Is beautiful, clever
(sho has enough of that in society), but
because sho buys and pays; for once she
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Wednesday Night, Nov. 26, and Thursday,
(Thanksgiving Day) Matinee, Nov. 27
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Thursday Night, Nov. 27
Bronson Howard's Masterpiece
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NOTE The advance sale of seats will open next Monday morning at 10 o'clock, when not more than ten
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Hr
kl ill
feels as Important as a man: It Is a little j
triumph. j
In the mouth of a woman, "You do not i
understand me" means "you understand
me only too well."
Many women on hearing gossip, even
Slander, on a woman of their acquaint
ance, show no- sincere Indignation, but,
with a doubting smile, say: How wicked
people are! She may have been a little
careless, but nothing more."
And people leave her drawing-room per
suaded that she knows the libel to be
true. . Unhappy are the women who ex
pect that their defense will be earnestly
undertaken by their sex!
"When speaking of a man, a woman says:
"Oh, he Is a man of no importance," It
means that women run no danger In his
company and that he Is a man who, for
nothing in return, renders" services which
the other sort ofj-man would only do for
some extreme reward. Oh, the Ingratitude
of women! How they-despise the.man of
no importance!" ,
ORIENTAL INVASION OF THE
FASHIONABLE WORLD
They aro no less than the splendidly em
broidered garmenta which once did duty
upon the shoulders of some Chinese man
darin of wealth and distinction:
"These," said a prominent Importer of
Chinese garments for fashionable people,
as he lifted a splendid mandarin's coat
that had been Antericanijsed by adding
chiffon puffs in the wide sleeves, "are the
very newest things out for wear at the
opera."
The kimona coats often have lhrger
flowers in heavier styles of- embroidery
upon them, and are finished in a style pe
culiarly their own. Theso are not slit
up the sides, but fasten in front or to one
side.
Flannel and silk shirtwaists trimmed
with Persian bands are among the popu
lar novelties In the Oriental line, and all
manner of Oriental silks come-all ready
embroidered for making up waists.
Oriental bands for trimming all sorts of
costumes are quite the- vogue, and are
made so that they will combine with
almost any color and material. Nor are
silk Japanese and Chinese dollies despised
as a means of trimming dresses. The
borders and corners are cut off and these
constitute trimming.. The most elegant
gowns, however, are the ones which are
appliqued with bunches of flowers cut
from" a Chinese garment, often with
THERE 4a an Oriental InvaFlon of tho
fashionable world this season. On
every hand evidences of the fad for
Oriental colors and material are seen in
tho tailored costume with its appliques
of rlch-hued silks and embroidery, In
shirtwaists and whatnot.
One trousers leg from the outfit of a
Bulgarian Princo is sufficient to trim a
gown with solid Bulgarian embroidery;
of, if the wearer prefer, tho trimmings,
including a dress yoke and -vest, panels,
collar and cuffs may bo cut from the em
broidered portions of a silk East Indian
shirt. What matter If the other parts
of tho soft and rich colored silk shirt
show signs of wear? This only enhances
tho old coloring in the embroidery, which
Is exquisitely beautiful. '
Wholly different from the Persian, tho
Indian and the Turkish and Bulgarian
embroideries are those of Chinese and
Japanese make. China, perhaps, has the
lead in Oriental fashions for American
wear, although it would be hard to te,U
whether China is much ahead of Japan.
Not a few persons term the straight
coats slit up the sides Japanese klmonas.
Shades of the mandarins, hear them!
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WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, NOV. 30, HENRY ARTHUR JONES' GREAT PLAY, THE MASQUERADERS
panels from a Chinese skirt set In the
skirt.
Not less beautiful are the silk gauzes
embroidered over with garlands of small
"flowers In delicate shades, like faint
visions of flowers seen through a rpsc
coloreil mist. Sometimes the gauze give?
the effect of a pale cloud of blue, silver or
gray.
If the silk brocades and gauzes are
lovely, words can hardly do justice to
the Japanese obis, magnificent brocaded
silks of the heaviest and stiffest quality,
with embroidery which glitters with the
subdued glow of old gold, and which Is
eo rich that it literally stands up. These
obis run from $4 to $40 a yard, and show
marvelous designs of chrysanthemums,
Japanese foliage, wistaria, and strangely
Interwoven patterns that are harmonies
of soft colors. "While some very elegant
gowns can be made of obis, they are
used, for the most part, to "face and trim
coats and elaborate the decorative scheme
of rich costumes.
Not only do gowns and coats show the
Oriental style of decoration, but hats are
stuck with large Oriental pins. Oriental
purses, jewels, chains and card cases And
a part In the new costuming. Oriental
embroidery appears upon slippers and
j ehoes, and touches of China, Japan.
Turkey, Persia and Bulgaria appear with
charming disregard of unity upon soma
of the most beautiful costumes.
The Western mind has never fully
grasped the Oriental ability In handling
colors and combinations of color; this
season may teach it much, in this respect.
Hard Linen for I'nrl.t Critics.
London Sketch.
The Paris theatrical managers have
centered in a campaign against the crit
ics. Last season they discontinued the
dress rehearsals, which was a sort of
press view and a first night iri all but
name, and now they have decided to stop
the press tickets for the first nights. "We
are." said one of them to an interviewer,
"sick and tired of the critics. We give
them free places and facilities, and they
retaliate with adverse criticisms which
thin our audiences and make each suc
cessive play a failure. Further, if a jour
nalist writes down a play we shall pro
ceed against him In tho law courts. If
the newspaper were to publish an arti
cle stating that Xs cognac wis undrlnk
ahle, the journalist who wrote the arti
cle and the newspaper In which It ap
peared would both be sued for damages.
Our case, as we consider it, is precisely
similar."
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