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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1917)
1 , ' i THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 10, 1917. WAR RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTIVITY AND MANY CHANGES Women Taking Places of Men on Farms and Even as Shoeblac&s Land In Heart of New York City Is Being Farmed for Benefit of Poor. 1 1 K - lZ-z ( ; rw-: , ' : : v - . fi ' t. " - lira I . - ' . . ' I -s fvAx - - - v 4 m ! ' - - ' if - -J t v v . (FIi A- r71r" X Hcw-? rSv '-1'- v x ' TSJ " I' "gg"" t - " "'""""'S i J -VII 'rtiA as rJ' X f r , -assss -s:riX irb" t.iVv; W . .. . vj... sV?...!.. .P'I '-si; - - v"' if v.. f ' - V - vr .rr -' : . V&ii-' i?f ' M - - " "if . NJ ,-. : -AiTx''&r ' : 5S!v?5sss-. fv- : . .. ? . I '-."'.,- - V---, ; triu; w t f A I it T y ' ff" , ., i - ' in 1 1 .x flt ji V -A x V - " ? -u V-&I:twiu i Hir' L-L J I! - - ct:Pf A v'r-r v W'Wsrt Irrrr r -jr J"i I Zffifoffiv t. .r.,n, -m ,.., I l'iSP?JiKv T?-." ' - :. V- WAAV II I ...... rn HT National Civic Federation gave French colors. I & luncheon to the visiting British Labor Commission at New York. Present were: Ellsha Lee, W. S. Carter, W. Fellowes Morran. Joseph Da vies, H. W. Oarred. Mr. Amos, Haley Flak and Warren Stone, Ralph M. Easley, Oscar Straus, C. W. Bowerman, August Belmont. J. H. Thomas and Samuel Gompers. There Is a farm rlgrht In the heart of New York. It la on the .property of the Rockefeller Foundation at Sixty-fifth street and Avenue A, and on It the poor of the neighborhood will raise vegeta bles this Summer. There was a like undertaking a block away last Summer and the women and children of the neighborhood raised $700 worth of vegetables. There were 150 children bard at work on the plot when the representatives of the National Plant, Flower & Fruit Guild opened it. There were 42S other children who applied for plots who had to be denied because there was not room for them. But some of them will come in for the sec ond allotment of space in July. The children cultivate plots 5 feet by 10. There are besides 20 plots 15 by 20 which are cultivated by women. A wheel will be used in making the election of conscripts in New York City. It Is an ordinary election wheel. The liberty bond girls, carrying a huge United States flag, was one of the picturesque features of the great lib arty bond day celebration In St. PauL The Cabinet of the new Empress of , Abyssinia Includes a Secretary of State, Secretary of the Interior, etc Some of the imposing looking Cabinet memoers go around in bare feet on official occasions. More as an experiment than any thing else certain railroads introduced women into the shops and were agree ably surprised when on comparison they measured up very favorably with the men. This discovery has opened a new field to women and has helped to solve one of the great labor problems of the day. The Baltimore & Ohio has Introduced women workers in quite a few of its shops and Is quite satisfied with their- work. Positions In the shops, freight and passenger terminals ax sow open to women. The 1918 class, yonng men born In JJ3&. have been called to join the them to their provincial garrison. There they will be put through a- course of training and then sent to tne iront to take their places in the fighting lines. m m m Night farming is new, even in wide awake America, but it is an actual fact. Intensive farming is the watchword, every moment must be worked to ad vantage. Quite a number of farms, especially in the East, have already Inaugurated a night shift for tilling the soil, so that labor cut short by the set ting sun may be continued, thereby sav ing much precious time. Girls who are taking a course in agriculture at Farm Ingdale. N. Y., are practicing running a tractor late at night. Four days after war was declared Americans in Peking, China, formed a volunteer company. The company is drilling regularly five times "a week under the direction of Colonel W. C. Neville, of the Marine Corps, getting ready, to serve. Americans all over the universe are doing the same thing. No matter where they are stationed. If enough of them are present, they form a company and start drilling. They'll not be caught napping. Just because they are not in the United States. The bootblack, though a man of hum ble occupation, has proved quite as ardent a patriot as many men In higher stations and when the call is sent out, many shoe-shining stands will be found without their "Tonys" and "Joes" and "Franks." Despite this patriotio exhibition by our knights of the brush and cloth, one must have his shoes shlned and If ourl man has gone to shoulder a gun. why I we will be just as pleased 10 have a fair miss do the honors. The McAlpin Hotel, N. Y., has introduced the first woman bootblack and she can certainly put a mirror-like polish on shoes. She has a neat, cosy little "shoe-shine" parlor and, needless to say, always has a line waiting, for she also has men customers. She has been so busy since the innovation went Into effect that she will soon have to have an assistant to help her out. COMMUNITY MUSIC MOVEMENT HAS ARISEN TO IMMENSE PROPORTIONS IN AMERICA IN FEW YEARS Continued From First Page.) day had a programme consisting of eight motets and cantatas. The solo ists were -Marie Stoddard. Marie Mor rlsey, Mildred Faas, Gertrude Stein Bailey. Nicholas Douty. Charles Tltt mann and Louis Kreldler. The Litchfield County Choral Society, which has its being by the munificence of Mr. and Mrs.' Carl Stoeckel. of Nor folk, Conn., was heard In festival last week. This festival was an lnvltatory affair for the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Stoeckel, who offered this season in addition to a Bach cantata a new sym phony by John Alden Carpenter to be performed by Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Percy Grainger's 'The Warriors," the nature of which has already been described tn these columns, and Sir Charles Stan ford's "Irish Suite" No. B. Bach's dou ble concerto for violins and Mozart's concerto for violin and viola were also among the attractive numbers. The soloists were Alma Gluck, Mabel Gar rison, Kmraa Roberta, ilr. and Mrs. Herbert Witherapoon (Florence Hln kle), Zlmballst and Krelsler, the latter supplying the viola part in the Mozart work. Dr. Mees is the worthy conduc tor and musical director of these festi vals. Columbia University will enter the field as the first to promote Summer opera for the benefit of its immense number of Summer visitors, and it is to be hoped that the enterprise will meet with fitting appreciation. It is rather gratifying to note that, the American basso, Henry Weldon, will appear under these auspices although It Is to be regretted that the chance came to him only because it was im possible for Jose Mardones to fulfil the engagement which had been in tended for him. Although no official list of singers has been given out it is understood that Maggie Teyte is to be the principal soprano and that other singers will be Vtrgilio Lazzari, the Spanish baritone, Pietro Audislo, Paolo Ananian and other members of the different companies now disbanded for the Summer. It would have been a gracious if not an Imperative thing for Columbia to have Included as many capable American singers as were pos sible to procure. American singers who have been sufficiently good for the Metropolitan, the Chicago Opera As sociation and for many other great or ganization In the world. Henry Weldon Is to sing Mepblstopheles to Miss Teyte's Marguerite In Gounod's "Faust." Edoardo Petri, instructor of the Metropolitan Chorus School, is to have direction of the season to run from July 17 to tl In the gymnasium of Columbia which has a seating capac ity of 2000. Among the operas named are "Rlgoletto," "JUa Boheme." "Lucia" and the above named. Exceedingly naive la the statement from Count Seebach, of the ' Dresden Royal Opera, that an International boycott would be enacted against the German singers who elgned contracts for American engagements. These, be stated would not be permitted to ap pear in the German opera-houses for a period of five years. In addition to the fact that the Metropolitan has already enrolled the three greatest women that Germany has to give it is not likely that Glulio Gatti-Caaazza is worrying about it. With Mme. Hempel. Mme. Matzenauer and Mme. Kurt, he certainly has the musical backbone of the women singers of Germany. The Italian impresario of the Metropolitan also announces the re-engagement of Mme. Ober, Otto Goritz, Robert Leon hardt, Johannes Serabach, Carl Braun and a few others. If ever Germany returns to a feeling for art and letters, for music, there is little doubt that it will be sufficiently eager again to welcome some of its artists who have been deemed good enough for American service. Mme. Hempel was a great artist when she came, but what she is now Is greater, more subtle, more fascinating, more truly great than anything her own country might ever have expected of her. Mme. Matzenauer came to the Metro politan an artist who had won suc cess in her own country, but she was not here very long when she began to study conditions and she made up her mind to forget successes and to devote herself to work in its greatest sense. With what result? There are few to deny that this singer has no peers and few equals in any phase of the art. Were she to return to Germany, it would be to show them what a great artist really can do with the music of their own country. Taken from all angles the Metro politan stage Is the greatest training school through which the artists of any country can pass. It may be cruel. over-exacting, pitiless, but if ever the artists who have made a career in this country go back to Germany, back to their own theaters it will be to take with them a greater art than ever attended - their appear ances there, greater than Germany has ever known since the days of Lilli Lehmann. Ternina, Materna a mighty trinity. However, Germany likes to "boycott" its artists, viz: Karl Burrlan, for some indebtedness: Aloys Burgstaller, for appearing in "Parsifal" In thla coun try, and other artists barred from their own stages on account of "Parsifal." . Another reason why the Metropoli tan lmpressario is not worrying about the matter of Wagnerian opera, which he will no doubt continue to give un less there should be radical changes In political conditions. Is because he Is fully alive to the fact that the greatest successes made In Germany at the opera houses lay In the. hands of tho American singers. Needless to re turn to the sensational days of Oliva Frematad in Munich, and before her to the achievements of the late Lillian Nordica. one may pass hastily along the line merely Indicating Edythe Walker, the star of Bayreuth for many sea sons; Maude Fay. favorite of Munich and of all visitors to the Royal Opera House there; Marcella Craft, whoso "Salome" and "Butterfly," to say naght of anything else, are remembered as classics in Munich; Luclle Marcel, of the Royal Opera of Vienna, where her "Electra" gave her a world standing: Florence Easton-Maclennan, of Berlin; Marcla Van Dresser, Frances Rose, of Berlin; Lucy Gates, of Cassel and Ber lin; Clarence Whltehill, who was an Idol In all the German theaters, includ ing Beyreuth: Allen Hinckley, Francis Maclennan, Vernon Stiles, David Bis pham. and a goodly number of others who have made careers in the opera houses of Prague, Dresden, and else where. Outside of these singers there are many in America who are absolutely dependable for any call that might ba made upon them In the way of Wag nerian repertory. Who could Imagine a more delightful Walther von Stolzlng than Paul Althouse would make? "Lohengrin," for that matter, needs Just such a lovely, luscious, lyrlo voice. Llla Robeson is ready when the call comes for anything - from Ortud throughout the repertory, having prov en herself already in such contralto parts as "Frlcka," "Waltraute," and the dramatio Italian roles. The Metro politan Opera Company has others within Its ranks to keep Mr. Gattl Casazza's mind at rest, to say naught of the material that has never been of fered. One of the most noteworthy ex amples of rare Wagnerian Interpreters whose name has never been brought forward as applicant is Elizabeth Rothwell-Wolff. who Includes In her repertory all the lyric dramatio Ger man roles and all the Italian ones of the same voice. This admirable singer has spent the last few years in re tirement since her marriage, and when she will decide to emerge from this self-imposed quiet there will be news for the music lovers and opera-goers.
