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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.