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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 8, 1920 V K V Qq lr;7- ill' Jlzjs ejtrzcf ttnze-z; fa JJ J -MiJ J'esf' G. &e-fA.77&xz of Jfoocf Grars Mote blS Of u422&T2?. - V5 4 ' . . , f, '''' ' I - -nf C I W-V fv 1 11 ?iX " J JJ iyiftrT-f&j7?rtf &f Js--? y Florence Bollain left on Monday for a trip to the Yellowstone. On their return they will stop at Spokane for a visit. Miss Gertrude Xevitan. daughter of Mrs. Rachel Levitan of Stoux City, lowar is visiting in the city for & few weeks, the guest of her uncle, Abe Levey. Mrs. A. R. Bolderston had as guests during the week Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Kerfoot of St. Paul. Dr. Kerfoot is president of the Hamline university, St. Paul. Miss Charlotte Malboeuf has re turned from Canada. She also Bpent scmti time in Seattle, where she was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Arthur A. Hohinney. Mrs. Benjamin F. Ragsdale and lit tle daughter, Evelyn, returned this week from a three months' visit in southern California, the guests of . her sister, Mrs. Claude N. Comstoek. Mr. and Mrs. George S. Botsford had as their house guest a brother, W. KL. Botsford of San Francisco. Mr. Bots ford Is Pacific coast manager of the American Press association,, with headquarters at San Francisco. Miss La Velle Long is at Bingham Springs with her aunt, Mrs. James Brown. Miss Long is a talented Port land girl, who was graduated from Lincoln high school last June and will enter college in the fall. Miss Mollie Harnett and Miss Mae Smith have left for a month's vaca tion In California. They expect to spend their time visiting friends in San Francisco and motoring to - the Yosemite and other places of inter est. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Hall, Mrs. Helen Hall Cudlipp and Miss Lucille Evans have moved from 705 Davis street to the Mallory hotel. Miss Ev ans and Urban Diteman, Jr., will be married about September 24 at the hotel. Mrs. B. M. Huntley, Miss Helen Huntley and Master Phil of Wellesley Court apartments, recently left for Fendleton, where they will spend the following three months. Mr. Huntley Is connected with the North ern Grain & Warehouse company. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick O. Kern, a former Portland couple, at present living in Madras, announce the ar rival of a baby girl, Maxine Beverly, July 15. Mrs. Kern was before her marriage Miss Theresa Scherer. Mr. Kern is cashier of the First National bank at Madras. Mr. and Mrs. Harper N. Jamison of McMinnville have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. M. Jamison, 582 Main street, the last week. They have been sojourning In California for the last month. Mr. Jamison was on the pro gramme at the Edison Dealers' Cara van convention in San Francisco last month. Mr. and Mrs. George Charles Mills left last night for a month's trip to New York, Philadelphia and other eastern cities. They will visit Mr. Mills' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mills, in Montreal on their way home. They also will spend several days at Lake Louise, in the Canadian Rockies, before returning to Portland. The trip will combine both business and pleasure. Edmund J. James, for many years president of the University of Illi nois, visited last Week In the home of his cousin, Mrs. L. V. Crum, at 1229 East Twenty-Beventh street North. Dr. James Is leisurely tour ing the Pacific states, enjoying their scenic beauty and the fellowship of friends. He expects to return to his home in Chicago about the last of August. Mr. James is a graduate of Harvard. Dr. S. F. Kerfoot, president of Ham lino university, and Mrs. Kerfoot, who were guests in Portland for a short time, were honored Tuesday night oy a uinuwr at .he v ; " V J- '4 , eh s. what they expect to be the best, andi it would be actually dishonest on my part not to give that best which they expect. Freauently. while playing. I am carried away with the music itself and theretjy I gain a great many hours of happiness while playing and succeed In forgetting the public but it is much happier to serve art as the master than the less severe one. the public." "But most artists like the applause and the contact with the people; does this .not mean something important In your lifer "Yes. I love both applause and con tact with the people. The applauwe means that you have not worked in vain: nothinc is so disappointing to give something and to realize that it was not up to your standard, or that your public did not get It." "Do you often feel that you fall be neath your own expectations" "No one can always feel at the same height, and, anyway. I think you travel from a certain starting point to a climax, which is, in nine cases out of ten, brought about by your audience. Can you imagine anything more inspiring than the sight of such a house as the last one, in fact, any of those houses I had at the Hippo drome? "In themselves they were Inspira tions even before I touched my violin, and the size f the audience, as welt as the greeting, was something which found a ready response in me. it not difficult to work up enthusiasm when you know that all these people have come out of their homes to hear vou and then, when the applause comes, and you know they are not disaDDOinted. that means the rest. "But yon are always keyed up to a very high pitch; you never dare to let down and you- never can let down, j The moment one concert Is over you begin to wonder whether you will be in as good condition for the next; whether -the audience will be in the same state of receptlveness, whether the weather w,ur make your strings unhannv. then comes the matter of enertorv. "You are never able to select things which happen to fit your 'mood upon that riav. Your Drosrramme is ar ranged and that is the end of it, but I will tell you a secret." Here the writer paused to listen to some eXDlanation. some eniignien- tnent which might lead to some slight comprehension of the true .genius of the young man, as great a stirdent of psychology as or the noun, ana nei said: . .. . That is why sometimes a violinist is glad to give a great many encores, because theae he can choose according I to his moods, and according to nis soirlience. Sometimes, too, he plays these better for that reason, and there a fllwava the chance to make tnem short. Oh, I shall be sorry enougn 10 he nwav from the public for a wniie, but I want afew years In which to read, study, travel, to see the coun try which I have only skimmed Over n order to get from one place to an other to olay. "I probably will ena up djt prac-i tlcing more than ever, but atleat Ii will be doing It for myself, and not for anyone else. And then, too( ; I want to compose. You cannot travel all over the world and have enough tranquility to write something seri ous. It is all vight enough for light miiaio. for songs, for . many other styles of music, but for something of real Importance, one must nave nine, nnlet ATI (1 mood. It was then dlsc6vered that Elman nian tr do some very serious com position, because he is to be ldentl riori with' musical comedy which Is fnr a ni-nri notion early in fall. His collaborator will oe tjie noieu Arr,.t-iran r 1 a V W T I h fr fiugUStUS Tinman and between them it is be- iivari thev will have a - woria-oeai.- er." After Elman's concert In Ocean nrnv he will go abroad for a time. but he has promised to return for the- in rut how many different of fers, and the nature of them, that he hna for his next American ha wilt decide to make it. All of these have been reiusea n .iv n he wishes to be for a short time, at any rate, entirely free from every obligation. Charming Autumn Modes Rich in Beauty, Moderate in Price As Seen by H.Liebes & Co.'s Artiste Twenty friends, most of them former Hamline students, some of whom were classmates of Dr. and Mrs. Ker foot, were present, and many inter- esting stories were told, many old friendships renewed. After the dinner Dr. and Mrs. Kerfoot left for Can fornia. MISCHA ELMAN TO ENJOY INTERMISSION OF LABOR i. Deader Dasgae TtvacA Dae, ' aveiDesdae uc5sfo JLAecf. : r&tcA 0ea &aar Too Much Humidity Found in Trip Made to Country. Genrral Manage Delays Start While Mild Scramble Is Made for OlaBS In nnm.n IlrKwer. and Object of Search Bepoees 0k Mantel. . w Following Concert in Ocean Grove, Artist Will Go Abroad for Awhile, but Has Promised to Return for the Premiere. N1 BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. EW YORK, Aug. ,8. (Special.) Still one more appearance of the supreme artist who makes the violin his means of expression, for that is the manner in which Mischa Elman's art should be de scribed. Just what this instrument means to him may be realised from the remark he made recently when discussing his proposed sabbatical year or years. t Many will travel to Ocean Grove to hear that last concert, for it will be a historic as well as a sorrowful one, because a season without Mischa Elman is almost unthinkable. In speaking of this recently, he said, answering the question as to how he would spend his time: "Why, I shall play the violin, of course ! I had just returned from a Bouoon . koteL tour which included over 120 concerts and, within a few hours, indeed hard ly before I was unpacked, I went for the violin and spent hours and hours Irpon It, with as much freshness of spirit and as much joy aa though it had lain in its box for six months, and I was just privileged to have It again. "Looking forward to what people may suppose will be a period of idle ness, the only thing that looms large is the fact that I can spend as much time as I please in study, in practice, In the study of what I' plefe, in practicing what I please. I shall not have to intrude upon music, which I love passionately, thoughts of the public and of conforming to the wishes and pleasures of that public. "When I serve the public I feel that I have a duty to perform. All my own habits, likes and dislikes are put aside to put myself into condition to meet that responsibility. I am always con scious that the audiences pay for j BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. E WERE going to spend the week end in. the country with the Wells and there Was just about time to make the train. as we were loading half a dozen hand bags, umbrellas, golf clubs and other imnedimenta in the waiting taxicao. the general manager uttered an ex lamation of dismay. "My glasses,"' she cried. "I've left them and if X don't have tnem i u have a splitting headache all the time. "I'll get them, 1 voiunteerea ran back into the house. I knew the bureau drawer In which she generally kept them and gave It a gentle tug. It didn't budge. I tugged harder. The bureau rocked " on its stubbv legs. I yanked. The handle aenarated from the drawer which re mained as stationary aa the rock of Gibraltar. - "Hurry up," called the general man aser from below. We 11 She didn't hear what I muttered un der my breath. It is better you Khnnid not hear it. toot Then a brilliant idea struck me. I wmiiri remove the drawer above and reach ir for the glasses. I clutched hoth handles of the upper drawer. Then I braced my feet against the ii r f ths hureau. "No pussyfooting this time," I muttered to myself. "This one Is going tn nnen on the first try. Then I hurled my back, leg and arm mi.anlf. into a terrific heave. The next moment I was sitting on the floor whtch seemed to have come up and struck me in a region where I had not received such a blow since wood ahi liAvn with my father. The upper drawer had not stuck at all. On the contrary, it had come free from the bureau so precipitately that T fnund mvself draped with lace col lars, stockings and other intimate feminine garments of various delicate tints. Ttofnre T bad had time to pick my self un. there was a startled shriek from the doorway. The general man ager stood on the threshold. "1 m not nurt. But anxiety In my oenair apparently had not caused her outcry. "All my fresh laundered things," she moaned, as regardless of me, she began to gather them up. But I was intent on getting the glasses so we would not miss the train- I thrust my arm into the lower drawer through the space where the one which had caused my disaster had been. "What are yon doing now," de manded the general manaRsr, "muss ing up all my other things?" "I'm getting the glasses," I said not too cheerfully. The general manager muttered something which might have been "stupid!" or might hare been some thing else, but, at any rale, it was derogatory to my mental capacity. Then she darted to the mantelpiece ana grasped her glasses. "I called after you that they were on the mantel," she said, "but ydu were in such a hurry you wouldn't listen." - I was mute . . : . . .1: ...'.' V cDatfa Vary 7rco $kc 7uc4rf '7i, 7roc: of A&rf . 7crcc5?. Cl&resfcA. 76L frce 9 Other More Luxurious Modes $100 and Upwards Bl . - On Sale Tomorrow. 5 New Shipment, More Beautiful Than Ever, Finer Handwork, Daintier Patterns, New, Clean and Fresh ESTABLISHED, "JTXJRS ' 149-IS1 J864 . BROADWAY Hand Made Blouses Continue to Maintain Their. Favor for xFall Wear. I said quickly, to Finally we reached-he station. - At the ticket office I took my place be hind a stout lady who was paving an argument with the ticket -Clerk. "I had my ticket,", .She was; saying. "T -ought It three days ago and put it in the drawer of my desk, but, when I went to get it today, I couldn't open the drawer." "But madam," aatd the clerk, "1 couldn give you another ticket. .But you can " "It's an outrage,'" said the stout lady. "My husband was in the army in France more than a year. He had a very important position there' and was a 'K. P.' which must be just as good as a 'D. S. C' and, if he were here now, instead of traveling; for a very large firm that manufactures shoe laces, he would never allow me to be treated like this. I don't see why I should be obliged to pay for tickets twice." I glanced at the olock. It was a matter of seconds before train time. The station agent tried to speak again. The stout lady, cut him short. "If a big corporation like a rail road can't hire men with some respect for a lady, what is the country com ing to? My goodness! I suppose you doubt my word. .I'll bring the desk down here and yon can " . The ticket agent stuck hi head through the window and fairly shouted: "Buy a new ticket and you-can get ct "i for the other!" "Well, why didn't you tell me that before T' cuttingly. "I didn't nave a chance to say a word," sighed the ticket agent, but 1 was his only audience The stout lady had paid and departed. - We made th train, impedimenta and all. I was in a dripping perspira tion. Just as I was getting comfort able, the general manager asked to have the window open. - Running; True to Form. I squeezed the patent snaps, but the window did not move. 1. pushed upward on it. It remained tightly closed. To yank after yank it re mained obdurate. The conductor came down the. aisle and assisted me. Our combined efforts finally sent it up with a bang, catching my thumb and bruising lti With the first gust of bituminous laden air that swept through the open window, the general manager clutched her right eye. ' "Put It down, put It down," she wailed. "I can't . stand the soot. There's a cinder In my eye already." By the time we reached our destination- I had succeeded in closing the window. - The Wells met us at the station and we motored home. Just before sup per Wells asked me It 1 would have a highball.- "Would a rose bug refuse an Amer ican beauty?" I said. Wells went to the sideboard, which was one of the old-fashioned variety, with a small round wooden knob for a handle, I knew what was coming before he started. - The door stuck. He put his strength into it. The knob came off. I tried tugging wiUi my fingers at the fancy woodwork around the panels. The total result was a broken finger nail. f "Everything sticks this weather S said Wells. "Guess we're out of luck Can't get at the hootch." ' I agreed inwardly that I was out v of luck, but Wells could have gotten into the sideboard with an ax. Maybe I am doing him an injustice, but I couldn't help thinking that.he was In considerable Scotch. Maybe I am do ing him an Injustice. However, I felt he might have accentuated and prd, longed his effort. - That evening the general mahagf -decided to send some picture - post cards. I was lying In bed listening to the scratching of the pen and lona ing for the end of the week-end. . "Oh dear!" exclaimed the general manager. "What's stuck now?" I asked. "Stuck!" she said Indignantly. "Here's 40 cents' worth of stamps and not one of them will stick on & post card." (Copyrlsht, 1820. br the Bell Syndicate, it FT 105.0
