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I . , ' ' - . ' ' - ' ' . , I ' " -. ' THE OREGON - SUNDAY JOURNAL), ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, ,1908. jrtHH FIRST concert of the Port l I land Symphony orchestra waa j I given Friday afternoon at the 1 " Marauam and c roved beyond doubt that the Portland public ran and will support a local orchestra. Huch enthusiasm Is seldom evinced here outside of the few concerts annually klveo here by stars and If It was en couragement that the players wanted they must have left the building Frl- lay with their hearts full. The house was crowded and It rang with ap plause. And the applause was well deserved. it was really surprising to hear how Mr. Dlerke, the conductor, has brought' la orchestra Into shane In the short of rehearsing. Orchestral finesse M not mastered In a day or a week or M month. It Is not as with a soloist, jsrbo baa only his own faults to struggle with and master. An orchestra playor tnust learn his part not only for himself but in relation to all the other Instru hienta, There was no ragged work even hough In some Instances It had not eea polished down to absolute perfec lon through lack of time. But the 'layers appreciated the Interest shown it them and they worked with a. will und surpassed their work at any of the enearsais. The program was well chosen with he popular and Joyous "Coronation March" by Meyerbeer to open the pro gram, the Beethoven symphony and the ompllshment and the Dvorak Slavonic nnce as a little lighter In nature and 'till keeping ud the high tone of the Ivork. The symphony was the most Inter esting, naturally, of the orchestral lumbers. It Is the C minor symphony. he best known and the most popular 'f Beethoven's symphonies and yet not 'ailing below his standard. In this ome assert tnat he nas broken away rom the rules of such compositions, his playing of the Faganlnl variations, and the audience Insisted upon his re turning to the stage again and again, The following program was given: "Humpresque" (Dvorak), "To a Wild Ross" (MscDowell-Oesner), "Etude de Concert" (Florlllo). Mr. Gesner: "Etude" (Chopin), "Prelude" "Ballad," Miss Byrd; "Aria," from "Roberto 11 Dlav olo" (Myerbeer). Mra. Sletton; "Non Plu Mesta." theme and variations (Psganl nl), Mr. Gesner: "Romance (Rubin stein), "Caprice Espagnale (Moskows- kU, Miss nyra; me Nignungaies gong" (NevInK Mri Bletten; "Madrl gale' (Simonsttl), "Scherco" (Hubay), Mr. Oesner; "Polonaise E Major" (Lint), Miss Byrd. The Musical Courier says In re perma nent orchestras: "Another musical sea son Is about to end without the estab lishing of a single new permanent or chestra throughout the length and breadth of this long and broad land. Verily, In one sense those foreigners who doubt our real musical progress and our sincerity In art are not very far from the truth. Even In 'unmusical" England excellent symphony orchestras exist In towns of the smaller size, anA 1. 1. . I. I n m ex.. .-, r .1 T sented at watering places that would correspond to our own Lakewood, Palm Beaoh, Hot Springs, Aahevllle, etc., where the only music heard is the coon variety, alternating witn rag time marches and trashy comic opera tunes, and an occasional 'Merry Widow' waits solo perpetrated on a squeaky ho tel Dlano by a half-baked girl amateur. We may be progressing musically In America, but the pace Is that of a snail. Psrmanet orchestras are the only convincing badges of a really musical nation. Oscar Hammersteln of the Manhattan has bravely undertaken to institute an other reform. He announced last week thAt he would discontinue the time-hon ored hotel ticket agencies and that here after tickets would be procurable only at the box office. Mr. Hammersteln as serts that he "has discovered an affilia tion between the hotel agencies and ticket soeculators and that the seats are sold at a high advance to those who lsh to be saved the annoyance or standing in line. It Is said that the aoprano for her ninth year at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church In New York. In the evenings she will sing In ner rourtn season at calvary M. ta. church of East Orange, New Jersey. Lent Is a very musical season for It represents 40 days of scale. In this fiaragraph the fish Is father to the bought Exchange. w Ellen Beach Taw, the coloratura so prano, was engaged to sing the title role In "L.ucla" at the Metropolitan March 21. w Miss Barah Olancs was the soloist Friday evening at the weekly recital at hitlers hall. COURIER HANDBOOK Of Valuable Information IIAwKIl,, ,JI piano You JA VAJ.OORDT CniCAGO c&YMPJIONY 0ECn."B6TBA. Violinist and Cellist to Be Heard Here Soon. iut other authorities say that close ttudy will snow he has observed all the fundamental laws of symphonic compo- tltlon and has merely colored the wholo 'Ith so much originality and such ln- ensity or reeling and varying moous hat the first effect is almost bizarre, t Is a tragic composition relating, it a said, the storv of his own love. It fs a work of Ideality and individuality. 'he rirst movement, wnicn is me Ijortest, but many think the richest fa!Kni08t brilliant, waa not given by jhe Orchestra Friday. The concerto was played with sple.i flld effect, and Mrs. Dlerke added scores f admirers to her retinue, jier worn was perhaps the most brilliant she has -Iver done. The concerto was played (Vlth dash and vigor, and througli all ; ha difficult passages her work was ilMtlnct and clean cut. It rang keen ind true above tho accompaniment of ihe orcnestra. rne orcnestra, Dy tne ra.y, did some of its best and most ex cting work 4ln this number. Mrs. )lerke had chosen some of her best fork from her recent concert program, nd the Saint Baena, "Le Cygne," Into rtiich she puts more feeling, I believe, nan In anything else she plays, was eautlful. The Rosenthal "Papillons" fas played with her usual clever apldfty In staccato work. The do Vohloexer etude was brilliantly done inA her charming encoue, the Poldlnl Japanese etude with Its chopstlck time, was delightful. Her other encore was She Henselt, "If I Were a Bird." The roup gave a charming touch of the .modern composers. i Mr. Dlerke had to bow often for his york with the orchestra and .the audi ence did its best to show its apprecia tion of all they pot. Undoubtedly the hint eoncert will be eaaerlv looked for- miinh larger nudionce for there would e no place for the music-hungry people. The space of about a column and a alf was given by the Musical Courier t New York last week to quoting en tire The Journal's unfavorable criti cism .of Paderewskl's concert here re cently, and extracts from these columns joncernlng program annotations and the ale of programs In the aisles as ln rtlHttcallv demonstrated at the Pader- wskl concert. The Courier gives these s an instance that even theT'far west" an outgrown the worship of this dema niim. In the followlnK issue the edi- a, t ,1 Vtll',,1 In rlpllirht ftfirt Hilt Jittto surprise at the scathing critl- ijswns witn wnicn tne -long-nairea "Oie ' was greeiea in me mrger umcs f California and he passed several ompliments on the musical dlscrlmlna lon of this out-of-the-way country. Tha people of Hood River showed heir appreciation of the bestln music ijp? turning out in goodly numbers on frlday evening to hear LeRoy Oesner, lollnist. Miss Winnifred Byrd, planlste, nd Mrs. Oertrude Sletten. aoprano. Much credit is due Mrs. Sletten for the uccess of the concert, as it was entirely bnder her management. . I in 7 TJ. waa at hap mnA riumphant performance -of, the , Llsst : malar Pnlonaiss oroved her to ba an krtlst. iit. Qeener created a furore by box offices have In past years become a mere farce except where the purchas ing of the worst seats Is concerned. The best seats are sold sometimes at an ad vance of 60 per cent. The Pacific Coast Musical Review, published In San Francisco by Albert Metzger, is to have a special Rose Fes tival edition in June, which will be chiefly devoted to Portland and Its mu sical progress. Miss Kdith Nlles is Mr. Metzeer's representative in town and is arranging for the articles to be con tributed by prominent Portlnnd mu sicians. Vocal work, piano work, violin work and orchestral work of Portland and Oregon will be written about by prominent musicians of Portland. A feature is being made of the advertis ing of Portland musicians and this edition should arouse a good deal of In terest In Portland. The muslo today at Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal church will be as follows: Morning Organ, "'TIs Thus Ordained" (Mendelssohn); anthem; offer tory, bass solo, "It Is Enough (ttlljan), Mendelssohn) ; organ, march in Q (Whit ing). Evening Organ, "Andante'' (Ba tiste); anthem; offertory, duet, "For ever With the Lord" (Gounod), Mr. Boyer and Mr. Yates;) organ, proces sional (Batiste). The choir: Soprano, Mrs. E. B. Miller- contralto, Miss Evelyn Hurley: tenor and director, W. H. Boyer; bass, Charles Cutter; chorus of SO voices. Slgnor Xj. D'Urbano, who played two successful engagements at the Oaks in 1905-6. left for Chicago. Monday last. He expects to return to Portland later In the season with a large and carefully selected band of musicians. Miss Bertha Dart of St Helens, will sing at the next meeting of Mrs. Wal ter Read's Tuesday Afternoon club. Miss Dart has been studying all winter with Mrs. Reed and has a very sweet soprano voice. Savage's "Madam Butterfly," given In English, has made more money for the manager thlspast season than have any aozen ouier woras in roreign tongues tor ino oiner opera managers. Constantino, the tenor with the San Carlos opera company, who won such marked approbation here last year, Is reported to have signed up with the Manhattan ror next season. Michael Kegrlze, formerly of Phila delphia, who is now conducting the Seattle Symphony orchestra. Is receiv ing high compliments on his work .. .. The Portland High school has a chorus of 60 voices, mixed, which Is holding weekly rehearsals under' the di rection of Mrs. Walter Reed. ' Mary Hlssem De Moss, who Is to be the soloist with the New York Sym- Shony orchestra when It comes here In line, baa just been reengaged aa solo, The Musical Courier has an Interest ing "Answers to Correspondents" col umn In the last number that Is really refreshing. Among the Information given are tnese bits of elucidation: "Is It a sin to play or sing opera musio on Sundays?" Aroantha. Yes, the way some people play and sing It. "Why have I never been able to near the Brahms symphonies in .eoKUK, Iowa?" Studious. Just luck sheer good luck. . Is there any money .- in music? "Mother. There mum ue, for few of them ever get any out of It. n-a.o Kiiim-at some appropriate music for home during Lent." Mrs. M. E. Church. Any Jolly tune will do, so long as It makes yon ieei amer-n. "H nil v Ten me now i -n 1 ,M1 m- Ing mistakes when I play the with my hands crossed." Kxact .Vir,nl,l rrnm vour eves nlso. Whv Is Chopin's C Minor Prelude so ehort? Legato. It will be long enough before another such masterpiece la written. . ,., Do you believe in the tonic Sol Fa? Professor P. We do not know It. The tonics we prefer are Ayer's Barsaparllla and Vln Marianla, but Dubonnett and Amer Picon alBO have some strong ad herents. Is Wagner's Ring" round? H. H Nn It la lonir. "Could you tell me the compass of the double bassoon? Orchestral. Yes "Please give a short sketch of the life and works of Mendelssohn." Teuton. Mendelssohn wrote the "Wedding March" and the "Hprlng Song," the lat ter being a violin solo henrd often be tween nets at the theatre. Mendels sohn's name appears oeraslonally on the program of male choruses in southern Germany. His first name was Felix. He died 'Is there anything louder in music than f f f f ?" Teacher. Yes, Paderewski's piano playing this sea son. "I have upon my piano a score of 'Salome' and one of Telloas and Mell sanda.' Yesterday I looked at the two works of genlug and tell to wondering. Which will last longer'.' Can you toll me?" Manhatma. That depends upon the binding. groom bega to tea it, not knowing Its sinister history, Butterfly beseeches mm to wait ana jays it away with rev erence. - Uoro. the marrlaa-e broker. approaches and whispers to the young naval officer I "It was aent by the mi kado to her father with a message " The young offloer asks softly:- '"And her father r "Waa obedient," replies Qoro, with a geaiurs inaicaung nan-nan. In the second act the fatal dagger appears araln. Qoro, anxious to make a- aecona marriage commission, presses tha auit of the amorous Prince Tama dorl, strong In the belief that Butterfly had been deserted by her American husband. Butterly. squally strong In ins raitn ibat her husband will return, rejects the nrlnoe. Oorn nmwti ihmif the premises of Butterfly and insinu ates to BiisuKi, taa raitnrui maid, "that no one knows who la the baby's father." Butterfly, enraged, takes the sacred dagger, rushes to Uoro with "Hay't sun ura 11 sin you, uoro howls for mercy and flees. Butterfly lets her eyes fall on the pagger and Is horrified at the thought that she Is about to defile the blood of her ancestor with that of her enemv. She totters to the shrine and restores it to Its place with a prayer. In the last aot of tha opera the om inous dagger appears and completos the calamitous mission for which fate bad destined It. In this act the poor little fnlaha wife Is brought to a realisation that she has been sot aside by hlrn she loves and siiDnlanteii hv "a ri American wife," who Is anxious to take from her the idol of her heart, the baby son "Trouble." She sends for Suzuki to play with the child without, and then prepares herself for th final i.. .. She stands before Buddha motlonlessi lost in thOUirtlt. Then hnnlni h.zt... ths god. she offers un a. nraVsr Tain. the dagger from Its wmn Hj.m, .hi piously kisses tho blade. Holding It before her eyes, she reads ths mikado's niRinvru on ins mane: TO Ala With hnnnp h.n longer live with honor." She then retires Imhiml ii a..n -j ends her unhanptness. Puccini, with his exoulslts musical grace, symbolizes the dagger and Its tragic significance wlt.i r.rn,nr. .v.. L" onr, ?f ,h" f"clnatlng bits of his New. Books And Their Publishers "0 sensual PRIL FESTIVAL j Grows in Interest I It Is well to see ths northwest ss sumlng Its rightful place In the artistic as well as the commercial world, and no small factor In the establishment of this posltlun Is the annual musical fes tival planned for Oregon. This will be tho festival of three days in Portland April 10, 11 and 12. by the Chicago Symphony orchestra and right well chosen Is the list of attractions. The large chorus which Is rchearslns; under . II. Uoyer's direction, will be heard at three of the five concerts to bo given and will present several In teresting works. Max Brucn's "Fair ji-iien m R surring martial and dra matic work relating the story of the siege of Lucknow and giving the so prano and baritone soloists a splendlj chance for good work. The Swan and (he Skylark," by A. Goring Thomas In a more pretentious work and very beautiful; beginning with the death chant of the swan represent ing the despair of life. The cantata rlowes with the Joy of summer in thd song of the skylark representing tha Joy arid triumph of life. The greatest Interest, however, prob ably centers In the production of tho "Messiah." which will be heard Sunday afternoon, thus giving to it its proper religious sitting. The four vocal solo ists with the orchestra will bo heard in the well-known solos of tills oratorl) and the chorus will give seven num bers. The orchestra will give a three-performance festival In Eugene and there a chorus of IDH Is rehearsing under the direction of Professor Irving M. filen. "The Holy City" and "The Golden Leg end" are the Bong pieces to be given there. LD Wives for New," by David Graham PhlUlpa-Mr. Phillips has had the courage to "call a pade a spade." There la a vast difference between the and obscene and the truth tripped bar of sentiment and romantic ism, and Mr. Phillips has had the wis dom to discern this difference, and oon fin himself strlotly to tha latter, and therefore has produced a book that la perhaps In advance of the times though we are growing to It rapidly and wruch will necessarily be accepted witn hearty approval un the one hand and vehement disapproval on the other. The student of social economics will accept the book as a forerunner of a class of literature which will produce an evolution along domestlo lines, and emancipate both sexes from a thraldom never meant by the creator, and which will place marriage and the home on a higher and more everlasting foundation. To those still bound to man-made Ideals and the canting religion that uses sorlpture to fortify either side of a case they happen to be on, and who believe In eternal punishment here and here after If a few priestly words are set lde. Mr. Phillips' book will sound the knell of the departing family life and the destruction of society through the instrumentality of divorce. Both these views may be a trifle extreme, but with out question "Old Wives for New" has sounded the note of a new dispensation, and leads the reader out into a broader and more exposed vlow of life and Its reality, shriveling sentiment with the limelight of truth. A prologue Introduces the reader to a beautiful hoy and girl Just breaking into maturity. Every surrounding con tributes to the call of nature, and the boy and girl rejoice in their awakening. The story opens 17 years after, when Charles and Sophy Murdock find them selves the parents of a girl already en- and wife, but tha bond between them had been but that of the animal nature, while maturer years demanded comrade ship and companionship, and Sophy had not prepared herself for this demand. Had she been one of the many who are forced through circumstances to lag be hind, the sympathy of the reader would be with her: but she always had ample means and unrestrained liberty and could have kept in the march with her husband. Througli the Intellectual emancipa tion which Is coming to women through coeducation and political equality which will eventually come to women through the ballot, 'the Sophy type of women must gradually pass. These are forces which will hasten the day of the "super man," and make Impossible the repro duction of the Sophy clasa In the meantime women might turn the advice of old Dr. Bchulze to Sophy onto them selves and ask a few of his practical questions, at the seme time hoping that Mr. Phillips will write another book and give the reverse side of the picture the woman whose Intellect and ambition goes soaring upward, while the stunted man weights her down by the egotism of his self-importance. These are both types, happily disappearing, but need ing lust such light of truth as we are getting In "Old Wives for New," to dls-, slpate the lingering fog. Mr. Phillips, In Julie Raeburn fore casts this Ideal type of woman; the wo man who can rise above the convention alities Of life to do a noble deed; the tender sympathy that can touch the fal len without fear of contamination; who has made herself economically lndepend ent and earnod tha right to choose a husband rather than a supporter, yet has that exalted idea of the fitness Of thlnsa that will not Dermlt the smallest detail of the toilet to be neglected, and recognises the power and necessity or being well groomed and well gownea lr he would achieve success. The book certainly lays bare the secret social and domestlo sins and cuts deen with the cruelty of the surgeon's knife, exposing the very vitals of society; but tne au thor. In the earlv pages of his book. gives his own best answer to the critics who condemn this kind of enlighten ment. He says: "The first Impulse of humanity's anger toward new truth of any kind comes from the laziness mat shrinks from the labor of learning; but the anger abides because the new truth 1 riATHOLIC PROBLEM nir -ii i: ",. ( fui ivicuiouisia wutia The Mufclcaf Courier takes exception to Cardinal Gibbons through an article entitled "Cardinal Wisdom and Cardi nal Sin." While In Baltimore the cardi nal answered the question, "Is it a sin for a Catholic to attend grand opera during Holy week?" with the decision, "If a Catholic goes to grand opera dur ing Holy week with tho Intention of Improving her mind and getting pleas ure from hearing good music, then I do not think it a- sin for her to go. The question was particularly perti nent, for the Italian contingent of the Metropolitan company was engaged for season of grand opera during Holy week in Baltimore. The Courier re marks that to tho average sophisticated New Yorker who knows his Metropoli tan repertory of the "Italian contin gent," It would seem as though Cardinal Gibbons were not quite as au fait along the same lines. "Let him examine tho librettos of the operas to be produced in Baltimore that week," the Courier writer savs. "and then tell his questioner whether he Is of the opinion that her mind will be Improved by association with those par ticular stories. We do not know ex actly tho operas selected for Improving the minds of tho fair Baltimoroans. but some of the masterpieces in the Metro politan's Italian repertory aro the musical tales of the licentious Don Giovanni; the adulterous Turrldu and the erring Santuzza (In 'Cavallerla Rus ticana'); the wayward Nodda (in 'Fagll accl'); the cocotte Manon ('Manon Lcs cnuf); the betrayed Gllda ('Rlgoletto'), I Mimi ana itoaoiro i jBoneme ), who ror got to marry each other, and Vloletta (Traviata'h who makes no secret of her ancient but not honorable profes sion. "We have no desire to be too severe on opera as a means for creating mus ical excitement and affording the best possible opportunity for dress display, but we do protest energetically against allowing Baltlmorcans to form any In correct Ideas about grand opera based on the Innocent and well meaning words of Cardinal Gibbons." N EW REQUIREMENT For Future Policemen From tne Rochester Post-Gazette. From Boston conies the following In teresting dispatch: "Because he whistled 'The Merry Widow' waltz on the street, Henry Schmalzreld today was arrested by Po liceman Croffert. Croffert said in court that Schmalzreld showed no technique and little regard for tho laws of har mony, whereupon Magistrate Rau fined him II." The case is of more than ordinary In terest, and suggests many possibilities In the way of civic reform. If the Bos ton case H to stand as a precedent, It will behoove the city authorities to In- upposed to be beeatfle opportunity Is so seldom recognised when -it appear a, and tha winged feet: "Because, . , . He cornet h ever upon plnlona fleet, to flea aa ewlftly." . 'Tha hook, contain something like '70 short poems, man of then having de cided merit, and none of them poor. About many of them la 4h suggestion of tha Irish melody and a poum to "Moor of tha Melodies" Indicates tht admiration the author has for the IrUh bard. Mlsa Donnelly, however. Is evi dently something of a hero worshipper aa a number of her poems are in scribe-1 to varloua heroes. She strtkes the key note of this disposition when she dedi cate the book: "To Our Illustrious Chief Executive, His Exoellency. Presi dent Roosevelt,' and calls the turn on " bis name: . They bullded well who named the Theodore. The gift of God. for to our age thou ' art a gift divine!" Richard U. Badger company. Price $1. "Verses by the WaysJds," by Edna Smith De Rau. In launching this little volume of poems the author makes a modest little prefatory note saying she should have waited till her men talities were more mature ere she al lowed her products to enter the literary mother they were put In book form and fileasure enough will come front them f It satisfies these dear ones, and then Just the little hope that they may find favor In the sight of others. To be randld. many of the poems do show the pen of the amateur, but even these hold a promise of future strength and polish. The author shows the unmistakable poetic temperament and many of her thoughts hold great beauty and re served force. A few are In minor key hut there 'a a bright optimism and sweet modesty about them all, and every one, from the best to the poorest. Is wholesome and hopeful. Richard O. Badger com pany. Price $1.60. "Poems." by Helen Elizabeth Cool Idge. This Is a collection of unusually beautiful poems, all polished, rare and full of music. Without the shadow of gloom or sad ness about them, they are all of a reverent and devotional character. It 1s a collection from which one could not single out and say that this, or that, was better, for there is little degrea of excellence In them they are simply all good, snd that Is saying a great deal for a collection of over 130 poems. If many of them have not already been set to music one could safely pre dict for some of them a successful career as devotional songs, aa for ex ample the little poem entitled "Forward GoT' "The promised land to every soul Far in the distance gleams: t Oo forward then, nor halting watt. Dream thou no Idle dreams. While yet "tls day, still forward rb. Keep thou thine armor bright: Whose time Is spent In vain regret. Shall never win the fight." Richard O. Badger company. Price ft. The April number of Aburban Life covers an unusually wide range of sub jects, and is exceedingly entertaining, as well as eminently practical. The leading article Is by Ernest Har old Baynes, the well known naturalist, and Is entitled, "My Wild Animal Guests." This Is essentially a story of personal experience with the denlxens of the wilderness. "How to Have Berries All Summer," by Parker Thayer Barnes, Is a practical story for the amateur, with striking and out of the ordinary Illustrations. "A Fire In the Country," by John Foster Carr, is a bit of vivid word painting, which will be appreciated by all people who have lived in the coun try. Governor Magoon has ordered tha ex tension of road building in Cuba, for the purpose of affording relief to the unemployed. David Graham Phillips. Mail Orders Received vow rmoM both at AMJt OUT Or TOwTT -ROR. Season Tickets and Single Concerts f;aged to be married and a son at board ng school. Murdock has been a suc cessful business manager, and is counted one of the financial magnates of the country. He has kept pace with the world, while Sophv has lagged be hind. She had not been one of the self- cludo music in the examination of can- ! sacrificing wives who had helped the dldates for the police force. The man wno aspires to he "one of the finest" must havo a correct ear as well as hardy muscles and ability to wield a ciud. tie must have a knowledge of the harmonic laws as well as an nr. man to rise, for Murdock was not the man to need It, but the autnor says was "A woman of the familiar type fa miliarly known as settled. Plainly ahe regarded her life as past Its climax': and tho stage of physical and mental quaintunceshlp with municipal regula- ! deterioration indicated in slovenly cor tlons. Ho must know when aii offender ! Pu'ence, in carelessness of toilot. In is murdering tho tricky sextet from ' stal0' monotonous expression of eyes. fioroaora or tha waltz from "Th Merry Widow," and he must be able to tell the exact degree of crime In volved In whistling "Love Mo and the World Is Mine" or any other popular air of the hour. Of course, such an oAanijiiaiion wui De ratner severe on the umiu iunie, mii ine result cuiciiiauie nenerit to soc means let us have statutes to regulate I "To glance from her to her husband the performances of unrestrained whis- was to have the Impulse to commiserate tiers who persist in fracturing all the ' them both and to wonder. For it was proclaimed that she had been of thi mind for soma time, several years at least. Indeed, she bore suspicious re semblance to those not rare women to whom the matrimonial altar is tho top most tip of feminine ambition, is the infill naiit luni n uu ii nim ii iiuw v will be nj in- feminine life flows ever fuller, and be cictv. L"y all ynd which it abruptly ebbs. iwb ior inose wno have a correct ear ivr uieiuu -S3 JAPANESE HISTORY J Shows Pretty Idea Henry W. Pavage's editor of "Tips and Tales'' writes an Interesting bit concerning some of the Japanese cus toms introduced In "Madam Butterfly." About the dagger In this opera la woven a pretty story of Japanese thought In the medieval days of Nippon, when the shoguns were de facto rulers of the land and paid obeisance to a mi kado whose deification by his people isolated him from the ken of all save the shoguns; when the fiery samurai sustained his dlamlo or feudal lord in revolt against the' ruler, the institution of the harl-karl was established for the purpose of punishing those of rank that rel NPAID-FOR MEAL Causes Disappointment 1 under the displeasure of the sover eign. The "august mandate" from the mikado, the "Son of Heaven," waa real ly a lettre de cachet. It came in the guise of a "message," and if accom panied by a aword or dagger from the mikado, meant that the receiver was condemned to suicide. The Japanese Ideograph for hari-kari. translated means "the happy dispatch." The weapon, with the blood still orr the Diaae, was then plunged in melted wax to form a preservative coating, and was then given to the family, who held It In great - veneration. In the first act of the Puccini opera, before tha marriage scene. Butterfly begs of her lover that she be allowed to keep "a young girl's possessions." Among these is the fateful dagger with which her samurai father mad the "bappje dlsgtJsh" yjut American bride-1 K a Tetrazzinl sot a good example the other day to thoso musicians who Injure their own standing and their own pro fession by their habit of giving their art gratis. The Pleiades club invited her as a guest of honor at an elaborate dinner. An Informal entertainment fol lowed and the president arose with the following flattering speech: "Madame Tetrazalni's singing can only be com pared witn that of a lark. She is the greatest songbird that has ever visited America, and has no peer in the world. After the next number Madame Tetrai xlnl will favor us with a sing." But the peerless Tetrazzinl merely mounted the platform and gave lavishly of her boys and smiles gratis and said coolly: "Not this evening. ' Just picture the disappointment of the club which had given her a dinner for nothing! But after all, it must have been an expensive dinner, for the diva can command in tne neighborhood or xi,uuo a night for her singing. The Courier, in relating tho Incident, significantly adds: "Amer ican alngers please copy." A GRIEG INTERPRETER jljL Wanted for America 1 rtVtHnna nfl hor hnvlnr rpfused tn live and having begun a long placid death of dry rot that the man to whom she was married stood lust at the beginning of the age of achievement This picture one carries through the book with them. Bophy has other characteristics which often accompany this kind or women; ior instance, tne author says, "she was classified by the casual as good natured because of the widespread delusion about tha relation ship between the girth and good na ture"; she also constantly Impressed upon ner husnana ana family the obii gat ions she had put them under through her maturnity, and she was also firm in the belief that Its horrors wiped away every obligation ahe owed them. In this picture the author has shown a scrutinizing Insight Into the domestlo life of a large class of people. In it hp has undoubtedly given the woman the worst of it, but while such women ex ist they deserve It, and what Is mora, need Just such pictures of themselves, which we hope may act as disinfec tants. Murdock. un to the time he became one of the "idle rich," was a model hus band. The career of Murdock. with Berkeley, and tho other men and women who enter into It. Is a composite or modern social life. A critic has said that out of this life grew the divorce which later terminated the marriage bonds between Murdock and Sophy. This we do not agree with. Murdock was not a weak man, and associations only influence the weak: It undoubtedly pol ished Into greater contrast the husband Is essentially a caustic criticism of the old error and or all who persist in it D. Appleton & Co. Price, 11.60. "My Life and Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians, bv Major-General O. O. Howard Beautifully Illustrated with full-on ir enir ravinirs. chiefly from photographs supplied Dy the bureau of ! ethnology. Washington, and a series of colored plates showing Indian objects of Interest nnil curiosity In facsimile. While General Howard cannot be classed with the great soldier writers such as Grant. Sherman. I,ongstreet, Gordon, or even the direct and curt Sheridan, yet everything he writes has a peculiar Interest to people of the west, particularly this portion of the country where ne has a nost oi personal acquaintances and udmlrers. The present book is written, as al most all his other works are, auto- biographlcally. Tho nrst chapter is a brief history of the Howard family, and then the writer gives a running nisiory of his experiences during the civu war. Tnlrlnir nn the beginning of his rela tions with Indian warfare, when he was ordered to Florida, uenerai nowara goes Into elaborate detail and describes nearly all the Indian outbreaks from tnat time until uin uaum ui uuuucu Knee, which closed forever active or Important hostilities between the Inr dians and tho government. It is all material that has been gone over again ao-atn Kut nnmln from tha nen of General Howard, the last living general I of the civil war, ana ne Deing one wno ranked so highly in all the Indian wars of recent years, it win De receivea witn appreciation and with an assurance of its authenticity. General Howard does not confine him self entirely to nis own persona.! ex- f f in f I v I n U'lm f wmilA he n nomnrehenslve understanding of pres ent conditions, it Is necessary to revert to original causes wnicn were orten years in wormng to a cuiiiiiuauun or uprising of the hostile tribes. In this way one gets a great ueai or nisiory nut of the book aside from the events In which General Howard participated. Altogether this is a much more read able and interesting book than General Howard's two-volume "Autobiography," which was published late last year. It 1s more to the point and has less of the unimportant personal in It. The illustrations are unusual and re markably good. A. D. Worthlngton & Co., publishers. Bold only on subscription. POmT3VBT)'S BIO AJnnjAIi Musical Festival AT ARMORY APRIL, lO, 11, 12 CHICAGO SYMPHONY 65-0RCHESTRA-65 Adolph Bosenbecker, Ooadnotoc 4 TOCAX lOLOUTS 4 lo-nrBTxuMxsTAx. Bo&oirrs io 300-CHORUS-300 nUOAT WIGHT Grand Orchestra Concert and "TAXM ILL1F." By Max Bruch. Story of ins aiega oi i-iucanow. SATT7BDAT APTEBVOOIT Popular Orchestra Concert. SATURDAY HTOXT Grand Orchestra Concert and "TStll WAX AND THE SKTXABK." By . T 1 rr-i A- AAlilllg X llUlIlttO. BTJITDAT ArTEBVOOV Grand Orchestra Concert and 1 IQSSIAH." By HandeL SUNDAY NIOXT Grand Orchestra Concert, with Vocal ana instrumental Soloists. . XXFOBTAHT BXASOV XIOJTETS , t&M SACK Good for Five Different Concert in jnr ideation juesireo. Inga Hoegebro of New York haa re cently written a letter to the Musical Courier, asking for an Interpreter of Grieg. She argues that Grieg la de serving his own special Interpreter, as well aa are the other composers. She mentions Paderewskl aa the interpreter of Schumann and Liszt, and DePach- mann as the Interpreter of Chopin, but says we have no great northern pianist in America to Interpret the Greig con certo In the true Grieg spirit. She says the Americana have never heard him played In the true northern spirit, and that this is the year such playing should be Introduced when hia death has brought him back afresh to the memory. Mlsa Hoegsbro sneaks highly oflclallv the last two rages, bq strongly J&Wj&&gl.Z flayjdj. demand. :; v , ; as soloist at the great memorial con cert In Christlanla last September. This pianist is a son of the ramous ixorwe- gian composer Aliitiuv cayaoi-wwiiumu, who died last summer in her beautiful home near Christlanla, and from child hood he had been brought up on Grieg music, having played the concerto under Grieg's own conducting. TA writer spoke of It as a brilliant Interpretation, revealing the true Grier spirit, a warm, poetical, northern dramatic virility. "Tne two penurmers vi mo urieg concerto, heard In New Tork this win ter," the writer says, "were not familiar with Grieg. One realized that after hearing them play the first measures of the composition, 'j ney dia not Beem to Understand Grieg, for their playing -was far from the northern spirit of his beau tiful work. The performers lacked a great deal In strength and power not nervous force but a northern, virile, dominating power, which the first meas ures, as well as other passages, espe- 'In Pursuit of Prlscllla." bv E. S. Fields This Is a little love affair, told entirely through conversation. It Is light as a feather and about as airy and dainty. Prlscllla Is the petted and spoiled belle with several beaux dan gling expectantly at her belt, all of whom she encourages and to none of whom she commits herself, until Billy Cartwrlght gets a half-way promise from her and holds her to It Much of V. nnm.nv.. tl I. nTA. V. . , n tlnn onA lonn fif a llttlft Antr whlrh truth to tell. Is more to develop and lengthen the story than any real inter est or bearing It haa on the romance. Just as Billy thlnka he has his lady love secure she announces a sudden trip to Europe, and by clever stratagem Billy checkmates ner by successfully marrvlna her an hour before the ves sel sails, and as Mr and Mrs, Cart-1 wright tney sail away in tne sumptuous apartments Billy has engaged on the Deutschland. Henry Alteraus Co. Price 50 cents. . s . " ?' PBXOESl Evenings and Sunday afternoon- I.iowor floor, Z, 11.60, II; balcony. i.ov. oaturuay matinee z&c Ik maxtj obsebs nxcsmixt Prom This City and Out of Vown. jtiau oroers ior season uegeis : re ceived Mareh 20. For one, two or I more concerts not season;, receive March 27. Regular window- opens Jiyru , tavs. HOW TO OBDEB SEATS Address letters, make check' and money orders payable to W. v. i. gle. Manager Heilig Theatre, Port, land, Oregon. Inclose self-addressed stamped envelope to Insure safe re turn. Season orders taka tore? At Inn.. a ..... -it u j - . "T,;""t!" The Secret of tha Statue." by, Elean or C. Donnelly. The poem from which this little volume takes its name is a poetical description of - the statue of ' '"OuDortunity." too often referred to ml song and story. The statue is described - aa having tho long hair shrouding tha i lacwjand . winge fe,V vTb ttlxt 1 I BOX OFFICE SALE -OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 3, at SHERMAN & CLAY Kl'SIC IICISE
