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VAUDEVILLE, HUNT'S CRATERIAI4
Capl. Bett, Rita Ward and one of
night
The Tragedy
Polk whoso OHthftie affection
m-e wufflcit-ntly divided hetvoon
jiot'try and miiHtc find pleiiHin-e,
mtmotimcH, In druwtnrr nniiloKk'H
between the prent oxpunentN of
one art find thono of the other. It
In common, for liiHtmice, fur one
wIimsb Immortiil IoiikIi'Kk nit xtlr
rod by tho (diiHHtr tittftninceH of
Milton to ftil Hi nil la rly exulted on
hearing tbe cnthedrnl-like inuwU
of Hni'h. Tliero In an IrreproHsible.
Joy or life in the llnn of Heiriilt
tlmt HiiKK''HtH the ptumiforte munie
of .Mewlelnnohn n nd (he H.vnipho-
n(e of llnyiln; tho affinity he
tuVen Hchuninnn imd lliownilritf.
tho roinnntlcft, Ih phi In; and be
tween Schubert and HuinH, the
Font? writer. There Ih no end to
the K'inie, hut In tho eon rue of
playing It, one finds one imiHicul
mind that of lieelhoven ho
nearly unique, ho ninny-Hided, ho
vast that, like (hut of ShtikeHpeartt
In literatim, there Ih no atiuloKouH
figure to he found.
It him nlwaj'H Iteen difficult to
define the position of licet hove n,
for neither the life nor the work
of the man wan InKintlatintf. lie
came upon hln art at a moment
when It was ado1encent and nlni
lenR. Ho found the pianoforte a
itttident'H prartlce tool, and he
made of It, with the literature ho
leave it, HomethttiK on which n man
might make a career. He found
tho orcheHtra u salon fixture hy
which nohlefolk danced and drank
ten, and turned It into a niifchty
voice which may expound a phllo
Hophy, or narrate a hhku. He took
the tnUHio of tho period, about
JSUO, which uiih waverlnff between
the Itoman monuHliclHtn front
which it had Junl been freed, and
thn Vlenneno frivolity by which it
wuh being: threatened, and Kelstinff
It in hiH great fists, wrought nn no
one had before the great art ntruc
tureR which, after a hundred yearH
remain with uh In hucIi vigor that
none dares to name a day when
they will no longer Inspire. .
The Detached Ur( or the Master
The contomporary hlographleH
of Beethoven, written without per
spective, were no doubt accurate
enough in eHHentiul detail, hut like
those of AVaHhlngton, failed some
how to make him human. Ho be
lieves KrncHt Newmn nin a ctmten
nlal exsay published last year by
Alfred Knopf on "The UnconMclous
Deelhoven." According to New
man, lteethoven, tho man, did not
AHHumo n very definite n-ewmn t
form, in tho eye of the student,
until the publication of the great
hlogrnphy of A. V. Thayer in lXfiii,
nearly forty yearH after the man
ter's death. In the broader anil
more searching view attained by
Thayer and his follower, lteetho
ven stiffen no diminution as a
great artist, but iih a human crea
ture among hi fellow men he due
not seem to have radiate! at all
limes Hie same hentgu influence
which hlH music shed upon the
world qf art.
Indeed. It appears that l.udwtg
van lteethoven was a man almost
Incapable of human rcluttontdilps.
Tito rugged honesty with which he
RADIATOR HAS PROTECTIVE SHIELD
I
pui.aWUM I ll
Few pct'Hons, even Including the
owners of tho cars, have ever seen
the front af the Oraham-t'alge
s-udlator for what appears to he
the radiator Is really a protective
phleld, a separate unit concealing
nnd guarding the core Itself. Be
cause of Its convex form, with Ms
lipex to the front, the shtvld adds
in the general stream-line effect of
the car, suggesting speed like the!
hurp cut-water of a yacht as com- ;
j.orcd to the flat prow of a barge. ,
Graham-Paige shield adds to the '
beauty of the car. It In built to
resemblo the standard panne nger
car radiator, and Is mounted in- :
vide the radiator he, In front of !
tho actual core, which Is flat. This
i-tdiHtructlon hos several practical
advantages of considerable value. (
their performing seals on Wednesday
program
of Beethoven
jHcrved his muse was not always
j present in his hualnenH dealings
and friendships, If we may believe
certain letters and nienioli'H that
have come down Ho us. incon
1 Htancy and Ingratitude marred at
! Home tlmo or other nearly every
human attachment he formed. He
jnuver married, but Ih said to have
been In love all his life. One girl
I held his affections for seven
months, which he himself remark
i ed wiih very near a record. The
; Viennese aristocracy, on wIiohc
( patronage lie lived, he reviled reg
lUlaiiy with great vehemence.
Hut after 100 years it Ih only the
IgenliiH of Beethoven that counts,
aiwl the living genius seldom con-
forms to the society of his time.
; Perhaps his arrogance and hail
I manners, which were notorious,
jnnd Ills egotlHin, which was almost
sublime, are little more than evi
dences of his detached mental
I viewpoint, which rarely look ac
! count of persons and events about
hlin. HIh contemporaries credited
jhim with a dual personality. They
! could not believe that the same
man who could Hit ut 1ils piano and
Compose the tenderness of the
j "Moonlight Sonata" could get up
and inarch over to the house of a
i friend and spill beer Into his piano.
But we who look back through
100 years of experience with musi
cal genius find It more likely that
Beethoven like one life at at) times
i on a plane which, unfortunately
for his associates, was fur out of
their ken.
Beethoven was horn at Bonn, a
thriving city In the Hhlne country.
I December 1 (1, 1770. 1 1 Ik father
jwaH ft musician in the court of the
local elector, but was seldom of
j use to his employer or to his fam
, lly because of drink. One of the
earliest pathetic notes In the life
of Beethoven are the stories of tils
having to go and beg his father
i from the tolls of the police. JUh
mother wan a peasant, had served
; as a domestic cook, and probably
I offered little to her children In the
iway or cultural guidance. But his
l paternal grand fat her, a man of
! Hound musical Judgment and stern
purpose. Is the first to whom the
; world Is Indebted for the develop
ment of Hie lteethoven genius. Of
the Influence which this good old
man ' had upon tho impetuous
youth, there Is no better account
than the early chapters of Itomaln
1 Holland's "Jean-l h r I s t o p h e."
' C'hiistophe was o composite ehar
jacter, hut there is hardly any
'doubt that his youth was fashioned
after that of Ludwlg an Beetho-
Ven In his teens.
1 Not a Child Prodigy
There is no evidence that the
ordinary mastery of the piano and
,lhe violin presented any great dif
ficulties to young Beethoven. He
'was not a child prodigy lit the
: Moart sense, but he was not dull.
Tlie smooth facility of composition
ami performance which made .Mo
zart famous at 10 was not Beetho
i ven's and never got to he. But
lie played well, especially the
piano, and no one ever knew him
i to lack whatever was necessary to
iThe greatest, of course, is the pro
jection It gives thn radiator core
from dnmiiKc.
I Minor Injuries that would punc
ture an unprotected core will
merely dent the shield of the (Ira-ham-Paige,
which may then be re
paired easily. If a new shield Is
'necessary. It Is far less expensive
than repairs for the amO injury
to an unprotected core.
By the use of the "dummy"
radiator front, (iraham-l'n I g e
achieves distinction of line without
Kncrlflelug radiator efficiency. In
fact, the actual core Is sturdier
than tt could be If the radiator It
self were mndj convex. Because
it Is concealed from view. It Is
built as a purely tnchiinlcal utility
without sacrificing efficiency or
BlurUinues fur iippourunco,
fTT)FOTm MXTf;
"SEVENTH HEAVEN" AT'HUNT'S
if V
j Hunt's Craterian Theatre to Open
Craterian Theatre
No wthat the Vitaphone has
been introduced to Med find show
goers. Hunt's Craterian Is present
ing for the first time a .Movietone
synchronization' A program tha
wll startle and amaze with Its
beauty In story and music. The
feature, "7th Heaven" Is said to !
be line of the finest productions of
any type ever screened. Taken
from every angle It is perfection.
carry him over nny difficulty that
confronted them. At 10 he left j
...jftie, going to Vienna to shape j
fireer, nnd never returned u. j
Bonn. He played for Mozart on
ono occasion, and received the j
master's praise. He studied a, i
while under Haydn, the favorite of ;
all Vienna, hut the young man's
soaring spirit was seldom In agree- '
ment with the counsels nf the
older conservative and lie left j
Haydn soon, lhat ho might bo free,
lo try bis wings. He began with i
songs nnd piano sonatas, and met i
almost immediate success, mean- !
while keeping the pot boiling by !
filling concert ami drawing room I
engagements, his wonderful play- j
lng having made him a well known j
figure from the start. j
Beethoven'H first years In Vienna j
were spent chiefly In Htudy under
Huch ' masters as he considered
could benefit him. and continuing ;
for such tlmo as tho masters could )
abide his rebellious spirit. The 1m- j
pulse to compose settled more I
strongly upon him each year, and j
hy 1H00 his first sympathy was
finished and performed, and his I
smaller works, particularly those (
sonatas pianoforte of vhleh the '
"Pathelii'uo" Is best known, were '
clearly Indicative of a new and
masterful genius. It was In these
years that ho might, had he been
so disciplined ami persuaded, have
ingratiated himself Into the social
life of Vienna, but the opposite
course he chose rendered good j
friendships embarrassing to those i
Involved, and all but Impossible to 1
the ones who would have placed j
him in the way of ease and afflu
ence. He did not get on with other t
musicians, not because he was
Jealous, hut rather because he i
would not commune with them on ,
anything tike equality. He seemed
to be serenely and cluirvnyanlly
couscIuuh of his own unlimited :
powers, and probably would have I
recognised similar powers In an- '
other If there hud been such an j
one in Vicnnt at that time.
The Tragedy of Deafness
In this period there came to him '
the first warnlngH of the great
calamity which for the next fifteen '
years slowly closed in upon him '
and sealed his soul from the Influ
ences of the outer world. It start- j
ed With a buzJim in his ears which
at first was instructing, then an
noying, and finally deafening.
Often he aided his hearings by
plating one end of a stick upon ,
the sounding board of the pi. mo
and the other upon his forehead.
There is nothing more p;ithVt!e ;
than his letters to trusted friends
ut this time, attempting to explain '
mysterious actions of his that were '
duo to his Increasing deafness,
without disclosing to them the .
exent of his misfortune. He liked
to create the impression that his
hearing was mill good, for a good
deal of his living depended upon
public a )t pea ranees, But there
came a time, one of the saddest in (
the annals of music, when ho at
tempted to conduct an orchestra
ihioiiKh a new work, and because
ho could not hear, the orchestra
got out of hand; nnd It was neces
sary for his friends lo come for
ward and leail him from the hall,
his proud head bowed and his face
wet with tears. ,
The helpless feeling of horror
which settled upon him. more ,
poiKnant perhaps than that which
seized Kipliim's blind painter in
"The Mgtjt That Kniled.1' threat
ened for a while to crush all hope
and Inspiration. Thoitah he was
constantly In the company of
beautiful, sympathetic women, nnd
though his heart was strangely
susceptible, he knew that love
could not he encouraged, and that
man late was not to he thought of.
He never was certain of the cause
of bin deafness, nor Is anyone to
this day.
How valiantly Beethoven rallied
his spirits ami resources only his
music can tell us. Perhaps his1
other senses sharpened In answer
to that sympathetic cull which en
ables a blind man to hear and
touch more K nly than other
men; perhaps, when his deafness
shut out other sounds, his powers
of concentration redoubled. What
ever resulted. It Is certain that
Heelhoven s music. In the later
years of his productiveness, took
mi n broader scope, a loftier con
ception, and n more philosophic
meaning than lhat of nny man
who had ever composed before
him. The last three pi.no Noiwitn.
perhaps the noblusi of their klnU .
TTHBTTOT?, MftDFOKTIi,
Movietone with "Seventh
i ml more than that It has lost
none of the appeal or beauty of the
Tho characterizations of the i workor lhe " B,'w- of r,ll is
players are said to be Inspired, j 11 w;iif r thft PariH streets. But
particularly that of Janet (laynor, I because of the glorious doctrine
who appears as the winsome, of courage which it preaches and
frightened and finally glorified : the marvelous things it does to
"Diane." and Charles Kan-ell, who oth of their characters it has1, been
Is the handsome, egotistical, gen- called one nf the greatest and one
erous and thoroughly lovable, of the most beautiful Iovl stories
"Cbico." .ever written.
AL JOLSON, HUNT'S CRATERIAN
ii - I,, ,IM .iU .,
Al Jnlsnn In "The Jazz Singur," with the Vitaphone, which is now
playing at Hunt's Craterian Thuatre. is sending (lie audiences home
amazed and astonished tit their first introduction of this marvelous en
tertainment. Jolson's voice 1ms that plantivo (unlity that will lift you
out of your seat on a thin whisper. He can lean out over the footlights
nnd choke off a sob with a laugh. He playst with an audience in the
manner of a snake chnrmli: the bird.
in literature; the Incomparable
"Ninth Symphony." and the last
group of string quartets which nro
lo be mastered and understood
only wit huntlring patience and
sympnt hy. are all known to havo
been composed after Beethoven
RIALTO
That Rootin'
Tootin'
King of the
Prairie
SEE IT NOW
He'll have you
Laughing .
Cheering
and Gripping
Your Seats in
This Big
TWO IN ONE
ATTRACTION
,ALS0
ROTHERMELS
MUSIC
AND
GOOD ADDED
8HORT SUBJECTS
Admission
Matinees Evenings
10 and 25 10 and 35
QftMOtt, SPNlCT,
CRATERIAN
Heaven," Thursday, May
i "7th Heaven" is the story of two
;of th(. ,mvewt tytoa ()f parisians,'a j
was tolall ydcaf. His music, like
the sonnets jind tragedies of
Shakespeare, is now taken for
granted and somehow defies praise
or criticism. He composed with
Infinite pains. lie seemed to re-
j spond very little to what Schubert
TODAY
ONLY
Continuous 12:30 to 11 P. M.
3st0aArts Tomorrow
jfadu'MllIOM.
MAT 57, 192.
felt as iiibptiMlion. -
A circumstance that never falls
to strike thu fitudei.i of Beethoven
Ik the fact lhat. in snlte of his
innumerable woe,
abounds in humor.
his m u s 1 c
4
mii wi.,...u m iri.ir,,
The hahitrf of Orientals who live
'in heir own iiuartfiM In American!
j cities are always of .interest to ih
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mi i
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Lfft& "THE JAZZ S
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. llilik' 4 complete ATTEND. THE &
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AL JOLSON
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ot
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