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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
Cap-and-Gown Days
WHO’S
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
EW YORK.—Meeting Francesco
' Malipiero at a party in the Roy­
al Danielli in Venice, soon after the
World war, I thought he was one of
the most charm­
Malipiero
ing and brilliant,
Was Person
and, at the same
to Remember time, most cryptic
men I had ever
seen. There was in the company
another Italian musician, a famous
conductor, who was the lion of the
evening. I have forgotten his ap­
pearance and his name, but every­
thing about Signor Malipiero is viv­
idly remembered.
On the way home in a gondola, I
asked the conductor for an apprais­
1—-Dr. Hugo Eckener, German dirigible expert, who came to the United States to seek lifting of the em­
al of Signor Malipiero as a musi­ bargo on helium gas by Interior Secretary Ickes. 2—George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England, shown
cian. There was considerable con­ leaving
Westminster cathedral after the wedding of the queen’s niece recently. Behind their majesties are the
descension in the reply.
Princesses Margaret Rose, left, and Elizabeth. 3—Tilden Burg, president of the Corn Belt Liberty league,
Malipiero was gifted but er­ who has marshaled farm opposition to the Agricultural Adjustment administration crop control program.
ratic, it was even hinted that he
was “unsound,” in some deeply
subversive sense. But my Virgil
NAZIS SEEK ARREST
eagerly agreed that the signor
was a most extraordinary hu­
man personality.
As recently as four years ago, . a
Malipiero opera threw the Royal
opera house of Rome into a tumult
of howling and cat-calls. Mussolini
banned it as “inimical to the faith
and sound teachings of the new It­
aly.” But, by this time, Malipiero
had become a world-famous musi­
cian, and he was soon restored to
favor.
This status is unquestioned as his
symphony, "Elegiaca,” was given its
first performance
“Outlaw” of
in New York, with
Music Now
John
Barbirolli
conducting.
For
Is Lionized
many years, criti­
cal opinion discounted him as some­
what of an outlaw and disturber.
Now it has caught up with him, as
it did with Stravinsky and Richard
Prince Felix, twenty-two-year-old
Strauss. Both the “Fire Bird” and
brother of exiled Archduke Otto,
“Salome” were met with cat-calls
pretender to the Austrian throne,
when they were first produced.
for whose arrest a warrant has been
Critics note some mysterious “en­
sought by the Nazi public prosecu­
ervating influence” in Malipiero’s
tor. It is alleged that the prince fled
new symphony. It may be an after­
from a Vienna military academy to
thought, but the explanation seems
The baseball season is still in its infancy, but oratory has already the Hungarian border the day before
clear as I recall my conversation begun. Here you see Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants using German troops marched on Austria,
with him. His face saddened and up some lung power protesting a decision of Umpire Barr. As usual, taking with him his silver table
he seemed ten years older when I the umpire failed to lose the argument.
service valued at $1,000.
mentioned the war.
For bis ballet, “Pantea,” he
BLOSSOM QUEEN
had written of “the struggle of
a soul hurling itself into the
struggle for liberty, only to find
oblivion and death.” The war
had been to him a tragic and
devastating experience. He said
it had profoundly shaken both
his art and his life.
Never again would the suave flu­
encies or banalities of music have
meaning for him. He was impelled
to a deeper search.
This disillusionment was subli­
mated in irony. He was suspected
of slyly sabotaging
Suspected of
the grandiose new
Sabotage in
Italian state. It
was in March,
New Opera
1934, that his op-
era, “The Fable of the Exchanged
Sons,” with the text by Luigi Piran­
dello, all but caused a riot in
the Royal opera house.
So far as I could learn at the
time, there was no brash heresy in
the work, but, as elaborated by the
text, a subtle hint that ultimate
truth is forever elusive and supreme
power dead sea fruit. That, of
course, is dangerous doctrine in a
totalitarian state, and it was quick­
A dainty queen is Miss Dorothy
ly and savagely resented. ¿The next
Impressed with the world's present militaristic attitude, Charles
day, Il Duce forbade another pre­ McBride of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
whose scepter is a spray of apple Weidman and his modern dance company adapt the military in their
sentation.
blossoms as she rules over the 1938 newest New York production, “This Passion,” wherein men and women
Malipiero is a>poet and a mys­
blossom festival held at St. Joseph are presented as eternally wearing gas masks and carrying canes readily
tic. Of dominant presence, with
and Benton Harbor, in the heart of adaptable for use as rifles. Here members of the troupe are pictured
sharply cut Roman features and
‘ strolling on the avenue in 1960.
Michigan’s fruit belt.
hair brushed back in a thick
pompadour, he is at the same
time extraordinarily gracious,
friendly and unassuming.
He lives in a quaint stone villa,
forty or fifty miles from Venice,
centuries old, rambling and tumble­
down. Cut in the stone door lintel
there is a Latin text, “To the ob- i
scene, all things are obscene.” That
was his answer to the critics of one;
of his operas.
The art of living engrosses him as
much as the art of music and he
studiously main­
Has Gift for
tains a relation­
Friendship
ship of courtesy,
With Animals dignity and friend­
ly intimacy with
the creatures in his retreat—he has
a gift for friendship with animals
and thinks that much of the trouble
of mankind is due to its insensi­
tiveness to the subhuman and su­
perhuman. His music is apt to range
into those zones.
He was born in Venice in 1882,
beginning his violin studies in his
sixth year. His father was a politi­
cal exile and the family was in
Germany for many years. Wagner
was a crashing strain of modernity
which profouhdly affected his work
The Ump Is Always Right
In colleges throughout America,
academic careers are closing for
thousands of seniors. Now come
ceremonies traditionally connect­
ed with spring and graduation.
At Wellesley (upper left), winner
of the annual “hoop” contest will
be the first to marry. Below is a
typical college alumni festival as
old grads reunite for commence­
ment activities.
t
Big “Applesauce” of 1960
Class day at Harvard each spring
means cascades of confetti, a tra­
ditional joust with paper between
seniors and alumni.
King Zog of Albania and His New Queen
On commencement day graduat­
ing seniors will file past their col­
lege presidents to receive the
“sheepskin” that marks a close to
college days. It also marks “finis”
to campus friendships, or the end
of a schoolday romance. Other
young men and women graduates
will march direct to the altar, to
start a new career under auspices
of Professor Dan Cupid himself.
As the 1938 crop of college grad­
uates faces its new life, America
hopes the going may be smooth,
and that each may find his niche in
the world of business.
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WNU Service.
Quarrel or Fight
King Zog of Albania and his queen, the twenty-two-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary, after
“Many a man seems to enjoy a
quarrel,” said Uncle Eben, “on de their recent wedding at a civil ceremony in the great hall of the royal palace. The wedding was or.e of the
theory dat it’s better dan a fight.” most brilliant functions in recent European History.
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