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THE
7V^USIC TRMDE
Josephine Dodge Daskam has always writ- ter was the topic, when one enthusiast cried:
ten charmingly for children. Few juvenile "I'll lay all my money on the Har.bourg
writers have ever surpassed her, but she cer- stake." This, with the beef trust going at
tainly must have written one of her recent full blast, showed confidence at.jany rate.
poems in her sleep, and how it reached day-
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light is something the only McClure can ex-
We may well have confidence in the musical
plain. The explanation doubtless is that it season, for in addition to the Herculean
bore her name and that was what carried it. young Hambourg, we shall have Gabrilo-
Had it been written in prose it would have witsch, w r ho had all of Paris at his feet dur-
been charming, as it is very naive, verv sim- ing the whole of the winter and spring; Josef
ple and pathetic. The first thing we require Hofmann, of the army of Invincible Poles,
in verse, however, is rhythm and measure, as and Frederick Lamond, the Scotch pianist,
we do in music. It is certain that offering whom we shall hear for the first time. Be-
I T is probable that if the papers and the such poetry to children is not calculated to sides these, who are definitely announced, are
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writers upon musical topics had more inculcate that which we expect children to many others who yet hang in the balance.
to interest them they would cease discussing derive from poetry, and as everything that Among these are Rosenthal and De Pach-
the fitness or unfitness of Walter Damrosch Mrs. Daskam does is essentially delightful for mann—the lion and the—well, the Chopinzee,
as conductor of the Philharmonic Society. the little ones, this effusion is, to say the least, as he has been 'termed not inaptly by one of
New York's brightest newspaper men.
When fall comes with its onslaught of con- a surprise. Here it is:
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certs, Walter Damrosch and all his patrons How can I play any longer with my doll?
You
know
she
has
lost
her
head.
The
song-recital field will not lie fallow by
will find just how "fit" he is for the situ-
And Mary's the one that always fixed her for me—
any
means,
but will be worked for all it is
ation. What's the use in speculations? He
And Mary, you say, is dead.
worth
by
Van
Rooy and Journet, who feel
is elected to the position and that is all there Why do I leave the sand-heap all alone?
that
they
are
entitled
to some of the plums
Because it has dried and spread.
is about it.
And
Mary's
the
one
that
always
brought
the
that
have
fallen
to
Bispham,
whose admirers
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water—
are
not
worrying
in
the
fear
that they will
Meanwhile the talk continues of wo- And Mary, you say, is dead.
detract
from
that
which
belongs
to this great
men who are interested in a perma- More on the beach? Well, I think I know that too.
artist,
who
is
first
and
foremost
in
the hearts
And
you
are
the
one
that
said
nent orchestra scheme. There is no doubt
Mary and I should sleep in a room together— of all those who knows what true art in
that women are the moving spirits of all That
And now you say Mary's dead.
opera, oratorio or song means.
things musical. Indeed, if music were de-
No, I don't like the hotel—I'd be alone;
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pendant upon the male element Rudolf Aron-
Melba was announced to make a tour, aiv.l
I'd cry in that great big bed:
son would not be paying young Kocian $100,- And Mary and I played tent in the morning early— we have not heard that her plans arc changed.
And now Mary can't—she's dead.
ooo for eighty concerts, nor would they (the
Mary Munchoff, the young lady from
Happier?
No, not a bit! not a single bit!
male element) have been standing on the Then why
Omaha,
Nebraska, who succeeded in interest-
are your eyes so red?
bleak damp pier as the willowy Kubelik de- And Mary's the one that never liked angel-stories— ing Berlin, seems to have had the same suc-
And Mary's the one that's dead.
parted, thereby lending their invaluable aid to
cess with Wolfsohn, who promises her to
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the ever ravenous press agent and incidentally
America this season. Mmc. Kirkby Lttnn
But we all get a dash of wanting to jump will also be in his charge, as will Elsa Rueg-
swelling the briny deep with tears, genuine
over the traces. We like to glorify the senti- ger, the Swiss 'cellist, and Maude MacCarthy,
emotional, pearly tears!
Here is material galore for a symphony— ment by calling ourselves original, -but other an Irish violinist.
but alas! no one will write it, as Kubelik's people are less kind though sometimes more
What an array of nationalities! It is a
For instance, last week I
modesty would prevent and none of Ihe other to the point.
lucky thing that Miss Munchoff saves the sit-
artists could be expected to set into such dropped in at the Grand, where Rose Cecilia uation, otherwise we might forget that
Shay was playing the role of Calve—I mean
prominence "me hated rival."
the Americans are able to do anything except
Carmen. All went well until the third act,
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foot the bills.
W'hen women go into things, whether as the act where Carmen, after climbing rocky
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music patrons, writers or anything else, it is mountains, rests herself to read her fortune
However, we shall see what will be the at-
a great pity that they do not enter to glorify in the cards where she finds—death! There
titude
of Walter Damrosch to the American
rather than to degrade. It may have no is no doubt that Miss Shay felt the desire to
composer
or performer. He will have to be
bearing upon musical matters, but I have in dc something madly, wildly original, and to
very
broad
to bear comparisons with his pre-
mind the poisonous, the venomous outbreak the young lady's credit be it said—she suc-
decessor,
or
predecessors for that matter, for
of Mary MacLane, who has the sang-froid of ceeded. Calve in all her glory was not ar-
Seidl
never
let the fact that an American
an Ouida as gloatingly she sets forth all of rayed like this! She appeared in a spick and
was
an
American
prevent his receiving a
her basest self for the gratification of seeing span bicycle suit of tan with several rows of
hearing
any
more
than
he prevented any sort
herself in print. Of course, the book will ribbon around the bottom of the skirt. The
of
thing
because
a
man
was an American—
sell. There are thousands of people whose fit of the Eton jacket as well as the hang of
and
yet
how
little
encouragement
our home
tastes are low enough to enjoy seeing how the skirt were faultless as a Red fern could
people
receive.
How
fortunate
that the
many different kinds of "damn" she knows make them, the immaculate shirt and four-
American
nation
is
noted
for
its
grit,
its long-
how to say, and it will take but a few chap- in-hand, the yellow riding boots and the
enduring
patience,
its
stolidity,
its
ability
to
ters to find out that she is past-master in the Spanish turban which she wore coouettishly
wait
and
hope,
its
power
to
rally
after
in-
art. Butte, Montana, which has in its midst a added a great deal of mirth to the scene as she
cessant disappointments—how fortunate in-
great many genuine ladies and gentlemen, stood beside a trunk labelled "New York"
deed! Were these not the characteristics of
to
read
her
fate
in
the
cards.
She
must
is to be sympathized with for the undue
the people, the American musician would long
have
read
the
fate
of
the
company
as
well,
prominence which it is receiving at the hands
since have ceased to exist.
of this very unique personage, who really be- because it suspended animation at the close of
Emilie Frances Bauer.
the
week.
That
red-haired,
or
rather
auburn-
lieves that her feelings alone in book form
locked
tailor-made
Carmen
was
too
much
for
constitute all that there is to the State of
Montana. But Montana must realize what tradition, or Eighth avenue either for that
poor Martinique has undergone, as there matter.
is no telling how long cither volcano will re-
Although Oliver Wendell Holmes has said
main in eruption. It is understood that Mary
that
a pun is the lowest form of wit, the fol-
MacLane did fear to reveal some of her
lowing
very remarkable conversation oc-
thoughts, but since she has become accus-
All our Instruments contain the full Iron frame and
curred
one
day last week in a restaurant
tomed to the blackness of them she dares do
patent tuning pin. The greatest Invention in the history
known
for
its
attraction
to
musicians
and
wits
of piano making. Any radical changes in the climate, heat
now what she did not before, so she is to
dampness, cannot affect the standing in tone of our in-
in general. A discussion of the specific merits or
struments, and therefor* challenge the world that out*
publish an additional volume of "damns."
of the artists to appear in America this win- jriU excel any othes,
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