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NOW THE MUSICAL FIREMAN.
San Francisco Man Claims He Can Extinguish
Fires by Singing to Them—Some Harrowing
Possibilities if the Idea Reaches Broadway.
According to Charles Kellogg, of San Fran-
cisco, he possesses the power to extinguish a fire
by singing to it.
Fire, says Mr. Kellogg, who denies all wizardry,
ij vibration; and just as it has been shown in the
laboratory that one vibration may annul, control,
silence another, so the proper one will still the
vibration of lire, and, when the vibration is stilled,
the fire is out.
Mr. Kellogg makes no claim that any human
voice can sing to quietude the vibrations of a
conflagration. The extinguishing vibrations must
be of volume commensurate with those to be con-
trolled, but he does maintain that the fire-fighting
operation in the future will be based upon these
principles. According to this theory one may live
to see giant tuning forks or musical instruments
taking the place of the fire engines.
If the Californian's theory really proves correct
we may soon expect to observe some interesting
sights along the Great White Way when there is
a small blaze in the premises of a publishing house.
The firemen arrive with a rush and start into the
building with their hose, axes and other weapons
of destruction. At the door the professional man-
ager and his assistants meet the fire fighters, re-
lieve them of their paraphernalia and distribute
professional copies of the latest hit. Firemen and
boosters join in a flood of melody and the flames
are drowned out.
The only drawback to the scheme seems to be
that some unscrupulous publishers might send in a
false alarm in order to get some cheap publicity
for a new number.
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NOW THE STRAUSS BALLET.
MOST POPULAR OPERAS.
The Prominent Composer of Operas and
Symphonies Now Devotes His Talents to
Ballet Music, Which Will Be Figured in His
Latest Opera "Ariadne at Naxos."
The German Theatrical Register and Year Book,
just issued, shows that among the operas the
"Magic Flute" and "Fidelio" each led in 1911 with
208 productions. "Figaro's Marriage" came next
with 165. "Siegfried" came next with 133 and
"Tristan and Isolde" followed with 132. "Der
Rosenkavalier" and "Salome" were tied at 69.
Among the operettas the "Count of Luxembourg"
led with 1,794. "The Dollar Princess" dropped
from 768 in 1910 to 414 during the present season.
According to a dispatch from Berlin Dr. Richard
Strauss, who has hitherto given vent to his crea-
tive genius only in operas, symphonies and songs,
has now gone in for the compositon of ballet
music. He announces that he has undertaken to
compose a ballet for the corps of the Russian Im-
perial Opera on a theme worked out by the libret-
tist Hugo Von Hoffmanstal and his collaborator,
Count Kessler.
A ballet will also figure conspicuously in Dr.
Strauss's latest opera, "Ariadne at Naxos," which
will be produced for the first time at the Royal
Opera at Stuttgart in October. Dr. Strauss said
in an interview this week that "Ariadne" would
be the most difficult of all the works he had so
far produced, which certainly holds out a prospect
of strenuous labor for singers and orchestra.
The work, which is in two acts, is about as long
as "Salome." Each act is preceded by an overture,
and, apart from the strictly operatic score, Dr.
Strauss has written incidental music to accompany
the purely dramatic episode of the piece.
PREMIEREOF "GIRLFROM BRIGHTON."
A new musical production entitled "The Girl
From Brighton," by Jean C. Havey and Wm.
Becker, opened at the Academy of Music, this city,
to-night with Raymond and Caverly, the prominent
Dutch comedians in the principal roles.
"MY BEST GIRLMN CLEVELAND.
"My Best Girl," a new musical play by Channing
Pollock and Rennold Wolf, in which Clifton Craw-
ford is starring, had its premiere in Cleveland on
Monday night, where it met with considerable suc-
cess. The show will reach New York and be pre-
sented at the Broadway Theatre early next month.
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