The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
he IS new.
CreatOre Makes His First APP
pearance in Topeka.
His Methods Are a Decided
Novelty.
IN THE FIRST iCLASS.
His Band Hardly Up to the SOr-
rentinO Standard.
Nine. Barili Appears for First
Time in Week.
n THE FIRST iCLASS.

vertising. Creatore is the Jim Dumps"
who is used as the trade mark for the I
advertising of the newest Italian band /
Howard Pew and Frank Girth, who I
make up the push, are working under |
the primary rule for success in the com I
mercial world, viz: If you have a
good thing advertise it." 1t is a poor
rule in trade that viii not work in the |
musical world
When you buy package of the latest |
patent process ready to eat food you
find a printed slip which will explain
that after you have been induced to
try the first package. you will keep on
using it. The same with Creatore. If
you have heard him once you VIII go
again. This is true of those who at
tended the concert at the Auditorium
last night
Creatore can be compared with many
eccentricities in the human race. He
might be compared to d man with St.
Nitus dance. He might be called the
wild man from Borneo. He might also
be called the what is it," The interest
centers about him. When he walked
onto the stage last night and the fifty
three members of the band arose, DOTTED
their caps and stood at attention. the
audience was quite ready to be demon
strative If the number had been suffi-
cient and Creatore could have stirred up
sufficient frenzy he might have been
kissed and Rugged like HObsOn or had
his clothes torn from him like Kubelik-
The audience was almost like a mob,
waiting for the first shot or some one to
cry for rope.
As an eccentric band leader Create
fulfills the promises of the advertise
ments- He began easily enough but he
warmed up to his work, round by
round, until he was in a frenzy of ex-
element The first on the programme
commonplace and the theme is so in
definite that even a bootblack, who can
whistle most anything, could not re-
member 1t today In the second num-
Der. William Tell overture Creatore
+ worked uD to the almost nervous pros
tratlOn stage Crea tore kept his feet on
the floor but he went through almost
/ every mOtlOn and every position posi-
bic. His gyrations were not meaning
less and his every movement, even to
his finger tips, was in time to the mus
ic.
Creators danced. he pranced, he stamp
! ed and must have sworn in Italian. lie
waved his baton over the musicians
with more force and sweep than a Mis-
sourian could give a blacksnake whip
IN driving string of dozen mules.
+ Representative Nation. could he weld
the political lash as Creatore does The
baton, would be the party whip par ex
cellence.
Creatore hushed one section of the
band with his left hand, prodded the
4 opposite section with his right, sighallen
/ the drums and brass with his head, led
the oboe with his lips and controlled the
flutes with his feet. He occupied at
least a space of ten feet square and
/ even then he leaned far over the heads
OF the musicians. waving his arms and
his baton and shaking his head He
+ knocked over music racks and had his
/ own rack dangerously tilted on one leg
half the time. He bent his knees al
most to the floor and with his arms out
ct = a
I governor for the pardon of her son, he
I begged the musicians, he entreated them
and then, suddenly strengthening his
body until every muscle was rigid he
would suddenly throw out his clenched
fists, raise himself on his tip toes, throw
up his head. jab his baton straight at a
player and as quickly recover himself.
CreatOre was first erect and then III
a crouching position. First he swept his
baton over the entire band, and then he
singled out the individual players and
gesticulated like one gone daft. He ran
from one side to the other. All of the
time his face was expressiOnless and his
/ mouth was open. He kept his hands III
| motion like a juggler with six little
/ white balls and silk hat and oil lamp
in the air at once. The back of his head.
with his long hair and one particular
scalp lock in motion. contained far NOR
expression than his face. Then he waved
his baton over the big end of a bass
horn, the same as Hermann the great
does when he takes a white rabbit Ola
of ? mans hat
The press agent says that Creatore
takes no exercise: that he gets all he
needs while directing the band. That is
| true. He works as hard as Murray &
Mack in their slap stick comedy. The
irish PaWnbrOkerS." The press agent
also says that after every concert Crea-
tore is given an alcoholic bath and rub
down If any alcohol was secured fer
that purpose in Topeka the man who
signed the druggists permit for il could
not say it was for medicinal nor me
chanical purposes. lie would have to
say it was for advertising purposes
CreatOre, as a band leader, is like the
man who pufs out his cheeks and puts
on great agony in playing a trombone
He can play just as well without infiat
ing his cheeks and without getting red
II the face, but the effect Is worth some
thin=.
It was not a tremendous audience
which greeted Creatore and his band.
/ but 1t was larger crowd than would
nave gone If the organization had been
announced simply as an Italian band
and the gymnastic conductor had not
been kept to the fore. There were about
1 800 in the audience. italian bands are
| bulling the market. There are a half
dozen or SO in this country. where peo-
PIE viii pay for music more literally
! than in Italy, to say nothing of a dozen
other concert bands ready to tour the
country at the drop of the hat So q
new band must have a distinctive fea-
ture: therefore Crea tore.
The audience which saw Crea tore and
heard his band. was appreciative but
/ there was no demonstration, unless the
exuberance of some out of town band
! men which resulted in few peanut
gallery yells. could be counted as a
sign that the audience went wild - The
applause was generous and hearty and
Creatore was generous with his encores
but was slow in responding.
Creatore's band is good one It Is
easily in the top notch class. Anyone
is apt to think that the last band they
have heard is either the best or the
worst. This holds good with Creatore's
organization Some of the old faVorities
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