Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-30
BOHEMIA AND
IT'S DEVOTEES.
Forty Salt Lake Artists and What
They Did at the Commercial
Club Last Night.
LIFE IN ITS LIGHTER VEIN.
Art From the Family Furnace to the
Hurdy Gurdy Dance Against Which
Willard Weihe Declaims.

Bohemia, "bohemed" at the Com
merclal club until the wee sma' hours
this morning being interpreted
Il that some forty musicians. vocalists,
artists and quill drivers ate. drank and
made merry. BY the shapely insteps
of Trilby It was Bohemia sans steam
beer, sans clay curchwardens, sans
frayed linen and all the other things Du
Maurer has immortalizedl 10 quote
one fllppant young vlolinist, everybody
was there with their glad rags and a
hair cut"
Until the menu had been half dis
cussed the guests appeared to dwell in
the confines OF Moravia ana Austria
lust about the time the larded flllet of
beef aux champlgnons put in Its APP
pearance, however, the borderline was
crossed and the domains of Bohemia
we're entered. From that time on there
was plenty to distract. For instance,
Fisher Harris, attempting to deliver
serious speech was one OF the dlstrac-
tons. OF toasts their name was
legion. They ranged from Absent Art
lists aud no heel taps, to the Hurdy
Gurdy man.
Kenneth c. Kerr was toastmaster,
and he called upon practically every
body to hold up their end OF the log.
HARRIS CRACKED THE ICE.
After a solo by Miss Berkhoe Fisher
Harris broke the Ice by stating that he
felt embarrassed In such distinguished
society. Would you believe IT," he
declared, there are men here around
me tonight who have actually painted
pictures and been paid for them, and
others who have written things that the
newspapers have printed when they
were long on space" Mr.. Harris also
handled the musicians along the same
lines. He pleaded guilty to being a
painter himself In his salad days, he
SAID, he had painted several towns
red. All the Harris family were art
lists. Personally he tended the furnace
at home and recognized no artist In
that line save myself-people came
miles to view With admiration his mar
velous technique In that particular
branch OF art Mr. Harris then went
on to give his Views Of Bohemia, which
was place, he maintained, where
men and women could be happy and be
friends without faint OF suspicion.
Bohemia was a place where the lady
on his right would say 10 the lady on
the left that she sings beautifully. |
while the battered one would return |
the compliment that the first lady was |
marvellous musician.
WEIHE THE HUNGARIAN.
Willard Welhe then rendered cou- |
pie Of violin solos Hungarian Airs and |
TaumereD IN his inimitable fashion, |
following which some Phlligtine, who |
shall be nameless, struck UP For He's ,
Jolly Good Fellow" and Down |
Where the Wurtzburger Flows."
CULMER's PAINT POT.
H. l.. A. Culmer, representing the
artists, was then called upon for a
dissertation on art The speaker re-
eretted that he had such serious topic
assigned him-he wanted to get even
with Fisher Harris. The speaker main
tanned that art does not consist of
painting pictures on Hat surface or
bringing sounds from strings and
musical Instruments; without the in
fusion Of soul such efforts We're un-
aVailng Arts are not separated, he
said, they belong to one family. A
painter must use music terms. a musl-
can a painters and a poet all three.
Ant ana Intellectual pursuits generally
tended TO uplift mankind and refine
them, He asserted that art was fac
'or IN the sweetenlng OF life and the
soitening and uplifting of mankind
generally just as much as was the pull
ny he urged his auditors to put aside
al petty iealousies and use their tall
en'5 TO the best advantage.
ABSENT ARTISTS.
A standing toast to C. r. Dalln, EN-
ma Lucy Gates, Emma Ramsey, Jennie
sands Oscar Kirkham and other abb
sent artists was then drunk with u
YIN number of impromptu speeches
tpniloWed including Ben Cartright, the
Press and the Petticoats." Harry
Eooerts, Newspaper Life in San Fran
ESQ George h, Carpenter, ANY Old
ilulnsi Mrs. Mayne, 1T is Good to be
NONE Rgnei W. A. Wetzel, Work in the
n aaOlic schools" Miss Gray, "The Piano
,.saoner, the last eventually resolving
"'o a charming piano solo.
Me KNOCKS THE KNOCKERS.
e. j. Mcclellan followed with a roast
~ the knockers" In the ranks of the
a 'sal musicians. He urged that the
stus's meet more frequently and es-
oepilsn an epoch of good feeling among
saL III is disgrace the way In which
sy,ue OF US musicians speak OF each
SS'ner he said amid applause, II have
ys sen guilty OF 1t myself, but quit two
, yvMs ago. IL l feel. however, that q
II, N, Is charlatan l still say so.
a US get together often and have
soou time, get to know each other
e o,ser and generally help each other
r rs This he said applied to the
'"''''ers as well as the musicians.
ADDED HER TESTIMONY,
i, MISS Collier OF Chicago then demure.
49, 1.ose ana stated that she was not an
h., musician or newspaper reporter,
,bn.sue wished to add her testimony To
to,,o, VINO mad gone before. She had en-
'oyeu their testimonies"
SOME SERIOUS TALK.
A wizard Weihe was then called upon,
boon' applause he stated that there had
wishoaa great deal of Josh" but he
/, sb1i, 70 De serious He declared that
clan w. ue the object of every musi-
avo,,. ~ ann as high as possible. He
en- ,c,leu that Just as soon as a man he
dew toneeited II was very good evil
nndotna MAI he was inferior and did not
pain,oalahd his chosen profession. The
musIo,. htd the advantage over the
far h,n he said for he could trans
mnsIlf s l9eas to lasting canvas. The
the stnats pest work was often done In
stan '"uip when there was no one 10
shonid re was man OF moods and
We,ho pe Judged accordingly. Mr..
.be pe DE- predicted great future before
,Ime o at society. He asserted the
have tne organization were not TO
1ul 10 yolly good time and get full.
.epdoT ger together" He then pro-
Ia XXI. 70 deplore the tendency OF some
n ca lhat because they were horn
lrtis,. AXE that they were the greatest
iot h gong We are not. We have
hat in rocked In the musical cradle
be,. nus the youth OF Eurone There 1