The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
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Band Master Who Has Excited
Music Lovers Arrives.
His Fifty.three Musicians March
in Line to Hotel.

Creatore and his SO italian band men
are in Topeka. They arrived this morn
ing from Kansas City and all walked
from the Santa Fe depot to the hotels.
The So players clambered off the train
and stood on the depot platform for
moment as dazed as a flock of sheep
Finally one Of the players worked up
courage enough to move He headed for
the first door he saw. The other % fol-
lowed him The bell weather stalked
through the door and found himself in
the baggage room He backed out but
every one of the other 50 had to go into
that baggage room, just like following
the leader, and dodge out Then the
leader headed for another door. It Op-
ened into the ladies' waiting room In
he went and the 81 followed him. The
leader headed for q door on the oppo-
site side which opened to the street. and
the 81 followed him in single file For
seven or eight minutes there was sin
gle file of Italian musicians, Juggling
leather band instrument cases, from the
size that hold a DiccOlo to the big ones
that hold the tubas going through the
waiting room and into the street.
Then, With almost military precision,
the = formed file of twos behind the
leader and up street they went AS
they came to hotels and gallant So stop
ped and those who could find room and
/ lodging would drop from the ranks and
the remainder would march on 10 an
other hotel This was kept up with
marching and cOuntermarching until
I the So We're located.
Guissippe Creatore did not join the
cavalcade. He and Madam Brill, the
soprano. walked up town to the Ma
tional together. They wanted exercise
and from the detected appearance Of
Creatore when he reached the hotel, he
got it. When CreatOre walked into the
! hotel, carrying a dress suit case, he
/ looked as worn out as man in six
1 day walking match al the end of the
race. Creatore looks just like the pic
lures of him, printed in black ink on
4 white paper. His hair, his moustache,
4 his eyes, his eyebrows and eyelashes
are as black as printers ink and his
face is as white as the whitest OF cal
endared paper In every day life
Creatore's face is as expressionless as
a hypnotic subject He looks as if he
was suffering from chronic ennui His
shoulders are stopped, he looks as if
the only thing that would save him
would be riding a COW pony in an Ari-
iona altitude of $500 feet.
Creatore'S hair is very much in evil
dence. It is. trained in the wild aban-
don that marks a musician the same
as a we'll trained pompadOur desig-
mates a. prize fighter CreatOre's trade
mark is his hair. His mOustache drOops
! eyes, his ears and the collar of his
coat. Creatore looks as if he would not
reach the next stand. He takes no ex-
| ercise. so Frank Girth, his manager,
/
1 he exercises and afterwards, SO Girth
says he is given an alcoholic bath
and rubbed down just like an athlete
! who has endured a contest.
Great musicians are supposed to look
as if they were house plants. Creatore
does He speaks very little English.
'Hoow-doo'' is about the extent of his
English ocabulary. In conversation his
/ face is expressionless but everyone who
/ has heard him says that his face IS
bright a. a gold dollar, that his features
are full of expression and that his very
I being IS entranced by the music when
he leads his famous band. Creatore
/ comes to Topeka with the assurance of
the east that he and his band make the
musical sensation of the season
Madam Brill. the soprano with the
organization, is an American woman.
Her home is in Philadelphia. Her moth
er-in-law is a sister Of Adelina Patti,
! She has sung with several Italian bands
and she IS about the only one who can
turn Creatore's Italian into English. She
does it easily and talks with the maestro
i without any difficulty. Creatore talks
I Italian so fast that there is no rest be-
/ tween words or sentences and no dis
tinguishing the sounds. From Creatore's
lips the Italian alphabet sounds like
gentle, even rain on tin roof
/ Creatore came to the United States
from Italy Sc months ago. When he
landed his worldly assets consisted OF
his trombone. He had been engaged to
play with Gionninis Royal italian Ma
rine band at Atlantic City. CreatOre be-
gan where Innes and other band mas
ters did: as trombone soloist- Once
when the leader was i'll CreatOre was
called upon to lead the band. He was an
innovation and a success. Now he has
his own band.
Every musician in Creatore's band is
an italian and each one has a trade.
Some are BARRIERS. and some are shoe
makers. To become a musician in Italy
every man must have means. He must
know trade by which to support him
Eself. All have trades but Creatore- He
lis Just musician. Music -doesn Z pay
wei in Italy Therefore there are many
italian bands in America
Creatore and his band VIII be at the
Auditorium tonight. The famous leader
was Interested in the place where he
was to play. Ia auoooditooriuum he
said to Madam Brill, and she found out
for him where the building is and he