The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-17
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all that was beautiful and sad and left
out his falsity and pigheadedness. Ma
poleon had David and Gerard to take
orders even as to how his bestrewn robe
should be painted and his laurel crown
made to ft. Bismarck had his Len
bach. Lincoln Indifferent to art
through stress of his great task per-
haps was not finally defrauded when
st. Gaudens found In him the finest in
spiration a sculptor ever had.
During the American revolution arr
found 1t hard shedding but out of the
barrenness came a native artist Gil
bert Stuart whose Washington portrait
ure would have had a good chance on
its merits in valhalla gallery along
side Of Titan and the other hero paint
ers just mentioned. Until quite re.
Gently Stuart had in a maiden daugh-
ter a kind of safe deposit custodian at
Newport X. l. who religiously presery-
ed every scrap from his brush as well
as everything he once possessed. She
held this self-imposed Office for nearly
a century and his name must now take
care of itself; all the easier because of
its partnership with washington's.
MUSICAL PRODIGIES.
London Chronicle.
The accounts of Master Danewski.
who at the mature age of 8 has been
conducting a full orchestra at Bourne
mouth in a military march of his own
composition casually remarked after
ward that he had written IL several
years ago, when he was quite young"
suggests a question which is worthy of
more attention than it has received.
Why are genuine musical prodigies
comparatively common, whereas in 9TH
er branches of art they are practically
nonexistent? We say genuine" be-
cause 1t is undoubtedly the case that
while of course not every precocfous
musician Is heard of in maturer life.
nearly every great musician has in his
time been a prodigy. One need only
instance Mozart. Schubert. Haydn, Cho-
pin and among executants of today
Joachim and Norman Neruda, to realize
that this is SO. Have psychologists ex-
planned why the genius of music should
and does awake in the soul years be-
fore that Of painting and the allied
arts?
MARY ANDERSON's
COMMENTED LIFE.
Though a couple of dozen people of
prominence, including DIR. Depew,
George ]. Gould, Clarence Mackay,
Bishop Potter and Egerton Webb, join
ed in the invitation sent by special
representative to Mrs. Fernando de Ma
varro to return to America in public
capacity, she would have none of 1t.
This is not surprising, because at the
time of her marriage the former Mary
Anderson vowed never again to return
to the professional stage except occa
sionally for a charitable entertainment
She and her husband are very happy
and reside at an extensive country place
fifty miles out of London. The request
to Mrs. Navarro was to give a series
of readings from the poets and 1t was
accompanied by a fiattering financial
offer.
When Antonio de Navarro married
her 1t was his wish that no reference
to her stage career be made. For years
IL is said she never spoke of 1t, and
Mr.. Navarro was very much annoyed
because others brought up the subject.
1t is said his only reason for no longer
paying visits to America and bringing
his wife home to the scene of her for
mer triumphs Is because he could not
do so without the entire country talk
ing about her former successes. In
this connection 1t is noted that in her
photographed sketch, "A Few Mem
cries " Mrs. de Navarro touches but
lightly upon her New York career,
though it was here at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre that Stephen Fiske really put
her on the road to fame and fortune.
Born in California, bred in Kentucky,
Mary Anderson came to New York a
very beautiful but very green coun-
try lass.
1t is said that Mrs. John Jacob Astor
of New York is creating a furore in
the smart set of London. Her gown is
described as follows:
"Sensationa1ly low was the gown she
wore at Devonshire House. Some pro-
nounced it improper. AT the back 1t was
cut down to the waist line, and in
broad curve. which quite revealed the
shoulder and hack right to the waist.
Crowds of people surrounded her, and
for the whole evening she had a cir
Gle of admirers. People who did not
know her stared hard, and a posse of
duchesses wondered who tho new ar.
rival was"
"A woman should be able to trust her
husband" said the idealist, "and feel
that he has the courage to remain
steadfast in his purpose. despite re-
buffs."
Well" answered young Mrs. Tor
ktns. that's exactly the kind of man
Charley is. He has lost at every race
meeting for the past three years. but
he is just as steadfast in purpose as
Star.
But bridal gifts nowadays are not
in the least indicative of the number
of ones friends" says an exchange. In
stead of exclaiming, therefore, at the
popularity of the couple to be married,