The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25

celebrities whom. in the course OF twenty
I've years, he has brought over for the en-
ertainment Of the American public. Josefy,
Wilhelmj, Caesar Thompson, Marteau, De
Rachmann, Aus Der ohe, Josef Hofmann,
Schumann-Heink Pugno, Sarasate, Richard
Strauss are among them.
In view Of his experience there is no one
perhaps who is better able to dilate on the
characteristics that separate common
place humanity from those who have the
"A. t. (which is short for Artistic Tempera-
mept.
.The long hair has practically gone out
said Mr.. Wolfsohn. @Remenyi had it in a
bad way, almost the virulent type, you
might say, and of course to-day we have a
few musical Angoras, but long hair as the
distinguishing mark Of the A. T, no longer
exists. Among musical geniuses, it practi-
cally is sporadic rather than epidemic.
"But, seriously. 1 have been asked
many times il had any difficulty in get
ting these world famed artists to come to
America, and I have to laugh whenever I
9 In the experience of a quarter Of
a century there are only two names that
occur to me as belonging to celebrities who
even hesitated.
TbOtD OF UnSS0 WeIb dlIblu VI tuo tOuB
ocean voyage. One was Joachim and the
other Hans Richter. Distances in Europe
are short; en- artist can travel from one city
to another and fulfil his engagements
without loss Of sleep and without becoming
irritated by the thousand and one little
things that rasp the nerves here. Con-
sidering what they have to endure, even
now, and what they used to put up with
here twenty years or so ago., it is a marvel
that the American dollar has proved so
potent.
~The artist thinks a great deal OF his
condition and his personal comfort, and it
IL quite right that he should. You can't
subject q fine machine to the same usage
that you could a locomotive.
'"Rubinstein was one of the first Euro
pean celebrities that ever came to this
country in my day. Naturally, when he
returned he was asked that ever original
question, as to how he. had enjoyed his
tour, and he replied that the best thing
about it was the knowledge, that he had
made so much money that heSwould never
have to come back, He lived up to the
privilege gained.
There is no doubt that the pioneers, like
Rubinstein, looked on coming to America
as a pilgrimage, an exile, something to be
endured for the sake of future peace. Many
Of them, not finding it as bad as it was
PAINTED, came back, and to-day, the Ameri-
can tour is looked forward to eagerly.
There is a distinct change, If not in the
attitude toward America, at least in the re-
marks concerning it. You no longer hear
the artist inveigh against the fact that we
have no art atmosphere over here and that
everything is sordid and oommercial. 1t is
possible that they have walked up to the
fact that when an artist deliberately turns
his back on the country where art at:nos-
phere simply permeates the place and comes
over here to play or sing for filthy lucre,
abhorring the nation and its customs, he
10 more sordid and more commercial than
the people who are simply endeavoring to
get the best talent that the world affords
for their education and treating that want
with commercial foresight.
We have to-day tho best artists and the
most a%ppreciative audiences in the world.
My own experience is that we are more