Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-03
MUSIC
Lostl Maud POWELL

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wires have been busily buzzing
~ for days with the fleet passing
and repassing of one message, while
in his office in the Blanchard building
it is said that Manager Behymer has
been alternately wildly tearing his hair
and phoning north, south, east and
west, wildly demanding that some one
locate the Maud Powell trio.
From Denver west to Spokane, VIC
toria, Vancouver, Tacoma, Seattle,
Portland, etc, is an outline of the itin-
erary arranged for the trio by Mr..
Behymer and Miss Powell closed her
date with the Seattle Symphony or
chestra November 27, and then the
three women disappeared with the
same unanimity that is said to char
acterize their playing, "all to onst' and
no one first, and apparently off the face
of the earth.
Special guests at the Gamut club
dinner last night were to have been
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris Hartman, Adela
Verne, Maud Powell May Nuke and
Anna Ford Everything went as
scheduled except that the members
of the trio were not among those pres
ent and Impresario Behymer was also
missing from his accustomed seat.
Poor impresario! To have scheduled
galaxy of stars to appear before the
Music Study club of Santa Barbara
Thursday, to have promised them as
the second event in the Philharmonic
course in Los Angeles Friday evening,
to have the members of the Dominant
club demanding the whereabouts OF
their special guests at next Saturdays
luncheon, and to shiver in anticipation
of the annual dinner Of the Celtic club
Saturday night-Miss Powell belongs
to the Celtic club, while to crown all
1 ID. .x-sE A n nlf of
San Diego for December 8. And Miss
Powell and her associates are lost!
They had dropped out of sight at
Portland that night of November rs
the Southern Pacific couldn't find them
and the Western Union burned out two
circuits trying to locate the party
The various clubs were anxious to
learn of their arrival in Los Angeles,
relatives in San Diego and Corona were
telephoning but no Powell trio could
be found. AS last resort Mr.. Fee Of
the Southern Pacific service was impor-
tuned and issued a, search order OF all
trains running over the Southern Paci-
! fic system. Finally the discovery was
made that Tacoma had asked return
date that Miss Powell had filled Mo-
vember 28. While there she met Pro-
fessor Stewart of the schools at Salem,
Ore, who requested a recital in that
city, and this engagement Miss Powell
| filled with her company on the night
of November 30, leaving early in the
morning en- route south. In the mean
time she had failed to advise her man
ager of these two extra engagements
Very late yesterday afternoon Miss
Powell was located by phone in San
Francisco, and said she was leaving
last night for Santa Barbara, where
she will play tonight, arriving in Los
Angeles in season to fill her date in
the Philharmonic course Friday night.
Manager Behymer hung up the phone.
Holding up four fingers he counted,
Friday night, Saturday noon, Satur-
day night, Tuesday-Philharmo
Dominant, Celts and San Diego" Then
he donned a large smile and Joined the
members of the Gamut club at dinner
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Over 800 students gathered at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
auditorium of the Los Angeles high
school to listen to a song recital by
Charles FarweH Edison, a recital that
is one of a series of six being given by
local musicians before the high school
scholars.
Mr. Edison presented yesterday the
same numbers that he gave recently
before the "Poly'' high, the program in
each instance being enthusiastically
received by both pupils and teachers
A brief explanation accompanying each
group added greatly to the interest and
made the occasion a lecture-recital.
Beginning with Love Me or Not"
| (SecchD, Mr.. Edson's fine bass was
heard in that droll song Of the valet in
Don Giovanni, "Rest I've None by
Delicate Air. (Arne), 1.-THE Jester"
(Bantock), Sweet Eileen" (Greene),
and go Make Thy Garden" Nynes),
the singer explaining that he called the
last, a verse Of four lines, a talk song
In an entirely different vein were
Kipling's two songs, Rolling Down to
Rio," with German music, and ION the
Road to Mandalay," sung to an old
English tune by Trevannio, that was
first used as musical setting for the
words in India by Tommy Atkins.
1.-THE Indifferent Mariner" by Billiard,
supposedly sung by tough old salt,
| smacks of the sea, and on both occa-
sions when Mr.. Edison sang this pro-
gram before the schools this was the
favorite and brought forth storm of
appreciative applause.
ITO Russia" a dramatic thing by
Joaquin Miller, and Clough-Leighton' s
"Song of the Sword" completed the
program.
The December meeting of the Gamut
club held last night, was nominally a
music, but it really was an event in
the club annals for as special guests
were entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ferris
Hartman and Adela Verne.
|. In the course of q brief and exceed
ingly informal business session it was
decided that the club attend the Grand
in a body Wednesday night of next
week. .
In compliment to the club Mr.. Hart
man has offered to bring his company
to Gamut auditorium the night of De-
cember 20, after the regular perform
ance is closed, and present the second
act of ''rhe Toy Maker" 1t has been
decided to hold the Gamut club thigh
jinks'' the same evening, and among
other plans it was suggested that each
member make the club Christmas
present of one new member, hanging
him, hguratively speaking, on the tree,
which is to be one of the jolly features
of the occasion.