Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03
NOTES,

III the railroad station of one of our
larger cities recently two gentlemen. in
clerical garb, were discussing the
merits of modern novels. the CONVERSE
ton evidently. being caused blythe TACT
that one of the clergymen$ carried
copy of a recent popular romance. He
asked his brother minister if he had
read this work, saying that for him
self he always found 1t necessary { to
sandwich his theological studies with
the reading OF interesting novels. The
other replied Yes and, Ike yourself,
Fam an admlrel of Emerson Hough
An educated man when he reads
novel desires more than an interesting
story: he wants it to be written IN
good English, and the better written
It is the better it is for his own style
OF expression. A we'll known novel, II
the story is entertaining, is as help
full in improving ones ability to eX-
press himself In good English as II he
spent the time In the study of great
models, and what's OF most import
ance he obtains this benefit without
the exertion of study but while he Is
pursuing recreation And this is very
Important to a professional man, who
has to devote so much time to the
study of subjects intimately connected
with his calling. Hough, j find, al.
: ways writes interestingly, and his
style, as in 5440 or Fight. is a model
Of clear, forcible and graceful English.
Tschaikowsky's version Of 1.-THE
Tempest" is called an Orchestral fam
tasa,n 1t indicates q storm at sen by
familiar devices for making, noise. and
Caiiban is pictured in uncouth rythms
and chords. Tschaikowsky's Hamlet
he calls a fantasia overture, but his
moody Dane is thought TO be more OF
a moody Russian. LISTS Hamlet" Is
generally preferred.
Tschaikdwsky's finest STORYTELLING
composition is said to be his Fran
cesca da Rimini." This poor lady is q
great heroine among composers, for
she and her love, and her bower, and
: her sorrow and her heath. and her tate
TO be eternaly driven about. IN the
caverns OF hell in that cyclone of
blown souls--such things as these are
we'll within the resources of musi-
cian: he can suggest the material
phases passably we'll, and as for the
emotions, music Gun squeeze the very
hearts blood out OF them,
People sneer at descriptive music
because it expects you to think of
shepherd and his flocks when you hear
an oboe and a flute it expects you to
tiiiiift
YOU hear the drums battered. and of
winds when you hear the violins go
swish-swish! Rupert Hughes In July
Ainslee's. i
William Dana circuit has closed his
Boston home for the season. and with
his family is at Cape Cod, where the
circuit cottage is a familiar landmark
in the coast colony. The Harpers re-
an
Ing OF Mr.. CIRCUITS novel, The Spell,
The Playhouse and the Play. Percy
Mackayes recently published volume
of essays has impressed with the vigor
OF It's argument. students, critics and
4 lovers of the drama. AS The Nation
says even those who do not agree with
Mr.. AlackaNe's conclusions will nave
to admit that the essays are fun q
interesting and pregnant matter" The
Nation, 1t is true. does not permit IT'S
elf to be as thoroughly convinced as
the author or the fundamental neces-
sltE Of endowment for the drama. but
il recognizes Mr.. MacISaye's book as a
very powerful exposition of that belief.
Comparatively few persons" II SAYS,
ever stop to think of tho actual I'm
tluence OF the theater, for good or ~,
upon public tastes and morals ms
y s precisely what Mr.. MacKaye writes
of with clearness and force,
John Macy author OF the life OF Ed