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New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
HIS CLASSIC MASTERS.

But the masters whom | have really
loved are the classics, Handel and Bach,
tn, old Italians and the French OF the six
teenth century. They were gods. and IL
was real religion that inspired their works.
And of course. there is Beethoven, equally
great in his way"
But 1t is the drama that is NJ Rolland's
real interest 1t was this gave him his
start. and It Is to this that he intends 70
return
Three OF my plays on the French Re-
volution have been produced and I am
now. strange to say. writing a play Of
modern life for a theatre in London. The
drama is really my meter and | shall re-
turn TO it after ] have finished Jean
Christophe But here. too, il seems to me
that the modern playwrights give anything
but a correct idea Of France.
THE triangle-the husband. wife and mis-
tress--appears to be supreme on the stage
but not in real life. The plays too,
are infinitely well made; their action
slides along most beautifully-too beauti-
fully. Ii is just here where ! feel lack.
Life is not logical like this, least Of all is
II mechanical. The hand Of fate Is always
present, and il characters are really to
live the hand of fate must play its part
OF modern French dramatists Emile Fabre
Is my favorte; of foreigners-ibsen and
IIauptmann.
"Of the English dramatists Bernard
Shaw is most interesting, sincere even in
his insincerty. Shakespeare. OF course is
supreme, but, unfortunately. French actors
do not know how TO act him. They make
him absurd. Ii Is, strange 10 say, much
easier for the Italians to interpret him,
possibly because at bottom there is so much
Of the element of the naive in them. We
French have become too overrefned to act
his characters as they should be acted
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
A TRIBUTE TO DUsE.

And here NJ. ROLAND paused moment
20 pay a tribute to the genius of Eleanora
Duse.
"Of all the actresses Of to-day, Signora
Duse is surely supreme. What a wealth
OF passion, of poetry, OF imagination there
is in her. Yet, strange to say, the stage
is 10 her a perpetual torture. She abhors
publicity; she suffers each moment she Is
before an audience. Perhaps it is even
because Of this she is so wonderful"
The conversation strayed into other chan
nels-the state OF France. the trouble with
Germany over the Morocco affair and the
strength anu weakness OF the various
races. 81. ROLAND was much interested In
what his visitor could tell him OF the inter-
mingling OF the nations in America. espe-
cially Of how quickly the Germans are
assimilated and how slowly the French.
THE problem Of the real strength Of ma
tions is a most absorbing one, and ore that
is not apparent always on the surface. he
said There are nations whose terrhc
active force renders them irresistible for
time. But this very force destroys itself
Such IL seems to me is the case With Ger
many Its power AT present is tremendous.
think that IL will last.
"Once before Germanys power was
equally great The army Of Frederick the
Great vas al the end OF the eighteenth
century the first in Europe. Yet that did
not prevent 1t from crumblng like clay
at the first encounter with the hastily or
ganized bands OF the revolution under the
hail and cannon Of Valmy. Then there are
nations whose strength IL rather in the
dosged holding to national ideals. q strength
that is passive rather than active. Such
nation is France, the real France, the
France Of the provinces and OF the peas
antry. And perhaps in the long run these
nations are the stronger"
And here NJ. Roland expressed what he
felt for Germany. II was no chauvnistic
hatred. only sense OF bitter disappoint-
meht. that the land which had produced so
many heroes should have been so false to
its ideals.
II am not an enemy Of Germany. love
too well ts old musicians, It's poets-above
all, its Goethe, whom ! admire above all
the artists Of the nineteenth century. That
which ] cannot pardon IL is that IL has
betrayed Its idealism. 1t is not because 1t
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

the results can be readily increased IA -
an acre, and through this increa So the s,sss
project Ia expected TO become a proftsh,s
venture for all concerned.
There are plans being perfected for d..
trical power to be,generated At the dam b,
the operation Of a great electric line -
railway from the dam down the valley -
handle the freight and passenger trafnc -
the irrigated district, as well as furnist
power for important manufacturing ent.r.
prfses in FL Paso and ehewhere. which MI,
prove important factors in the continue
growth and development -of the Rio Grand.
valley. The people are looking forward "a
the completion OF the dam with keen IN.
ticipstion, for they believeJt is to restora
the prosperous conditions that obtained
here prior to the diversion of'the waters IA
Colorado which resulted in the limited
supply thereafter annually, which render.d
farming In the valley very hazardous IN.
dertaking. News
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
PARIS is NOT FRANCE.

Il do not wonder that foreigners come
10 have a total misConception Of France,
for most modern French literature gives
anything but a true picture Of the nation.
France is not country that thinks of
nothing except the relations between the
sexes. where sensuality is rampant. where
healthy living is an anomaly. Yet this is
only too often the effect produced by the
coterie Of writer's dramatists and musi-
clans that is at present supreme in Paris.
These men have brought their technique
10 the highest point Of achievement In
their limited spheres they are artists
through and through. but this renders
them only the more dangerous and the
condition more dcplorable
Yet the French nation at bottom is
soUrd and endowed with inexhaustible
stores of vitality. l. is not Paris that is
the real France but the provinces. Here
is 70 be found what is truly French. here
IS the true feeling for life, the poetry Of
our race And what Of this does the little
clique Of men who make up the Partisan
literary world express? They are all
working in their little rut and continually
giving 10 the world a lie. II IS sad-too sad
for words
There are in Paris many who deplore
IL as deeply as /. but what can they do?
] have my professorship at the Sorbonne
and can afford TO wait: but to how many
this is Impossible! a mar must i've and
success in Paris is infinitely hard 10 one
who will not bow his head and follow
with the others Many succumb, others
work only for themselves and publish
nothing.
"One OF the most talented Of French
musicians is practically unknown TO the
outside world. This is Alberto Maynard.
NJ. Maynard has composed two operas.
'Eerenice and 'Guerceur'; several sym
phonies and much chamber music. He is
rot az all discouraged at the silence about
MS work. He is only disgusted with the
Partisan attitude. and he lives apart He
knows very well that in the end he will
make a place for himself in the world Of
French
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
A FEW JUDGMENTS.

Among the most recent French com
posers | should select the spiritual RaNel'
who Is master of the orchestra. ana the
vigorous Florent Schmitt, whose symphonic
and choral music | greatly admire
And here comes rather unusual state
ment
"An,ong the Italians ! do not hide from
YOU that / prefer Rossiui. the Rossini OF
'Otello,' Of William Tell and OF Inc bar
ber of Seville tc Verdi.
But of French composers Berlioz has 10
me- ranked ALWAYS first and then dear.
sv,oet Cesar Franck-Cesar Franck, who
was so poor that he was forced to give
niapo lessons TO little schoolgirls to the
dav of his death. and who had time for
his own composing only by rising at or
o'clock In the morning. There was real re-
Iigion in his soul How beautiful work
IS The BeatitudesH
"Of foreign composers | admire Richard
Strauss immensely. especially his 'Heideh-
leben' and even his Domestic SNmphoh! :
hut there are other Things that l DO nov
admire. And here | want TO make cor
rection of an opinion that has ea,nen
credence-the character of Hassler in Jean
Christophe' Ia not at all that Of Richarc
Strauss. Strauss has often beel exceeolns-
" kind to young musicians And then !
love poor Hugo Wolf whose work never
was allowed TO reach its true fruition.
Brahms / do not especially care for. though
II have exaggerated the case In the opin-
ions l have given 10 Jean Christophe
"Of operate composers. Mozart and
Gluck have to me always stood first. With
Wagner. wonderful musician as he was it
Is only In Tristan and in Parsfar that
have found the complete wedding of words
and music. After all opera is hybrid.
and the shrieks Of the Wagnerian singers
have too often sounded discordantly in the
midst of beautiful music.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.

The Star Lyceum Bureau, Tribune Build
ing, has issued its thirty-fourth annual
announcement. This bureau is still under
the sole management Of its founder. Alonzo
Foster. Mr.. Foster began his career by
directing the lecture engagements Of Eor-
ace Greeley, Schuyler Colfpx. Frederick
Douglas, DR.. Talmadee and others
The New York Plectrum Orchestra. Val
entine Abt. director. offers four evening
concerts at Carnegie Lyceum: Tuesday,
December 81 Friday. January l?; Friday
Feruary %. and Friday. March p. An or
chestra Of thirty musicians. consisting OF
mandolin. mandola. mandocello, bass man
dolln, guitar harp. tympan and wind in
strunent performers including soloists and
chorus. will comprise the programme
Marc Lagen. the New York musical man
aser, now In his new ofices In the Bristol
Building, No. 500 Fifth avenue, announces
New York recitals for Gina ciaparelli-Via-
fora, prima donna soprano, who has had
great success with the Metropolitan Opera
Company In Chicago Philadelphia. Pitts
burg and. elsewhere; Frieds Lansendorf,
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

dent Of the y. Y. 6. NJ T. A. which will
hold its next convention In New York City
IN June, probably at Columbia University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Maitland Griffith
who spent the first six weeks of the
their summer nome, Inglesea. Kennebunk-
port. Me, since the middle Of July and will
remain until October /, when they intend
motoring back to New York. Mr.. Griffth
will resume his piano teaching at his car
negie Hall studio on October 3.
Inea Hoegsbro. the Scandinavian pianist
and teacher. returned 20 her studio No. 30
East oath street. after a pleasant vacation
passed at Nahent, Mass. Miss Hoegsbro Is
planning the programme for her coming
Canadian tour. She is an interpreter OF
Grieg and Sinding compositions.
Mrs. Zilpha Barnes Wood began the fall
season Monday with a large enrolment OF
vocal pupils. She says she Is looking for
ward 20 a busy year. Mrs. Wood will be
in her studio, No. s27 Carnegie Hall, Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday mornings until
%. m during September. After October
| she will be in her studio daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Eddy have re-
turned to the city after spending most ep-
joyable month in Greenfield, Mass. which
is Mr.. Eddy's birthplace. Mr.. Eddy has re-
Gently been elected president OF the Ma
tional Association Of Organists.
"Imperator." the new march and two
step hy Adolph Wirz, is the latest pubca-
ton of G. V Meckal, No. si5 Eighth ave-
nue. This composition has melody and
IS said TO be full of vim and brlliance.
The we'll chosen title happily comedies with
the nar1e recently given 10 the giant steam
er of the Hamburg American Line now In
course of construction In Germany.
Albert Mldenberg. director of the New
York School OF Opera, Carnegie Hall,
returned on the Oceanic Wednesday. Mr..
Mildenberg arranged Tor the services or
Professor Louie De Lille as. coach for
French opera repertory and added VI: De
lilies name TO his excellent faculty OF the
ouera school NJ. De Lille was formerly con-
nected with the Opera Comidue, Paris
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

taken IN little coteries and hurled abort by
eddies. There Is so much nauonalism In
French music to-day that II often falsifies
the judgments OF the critics.
.Only the other day they killed an opera
that to me seemed one of the most re-
markable produced In recent years. This
was Macbeth by Ernest Bloch, produced
this spring at the Opera Comique. NJ.
Bloch is most talented composer ana
Macbeth an opera OF great power ana
dramatic force. and. what Is more surpris-
inc. instinct with the Shakespearfan spirit.
Yet what happened? The critics fell upon
II tooth and nail simply because. 1t Is saiu'
Mr. Bloch is not a Frenchman, but Swiss
They killed a fine work and the composer
has returned to Geneva, utterly discour-
aged Fortunately he is a young man. and'
though poor, he can afford to walt.
IL is this feeling for the unrecognized
genius that is so evident In Jean Chrls-
tophe" and again and again durlnE tne
conversation NJ ROLAND returned 10 H.
Ever was there an nnwillingness to bow 10
the god Success.
"Perhaps II will interest YOU 20 know
he said. that two or three years ago dis-
covered French musician OF great talent
who was employed in the Chemin de fer oe
rOuest He had educated himself entirely
by books and concerts. but he was crushed
by misery. AS all his days were taken up
by his work. he was forced to write MS
music in the nights. lie Is hamed faul
Dupn. Now he is we'll known and many OF
his works are given In concerts. lie writes
almost entirely chamber music
Yet there Is no studied perversity in Nj.
Rolland's love for the under dog.
IL do not love Debussy.' he SAID put
admire him greatly. | believe that he mas
opened new avenues for music. Massehet
is not TO be mentioned In the same breath
II is impossible for me to esteem his art
l have always combated II. Bizet. how
ever. is a great artist and Latin TO the core
He never was able to give his fuii measure
he died too young. Carmen and. above
all. TArlesienne will always be dear 70
I-reDchmaO
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
No B0ULEVARD|ER IS He
Author of "Jean Christophe" Is
an Idealist.
A TALK WITH M. ROLAND
Despises Great God Success and
Recks Not of Advanced"
Partisan Art.

TALL. slender man. With slightly
N stopping shoulders. blue eyes and
4. u the blofdest OF blond hair, Roman
ROLAND might at first glance he taken
easily for either a Pole or Russian. IL
is the face Of student. the face OF
man much younger than NJ. Roland really
Is For the author of Jean Christophe'
is in the early forties.
He has waited longer than some men
for fame, and, as he has confessed 1t has
rot been Paris. but the outside world that
has brought him greatest acknowledg-
rnent And for the last eighteen months
ne has been living In Switzerland re-
covering slowly from an automobile ac-
cident in the Champs Elysee. working al
ternately at Jean Christophe,' OF whch
the ninth volume is to appear in OCTOBER
and his biographical studies. it was there'
at little hotel in Spietz overlooking the
Lake of Thun, that ne recently talked WIN
a Tribune representative.
II was In his room that he received his
visitor, a room Of modest proportions,
whose two windows gave view over the
lake, with the snow capped Alps and the
summit Of Jungfrau far away upon the
horizon An ideal spot for serious work.
where as NJ ROLAND said, though he had
been in the hotel for five weeks, he did not
know q soul. But HIS hosts kindly, grave
manner. a manner so unlike that OF the
Frenchman of the boulevards. at once put
his visitor at his ease. II seemed to say:
The ocean is nothing, the fact that my
language is difficult to you is nothing. You
have appreciated my work Let us talk
And talk he dsl, entrancingly. with free
dom. vet with delightful lack of the
didactic manner.
When he put forth a statement 1t was
as II with hesitancy. or An the form OF
question, referring always 10 his visitor.
as If anxious TO learn his opinion. Yet with
IT all there was nothing feeble or self-dis-
trustful Under II was the sense OF a
man of intense conviction, a man whose
glory was in fighting for an ideal; a man,
indeed. TO whom the ideal was everything.
And to his visitor NJ. ROLAND was just
this-a sort of New England Puritan OF
the time Of Emerson, a Puritan turned
Catholic, with the force and urbanity of
the Latin. the intense idealism and prac-
tcal religious sense of the Anglo-Saxon-
though Latin al heart, he declares he is.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
OWES MUCH TO ITALY.

when YOU see in me a sort Of Puritan
Anglo Saxon" he writes, do not forget
that ! am much less nourished with the
Anglo-Saxon than with the Latin spirit.
The greatest influence exercised upon me
has been that of Italy Italy IS my sec
ond country | have lived there l return
there without ceasing even count on
making Rome my home. My idealism is at
bottom Latin. Beauty to me is necessity.
l prefer always a Greek statue TO all the
works of the North And I cannot any
more throw off the spirit of absolute
liberty that the great Italians of the
Renaissance like Leonardo, have had to
a degree unknown to the thinkers of the
North.
do not confuse me too much with Jean
Christophe,'" he added, II created work.
I put into it much of myself. But 1t does
not entirely contain me- During the ten
years preceding Jean Christophe' / had
written a series of dramas on the Italian
and French Renaissance When | have
finished Jean Christophe' l will return TO
the theatre and TO Italy
NJ ROLAND is from the centre Of France,
and Partisan only by the fact that he is
professor Of the history of art at the
sorbonne To him Paris is not France.
France, the true France. lies in the prov
inces. As he said himself:
Il do not wish TO deny the artistic inn
portance of Paris. | admire the sense Of
Nthe beauty of form. the gift Of style in all
HHhe arts that Paris possesses. But Paris
Nepresents only one side of the French
genius. that which is the most brilliant
and the most external. The deep SOUL the
seriousness of thought. the heroic sense.
are elsewhere There are in the provinces
reserves Of moral force and of life that
one cannot measure If one has known only
Paris
And if NJ. ROLAND is proud of being
from the provinces the provinces have re-
turned the PRIDE" suggested the visitor.
Yes, the success of Jean Christophe'
has been a great qualification TO me-" re-
piled NJ ROLAND. Yet my greatest en-
oouragement has come, not from Paris,
but from abroad-from the French prove
inces. from Switzerland. from Italy, from
England In musical Paris. in particular,
since the publication of the fifth volume
OF Jean Christophe, La F0ire sur la
Place / have found ! have made many
enemies, yet don't suppose IT could have
beep otherwise
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
ACCIDENT DAYS.

An investigation into the csusss vof acd.
dents among industrial workers carried On
for number OF years In Germaeny shows
that the greatest number OF cassssies oA.
cur on Saturday, while Monday Is a closs
second. The large number OF accidents on
Saturdays is generally explained by ths
fatigue OF the week telling on the men.
but IN is noted also that the Monday acci.
dents are about az numerous. This g1vss
rise 10 the suggestion that the day Of rest
is sometimes not too wisely spent.-Mediesi
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
BIAS OF THE CRITICS.

One great trouble is with the critics OF
the Partisan newspapers. who unfortunate
ly are too much involved in intrlgues TO
give a fair expression OF opinion. There
are among them men of talent and con-
science. but the Partisan atmosphere does
not tend toward seeing things lucidly and
impartlally. These critics f1nd themselves
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

formerly Of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, singing this year with the Royal
Opera, Berlin: Clarence Adler. pupil OF
Godowsky; Charles Hackett, tenor or un-
usual prominence; Fay Cord. and in all
probabilities jeanette Durno, the Chicago
piapiat
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
AT MUSIC STUDIOS.

Loretta De Lone, harp soloist and teach
er late of the Pittsburgh and Minneapolis
Symphony orchestras. has removed her
studio 10 No. 45 East 34th street MISS
De Lone is looking forward to prosperous
season and will be heard in many concerts
this winter.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

At special meeting OF the Grand CON
servatory Of Music, Miss Beatrice Ebernard
uas unanimously elected president or the
conservatory for the ensuing year. MISS
! Eberhard. who Is a brilliant viohnist, oe-
sides attending to her duties AS president
will be in charge Of the violin department
The conservatory has recently been en-
larced and many new departments nave
been added to meet the demands OF pupils
The conservatory which is now located at
No % West 91st street, will open Septem-
Der IL.
Louis Arthur Russell VIII reopen his Car
neeie Hall studios on Tuesday, September
12 The College of Music. Newark, \. j., or
which Mr.. Russell is director, Will open It's
twenty-seventh session tomorrow. An IN
teresting series of educational lectures and
normal classes for students and beginners
usiny the Russell modern system Of music
study Is announced 10 begin early IN Octo-
Der.
Gustav L. Becker. who is finishing MS
vacation at Dyke Mountain, Me- VIII re-
turn 20 New York City 20 resume teaching
at his Steinway Hall studio on September
-. on that and the following day he VIII
interview all new applicants for lessons
Mr.. Becker expects to have busy season
with his teaching and his duties as presi-
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

: dent Of the y. Y. s. N. T. A.. which will
! hold its next convention In New York City
: IN June, probably at Columbia University
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
University DEGREES BY THE GRAND CONSERVATORY OF MU!
K ii RSTEIN E r r.,eS%.'' a..'.i'

studios: Ogonz school and THE Benord Broadway and et
Tslephone teacher known
Frances G. Bennett Principal Ogontz School
New-York tribune., 1911-09-10
MUSICAL. .S
,IiIE0 HIGH SCHOOLS OF MUSIC

CATAIOG EITHER INSTITUTION TERMS MopERth =,
"'"''
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-09-07

Alexander Maxwell blackburn and
Arthur n. Hill attended the motor boat
races at st. Johns. p O.. on Labor Day,
when Mr.. Klopman's fast motor boat,
the blanche H." won in the q foot
class and was second In the 30 foot class.
A masquerade party was held at the
residence OF Mrs. A. NJ. Lengfed on
Tuesday. Mrs. +. II. Severance of Buff
falo, n. V. and daughter, Edith Lillian
are visiting at the home of r. Il. Hough-
ton.-Lee Klopman caught 5L pound
black bass on Wednesday. Vera de
Sofa Mendes returned to New York on
Tuesday.-A number of apple buyers are
on hand looking over the various or
chards in town. Apples were never look
ing better ut this season.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-09-07
BAKERSFIELD.

Mrs. Henry Rivers and son, Roy, of st.
Adams are visiting friends in town.-C.
Ducharme and Miss Libby Ducharme of
Glenns Falls n. Y, are in town.-Miss
Edith Barsha of Littlcton, n. H., Is visit
ing her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse
Barsha.-N1rs. r. II. Gilbert and children,
Doris and Muricl, and Miss Maude Mar
cette of Cleveland. Ohio, who have been
spending the summer with Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Narcotic have returned to their
home.--Mrs. Harry b. Fuller and Mr.. and
Mrs DOnaman have returned To New
York after spending the summer at High
land Farm.-Miss Elizabeth McNaney has
returned to her school in Barre.-NItss
Gertrude Brady went to Brandon Mon
day, where she will teach SCHOOLGIRLS.
Buskey died Saturday night at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Pacquette, in tao south
part OF the town. The funeral was held
the following Tuesday at Enosburg Falls
Mrs. Buekey was a daughter Of Joseph
Carrot. q former resident Of this place
Mr.. and Mrs. George Farrell and daugh-
ter, Ar!een. of Underhill are guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cook