The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-30

'ls your taste for such things heredf- tary, or like Topsy-has it just growed?' I asked.
 My uncle. Edward Ascham Pigott," was the reply, was Censor of the English Stage for many years. Since 1900 some of my family has been connected in some way with the Drama, and although 1 was born in yirginia-can you tell it al once? my father and mother were English and Scotch.
 And being gifted unsteady and dis- trionically, you have combined the twain, which has proven very happy" l sug- gested.
 ''I have done a good deal of composing, along with the rest of my work" said Mr. Pigott, 'and. set many of the old darley melodies which I heard as boy in Virginia to music I have also com posed the music to a great many of MT. Frank l.. stantons songs. and he and I once made a tour, MT. stanton reading and I taking care of the musical end of the work. Perhaps you heard MT Charles C. Washburn sing my arrangement of Mother O. Mine, and Shut Your Eyes Ma Honey, when he was here the past sea- son "
 Recalling very pleasantly the incident We then discussed at length our love of Kipling, and especially the beautiful poem which he had chosen to set to music, when he said:
 ''I had the pleasure of having MT. Kip ling say that my setting of his poem. 'Mother-O-Mlne, was the most satisfac- tory that he had ever had"
 Besides his other accomplishments, Mr. Pigott has been a newspaper man. having been recently associated with Mir. Henry Fink on the Evening Post, and his criti- eism of the Brahms festival brought forth from the eminent Mir Fink the expression that it caused more praise and more blame than anything that had been writ ten in years'
 Mir. Pigott referred Mir. Fink to the fact that ''the Boston Transcript had copied 1t verbatim-a column and a half-and he felt very much fiattered to think he had gctten into that puritanical staid and dig niiied old journal, even if he had to get in by the back door, and if they could print his article in cold blood surely the Even ing Post could do so in warm blood
 Which f had done with much pleasure
 Ut may be of interest to you," said Nh. Pigott Knowing that every one is so much concerned with the Irish Play CTS and the Irish Plays nowadays, that produced at the University of Toronto many of the leading Irish plays-those of Yates Russell CA. ED and Lady Greg ory particularly"
 How did you become interested in pre- sertations like Hiawatha and the Indian atnosphere?" I asked.
 More through my love of the Drama. perhaps, than of India Lore,' said Mr. Pigott
 Ut has been charged that we Americans have made very little of our Indian melo- dies, and really not as much of our negro melodies as we might I suggested. "In fact, it was left to a foreigner--Dvor to gather from the negro melodies the most beautiful of all compositons--the Humoresque."
 will you be interested to know that gavs Mir. James Creelman the data which he gave to Dvorals for that beautiful wofk?'' asked Mir Pigott And another thing Dvoraks The New World sym piony, owes its present title to Mir Creel- man, Dvorak having first caled it The Spillville Symphony, because the little place in Iowa, from which it takes it's color, showed the remains Of broken down settler, 'Spllvlle.' as 1t was named, and MT. Creelman suggested to the great composer that it wasn't very dignified name for such a wonderful work"
 Mir. Cadman has perhaps done the best Indian melodies" I was about to suggest. when MT. Pigott interrupted quickly:
 Why? Because they are so entirely un- Indian? MT. Cadman has done his best, but the Indian melodies cannot be pre- scntcd as they really are. It would Be like trying to transplant wild rose. Mir Cadmsn has caught the poetic idea, but the REAL idea has evaded him. It is also true with the negro melody: it's only a matter of suggestion at best; that Is all any composer can hope for, merely sug- gestion of the original as 1t is with the Indian melodies" 
 Spurd, who Is visiting in the metropolis at this time, and later win be the guest of Colonel Bullard of the war department in Washington. She will be absent for some time.
 Miss Frances Ross Burton and Miss Lowea Hanln will spend June and July in Cincinnati studying and teaching at the Conservatory of Music. In August they will reopen their studio in the watts building The violin and piano pui'-,s of these two musicians gave a credtable rec eital Tuesday afternon at their studio.
 
 Mir. rinson Neal. the son of pr. and Mrs M Mai aIfl o.1 with