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CALENDAR FOR THE CURRENT WEEK

SUNDAY concert by the Symphony Orchestra car
ncge Hall D. M Philharmonic Society; Metropolitan
Ouer House. concert Century opera House.
SIS popular Hppodrome SID M popular con-
m, recital by Samuel ~ BALDWIN
45 German opera Iohen
of chamber music by the fon
zal
by the Nolpe Orchestral
Kathleen Parlow Century opera
House y m land English Faust Little Thea
ire 2 r. M concert Francis Rogers barytone
Columbia University il5 p M lecture on brahS anu III"
Romantics" by Leland Hall
House Italian opera I'll baHo
panoforte recital by hatnhe
,ioodson Reed Miller Academy OF Slu
BROOKLYN and Creole folksongs
German opera Seg
IN by Franz Egenien SIS p M
panofore Hail. sis M concert OF the
Damrosch
symphony Orchesua
Italian Cavaerh Rustcafa
Hall S:l5 concert of the oator 90
Mann Auditorium S:lo p M
Religion by Mr. Surrette; opera
House Brooklyn the Boston symphony Society
SATURDAY metropolitan French OPERA Les Con-
the benefit of the Italian Be-
pvet Institution Tosca concert by the
her music Longy Modern Chamber Music Society Hor
ace Mann illustrated lecture on The American
liam and Music
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AT THE METROPOLITAN
'Siegfried" Is a Feature Of the
Weeks Programme.

The most interesting affair OF the COM
ing week at the Metropolitan opera
House will be the performance Of "Sies-
fried" on Thursday evening. The scenic
setting Of the opera is entirely new, with
the exception Of the forest set Of the
second act which was seen for the first
time last season. The announcement Of
an entirely new mise-en-scene for Ring
operas has brought a sigh Of relief 70 all
Wagnerians. for the scenery which has
done duty these many years had become
little short of a disgrace. Ii seems. in
deed. a pity that the Wagner Centenary
should go uncelebrated this year by a
complete Ring Cycle that is. a cycle in
which the same singers should appear in
each opera, so that Nine. Fremstad
should not 20 to sleep on the fiery noun
tain, to wake up and find herself, let rs
say, Nine. Gadski. But IL we are not 20
have this contamination we at least may
be sure that Alfred Hertz has put his
best into this weeks "Siegfried," and we
may be grateful that such singers as
Mines. Fremstad, Ober and Alien and
Messrs. Urlus Griswold, Reiss, Goritz
and Ruysdael are to participate-not for
getting the Dragon, who is very
dragonly Dragon indeed
On Monday night "Lohencrin" will be
repeated, with Nine Fremstad as her
beautiful lisa and Nine. Ober as her
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JAcaYEe Us,ve ." 'Sisfried

in America are rarely as beautiful as
those of Europe, though there is in Nan
tucket an old Spanish bell which Is
ravishingly lovely. l often drive way over
from 'Sconset on a Sunday just to hear
its sound. The sea and the bells-what
an eternity of beauty there is in their
sound. and how wonderfully in sympathy
they are Church bells across the water,
the bell buoy swinging on the shoals
could hear these forever and wish to hear
nothing more"
Then Mr.. Grasse turned to his ambi-
tons. and confessed that he had written
a symphony-only, he said, "No one wants
a symphony any more. They want tone
poems, or tone pictures. For the modern
world symphonies appear to be too long.
/ have. however written a string quartet,
a sonata for piano and violoncello and a
number Of compositions FOR violin and
piano, and for violin alone. As yet !
have written no songs. as somehow !
have for this never felt the inspiration.
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Philharmonic Society.

The Wagner programme which was
played by the Philharmonic Orchestra in
Brooklyn last Sunday is being reproduced
in its entirety this afternoon at O'Clock
in Carnegie Hall. at the second Of the
regular New York series OF Sunday al
ternoon concerts.
Conductor Stransky has arranged the
numbers in chronological sequence. in
Guiding excerpts from practically all Of
the operas and music dramas The com.
plete list Of numbers reads:
Overture, "Rienzi."
Overture. Plying Dutchman.'
TannhAUser's Pilgrimage, from "Tsnnhduser'
Prelude to Act III. "Iohengrin."
Prelude and Biebestod. from Tristan una
Isolde"
Prelude. Die Meistersinger.'
Ride OF the Nalkyries. from 'Siogfred.'
Waldweben from "Siegfricd.'
Siegfrleds Rhine Journey from "Gotterdamrn.
erung'
Good Friday Spell, from "ParsfsL"
Kaiser March
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superb Ortrud Mr. Crlus. Mr.. We'll
chief male members of the cast, and. of
cor Sc. that perfect Wagneritc, Mr.. Al
FIRE Hertz. will conduct.
"Un Ballo in Maschcrd." with Mines. Des-
tim. Hempel and Matzenauer and MesSrs.
Caruso Amato. Rothier and Segurola,
under the watching eye of Mr. Toscanini.
will on Wednesday night show US tire
Verdi that some OF us might Ike TO for
get And OH. joy, To the Philistincs ard
bitter anguish 10 the reviewers. tnc
Siamesc twins OF opera. our old friends,
"Cayalleria Rusticana' and "Pagliacc..'
will sing their hearts out on Friday ni-nt.
Mr.. Cristal will be Turridu and hr.
Gilly. Alto; and Miss Dostinn Santuzza.
and Nine. Duchene. Lola. and Nj
Caruso Canio. and Mr.. Amato, Tonio.
and Mr.. Rcschiglian, Slvio, and Miss Rori.
Ncdda-which is mixing things mp bit,
only somehow 10 those who have heard
these two works a couple OF hundred
times things will get mixed up. Mr.
Polacco viii conduct
ON Saturday afternoon Les Contcs
Il ltOUmdnl VIII u lfNlNiAs WIN sNltll's
hlda fOv the first time as Giulietta. Miss
Hcmpcl will he the Doll and Miss Bari.
Antonid. while the men will be Mcssrs.
J0rn. Gilly, Rothier, Didur. Scgurola and
Reiss Mr. Polacco Will again conduct
on Saturday night "Tosca" will bee
given for the benefit OF the Italian B"ney-
client Institute and Hospital. with a asst
including Miss Farrar Miss Braslau and
Mcssrs. Martnelli Scott, Rossi. Bdda.
Pint Corsi. Bcgue and Ananian Mr.. To--
canini will conduct
Josef Holman will play al tonight
concert the Rubinstein u Minor CON
certo. with orchestra and group Of
morceaus, by Debussy. Rachmaninon and
Chopin: Miss Louise Cox will sing
Mcaela's air from Carmen" and two
English songs; Mr.. Pasquale Amato will
sing Largo al Factotum" from Tine
Barber Of Seville and several songs.
he orchestra, under Richard Hasc-
mann's direction, besides accompanying
the soloists. will play the "fannhauser'
overture, the ballet music from Faust
and the Schubert-Liszt March.
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trumps are concerned. but the obvious
fickleness OF card distribution would
make the plain suit value uncertain. In
their way OF thinking, game is assured
by the addition of two tricks. the natural
expectance of partners trick assistance.
This feature of partnership trick valua-
tion opens a subject too wide to be dis
cussed here. suffice it to say that a
second round announcement, instead of
the first, will more clearly establish a
basis for final partnership understanding.
West declared one royal In limiting
his bid TO one, he agreed with most New
York players of recognized ability.
Our correspondent differs, however. and
would bid two. taking the same view on
such hands as a noted Boston expert
whose fame is countrywide. Comment
on this convention is made below.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

for violin and piano. seven symphonies
and various operas, among them Wv ed
ding Bells" La Pompadour,' "AndreaS
uorer" and The Goldsmith Of Paris.
The remainder OF the programme Tor
Mondays concert will consist OF the
Schubert quartet I'm - minor and the
HAYDN quartet in ID major on. 81, No. ..
on Monday evening the Peoples
Symphony club will have the Kaufman
Quartet give a concert in Cooper Union
and on Saturday afternoon the lonsy
Chamber Music Society. New Yorks new
est arrival in this particular field, Will
give its second concert in Acolan Hall.
with the assistance Of Miss Carolyn
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The New York Symphony.

The programme this afternoon Of the
orchestra OF the Symphony Society OF
New York, under Mr.. Walter Damrosch,
is made up OF the great c Major sym
phony of Schubert. the manuscript oil
which Schumann discovered in Vienna
in a heap OF old music" Schubert had
left behind him at his death; con-
certo for violin. piano and string or
chestra by Chausson. which has not
been played before in New York. and
two short pieces for orchestra oy Lalo
Mr. and Mrs. David Names are the
soloists.
The programme on Friday and Sun
day afternoon is TO be made up OF WORKS
of Bach and Debussy, furnishing a con-
Continued on NTH page,
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Oratorio Society.

With forty years of notable achieve.
ment To it's credit. the Oratoro So.
cietv Of New York. Louis Koemmencb
conductor, begins IT'S forty-first season I'm
Friday with a setting of the Biblical pas.
toral, Ruth" by Georg Schumam CoD
55).
This composer, who ranks among tho
conservative moderns," was born IN
Konigsten, Germany, in 1866. His grand.
father was IN organst. his father an Or
chestral conductor. His musical educa.
ton began when he was five, and included
piano. violin and organ. When the lad
was twelve his grandfather died and the
young musician became his successor IN
the village church. In 1878 he went TO
Dresden Cor further musical tuition. From
1881 To 1855 he was a student az the Leip.
sic under the Hostein Stipend. having
for masters Reinecke. Jadassohn and
Zgintscher. He conducted choral and Or
chestrai concerts in Dantsic from 1891 to
1886.
In 1896 he was made conductor Of the
Bremen Philharmonic. lie became con.
ductor Of the Berlin Singakademe in 1900
and stil holds this post. He has been
fairly prolific in all forms save opera,
and his opus numbers now reach ifty-hve
, Orchestra works Of his began to appear
on American concert programmes as early
as 1900
His Ruth was sung first az Hamburg,
December I, 1893, and was repeated few
months later in Berlin under the com.
poserS direction Its first American
| hearing was a. Chicago where the Apollo
| club sang It twice in February, 1910
! They repeated # three years later. Il was
sung at the Worcester Festival, October
| 3, 1872
Schumann, who arranged his own text
| for Ruth" has slightly modified the well
known idyl. A chorus Of reape.s is thus
! introduced. also a chorus OF nocturna!
spirits, redolcnt Of Berloz.
| The soloists for the Oratorio Socistys
| production are Miss Florence Hinkle, So
| prano; Miss Mildred Potter. contralto.
| Putnam Griswold, bass (of the Metropoli.
tan Opera House,; r. Foster Why, bass
| This, the 227th regular concert OF the 50.
ciety, will he given in Carnegie Hall. AS
usual. and the orchestra of the SYMPHONY
| Society will assist.
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zalcy quartet will introduce new suite
for violin and cello. by Emanuel Moor
The composer OF this work was in Ne"
York in l>5. when he was "A member OF Il
concert company which included Nine
Lii Lehman. divide Musin and Franz
Rummcl Harold Bauer played his piano
concerto In - major, Op. o. AT one of the
Van der Stuckcn concerts I'm Chickcring
Hall in 1893. Ills music IS better known
on the other side of the Atlantic, though
Ysaye and Casals have played his COM
positions here. The FlOnZaleys intro
duced the adagio from his string quartet
to music lovers i'm this country in 1911.
Moor has written many songs. conccrtos
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CHARACTER ENTERS.

North declared two hearts. In this
unique position, the conservatism of a
partners action enters into a supporting
bid decision, no matter where the hand is
played. 4 sound bidder may be sup
ported once. but one whose initial deClar-
alton as well as his later bids may be
questioned should not receive encourage
ment in a higher declaration.
The relative positions of the. competi-
tive bidders were also a factor bearing on
the successful outcome North, being
situated over the royal declarer, had the
first chance to determine upon partner
ship action after the adversaries' declar-
alton. With power TO double high al
versary's declaration as preventive TO
a partners over-sangune bidding, North :
position was extremely favorable
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Opera at the Century.

Gounods Faust" will he sung by the
Century opera Company, at the Century
Opera House. during the week beginning
Tuesday.
The artists who will sing the opening
performance of Faust will be Nine. La
Paine. as Marguerite: Herbert Water
Gus. as Mcphistopheles; Miss Howard, as
Martha Walter Wheatley. as Faust; Mr..
Chalmers. as Valentine, and Hugh
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~~9 COMMENT

schussler. as Wagner. The alternatn,
artists will be the Misses Ewell. Scot,
and Jordan, and the Messrs. Bergman
Kaufman and kreldler.
The usual popular Sunday night con.
cert will take place this evening. with IN.
Misses Carson. Ewell, La Paine. Cough.
Ian and the Messrs Hawksley. Kingston
Kreidler and Wheatley singing srias fror,
the standard operas.
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ACTION OF WEST AND NORTH.

Vests two royals upon his turn at
bidding came as a matter Of course, and
North's pass was also the proper thing
to do. He had gone to the extreme i'm Il
previous supporting bid. and double
now though perhaps not affording the
opponents a chance to escape by means
Of another make. could not be assured
OF success and therefore would be dan
gerous.
South declared three hearts. the usual
action taken on hands such as his, not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

Score: Love-all, rubber game.
South declared on heart.
That South's bidding was not entirely
In accord with local custom Is evidenced
oy our correspondents comment saying
Il should start off with a spade" While
The majority Of New York experts agree
with this view. some would make an
initial declaration OF two on account OF
he actual trick value of the hand. They
would figure Souths hand as worth eight
tricks, counting nve tricks in trumps
and three in clubs.
: This estimate is correct as far as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
DUPLICATE LAWS.

The laws OF duplicate auction are az
published at an opportune time. 10 su'uN
that interesting phase OF auction. pup"
cate seems to be increasing rapidly, ahl
fixed laws give unity that VIII gieAN'
aid its playing.
There are many other minor chahse
in wording and phraseology that re9s"s
careful attention, and we commenu n
careful study of the new changes u ."
auction players.
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LACK OF CONFIDENCE.

His partner. however. with that lack
OF confidence which so often has been
commented upon in this column. changed
the declaration TO four hearts.
West here exhibited that curious trait
at auction which is not indigenous 10
any particular locality. In his grim
stubbornness he refused TO entertain any
consideration of partners OF any
players right in a current deal. Think
ing only OF his own holding he declared
four royals, utterly ignoring the adverse
ries' previous action.
Whatever satisfaction West may have
had i'm not yielding the play OF the hand
(after North's inevitable doublcJ was in
all likelihood not shared by his partner.
As i'm common with most hands closing
at high contract. opportunity for sub
tie play was missing and probably for
that reason detailed play of the hand
was omitted. However. footnote say
ing that East and West were set for
100 points shows the normal accruing
benefit for their opponents.
Although Souths insistence in his heart
declaration is not favored, yet with GER
tain allowance for successful fnesse the
cards show a game hand at the dcclara-
ton.
Taking up the subject of different
problems in bidding, our correspondent
whose words carry weight, has this TO
say:
II do not approve OF the bidding at all.
| should decide as follows:
S. W. N T..
spade royals pess pass
hearts pass pass pass
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49, AUCTION bRLD1GL CLINICS rs

card in the hand of a player 30 doins
defeats his rights and voids the penalty
Another important law is that, should
an adversary of the decarer expose MS
last card before his partner plays 10 the
twelfth trick. the two cards in his part
ners hand become exposed cards, subject
TO call.
A penalty of 100 points is given ior re-
doubling more than once, or a new deal
ana 30 points for redoubling a partner
double.
This wise provision will do away win
a lot OF pernicious horseplay and greal!
lessen unseemly remarks.
The right is also given TO either 40
versary to call attention to penalty
say: You determine the penalty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
Chamber Music.

There will be several concerts Of cham
Der music during the week, and the devo-
tees of this highest brand Of pure music
will find abundant pleasure and profit.
At it's first subscription concert in
Aeolian Hall on Monday evening the Flon-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
ANOTHER VIEW FAILS.

At the second table, West despite his
partners warning two diamond declara-
ton. went two no trump and lost his
contract by one trick.
At the third table, West changed his
declaration to royals after his partners
diamond bid and just made his contract.
This hand aptly illustrates the general
tendency of players TO attach too much
of the old bridge Importance TO 100 aces,
instead Of the now more important re-
latlon a constituent hand occupies in the
winning OF games
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
NEW AND REVISED LAWS.

The Rules Committee of the Whist cub
OF New York has recently completed
and published a revision OF the laws OF
auction. including the laws OF three
handed and duplicate auction.
The old code of laws and rules has
been greatly improved and many new
laws added.
Mr. Milton Work, OF Philadelphia. who
did the most OF the work, is entitled TO
great credit for the care and thought
devoted to the subject.
Laws and rules are the important things
TO know. No one can avoid or demand
penalties unless he knows what they are
and when TO be invoked
II YOU wish TO play the game well. get
the new laws and 20 over them until
YOU are letter perfect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

withstanding a partners failure upon an
increased supporting bid.
Vests unusual hand warranted his
three royal declaration that followed.
Although East had not supported him,
nor could strength be looked for in that
direction, considering his own strength
and that indicated by the opponents bid
ding. his superior holding with its high
honor count formed the basis for still
further aggressive action.
North. taking advantage of the oppor-
tunity that now offered itself, doubled.
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NO MORE CHiCANE.

The giving of points for chicsne !"
done away with entirely, and we 'an
imagine the wall OF the player who useu
to pirate of his poor luck.
Another sensible law is the glNlhs "
a penalty of % points for looking AZ
trick after it is turned and qul.''.
Many careless players who resorteo :.
this practice because it was only rue
OF etiquette will now pay for the nsOs
Another very useful law, especiaiy
social clubs and short auction sessio".
Is the fixing OF time limit and seui.s
on the score at that time with 10 pom.
In the honor score for any winner u :
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AN IMPORTANT CHANGE.

The most important change is the re-
duction OF the penalty for a revoke to
100 and the giving of dummy added
rights.
Dummy may now consult with and ad-
wise the declarer as to which penalty to
exact for revoke; to call the attention
or the declarer TO an established revoke
py an adversary or to ar adverse lead
out OF turn. In this connection r very
proper condition has been added that
dummy may not have looked at any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

Beebe pianist The programme will con-
sist of suite by Emanuel Moor.
sonata for cello and plano by Henry
Woollett. aud Jean lures "Pastorale."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

four diamonds on his two suffer, which
was unquestlonably the proper thing TO
do in view of promised strength in his
partners earlier no trump declaration.
East after a struggle in the pay-off
lust made his contract and went game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
THE THREE-sPADE BID.

THE THRE E-SPADE BID.
II is also refreshing to note that none
used that subterfuge in bidding of three
spades" the practical utility of which is
even questionable. AS a difference of
opinion in the proper treatment Of Vests
hands caused the bidding to drift into
different channels, We contne our re-
marks 10 this hand.
West declared one no trump, obviously
influenced by his possession of the high
est honor count. Under ordinary condl-
tons, he would have been amply salts
fed with his strong royal holding as
trumps, but a weird distribution of cards,
giving him four aces. made things look
differently to him.
That either one of his two singleton
aces would necessarily fall on a probable
opening lead and possibly leave his dunn
my at the mercy of the opponents was
a matter that he overlooked or did not
consider of relative Importance in a
trump decision on "A hundred ace hand
II may be emphasized that players every
where overestimate the value OF an
overtime score when the question of a
make for game is under consideration
HIGH HONORS TEMPT.
Not only are many unimportant honor
count differences overlooked in an anxi-
ETY. to swell the score total, but many
safe low count makes are neglected sim
ply for a few extra points a high count
will net
North OF course passed, but East de-
clared two diamonds on a proper take
OUT hand.
South over-called with three clubs This
was obviously unsafe and could hardly
be excused on the ground OF directive
suit bid in anticipation of Vests return
TO no trumps.
West declared three royals where the
question of bonus or a game hand would
have formed a subject for wide discus
sion.
The bidding closed when East declared
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

OCEAN INSPIRES
EDWIN CROSSE,
BLIND VIOLINIST
Musician Who Has Surmounted
Great Physical Handicaps
Tells Of His Work,
Plans and Experiences.

Those who have been fortunate enough
TO spend d summer or month or even
a few weekend days in the quaint httie
town of Siasconset, the veritaole Jump
ine-off place of the remotest Of all New
England islands, have surely never lot
gotten that too short visit. Here beside
the surge OF the outermost Atlah'ic
grouped a little VILLAGE OF fishermen
blts Fishermen there still are there' ou'
in the summer the crooked. mario"
streets have other and far removed Visit
~ors for here il is that A number oil
Americas foremost actors have gathered
10 drive out from remembrance the wh'te
lights OF their winter hunting GROUNDS
and to get back to that nature without
which all art is but painted sham
But there is one man who is not an
actor who has been going there ever
since he can remember. and If he alone
of all the colony has never seen the puI-
pie heather covered mOors or Watcheu
the smoke of distant steamers he mas
vet heard sounds of ravishinG beauty
such as few of his companions have ever
heard. and dreamed the symphony OF the
sea untll al Visual pO""'' w '
have appeared a needless compromise
This man is Edwin Grasse, the pima
yiolinist, who only last week gave re-
cital in Aeolian Hall, and recently to
Tribune representative he gave some
thing of his impressions. and TO those
who know his life it is not strange thal
tho two dominating notes of his talh
on music were the sea and the bells-the
sea Of Sjasconset. the bells OF Germany
and Belgium. where he learned the mas
terry Of his instrument.
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REVERSED.

PA. is the speedometer on an auto :"
tell how fast it is gong?"
mo. son; to tell how slow II Ii CONS
Judge.