The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-09
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In Paris Mr.. Bradley met Topeka
people from time to time. Among
them, Frank Shellabarger, a brother
of Mrs. William Macferran, who is
Paris correspondent for a New York
paper, and whose family has lately re-
turned after visit to the States; Mrs.
, Kellam and Miss Katherine Kellam,
who are travelling abroad, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Thompson.
In Munich, it seems, a concert of
| the best music may be heard for sew
enteen and a half cents, and grand
opera may be seen from the students
gallery for fifty cents, and still some
people in this country wonder why it
is that the average of musical intelli-
gence is so much higher in Germany
than in America.
I'm Germany, when a man learns
that you are a student of music from
America, his comment is: Yes, Mac
Dowen is your national composer?
Not?' And in Munich they are still
singing Love Me and the World Is
Mine Whenever someone proposes
an American song, that is the one that
is taken for granted. Occasionally the
bands play some rag time. The peo-
pie that hear it recognize it at once,
ed they seem to like il.
THE thoroughness of the German
musician is trait that the foreigner
notices at once. A man L knew who
was directing an orchestra went to re-
hearsal at IL o'clock, and 1 waited for
him until half past three in the after
noon. to keep an appointment we made
for l o'clock. His explanation was
that he had been rehearsing. Learning
something new? No, he answered,
going over the 'Traviata' score. The
men of the Orchestras there can play
the Cry of the Valkyries and watch
their audience while they do it! And
of
European cities is the chance it gives
one to get a line on the requirements
of the public singer. The student sees
about what the average talent is. and
he judges himself accordingly. He
can't very we'll come back with any
false ideas of his own attainments."
The foreign students in Paris had
their own ways of keeping green their
memories of their home friends. One
of these was to sing together the ia
vorite song of far-away pal. On
some such occasion, two Topeka men
were remembered. The memorial to
one was Has Anybody Here Seen
Kel1y?" and the other, "Old Black
joe"
Yes Mr.. Bradley unused. they
are a friendly lot-even the English
men were not hard to get acquainted
with because we Americanized them
And the incongruity of Kansan go
ing to Paris and Americanizing a Lon
doner had something of the favor of
the English plum pudding made by
the French cook from Cork
Mr.. Bradley will be in Topeka with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brad
ley, for his vacation, and forgetting
wor kfor while. will probably be a
familiar figure at the ball games and
on the golf course
Mrs. c. A. Roland, of Chicago who
is visiting Mrs. r. J. Parker, will be
the guest of honor at luncheon
which Mrs Charles Blood Smith will
give Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock
at the Topeka club. The decorations
for the party will be in pink. and
covers will be laid for twelve After
luncheon the guests will play bridge.
Mrs. Parker will have guests for a
dinner Tuesday night at the Topeka
club complimentary to Mrs Roland
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One of the pre-nuptial parties for
Miss Gladys Scott. whose marriage to |
Mr.. Russell Frost will take place |
next Wednesday, will be given Satur-
day afternoon by Miss Eugenfa Quin-
ton. at her home in Topeka avenue.
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The Monday Whist club will meet !
Monday of next week with Mrs S. E. |
Barber at her home in Buchanan street |
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Mrs. George Parkhurst entertained a !.