Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-24

machine carried a small gun and a
number of. bombs. =.
Owing to motor trouble, P%ascheloff
had to descend two miles behind the
the Austrian lines. While the mechan-
ic was repairing the motor, six Aus
TRANS approached. Paschslof turned
his one FOUNDER on them and fired n
shrapnel shell, which exploded accur-
ately and felled five men. The sixth.
surrendered.
Then came the problem-what
would he do with his prisoner? Pas
chaloff decided to abandon his stock
of bombs, and tie his prisoner to the
tail-frame of his machine. Thus bur-
dened, the aeroplane. rose and flew
over the Austrian lines amid a. storm
Of bullets, regaining the Russian lines
without damage.
London, March &c. r. w. Nevin.
son., one of the chief disciples of Fut-
urist painting in England, has been in
valided home fro mthe front, where ne
went SIX months ago in charge of a
motor ambulance. -
at needs an iron nerve to find poet
ic inspiration in such scenes or horror
as one must view over there he SAID
on his arrival here, "but the war will
be a violent incentive to Futurism, for
W e believe there is no beauty except
in strife and no masterpiece without
aggressiveness.
"In the pictures which I have paint
ed in France, I have tried to express
the emotions produced by the appar-
ent ugliness and dulness of modern
warfare. The Futurist technique is
the only possible medium to express
the %crudeness, violence and brutality
of the emotions seen and felt on the
present battlefields of Europe.
"All artists should 60 to the front to
strengthen their art by a worship OF
physical and moral courage and a fear
less desire of adventure, risk and dar-
ing. Thus they will free themselves
quickly of the canker of professors,
psychologists, a%ntiquaries, and beauty.
worshippers.
Modern art needs not beauty or re-
stra;nt, but vitality. The ,soner the
exploitation of the old masters and the
wastage of millions of money ceases,
the sooner will come the opportunity
for the artist to make a livelihood. A
masterpiece which has built up a prls-
on of timidity, imitation and plagar-
ISM" T.
Wilhelmshaven, March 23.-One of
the most notable theaterS in all Ger
many, still less than six months old,
is the "War Theater" that has been
established hele, with artists from all
over the empire, some of them with in
ternational regulations, as its singers
and musicians.
T~hees.theatcr was established under
the patronage Of the Princess Adal.
bert:aS4 ats earnings go toward relief
workaAFI It's patrons are largely soldiers
and sailors, many of them wounded
and 1ecuperating for further service.
It's artists almost without exception
are musicians of note who have left
positions for far more humble stations
in the navy.
The director of the operas and op-
erattas produced is DR.. Maurer, con.
ductor of the orchestra of the court
theater in Stuttgart, who has been
called into service as bandsman IN a
musical corps of a naval division.
The acting is under the direction OF
L. Treptow, member of the staff of the
Little Theater in Berlin, who at the
beginning of the war Joined a naval
aerial CORPS as a volunteer and now Is
the operator of a hydroaeroplane.
The cast includes Boatswains Mate
Peters, the tenor, of the state theater