The sun., 1916-10-23

spot on the bill Massenet. Verdi. Wolf
Ferrari. Chopin and a lot Of others.
Leave II TO a master programme build
err like the Only Oscar to put the small
Try early and so hold the crowd to the
nnish. That's where Oscars SHADOW
Lawn Waits came on the programme.
down near the finish. with Chopin's
'Polonaise Militaire'' tackled on as an
anti-climactic number just to make
OF Oscars stun.
But the audience was good natured.
u sat patiently. even with seeming en-
thusiasm. during the rendition OF Mo-
sarts stun and the rest Of the pieces by
Massenet and the other foreigners which
had been inserted to lead up to Oscars
Shadow Lawn Waltz"
And at last, along about 10 o'clock.
or at an hour when Oscars public was
beginning TO grip the seats with pent up
impatiencc. All awful thing happened.
Out onto the stage came Impresario
Kahn and announced with tears IN his
voice tina. although the Only oscar was
Iii the fouse the great Forty-second
street composer had decided to let the
regular leader Of the orchestra, Oscar
Spirescu. conduct the shadow Lawn
Waits"
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The orchestra waded into the Shadow
Lawn Waits amid a tremendous silence
on the paying side OF the footlights. and
In fact had got through n quarter Of an
nour or more OF the composition-it was
one OF those lengthy viennese waitses
Indicative. so lmpresario Gest said, of
the long. long, long time Shadow Lawn
~ going TO be Occupied--before the audi
ence could arouse itself to face the fact
mat the Only Oscar was not on tho
stage.
When the waltz . been finished
shortIy before ii O'Clock Up. NJ and
those In the audience who had been bet
ing mat Oscar Hammerstein was only
ithoeraph or a beautiful Broadway
ianfasic and were collecting their bets.
along came another surprise. Somebody
with a voice just like Morris C;est's be-
gan to yell: "Hammerstein. Hammer.
stein
And out onto the stage came the Onlr
oscar. The deuce itself broke loose {:
ana when the chandeliers had ceased to
rattie ana the dust had settled somewhat
the Only Oscar raised his hand and be-.
gan to speak.
Three years more and I shall be an
exile from here nc longer he said, the
applause booming again rs Oscars pub
lie realized that he meant when his con-
tract with the Metropolitan Opera House
ok runs out he will be back at the Man
haitian producing opera again.
written N Rash Order.
And then he explained modestly that he
had written the Shadow Lawn Waltz
on a sort Of rush order for the concer,
trade because . tenor who had been en-
gaRed long g to appear last night had
nnttnAn tho hand .
that he couldn't he on the job. He was
one Of those tenors. aid Oscar. who
suffer from lemonitls." And Oscar con-
cluded his short speech with the recital
OF the JOY IAN old man" gets from writ
Ing waltses and everything. a laugh
greeting that remark about being an old
man.
Shadow Lawn Waltz belongs TO the
highly descriptive school affected by the
late Patrick Ssrsheld Gilmore and his
hand Gilmore being ~inaugurator OF the
blank cartridge. hammer on the anvil
schoo Of musical realism. And no Oscar
calls early upon the French horns tn
suggest the planning mill gingerbread
Americans OF the real Shadow Lawn
pia1zas down the Jersey coast.
Iizx goes the trap drum. and one
feels hat a great Government touring
car IL shooting south toward the Spring
Lake Country Club for q morning of
golf. Crack Slap. on the %xyiophone.
and It's the tee Of tho seventh or elbow
hole Of h Spring LAKE course. F1ub
on tho kcttledruns. Blsnkety- biankety-
blank on the cymbals n then a roar
of noise to cover the friEhtfulness that
, sure must haze come forth as the ball
/ goes into the woods on the elbow.
And 20 II goes until the long last sor-
! rowful sustained note at the end Of the
waltz epitomizing. 70 Morris Gest said
again back among the standees. the long.
long time Shadow Lawn Is to remain In
the silenOs. And all through the
shadow Lawn Waltz" there are high
notes and low notes. notes repeated with
new notes wedged In between. And air
came forth from the wind Instruments
throughout the whole composition and
there was noise and sound and a wealth
OF more sound
The management tried to make up for
Oscars failure to conduct by substitute
ing Percy Granger at the piano every
now and then, but even Percy's pieces
and his long yellow locks failed quite to
satisfy the fans who had come to see
the greatest Oscar conduct. Chopin tried
to hold the crowd after Oscar had An
ished speaking. But the music lovers At
least had seen and heard Composer
Hammerste!n. and SO while the orchestra
| played on the audience got up and
walked out on Chopin and left Chopin