The sun., 1916-12-29
MIRTH AND MELODY
AS BOHEMIANS DINE
Many Musical Novelties Served
and Comedy Opera
Produced.

There may nave been a time. as Rubin
Goidmark suggested at the tenth ami
versary dinner Of the Bohemians at the
Hotel Aston last night. when musicians
were OF flowing name and flaming mien'
of ~combustible temperament and dispo-
sition SO Jealous as to be UNFIT for hu-
man society. But II that was ever SO
Euterpe has softened e devotees-or
perhaps the Bohemians themselves have
taught them how TO fr%aternize with true
understanding and real sympathy.
Certainly the tenth dinner Of the Bo-
hemians or, to give them their other
title. the New York Musicians Club. was
a delightfully."- human function with
mirth everywhere bubbllng and laughter
savoring every course. Many Of the
greatest in the land were there. but they
we're made no more of than the obscure.
No set of musicians could be expected
TO walk In to dinner without some Sort
Of urge or voice or brass or wood wind'
and when II came time for the parade to
form in the corridors OF the Astor. with
Franz Kneisel and Auguste Fraemcke
and Rubin Goldmark and Sigmund
Herzog leading. the orchestra, under
the direction Of Edwin +. Goldman.
played Johann Swendsen's
March," And with various courses were
served musical novelties. such AS the
amusing appearance Of the four emi-
grant musicians. Louis Burgstaller. Kari
Kreisei, Charles Garden n Karl Won
Bitterl In costumes suggesting Elis
Island while with the coffee the orches-
ira rendered q parody on the "Tann-
hauser' overture.
The piece dc resistance came at the
end OF the dinner when the curtain at tho
north end Of the grand ballroom wa
suddenly rolled up revealing a stage se'
for Mozart's comedy opera The I'm.
presario.' for which Henry c. krehbie'
made the English adaptation. In the
cast were David Bispham. John Sain.
polls, Albert Hciss. Greta Torpadie and
Lucy Gates. Sam Frankie conducted.
Among the 500 who enjoyed the musica
fun were Mr.. and Mrs. Richard AID
rich. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bodanzky
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bauer. Mischa
flman. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry 7. Finck
Ossip G~abrilowitsch. Mr.and Mrs. Leopold
Godowsky. Marcus Halperson. Mr.. anc
Mrs. Fritz Kreisler. Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
hneiSel. Alexander LAMBERT, MI. ahe
Mrs. Ernest Schelling. Mr.. and Mrs
Leopold ~Stokowski. Melville T.. stone
Josef Stransky, Mr.. and Mrs. Effen
Zimbalist. John %Sainpolis. David Bis
pham. sam Frankie. Mr.. and Mrs. Alder
Reise. Nine. Won Juch Wellman. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Frederick 7. S~te!nway. James Luby
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch. Mr.. an'
Mrs. Harry Hardness Flagler. Mrs. J
West Roosevelt. Frank II. Lawrence
Mr.. and Mrs. william du Val, John Me
Cormack. Mr.. and Mrs. James Speyer
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix NJ. Warburg. DIR
Carl Goldrnark and Mrs. Goldmark
Rcinald Werrenrath. Mr.. and Mrs. :
Mallct-Prevoet. Countess Won Seykcn
dorf. Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac n. Seligman
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob II. Schin. Ro
Cooper Megrue, Duke and Duchess d.
Richelieu. MIR. and Mrs. Emil Goldmark
Daniel Frohman. Mr.. and Mrs. T.. NJ
! Scagnamillo. Dr. George W. Jacoby. Nj
n Mrs. Arnold Nolpe, Mr.. and Mrs
Dudley Buck and Dr. Emanuel Baruch.
After the comedy opera and a tall
by Rubin Goldmark. in which the origi
and growth OF the Bohemians were re
viewed not too seriously. there was gen
eral dancing.