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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13

returning home Saturday and on Sun
day was taken sick with the flu.
Earl Shaw and family are under
the doctors care with the flu.
Three of Mrs. OFT Wightman's chill
dren are confined to the house with
the flu.
Mrs, Archie Eaken is at the home
of her parents, Don Buchanan and
wife, under the doctors care with the
flu.
The schools and churches will re-
main closed till after the holidays on
account of the flu. There are at
present about II cases in the town.
ship.
H. S. Porter and son George have
dissolved partnership in the sawmill
and lumber business. George has pur
chased an elevator at Strongsville and
will take possession January 1.
Mrs. G. M. Jones and son Ted re-
turned home Sunday, after spending
week with her sister, Mrs. F.
Bauer, at North Olmstead =
Mrs. Corner and family Of Homer
vile visited her sister, Mrs. John
and Mrs. Grover Grim last Sunday. .
Mrs. Frank Bauer is in Cleveland
visiting relatives for ten days.
C. M. Jones took his first load Of
livestock to Cleveland Wednesday in
his new auto truck and expects I'd
make about three trips week.
The gas well on Lee Foskett's farm
was drilled in Wednesday and it is a
dry hole. They have moved derrick
on Charles Wightman's farm and are
getting ready to drill the third well
on his farm.
Ora Case is moving to the Auble
farm on Branch road
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13
LODI

The relatives Of Guy Musser have
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

important work 1t has sent solace and
comfort to suffering French, English.
Italians and Belgians. The cases Of
dressings and surgical supplies that
have crossed the ocean from their
hands could not be counted. But all
this needs money. Miss Farrar when
she became a member of this organiza-
tion conceived the idea of gala con-
cert for the benefit Of this work. and
with the exception Of few minor ex-
penses, every dollar realized at the
Metropolitan Sunday night concert will
go to the Stage Women's War Relief.
AS the house was almost entirely sold
out the very first day of the sale. a
large sum will be realized.
After an overture by the Metropoli-
tan Orchestra, conducted by Richard
Hageman, Clarence Whitehill will
open the programme with "The Battle
Hymn OF the Republic" Then will
follow musket drill by fifty naval re-
serves from Pelham Bay Park and a
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Metropolitan
Purges Its Rosie,
The Claims of the Riual Upholders of He;f.4
the Classicist and Seidel the Romantics,
of the Violin World
By Grenville Vernon

TEHE Metropolitan Opera Companys II ba.
minated the of number of enemy alien ;n
interesting The any
ance though Robert Leonhardt
and the eighteen members the
the metropolitan thereby policy
policy be
urthe II the policy to be logical and the principle The
SO artists dropped from the dropped for
They
announced officially that the will excent A
belonging to of proved loyalty good The -
standard of the will probably eobar
Herr Bloch will be replaced by probably merit
the chorsers will yield young tho
school, But the principle patrotay be lo
work. matter who hit singers ua
loss may work hardship to the other wav c.n
opera company the public complete honesty of po
1t be that with of Ieonhardt Herr P,o.
the eighteen chorsers the Meopotans becomes d
WIN paoc purity and be that ca
could that the whitene
metropolitan must be that this beyond o
the broom has been set in motion it comw
patriotic camoufage, and that
the management ought to be
that singer official be whoeheartedy the national cus
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Abbott II. Thayer, Pioneer
In the Art of Can1ouflage
Some of His Examples of Protective Coloro-
tion-Two Juryless charlottesville
May Collection
By Royal Cortissoz

he contributed a valuable article to
The Tribune on the application of his
law to the concealment of warships
Before that time his ideas on the mill
tary possibilities Of his law were in
the air, and since then they have been
widely considered by camoufeurs or
both sides of the Atlantic. The prin-
ciple underlying them has been worked
out in different ways by different prac-
titioners. There are now, we believe
several schools" of thought in this
sphere of utilitarian aesthetics. But
when the history Of the war comes to
be written and the value of camouflage
to the Allies is finally stated it will be
first and last to Thayer that humanity
VIII be asked to express its gratitude.
In the exhibition at Knoedlers there is
one of his early paintings, three
quarter length of a seated woman, one
Of those images of spiritual and cor
poreal loveliness in the creation of
which he has never been excelled. This
work of pure beauty helps to explain
how the artist has been privileged to
confer a precious service upon his fell
low men in the present conflict. Only
man of genius could have painted it.
Only man of genius could have done
what Thayer has done to establish the
art of camoufage upon a firm founda-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

OF Japanese color prints, bewilder-
ing array. All of the masters are rep
resented, and though the impressions
vary in quality the greater number
are good, and many are very fine. In
the remaining more miscellaneous
gathering of Oriental curios the lac
Quers are to be distinguished, and the
Japanese pottery is especially to be
noted. Mr.. May had the usual taste
OF the Orientalist for the conventional
porcelains, the single color glazes, the
hawthorn jars, and so on, which pass
constantly through the sale room. But
he appeared to have given even closer
attention to the humber pottery which
we see only too seldom. 1t is not
always antique. Along with his eigh-
teenth century pieces Mr. May as
sembled numerous others dating from
the middle Of the nineteenth century.
But they include rich company of
lovely forms and lovelier surfaces.
simple bowls of quiet hues which pos
sess delightful charm The Corean
and Chinese pottery also makes brave
show. There are quantities of good
Jade in the collection, the sword
guards, inros and. retsukes embrace
numerous fine examples, and there are
several beautiful pieces of bronze.
In collection so extensive there are
inevitably some negligible objects, but
on the whole this sale should prove
of high interest to the amateur of
Eastern art.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Notes and Comment or,
Things Musical

One of the pleasantest musical sur
prises in the last season or two has
been the increased effort of composers
to use folksongs as material for COM
positions in the smaller forms. The
tunes of the people have long been
utilized as themes for extended works.
as in RimskyKorsakoffs Spanish
Caprice" Henry F. Gilbert's "Comedy
Overture on Negro Themes" and a
multitude of other works. But COM
posers have been a little chary of u.s.
ing such material for songs or brief
piano pieces. There has persisted a
certain respect for the integrity of the
melodies which seemed to forbid the
alteration of them, except that altera-
ton was done on a grandiose scale.
This respect was wholesome reac-
tion from the attitude of musicians in
former generation, when folktunes
were commonly edited and "civilized"
and provided with conventional accom-
paniments for the edifcation of the
drawing room. Those students who
discovered that the apparent crudities
of the popular tune were themselves
new and pregnant beauties fumed
holly against all who had ever altered
note. They insisted that the tunes
be preserved exactly as they came from
the lips of the people. Thus, while
they necessarily admitted the propri-
city of "thematic use" of the tunes
for extended composition, thew stood
out against any minor alterations or
additions which might look like mere
editing"
Now, while the motive of this atti-
tude is right, the reasoning is unsound
The moment an accompaniment is pro-
vlded for folktune the musical Quail
ity of the tune itself is materially
changed. song whose whole value
Is meiodic cannot be superposed upon
an arbitrary harmony without being
very materially ALTERED" Add to this
the fact that if the tune is at all
modal" or unusual in its melodic
structure, no conventional harmony can
be found to fit it. In this case an ac-
compartment is not an "impropriety.
but an actual violence. Our harmony is
based upon the diatonic scale. The
true harmony for modal tune would
be one similarly developed from that
mode. At best, in such cases, the ac-
compartment is compromise between
the conventional harmony which we
possess and some ideal system which is
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

signal drill by the Electrical SeAss'
OF the Brooklyn navy pard =.
Miss Irene Franklin, with buns.
Greene at the piano, will follow Wy
her songs, and then Leon Rothier w
sing the "Marseillaise."
Miss Farrer will herself open 2.
second part. She will sing the seeos.
act of "Madama Butterfly" with ~.
Fornia, Thomas Chalmers, Ansss
Bada, Pie o Audisio and Ellis bss'
Gennaro Papi will conduct.
Efrem Zimbalist will next apP
followed by George Cohan.
Mr.. Sousa, now commissioner =
lieutenant, will give the evening
rousing finish. He will have nos 8,
than $50 men urder his baton, tne -
solidated bands from Pelham, ben''
hurst, SID Street Armory, Navy -
L. S. S. Recruit and other stasaohs :.
the Third Naval District. The nnsa
triotic tableau, arranged by nj. WY.
ski, will include more than 6Vv ~ s
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

The battle between the classicists and
the romanticists, quarrel as old as
time and of which the issue seems as
little capable of decision to-day as
ever, broke out with fresh vigor dur
ing the latter part Of the present con-
cert season. The battle was precipi-
tated by the arrival from Russia Of
two violinists, pupils of the same mas
ter 1t is very probable that the two
violinists themselves are unaware Of
the commotion they have caused. Each
plays his instrument in his own way.
expressing himself sincerely and with
out effort. They are very probably ex-
cellent friends. Yet they have set the
musical world by the ears, and at every
afternoon tea groups instinctively
form themselves, and violently surges
the debate between those who are all
for fervid emotion and those who are
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

actually non-existent. Sometimes
collector runs across a tune, such as
THE Knight on the Road" which Cecil
Sharp picked up in the Appalachian
Mountains, which cannot be harmonized
by any conceivable system. The onlv
consistent position for the musical
purist in these matters is to provide no
accompaniment at all, but to sing the
song exactly as it was sung by the
people.
The public of the cities will hardly
agree to such a violation of their es-
tablished habits. Accomplishments
there must be, and they must be COM
promises, works of conscious art and
discreet scheming. But if these liber
ties can be taken in the interest of the
tune itself, why can they not be car
rled further in the interest of minor
composition developed from the tune?
They can. Of late certain composers
have been taking such liberties to good
purpose. The only test of propriety is
the result. song developed from a
folktune may carry the flavor of the
original melody more accurately to a
sophisticated audience than the bald
tune by itself possibly could The let
ter Of the purist has tended to kill folk
songs. But the spirit has given life
more abundantly.
We have often noted to how marked
degree Mr.. Kurt SCHNEIDER possesses
this spirit. His choral arrangements
of Slavic and particularly of Spanish
melodies have carried The atmosphere
OF the originals with extraordinary
fidelity In many of his elaborate ar
rangements one feels that the result is
exactly what the people would have
composed if they had been allowed a
few more centuries to evolve a har-
monic and polyphonic system of their
own.
Ravel, again, has executed a number
OF charming songs in his own manner,
based upon French folk melodies. In
this case he took no liberties with the
tunes themselves, but went as far as
he pleased with the accompaniments
Milling them to overfowing with the
subtle perfumes Of which he is master
So skilfully did he work that the lis-
tener feels no contradiction between
the naivete of the tune and the sophis-
tication of the piano part
One OF the most interesting of such
experiments is that Of Raoul Laparra.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Those That Are Retained

1t has been announced, though not
officially, that Miss Frieda Hempel
Nine. Margaret Matzenauer and Arthur
Rodansky will be retained. These are
all artists of the first rank. Nothing
has been said about the status of Frank
i G. Coppicus, the secretary of the opera
company, who, though not an artist,
holds a responsible and lucrative posi-
tion. Miss Hempel is said to be about
to marry an American. When she does
marry him she will become automati-
cally an American citizen. At present
she is a German who has sung "The
Star-Spangled Banner" and kissed the
French flag in "The Daughter of the
Regiment" Precisely how her status
at present differs from that of Herr.
Leonhardt, Herr Bloch and the eighteen
choristers, who have perhaps not had
ehe opportunity either of singing "The
Star-Spangled Banner" nor of kissing
the French flag, is not quite apparent.
The case of Nine. Matzenauer is some
what different. Nine Matzenauer is
technically an Italian subject, as she
married Edoardo Ferrari-F Fontana. the
Italian tenor. Though they are sep
arated, and though Signor Fontana has
published the statement that his wife
sympathizes with the enemies of italy.
Nine. Matzenauer yet retains the ma
tlonality Of her husband. In addition
she has given a patriotic concert in
Carnegie Hall. Mr.. Bodanzky has first
citizenship papers and has conducted
himself most tactfully since our en-.
trance into the war 1t is understood
also that he has in private expressed
himself as opposed to German militar
ISM and to Germany's treatment Of
France, Belgium and Russia. 1t would
be better for all concerned if Mr.. Ro.
danzky could be prevailed upon to make
such a statement publicly and def
nitely. The position of Mr.. Coppicus
upon matters pertaining to the war is
also somewhat nebulous. Like Mr.. Bo.
danzky, he has first papers. In short
not only the Metropolitan manage.
ment, but the public as we'll, should
not be left in doubt as to the loyalty ot
the opera company. Despite its pri
vate direction, we rightly look upor
The Metropolitan as national institu-
ton, and each opera lover ought to be
as jealous of its position and of its
honor as any member of it's board OF
directors. At the present crisis it can
afford to play no favorites.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

all for beauty Of line and purity a,
form. There are those who can enjoy
both equally; there always are cath.
olic spirits even in the artistic world.
but, alas, they are few, and they An
looked upon askance by both factions
Even the classicist loves only his ON,
conception of balance!
Toscha Seidel is the romanticist a
the bow, and his partisans are worth,
of the object of their alteration. IN,
romanticist has always heaped adies
tives upon the altar CT his hero. and
young Mr.. Seidel has been veritaby
buried IN mass of red hot adiectiv,s
How he continues to fiddle we confess
we don't know. For instance, to wax,
up IN the morning and read that /.
resembles a volcano in benevolsu.
emotion" must be to Mr.. Seidel s,.
rlble experience. He must rub hin.
self to discover whether the mouth
lava has not hardened about him md
if he feels like eating his breakfast N
must consider it very queer.
However, for the rest of us II h
good to feel that critic who sczas.
times appears as a hardened cynic /,
really the prince of enthusiasts. ".
feel persuaded that had the critic Of
The Globe" lived in Paris three-qusr.
ters OF a century ago he would haw
do-ned red waistcoat and led the
young romanticists at the premiere Of
Victor Hugo's Herman" Enthusiasm
makes US believe in the goodness Of
human nature, and Toscha Seidel has
invoked a lot of it.
His rival is, of course. Jasch,
Heifetz. If seidel is the Hugo of the
violinists, Heifetz is the De Vigny, II
seidel fddles wildly in the midst Of ths
hurricane, Heifetz plays serenely from
an ivory tower. Such perfection os
technique, such exquisite grace of lias
and purity of form have been the gift
OF no violinist before this young Rus
sian, at least in the memory of the
younger generation. His playing 4
flawless, ethereal. Hence he has BIZ
detractors; twentieth century art ha
not hitherto sought the spiritual Of
attempted to dwell; on Olympian
heights. The stormy earth rather than
the blue heavens has been the dwell
ing place Of our genius. We havt
s'riVen to get near to humanity, nor 70
rise above it. We have worshippei
emotion unrestrained and unashamed
Form we have branded as reactionaiy
as stultifying, as undemocratic In The
past a ruling class has restrained The
people politically, economically, re-
ilglously, artistically, and the strait
jacket has been form So the preseut
generation has revolted, and in musif
as elsewhere the Eolshevik has y
serted his supremacy.
Yet strange thing has come p
pass. The audiences greeting JsscAa
delfetz have been larger than thca
greeting any other violinist. Is 1t b.
cause at last the public has grcss
tired of self-assertion and has tursd
back to reverence for superiority
Whatever the reason, it is evident thss
ciassicism is far from dead, and ~
he is given to the remark that
classic is work which gave the grest
est possible amount of pleasure to on
grandfathers." Jascha Heifetz gives "
! greatest amount of pleasure to U.s.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Stage Women's
War Relief

1t has remained for Miss Geraldine
Farrar to end the musical season at
the Metropolitan. Miss Farrar's en-
terprise is to help her sisters of the
stage in the work they are doing for
our own boys and their allies now at
the battlefront. The Stage Women's
War Relief. almost from the very day
we entered the war, has performed an
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

were deliberately developed" for a
space. Sometimes snatches of other
tunes were interpolated to serve as
refralns for the voices or as devices for
the accompaniment. Yet slight as the
notifications were, the songs have tho
air of having been composed" through
out. This is partly the result of the
unusually full development of the ac-
compartment. Sometimes snatches
from the tunes provide powerful inde-
pendent counterpoint against the voice,
so powerful, indeed, as to set up at
times the most strident dissonances
The piano part is rarely the "tum-ta-
ia" OF the conventional guitar accom-
paniment. Usually it is polyphonic
web of great expressive beauty. And
always it is evolved from the mate
rials of the tune itself, and so pre-.
serves the authentic quality and emo
tional favor
When undertaken by so skilful and
imaginative a musician as Mr. Laparra.
these developments of folksong are
peculiarly delightful. For our part. we
can think "of no more pleasant way of
spending an afternoon than to listen
to songs like these, drawn from manv
climes and lands. And we can think Of
no more appropriate moment for their
introduction than now, when the de-
parture of the German Lied is leaving
great gap in our recital programmes.
The first volume of the negro folk
songs, which were recorded in four
parts by Natalie Curtis Burlin, at
Hampton Institute, referred to at
! length in these columns some weeks
ago, has just come to hand from the
press of G. Schirmer, New York. The
collection is fully as interesting as
previous comment and the singing of
one of the songs at Schola Cantorum
concert had led one to believe.
The four parts in which the songs
were sung to Mrs. Burlin are accurate
ly noted, with number of variants.
Footnotes point out peculiarities in the
negro singing which could not be
shown in the notation. And abundant
comments by the editor lead the reader
to appreciate the remarkable qualities
of these spontaneous compositions.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Mt Notes

samuel A. Baldwin will play the foi.
lowing programmes for his free ORGAN
recital at the City College this week,
To-day, at o'clock:
overture: overture: Occasional Oratorio" Handel
oh0fale Is,ip prelude; "Adorn Thysef. Fond
Fuyue IN r. '''...'....... Bach
aDiie |s ................ Jonpen
60: az ~ Hinor. ............. .Schumann
W;lINn, pay; sehefzo. o............ Kinder
M,S w Tsp ................. Nevin
cy ia .Rubinste tein
oSmphony No. 5....................W Widor
And on Wednesday, at o'clock, the
following:
Sonata No. 4 Becker
AR In and Fugue la Gigue. Bach
lie Bon Pasteur and La Cour des Lys
Pilgrims Chorus. Elizabeths Prayer ana
- song to the Evening Star Wagner
By the Sea $500. " ~ ne.
Finale. First Symphony. ............. .Pierne
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

The Symphony Society of New York,
Walter Damrosch conductor, announces
that Willem Willeke, formerly 'cellist
OF the Kneiscl Quartet, has been en-
gagged as first 'cellist and solo cellist
OF the orchestra in place of Engelbert
koentgen, who is now serving with the
S05th Regiment, at Camp Upton.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
&/ccA@0o NAR1lIv> NE AMeRc>
/1W0>e' @''7o IrZZk 5ZFNG At The
>9HS1>CES or CAh>4nIqN CUE
or NeW HoRh. @rns~1zN

fumblings of inadequate artists are
merely depressing. 1t goes against the
grain to have to say this. We do not
doubt that there are scores of devoted
beginners here represented who have
done their best, with all the enthu-
siasm in the world. But it is no more
than justice to remind them that if
their best is still pretty poor it ought
to be confined to their own studios.
The May Collection of Orientalia
The current exhibition at the Amer
lean Art Galleries is given to the OBJ
jects of Japanese and Chinese art
brought together by the late Frederic
May, of Washington. There are nearly
$500 items, which will be sold on the
afternoons of May 6, 7, and 9. More
than half Of the collection is composed
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

composer of the opera "La Habanera." )"
Mr.. Laparra did his own tramping
through the mountains and plains of
his native Spain in order to collect
tunes from the peoples lips. But, hav-
ing collected them, he did not publish
| them in learned volume, like his dis
tinguished compatriot, Albeniz, but
took them straight to his studio for
elaboration. The result was a series
of songs and short piano pieces which
were sung by Helen Stanley and played
by the composer at Aeolian Hall some
ten days ago, at recital which they
chose to call "a Musical Journey
Through Spain"
In most cases Mr.. Laparra left the
tunes intact, except sometimes to vary
their position in the scale to permit Of
modulation. Sometimes the melodies
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

One of the most interesting of such
experiments is that of Raoul Laparra,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Lewis Asks Removal
OF Ormsby McFHarg
Attorney General Files Action
Against Officials of Common
wealth Finance Corporation

Ormsby McHarg, former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Labor un-
der President Taft, is one of the Off
Gals OF the Commonwealth Finance
Corporation, whose removal is asked
by Attorney General Lewis in an ac-
tion filed yesterday in the Supreme
Court. Mr.. McHarg is secretary and
treasurer of the corporation. The
other officers and directors whose re-
moval iss asked are Henry D. Tudor,
president, and Harry L. Burrage
Charles c. Dickson and Charles w
Thomas. Robert c. Morris has been
designated as special Deputy Attorney
General to prosecute the action.
1t Is charged that the defendants
used the funds of the Commonwealth
Finance Corporation for the payment
of club dues, the furnishing of apart
ments and the purchase of articles for
their personal use. Many of these
items of expenditure are enumerated d
Ill the complaint
The action filed yesterday followed
a four days hearing in Albany at
which, Mr.. Lewis said, the defendants
refused to produce their books. The
contention of the defendants was that
the suit was the outcome Of stock
holders quarrel and that the ATTORNEY
General should not have interfered.