The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-29
$7,S16,OOO RECITAL
AT METROPOLITAN
Box Holders Pledge 81, 100000
Victory Notes for Piano
Solo by Rachmaninoff.

The notes of great artists have fire.
Quently been. golden in more senses thar
one, but Jascha Heifets and s. Rach
| maninoff made a record for big earning.
at tho Metropolitan Opera House las
night. when the violinist got $500. o0(
! for the Victory Loan with hs perform
ance Of Schubert's ave Maria" and tn,
pianist swelled the amount by $1,000,
! 600 Just by playing his own Prelude IF
c sharp minor. The rally was staged by
the Allied Music Division of the loar
committee, and It brought the total o.
this energetic division up to the It'd,
! sum OF S7,sl6.0o0. which is considerable,
/, in excess Of it's quota OF s2.750O0O.
Heifetx had just finished playing 9
group OF three pieces, ION Wings Of
Song" by Mendelsohn- Achron: Dane,
, No. Z" by Brahms and "Guitsrre." b,
| Mos.kowsky, when a man arose in DO,
Is, In which Admiral Mayo had seated
himself after opening proceedings will
brief speech. and announced that tina
box would subscribe $500. 900 II the vic
/ linist would play the Ave Maria" TIL,
man said he was a representative Of tn.
Victor Talking Machine Company. ant
Heifetz. apparently feeling that he wa,
talking to good purpose. instantly com
piled.
| II was after Rachmaninoff had rem.
| dered THE Star Spangled Banner" ant
LISTS Rhapsodie Hongroise that Boxes
~ and 20 offered to subscribe 81 200, 00t
for another tune by the artist. TIL.
spokesman for boxes 81 and 20 was q
G. Foster. president OF the American
Plano Company. and the members Of the
pool for tho subscription were Thoma,
NIL l.l. =
II. d. Macdonald. William Cochran
Howard &. Tierney, Charles W. Reicks
Grnest Stauffen. Jr., Joseph A. Bower
! J. s. Maxwell, Sidney W. Noyes an1
, John l.. Weeks.
Some OF the largest subscribers were
the Edison Talking Machine Company
Steinway Sons. the Kohler Industrie,
and the Aeolian Company. After tn,
big sums had been announced Motor
Corps Girls from the National Leagu,
for women's Service went through tn,
house with blanks and with the aid Or
the chairman's appeals from the stag,
brought a flood OF smaller pledges, in.
| Guiding one of $1,000 from a Chicago
man. another from New Hampshire ant
another which the subscriber said wa.
for 'one million marks"
WHAT demanded the chairman.
! "A million marks Is $4,000 in oui
money" said the taker.
A mighty round OF applause greeted
the statement OF the chairman, Morri,
X Parker. that the Allied Music Diyi
! sion had more than trebled its quota
and on top OF the enthusiasm Lieut. Col
! Theodore Roosevelt came out and mad,
! the windup speech. telling some Of tn,
experiences OF tho Americans in tn,
trenches OF France
| Admiral Mayo's speech was as direc
and out from the shoulder as were hi
| performances in the war
The Victory Loan must 60 over tn
top he said. because We have to pay
not only the cost OF this war, which 4
! tremendous beyond anything We eve
dreamed of In past years, but we mus
also pay the cost of remissness In tn,
past. We are paying for the lack o
preparedness in the past for every maj
must realize that had we spent only ,
very small proportion of the billions W,
! now pour forth, had We distributed
these over the years in the past. and 81
| had a larger army and especially
| larger and better rounded navy, Ger
many meyer would have carried thing
10 the pass OF forcing this country int,
the war. But II was done, we were II
| the war and We are glad of it--and nov
Il remains for us to finish the Job al
| our soldiers and sailors finished theirs
Tho Rev DR.. G, Wallace Petty OF tn,
| Creston Avenue Baptist Church ais
made a rousing speech Before tn,
regular programme opened there wa
| twenty minutes OF community singing
by the audience. led from the stage b,
| one of the directors OF the New Yorl
| War Community Service.