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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16

Heraided by exceptional tributes from
 eastern critics, who declare 1t to be
 most novel photoplay, Back to Gods
 Curwoods celebrated magazine story,
 ''Wapi, the Walrus,' will begin a week S
 engagement at the Trianon theatre Mon
 day.
 Probably no person alive has the knack
 of writing on the psychology of the re- lationship between animal and man that characterizes the literary work of Cur wood. And in his picture, which was supervised by himself in the Arctic re- gions in a temperature of 52 degrees be- low zero, a faithful attention to detail has made this photoplay far more vivid than his story.
 Back to Gods Country" is based es- sentially upon the theme that kindness to animals results in reflecting and gen. erating that kindness to the giver where as cruelty and torture serve to incite an animal to fiendsh savagery. Curwood writes his story about Wap, the killer, a great Dane upon whom no man or beast i has ever lavished a kind word or act. Another thread of the story leads to Nell Shipman as Dolores LeBeau, a girl living with her father in the wilds of Canada
 and whom all the animals near her home have learned to love.
 When Fate takes Dolores and a help ] less husband into the Arctic regions she ! is brought into touch with the dog, who | has received the name of "the killer l from the Eskimos and traders whom he l has frightened through his fierceness ] Dolores kindness wins his friendship. l How Wapi saves the lives of Dolores and her husband who are fleeing across the barren lands in sleigh, is one of the most unusual scenes ever shown on the l screen.
 Dolores LeBeau lives in the mountain wilds with her father and the animals of l the forest as her only companions. Peter | Burke, novelist, meets her on one of I his tramping expeditions and falls in love. 1 The attraction is mutual and they plan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16

National feature, Daddy Long Legs
 Charlie Ray comes Monday and Tues day in "T'he Pinch Hitter" As DOT trayer of juvenile comedy roles MT Ray has no equal on the screen. His successes are too numerous to attempt to list here. He brings to each new character his own inimitab ble touches that individualize any part he portrays.
 'The Pinch Hitter stands out as one of his greatest offerings. It Is the story of a small town boy, the typical Ray part, who makes fame in baseball by de- hvering at the proper time Charlie Kay didn't have to fake the baseball scenes
 in making this picture. because he knows the game and is ranked among the pest os the amateurs around Los Angeles.
 It is a story that baseball fans will en- joy and that all movie fans will like the cause there is a charming love story run ming through 1t all. MT. Ray has his usual excellent supporting cast. In addition to- '"rhe Pinch Hitter on the Monday and Tuesday bill there is a short comedy, "A Rustic Romeo.' Mary Pickford, the queen of the screen, comes Wednesday and Thursday in what is considered by many her most famous production, Daddy Long Legs" pictur- ized from the stage success of the same name Every fan has seen MISS Plckloru in many roles, but few that fitted her bet ter than the little orphan girl who gets her chance at life among human beings who are glad to have her around. 1 Almost everyone knows the story of Daddy Long Legs" The little orphan | Judy Abbott, who had such a hard time 1 in the orphan asylum, finally attracts the attention Of kind hearted man, who helps her out, but refuses ito let his ! identity be known.
 | He sends Judy to college and sht writes him long letters and pictures hin as Daddy Long Legs, because all she ha:
 ever seen of him has been the shadow
 cast by his figs.
 Judy grows up and becomes quite ia
 nous as a writer, and she meets a PhiliI
 Pennington, who is in love with her
 After many misunderstanding Judy de
 cides that she loves him, and then sh'
 learns that he is Daddy Long Legs.
 In addition to this great feature Para i mount magazine and a Burton Holmes ] traveogue will be shown.
 | Marguerite Marsh and Vernon Steel' l are the stars in the Friday and Saturda,
 production, The Phantom Honeymoon. ! This is a story of mystery and thrills
 with the leading players in excellent roles ] There will be a George Ovey comedy 1T 1 addition to the feature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16
Face Paint Tabooed-
 Remove Skin Instead

"A few years ago only one class of wo- men painted their faces" says Dolly Madi- con. Tt was a sign of social ostracism and was tsbooed in refined circles. The custom has become so universal we must admit it is to be deplored and to be shelved as soon as possible"
 How foolish to seek artificial beauty" of this sort. obnoxious from artistic and moral standpoints, when it is easy to obtain a truly natural complexion by the use of ordi- nary mercolized wax. which may be had at any drug store in original one-ounce pack. age This mercolzed wax is so effective and so harmless, no need think of using anything else for the purpose. Applied like cold cream at night. and washed off in the markabie rejuvenating effects. It gently ab- sorbs the hfeless surface skin in tiny par ticles, gradually showing the fresher, live Her. beautiful underskin. Naturally it takes with it all surface defects. like freckles, pim- ples, chaps. moth patches and liver spots
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16
EERGREENS URGE
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS

London, October 25.-(By Reciprocal News Service.)-An elaborate floral de- sign using small evergreen plants, has been completed in the north end of the church yard of St. Pauls cathedral in which this lettering appears:
 VERSAILLES
 1S71-1919
 Defeat-Victory GOD SPEED THE LEAGUE OF
 NATIONS The legend is plainly readable from the sidewalk and has attracted thou sands into the churchyard for closer examination of the design and contem- plation of the floral prayer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16

Barriscale, Tom Moore, Jack Gardner, Lewis S. Stone, Beatrx Michelena, George Nichols and H. B. Warner will be shown These features will be five and six reels, making a two and one- haif-hour programme.
 Topics of the Day., taken from the Literary Digest, will be added to the' pictures at the night performances. This part of the programme is feature in itself and will no doubt prove popular with the Lyric followers.
 part of the programme is feature at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16
SPECIAL FEATURE PICTURES SHOWN
 AT LYRIC MATINEE

In order to make the matinees attrac- tive to it's many patrons, the management wonderful screen classics to be shown in conjunction with the regular vaude- vile bills.
 Such stars as William Desmond, Bessie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16
bIG STARS IN BIG
 PRODUCTIONS ON COLONIAL BILL
Some of the Biggest Screen
 Successes Will Be Shown During the Week at s Popular Theatre

Hg stxrs and great productions feature ghis weeks programme at the Colonial theatre, with three big features and sev- erAl shorter reels offered. Charlie Ray and Mary Pickford are two of the big stars tn two of their most striking fea- lures. the former in "The Pinch Hitter
 and Miss Pickford in her greatest First
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16

tars as William Desmond, Bessie
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Friends Of Music

The Friends Of Music will give the
third and last Of It's series Of con-
certs at the Ritz this afternoon,
at O'Clock, with programme of
vocal music Of the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries, directed by Ernest
Bloch, and sung by chorus of eighty
from the Metropolitan Opera, Giulio
Setti chorusmaster. The opening num-
mer will be Missa Crews by Pales-
trina, which will be followed by n
group of motets: "Ave Maria" by
Josquin dc Pres; two by Vittoria, 90
magnum mysterium" and 80 guam
gloriosum"; penitential psalm by
Orlando di Lasso; "Diffusa est gratia"
ofvNanini, and "Regina coeli" OF Aich-
niger. The last part OF the concert
will be devoted to secular music.
series Of madrigals sung in Old
French: "Bon jour, mon cnur," by
Orlando di Lasso; acc moys dc May"
and "Au Jolly jeu du pousse-avant," by
Clement Janequin, and group by
Claude Lc Jeunc, "Voicy du gay Prin-
tens" and four "chansons mesurGcs a
Pantique--"Revecy vcnir du Printems,"
pantique" "Revecy venir du Printcms,"
LA bel Arondc." "Cs nest que tiel" and
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
AT THE METROPOLITAN
Calendar for the Current Week

suNDAY-carnege Hail. concert by the Philharmonic soc
Aeolan Hail. by the Society:
m concert by John Mccormack Metropolitan Opera House sao
concert of music by Verdi Puccn Hall
College of the City of New organ ret.,
Samuel A Baldwin; Brooklyn Academy M sona -
by David Bispham - s''s
MONDAYAeoian Hall, pianofore by Beryl Ruh;n
House, operabaet French DOR; D. m rrs
"Nlireie" Park Theatre, English on
iUESDAY-Aeoian Hall, Elizabeth
p my pianofore recital Park Theatre
English of Union
concert of Scandinavian Folksong ""
WEDNESDAY, M French onera
ct Dala"; GreatHal of the College City York ~
recital by Samuel A. N'
1HURSDAfCarnegle Hail. 815
orchestra; Aeoln Hail. pianoore Dav
$40 concert of music
and Otile Sutro Metropolitan
lsh The Legend" "The and
FRiDAY-Aeoian Hail. recital by m
recital Aurelo Gon
Association metropolitan Opera House, opera Tbas
Brooklyn Academy of Music S:15 by Boon
Symphony Orchestra. "
Hall,
Orchestra; of Society,"
Hail. p m, s:15 -, r;.
recital by Manfred Hopse
Russian French, LAmore m celebration
Enrico Causo wentyfh anniversary singer: mixed s,
~ va"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
To'night's ''Opera Concert

AT to-night's "opera concerts Yer.
ol-fuccinl programme will be given. 1t
Will consist of the following numbers.
lntermezzo (third act) of "Manon Les.
caut," orchestra; "Che gelida mamma
from Lila Boheme," Mr.. Morgan Kinc.
ston; 80 mio Bambino caro-" from
"GIannl Schicchi," and Musetta's waltz
song from LA Boheme," Miss Marie
Sundellus; "E lucevan lie steile," from
"Tosca," Mr.. Paul Althousc; "Un bel
d." from "Madama Butterfly Miss
Claudia Muzio; duet from the first act
OF "Madama Butterfly" Miss Muzio and
Mr.. Kingston; "In quelle trine NOR
bide," from "Manon Lescaut," and
"Vissi d'arte,' from "Tosca," Nine
Rappold; quartet from the third act of
La BMoheme," Misses Muzic and Sun
delius and Messrs. Althouse and Monte
santo; overture from LA Forza del Des.
tlno," orchestra; an aria from "Simone
Boccanegra," Jose Mordones; 80 don
Fatale," from "Don Carlos" Nine. Mat
zenauer; "Eri tu," from "Un Ballo in
Maschera," Montesanto; "Caro nome"
from "Rigoletto," Miss Beale; duet
from "Aida," Miss Claudia Muzio and
Mr.. Morgan Kingston; "D'amor sulr ali
rosse," from "Il Trovatore." Nine. Rap
pold; duet, "Gia Sacerdoti" from
"Aida," Mr.. Kingston and Nine. Rap
pold; quartet from "Rigoletto," Misses
Beale and Arden and Messrs. Althousc
and Montesanto. Mr.. Papi will direct.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
N. Y. Syncopated Orchestra

The New York Syncopated Orchestra,
composed of fifty colored musicians
under the leadership of Will Marion
Cook, will be the attraction at the
Nora Bayes Theatre for one week only,
beginning Monday evening, March IT.
This organization aims to keep alive
negro music. 1t does not play jazz or
common rag, but rather the music that
was made famous by the first American
minstrels. The programmes include
negro folksongs, spirituals and the
modern and more classical compost
tions of the colored race. These num-
bers are varied by the solo work of
Buddie Gilmore, trap drummer; Frank
Withers, trombone; Mrs. H. King
Reavis, soprano; the Exposition -Four
and others. Matnees will be on
Wednesday and Saturday.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Operas of the Week
Al the Metropolitan

The gala performance in honor of
Caruso's silver jubilee and for the
benefit of the Metropolitan Opera
Company's emergency fund will take
place next Saturday evening. The bill
will comprise the third act of
"L'Elisir d'Amore," with Mines. Bar
rientos and Sparkes and Messrs. Ca
ruso, Scott and Didur; the first act
of "Pagliacci," with Miss Muzio and
Messrs. Caruso, De Luca and Werren-
rath, and the coronation scene from
lie Prophete," with Nine. Matzenauer
and Messrs. Caruso, Mardones and
Diaz.
"L'Affore del Ire Re" will be re-
vived at the Saturday matinee. The
singers will be Miss Muzio and Messrs
Martinelli, Chalmers and Didur.
The last performance of the season
of de Coo d'Or' will be given to-
morrow afternoon at popular prices
and with the usual cast.
Other operns this week will be as
follows: Monday, "Mireille," with the
original cast; Wednesday, "Samson ct
Dalila," with Nine. Matzenaucr and
Mr. Caruso, Thursday, "fhc Temple
Dancer" "l'bo Lceend' and "shane-
wisi' Fridny, "T'hais,' with Nine
tarfar and wessrs. Whtcbill and Diaz
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Concerts 10 Come

March 23, Princess Theatre, Rudolph
Bowers March %, Aeolian Hall, Greta
Torpadie and Samuel Lifschey. March
25, Carnegie Hall, Final Concert of
the Russian Symphony Orchestra
March rs, Aeolian Hall, Louis Wins
and Edouard Gendron. March 27
Aeolian Hall, Barbara Maurel; Mil
dred Bryars. March so, Aeolan Hall,
Serge Prokodof; Princess Theatre,
Ruano Bogislav (Mrs. Riccardo Mar
TIM. April l, Carnegie Hall, Elias
Breeskin.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
''Patience'' To Be Sung
At the Park Theatre
This Week

The Society of American Singers an
nounces Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pa-
tience" as the next opera to be added
to it's repertory, for limited engage
ment, beginning Tuesday evening,
March 1s. "Patience" will also be
given on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings and Saturday matinee. "Robin
Hood" will be retained during the week,
with a special st. Patrick's Day cele-
bration Monday night, when Orville
Harold will sing "The Wearin' o the
Green" and other old Irish ballads be-
tween the acts. This opera will also
be presented Wednesday matinee and
Saturday night. "The Bohemian Girl"
will be given for one performance only,
Friday night, with Orville Harold in
the role of Thaddeus.
"Paticncc" is the fifth of the Gilbert
and Sullivan cycle to be presented by
the society. Originally given at the
London Opera Comique, following
"Pinafore" and "Pirates of Penzance,"
it was transferred at the height of its
popularity to the Savoy, newly built
by D'Oyly Carte to house the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas. The libretto is
Gilbert's pungent satire on Oscar
Wilde and his feshly school of poetry
and on the aesthetic cult. The struggle
for supremacy over the hearts Of love-
lorn madens between the two poets,
the aesthetic and the idyllic, provides
opportunity to poke fun at the tender
passion in such ballads as 81 Cannot
Tell What This Love May Be-" Love
Is a Plaintive Song" "Prithee, Pretty
Maiden," etc, while "If You Want a
Receipt for That Popular Mystery
Known to the World as Heavy Ora
COON" and "If You're Anxious for to
Shine" are in the best Gilbert and Sui
llvan style.
William Danforth will appear as
Bunthorne, Kate Condor, a famous
Lady Jane, will appear in that role.
and Winifred Marshall, young So
prano; who has been on tour with the
Henry w. Savage forces, will make her
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Lieutenant Europe's Concert

The band of the 369th U. S. In
fantry, the "Hell Fighters of Har-
lem, which won fame overseas under
the leadership of Lieutenant James
Europe, has been organized for con-
cert tour under the direction of the
same colored conductor. Lieutenant
Europe has sixty-6ve men under his
baton, the best of all the negro musi-
clans of the country, and the organiza-
tlon has developed under his leader
ship into a military concert band of
the highest type.
Lieutenant Europe will give his first
public concert at the Manhattan Opera
House this evening, at which Lieu
tenant Noble Sissle and Creighton
Thompson will be the soloists.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

"Mona" to which a remedial hand
might have been applied were obvious,
while the merits of the poem and
score were so great that an attempt
ought to have been made to save it
as an example of national art and for
the encouragement. of American au-
thors. But of this no thought seems to
have entered the minds of the opera
company's directors or the newspaper
perhaps not even the minds
of Mr.. Hooker and Mr.. Parker.
Inexperienced Authors
The inexperience of the authors was
exemplified in their Indifference to
some of the prime requirements of a
lyric drama. When music enters the
play in its highest estate it is for the
purpose OF proclaming and celebrating
an emotional state uD to which the dia-
logue has led The dialogue itself in
an opera is necessary evil and an in
trusion. There is a paucity of action
in "Mona," but that is not fatal de-
feet in an opera, speaking of action as
movement and the doing of things on
the stage, the changing picture, out
ward incident. 1t is not the highest
province of music to accompany these
things even in the modern drama, in
which music has surrendered much of
its nature and purpose. Music can
| prepare for movement and incident and
situation, but it's highest potency is in
proclaiming and hymning after their
arrival the emotional states which they
produce Therefore, excess of dialogue
and neglect of melody are fatal to
lyric drama. If there is to be proper
celebration of emotional states, then
dramatic conversation must yield to
| lyrlcism, lyricism in the musical score
no less than in the verbal text. Only
once did Mr.. Hooker break away from
the Tennysonian verse-form which he
chose for his dialogue, and only once
did DR.. Parker write the kind of music
which the public, whether rating it
good or fhulting it as bad, justly con
siders the kind Of music that was called
for. IL was in The chorus Of Britong
near the close Of tho second net Of the
J opera. There should have been many
( such straightforward musical episodes
even ut the saerllice Of the constructive
method which tho composer had chosen
to adopt.
The play is fine one, but the
poetry too full OF artistic elements to
win recognition in mixed art-form
IKE the opera. That, to some, may
seem an anomaly, and to them it will
appear more anomalous still, If not d-
rectly paradoxical, that in the defects
of the composition there lay the most
interesting phase of the experiment
made by the authors.
There are elements in the work 90
ingenious as almost to invite smile.
but they were presented with sim
cerity and strength which almost con-
founded the knowing. 1t is doubtful if
either Of the authors had ever seen or
looked into Norma" which, like theirs,
is RomanDruidic opera, or "Lc
Pardon do Plocrmel," in which Dinorah
dances with her shadow and prattlcs
with it just as Il half-wittcd character,
Nal, does in "Mona" We doubt if
either Mr.. Hooker or Professor Parker
had even bowing acquaintance with
Meycrbecr's Lies Hugucnots," in which
there occurs benediction Of poi
| gnards like yet very unlike II scene in
which the Druidic swords receive a
conservation In this opera. Yet the
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Mile. Calls Concert

Mile. Yvonne Gall, of the Chicago
Opera Company, will give concert
at Aeolian Hall on Friday, March 28,
in aid of the Speedwe1l Society for
Convalescent Children. 1t is the sing
er's wish TO show her appreciation in
this manner of what American women
have done for the children of France
during the war. Her programme will
include songs by the younger French
composers, that have not yet been
heard in New York
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Philadelphia Orchestra

Plans are already under way for
a series of five concerts by the Phila
delphia Orchestra next season, on
Tuesdhy evenings instead Of in the
afternoon rs heretofore. The dates
are November II, December 9, January
q, February 10 and March 8.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
presentation of the old features in the

presentation of the old features in the
new work was so fresh, honest and
ingenious that it carried conviction
to the minds of the audience. Some
thing of the same nature may be said
of every character drawn by the poet
and clothed in music by the composer.
They were not only remarkable as
first creations, but so strikingly effec-
tive that old observers were compelled
to sit back and marvel at what had
been accomplished by novices and
wonder more what they might accom-
plish at a second trial. They made
such as trial in California, but not
here.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Clef Club Orchestra

An entirely new programme, featur-
ing Josh Beaumont, a singer from
Louisville, and George Hines, worlds
champion trap drummer, will be given
by the Clcf Club Jazz Orchestra at the
Selwyn Theatre, at $3.50 tonight.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

New York operate debut as Patience,
the milkmaid. Other "rapturous maid
ems" will be Cora Tracy, Gladys Cald-
we'll and Brooks Browne; Bertram
Peacock will be Grosvenor and Herbert
Waterous, John Phillips, Harold Blake
and John Quine also have important
Darts
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