Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-06
Our Musical Department

rs OUR favorte movie organst taking a
l. vacation? The other evening we stopped
in at most cherished cathedral of cellu-
lOid and found the screen announcing another
artist at the organ.
Imagining ourself to be music critic. we
might say that we found the substitutes
execution admirable. Her cadtnzas were
magniicently reverberant. Every time Miss
Dorothy Dalton registering that quaint
sideways bulge of the optics that is so
prominent in her repertoire, the organist was
there, in a manner of speaking, with the
throaty grumble of the big tubes, implying
tense emotion and ecstasy, The ensemble, as
musical critics say. magnificent. Inc
deep groan of the timbales Cor is it tlmbreis,
or tumbriSD moved us strangely. ana at
the climactic arpeggio of the theme, wheh
the second comic man jumped into the hrsC
comic mans trousers (the first man BENG
already inside them-you can hardly eA-
pcct to grasp this unless you saw the picture
it has to be seen, as the real estate critics
say, to be appreciated), the organist S lively
largo on the organ was an excellent support
to the spirits. The andante during the PIC
lures of salmon catching on the Yukon was
finely spirituelle one could almost hear the
emotions of the unfortunate fish expressed IN
lovely falsctto. 1t was all extremely
crescendo. When General Pershing was
shown, visiting the old home folks i'll La
clede Mo-, the organ symphony plainly
comprised three movements, plzzicato.
when the general was meeting his old school
teacher; 2, con brio. when the general was
giving Warren dressing down for taking
away the center of the picture from the gov
ernor of Missouri-being lens cootie, they
call it in the studios; 8. maestoso, when the
general was eating Miss May Pershing' fried
dried apple pie.
But Suppose the Fox Should Complain?
A writer in the London Daily Mail says
it is not really obligatory to wear pink
for fox hunting. "A man who turns out
clean and neat" he says, Shows his respect
sufficiently for the hounds.
There was only one room left at New
York hotel and a gentlemen and lady ar
rived at the desk simultaneously applying
| for it, Neither would give way, so they
| decided TO get married and take the room
jointy.-News item
Tell us where is fancy bred,
In the heart or in the head;
At the room clerks desk instead
w. Grabski, we learn, is the Polish min
| lister of finance. and we feel grateful TO him
| for helping us along to the extent of thirty
words, several commas ana a period
The general course of human affairs is to
! elect man to a hard and complicated job
| and then invite him TO so many luncheons
| and dinners that he never has any time left
| to work
| Just across the street from our kennel
| there is a bank. and we feel sure it is a good
! bank, because there is nice open 6:e in
| there. We often stop by the front window
and look in at the depositOrs warming their
shins and mediate on what would happen if
we strolled in there to do our work. There
is a convenient little table in front of the
fire. neatly laid out with an inkwell, pens
and blotting paper. 1t looks to us like an
agreeable place to write the Dish, and every
body is very quiet and absorbed, as people
always are when brooding over their bank
accounts. The next time we are trying to
devil poem out of our system that's where
we're going to go.