New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
German Art and Artists
And Unfettered Criticism
The Psychology of the Enthusiasm for Strauss
Approval and Disapproval of Letter Writers:
Miss Schumann's Local Record

huk-papers L must make an exception
at least this once. 1t would really be q
pity II the accompanying article esca DO
you, the contents OF which fit your in
famous agitations Cor machinations,
Wshseres is the world. What lamen~
table individual you are not to possess
enough reverence (pietatl to do little
bit OF justice to the land of your an
cestors. Your ancestors would surely
turn in their graves if they knew how
you daily drag the land of their birth
COR the land of your birth--the gram
mar OF the writer is bit vague here)
IN the nnire. You and your paper make
yourselves ridiculous with your hatred
OF everything German. President Har-
ding weeks ago proclaimed peace with
Germany "a fact that you do not seem
to know), Tor which the American people
had long longed. All your fanatical
hatred OF the Germans cannot change
this.
And now, Mr.. Krehbiel. take this
article (viz., the 'Stsats- -Zeitung's Plam-
dercs) to heart, and demonstrate that
you are no common scribbling slave, not
the Judas who betrays the land of his
fathers for the dollar
He who has never in his life lived
hours of humiliation in which he would
like to admit the correctness Of his op-
ponents has no evolutionary germ with
in him. Then show, Mr.. Krehbiel that
YOU still have this germ within you, and
from now on let your articles be imbued
with the spirit of true American which
says, BE fair Then the respect of
righteously thinking men will not be
denied you"
Need we say that this letter bears no
signature? 1t is the contribution of
one of the cowardly pests. that would,
! if they but could, trouble the peace of
the newspaper editor every day Their
resort to anonymity defeats their aims.
The letter, however, is subscribed
Message from. Mars" What says the
old author of Compost of Ptholo-
meus"? "Under this planet" Mars
''is borne thieves and robbers,
nyght-walkers and QUARREL pykers,
bosters, mockers and skoffers-and
these men of Mars causeth warre and
murther and batayle. They wyll be
gladly lyers, gret swerers."
Yet shall we not be affrighted nor
tempted from the paths of peace. There
be those who would comfort and en-
courage as we'll as those who would
from another letter whose writer is
by birth one of people with whom
Americans were at war; he is not
afraid to append his name and address:
eAs one of those burdened with the
curse of being obliged to go through
| life bearing German name Gas the
nameless author or contributor Of the
| Plauderei in his article OF ten days
ago had the nerve to express himself),
reading your beautifully penned arti-
Gle of last Sunday, I nearly lost my
temper. Or perhaps I should say my
| Hungarian blood boiled in my body
and I intended to write letter to the
| Tribune Not to defend your attitude,
for you do not need any defense, but
to express my personal opinion as one
of those
after due consideration I realized
the fact that by writing to the S.-z.
the nameless writer would be under
| the impression that outsiders are TAX
| ing notice of his nameless scribblings.
"An amateur will appreciate more
than the professional music lover the
| beauty which lies hidden in the critics
pen, and with that pen and your abil-
ity, combin with forty years of hard
labor, you have gained the position of
dean of yoor profession. A real critic
of art should not make any distinction
between race, creed or religion, and to
my personal knowledge you never did
make any"
! Modesty forbids US to go on with this
letter. 1t rather overdoes further the
complimentary business. Nine Gadski,
it is said, will join the Chicago Opera
Company. Neither reception nor rejec-
ton of her will play any part in the
reconciliation Of the peoples of the
United States and Germany. Any one
except German or a propagandist can
see that.
Miss Schumann's Former
Activities in New York
In our review of the second Strauss
concert we said that Miss Elisabeth
Schumann, who sings at DR.. Richard
Strauss's concerts, had created the
role of Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier'
at the Metropolitan Opera House. This
was mistake, slip of the memory
which a consultation of the records
next day disclosed. Miss Schumann
was a member of the Metropolitan in
the season of 1914'15. DER Rosen-
kavalier' was produced in the preced-
ing season and Miss Anna Case-was the
original Sophie. Miss Sehumann die
excellent service the next season, es'
pecially in Strauss's opera. She tool
.. part also in the German performances
of "Die Zaubartlote" (Papangena), "Das
Rheingold" (Wellgunde), "Die Wal
kure" (Gerhilde), "Siegfried' (voice
of the Bird, "Gotterdammerung
, (Wellgunde), "Parsifal" (first Flowe,
! Crib and "Fidelio" (Marzelline), anc
, on two occasions at least was the
Musetta in the Italian performance OF
LA Bohame."
! s'The Open Door," Negro