Arizona republican., 1921-09-13

The Arizona School of Music will enter upon it's eighteenth year next Monday, and from present indica- tions the enrollment will be the larg- est in it's history.
 The school was founded by it's di- rector, Mrs. Shirley Christy, for the purpose of giving an extended and progressive education in music, ex- pression acting and dramatic art, languages and dancing.
 Since its founding, new depart ments have been added from year to year, increasing the courses offered and keeping abreast of the latest work in the subjects taught by the school. An important feature recently added to the school is a dormitory for out of town pupils, where the hospitality of cultured home is available for them in the wholesome atmosphere and living, careful cha peronage and social pleasures, com bined with the most serious pursuits. Heading the department of piano at the Arizona School of Music is Franz Darvas, an artist of note. As- sisting him in his work are William Orth, Orley Hes, Edith E. Edwards, Mrs. Charles T. Weir, Mrs. Luther Seward, and Mary Doyle. A feature of the piano department is the piano primary training given by Mrs. Stew ard, in accord with the most up-to- date methods, giving a solid founda- | ton of theory and harmony from the | beginning. | At the head of the vocal instruction | department, Walter Hastings Olney has planned for the coming season an l operatic chorus, with view of pro- ducing one opera before the public some time during the coming season. MT. Olney's training has been long and varied, he having studied both | in America and abroad.
 An exponent of the Joachim and Ole Bull schools, the work of Robert | Saunders, as head of the violin de- partment, offers pupils of the school the utmost in the study of violin. He is assisted in his department by Cor nelia Luscomb, graduate of the In- dianapolis Conservatory of Music and a pupil of Johannes Miersch.
 John R. Green, who is teacher of wind instruments at the school, is also a graduate Of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music and a former teacher at the Metropolitan school oi music there. =
 | String instruments, theory. har- mony, history of music, special training for piano teachers and ac- companists, public school music | HlClllO0S, pidilO thSClilOlc d1lQ S1S H reading classes are taught at the | school by various members of the faculty.
 The departments of expression acting, and all branches of dramatic art are in charge of Mrs. Dwight Earl Easley of the American Acad- emy of Dramatic Art, New York
 Mrs. Easley was formerly at tht head of a dramatic school and stocl company in Cincinnati, has had wide experience in the dramatic field, ant 1 is unexcelled as a teacher.
 Though with the school but one |. ear, Mrs. Paisley has built up tlt apartment to such degree that i
 las become, in itself, school em-
 tracing all the classes required b, l the best dramatic school of tn,
 country
 To accommodate the large clas.
 of pupils. Kathryn Ludden has beer 1 added as junior teacher.
 Mrs. Ludden was several years
 student at the Nebraska State Uni versity, is a graduate of the Univer sity of California-holding an A. E
 degree-and has specialized in dra
 matics for children.
 John Elsee, who was raised in Ar
 genuine, South America, educated a
 Rugby, and has served as Britisl
 representative to South America an
 Mexico, is the teacher of Spanish
 Splendid opportunity for the stud
 of French and Russian is offered un
 der Mme. Isabelle Wyzewski Magut
 nati-e Parisian, who holds diploma
 from bot1, the University of Pari
 and .he Sorbonne
 Wiel of Polish and French de 4 F'ren sh descent, reared in Paris, Nm, II Mague is thoroughly conversar V with English, great asset in he
 tea ching.
 if E. Paula Beware, in charge of th "a dancing department, is too we
 known and her large classes in danc ing attest so fayorably in this con