Arizona republican., 1921-07-17

of Nippon, is having material effect on their opinions of the American people. To break into the Japanese
 press with free ein is something
 that no foreigner has heretofore ac
 complished. The medal of distinction
 coming from the leading newspaper
 has significance which may act in
 no small way on any existing adverse
 opinin the Japanese may have regard
 ing Americans Schumann- Heink has
 given two concerts in Phoenix in
 years past. She Is the only living
 singer that always fills the concert
 hall to the fullest capacity
 The Hope Jones pipe organ which had its premiere at the opening of the new Rialto theater last evening is worthy of more than passing com
 ment. Richards and Mace have all ways appreciated the fact that good
 music is demanded by Phoenix pa-
 irons of the cinema. The portrayal | of pictures gets fully half of its in | terest through appropriate music. | The new organ is by far the best of | its kind in the southwest. It repre- sents the last word in mechanical | construction and the varieties of tone | color that can be produced from it is | almost unlimited. To give a brief 1 analysis of the instrument to be un- derstood by those not up" in great | organ construction, the following fea- l lures may be worthy of special men 1 tion: The console (unit containing l keys, stops and pedals operated by | the performer) has two manuals
 tkeyboards) of the double touch sys-
 tenn. Ordinary church organs play | the voices as arranged by the stops lsuch as strinsed instruments. brass and wocd-wind with ordinary press l ure of the keys. The Hope-Jon | produces color Of soft effects by
 pressing the keys down part way. and
 the full organ or divertisified as the
 performer desires by pressing tn,
 keys clear down. The instrument hes
 25 real stops operating on variou,
 sections of the nine chests containing
 over 1000 pipes. All the chcfre art complete with the addition of traps
 bells and effects to take care of any thing from slap stick comedy to for
 eign, weird oddities. The bell effect. : are five in number. single bells, or. ; chestra bells, xylophone, tuned sleigf bells and cryscglot (harp). Tn, mechanism is electrical throughout and a large cable carries the organ
 ist's manipulation to the two grea chambers behind the walls at eacl side of the screen. The pedal bass i
 also double touch, so that soft ef fects are produced with slight press } ure and heavy organ with compiet l depression, just like the two manual played by hand. The complete orgal , occupied over a full carload in com i ing from the factory and the cost Q ? the instrument is s33.c00 and will un 2 dobtedly dominate picture play orga,
 music in Phoenix for the next decade 1 Geo. J. Hayes. the we'll known organ 2 ist. came over from the coast for tn opening week of the Rialto and hi o playing of the illustrated songs ITO ! morrow's Land" and Blue Jeans . was feature of last nights perform f ances.
 Mary Garden is having hard tim : getting sufficient guarantees sut
 scribed to assure Chicago of fiy 2 years of grand opera. The quota = about three -fifths signed up but thel n stands snag on account of Mary v views that grand opera in Amerie O should be sung in English. The idt Is is somewhat of a patriotic one, but a does not carry in Chicago because d goodly portion of the Windy City 1t musical population is of foreign d, t scent. largely Germans and Italian a Now. German opera in English S. not a great success. Wagner's" Tam e hauser'' has been successfully tram l. lated. and produced in our home lal
 guage for 20 years, yet some of tho n who are strong for opera in Englil l. have expressed themselves that thu n prefer the euphonics of the origin .s German text to that of English.
 this musical masterpiece It will tai = to assimilate the conversion of fo
 eign languages to English. Half u l. audience don't understand the wor' m to music anyway. and are satisfied es listening to the music and watchil " the stage movement getting the sto is out of the printed synopsis-in E,, Is fish. To have unusual sounds, SUI n- as a succession of "Cs" and IS er which the English tongue (and teetl a produce in translated operas. mingi In with the usual poor diction of singer ne disconcerting and besides has be at known to interfere with the tired bu Id mess man who prefers to sleep whi st his wife enjoys the opera. Ma is Garden may have to have the cou to age to change her convictions in ord ,d to make Chfcago's grand opera