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The New York herald., 1922-03-13
by w. J. HENDERSON.

In the concert of the Symphony So
ciety in Aeolian Hall yesterday after
noon there was nothing demanding pro-
found consideration. The orchestral
numbers were the music by Mozart from
the ballet LES Petits Riens," Glazounov's
Z flat symphony, No. 4. and Mozkowski's
"Moto Perpetuo." The entertainment
was diversified by the singing OF Nine
Marguerite -d'Alvarez. who contributed
first Glucks 'Divinites du styx" and
afterward Tschaikowsky's "Ye Who
Have Yearned Alone" an "Agnus Del
by Bizet and the seguidilla from Gar
men,
Without much doubt the interest OF
the audience centered in the doings OF
the Peruvian singer. When Nine.
d'Alvarez had finished strewing the stage
with the shattered fragments OF Glucks
grand aria the enthusiasm was great
The hall rang with applause and the con-
traito was recalled twice. The demon
stration aroused wonder as to what
might have happened IL the soloist had
sung the nuiaacr in the lofty style In
which it was conceived. In her later
numbers the distinguished contralto gave
added pleasure by singing somewhat OH
the pitch. This is now very popular.
The ballet music of Mozart was per-
formed alphabetically. but ifs simplicity
appealed to the audience. The melodious
and richly colored symphony of Gla-
gounov had evidently been carefully re-
hearsed 1t was well received.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
EVENTS TODAY.

International Flower Show. Grand Central
Palace, opening day.
Mator-Gen. John #. o'Ryan win review
the Seventh Regiment in commem grafton of
the twcnty-fifth anniversary of his enlist
ment In the regiment, armory. Park avenue
and Sixty-sixth street, $3.50 p. M.
Henry d. Sayer. State Industrial Commits
sioner. VIII speak on Medical Aspects Of
the Workmen's Compensation Law" before
the Society Of Medical Jurisprudence, New
York Academy of Medicine, IL West Forty
third street. $50 p. M.
Mass meeting OF women, auspices Of
womens clubs of the city, Town Hail. 123
West Forty-third street. s:15 p. M.
Representatives Club. luncheon. Hotel Penn
sylvania. IL 30 p. NJ.
II. v. Kaltenborn will speak at n meeting
Of the Ohio Society. waldorf-Astoria, 3
p. NJ.
reading. auspices of the Poets Guild. Christie
dora House. LAT Avenue b, $3.50 p. NJ.
The Very Rev. Albert O. Larned viii srea X
on How Shall We Counteract the Pelagian-
ism and Nestorianism of the Present Day?"
Church Of the TRANSPORTATION. East Twen-
ty-ninth street. 3 p. M.
New York Academy Of Sciences, section OF
biology. meeting, American Museum Of Natu-
raj History. seventy-seventh street and Cen
tral Park West. p. M.
Surrogate George M. s. Schulz WIN speak
on "The Hope OF the World" Star Demo
cratic Club, 957 whitlock avenue. The Bronx.
$3.50 p. NJ.
Alfred W. Martin will lecture on Brown
ing as Spiritual Force" Town Hall, 123
West Forty-third street. II a. M.
Alice T. Coseo win speak on The Ago OF
Ivanhoe." for high school classes, Metro
politan Museum of Art. p. NJ.
Society OF Independent Artists. exhibition.
Waldorf-Astoria. all day.
New York and Brooklyn Meat Packers
Board OF Trade. meeting. Hotel Commodore.
. p. M.
Congregational Club. dinner. Hotel MoAlpin.
p. M
United Real Estate Owners Association,
meeting, Hotel Astor. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13

Corfu to modern art. especially to
the Temple Of Heine and LOUIS
HAssELRIss's statue of the poet, me-
mortal which the Empress ELIZABETH
had erected on the grounds of the
Achilleion. To the Empress HEINRICH
HEINE was the most beloved OF poets,
to the Hohenzollerns his very name
WIS anathema.
WILLIAM let the temple fall into
ruins and he toppled the statue off
its base. So fer as he was concerned
it would never have been excavated
to find resting place elsewhere. In
his Souvenirs Of Corfu" he might
give touch of modernity to his mar
ratiye by explaining this incident.
Since then Germany's opinion of
HEINE has greatly changed as well
as it's opinion OF the Hohenzo.lerns.
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Demonstration for Peruvian Singer
Mime. dAlvarez, Soloist Is Center of Interest al
Symphony Concert

tions are a series of sketches in which
Mr.. Schelling traces the mote" in the
personalities of friends. landscape pic
lures or the spirit Of national patriot
ism.
Some OF the episodes are marked as
"B. S. O."-wood choir of the Boston
orchestra; III. P."-Hans Pfitzner. Ger
man composer and one. time teacher
to Mr.. Schelling: one In full orchestra
Is for William Mengelberg and others
are to Fritz Kreisler. Paderewski. "Au-
gust. 1914-The Call to Arms"
The variations as whole are COM
posed with much musical beauty, splen-
dor of conception and grandeur of style.
as, for instance. In the August, 1914.
where the war In all It's fierce intensity
is portrayed through rhythms, trum-
pets. drums and tonal effects from the
entire orchestra. The work was bril-
liantly performed, and at the close there
was a long continued ovation of ap-
plause which the composer shared with
Mr.. Mengelberg and the orchestra.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13

perfect condition and $4,000 in de-
veloping new tricks.
HERMANN invented most Of his
stage deceptions. To him is credited
one Of the most mystifying and at
the same time the most perilous Of
all tricks, that of catching upon a
plate bullets fired at the magician
from different parts Of the audito-
rum. To the profession it was
known as the trick with the trail
OF blood" In attempting its per-
formance on the stage Of a London
theater WILLIAM e. ROBINSON, or, as
he was better known, CHuNG LUNG
Soo met his death. Another victim
was an Irish conjurcr, who dropped
dead, struck by six bullets, on a
Dublin stage; others were son of
the famous French magician EDMOND
DE GRIsY, the wife of the German
prestidigitator DE LINsKY and the
well known "Black Wizard of the
West" who was killed on Dead
wood, South Dakota, stage. 1t is
said too that H. T. SARTELL perverted
the trick to the use OF deliberate
suicide in Lynn, Massachusetts,
theater.
New York has several times at
tempted to have theater entirely
devoted to the art of legerdemain,
but has failed. London, though, for
years had home of magic in old
st. Georges Hall, formerly located
in the Egyptian Hall, and 1t was
there entertained by KELLAR, HERR
MANN, DE KoLTA, BLITz, JOHN NEvL
MAsKELYNE and JOHN HENRY AMBER
SON. In Paris ]. e. RoBERr-HoUDIN
attracted the attention of Europe by
his "soirees fantastiques" in his Tenn
pie OF Magic in the middle Of the
last century.
The disappearance Of the conjurer
from the stage except as a vaude-
vile performer is perhaps as difficult
to explain as the passing Of the
negro minstrel. Modern invention
may have q part in relegating the
magician to the past: the working
Of electricity is more marvellous than
any Of his light tricks, the motion
picture more wonderful than the
visions his magic could conjure up.
The world knows all about his
wooden cabinets, and 1t can no
longer be deceived by his basket
trick and the vanishing lady. Still
we cannot but miss him, and we
would not regret his coming back.
At his best he was ever entertaining,
and besides he always gave a clean
and wholesome show.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Taxes in New Jersey.
Appropriations for Institutions and a
Proposed New Levy.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: AS un-
derstand It tho New Jersey Legislature
proposes to impose en- inheritance tax
of per cent. to raise money to be
expended by the Commission on Insti-
tutions and Agencies in Lieu of bond
Issue of several millions. which was
voted down by the people OF New Jersey
last fall.
The general appropriation bill OF 1921
shows appropriations for this commits
sion OF $204.S47.S0 for administration :;
for the Colony for Feeble Minded
Males. $1Ss.13s; Commission for the
Blind. s81.430; county support Of pa
tients In lunatic asylums, $590,99s; !;
county tuberculous hospitals, $341,2 256
Home for Feeble Minded Women, $780,
o0O Home for Disabled Soldiers at
Keamy, S1s3,116; Home for Disabled
Soldiers at vineland. $220,995: Re-
formatory. s306,Sso; Reformatory for
Women, s131,61o.30; Sanatorium for
Tuberculous Diseases $338,2S9; State
Board of Childrens Guardians, s110,-
sos. State Home for Boys, s376.456;
State Home for Girls, s300.s5o.54; State
Hospital. Morris Plains, s91s.2os.63; ;
State Hospital. Trenton. ssS9.sS2.92; /;
State Institution for Feeble Minded,
$476.625; State Prison, s59o4s9; Village
for Epileptics. s247,6s6; woodbine Col
ony for Feeble Minded Males, $4,000.
Some one remarked the other day that
he thought he would beat some OF these
new tax laws by giving away his prop
erty before he died. He will find that
such a plan will not work, as the slick
politicians who drafted these laws an
ticipated Just such a move and make
such gifts made prior to death taxable.
To attempt to beat a tax law in that
manner Is the towards way of meeting
the situation. A red blooded mans way
of meeting the situation is to beat the
politicians who pass these laws.
There is an old saying that there are
a great many commissions created and
a great many offices created. that few
of these Office holders die. that mono
resign and no offices are abolished so
that every year there is a constantly
increasing crowd of office holders feed
ing out OF the taxpayers trough. And
ultimately the public has got to meet
the situation, for there Is not money
enough in creation to satisfy the greed
OF the politicians. ALsroN BEEKMAN.
RED BANK, N. j., March IL.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Why the Bobbed Hair ?

The Newark bank that has laid
down rules concerning the personal
appearance of its young women EN-.
ployees has been severe except in
one particular, and that particular
is the one about which young men
are much commemorative bobbing of
hair.
The girls may not wear dresses
cut low at the neck or showing the
arm above the elbow. They may
not wear their skirts higher than
twelve inches from the ground. The
color Of their gowns must be black,
blue or brown. Short skirts, low
necks, bare arms and bright colors,
say the grave bankers, have cut
deeply into Office efficiency.
Yet bobbed hair, the most defiant
badge Of feminine revolt against the
ancient bondage, is not ruled out.
Perhaps the bankers, with their pas
sion for efficiency, are wise in this.
Bobbed hair is not a lure for man.
The crowning glory which looks as
IL 1t had been hit with an ak at
tracts no rush of beaux.
Besides, when a girl returns to
long skirts, high necks, long sleeves
and sober colors will she not also
go back to old fashions in hair?
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
A Recruit to Archaeology.

The island OF Corfu, off the Greek
coast and almost opposite the boot
heel Of the Italian peninsula, has
long been a hunting ground for pro-
fessional and amateur archaologists.
Learned men have dug there many
years for antiques and the peasant
farmer tenderly handles the soil his
hoe turns over in the hope Of finding
an ancient bronze OF marble which
will pay him better than the crops
he might raise.
In the ranks OF these delivers
was the former German Emperor.
WILLIAM H., who, according to infor-
nation from Holland, Is about to
publish book treating OF his exca-
vations on the island in 1911. The
treatise was necessarily delayed, but
as the site which he uncovered dates
back about $500 years the postpone
ment of few years in publication
may be immaterial.
Corfu is rich in history and ira
dition. Had there been no Corfu, or
Corcyra, as the ancient Greeks called
it, there would have been one less
phase of the Peloponnesian war to
puzzle the youthful student OF Greek.
There might have been too one less
incident in the odyssey" for pile
OF rocks on the coast is, according to
tradition, the ship in which ULYSSES
sailed to ithaca turned to stone, and
sandy beach near by is the place
where the hero was cast ashore and
met the Princess NAUsIcAA.
The former Emperor spent
month or two every year on the
island from 1907, when he bought
the villa Achilleion, the favorite
home OF the Austrian Empress
ELIZABETH. until the outbreak of the
world war. He wished to 20 into ex-
lie there rather than to remain IN
Holland, a plan Of which the Allies
did not approve. He said that there
he forgot affairs OF state and gave
himself up to study and meditation.
In his book he treats of the exca-
walton of a temple OF the sixth cen
tury before the Christian era. This
was evidently near the tomb of
MENEcRArrs, who imagined himself
Jupiter and who was ready at any
moment to hurl the thunderbolts of
Olympus, an ancient worthy who must
have appealed strongly to WILLIAM
in those days.
AS an excavator Of antiquities the
former Kaiser appears in new role
The general belief was that he de.
voted not LITTLE OF HE tine on
The New York herald., 1922-03-13

were reduced from dream of wealth
to Indebtedness which was a back
breaking reality.
Mr.. TowNLEY has abandoned the
League. When the organizations
North Dakota conference last year
gave him only eleven votes, and
WILLIAM LOCKE Of Fargo took charge,
TowNLEY became convinced that the
organization had outlived its useful
ness. But LOCKE failed as TowNLEY
had failed. BY a referendum vote
the electors of North Dakota re-
moved from office Attorney-General
LOCKE, Commissioner of Labor ]. N.
HAGAN and Governor LYNN ]. FRA
zIER, thus establishing for North
Dakota the distinction Of being the
first State in the Union to GUST a
Governor by the recall.
Recognizing that the League is mori-
bund, Mr. TowNLEY now proposes po-
litical domination by firmly organ
lied bloc Of convinced radicals and
believers in financial heresies. He
estimates that there are about $780,
900 of these in Minnesota alone.
From this reservoir he would draw
boards of inquisition before which
every candidate for Office would be
arraigned for searching examination
as to his faith in State owned and
operated industries and all the other
dogmas OF Townleyism pure and un-
defiled. Whether the candidate
passed a satisfactory examination or
whether he incurred sentence OF po-
litical death would not be immedi-
ately revealed. He would be left in
suspense until the last moment. Just
before election the decisions in all
cases would be published in the form
of orders to voters as to candidates
for whom to vote.
BY this swinging of compact,
powerful minority vote Mr.. TOWN.
LEY is confident he could enforce the
entire program OF Socialism as effec-
lively as though he still dominated
the Non-Partisan League.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Passing Of a Great Magician.

with the death OF HARRY KELLAR
at Los Angeles there passed one OF
the last OF group OF entertainers
who quarter OF century .: more
ago puzzled and delighted theater-
goers by stage magic. Here In New
York they were generally magicians,
in the South conjurers and in the
precise Boston of that day presti-
digitators. They we're comparatively
few in number: KELLAR, DE KoLTA,
WILLIAM r.. ROBINSON, II. It. SARTE1L,
HERMANN the Great and his wife,
Nine. HERMANN, we're perhaps the
best known in America. HERMANN,
who was KErLARs most formidable
stage rival, died in 1896.
These performers came OF long
professional line II we are to believe
that the priests Of ancient Greece
and Egypt were in reality only deal
ers in magic and that the mystic
words of the oracles OF Ephesus, OF
Delphi, and the Sphinx were merely
tricks. Then there came troops of
magic workers OF the Middle Ages
who entertained the lords OF the cas-.
Ties and their retainers by the per-
formance OF mystifying tricks. and
who we're frequently not slow to at
tribute their strange and Wanted
mowers to the devil himself or to
some other force beyond the under
standing OF humanity. The rascally
CAerIosTRo, who professed to be
something OF a magician, did not
scorn to confess that he worked with
evil spirits when the good spirits
failed him.
The magician's calling improved
with time. It's leading exponents
in recent years laid no claim to
superhuman help; they were prouder
to attribute success to their own
skillful manipulations or their own
ingenious devices than to black art.
KErLAa made considerable outlays
for his tours; his levitation trick
cost him 1000 alone, his trick can.
non for shooting a man from the
stage into the auditorium S1,SO0.
His outfit each year cost about $751;
900. HERMANN spent as large an
amount in keeping his displays In
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Etching and Pastel.

In outline clear, and sharp. and fine.
The bare trees stand against the sky,
With never hint that ohce they swung
Fair colorcd draperies on high.
SO thin they seem so spare so frall
To hold such wealth of covering,
And far too stiff and gaunt Of frame
To bend and sway with graceful swing.
But when relentless Winters hand
Lets go It's hold and then gives way
To tender palm of gentle Spring
No more black outlines harsh portray
The framework much too evident.
u softens surely by degrees
And color family steals throughout
The once more graceful springtime
trees
BLANCHE rttzsBFrH wApr
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERT.
Alexander schmuller. soloist, Plays
Mozart Violin Concerto Laudably.

The ninth concert of the Society OF
the Friends of Music took place yester-
day afternoon In Town Hall. The pro-
gram consisted of Haydn's G major
symphony, known as "The oxford -
Mozart's D"major violin concerto (No.
21S In the Koechel catalogue) and vi
tezslav Novak's "Sloval1 Suite" The
solo violinist was Alexander Schmuller.
Artur Bodanzky and an orchestra from
the Metropolitan Opera House were the
other forces engaged in the concert
The Mozart concerto Is no stranger to
local music lovers, who find in 1t many
things to interest them. Not the least
OF these are certain foreshadowings of
ideas employed In lie Nozze di Figaro"
But possibly what signifies most OF all
is the delightful sontaneity of the COM
position and it's perfect suitability to
the instrument for which 1t was writ
ten. Mozart studied violin at the feet
Of his father, who was q performer and
teacher Of fine accomplishments. and at
one time he was ambitious himself to
be great violinist-
Mr.. Schmuller played the concerto
very laudably. His tone was lacking
in limpidity and sorority, but his style
was excellent There Is always a temp
tation to spoil Mozart by dramatizing
him, even when he is uttering his sim
plest thoughts Mr.. Schmuller was not
led astray. He played the concerto un-
affectedly, with care and evidently with
affection.
The orchestral numbers proceeded
rather haltingly. There wa ground for
suspicion that not many reiiearsals had
been given to the works. They should
not, indeed. call for many, but they
plainly needed more than they had. An
audience of fair size delivered an en-
couraging amount of applause.
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Horses Also Scream.
Incidents Of the Passing Of a Mighty
Herd OF Buffaloes.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: As to
the scream of the mountain lion, per-
haps the doubling results from the COM
narrative infrequency Of the utterance.
Although / lived for years In a noun
tain lion country. and personally have
seen about twenty shot mountain lions
and the comparatively fresh great tracks
Of about half dozen others, / have
seen but three mountain lions at large
in the daytime and have heard the
mountain lion scream only on two oc-
casions, once In the summer OF 1884 In
the Coast Range mountains OF California
and again In the summer Of 1911 in the
Sierra Nevada, both times from four 70
elk successive shrieks at night, in wild.
dark cafion sections, apart GOO miles In
distance and twenty-seven years In time.
How many people. how many veteran
range horsemen have ever heard horse
scream7 or how many have heard a
horse whinny loudly and constantly for
half hour at stretch?
The famous Indian fighter General
Maus, who lost an eye In border skir-
mishes with renegades and received the
COnCrcSSlOHdl htudi VI aichoA 49, e..
lantry In an Apache campaign, told mo
about seventeen years ago Of dramatic
incident in which he participated in the
middle '7os. AS a young Lieutenant
with an orderly and two indian scouts
he was trailing the great Nez Perce
Chief Joseph in his flight from Oregon
to Canada.
The American scouting party came
into an open prairie country In Idaho.
They paused on tiny hillock, scanning
the horizon. The Indians dropped, ears
to ground. They signaled. Presently
all with ears down heard II distinctly,
tho hump. hump. hump OF rhythmic beat,
and far Off, OF mighty host marching.
Buffaloi
They came In view: they approached.
General Maus described the great spread
of that quadrupcd army. at least FIVE
miles wide each way. making a ten
mile front The scouts fired their car
bines to defect the avalanche so that
the leaders would turn aside and not
CONS directly over the hillock. One
horse early reared, broke away. fled and
was cngulfed in the herd. Two OF the
other horsss uttered queer. loud. whin-
inr aueals and al Of them trembled IN
The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Discomfort in the Mandate Isles.

All is not lovely in the sprinkled
Mandate Islands; lilly on lily that
o'erlace the Pacific sea-" as Mr.. LODGE
so charmingly painted them at the
Washington conference. There are
white shadows in the South Seas
other than those described by the
South Seas school CT fiction, or at
least there is one shadow, and its
name is Prohibition.
There is discontent in that part OF
Samoa where New Zealand rules,
and the agitation has gone so far
that petition has been prepared for
King GEORGE, requesting that the af-
fairs of Samoa be left to the edmin-
istration of the native chiefs, with
the help and guidance OF a few OF
the older residents New Zealand
sent her Minister for External Az
fairs, the Hon E. P. LEE, to examine
into the causes Of discomfort, and on
his arrival in Apia there was placed
in his hands bill Of complaint In the
form Of a letter signed by traders,
planters and other residents declar-
ing that New Zealand's control o.
Samoa has been hopeless failure"
However, the signers refused to meet
him in person or to discuss their
grievances in. conference.
Minister LEES investigation dis
closed that of the 131 signers of the
complaint-the total population Is
about 3,000-sixty-six were British
half castles and the others were Ger
man, Chinese, American, Danish,
French, Portuguese, Swiss, Norwe-
gian, Belgian, Russian and, he adds
casually, "other" nationals and half
castles. Minister LEES reply was po-
litely phrased, but he went to the
root Of the matter by saying my own
observations confirm me in the con-
viction that prohibition is the cause
of most of the discomfort" What
can New Zealand do, since prohibition
is expressly imposed under the terms
Of the mandate?
There is now pending before the
New Zealand Parliament bill drawn
by Sir JOHN SALMoND, who was del
egate to the Washington conference,
for the government of West Samoa.
It provides for legislative council
trial by judge, with assessors, pro-
hibition of intermarriage Of natives
and Chinese, prohibition OF importa-
ton and consumption of alcoholic
liquors and education in native
schools. 1t is the ambition Of the
New Zealand Government to do for
the natives of Samoa what it has
done for the Maoris. 1t is safe to say
that IL the prohibition law is en-
forced the beachcombers of the fu-
ture and the lotus eaters of our effete
civilization in their flight from the
responsibilities OF life will give
Samoa and the other Mandate Islands
a wide berth.
The natives of the Mandate Islands
may yet live to bless the mandate un-
less a thriving bootlegging business
is set up on nearby shores where the
mandate doesn't work.