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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
BERYL RUBINSTEIN

Whenever l have the pleasure of writing story about a famous plan ist always feel tempted to tell the story which T love so much about Busoni.
 It seems that when the great artist was in Berlin some years ago and was inspecting some pianos in the show rooms of a renowned piano house of that city, he overheard in an adjoining room an amazingly bril- liant passage in thirds"
 Listening intently for moment Busoni observed casually:
 -Ah-thats either a player piano or Godowsky!"
 Isn't that delicious7
 think so.
 Which brings so many things to mind--technique. interpretation, mind. heart, soul-the scores of angles from which one can "critfeise" the artist
 Beryl Rubinstein the youthful sub ject of my story-ls coming to Bir- nringham as has been heralded for eome time and all of the music world of this city Is alert to hear this marv- elous young pianist-after an interim of several years.
 For be it known in a way, Beryl Rubinstein "sort of" belong here; he isn't exactly "indigenous to the soil as 1t were. but many of us know the young musician-have known him in days gone by. before fame and for tune touched his brow-and before be was full fledged concert pianist and long. long before hs joined the fac- ulty of the Cleveland. tohio) Institute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
By ROE FuLKERsoN


 Good morning eachi" chirped tho Flapper as she sat down with the other three members of the family to Sunday morning breakfast. She look ed around the table but each section of the morning paper was in use. She sighed and took a piece of toast
 Wonder if every day will really be Sunday by and by" she said Her mother looked over her part of the paper and smiled. Her father and her brother, Fred, each made a noise suspiciously like the grunt of a we'll fed pig.
 The Flapper devoted herself to her breakfast
 Its great old gamer calculated her brother from the baseball page NO people except the people of this country could have invented It."
 That's where you are wrong spoke up the Flapper Baseball was invented by the Greek athlete, Ruth orium, during the reign of Cobbus the Second, 300 B. C., and the records recently discovered at Athens prove conclusively that 1t was practically the same as today. The diamond was the same and laurel wreath was awarded for each round of the bases then called 'Telas."
 "Where do you get that stuff" de- manded the boy.
 "I read 1t in the public library last week in a pamphlet recently publish ed on ancient Greece by Professor Higginbotham,' 'answehred the Flap per.
 "Ohm exclaimed the boy. There was a long pause with only the occasional rustic as the pages of turned At last her father spoke:
 This new radio stuff is getting to be quite the thing" he said. T see that Pennsylvania candidate Is mak- ing his speeches by radio and they can be heard all over the state. 1t Is wonderful"
 yes" said the Flapper Tt is queer what an age of revival we are living in. They had radio telephones in the reign of Cheops the Watchful in Egypt long before Cleoptra had snakes"
 "What?" demanded her father.
 That's right" asserted the Flap per. The priests of the temple used the radio to astound the public and these messages were very much the same as those received from the Oracle at Delphi and while rudimen- tary broadcasting instruments have been found in the ruins of the Pyra- mids of Phophus and none at Delphi it is practically certain that the priests of Egypt carried the knowl- edge of radio to Delphi as there are certain characteristics of the hyro- gliphics at Phophus which are char acteristics of the friezes of the tenn pie at Delphi"
 q never heard of the Temple of | .Phophus," said her father looking over his glasses.
 The Temple of Phophus on the l west bank of the Nile above Husa. l tan?" exclaimed the Flapper. Why {! Pops dear, do you read nothing but the newspapers?"
 T guess I knew, but forgot about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

of Music--becaus that has been quite recent.
 Beryl Rubinstein-as a very young boy-and he is still that as for that matter-played frequently in Bir- mingham; he was regarded as one of those almost pestiferous nuisances "a prodigy;" critic and layman alike, de- clared he was a genius and among those who pinned their faith to the youthful pianist, none was more em- phatic than Mrs. Edna Gockel Gus sen who knows genius when she sees it--who realizes values musically, as few others are capable Of realizing such, and In whose studio Beryl Rub- iistein studied.
 When Beryl Rubinstein reached "the heights" when his concertizing was declared real achievement when last oct9ber he was offered, and accepted q membership in the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music Mrs. Gussen's predictions. as we'll as the predictions of others who be- 1eved in this clever young artist, be- came facts. and today Bery1 Rubin stein's name Is linked with the names of such artists as Harold Bauer. John Powell. Josef Lehvinne. Guimar Noaves, Levilzsky and other notables.
 Birmingham's Opportunity | ,t..s- -f, fo .~olx, !, the pleasure of hearing Mir Rubin stein in Recital" which presages most charming innovation during the summer months when musieally, Bir- mingham like nearly every other city in America is--dead.
 Artists flock to Europe; every steamer that leaves the New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

London, May 27.-If one may judge by the amount and fervor of discus sion, Great Britain Is awakening to the fact that not only is she way be- hind in wireless development but that in motion picture and skyscrap- CTS she is also tagging.
 Dominance in these. you are as sured daily and all day, is admirable, desirable, necessary and rhetorical forefinger is pointed constantly across the Atlantic to the United States, that vigorous giant with brain tuned to the demands of a whirling age, rather mad and not a little comic, but oh, so young and vigorous and untrammeled by the customs of yesterday.
 Radio Becomes Ford
 Interest in wireless broadcasting is just beginning to grow. a rather over-excited press doing its best to make 1t the craze" It seems to be in America; and succeeding slowly. There is some concern and rush of argument as whether the past tense of .'broadcast" may be accepted as "broadcasted," instead of the correct "broadcast;" but once that is setteled everything should go swimmingly. As to commercial wireless there is a faction at the ear of the govern ment urging wider development and quoting the latest statistics from America.
 APrest0 Chango''
 Of the skyscraper propaganda like best the lyrical account of day in the life of banker with offices in the thirty-fi story of an unnamed New York structure. He presses one button for cigars, another for his much cuts business conference short to flash" 36 floors down into the basement to take a swim in the great marble swimming pool; returns to take brief stroll in the invigorat ing atmosphere on the roof, etc, etc. Big Ben" is skyscraper. Is 1t un- dignified? That is the keynote line of typical article. But even so good an argument seems to make no effect upon the London county council whose restrictions forbid London to grow up.
 American Films
 But of the three the most impor- tant is the cinema, for through it ..Americanisms Is definitely and con- stantly on the offensive. Ninety per cent of the films shown in Great Britain are American in orgin. This means that millions of Britons are daily, week after week, year after year. watching American artists DOT trav American life. Little by little the minds of our cinema -goers are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

and crisp, now mellow and caressing in quality. Rubenstein also posses ses in a rare degree that valuable and elusive quality known as person ality which at once establishes a bond of sympathy between him and his audience.
 TO his great gifts as pianist are adGea those of composer. His pub lished works include songs, compo- sitions for piano. and violin sonata. 4 piano concerto and several waltzes are still in manuscript, and in addition he Is now a great teacher"
 COME HOME
 And now Beryl Rubinstefn comes home again to his native southland, where his old friends and many admirers await him with genuine interestJ--for the south has that warm. cordial, sympathetic. feeling and sentiment towards one of it's own who succeeds unlike any other section of the country has. and Birm- ingham will be pleased to welcome Beryl Rubinstein here.
 The critics have dec,ared that MT. Rubinstein is one of the most ex- quisite interpreters of c oil in the music world today; his rimantlei eism and his sympathy lend peculiarly beautiful meaning to the soft cade.- nces of the Chopin music and Beryl Rubinstein Is also lauded by these same critics for his wonderful teach nique, declaring that he, Josef Hoff- mann, and Godowsky are the only three pianists who ever ventured to play any of the Godowsky transcrip- tions of the Strauss waltzes," se technicue require to play them be: ing so unusual that W can measure up to the standard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
Man Saves Wife
 In Nick of Time

My wife was unable to eat even the lightest food, and had fallen away to a living skeleton. She could not even keep doctors medicine on her stomach and was tortured with pain. On. the recommendation of a friendsI bought a bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy and she is all right now and has gained forty pounds" It is simple. harmless preparation that removes the ca tarrhai mncus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach. liver and intestinal ailments. iuclud- ing appendicitis. One dose will con- vince or money refunded. At all ggists.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
"CLIFFoRD AND JOHNS
 ALMANAC"
By Clifford Raymond, (Illustrated

By Clifford Raymond, Illustrated by
 John T. McCutcheon.) The Reilly & Lee Co, Publishers. Chicago This almanac Is calculated for the year 1922. but is good for any year. It contains great variety of useful and entertaining pieces and MT. Ray
 mond's Hut Happiness" in which is set forth in brief essays, a charm ing philosophy of life and much love of nature both interesting and de- lightful.
 This book will please all who like good reading and good humor-all who are fond of birds and flowers and the good brown earth. We en- treat you to look within.
 The illustrations in Clifford and Johns Almanacl<' make 1t easy to
 understand why John MCutcheon was | Theodore Roosevelt's favorite car toonist. Washington newspaper men say that TT. R. fairly ate up John ITS cartoons" Mir. McCutcheon and
 Mir. Raymond have long been associ- ated in their newspaper work and the artists drawings for the writer's text
 have that intimate quality of perfect
 understanding that friendship breeds.
 HUMOROUS MoNoLoGUEsr By DOTS Kenyon. James T. White l and Company, Publishers. No. TO l Fifth Avenue. New York City. l During and since the war Doris | Kenyon, one of the most successful | and popular of the younger Ameri l can actresses, gave much of her time | to the entertainment of soldiers with
 humorous monologues. A lively de- | mand for these amusing recitals led 1 to their publication in book form | since their diversity of manner and l matter made them suitable for all l sorts of audiences. There has now | been issued a new and revised edi- l tion with double the number of l monologues contained in the first
 booklet, and every one of the added
 recitations Is up to the mark of "The
 Newly Weeds Go Fishing which was | the hilarious success of the earlier
 publication.
 The new monologues are Men Are So Easy" "At the Ball Game" "The Church Rummage Sale" and Tn a
 Pullman Car" The author does not
 attempt highly sophisticated effects,
 but the language and the situation
 are in each instance within. the dram atic capacity of young people casting about for material for school or draw l ing room entertainment. The very
 simplicity of the sketches, however. gives scope for the display of all the i winsome graces with which the author herself has given them on so
 many occasions. The advantage Of
 these monologues is that they have
 repeatedly undergone the acid test of
 successful public presentation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

nropa ganda or empire puDilclly SAsi ba conceived which would be half so effective as the incidental publicity ptven to British institutions. man ners. and achievements in the weekly films
 Villain Jailed
 Getting away from the cinema tnis weeks true-life scenario finds the villain going to jail for her sins and the innocent victim living more or less happily ever after. The central figure is the villain-or villainess- Margaret Cornwallis, a terrible woman whose incarceration must certainly have earned signs of relief from many a lone man. She was born Minnie Guy, 56 years ago, in Shanghai. Nothing Is known of her life In the Orient beyond the fact that her father was a doctor. In 1Ss6 she married an architect in London, was divorced shortly after and en- tered into a career of erotic piracy In 1893 she married again, obtaining a divorce 8 year later. In 1901 she married the man whose name she bears. She did not live with him long, becoming involved with an Algernon A. De L. Strickland. a we'll to-do member of an excellent family. From him she blackmailed a steady income until his death few years later In the meantime she had met Bertram Lodge, a good looking artist of 23, just out of college.
 aHenPecked Hubby
 It took him 1 3 years to get out of |. ~t. 4ot, xt.. court: 'TIe fell absolutely under her domination--so much so that he did, spoke, thought, and wrote exactly what she told him" One witness, who had seen him when he was liv- ing with Mrs. Cornwallis. said he was a most pitiable creature. half starved, with unkempt hair" And another told of how he had begged for food at a time Mrs. Cornwalls was disciplining him for some sligh. insubordination. She took all the money he had-several thousand dol lars-made him do all the hard Jobs that are credited with efficient blackmailing. and how she did 1t. just what her power over the man was. Is mystery One bright day in 1909 she took him around to a doctor and said that he was suffer Ing With the de1usfor that he had murdered several people, The doctor examined Lodge and certified that he was mildly insane. That must have taught him his place, for short lv afterward she gave him more liberty and he began to sell sketches in Soho. There he was befriended by two women who ran a restaurant. Tn 1921 he broke the lS-year spell and married one of these women. Gets Sentence
 It looked as If he were at last through with the terrible Mrs Corn wallis. but he was not. She was ar rested for seeking to blackmail Strickland's heirs. and poor Lodge with her. It was proved that he had helped forge certain letter. She was sentenced to four years, and he to four months. Lodges wife is waiting for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
Sunday Morning Breakfast.

it." Her father resumed his paper There ensued another five minutes of silence
 T see the skirts are getting still longer" remarked her mother from i the fashion page. '
 Yes" replied the Fiapper "It is queer the cycles in women's skirts. All through our civilization the length of the skirts htve been regu. lated by the aetiyitie of the women. The first short skir .-ere worn hS the Arran women VI. iways joined their husbands in th chase and at war. Then came the Bolus period when the women of the wanderina tribes of Europe became mere chat ties and were kept in seclusion by their men and during all that period they wore long flowing skirts
 Then the Greek civilization cam in and around the time of the greas games of the Atheneum and the tim. of Diana the Huntress when physica prowess began to again be admin ssi in women the skirts were once me .4 shortened. When the French beca,,se the leaders of civilization
 Here is part of the paper. de',~..' said her mother gently, as she pa ,Sad 1t across the table.
 T wish you wouldn't interrupt har.t
  child thinks in serious sor of vt. and 1t Is certainly a plcasur r,e now and then to hear her use . If the education she has"
 She is a regular little tncv lo- pedia flapperana," said her br N admiringly.
 T don't see how you ke,., II those names and dates in yot n' T lsss said her father.
 ~ the Flapper modcstly So lew peo,Ga are specific in thelr information aasl there is nothing that irritates ,li- more than to hear people quoting statistics which are wrong giv.rg dates which are incorrect and
 Lucy" said her mother sterniy That will be about all. You have your paper now
 The Flapper subslded behind her paper while her father and her brother looked inauiringly at the mother, wondering what the girl had done to offend.
 HUGE INTERNATINOAL BRIDGE
 The internat tional suspension bridge that Is to connect Detroit, Mich, and Windsor, Ont. and that was first pro- posed about two years ago, as ie- scribed and illustrated in the Popular Mechanics Magazine, has now reached the point of actual construction The work is to commence this spring Tn, plans show that 1t will have the longest single span in the world. namely. 1,S03 feet. or 53 feet longer than the proposed Delaware river bridge. With width of 93 feet, She international bridge will be of doulde- deck construction, accommodating street-car, automobile. and pedestri-.1 traffic on the upper deck. and pas- senger and freight-train service on the lower deck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

sketch" of his life and his Iausical career. which tells the story even better than could tell 1t and among other things she says:
 When Beryl Rubinstein was very young. just a tiny little fellow, at that age when boys are romping about playing marbles and hitting people with sling shots, Beryl Rubin stein was sitting before the piano lingering the keys and trying to work out the meaning of the notes. He showed really exceptional talent at a very early age and when tell you that he appeared in concert at the age of eight years I know you'll say, Another of those fish stories" that
 hey tell about people like Josef Hoff- man and the rest However, 1t Is an absolute fact that this little mite ot a boy sat before a grand piano 20 times as big as he was and played in concert.
 "He played with orchestra In a con- cert arranged for him at the Metro politan Opera House. New York city, and SO we'll did he acquit himself that tour, of the west and south was immediately planned for him.
 "And then came a halt; he was going too fast for one of his youth and experience, and those most inter- ested in him, realizing this. stopped his concert tour and sent the youth ful prodigy as he was called every where, to Europe for q period or study. which was the best thing that CT happened to the young artist. Returns to America
 "IJpon his return to America, Beryl RubensteIn was immediately recog-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
REAL LIFE"
By Henry Mitchell Webster. Tn,
 Bobbs Merrill Company, Publishers

By Henry kitchell Webster. The
 Bobbs Merrill Company. Publishers.
 Indianapolis.
 Tn "Real Life" Henry Mitchell Webster offers for his readers ap- proval a Mary Pickford type of screen star who Is hedged about from the world of reality by maids, press agents. secretaries, and, above all. a formidable mother. Leda Swan Is sher name and she Is troubled at times by faint feeling that she does not really exist--that Is, as Leda Swan. More and more the idea permeates her that Leda Swan is an institution built up by astute motion picture managers. press agents. and the imagination of the American public. that likes nothing better than to in- stall a popular favorite and endow her with all sorts of impossible per feet traits.
 No one will attempt to take 1t seri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

The lord of the manor of Addington pays to the king of England yearly rent of bowl of porridge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
~ARTEMAS WARD"

The First Commander-in- Chief of the
 American Revolution. By Charles
 Martyr. Artemos Ward. Publishers.
 No. 50 Union Square, New York
 City.
 By the measurement of years, Wards public career was chiefly that of Massachusetts statesman, but he holds strong claim to na- tional memory for his services to the embryonic United states during the first critical months of the American Revolution. And these services are here, for the first time. considered authoritatively and in detail.
 The biography is built chiefly on original research In manuscript sources. and by all available tests 1t attains an unusual degree of accu- racy, both in statement and stand point. Furthermore. 1t is entertain- ingly told. and living touches are given to the chief dramatis personae of the second half of the eighteenth century
 Quite clearly brought out is the point. often forgotten. despite the labors of modern historians. that the American Revolution carried much of the anguish of civil war for those good colonials who vacillated be- tween the new thought" of inde- pendence and the old creed of loyalty to the crown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
lnMaRRrrD7~


 By Marjorfe Benton Cooke. Double
 day Page and Company Publishers,
 Garden City, New York.
 None of the swift grace and wit that so marked ''Bambi." Cinderella Jane." and ''rhe Cricket" is lacking from 'Marrfed?" and 1t presents a situation more ingenious. and pro- ductive of even more thrilling and humorous incident.
 It Is the story of the sole heirs of two families, Marcia Livingston and Dennis Shawn. separated by an old feud, and even more by their condi- tion-Dennis in California. penni- less. and Marcia In New York, heiress to millions, affianced in bored indif- ference to a man she did not love. How, in order to prevent a disaster, Dennis and Marcia are legally mar ried by wire and how. after incredi- .bis adventures. the technical mar riage, with its provision of annul- ment within six months. turns into a real marriage to last unto eternity makes a novel that jaded readers will be grateful for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28

piers, is loaded down with artists from MT. Gatti in search of new singers for the Metropolitan Opera and his charming wife, Frances Aida, to John Charles Thomas of Apple Blossoms" fame. who next season will be Launched" as a Concert, Singer"
 The consequence is, that few are left to regale us with their vfrtuosity and fortunately Birmingham will have one of the few.
 Mrs. Gussen. who usually spends Ter summers in the east, Chautauaua. N. T.. and other places, getting new Ideas about teaching and choirs and concerts and recitals, decided to re- main at home this summer and when this decision was made, she began negotiations with Beryl Rubinstein for visit here-the result of which is that he will give enc of his choic- est programs in Recital" and will also conduct a Master Glass; in piano for two weeks here.
 Isn't that progress, musically?
 A Southern Boy
 Let me tell you something about Beryl Rubinstein if you don't hap pen already to know 1t.
 He's "southern," to begin with; born right next door to us-over in Georgia-and spent a lot of his time in Birmingham when he was a kid die" and just made everybody adore him because of his great talent and his winning personality. later appear ing here in recitals.
 Mrs. Franklyn B. Sanders of Cleve- land, who is MT. Rubinstein's man. ager, sends me a delightful little