The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26

There Is a new thing going the
rounds and that is to read the beau
tiful light operas of Gilbert and
Sullivan in your home just like you
do the novels of Charles Dickens
and the plays of William Shake
speare.
Now this idea may seem rather
like a dream, but am sure that it
is the truth. There is so much truth
to it that D. Appleton & Co., pub
fishers of New York have recognized
the fact.
This firm has published Gilbert
and Sullivan at Home" which con-
tains the complete stories and the
more popular songs of such operas
as Trial by jury" "The Sorcerer,"
"Pinafore," pirates of Penzance,"
Patience" "Iolanthe," Princess
Ida," "The Mikado," and the like.
They have been arranged either
for singing or playing. know that
singing at home is becoming more
and more popular. I know that
many people sing with their radio
and the monograph has long been
used in the home for this purpose.
The other evening was at the
home of friend and for more than
an hour members of the party (ex-
GLIDING myself because I cannot
carry tune in bushel basket sang
parts of Carmen" while it was
played on Brunswick.
And the same is true with the
piano in homes where the better
music is appreciated. And that is
one reason why the Appleton
edition of Gilbert and Sullivan at
Home" will be so welcomed.
I know that it is pleasant way
to spend an evening or at least a
part of it to have copy of this
Gilbert and Sullivan edition on the
piano and I am sure that it will
not be long before the entire family
will be singing or attempting to
sing "Three Little Maids" from
1.-The Mikado."
Such books as these really brings
a new day into the American home
and one that will be deeply ap-
preciated. Home life today is better
than ever before and music in a
home is just as important as clean
table linen.
Home is an institution and so is
music, the right kind. Gilbert and
Sullivan at Home" will make many
a home happier and better place.
Some Book News
Have received the following news
of books from Houghton Mifflin
Company:
Roland Pertwee, author of "Rivers
to Cross" and Gentlemen March"
(Houghton Mifflin Company, is
playwright as well as an author, and
has just come over from London
to New York for the opening of his
new play, Interference" 81 think
best of all I like to write and have
a hand in the production of a play"
says Mr.. Pertwee. "Then it is that
all my earlier trades and trainings
seem to combine and I become a
composite being made of equal parts
of author, actor and painter. But
plays are such queer intractable
things. They seldom go the way
you want. They are always getting
the bit in their teeth. They turn
nasty and have rows with you. In
reference which 7 wrote with
Harold Deardon and which ran for
six months at the st. James Thea
ter without an empty seat was an
exception. I never knew such an
obliging play"
Among her lovers, George Sand
counted Alfred de MusSett, Chopin
and Prosper Merimee. Yet there
were four others who occupied
conspicuous place in her affections.
Elizabeth Schermerhorn, author of
Benjamin Constant" has gathered
them all into book and given it the
appropriate title of 1.-THE Seven
Strings of the Tyre" Houghton
Mifflin Company are Miss Scher-
nerhorns publishers and almost
simultaneous with the publication
Of 1.-THE Seven Strings of the Lyre,"
the John Day Company announces
George Sand: the Search for Love"
This spectacular woman continues
to intrigue biographers as well as
readers.
The Macmillan expedition to the
Far North, financed by Frederick
H. Rawson of Chicago, is collecting
material for the Field Museum to
enrich its departments of anthro-
pology, botany, geology and zoology.