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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

the league on it's well known head
for the hard hitting Yanks. When
the din of battle died away that fall
Bush had won 266 games and had
lost but z.
He contributed 10 victories to-
ward the pennant the next year and
won II games for the Yanks in
1924. Then he was sent to st.
Louis in the Shocker deal.
The Washington Senators made a
deal for him in the winter Of 1926
rs in the hope that he might have
"just one more good year." and help
them carry the flag. He failed to
hit his old time pace, however, and
his release followed.
Hooking up with the Pirates after
his release on June "a Bush pro-
ceeded to startle the world by turn
ing in series of victories. 1t was
but a squirt, however. His season
total amounted to but games won
and an equal number lost.
Over a total of S,034 innings
pitched up to this year Bush had
struck out 1921 men-an average of
a man every two and half innings.
He had allowed 2.910 hits.
SPEED WILD AT TIMES
Bush did not have the control
over his speed which johnson has
always exhibited. which helps ae-
count for Bush's meager win record.
He walked a total of 1890 men
while tanning the 1921.
In his five worlds series he won
two games and lost five, struck out
Is men and walked 20.
But every batter who faced Bush
in his prime will tell you that when
he turned on his speed IL was a
case of Shutting your eyes, praying
abd swinging"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

All of which goes to show
that High school teams are
rather hard to make. This year
a new set of youngsters, with a
few exceptions, turned out for
each of the four sports as the
call for candidates came.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01
The
Sport Shop
by
JOSEPH w. WALKER.

One of the finest things for boys
of this city started last week as
the Junior Baseball League was
formed with six teams as members.
1t is the first time that serious
attempt has ever been made to
place such league in action, and
success seems assured from the en-
thusiasm displayed by the young
sters.
Such a league will give about rs
boys chance to display their ball
playing ability on diamonds which
are scattered throughout The city.
With no Fairgrounds in town, moth
ing finer in the way OF, recreation
for boys can be found than this.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

High school athletes won 43 ma
jor letters and twenty-three minor
awards during the school year,
which has just closed. But one
man, Bill" Green, won four letters,
and Stanley Saracinsky is a three
letter man. George Westcott, Jack
Bradley and Haywood Field won
their letters in two sports.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

II PIeasantvIIe is to have
baseball in the future, its play
ers of today should take an ac-
tive interest in the league, as
should the followers of the big
club. SandIot training has been
responsible for the develop
ment of many great players,
and-WelI, who can tell?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

The speed that made him Bullet joe
That made the flight of sound seem slow
That made each swing futile blow,
He leaves heritage.
The skill that checked the threatened score
Uncanny use of pitching lore
5 The "guts' to pitch it out-and more,
In history a page
Waddell and Walt Joe Wood-No need
To rank these kings of binding speed.
'"The arm against the sh,' their creed;
Success their greatest wage.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01
LONG LOSES MATCH
Is Eliminated In First Round of
Philadelphia Golf Tournament

rs illuminated IN FIRST Hound OF
Philadelphia Golf Tournament
Scott M. Long Jr., captain of the
Colgate University golf team this
year, and a resident of this city,
was eliminated as he played in the
first round of the annual Phila-
delphia and district junior champ
ionship over the course at the Old
York road country club, at Jenkin-
town, Pa, Tuesday.
Long, a member of the Country
Club of Atlantic City. was defeated
by C. w Swoope, Overlook, on
the eighteenth green. The local
player qualified for play Monday.
10
Other Shorts PAGE Al
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-01

Scotty-"Hooray-the wind has
changed" Wife-"Well, what of
it," Scotty-"Ye ken the doctor
said We wanted a change of air. "
Evening star., 1927-03-13
MU SIGR A PHS

After the contest the out-of-town
contestants and those accompanying
them, together with the judges. will
be entertained at luncheon by the local
fedora ton board at the hotel. Any To-
cal federation member or others inter
ested may make reservations for this
luncheon through Miss GOODWIN
Cleveland 629.
Included on the program OF the sec
pnd Rubinstein concert, to be given
March %. will be a group or numbers
cpmmemorating the centennlal OF Zee
thoven's death, March 20, 1877.
other numbers to be presented are
'.Endvmion," by Liza Lehman ana
Rubinsteins "Seraphic Song, Whlch
will be repeated by request.
The contralto solo will be sung by
Edith NJ. White. The guest soiolst
catherine Wade Smith, will play the
violin obbligato.
Gertrude Lyons. lyric soprano. Is
filling an engagement OF two Weeks az
yoloist at the Florida Chautauqua, al
keystone Heights, Fla. She VIII give
her Patti" concert tomorrow hIehl,
a proeram of American composers
March 10. and solos at the daily seS,
sions of the Chautauqua- Sne "nl
direct the Pageant Of Nations, 20
be given March 26, and VIII naVe
charge of classes In vocal instrucI'oH
during the time she Is there
Evening star., 1927-03-13

composed the special music for out
standing events in the history OF bis
native land. For the millennial OF 1874,
which was celebrated In commemora-
ton of the first permanent settlement
of the island. he composed % gud
vors lands God of Our Native Land,
the IceIaudic national anthem. To
this day IL is sung wherever Iceland
ers gather together. In 1907, for the
festivities connected with the visit OF
the Danish King to Iceland, he COM
posed the kings Cantata." Recent
iy he completed the special music for
an event OF the future. the millennial
commemorating the founding of the
Icelandlc "Althing" or parliament, to
be held in 1880. This new composition,
which he entitled Festival Polonaise, ="
is arranged both for full orchestra
and piano. II was tried out about a
year ago at a meeting of the Danish
Icelandic Society at Copenhagen and
was very we'll received.
"Some years ago Prof. Sveinbjorns-
son made a concert tour of the prin-
cipal Icelandic colonies on the Ameri-
can continent. In his programs he
included many of his own compost
tions and his special arrangement OF
old Icelandic folksongs.
He was born in June, 1S47, and
therefore lacked only a few months
of completing his eightieth year.
Despite his age. he was active up to
the very last, both playing and COM
posing music. He died playing the
harp. the instrument he loved best of
all
Evening star., 1927-03-13

Louis Kaufman. viola, and Marie
tet has recently concluded a success
full series of three recitals at Aeolian
Hail. devoted To the classic compos-
erS. This will be the quartet's first
public venture into modern fields.
Second on the program Is the
Sonata for violin. piano and drum.
Mr.. Jacobsen will play the violin
part. Mr.. Antheil will be at the plano
and the drum.
George Antheirs conception of jazz
will be revealed In the third work, his
Jazz Symphony" originally begun
for the Paul Whiteman concert tour,
but completed too late to serve its
intended purpose. April 10. at the
composers request. the symphony
will be played by negroes. whom
Antheil believes are best suited to
the Interpretation of the compost
ton. w. G. Handy, originator of
the Blues. will conduct his thirty
piece orchestra in the work. Mr..
Antheil will be at the piano.
The Ballet Mecanique.' directed
by Eugene GOossenS, will comprise
the second half of the program.
Mr.. Antheil. who arrived recently
from France. is accompanied by his
wife, the niece Of Arthur Schnitzler.
The couple went directly to Trenton.
n. j.. his birthplace. where they Wis
tied Mr.. Antheirs parents. whom he
has not seen in the six years he has
been away from his native land. After
that they will stay with his manager
Donald s. Friede, II East Eighty.
fourth street.
Evening star., 1927-03-13
Musical Clubs of Amherst
COLLEGE IN Concert March IS.

A MHERST COLLEGE, often
spoken of as "the Presidents Col
lege," for Calvin Coolidge graduated
with the class of 1895, will present It's
musical clubs here March 25 in con
cert.
Among other alumni living in the
District of Columbia are Rudolph
Kaufman, managing editor OF Inc
Star; DR.. J. Franklin jameson of the
Carnegie Institution, Commissioners
Henry c. Hall and James B. Eastman
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, Dr. Walter S. Ufford of the AS
sociated Charities. DR.. Gilbert ii.
Grosvener of the National Geographic,
Edward T. Clark and Stuart Craw- :
ford, secretaries 70 the President
Robert Lansing, former Secretary OF
State, and Harlan F. Stone, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court. Chief
Justice Taft and Secretary Mellon
are numbered among the alumni
through the bestowal of honorary de-
grees.
In musical ways Amherst has been
famous for many years. Its Glee
Club, back in the days when PreSl-
dent Coolidge was an undergraduate,
was the first college glee club to
cross the water for a concert tour In
Europe. DR.. Jason Noble Pierce, who
is now pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church, Washington, led the
glee club while in college and wrote
both words and music of the song.
"Cheer for Old Amherst the music
and sentiment of which have been
appropriate by nearly every prepar-
atory and high school in the United
States. It's most famous song is Lord
Jeffrey Amherst was a Soldier of the
King" the words and music of which
were composed by James Shelley
Hamilton of the class of '06. 1t has
often been reported that this song is
the favorite musical selection of the
President.
Accompanying the famous Glee
Club is the Mandolin Club, which is
young symphony orchestra. with
mandolins, violins, trumpets, drums,
saXophones. piano, banjo, bass, clari-
net and harp guitar. These organi-
cations will be supplemented by the
Amherst Male Quartet and by the
Lord Jeffreys Serenaders, a famous
dance orchestra.
The clubs will reach Washington
Friday morning, March 25. on their
spring vacation tour. Mrs. Coolidge
is to entertain them at tea in the
afternoon and, accompanied by John
Coolidge, who is studying at Amherst
and who will be home on vacation,
will occupy the Presidents box at
d. A. r. Continental Memorial Hall,
where the concert program will be
given that night.
Evening star., 1927-03-13
BY CAPT. BRUCE BAIRNsFATHER.


WHEN l got my first engagement
w as an entertainer in American
vaudeville, / thought nobody had pre-
ceded me in this line except Bert Levy
best beloved of the men of our craft
in the theaters of this country and
Europe and in the vaudeville theaters
of this country.
But no sooner had l experienced
the first exhilarating thrills of Amerl-
can vaudeville theaters, audiences ana
nnanagements-all novel and inspiring
to a newcomer--than j began to won
der and study about the astonishing
progress made in the United States
by this branch of stage entertain
ment.
one of the first facts that | dis
covered was that ], at least was not
the pioneer cartoonist of the vaude-
vile stage. | learned that the illus
trious Matt Morgan. eminent in
his time as a craftsman and Illus
TRAITOR. probably preceded all of us as
trail blazer of humorous satire on the
vaudeville stage. | discovered what
is, think, the real cause of the match
less physical and artistic betterment
of vaudeville.
1t may be that / was doubly i'm.
pressed because one of the things
which Mr.. Albee gave me to read was
in the form of reminiscent letters
from Miss Beatrice Morgan, daughter
of Matt Morgan--the glorious car
toonist of the past-and herself
living and lovely favorite of modern
vaudeville The two letters from Miss
Morgan-one supposed to be dated
over 80 years ago and the latest dated
from a present day Keith-Albee thea
ter--contain. I think, an epitome of
the miraculous TRANSPORTATION which
took place during the past decades of
the first 100 years of American vaude-
Vile.
Recalling the stage memories of her
childhood, Miss Morgan's first letter
described the adventures of the little
family headed by Matt Morgan, in
a small vaudeville theater in the oil
regions of Pennsylvania. That was,
let us say. 35 years ago, or before
the Keith idea of vaudeville had per-
vaded and purified this branch of en-
ter.tainment. l will use only sentences
from that significant letter recount
ing the vaudeville days of long ago.
Thus she says:
SHOW late-train delayed by wash
outs-dim flickering of natural gas.
AT theater a bowling mob of coal
miners-great show promised. Pat
Rooney, sr., John T. Raymond, Polly
DAILY, Quilter and Goodrich, Ida Nor
ris, Lilly Hall, Jerry Cohan, Jim Mass
and--last, but not least, "a world
famous artist (my dear daddy, Matt
Morgan) was to make rapid political
Evening star., 1927-03-13

cartoons between the acts. Small
wonder the house was packed"
After describing the rude and com
fortress theater, the rude audience
and the poor lighting. Miss Morgan
writes such sentences as these:
"In a back-stage closet my mother
sat. lovely lady. holding an umbrella
over herself to keep the rain from
dripping down her back. My father
from the show-his show, The Matt
Morgan Novelty Company This
dressing room smelled of stale to-
bacco--a hot brick to warm mother
feet "a cheap mirror - rushing
draft through the split boards OF
the damp fioor--my beautiful mother
contracted pleuro pneumonia that
night. She never recovered. Then
the manager, a cross between bar
tender and ex-convict, opens our door
without knocking. Curtain has rose,
he says, chewing his cigar. On the
stage--rain dripping through the roof
smell of cellar and rats--fear OF
fire. Act over--out through a dark
hail into a dirty alleyno welcome,
no good night That was over 30
years ago, when my father was a great
man and / was a little child.
Nothing I could write honestly about
either the present-day perfection or
the contrasts in progress of vaudeville
could possibly approach the naively
appreciative late letter of Miss Nor
gan, written to Mr.. Albee about
her first appearance as headliner at
the beautiful new B. f. Keith Theater
in Syracuse. Remembering her child
hood memories of over 80 years ago.
consider these brief impressions Of
her present-day experience:
Automobiles line the streets out
side-house and stage and dressing
rooms lighted by countless electric
lights-audience of intelligent, happy,
decorous and we'll groomed women
and men. An orchestra of symphonic
proportions-house includes famous
masterpieces of paintings-gorgeou
reading, smoking and toilet rooms
soft carpets, cut-glass chandeliers
perfect entilation-regulated temper
ature-every precaution for safety.
And back-stage the same. Dress
ing rooms of sumptuous appointments.
Individual shower baths--a plentitude
of hot and cold water. linen, light,
cosmetic--better than club or hotel
like a refined home-no matter how
temporary--for the vaudeville artist.
And the manager! He raps on the
door; How do you do, Miss Morgan?'
he asks And he is in evening dress,
a gentle, well bred man, kindly and
courteous. Is everything all right,
he wants to know? Is there anything
he can do? An attendant, in uniform,
informs me that the act preceding
mine has gone on. / go down to the
stage in a noiseless elevator: my act
over, leave my key with the friendly
man at the desk. / pass out through
a beautiful stage door onto a well
paved and lighted modern thorough
fare.
II wish my wonderful father and
Evening star., 1927-03-13
CONTINUED from Fifth Page.l
gnonette," by Friml; Spanish Dance,
by. Lacombe.

| gnonette, by Friml; spanish Dance,
, by. Lacombe.
The Takoma Park w. c. IT. u. en-
| joyed musical program recently al
| the Washington Sanitarium when the
selections presented included a mus
ical reading, "Aint 1t Fine Today" by
Caroline Eells, accompanied at the
piano by Eva Kimmel; a unique solo
"Paa Jellet," by Kjerulf. sung in ma
tive Norwegian by Ruth Erickson
with p. F. Henderson at the piano
and trio, when the. Roses Bloom,
by Reichardt, sung by Ethel II. Reed
Cecile NJ. Sale and Ann Sherzer, with
Dorothy Plummer at the piano.
AT studio evening Tuesday night
Mrs. Robert Lawrence presented the
following group in songs: Josephine
Adams, Corinne Ballou, Anna Bis
choff, Evelyn Briggs, Mabel Evans
Ruth Godfrey, Freda Haase, Minnie
Herndon, Elizabeth King, Lena lie
Clair, Pearl Newman. Mary Bel
Njchol, Clara Riese, Frances Robin
son. Bernice Wood. Luera Reuss
Elise Kicker, Myrtle Philips, Floyd
Wheeler, Wayland Simms, George
Rollings, with Henrietta Halam and
Mrs. Lawrence as accompanies.
Prof. Alexander Henneman of the
Catholic University is directing the
Music Club of the District chapter
international Federation of Catholic
Alumnae. The rehearsals are held in
the studio of the Arthur Jordan Piano
Co. every Tuesday evening at s
o'clock. A program to be presented
at the conference of the District chap.
ter March 26 at the Willard Hotel is
now in preparation. All members OF
the federation are cordially inyited To
join.
Beatrice S. Goodwin, chairman. an
nounces that the public is invited to
attend the Capital District contest for
young students and artist musicians
who were winners in State contests
held recently in Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland and the District OF
Columbia II will be held in Franklin
Square Hotel Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
This unique concert should prove of
particular interest to young musicians
and to all local music teachers. A
collection will be taken to defray ex-
penses of the contest
Judges who have consented to serve
are Herman c. Rakeman. c. f. Chris
tiani and Henri Sokolov, for violin;
Mrs. Mae Brooks Ramsdell, Mrs.
Helen Corbin Heinl and La Sale Spier,
for piano; Edouard Albion, DIR. Alex
andef Henneman and Nellie Wilson
Shirr-CIiff, for voice; Amy c. Leavitt,
general musician, and Helen Fetter,
representing the press, will complete
the list of Judges. Three auditors will
be selected from among the visiting
State officers and chairmen.
Evening star., 1927-03-13
Jewish Music Festival

THE first Jewish Music FestiVai
ever held in Washington will fea'
tire promising local soloists.
Among those who will participate IN
tho March 30 fete are Cantor Abra-
ham Kalmus of the Ohev Sholom Syn
agogue, Albert Shefferman, parltone' =
~ ia min Rather, as the leader or
biano octet; Lewis Atwater and the
Eighth Street Temple Choir, and the
George Washington String Quartet;
In the piano ensemble wltn ; Mr.;
Ratner are Dora Minovich. Haskell
Nilstone. Mrs. Maurice Bisgyer. DIR.
William Perau, Sarah Cooper. Eliza
beth Harrow and Theodore Rosenfeid.
The music festival is the final con-
cert of the Community Centers sun
day evening service, which brought
to Washington this Winter Zimbalist'
Levitzki and others, under auspices
of the Jewish Community Center.
Evening star., 1927-03-13
Negro Composer Presents
Program OF His Own Works

WELLINGTON \. ADAMS, negro
W musician. will give a studio pro
gram of his own compositions follow
ing a pupils recital at his residence at
1000 Euclid street northwest. Thurs
day night at S o'clock. Five of his
latest compositions were all composed
within three days recently, adding to
a previous number of compositions al
ready written.
The latest compositions are: Four
part negro spiritual. Bow Down Low.
You Sinner" tat the mercy seat of
prayer); negro grooming song typical
Southern dialect). Nanny Lows Her
Lii Black Child; popular ballad
Your Beautiful Deep Blue Eyes.
and four-part race anthem.
Other former compositions to he
played are Under de Willers," by
Dunbar; Get on Board, Little Chill
dren." spiritual 'Ecstacy." waltz
song; I'm the City of Jasper Walls.
sacred solo: when All Is Done" by
Dunbar. written for quartet "GC
Wash in That Beautiful Pool" spirit
ual: Red Rosebud Is You" popular
song: new version of Deep River.
written in a minor mode: an African
hymn-song, "Taru." as sung by the
following South African tribes: Ma
shona, Basutas, Fingues, Pondues
Zulus and SwarZies.
Basuta chief wrote ''Taru" of the
South Africa Zulu tribe. and an Amer
ican missionary translated the words
ana hummed the melody while the
composer wrote 1t down here in Wash
lngton q few years ago. He will sing
ooth the African language of the
Fingues tribe and the translation and
the musical arrangement will be
played to the melody. as written by
him.
Pupils who will render a short pro
gram preceding the Adams compost
ton VIII be: Piano. Edgar Redmond
rattle Robinson. Marie Winston. Ida
Scott, Elizabeth Morris. Matte r.
iayIor and Alice Peters; banjo-mando
I'm, Dorothy Williams; tenor banjo
James Lane.
Evening star., 1927-03-13
News of Icelandic Composer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are familia

WASHINGTONIANS are familiar
with music by composers OF many
lands. but works by composers from
Iceland have been rarely. If ever,
heard in the National Capital. The
music editor has just received the fol-
lowing item from Mrs, Mekkin Svein-
son Perkins of 1919 r street north
west regarding the death of a leading
composer of Iceland. Sveinbjorn
SveinbjOrnssOn. She says:
News has been received from
Copenhagen of the death there of
Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, the ven
erable Icelandic composer.
Prof. SveinbjornssOn had a long and
remarkable career. Three times he
Evening star., 1927-03-13
George Antheil's Program.

THE complete program for the
George Antheil concert April 10
at Carnegie Hall, New York. is now
arranged, according to Donald 6.
Frfede. In addition to the Ballet
Mecanique," for which Mr. AntheiI is
personally bringing with him the
two wind instruments called for in
the score, three other compositions
will be played.
The opening number will be Mr..
AntheiFs Spring Quartet" to be pre-
sented by the Musical Art Quartet. CON
sisting of Sascha Jacobsen, first vio-
lin: Bernard Ocko second violin;
Evening star., 1927-03-13

Phyllis Haver. former Mack Sennett
bathing girl. has been assigned to play
the role of the other woman In Emil
Jannings' first Hollywood film, ''The
Way OF All Flesh" formerly referred
to as "The Man Who Forgot God"
Miss Haver will play the part origi-
nally assigned to LII Dagover. the
German actress recently imported by
Paramount Belle Bennett. the mother
In stella Dallas" heads the support.
ing cast Victor Fleming Is directins.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

John Ford, director of 'The Iron
Horse" Three Bad Men" and other
Fox Films productions, has gone TO
Europe on a mission of research for
his next picture, an adaptation OF
the magazine story, Grandma Berni
Learns Her Letters" Before leaving
HOLLYWOOD Mr.. Ford was given
signal honor by his fellow directors.
who elected him president of the Mo.
ton Picture Directors Association OF
America.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

my beautiful mother could have lived
to be with me here and to join me
in saying; MFR. Albee, we thank you. T"
Evening star., 1927-03-13
Vaudeville Then and Now.

Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, serving In
the trenches with the British army dur
ing the great war, gave to the world the
first and best character drawings and
cartoons of the comic side of the sol
diers lives in q series Of crayon sketches
Of Old Bill" grizzled. humorous.
kindly "hRhtinz" man who will live in
memory with Kiplings Corpl. Mulvaney
and his comrades of soldiers Three"
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1927-06-17
PoLRodNA sCHoDZA oDBo.
RU 314. N. s. s. MA STEELTON.

Spolok Sv. Vojtecha, Odb. 314.
MSS. vyzyva svojich 1dov, aby sa
sncastnili co najvaassim poetom
polroGnej sch6dze, ktora bude od-
byvana v nedel'u, 19. jlna 2.
hodine po obede spolkovej miest
nosti. Dostali SINE od HI. Odboru
hlasovacie listing. Ma tejto scho-
dzi budeme hlasovat' viacej
kandidatoY ma jedneho do lradu
hi. tajomnlka MSS. Tiez al name
zalozeny pri nasom Odbore Kr1.
zok Mladeze, ktory ic u2 uvede.
ny do Iona Narodneho Slovenske-
no Spolku. Tie matky a otcovia,
ktorf dali svoje dietky do KriH.
ku, mech pridu ma tuto sch6dzu
budn davane kazdemu clenovi a
clenkyni noveho Krt6ku diplomy
a tiez buld vyberane, prvy raz
prispevky ma tejto schodzi..
Jan Dulik, preds