Putnam patriot., 1930-10-30

whose names were de Reszke, Caruso Eames. Sembrich. Farrar and Prem stad.
 In the Concert Hslls
 The prospect is better in the concert halls. Mir. Toscanini has not yet re- turned to the Philharmonic but there is little Co complain of in the presence during this fore part of the season of Erie kleiber Of Berlin or the con ductor's stand. Mir. kleiber, who ar- rived without much heralding, made his debut at the opening of the season with d most conservative program, conservatively conducted. The result was that the critics on the following morning spoke of Mir. kleiber as being conservative and then went on to write a great deal about the evergreen beauty of the "Freischutz' overture which we for one would be delighted to have become, for once, an annual that bloomed orehestrially about every five years. Of the first program, MT. Kleiber was at his best, we thought. in a splendid reading of Strauss s Till Eulenspiegel. When Mir. Klei- Der had made his conservative debut he then loosened up bit and since that first Friday evening he has given the Philharmonic subscribers one in- teresting novelty after another. While one may not cotton to many of the modernist pieces which he has brought to Carnegie Hall. no one can say that his programs are uninteresting or that Mir. Kleiber himself. is not a con- ductor of marked ability and person. ality.
 As usual there are plenty of virtu- ousi playing to crowded audiences. Twice in a fortnight kreisler and his fiddle played ravishing music. Next Saturday in a superb program, Fade rewski returns after a too-long ab- sence. Last Saturday night, Mary Garden brought her personality and her voice to an interesting program of Dehussy which she shared with the German pianist Gieseeking, who with Copeland. is the best interpreter of the Frenehman's compositions. Late m the month, Miss Farrar, ever in- creasing in beauty of interpretation of lieder, will sing at Carnegie and there are those who have a lump in their throats when they read the small ad- vertisement which announces that Madame Ernestine Shumann-Heink. later in the season will take limited number of pupils.
 The Modern Pictures
 Then, ii you are in town and must take a turn about the art galleries and you like the moderns, we advise that you seek out the new Marie Har- riman Gallery in Fifty Seventh Street, where Mrs. Averill Hartman has eol- ,ected as fine a small group of mod ern pictures as New York has seen m many day. We are not of those who acknowledge a great love for the moderns. We frequently find that they would make excellent designs for linoleum while our friends assure us that they are masterpieces. Neverthe- less. we keep on going to see modern pictures in the hope that some day we will know why they are explained as patterns. And We do find things that We like For instance in the Hartman Gallery we found a Renoir and a Picasso that we thought in our ignorant fashion were perfectly swell, and our critical friends agree that they are just that.
 And SO, hard times or no hard times, New York is marching on, breathing the most poisonous air on earth, go- ing to good plays and bad. putting up with such traffic conditions as even Mfr. Henry Ford himself could not have ever pictured, hearing the best music that the world has to afford The season has begun. Here's Hal lowe'en, here comes Thanksgiving and then Christmas and New Yeai and, Heaven grant, cheerier, happier times.
 J. W.