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Story Of Chee Singers' Contest At
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WONDERFUL MUSIC
Music Of Haydn ARLISS WILL MAKE
In Old Clock
One does not associate the augusti composer of "The Creation" with the tinkling frivolities of music-{ [boxes. Yet it seems that Hayda llent his genius to the little musical clocks that adorned the boudoirs of
WARNER FILM.
Producers Transplant Their Celebrities.
INTO ENGLAND'S SAIL
"Horatio Alger ta dead, but IIIe. which can be spelled with a large (L, has not forgotten Algeria tech- nique of the success story. Con-
George Arliss is going to take pider Chee-Ak, which is the name:
eighteenth-century, Germany as part in one or more of the produc- of the sturdy young Eskimo who
well as to symphonies. Egon H. tions which Warner Brothers are. figures as the hero of "Igloo," at the
Willfort, writing is The Musical going to have done at their Tedding- Times of London, comments on the ton studios. The Warners, further- }Rivoli. · Cast, out by a hardhearted
musical value of these liliputian and more, announce that they are going stepmother, driven to the point of
other charming compositions: to make no less than twenty-five exhaustion by cruel employers,
"Music depends very largely on feature filme in Britain in the course twice wounded and left for dead, he |
Ita: Interpreter-unlike postry of a year. Their policy is to bring The International Contest for philharmonic concerts under Wein-which gives to any average reader over some of their American stara is a very model of a model hero.
Singers, held last month in Vienna, gartner and Koussevitzky were direct Intercourse with the poet, and set them in English surround- Chee-At was born in an ice igloo has announced the distribution of given to full houses. The second And the more remote the period of Ings and at the same time take to near the little settlement of Candle, prizea. The frst prize of 4,000 was a sensation because the direc-a composition, the greater the pro- the United States an equal number, in Northwest Alaska, on Dec, 27, schillings was divided among five tor was still unknown in Europe, blem of interpretation. "Like for something approaching an equal 1908. His father was a prospector contestants, the second of 3,000 be- and this was his first opportunity other composers of this period, the number, where they will be em-
tween two. The winners of 1,500 to demonstrate his artistry. (Dr. great masters Haydn, Mozart and ployed as occasion many require. trapper and hunter, his mother a schillings each are Cleo Elmo, Ital- Ziegler either meant Vienna when Beethoven wrote compositions ex- A similar policy of exchange is full-blooded Eskime, who had pro fan dramatic soprano, and Edward be said Europe, or is ignorant of pressly for such mechanical Instru- projected by British International fited by a certain amount of educa- Bender, Polish base. The Ruman much outside it-Ed.) The recital ments as clocks,READ Pictures, Ltd., which is reported to
ian baritone Robert Schilton, the by Tito Schipa was given in an un- tlon assimilated in the early Alas-Lithuanian lyric.soprano Erna Tra- usual but gorgeous setting.
"At the Castle of Esterhaz, where have completed negotiations for the The Haydn spent a considerable part of exhibition of its products in Ameri- kan missionary school. When he vin, and the Polish baritone Jeray opera performances produced a con- his life as leader of the Prince's ca and is now negotiating for the was 4, the family moved to Kech-Czaplicki receive 1,000 each, and centration of talent rare in Vienna, band, we find also the monk, Pri services of American directors and kech-Taguruk. The name means five prizes of 300 each go to two even at the height of the Winter mitivus Niemers, in the position of players of the first rank for a get one season: the appearance of Jeritza. ¡ibrarian. This man, a very gifted of alx pictures "designed on an ela- Bly Sand Pit, and it is not nearly Italland, two Rumanians and
Frida Lelder, Lotte Lehmann, Frie-musician, became a pupil and inti-borate scale for world exhibition.” so good a town as Candle. Young While the music festival linked drich Schorr, Jan Kiepura and mate friend of Haydn. As he was / Hollywood's Dilemma. Chee-Ak was admitted to a Quaker with the violin and song competi- Armand Tokatyan within a fort also an extremely clever mechanic Pat Powers, who has been paying HOTEL missionary school.
tions was a great success artistical-night."
and a specialist in the making of a visit to Britain, is to some extent ly, it signally failed to attract the In summing up the disappoint musical clocks, we may reasonably possibly responsible for the roseate host of guests eagerly awaited by ment of the hotel men Felix Schei- assume that his intimate relations views which some of the British pro- the Vienna hotel-keepers.. The finger, president of the Vienna with Haydn. enabled him to obtain ducing organizations are taking sharp contrast between the material festival committee and executive from the master contributions for with regard to the opening of the and artistic aspects of the festival head of the Hotal-Keepers Guild, his instruments. As a matter of | American market to English-made was brought out by Die Neue Freie noted that not one-third of the fact, we are now able to date films. He holds that Hollywood is Presse in two interviews printed on 18,000 beds at the disposition of the some 30 of such compositions. Many not able to produce enough pictures the same page. In one of them Dr. guests had been occupied. Only of these charming miniature pleces to meet requirements and that not Otto Ziegler, a member of the com- the three big hotels on the Ring- oxisted neither in manuscript nor only is there no desire to keep mittee in charge of the event, said strasse enjoyed comparatively good in print and were consequently un-foreign pictures out but that Holly-
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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When he was 10, Chee-Ak's mother died. Then his troubles be
He was too despondent to go to school, too unhappy to stay at home. He ran away. He tried his luck us a dishwasher in areatau rant, as assistant cook on a small schooner, and later as first engineer when the frat engineer quit.
A Trapper at 12.
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Two years of that, and work ran out. Chee-Ak determined to return
Austrian.
point the festival weeks certainly dle-class hotels were neglected. He
wood will, welcome them with open. arms provided they are of a quality good enough to keep the "zinema habit alive in the United States. If this assertion” be correct,
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were bound to satisfy the most pointed out that the tight regula (Continued from previous Colam) exacting taste. One of the most tions on foreign exchange under patch of July 5, these annoying, ex interesting concerts ever heard in which only small sums of money change regulations have been modi Vienna was the Haydn jubilee. To could be taken out of the country fed materially in the case of tou- implies a surprising admission on see a great orchestra dressed in were calculated to keep foreign ar- rists as the result of intervention the part of some of the Hollywood costumes of the Haydn period made tists and tourists away from Aus- by G. B. Stockton, American Minis-magnates that they have got into a an impressive picture. The two tria. According to a Vienna dis-ter to Austria.
to his home. After a hundred-mile walk he was refused admittance even by his stepmother. His father gave him $15, and that was the last the lad ever saw of his family. Without any steady job, the 12-year old boy, became a hunter and trap- per. In 1922 he made his way to Nome and got a job as cook aboard the Silver Wave, a vessel bound for? Seattle. Here he met Captain Frank Kleinschmidt, the Arctic ex- plorer, and shipped with him on bis expedition to the Far North..
Chee-Ak was not only cook, but assistant to the Kleinschmidt camera man on the trip to Cape North and Wrangell Island. He al 80 accompanied Knud Rasmussen, the Danish Arctic explorer and writer, on his trip aboard the Teddy Bear to East Cape.
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The Hollywood Job.
In 1925 he met Merle LeVoy, a Pathe newsreel man," returning from an Arctic trip. LeVoy was impressed by the lad and loaned him $100 to come to Hollywood. There he found LeVoy after a while and LeVoy got him a job on the Fox lot. Ewing Scott, assistant to the late F, W. Murnau, was on the lot, preparing to make a picture in the North. Naturally Scott took Chee-Ak along with him.
The scene switches to the Califor-} nia desert near Victorville In Feb- ruary of 1931.
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As he wiped the perspiration from his eyes between pictures. Scott asked Chee-Ak:
"Wouldn't you like to be ap in Alaska now, instead of here In this desert heat?"
"You bet I would,” replied Chee-
Ak, who has learned to speak Eng-
Mr. S. P. Maklezon, a neted Russian planist, who is starting a music studio locally shortly. Mr. Maklezoff has inaugurated studios both in Tientsin and Shanghal, where he has been a prominent figure at concerts.
Old Wine In EUROPE'S PLANS FOR
New Bottles
MUSIC SEASON.
Hopes To Attract
Foreign Visitors.
Provincetown
rut, out of which they want to be helped by foreign hands. But was Mr. Powers talking to please, whis English hosts at the dinner at which he was entertained by John Maxwell, with whom he had been conducting negotiations looking to of the more extended exhibition British pictures in the United States?
CINEMA THREATENS. AGED THEATRE.
Centres On Art
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Historic Opera Of
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· MUST-IT CRUMBLEZ
Venice, Aug. 25. The crisis afflicting the Teatro. La Fenice of Venice calls for a radical solution, if this historic opera house, scene of immortal pre- mieres, is to be saved the degrada- |tion of "going cinema," or worse. The fifty-odd patrician families who. are its joint owners and box-hold- ers have with each succeeding year become increasingly powerless to take action. They had not yet re- covered from the heavy burden of the million and a half lire assess- ment for post-war restorations, when the world crisis overtook them, and they are now fat. It is at present impossible to lease the house to a private impresario, since lish like a good American. “I would
no subsidy, public or private, is to like to be up there right now, photo-
be had in Venice for opera." The graphing that story you wrote." * Sir Thomas Reecham's arrange-va
to bite The very busy and interesting Venetians Invoke the constitution for the Vienna That is how "Igloo was born, ment of Handel's music (mostly Opera House for next season redke those at E
activities of Provincetown's art of a State-subsidised corpor and how Chee-Ak became a motion from "Ariodante) for the new bal-veal a project to open the house colony this season will come to a picture actor.
Florence, Rome and Naples. But let, "The Origin of Design," given with a performance of Wagner's climax with the eighteenth annual this solution is not in sight. by the Camargo, troupe, showed "Ring" cycle in September, follow "regular" exhibition at the Pro- Count Nani Mocenigo, president once more the adapter's rare tact in ing the close of the August festival
in Salzburg, and designed to at vincetown Art Association Gallery of the box-owners association, pro- translating old wine into new bot-tract its visitors. A booking office from Aug. 7 to Sept. 6. In this poses that La Fenice be purchased will be established in Salzburg by show most of the established Pro Exposition (naturally with govern by the International Biennial Art Not at any time did one feel the the Vienna Opera directorate,
vincetown painters, among them mental aid) for making it an ex- slightest discrepancy between the Other features of next season
include a new production of "The many of national prominence, will perimental work in the othe
that is being done or plan Handelian design and the modern Magic Flute," conducted by Cle exhibit their latest canvases medium used to set it off. The use, mens Krausa, with Elizabeth Schu-
Mr. and Mrs. Gale Porter's flus function he
specific organizations"
Peasants Hong Kong is to have a music of the wood wind in particular mann in the role of Panina. Jeritza trated lecture,
vive old and studio shortly conducted by the seemed most
sisted for the title role of Um tames in the Hinterland ropriate, tasteful
works. The pro well-known' Hussian - pianist," "Mr. peppersZAN
Moberto Giordano's Fedora" for Oc-
ed this o faz A 8. P. Makleroff, former graduate of
tober. The composer will super tonight at the Unive
doubts whether the Imperial Patrograd Conserva. Unfortunatel the story was not vise rehearsals and conduct the first will be largely atten
tourist trade to: Nafraternity, The: tory: Classes of plano theory and well enough distributed between performs
theatre; history of music will be taught. Mr. the two act
Epía Maklezon has taken residence In
"NEW HONG KONG
MUSIC STUDIO.
Titles:
Noted Russian Pianist To Teach.
room 811, Peninsula Hotel,
and most ingenious.
the ballet.
it; but there is
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Further plans
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