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DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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HORIZONTAL
1-Applauso
4-Jump
6-Carpenter'a tool
(pk) (10-Etruscan godin
Conion,
13-Arget 14-Repair 16-Final 18-On the sea
19-Magnifier
22-Eager
25-Roman emperor
27-The (Fr
28-Short sleep
29-Household pat
32-Exglo
38-A king
36-Repente
(Scan. Myth.)
39-Censured
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont)
42-Reclaims
45-Boact
48-A letter
40-Mania name
49-Ever (Post):
50 (Oba.}
51-A rodent
E2-Wild (Scot)
153-A bird of Europe
64-Imitats 155-Walk
VERTICAL
16-Greek god of love 17~College oficial
18-Conjunction
20-Chooses
4
21-Before 23-A constellation 24-Matured
30-A beverage "31-Current
32-Makes a mistake [33-Suffer remorse for 34-A cavalryman's sword (pl.)
35-A month (abbr.)
1-Something rigid that 27–Ocean
holds
2-Tardier
3-Place for contexte 8-Ajar
7-Ascend
B-Goode
38-Dormant
40-The choicest part of
anything 41-Bit of fare. (Fe) |43-First president, of
German Republic
S-A case for a sword 44-A fray 15-Nolea
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MUSIC PROBLEM.
Ambitious Programme For Next Season.
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MANY FINE ORCHESTRAS.
Yet Beauty Growing
In New Fields..
WHAT RUSKIN MOURNED,
care.
their tools in a prescribed manner; but they were free to fashion articles according to their individual, tastes, and this they did with loving
Ruskin's Grief. Nowadays we are surrounded by John Ruskin, the art, critic, felt machinery and machine-made com so badly about the increase of ma Laveno, Italy, Sept. 1. modities. Is there anything in chine-made products that he called A call on Albert Coates at Lage them to admire, or do we find fault them "dishonest," and lovers of Maggiore, upon his return from with their uniformity, their mono- "antiques" still share his feeling of Russia and just before his detony?
being defrauded by anything not parture for New York to conduct
A boy goes to an automobile fac-handmade. William "Morris, the four-week season at the tory to buy a car. He watches it poet, repeatedly urged a return to.. Lewisohn 'Stadium revealed
that being assembled, and finds Bttle to the old ways, and tried his hand at Russia is attacking its musical pro-choose between it and all the others weaving, dyeing, printing, illuminat blems in earnest. The latest move.of
of that type, except for a variety in ing, all for the love of beauty; and moment is to unite all the orches the line of bright paint edging now how sorry he would be to know Karol Szymanowski lives in the, too difficult. It nevertheless should tral societies under a single ar-the chassis or the colour of the that many of us associate his name fabulous little village of Zakopane, be effective.
tistic leadership, with a view to wheels, We see identical dresses, only with the comfortable Morris in the foothills of the Carpathians. The symphony is in three move-rigorous improvement of stand hanging like peapods, in whatever chair that was once in our parlours, a few miles out of Cracow, If you ments, the middle movement. is ards. Mr. Coates has been invited shop we enter. When we are satis-but which has been tucked out of hire or borrow an automobile the short and of an atmospheric charac-to undertake the work and has fied with the last for our shoes, a sight because we did not like its horses, will jump and shy and youter, and scored for small orchestra. accepted. In spite of the hard-
special brand of stocking or of looks. will disturb the traffic that carries The finale is a kind of gigantic ships of his task, involving two tooth-paste, we can duplicate them In their distress over the vanish- logs und foodstuffs-carts, driver mazurita, freely treated of course, trips yearly to inspect and drill readily, says the Christian Science ing handicrafts, these critics missed by men in gorgeously embroidered fund brilliant and gay.
each unit, even the most remote, he Monitor.
the beauty of modern machinery trousers and slippers" with gay Szymanowski, who, perhaps un-is looking forward to the pleasure
In contrast, has anything ever and tools, a beauty that lies in their coloured puffs. The excuse for the fortunately for himself, is, by nature of working with these players, turned your attention" to the days fitness for a purpose. This fitness is stupid dress that men wear to-day an aristocrat and a self-exacting whose self-sacrificing zeal he has when standardized labour was un- found in the racing lines of the in cities is that the work-a-day artist, played thereafter certain of found unequalled anywhere,
known? Those were the days in carpenter's plane as well as in those
By OLIN DOWNES.
the picturesque native setting.
Folk Music.
There are at
world makes brave dress impossible. his piano pieces. The opus is 50 The most important orchestras which the scene of Wagner's opers of the automobile. It has dictated This is perfect nonsense and is of They are in Polish dance forms and are, of course, in Moscow and "Die. Meistersinger" is laid: the the outline of hammer and axe, of a piece with those suppressions should be much better known, for Leningrad: others include those of days of guilds, when young men who locomotive and airplane. And mod which have made the fortunes of they belong emphatically to the Kharkov and Kiev, Odessa and were learning the "mysteries" of a ern mechanical inventions have paycho-analysts. The men in Zako-period in which this composer is Tiflis, Svetlovsk and Stalingrad, craft were apprenticed for seven another link with beauty in the ser pane, following the healthy and finding his own extremely sensitive Baku and Batum.
years to a skilled master. Under his vice they can give to the fine arts. beautiful instincts of generations and personal style. Szymanowski, present two symphonic ensembles of unemasculated forefathers, wear in fact, is working to-day like an in the capital the Philharmonic supervision, they learned to handle Think what the printing press has mennt for literature and the camera mating plumage. They work, they artist and a hero. On the one of ninety players, and the Radio Continued from previous 'column). for art. can fight fiercely, and there is no hand he is making an exhaustive in- Orchestra, numbering seventy.{
Improves Art. doubt that their costumes achieve vestigation of the folk-music," very The plan is to combine the two pects to present to Europears and)
American audiences.
This last remark is surprising, their purposes.
primitive and original, of the region into a large orchestra of 140, after
A New Opera.
juntil we remember that the kodak We found the composer here in where he lives, and undoubtedly ab eliminating some twenty, men, to Besides the novelties mentioned, has greatly increased the number urbing into himself its ancestral be devoted solely to concert. The Mr. Coates will bring out a new of people who know a "picture" At long intervals, sometimes of essence. On the other, he is finding Leningrad Orchestra has been well opera at the Mariensky Theatre on when they see it in the landscape; years, robber folk come down from new ways in his individual art, or organized for, the past ten years.
Leningrad, also his own "Samuel that a snapshot. can verify the the hills, accompanied by dogs let qs say new sublimations of the
A Big Season.
Pepys" at the Mikhailovsky accuracy of animals” motions... › in which are trained to fight wolves, spirit of Polish folk-music...
An elaborate programme is Theatre of the same city, where painting and sculpture; or that, and are so fierce that in the valleys
under preparation at Moscow for Stanislavsky will be acenic direc-through the X-ray, the genuineness This writer believes in folk-next November 11, to celebrate the tor. For the fiftieth anniversary of some supposed old master may be they must go attached by a chain to a heavy piece of log which makes it music as a fundament of individual fifteenth anniversary of the Octo- of Wagner's death he will conduct disproved by the discovery of layers. impossible for them to rush or leap art, and he feels that
Mr. ber revolution..
Mr. Coates will|“Tristan" in Moscow and the of paint beneath an outer surface. at strangers.
working The villagers of Szymanowski,
with conduct a new opera, a new ballet "Ring" in Leningrad.
Graphophones and radios'supply the Zakopane make a community, large-modesty that is one of his delight-and a new symphony, all of them The taxing responsibilities of unskilled with a wider knowledge of ly, of artists. They are painters ful characteristics, is doing a work written especially for the occasion. his new post as general music music; just as moving pictures give and sculptors and they carve beau-which should bring him reward. Thus far he is able to speak at director of philharmonic societies the untravelled a glimpse of distant tiful in wood, On Szymanowski's even if that reward, does not consist Arst hand only of the last of these may necessitate relinquishing the art treasures. piano was what I thought to be a in notoriety and a fortune.
three novelties-the first sym-direction of the Bolshoi Opera. But we must distinguish care- rather fascinating futurist figure in The pieces he played us have a phony of Julius Tehoperiri. Coates House,
fully between the ways in which me- wood by some modern symbolist. typically subtle and Polish quality describes it as A very elaborate Mr. Coates is now at work on hiachanical inventions do good, and" It was one of the village creations They have a harmonic colour which work, containing some interesting second symphony, inspired by the ways in which they do harm. conception, I believe, of the has gradually evolved as a charac instrumental effects. The third Bielsky's poem "The Eagle" and They are good for spreading in- Madonna.
teristic of Szymanowski's style. movement is scored for double or- Russian in its thematic material; formation they do not train the Popular Piano.
They have also a fine conciseness of chestra and double chorus; it will the score includes a chorus. It taste. Much of the beauty of a Szymanowski has just finished a expression. This artist has prob require 375 people.
will probably be premiered in landscape or a work of art can never fourth symphony for orchestra andjably fought hard-won battles with
The conductor speaks in glowing Moscow this Winter. He has also be printed on paper or flashed upon. piano. It is not a concerto, though ideas and with form. From the terms of Tchoporin, Shostakovitch revised his first symphony (of a screen; and the heart has gone the plane is used more generously conflict there is emerging something and Samuel Feinberg. the pianist abstract thematic content) and has from music that is reeled off 1 than if it had merely the role of an truly sincere and original: And whose new piano concerto he ex-re-orchestrated hia "Samuel record or transmitted through a orchestral instrument. This work Szymanowski's "Stabat Mater," per- (Continued at foot of next column). Pepys" and "Ashurbanipal." microphone.
wwwne
will be heard next season"in" Ameri- formed in New York by. Hugh Ross
ea, probably with the composer as and the Schola Cantorum and the executant. Szymanowski, after "symphony" that he played for us,) banging and humming the music as indicate a rapidly increasing power well as he might, remarked that he in scores of the grander dimensions. intended soon to go into a kind of in a day when too many modern monkish retirement and practice composers are gaining the world scales, for some weeks as prepara- and losing their souls. in the bar! tion for public performance. He gain it is happiness to see in the added laughingly that he had been development of Szymanowski the careful not to make the piano part contrasting process.
Howard's Play Criticised
Moral Gargoyle In Character.
(BY A CRITIC).
SCOTT RELICS IN GLASGOW.
A.
Famous American's
.Collection.
collection of manuscripts. from the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, which was insured for "The Silver Cord has been £50,000, formed an important part showing at the Embassy Theatre, of the exhibition of Sir Walter London...
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Scott relica which was held this In many ways "The Silver Cordsummer in Glasgow. It was is such a good play that we regret sponsored by the novelist's great- that it is not a much better one great-grandson, Major-Gen: "Walter Mr. Howard has chosen an arrest-J. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford, on; ing subject the conflict that may whom King George V has just con- arise between a mother-in-law and ferred a baronetcy. These manu- her son's wife; he has a keen sense scripts included two volumes of of the theatre,, and can devise Scott's Journal (November 20, aituations of considerable drama-1825-April 16,' 1832), dealing with tic intensity, and his dialogue is some of his financial struggles; uniformly competent, and at times also The Lady of the Lake," extremely amusing. Unfortunate- "Rokeby," "Tales of a Grand- ly he is deprived of the deserved | father" and the "Life of reward of all these virtues by Napoleon." There were many in- reason of the fact that in his pre-teresting letters, including some sentation of the play he la rabidly notes in Lord Byron's handwriting, partisan, and makes one of his and Sir. Walter's warrant of ap- protagonists fantastic carica-pointment as Clerk to the Court of ture.
Session: The portraits which Mrs. Phelps, American matron, were collected included one of is a grotesque monster, a moral Scott, painted in the last year of gargoyle. The marriage of one of his life, by Sir Henry Raeburn. her sons she breaks off, and the Among other mementoes were other she nearly wrecks by a com- some ebony chairs given to Scotti bination of lying and unscrupu by George IV, and a Sheraton table lousness. The whole time, the at which many of the Waverley play in progress we feel that novels were written. Mrs. Phelps is not getting a fair
deal, that her true character is not (Continued from previous column), being shown to us.
gives way to her emotions very Mist Marjorie Fielding has the convincingly. Mr. Eric Berry ungrateful part of Mrs. Phelps, Robert successfully portrays that and with it makes the best of a bad youth's: faebleness and vacillation,
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