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BOY MUSICAL FRODIGY
A REMARKABLE WORK..
An audience of 2,000 people, who in- cluded a great number of musical notabili ties and eritios from Paris, assembled at Tourcoing on October 18th to make the acquaintance of Ruta Rinaldi, the 11- year-old composer of the oratorio L'En- fance de Saint Jean Baptiste," It had been arranged that the composer should himself conduct the orchestra and enoir. of 250 menihers, but at the last monent he refused to do so, nrud while the work was comhicted by 1-Julien Dupuis, of Lille. Rinaldi listened behind the scenes, hin nods alternating between quiet matise invtion and fits of impatience, when no stamped his feet and covered his cars as he heard some passage which did - not sound to his liking. Meanwhile many efforts were made to perenade him to take the baton himself, but it was not until almost the end of the performanes that he would consent to do so. Then he appeared and conducted the majestic Gloria with which bis oratorio con cludes, being greeted at the end by a storm of enthusiastic cheering in which the whole house joined. Before the actual performance Rinakli had directed. two rehearsals during which he was unsparing- in his criticisms of the performers in his anxiety to ket exactly, the effects he wish- ed. The oratorio is based on the poem of Silvio Pagani, and comprises two parts, 'with a Prelude and interlude. The prin- cipal roles are those of John the Baptist (soprano), his mother teentralto), his father (bass), and the teller of the story (a tenor). Choruses play an important part in the work. The performance "of the oratorio appears to have made a"very favourable impression, though as yet no serious critical notices of it have appear. ed. It is described as a very simple work, full of entrancing meludies, impressive choruses, and ingenious fagal effects. The final "Gloria is decribed as being of high inspiration. It is remarked that the work bears evidence of juvenility in several respects; there are even souse striking technical faults; but, on the other hand, it is not denied that it is rich in fine passages, and, as one of the dritics. says, contains a wealth of musical thought sufficient to make the fortune of several Rinaldi's mother has received operas several very attractive offers for a tour in the Cuited States with her gifted son. but she has decided to refuse them all and to insist that Rinaldi shall not have his boyhood warped by his genius. one journalist she stated that she would never again permit her son to conduct, since he could not excruise sufficient con- trol at the head of a body of adult musicians. Even his composing is to be kept in check lest it should interfere with his health and normal development. Up to the present time the prodigy has re- mained much as other boys, except for his musical talent. He is neither shy nor bolti, though given much to fits of reverie, in which he neither sces or hears the world about him.
GREY HAIR
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A reverence for grey hair has long been considered seemly and right: Mr. Justice McCardie bas just given age fresh com fort. Not only on moral, but on esthetic The grounds, he respects. grey hair. matter arose in the ease of a lady who thought that she preferred on her owo head a liveller colour, and therefore, em- ployed a dye. Upon which the Judge was moved to confess: "I like to see a little grey in a woman's hair," and, further examining the gentle sensations of his own amtare, explained that the little charm to a ** sccined to give a grey woman's head which appeals to mady men. Into this fascinating realm of speculation he tried to allure learned counsel, but the catious advocate would not be tempted. So long as we have hair at all, one of us are happy." be said curtly. We regret the egotism of this answer. After all, nobody had sug gested that grey hair, or any hair, would fend charm to a barrister's hand. It was counsel's emotional experience with the fairer sex that was required. Mr. Justice McCardie will certainly have the support of many men who have found womcr more attractive, and even more beautiful, after the silver, to take the Sophoclean phrase. In these was scattered in their hair. matters there can be, eveu for the Reich, no judgment on general principles. Every woman, we may fancy, would prefer that her hair should never show a trace of grey, But it is sufficiently well known that many, women have looked their best, and iven entirely aware of that fact. "after their heads were white. Tradition, to be sure, demands of grey hair a cer tain solemnity. The earlier world assum ed that greyness was at best the begin ning of the end. But our expectation of life is so far extended that there seems no deinito relation between grey hair and“
One historic fact which ap ports Mr. Justice MeCardie's opinions on feminine beauty must be quoted in his support. During the greater part of the eighteenth century all the fine ladies in Western Europe wore their hair grey. Why they chose to powder their tresses it is an vain to ask as why at otlier dates they wore crinolincs, or chignons, or farthingales, or wimples Powder was the fashion. We dare not say that they chose it because they thought grey hair beautiful, for this is to assume a logic in the matter of which there is no evidence. But Burely most of them must at least have thought themselves not spoilt by grey hair. And as we look at the pur- truits of the age of the Pompadour, we may agree with them. At any rate, nothing less than the French Bevolution ayailed to banish powder and pomatum from their fair bends-Daily Telegraph,
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