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Musical Courier 1928-05-10: Vol 96 Iss 19, 1928
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1Music and the Movies
3High Lights of the Week
4When Drums of Love comes to an end this Friday, Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr., goes into the Rialto. Following that, Emil Janings in The Street of Sin will be the next attraction.
6Harold Lloyd, in Speedy, is going so well at the Rivoli that the date of Romona's showing is as yet indefinite.
8Beginning May 12, Paul Ash, Chicago "Jazz King," will make his New York debut at Paramount.
10The Trail of '98 recently reached its 100th performance. The new version of the Grand Street Follies opens May 24. After more than a year's research and preparation, Warner Brothers' long heralded film version of Noah's Ark, starring Dolores Costello and her sister, Helene, has been started.
12Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer has been awarded the highest rating of the year in Motion Picture News Box-Office Check-Up.
14Mark Strand
15While there is a fairly good surrounding bill at the Mark Strand Theater this week, the picture, The Big Noise, offers the most enjoyment. In it one finds jovial Chester Conklin with his comic mustache and eye-glasses going through all the daily dozens as a sub-way guard in the rush hours, and provides many a good laugh. He is assisted by Sam Hardy and Alice White.
17Capitol
18For the second week, Ramon Novarro, in Across to Singapore, is being shown as the Capitol all this week. Leap Year Fancies, the Boris Petroff Revue, is also held over, while Hal Sherman, late of the Music Box Revue, is new.
20Roxy's
21There is plenty of color and dash in Roxy's fare this week, with an entertaining program picture for good measure. The adventurous Roxy has even innovated an illustrated overture. While his fine and large orchestra boomed forth Tchaikowsky's 1812 overture, the ensemble made its way down the famous staircase to the stage, and an effective tableau, Napoleon's shadow, and the burning of Moscow told the story in movie fashion which Tchaikowsky had told in his effective music. And Joyce Coles has her share in a charming ballet number. There is the Marseillaise in tableau, too, and concerted ballet numbers, together with some remarkably fine step dances by the Roxyettes. The picture? It is called the Escape, and deals with gangsters, East Side cabaret, bootleggers, "Him and Her." Crooks in films are the vogue just now, and besides being fashionable, The Escape has a story which holds interest, and Virginia Valli, who is always good to look at. William Russell, who disappears for years at a time, is in Escape, and George Meeker, among others.
23The prize piece of the show, we think, is Robert Benchley's movietone speech. It is called, The Treasurer's Report, but that does not matter. The speech is a bit of perfect wit, and Mr. Benchley can match with the funniest of the shadow comedians.
25Paramount
26This week the first R. H. Burnside production, Krazy Kabaret, is a part of Paramount's bill. Offering much to please, it is a typical Burnside act in which Al Mitchell and the Paramount Stage Band participate. Mrs. Crawford, who in the minds of many is as talented as her husband, features Ramona this week and walks off with a large share of the honors. The picture is Richard Dix in Easy Come, Easy Go, based on Owen Davis' play, which enjoyed a successful run here.
28JOSEPHINE VILA.
30Artists Everywhere
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32of Don Regas and two of Dr. Walter Grigaitis assisted the artists. Violet Crandall was the accompanist.
34Rudolph Reuter, pianist, has completed a short tour of Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, returning to his headquarters in Chicago in time for his third appearance there this season. He assisted the Gordon String Quartet in the presentation of Schubert's Forellen Quintet on April 8, at Simpson Hall, Chicago. The same ensemble played the Schubert work last season in Indianapolis before a large audience. Mr. Reuter will leave for his California summer classes in July.
36Emily Roosevelt has been engaged as soloist at the Third Church of Christ Scientist, Park Avenue, New York City. This is one of the finest church positions in New York. The singer recently left on an extended tour which starts with the Handel and Haydn Society, of Boston, and ends in Kansas City. She appeared at Music Hall, Troy, N. Y., on April 18, leaving that night for a tour of the Middle West. In addition to oratorio and concert engagements Miss Roosevelt is filling the role of Aida in Clarence Cramer's production with the Festival Opera Company.
38Alfredo San Malo, Latin-American violinist, will tour the Pacific Coast before sailing for South America, where he is to give a series of concerts during the early summer. After that he will go to France but will return to New York in October for his third season in this country.
40Smallman's A-Cappella Choir of Los Angeles recently gave Percy Grainger's setting of a poem from Kipling's Jungle Book, entitled Morning Song in a Jungle. The work created favorable comment, the various Los Angeles papers speaking of it as one of the most interesting of Grainger's smaller works. It was characterized as hauntingly beautiful with poignant harmonization.
42Ethelynne Smith, soprano, continues to receive praise from the critics wherever she appears in recital. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, Colo., Miss Smith captivated her audience when she sang in that city. "Exceeding by far the laudatory praises that had preceded her, Ethelynne Smith, famed soprano, thrilled a large audience at the Centennial Auditorium last night with her beautiful voice. Demonstrating perfect voice control and handling the most difficulties with ease, Miss Smith invested with new meaning and beauty her Songs of Many Nations program."
44Walter Spry's recent Easter song, Awake Thou That Sleepest, has exhausted the first edition and the second edition is now ready. This composition may be used for any festival occasion and is well liked by singers. Another song from the pen of this Chicago pianist, pedagog and composer, a composition called A Barneget Love Song, is proving popular and is being featured on the programs of Arthur Kraft, American tenor.
46Ralf Leech Sterner presented Antoinette Klein, Gladys Mushett, sopranos, and Carl Smith, tenor, as new singers at the April 19 concert of the N. Y. School of Music and Arts. Miss Klein sang Robin's Song, by White, beautifully; Miss Mushett sang Rose in the Bud with splendid dramatic soprano voice, and Mr. Smith was heard in Now Blooms the Crimson Petal, with fine effect. Franklyn McAfee, organist, played Yon's Hymn of Glory so well that the organ sounded almost orchestral. Alice Rosenfield and Raul Barragan, pianists, also contributed much to the affair.
48Marie Sundelius appeared in two performances of Dubois' The Seven Last Words of Christ, in San Antonio, Tex., on April 6 (Good Friday), and on April 20 she sang in Scarsdale, N. Y.
50Veronica Swiegart, contralto soloist in the recent performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater, given in Trenton, N. J., under the direction of S. Wesley Sears, was selected by the Trenton Times critic for special mention—in his review of the event. He stated that she did exceptionally fine work and that her solo near the conclusion of the oratorio was one of the most delightful portions of the entire work.
52Helen Thomas, soprano, gave a recital at Essex County Country Club, East Orange, N. J., and at Steinway Hall, New York, for the Musicians' Society. On April 14 she sang over station WPG.
54George Engles' New Appointment
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56and hear it at the same time. And, as Mr. Engles puts it, people will always go to the concert hall; the radio cannot replace it. People like to get together. They like to become personally acquainted with what has to them only been a voice. He tells a story to illustrate this:
58Damrosch conducted a concert somewhere outside of New York where his face was not familiar to the general public. His voice was. Somewhere in this program the spirit moved him to make one of his instructive explanations of the music about to be played—just as he does over the air. And the moment he spoke his first word there was a tremendous burst of applause and the astonished Damrosch had to stand there while he—or rather his familiar and much loved voice—was tendered an ovation.
60And so Mr. Engles will make radio artists familiar to the concert-going public, and his influence will improve the standard of the radio artists as well.
62Philadelphia Praises Althouse's Canio
63Paul Althouse appeared as Canio in a performance of Pagliacci, given by the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company recently. His audience, as might be expected, greeted his singing with the same hearty applause that is accorded this tenor wherever he goes. The press, likewise, was enthusiastic. "Mr. Althouse," stated the Philadelphia Inquirer, "was at the top of his form in Canio and one hardly missed Caruso in the 'Ridi, ridi, Pagliaccio.'" According to the Public Ledger, he "gave the best interpretation of Canio he has ever done in this city (Philadelphia) and one which compared favorably with any performance given here for a long time."
65Josephine Forsyth Married
66Josephine Forsyth, soprano, was married on April 29 to Philip A. Myers, president of the F. E. Myers & Bro., pump manufacturers of Ashland, Ohio, and a well known inventor. The marriage took place at the Magnolias, the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Robison, at Irvington on the Hudson.
68Pasquale Amato Recovering from Operation
69Pasquale Amato, the noted baritone, is rapidly recovering from an operation and will resume his activities as singer and pedagogue toward the end of the month. He plans to remain in New York during the entire summer.
71"It is a splendid song and I expect to use it on my concert programs."
72LAWRENCE TIBBETT.
73LOVE'S MAGIC
74Song by FRANK H. GREY
75(2 keys) Price 40 cents
76White-Smith Music Publishing Co.
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