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2 Table of Uontent s The PROGRAM and MAGAZINE of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
VOL. XLIJI, 0. 3 Dl~ EMBER, 1939
FRONTISPIECE: "Todd's Head, Eastport, Maine," by John R. Koopman 4 }ASCHA HEIFETZ, by Deems Taylor 5 THE ORCHESTRA oF THE .!'\ EW FRIENDS oF Musrc 7 THE BuDAPEST QuARTET 8 NIGHTINGALE A D TUE BuLL (Emanuel Feuermann) 9 STORY OF A STATE MAN (Alfred Duff Cooper) 10
LEcTURE NoTES: Americans All (Louis Adamic) 11 Dean of Radio ews (H. V. KalLenborn ) 11 American Cooperatives (H elen Buckler) 11 Siege of Warsaw (Julien Bryan) 13 YouNG PEOPLE's NoTES: Alice in Wonderland (Miriam Marmein) Pocahontas (Clare Tree 1ajor Compan))
SY 1PIIO Y OF CoLOR (Thomas Wilfred ) 15 I 'STITUTE MEMBER HIP 16 Programs for Period of December lst to L!th inclusive 18
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
EowAR)) C. BLUM, Chairma~t of the Board }AMES G. l\fcDoNAI o, Pres1de~tt
TilE lNSTlTUTE AT TilE 30 Lafayette Avenue TilE BROOKLY ACADEMY OF MUSl C B rook lyn ACADDlY OF l\l lJS IC JuliUS BLOO M . Associate Di•·cctor STerling 3 6700 II ERHERT T. SIIDI .llauaqinq Suj1 crilltcudcut AD\"ERTISING OFl~ICES SIGM UNO GOTTLODER, 258 Fifth Avenue, New York City, or 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn CAledonia 5·6690 STerling 3·6700 WALTER H. MORIN Cover !Jrsirn• by FREDA HovcE Prodl 3 TODD' HEAD, EASTPORT, MAl E (WATER COLOR) John R. Koopman This is the third m a senes of reproductions of works by tn· structors m the Institute's art and photography extension courses. the moon, and is well on the first l_eg of a third. Ievertheless, his career, stnpped to its essentials, has inevitably been one JASCHA HEIFETZ of : practice-travel - rehearse- play sleep, repealed, with slight variations, by year after year, for thirty-one years. The important things about him are not DEEMS TAYLOR "where ha he been and how did he gel there?" so much as "what has he done and who is he?" EARS ago, when portable typewriters You kn ow the short and simple an Y were more of a novelty than they are swer to the first ques tion. He has played now, I carried one with me to France. th e fiddle; played it in a manner that On the way over, I showed it one day to few men, living or dead, have ever the ship's purser, who had never before equaled. Ranking artists is a illy busi seen one. He examined it admiringly, ex ness, and " the greates t in the world" is claimed over its lightnes and compact nothing more, in the last analysis, than nes , and finally relinquished it with a the expression of somebody's opinion. sigh, remarking regretfully, "But, of But as far back as that fabulous twenty course, Monsieur, such a machine would seventh of October in 1917, when a slen be of little use to me. I never go any der, seventee n- year-old Russian boy ftrsl where !" stepped on the stage of New York's Car negie Hall, we all knew that th e ranks of I thought of that ill(:id ent when Hei the living masters of the violin had re fetz and I were discussing thi sketch. ceived another recruit. "What about th e biographical part of The mos t obvious aspect of hi play it?" I asked . ing was, and still is, his incredible tech " I wi sh yo u'd keep it short," he an nical master y, a mastery so complete th at wcred. "Just make it: 'Born in Russia, th e lay listener becomes unconscious of first lessons at three, debut in Russia at it. It Lakes another violinist, I think, even, debut in America in 1917.' That's fully lo appreciate Heifetz's technique, all there is to say, really. About two just as it takes an engineer to appreciate lines." th e silent perfection of a smoothly run And so, obediently, I give you Jascha ning piece of machinery. He i one of Heifetz's autobiography, exactly as dic the comparatively few mu ical artists, tated. In a way, he is right. That is even among the great ones, who can be about all th ere is to say. A man can described, so mewh at inaclequatcl y, as run away to sea at an ea rly age, work "safe," th e master craftsmen upon whom as a cook in a lumber ca mp , serve with you can rely to accomplish, completel y, th e F'oreign Legion, boss a railroad con whatever they set out to do. Once in a struction gang, and fin ally emerge as a '\hile you run across a sin ger to whom fir L-rale novelist. Mo L assuredly he you ca n listen without wondering whether will never end up as a great violinist. or not he i goin g to manage that tricky I o concert arti L can aflord th e sort of chromati c pa sage or whether he is go perso nal life that makes melodramatic ing to hit that high B-Oat ; a pi anis t upon reading for th e layman. Heifetz, who, whom ) ou ca n count not to mufT th at like so many musicians, i fond of fi gur run in third ; a horn player "ho. ) ou ing, will tell yo u that up to now he ha know, isn't goin g Lo blow a bubble at pent upwards of 66,000 hours about th e end of Sieg fri ed's fanfare. two-fifths of his waking life in playing lfc if etz is one of th ose. You may d if th e violin. In th e course of spending fer with his interpretation of a given them he ha bee n around th e world four piece of mu sic, hut so far as conce rn s his Lim e and ha pla) ed in almos t every ability to play it , yo u can sc LLl c hack in ('Ountry on th e fa ce of th e g lobe; at )Our scat "ithoul misgi,ing. You can thi rly-cight, he has alrcad) trm cled a co unt on th e cqstal purity of hi · into distance equivalent to two round trips to nation, th e perfection of hi harmonic , 5 the evennes of hi Lone , and th e dazzling surely of his bowin rr . l Ic "ill JlC\ er let ) ou down . ot that this technique of his ai!ect everyone alike. There is a tor y con BURTON nec ted with hi · ew York debut. Sin ce it i a true story, I shall supprc.s the names of th e principals, relating merel HOLMES that sitting in a box at that drbut recital were a " odd-famous pianist and an Dean of World Travelers equally famous 'iolinist. As the program progressed the \iolinist began to show signs of distress. The longer Heifetz FIVE LECTURES p la) eel the more u nco mfortalle his lis ILLUSTRATED WITH FILMS tener became. Finally, running his AND LANTERN SLIDES handkerchief around hi s collar, he turned and whispered: " It's awfully hot in here, Thursday, January 11 isn't it?" Upon "hich his compani on remarked, "Friendly FINLAND" simply, "l\ot for pianists." But sheer mechanical pr rfec ti on would never haYe brought Heifetz to the place Thursday, January 18 he occupies in th e " orld of mu ic. There are other great technicians. It is the "A New Kind of use to which he put his technique that WORLD CRUISE" entitles him to the adjec tive "great." The versatility of hi s st) le, the breadth and nobility of his interpretations, are tradi Thursday, January 25 ti onal. The only serious criticism that I have ever heard leveled against his play "Great Little ing (generally by people who had heard him very liule) is that it lacks warmth. HOLLAND" He is too Olympian, too detached, they say ; he touches your head too much, and Thursday, February 1 your heart not enough. I am prelly sure that, in p art at least, "A New that opinion has a subconscious physical MEDITERRANEAN basis. People are childish} y dependent upon visual impressions, and, watching Odyssey" Heifetz, they mi ght easily confuse the sound o:f the playing with the appearance of the player. And Heifetz is the least Thursday, February 8 demonstrative of any concert artist I know. Even am ong his fri end s, although "More About he laughs readily, curiously enough he SWEDEN" eldom smiles. On the platform, ; lm os t never. His altitude to his listeners is one of perfect, unsmiling courtesy, and 8:15 p.m. in the Music Hall when he plays he does so with such com plete absorption in the music that, look RESERVATIONS FOR THE SERIES ing at his remote, almost mask-like face, MAY NOW BE MADE AT THE one might make the mistake of thinking, INSTITUTE BOX OFFICE "here is a cold man." MEMBERS: $2.00, $3.00 It is not coldness. What it is- hut let OTHERS : $3.50, $5.00 me come to that later. \Vh eth er or not (Continued on page 27) 6 The Orchestra of the New Friends of ~fusic T O present the orchc Lr al music of th e cenlur) 11 ith uperb e[ ecl. Yet their per eigh teenth century is no ea y task. formances are very seldom authentic re There were as many different orches tras creation of the masters. The trouble is as there were composer . The reperlor) not primaril) with the size of the sym of instruments was nol fi xed ; rather it phon) orchestra. Tt is a matter of pro was a variable as Renaissance spelling. portion rather th an multiplicati on: it is In fact, not until the Lim e of Ha) dn can a maller of securing the proper weight anything resembling a " ft xed orches tra·· in g o f string, \\ Ooch1ind, and brass. And be said lo exist. And lla) d n remarked again . th ere is the additional difficulty of in the winter of his life, '"1 hm e onl) just replac in g th e obsolete instrument, and of learned in m y old age Lo use '' oodwinds. securing the parlicu lar ''orchestra" and now that I do understand them I which the compo cr used for Lh aL compo must leave the world." si Li on. Before the composer could p ay allen· In order Lo present the m a nifold mu ic Lion lo the color, shading, and contrast of th e eighteenth century in its authentic of instruments, he had lo recognize their form, th e .\ew Friends of Music formed p ersonality, the p eculiar role each played Lh ei r 0 11 n orchestra last season. Wi Lh oul or could play. J\aturally, this was only any fanfare, without the subsidie of a pos ible when th e in lrumcnl had fought " ealth) p atronage and without the Ya t their baule for existence, in which the ad vcrlisi ng th at 'realth aff ords, the ew uperior musical organisms crowded out Friend quietly planned their new kind of those more unworLh). The Yi olin, for ex oreheslra for A merica. They invited a ample, was only universally admitted director Dr. Fritz Sti edry, who had into an orchestral co mpositi on when the gained an intern ati onal reputation in Cremonese violi n-m akers demonstrated Eu rope as a conductor of S)mphon) and it superiority over the older viol. l\ ol operati c orchc Lr as. Dr. Sti cdq selected until the nineteenth ce nLuq , when the the mu icians, trained th em. a nd the new mythi cal battle of existence was fought organiza ti on g radually look form. It out, does the modern )mphony o rchestra m ade its debut last season, 11ith a per emerge, with its fi xed range of instru sonnel ra nging from thirL ) -L1r o Lo fo t'L y ments and mu icians. pla) ers, according Lo the dema nd s o[ the The great contemporary conductors composition Lo be performed. Jn its have p layed the music of the eighteenth Y car One, it performed the enLi rc C) cle T h e orch estra o f the New Frientls u/ M It sic, cO tl(lttcLPd b,· Dr. 8 tiPdry . of Brandenburg Cone rtos by Johann e ba tian Bach. Another o fi ering. of hi s toric importance, was the performance for the first time in America of th e "lost" S) mphonies of Haydn, edited by the well known musicologist, Dr. Alfred Einstein. ln all their performances they showed th e utmost regard for the composer's in strumentation. Tim , they had co n structed a clm·ino, a trumpet pitched an octave higher than the modern in tru menl, to fulftl the role that Bach had gi ' en it in hi Second Brandenburg Con The Budapest Quartet certo. Dr. Ein tein assisted them in se curin g the proper in lrumenlation for wo violins, a viola and a 'cello - the Haydn symphonies. The programs, Twhen they are played togeth er by arranged by Hortense Monath, concert master musicians- do not make four in pianist and specialist in the music of the strumen ts; they make a new instrument eighteenth cenluq, were ma terpieces of of sixteen strings and music that is a wise and loving musicianship. fluid organism of sound. The members "That unique, beneficent, and a lonish of the Budape l String Quartet are just ingly successful or~aniza li on," the late such musician . They are players of ex Lawrence Gilman called the :\ew Friends' traordinary merit, who have preferred Orchestra. Its first sea on has amply ful the anon) mil y of ensemble performance filled th e expectations of the founders. to the individual renown that they would Under the direction of Dr. Stiedry it has have gained as soloists. Their repertory become, infant though it is, th e most be is enormous. They know all the music loved of small American orchestras, th e for th e stringed quartet from th e lime of equal of the great European chamber th e Mannheim School to the most ultra orchestras. modern composer. Theirs is a meticu It has been said with considerable lousness of style and impeccable feeling metaphoric truth, "It is not we who re that no other quartet surpasses. Indeed, ' j,·e the masterpieces. It is th e master many cri tics claim that there i no finer piece which revive us." The Orchestra chamber ensemble. The mu ic critic of of the ew Friends of Music confirms The New York Tinws has wriuen, "One thi paradox. They communicate the always dreams of playing like this where amazing vitality that is the work of Mo in the living music grows before the ears zart, Haydn, and Bach to a grateful and like Lh e unfolding of some complex appreciative public. With Hortense Mo plant, following its own inward laws of nalh as soloist, they will help make De exfoliation, but one rarely hears iL.'. cember a gloriously musical holiday The Budape l Quartel will play at the In month at the Institute. sLiLule on Monday evening, December ll. Dwellings of Distinction 20th SEASON-1939- 1940 Fireproof B~tildings Maurice Schwartz' Pe1 sonal Service PRODUCTION OF 47 PLAZA ST. Sto 9Rooms Main E11tra11ce Prospect Park SA LVATION 101 LAFAYETTE AVENUE by SHOLEM ASCH At South O.>:ford Street -Complete English Synopsis- 1 to 5 Rooms 99 LAFAYETTE AVENUE Yiddish Art Theatre 2 V2 ahd 3 Rooms 7th Ave. at 59th St. Circle 6· 1730 Every Evenin g (Incl. Sun.) at 8:30 MANAGEMENT-JACOB MARK Matinees Sat. and Sun. at 2:30 STerling 3-2184 BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN 8 Nightingale and the Bull Horv sweet soug can sprin g front the uwssive violoucello is n secret Em anuel Feuer11wrut sh ares with ferv con tem poraries, for 'cello vir tuosi are rare. HE 'cello is a most difficult i nstru sonality he is the merrie t of person , ex Tment to master_ It requires not only uberantly fond of American life, cook very great talent, but an equal amount ing, and slang. He is proud of h'is of p a tience. For these rea ons one of petit bourgeois home at Scarsdale, and th e greatest of livin ~ 'cellist , Emanuel he ca n be seen on su mm er evening in the Feuermann has said, " There are no bad democratic task o ( mowing the lawn. He 'cellists." \Vhat he means is clear is also th e proud possessor of one child. enough: if the pupil is not uffi ciently Monica. Hi interests extend through all talented he will soo n lose hi s temper ; th e m·enu es o f ordinary living, but with if he is talented enough to continue, he a fen or th at i not at a 1l ordina ry. will be a very fin e player indeed. But in Born in K olomea, Galicia, Emanuel spite of this, perhaps because of this, Feuermann learned the language o f the there are very few excellent 'cellists at 'cello almost as soon as he learned to large. The li,·ing master ca n be counted speak. Hi father was himself a gift ed on one hand, and in C\ er y age there have 'cellist and, when the child was strong not been ,-ery many. enough to pluck the thick string , gave Emanuel Feuermann i a pla)er of the him his frrst lesso ns. Emanuel wa a real same quality as the famou s Duport, to child prodigy. The g reat Julius Klcngel, whom Voltaire said, " You make me be mo t famou yi rtuoso of the time, accepted lieve in miracles. You kn ow how to him as a pupil. And at the age of eleven make a nightingale out of a bull." Al he made his debut as gues t oloist "·ith most as tough to tame as a bu II , and the Vienna ) tnphony Orches tra. When requiring a much strength o f will as of he was only sixteen years old hP was muscle, the 'cello has become in th e appointed professor o f the ·cello in the hands of Emanuel Fcucrmann a truly Cologne ConserYalory of Music. hemenl y instrument, singin g with the There are many disad, an lages to br voices of angels and unea rth!) creatures. in g a child prodig). The worst of th rm Five )Cars ago, as gues t soloist with the is that it becomes o easy to remain onr, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. and never mature. There was a period Fcuermann first demonstrated his virtu in his young life when he almost suc osity, startling the audience with his bril cumbed to prai, e. He has confe sed in liance of technique and interpretation, puhlir, "eveq body told me h ow won and confirming the European reputation derful T was, and it had a bad c flcrl. T which had preceded him. Jn the year pia) eel wor~e and worse and at last l wa. that have passed he has given innumer able recitals, teaching the public to li sten pretty awful." But he suni, ecl his pro with new wisdom to 'cello playing. Un digious 'anity, and rose at last to arti sti c der his adept fin gering the in . trument ha. ma nhood with a humilit) that he h a~ become exquisitely varied, th e Sy mpa never abandoned. thetic interpreter of every emotion. Last srason, Emanuel Fr uermann Th i short, round-facrd man, sti ll in pla)ccl at th e Institute a nd "a" tumultu hi s early thirtic., is without the divided ous]) apprO\rcl. llr i returning in rr allcgiancPs of so man) artists. llis art cital b) popular request on Monda) C\ e i. a. intimate a part of him as his eye. ning. Drcrmber tJ,, gi ,·ing the fourth pro To his art he is dr , otcd \1 ith th e utmost g ram of th r series, "Music and th e humility. Outside his profes ional per- Dance." 9 Story o[ a I Statesman ~ ATUH.DAY, Octol,rr 1, 1938: it was Sa da) of jubilati on for F.urope. On Sunda) , th e papers wrre full of p hoto gr aphs celebra; ing Chamberl ain, Dala dier, lussolini. and Hiller. The Prime Minister of E ngla nd co uld he seen rais Alfred Duff Cooper ing hi s hal in amm cr Lo th e chee rs of a Berchtesgaden cro\\ d. 1ussolini could be see n gla ring out, " Ilal) has chosen democ raC) . Wh o wa s Alfre d Duff her position in th e E uropea n cri sis," Cooper, a man for wh om the headlines (and e1 eq one knew "hal he meant) . had shown no special allraction in the Catastrophe had been a1 crtcd al last, and past? th e Muni ch plan \\ Ould he followed- in He was born in th e last decade of the sp irit if not in lcuer. nineteenth ce ntury, heir to th e traditions But was th e rejoic in g, e1en in high of England 's most noble families. At places, una nimou::- '? The same papers Oxfo rd he had been an honor tudent in carri ed a signi fi eanl headline : " FlRST modern histor) ; he had fought in the LORD QUIT S BRITISH ADMTRALT). World \Var, "·inning the D. S. 0. for The First Lord o[ th e AdmiralL ) resigned heroism in action. In 1924 he entered from th e Bri ti sh Cabinet toda) in pro th e House of Commons, where his causti c Lest against the 'peace for our Lim e' set wi L, his fen enl eloquence, and his mas tlement th at Prime M inister .\e\'ille Lcq of go\'crnmenl allracted immediate Cham b rlain reached 11 i th Chancellor notice. lie had been selected b y reville Adolf Hitler at Munich." And in his Chamberlain for the War Ministry, in letter of resignation, written that same which position he laid the groundwork day, Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of for the reforms that H ore-Beli ha was to th e Admiralty, wrote, " I profoundly dis carry out. As First Lord of the Ad trust th e foreign policy whi ch this gov miralty he co ntinued the task of prep ar ernmen t is pursuing and seems likely to ing England for any eventuality. pursue." ' In a speech to the House of Comm ons For fe\ eral years Mr. Cooper had been explaining his resignation he said , " We demanding a firm foreign poli cy. In guarantee a fronti er (Czechoslovakia) we ] 936 he had said to a French audience, ha\ e al th e same lime destroyed. . . . " Your frontiers arc our fr onti er ." In Throughout th ese cl ays th e Prime Min that ) ear he also said , not once but man) ister ha believed in addressing Herr Hit tim e:;;, "The stale of afi airs in Europe ler through th e language of sweet reaso n toda) is worse th an in 19 11 .'' ableness. I beli eved he was more open He now ques ti oned 1 en th e legality of to th e language of th e mailed fi st. .. - th e Munich document: Chamberlain's Sure!) th e House will be agreed th at right to sign away, without co nsulting foreign afi airs cannot be co ntinued on his Cabinet, the foreign p oli cy of a great the basis of land and deliver. .. . I have 10 given up the office I loved, perhaps Mr. Adamic believes that the present ruined my political career. I have re must be resolved into a truly spiritual tained something of great value to me. ''nation of nations," in which there are I can still walk about the world with my no longer "numerou racial, class, and head erect. " cultural i lands surrounded by vague The German press did not like this seas." The American goal, its genuine speech ; they cared not at all for the ora manifest destiny, is no longer to serve a Lor. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitzmg a reservoir for the overOow of European damned Mr. Cooper for hinting that Herr populations, but to integrate the Euro Hitler would not keep his word. A few pean cu ltures into something distincti,•ely days later Herr Hitler himself said, "It American. makes one's hair stand on end to ob Mr. Adamic is himself a "\ew Ameri serve how some people can distort the can." He left his natiYe Yugoslm ia at truth." When Ernst vom Rath was as the age of fourteen to come to this coun sassinated, the Angri/J called Mr. Cooper try. He ha drifted all about the con an instigator of the plot, a practice that tinent, working in mills, on docks, in fac has come to be associated with I azi tories, and in restaurants. His first ar statesmanship. ticle was accepted by H. L. Mencken Today the policies of Alfred Dufl when he was working as stevedore in an Cooper are completely vindicated by the Pedro. course of events. He will most likely be a member of the next Cabinet, if, indeed, Dean of Radio News. Those who he is not its Prime Mini ler. heard H. V. Kaltenborn broadcast from Creal historian as well as statesman Europe the march of events toward " ar he is the biographer of the "difficult will not soon forget the ace reporting o[ time " of Haig and Talleyrand- Alfred this dean of radio commentators. llis Duff Cooper will address the Institute analysis of the news is marked by un audience on ·wednesday evening, Decem usual sobriety, a concern for fact, and ber 13. He will discu s "The Surviva l a sympatheti c knowledge of th e many of Liberty," and its definition in thought factors that determine current hi toq. and ar:tion. James G. McDonald, Presi Two ) cars ago he was the recipient of the dent of th e Brooklyn Institute of Arts Gold Medal of the Headliners' Club for and Sciences, will be chairman of the hi broadcast of a baLLle in the Span ish even mg. Civil War. If there is an) likelihood of such a broadca L in the present World War, th ere is no doubt that Mr. Kalten born will make it. In addition to his Lecture Notes acll ' 1L1 e in radio and on the lecture Americans All. There are some thirty platform, he has recently made his debut million Americans, immigrants or sons in th e movies. The role he plays i him of immigrants. Their national shrine is, self, being the radio commentator in "Mr. of cour e, not Plymouth Rock but Ellis Smith Goes to Washington." Mr. Kalten I land. They suffer from many kinds of born will deliver his first lnstitule le - exclu ion; yet in spite of di crimination lure o[ the season on Sunday afternoon, in work, in "society," and e\·en at pla), December l 0. th ey have made manifold contributions to American life and culture. Their own American CoOJleralives. The cooper lives are often difficult; more difficult atives of the Scandinavian countrie hm e than th eir names. In two generations attracted more than th eir proper share th ey will form, together with other non of allention. In Creal Britain one out of Anglo-Saxon people , over half of th e eve ry three familic are members of a "l population. cooperati, e. In France the proportion is The problem of the e new Americans somewhat smaller. In every European .l will be discussed on Monday evening, country that is free of dictatorship, the n December 18, by Louis Adam ic, author coopcrati\ e i a silent but efiective in e of The Native's Return and 11 /y America. strument of progre s. II the movement ll TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR THESE PROGRAMS EMANUEL FEUERMANN CELEBRATED AUSTRIAN 'CELUST. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 ~· Reserved Seats- Institute Members: $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 Others: $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 THE NEW FRIENDS of MUSIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY FRITZ STIEDRY HORTENSE MONATH, PIANO SOLOIST WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20 Reserved Seats- Institute Members: $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 Others: $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 JASCHA HEIFETZ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3 Reserved Seals- lnstilule Members : $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 Others : $1.50, $2, $2. 50, $3 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor SECOND CONCERT FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 Reserved Seats- .'] .25, $1.50, $] .75, . '2.25, '2.75 THE JOOSS BALLET NEW REPERTORY TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 Reserved Seals- Institute Members: $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 Others : $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 EVENINGS AT 8:30 O'CLOCK IN THE OPERA HOUSE 12 IS still in its infancy in orth America, it can nevertheless point to significant achievements. Helen Buckler, former staff writer for The Nation and The Paris Times, will discuss certain American co operatives in two lec tures. Miss Buck ler's first lec ture, " Iova Scotia Goes Co operative," on Friday afternoon, Decem ber 8, is her personal record of adven- 'i Lure among poverty-stricken communities, almo t enlirel y on relief. With pennies saved from their tiny relief checks, Iova Scotia farmers and fisherfolk, miners and teel workers, united to form their own cooperatives. They have lifted them- elves out of poverty, gaining living con ditions far better than they had before the depression. Siege of Warsaw. Julien Bryan was vacationing in Venice when word reached him of the German advance into Poland. KATHARINE HEPBURN, He immediately entrai ned for Warsaw, now appearing in the Theatre Guild produdion of Philip Barry's comedy, arriving there two day after all corre "The Philadelphia Story," spondents and photographers had been at the Shubert Theatre. evacuated. He remained in Warsaw un til Sep tember 21, when a tw o- hour armis tice enabled him to escape through the German lines. He somehow managed YOUR HEALTH to elude military cen ors and to keep Daytime Classes intact hi pictorial record of the siege of both morning and afternoon in Poland's capital. It i th e only docu Reducing - Limbering - Individual ment of that heroic city' iege in exis Exercise · Massage tence. He will present th ese uncensored Swimming lessons and dips 'iew of the agony of a great city on Special 4:15 p.m. classes for teachers Thursday evening, December 21. The CENTRAL BRANCH YWCA tragic face of Poland is here seen, 30 Third Avenue bombed to bits of anonymous bone that Brooklyn. New York City once were children, farmers, combatants, TRiangle 5-1190 and non-combatants, all indiscriminately slaughtered. To contras t the horrible scener) of modern warfare, Mr. Bryan wi ll al o present ftlm of Poland and the kraine taken in 1936. The tragic irony !p~bVr~r~ ~ MU S I C bargain prices . of hi lory is vividly reviewed as Poland's (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Wagner, etc.), playable on any phonograph. Original imports armies parade before General Smigley cost $1.50 to $2.50 each. American duplicates only SOc and 75c. Send for R) dz, who had just been appointed su FREE catalogue containing thousands of selections. preme Marshal of Poland. The Gramophone Shop, 18 E. 48th St., New York 'fhe Brevoort Savings Bank of Brooklyn Founded 1892 Fuhon Street Ncar Nostrand Avenue 13 Young People's Notes Alice in Wonderland. There are a great many way of gelling to Wonder land . It wa a white rabbit wh o lead A lice there. he was, according to Lewi Carroll, silting on the bank of a river. She was also pondering "whether th e pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of gelling up and picking th e daisies, when uddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close b y her." That white rabbit, who spoke the bes t of English, wa the initiator of a famous journey underground, a journey much more interesting to children than THE BROOKLYN Dante's or Virgil's. On Saturday after noon, December 2, Miriam Marmein, cel ebrated dance mime, together with her SAVINGS BANK concert group, will present a ballet ver· CliNTON &PIERREPONT STS. sion of "Alice in Wond erland." In th e (Also Entrance at 300 Fulton Street) course of a comparati vely short time, Miss Marmein has become recognized as rheO!tkslkfulualSonhg.rlloJd an outstanding ballerina as well as a dance mime who th oroughly understands 1i1 /Jr(J(IJ#n-Establi.rhed /927 th e psychology of laughter. She will present a mo t amusing tiptoe Alice, sur· rounded by the fabulous White Rabbit, th e Duchess and her wh eezy sneezy cook, and all th e res t of Wonderland's queer populati on. " Fanciful Folk Fables," a variety pantomime program of generous fantasy and humor, will conclude the af Highly Styled ternoon' entertai nmen t. Pocahontas. Poets and children have Dresses at loved Pocahonta for several ce nturies. The favorite chapters in the life of the Moderate beautiful Indian princess will be pre· enled by th e Clare Tree Maj or Chil dren's Theater Company on Saturday af· Prices Lernoon, December 16. Of course, Cap· Lain John Smith will have to be saved all over aga in . But th ere are oth er episo des, • not so well known but equally enter taining, in the Pocahontas saga. There is The CLAIRE SHOP 1019 Flatbush Avenue OPEN ALL YEAR - Formerly Lewisohn 's Estate near Loew's Kings CENTRAL VALLEY NEW YORK BUckminster 2-9685 40 miles from N. Y. 225 acr es of beautiful Ramapo Mountains. 5 miles of path s. Seasonal Sports, Riding, Roller Skating. Library, open fireplaces. Con genial atmos ph ere, exc ell ent cuisine. Adults. Tel. : Highland Mills 789 5. Mgt. FANNIE GOLDBERG. 14 th e stor y of King George's gifts of an imposin g four-po ter bed, a court cloak with an ermine train, and a crown and scepter to the father of P ocahontas, Pow hatan. P owhatan imagined th at th e bed was a white man' trap, the crown a fatal engin e, and th e scepter a European toma hawk. He finally gave th e bed to a very grateful girl, and slept in co mfort on the ground. The last cene will naturally have a happy ending, bein g th e wedding of P ocahontas and J ohn Rolfe, with Pow hatan accepting both into his hea rt and tribe. "P ocahontas" will feature Indian ceremonial dances a nd songs under th e direction of Kuruks Pahitu, th e Pawnee Indian wh o entertain ed Kin?; George and Queen Elizabeth at H yde Park. Symphony of Color T UMTA , th e art of light, is th e youngest of all de,·eloped art mediums; upon L JULIE HAYDO N and EDDI E DOWLING a screen there is projected a co nstantly in a scene from "The Tim e of Your Life, " changing array of colors a nd colored W ill iam Sa roya n's gay-mad comedy being forms. The instrument upon which Lu presented at the Booth Th eatre by The mia is " played" is th e cla,·ilux, or '·color Th eatre Guild in associatio n with Eddie Dowling. organ," developed by Thomas Wilfred, its virtuoso. Its keyboard resembles that of an organ but it " sounds" for th e eye al one. Mr. WiHred has de ig ned co mpo- iti ons for his color organ th at are liter The Program ally so ngs of li ght. To allend one of his and Magazine recitals is to p artake in a new \\ Orld of se nHIOU beauty. The hall is at first of the dark ; th en th e blackn e s fills \1 ith \rhat seems to be an illimitable blue. The blue BROOKLYN pulsates into violet, and colored forms with brilliant contras ting colors are played upon the screen. Mrs. R. Edson ACADEMY DooliLLle has arranged for a party of of Institute members to aLLend one of Mr. Wilfred's unusual recitals, on Wednesda' MUSIC afternoon, December 27. Member s h o ul ~l iJ publiJhed by register and pay th eir fee h) December SIGMUND GOTTLOBER 23 at th e Treasurer's Offi ce. 258 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CAledonia 5-6690 t FREDERICK BRIED A dvertiJing Director : FREDh RoYCE t TEACHER OF PIANO • t l~'o r llcg lnncr and .A rlist [nquiries concerning advertising rates t Technic • I nlcrprctalion • Rcpf't·toit·c should be addressed to the publisher t P r ac· t iC'C Al·ranAt' ments for P tlJ)il s from Othel' ~ la i r!\ THREE PUBLIC RECITALS AT THE BROOKLYN • t ACADEMY OF MUSIC THIS S EASON A.IJO the PubliJher of I Arll ~t l'up·il s H. cc·lta l, !'-lUi H L a y~\ f l (• rn oo n ..J anua ry 2 1, 19 10 STADIUM CONCERTS REVIEW /'or Guest Tickets A /' /'f y Secretary: t THE FREDERIC!< BRIED STUDIOS 55 0 East ern Parkway. Broo klyn I 15 IDirr 11~ral ~tft for Qlijrtntman For many years our 111embers have shown their thoughtfulness in giving a holiday gift that bring true plea~- ure the year round. By tnailing the form on this ~"' age, you enable your friends to enjoy the privilege of ~ u~~ ~u~w~~ oo~oorn~L3~oou rP Membership Secretary, • free admission to m ore than 200 lectures on current his The Institute at the Academy of Music , 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. tory, social problems, science, travel, literature, art, and the drama. Kindly send a card to the following, announcing my gift of a year's membership in the Institute: • free admission to frequen t m otion picture programs, music recitals, and round table meetings. 1. Name • free programs for young people : opera, ballet, marionette Address shows, motion pictures, recitals, and illustrated lectures. 2. Name .. • the privilege of bringing a guest free of charge to many of A ddress .. the membership events. I enclose $ at $10 per membership. • reduction in fee for special concerts, addresses, and stage performances. My name ...... 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Ali ce FaJJ g Aslee p ...... Miriam Marmcin 2. Down th e Rabbit llole .. 00 .. .. 00 .. 00 00 .... 00 .. ... A \ ~E E'\SLE 3. Pig and P epper The Du e heRR and her baby ...... E L;GE \ lA F oLD The Cook ...... S HIH LE Y S1\I ES 4. A \lad Tea Party 1 The \l ad !l att er .. 00 ... 00 .... 00 .... 00 00 ... MILDRED 1-:F F The \larch llare .. 00 ...... 00 .. 00 ...... A\ \'E E :-.SLE ~· and The Dormouse 5. Through the Looking Glass ...... Mir·iam Marmein 6. The Red Chess Qu een ...... MILDH ED N EFF 7. Tweedl e Dum and Tweedle Dee .. SJIIHLE\ SI\I ES and LEAil Bn OO KS 8. The Ga rden o[ Li ve Flowers Ti ger-lil y ...... EuGEN IA FoLEY Ro e ...... MILDR ED EFF Daisy ...... ANNE ENSLE ~~ MODEL "51" TRUNK SEDAN $1158-DEL\"~\l 18 FULTON ST . AT HOYT • ~w ~~ Have you seen Gulliver ~~> crJ) 11 Young and old alike are trooping to our 7th Floor Toy Show to see the original Man Mountain, Gulliver, 25 feet tall; to see the pygmies who tried to hold him captive. 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Et CE\ IA l'oL£\ The Kn a\C~ of llea rt s ...... i\1tLDilED NEFF 'J hC' Kin g of II cari~ ...... S IIII!LE \ Sl\tES ll. Alire Awakens ...... M ir·iam Mar·mein • Alice f,tlls a~leep and dreams of a 1\ hit e Rabbit whom she foll ows down a rabbit hole, onl y to m(el th angry Duches" Ioss in g her baby 'iolently up and down. The Ou r hC'ss' rook sl irs a ca ldron of pepper soup which makes e' eryone "neeze and a l,o throws e' el') thing within reach at the Ou ches,. Alice is in an agony of terror for th e baby hut the Du chess advises her to mind her own bu ,; in ess, th en lwn;ls into a loud so ng, at th e end of wl.ich she nin gs the ba by to Alice. who is startl ed to fi nd th at it turn" int o a pig. She is soo n di stracted by th e .\lad I latter and the '\larch J Iare who a re ha vi ng afternoon tea with a sleepin g Dormouse. They are ver y rude lo Alice, asking her r iddles she cann ot answer. suggesting that her hair needs cutting. The \lad llaller butlers hi s watch a nd dips it in hi s lea and tries lo stuff th e Dorm ou:,e into th e teapot, at whi ch Alice leaves thi, mad lea-pa rt y and co mes upon a Loo kin g Cia% that begins lo melt as she approaches. She passes through it int o the look in g-g la ss ruom wh ere things move backward s and where she encounters th e Red Chess Queen who takes her by th e hand and runs fa ster and f a~ l e r until Alice is ex ha usted. To her aslonishmrnl she finds that they are just where they start ed and the Queen ex pl a in h th at it takrs all th e running one can do lo slay in the ~a m e place. Then the Queen start s shouting, wrap, a bandage a round her finger and prick, it with a pin , which is th e way things happen in the looki ng-g la,, world. Alice wander~ on to meet th e fat twins- 20 GREATEST SHOW FOBYOUIMON [\ ANOTHER EDISON BARGAIN ! 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Ethel Vance What Is Liberty'? ...... Dorothy Fosdick Some Verses to Some C ermans ...... john Masefield Metropolitan Opera Guide ...... Edited by Peltz and Lawrence Opera Synopses ...... J. Walker Me padden A Treasury of Art Masterphces ...... Edited by Thomas Craven Tales Be/ore Midnight ...... Stephen Vincent Benet The Spider Strikes ...... l\ 1ichael Innes The lfundredlh Year ...... Philip Cuedalla A Goodly Fellowship ...... Mary Ellen Chase Gunst on Col/on, Secret Airman ...... H.upert Grayson The Best Plaxs of 1938.39 ...... Ed ited by Burns Mantl e Pilgrim's Progress ...... Arranged by E. W. ·walt ers The Changing West ...... Wil li am Allen White How Criminals Are Caugh t ...... Arnold Miles Professor Phelps will also eli cuos the "Pocket Book'' series. BALDWIN- TO DAY'S GREAT PIANO Used ••xclusivl' ly by s ul'h fn mous m· ri sts 11s Bachaus • Bartak • Baue r • Bjoerling • Bori Echaniz • Eisenbe rge r • Ericourt • Gieseking Golschmann • ltu rb i • Kelbe rine • Kipnis • Lhevinne Naegele • Pons • Rosenthal • Schipa • Schmitz • Shure Slenczynski • Szigeti • Tansman • W ittge nstein BALDWIN PIANOS 20 EAST 54th STREET Also Acrosonlc • Hamilton • Howard 26 Jascha Heifetz • (Continued from page 6) his playing touches your heart is a mat ter of what you mean by " heart" Did EIGHTY-NINE you ever hear of "schmalz"? It is a German word, meaning, literally, YEARS "grease," which has long been in the vocabulary of musicians_ (Brahms is said to have used it in voicing his opin OF SERVICE ion of Mendelssohn's music.) They use it to describe singing or playing that in TO sists upon buttering sentiment with sen timentality. The wailing o[ self-pity of BROOKLYN PEOPLE a radio crooner " interpreting" the latest torch song; the greasily voluptuous tone of a self-styled "gypsy" res taurant vio linist- those are "schmalz." Now if th ere is one predominant ele ment in Heifetz's playing it is a complete ab ence of sclunal:: . He never tries to drag out of a given piece of music more drama or emoti on than there is in it. Main Office: Atlantic Ave. and Court St. When the music demands it, he can give 18th Avenue Office: 18th Ave. and 65th St. you a singing tone th at i thrillingly beautiful ; or, on the other hand, icily brilliant But never dry, mind you. He has an amazing variety of tone color at • his command, and it is hi s subtle appli cation of this color to th e musical can vas, so to speak, that give hi playing THE VARIOUS HALLS OF THE its never-flagging variety and eloquence. To give an idea of th e man himself is BROOKLYN not so easy, chiefl y because he has so ACADEMY few eccentricities that would make pic turesque reading. Two trivial memories OF MUSIC of him may give you a vague picture of ARE AVAILABLE FOR him. One is of a late party at Neysa McMein's studio, back in '23. I think it CONCERTS, PLAYS, LECTURES, wa , when Jascha, about f ~ ur in th e DANCES, AND OTHER EVENTS morning, played as I have seldom heard OPERA HOUSE him or anyone el e play in concert I told him so, and he explained. " I wa BALLROOM u ing the Strad toni ght, a nd she's never MUSIC HALL played so well as since I bought th e Inquire: Managing Superintendent Guarneriu You know, she's jealous !" STerling 3-6700 - and half belie\ ed it. The other is a recollec tion of J ascha, backstage at a n absurd revu e a crowd o[ us were pulling on for charity- Jascha, with his music land propped up in th e wings, jostled DE~TI§T by stage hands, tripped up by electric ca bles, nervous but determined, playing DR. J. B. LAZARE unacco mpani ed ofistage mu ic for a bur L ong Island Railroad Depot Bldg. 139 FLATBUSH AVE. lc que mclod ram a with th e devo ti on and Flatbush and Atlantic Avenu es Brooklyn, N. Y . ST erl i ng 3-3 182 (Continued on page 29 ) 27 as well as a friendly and conve A nient one. We are ready to help STRONG you save now while you can. Don't delay - start today. One BANK dollar opens an account. EAST BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK BEDFORD AND DeKALB AVENUES FOUNDED 1860 Convenient to reach by 8th Ave. subway and many car lines. THE INSTITUTE AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC .:\londay e1enin g, Decem ber 'l. 1939, at 8:30 o'clock in the Opera I louse Emanuel Feuermann 'CELLJST Fr·anz Rupp, al the piano Four! 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Phone Rockville Centre 23 '------28th SEASON ------~ 28 jascha Heifetz Cooking i- a fine art (Continued from page 27) Therefore, a good cook is an artist • • • earnestn ess that he would have given Lo And a fine artist desenes the best a command p erformance before royalty. tools There, exemplified, are what Lo me lf'hy uot use Flavoriug E.rtracts aud Special are his two most slriki ng characteristics : ties made by a simplicity and directn ess that are al most childlike, and a complete serious ness about his art. He geL along won -yiRGINIA lj)AJt& derfully with children. ol LhaL he is a QUAJ,ITY IN FLAVOR SINCE 1835 head-patler. For all I know, he may not Sold by ABRAHAM & STRAUS even care much about Lh em. But he and other good stores meets th em on an equal foo ting, and they accept him as an equal. A children's or KNOW How To Combine Y our chestra fi gures prominent! y in " They Foo ds and How T o Plan Y our M ea ls Shall Have Music" (an amazing aggre OUR INVALUABLE ---- gati on, by th e way, rec ruited and trained FOOD COMBINATION in Hollywood by a de' oLed Russian musi and VITAMIN CHART cian named P eter Meremhlum ) . When GIVEN Heifetz first saw and heard th em on the TO YOU sc reen he refu sed Lo beli e,·e Lh aL th ey FREE were doing the aclual pia) ing, and had Together with Our Catalogue lo be taken Lo hear th em in perso n be on Health Foods Ju st Send Y our Name and Address, Or Call At fore he could be convinced. The studi o HEALTH FOOD PRODUCTS heads had hoped lo induce him Lo appear 238 LIVIN GSTON STREET BROOKLYN , N. Y. with th em on th e sc reen, and spent anxious hours debating th e most diplo matic way of asking him lo do so. Wh en he had heard Lh e youngsters, he a ked Lo be allowed to play with them. Just now I mentioned Lh e seriousness Brooklyn Eagle Press of his approach to music. I have never Ill kn own a musician with more complete 24 JOHNSON STREET a rtisti c integrity. H e will rehearse for BROOKLYN. NEW YORK hours Lo prepare for a benefit concert whose audience would be sati s fi ed if he came out and played " P op Goes the Weasel. " During Lh e shooting of " They MAin Shall Have Music" he wore oul Lh e 4-6200 Ludio crews with hi patient and Lir e less " Let's shoal Lh al again. " J\ or have PRINTERS of the ACADEMY PROGRAM T ever known a musician with le s of th e show- oii element in hi s make-up, or less co nceit. He knows he is good- wh y shouldn' t he? But he has reached the poinl, T think, Lh aL e' eq greal artist, err ali\ e or interprelati' e, musl reach : Lh r p oinl t~h c r e he has achi e\ eel such. maslrr) of his craft Lh al he knows he "til nr ' r r co mpletel y ma Ler iL. 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