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e " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 10, 1922—PART 4. Violin Bought Forty Years Ago by Artist, | Now at Capitol, Found to Be a Real Amati| E - 4 ?w..lh"d l:hlflorenee about fifty years ago. Charles Ayer Whipple Surprised to | e cse you canor wes withost toor: - Ing very closely at it. With the excep- Find That He Possesses Product of o i thcke Sl Tt e sl Great Master—Perfection of Instru- ment Has Not Been Surpassed in Cen- turies Since It Was Made—Would Not Part With His Treasure. BY AMY D. PUTNAM. 10LIN LOVERS throughout the world will welcome the news of the finding and proving of an- other Amati violin. This is in the possession of Charles Ayer Whipple ©of 1630 Rhode Island avenue northwest. | the artist who is restoring the Brumidi decorations in the Capitol. “Though my profession is painting.” says Mr. Whip- vle. “my hobby is music, and particu- larly violins. T have always been deep- Iy interested tn them." Mr. Whipple has had this violin since 1583. When he purchased it he realized that it was a fine violin, and saw the signature in it: “Nicolaus Amatus fecit in Cremona 1675." He is very much | surprised to discover that it is a genuine Amati, because the name plates of the | oid violin makers were used in all sorts the great master's hands nearly two and a half centuries ago. A slight crack only has started in the back.” ‘ * ¥ k& HE present artist-owner cares for this instrument with reverence and tenderness. as befits the handwork of a |great master. Within the case it is wrapped in soft silk and velvet. | “I had no idea this was a real Amati | when I bought it’* he said. “I only {knew it was a fine violin. I am much |Dleased to have my judgment of so . many years ago confirmed by the ex- he continued. «f cheap instruments. An expert in perts of today. Yes," vcarly printing deciares that this label | ‘holding it lovingly in place, “I would was printed with wocd type, which much rather leave it to a good museum ithan to sell it during my lifetime to some one who would value it only for the money it would bring. There is something about a great work of art of any kind, Into which a master has ;put his soul, that makes it a desecra- | tion to sell it." | Some twenty-five vears ago Lyon and | Healy printed a catalogue with a de- scription in it of the Partello violin which fits Mr. Whipple's instrument so perfectly that it may be quoted: | “There is such an overwhelming amount of evide in this violin to prove the loving care imparted in every minute detail that one cannot help feel- case it this were & of the master vielin maker. as so many are. The wood-type | Tabel would argue it to be genuine. ! One name o has received more | general recognition than that of Amati, | that is Stradivarius. or Stradivari. | The Stradivaris bring more money, and ! are a littie more powerful, but the Amatis are wail beloved among violin- ists themselves. because of the sweet- | [ ness of their ton~ and the great beauty of their form. It is a strange thing that the shape of the violin since of Amati's time s never been improved | For more than two and a half | | would not be the faked sign-m: 1 centuries no real improvements have ! ing absolute veneration for the great heen made in the shape. although some M artist who executed it. rakers have sought gentiy to find | “‘Amati was at the very height of his <ome shghtly different form that will | [ ! power at this time (1675). He was do- 1 and effective. The say- ing his greatest work. three things man has “The artistic surroundings in Cre- raade have naver baen improved upon— | {mona and all over northern ltaly at the Indian snowshoe, the birchbark !that time must have thrown the halo of fame around any devotee who ex- i his chosen fleld. The price: of ! roval favor was artistic workmanship: { not alone that which had to do with the | production of tone, but ulgo with respect ! 10 the appearance of the instrument. ! “Nicolas Amati had the artistic in- | stinct to a higher degree. perhape. than |any other maker of Creniona. He was | by all odds the greatest teacher among cance and the violin Ar a poet said many years ago. £peaking of this instrumen:: What mind And our Thon deli in conceived thes chaos thy rare shana desigued. ate and perfect work %= o ‘s magical. It ie was the FPHE name of Ama s aesthetic vai ‘ounder of the Cremcnese school. { violin builders, and his influence was Stradivari was the most illustrious | \far greater than that exerted by any among several pupils who later became | other maker that ever lived. famous, Guarnerius perhaps ranking al- | most equal to him. Bit Amati himself | was the master of violin-making for all vme. “His Influence on violln con- | ruction was greater than that of all the rest put togethe | The Amati was made to please both | tae ear and the eve. To the expe-| rienced cve it is more delicate and: | “The tone of this violin is of the | sweetest, purest and most beautiful | quality imaginable. While possessing | Breat power, it is no: that quality which | particularly impresses one as the bow lis drawn for the first time over its strings, but rather its delicious sweet- ness and purity of tone. There is a delicacy ard refinement in a fine Amati CHARLES AYER WHIPPLE AND HIS RARE AMATI VIOLIN. |so many. certainly improved tne | Apaches of Paris: BY STERLING HEILIG. PARIS. December (Copsright by Underwood & Tnderwood.) beautiful than any other. This particu- | olin possessed by no other. It is th lar one was made in 1675. at the zenith | given in Lyon and Healy's “The Hawley | brown shade imaginable. ',,gmp.:( of ,:e fiddle world, as ,,.mc; ARIS criminals had (and have) | The Galette reopened after the «f the great genius' fame. Tn 1640-45 we | Collection of Violins,” which says, in| Some twenty-five years ago there was | the embodiment of pure art as is the thelr spacious, sumptuous ball. | armistice. find his model broadening. slightly less | speaking of the magnificent golden-ian Amati valued at $4.500. They must ! rarest work of Raphael. To outward looks. it was (and | And here was something—queerest arched. and long 1660 he had de- | brown varnish with which the great|be worth very much more now, for be-| ‘“The preservation and good condition 13, just the Moulln de/la Ga-j}¥et of all* Zast spring. when the | But. in fac ground owners made a deal to tear lette—a dance hall. was, is, and will remain, probabl sides the general increase in value of !of this violin is one of its greatest pattern to the highest | master covered his instruments. “The veloped his grar | i) i evenness and skill of its application in- | a articles in the last quarter of a century. i charms. Every line is intact, the var- extent. 1 This specimen ie fourtecn and one- | vokes the admiration of the connoisseur i the name of Amati has come to have an , nish is a golden-brown color. It has|long time, the “soclety act” parlors | houses and improve the neighbor- sixteenth long. and its dimen-|at 2 glance.” The varnish of these|even more magical potency. passed through the vicissitudes and {of Parisian crookdom. hood, a howl went up. protesting, with those of | ancient makers was one of the wonders| Mr. Whipple would not part with his | dangers of more than two hundred| Professional assassins, burglars, | Without a dissenting voice in all the Those who | of the time, and seems to be 2 lost art. | treasure for any money. As he zays, | years and remains today practically as strong-arms. footpads, woman bul- [ Paris press! This amid essays and editorials on dance halls, crooks' balls and the need of a “polite society” existence as de- | rivative ocutlet and self-uplift ma- chinery for all classes® * % o % lies—all the pre-war criminal world of Paris—made the “Galette” their “so- clety” resort for gregarious amenities, ostentation, climbing and plain en- joyment of eating and drinking. In all things it resembled the polite, true “social whirl” of the 400, except that it was (and is) pathetically unique, alone, one spot, and self-con- talned. The orchestra, in its own balcony, The several experts to whom Mr. Whipple has shown his treasure have {you cannot sell the halo of a great!perfect as when Amati finished i {name. If a price were put on this it{ Mr. Whipple has made arrangements tall been convinced of Its authenticity. | would surely be several thousand dol-|to meet all famous violinists who come ‘The back Is one of the handsomest |iars, but it Is not for sale. to Washington and have them try out single pleces of maple ever put Into a| -The strong edges that are mentioned | this Amati. For it is the true artist viols The front is spruce, with wide | a5 being used in Amatl's grand pattern !alons who can fully appreciate the {are conspicuous in this violin,” said Mr. | beauty of form and the sweetness of but very straight grain. The varnish most beautiful deep orange- | Whipple. “The edges were carefully re- | tone of these old masterpleces. have seen the Partello coilection pro- Tounce this cne to resemble it in many ints. Mr. W and several great violin experts have compared this with the description of the grand pattern, as ziven for the Irish model. The more +losely it is studied. the more nearly it seems to tally with the authority, as is the Listen,World! is the rock on which We|throbs and thrills, by cillls and | fevers, by hungers and lassitudes, by fluence of the whole neighbor- hood. The red-handed younz Apache |who killed by mere bravado ceased. as an tdeal, with the war! He doesn't had sixty pieces. (It has sixty-fiveat] o S0 S Nt usiness present, counting saxophones and jazz| .paracter who seeks a backer. His drums.) Around the great dance floor | 4.4 ig to loot rich villas with a two- still remain the forty half-curtained | yo"" | yck: A jewelry theft is “an refreshment alcoves, with their vel\'e:l.fll" on which one is.” To stab for hangings, mirrors, gleaming brass-,poplematic gain, without a plan, is work, thick plush carpets, heavily up- | childish. The war has done wonders holstered armchairs and marble-|¢o the budding crooks of Paris. They topped tables—all bad taste, but gOr-gra nejther lazy nor ignorant. They geous. The ceiling was ome con-|jnow where they will sell the stuft tnuous mirror. And when they |pefore they go to get it. Al is struck up the strong men’s quadrille, | planned. They laugh at anarchist or and you looked from celling to floor | soviet ideas. They are straight busl- and back, you saw a pandemonium of | ness—with polite society to decorate polite deviltry unequaled elsewhere. | their Jeisure! They closed up the “Galette” in 1307 And so the Galette had justified itself for just one reason. Paris cried |again. out against it as the special nursery | Inside all are curiously suave and of that youthful thugdom which gave |ceremonious. Harsh words are not the “Apache” 8o bad a name through- {indulged in. out the world, made Paris streets so dangerous at night, and has passed, ! with the war, to remain today the | aream of writers at a distance. All the sarie, It was a pro-war dan- | ger. But there Paris fooled them, a3 it fooled the world with absinthe | drinking, suppressed by decree in one ! war day, not to return. and nothing ‘sild about it! [ WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY: ELSIE ROBINSON means greater happiness for the ma- Jority. I can hear your wails of anguish. Stop walling and look at the fact: How many truly happy marriages do you know? How dependable is love except as a subject for spring poetry? Let us have love by all means, but let it at last be something worthy of the human evolution of 1922. Let it at last rise above the mating urge of a bullfrog into a spiritual functioning that yokes man to his God and makes a home In truth the domestic court of heaven. AM against Cupid. As an entree j Fomance he may be a riotous success, but | break | ] steadfastly maintain that as That's all wrong. We've no right { all that undependable panoply of the piece de resistance he is the | substitute romance for life. We've n8 | moods under whigh the emotional bunk! T realize that I am attacking | TiRht to substitute love for service. | nature masquerades as a vital power. a hitherto unassailed great American | We've no right to substitute emotloni These manifestations are desirable ‘nstitution. Tut I like to attack | for intelligence. Yet that is what we!and delightful—but they are not per- hitherto unassailed American institu- | do with all our blithering about love | manent and they cannot be taught. tions. It may result in my destruc- | matches. { That 1s why marriage should not be tion. but it will be a glorious death, | G G i based upon them. ro here's where Cupid gets his. Let's| ¥ DO belleve that there is nothing| But the qualities of honor. gen- o more beautiful in all the world | erosity and %o on. which I have listed, The Americans are a progressive|than wedded affection, and nothing |are not based on the emotions. They people. Tn all mechanical lines they | half as important to social progress.|ars emanations of the intelligence, display imagination and originality. | But T do not think that the success of | they are controlled by the will. They Industrially they have a healthy con- | such unfons s based mainly on love.|can be taught and they do endure. | tempt for precedent and prejudice I think it ¥ bamed on the ualities| And they alone can form a guarding, and hurtle ahead, defying time-worn |and reactions whick andarly &fl good } wall about marriage. traditions. But when it comes down ! human partnerships. I believe the Ame: Oopyright. 1922.) As Hard as Diamond. THE diamond has always been re- garded as possessing one quality which placed it beyond rivalry, name- Iy. that of hardness. There are sev- eral gems which compete with it in beauty, and at least one, the ruby, when of rare size and quality, out- ranks it in costliness. But mone in| the whole list equals it in hardness. “Diamond cut diamond” is a popu- lar saying. The hardest steel cannot equal the diamond in that respect. The dfamond, the text-books used to an marriage isi WHERES THE-LITTLE-DIT-OF| HEAVEN WITH ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS YOU PROMISED ME ? WHERES THAT 100% You GUARANTEED ON MY INVESTMENT ' NOw SOME SELL < T0GUS OIL WELLS, & AND SOME FOLKS SALT A MINE WHILE OTHERS HAND YoU GILDED BRICKS, OR FLASKS OF BOOTLEG F 275 homicides judged in 1905, 81 were work of minors from six- teen to twenty-one. Of 168 cold- blooded murders, 65 were done by minors. Of 171 woundings resulting ' in death, 42 were attributable to ¥ WINE. declare. “is the hardest substance!minors. And of 12 parrictdes or mat- known.” ricides, 8 were unhappy victims of p But science progresses. and if na- | their minor sons! | BUT THERES ONE CHAP ture has set aside for her king of! The number of criminal cases “classed” (the guilty remaining un- known) amounted in 1901 to 93,466. By 1907 it had risen to 110,710. “The Increase ie due,” sald the Paris papers of the cay, “to new beginners, unknown masses of young thugs, bred up around the establishment which everybody calls “The Criminals’ Ball. The whole neighborhood gives out a noxious influence. Young fellows do deeds, from which old hands would shrink, merely to ‘show proofs’ and swagger with ‘the big ones’ in those parlors.” All right. To the great regret of the high police, they closed up the Galette, for the first time, in 1907. And the hoped-for results were not realized! Ardent young thugdom, erring like lost children, lost contact with ex- perienced old hands, of cautious, mod- | erate ways, and raised such Cain as| made the Paris nizht mare cruel and wanton than before. The “classed” | Floral Chimeras. jcases rose to 112,010 in 1908 and to 114,763 In 1809. And the police, con- "THERE are orchlds of the tropics |¢inually baffled, answered back to the which exceed in strangeness of [ municipality and press that it could form and splendor of color anything |not be otherwise, since now their produced in conservatories. Among|most productive stalking ground to the most remarkable of these plants|hunt the guilty had been taken from are those belonging to the genus|them! . masdevallia. One species closely imi- ‘Allow the Galette to reopen,” they tates the trunk of an elephant and|sald, “and there Will soon be less un- is named accordingly, masdevallia|solved mysteries of crime. The thugs elephanticeps.. Another looks like afare drawn to it like moths to a fiying pigeon. The species to which |flame.” the name “chimera” is specially ap-| So it was done. plied is very extrgordinary. With{ The Galette reopened gorgeously. what resembles two slender legs and It closed, of itself, like all such a flail-like trunk wpraised from its{places, in thé war, while the Apaches Read, the flower startles the beholder | of Paris, in honorable French uniform with its resemblance to some fantas- { (the Batt. d’Af. is such!), destroyed tic and monstrous insect. The resem-|the Prussian Gudrd in the swamps blance of these flowers to animals are|of St. Gond! La, la, my children, @0 exact that even birds sre some-|there wias something which redeemed, times decelved by them. < #x 1ttte? And’the' war, which spofled ¥ gems the distinction of unparalleled | hardness, the art of man has not been equally considerate. There are sev- eral products of chemical experiment which have proved, it is claimed, to be as hard as diamonds. These are produced from the rare metal titanium. One investigator suc- ceeded in preparing titanium in the electric furnace. In the pure form {t is harder than steel or quartz, and ‘when combined with silicon or boron, ®0 as to form a silicide or boride of !titanium, it matches the diamond itself in hardness. Titanium resembles tin in its chemi- cal properties, and it is the character- istic element in the beautiful red and brown crystals of rutile. These, in the shape of needles, are sometimes found penetrating large white quartz crystals, forming gems that the French call “love’s arrow. WHOSE CON GAME MAKES ALL THE REST SEEM PALE. YET STRANGE TO 3AvY, DESPITE HIS CRIMES, HE'S NEVER BEEN 1N JAIL! ! i HIS NAME 15 DANNY . GUPID, HES GENTLE AS A DOVE AND ONE AND ALL WE FLOCK TO BUY HIS WATERED STOCKS n OF LOVE' L i ‘On—Honesty, generosity, humor, | crashing because It has been built on fairness, patience, grit, common sense, | the shifting sands of emotion and tact, self-restraint. | because we have followed the will o’ These things are infinitelv more | the Wisp of romance. We have often necessary than the emotional actions | boasted that we have the best sort of we usually call love. And it is only | marriage. In truth, I think we have by emphasizing these qualities, by |the silliest sort of ‘marriage. With teaching them, by insisting on them, |shame, I, an American, confess it. that we are ever going to give per- ‘We started out on a hard, high trail manence or dignity to marriage. for the stars; we have ended by going Love. in its emotional sense, fals | ¥24in& In the mud puddles. us. That's the true indictment * % % x against Cupid. You may invoke all the mysticism of the churches, all the platitudes of philosophy, all the conventions of society, all the re- straints of the law, vet you will never chain Cupid to his job. You cannot chain Cupid because Cupid, as we know him, is a creature of the emotion. He is evidenced by heart to matters pertaining to m-mmonyl they're still wobbling around in the Paleozoic ooze of sentiment. And mothing short of a spiritual earth- quake is ever going to blast them out of it. I think, however. that the apiritual earthquake is beginning. Its mame is divorce. Did I say Paleozoic ooze of senti- ment? I take it back—the Paleosoic pollywog had the correct idea of anarrisge. For them it meant part- nership. Somewhere, since the cave days, we have lost the vital signifi- cance of the mating between men and women and have sold our birthright of splendid union for a mes ot French pastry. Romance is the bright star of our sex existence. Romance is the slogan of our sex training. Romance heads the prospectus which Jures us into wedlock, and the lack of COVERED WITH SAND BAGS SHELLS. another he craves pardon like Gus- tave and Gaston. “On examination you will find the statement incor- Tect!” is as near as anybody gets to “You're a liar In fact, it was always so at the Galette, Here, for long vears back they have fulfilled the “society’ ideals of their women—and of them- selves. The wild girls are proud of their heroes. They admire the iron hand in the velvet glove and force it on their men here in society. Be- sides, they always have a lurking foar of | ‘breakiag loose amid gregarious tuxory aud ‘Nghts and ARRIAGE isn't an easy job. It a stern job. Despite its manifest unfairness, the continental marriage is & more sensible scheme than ours. So is the oriental marriage. Perhaps 1t’s hard on the individual, but I truly think {t's &' more dignified social per- formance and, in_the lomg “rum, it OT 2 word about the noxious in- | Gathering Place Twice Closed by L.aw, But Reopening Followed Later in Each Instance. Recognized as Nursery of Young Crooks, But Also Required by Police in Tracing Person~ Who Are Guilty of Crimes—Gorgeous Surroundings for Their “Society i ISCENE AT THE “MOULIN DE LA GALETTE” DANCE HALL, WHICH HAS TWICE BEEN CLOSED BY THE MUNICIPALITY AND PRESS AND TWIC REOPENED BY THE DETECTIVE POLICE OF PARIS. !music. They, of course, do not re- ‘member fGoron's words. when he was :chef de surete: ! “If the Galette did not exis have to invent it pouid Because here is the philosophy of | “Gajette Once 2 down the Galette, put up apartment crimiral has brought a “coup” off he! .. Galette. 'rm; i Paris. the whola thing i feels the attraction of police count on You say. the: wisely keep away It is more complicated than that. !He may, as rightly, argue that his {absence will look more significant. !He may keep away one night. two nights—but the idea continues to butt in: “I look afraid to show up:” In the end he shows up. He fears that continued absence will attract attention to him, not, perhaps. of the police. but of the “cameros’—the comrades—of two species. are reckless. loval pals who may laugh at his prudence. in what ther deem guarded words when drinking. The others are of different type—the Judas comrade, shadowy. mysterious, ! the microbe of this life. the *seller. The “seller” (who can truly spot 'him?) is a thousand times more |dreaded than the most acute de- |tectives! He may note the lucky !striker's absence and put two and two together' why doesn’t * % VERY motive calls the guilty and | the successful one to the ta- lette. His girl wants to show off— that other women ¥ see that she iloves a live one. not a non-producer. 1 She desires to dance and drink and When a dancer bumps.laugh in these mood hours of plenty IN ONE OF THE CHAMPAGNE CELLARS AT RHEIMS. THIS CASK HOLDS 20,000 GALLONS OF WINE, AND DURING THE WAR WAS TO PROTECT IT FROM GERMAN —_———— with her man. Both crave their cling in glittering surroundings, which, to them, stand for success, the joy of life and social triumph. The man argues that to show up in society is normal. In the usual course, between jobs. he would sure- ly drop in at the Galette. Of course, if he goes now and spends a big lot of money it may be a sign against him. But he will spend normal. Surely, he need only show up normal? So the Galette has always been the most productive hunting ground of the he ! The first| IParis Criminals’ Ball Too Useful To Be Suppressed by Authorities " Events. out of human respect, to show proper sense of things, because expected of them. T know pe fectly that ther are epotted as soon las they put their nose inside t The word passes: “There gentiemen of the bailoon amonz are No one seems to par attention * [them. All goes on ze usual. No and then. a timid brother. talk over a “condition™ or hagzling prices with a “fence.” will propose fo go cisewhere to be private “Sit tight. idot'” the others jus: | breathe to him, “do you want to ger us shadowed special? Ilere we'rs merely part of the big push. They'rs guessing. They know nothing! It is. of course the correct idea once given the “Galette” and human | nature. Groups form and break up as at a reception of the 400. You }cannot indict a burglar because he !is agreeable in society! Crash! It is the strong men's | quadrille—in spite of ali the fox trot< on the program. Two hundred flash- ing girls prance with their heroes | Champagne corks pop gaily! In the midst detectives prowl. an parently so helpless, their disguise {seen through—they know it: Yes { here is the game. but how gmet at i { Thev are putting two and two to- {gether—stuff you cannot put in words. mere ways of spending money airs of satisfaction, veiled sympa thies and Jjealousies in passing glances—all to be worked up and then compared with data gathered by outside members of the brigadr and humble “indicators.” not qui in the movement. The detectives are close to this world in mentality and passions. Most of them have come up from the same depths as the game they're hunting. So they feel invis ible currents. % * TIGHT after night thex come. ob- - serve, and show themselves—ex pressly &how themselves. disguised. but epotted, known. but unnoticed! They just rubber around, but. in par- ticular, they show themselves—and wait. The “Galette” is mo place in hunt for “clues.” The detectives wa't lfor “the mistake.” | They absolutely count on “the mis take? | The guilty party alw risks ! make it—in the exaltation of a glass too much, or a blind impulse of weak Luman nature. Silly glance of ad miration, gust of jealousy, resentment or misunderstanding! The detective (glad that he is spotted’) counts that in this social turmoil—slights, ca- prices. petty triumphs, hot new admi- rations, swift suspicions, heated wp by lights. wines, perfumes, musici— that his presence may be & continual temptation for the secret to coms to him of itseif! It comes. in a mere breath. The detective ‘quits the gorgeous dance hall. Now, alone. one brushes past Jhim, man or woman. And a word is whispered. The <leuth moves accord- Ing to it. He turns corners. Thrice he waits, to verify that Le is not fol- lowed. Here, now, there IS none bu: himself—and whispering Judas! The next morning, as he sleeps late, | the law knocks upon the man’s doo “Hey, there, less barouf! You're caught for good. A camera has sold you!" So. explains the arresting squad Of course, it is not always true. It v be bluff, timed with grea: subtlety, the morning after some such scene of passion noted. or misunder- standing among comrades, or a “touch” attempted, failing. and the crook’s mjnd flies’ back to it—"I'm s0ld!" And hot counter accusations pour out. But, most often. it is true. Have not the detectives 1ald them- selves out to be a continual tempta- tion to Judas? And, so. next night. Judas shows up, filled with an interior tranquility. He (or she) is avenged. He (or she) has removed a troublesome person from the social scene. She can. now. safely take up with the new man of her choice. Or, faithful, feroolously she has bought her man off—by the sale of a comrade! Such are the tempiations and the pitfalls of “socicty” life, where pride. caprice, ambition and despite make bitter in the mouth the good sweet taste of easy money! Is more money ever satisfying? In “society.” we know it isn’ | 3 I |