New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 13

PETTICOAT TALE 15 BUT A MYTH, Nothing to Story About Betsy Ross' Garment 1 “ln* Oriental Youths Drive Italians From (llv Hdll Ban*Iranclsco .\)-Hl 9 A wandering bootbla with ‘\1« mnll box and brushes remains an fnstitu- | {tlon In Chinatown immune to the |waves of modernism transforming Oriental distriet, Every morning these embryo \-Hs |nm men sally forth to ply thel trade and for the years (‘hlnl\aw {boys have regarded the clty hall of Fayetteville, Ark. April 9 (P— | The fmmortal petticoat of Betsy Ross | {s due for the limbo of historical | myths, it Dr. George E. Hastings, as- | soclate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, has his way, Dr. Hastings, In hls book “The Vife and® Works of ¥rancis Hopkin- son," sings a requicin for Mrs. Ross' famous petticoat, which tradition | says was used to make the steipes for the first American flag. The book, which is to be published this | spring by the University of Chicago | Press, credits Hopkinson with hav- | ing deslgned the Stars and Stripes. Tradition has it that Betsy Ross | was asked o make the first Ameri- can flag for General hh.:‘(\ml Dr. Hastings declares that he ean trace this tradition bac no Y.’n'lhrr than 1870, when a grandson of Mrs. Ross announced that it was his | grandmother who had done the de- | ning of the flag, he having heard | s forhears make that statement, | In going through the papers of the Continental Congress in the Con- | gressional Library at Washington, | Dr. Hastings says he found Mr. Ho kinson's bill for designing the flag, | which was adopted by the Continent- al Congress in 17 uggested, hu- ter of a cask of e woul a suitable re- As he had deslgned the se for the department of admira nd that for a number of other govern- justice which borders Chinatown, as | n favored zone, Kven the august| |presence of Chief of Police Dan ! O'Brien {s invaded dally, A pitched battle between boot- | blacks of Chinatown and the Ital- fan quarter at North Beach resulted recently when the Italian lads de- clded to enter the lucrative hall of justice field, The invasion way re {pellad but in retallation the Italian boys declared & ban against the {Orlentals tn a dfstrict to the north. Since that time peace las prevailed in both camps. — RADIO LANGUAGE NOW 15 SOUGHT Broadcasters Want to Find a Universal Tongue New Yorl: A which world will April 9 (P language of electricity, enable radio fans the world over i hobby in common problems to be to a8 their ns is one of the | worked out at ths ten- tion of the Internati technical commission 1 Imusie sure of |tourlsts' welcome ente torceh-he NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 1926, ITALIAN MUSIC STARS SPURN JAZL Find No Place lor Syncopation in Their Operas Rome, April 9 (B — Ttaly, the liome of grand opera, mpurns with horror and contempt the idea that | lazz may some day cross the threshe olds of the Scala of Milan, the San Carlo of Naples and the Costanzi of Rome as it has already entered the Metropolitan in New York. Nor I8 jazz-inspired a warmer in a country which ace dance uusic and dancing a re reception unt alning them in hotels and public places b ring them unequivocally it bar rom | home: = for most Tta clans music lovers of er generation in declar b 1 adore Americ Mario Cortf celebrat violinist of xwh, professor at the Royal acad- ¢ of fanta Cecilla and perhaps m: most re l""‘l' tive re fn the al life of lay Italy ve i ovelty gayety and fre it is too much from the path onr tradi tions to be fused with music. Indeed, which we mus most its shness but of or into our it presents a danger znor C Iness is in Hstir Pietro Mascagni, levia Rust re t contr Verdi of the tion of lyrical grand symphonle " , | new war agaipst it “When 1 | groaning, jazz band makes mo (m]l\' uu s listen to the howling brutal nolse-making of a | * Signor Mascagni utterably IN, phone players of the it 1spe W Im’ o voled most s muh animals. “Those instead steps dancers who, making the strange vould be compatible with pseudo-negro musical cacophony, | slide about slowly and lugubriously. | They become moro funercal as the music becomes more frenzied, Let's get rid of it and go back to | Johan Strauss who knew how to write dance music full of charm and abandon.’ of While the work of contemporan- cous Ttalian composers docs not ap- » been written with Sig- cagni's advice in mind, it still less shows the Influence of the American musle, “Itnly," not hay sald Signor Cortl, “does | to look to Amerlca for fuel her mus genfus, Far from being poor in creative talent, the present generation in our country is furnishing a real renaissance, of the nine leaders of this movement, not a eingle one has reached the ripe age of &0, several are in their their work has al- 1 International fame,” of whom § Cortl Tldebrabdo Pizzettl, Otto- G. Franccsco Mali- edo Casclla, Marlo Castel- desco, I'ranco Alfano, Vic- ? Vincenzo Tommas- ini and wrdo Tlek-Manglaollf, Pizzetti, who fs direcior of the Milan conservatory, has had enor- tnfluence hoth in Ttaly and brond nuer of the true n musical tradition, la and x:-:pigm are well In the United cach his th s and The men or spoke are piero, nuc tor de mous which | grave, held by Egypti the | ccauso he cstration 1ho voier of a wlo played by a phonog i Stones \Ln Show Hm\ Ancienfs Viewed Death Relgi- » beyond the [ahout the time the civil war ended ans more than |Sennctum probably was an ofticer |Dr, H, Berkeley Cal, April 9 (®) us bellefs regarding lif MEN'S Serviceable Introdueed into the or-|3 nighting. cord, 000 years before the birth of and served as a guardi lons on stones fust discovered {n the |University of California museum, |sclentists. Two stones on which inscriptions | {were carved served as the [lintel of 1 tomb of of 8 [which was explored by arche amb and \etum olog! ocpers whose the tombs ive robbe WHY NOT YOUR NELDS ANI AT ANTICIPATE THIS SAVING? an of line ) BUY the hrist, may be revealed In inserip- [Valley of the Kings where the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen was invaded by Ho may have been the founder of an hereditary duty it was to guard | I om the depredations of (W a form of outlawry at is as old as mankind Mself, Ilnl of ha says % Lutz, professor of Egyp- | known, e — ogy. Ile expects to make known “ translation of the inscription soon, “HARD TO FIND” NEW MOUNT London, April 9 (M~"Hard to is the name the Prince of who seldom laughs in public, s given one of his new hosses, pedigree of the animal is un- THE MATERIAL OF A THOUSAND TUSES hors 22 ole-h that he Is soon to go to t! States as an arch-crusader In a 1 s@a & fi‘«@“@‘“éfi“@ ise mental departments, Hopkinson, in | 1780, was asked to submit an item- ized statement of all his charges. This statement, including thag for | designing the flag, is on file 41T the Congr al library and amounts to 2700 pounds sterling. In addition to designing the first flag, the author says, Hopkinson had 26 distinetion of being the author of the first hook of music ever pub- lished tn Ame The hook was a compilation ¢ Althongh oy at the age of 4. his ac were many. 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