New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 14

Modern Jazz Music Borrowed From the Classics, Spaetll Tells Audience Authority on Composuion themselves because they recognized | | Explains, on Piano, How “Tin Pan Alley” Gets Its Inspiration. Tin Pan Alley—the factory in New York where sundry commercial- minded gentlemen manufacture and market popular tunes like so many cases of shoes or sardines—was bat- tered into a tin whistle at noon to- day by Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, noted| musical lecturer, author and critic, | at a meeting of the Lions club at the Burritt. | Tllustrating his remarks at the piano, he showed the self-evident pa- | ternity of many of the popular tunes. First he played the classical papa of | the tune, and then pumped the modern flaming youth out of the keyboard in the form of a jazzed | tune. Thus the classic “Song of India,” | by Rimsky-Korsakoff, got jazzed into a typical medern lyric. The| popular tune “Maytime” was shown | to be snitched from a Chopin Noc-| turne—and only the first bar of it| at that, constant repetitions higher and lower tn the scale manufacture the “big hi strain from the “‘Merry Wives of Windsor” overture came in handy as the theme of the song “Marcheta,” supposedly a Mexican econcoction; but this strain also appealed to Irv- ing Berlin and so he wrote “Whatll 1 Do” based upon it, merely chang- ing a little from major to minor; and the same strain also furnished | the fox trotters with “Memory Lane.” Romberg “Good Borrower” Sigmund Romberg, whom Dr.| Spaeth termed a good “borrower,” wrote “Blossom Time,” an eperetu, based on the life of Schubert and of | course made the job complete by| borrowing Schubert themes, doctor- ing them up a la Tin Pan Alley so as to look like originals. The “Song of Love” from the operetta was! shown to be based on the Unfinished Symphony. Romberg is still at it, ac- eording to the speaker, his new operetta, “My Maryland,” having as its most encored “hit” a theme that| 18 based on the song ‘Maryland, My | Maryland,” “Smiling Thru” Bnd‘ “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah.” “This is | the plece that gets six or seven en- cores every night,” said the speaker. The “classic example” of song | purloining came last in the speak- ers list. He sald he had to in- clude it in all his talks. The song has gone all over the world, until people in Europe got the impression 1t is the American national anthem. The piece was "Yes, We Have No/| Bananas.” The Banana song was fhown to open with a snatch from the "Hal- lelujah chorus” from Handel's| “Messiah;" it then reached a few| bars of “Bring Back My Bonnie to Me;” then “I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” from the “Bohemian Girl;” and then “Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party” (also known as *Seeing Dinah Home,”) and wound up with a return to the Hallelujah | chorus. Dr. Bpacth sang the whole “mess” with the original words of the original songs and how the as. sembled Lions roared. y Jazs Scores The eommon sense of music &H that everybody responds to it in some form, the speaker sald, \nhtch most commonly is a matter of beat- | ing time. It there is discomfiture| by the educated musiclans regard-| ing the prevalence of jaza it ts due| to themselves, and mot to the people as a whole, hs added. “The highbrows are relponsnvln for jazz. They have put music on| such & high pedestal that you can r, get it. There are three kinds of | listeners, feet listeners, heart listen- ers, and head listeners. Nine-tenths of the people are the former—and | that is the beginning of an appre-| ciation of music. Rhythin, to which | the majority most easily responds, ‘l‘ only the start of music; melody and | harmony are built on top of it. 1 consider melody the most important | &8 that is what is remembered l‘nd} what is applauded when recognized. | Frequently in Carnegie hall, when a| big artist is giving a concert, he will play & well known piece as an en- | core, and the audience will immedi- | ately begin to applaud. They don't applaud the performer or the plece | he ts playing, but ars applauding | Dr. Spaeth concluded with & ref- erence to the clvic music asseciation tormed in this city and the effort being made to gain sufficient mem- berships to permit the giving of a series of concerts in the eity m. winter. He sald he was firmly vinced that there would be trom 1,000 to 1,500 memberships in the city, that this would produce a fund of $5000 to $7,500, and that this would permit the bringing here of artists of the highest type. “It is the new method of tonczfl- glving and in a short time will be | the only way,” he declared. “Cities have found that by engaging the most prominent artists and selling every eeat there stil was a possibility of not taking in enough money to pay expen And then they have found that by engaging artists with less drawing power, there was more difficulty in filling the house. In both ways somebody was bound to g6 in & hole. The present method is the only way out of the deadlock; it i{s a sane, eco- ! nomie solution and provides the con- | | cert audience in advance.” (BISHOP BREWSTER PLANS TO RETIRE (Continued from First Page) interceasion for each dlocese of the Anglican Communion. “A like idea is carried out here at the cathedral. Each week certain parishes are remembered at the al- | tar. Most aptly this fell out for me | recently at an early celebration here. | The rector of one of the parishes that day to be remembered at the altar had only a few days before come to me with the parochial trou- bles that lay heavily upon him. We may well make more of unity through intercessory prayer. “Notable events in the diocese have been the pre-Lenten conference of the clergy at Choate school. The mission to America of the bishop of Aberdeen and the provost, beginning in Connecticut, was focussed in the commemoration at Woodbury of the anniversary of the consecration of the first bishop of the new world. “The Woman's auxillary has cele- | brated the tenth anniversary of its| able president, Mrs. Acheson, with a year of advance in accomplish- | the | ment, and excellent work on thank offering and by the Comfort club. The like may be said of the Girls’ Friendly society, the Daugh- ters of the King and the Church Misslon of Help. Our good wishes | attended to his new fleld Rev. J. H. Rosebaugh, who had accomplished much as director of religious educa- tion. To that position has succeed- ed Miss Charlotte E. Forsyth, who comes to us with the promise of effi- cient service from the Pittsburgh diocese. “Let us never that torget the church is not a mere haven of re- | fuge. It is an army, serving under our great Captain; and it must en- | list recruits. Let us hope for large results from the campalgn of the church army. The diocesan church rmy van has just been dedicated.” BROCKTON FLAGS ARE PUT AT HALF MAST (Continued from First Page) a convention in Swampscott when informed of her husband's death, Harry C. Howard, 48, was mayor of Brockton {n 1611 and 1912 and | was elected for a third term in 1914. He had been active in municipal politics many years. He leaves a wite, G. Tred Dahlborg, chairman of the Brockton highway commission, leaves a wife and two children, Dor- othy 12, and Emily, 6 Fire Chief Willlam: F., Daley, 89, had been connected with the fire department for 36 years. He leaves | wife and three children. Dr. David Bridewood, 33 and single, had been a general practi- tioner in Brockton for the past five years. Beginners and fi Old Hands alike agree that Rum- ford Baking Powder produces light crisp pastry. It is economi- cal too for Rumford assures lightness with- out over-richness. And because of its well known healthful properties, Rumford actually makes food more nourishing as well as better tasting. RUMFORD BAKING POWDER we Nhu JBrockton Tool company. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928 John Sandberg, 38, was heul:l . |leaves a wife and s month.old son. Dr. Arthur F. Peterson, 41, was city physician in 1933. He is sur- vived by & wite and two young aons. { Dr. Frank W. Moberg, 42 and | single, was & dentist. Knute 8. Salander, 40, was pro- i prietor of the Sheppard Market company. He leaves & wife and two young children. WILL ENROLLATH.S. 1240 From Gentral Hlll Find No Accommodations According to estimated figures of | Principal Louis P. Slade ef the Senlor high school approximately 240 puplls from Central Junior high school will be without accommoda- tions in the present plant when the | fall session of school opens. Cards were received from 440 Junior high school pupils who will ! be graduated in June stating that i their intentions are to enter Senior high school in September. Of this number 216 are from the Nathan | Hale Junior high scheol and 224 are from the Central Junior high school. | Since not more than 200 will 1gradu.‘.\(ed from the Senior high school this June, the balance of | accommedation of pupils who can- not he accornmodated in the present | plant is 240, ‘The acheol board {s faced with | the problem of taking care of these | pupile. not be bullt by September even it !its construction were begun at once, there is the problem of finding room | for the overflow. It is expected that within the school board will appear before the a request for an appropriation iary building between the vocational ; and academic bulldings on Bassett street. She’s Engaged To Horace Dodge Miss Muriel Sisman of Detroit is to become the bride of Horace Dodge, Detroft speedboat manufacturer, in London soon, according to papers both have filed in London. Dodge gave his age as 27: Miss Sisman's age was glven as 24. Super Automatic SAFETY IRON T is called Super-Auto- matic because its im- proved features begin where those of other irons leave off. Unlike other irons, it sutomat- ically tams itself off before reach- ing an excessive temperature end remains off until you tum it on aguin by pressing the red button —itis truly a ssfety iron. Pinger-tip Heat Control permita mrnmn to be regulated to the of cloth being ironed. SURPLUS OF PUPLS | be Since the new annex could | next month representatives of the | board of finance and taxation with | to | finance the construction of an auxil- | HEAVY EXTERS ARE NOT 50 NUMEROUS French Savant Sees People More Gareful of Diet Parls, May 15.~UP—Modern heavy eaters are poor seconds to the 004 trenchermen of days gone by, | o1a records of France indicate. ‘The average French man today |eats 104 pounds of meat a year estimates Roger Dardel, who has made gastronomic researches to up- hold his contention that eivilised imen and women eat less each gen- | eration. The people of the Argentine, with an average of 346 pounds & year iper individual, are the world's heaviest meat eaters today, he saye. Menus of an ordinary dinner served Napoleon I when he was em- peror list two soups, four entrees, two kinds of -roasted meats, vege- | tables, four kinds of sweets and all {the Chambertin wine he could drink. While King Louis XVI was awaliting the guillotine in Temple prison, the records show that for his daily meal he was served three kinds of soup, four entrees, three | kinds of roast, four sweets beside cooked and fresh fruit, cheese and champagne, Bordeau Madeira in any amount he asked. { It took 30 peacocks, six pigs, 66 chickens and 30 squabs to serve the ;mmt courses of & dinner given for | Catherine de Medict and b4 others | |in 1599, I AIRMEN THRILL PUBLIC Ismnu Over City at Noon Provide Big Sky Show for Thousands of Spectators, The noonday erowd had a wartime thrill today when two aviators, Cap- "aln E. W. Fleet and Lieutenant W, | B. Wheatley, flew here from Brain. ard Field, Hartford, and gave a half hour exhibition of stunt flying and combat maneuvering over the ecity. Crowds gathered at every corner {and en the roofs of the buildings and viewed with interest the hair raising stunts. At time the fliers passed each other at so close a range as to make the onlookers believe that the machines would collide. At other | times one of the machines would fly high into the air and then make a semi tail spin, letting out a deaten- ing roar. The exhibition was in connection with the showing of the motion ple- ture “The Legion of the Condemn- ed” which is Leing presented in Hartford and at the Capitol theater in this gity. Visiting Railroad Men Being Entertained Here Ofticials of the Reading and New Haven railroads are being entertain- ed at the Shuttle Meadow club this afternoon by the New Britain Traf- fic Bureau of the Chamber of Com- merce. President W. E. Attwood of the Chamber of Commerce 1 acting as toastmaster. Local factory pres dents are present acting as hosts to Vice-President Hilleary and other officials of the visiting road. Laat ev. ning the rallroad men were guests of President George T. Kimball of the American Hardware corporation at the Farmington Country club for dinner. | An ordinary thimble would hold 1100,000 of the small screws used in making watches, —_— Kilauea, in Hawall, is the llu'nt active voleano in the world, 100 FOR YOUR OLD IRON In Trade for a NEW UNIVERSAL Super-Automatic! i 75¢ DOWN $1.50 a Month. Repiace ‘your old from mow with one that will make froming a pleasure instead of a burden. Power Co. wine and | Must Reduce To Sing In Opera Twenty pounds too heavy was the verdict of Leon Rothier of the Met- ropolitan Opera Company when Miss Leah Horne (above) of Cleveland sang before him. 8o she's going te lose the 20 and Rothier has promise¢ to train her for opera. Miss Horne's only instructor prior to her audition | was the phonograph. He May Succeed Floyd Bennett Lieut. Wilmer Stultz of Paterson, N. J., who was pilot for Charles A. Levine in his Havana flight, and haa been designated as chief reliet pilot for the Antarctic expedition of Come mander Richard E. Byrd, may suc. ceed the late Floyd Bennett as chief pllot of the Byrd plane. Stultz was pilot of Miss Frances Grayson's . plane, Dawn, last summer in three unsuceessful starts to cross the At. lantic. He won his rank as a war fiyer. NO EXCHANGES NO APPROVALS FRANCE AND ITAL SEEKING ACCORD Hope to0 SattloAlrim Colonial Probloms Paris, May 15, (P—Ttaly is win- ning back her place as a great Mediterranean power and at the same time she and France are soothing the sore apots that have worried the two peoples ever sinde the war. WEen Yaly salned her polat that ahe should take part in the inter- national conference over Tangiers, the Moroccan city governed joint- iy by France, England and Spain | with the co-operation of the United States as a sort of silent partner, it | was recognized by the great powers ilhn Mussolinl must hereafter be consulted in all affairs regarding { the Mediterranean. | Aside from this big principle and |as & corollary of it, there are & number of questions still to be settled. One of these is a aslight rectitication of frontier in the heart of the great African desert an- other the status of the Italians in Tunis. Amicable adjustment of these two problems, statesruen are confident, will pave the way to cordial relations between the two countries. The frontier territory in queation |18 just south of the boundary of the Italian colony of Tripoli, eon- quered from the Turks in 1911, It is in Western French Africa, in the {region of Tibestl, and has here- tofore been mostly renowned as the headquarters of desert robbera. For some other reason it has some value and Italy wants it. Monsieur de Beaumarchais who re- cently went to Rome as French ambaasador, with the special mis- slon of ironing out the wrinkles in diffieult, but optimism prevals here ment. This question was, in & way, the outcome of the Franco-Pruasian | war and, in another way, the origin | of the triple-alllance of Germany, | Austria and Italy against France. | _ Bismarck suggested Tunis to the French. It posed that he did it in order to | turn the attentlon of France from her lost provinces. He succeeded in inducing the republic to embark on another colonial enterprise and at the same time to make for itselt ‘an enemy in Italy. | _When France occupled Tunis, in | May, 1861, there were 80,000 {Italians and 40,000 French in the | country, out of a population of 1,- 1700,000. The Italians, in view of their predominance over any other European people looked upon Tunis as their sphere of influence. Provoked by the French @ccupa- |t|on. they turned to Berlin and the Triple Alliance followed. The coolness caused by this dis- pute wore off and long before the world war France and Italy had | worked back {nto bester relations. 'The preponderance of the Italians NO C. 0. D's 169 MAIN | Franco-Itallan relations, is negoti- | ating with Mussolin! for its cmlon.i The Tunisian question is more | as to its final satisfactory settle- | has always been sup- | over the French in Tunis persisted, however, and the status of the Italian inhabitants became & thorny question. The Itallan gov- ernment has always maintained duy lhauld be allowed to retain nationality. The Frend: 'ovarnment has held that the offapring of Italians who settle in Tunis, must, unless they return to thelr native land before their | majority, be considered as Tuni- | sians, In/ view of the eventual diffi- culties that might arise from the presence in the colony of an over- whelming majority of people of a different nationality the French atill stand firm on this point, and look to the Italian “to yleld to the inevitable.” The less specific claims of Italy for facilities for expansion are re- garded - here as concerning France oaly as one of the European powers and as not at all standing in the way of an understanding on par- ticular French-Itallan questions, There is in some quarters appre- hension that difficulties may turn up later by reason of the Franco- Yugoslav alllance, but the best posted diplomata are of the opinion that Italy will consider French h!‘m nluhumonum-um | Palseas aze 120 daageroRs -R-0 does not containareenic, phosphorus, | Barium carbonate or any deadly e evzd [ mll a8 noolllznd!d Agricy hllt "Rn Control.” 50% Miner, STREET friendship worth more than the problematic benefits of a contlict in the Balkans. As for the extreme Fascist pre- tentions to Nice and Savoy, they have ceased even to be thought of in France. ORCHESTRA HAS REHEARSAL The last rehearsal of the season was held by the New Britain Com- munity orchestra in the old Mormal school auditorium last night. Re- hearsals will be continued next fall preparatory to the giving of an or- chesteal concert. At the close of the rehearsal lnu night the instrumentalists gave &% rising vote of appreciation to the conductor, Per Olsson, for his ster- ling efforts in behalf of the orches- tra. -Among the works played have been two symphonies, the Schubert Unfinished and the Beethoven Eroica. Jt was announced that by next fall there would be important {nstru- mentalists added, including an oboe- ist, French horn player, also more strings. At present the lineup in- cludes-around 25 players. Themistocles led the Greek fleet against the Persians at the battle of Salamis in ¢80 B. 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