Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1910, Page 20

INCERS HAVE A NICAT'S FON “Tannhaeuser” as it is Burlesqued at | & Kuenstlerfest. [ NESTROY'S PARODY PERFORMED _mrs of Opera Show Charmcters in New Form—German Ideas of Fan Expressed at Wage ner's Bupense. NEW YORK, April 16.—Nothing else 1s evér supposed among Germans to be so funny as a Kuenstlertest. It is German fun, of courss, that this sort of party supplies and the serious, thoroughgoing, elaborate Teutonlo fun makes a profound impression on thoss that like it. Persons who had previously been unfamiliar with this kind of humor have during the Jast two opera wea- sons had an opportunity to make its me- aaintance, the German wing of the com- pany at the Metropolitan Opera house. which is destined to diminish next season (o #uch an extent that & fest of any kind on the part of fts members may be impos- #iblo, having each season provided a Kuenstiorfest for the delectation of the New York public. The Iatest performance took place at the Hotel Astor, when there was presented a historic German parody. This was Nestroy respectful perversion of ‘“Tannhauser,’ which has long been a popular production for auch trivolous oocasions. The work was composed and arranged a long time ago, and Is described on the program as “farce of the future with music of the past and groupings of the present,” which is enough to show that it was prepared when ‘Wagtar's musio was still called the music %ot the future. The action of the drama was | interrupted by musio from time to time, | and there were four scenes to show how | much of the original story of “Tannhauser’ had been retained. There were few persons in the large ball- room of the Astor who were not famili with the atory of “Tannhauser” and few who did not remember Elizabeth, as Milka Ternina used to embody her and as Johanna Gadski does it now. Then there were a host of Wolkrams von Eschenbachs before Robert Blass' made that gentlemen Just as comic as Bella Alten did Klizabeth when she disguised her beauty and put on long pigtalls and cavorted through the Bellobte Faum of Pachenbach for fun and charity. These two portraits from “Tannhauser' ware no more iconoclastie than that of the titular hero who fell to the diminutive Albert Reiss, who is not only funny aimost | always, but almost the funnlest man in | &rand opera, unless Otto Goritz happens to b6 on the stage. How little like the average Tannhauser he looks the picture will show. | It was natural that Otto Gorits, wanted to make aq much fun out of his tor his burlesque the most sericus part in the character as possible, should select opera, the “Landgrat,” uncle of Blizabeth In the parody he is described as a musical énthusiast, which he shows in the original | only by organizing the singing contest in his drawing room Adolf Mublmann, who s such a serious Wotan and Hunding, chose to appear as the shepherd who sits on the rock and pipes his little lay when the scene changes and the Venusberg gives place to the cool morn- ing helghts of Eisenach. This part s ai r:%- Vs CANADIAN ways sung by a woman, and there have been some notably beautifully exponents of the role in former years. Does anybody remember Olympla Guercia the boy She was the fairest to look upon, although thers used also to be the brunette beauty | of Carrie Bridewell to gaze on in the part From both of these Mr. Muhimann differs widely. It wa tot only In his face that he was unlike every other shepherd that sang the music; there were his feet mliso | to, distinguish him. There never was even an echt Deutsch interpreter of the shep- herd boy with feet like those. Every effort was made by Jode LA COLONIE CANADIENNE i\ as Otto Gorits 74 | Eschenbach, the family has the burlesque indicate t the lord of died. Just how delicately intimated this situation is shown by picture of the Trauerbote with the weeds flowing from either brim of his hat This the keynote of the throughout the evening and ther when lovers of Wagner's opera de ngly marked a spirit of dis- respect in the scenes. One of these was Ratael Joseffy, who Is & great admirer of the work and found little to delight him in the massacre of such ideals of it as he had was galety “THE GAME I8 ON." and Andreas Dippel whose principal part in the preparation of the fest was to put no difficulties in the way of his colleague, w0 that the burlesque was from a musical standpoint up to & high average. To this end the phrase, “Wolfram von reginne,”” sung by the pages when the contestants in the seengerkrieg In to start was entiusted to four conduc- There have been many occasions on which this music has becn Incorrectly sung #0 the four chorus conductors and accom see panists were selected that there might be | no grounds for criticlsn, They were Richard Hagemann, Edward Falek, Johanr. Heldenreich and Dr. Joki, They may not have been as beautiful as the blue and white women with the taper- ing waiste and the plump limbs that look s0 little like boys in “Tannhauser” at the Metropolitan, but they were heard once they sald “beginne” although the sound may not have been so melodious as it sometimes fs. But it was musicianly and that always covers a multitude of sins. There were all the scenes of the regula- tion “Tannhauser.” parted to show the abode of Frau Venus|nounce the death of his fathe; PREFERRED. World Movement for an Int O THE historian of the future, the close of the nineteenth cen- tury will mark a social triumph for which the wprld has long walted—the passing of the glory and prestige of armed conflict. For The Hague conference of 188 sounded the moral doom of war. Henceforth, stripped of its glamour, regulated by inter- national agréement and hedged in by pre- ventives, war will be regarded as & d plorable, if necessary, evil. Even the great armaments under which the nations stag- &er are vehemently declared to be a form of peace insurance; and surely the heavy premiums paid attest the international dread of the conflict, But If the moral doom of war has struck, its material doom is the task of the twen- tieth century, and judged by the events of & Uncade, nobly has the century begun its wo k. Evon the cereless observer of recent events must observe in the peace move- ment a new working principle, hitherto somewhat obscured—that of practicality. Tdealism and sentiment have done a great work in bringing about abhorrence of war and will take their part in the century to come; but the kaleidoscoplc changes and | striking anomalies of the last decads have brought out very strengly the need of an additional element of practical -common- sense. Eleven years have seen two Hague conferences; eight cases of arbitration car- ried to The Hague tribunal; 100 treaties of International erbitration, some of them of unlimited scope; sixty or more arbitrations & great war brought to An end and another probably aver®T by machinery made po: le by The Hague conference; and everywhere growing evi- dence of internationa! good-will, And yet, Stp by step with the progress toward | 0°0¢e have gone ever increasing armaments | uatil the world groans under their burdens. | \What does it mean? Must armament keep 1ace with arbitration? If so, peace and economie ruln are synonymous terms. Or 40 armaments exist becauss as yvet arbitra- t'on has effercd no trustworthy -un-mume‘l { this be true, the situation calls for calm | reasoning and practical institutions, Doubt- less present armaments are excessive; un- | questionably they are a crushing burden; | economically they are open to justifiable attack: but it there any evidence that dis- armament of the nations toworcoy #pell peace? Are armaments not an effeet Tather than & cause? And does net the practical remedy Ile rather in a: interna- tional court of such character that it wil)| command the respect of the nations and | attract an increasing number of classes of | cases while armaments will and iess needed and finally, less? veula become less perhaps, use- | When the first Hague conference created the Hague court it took the first and longest step in this practieal campaign The court was the practical Jdnstru ment the gre minds of the na‘fon cruld then devise: but, Vike all nsw {nstitut ons. it required time to expose its defects Today Its imperfections seem giar ng: nev ortheles: It has attracted eight cases. has demonstrated the wisdom of its establish- ment. and. more than this. 4t hus paved the w for a real International eourt of Justice It further evidence (s needed of the practical trend of publie thought, it may b found in the woant notice given the sub- Ject of disarmament In the second Hague conference and the great amount of at- tention given to the propomtion. urged most emphatioally by the delegates from the United States. for the establishment of a Judic'al arb'tration eourt, combining a'l the vantages of the existing Haxus ecourt and overcoming its obvious A vARtages & court to convist of approximately fiftesn fudges (not diplomar under salary pald by the nations jointly, with annual seesions and a delexation always at The Hague and | tegdy for business. The existing court iv unwieldly and hard to set into oprration for each case & tribuna) must be selectsd | from & numercus paneli the arbitrators | are paid by the litigant nations, and the | dsclaion s often & compromise or a diplo- | matie solution rather than & fust verdier, | What individual would rest easy with ap | Important case (n the hands of & loeal | court thus organiaed® And yet The Hague court has been entrusted with muwuu:‘l most problems of a very delicate nature, in- cluding the Casa Blanca dispute between I'rance and Germany and the pending North Atlantic fisheries case, which I almost a century has baffled the diploma: of the United States and Great Britain. What more striking proot is needed that the new court, with none of these defects, would be eagerly sought for the Alspos tlon of many troublesome questions lurk- ing in the archives of different state de- partments, and would, as it won the con- fidence of the nations, naturally attract all but the most grave disputes The second Hague conference gave the new court all but existence; only the mothod of appointing judges remains, and this could not be solved because the smaller nations inslsted that the equality of states be recognized. Obvicusly a judge from each nation would defeat the purpose of the court by making it cumbersome and expensive. But while no plan for dividing fiftean judges among forty-four natlons could be devised. the conference o left the matter that any number of natlons, by appointing judges after a plan they may agree upon, may establish the court for themselves. And hers the matter rested untll recently Secretary Knox made his proposal that the international prize court provided by The Hague conference be given tne functions and jurisdiction of the judicial arbitration court, thereby solving the question of apportionment of judges and utllizing existing machinery. It should be remembered, however, that in the prize court the small nations waived their in- terpretation of equallty of states on the ground that the great powers would have more use for the court; therefore they may not yet be ready to accept the same ap- portionment of judges for the judiclal ar- bitration court. Whether It would be wise for a number of nations to establish the court for themsclves on & barls that would probably be unacceptable to some of the others brings us again to the keynote of the movement, practically. Whether the third Hague conference solves the problem or it s solvad by the nations before that conference, it is safe to predict that the world’s statesmen will never dispose of the subject 1n other than a practical way. The nations will Lot be swept into fll- considered aetion, and when thelr peoples are brought from Indifference to an ap- preciation of the practical nature of the movement their delegates to future Hague conferences will have no excuse for op- posing any plan of appointing judges that appealgto the practical, common sense of a dre majority. Publle education on this subject {s fos- ernational Court who was described as the proprietress of |& delicatessen weilar, that woman in the | | person of Rosina Van Dyck had an apron | about her shapely waist and was prepared | to serve Helnrich Tannhauser with what- ever he wanted to eat. More amazing. however, from the scenic polnt of view was the set of the Wartburg. There musical instruments of every kind |and of mammoth sizé formed the pillars and walls in the theure halle In propriately grotesque background for the guests who arrived at Herr Landgraf's musicale. In the first act the who passed by Eisenach on their way to Rome wore silk hats of a more or less ven- erable vintage and smoked cigars. In the manner of their costuming for the party they were still more peculiar. is unable to come is usually dressed black in regular performances of the opera and there is often the opportunity for touching acting on the part of the singer of Elizabeth. Sometimes the messenger is while in other cases there ls a mourning woman to which | Blisabeth sings and they formed an ap- | pligrims | The messenger who comes with the news | of a death in the famlily of the guest who | in | When the curtains|@ child dressed in black, who seems to an- | previously | 1t has always been clever parody of th | mueh & part of the » | anything in it, and that | oar of those tamiliar with | opera s fust as strong stage. B 1 sald that Westroy's oss of theWork ae appeal 1o the the score of the burlesque as the sic I8 & more irama. It would indeed be a sensitive who was of- tended by the bur t Wagner's that imparts its greatest merit burlesque of ‘“Tannhaus | antics on the | subtle form of satire | v | THE PERSUASIVE POPPIES. — tered by scorés of conferences and societi throughout this and other countries; and most of the peace socleties are joining In this practical movement toward a world court. Internationally the Interparliamen- tary uplon, with a vast membership of legislators of every nation, including some 200 members of our own congress, headed by Hon. Richard Bartholdt of Missour, is the greatest force of this nature. Among the more powerful American agencles are the American Soclety of International Law, under the presidency of Benator Root; the American Assoclation for International Conclliation, managed by President Nicho- las Murray Butler of Columbia university; the new American Socley for the Judicial Scttlement of International Disputes, cently organized in Baltimore by Mr. Theodore Marburg, with Hon. James Brown Stott, solicitor of the State depart- ment, to whom fell the bulk of the tech- nical work of the United States at the second Hague conference, as president; the American Peace soclety and Its many branches, under the guidance of its veteran secretary, Dr, Benjamin F. Trueblood; and the Lake Mohonk Conference on Interna- tiopal Arbitration, founded by Mr, Albert K. Smiley and presided over at several meetings by Judge George Gray of Dela- re- | ware and the veteran diplomat, Hon. John (OMMANDANT AND f P W. Foster, ex-secretary of state. The Lake Mohonk Conference, especially, since its inception in 189 has been insistent in its demand for an international court and the proposed court will be the leading subject of its sixteenth annual meeting, which will be held at its founder's unique and picturesque summer home at Mohonk Lake, N. Y., May 18-%. President Nicho- Ias Murray Butler of Columbla university will preside, and among the speakers ex- pected are the ministers to the United States from Bollvia, Sweden, Norway, ractical Arbitration Switzerland and Belgium; Baron d'Estour- nelles de Constant of France; the dean of Worcester, England; the chief justice of Ontario, the Canadian minister of labor, the governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Jersey; Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom of New York, Hon. A, J. Montague of Vir- ginia, Hon, H. B. F. Macfarland and Hon, Jackson H. Ralston of Washington; Hon. Simeon ¥, Baldwin of New Haven, Hon, Peter W. Meidrim and Mr. Pleasant A. Stovall of Savannah, Ga.; ex-President Eliot of Harvard university and Presi- First Meeting with Hrewer, ANY years ago, relates the Washington Times, the late Judge Brewer of the supreme court was a county judge In frontler Kansas, Traveling one day in a stage coach he met a young man, who, accompanied by his wife and & red-headed 2-year-old boy, was just moving into the state. The judge became wcquainted with the father and mother, and Insisted—for the Features of Everyd austere judge of later years was in those days a mighty good politiclan—that that boy was & fine chap, who would surely make his mark in the world. The proud parents beamed appreciation, and the judge reached for the infant and took him on his lap. Instantly there was insurrection. The prodigy didn’t propose to be jollled by an old chap out looking for votes, He kicked the judge viclously, ana finklly, reaching out a very determined little paw, scratched Cooer Orpren _OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL REGIMENT - 19 LIBUTENANT HASKELL, COI"A«HD.AR‘!‘ OF CADETS (SITTING). FIRST ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT)—~CAPTAIN ALLAN TUKEY, CAPTAIN AND ORDNANCE OFFICER JOSEPH BURGER, CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT WARREN HOWARD, MAJOR CHARLES HOFFERT. MAJOR GEORGEH GEIB, CAPTAIN ROBERT M'CAGUE. Y SECOND ROW—CAPTAINS CHESTER NIEMAN, CLARENCE PATTON, ALFRED KENNEDY, CHANDLER TRIMBLE. MILTON WEEKS LUMIR BURESH. CALVIN - THIRD ROW (LEPT TO RIGHT)—FIRST LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT CLAUDE SHRUM; FIRST LIBUTENANT AND ADJUTANT EDWARD BURNHAM, FIRST LIE PHILIP PAYNE, FIRST LIEUTENANTS JOSEPH CARNABY, VERNON MAGNEY, FOURTH ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT)-SECOND LIBUTENANTS ROBERT FINLEY, LEON NELSON, NASH, TANT M CULLOUGH. TOPF ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT)-SECOND LIEUTENANTS CHARLES HUDSON, LEONARD OH MILLS, CLARENCE ALLEN AND CLARENCE WASBERG. £ Ton JOHN CUTRIGHT, FRED FERNALD, RICHARD BARNES, JAMES M'ALLISTER AND PHILIP 10 University of Vermont and Mitchell of the University of South Carolinaj Profa, | Paul 8. Reinsch of the University of Wise consin and John B. Clark of Columbis uni« versity; and Editors Walter H. Page of the “World’s Work,” Robert L. O'Brien of the Boston Transcript and Dr. G. Wi| Prothero of the London Quarterly Reviews, Some 200 distingulshed men and women, representing all classes and every part of the country, will be in attendance. the judicial countenance from ear to chin. Three sharp little nails scraped off threa | furrows of skin, and there was great Cflan cern and a very small teifle of real bloods shed, { Thirty-odd years passed, and one night | at & White House reception, Judge Brewen | walked up to a young man and asked: “Pardon me, but I am Justice Brewerq | may I ask your name?" “I am Representative Victor Murdock of your own state of Kansas, and I am very glad to meet you, sir,” replied the young man. “Well,” said the judge, “I was sure you were the one. You're the red-headed brat that scratched all the skin off my face in | the stage coach near Wichita about thirtys | five years ago. Young man, you're In | contempt of court; and it you ever get | before ms in dus judiclal form, I'll make ! you smart for it. Why, I'm strongly | minded to take you and spank you for it right now. You look to me just about big | enough to begin to be spanked. i Knew Where There Was Onme. The father of Senator Dolliver of lowa was a Methodist circuit rider in the eary sixties in northern West Virginia ‘emu Norman E. Mack's Monthly | to / moralize tuins of ¥Lrap copper flexible tor | whien | the tlow k- |On the se | than | Thix secondary One Sunday morning he was on his way preach at one of his several appointe ments when he met a young fellow trudg= ing along with a mattock on his shoulde Mr anxious to do good &t any time his horse and sald: “Good are you going this your shoul- Dolliver stopped my won, where with & mattock der? The young fellow answered, "I am ® to dig up a fine big ground hog; where in thunder are you g0+ ing? 1 am looking up some of the lost sheep of Isreal,” replied the minister The young fekow's face lighted up and There's a big buck over Billy's il bet that's morning tine i on here he exclaimed a Here at Uncle one of them.” and Milliner’s Pursuit of Secret (Continued from Page One.) ilated sheet of the transformer trom neighbor. I these sheets allowed to form a cons Unuous body of metal the rapid magnetize~ demagnetization of the core cddy currents” of electricity, core Itself which would entirely de- the action of the colls and subs ject the machine to overheating. Wound upon the core will be twenty-o which may be call hut which is more properly & buss bar. This big copper conduse will carry the heavy volume of eurreny is to pour through the primary at voltage from transformation into he high frequancy current of 100,000 volts. \dary winding will be mere turns of No. 2 copper wire, winding, it stretohed euty tion which in: each core its would set up in the wire 10,000 | would reach & distance of approximatelg ten miles MAJOR BARTON DAVIS w1UGO HEYN, UTENANT AND ADJU- HOFFMAN, FIRST LIEUTENANTS STANLEY BERANEK, STUART GOULD, GEORGE SUGANMMAN A voltage of 100000 is not to be handied vith the indifferent care of an ordinary po immersed in oll for the purpose of g additional security in insulation snd ki down the temper while 1n operatior The completed ti tween 2700 and 3,00 pounds. ¥ r oircult. The transormer is to be former will welgh g | dents Schurman of Cornell, Buckbar of the, ‘ i