The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1905, Page 9

= Evening World's +) ease aes THEATR EAR LIGERT THEAT “We Mustn’t Go Into the Gutter for Our Popular Music’--- Masses Can Appreciate Much Better Music than Is Ordi- narily Given Them---Herbert Calls ‘Parsifal” a Bluff, and| Believes It Will-Die in Bay-| reuth of the Blow It Has ; Received Here. OPULAR music,” defined Victor Herbert, “is the kind you want to whistle but can’t the 6¢ firat time you hear {t, If you could whistle { it'the first time you tried {t wouldn’t be pop- wlar muste for long. It would die an early death of un- popularity, Thot'e the difference between popular and cheap music.” And Mr. Herbert smiled his genial, gleaming, teethy smile as though to add, “Hope my answer will answer.” I don't know any one more qualified to answer such a question than Mr. Herbert. ular was evidenced by the veritable saengerfest which | characterized the return of ‘Babes in Toyland” to the Majestic Theatre on Monday, The audience not only sat and listened; orchestra under Mri Herbert's affectionate guardianship That his music fe truly pop- | not only know whether the light musical entertainment pecullar to Broadway is what it should be, but they can tell at first glance and sound whether the Walter or tho Eva {s doing ‘I'he Metstersingor’ justice, and whether Tristan and Isolde are living up to traditions,” “But the plain people who whistle, what do you know about them?” I asked, “I know them not only in the theatre, but tn the street,” he answered. “I’m often stopped in the street by some fellow who will say, ‘I beg your pardon, Mr. Herbert, but how does the rest of this song go: Toyland, toyland, little girl and boyland?’—now, that’s 3 far as Tecan get. I thought I had it, but it’s given me. 6 slip.” | 4 “And'you hum the rest of it for him?" \ “Yes, why not? If he wants to get it, I’m gla: to be able to help him.” “Strangers do this?” “Yes, strangers to me, but they know me by sizht, 1 suppose, and that’s sufficient, isn’t it? Why shouldn’t they speak to me? I hope thero's nothing about me to frighten people,” Hvidently not, In the cafe where we were sitting every newsboy who stole through the door made straight for the big, godd-natured looking chap and was given a fatherly pet on the head and a “Yes, dear,’ or ‘No, dear," when he piped “Paper, sir?” Salvation Army lassles, too, kept him plunging into his pockets, “Why, you were here just a minute ago,” he protested to one blue-bonneted solicitor who was a living contra- {t sat and hummed; hummed when the | diction of the amiable fiction that “salvation 1s free,” “That was anocher one,” Sister So-and-So informed played a medley of his charming airs, hummed when | him, lovely but larger Bessie Wynn took “Toyland” on her | tongue, and clicked through “that sum” with the Widow | coin, Piper's unmathematical children, The proof of popu- larity, like that of the plum pudding, was in the eating— and that audience surely did “eat” Mr, Herbert's delect- able munto, “Yes, they did hum, didn't they?” he chuckled, “rts lag larity. This was the case with ‘Parsifal.’ What do I| nice to have an audience that’s a real hummer, So much} think of it? “I.beg your pardon,” he apologized, fishing for another w wt wt vy OMETIMES,” resumed Mr, Herbert when the happy lassie had gone jingling on her way, “musical works seem to have a mistaken popu- I think {t'was a bluff. I believe with nicer than having an audience that makes you feel !t {s| Jimmy Huneker that Wagner wrote {t because he feared sitting thoze with a brick behind {ts back, Give an audi-| Bayreuth was threatened with the danger of being ence what !t wants and {t will give you what you want, | robbed of its pilgrims hy Oberammergau, ‘If they want An audience, given half a chance, is an awfully good fel- | mysticism, I will give them mysticiam,' he probably de- | ¢ " a ved int iI And, too, the good | ofded, and so he gave thom ‘Parsifal,’ There'{s, of course, \ When a fash of lighting testores her low, especially a New York ardionce, ‘will of a New York audience follows you out of town and |gome beautitul music !n ‘Parsifal,’ the prelude and makes you fee) that a friond in nood {a a friend indeed, | Good Friday Spell,’ for inatance, ‘To be sure, Wagner Tho attitude of an out-of-town audience {# influenced | wonderfully by the magic of a Now York {ndorsement, Itaa ied passport to favor,” “A wa wv “A ri rihagedesuvy- sv st a popular muslé," said tho canny Victor, credit for, 7 Seances muatn't go down Into the gutter for.| Ohriut was anything like Pavsifal I’m glad I never met | c, “The | him, massos, as thoy are called, can appreciate much | @ man, Amerioans werg discerning enough to see through ‘The ‘was & great man, but ‘Parsifal’ {a not the great work of | the necessity the componer waa under to'repeatedly bor- row from himsolf, And aa.for the character, if Jeous But I am sure he wasn't, for Ohrist, fret of all, wes A piss, {has been played upon her si Q great man, All through it are signs of Impotence and! and Shelly surrenders her thro ‘Home Mogazine, Rael. Ao f /\ ' sital’ has finally received here will means of kifling ‘Parsifal’ at Bayreuth, I think Frau Cosima feared this, and that {t was this fear which made her go bitterly opposed to the work being given ih this éountry. We may be lacking in some things here, but we are not lacking in good, everyday common sense.” s a a NB of tho things we do lack, according to the ott spoken Herbert, is “atmosphere,” from one end, to the “To get color, the American com- poser must go abroad. Unless he has an individ- vality which amounts to genius and iifts him out of bis surroundings, he cannot stay here and become a great composer, Kipling would never have written the stories. This country is the other,” he sald. he did it be had not gone to India | Weitten them on the gray walle of Londen, In literature, agin music, there must be ‘color,’ there must be an in- definable something behind {t all, We have no national music, We have no folk songs, We have no pictiresque THEATRE, | peasants, Our peasants are farmers with whisk New Plays by Shaw, Belasco and Thomas Next Week. EW plays by Shaw, Belasco and Thomas and the revival of a Henry Arthur Jones comedy, not to mention an addition to the ourrent Ust of musical contedies, will make next week in the theatres one of the moat dmportant of the season, On Monday night at the Garrick] . ‘Theatre Arnold Daly, now @ Ltebler atar, will come forward as the impe- Qunlous dentist in George patti Ge Shaw's mixture of wit ond parca: bie te Never Can a Dna 8 5 Beir ge er Lae wing a? ey, eee eat Ht William} Harwood, Mr, Bohun, end Gumiee Ok Gard, Ealllp clandan ai On the same night ar Charles Wyhd- hum arid Miss Mary Moore will begin oper thetr ninth week at the New Lyceum | ' Theatre with a revival of The Case of Rebellious Susan,” which was x pee at the nd Lyceum Theatre in 164, Thiy is one of the most nen, and of ‘Henry Arthur, Jones's come: ire it Mr. Wyndbam and Miss Moore 01 ie roles o fir Richa st Susan Harabin, ~ Sir chara i) 4 wise uncle of Lady Busan, to tell her ars ane ie not as she pretends t > be. whi wiltul as Augustus dihiotia “tent comedy, which will be launched by Charles Frohman at the Savoy Theatre on Wednesday evening, is named “Mrs, eaanny t Boots." The boots’ were once found In @ young architeot's at Bar Harbor, Where they were | Dl een by a mischlef-maker, and AA nth game gentleman and Mra, hewelt are ate r driven x. a storm jnto sami house at Larchmont nah tnay'd husband has & fresh attack of dni areata complications, occur, Bey Davis Ld iJ others tn the com) pany ate venaio Bane ley, Margaret Tiltngton, Dorothy Ham: mond, William Courtenay, pV ipoent 8 rano, Ernest Tawfond and J, H, Barnes, “Adrea" is the title “ot the play in which Mrs. Carter will be puke stall, Belasco Theatre on Wednesday even- Ing. It ta by David Belasco and Jotin Luther Long, who gave us The Darling an even o acenc# are laid on the Imaginar, island of Adrea, in the ‘Adriatic Sen, Two sisters love the same man, One of the: he queen—is blind, and is d the court jeat vision and she discovers the Frick that |the man she loves, | plot, to be put ti Tom a worse fate, she herself file ain him, 8 to {Slater's chi ‘Ne cast will inalude rone Power, Charles A, Bt ude 2 D, MoLoan, Claude Gillin or, LA Grimm, Fadlth Mane Marla Davia end Corah Adams M; Pe Jefferson” de Angous {a the atar of “Fantana,"* @ musical comedy of Japan: of the Gods," and it promises to be of | more ploturesque ohagaoter, | MW ecsgusrwne * paviey Saturday Evening, | ty) Warrie0 i il eventually te the Once put it, I'm Cd gests avi.” He:could not have “All rot! Tm York. introduction at the Lyrio Theatre on nex Baturdey night. 8am H, Shu moa ithe prod and tl nate, macy Taha the jie Ba sre Be Cd Mike, ran rat George s 8 @ David Warfield will move to the Bijou A iid Musto Master” on Monday e'e f The Klaw & Prlanger Comedy Com- pany bdegina ‘ita third week at th {| ldberty "Theatre in John J, MoNaily’ musical play ‘In Newport” Monday evening with the introduction of a new feature called a ‘Glibert and Sullivan Rovlew,"’ arréugod by Brederick Bolo- wit tape five tea of’ Poni nar yi ret wit nafore, rater Ts Dalby Tp Bat the ‘a Coyne, ite and Obezies ieee Ick se the Murray 2 Theatre opens its an tonight ivold the cag eoarrit n Ce nd yn Tue on a Honor the Ma or the"s ify pt the | pesased next ge) ° pe Tey nt he aged cor gor: te ‘peon in piheta ° , George Primrose and his minstre) company, which includes Eddie Leon- ard, will begin a week's engagement night, lem Overa-House, "At the Old Cross(Roade'’ at ted gia for a hibact will be &t the Metropolis, Theatre will have will be told at will want” bed oa "A hatte owicnst ys ivite'a Secret” raoked Around the World” to the Windsor, it heade =the | London Will _be at the Dewey, Dainty Duchess will be at the Gotham, of g at leading theatres will mela rly in “Cousin Billy Adams, In "The L Allen In hen you dont agres with che moral of "The Kreutzer Bonatat! " ‘was the impatient reply. Gece ‘may give music a wicked meaning, bat fanade tn {taelt can never'be qullty of evil.” hfe at the Grand Opera-House on Monday wi teely James pokett, in “The Fortunes of the wing Will ‘move to the Har- Brive ald Burlesquers} ;| Sunday World Want Direatory to-mor- Bidou THearna,, an American in heart and home, but, dé Jimmy Huneker ‘an Irishman by birth, a German by edu- cation, and an American by experience,’ t music there is in me from my mother and ty industry, perhaps, I owe largely to Ametios.” “You work eastiy?”’ “It's ike play. T can work from 8 in the! morning until midnight without gotting the least bit tired, 1’ wrote four operas in one summer, If 1 haven't anything | 2? + Agnons Ointment soothesall aig else to do I write symphonies, Nobody wants to hear ‘ig them, but I write out of sheer pleasure. in the work. I've got to be doing somothing, snd muslo {9 always beanttful,’ it 1s always good; it 9 never vile, It appents tothe best there fein us, Dr. Hillis was speaking to me of this only this afternoon, Musto, in {teelf, Lasiul g what hi “Words ar ® CHARLES DARNTON, | Haines "4 ian Upon rr ba all np at t Carnesi« beds) night, yi ‘ ‘Thursday He, rs Broth ‘a0t- rea Tne 4 Oy Ante s8 ‘act pl Th last of the. Victor efi ce a HE VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS. At Hammerstein's noxt week the bill will include Henry 1, Dixey and oom- pany, the Imperial Japariess Guards, Barney Fagan and Henriétta Byron, the Three Dumonds, Ward and Curran, Jennie Yeamané and others, aly id Keith’ ee have Be aoe ee Male abet ara and A if Ha baie i Hs Penman wil thei aa Mil Goh ooenenny fees @ Miles ordale Ville pil A Rock comngany vm new feature at Theatre, where be headed by A ‘ the. He ae mare ae be Street, at Th aby ny the. Bali Brothers Bergere iy Mi ca in t yent Wife," iu be ry ‘liners it the cane. fe re, “The bill will algo inelude Tt. TAs wies, Will Hi, ‘Murphy ‘and Blazohe irate & Seamon wit a 1} and Mi ielay "In mn Coo! dd Mi. it rel otk ore a apay Wiss “and felolse, Jennie *pamans will be the onville ‘Theatre’ iner, and the bil jae Ae clude The. aufman Troupe, rts, Hayes and Roberts; Youle tnd Bowen, | Howard and North, Russell and Buok- {!y, and Lf and Lore! i ony Pi or wu offer Coriahian berg ack, Wessen, Dixon and Holmes, Micbon afd and Ington, the Great ‘Marinellas she mare | Mpdoank, and many others, John i, Burke returns to Huber's Muscum with his syree-act comedy “Tanaled Relations," There will be additions to the “World | In Wax” at the den Musee, IN BROOKLYN, Henry |W. aah’ 8 production of ‘Pars!fal” tp English will be offered ac the Montauk Theatre, — -| Over 500 Men, Women, Boys and Girls Seeking Kmploymeut Will offer thelr services through the Jan. Hi . 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