The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1919, Page 24

A OE FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919 New York’s Newest Music | Oldest in All America; It Has Only Five Notes It’s the Tribal Music of the Ancient Incas, a Lost Race of Americans, and It Has Been Brought Here From Peru by Carlos Valderrama, Who Buried Himself in the Trackless Forests to Find It. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall 1019, by the Pree P (The New York Evening Worl) Coppright oy “Co, HO 1a going to put Inca Music on Broadway W Who is going to “discover” Carlos Valdermma, -Peruvian pianist and composer, and himself the discoverer of what is probably the oldest American music in existence—so old that it is due to become New York's newest sen- sation? The succulent symphonies of Hawaii have tinkled into tiresomeness for the New York ear, although doubt-| less they are still going strong on the graphophones of Kalamazoo and Epping Four Corners, Even in the dancing restaurants of Longacre Square there are fickle souls who are beginning, to Jeer at jazz, so long thelr one and only musical love. What is going to be done about it? “Give me nov- elty or give me death,’ says New York, Just this week novelty has popped into town via a South American steamer, and The Evening World fs first to introduce “New York—Mr. Carlos Valderrama!" the South American Republics, and was the delight of American dough- boys at the camps in the Canal Zone Ho is a simple, forceful young man, well set up and with fine brown Jeyes, but utterly devoid of any ma nee affectations, His repertoi rious includes many classi cal selections, and he has composed much music according to academic standards, But it was about the Inc: Music, hitherto unknown art of a great, passionate, primitive people, that I asked him when I met him in the home of Mirabeau L. Towns, No. uM ghth Avenu Brooklyn, “What is it?" I inquire where and how did you get it?” ‘Inca Music," he explained, “Is the natural melody of a great lost race of Americans, telling the story of their Joys and sufferings, To find it I went to the place where it is hid- den away, in the forest covered, al- most inaccessible ranges of Peru, whither thousands and thousands of native Peruvians retreated jn the days of the Spanish invasion. which destroyed ruthlessly the lordly civil- ization of the In “I was born Trujido, Peru istence of this “And Mr. Valderrama ts the one person fm the world who Knows all about Inca Music, who can play it and who has written it so that others can play ‘it—and still others dance to it. Just now Mr, Valderrama shares offipial headquarters with his friend Jose “ombani in room 1,660, Woolworth | Building. But not 6o many months | ago Mr. Valderrama was roaming Ahrough the trackless forests of P where he lived on berries, did not see the sun for weeks at a time, and from the native tribes—direct de- scendants of the lordly Peruvian Princes, the Incas—learned the fas- einating, all-but-forgotten harmonies of one of America’s greatest nativs crMizations, Inca Music is plalative, pagan, col- orful, wild—everything which appeals to tame and sophisticated New York. It in no way resembles Hawaiian melodies, but it wives the hearer that game spine-tickling thrill, And it is in the favorite Broadway bromide— “DIFFERENT.” Mr, Valderrama himself Is a de- eidedly unique individual. He has certified proof that he never took a Music lesson in his life, he does not read music, yet he is not merely a superb pianist, but can play any in- strument—and any piece of music, no matter how difficult, after he has heard it once or twice. He ts not even ® “dark horse” except so far as New York and North America are con- cerned, for he has played all over Bouth America, has given special per- formances for the presidents of all and brought up in and I knew of the ex usic, for generations sung only by savages in their mote villages, To these I journeyed. I had a guide to take me to the first two tribes, but after that I went by |myself through the impene- trable forests, where one might trav- el for weeks without seeing the sun, My family did not hear from me for @ year and gave me up for dead, 1 lived on berries and such food as the Indians gave me, and at ¢ vile lage I persuaded them to play for me their tribal music, Music is t notes, It was pla on hollow bamboo rods resembling ftutes, but yards in length. Some- times a small flute would be attached to a longer one by a certain sort of tree gum, and in that way the mel- ody could be varied. Sometimes water was put in the tubes and blown out through holes, producing strange echoing harmonies, The music as the natives play it has a wonde ful carrying power, I myself have heard its echoes at a distance of ever two mile i re. almost “Inca ed on 1 by the Indians only five other All the Inca melodies heard by Mr Valderrama stored away im hu musical brain, Only when he re turned to civilization did he write them down, of course adapting and elaborating them to the requirements of the piano and other conventional instruments, but keeping intact the barbaric harmony, Much of this mu. | sic is set for modern dances, while other selections are suitable for con EVENING WORLD PUZZLES By Sam Loyd orts or recitals. | Inca music always tells a story A North Sea Puzzle |he assured me with a smil a he played an Inca Rhapsody—really ttleships that met |; he g were equipped | at day in the life of a tribe, In HRBBE small b in the North § with varied batterica of guns|th® Morning the tribesmen went out a . ees sizen, {8 the mountains to call their cattle and each Woase| {2d one heard on the piano the holla feo ho of the herders, laughter and the ‘ able of notes of just awakened birds, Later | hurling 900 Ibs. lin the day ame th a : |of metal in al Pm 8nd: ths song of working comrades jn the fields complete broad-|°F tog grain, side, Ship No, 1|° " J ; fired from one|_ Thes the Spanish burst upon them pe) inne, §=othree|rnere was the shock and crash of Medium and three small guns, Ship |PAttie, the cries of the frightened No, 2 firea from two large and wix| Women and children, the exultant nouts of the better-urmed conque mall; No. 3 fired from four medium |houts of the better-armed conqu and six small ors, The old priest lifted a solemn What weight missiles were fired |h¥™P of supplication to the Inca sun : three guns? god, But he turned his face from hig trom the respective people, the battle became a’massacre ANSWER TO A BREEZY PUZZLE, |4nd, of all the tribe, there was left With the wind behind him he could |}OM!¥ one weak old woman who crooned the tale above the embers of ird of a mile in one min- Song eee ine wind he could go 1-4)her dying fire. All this came from th ‘of & mile in one minute, therefore, in piano and Mr, Valderramo's ‘strong, stwo minutes’ time, equally divided be- supple fingers, 4yeen wind assistance and hindrance, put also there are love songs, wild would go 7-12 of a mile. | Thi*|aances, “Inca-rnations” of every emo- This Latest Novelty In the Season’ Fashions Is Designed to Serve As Two Gowns in One And Is of Black Satin With Beaded Trimming Poros RRom KEYSTONE VIEW ¢o wes bis time for a single mile with ie wind factor neutralized as 837 tion and mood, And every bit of it ‘ was "made in America,” ., STAND TO AND CARRY ON! ; By Herman J. Stich © Copyright Ni stop beea 1919, by the Prose Pubtiebing Co, (The J) man with a yellow streak can be tru Every time you wilt the current milk is spilt. pail of opportunity emp you happen to flop your chance to attain the top. 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DERED IN JET BEADS, Expect More of 4 ry Not Every Woman Can Marry a Prince Charming, But If Her Husband Succeeds, the Woman Who Has Helped Him Climb the Hills Earns Credit as a Helpmate Rather Than as a “Checkmate. By Fay Stevenson There are ve Copyright, 1019, by tho Prew Publishing Co, 2W women marry Prince Charmings. F derellas in the world,and the fairy of the everyday woman, Only the ordinary things happen. The rich girl can expect to ms man, the middle-class girl can expect to marry a man commonplace, poss! Than She Does of Her Father? few little Cin. prince seldom share in the life ry a rich MARCH 21, 1919 FRIDAY BY LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER, of the 27th (N. Y.) Division. (Author of “Dere Mable.”) Hlustrated by CORPL. G. WILLIAM BRECK. Fifth of a Series of Letters to “Dere Mable” from “Bill,” the Rookte, | Describing His Further Adventures in the Army. D (Copyright, ERE MABLE: I aint arrested no more. Im back to work again. I aint worrying though cause if things keeps on the way there goin Ill be arrested again pretty soon. I know now why they call it arrest No drill or nothin, All a fello has to do all day is ¢0 around with a pick and shovel and dig. Were still firin away at the range but we havnt hit it yet. If they keep firin ammunishun around much longer they wont have nothin left to fire at the Germang but the guns. Eh Mable? Thats the kind‘of thing Im always sayin in line. Keeps the fellos from gettin depressed, 1 learned one thing about artillery. It aint as dan gerous as 1 thought. They fire at what they call a tar- get but it aint like any target I ever saw. It ain't got circles round it or 1919, by Frederick A Stokes Co.) nothin, Every time they shoot they make a little dot on a piece of paper to show where the torpeto hit. The } | an jidea seems to be to hit all around | W Breck |the target but never to land one on | \top of it. If I was out there Id make ja bee jine for the target and sit tight | |till tt was all he target clean as over. ‘Then someone of impact hit the a whissle.” And they ail seem awful pleased. From all Ive | if the Germans will only land | on the head with a’ center of im feel Ive got any kick | says centre seen me pact Iw com L was on a etill hunt belonged to a fello what had two sons in the army. I could with Angus MacKenazic aun an autymobile came wlong what tell cause it had a flag on the front with two stars on it. It stopped in r f us. The fello what owned it belonged to the cavalry because he had a y cord on. He leaned out and says “Dont you see that | flag?” I says “yes. sir, 1 was just | simpathizing with em.” That Rind of went home I guess cause he got red an says “You report this thing to your battery commander imme-|“ANGUS LIKES IT 'CAUSE HE deately." So when I got home I told CAN §IT DOWN IN IT.” him that a fello what owned a big | car had two sons in the army. Lhad|{ knew where there was a good dry to call him out from mess to tell| cell just above New York. That fello him an ys what the this that] wouldnt laff though, Mable, if Joo and the other did he care. If you do | Miller hisself told him a joke. All what your told you get in trouble|he thinks of is smoothin out horses. and if you dont you do to. The feelin between me and the The Captins gone to Fort Silly now | horses seems to grow worse every to learn somethin, 1 just told Angus |44y, Mable. I think my horse has MacKenzie I thought hed get more | S0t me mixed up with somebody else. ie Fort Levenworth. But thats a/f never did nothin to him except tecknickle joke, Mable. Of course | bring him down some of my break- ene it, 1 guess the Lieu-| fast one morning. The sargent ts imoueht he Wan If (ee Rule always tellin me to pick up his feet. I tell him theres no call for that. He ment or somethin cause right away after the Captin left he came | seems to be able to do it pretty Jown and said now he was goin to }all by hiss He has em in the afr most of the time He kept pes other day jeould do when Im around, rin me though till the I thought dd show him L it. I put his front foot through the spokes of a wheel and Ned it then grabbed the back one and gave an awful heave. Its a way Ive out handlin bad m a battery out of us. [ told him ut 4 Her Husband worke for horses, 1 figured hed have to be pretty good to stan on one leg and kick me with the other. But whem ® he found he couldnt kick me he lay down top of me. Mean, Il tell the world, | Now the stable sargent says I hurt | on |the horse. Thats stable sargents @ll over, If the horse had bit my hed off hed have thought it was an awful ,that they were her atmosphere and , he knew that she had lived before yet All ay is that Im not as jin some other sphere or a nother | Hera a - sgn a i x a win person and had those very things. of cups at high school an if I can stand on to legs a horse can to ‘erhaps some of us believe in the tors, see Le only hes to lazy. ble transmigration of souls, perhaps some of us have lived in other stages of inj existence, but if we want to be happy Angus has got a rubber bath tub sent him, - He thinks its great cause ‘on ca 1 moderate circumstances and the poor girl can expect to|we must accept our present atmos-|/¥0U can fold it so small it goes in marry @ poor man, | Phere, Abe ai a soe wants to carry : a bath tub in there pockets? And yet there are some women who can never accept} This little wife has now reached), Pied Cie pee T 3 ed | idle age, She full r izes that d facts, They are ike the girl who sald she was married | mit is age a fully reblises (ORE sie st out walle Mere Wares tee and out of this troublesome world. It is hard for them] she married an ordinary man Att)a strect car and take a bath. Angus to put aside the dreams of “sweet sixteen,” when every | ot & brince Cltomins, ine q {likes it cause he can sit down in ft, girl feels confidept that she is going to marry a man six |/ Bi As Pec Gare lenmunia nor When he does it fits him like It was feet two, live in a twenty-room house, ride in a six-| SUNS tot On ee she has not | or made. All the rest of the bath cylinder maohine and be happy ever after. Sometimes i!) {hij yeu lita at all It haa slipped {es off him onto the floor oF into % a my shoes, VEvEN 30% fa not an easy matter to leave these girlhood dreams and| i, jor day after day in little pe tty, | get a : ser os; especially when the reality is merely five feet two, occuples 4| world longings. She has lost the Me 0 quit now and,.« {aoe restGes! 95 : . help out one of the sargents what fh four-room apartment, rides in the subway and has not mastered the art of! justre in her eyes and her mouth] )°? y he sureents what fa . ; } Rap aati h a job cleanin some harness, sa living happily ever after. jar ops at the corners, She knows NOW | nice fello and he asked me to poly: rince C! as that her inusban¢ ever become But if the girl was reared in t marry real Prince Charming y|th Ms her hu nd c a novel A me] down about two hours ago. T guess atmosphere, if she was born in an|may be very beautiful, very a Prince Shor Te Ae yond ll go down now and see if there rome miraculous wa ) that she ha ssed her grea ; ; apartment or in moderate cireum-|or, in some miraculous w | that she 5 through, Willin, Thats me all over men who can completely fulfill their} God-given the chance to . she is all the better fitted nees, pportunity 8 a : ‘ oe yours patrioticaly to shape her life accordingly, Instead | girlhood dreams, Bub t in avereae raake him ae nOPRY €8 W prince, Be a of craving the impossible things in| woman finds life very prosaic and « knows that in looking for atmos- Lbs \iife she should make the most of the | romantic if she is looking for a prince] phere she made the life of one man completo series of “That's Mo All Over, aiiad por When one comes to think}to come to her laden with jewels| wretched letters sp 4 in book form, oi it, why should a girk expect her|and precious gifts and overflowir | Women are too apt to crave an = = husband to do so very much more|with tender, irresistible proposals. | atmosphere, which can never exist forling wife wants, ‘This woman who is One of | 7 her than her father did? Woe to the woman who longs for the} them. could one woman ever be ‘or her than her father ¢ willing to be supported in the same | Since she takes the same social] unexpected and refuses to accept tl content, After they have attained}way her father cared for her, who [position that her father makes for} life around her jthe very things they most desired] qoesn't expect any of the Knick her she will meet men in the same] I know a very pretty, talengell little| they would still be seeking something }knacks or furdelows of life, usually | station of life, men will ven-| woman whose girlhood dreains have! else, for atmosphere is a as elu-|ands herself in very comfortable elre lture to ask her to marry them b never come true, She has fretted and | sive as happine There is no need) oumstances, if not really living lux- cause they will think “I can do a3|pined many years for the trinkets | of seeking it, because it is within our-lurjousty in middle life, She has not well by her as her father,” but if they |and gewsaws of life, Her husband | selves, worried and harassed her husband knew that she expected them to be-jonce exclaimed, “But you ever had} he woman who is wil to ac-|so that he felt weak and unfitted to some a Prince Charming, to perform| these things at home! Why should| cept things as they are, to help her/fight the battles of everyday existence, a. miracle marriage, glittering and|you .xpect me to give them to you?" | husband to climb the hills of life, has|but rather stimulated him by her own blazing with all the Jewels and pomp| And then she closed her eyes in| plenty of atmosphere. And, strange! contentment and happy acceptance of of the world, they would throw up| dreamy revery and told him how!to say, she usually manages to get alconditions, If he succeeds he can give their hands in dismay. these trinkets and gewgaws and! great many of the very trinkets and!her half the credit for being @ i Of course there are some girls who luxuries meant refinement e° her; gew wa of life which the little wish- mate rather than a “checkmate,”