The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1921, Page 27

~, BLIND COLUMBIA STUDENT SHUTS EVES TO HANDIGAP Augustine F. Massa Massa, Though Sightless, Has High Stand- ing in Classes and Athletics, “Sight 1s a convenience, not a neces- sity,” says Augustine F. Massa, twen- ty-six years old and stone blind for AUGUSTINE F MASSA. the past seventeen years. Massa’s loss of sight has apparently caused him no sorrow. He's ‘working his way through Columbia, is Vice Presiden: of the junior class, one of the best cheer leaders that ever spurred the nds to united effort, a mem- ber of the wrestling team and winner of the Kilroe medal for heavyweight wrestlers. In addition to all that, Massa finds time to study enough to earn high marks in the pre-law course he is taking and hopes to finish with a B. A. some time next year? While he's rest- ing from his other activities Massa has downed all the would-be checker champions at Columbia and has start- €d a movement to place the game on the same high plane that chess occu- pies in some foreign institutions. Massa is a dancer, swimmer, plano player and bowler and one of the mest popular juniors at Columbia. He Is active in all the college enterprises and on Dec, 27 will play twenty men rt checkers at one time. The game will take place at Harlem Union Set- tlement House for the Delta Theta Kapa. In this undertaking he will ‘have to memorize the position of 4860 checkers at once. Massa, when a boy of nine, found a dynamite cap in a lot near his home. With boyish inquisitiveness he pried it open and the explosion burned out both his eyes. Determined to make a success of life despite this affliction, he entered the New York Institute for the Blind at 80th Street and 9th Ave- nue and finished with such high hon- crs that he induced the authorities at Columbia to let down the barriers so that he could become the first blind etudent there. Two others have joined since Massa demonstrated that blind- ness was no handicap in student work “My erentest sorrow.” sald Massa, “was the loss of my dear mother, who died four years ago. Loss of my sirht was as nothing compared to the blow of her death. IT would a thousand times sooner have a mother and no . sight than have aight and no mother.” assa lives with his father and a heother at No. 661 West 178th Street He makes his way through\collega by selling athletic equipment ahd college trinkets at the various Columbia meets. eee NEGROES TO ASK EQUALITY. Congress Called to Draft Petition to Arms Conference, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The sec- ond Colored World Democracy Can- gress, a sequel to the meeting which in November, 1918, elected delegates to present the cause of the negro to the Versailles Peace Conference, con- tinued a week's session here to-day. William M. Trotter of Boston pre-! sided at the opening session The purpose of the second congress, Mr. Trotter announced, is to formu- late and present to the Arms Confer- ence a petition for “the recognition of . | " i ™ the equality of the races as @ cardinal principle of any world peace policy.” ———— lumbago eat’ Good for ees 5 0 The New York Trio Plays New Composition of Vincent D’Indy. ean By Frank H. Warren. The New York Trio (Clarence Ad- ler, pianist; Scipione Guidi, violinist; Cornelius Van ‘Vliet, ‘cellist) oper its third local season in Aeolian Hall last evening with a programme of two numbers only. One of them, Vin- cent D'Indy’s Trio in B flat major, opus 29, being new here, aroused the interest of devotees of chamber music, It is in four movements, has the familiar Gallic flavor and, excepting for the first movement, somewhat long and flashing. Mr. D'Indy's in- fellectual bent is-sprightly and sus- tained in turn, charming, graceful and makes pleasant listening. The Chant Elegiaque, the third section, is a fine, noble melody, played in se- quence by ‘cello and violin. Mr. Guidi The three artists have built up an admirable ensemble. Their individual work dovetails smoothly. programme number was Tschalkow~- sky's Trio, “To the Memory of a Great Artist.” Lajos Shuk, in Town Hall, gave a recital of music for the ‘cello, assisted by Gladys Axman, soprano, of the Metropolitan Opera forces. Mr. Shuk jis not only @ first rate ‘cellist, but + also devotes his talent to composition. Miss Axman sang three of his songs that had marks of originality. Lam- ert Murphy, tenor, once with the Metropolitan, sang in the afternoon, His voice is of light texture, flowing smoothly, easily and unemotionally on the even tenor of its way. Thelma Given, a violinist of good parts, played in Carnegie Hall. While her tone is not always true, her play-| ing is clothed with enough intelligence to make the results artistic. Tartint's G minor sonata and the Mendelssohn concerto were her chief selections. “Zaza,” the jazzy, ou-la-la Leon- cavallo opera, was the night's bill at the Metropolitan. Subsoriber. “This ls something like she observed to her neighboring seat acquaintance of four weeks. “Why, it’s just as different as can be| from that ‘Dead City’ affair and| ‘Tristan and |solde’ of our other Monday nights. I like ‘pep,’ and this certainly is full of it. You @on’t re- quire a libretto to follow it, do you? You read stories like this every day in | the papers. Wasn't it a bright idea to make a plot of things we know all about—I mean, things we hear about, rather? And what a bold move to put Zaza into opera! She's one of those—you know what I mean—isn’t she? Gracious, that was a breathless first act! Does Miss Farrar put in all those details every time? She does? Well, I suppose it's natural enough for a music hall singer—that’s what Zaza is, isn't she? I was almost ashamed to look around. I ‘wonder when they sing it again, I must come end bring my glasses. Borrow yours? I shouldn't have thought of it You were so interested. Vulgar? Well, maybe, but can't there be vulgarity in art if its good vulgarity? If the acting’s good, I mean. “I like Martinelli. He looks like a real young swell. If anybody sang |to me like that I believe I should '—no, I wouldn't either. Isn't De Luca an artistic Cascart? 1 don't understand what he’s doing in a con- cert hall with that voice. Is Kat leen Howard funny? My dear, she's | has a particularly agreeable tone. | Kort 14 The other | Wor" It brought to her) {feet once more our old friend New) ihc isa ‘ IN THE REALM OF MUSIC | screaming. I didn’t know there was ever any fun in opera. Yes, I cried rigl tt again.” Due To-Day. SET Z: $3 eSatScbre Et. Perr Tt E! Bawoa- SSSEEs EB peeeeiy 57337 SRssnte Aquitania, Southam; Corfe Castle, Cay Julia Lackenbac! iritania, Marselliee, Bixsols, Sante Mari Beetb 32322! 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