March 15, 1923
MUSICAL COURIER
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AMUSEMENTS
Pop. Wed Mat. Entire 1st Bale. $1.00, 2d Bale. 50c., Orch. $2.00 Henry W. Savage offers The Comedy with Music Sensation
“The CLINGING VINE”
with PEGGY WOOD ־ and a Brilliant Singing Cast Book and Lyrics by Zelda Sears	Music by Harold Levey
ïPafYwiüwil ^Plclures^
Theatres under the direction of Hugo Riesenfeld
The RIVOLI BROADWAY AT 49th ST.
Allan Dwan's Production
“THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON”
With Bebe Daniels and Nita Naldi.
From the novel by Edith Wharton׳.
RIESEiNFELD'S CLASSICAL JAZZ—RIVOLI CONCERT ORCH.
The RIALTO BROADWAY at 42d ST.
ALICE BRADY in
**THE LEOPARDESS”
Directed by Henry Kolker
RIBSENEELD’S- CLASSICAL JAZZ—FAMOUS BIALTO OUCH.
B’way at 51st St. “Subway to Door” EDW. BOWES, Mng. Dir.
18th
CAPITOL
World’s Largest and foremost Motion Picture Palace
Beginning Sunday, March
GOLDWYN PICTURES Present
“LOST & FOUND”
with HOUSE PETERS, PAULINE STARKE and ANTONIO MORENO
CAPITOL GRAND ORCHESTRA
Erno Rapee, Conductor Presentations by S. L. ROTHAFEL
though this trip will be in the nature of a vacation, Mr. Karle is planning to study in Europe and spend no little time. in musical research, and his admirers may expect important additions to his large repertory on his return. Previous to sailing, Mr. Karle will make a long series of Brunswick records.
Schumann Heink to Appear in Toledo Again
In September, Ernestine Schumann Heink will appear again in Toledo, Ohio, at the Rivoli Theater. On February 19, she sang with unusual success in St. Louis—her annual appearance there.
Sundelius to Sing Later with Rubinstein Club
The date of Marie Sundelius’ appearance at the Waldorf-Astoria for the Rubinstein Club, originally scheduled for March 6, has been set for Tuesday, April 3.
Frederick Gunster Engaged for Corning
Frederick Gunster, tenor, has been engaged as soloist for the spring concert of the Musical Art Society, Corning N. Y., April 18.	b’
had just been made the conductor, and another in the evening of the Mendelssohn Glee Club.
Mr. Coffin was born in Newport, N. H., in 1873. He spent a year at Dartmouth College and studied later at Colorado College, where he was prominent in athletics. His musical work began as director of music in tire schools of Keene, N. H. Later he was head conductor of the Keene Choral Society and of the Fitchburg (Mass.) Choral Society, conducting the annual festivals in both cities for several years. In 1920 and 1921 he conducted the Worcester Festival, and was to have directed the one in May of this year. He was made conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club in 1919.
Mr. Coffin is survived by a wife, three children, and his brother, Eugene Coffin.
Sidney A. Baldwin
Sidney A. Baldwin, of Belleville, N. J., died Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark of pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. He was forty-five years old, born in Morristown, N. J. At the time of his death Mr. Baldwin was organist and choirmaster at the Christ Episcopal Church, Bloomfield; director of the Policemen’s Glee Club and of the Bamberger Chorus, both of Newark, and assistant conductor of the Newark Music Festival Association. Besides this, he was one of the best known teachers in Newark.
He leaves a wife, young daughter, mother and brother.
Albert Mansfield
Albert Mansfield, baritone, teacher, and founder of the Mansfield Piano Company, died at his residence, Washington Heights, March 4, age sixty-four. He sang in prominent Roman Catholic churches and in a synagogue during his active career. The funeral was held at the R. C. Church of the Incarnation, March 6.
George Pickering
George Pickering, a well known Baltimore tenor, died recently. Recognized as one of the most able singers in that city, his death, resulting from pneumonia, came as a very great shock.
Giavanna de Gregorio
Giavanna de Gregorio, mother of Franko de Gregorio the well known vocal teacher of New York, died in Palermo Italy, on January 3.
Musical Comedy, Drama and Motion Pictures
Owm of the Ziegfeld Follies in Chicken Reel, had the assistance of Borrah Minevitch, harmonica soloist. The feature picture was Walter Hiers and Jacqueline Logan in Mr. Billings Spends His Dime, a thoroughly delightful comedy with tales of revolution and counter revolution in the (presumably) West Indian land of Sans Souci. Reginald Denny in When Kane Met Abel of the New Leather Pushers series and an excellent Buster Keaton comedy, The Frozen North, with the Rialto Magazine completed the bill.
Notes.
Frederick Fradkin, formerly concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and until recently concertmaster of the Capitol Grand Orchestra, has been engaged by S. L. Rothafel as soloist at the Capitol. It is understood that Mr. Fradkin will appear about every four or five weeks during the coming year. He was the soloist the week before last and demonstrated that he has a tremendous following among New York music lovers. It was with considerable regret that it was announced several months ago that Mr. Fradkin was leaving the Capitol, because many felt that a musician of Mr. Fradkin’s attainments and reputation was a big asset to that excellent symphony orchestra. So this news that he is to appear regularly at stated intervals as the prin-c-al soloist is exceedingly welcome. It would not be surprising in the least if some enthusiastic admirer from the logue seats would call out for a favorite number as is sometimes done at a Carnegie Hall recital.
Ary Van Leeuwen, former solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and who now occupies the same position with the Capitol Grand Orchestra, is to be heard as soloist for the first time at the Capitol this week. He will play Le Carnaval Russe, Ciardi.	May Johnson.
NEW ORCHESTRA FOR STRANSKY
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ganized on a so-called co-operative basis, the organizers are confident of obtaining a substantial guarantee to back the new venture It would not be surprising if this came mainly trom some Philharmonic guarantors who were disgruntled at the action of the directors in forcing the resignation of Mr. Stransky.
Josef Stransky, talking to a Musical Courier staff writer on Tuesday of this week, said: “It is true that the con-ductorship of (he new orchestra has been offered to me. I have asked for a little time to consider the matter, but I may tell you that I regard the proposition in a favorable light and unless I find some reason to change my mind, I expect to accept the offer, which was made me by the incorporators.״
March Appearances for Miinz
This month Mieczyslaw Miinz, the Polish pianist, will an-pear in recital at Elmira, N. Y.; as soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra at Ithaca, N. Y., and as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, under Mengelberg at Larnegie Hall, on Wednesday evening־. Marrh 21
Theo Karle to Make First Trip to Europe
1 heo Karle will make his first trip to Europe this summer alter the conclusion of his concert tour, which will occupy his time until well into the summer. Mr. Karle has travelled widely m this country, making as many as two Coast to Loast tours m a season, but he has hitherto been unable to stay away long enough to enjoy a holiday abroad. Al-
Obituary
Nelson Perley Coffin
Nelson Perley Coffin, conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee ulub, was found dead in his bathroom at the Hotel Com-™0¿0re> 011 Tuesday evening of last week, March 6. Mr. Lofnn must have died about noon. He had been at the store of the Oliver Ditson Company until nearly eleven-thirty leaving then to go to the hotel for his belongings with the intention of leaving on a noon train for his home
THE LATE NELSON PERLEY OOFFTN
in Keene. The medical examiner declared that death was probably due to arterio-sclerosis and a heart attack. Mr. Coffin had been under unusual strain for two days previous. On Sunday he was in a runaway near Keene; and on Monday he conducted two rehearsals, one in the afternoon of the College Women’s Glee Club, newly organized, of which he
The Moscow Art Theater offered for its ninth week Tsar Fydor Ivanovitch, at the Jolson Theater. As we have stated before the engagement of these foreign players has been extended for several weeks additional.
Balieff’s Chauvre Souris has completed a year’s stay in New York. It is announced that its long engagement is approaching its close for the present season though the final date has not been set. Owing to the great success of the various programs, Mr. Balieff has decided to change the bill each week.
Morphia, a play dealing with the drug habit, which was to have opened thg week before, had the first of a series of special matinees on Tuesday afternoon of last week. The play features Lowell Sherman, who is the star of The Masked Woman, which is the regular theatrical attraction at the Eltinge Theater. Almost universally the critics praised Mr. Sherman’s work, though the play, in the opinion of many, seems to fall short in that a victim of the drug habit faces complications not easily overcome, which in the play, Morphia, appeared to be of little importance. However, the average audience which is unfamiliar with the horrors and details of this affliction, perhaps would not appreciate the incongruities.
The only other new offering for last week was also given at a special matinee performance, King Lear, at the Earl Carroll Theater. Reginald Pole played the title role with Genevieve Tobin as Cordelia. The criticisms that followed the presentation were not enthusiastic, nor, in the opinion of some, was the production worthy of any very serious consideration.
Closings.
This is the time of the year when the principal news items in local theatricals are the announcing of special matinees, and the general spring housecleaning—in other words, closings. The limited engagement of David Belasco’s superproduction, the Merchant of Venice, with David Warfield as Shylock, closed at the Lyceum Theater last Saturday night. Mr. Belasco extended the engagement several weeks longer than he expected. There were ninety-two performances and it is understood that Mr. Warfield established a record for this Shakespearian play. Air. Belasco announced that he will send the original production on tour beginning early next season and will carry the production to the Coast.
The Greenwich Village Follies also closed last week, winding up a long season in New York—in fact, we believe, the longest any edition of the Greenwich Follies has yet־ played. The succeeding attraction at the Schubert Theater will be the Theater Guild production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
It Is the Law closes after a short run at the Bayes Theater.
The Capitol.
The surrounding program to Pola Negri’s newest film, Mad Love, was one of the best and most artistic seen in a long time. Mad Love attracted large audiences during the week, though there was considerable disappointment since the American movie-fan began to expect so much from this imported artist. Beside the feature there were several incidental films which were entertaining and amusing. S. L. Rothafel again created one of his splendid divertissements called Impressions of Faust. The Capitol Grand Orchestra, of course, was a big factor in the artistic success and with effective stage settings and Mr. Rothafel’s genius in lighting-effects, this tabloid opera was something quite out of the ordinary. The scene between Dr. Faust and Mephisto was sung by Helffenstein Mason and Fred Jagel. Elizabeth Ayres, Melanie Dowd, John Kellar, James Parker Coombes, also took part. Evelyn Herbert was Marguerite, singing the Spinning Song and the King in Thule. The Faust ballet was arranged by Oumansky with Gambarelli, Zanou, Niles and the entire Capitol ballet taking part. The singing of these principals of the Capitol was worthy of an opera house, and Evelyn Herbert was particularly effective; the audience was quick to recognize the high artistic value of the entire number.
The program introduced two additional soloists. Ary Van Leeuwen, first flutist of the Capitol orchestra, was heard in a solo, Le Carnival Russe, Ciardi. As we have stated many times this is an excellent idea to offer, as soloists, the principal musicians of the various choirs of the orchestra. Mr. Van Leeuwen’s playing was warmly received. The second soloist was Hans Barth, pianist, who made his first New York appearance on this occasion. His number was the scherzo movement of MacDowell’s D minor concerto. Mr. Barth displayed considerable technical skill and showed keen appreciation for musical values. His debut at the Capitol should certainly encourage him, for he was received cordially and made a good impression.
The Rivoli.
So great was the success of Cecil B. De Mille’s production featuring Milton Sills, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Kosloff, Anna Q. Nilsson and Pauline Garon, that Adam’s Rib continued for a second week at the Rivoli. The program was unchanged except that Alexis Kosloff took the place of Theodore Kosloff, who had appeared the first week through the courtesy of Mr. De Mille.
The Rialto.
As though to prove that after all it is the men who make up the orchestra and not the conductor which really counts, the overture, Glinka’s Russian and Ludmilla, was played by the Rialto Orchestra without a leader. It was well played, too, although not so well as to convert the writer to this mode of procedure as a regular thing. Riesenfeld’s Classical Jazz, which^ followed, with Hugo Riesenfeld and Joseph Littau conducting, was remarkably good. It is scarcely necessary to relate that the audience enjoyed it—that is one of the things which has come to be known without saying. But perhaps the greatest musical success of the program, if one were to judge the warmth of the applause was the C. Sharpe-Minor at the Wurlitzer in variations oii the song so popular in the War days, Smiles. The audience was frankly delighted and accorded the organist long and hearty applause.
Jean Denier, baritone, again pleased with his interpretation of the prologue from Pagliacci, which he sang with marked dramatic fervor. A Leventhal music film, Rita