Life — December 20, 1923 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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MPUDENCE is the keynote of Mr. I Paul Rosenfeld’s “Musical Chroni- cle.” He attacks in turn the conduct- ing of Walter Damrosch, Stransky, Bodanzky, and Stokowski. It may be inferred from this that Mr. Rosenfeld has had a long schooling in the difficult art of conducting, that he LIVE « Broadcastings By Montague Glass transported to Morocco, even though the President of the National Geo- graphic Society himself could not detect the difference between the North African desert and the Southern Cali- fornia desert except by examining samples of the sand under a micro- scope. On tke other hand, if it be the scene of action in, for instance, “Virgins of the Du: man pla not so particular about Riverside Drive, s adapted from the (er- y “Psst! Herr Meyer,” they are York. Any of the better resi- dential neighborhoods of Los Angeles will serve, and the movie was perhaps at one time as- sistant conductor of the Ge- wandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, or at any rate a tri- angle player in the orchestra at the Casino Municipal of Rochebonne or Paramé. Not at all! Mr. Rosenfeld is one of the younger gen- eration of critics who write about music relying not so much upon their own knowl- edge of music as upon the popular ignorance of music, and with this equipment they attack the reputations of trained musicians to such good or bad purpose that, not to put it too subtly, or- chestra conductors occa- sionally get fired by the ignorant laymen who finance orchestras in America. Some day an orchestra conductor will put the worth of such criticism to the crucial test of an action for libel, and Mr. Rosenfeld will have to make good his claim to special knowledge of the art of conducting in front of an audience of twelve men who will know so little about music as to believe that Ornstein and Stra- vinsky are a firm of pants manufacturers. An unbiased hearing of their composi- tions may even confirm this belief. ee Oe AY what you will about moving picture directors, some of them are great sticklers for the authenticity of scenery and props. If the story calls for the capture of the heroine in the North African desert, they insist that the entire troupe, in- cluding camera men, be Medill McCormick Senator from Illinois HEN knotty problems hold enthrall’d A senatorial board, McCormick's name is often called And, often, he’s abroad. But fear not; ere a bill is passed This bright Chicago lad Is sure to bound in, breathing fast, And tell them that it’s bad. . I wonder why he gallivants In lands across the sea. Is it a gad-fly? or, perchance, A presidential bee? To have one’s Senator away So much is rather tough It wouldn't be so bad, some say, If he'd go far enough. G. S.C. manufacturers properly y«ly upon an automobile with a New York license tag in the foreground to correct the at- mosphere created by evca- lyptus, pepper and camphor trees in the background, for with moving picture avidi- ences a tree is a tree, ‘ut you have to hand it to them—they do know an «u- tomobile license tag w they see one. * * * THE following additi program notes been suggested as pertinent to the conduct of the modern New York theatre, i. e., ad- ditional to the note that any inattention or discourtesy on the part of an employee will positively be refused at the door—viz.: The’ echo in this theatre supplied by the tional Echo Company, o Xenia, Ohio. “If it isn’ Phan it isn’t an ec and This theatre, with e seat recupied, can be tied it slightly more than twenty-five minutes. Choose your exit now, and dov't walk, run, Show some se * * * NATOLE FRANCE reminds us that there is one law for the rich and poor alike because both thie rich and poor are equally forbidden to sleep under railway arches, and if a rich man, to the scandal of pas- sers-by, snatches a crust from the gutter he is just as liable to arrest as a poor man. However, when a chauffeur and a_ millionaire are fined a hundred dollars each for speeding, they both (Continued on page 29 comicbooks.com