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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1920.
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10KER AND FOUR QUEENS
HEADLINERS AT MAJESTIC;
A MYSTERY GIRL ALSO
Majestic Has Star Bill
A combination of my6teryt mimical
couiedy and typical vaudeville entertain-
ment with laughs predominating is the
theatrical dish served at the Majestic
this week, with that high card in the
deck The Joker, Hobby O'Neill, with his
four Queens holding down the headline
•pot.
Bobby O'Neill plays the Joker as though
he were the ace. At any rate, In his
hands it is a wonderful card, and sap-
ported as he is by his lour queens, there
is a hand that is exceedingly difficult
to beat. "The Four Queens and the Joker"
was written by the versatile writer and
musician, Herman Timber?, and Is a
melange of musical mirth, girls aud
gowus, dance and dialogue, all dove-tail-
ing to a nicety, and polished to perfection
are the indisputable talents of the star
and his four very charming associates.
Kcsiata. the yd-pound miss of twenty
years, does all the mystery work with her
unexplainable will. Though she weighs
but IMJ pounds, a weight that an average
man can lilt with great ease, at will she
becomes so heavy that no man, no matter
how puwerfil, can lift her from the floor,
or. should he be holding her suspended in
The air wht'e she is light, he cannot hold
her there should she will that she become
heavy. Kesistas demonstration is most
remarkable and intensely iutereseting.
"The Tour Gossips" are a quartette of
winniug misses who know the art of
putting over songs, as well as the art of
clothing themselves in beautiful gowns as
Weil as the indes riable atmosphere that
helps put over a vaudeville act. "Novelty"
lb the keyword of their entire effort.
Clifford and Willis present their comedy
skit, "Jasper Junction." Jasper function
In on the line between nowhere and no-
place. Clifford and Wills are its borough
officials and the principal industry of the
town is the manufacture of laughs, and
Clifford and Wills control the industry.
Clifford and Wills have created a great
laugh act in "At Jasper Junction" and as
a rural station agent, Mr. Clifford is so
much of a type that it seems that at some
tune or other he must have lived iu just
mi h a community.
Mons. Grant Gardner is a rollicking son
of Monius with the happy faculty of keep-
ing the risibilities of an audience at the
maximum limit. Gardner's offering con-
sists of talkiug, singing and musical ee.
centricities, and as a monologist whose
humor is of the spontaneous order, he
excells. lie seems to be cutting more for
the fun of the thing than for the salaiy.
Cornell, Leona and Zippy present a sing
ing. talking, musical oddity called "Var-
ieties a La Carte."
The Bush Brothers present a delight-
fully funny trampoline bouncing act called
• Spilling the Beans"—and they live up to
their billing, for they certainly "spill the
beans," though to tell in what manner
would only spoil the surprise for those
who will view it.
"LITTLE CINDERELLA," A
MUSICAL COMEDY, TOPS
NEW BILL AT GRAND
Another sterling program of merit will
take over the boards at the Grand Sunday,
when the Pantages vaudeville bill will be
beaded by William Brandell's musical ex-
travaganza, "Little Cinderella." This act,
which is one of the largest touring the
"three-a day" tops, a variety program,
which has a close runner for popular hon-
ors in the screen fare. The second and
last installment of "Who's Who in San
Antonio" will be shown with pictures of
the Kotary Club and the Xiwanis Club.
The regular cinema program includes Neal |
llart in one of those lurid dramas of the
West entitled "Sky Fire." The first epl-
sod« of the Edgar IUce Burroughs serial.
"The Soti of Tarzan," will also be shown
on the screen, along with a comedy entitled
"Wild Women Tame Men."
"Little Cinderella" enjoys th#» reputation
of being one of the most pretentious of-
ferings which has appeared at the Grand
since it became a variety house. It Is de-
scribed as a reminiscent musical comedy,
featuring Eva LaRue with Ina Mitchell
and Truman Stanley and a bevy of the
prettiest girls ever out of New York City.
The costuming is said to be very attractive
and the settings magnificent. Rich in
comedy, the act is also verdant ia meloVlles
and the following tunes are introduced:
"It Was Fate," "Here's Just the Thing,"
"Just to Do It Different," "It's the Gown"
and "Cinderella." There are 10 girls in
this act and but one lone man, making it
a "lucky eleven' combination Herbert K.
Denton will he seen in the big laughing
success. "Poughkeepsie," a playlet replete
with the funniest of comedy situations that
appeal to every man and woman. Mr.
Denton has the role of a traveling man
and husband who dislikes house cleaning
atid through his scheming to get away
from his spouse falls into a trap specially
prepared by that young lady. Miss Alice
Walsh, one of the real beauties of the
vaudeville realm, plays the part of the wife
and is said to give a very delectable per-
formance. Billy Miller is a black laugh,
and adds smiles to this program, which
will be opened by Nora Jane and Com-
pany, pastmasters of the terpsichorean art.
NEW PRINCESS BILL
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The Kmry Quintette, three men and two
women, featuring brass instruments, chief-
ly cornets, will head the vaudeville bill at
the Prioress the first part of the week.
These five are capable musicians, who are
featuring some clever military stepping.
'J hey offer both classic and popular num-
bers, and intermingle saxophone with the
cornet. The saxophone with its dulcet
tones and the cornet with the brasher ones,
mingling, make an irresistible combina-
tion. and the artistry and ability of the
I.inry Quintette with it will make it a
feature that will be remembered.
Race and Edge are well known to vaude-
villians, and will present their ever bright
and at the present timely comedy number
called "London Bridge." Their drop is an
exact reproduction of the famous London
Bridge across the Thames, and the meet-
ing of an old American with an English
Johnny right under it is the cause of 14
minutes of snappy dialogue.
Martha Russell, the comedienne, who
specializes in satires, will offer a domestic
comedy called "Thy Neighbor's Wife."
Babe Sherman and Eddie Pierce In a
skit with laughs called "I Got Another
One," and Clifton and Spartan, in a hand
balancing and equilibristic act with vari-
ous surprises, will complete the bill.
On the screen William S. Hart will an-
pear in a stirring drama entitled "The
Prinal Lure" Of course there will be
other features.
They Didn't Understand
A young woman in the balcony of a Co-
lumbus theater kept talking to the man
who accompanied her. as the picture on the
screen progressed. Each little turn in the
plot was explained by the girl, and the
sub-titles read.
Those of the audience within hearing
distance squirmed in their seats. She went
right on.
At thi* point some of the patrons be-
came* voluble. "I do hate to hear anyone
talking so loud iu the theater," one man
said.
"You would think that she would stop
talking." said a woman a few seats ahead,
in a voice that could be easily heard by
the offending party.
"What's the matter with that man. cant
he read for himself?" another remarked.
At this the young woman lowered her
voice and tried to be as quiet as possible,
although she continued in an undertone,
the same as before.
The show was over. Lights came on,
and the orchestra struck up an overture.
People turned to look at the guilty par-
ties—those who had almost spoiled the
entire performance for many — as they
walked out. The man was blind. The girl
led him away, her head bowed before the
glances of those about her. As he passed
out with the crowd, tbe observer noticed
that the blind man wore an American Le-
gion silver button in his coat lapel.--Co-
lumbus Dispatch.
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"SHE COULDN'T HELP IT,
WITH BEBE DANIELS IN
PERSON, AT THE EMPIRE
Noted for her clothes and beauty as
well as her histrionic ability, Bebe Dan-
iels will appear in person on the Empire
stage this week, while San Antonians will
witness the world premier of "She Couldn't
Help It." her lat^*t photoplay on the Em-
pire screen.
No personality of either the stage or
screen ever flashed across the horizon of
public recognition as radiantly as this
brunette beauty from Texas. A type of
ago had confined herself almost entirely
to comedy endeavor. As leading woman
for Harold Lloyd she won an enviable
reputation which brought her to the at-
tention of Cecil B. DeMille, the famous
director, who cast her for the part of the
Slave Girl In the Babylonian episode of
"Male and Female." When Paramount de-
cided to stage "Everywoman" on a more
lavish scale than it had been played on
the stage Bebe Daniels was selected for the
role of Vice, and In this entirely unsym-
pathetic part she registered more strongly
than the players who had more prominent
roles.
These two pictures brought out the
spark of genius which had been hiding be-
hind the laughable though meaningless
ravortitigs of the comedy realm. Cecil De-
Mille gave her the role of the Other Wom-
an in "Why Change Yovr Wife." one of
the greatest successes of the screen year,
beauty distinct and distinctive won her
the attention of the entire beauty lov-
ing world, and today she is the most pho-
tographed girl of the year. A film fan
magazine is not considered complete un-
I less it carries her latest pose, and the well
| dressed women of every large city of the
i Nation look forward to her photoplays
j for style hints, for the scintillating Bebe
I has a reputation for being always rav*
ishlngly gowned.
Second in importance to the visit In
person of Miss Daniels is the showing of
"She Couldn't Help It." This photoplay
which was completed at the Kealart Studio
in Los Angeles but a fortnight ago was
in the process of editing and assembling
in the New York laboratorj* of the Real-
art Corporation, when Miss Daniels sent
word that she could visit Texas. Wires
were immediately dispatched in an effort
to secure the film for Empire showing.
The officials of the Realart Corporation,
in view of Miss Daniels' visit, agreed to
allow the Empire to have a pre-release
showing of the picture and as a result
San Antonio will witness the world pre-
mier of the latest Daniels' photoplay.
"She Couldn't Help It" Is an adapta-
tion of the well known mystery novel,
"In the Bishop's Carriage," from "the pen
of Miriam Nickelson, which was drama-
tized by Channing Pollock. It had a great
sale as a book and was a popular stage
play. It gives the pulchrltudlnous star an
opportunity to display some of her ability
along emotional as well as comedy lines.
Miss Daniels' rise to stardom was first
predicted in San Antonio by the manage-
ment of the Empire Theater, who com-
menced featuring the beautiful brunette
player fully six months before the rest
of the country awoke to the realization
that a new screen personality had arrived.
Born in Texas, near San Antonio, Miss
Daniels has been playing an the screen
for a number of vears, but up to 12 months
In the patois or the screen Miss Daniels
may be said to have walked away with
this picture as far as her part would al-
low her. Wallace Reid always is on the
lookout for attractive leading women and
he commandeered her services for the two
most popular photoplays he ever appeared
in, "The Dancln' Fool" aiid "Sick Abed."
Another picture, "The Fourteenth Man,"
found her and Robert Warwick together.
Then came stardom by Realart and Miss
Daniels launched her stellar career in
"You Never Can Tell," which had an Em-
pire showing two months ago. "Oh, Lady.
Lady." her second photoplay, was'shown
last week.
ROYAL OFFERS VARIED
PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK;
FARNUM STARTS TODAY
Three different types of photoplays will
share the Royal screen this week. Sunday
will bring William Farnum in a dynamic
drama of the sea called "The Scuttlers,"
which will have "Loose Lions," a Uni-
versal comedy, as its running mate. "Some-
thing to Think About," Cecil B. DeMille's
tremendous drama of new thought witfr
Gloria Swanson and Elliott Dexter in
leading roles, will fill a re engagement
by request Thursday and Friday, while
Christmas bay will bring William S. liart
in his latest production by his own com-
pany, "The Testing Block."
Jim Landers (William Farnum), a man
with nerve and resourcefulness, is employ-
ed by Lloyds of Loudon to learn whether
Captain Machen is scuttling his ships to
collect insurance not only on the ship,
but on the cargo he Is supposed to be
carrying. Severul ships hive gone down
and Lloyds has lost tremendous suras.
Landers realises that he must sail with
Captain Machen in the Dorothy Low on
her next voyage; also that be must dis-
arm suspicion, or his life will not be
worth a counterfeit coin. He allows him-
self to be shanghaied, lie noon finds that
Krickson, the first mate, is a brute. Krick-
son Immediately shows that he dislikes*
Landers.
Despite the brutality on board Landers
Is skeptical concerning the suspicion of
scuttling, because the captain has taken
his pretty da tighter Laura on the voyage.
LSnderj likes Laura. He has seen her
repel the advances of a Mexican named
Caldara, who had come aboard from his
yacht, tne Azayra, the day before the Dor-
othy Low sailed, and, moreover, she has
seemed to sympathize with Landers.
On board, ioo is a man named Llttd*
quist—also a shanghaied seaman, and a
quiet, inoffensive sort of chap.
One day Krickson strikes a boy named
Pitts. Laura, hearing the lad's screams,
tegs Krickson to release him. The mate
pushes Laura aside. Landers promptly
knocks Krickson down. For this he is
put in irons.
Laura secretly brings food to Landers,
also a file. He releases himself and bides
in the hold. During a storm Lindquist
cries, "Man overboard!' and then declares
the man was Landers. This puzzles Lan-
ders.
Laura's Interest In Landers grows, and
soon, hiding in the hold, he tells her be
loves her. While they are hiding they see
Krickson bore several holes in the ship
and caulk them up. Later, to quench his
thirst, Landers taps what is supposed to
be a barrel of wine. He finds only water.
Then he realizes that Rosen, a wine mer-
chant, has shipped the huge cargo of water
to collect insurance for wine.
When Erlckson comes to scuttle the ship,
he sees Landers. As the ship is sinking
the two men battle. Krickson is killed.
Landers staggers to the deck and, guided
by Laura, gets into a lifeboat with her
father, Lindquist, IMtts and the cook.
The party lands on a desert island.
Machen is very ill. Landers and Laura
go In search of food. While they are away
Lindquist, who is a detective also, forces
Captain Machen to confess that he had
previously scuttled a ship carrying arms
to Mexico—Caldara, owner of the yacht
Azayra, having hired him. He admits be
expected to collect with Rosen on the sup-
nosed wine cargo of the Dorothy Low.
Machen signs his confession and dies. Lan-
ders and Laura return from their foraging
expedition and Laura, after her first burst
of grief at her father's death, turns to-
ward Landers as though she depends upon
him for protection and guidance.
Next morning Caldara appears in his
yacht, Intending to kidnap Laura; but
Juanlta, who is in love with Caldara,
rows ashore from the Azayra and warns
Landers—who takes the yacht from Cal-
dara after a fight and returns in ft to
England, taking Laura with him. There
he tells Laura he is a Lloyds agent; but
as Lindquist has Machen's confession.
Landers does not have to testify—for
which Laura expresses her thanks by ad-
mitting her love for him. ,
HAND 'EM A SNAPPY
SALUTE EVEN IF IT IS A
SKIRT ; IT'S ORDERS
(Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 18.—The difficulties caused
by the order making army nurses officers
and making saluting them obligatory,
aren't all on the doughboy's side, accord-
ing to American nurses staying at the
American Women's Club.
If Private John Jones feels a certain
consternation at stumbling Into Lieut.
Minnie Y. Getwell as he exits from his
favorite bar in Coblenz, picture the gen-
eral chagrin that it will cause Lieut. Get-
well to return that salute.
Consider the case of a nurse who sud-
denly comes upon her superior officer, a
first lieutenant, who she has nursed
through the measles and considers a sweet
child, and how has to greet with a smart
and snappy salute. Before this her duties
have been in what she considered more her
own line, but now she has to look sharp
when she sees her superior officer ap-
proaching.
But there is really serious rejoicing
that nurses have now been given rank, a
ruling that many army nurses have been
fighting for years.
"Before this a nurse could only enforce
her orders by her own personality." said
a nurRe who has served since 1018 and
has just come from Serbia to Paris,
where she is awaiting further orders.
"Now the nurse can be sure thnt her
orders will be obeyed, and It will be
infinitely better for everyone. The matter
of saluting will adjust itself. Of course,
it is hard now for men to admit women
on a footing of equality, but saluting will
be harder for the nurse to remember than
it will be for the men to remember to
salute her. They have saluted before; she
never has."
NEW I SE FOR RARE PAINTINGS.
(Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.)
BERLIN, Dec. 18.—Cracked and torn
and used by a peasant's wife as a knife
board, a Rembrandt painting. "The Head
of a Woman." which was stolen from the
Hermitage Gallery In Petrograd. has been
discovered near Moscow. The frame had
been sold by the new owner. Twenty or
SO Rembrandts and Tenlers were taken
from the gallery, according to the Rabot-
chi Golos, a Bolshevik newspaper.
Robert Murray, Twelve Year Old Boy, Sings the
Highest Note Ever Reached by the Human Voice
Can Warble an Octave Above
High I) and Astonishes
Noted Musicians and Doc-
tors.
My WILL IJ. JOHNSTONE.
(Copyright. 1»20. by the 1'ress rulilistilng
Co., The New Yorli Kvenlng World.)
THIS Is an age of infant prodigies. We
have seen a boy wonder at Columbia,
an infant wizard playing chess and a
youthful genius of six composing mime
over on Long island.
Now comes 111 year-old Robert Murray,
boy soprano, who discloses a singing
voice with a range that has astonished all
musicians. I heard young Master Murray
sing the highest notes ever reached by
human voice. , . .
This demonstration took place in the
studio of Em 11 J. l'ollak, the boy s special
coach, who served Mary Garden In a simi-
lar capacity.
With the unaffected simplicity of an
unspoiled child, Robert, warbling bird-
like notes, entertained a critical group of
the musical intelligentsia. "W hat a mar-
velous organ," explained one of the gray-
beards. "In an my experience I've never
heard anything so remarkable."
"What was that top note?" inquired an-
other enthusiast.
"I'm ashamed to tell you, laughed MP.
Pollak. "It Is an octave above 'high D.
The audience fairly gasped. Try it on
your piano.
To properly Judge the remarkable ^ feat
it must be compared with former "alti-
tude records" of the world's most celebrat-
ed sopranos. Peerless l'atti was content
with "high C," above the staff, a stand-
ard requirement of great artists. Gall!
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How Robert Murray's volee range compares with those of the world's greatest singers.
Curci can top Pattl with "high D." Tetraz- j she sang the "Magic Flute" in the orig-
zlna was celebrated for her "high E," inn 1 key recently at the Metropolitan
Mabel Garrison achieved "high F," when | Ellen Beach Yaw, the "California lark "
topped all her sister soprani some 10 yesfi
ago with a "Woolworth Tower" note that
registered "high G."
This "high G" has beer* considered the
top note of all time. Robert Murray, how-
ever, smashes the record to pieces going
from- "G" past "A," "B," "C" to altis-
simo "D," three octaves and one note
above middle "C" on the piano.
Robert accomplishes his top notes with
no more effort- than a canary employs.
Robert is really a human bird and to
amuse his audience he vocalizes above
'high D'" on up to the end of the key-
board.
Robert is the son of Mrs. Frederick II.
Murray, whose home is in Tacoma, Wash.,
where Bobby was born. Last spring Mrs.
Murray brought her son to New York
City and placed him under Frederick H.
Haywood for voice training. Mr. Haywood
instructed Orville Ilarrold, now with
the Metropolitan.
"Robert is ti vocal phenomenon," said
Dr. Frank E. Miller, the famous throat
specialist. "I made a scientific examina-
tion and find that his extraordinary sing-
ing ability is due to the wonderful de-
velopment of the epiglottis and a beauti-
ful throat, the larynx being patterned after
Melba and the great soprano singers."
Robert's overtones often produce up to
2,0i8 vibrations per second, tones which
are beyond the power of ordinary ears to
grasp. *
Robert is devoting three hours a day to
his musical development, the time being
divided between Haywood, Pollak and the
study of languages. He is mastering all
the famous sopranos and singing them in
the original tongue.
Bobby has what is called a "geometrical
brain," quite as prodigious as his voice.
This intelligence makes his most difficult
work mere child's play. His other school-
ing is carried on by a tutor. Back home
in Tacoma, Bobby, as a little fellow, used
to use his voice to advantage, singing
around the neighbors' kitchen windows.
When the little truant returned home his
mother was frequently horrified to find
Bobby had collected pieces of pie or ap-
ples as a reward for these "concert tours."
MANY NEAT PHRASES FROM
LIPS OF THE "HARD GUYS"
Greatest Poets Did Not "Pass Up"
the Slang of the
Times.
The knockdown blow to the conservative
argument for trying to keep things as
they are is dealt by the mere fact that
such u thing as slang exists. Slang is life's
reply to those who would stop the clock
of time or sweep back the tides of a sea
beach with a kitchen broom.
New wards sire the mint of the future,
and in this coinage we are all counter-
feiters. Is the newspaper blamed for cor-
rupting good English? Go accuse the mid-,
wife with the maternity of the baby she
swaddles.
There is an amusing old gag about the
man who came away from his first hear-
ing of Hamlet, saying:
"Great play! But It seems to me he bor-
rowed a lot of his best lines."
The joke cuts both ways, for it Is an
open question which comes first in Shake-
speare. the hen or the egg. An excellent
ease can be made out for Shakespeare's
having picked up no end of his best bits
from the common speech around him, and
whoever wishes to hear advanced in a racy
playlet this theory that the greatest of
all poets let his ears write his dramaa for
him by being "a snapper-up of unconsid-
ered trifles." can do so by reading Shaw's
"Dark Lady of the Sonnets."
"They as Knew."
Two distinct languages, one of the edu-
cated classes, ami one of the masses, a
language of court as against a language
of crowd, has been one of the banes of the
past. It is a bane which the newspaper is
abolishing. But in this act of abolition do
we risk losing thj beauty and purity of the
tongue?
Much will depend upon how well the
newspapers are written. Should they set
up for themselves models of classic Eng
lish language and rule out the vernacular
or slang? If they do, the tides of com-
mon speech will sweep on and leave them
stranded.
At a tender age my father, who was very
fond of taking me to circuses, was at
pains to point out to me that the clown
was always the best acrobat of the lot-
he had to be. Nobody but a master crafts-
man can fall on his ear for fun. When I
see a master of English style falling on
his ear for fun I know that he is the
same class as rn old cabman who told me
proudly: "I was taught my trade by them
as knew."
The textbook can teach us what not to
do—a necessary lesson. But the School it-
self is the one where Ben Franklin and
Robert Louis Stevenson learned their
trade. They will tell you the story how
they learned by Imitation.
"On Your Own."
Then comes tne day when we must kick
aside the go-cart and toddle alone. It is
the glory o' a schoolmaster to be out-
grown. Only then has he done bis work.
And this is wht 'e we come back to com-
mon life, which .after all. was where the
gnat schoolmasters themselves learned
their trade. Where else should they learn
it? "Im the beginning" * * * was a
school? Not much! Man came before
schools. And it was no mere happenstance
that the three most vital poets of modern
tiii.es—Dante Shakespeare and Goethe,
dipped their pens d«ep Into ink of the
then despised vernacular of the common
people, when all the other pens around
them were tracing words in the thin and
failing writing fluid of an aristocratic
court language
Train a sensitive ear for the beauty of
language and you shall bear it strike'mu-
sic from the humblest tongue. There are
old fishermen on the headlands of Maine
and Nova Scotia who speak Elizabethan
poetry. The homely wisdom and mother
wit which I hear bandied ftbout. between
baggage car and express wagon is my
envy and despair. Epigram, repartee,
juicy anecdote, old. old words that are the
family heirlooms of centuries' descent, with
here and there a phrase of pure poetry—-
they keep my notebook always busy. Who
made these poeple so rich that they can
afford to throw away gold pieces with a
hand so lavish?
Nature d'd. The genius of language is
the title deed of the plain people to shape
their oWn destinies. For, if civilization
is. indeed, tne product of the ruling few
of 'ages past, created and preserved for
the sake of. and in spite of, the ignorance
and folly of the masses, then let the pro-
pounders of this great man, this one-man
show conception of society, answer one
question and only one:
"This instrument of speech, this most
marvelous of all machines, a language—
any language; what one man or set of
men what learned society, what institu-
tion invented that?"—"Uncle Dudley" In
the Boston Globe.
nil. BROOKS 1.1 WES FOR EAST.
Baylor President Silent on Talk He Will
Itiiti for Senate.
WACO. Tex , Dec. 17.—On the eve of his
departure for New York, Dr. S. P. Brooks,
president of Baylor I niversity. who, it has
been said here and in other Texas cities,
would be a candidate for United States
Senator two years hence, declared he had
nothing to say relative to this report. Dr.
Brooks leaves for the East tomorrow after
noon. lie will have a confefence in New
York with the general educational board
relative to matters pertaining to Baylor,
the board having substantially aided Bay-
lor in the past. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Brooks and thev will spend th»
holidays with their daughter, Miss Aureli-i
Brooks, who graduated from Baylor last
June and who is now a student tit Colum-
bia University The 25tli wedding anni-
versary of I)r and Mrs. Brooks comes
Christmas Eve
Recitals
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Students in John M. SteinfHdt's ad-
vanced piano class will give an exercise in
. public playing in the auditorium of the
San Antonio College of Music, 717 Garden
Street, Wednesday evening next at 8:30
o'clock. The program follows:
Allegro from Concerto in C major Mozart
Irena Wisecup.
"Gavotte" Helen Hopeklrk
"Chanson d'Amour" Steinfeldt
"La Fileuae" Raff
Miss Ada Rice.
"Sonata," Op. 2, No. 2 Beethoven
"Allegro" Beethoven
"Largo Appassionato" Beethoven
"Scherzo" Beethoven
Miss Helen Young.
"Allegro" from "The Italian Concerto"
Bach
"An Couvent" Borodin
"Country Garden" Grainger
Miss Estelle Jones.
"Kreislerlana No. 5 Schumann
"Sur le Lac" Steinfeldt
i "En Route" Goddard
Miss Bessie McIIugo.
"Andante," from "Concerto" (violin) ..
Mendelssohn
Lucas Cerna.
(Pupil of Julien Paul Blitz).
i "Sonata," Op. 53 Beethoven
! "Allegro con brio" Beethoven
"Adagio molto rondo" Beethoven
Miss Annie Holllday.
"Rhapsody" Brahms
Miss Grace Miller.
ri'PILS IN TWO PLAYS.
The primary pupils of the Brlggs School
of Expression, assisted by the intermediate
I and juniors, will gire two short plays
and a sketch in the Casino Hall on De-
cember "0 at 7:.10 o'clock. The sketch is
"A Show of Hands." First play, "On
the Way to Cartervllle." Primary play,
■ "Story of Jean Noel," a story of a Christ-
j mas in France, by Ruth Gowe
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