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M arti·elli Will Be HeartlApril 8 at A tulitorium Eqliala CM.-~ Gma Dectift Portrapl el a...ic ProdKti.. at New Trier 8~ R. L P. Seeing "The Beggar'& Opera" last Saturday evening at New Trier High school was like going to one's first circus. There were over seventeen characters in the opera, and each one was completely unique, an individual in every sense of the word. Like at a three ring circus, one's eyes h~d to travel fast to keep up with everything going on. ..The Beggar's Opera·' is the most delicious satire on politics and criminal laws, and although written in 1727 still holds good. It is a piquant burlesque on the Italian opera. and the exaggerations are clever enough to keep the audience chuckling continuaDy. There· was the doll faced heroine, Polly Peachum, and one of her rivals, Lucy Lockit, a take-off on the alluring, heavy-lidded vampire. Mama Peadtum. a matron ·" "'f generous proportions, a profound liking for the bottle, and a comedy character of the first order, reports to her hu.;band that daughter has put a smirch on the family coat of arms by marrying a highwayman. Like good parentS, they decide to uphold the family honor, replenish the family purse and secure their daughter's happy future by having the highway m a n captured, impeached and ~anged. Polly is intrigued with the adea. but shuns their advice, insisting she loves Macheath, the merry highwayman. Well, they sing gay .songs with a vim, gallivant (the precise word for it) about the stage, assume ridiculous postures, and capture Macheath finally while he is at an inn. 1- S... Ethctiwe The inn scene is one of the best in the opera, for it is then the famous drinking song is shouted forth by evil looking, mirth-provoking members of Macheath's gang. Then too · all the pretty girls who aid the ~ng appear, to be tenderly but lightheartedly kissed by Macheath and to dance in the gayest of spirits. They and the men are the "chorus " singing "Youth's the s·eason made f~r joy, and love is then our duty ...." It was something to stir the jaded palates of theater-goers. Lucy affects the release of Macheath but he is sGOn recaptured. After several. charmingly' colorful songs and screammgly funn~ tableaux, he is saved from the very gallows and the ope.ra: ends with a bang. ' Applause spnnkled spontaneously throughout the performance, brought ~ncores ·given with a lavish hand. for th~ artors seemed !o enjoy the play as much as the ~udienc~. "The Beggar's Opera" f~rnlShed no~h shore theater-goers With an evenmlr's entertainment not soon. to . be forgotten. Thanks certatnly du~ the New Trier Orchestral association, which sponsored it. HE Ripon College Glee club, now T on its thirty-fifth annual tour, will appear in concert at the Wilmette Masonic temple auditorium under the auspices of Wilmette Chapter, No. 753, Order of the Eastern Star, Wednesday evening, March 21. This choral organization of twenty-five young men will present their varied musical program in their reputable artistic manner at 8 o'clock. After this organization appeared at Kimball hall and Orchestra hall in Chicago last spring, the Ripon College Glee club established an enviable reputation throughout the Middle West and the critics generally were of the belief that here was one glee club that was far above the average of its kind. One critic of last season referred to the program as being ..one of unusually high qualitv and intere'St and so attractively diversified as to meet the approval of the most critical student of male voice singing." The Ripon songsters are this vear filling engagements in many of· the larger cities of Wisconsin. includin'! Fond du Lac, }.{ilwaukee. Racine and Kenosha and also points in northern gay Paderewski Was There, and His · n earers, 4 Hours I g n a c e Paderewski demonstrated again. last Sunday afternoon at the Auditorium theater. that he is indeed "the first pianist." }Ie is almost a legend in the pianistic world, so long has he been before music ·lovers, yet he is still going strong. He is so popular that eight days before his recital every seat in the Auditorium including the stage, was sold. The management has therefore persuaded Mr. Padere\\ski to give another recital Saturday afternoon, March 31~ at the Auditorium. with an entirely new procrram. No doubt the theater will again have a capacity audience. Paderewski imbues everything he !>lay~ ~th his own personality, l!"iving 1t dtgmty, color and a beautv of line few other pianists can eoual. The~~ are wrong ~otes, plenty of them, but the whole is so artistic thev seem of little moment. His program Sunday included M)me Schumann etudes Beethoven's Sonata in A flat, and a ·~oup of Liszt arranJl~ments of Scht1hf"rt comoositions, includinsr "Hark. Hark. the Lark." and "The Erlking." There were six Chopin numbers. a Liszt Ht,nnrian Rhaosodv, and Paderewski's nwn "M~lodie in B Maior." Th,. thuockroa.s applause bpt the maestro are ....._...taJ Trio wm Gift Georaian Muaicale ~. eel~st. and Marian Lychenheim, piulst, will present the musicale at the ~ hotel. Evanston. Sunday eftlllll& Vareh 18. at 8 o'clock. This . . be the third of a series of Spring BOW being tiftn under aatpica of t · ~~~a~~qaDeDL e...A.!'_ futrumental trio comprising ~ Saadstrom. violinist ; Go I d i e ··ic I Giovanni Martinelli, who only last week captivated his audience at the Artist-Recital of the Winnetka Music club in the New Trier High school -auditorium, is to appear in recital at the Auditorium theater, Chicago, Sunday afternoon, April 8, at 3 :30 o'dock, under the auspices of the Jewish Art · players. When the great Caruso died, many people shook their beads and bemoaned the fact that no one could ever take his place. But Giovanni Martinelli, whose dependability no less perhaps than his glorious voice had made him a mainstay at the Metropolitan since his first season with that opera indulged in no fireworks or company, Ill i n o i s, indadinc Wilmette. Glen Ellyn, Hinsdale and the city of Chicago loud speeches. He mourned his fellow artist with a great and real grief, itself. yet he carried on. While a portion of Harold Chamberlain, director of the the musical world was searching for club and also head of the Ripon Caruso's successor, Martinelli, who i'5 College School of Music, bas arranged also a prime favorite at R a v i n i a a program to include the "Pilgrim's operas, was quietly assuming many of Chorus," from Tannhauser; Franck's the roles Caruso had sung, working "Psalm 150"; Gerrish's "Still, Still doublv hard in an earnest endeavor to With Thee," and also some lighter fill, to the utmost of his ability, the numbers, including Geibel's "Kentucky so-eat gap which the passing of Carueso Babe" and a special feature entitled, had left in the ranks of the Metro"An Act of up-to-date Grand Opera," politan. which is said to be· screamingly funny. The place he has reached today, The soloists of the club include James Gilruth, tenor ; Carleton Lueck, without special press agents to call b a r i t o n e : Joseph Liska, violinist ; attention to his achievements, without Lawrence Buckland, cornetist, and any other reason but that of pure Alvin Brooks, pianist. The latter has merit, is indicated by the review which won prizes in the two last years of appeared in the New York Times, last competition in the Wisconsin Musical February 26, after Martinelli made his contest. The officers of the organiza- first appearance at the Metropolitan tion are John Liska, president ; Samuel in the name part of "Andrea Chenier." question who is 'the "There ha'S been _ N. Pickard, manager, and Reinhold world's greatest tenor'," wrote the Gehner. ao.ssistant manager. Next Wednesday's program will be Times critic, "but the audience left no in the nature of a benefit for the doubt of its verdict as to the greate!\t Eastern Star fund which is being used within recent memory to appear as to defrav the cost of the new organ Giordano's hero. Martinelli received one of the memorable ovations of the in the Wilmette Masonic lodge haU. year from a brilliant opera subscription reinforced by standees in hunMtne. Schumann-Heink to dreds who crowded the doors. In the Sing in St. James' Church famous air of the 'Improvisation' in the Madame Schumann-Heink will ap- first act. he arottsed an outburst of applause which stopped the opera for pear in a song recital at old St. James five minutes. The tenor acknowledged Roman Catholic church, Palm Sundav his ovation with dignity. It was proafternoon. The event is spon·.sored b~· longed tilt parts of the house hissed His Eminence George Cardinal Mun- for silence. only to be renewed at the first curtain calls." · delein and Rt. Rev. Edward F. Hoban. 'Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago and Bishop Elect of Rockford. Michael L. Columbia School Chorus in. Igoe is chairman of the .executive Benefit Concert March committee and Mrs. Walter G. MeThe Columbia School of Music Guire is chairman of the general chorus, under. the direction of Lenise committee. Mrs. Genevieve Wilken is St. John Westervelt. will give a con. cert \Vednesda:v evening, March 21. at arranging the patrons' list, which in- the Murphy Memorial hall, Chkago, eludes many names prominent in social for the benefit of the Georgia Nettles and civic activities. Herlocker Scholarship Loan fund. Mu · II!- the days when old St. James Iota chapter of Mu Phi E psi Ion pansh was in the center of a territon· sorority has charge of the sale of which ?ncluded the homes of Chicago'~ tickets wealthtest and most influential citi- · · zens, Madame Schumann-Heink lived almost within the border of its con· INSTALL NEW ORGAN fines. The old church, rich in ecclesi.:. Work is proceedi.;g with the instalastical, educational and social tradi- lation of a new organ in the Church of ti~ns, ~th its beautiful marble altar~ the Holy Comforter at Kenilworth. wtth Its onyx alter rail, its grea· It is expected the instrument will be vaulted c~iling, ~nd its mellow-toned available for use at the Easter service. organ, besade whtch many great arti'st .. ' have sung, therefore will be a m('st SUPPER MUSICALE SUNDAY fitting setting for this event. The Chicago Colle~re club is giving a supper mu~icale Sunday evening bowing and playing encores and at March 18. at 8 o'clock. The Glee club last !t was necessary to J~wer the is to sing in the lounge and Miss curtam to end the afternoon's program ~auline A11~erson will play a .g roup of at 7 o'clock. p1ano selections. 2l