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Men amd Women of Sao Antonio Who Sifts
Abroad Tel! The Sunday Express
How I Hit Europe
MI55 r*OHA Let LAN#
8fil'TiSH OANCCGS Arr
tiaIs. The artist nowadays both looks
and dresses precisely the same as the
young doctor or the mau who does a suc-
cessful business on the stock exchange
iind lie trusts to his abilities, and not to
l is appearance, to see that ho gets his
proper share out of life
"With this clear basis for his work and
his career it is only natural that he shouM
see the value of combination, and I don't
intend to rest until the Arts and Dramatic
Club has spread all over the world and
we have as many members In the United
States, in South Africa, South America,
Australia and Canada as we have today
In the small confines of England and
Wales."
M/55-eCKVAfi?C» SACHS
London Has Solved
Caught Shy
Student
Kin and Money.
LONDON, April 26.—One of the most extraordinary art centers in London today is the Arts and Dramatic Club.
At present it has its home in Clavier Hall, Hanover Square, but before many weeks have passed it will be housed
in one of the most palatial buildings in the West End, and the idea of the members is to turn it into a genuine
Palace of the Arts. Until the Arts and Dramatic Club was started the young man or woman from the country with
ambitions to become a painter, or an actor, or a musician had a bad time when he or she "hit" London. There was no
place that they could go and meet their own kin. The artist struggling for life, no matter how talented, was left to
struggle alone. Now one can scarcely see an announcement of a concert or a stage performance in the British
capital that the mystic letters "A. D. C." do not follow th e names of one or more performers. And "A. D. C." stands
for membership in this extraordinary semi-Masonic Arts and Dramatic Club.
When the club was opened on a help-each-other basis three years ago, with barely 100 members, by St. John
Joyner, the whole project was dismissed as hopelessly U toplan. "Why," questioned clever people, "should the
author be expected to help the actor? And why should the singer be expected to help the painter? They belong
to different occupations, and the success of one does not necessarily involve the success of the other. Each craft
should stand for itself."
THE members themselves also got a
little frightened when they discov-
ered that there was to be no annual sub-
scription. One payment of $1.25 was to
make them free of the Institution for the
rest of their untural lives. "We bare no
capital. We receive no donations. We
shall shut up In six weeks," they declared.
St. John Joyner only smiled and held
on to the course be had mapped out.
Hist a large hall was obtained In which
were given, free of all charge, concerts
by members of eminence and performances
of new plays. Kvery artist and actor who
wanted to Join the Arts and Dramatic
Club had to appear at one of these func-
tions. to prove their possession of the
necessary abilities, and tliey liked the
audience so much that they Invariably
claimed the right to appear on quite t
series of occasions. And similar tribute
was exacted from the writer, the painter,
and tlie maker of beautiful things. Then
tearooms were opened -a recital room for
vocal, Instrumental and elocution per-
formances and lectures -a special exhlbl-
tton-room, for members' personal and pri-
vate exhibitions of paintings, sculpture ur
handicrafts—practice-rooms for musical
members and their pupils—a rehearsal
room for theatrical purposes, dancing and
•locution—e lift class for artists In ueed
The Real Secret of
Rejuvenating the Face
(From The Clubwoman.)
She holds the true secret of facial re-
juvenation who has learned how to re-
move the dead skin particles as fast an
they appear. It's a secret auyone ma;
possess. The uged, faded or dlacolored
surface skin may be gradually absorbed,
tn an entirely safe and rational manner,
by the nightly application of ordinary
mercoiised wax. \V Itbln a week or two
!•,the underlying skin, youthful and beau-
1 tlfol to behold, has token the place of the
discarded cuticle, ft, little of the old skin
| it sbsorbed each day .there's no lnconven
lenee at all, and no one suspects yon are
, putting anything on your face. The mer-
| tollsed wnx, procurable at any drug store
(an ounce is sufficient), la applied like
eold cream fn the morning It Is erased
with soup end water. It's the best thing
known for freckles, blackheads, pimples,
moth patches, liver spots and fine surface
wrinkles.
For the deeper wrinkles an excellent
recipe Is: Powdered saiollte, 1 o*, dis-
solved In half pint witch betel. Bathing
the face in the solution produces quick
end wonderful results.—(Adv.)
THE ambitious American who
goes abroad isn't always sup-
plied with a "roll" large enough to
carry him through the course of
study mapped out. In the capitals
of Europe he is at once upon re-
sources of his own making, and
he doesn't always survive in the
battle of the fittest. His condition
on arrival, in a London fog, sug-
gests a scenario which might run
like this:
"Have you ever landed In a itrange
town empty-handed * ?"
But the emptiness of his purse isn't
the tragedy in the pursuit of a career.
It Is in the loneliness before recogni-
tion comes. London has solved the
problem and many San Antoninus who
have studied In various European
capitals suggest that u similar plan
would blunt the thorus In the path of
an American man or woman seeking
recognition in Berliu, Pari* and other
centers of art, music and legend.
Among those who have studied the
problem are Nona Lee Lane. Mrs. Ed-
ward Sachs and Fred Cbabot.
of practice with painting, drawing, de-
ft gning and photographic rooms.
UKT ACQUAINTED SPIRIT.
The foundation of an exchauge and
mart quickly followed. Later a library
was opened, an excellent magasine start-
ed, an dexperU were appoluied to advise
members about the nales of manuscripts
and picturs, tuition In art work, and the
right channels of employment. Writing,
consultation and dressing rooms were add
rd. with private cupboiirds for members,
a pi cms-cut ting agency, special facilities
for distributing notices about any con-
certs or exhibitions, and tbe ordinary ad-
vantage* of dub life.
Considerable time wan given to making
the members acquainted with each other.
The slogan was preached st every social
gathering. "Members of the Arts sod Dra-
matic Club should advertise the mystic
Utters 'A. P. C at nil their public Hp-
peartDcer And directly you know a man
or woman Is an 'A. D. < you should do
your best for your fellow craft, for your
fellow craft ran be relied upon to do his
or her best for you!"
This semi-Masonic element caught on
amazingly well, aud within two years no
fewer than l.uOO public performances had
been given In connection with the Arts
aud Dramatic Club. If one goes there to-
day. one finds nil the rooms occupied by
groups of keen and active workers In art,
TOD-IT SISTER
I
Fee# to Yen ead leeey
From Women's Ailment*,
em » woman.
know women'* sufferings.
heve found the oure.
who, realizing that there is no help to be
cxpected from the Government or from
any National Institution, mingle freely
without formal Introductions and are bent
mcst resolutely upon helping each other,
and xipou winning by united effort what
is denied to the Isolated aud unworldly
artist.
Here, under one roof, are grouped the
London School of Opera, the Welsh Acad-
emy of Music, the Irish Dancers, the In-
ternational Ltiittnti Society, the Connois-
seurs' Club, the tierman Theater, the
Poetry Club, lloaiua Flltppi's Dramatic
School, the Nobody's Club, several stringed
orchestras, Including the Arts and Dra-
matic Club bund, aud a trained oratorio
chorus, lo sity nothing of scores of the
Individual teachers of elocution, wood
carving, violin, piano, miniature painting
and many other crafts.
THE DEBATABLE POINT.
Each section mingles quite freely with
its neighbor. "Art In its essence is play,'
said a bright-eyed girl that I met walti-
ing down one of the corridors, and I
rbould have liked to have stopped and
discussed that extremely debatable point
with her. iiad not St. John Joyner, the
enthusiastic director, got jne by' the coat
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button expounding tho Ideas at the root
of the institution.
"These are tbe days of triumphant youth
in art," he contended. "The British pec-
pie have not realized the truth yet, but
the fact remains—a new race of art-
rcrkers has grown up unseen aud unsus-
pected in our midst.
"There is in the art world no room now
anywhere for the blacknalled, frowsy fig-
rres that used to make up by length of
hair and eccentricity of dress and gesture
what they lacked in decent social cssen-
Flan Ought to Smooth Road to Success Say
Local Students of Other Capitals.
rflHE success of the Arts and Dramatic Club in London, in the opinion of many, points the solution of the prob-
* (em as to what the young student shall do when he or she first goes abroad. The co-operative feature by
which its members are given an opportunity to prove their abilities in the particular art to which they have devoted
their lives, if introduced in other student centers in various parts of Europe, would "help some" to say the least.
The student possessing real talent could ask for nothing better, and the student without talent ought to be made ac-
quainted with the fact that he has it not, as early as possible. A number of San Antonians who have studied abroad ex-
pressed themselves as believing such an organization could be made to be a great help to students in other parts or
Europe besides London.
"I don't think there is any crying need for such an organization in Berlin," said Fred Chabot, who spent some
time recently studying music in both Germany and France. "However, it might be worth trying In Paris. In Ber-
lin the people are very hospitable to the newcomer, particularly those of the American colony, and they are willing
to give everyone a chance to make good. It is a little harder to get recognition in Paris, and 6uch an organization
as has been found successful in London might do some good there. Still it must be remembered that all of these
cities are different and what would apply to one would not apply to the others. It would be interesting to see such
an experiment tried elsewhere."
Singing to Talking Machines
The most trying ordeal—to the
artist's soul—is singing to a talking
machine. Great artists make big
incomes in barn-like halls, singing
to the machine, just like it wore
diamonds and pretty skirts.
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frotn theatrical and music hall stars la
that of singing to talking machines. For
gramaphone agents descend tn shoal3 on
the star who comes out with a now song
success or talking scene that takes tho
public fancy.
Most artistes will tell you—and hard-
ened ones, too—that singing to a repro-
ducing machine 1s to them a far greater
ordeal than performing to a crowded the-
ater. It Is the strange conditions, under
which these voice reproductlone are car-
ried out, that sn often unnerve the most
experienced performers.
The setting—a bare barti-llke hall—In
Itself scarcely Inspires confidence. One
end Is screened from the gate of the
occupants by a long curtain through
which a monstrous horn of brass extends
out Into the itoom, being suspended from
the celling.
Orouped around are a motley assembly
of musicians with instruments of weird
design. Somehow these Instruments seem
familiar, yet no one ever saw their like
In a theater orchestra. They are espe-
cially constructed to produce soft sound
waves that do not drown the singer's
voice.
The violins no longer possess the fa-
miliar rurves and sturdy framee. They
are peculiar hollow tubeltke affaire with
strangely arranged etrings. The celloe
are In a similar emaciated condition,
their ample sides having apparently dwin-
dled Into slight wooden supports Kv-
ery Instrument, however, boasts a little
aluminum horn directed towards the par-
ent trumpet. In order to concentrate the
sound waves at one rgmmon point
Perched on a high platform near the
roof Is the conductor, whose lofty posi-
tion Is chosen to take him out of the way
of the all-Important sound waves.
The performer stands on a Utile wooden
platform right at the mouth of the re-
ceiving trumpet. A few hurried direc-
tions nnd then strict silence is the rule.
No human voice or sound but that of the
singer must now disturb the atmosphere,
for the little machine behind the curtain
relentlessly records every little sound
wave.
A red light Is flashed and the attenu-
ated little orchestra gets to work.
And thin the artiste has to sing to
this strange little assembly with siban-
don and «esl as though the Inspiration of
the brilliant light, of beautiful clothes
snd wenery and applauding audience
were all there.
It Is a great ordeal, for one has to
eing with far greater care In front of a
talking machine than Is required when
audiences of flesh and blood are to be
pleased
With fiendish cruelty tbe revolving wmi
recording dlso gathers In every little
fault. A slight clearing on the throat or
little swallow, every deep breath or Blight
shuffle of the feet, are sufficient to
form sound waves that Imprint their
message on the yielding wax. Such things
an audience would not note, but the
obedient record-maker makes no distinc-
tion between the actual and the Intended.
When the artiste has finished the rec-
ord Is played over and the Inevitable Im-
perfections criticized. The weak spots
are then rehearsed and the whole trying
business commenced over again. If the
performer makes a mistako during the
song, a beil rings and a fresh start Is
made. Not until r record of pure and
distinct tone Is obtained does the ar-
tiste's ordeal end.
Big artistes such as Caruso, Melba and
Tetrazlnni make many thousands of dol-
lars by records of their volcee, while
even the smaller fry In the theatrical and
concert worlds considerably augment
their Incomes by royalties on records of
their performances.
Several of the most famous reproduc-
tions of Caruso's and Melba'a voices have
been placed in a sealed tomb beneath the
opera house In Paris In order that future
generations 100 years hence may know
the singing talent that existed In the
Nineteenth Century.
U US. EDWARD SACHS, who studied
AvJ. in Germany for some time, ex-
piessed the opinion that the co-operative
feature might be found effective, particu-
larly In making It a little easier for those
students who are compelled to earn their
way while studying. By giving them an
opportunity to exercise their art to ad-
vantage It ought to make the road to
success smoother.
"Tho majority of students who go to
Kurope to study prepare themselves finan-
cially for the first year at least, and it Is
after most of them have been abroad for
that length of time that they need help,"
said Mrs. Sachs "Of course, there are
many who do not need this kind of help
all krtMM '
talent
sorely In need of the opportunity to aug-
1, but It often happens that the most
those who
talenteij artists ore
their
ment
ances.
finances by public app(
It seems to me that tbe principle
of 'help each other' is tbe correct one
upon which to bate such a movement."
Mrs. Nona Lee Lane, who studied In
Germany, while Insisting that tbe people
of that country do everything to tnako
It easier for an artist to get ahead, Is
of the opinion that t'-ie principle of the
organisation that has succeeded in Lon-
don Is a good one and should help con-
siderably in solving some of the prob-
lems with which tho student abroad Is
confronted.
HELP-EACH-OTHER SPIRIT.
"Of course, I caunot speak of the con-
ditions in other cities than Berlin, where
I studied," said Mrs. Lane "III Berlin
the people are delightful and I am sure
do everything to make the student s path
an easy one. For one thing, the cost
of living there is much lower thau what
a student coming from America Is ac-
customed to, and that In Itself simplifies
matters. As to getting recognition, while
I cannot speak from persoual experience,
because I studied with the Intention of
teaching, I think that everything Is dose
that cau be done to give artists wltb
genuine talent as speedy recognition as
they deserve. However, 1 can easily MS
that the co-operative feature of the Eng-
lish society could be utilised with profit
among the artists lu Germany. The help-
each-otber principle Is a good one, and
while the situation at present ta good.
It would uudonbtedlv Improve things to
have auch an organization should there be
a real demand fur it among tbe students.
It Is the opinion of others who bava
been abroad and who have become ac-
quainted with conditions, particularly la
l'arls. that should tbe Idea of tbe Arts
and Dramatic Club spread It would bs
welcomed by many who have had some
difficulty lu finding themselves during
their period of "probation" in irtlstls
circles. At any rate, it woald seem that
efforts are to he made to spread the goe-
pel of "help each other" to artistic cen-
ters throughout the world.
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party of travelers In Southern Nigeria
have Inst arrived here with some Interest-
ing discoveries that they have made In the
art of embalming as practiced by tbe Ibos
o/ Abam on the Cross River,
By the first method, the intestines are
removed, the orifice la then cleaned and
refilled by a mixture of certain leaves,
carefully selected and smoke-dried for tbs
purpose. After the sides of the cut hsve
been drawn together the body Is laid on a
franiwork sticks, raised tablewatse
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leathery. It Is then robed In rich cloths
and placed In a room of the compound
specially set apart for the purpose, where
a fire, on which resin aud aromatic gums
are occasionally thrown, Is kept burning.
Their second w«y of preserving the body
Is to grind native pepper and dried leaves
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Hon. Mrs. Rosdew Hurt* Will Succeed
to Title and Estates of Ixird Keith
of Fyvie.
Burn a month's rest cure, and she wS
not return until tomorrow, bat, all bit-
ing well, she will give a dance en Apia
L"J at 77 Cadogan Square.
Special Oehla Service to The Express.
LONDON, April M.-lt la understood
among the frleude of Lord and Lady I<elth
of Fyvle that It will be shortly arranged
tbe Hon. lire. Rosdew Burn will, on the
deatb of bcr father, take over tbe peerage
as well as his vast eetatee. Lady Lelth,
of courae, waa a daughter of D. A. Jan
tiary of St Louie, United States of Amer-
ica. Since the death of ber brother In
the South African War Ure. Rosdew Burn
is the betress, and. naturally, the family
Is extremely enxloua tbst tbe title should
not become extinct.
In the event of Mrs. Burn Inheriting the
title tbe distinction would form tbe first
rase of an Anglo-American woman enjoy-
ing such a privilege, it Is difficult, how-
ever, to realise that Mrs. Burn bss a son
« be comee of age thlc cummer His birth-
day is to be rnsde one of tremendous Im-
portance. and tbe festivities are to extend
even to Fyvle Caetle, where arrangements
sre at present In progress to celebrate tho
event with gatherings and rejoicings
worthy of tbe occasion.
The proepectlve belr Is a very promis-
ing young men, who is reputed to take
a lively Interact tn politico. He bee al-
ready distinguished himself ss a debater
ct various inctttutlonc—e fact which bas
gladdened the hearth of bis grandmother,
Lady Lelth, who Ic Inordinately proud of
her daughter's children. He le alao a
very chivalrous young man Some time
ago he knocked down s workman who
was beetlng his wife la a slum off Prince
Street In Edinburgh.
fnfortunstely, Mre. Burn has been very
unwell lately, and has not been able to
take part In any of the gsitles of tbe pest
monta. Although she has given dinner
pertlee st her bouse In Cadogan Square for
some of the dt-icee which have taken
place, she bee not been able to he present,
and Colonel Bum bee chaperoned his
daafblst. Tbe deOosa has* ordered Mrs.
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