The Billboard 1924-01-05: Vol 36 Iss 1 (1924-01-05)

| sanuAny 5, 1924 te The Billboard 61 roar ORM | LYCEUM SPEAKERS one ¢ CHAATIAIA ENTERTAINERS Wiy | °F ESTIVAL MUSICAL ARTISTS “ips ‘ Conducted by AL FLUDE j | TOM CORWINE AND slowly. You'll have ten or twelve a ' THE MAYOR OF HANNIBAL, MO., ‘ » Which to get rid of them. | HIS “DOG FIGHT’ ncign gent . ies ede ities I don’t know why I find it so hard to write ecomes autauqua peaker By SIDNEY GREENBIE Everybody knows Tom Corwine and his dog ‘“*Tious!y about the Japanese theater. I spent ——— om fight. There {fs nothing else on the American ™8"y 2n hour watching the change of ganze It is a fortunate thing when men of affairs ‘ ’ . «an : ‘ . curtains hich «<tr ! ose ve fu net! ‘ ’ s Hs (Editor's Note-—Sidney Greenbie is one of the platform like his “inimitable polyphonic imitaee has r n ° ‘ yes t he ee +o Oe iona”’ : , , » heard it « i izing the name or the t ) e & we rs taka that . most interesting characters upon the platform. ome’ No one who has once ard it anever Siena ‘ami “eine ane? caiaial Sled alibi vement, but _take thelr places upon the He js the author of at least two books—‘‘Japan"’ forget his steamboat on the Ohio. Some en: . ae , d ve * z othe ti a form to bring to the people live, redand “The Pacific Triangle” The former is the tertainers have built their programs with the " en isias followers—usu Hy we ooded messages from those who bave been ‘ . : wr help of study and coaches. They are the re°F ™* a ¢ ling on ex ol : vuldering the burdens of the communities. best volume of information about the Fairy. former Here let me me explain that. tho the ~ 4 and of the Orient’ I have ever read—not as sult of careful schooling. Tom Corwine most ' f. = t m A cplal yh Next summer many of the chautauquas will ) T ni i t " ‘ nar . s ‘ That < Nngianse . tertaining a Tulian Street's book, but filled pave been berm that way, for there is no coach ore : : : — ; Aiud = pues at “ t stem to the messages of Morris Anderson, who ; pan 2s Bb t ate ; , . in the world who could have coached the pro™ h dating from 1575-4 eir development by :. g well-known attorney, business man, maga » af ym ore relia’ 1 with vastly more information and more relia oni an . 2 no means kept pace with each other, or on parble jreenbie’s work is the result of careful gram Tom presents. The experience of years, 7 ‘Wat pera me XN “ pS*~ gine writer, poet, lecturer and politician of e G ure . . P ifs alle >@ 2 us lays ke th oO } : , ‘ a , . however, has ripened his presentation until it “ lines. Religious plays Nk wiec® Tannibal, Mo. For years he has been an outobservation in the Far East, and this article b for some mysté # reason have been designated th, . ut ae Japanese theater Is up to date and nas RONG S CE: SS Pu a, S85 be lances by W —_ prey i mig on Ss a ae iho anese e 8 date an as dances by esterners ire the oldest ane 3 , accurate.) ° nost revered forms of drama, but these were : He who laughs last laughs best’ might be productions only t! r classes Tr n excellent motto for all of us who are ordinary theater h b 1 in disrepute ’ trying to entertain the world, but there is lown to the opening of Japan by ft Wester something too fatalistic in it. ‘here is the . ! Against t : . . . implication that he who laughs first laugh< a nO mean struge ‘ worst. Years ago when Japanese were trying Still, no profes d hope for r on everything European a troupe of Italian Ps that t! tor in Japan I donb ' singers came to Yokohama and were snatched f there is a t world more id ' up by an enterprising manager. The Japanese to tl soing Mothers, f rs ' who ventured to witness their performance had rot 1 s crowd tt talls ‘ their first real laugh on foreigners, and the the 2 r hours on end i wo attempt to foist foreign music on Japgnese db mech) are br bt to them, so t : , : t mor r r t ears was not tried again scon, Since, however, they do have to m . ’ Japan bas afforded foreigners ample opportunity the floor wit t b that each res . to laugh last, for opera in that country is ae EF = h thing as a f ’ ‘ . of 4 ‘ T) struggling (!) on, and it seems unfertunate seat © thinks OF gomg slot The : that the native instinct which recoiled against ul 1 ogy d ifes i h ; this queer music of ours yas not obeyed in the ee eee ws od welt ; ' a «quarters, and, more rare No ed ( ( lirst place That first outburst of laughter . 1” ¢ } dancing stage, he th ve ; , from Japan was really an earnest of Japan's . k 7 ; priecenge , : & > wks of Japanese ma i inability to appreciate Western music. Exa : Pa ; “ ‘ yo : . i : ilways full From this medley of theaterg z ceptions there are a-plenty, but I «hb never e} . I : strange ngs result. yr instance, hil forget the opera company that operates at the : — : government thinks potl nitting wor baths of Shidzuoka and forms the great at7 J ; to stray about or dwell close to the yoshivy y traction to thousands of Japanese who might list es i: hone a a a . districts has become er uch concel 7 otherwise have had toe take their baths withwith the demoralizing effects of the mo itl 1e e ting effects 1e 10vies ‘out music. TOM CORWINE se ‘ — , ; There Japanese see presented films from But Western usic some Japanese p de. ve . he s » istoms of . i erp “9 ne © ugha a as learned bow to meet all situations, Even °Ver the ae ont yr itm a P to d to affect. ue to the tradition which ,, , . 0 ire thereby jeopardizes vere is a he . . ' ve s . involves twelve-hour performances in order to ; ~ peer a maar ep m4 Senta spe hap oe 1 amount of kissing among West give poor people their money's worth, musicians gees — , ss ' v people: so the censor cuts out all the kissing ‘ : 4 : ’ “ audience which is always wondering if some¢ K . i" ‘ wW > 1 Vv . . It obe they went u 18 yet, ie miNx se no ny y del = r the music, but they must thing will be given which might not be apLo Kole t oa “ ; er yet : é I a » pe mathing is still no nkr +] Js le aupresent i re a = ays ng package. In conse propriate for the day, has no terrors for Tom. = i os '. unk ony ee —_ MORRIS ANDERSON aa ’ ee es See See See He has learned to adapt his imitations and t tl gpa a 7 ws , nage ra ' “as ‘ 380 ; . > . Hi 1? movies. Was never sure wheth s Mer, t ne : =e v pe ~ahng ys ems Gem we 6 nee, oe oe ee lu ; <s r lest tl I + t politically and in a business way His adarry auder, who, poor ellow is only wear. . ¥ was due to a fea ics the Kissing germ inte< b i i I y. a bang on Sunday as well as on Saturday. In paleader . ehathas thea mmeartain inter, aresses have been in great demand, end ing the scanty kilties of his thrifty forebears. goeoq this all comes natural to Corwine, as YOU'S Coupes, OF Whether the uncertain inter7 ; . Why kilties on a Japanese brass band is &% those who know him will readily understand pretation of the movie made by the man who Chautauqua managers have repeatedly tried to Ose wh : at ' . . F 2 . seeure hin ( the P i > ; much of a mystery as to why a nation that Not long ago Tom was in the office of the stands out in front of the screen and tells the “ _ ss “ ety age mis cayenne : . : story o he picture wo ¢ ore s eaus in life have fitte; lim in a pecullar manner ~ (eye nothing but peace persists in putting }ureau where he is being booked for the chau*‘° f the A ture word for word was cause. for 8 . atfo ‘ hecause ti Ah . , dd a sword. Cox, of the inimitable National , : . a »:. For the occasional burst of laughter from the ‘°F the piattorm, becaus¢ the ave added to a a a t National tauquas, As he was shown the schedule of his ' ; naturel ability a un orator a wealth of : tT } » 6 the ve ome! 18 < 1e aturai lity @s r w 0 P a Mate Quartet, had good reason in asking his jtookings for next summer he said “Well, _ — oc um " ry = t when to us the Gon nd illustrat hiel ke : audiences why they didn't look at his face that cantatas a tne eckelite met whe scene is most tragic is evoked by some comment m anc " istrations which = e bis . _ \s —s * ° wae —_ fram the cit } nowledze nts every utterance of liar value. e is once in a while when he appeared in Harry's don't you have me booked for Sunday?’ rom the reciter whose knowledge of Western , , P : baby skirts, but 1 J t1 Why." } I did stoms is Confined to his study of the film man’s man with the red blood of the athyets ’ s 1 Be . » " p 9% « the bureg ee sup~~ : ‘ i 10 apanese, except the Why, aid the au man, b d not uf f 7 pea aa a sa ; in his Vv ned to the mind of a keen mountainous wrestler, has so much leg to show pose your stuff was appropriate for Sunday. We Into the “le — the oe modern jusiness man and with the sy~nathies of dne L as Cox, and the noise of the band was quite thought the audience would object.” Western drama is slowly making its way I who knows life in all its phases = enough to make most eyes blink for more than “Not at all.” said Tom. “I worked every do not say this because I think the Japanese . , . a. thea ole he ey . oie half the time. Sunday on the cireuit. You see I use all these theater wo ld be bettered by such an influx. In C , cage “e hoes ee! halfback oo it { Th he theate s mg to entertain, and that ‘te 0 sity. of Missonri, and for thirteen ’ , one ‘ > mitations to point some moral, Why, 1 The theater is meant te r ous Sip tpteg te welts shout the Seganete ach the best sermon you ever heard and get Which entertains the Japanese is for them the Years he was coach of the football team of the the ori , ; en t est s§ Ye ’ ar Jape I t . : sa 0 > ay Bena mearcnghing ences ~ in linn in all my imitations and have never heard q best. I mereipyetate a fact. To the vast maHannibal (Mo.) High School. He has been ard to jump from farce to tragedy im Japan. . +9 jority of people, quite naturally, their native city attorney, prosecuting attorney ol Marion ian American actress who happened to have > ’ f at . wnte ’ vO oO n hal or arms “Well, Tom,’’ said the bureau man, “I ‘can romances, historical and imaginative, are most County, mayor of Hannibal f two term lover © tte leide " ' re : . ‘ — —_ niet — t pl s tiie ~~ eecnupe thas” lover <ee how you might get away with that on some @ppealing, ané even in the movies the native 1 is still rising along political lines. The u Nain die au 7 ) , } schools s<01 ? ne oj ow i a oe o> Wey We ou ‘prohibition ten of them But you would have to leave out your ‘heme is most fetching There must be plenty hools of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois know him 3, dencies, would start a campaign against acdog fight. They would not stand for that ae of swordmanship, and a suffictency of head clipbest for his football activities. Newspapers tresses having lovers. Not so in Japan Their “Not on your life,"* said Tom “That is the ping to please the average tired business man of that same section know him well on account moral sense of the Stness of things and the b t of all. You 1 give ‘em a sacred dog of Japan. On the whole TI should say that the of his political affiliations. Business men in sevon ’ pet ; ‘ < : ( ' : general paueity . F rely " -“ Sed } om nare +) } ’ | States are 4 eqt tedwi : eca us eneral pan y of emotional relativity makes ficht. TI tell how trouble starts in a church and number of light plays compared with tl ’ tl States are well acqua 2 dwith him becau them turn a different front to the world. While |). i. inte Oh eee dog. Then the big ber of serious ones strikes an average not vers his connection with Chamber of Commerc “ ¢ i ' litt og t ! i wa Jane: ar “— e i ‘ ¢ emovre ror hat ar here else ir h ind ec movements, e is 4 Hie Ve as in Japan a narakin, or financial pawn, dog starts in the argument as the deacons start far removed from that anywhere ¢ in the v n a ne i sa man of ac a happened to jump from the poor man’s into the trouble And I give ‘em every yelp of World. ments and the American peopje, if they mn. i post into the king's row, succumbed to the imine gog fight from start to finish, just giving a There is the usual alien who disparages everyoose between thinkers and doers, prefer to finenza, He had been a patron of a well-known y).0 moral a plication, and it goes over every thing in the Japanese theater because he does << o" . re a 7 as capi 1 quem Sa tet Pera ; : : pyres ‘ . rather an the philosophy of the student. n 4 r < well-known actr forthwith «ime. You see I just adapt it, that is all. [jot see his accustomed pretty legs and fetching ,,.. ndereot ° by r, hl yr aed Roneatesed snicide, leaving as her last wish the jake it a ‘sacred dog fieht’ and make it the ¢ 4 but to hi art not art But to one perce we ncn tah kp appt ce pinnae ¢ . faces, u ‘ lm ¢ 3 10 art. rut ( 1€ *) nalifie ; te = » . nish: ak wie Ge Genie Se Gas ane OAT eee ones ee tee I hoth qualifications, for he is a student as well . ee : —— © seeks no mly et it } vut individ: § fair i ort = Dwith ber lover. The country was forthwith iy wh eks not only variety in art ndivida, qa man of affairs, His poems and sho Ane throes of the argument: Would it really = = uality, even tho it border on national idiesynst *s have appeared in many of the better , fe moral for a parvenu and his mistress to ' = icine rns . Loe . = pig ths sale cats = : ’ ad sleep in the same grave together? The solution the faithfulness of feudal retainers, are oti ind beauty on the Japanese stage. And to the gh of all of the better and more cultural " was Oriental. lier body was given separate the vogue in the empire, even tho feudalism credit of the Japan let it be said that their ngs of life. fforced te commit harakiri n. or .. tage of J ; e q se take smselve rie » , 2 . . it stage 0 apan. Japanese take themselves seri son must inherit h father’s emotionalism. So theaters In the metropolitan centers some of the appointments of life, and ! experiences as -_ ously. I know of no people who do so more. ; if you have tears and nothing to shed them over, most notable European artists have appeared, prosecuting attorney and in bis legal ¢ rofession They are, however, not without a sense Of go to a Japanese tragic show and mingle them including Mischa Elman, Madam Schumann ave furnished him abundant illustrations Pbumeor, All they lack is a sense of proportion. with the lachryma! floods that are the constant Heink and others. So that, without discounting Hitting the Lime’ has all the vigor of th arhey must laugh interminably and weep for signs of appreciation of Japanese acting. Bat the value of Japanese art, the theater in Japan athlete and the inspiration of the red-blooded burial, but a photograph of her was deposited itself has long been theaters have lately given foreign art a chance Iie has two lectures available for chautauquas in the arms of her unfortunate lover. It is not the faithfulness they weep ever, for to try itself out before native audiences. With and a third lecture which he usually gives fo hid on watebe bad comeds end aie it ejahly doesn’t exist, but the traflition of the Russien revolution came a back Was of mmencement occasions His chautanqua lee ahh one font » & ed nd pine com nae faithfulness. It has been wept over by every Russian artists to Japan, and there for a time tures are *‘ “Got Bricks’’ and “Hitting the t long-drawn hours upon the caving and sinner for years, and every faithful they found a profitable opportunity. At the big Line’. he first subject deals with the dis enturies. Hence, historical plays, representing don't be prepared to shed them. Give them off bas a very promising future. man who is able to gain the objects ef his