SLIPPING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19847, 16 January 1920, Page 4

SLIPPING.

performing jazz music imitated from iiio negroes. American humour ;md comit; illustration is also mainly la Icon from negro source.-. Their vaudeville houses swarm with coons and persons }'ho mimic l coons and sing negro songs in high-pitched nasal tunes. To vary the noise thoy dance negro shuffle.-. I hm-e is j 11 >t the beginning of Art. J heir big galleries are decorated wi ( li eopios of old ma-Ters and fakes of European masterpieces. Meissonier once eompiaino’l that .here weie thousauos tmue Yieissonit<s west of the Yli-sKippi titan he ever painted. The drama' is dead. In such, an o'hr podrida the pur -t eauuol eup, et a high standard ot morals. 1 think the national fondness tor dancing has something to do "utii the laxity ol morals, hut hating hiiljoys and kiilioyitm I don’t like to t-av it. .Manners are usually allied with morals, and Americans lack graeion.;nesc Due to the heavy German leaven in the population, the majority of the populr.ee are rude. Kudencss has always Dot'll Germanic. The cities are abominably niiiv, llcir people love loul scumls. and make them continuously. Ihev '-oar and si out and screech in pul.'he and in private. The fine art "I |tolite conversation does not, exist hrean-e it cannot make iI self heard above the din. Ifere again is a negrotstie (|iiality. New York ami Chicago are nearly “ imposstlde lor a sensitive individual I hey are a perpetual uproar. All the guns of all the armies hred together would sound like, a whisper in New 'tork. flaunting-its poverty and vaunting 'Us wealth.

-\ews was recently received in London that I'yodr Ivaimvitel; Chaliapiue. the great Russian singer, had ’been killed by the bolsheviks, tie had al--1 ! >ehed himself to the bolshevik ie<nme" and some time ago ho was reported to ho singing at Moscow. . He fell ilk ami Dio bolsheviks, fearing that the disease no suffered from was plague, had him s u,t_ (says the London "Daily Chroni<'le L Chaliapiue has been called he greatest bass.” and achieved great lame in opera. Tn aiid DJI), he appeared at Drnrv Lane, where he commanded a fee ofiKUO a nignl, and was Hie lion of the season. Ghaliapine was horn in IJjT.’j. His latle-r was a simple mnnjik of Kazan. mi poor that he could not afford to have Ins son taught to read ami write, amt "lien quite a little hoy Fyodr had to "ork at fie shoemakers bench, be-in-it tug ns musical career as a uioniW ot a chin Hi choir, he went on the slip™ " uni he was seventeen, having realised 1,11 Jk ' had a voice ol some value. One j!Y/'"J 11 ""; y of vagabond performers, he yatidered irorn one fnwn to another staging m operettas. Ten years later he was a member of the .Imperial Iheatie in Moscow .and the most popuhn Hager in all broad Ibismi In every comer ol" the Czars .Empire he became known and loved, and he eon' ((tiered tlm world just ns lie commoioti nT'il 11 »“ 3 o'njv iltaM.. Mas a great singer; 1m was a hje H y 0 ' ' ll "f 1 " 1 ' - nS ' VpIL '"deed, while A f .I'ertorm-mg in London, on the , , ()t 1,10 ' Vill ‘. be was described in a ont time. Ho sang ehieflv Kalian T**’ ( ' arin .E Mic for I' "• ' "-is a man ol magnificent j Hqne and impressive stage presence • hire years ago, m a black' Sea. water! mg-phicc, Chaliapiue was attacked iff ' bedroom during the night hv a„ Wh ° m IIC Shul

A PATTI MbIOHY. viT ~ " cnll ' V ljmi !i >.v fortune to • 1, Crs, '«-y- Hu - 1i Oiiula.no Patti's Mc'mi ensttei as an artist (writes ''t 111 1lu ; l ' omio > i ‘-Daily ■■ > * lumemher jiartieulnrlv iho 1°" ", h ™> M'orr. Imr depart,,'re on . .m ,n ° n< ‘ ,n tmir ’ aavc a . 1 ( l . ;'“ r c ' olK ‘f ,| 't to her neighbours in ,l Lreeou village. Nothing rejoiced Jtri| ( '?o’ S ' T f ," mro tban t0 tveicome 0 1 talent at the numerous entertainments she arranged ;l °' ™ | e inagnilieent theatre attached to the On my arrival in the afternoon [ "iml an unwonted atmosphere o' liii-Mle. Hauls rushed about the hal was ! 'uwn with tissue paper f o bans slammed, and the whole '•tali: bung expectantly un their mMiWs 'uire, she tor the nonce having ahanSir, rf** f ” r «rt»s.ulS. 1 V' s 11/-"I 1 /-" ao'vns, accompanied bv six rived! " ' S ‘ lod fcho "’-' vo,l, «i. bad ar-

A > I wandered to the terrace overooking the river, well-known acceiUs haded me Irom a window. “One mo mci.t, please; to-night 1 am gcnm’ lo ..mg only coon ’ songs. A good icicu ,U‘s. I go to Xow York, so f will try C-uod (lid deft,’ the ‘ Swanco Kivcr'’ ami -■andy-oli, yes. “ Q lw , si-cot Onw. .No need to rehearse, eh 0 \]l

One leatnro of Craig-y-nos was its ndto Clidal traditions. \fto‘dinner a prneesuon was formed, headed Ye ancient Creole Maidservant ■ m, I k T iln r lho 'H.stcss itrvf'ii I ''" d & t al - ami, alter a little w,i 11 lirr fju fm iire fcs w j •"■»“"* * wit 'i™ t’l adimration.) •• | . Ini „ n , ' llmi * v' llf r • \\‘ % v m. ,lln 11 ou filing If) ' Ue H ■> -More. Af v Ladv’-' ( \ oeilnrons npplaupo.) * •• A remarkable performance! S'he «-nicr *>"**■ he I ween each, re ired nniQuc. i venlnrorl , 1 " ils •• \(. ~o •> ,1, , l ," 'vinoiist rale. .I," 11 ’• s| m sal( !• '• they have hear,l ■ 1 - '■ ant io s(>|, r | i.!™- 1 ™ a " ■" -!""■■<•' U:z 1.. ll”niuli™y. la :,i;i' ’hnl‘ pb nki;:;; st,i:',! 1 ' 0 ,■ ft;,,s cilfr 1 1 iii'(ii , iV.gi, 'Sn itTi" g" “j 1 " - , 1 pUgvt'tl no,, aeeoinpaniments. °