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Show RUSSIA EAGER FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM j Autocratic Composition "God Save the Czar' Is Out of Date Under New Conditions. PETROGRAD, Sept. 2. Russian ; composers and so ng-iv liters are competing compet-ing to produce a national anthem worthy wor-thy of the revolution. ! The autocratic "God Save the Czar" can no longer bo used, and for want of a native substitute the Marseillaise is temporarily employed. Of existing native songs the one most favored as a national anthem is the Volga bargees melody 1 ' Ki ukhnsmt ' ' made popular outside Russia by the Balalaika orchestra orches-tra of AudreyetY. Music shops are inundated by newly written "songs of liberty," "songs of democracy" and "songs of the revolution," revolu-tion," but none apparently appeals to the popular fancy. One is the work of the English director. Coates, of the Petrograd opera and ballet orchestra. Another is a paraphrase of a hymn by John Wesley, founder of Methodism. Several song writers have produced new revolutionary words to songs by Gretchaninoff, Moussorgsky and Perga-ment. Perga-ment. The famous novelist, Kurpin, advises song writers to abandon their efforts and wait until a natural national anthem an-them springs "somewhere out of the hearts of the people." |