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Show 14 THE CITIZEN faces and quaking knees, the effect of his presence Is incalculably-diffusive- , to use George Eliots phrase. Richardson Wrights entertaining contribution to the symposium was Some Translations from Larrovitch, consisting of half a dozen short extracts from novels in which the Russian author stood forth as a stylist, philosopher and realist. The distinguishing feature of George Heilmans paper entitled Sidney "Three Incidental Poems of LarroSiberian Marching vitch was a pre-eminent- ly Song. Battle songs at such a time as thisf when the whole world discusses disarmament, are quite likely to be passed over unnoticed, yet here s one I should like to commend to the attention of some serious composer as containing such Ingredients as would inflame the emotions of. creative harmony. The author of The Two Grenadiers inspired Schumann. For all that the Russian warrior nowadays has been stripped of glamor and shredded of his barbarically picturesque defiance of death in a religious devotion to sovereign and country. Marching Siberian Larrovitchs Song, with its military cadences and sonorous passages of blood and iron, is of the calibre to stir the talents of any musician whose gifts for composition are tinctured strongly with a sense of the dramatic Victor Herbert, for instance. It is feeble praise to say that the read by Five Larrovitch Letters Thomas Walsh are worthy of being made into a brochure for general circulation, so charming are they in fancy and so flawless in simple diction. The volume containing the papers read at the Authors club Larrovitch celebration has been supplemented by a chapter on A Larrovitch Foundation by James Howard Bridge and Bibliographical Notes compiled by Arthur Colton, who gives a complete list of the Russians novels in the order of publication, with an English translation of their titles and synopsis of the stories. There is also a persuasive table of reference books by Gustave Simonson for students of Russian literature who desire to acquaint themselves further with the works of Larrovitch. But one fault may be urged with this list of most attractive titles. It is that not one of the books is to be obtained in any library in the world. Frank Dallam in N. Y. Herald. THE MYSTERIOUS ds Greys THE JAZZ CRAZE. halt, the lame and the timid all danced. Seldom did they waltz or polka it was the shimmy an the fox trot or some other equaly eccentric dance that seemed to appeal. p0r a year or more there has been a Recently a musical director address, THE THE FOREST. ing his class, described jazz music as one expression of hysteria. Jazz 1920s best seller and the book that came into vogue following the war and still continues to sell by the hundreds. not only the music but the dances set subsidence of this hysteria The Man of the Forest is an excit- to it, seemed to furnish one avenue Dances are not given so frequently ing tale of love and adventure in the through which the general hysteria, nor are they patronized so generally. Arizona mountains. It is big and genpossessing the people could find an uinely inspiring. Its situations are. outlet. Following the war a danc- There is no longer a crush and a mbb conceived on a vast scale. Its characing craze seemed to take possession at the regular dances, and some extra ters are sturdy, powerful people of of this nation at least. Everybody inducement must be offered to attract the West. It is full of the powerful wanted to dance and the jazzier the a full house. All of which indicates descriptions and action that made music the better time they had. Er- that there is a general slowing down Zane Grey the favorite with our boys ratic dances, to call them nothing in the hysteria, following the war and at the front and the choice of our sol- worse were highly popular. Any time that the people no longer demand the diers and sailors the world over; and a dance was announced, and it was an- extremes in amusement and diversion the boys of all ages from eight, to nounced on the slightest provocation, that formerly impelled them to uneighty, still place it at the head of nearly everybody rushed to it. 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