Show MRS VAN VA DA DANo J No that is not my idea declared Mrs rs Van Yan I simp simply simply simply ly cannot tolerate anything ordinary Not in the least Not at all I Whet t Mrs Van Yan spoke in that r the ques question question question tion seemed to be settled forever For Mrs Yan ster lived on the Avenue above Seventy seventh St null and was president of the Daughters of the American Evolution who had hall from I the thc simple and laborious accumulation of pennies to the complex and hardly laborious dissemination of f dollars t and fidd wisdom My idea of music is the purely classical The great masters like Wagner and lJ Li zt and Mendelssohn and But my y Victor plays Wagner and Liszt and Mendelssohn said saW Mrs Robinson II and Chopin and Schubert and a why all the classic composers And it plays pays their most subtle sul tle and ar charming illg compositions compositions compositions She was going to say sn loveliest but changed cl it to II sub subtle tlc tie and charming out of regard to Mrs Irs Van Yan PI whom wham she was anxious to please and entertain You surprise me I replied her caller caBer which h was was as a great deal for Mrs Van to admit under any circumstances The only talking machines I ever eyer heard she went on cr played nothing but hut those common trashy songs and marches murches and waltzes that everybody is singing and whistling all the thc time Mj My eldest son picks them diem up most unaccountably Only this morning he was singing something about everybody l working except Mrs Van Yan Positively horrid you yon know And ind totally inapplicable to our position U I believe you yot are particularly partial to the thc violin W you ou like 1 ke to hear henr Mischa Elman the thc young Russian an Virtuoso play Chopin Nocturne ne in EYou E EYou You dont mean to say that your s music jf of that t character and by artists of such calibre as ns Mischa Ni li i Elman J m 1 ex cx exclaimed exclaimed claimed Mrs ihs Van r Puy ter in in astonishment a i t Certainly answered nn her he hostess And Joseph Hellman Maud Powell and an Rosairo Bourdon Is ls it possible 1 Bourdon Bour lon 1 I would indeed inde d enjoy them And have you rou Ho I s own Andante the thc second concerto 1 You Too know k nos n my weakness for strings Am I T troubling you too much 1 Not in the least The ThC maid will put on the records As Mrs 18 Van Yan listened to the thc sweet strains floating in from the music room the th half of incredulity on her highbred features changed into a whole smile of satisfied delight l light For she real really really ly lid did enjoy and mid appreciate ap the thc finest music There was no affectation affectation affectation tion about that But she enjoyed also other oilier music enjoyed it hugely at times only she would never for worlds admit it even n to herself That was the affectation lion 7 7 Then Than Caruso and n Scotti sang the beautiful fn duet lOt from Ia La Fora del dc l Destino and an d Mrs 10 Van V inu face was fairly faint transfigured un until until until til the last la t magnificent burst hurst of melody died away Suddenly however ho Cl she rose from her chair cha 1 and asked ly h y I May T I look look into the he 1 music room and see sec this llis wonderful in instrument strument with my own eyes In F t tIe Ie Of course you may ma 11 assented her entertainer F And a broad smile met Mrs firs Van P i y s ap p of l i li nance as she returned to her sent seat I J JYon a aYou You Yon must excuse e me ne J my mr dear dear but I thought per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps you ou were playing pl nt a little lope joke on o me arc m and andI andI I I Ikno know n ow replied Mrs s Robinson Ho I You Y ou thought th the lIght X 1 had the thc fingers singers concealed in n the music room Half Haf a dozen do eIl of my mr friends have havo gone through the thc same motions But it is so incredible responded hor her visitor that a ma mn machine machine chine should give Carusos own owls voice tho tits perfect t sweetness the ex cx exact net act timbre t Ive heard him und ford Scotti sing several h times And E T thought you had surely engaged them for the after afternoon afternoon afternoon It noon That Victor Vidor a machine its a wonder Its n a miracle HEAR THE TIIE VICTOR AT Al OGDEN N MUSIC CO 2370 23 O WASH VASil AVE AYE I 2 j 9 L Ji i |