\ 4 " THE DAILY BRITISH WHlg, | roanosds ses MAIN STREET | ®i mms : | Mexicans Appreciate Good Music. The Story of Carol Kennicott r to Mexico jf musically By SINCLAIR LEWIS -------- = a -- freee peareprereree-- ep p------ tf Lom om ws tat ag "- mi nS om Cs Ca" Knit on, JS om Lge ei sn Lawn an)' wm a on bn --- BI here is Still Time to get a inclined, is apt to receive the sur- { Prise of his fe, at least that is what la recent traveler through that coun- | try received. Th * Dyer's Drug Store, a corner build-| Bllen Wilks, Christian Science Lib- | of regular and unreal blocks of i Wrtificial stone. Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and © curdlod-yellgw mosiac shade. Paw- . ed-over heaps Of tooth-brushes and combs and packages of shaving soap. Bhelves of soap-cartons, teething- rings, garden-seeds, and patent med- icines in yellow packages--nostrums for consumption, for "women's dis- eases' --notorious mixtures of oplum . and alcohol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patients for the filling of prescriptions, Froth a second-story window the * sign "W. P. Kennicot:, Phys. & Sur- Joon,' giition black sand. ° ; wooden motion picture eatre called "The 'Rosebud Movie lace." Lithographs announcing 8 film called "Fatty in Love." Howland & Gould's Grocery. In tho display window, black, overripe ban- Gas and lettuce on which a cat was . Shelves 1 with red crepe which was now faded and torn concentrically spotted. Flat jainet the wall of the second story signs of lodges--the Knights of eh the Maceabdes, the Wood- amen, the Masons. " * Dahl & Olesors Meat Market -- a reek of blood. A jowelry shop with tinny-looking watches for women. In front of it, at the curb, a huge wooden elock which did net go. A fly-buzzing ealoon with a brilli- ant gold and enamel whisky sign ac- ross the front. Other saloons down the block. From them a stink of - stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pigdin German cr trolling out dirty | 'Songs--vice gone feeble and unentex prising end dull--hie delicacy of a ' mining camp minus its vigor. In front of the saloons, farmwives sit- Ring on the seats of wagons, waiting for ther husbands to become drunk : ready to start home. & aad tobacco shop called "The Smgke * House" filled with young men sh- ing dice for cigarettes. Racks of magazines, and pictures of coy fat Prostitutes in striped bathing suits. A clothing store wth a display of "%ox-blood-shade Oxfords . with bull- { dog toes." Suits which looked worn f and glossless while they were still "hats, flabbily draped on dummies liks with painted cheeks. _ '5b ® Bon Ton Storc--Haylock & ¢ ns'---the largest shop in tow. first story fromt of clear glass, " plates cleverly bound at the ; with brass, The second ary pleasant tapestry brick. One win- 'of excellont clothes for men, in- 'vanced of floral piqae : , aa 4fisief on o Pu hg ot ni service. ; py: Haydoek. She has dock ut the station; Harr- ; an active person of thiry- He seemed grea. to her, now, very like a saint. His shop was i 'Axel Eggo's General Store, fre- Quented by -Seandinavian farmers, In the shallow dark window apace 'Beaps of sleasy ax'eens, badly woven 'galatoas, canvas shoes designed for woman wih bulging ankles, steel and | ded glass buttons upon cards with Broken edges, @ cottony blanket, a Som | granito ware frying pah Teposing on sun-faded crepe blouse. : Sam Clark Hardware Store. An air of frankly metallic enterprise. Guns and churns and berrels of nails ena . beautiful buscher knives, . Chester Dashaway's House Furi- fahing Buporinm. A vista of heavy on the wet oilacloth-covered An odor of onions and the . In the doorway | rary open daily free...--A'-touehing | fumble at beauty, A one;room shan- {ty of boards recently covered with | rough stucco. A show window deli- { cately rich in error: vases starting fout to imitate tree trunks bu: run- | ning off into blobs of gilt--an alumi- | num ash tray labelled "Greeting from | Gopher Prairie"--e Christian = Soi- | ence magasine--a stamped sofa {cushion portraying a large ribbon tied to a small poppy, the correct akeins of embroidery silk lying on the pillow. Inside the shop a glimpse of bad carbon prints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph re- cords and camera films, wooden toys. and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a padded rocking Chair. A barber shop and pool room. A man in shirt sleeves, presumably Del | Snatfiin' the proprietor, shaving a man who had a large Adam's apple. Nat Hicks's Tailor Shop, on a side street off Main. A one-story build- | ing. A hion plate showing human pitchforks garments which looked as hard as steel plate. / On another side street a raw red brick lc Church with a varnish- ed yel door. The postoffice--merely a partition of glass and brass shutting off the rear of a mildewed room which must once have been a shop. A tuted writing shelf against @ wall rubbed black and scattered with official no:- ices and army recruiting posters. The damp, yelow brick schoo] building in its cindery grounds. The State Bank, stucco masking wood, i The Farmera! National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exqu's- ite, solitary. A brass plate wih "Ezra Stowboy, Pres't." A score of similar shops and eatab. lishments, Behind them and mixed with them, the houses, meek o6itagss or large, comfortable, soundly uninteresting symbols of prosperity. In all-the town uot ome building save the Tonic bank which gave pleas- ure to Carol's eyes; not \ a dozen buildings which suggested that, in the fifty years of Gopher Prairie's ex- istemoe, "he citizens had realized that it was either desirable of possible to make this, their common home, amusing or attractive, It was not only the unsparing ua- apologetic ugliness and the rigid straightness which overwhelmed her. It was the planlessness, the flimsy temporariness of the buildings, their faded unpleasant colors. The street Was clutiered with eleotric light poles, telephone goles, 'gasoline pumps for motor cars, boxes' of Each man had builf with the most valiant disregard of ajl the oth- ers. Between a large new "block" of ttwo- story brick shops on one sida, and the fire brick Ovebland sarage on the other side, was a one-story cottage turned into a millinery nop. The white temple of the Farmers' Bank was elbowed back by a grocery of glaring yellow brick. One store building had a patchy galvanized mon cornice; the building bedide it was crowned with battleents and pyra- mids of brick capped with blocks of | red sandstone, 'She escaped from Main street, flod e. ' She wouldn't have cared, she 'in- sisted, if the people had been como- ly. She had noted a young man loaf- ing before a shop one unwashed hand holding the cord of an awning; a middle aged man who had a way of staring at women as though he had been married too long and too prosa- cally; an old farmer, solid, whole- Some, bu' pot clean--his face like a potato fresh from the earth. None of them had shaved for three days. "If they can't build shrines, out here on the prairie; surzaly thero's "I must be ont, is frie ; the "In Mexico, I was fortunate en- ough to hear the Puebla Mexico Ci'y and Guadalajara, and it Was in this country that I received the surprise of my life as to what tan be done hy military bands. In Mexico City, for example, they give winter cycles of the Beethoven Sym- phonies in she Alamenda, a lovely park in the cemtre of the capital, Fashionable folk, much as we see in our own country and elsewhere, end the incomprehensible {to Ameri. cans and Canadians at least) peon, often ragged, sometimes dirty, usual- ly sagndaled, but never without the sombrero which enables him to think of himself as a caballero, listened with equal interest and apparent ap- preciation. It may be that beside the peon is a Squaw with straight black hair and a papoosee wrapped in a reboso or slung over her shout- ider. If so, and there are older chil- {dren toddling about her, all are in- tent upon the music which speaks to them, if the printed page cannot: "In Guadalajara, the western met- ropoiis of Mexico, with a highly cul- tivated populace of a predominant- ingly Indian type, I heard a Wagner concert which included "Liebestod" {from "Tristan and Isolde," the Ma- | gic Fire Scenei from "Walkure," and the Metstersinger'" overture, all play- jed with such consummate skill, gad | conducted with so much insight 'that {it was difficult to realize tha there Musical Notes, A London, England, news note @ays that the former musical director of the Canadian overseas military forces has offered as a national song a composition with'the title "O Can- ada! O Canada!" There is already In existence a song in French and English under practically this same title, he should have known. A number of barber shops in Wis- coisin use Phonograph music to help trads in their shops. A new negro chorus of 23 voices, the Coleridge Taylor Society, has been found in Toronto and recently gave its first concert. Critiks speak highly of its efforts. A W. 8. Congressman has started an agitation to compel both houses of congress to open their sessions by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." The President of the United States in a recent pronouncement said his nation should get behind good music as an expression of hational life. Imperfect voice production, a de- fect with present-day actors on the stage, can be remedied and wonder- ful results can be achieved through the acting profe#fsion. Following the example of the Unit- has taken hold in Canada, particular- ly in Ontario, This summer the do- eal artists into 111 Ontario towns, Last year, 1920, there were 891 Chautauquas held in Canada, at'end- ed by 3,674,875 people, The "visiophone," a device to syn- chronize music to moving, pictures, rather vice versa, has been invented this instrument, the orchestra Ladlse, or one of the musicians of the movie orchestra, ¢an control the speed of the film being displayed in accord- ance with the music being played, either . increasing or ' reducing the number of images per second thrown on the screen. ) A news despatch from Ottawa says it is not altogether unlikely that carillon of bells will be installed in the tower of the new Parliament Buildings there as a national memor- fal to the Canadian soldiers who lost lessons given by a good singing || teacher, says "Equity" the organ of | ed States, the Chautauqua movement f minion Chautauquas will send musj- | = by a French engineer, By mesns 0; | view Genuine Victrola for the Holidays There is no gift you can make that will beso thoroughly ap- Ppreciated as a Genuine Victrola, A Gift that will last a lifetime. Genuine Victrolas are priced from $40. up to $720. and if desired are sold on easy terms. There are over 9000 selec- tions listed in "His Master's Voice" Record Catalogue. "10-in. double-sided records formerly sold at $1 now reduced to 85c. for the two selections. "His Masters Vo BERLINER GRAM-O-PHONE, COMPANY, LIMITED, MONTREAL, Cu ar Cur Fon Fan on ra re On, Eu fam som n. o- nn Hn] sf HARRISON CO, LIMITED Victrola 100 - ice"dealer will gladly give you a demonstration and explain all the advantages of buying a Genuine Victrola. Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums, Sewing Machines and Hoover Suction . AGENTS VICTOR VICTROLAS ® 113 Princess Stret Victor Records and Needles 132 Princess Street i Automotive Equipment - - 100 Breck St, Oat. G. V. DREDGE B. nETREs "The warchouss of the buyer ot : potaoces. The sour sme X ana wrong. People do Mve here. It can't their lives in the late world war. ; be as ugly as--es 1 Xnow it is! If "oye broblem before the teacher of ee -- ; Says bs WWE. Bat] an ¢ do 1. T{ music in schools ought to be one of = EE g 3 SESE NE i 3 can't go through with ._ {developing a love for geod music WwW RI She came home too seriously wor- among children rather thang teach- | | PLUMBING \ ORK DON a: RIGHT ried for hysteria; and when she ing them only the primary 'rules of | lI work" FTmbing and He oh Wan ment, let us atv tan Yom found Kennicott waiting for der, and | | & O08, getting them to sing. H A PPLETON ® " Foto ; & racket which belit at |exulting, "Have a walk? Well, like Arthur Friedham, the, celebrated the town? Great lawns and tress, pianist, intends making his home in eh?" she was able to say, with a self- protective maturity new to her, "It's Canada and is to become a citizen of Toronto, where he will conduct mas- ter classes in piano. 3 Anna Paviowa, the Russian dan- cer, has engaged a Russian scenic artist to create a number of seitings for her new ballets this fall. Concert. managers in the United States agreed in a recent convention on a standard contract for artists and on the centralization of the concert One of the soloists of the Chicago od girl, Anita Malkin, daughter one of the musicians of the o Sion. She was recently pre With a famous Crefona violin at $8,500, ar. Syracuse, N.Y, most successful musical much so that plans are der way to make 'the 1922 Jatwe and better than any val, The New England Co : {of Music at Boston, Mass, Gently the recipient of two donations--$5,000 to the orah and $10,000 for two major ee ships. 7 ; The city of Watertown, N. ¥., Bas boon. emture os since 1915. i orchestra is an eight-year 417 PRI Wishing You All A Happy and Prosperous ; New Year