JSUNDAY, DECEMIER 14, 1924
,ET-EMICHIGAN DAILY
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with the eminence of talent that per-
with one another. That other and more stract, more lasting and profound, the haps may be his when there is more
significant life remains, the overtones life of the mind embodied there. tim efor competition and expression
of our living, shared with one another! But in this mobile color as in music after his long contriving intervals.
The Color Organ only in beauty, whether of action, of we may start wih the abstract ideal; But there were moments, however
idea, or in art, or in the glimpses and its ideas never depend on the repro- brief, that were as beautiful as any-
intutive responses that we make. This duction of seen objects. There is no thing I have ever seen or heard, the
-- --significant and so rarely communi- necessity for it to be the likeness of passion of the mind said purely in
By Stark Young At the lower end the same form ap- cable life, when it consists of the ex- anything outside itself. This music another medium, pure in incredible
Editor's Note: The following arti-' pears and another with it, seen perience of the eyes comes finally past takes place in light as that other does color, the sense of tele light of life
cle concerning Thomas Wilfred's Cla- through it, then others; they are all images to pure abstraction. And in sound. the perception of the world itself. They gave me the sense of
vilux, or as it is sometimes called, white now; the crimson comes into mobile color is true to the abstract and response to it by two different ondless and infinite possibilities
Color Organ, is reprinted from Vol- varying rhythms at the sides; those that is behind our visual life as music organs of our body. If poetry setting either in his hands or from greater,
umn VI, Number I of the Theatre Arts long rove-like forms draw upward is abstractly true in sound.
magazine. Mr. Wilfred is to present again; puse., hover, return, change to Music has long been pointed out as
a recital in Hill auditorium Tuesday, amethyst on blue to gold, to fire. This the most ideal of the arts. Which is
January 13, under the auspices of the:
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By Marion BarlowI
Paviowa is making her farewell
tour of America, and Ann Arbor is to
be inc.ued in her itinerary. Thurs-
(lay evening of this week she will
appear at the Whitney theatre.
The program is tc 'e in three parts,
the first of which will be a revival of
A he "Coppelia" ballet, with music by
f )elibes. The story of Coppelia con-
cerns a mechanical doll, distinguished
from the other dolls in, the shop in
that she was believed to be the daugh-'
ter of her creator, so perfect was her
construction,
Coppelia never left the house oft
Coppelius, the. doll maker, and no one
has ever heard her speak. She was1
so carefully aguarded that the curios-
ity of .the nighbor's wag aroused.
Young men suceunled to her charms,I
but she was always adored from afar: I
Though she inspired emotions of a
human sort,-these emotions .bein
curiosty and love, she remained in
her unique and mysterious position as
an unknown .lady.
Swanhilda, a neighbor girl, looked
upon Coppelia with jealousy; for
Franz, she believed was in love with;
the doll. Coppelius was amused, and
Coppelia ever aloof. The lover's quar-
rel, which followed as a result of
Swanhilda's jealousy and the wrath of
Franz upon being. mistrusted, was
consummated at a celebration held in
honor of the Lord of the Manor. Aftcr
the gaiety was over, S;wa nh ilta found
a 'key dropped by Coplwlius. With it
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I Ann Arbor branch of the American
Association of University Women.
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The greatest thing, I think, about
- IMr. Wilfred's color organ as a mani-
festation in art is that when you see
it for the first time it does not come as
a surprise. You sit within the dark-
ened theatre before the space in whichI
the light will play. There is a com-
-'Iplete silence; and presently you be-
come aware of a proscenium opening.
Impalpable forms appear at the sides;
x they are pale, almost white, they move
in a slow, waving rhythm like soft
curtains; you see one alone and you
see others moving in it and through
it. '
A faint blue fades into depths be- I
tween these forms; and then sudden-
ly in the center of it far away a crim- "
son appears. It has no form; - it..
radiates from its own depths, and is
the image of nothing but crimson and z
its power. And then it sweeps up in-
to soft lines; it is drawn upward as!
if we saw the Paradise with springs
rising; it is like a robe swept upward is the solo figure of the composition, to say that where painting depends
into Paradise; it is gone. tlis center of light that is like a robe upon the representation of some phen-
in Dante's Paradiso; it will appear, omenon of an experience, and poetryf
companiment by Nikolas Levienn^, change colors, fade, be multiplied; the on words whose concepts are more
danced by Mine. Pavlowa as a solo. I hole space will play with it, return or less fixed, and dancing on the
(7) Voices of Spring (Strauss) to it, live in it. The composition ends. bodies that convey its meanings to
She ovens the door to the old ma s'Mlle. Butsova and M. Oliveroff. Afterward another composition us, music is the experience itself.
cottage, entered his home and found (8) Bow ani Arrow (Tschaikow-- comes, and then others, following Music is sadness, deeper than actualr
that Coppelia was only a doll.ski) Nokoff oher figures, other themes. What we tears- music is marching, and stirs
therv .
That is all. (9) Russian dance (Rubenstein- see is impossible to describe; this the feet to march; it is the idea with-t
, "Snow Flake," the second number Tschaikowski) by Mme. Pavlowa, M. mobile color is a new art and we have out limitation in matter or medium;j
on the program, is an extract from Algeranoff and corps de ballet. no images of speech for it and. so music is the beautiful eternity.
"Nut Cracker," the shortest of the Mme. Pavlowa has with her two :must draw from nature and from oth- Painting at times has approached this
three Tchaikowsky ballets. The story, premier dansuers, one M. Laurent er arts, wherever we can. It remains abstraction, in pure designs, always,!
agtan, concerns a doll, "Nut Cracker" Novikoff, and a certain M. Alexandre in the end its own description. But in primitive art, and again in the
by name, who is in reality a fairy Volinine. The stage settings are we sit before it with no sense of schools of modern art. But Kandin-
prinCe under an enchantment, which painted by Russian artists, Soudei-I strangeness, though there may be ski and Stella and the rest are bound-
is finally broken by his mistress. kine and Korovine. I some of novelty. Like all true things ed forever by their medium; their
The scene for "Snow Flake," and A reviewer on the London Chroni- in art it is recognizable. We realize canvas once done is static.
for the legend of the Christmas tree cler wrote just before Pavlowa left its closeness to our dreams. This is The quality of motion may be
wvhi: h fllows is ill set in the "Land for this country, "Nearly all of the what was in us when we watched caught in color rythms, but never the
of C huistmias Trees," a stage scene by best of them have come of recent clouds, their shifting forms and lights, very motion itself lies ready in our
JOseph irban. The music is light, years from the Russian ballet-the saw them move and float and fade and heart's beating and the pulse in our
the story is quaint and pleasing, and demure Karsavina, the sprightly glow one with another against the veins. They 'struggle, too, these
the setting is timely, indeed. Eupokova, the statuesque Tcher- sky. Or when we sat watching the newer painters, with the almost in-
rte t rg c i nicheva. And of them all, Pavlowa shadows in the fire; in those embers evitable association of painting with
of nine ivertissemeorts, which even in has remained alone, never talked of in where, as now in this color, the life bjects seen in the world around us;
the conventirnalnnhered list prom- quite the same breath as the others, of the mind went looking for its ex- they have not the freedom of this
the conb ventk'n and atractivst The having come to England and made a; perience, and found things true to art of mobile color. In all good tra-
rjai ne o t progratfollows: success before most of them were itself in color and form and motion. ditional painting, whether it has the
rn)iranlr of the program follows: 1seen here. What we really found there was fidelity of honest realism or the
That is what the English critic all abstraction. It was only in simp- rhetoric of a fine, elaboration, Hol-
Mties. Zikita, ;ancheux, Friede, Lake; said. Betwen the lines is written er moods when we sat together that bein, say or Veronese, we look be-
M\. Vaginski, Zalewshi, Domoslaw what he thought. Be that all as it'we watched for faces in those embers; yond and through for the supporting
sk. Yinter. .may, Pavlowa is making her farewell and that very largely was because it island the widening pattern, the idea,
(2) "ierenade" (Drigo), by Mme. tour of America. ... .only concrete things that can share the design for something more ab-'
Pavlowa and i. Novikoff.
(,) Chinese Dance (Tschaikowski)
by Yule. liogem's and M. Winter.
(4) iie r t (lDvorak) byt M. Vo
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(5) H~olland dance (Griieg) by Mlle. GENERA A1N ER D P R M N
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La triett and M. tiaginski.(
(C, The Swan (Saint Saens) ar-
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forth the soul's state is of all arts or from a wider region of living to be
most precisely the authcntic gesture; expressed. And apart from all of that,
and painting the soul's decoration: the color remained impalpable, dwell-
S .ing in air, free of any vehicle, never
music is its atmosphere; and mobile seen like this before.
color. may be something as musie 13.1
I do not believe that Mr. Wilson
for the present would have the color
organ judged by his own compositions
for it. Nor can he lay claim at pres-
ent, I think, to any great distinction
as a composer on this instrument that Make $10 to $25 a week
he has created. He has been too extra. College men every
.00where are payingtheir way
busy perfecting the means to put him- r by selling Fowler Shirts
self into the end, the art. His coal- mae t direct to wearer. F~ine qual-
,.- tymadetomeasure shirts, reasonably
positions seem to me so far chiefly priced..Featuring coliar attaiched white
to be suggestive of the magifict slirtsin Oxford and 13roadcloth. Abso-
ofte afie nw ltely guaranteed products that bring
and startling possibilitiesoftenew repeat orders and build a permanent
organ clientele. Commission in advance. Sales
Kitsfurnished to menwho mean business.
Looking at them as he played them WfIte at once
through I found them unequal, not OW ETVR SHIRT CO.
distinguished in pattern or concep- 0 East- 45 St. NewYor
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Window Shades-
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Drake Hotel
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Grand Ball Room
Friday Evening
December 24th
"'Spike" Hamilton and his Opera Club Orchestia
and
Frank Wustp'ral and his Orchestra
Tickets at the door Co tinuous Dancing 9-2
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