{"numero_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_sha256": "dcb5abaa7d98dc92beb09d8968a4821aeb8c75ef5e81f6f6a63c6bf526ca9a18", "source_tei": "https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/bluemountain-transcriptions/blob/main/periodicals/bmtnaaq/issues/1915/08/21_01/bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01.tei.xml", "source_mets": "https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain/blob/main/metadata/periodicals/bmtnaaq/issues/1915/08/21_01/bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01.mets.xml", "url_numero": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01", "articles": [{"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c001", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c001", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "couv. 1", "page_fin": "couv. 1", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.1", "titre_corps": "Come what may, come what will, let us be", "titre_sommaire": "Come what may, come what will, let us be", "signature_source": "Michael Mohahan", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "couv. 1", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 138, "fin_caractere_exclue": 448, "texte": "Michael Mohahan\nCome what may, come what will, let us be\nfaithful to the dream—the poor, unfriended\nand repulsed, beloved and betrayed, cursed and\nrejected, defeated and despised, yet ever glor- '\nious and immortal dream—to make this hard\nworld a better and kinder place for all .the\nchildren of men. /] • ' /:"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c002", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c002", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "couv. 1", "page_fin": "38", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 2, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.2", "titre_corps": "Edison to America's Musicians", "titre_sommaire": "Edison to America's Musicians", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "couv. 1", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 450, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1842, "texte": "Edison to America's Musicians\n•\"THE following is a broad appeal: of Mr. Edison to the\nAmerican musician and composer, arid especially to those\nwho have lost their ambitions to be creators of music, in their\nfruitless struggle—not so much for recognition as for a hearing\n—to those who are reproducers instead of producers for the sake\nof practical reasons. t:\nCharles Edison's Little - Thimble Theatre, which will open on\nthe 6th of September as a playhouse, has one mission: to give\nthe American composer a chance to stage his compositions, to\nproduce it and to offer it to an audience.\nAs long as the American composer has to rely for a criticism\nof his work upon the jury of forty or fifty men who read his\nmusic and take this reading as the only basis for acceptance or\nrejection, America will not have-an opera of its own, it will\nnot have a music Which is the real own property of its people.\nTo quote Professor Albert Mildenberg, dean of the department\nof music, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, from a\nrecent article in the New York Times ; \"Opera has no musical\nform. It is a dramatic, living thing. Its musical element is\nonly one part of it. The composer has to acquire theatrical\nexperience. Verdi, Wagner, Puccini were first \"of all master\nstage craftsmen and then musicians. The result is that their\noperatic work fulfills the peculiar dramatic demands of the\ntheatre."}, {"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "38", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.2", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2663, "texte": "\"The American musician has been unable to acquaint himself\nsufficiently with the theatrical side of musical writing in this\ncountry, the chief reason being the limited amount of opera\nproduced here.\"\nOf course, work that is obviously unfit can be recognized\nat sight, but no musician is able to read offhand an orchestrated\nscore and grasp the dramatic values of the libretto, story plot,\nand even the pantomime necessary to the production of a lyric\ncomposition.\nIn the Little Thimble Theatre everybody will have a\nchance to produce his works—of course, the discrimination\nbetween amateurishness and serious efforts are easily distinguish-\nable. There surely must be among the thousands of musicians\nin New York—and it is safe to say hundreds of thousands in\nthe United States—men who are taking the old masters of the\nworld for fundamental knowledge and worshipful reverie but\nfeel the throbbing life around them—who feel its music, its\ntragedy, its romance, and who are endeavoring to express\nthemselves through their medium: music. The far West, the\nBad Lands, the deserts, that wonderful quiet and peace, the\ngrandeur of Nature, the solitude of a man, a lone traveler;\nthen again the buzzing life of the busy industrious city.\nShouldn't the noises, the roaring and the moaning which fill\nthe air of our cities impress the creative genius of a musician,\nshouldn't all that that is distinctively American call forth an\necho in the soul of the artist? There surely must be American\nmusic, right at this moment. It only has not had a chance to\nfind its way to its right possessor: the American public.\nThe Little Thimble Theatre invites every American com-\nposer and musician to take advantage of its opportunities.\nEverybody will be considered equally seriously. The Little\nThimble Theatre does not endeavor to produce masterpieces or\nto detect geniuses, in other words, to create sensational suc-\ncesses. The artist is equally free to step before the public, as\nthe people—his audience—are free to come and to like or to\ndislike. To have an audience must be the most cherished\ndesire of every artist, and he who takes his art seriously will\nwelcome his audience as his critics. Because there is no ad-\nmission fee charged and everybody welcome as long as there\nare seats and standing capacity, the audience is comprised of\na combination of people who resemble truly the American\npeople at large to whom every artist wishes to appeal finally.\nAnd at the conclusion of the first season of the Little Thimble\nTheatre, perhaps the first conclusive evidence will have been\ngathered that there is American music and that there are\nmusicians among us."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c003", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c003", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "38", "page_fin": "38", "image_debut": 2, "image_fin": 2, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.3", "titre_corps": "Uuquestionable facts combined with more", "titre_sommaire": "Uuquestionable facts combined with more", "signature_source": "G. B", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "38", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.2", "debut_caractere": 2665, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2792, "texte": "G. B.\nUuquestionable facts combined with more\nfacts are the arguments of the efficient man.\nEvery fact is a materialized truth."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c004", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c004", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "39", "page_fin": "39", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.4", "titre_corps": "On Top of the 'Bus", "titre_sommaire": "On Top of the 'Bus", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "39", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2140, "texte": "On Top of the 'Bus\nThe Curtain of Edison's Little Thimble Theatre\nDEACOCKS and butterflies are the design of the curtain of\nEdison's Little Thimble Theatre, which is being finished at\npresent by Clara Tice, the Greenwich Village artist. On tan\nsilk a peacock spreads his gorgeous black and green plumage,\nbutterflies of Clara Tice's own brand are playfully pursuing\none another. There is such a lot of color and movement and\nrhythm in this one decorative piece of the little showhousel\nThe American Phenomenon\nIN one of his recent articles in the Evening Sun, \"The\nPlaygoer\" points out a phenomenon of the American\nstage; he calls it even an American phenomenon. It est: a\ncultured showgirl in America.\"The Playgoer\" points out \"one\nreason that Miss Barnes is such an unusual showgirl is that\nshe speaks pure, limpid, unslangy English with perfect enuncia-\ntion.\" \"The Playgoer\" emphasizes furthermore her \"phen-\nomenal\" qualities as being a \"mineral water girl\" and \"drinks\nlittle or nothing.\"\nI wonder if there will ever arise the occasion to point out\nsimilarly as a phenomenon an American show which can boast\nof the same unusual qualities as Miss Helen Barnes, of \"The\nPassing Show of 1915\" of being cultured, of being a mineral\nwater show, and of the use of pure unslangy English.\nMasefield in Greenwich Village\n■yL/HENEVER you happen to pass the Columbian Hotel, the\nold tavern opposite the Jefferson Market Court, remem-\nber that this place, commonly known among the Villagers as\nthe Working Girls' Home, earned itself a nook in the history\nof English letters. While everybody refused to give recognition\nto John Masefield, now distinguished English poet and author,\nMr. O'Conner, the proprietor of the tavern, recognized his\ngood qualities and chose him as \"the man behind the bar.\"\nFor nearly three years Masefield served here drinks and cleaned\ncuspidors among the other duties of his daily routine. He is\nstill in correspondence with the poet and is proud to have\nrecognized his value before anybody else did. A recent issue\nof the Vogue reprinted some of this friendly correspondence\nbetween poet and barkeeper."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c005", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c005", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "39", "page_fin": "39", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.5", "titre_corps": "A Recollection", "titre_sommaire": "A Recollection", "signature_source": "Frances Cornford", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "39", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 2142, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2468, "texte": "A Recollection\nBy Frances Cornford\nMY father's friend came once to tea.\nHe laughed and talked. He spoke to me.\nBut in another week they said\nThat friendly pink-faced man was dead.\n\"How sad . they said, \"the best of men .\nSo I said too, \"How sad;\" but then\nDeep in my heart I thought with pride,\n\"I know a person who has died.\""}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c006", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c006", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "40", "page_fin": "40", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.6", "titre_corps": "Monday Matinee", "titre_sommaire": "Monday Matinee", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "40", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 44, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1279, "texte": "Monday Matinee\nTHREE artists will be heard at the Monday matinee in\nEdison's Little Thimble Theatre who never appeared before\nbefore a large audience. Miss Grace M. Hofheimer is a\ncomposer and pianist, a young girl who received her entire\nmusical education in New York. While it is her ambition to be\nknown as a composer and interpreter of the great masters, she\nis earning her living at present by teaching music. She will\nplay a selection from MacDowell and her own composition,\n\"Songs Without Words.\"\nMiss Adrienne D. WTallace, a violin virtuoso, after a long\nsojourn in Florida, has returned to New York and will make\nher debut in our city in the coming season. Her program on\nMonday comprises \"Canozetta,\" by d' Ambrosio, \"Andantino\"\nby Padre Martini and \"Scherzo,\" by Dittersdorf.\nFrank Delia Lana, the young baritone, came at a very\nyoung age from Italy to America. He had to earn his\nliving from his thirteenth year at whatever he found to do.\nSinging in church awakened in him the first desire to become\nan opera singer. He devoted his spare time to the culture of\nhis voice. He will sing a few songs by American composers\nand Verdi's \"Dei Miei Bollenti Spiriti.\"\nFour of the most brilliant Diamond Discs complete the\nprogram."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c007", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c007", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "40", "page_fin": "40", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.7", "titre_corps": "The Poet's Fate", "titre_sommaire": "The Poet's Fate", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "40", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 1281, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2412, "texte": "The Poet's Fate\nSome he has polished for a year before he has sent them forth.\nBut whatever may be his personal fortune his sheaf of verses\nis always with him. He is known indeed to some of his friends\nas the \"gentleman whose baggage consists chiefly of poetry.\"\nShould he drop finally at any time it has always been an al-\nluring hope, that that life in his breast-pocket would live on—\non forever like the imperishable lines of Sappho. The thought\ninspires him for the many thousandth time. Spring is not\nfar off. Not a blade of grass yet in the old square, but the\nsquirrels and the sparrows, those first harbingers of every\nseason, told him to-day. And as he sits in the old square a\nspring-song comes swelling out of his heart; as he thinks of\nSappho.\nCometh the music with her strange desire,\nLeapeth my heart with a pang of pain,\nA song-bird quenched in a forest fire.\nFleeing forth to find glad rain;\nAll things wither and bloom again,\nYet ever desire and the hope of me.\nWaif of the dawn, and the sunlit plain\nAre but the breath of the mocking sea.\nAnd the poor, penniless poet falls asleep; starving but happy\nin his woe."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c008", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c008", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "41", "page_fin": "41", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.8", "titre_corps": "Jefferson Market Court House", "titre_sommaire": "Jefferson Market Court House", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "41", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 44, "texte": "Jefferson Market Court House"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c009", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c009", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "41", "page_fin": "41", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.9", "titre_corps": "Washington Square", "titre_sommaire": "Washington Square", "signature_source": "Alfred Kreymborg", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "41", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 46, "fin_caractere_exclue": 248, "texte": "Washington Square\nAlfred Kreymborg\nNinteen youngsters and a squirrel,\nthirty-seven peanuts in a bag,\n(Come to-morrow, Tummy-ache /)\nSun grinning gold\nSky grinning blue\nEarth grinning green—\nand the old!"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c010", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c010", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "42", "page_fin": "42", "image_debut": 6, "image_fin": 6, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; 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one by one the\nshops gleam out, blazing their windows of burnished glass;\nthe twilight throbs with a ceaseless shuffle of hurrying feet,\nand over all things hovers the spirit of London's grim un-\nrest.\nEnfantilage\nHAVE you never longed to wander there, in that wonder-\nful cloudland beyond the sea, where the droves of mon-\nstrous cattle, close-huddled and drowsy, they lie the long\nday through — the comely, milk-white summer clouds, slow\nand sleek and swelling; the quick-scudding, darkling clouds,\ntattered with travelling across the sky; the mighty thunder-\nclouds, violet and lowering; the flocks of fluffy-white baby\nclouds, and all the sun's great, gaudy, guard, from the daintily\ngilded sunset sparts to the blood-red bands that frequent\nthe south ? •\nSometimes at even fall, when the sea lies calm in her\nopal tints, you may discern the distant line of their strange,\nfantastic home, vague, phantasmagoric, like a mirage beyond\nthe horizon.\nPerhaps, after death, we may linger there and watch them\nsilently sail away towards the lands we have loved long ago?"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c011", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c011", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "42", "page_fin": "43", "image_debut": 6, "image_fin": 7, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.11", "titre_corps": "Putting the Pig Over the Fence", "titre_sommaire": "Putting the Pig Over the Fence", "signature_source": "D. Molby", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 6, "page_imprimee": "42", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.6", "debut_caractere": 1807, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2136, "texte": "Everyday Musing\nPutting the Pig Over the Fence\nBy D. Molby\nIT is said that if a man takes a pig when small and lifts it\nover the fence every day, he will be able to lift it over when\nit is a grown hog. This depends on several things: how big\nthe man is who undertakes it, how high the fence is, and on\nhow big the pig gets to be."}, {"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "43", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.7", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 828, "texte": "The theory assumes that the man will increase in strength\nas fast as the pig does in size, and also, perhaps, that the pig\nwill become so accustomed to the ordeal that he will never re-\nsist.\nThe probability is that when the hog got to weigh about\nthree hundred pounds he would see that the task was about all\nthe man could manage, and, some day when indisposed, take ad-\nvantage of the fact. If the hog's legs happened to be muddy he\ncould slip out of the ordeal easily enough. The man might\ntry to put him over later in the day, but the hog having got out\nof it once would be more stubborn than before and would soon\nhave the man so tired he couldn't do a thing.\nFailure on one day would be failure forever so far as that\npig were concerned and it is not likely the man would ever\nwant to begin on another one."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c012", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c012", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "43", "page_fin": "43", "image_debut": 7, "image_fin": 7, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.12", "titre_corps": "An Early Greenwich Village Magazine", "titre_sommaire": "An Early Greenwich Village Magazine", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "43", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.7", "debut_caractere": 830, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2813, "texte": "An Early Greenwich Village Magazine\nYU'HILE the Philistine was the forerunner of many hundreds\nof journals and individualistic magazines in pocket size,\nwhich came and went, his idea of a small magazine of protest\nwas by no means original, not even in the United States. In\nfact, right here among us, in Greenwich Village, the very first\nperiodical \"of protest\" saw the light of the world el eo ipso\nexpired gently.\nIn October, 1827, a little sheet of sixteen pages, a trifie larger\nthan the Philistine, THE SATYRIST, or THE NEW YORK\nSATIRICAL MIRROR was published by a literary gentleman\nwho concealed his identity under the pseudonym, Peter Pindar.\nThe chief feature of his magazinette was very, very fine satires\nof prominent New York citizens, especially rich merchants were\nhis prey, names which are today a vital part of the early\nhistory of New York. His magazine is unique, perhaps, among\nall the magazines on record for the reason that he followed\nhis first number with the third, explaining editorially, that\nhe made to a certain gentleman in exchange for a sum of money,\ncertain promises to publish a satire on one of his business\ncompetitors. After careful deliberation—and perhaps after the\nmoney was spent—he came to the conclusion that his promise\nhad been too hasty and that it could not be combined with his\ndignity as editor. Literary men in those days, as well as today,\nhad not always the necessary cash on hand to make monetary\nreparations. Therefore, Peter Pindar decided to do justice to\nhimself and to his patrons. For the second number he promised\nthat satire, \"Whenever there will be a second number this\nsatire will appear.\" But there never was one. In fact, the\nNew York Satyrist stopped publication after its third number,\nit taking the place of the second.\nInteresting is the narrative in the third number tellinsr all\nabout the editor's struggles with his printer. Times don't\nseem to have changed very much. Printers and publishers will\nreadily agree."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c013", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c013", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "44", "page_fin": "44", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.13", "titre_corps": "Bubbles, by Clara Eice", "titre_sommaire": "Bubbles, by Clara Eice", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "44", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 140, "fin_caractere_exclue": 162, "texte": "Bubbles, by Clara Eice"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1915-08-21-01-c014", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01#c014", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1915-08-21_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "44", "page_fin": "44", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.2.14", "titre_corps": "Everybody Welcome", "titre_sommaire": "Everybody Welcome", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "44", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 164, "fin_caractere_exclue": 681, "texte": "Everybody Welcome\nMr. Edison is glad to extend an invitation to his receptions,\nand later on to his performances, to everybody interested. All\ntickets of admission can be had on applying by letter. The seat-\ning capacity is limited to two hundred and fifty seats, and there-\nfore applicants who cannot be accomodated for the asked-for per-\nformance will be taken into consideration, if so desired, in the\nfollowing week.\nCharles Edison's Little Thimble Theatre, Situated\nat No. 10 Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village,N.Y,"}]}], "pages_ocr_originales": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "couv. 1", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.1", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\nEdited by Guido Bruno in his Garret on Washington Square\nNo. 6\nAUGUST 21st, MCMXV\nVol. I.\nCopyright 1915 by Quido fJßfuno\n\nMichael Mohahan\nCome what may, come what will, let us be\nfaithful to the dream—the poor, unfriended\nand repulsed, beloved and betrayed, cursed and\nrejected, defeated and despised, yet ever glor- '\nious and immortal dream—to make this hard\nworld a better and kinder place for all .the\nchildren of men. /] • ' /:\n\nEdison to America's Musicians\n•\"THE following is a broad appeal: of Mr. Edison to the\nAmerican musician and composer, arid especially to those\nwho have lost their ambitions to be creators of music, in their\nfruitless struggle—not so much for recognition as for a hearing\n—to those who are reproducers instead of producers for the sake\nof practical reasons. t:\nCharles Edison's Little - Thimble Theatre, which will open on\nthe 6th of September as a playhouse, has one mission: to give\nthe American composer a chance to stage his compositions, to\nproduce it and to offer it to an audience.\nAs long as the American composer has to rely for a criticism\nof his work upon the jury of forty or fifty men who read his\nmusic and take this reading as the only basis for acceptance or\nrejection, America will not have-an opera of its own, it will\nnot have a music Which is the real own property of its people.\nTo quote Professor Albert Mildenberg, dean of the department\nof music, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, from a\nrecent article in the New York Times ; \"Opera has no musical\nform. It is a dramatic, living thing. Its musical element is\nonly one part of it. The composer has to acquire theatrical\nexperience. Verdi, Wagner, Puccini were first \"of all master\nstage craftsmen and then musicians. The result is that their\noperatic work fulfills the peculiar dramatic demands of the\ntheatre."}, {"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "38", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.2", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n\n\"The American musician has been unable to acquaint himself\nsufficiently with the theatrical side of musical writing in this\ncountry, the chief reason being the limited amount of opera\nproduced here.\"\nOf course, work that is obviously unfit can be recognized\nat sight, but no musician is able to read offhand an orchestrated\nscore and grasp the dramatic values of the libretto, story plot,\nand even the pantomime necessary to the production of a lyric\ncomposition.\nIn the Little Thimble Theatre everybody will have a\nchance to produce his works—of course, the discrimination\nbetween amateurishness and serious efforts are easily distinguish-\nable. There surely must be among the thousands of musicians\nin New York—and it is safe to say hundreds of thousands in\nthe United States—men who are taking the old masters of the\nworld for fundamental knowledge and worshipful reverie but\nfeel the throbbing life around them—who feel its music, its\ntragedy, its romance, and who are endeavoring to express\nthemselves through their medium: music. The far West, the\nBad Lands, the deserts, that wonderful quiet and peace, the\ngrandeur of Nature, the solitude of a man, a lone traveler;\nthen again the buzzing life of the busy industrious city.\nShouldn't the noises, the roaring and the moaning which fill\nthe air of our cities impress the creative genius of a musician,\nshouldn't all that that is distinctively American call forth an\necho in the soul of the artist? There surely must be American\nmusic, right at this moment. It only has not had a chance to\nfind its way to its right possessor: the American public.\nThe Little Thimble Theatre invites every American com-\nposer and musician to take advantage of its opportunities.\nEverybody will be considered equally seriously. The Little\nThimble Theatre does not endeavor to produce masterpieces or\nto detect geniuses, in other words, to create sensational suc-\ncesses. The artist is equally free to step before the public, as\nthe people—his audience—are free to come and to like or to\ndislike. To have an audience must be the most cherished\ndesire of every artist, and he who takes his art seriously will\nwelcome his audience as his critics. Because there is no ad-\nmission fee charged and everybody welcome as long as there\nare seats and standing capacity, the audience is comprised of\na combination of people who resemble truly the American\npeople at large to whom every artist wishes to appeal finally.\nAnd at the conclusion of the first season of the Little Thimble\nTheatre, perhaps the first conclusive evidence will have been\ngathered that there is American music and that there are\nmusicians among us.\n\nG. B.\nUuquestionable facts combined with more\nfacts are the arguments of the efficient man.\nEvery fact is a materialized truth."}, {"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "39", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.3", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n\nOn Top of the 'Bus\nThe Curtain of Edison's Little Thimble Theatre\nDEACOCKS and butterflies are the design of the curtain of\nEdison's Little Thimble Theatre, which is being finished at\npresent by Clara Tice, the Greenwich Village artist. On tan\nsilk a peacock spreads his gorgeous black and green plumage,\nbutterflies of Clara Tice's own brand are playfully pursuing\none another. There is such a lot of color and movement and\nrhythm in this one decorative piece of the little showhousel\nThe American Phenomenon\nIN one of his recent articles in the Evening Sun, \"The\nPlaygoer\" points out a phenomenon of the American\nstage; he calls it even an American phenomenon. It est: a\ncultured showgirl in America.\"The Playgoer\" points out \"one\nreason that Miss Barnes is such an unusual showgirl is that\nshe speaks pure, limpid, unslangy English with perfect enuncia-\ntion.\" \"The Playgoer\" emphasizes furthermore her \"phen-\nomenal\" qualities as being a \"mineral water girl\" and \"drinks\nlittle or nothing.\"\nI wonder if there will ever arise the occasion to point out\nsimilarly as a phenomenon an American show which can boast\nof the same unusual qualities as Miss Helen Barnes, of \"The\nPassing Show of 1915\" of being cultured, of being a mineral\nwater show, and of the use of pure unslangy English.\nMasefield in Greenwich Village\n■yL/HENEVER you happen to pass the Columbian Hotel, the\nold tavern opposite the Jefferson Market Court, remem-\nber that this place, commonly known among the Villagers as\nthe Working Girls' Home, earned itself a nook in the history\nof English letters. While everybody refused to give recognition\nto John Masefield, now distinguished English poet and author,\nMr. O'Conner, the proprietor of the tavern, recognized his\ngood qualities and chose him as \"the man behind the bar.\"\nFor nearly three years Masefield served here drinks and cleaned\ncuspidors among the other duties of his daily routine. He is\nstill in correspondence with the poet and is proud to have\nrecognized his value before anybody else did. A recent issue\nof the Vogue reprinted some of this friendly correspondence\nbetween poet and barkeeper.\n\nA Recollection\nBy Frances Cornford\nMY father's friend came once to tea.\nHe laughed and talked. He spoke to me.\nBut in another week they said\nThat friendly pink-faced man was dead.\n\"How sad . they said, \"the best of men .\nSo I said too, \"How sad;\" but then\nDeep in my heart I thought with pride,\n\"I know a person who has died.\""}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "40", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.4", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n(Concluded from last issue)\n\nMonday Matinee\nTHREE artists will be heard at the Monday matinee in\nEdison's Little Thimble Theatre who never appeared before\nbefore a large audience. Miss Grace M. Hofheimer is a\ncomposer and pianist, a young girl who received her entire\nmusical education in New York. While it is her ambition to be\nknown as a composer and interpreter of the great masters, she\nis earning her living at present by teaching music. She will\nplay a selection from MacDowell and her own composition,\n\"Songs Without Words.\"\nMiss Adrienne D. WTallace, a violin virtuoso, after a long\nsojourn in Florida, has returned to New York and will make\nher debut in our city in the coming season. Her program on\nMonday comprises \"Canozetta,\" by d' Ambrosio, \"Andantino\"\nby Padre Martini and \"Scherzo,\" by Dittersdorf.\nFrank Delia Lana, the young baritone, came at a very\nyoung age from Italy to America. He had to earn his\nliving from his thirteenth year at whatever he found to do.\nSinging in church awakened in him the first desire to become\nan opera singer. He devoted his spare time to the culture of\nhis voice. He will sing a few songs by American composers\nand Verdi's \"Dei Miei Bollenti Spiriti.\"\nFour of the most brilliant Diamond Discs complete the\nprogram.\n\nThe Poet's Fate\nSome he has polished for a year before he has sent them forth.\nBut whatever may be his personal fortune his sheaf of verses\nis always with him. He is known indeed to some of his friends\nas the \"gentleman whose baggage consists chiefly of poetry.\"\nShould he drop finally at any time it has always been an al-\nluring hope, that that life in his breast-pocket would live on—\non forever like the imperishable lines of Sappho. The thought\ninspires him for the many thousandth time. Spring is not\nfar off. Not a blade of grass yet in the old square, but the\nsquirrels and the sparrows, those first harbingers of every\nseason, told him to-day. And as he sits in the old square a\nspring-song comes swelling out of his heart; as he thinks of\nSappho.\nCometh the music with her strange desire,\nLeapeth my heart with a pang of pain,\nA song-bird quenched in a forest fire.\nFleeing forth to find glad rain;\nAll things wither and bloom again,\nYet ever desire and the hope of me.\nWaif of the dawn, and the sunlit plain\nAre but the breath of the mocking sea.\nAnd the poor, penniless poet falls asleep; starving but happy\nin his woe."}, {"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "41", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.5", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n\nJefferson Market Court House\n\nWashington Square\nAlfred Kreymborg\nNinteen youngsters and a squirrel,\nthirty-seven peanuts in a bag,\n(Come to-morrow, Tummy-ache /)\nSun grinning gold\nSky grinning blue\nEarth grinning green—\nand the old!"}, {"page_pdf": 6, "page_imprimee": "42", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.6", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n\nPastels in Prose\nBy Hubert Crackanthorpe\nIa the Strand\nTP HE city disgorges.\na All along the Strand, down the great, ebbing tide, the\nomnibuses, a congested press of gaudy craft, drift west-\nwards, jostling and jamming their tall, loaded decks, with\na clanking of chains, a rumble of lumbering wheels, a thud-\nding of quick loosed brakes, a humming of hammering\nhoofs. ...\nThe empty hansoms slink silently t past; the street hawkers\n•—a long row of dingy figures—line _ the pavement edge;\ntroops of frenzied newsboys dart yelling through the traf-\nfic, and here and there a sullen-faced woman struggles to\nstem the tide of men.\nSomewhere, behind Pall Mall, unheeded the sun has set,\nthe sky is powdered with crimson dust; one by one the\nshops gleam out, blazing their windows of burnished glass;\nthe twilight throbs with a ceaseless shuffle of hurrying feet,\nand over all things hovers the spirit of London's grim un-\nrest.\nEnfantilage\nHAVE you never longed to wander there, in that wonder-\nful cloudland beyond the sea, where the droves of mon-\nstrous cattle, close-huddled and drowsy, they lie the long\nday through — the comely, milk-white summer clouds, slow\nand sleek and swelling; the quick-scudding, darkling clouds,\ntattered with travelling across the sky; the mighty thunder-\nclouds, violet and lowering; the flocks of fluffy-white baby\nclouds, and all the sun's great, gaudy, guard, from the daintily\ngilded sunset sparts to the blood-red bands that frequent\nthe south ? •\nSometimes at even fall, when the sea lies calm in her\nopal tints, you may discern the distant line of their strange,\nfantastic home, vague, phantasmagoric, like a mirage beyond\nthe horizon.\nPerhaps, after death, we may linger there and watch them\nsilently sail away towards the lands we have loved long ago?\n\nEveryday Musing\nPutting the Pig Over the Fence\nBy D. Molby\nIT is said that if a man takes a pig when small and lifts it\nover the fence every day, he will be able to lift it over when\nit is a grown hog. This depends on several things: how big\nthe man is who undertakes it, how high the fence is, and on\nhow big the pig gets to be."}, {"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "43", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.7", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\n\nThe theory assumes that the man will increase in strength\nas fast as the pig does in size, and also, perhaps, that the pig\nwill become so accustomed to the ordeal that he will never re-\nsist.\nThe probability is that when the hog got to weigh about\nthree hundred pounds he would see that the task was about all\nthe man could manage, and, some day when indisposed, take ad-\nvantage of the fact. If the hog's legs happened to be muddy he\ncould slip out of the ordeal easily enough. The man might\ntry to put him over later in the day, but the hog having got out\nof it once would be more stubborn than before and would soon\nhave the man so tired he couldn't do a thing.\nFailure on one day would be failure forever so far as that\npig were concerned and it is not likely the man would ever\nwant to begin on another one.\n\nAn Early Greenwich Village Magazine\nYU'HILE the Philistine was the forerunner of many hundreds\nof journals and individualistic magazines in pocket size,\nwhich came and went, his idea of a small magazine of protest\nwas by no means original, not even in the United States. In\nfact, right here among us, in Greenwich Village, the very first\nperiodical \"of protest\" saw the light of the world el eo ipso\nexpired gently.\nIn October, 1827, a little sheet of sixteen pages, a trifie larger\nthan the Philistine, THE SATYRIST, or THE NEW YORK\nSATIRICAL MIRROR was published by a literary gentleman\nwho concealed his identity under the pseudonym, Peter Pindar.\nThe chief feature of his magazinette was very, very fine satires\nof prominent New York citizens, especially rich merchants were\nhis prey, names which are today a vital part of the early\nhistory of New York. His magazine is unique, perhaps, among\nall the magazines on record for the reason that he followed\nhis first number with the third, explaining editorially, that\nhe made to a certain gentleman in exchange for a sum of money,\ncertain promises to publish a satire on one of his business\ncompetitors. After careful deliberation—and perhaps after the\nmoney was spent—he came to the conclusion that his promise\nhad been too hasty and that it could not be combined with his\ndignity as editor. Literary men in those days, as well as today,\nhad not always the necessary cash on hand to make monetary\nreparations. Therefore, Peter Pindar decided to do justice to\nhimself and to his patrons. For the second number he promised\nthat satire, \"Whenever there will be a second number this\nsatire will appear.\" But there never was one. In fact, the\nNew York Satyrist stopped publication after its third number,\nit taking the place of the second.\nInteresting is the narrative in the third number tellinsr all\nabout the editor's struggles with his printer. Times don't\nseem to have changed very much. Printers and publishers will\nreadily agree."}, {"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "44", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19150821-01.1.8", "texte": "BRUNO'S WEEKLY\nBruno's Weekly, edited, written, published by Guido Bruno, at\n53 Washington Square, New York. Subscription price $1 yearly.\n\nBubbles, by Clara Eice\n\nEverybody Welcome\nMr. Edison is glad to extend an invitation to his receptions,\nand later on to his performances, to everybody interested. All\ntickets of admission can be had on applying by letter. The seat-\ning capacity is limited to two hundred and fifty seats, and there-\nfore applicants who cannot be accomodated for the asked-for per-\nformance will be taken into consideration, if so desired, in the\nfollowing week.\nCharles Edison's Little Thimble Theatre, Situated\nat No. 10 Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village,N.Y,"}]}