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...BORN? and HERE AM I (Brunswick)-Roger Wolfe Kahn starts Here Am I with a snatch from Tristan...
...Alsatian. The word, Dada (which is apparently a child's name for a hobby horse) was first applied by this group to one of the female singers in derision, and afterwards to a movement that derided the contemporary arts. Later the centre of the movement was shifted by Tristan Tzara, one of the founders, to Paris where it became united with a French movement of a somewhat similar nature...
...Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada has 391 different attitudes and colors according to the sex of the president. It transforms itself-affirms...
Just as the soft strains of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay...
Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casells: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst