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" 'Short Skirts’’ featuring Marie Walton
did not fall short of
what
was promised
from it, and
a
highly delighted audience
left the theatre
last night after
two solid
hours
of interesting entertainment
which
it afforded.
The truly fine film ‘‘Bring the News
to
Mother’”
will
be
shown
again
at
St.
Mary’s Hall this evening.
All who failed
to see this
grand
screen
production
the
first time
would
really
be
doing
them-
selves
an injustice in passing
it over now.
Sse
ad in today’s issue.
The American
schooner
‘'Pocahontas’
which
used
to be auxiliary to the *‘Virgi-
nia’’when theflatter
ran the mails from Por
to Rico,
is here.
Itis understood
that her
mission
is to load
a heap of old iron, junk
machinery,
which
has been lying on the
i
S T.CHOoIXx
AVIS
public wharf for several
months.
If it is
a factithat
this
rubbish
whose
presence
has orlly: contribated
to spoiling the
ap-
pearazg
ce of the landing place
is rea'ly to
be rez‘\‘.oved,
this woulu be indeed
a stride
forwe
4
in brushin!;
ud
the
looks
of
tne wate, front which
has
never been
in
such
an unsightly congdition
as during the
last two years<or
mcre. 'f
The S. S. *‘Parima’’ from
New
York
via St. Thomas
arrived
at
Frederiksted
this
morning.
The
postmaster
advises
that
the
mail
for Christiaasted
should
not be
looked for before
tne regular
dis-
patch
from Frederiksted
comes
in
this
afternoon.
:
AN ANSWER TO THOSE
WHO CRITI-
CIZE
OUR NATIVE MUSICIANS AND
THEIR ABILITY TO
PROMOTE
AN
ORCHESTRA
ON THE ISLANDS
By ASHLEY L. TOTTEN.
Do you remember
way back
when
the
Danish
Military Band
would
go on
the
wharf and play for one hour every Sunday
afternoon?
And later in
the da’s of Capt.
Ditlev-
sen
when they would
send
a section
of
soldiers witl' their rifles and bayonets
to
protect
the
tem
little mpusicians
from
harm,
as they played for one hour once a
month at nights?
Well, times
have changed
since
then.
The band in
those
days
consisted
of
two leading cornets
and
a few
other
in-
struments
such as the Tula,
Tenorhorn,
Althorn, Valve Trombone
and Drums.
The
leader had
his funny
way
about
starting
to play
a number.
Ain, To, Tray, Feeya:
he would
say,
and then came
what appeared
to be,
an
over
exerted
energy
on
his part
while
emissions
from
the
other
instruments
sounded like Voo-ta-Voo-ta-Voo-ta-ta.
The public however,
appreciated
this
to be
a very high
degree,
and
perhaps
much
more
than
fhey
are
inclined
to
appreciate
our native
musicians of today.
If Magnus
Svendsen
and
Lirdholm
were
alive, they
would
have
an
oppor-
tunity
to
see
how
mach
servie2
they
rendered
to
humanity,
when
they
as-
sumed
the initiative and staried
training
pnatives
to play
brass
instruments,
des-
pite
the eriticism
and abuse
which
their
own countrymen
showered
on them.
There
are
people on
the
islands
who
remember
when such
numbers
as
“'Dutty
Mother
Passing’’
and the
Tiv>li
March
were
great.,
and.
th2
men
who
played
then
were great
musicians.
What
do these
people
think abjut
the
kind
of music
thaf our boys are
playing
today?
If it is
possible
for
native musicians
to
make thamselves
familiar with
band
music,
why is not
possible
for
them
to
promote
an orchestra?
In an orchestra, there
is but one
little
difference.
:
Good
violinists who must
aequire
the
art
of playing
in
the
various
positions,
a
good
pianist
who can
read
and
play
musie
arranged
for
orchestration,
and
with
brass
and reed instrumrents
in
low
pitch
is all that
is necessary.
Start
out
with this and
the rest
will come
in time.
The
same
brain
that has
been
devel
oped into the knowledge of playing band
music
will also be of service
in crchestra
musie.
The
same
brain
that
trained
bandmen
will of
necessily
train
an
or-
chestra.
Some
of
the
greatest
orches-
tras
here
in New York
sounded
like
a
riotous outburst
of indignation
enly four
vears ago.
But,
fortunately for
New York
there
is
a greater tendency
on the part of
the
public to encourage,
and not
discourage.
Criticisms
are
more
ofa
constructive
nature.
:
:
_
Our
island
St.
Croix has.
throwr
bou-
quets
after bouguets
at
strangers
whom
they
honored
as
great
musicians,
and
who
reallv knew as
much
about the
art
as Andy’s fat cook.
:
But whenever
some
one starts
out
for
the specific purpose
of placing St. Croix on
equal footing with
the outer world,
thén
all
the
big
crabs
begin
to
drag
the
smaller
ones back
in
the
barrel.
Start
anything,
and
to
the
selfish
and
mali-
cious.
it is stupidness.
it would perbaps
interest
you to know
that some native
boys who played
fidd.c
in
St. Croix some
years
ago,
are
violin
ists in New York today.
An orchestra
or concert
band
made up
of Virgin Islands in New York could hold
an audience anywhere in America
today.
Had
these boys
remained
at home
they
could
not boast of earning
eight
to
ten
dollars
every
night.
Criticism® would
have
killed their
ambition.
If just
a
little less doubt would be
placed
on
the
ability of
our
native
musicians,
and
everyone
do
less
knocking,
and
more
pushing,
an orchestra
as good
as is heard
anywhere,
will certainly loom
up in
St.
Croix.
ST. THOMAS NEWS.
This morning shortly after
10 o’clock
a sad aceident
occurred
up
town
at
the
home of one of our well-known cake mak-
ers—
'‘Bellerita.”’
It appears
that she
was lighting an al-
cohol
stove
wher
it exploded,
ecatehing
her
clothes
afire
and
seriously burning
her chest,
face and
head.
.
Hearing the commotion,
the
Chief of
Police, Guggenbeim,
ran from the station
to the scepe
of the accident
where he
ap-
plied first aid until the arrival of the doc-
for.
-
The sufferer was taken to the
Maunici-
pal ‘Hospital.—S'.
Thomas
Mail Notes,
9th May.
:
ey
Miss
Isabella Ritter
succumbed
early
this morning
it
the
Muricipal Hospital