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Stand by the wall,
Watching the fun
Of the Victory Ball.
They do not reproach,
Because they know,
If they're forgotten
It's better so.
IV.
Fat wet bodies
Go waddling by,
Girdled with satin,
Though God knows why:
Gripped by satyrs
In white and black.
With a fat wet hand
On the fat wet back.
In Atlanta
There terminated the annual visit of the Metropolitan Opera Company to Georgia's capital, and Atlanta, with its memory teeming with pictures of its own diamond horseshoe is all afire for more ambitious musical enterprises.
The "season" at Atlanta ran from Monday, April 21, to Saturday, April 26, and included Marta, II Trovatore, Boris Goudonov, Rigoletto, Fedora, Faust, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Among the performers, Mine. Frances Alda carried off first honors, although enthusiasm was nowhere lacking in the crowded houses.
In the attendant excitement, a movement has been launched for the establishment of an annual season of light opera also. The Atlanta Light Opera Association has already been organized, has elected C. H. Candler as its President, has obtained a 20-year charter to the Fulton Superior Court at Lakewood Park
Flonzaley Victory
Louis Bailly, French viola player, who used to draw up his stool and discourse sweet Schonberg and Haydn with Messrs. Betti, Pochon and d'Archambeau of the Flonzaley Quartet, has lost his lawsuit against those gentlemen (TIME, April 28). The N. Y. Supreme Court, Justice Giegerich presiding, vacated the temporary injunction obtained by M. Bailly a few weeks ago.*
The defense which brought about this decision established M. Bailly's "artistic incompatibility" as follows:
1) He was disagreeable. Sometimes he would not even speak to his colleagues. 2) His idea of quartet playing was principally a matter of solo, and not ensemble, work.
Thus has musical insubordination severed M. Bailly from a job worth $9,000 annually—that being the sum guaranteed to the members of the Flonzaley Quartet by André de Coppet, son of the founder of the band.
Papers had been served on the three defendant players on board the S.S. George Washington, 15 minutes after that vessel had sailed for Paris, on April 8. A large portion of the defense was conducted by wireless, aided by statements from an assorted galaxy of musical celebrities.
Bailly having been legally if not safely disposed of, it was announced that his successor had been chosen, and he was none other than Felicien d'Archambeau, brother of the cellist.
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* (The management of the Flonzaley Quartet had ousted M. Bailly for "artistic incompatibility"' the injunction would have restrained his former comrades from continuing to play (with another violist) under the old Flonzaley name.