Ever notice? SOONER OR LATER most men reach a point, in everyday matters at least, where price is no longer all-important. They begin to look around for "something better." And it is by no means an accident that just at this point so many men turn to Fatima FATIMA "What a whale of a difference just a few cents make" records come as near perfection as any, reproducing the bass most effectively. PAGLIACCI-Prologue (Leoncavallo). Sung by Lawrence Tibbett. In two parts, on one record. Victor. AYDA-Act IV, La fatal pietra; Morir! si pura e bella; O terra addio (Verdi). Sung by Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli with chorus. In four parts, on two records. Victor. Here we have opera really coming into its own on the phonograph. Formerly an aria was crammed into one face of a record at any cost. It then ceased to become opera and became in whole what most opera is in part-mere vocal display. A recent exception was the death scene from "La Bohême," a vivid dramatic excerpt. The two recordings listed above are also steps in the same direction. Lawrence Tibbett brings the "Pagliacci" prologue to lifewell enough to disappoint one that no curtain will thereupon go up. The brilliant orchestration is well reproduced. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO Co. The "Aida" excerpt is complete enough to carry the spirit of the opera, too. But there is no excuse for the soloists singing as near the microphone as they do; their voices are unpleasantly loud, and the illusion of drama is hindered. BLUE DANUBE WALTZ; TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS (Strauss). Played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Victor. doubtedly, future recording will take concert-hall acoustics into consideration more. I feel sure that Albert Coates has been working along somewhat similar lines in his English recordings. It is a record well worth hearing. Stokowski, of course, gives a brilliant rendition of the waltzes. Piano Rolls SONATA PATHETIQUE-First Movement (Beethoven). Played by Wilhelm Bachaus. DuoArt. Beethoven's somber and restless mood, which conceived the "Sonata Pathetique," is given a virile portrayal by Bachaus, who achieves great sonority in his use of keyboard and pedal. A new interpretation of this sonata is always welcome. BERCEUSE, Opus 57 (Chopin). Played by Josef Hofmann. Duo-Art. It is disappointing to find the delicacy and spirituality of a composition lacking in its performance. Hofmann seems to have been unable to extract these qualities from the "Berceuse," and the result is a performance that is brilliant, skillful, but unconvincing. HARLES K. TAYLOR has just returned from abroad, after a summer devoted to the study of English schools and English methods of education. With him on his trip were three American schoolboys, chosen for their special capacity. They were able to meet the English boys on their own ground, were invited to stay overnight in the dormitories, and made entirely at home. 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