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...represents only one sect. There is an organization, however, whose pronouncements are few and carefully, prepared; it is the nearest approach to a Protestant opinion interpreter in the U. S.; its name is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and its president is Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, merry, easy-to-understand Brooklyn pastor, who answers questions for the New York Herald Tribune readers...
Statement of Council-President Cadman last week: "Loose talk of military intervention, either in Nicaragua or in Mexico, finds no support among any of the church groups with which I am familiar...
Standing firmly, foursquare, on the theory that English is the artistic medium for opera in the U. S. the Chicago Opera Company presented earlier this season Charles Wakefield Cadman's Witch of Salem, a U. S. opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
Composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...