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                 ART NO TES AND BOOK REVIEWS
YVETTE        GUILBERT           PRO-       Selections were also
GRAMS 0F RARE AUTISTIC works of celebrated tri
                                          leurs and clerks-Colin
AND     HISTORIC         INTEREST         ular among minstrels of
ADAME YVETTE                   GUIL-      Jacques Damiens, 13th ce
         BERT'S first    appearance   in  the greatest satirist of ,
         New York this season took place  of Montaudon, who bec
Friday afternoon, three o'clock, November and who was also bittei
third, at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. This singing of them in his o
matinee was devoted to French art in      and a "Jeu-Parti," a
p
the Middle Ages. Madame Guilbert, with    sion by Adam de la Ha
the assistance of Professor Beck of Bryn  composer of the first opji
Mawr, gave to her audience veritable        A curious entertainme
jewels of literature in -he original words who seek amusement,
and  music gathered    from  old  manu-   does in Madame Guilbe
scripts.                                  "songs, the dance, pantc
  Professor Beck, who delivered the in-   tions bequeathed to us
troductory address in English with ex- ization, an edifice erecte
planations of the songs, is recognized as tion of France, descend
the greatest living authority on the sub- those who laid the firs
ject of music in ancient manuscript form. superb monuments of li
He   possesses photographs    of 20,00o   sic." One has only to pi
pages of the most valuable manuscripts    lic such treasures of art
extant of the earliest music. There are   est appreciation.
but four men today who like Professor
Beck aie able to read these old manu-       PROGRAMME: Maxin
scripts as readily as modern music. Be-   Friday, November third, 3
                                          sais au Moyen Age, presente
fore coming to Bryn .Mawr, Professor      Guilbert and Professor J
Beck lectured at the Sorbonne and the     Mawr.
                                 the mst e- GutaveDances Mimices b:
CollUge de France, where the mostFerrari at the piar
inent savants from all over the world are            harmonium and
called.                                    x. Introductory Address:
  The audience attending this recital          Moyen Age" (French
have had the unique privilege of hearing       Ages).    PROFESSOR
from original manuscripts the music and   2. Chansons "de toile"-XI]
poetry of the jongleurs, trouvfre min-         connus (Chants sung
strels of the 12th and I3th centuries as       the Middle Ages whe
expressed in the literature covered dur-       work).
ing that time: I, Litterature des Clercs;     a Belle Dostte (a Beaut
2, Jongleurs-menestrels; 3, Litterature       bBelle Isabeau (b Be:
2,roie                                           Century, authors un
Courtoise.                                                     GU
  The sculptors of the Middle Ages drew   3. Dance des Jongleurs-
their inspiration for the grotesque per-       structed by Madame
sonages and masks carved on the oldest        Estampida grotesque;
cathedrals from  the picturesque dances          manuscript collectioi
of their contemporary jongleurs. With                    YVETTE GUI
the aid of reproductions of the sculptures 4. Litterature des Clercs p
Madame     Yvette  Guilbert has reco-n-         Si~cle (Literature of
                                                People).
 structed a Dance of those Jongleurs, the     a Lai pieu (a Religious
 musical theme for which has been taken       bMarie Madelaine et
 from the manuscript collection of Pro-           (b Mary Magdelen
 fessor Beck. Isabeau, a eurrhythmic mime,               YVETTE GUI
 pupil of Madame Guilbert, will make her      c Mystýre Mim6 (L'An
 d6but in this dance. Among the other            tery without words
 raret.s included in the program will be a       The Annunciation.)
 "Mystic Episode" which was performed             YVETTE GUILBERT
at
                                           5. Litterature des Clercs poi
during the mass by priests in the 13th          Si~cle (Literature of
century.                                        dents and Savants).
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given from the
oubadours, jong-
Muset, most pop-
the 13th century;
ntury, of his time
romen; the Monk
ame a trouv~re
r against women,
wn compositions,
hilosophic discus-
Ile, I3th century,
ra comique.
:nt, this, for those
embodying as it
:rt's own words,
)mime and recita-
by a superb civil-
d to the glorifica-
ing to us from
t stones of those
terature and mu-
resent to the pub-
to win the keen-
e  Elliott Theatre,
o'clock, L'Art Fran-
d by Madame Yvette
ean Beck of Bryn
y Isabeau.
mo, assisted by harp,
I violin.
"L'Art Francais au
Art in the Middle
BECK.
I Sicle-auteurs in-
by noble women of
n engaged in needle
iful Do~tte).
autiful Isabeau, XII
known).
UBERT.
*III  Si&cle-recon-
Yvette Guilbert.
music from the old
n of Professor Beck.
LBERT.
our le Peuple-XIII
the Clerks for the
Chant).
le Berger-X Siicle
and the Shepherd).
LBERT.
nonciation) (c Mys-
enacted during mass.
nd ISABEAU.
ur les Savants-XIII
the Clerks for Stu-