Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1923, Page 10

U.S. FORBARRING [Novel Russian Opera Opens Doors to Realm of Fantasy LEAGUE OF NATIONS THE EVEN . WASHINGTON, D. Mrs, Stephen B. Elkins had with her in her box Senator and Mrs. Sel- den P. Spencer, Mme. Grouitch and Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage. her guests Gen. and Mrs. Andre Brewster and Mr. and Mrs. J. Don- ald Cassels. Prominent Persons Present. g::.“‘lohn: W. Garrett and Mr. Leon PoLIcE AND FIRE (. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1923. awarded to Fire Chief George Wat- son for the manner in which he HERO HONORS ARE AWARDED ward C. Walker had .m:v:lchm ‘Watson Declines Gold Medal and 300 Knickerbocker Res- cuers Given Badges Instead. directed rescue work at the Kafcker- bocker, but the chief declined the honor. It was declded to hold the medal and award two next year. In leu of a medal, more than 300 firemen who served at the Knicker- bocker disaster were decorated with ribbon badges. —_— FEA ) SN | T 73 NS RS |AR N “Sniegurotchka” of Rimsky-Korsakoff,] Sung by Chicago Company, Has Won- derful Appeal to Eye and Ear. Awards for distinguished service 'Y Quring 1922 were made to members of| CHOSEN AS POSTMASTER. the police and fire departments by the Washington Times in the audi- tc;rl;‘x‘m c];!:t |en!nlCngI|l Slchool ‘??t Henry A. Taylor was nominated by night. Epgineer Commissioner Kel- ler presented the decorations. President Harding yesterday to be Patrolman Robert L. Jones of the | Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohlo. In an- nouncing Mr. Taylor's selection, Sec- retary Christian said the President believed this would be “a happy so- Among others in the audience were the ambassador of Peru and Senora de Pezet, the minister of Denmark. Mr. Brun; the minister of Colombla and Senora de Olaya, the secretary of the ' Italian embassy and Signora Glesser C:l'elh. mel third assistant ary of State, Mr. Robert Wor elghth precinct received the gold Mr. and Mrs. Willlam R. C: police medal for risking his 1if8 to Al Ng;u lflomcmonu Cnfl:, M‘:i " ? 2 an s. Charles C. Glover, Mr. an fl';l:e ;l'hzhénol‘: Juh:enl t.h;:*::_:l Mrs. E,T:. le)l:mn.dM:_‘mfl‘y‘rlu. Co}t lution of all difficulties incident to of beauty that it was last nig! e ' coran Thom, Mr. and Mrs, ter filling the Cleveland postmastership.” principals were brought before the Tuckerman. Commissioner apd Mrs. = = 2 save a pedestrian from being run Cuno H. Rudolph, Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. ., curtain agun end vet wewn, and |BiSCOT AR Mt T v e S A =14 down by a street car. Jones was in- outbursts of applause greeted ensem- : broke Thom, Dr. and Mrs. C. Augus- | Rosemary C’wco’atesEMade Fresh Daily [ —_— e Y jured in making the rescu ble effeots as well as Individual in-|tus Simpson, Mr. and Mrs Peyun | SPECI Q l -~ Offering tempting Rose- . The gotd fire medal was Erlglnflly > 1l 3 Gordon, Mrs. Phillp Sheridan, Mme. | e ik was hoauttaliss it Nt Mtk Vi r pooodan, Mo was bizarre. It conveyed a sense of | Philip C. Kauffmann, Mrs. Alice Pike S protuston. deflant of color scheme, | Barney, Princess Ghika, Col. and Mrs. 2 mary Candies at 59c per Friday & Saturday pound FRIDAY and SAT- ROSemary URDAY to heip expand C ]. their circle of friends. 39¢ 1b. Sees No Advantage in Widen- ing Scope of Pan-American Union Parley. Super-Service We have patterned our store manage- ment to give our customers the utmost in service. Quality, of course, is the paramount consideration — with you — as it is with us. You have opportunity in our ex- tensive variety to choose of contemporaneous goods. But there is no occasion for discrim- ination. We’ve attended to that—and you simply cannot go astray. This_protection in quality entails no pre- mium in price. Cornwell prices are known to be lowest, quality considered. Satisfaction is the assurance with Corn- well service—Super-service. G. G. Cornwell & Son The grand opera season, introduced with the martial magnificence ot Alda, followed by the personality appeal of Mary Garden, closed last night with a glimpse into the realm of fantasy as seen through Russian eyes, nie- gurotchka.” Monday night was for the tradition devotees, Tuesday night for the lherolne worshippers and yesterovening for those who long to The Washington government can see noiadvantage jto be gained by changing the present scope of the Pan-Amcrican Union so as to include @ny nation or group of nations mnot located within th 0 American con- tinents, it was said yesterday at the State Department, in connection with suggestions that constderation had glven to representation of the ague of nations at the forthcoming merican conference at Santfago. The attitude of the American gov- ernment, it was said authoritatively, hiad been brought out by an informal inquiry made verbally through the representative in the league of a South American country, which is a member of the league. In reply it was stated that cans, 2 3 ; thustastic " applagse . Cyrena * Van | Mr. and Mrs. Frederle D. MeKenney, dickte, oNuow Milden. ' Ths Htory/ 8 | Gorten renewed the ool huprescicn RCR L IR SRR e S e e e T Tl il e R il Jang auo magniletnce: ol A rTIantly 10 tha pote ey tho | Migncs Tiienonck. Moy, Heviy o Rk e e o B D e ataitsar. Tha opess. ib moat akteactive!bing, Mrs. Fugsus Bytnos, Miss Sttar e I o I ae & O e av_ | BacAuss of 1ts whasivs encemule The| Misd Laura Harlan. Miss Sara Lec, terest ard unstinted praise. Thefinale was a revelation of tonal mag- | Mrs. Rowe, Mrs Gaorge 1. Hone, tread the patbs of hovel and left the spectator admiring, yot|Archibald Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs, Mrs. John Waggaman, Mrs. Robert fWe make Rosemary Choco- . . | contusea, Henry Parsons Erwin, Mr. and Mrs. The Jtls ““Snlegurotchkar 1s suk: | “Eamh Mason sing the title role in David St. Plerre Galllard, Mrs. David Hleuns, as the obliging transiator in- | & manner which gained sincerely en- Caillard, Mrs. Joseph H. Humpson, lates and Bonbons fresh every day—25 varieties, all 100% Pure. Be sure to take home a box this 1415 H Street. government was desirous that there should be co-operation between the pan-American countries and the league or any other agency that promised betier international under- =tandings, but that official representa- tion of the league at the forthcom- ce did not appear to be purposes for an Union was sition in Washington to the 1tment of a delegation by the gue to Sit in the conference was hased, 50 far as known, entirely upon t round. The league member osed of numer- fons. some of which fasclnating. Under the baton of Ricl hinting, as this composer always does, of primitive instruments—primitive almost to the point of barbarity, making thelr way into classical ex- |pression. The incidental dances by Anns Ludmila and corps de ballet refiected the spirit of an_unciviliza- ition which the world is studying at {present with eager attention. Each painted scene is respendent with ef- {fects which ure striking because of jthelr bold artifictality. Appeal to Eye and Ear. As an appeal to the eve and ear “The Snow Maiden” is bewilderingly the United States|music of Rimsky-Korsakoff is slways | nificence that made It a fitting cul-, mination of the most remarkable sea- | Miss Virginia Lee Perry and Mrs. John C. O'Laughlin. Phone Main 875. ard Hageman it became compelling, | son of opera it has been the privi- | lege of this city to enjoy. Entertaine Ambaseadors, ‘The ambassador of Spain and Senora | {de Riano were guests of Mrs. Richard ! H. Townsend, who also entertained | {the ambassador of Belgium | Baroness de Cartler. The minister of Portugal, Viscount | and | s Marshall Field, who entertained at|d The minister Mme. Peter w | tained by Mrs. Mary Stewart, who had | I of Switzerland and creations is promised in the announce- ment of James E. d'Alte, was among the guests of Mrs.! With music by Melville Morris. | dinner preceding the performance. |mond B. Peres. €d by Gus Fay and will include Lester e among those enter- | Dorr, Harry Kelly, Special k At the Gayety Next Week. RED Hemé‘;fizpz‘g‘foxgfli— An Impressive list of amusement Cooper's revue, Folly Town,"” at the Gayety Theater tarting next Sunday afternoon. as been written by William K. Wells, The ancing numbers were put on by Ray- The cast will be head- 1403 H St.—Next [o[—=] [ Helen Andrews, Dolly Rayfield, Mlidred Holmes and week end. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, 75c TO $6.50. Blackistone’s Rosemary Candy Shop == [=——lo]——o]— o] Gift Boxes, $1.50 ROSEMARY CHOCOLATES FOR to Flower Store [ole——|o[——] h ATerloun NTOUD |y outiful, As an appeal to thie heaRt | ATORE er Gther Baestot T avi bs | &n GiTaciive Ghorme Cantopimas snd viiloh 2 > e Ak % George Oakley Totten, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. | 1ess than seventeen changes of gowns. of “1!:"21',,3:5”‘ is shallow, but not insincere. Ita| GEOLED Dakley Votlen, jr.: Mr. and Mrs. | | preciation calls for as much imagi-| ory Nobte. : ! {nation on the part of the observer as| Miss Ailsa Mellon occupied the box | CAPT. EVANS RESIGNS. ithe creators of the work themselves'of her father, the Secrotary of the {have displayed; fmagination strong! Treasury, and had among her puests ! enough to bring the auditor into sym- | Princess ' Bertha Cantacuzene, how the ofticial repre- sentatives of the league of nations to ©ho conference could benefit the union id materially in international re- lationships generally. Presumab) knowledge 3! ts was not fa elined toward the project ended what- ment there was toward leugue representation at that the orably in- LEVIATHAN REPAIR WORK IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY Inspection by Two Congress Com- wittees Is Planned for Feb- ruary 22. The work of reconditioning the huge steamship Leviathan and con- verting it to an oil burner has pro- gressed so far. Chairman Lasker of the S| i the Emergency Fleet Corporation and members of the Senate committee on commerce and the House committee on merchant marine and fisherfes will be invited by the United States Lines to inspect the vessel, February 22 pathetic accord with the feelings and {impulses of a people who have devel- |oped thelr own splendors in remote seclusion from the herolc sublimities {of the German musical art, the glo- rious sentiment of the Itallan, the piquant insinuation of the F'rench, the critical calim of the English and the modest receptivity of the American. There is a venerable adage to the ef- fect that “money talks.” In the case of the Chicago Opera Company, money does not only talk. It sings. “The Snow Maiden” is a polyglot . in the Frelnch language unhelpful lan- gun‘;e for the singer), to an audience basically English in its vocabulary, yet proceeding on lines of a lingual development of its own which Angli- can comment is pleased to designate as “Americanese.” Its beauty lles not especlally in its thought, but in its music, the vague language of uni- versal appeal, which arrests attention but disclalms the responsibility ‘of satisfying it. “The Snow Maiden" is a delicate mood. resplendently inter- preted, vet for the listener who thinks in simple English, vague, diffuse, un- defined. Slight as the work s in thoughtful beauty, orchestra, chorus and pistorfal genius combined to make it a display whose technical elabora- tion compensated for-its lack of inner | Miss | Official Has Long Served With! 608 to 614 ELEVENTH ST. opera, a story of earth-old experience | Hansen, it s H Entert; Semator Phipps. t Capt. and Mrs. talned Senator and Phipps, Admiral William V. Pratt, | James Carroll Frazer, a Mrs. Benjamin H. Warder had with h Ler Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, Henry Leonard, Mrs. s Miss Loulse Thoron, o A Speci tache of the Norwegian legation, Capt. | director of the sea service bureau of Hayne Ellls enter-'sioner T. V. O'Connor, of the Shipping Mrs. Lawrence C. Board, today. Commander Donald C. Bingham, Mrs., industrial relations, and J. C. Jenkins, of | Loulse Ross Todd, the counselor of the Swedish legation, Mr. de Lafger- Shipping Board. berg; the secretary of the Spanish em- bassy, Senor de Amoedo, and the at.! . Capt. Irving L. Evans, who has been he United States Shipping Board for ome years, has resigined, according 0 announcement made by Commis- The sea service bureau as been placed under the division of frector of industrial relations, will ave full charge of the recruiting ervice as director of that division f the Shipping Board al Sale Pbilipsbern Carefully Chosen The values are manifestly A Special of Major Importance Offering a Collection of 500 | Spring’ Frocks, °15 @ E m significance. Edith Mason Scores. Only an organization possessing such resources as this, could have The modernization of the blg liner 1a under way at Newport News, Va. Wil- liam = Francis Gibbs, president of Gibbs Brothers, Incorporated, which Dhas the work in charge, has informed him, Mr. Lasker said. that 64.27 per cent of the reconditioning and fuel ©oil conversion of the vessel had been completed by January 31, and that 95.593 per cent of the specifications for repairs and alterations to machin. ery had been carried out. —_— One of the pecullarities of the co- coanut palm fs that it never stands upright. far in excess of the price. Lamps and Shades That word 1F often means trouble for you, m fi —included in this assortment is a wide range of Floor, Table, Vase and Boudoir Lamps, to- gether with appropriate selectiops of shades. F You are g seeker atter good food a3d mod- erate prices, come to the MARY JANE INN At 516 12th Bt. N.W. .UNCHEON 88c DINNER 11580 1o 58 P 4:30 to 7 PM. 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