Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1923, Page 52

UMMER music in Washington received a decided impetus in the ex- cellence of the radio concert offered from the new broadcasting station, WRC, at 14th street and Park road, last Wednesday night. All of the numbers, presented under the direction of Ralph Ed- munds, who is in charge of the new station, were clearly and delightfully given. This station, which is beautifully equipped with every improvemert known so far in this new era of radio programs, has been appropriately christened “The Voice of the Capital. fine opportunities to local musician: Washingtomians, but all others who can smaller places, with their musical gifts. ’ Next Wednesday cvening another group of local artists will give a program that should prove popular. known in local music circles. They George Daland, organist, of St. John year, and a pianist of ability. The third artist is a young lady pearances to date, but whose contralto voice is so charming to listen to that it seems more than probable that much may be heard from her in This is Thelma Smith, who will sing duets with Mr. Lake the future. and two groups of solo songs. The program is given clsewhere on the page. x * It is always interesting to hear what the communities in other parts of the country are doing musically and it is especially interesting in the hot summer months, when our own activities along these lines are necessarily much curtailed. New York, Chicago larly fortunate, with fine programs other musical entertainments. The latest news of music under community auspices that is highly successiul comes from Los Angeles, wood, that much-talked-about center Miss M. A. Crofts, who w. In the first place, it seems that a natural amphitheater which will a Here, in the bottom of this veritable bowl, the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra of eightv-five musicians, the Philharmonic Orchestra, annually gives a series of forty concerts at the absurdly low rate of the entire series for $10, or 25 ccats a concert. This summer the series began July 10 and runs for cight weeks on Tues- Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, is the guest conductor of the orchestra mn the Hollywood bowl this summer. grams are made up of compositions by the greatest masters of music Mr. Oberhoffer is particularly well known for his interpretations of day Wagnerian scores. Another community musical feature is the musical setting Pilgrimage Play.” which has been called the Oberammergau of however. this play is much more ambitious than the giving the story of Christ’s entire life and not just In reality productio: sion and death the famed hills of Judea, where the the entire production is most artistically presented for a period of several b Mrs. Christine Wetherill Stevenson, formerly of Philadelphia, wrote the play and special music has been arranged for weeks each summer. every scenc In addition to the symphony co association of Hollywood arranges citizens gather in the high school a Hollywood bowl in the summer for community sings cert has at least one famous artist are internationally known wood and put on many delightful = i 1 C Jacobs Bon increase of musical interes inspiring to our own community forth i as HE city of Rochester, N. Y. vention of the National A the courtesy of George Eastman, the man Theater will serve as headquart meetings largest organ of all the theaters in t Those who give recitals will inclade Harold Gleason astman School city: Dr. Healey Willan, president of organ department of the Church, New Yor College of Crganists S. Wesle Eric De Orchestra Lamarter, assistant A number of local organists and other musicians intereste king of instruments” will attend the convention. * ¥ NE\\'}- has also been received of a many attending the Rochester conv some of the sessions of the Canadi: * % LREADY the plans for fall concert seasons are buzzing about cars and many alluring programs are bein, our eyes. Washington should have a busy montl new local recitals by Washington artists, ar city with the Wagne d with that most pleasing tion. which has been declared by more than with the regular concert series. local bureaus, of the opera season for this October. ~ August will he fille be greater than actual fulfiliment, al prove the case in regard to the brillia before us. T. Arthur Smith Concert Artists Announced. | Owing to the unusually large ad- vance reservations made for the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the Star Concert Series, the office of T. Arthur Smith, Inc., has been closed since the first of June and will not | reopen until August Among the artists and attractions booked by T. Arthur Smith. Inc., for next season are: Mme., Schumann Heink, Paul Kochanski, Mme, Olga | Ifrem Zimbalist. Feodor | Chaliapin, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, | and the Denishawn Dancers. the| Philadelphia Orchestra and the New | York Philharmonic Orchestra, John | Charles Thomas, Pablo Casalé, Anna | Pavlowa. Alexander Siloti, and a fa- | mous £oprano whose name will not be | announced until later. | Constance Binney. (CONSTANCE BINNEY has signed a starring contract with C. C. Burr to make a series of four feature films under Mr. Burr's management during the coming season. Contracts were closed this week by Mr. Burr with Agsociated Exhibitors to distribute these features. Miss Binney's first picture will be ipped Wings,” frcm the story by Mann Page, well known playwright and_author of “Lights Out.” which F. B. O. is to picturize. Gerald C. Duffy has prepared the continuity for “Clipped Wings.” Kenneth Webb is the director chosen. The star's latest photoplay suc- cess, “A Bill of Divorcement,” which also was an Associated Exhibitors’ release, was made in England. Eliminated From Interest. IDNEY NELSON. a nineteen-year- old New York girl, one of the beauties of “The Passing Show of 1923,” has just married Max L. Sa- dowsky, wealthy manufacturer. Because of her striking brunette beauty she was selected as one of the four girls to decorate “The Living Chandeller” in the scene at the end of the first act. It was in this scene that Mr. Sadowsky saw Miss Nelson and was conquered. X Miss Nelson was the winner of the bathing beauty prize last summer at Atlantie City, and has posed for many New York illustrators. She made her stage debut with Al Jolson, in “Sin- bad,” and has appeared in “Bombo’ and “The Dancing Girl.” She will re- tire from the stage. MOUNT VERNON and ALEXANDRIA, round trip, 86c, Arlington, side trip, 10c additional. Electric Cars lesve 12th and Pennsyivania! nue Northwest, on the hour and half bour —9:00 AM. to 3:30 P.M. Eaanisg Time—S5 Minutes Washington-Virginia Railway Ce. E Mr. Daland will leave Washington about the middle of the month to go to Ithaca, N. position in the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. s in Washington a few days last week and who gave a short talk on music in Hollywood over the White and Boyer radio last Tuesday afternoon, had considerable to say ing-about the plans and performances given in Hollywood. The hills of Hollywood are said to be strikin Among favorite musicians such conscientious efforts” with fine results in Washingtor . will be the active center of the annual con- | ciation of Organists A e All recitals will be played o Kilbourn Hall or the organ in the Eastmar : 1 Scars, Organ Players’ Club of phia; Palmer Christian of the Fourth conductor of Organists at Toronto, September 4 and 5 It promises to provide a fund of s and singers to interest not only ‘tune in” in other cities and Two of the artists are very well are Horace A. Lake, baritone, and 's Church, Georgetown, for the past Y., where he has accepted a who has not made many public ap- * % and St. Louis haye all been particu- of concert music, light opera and and more particularly from Holly- of the film industry. that was enlighten- in the hills of Hollywood there lics ccommodate scats for 30,000 people. who in the winter are members of Emil Oberhoffer, famous All of the pro- for “The America Austrian His pas- gly like original life story took place, and ncerts and the play, the community programs when thousands of the uditorium in the winter and in the Nearly every con- v of these artists who live in Holly- 1.24‘3 themselves are Charles Wahe ts on the other coast should sociation workers who performer. Mar prove pu ) are ugust 28-31. Through stman School of Music and East- and auditorium for many of the n the beautiful ccncert organ in n Theater. The latter is the he world. ers head of the . St. Thomas' the Canadian r Philadel- Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and | of the Chicago : T. Tertius Not Symphony d in “the * ok convention of the Canadian College . and it is probable that later go to Toronto to on. ention will an conventi * ¥ our g held temptingly before h, beginning in September series arranged through nd a grand opening rian opera in mid- quality, anticipa- one great philosopher to | though we trust that such will not nt music season that lies imr concert Revival of German “Lie- der in United States. Recent indications peint to a re- newed interest in German music and | German singers, now that the feeling | against both, engendered by the war, Is gradually disappearing. Popular- 1y, German singing is identified usual- Iy with Wagnerian opera. In Ger- many, however, another branch of the singing art has, for a long time. found active encouragement. T the art of lieder singing. a field most exacting from the temperamental standpoint, as well as in its demands on the intellectual, emotioral and spiritual equipment of the singer. It is no exaggeration to say that not more than one singer in a thounsand can make an evening’s program of great songs, To give perfect expression to a lied or “art song” taxes to the limit all the resources of the artist: Vocal technique, poetic insight, breadth and versatility of perception, and, most of all, the ability fo communicate the essence of the musical message to the listener. This penetrating in. terpretative power is one of the rar- est things in the world and it is astonishing how few musicians can measure up to such a standard if it is rigorously applied. One of the greatest lieder singers today is Elena Gerhardt, acclaimed and beloved not only in America, but in England and all over Europe as well. Hers has not been an over- night success. Since the early days of her career. when the great Nik. isch’s approval put the cachet of suc- cess on her talent, she has con- tinued to study and to develop her art For instance, there are about six hundred songs of Schubert alone, and it is said that Gerhardt has studied them all. Recently, Gerhardt sang in London four times in succession, and on each occasion Queen's Hall was_packed with musical enthusiasts. To these big audiences she sang Schumann, Schubert, Wolf and Strauss songs, and sang them in German, to the in- tense satisfaction of her auditors who recalled her time and time again. Will Direct “Ponjola.” JDONALD CRISP will direct “Pon- Jjola,” the Cynthia Stockley story of South African life, which Sam E. Rork is to present through First Na- tional. For vears a well known actor of the legitimate stage, Crisp turned to pictures in the days of the old Bio- graph. As a director and actor he has won fame through his work both in America and Ingland. He co- directed with David Wark _Griffith in producing “The Birth of a Nation, and is said to be directorially sponsible for “Held by the Enemy “Ramona,” “The Eyes of the Worl and “The Six Best Cellars.” One of the acting roles which brought him fame was his interpretation of “‘Bat- tling Burrows” in Griffith’s “Broken Blossoms.” s is !baritone, {on. THE . SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., ‘AUGUST 5, 1923—PART" 3. AMERICAN COMPOSERS Society to Preserve Classics in Music and Poetry. Ernst Wladimir Ladovitch is presi- dent of Societe Internationale des Poetes et des Compositeurs de Mu- sique, an organization in Washington that is unique in its aims in this day of modern music and poetry. The purpose of the society is to bring general recognition to artists possessing real genius in these lines, wherever they may be in the world and. above all, to protect and pre- serve the classic in both poetry and music. Mr. Ladovitch, who is a composer of music and writer of poems, found- ed the society a little more than a year ago. His sister, Queen Lado- vitch, also interested in these arts_is secretary of the organization. Mr. Ladovitch states that the reason ihe French title was chosen was in order to conjure the international spirit of the classics and to unite it with the more western genius. At present the foreign membership of the Societe Internationale is re- stricted to those of foreign birth who have lived in Washington for some time and while here became di- rectly affiliated with the organization. However, any foreign mu: poet of genius may have his work presented publicly by this society in Washington, in spite of the fact that he may be personally in Europe, South America or elsewhere. Leading members of the Societe Na- tionale include Rollin Bond, organizer and director of the Washingtonians, a local opera company which has given many light operas cffectively and successfully and_this spring pre- sented “Faust” in English as test and most ambitious effort; Mrs. Genevieve Bond, xoprano and writer of the musical setting of Mr. Lade- vitch's latest poem, “I am the Flagon, Thou Art the Wines,” published in a local magazine; Hensel Klein, pianist: Franz Schoedler of the Leipziz Roval Conservatory: Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Ferris, Mildred Ficklin Echols and Otto Bingert. Second Concert by Voice of the Capital. George Daland. pianist; Thelma Smith, contralto. and Horace A. Lake. will provide the music for the second weekly concert at the new broadeasting radio station, WRC, at 14th street and Park road, named the “Voice of the Capital,” next Wednes- day night, beginning at § o'clock. Mr. Daland will play the accompaniments for the two singers and also give a piano number The program will include Doet, contralto and itone, “Roses of Picardy” (Wood): baritone. prologue from “Pagliacel” (Leonca- vallo): contralto, “The Spirit's Song (Hayes). “O Golden Sun” (Grace Adele Freeb banjo song, from ‘Bandanna idney Homer) piano, “Bei (Chopin); baritone A Song Sword” ' (Spross) “When the Roses Bloom™ (Reic- hardt). “The Pipes of Gordon's Men (Hammond): contralto, “Annie Lau- rie* (arranged by Liza Lehmann) “The Loreley” (Iranz Liszt), “Rose Dreamed She Was a Li (May Hel- en Brown): duet, contralto and bari- tone, ight Hymn at Sea” (Goring Thomas). Saxophone Concert. Sol Minster's Band, under his direc- {tion, will present a unique concert at Glen Echo Park today be composed of and will hour each The band will twenty saxaphones play four programs of one “Tomorrow hines for Me" (Silver). “Stealing” (Sullivan), “Swanee River Moon™ (Clarke), “Twilight” (Forrest) “Rose of My Heart” (Moret), “Sweet- heart” (Johnson): “Electric Girl" (Holmes), “Bambalina” (Stothart). Three O°Clock in the Morning’ {Roble Sunbird (Goodell). Peggy rret). “Barney Google (Conrad), “Swinging Down the Lane' (Jones): “Grieving for You™ ((ibson) Moonglade” (Urbanek). “Yes, W Have No Bannas”™ (Siiver), "Con sonetta” (Herbert), “Song of Love' (Romberg), “Just Like the Rose” Bridges)., dur Fighting Men" scereto) : “Stella” (Akst), “All 1 sed Is You" (Santly), “Georgia’ (Donaldson). “Southern Melodies” (Haves), “Kiss in the Dark” (Her- bert). “Gone” (David), “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” (Jessel) Esthetic ** A MAN absolutely is not effemi- nate because indulges esthetic dancing. I think it is the greatest possible exercise for the building of lithe muscles and marvel- ous health, nor do I except any sport.” So says Charles de Roche, the French screen player. “A man strives for an entirely dif- ferent object from a woman. She seeks beauty and grace and figure: she performs the ‘Dance of Roses. the ‘Dance of the Morning,’ and so He looks for strength and body- building; he prefers the ‘Dance of the Discus Thrower,’ the ‘Dance of the Wrestler,’ and so on. Veterans of Great War Although the drive for membership renewals in the Disabled American Veterans of the World War has been in progress but a short time, Ray- mond A. Lansance, national adjutant, has announced that more than 99 per cent of the returns received from cir- cular letters contain dues for the coming year. In addition many new members have been received. As a result of the initial visit of James A. McFarland, the new na- tional commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, to Washington, the organization is declared to be more strongly en- trenched in government Washington than ever before. Commander McFarland made an in- vestigation of the local office of the organization. He announced that pending a decision as to the conduct of congressional affairs he would leave the handling of legislative mat- ters in the hands of Thomas Kirby, in addition to his other duties. Coincident with the opening of the twenty-fourth annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Aug- ust 26, in Norfolk, Va, will be the dedication of the gigantic stadium and athletic fleld at the Tri-State Fair Grounds, which has been delayed pending the final decision on en- campment dates. In addition to the athletic program, horse races, auto races, base ball games, aeroplane cir- cuses, wild west shows, industrial and agricultural exhibits, carnivals, spec- tacular fireworks, auto polo and nu- merous other atiractions have been arranged for the amusement of the visiting veterans by the tri-state committee and will be . entertained throughout by the latter as honored guests. The date of the department conven- tion of the American Legion in the District of Columbia was fixed for September 7 and 8 by action of the executive committee at a recent meet- ing at the department headquarters, 1423 New York avenue At this con- vention the new department officers for the ensuing year will be elected and delegates to the natignal conven- tion of the American Legion at San Francisco in October will be chosen. Pending a decision from Julius Peiser, the department judge advo- cate, as to the propriety of the de- partment executive committee hear- ing the appeal taken by Maj. Thacker V. Walker, deposed commander of the George Washington Post, to that committee asking it to set aside the action of his post.-it was decided to make the subject the unfinished busi- the ! TEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER was one of the most prolific writers of typically American songs. Many of his compositions have lived as fa- vorites with the American public. He was one of the first writers of the negro spirituals which are arous- ing particular interest at this time, both in revival in the United States and on programs in Europe. Still another timely recollection of Stephen Foster has been brought up recently with the dedication eariy this month of the mansion near Rardstown, thirty miles from Loufs- ville, Ky., to his memory. This was the house where Foster wrote one of the greatest favorites of all of the songs he ever composed, "My Old Kentucky Home.” ~The fund was raised as the result of an appeal by Gov. Edwin P. Morrow and the ap- pointment of a state commission. The Old Kentucky Home Association was then incorporated to purchase the old house and keep it up as a memorial. Stephen Foster was an odd, sens tive person, somewhat similar in type to the poet, Edgar Allen Poe And. like Poe, he died in poverty, although as a result of starvation instead of dissipation. He was born in Pitts- burgh, Pa., July 4, 1826, of well-to-do parents. His tather, William Bar- clay Foster, was a prominent citizen and served in the Pennsylvania legis- lature for several terms. Stephen re- oeived his education at Athens Acad- emy and at Jefferson College, Can- nonsburg, Pa. He did not complete his college education, but went to Cincinnati, where he worked for a short time as bookkeeper for & brother. Commercial life did not ap- peal to him, however, and he returned There he studied French and rman and spent much of his time | writing songs. He did not try have them published, but contented himself in writing them. He also painted pictures and is said to have {shown marked talent with the brush as well as with the lyrical pen Morrison Foster, biographer and brother to Stephen, stated that the first song which Stephen wrote, which was an_outstanding success, was "Old Uncle Ned.” It was writtéa in 18 for the amusement of a group musical boys in a club who met at the Foster home to sing. Foster is generally thought to have secured his fine idea of the qualities distinctive | of Mre. Wilson-Greene announces for the season of 1923-192¢ the artisty course of five concerts, tenth sea- son; the philharmonic course of five | concerts. sixth season; the Wilson- Greene concert series of ix concerts, first season. and the New York phony Ordwestra of five oncerts Walter Damrosch. conductor, at Poli's Theater at 4:30 o'clock. The artists’ course will open on November 16, with Shura Cherkassky. the eleven-year-old piano genius, who created a furor in Washington last spring. This concert is in response to hundreds of requests. On Novem- ber Mme. Matzenauer. world famous oontralto, and Clarenoce Whitehall, baritone from the Metro- politan opera, will appear in joint recital, giving a Wagnerian program. Wednesda February 6. Fritz Kreisler. great violinist: Wednesday, February 20, Rachmaninoff, pianist {1 Mr. Rachmaninoff will make twenty-five appearanaes next son. On Friday. March 7. Mme. | Curci, eoloratura soprano of | Metropolitan and Chicago opera ocom- {panics, will close this series. The philharmonic course will open | October 29, with Lucrezia Bori. petite Spanish prima donna. in_costume re- cital. by request; December 3 \'13:“-‘ mir de Pachmann, great pianist, not heard in this country for twelve ears; Ja 11, John MecCormack, | tenor: February Jascha Heifetz, violinist; April 4, Mme. Jeritza, Vien- nese soprano from the Metropolitan opera Dancing. “1 am a lover of sports. hood [ have indulged in swimming, base ball, boxing and such things. | As I grew older I found more pleas- | ure in riding. wrestling, big game hunting and in bulldogging steers. | But 1 have also delighted in outdoor | dancing for rhythm in my muscles and to give my athletic strength | grace. ‘T fought for France in the recent war and was honored with the rank of first licutenant on the field of bat- tle, having started a private. In that | war | was dangerously injured. Only my physique saved me. Since T owe my physique largely to my outdoor dancing, carried on since childhood, | T feel that I do not exaggerate when | |1 say that dancing saved my life.” | nee child- | | there's ness of the executive committee of | the department at the next meeting. | The American Red Cross will ap- propriate to the American Legion a sum sufficient to continue the activi- | ties of legion liaison men in the four- | teen districts of the United States Veterans' Bureau, it has been an- nounced at legion national headquar- ters in Indianapolis. For several years the Red Cross has provided funds to enable legion men to check the work of the bureau in relieving sick and disabled war veterans and to co-operate ‘with officials in solving | the problems of hospitalization and | rehabilitation. The work of the liaison men is under supervision of the legion's national —rehabilitation committee. The budget authorized by the Red Cross will provide funds for the legion’s supervision of activities at district offices of the bureau until July 1, 1924. | Frank J. Irwin, national rehabili- tation chairman, and J. R. McDonalid, national committeeman, of the Dis- abled American Veterans, went to Perryville. Md., during the v .ek at a request of the patients and trainees there to make an inspection of the place where hundreds of disabled vet- erans of this section are being sent. Irwin will make a report on the situation as he found it for D. A. V. nationa] headquarters. The men at Perryville are anxious to have a D. A. V. chapter there, and McDonald went to explain to them about a chapter. It is expected a chapter will be in- stalled at Perryville within the next few weeks, as the men have been at- tracted by the slogan of the Disabled American Veterans, which is “Service to the Disabled First. The drive for new membership for fhe American Legion in the District of Columbia, with a free trip to the national convention at San Francisco in October as the first prize to the legionnaire bringing in the greatest number of members. is mow in full swing. The District department drive is to be part of a national campaign being waged under the direction of the national headquarters at Indian- apolis. Announcement has been made by the department headquarters here that owing to the fact that the third annual excursion of the members of the American Legion in the District to Chesapeake Beach July 31 was curtailed in its attendance by the long-needed rainy weather, a_substi- tute outing to Marshall Hall Septem- ber 1 has been sched: Stephen Collins Foster of negro music when he accompanied a slave girl. who worked for the family. to church several times. Foster is said to have written Old Kentucky Home” in 1852, wi he was visiting in the mansion that was %0 recently dedicated to his memory. Records also indicate that he visited at this house many times and even spent his honeymoon there He was supposed to be obtaining good royalties for his songs. but when he went to New York to take up a per- manent abode there he did not seem to be at all well off financially—in fact. quite the contrary. He broke in heaith while yet a young n and died January 13, 1% He was buried in a cemetery in Pittsburgh, the town of his birth Foster have publi E many as 170 By far the most popular which have lived 1o be sunz Ly school children of the present era ar fy Old Kentucky Home.” in de Cold. Cold Ground. ~Old Black Joe” and “Suwanee River.” Among a smaller group of his songs that were of a higher type musically, Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming.” a lovely serenade. Wilson-Greene Concerts for Next Season A special series of six concerts will be given in response to an urgent appeal to provide artists of the first magnitwde at moderate prices. This course will open November 9 with Salvi, famous harpist, and the Duncan dancers, Anna Margo, in a joint of the novelties of vember °1, Josaf Decombl Mme. Louise contralto; January 18, Sophie lau, contra February Hempel. in nd concert given by special March 28 Mischa Elman The will give its usual fiv day after- noon concerts. October 23, with Ol Samaroff, pianist, s soloist; Novem- ber 13, a Wagner program w'th Walter Damrosch, conductor, and Richard Crooks as soloist; December 11, soloist to be announced: January . Georges Enesco. violinist, as solo- ist; February 19. Pablo Casals, cellist, as soloist, and Bruno Walter, guest conductor. who was for thirteen years conductor the court opera in Vienna. In addition ran b present the gner pany at Poli's Theater formances, beginning O “Lohengrin™; Octoher kuere”: October 17 Meistersinger.” and “Marriage of Figaro,” th ducted by Josef Stransky Orders for concert courses and opera may now be tiled at Mrs. Wil- son-Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. pianist Hpmer, to these Leen courses ar- completed to Opera Com for four per ber 13 with Die Wa matinee. “Die e evening. to be con- nts « New York Symphony Orchestra | Gretchen Hood Sings Tonight Gretchen Hood, opera star, poetess and editor, will be the added attrac tion at the concert tonight at the Cen- tral' High Commiunity Center, Miss Hood has just come from New York. where she has been sing- ing all winter in light opera, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Hood, of 1226 Fairmont street. Her ) appearance Sunday night under the auspices of the Community Music As- sociation, will give her Washington friends and admirers an cpportunity to hear her again in well chosen songs and selections from the operas. In addition to her musical work Miss Hood has recently become aszo- | ciated with The Quill. a magazine ipublished in New York, as assistant teditor and constant contributor of poems and book reviews. 1 Kennedy Freeman, the young pian- ist, 'who hasg also returned to Wash- ington from New York, and will give a series of concerts here ihis winter, is another artist listed on the even- ing's program. i Mr. Ireeman will play Leschetizky’s “Arabesque” and Moszkowski's "Waltz 0. 1, Opus 34 Levitzki, Flappers and Jazz. Asbury Park the language of “We saying today, in the professional in- have in our midst Levitzki, the celebrated jazz pianist.” and it came about in this way. One of the park's largest hotels had arranged for its customary Fri- day evening dance without taking into account that this was the night of the strawberry festival at Cran- bury, the home town of the hotels regular pianist. So that when 9 o'clock had come and gone and there to play the dance the younger set took hand and scanned the possible musi- 1 | 1 one was still no musie. two of | the matter register | hoter's for a cian. “Oh. what luck! “Here's Migoha levitzki, registered in 210." He'd never do,” demurred her fair sister. “We don’t want to be a Rut swintdenis. We want jaza!” Levitzki himself, whom the flap- pers evidently did not know by sight, rd. In his most affable man- - who have been under his spell know how fascinating he can be—he offered to play for them. The result was a Tiolous evening Such tantalizing. melo- Juzz had never been heard be- When the evening was over entire party had thanked the pianist for his kindness. one of the flappers told him in strictest confidence how they had almost made the terrible mistake of asking le- | vitzki to play for them But you have heard him." replied Levitzki, as he turned to the elevator to go to his room. And on his way {up he overheard the girl saying to her companion. “That fellow’s a nut He thinks he is ax good a plaver as Levitzki." ;\Vallace Memorial | Church MUSI.C, i ! | cried Ethel the pianist, and th young The isic will teday Mowing m ye given Wallace Memorial Presby- Morning—Prelude Paroles” (Heller): the South” (Gil- “I Come to Miss Wynema en- jterian Church Sans | ottertors. “From |lette); contralto solo. {Thee” (Caro Roma). | MeKinley: “Postlude” (Read). ing—Prelude. “Slumber Song” (Par- ke Nocturne” (Prysinger); offer- tory. “Evensong” (Martin); contralto solo. “Lead Kindly Light” (Hawley), Miss McKinley: “Postiude” (Rink.) Miss Herminia Ellis will be at thej “Chanson Miss loist left where August 5 Miss Wynem: McKinley will sing in Miss De Harts place during this | month. contralto so- Church Park, of Hart Memorial for Asbury spend the month Mildred De Wallace Wednesday she wiil Dislike the Subtitles. NFE of the worrics are take England the American subtitles, which London film men insist must be elimi- nated from the British version and be rewritten according to their own vernacular. David Blumenfeld, press representative for Preferred tures abroad, comments on this. “For some time past” says Blumenfeld, “there have been com- plaints that American films shown in thisaountry are too American in their titles. I hold no brief for flagrant Americanisms, but at the same time I would like to state that. in my opinion, this is, if anything. a snob- bish attitude to take. For some ye. the British public has been getting used to Americanisms in titles flashed on_the screen. “Plays about America should surely carry the convincing talk of their American _characters—talk which whatever we may s: ‘snappy’— an _ Americanism—full of short and convincing. To American films said to to many ‘punch.’ —_—m—mm | prize awards that were to have been | “Hommeys"” be held at Marshall Hall | made Tuesday last was made, out of | in conjunction with the “second sec- fairness ested. to those who were inter- All options on these prizes re- | main valid until the excursion of Sep- tember 1. and in the meanwhile the committee. headed by William Franklin, having the outing in charg will renew its efforts to make the ap- | proaching event bigger and better than ever before. The department executive commit- tee at its meeting last Tuesday night fixed September 7 and § as the dates of the annual department convention. At this meeting a successor to John Lewis Smith as department com- mander and the other elective depart- ment officers will be chosen. The Di trict legionnaires will also designate at that time the membership of their delegation to the national convention at San Francisco October 15 to 19, in- clusive. Capt. John H. Craige, U. §. M. C.. acting commander of the N nal Press Club Post of the American Le- gion. has issued a call for a meeting of that post, to be held at the Na- tional Press Club August 14. Col. E. B. Clark, post commander, is making a tour of the west at the present time Earl Godwin, post finance officer, has been a member of President Harding's party during the Alaskan tour. The Ppost_delegates to the department con- Vention are Capt. Craige and Paul J. McGahan, premier historian, National La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Che- vaux. The alternates are Maj. William ‘Wolff Smith and Frank S. Connelly. M. The membership of the George ‘Washington Post, No. 1, of the Ameri- can Legion, have been notified that the next meeting of that organiza- tion will be held at the clubhouse and headquarters on the night of August 7. Lew S. Mohler, the post com- mander, will preside. At this meet- ing the amendments to the post con- stitution which have been proposed will be voted upon, and a large at- tendance is anticipated. A call has been issued by Austin S. Imirie, conducteur of Voiture Locale 174, the Washington unit of La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, the playground organization of the Amer- jcan Legion, for the members of the wrecking crew to report for instruc- tions. Capt. BE. W. Jordan, chef de gare of the local voiture, has under consideration a proposal.that the ini-.}-.. - uled. Nope of the tial autumnal vomnm'e,. of - the} - Ddes- the ¢ Pic- | Mr. | with ‘London- | the same as | picture with | for English | a Scottish film in its titles is just showing a New York the ities rewritten audiences “The other day 1 film in which one of the characters was made to say in a rough-house scene, '‘kre you, 'op it'—which is tantamount to making an English- man in similar circumstances say, G'wan, you big Stiff. beat it" “Of course. there is justifiable comeback to all this—that we do not want the British language heavily inoculated with Americanisms. and to a large extent this is true. A film of ‘Rob Roy or some historical pageant of British history made and produced by Americans warfants every time a very thorough Angliza- tion of the subtitles. In cases like this American titles are naturally all wrong and do more to ruin the film than improve it. But where you have a purely American drama written around typically American people in evervday American surroundings it is foolish and stupid to expect Eng- lish colloquialisms for subtitles.” show isms saw an American | { { of the annual department ex- to be held there September 1. Vacancies in_the official line of eorge Washington Post, No. 1, will be filled next Tuesday night at 8§ o'clock at a meeting to be held at the clubhouse, 1829 [ street north- west. The members of the post nominated for the various offices are as follows: First viee commander, Percy B. McCoy: second vice com mander. J. W. Brashears: third vice commander, Nathan J. Cosel; ser- geant-at-arms, Theodore C. Howe. The report of the special commit- tee appointed at the last meeting to make certain amendments to the by- laws will be presented for the action of the post. Among the important Changes to be discussed are the dates for nominating, electing and installing officers at the annual election: nights of meetings; vacancies in post office: election of delegates and alternates to a department convention, together With several minor changes. The committee is composed of Past Com- mander Howard S. Fisk, chairman; Percy B. McCoy and Wallace Streator. Members of the post are taking an active interest in_the fifth national convention to be held at San Fran- cisco October 15 to 20. The election of delegates and alternates to the de- partment convention to be held at the District building September 7 and 8. will take place at the meeting of the post August 21. | | Realizing that something must be done to meet the necessity for imme- diate relief of veterans who come here to adjust claims and then become stranded while awaiting action by the Veterans' Bureau, the Mount Alto Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans has started a subscription with a call to D. A. V. chapters everywhere to contribute. It is pointed out that the men who become destitute here are all from other parts, and it is felt that the organization here should not bear the whole burden, o0 a committee from ! throagh with DEANI SHURE, local composer e and director of music at the Mount _ Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South, left Wush- ington last Wednesday on his vaca- tion. He will be out of the city for a month. In Mr. Shure's absence the chorus choir which provided music through the month of July will also be away. During August the church’s popular quartet of men’s voices will provide the music for the programs. giving a solc and a quartet number | at each service. Mrs. Frank A. Frost, | the church organist, will play the ac- | companiments. The quartet is com- posed of W. A. McCoy, first tenor: B Louis Goodyesr, xecond tenor: J. Ben- ton Webb, baritone. and H. . Bailey bass. | i | Special music will be given by Carl F. Stuhler at the meeting of the Science of Truth Association at 1514 N street for the “Musical Meditation™ | this evening at 8 o'clock. The Potoma rected by | H0d | Beach Orchestra di- | Gecrge R. Bruce, is be. coming very popular with those who VIsit the beaches. The members of | the band are all Washingtonians Word has been received from Cali- fornia that a production of Goethe's “Faust,” based upon the poem and not upon Gounod's opera, will be made by one of the iarge film companies, and Charles Wakefield Cadmun, the American compeser. who is noted es- | pecially for his Indiun compositions, | | airect | (Roland) | MUSIGRAPHS will write the music to be used with this production Mr. Cadmun lives in Hollywood ahd the Community Music Association this much talked about town wil presentation of his Indlun opera. “Shenewix,” during the fdll, probably in September. Mary Helen Howe, soprano, has re- cently filled engagements in Alexans dria, Va, and Frederick, Md.. befora enthusiastic audiences. She may re- turn there later in the season. _ln Frederick she was the guest of Yys. Maud W. Dittman. Mies Howe's voice was heard to advantage in 5§ mes xers avaient des ailes” (Hahn)| With Verdure Clad.’ from the Cre- ation” Hayden): “Southern Sonz “Christ in_ Flanders” phens). “Ave Maria’ (Mil lard). “May Morning’ (Denza), French bergerettes (Weckerlin), and operatic arias (Ward-S: Mrs. Cornelia Long Kin®ella, orgay- ¢ and director of Douglas Memorial urch, is motoring through Penne sylvania and New York, and spend ing some time with relatives h.n“ friends in Elmira and Williamspoot. She is accompanisd by her two boys, Francis and Kenneth : Mrs. Kinsgella will be away untit September. and during her absenc: Miss Mary Schick is substituting at the organ T. Arthur Smith summer on his farm in Carrol! ecounty, Md Guy A. Ourand. vige president of the corporation, has jusy returned from & vacation spent in the of Marviand Pennsyl vania. and Florida. = spending the states Geor; AROUND THE CITY By Nannie ¢olored woman who has lived her life in the piney woods of Maryland has been visiting progressive relatives hey tried their best to make her weicome, but, ax she explained to | a white woman who has her own memory of piney woods “I can't take comfort from water you get out of a wall by turnin’ a handle-1 want my spring. with a| frawg in it to keep it clear—an futhermo’ 1 wants a real fiah to cuok by, stedder them little blue beads bobin' up under a pan. Gim- me a wood pile, with plen an’ good. seasoned 1o cobsif vou gottem he white woman knew that she was listening 1o wis- but suggested that must_be for one using crutches to chop The old woman derided the N ancient here. in her dom hard “Crutches ain’t no sign. I'm perky enough to sling a ax with the best coman goin'—all's the matter with me is frosted toes on accounter chil- blanes I got de night my ‘usb'n took his last sickness ar’ I hadder go out to pick chips to wasm him up a dose. Man, that was one cold night—with evithing frizzed solid. Old dawg Ponto was too stiff in his laigs to cum fum under de poach steps, but I could tell by his moanin's he knew def had come to taks has marster away —and a ole hoot owl that roosts nigh to de chicken coop looked like he was cold to de bone. with all the fevvers he's got, an’'—" When the blessed old body was her tribulations and had hobbled out of the incident. there came to the white woman's mind other owl that “for all his feathe was a-cold.” And she wondered a: the inscru- table kinship between a poet who lives in literature's hall of fame and a little old body with frostbitten toes who has spent her decades in the Maryland pines. 1t ' may be—just may be, mind—that the difference between genius and | the common heérd is no more than! an accidental ability to put in words --and get paid for it—the muted emotions of the everyda crowd that features a day the * x4 A beach. If vou were lucky enough to be on the excursion that day it didn’t rain you doubtiess at- tended the freak show that included Chiet Eagle E: who CDu]d” “read your inmost soul like a book Prom' the spikes of light hair showing at the back of his war bon- net. a depraved fancy might sus picion the noble red man of being a raleface—but you have to overlook trifies of that sort at a beach show Also, any pessimist around might have distrusted the sensational hor- rors revealed by a \'ubj(‘l'[l at l':p ublic reading of his iniquitous - Eldefl, merely for the reason that he was a.member of the show. though the occasion seemed free of doubt- ers. judging by the enthusiasm of the crowd, — representmg about forty- leven women, a bunch of long-leg- | fed mirls and a couple of men that G t count G v ing hypnotized a lady in pearl beads. incidentally another member of the show, into extoiling the chief as the greatest reader 0(. souls now going. the great Eagle Eye put on his glasses and proceeded to reavd a paper descriptive of a wonder soap— P fpe siven him by a chemist who Tad passed on—and which he war- Padied to “free a lady of lines and freckles and give her the pink and G complexion of a baby—10 cents & cake: three for a quarter. Apd the erowd bought and bought and bought. And it was still svram»— bling for more and more \?h:n,.« i tad in a bathing suit, who had ‘I splashed out of mature's own 3% ‘that no one seemed to be about. wheeled 7"!":55'" sand into the swarm, listen- ;t"lol the hang of the pro then let out a derisive | i i SHORE dinner isn't the only lure | au | bothering over the ed until ceedjngs, and Yely. if you got a eagle eve what manay’ sou’ have to Put on specs to read by—huh? The noble red man paid no atten- the warning went unheeded ton and wd. Naturally. no lady is Sing to listen to anvthing so com- EV\DY\ as horse sense when she is buy- ing the \mannmablek alu‘r:rg?:)rr\ cents a cake, e e ter. “%o the oy went back piiinil VR 1 convention of the Am:"; prought here in 19247 5 been propounded to 3 ers of the executive com- :‘:!lb?;ecr:‘fhlhp department of the DI!; trict of Columbia. and the department tommander. John Lewis Smith, ha been empowered to appoint a C:Im- mittee of five to canvass \h‘O sit n:; tlon. _ He is expected to name the committee within the next few days Watson B. Miller, one of the na- tional vice commanders of the Ameri can Legion and & past commander ol the local department, brought the matter before the local leglu_nnure& It is the opinion of many veterans that if the public interest in Wash. ington is found to be sufficient that an effort to attract the sixth annual { Convention of the American Legion | fo the nation's capital should be made. Department Commander Smith is| hoping to appoint a committee Which | can make a thorough and prompt canvass of the situation, so that in the event it is received favorably. the| department delegation to the national convention will be equipped with sub- stantial credentials to insure success for the invitation. the nationa ican Legion That question ha executive commitiee of the de- nnfl’:lent of the District of Columbia of the American Legion has approved the proposal by the District of Co- lumbia Post of the American Veterans of Hellenic Descent that such veter- ans be permitted special considera- tions under the new immigration Jaw Mount Alto Chapter has issued a call to hundreds of chapters throughout the country to help in lifting the bur- den. All former service organizations here have found immediate relief of visiting veterans a big problem, and it is hoped the latest move will help the situation. ! in the matter of bringing their alien parents to their homes here- in the United States. 5 At the meeting of the committee last Tuesday npight National Vice Commander Watson B. Miller pre- sented a letter on the subject ad- dressed. to..Jocal..legionnaires by. Vaalliés. L Chebithes of this city, ° jit might Lancaster to his sand wheels. less—— A and vou. deubi S YOUNG woman with a baby her shoulder sat down seat offered by a somewhat oldish man. The baby started to fret. Thas woman swayed the small thing gent) and crooned into its ear the lov, foolishness that only Giod and babies understand. The baby responded with a wail o The mother blushed the red thig means embarrassment. You know how vou would feel vour own sel 4 Iot of passengers wishing you and your child were in Halifax—mah- it Jericho, which sounds farther. Bj the baby scorned public opinic With an” obvious lack of the emotions, he merely stopped enough to take in u good breath bawl and bawl and bawl. Of coursv have been a she infant, by blue ribbons—and. anvhow matter; it could bawl eithe over in a ca it wore didn’t way A nice woman, who indubitably wil RO to heaven when she dies. bur needs more judgment to get alom: properly in this world. leaned ovar from the seat behind and offered the baby her umbrella handle, topped with one of 1those foolish little glass hnobs that come off if you look at 1r. Tight hard. The woman next pull back the hand that held the branch. with the explanation that the knob mig come off in the babdy mouth and choke it. The baby smil rhapsodically, and umbrelh owner said 1o the woman next § You don't know much about bab do yvou?* I do no But I am right well ar Quainted with umbrella handles liva yours Deprived of his treasure in view. the baby was about tu broadcast anothe vell when its interest was caught by the gold flash-of watch chain on t vest of a man standing in the aisie The man dangled the chain and th} baby chuckled. Then it reached fos ward with kicking arms and legs and gurgied the thing that mothegs call conversation, but which sound: to_the uninitiated like “‘da-da-da.” The woman beamed relief passengers smiled approbation, and the gold-chain ooked the prid. of one who conquer And when t baby. hvpnotized by the shine of t chain. began to doze and the owner was getting out, the mother venturei to say that he must be a father him self to have such a happy undei- standing of children. “No such luck, madam. T am jus an old bachelor, but T must say I hate a way with young ladies.” Nearby passengers accepted the lii- tle jest at full value, especially the ¢ mother and another woman across th. way, who smiled inscrutably into each other's eves, as if they knew all abou blue ribbons. * ot S one thing and trouble another A black-robed woma was explaining the difference to mourner. as they came together in green silence of stone-studded acre behind a black iron gate. “You are wrong to grieve for the honored dead Look at that woman kneeling at the grave of her son.” “How can 1 help grieving. now tha I am left to walk the great road alone? She was such an aspiring comrade that 1 shall sorrow for her all my life.” “Until you meet her again on an- other great road that will lead tn eternal happiness. That woman over there is weeping for a boy who cost her agony all his life and was put t» death by the law. You have only for- row to bear. She is carrying a burden of trouble. ‘There is a bitter differ ence between the two.” And a gay voungster who had me- tored his mother out to the green silence said to her with a sobernessy that was something entirely new 10 his volatile nature “1f 1 go first, 1 your share " The mother T ORROW | 3 want sorrow te be told another woman MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Gladys L. Church PIANIST, ORGANIST. ACCOMPANIRT Clases in pianoforte now forming attention to beginners and intermediate popil Studio. 4519 9th w Phona_ Adams WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY - ' OF MUSK. 1408 N. H. Ave. M. 7858 All Branches. Catalog. Start your child in music this sum. mer! WOODRIDGE SCHOOL Mrs. Grace Hazard-Wormells, Director Voice—Piano—Expression 3106 South Dakota Ave, N.E. S - O N BESSIE N. WILD ' Veice Culture. Piano and Harmeay. Stadio. 73 B. 1 Ave. N.W. Phome North 2711. Studio closed until_September 15. EDNA BISHOP DANIEL Teacher of Vocal Art. 1210 G st. n.w. Main 2183 Stodle: TENOR BANJO Mandolin, Guitar. Banjo. 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