Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1923, Page 49

C Al Ushi“ X2 IN ton () HRISTMAS, the greatest of all festivals, is here at last. Today all of the churches will celebrate with special music, and even with special services, in addition to the usual ones for Sunday. Tomor- | row Christmas carols will be sung by enthusiastic young voices around lighted trees and late into the night the happy measures of music will ring until they are absorbed in the more solemn cadences of the midnight masses at some of the churches. On Christmas morning the gayer carols will be resumed and vie with the massive airs of great ora- torios in the expression of the spirit of this time, the spirit of peace among men. The singing of Christmas music will continue practically all this week. The bigger features of the musical calendar will include the annual Christ- mas eve music fetc to be given tomorrow evening by the Community Music Association at Central High School; the singing of carols on the north side of the White House at night, headed by the choir of the First Congregational Church; the singing of carols on the Ellipse back of the presidential mansion, under the direction of Adolf Torovsky of Epiphany Church in the afternoon around the President’s Christmas tree; the Tepetition of Handel's oratorio, “The Messiah,” Wednesday by the Wash- ington Choral Society and a sccond performance of Bess Schreiner’s pageant, The Word and the Way.” Many short cantatas and festival programs, carefully prepared by both religious and club organizations, will also be given. A ¥ X % % unusual Christmas oratorio was given last weck in Washington, an oratorio that held to the requirements of oratorio composition, even while it inaugurated some striking changes in the traditional type of snusic. It was R. Deane Shure’s “Dawn in the Desert,” a composition full of religious spirit combined with novel expressionistic effects. Mr. Shure, who is director of the choir of Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, which sang the oratorio, is a versatile Washington musician, with more than one hundred musical compositions to his credit. He has served in the capacity of music critic for leading musical journals of the country. He is a graduate of onc of the leading American music conservatories, as well as having studied abroad. In this oratorio, which aroused much in- terest among prominent musicians of Washington at its three perform- ances Thursday and Friday, Mr. Shure has utilized the oriental scale on numerous occasions very skillfully. He has also taken symbolic chords and notes to aid the vividness of description with original and modernis- tic effect. The “Desert March” of the Three Wise Men on their thudding camels, following the gleaming star guiding them to the manger; the rattling of the bones in “The Valley of the Slain” and the shepherds’ pipes in the choral, “How Bright on the Hillsides,” w unique in oratorio singing. The, soothing strains of the exquisite “Divine Lullaby” were also out of the ordinary Said one musiician auditor in protest: “But that isn't oratoriol” Indeed, it was not the oratorio of Handel and Hadyn, but even this cri could not deny that it was interesting music. * ¥ * ¥ . NOTHER Christmas program given last Thursday that 1nerits post- mention in warmest praises is the annual program offered by the Motet Choral Society, under the direction of Otto T. Siinon, at Memorial Continental Hall. Full of inspi ng music, beautifully and understandingly ng by well trained voices, the program was one of the best ever heard in Washington and a fine example of the progress made here musically. * % 0) gave a fine program. * K N that same night, Thursday, still_a third large musical organization The Interstate Male Choru: at the Masonic Auditorium sang so clearly and with clean-cut enunciation, under the direction of Clyde B. Aitchison, that Massachusetts stations, tuned in to tisten to the concert by radio, reported ¥ K A excellent results. ¥ x N interesting report has been received from New York that an Ameri- can movement, similar_ in some respects to the famous Eisteddfod of Wales and the Teutonic Sangerbund, has been started by an associa- tion of American glee clubs. Country wide singing contests, with a triennial singing mect in New York and several cities in the middle and far west, are among the plans. Mass choruses of several thousand trained voices are to unite at these big meetings, and leading clubs will compete for the national championship. The movement was initiated by v of Brooklyn, Mendelssohn Glee Club, the Orpheus of Orpheus of Flushing and several others in that vi clubs of New York University, Uni- Vewark, inity. Invitations have been issued to glee clubs from Maine to Virginia to attend a two-day organization meeting in New York March 10. A public concert appear- ance of the club will be held in Carnegie Hall the first o i the two nights. It is interesting to note in this connection that the fine organization known as the Harvard Glee Club will make its a: at a concert on New Year day. ppearance in W HELEN Club and School Notes Christmas will bs celebrated by the ‘Washington Salon and United Arts Soolety Thursday night at the Play- house with an unusually attractive musical program, consisting of vocal and instrumental numbers by popu- lar Washington talent, under the di- rvection of Rud he de Zapp, presi- dent of the society. Miss Char! Kleln will present piano selections, “Ballade in A Flat” (Choptn) and “Etude in ¥ Sharp” (Arensk M Hazel Glbson Wood. soprano, w y Lovely Celia” {Higgins) an diue Forets” from “Jeanne d'Arc” (Tschaikowsky) and will be accompanied on the piano by Miss Edith B. Athey: Isaac Mino- wich, vouthful violinist, will glay “Song of India” (Rimsky Korsako Freisler) and “Perpetuml Motio (Car] Bohm), accompanied by his als- ter, Miss Dora Minovich; Giuseppe ai Itaitan tenor, will sing " from the opera “Martha” and “Duna” (Josephine Mc- assisted at the piano by Miss Bernice D. Randall Edgar C. Snyder, United States marshal of the District, will speak on “The Actlvities and Duties of the Marshal's Office™; W. Bowyer Pain, noted English water colorist and il lustrator, will give an_ exhibition of chalk work and will be introduced by A. O. H. Rolle. president of the Landscape Club, who is also to pre- sent Miss Helen E. Townsend, who recently won the prize in a pretty foot contest. Art solo and ensemble dances will be presented by Donna Maria Jones, who will appear in Spanish and &ypsy dances, accompanied at the piano by Miss Gladys Hillyer. Miss Marguerite Weighell will introduce “La Vivandiere,” from “Chauvre Souris,” and Miss Kathryn Hereford will present ballet selection from with accompaniment by Mrs. The Capltal Male Quartet, Willlam P. Shanahan, first tenor; Wilbur W. Gantz, second tenor; Earl Carbauh, first bass; Ed Callow, second bass, will render quartets and solos at the E":. Year night concert at the Y. M. Bob Carbauh wlill be heard in xylo- phone solos. The accompanists will be Mrs. Earl Carbauh and Mrs. Edwin Callow. Mu Phi Epsilon entertained the sol- diers at Walter Reed Hospital last Sunday evening with a musical pro- gram that was well received. Inez Miller, Edith B. Athey, Clara Young Brown, Haszel Gibson Wood, Lois Stuntz and Nell Galey Canine were solo singers and planists who as- sisted Rho Beta Chapter Glee Club. Compositions given included works by Chopin, Schult, Strickland, Spross, arley, Shelley, Lee, Metcalf, Canton, o Riogo, Lehmann, Liszt and Scott. Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, the ember concert of the District gua of American Pen Women will given. Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl, who is in charge of the program, has jpared it in keeping with the istmas season. One of the fea- es of the evening will be the sing- ing of “Silent Night, Holy Night,” in the new three-part arrangement ro- cently made by Mrs. Stahl for wom- en's voices. Soloists in this number will be Mrs. Elbert M. Wood, Miss Helen Bury, Miss Dorothy Tschiffely and Miss Ruth Hansford. Other so- Joists of the evening will be Miss Mary Apple and Mr. Albert Ross Lord. Mrs. Ball will be the accompanist. Community singing and choral numbers will add variety and beauty to_the program. . On wcoount of the limited capacity of the clubhouse and the interest in fals concert &apresssd by the mam~ bership of the league. attendance will be confined to the Pen Women and their guests, the latter being ad- mitted on the presentation of a guest card from a member of the league. This rule is to apply to the entire series of monthly concerts. An attractive program was pre- sented Monday evening for the in- stallation of officers of Ruth Chapter, O. E. S, by a quartet composed of Bernice "L.~ Calhoun, soprano; Lucy Hopkins, contralto: Stanley Bell, tenor, and George H. Lambert, bass. Mrs. E. W. Beach, organist of Ruth Chapter, was the accompanist. The service department. Yo Men's Christian - Association, Jobhy concert tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock will be_given by Miss Mar- garet Cooper Tolson, pianist; Mrs. Eva Chebithes, soprano; C. A. Pen- dleton, baritone: Mrs. C. E. Fleming, reader, and Miss Marjorie G. Davis, accompanist. The program will include naise, C "Sharp Minor” “Nocturne” (left hand alone) (Scri- abine), Miss Tolson; soprano solos (selected), Mrs. Chebithes; “Say Not Farewell” (Bennett), “Give a Man & Horse and He Can Ride” (O'Hara), Mr. Pendleton: “The Story of the Other Wise Men” (Van Dyke), Mrs. Fleming; soprano solos (selected), Mrs. Chebithes; “Even Bravest Heart May Swell” (from “Faust”), “Duna” (McGlll), Mr. Pendleton; Miss Davis, accompanist. The lobby concerts will be discon- tinued until January 7, 1924. The Christmas pageant, “From Prophecy to Manger,” words and music by Walter B. Graham, director, Hanscom Park Moethodist _ Choir, Omaha, will be_ presented by the choir, "assisted by the West Sis- ters String Quartet and Hart Jenks, at the church, in costume, this eve- ning at 7:45, and at WOAW broad- casting station, Woodmen of the World building, from 9 to 11 Christ- mas morning. The mugic chapter of the Arts Club of Washington announces the following program for this evening at 8:30 o'clock: A speclally selected chorus will sing carols under the lighted Christmas tree; there will be Christmas songs by Miss Elste Edwards, Mrs. Hubner, Miss Netta. Cralg and Fulton Lewis; vocal duets by Mrs. Georgé Dawson and Miss Ed- wards; musical fairy tales and short stories by Mrs. Knorr. Before the m chafing-dish 30 p.m. supper will be served at Albert Schott to Sing for . Woman's party. Albert Schott, famous Wagnerian operatic tenor, who is sald to have forty-two operatic roles in his reper- toire, which he has sung in every capital of Europe, will give a bene- fit recital for the National Woman's Party on Tuesday evenlg, January. 8, at_the headquarters, on pitol Hill. Mr. Schott is a nephew of Anton Schott, a leading tenor with the Mat- ropolitan Opera Company years ago, ‘when Dr. Leopold Damrosch and An- ton Sefdel were in the height of their glory. Albe: Schott was at that time employed at the National Mu- seum in this city, where he worked as a botanist. His uncle persuaded him to go to Europe. He studied at his uncle's castle in Bavaria. He sang Joseph In "Egypl" and ‘Raoul” in *‘Les Hu!uanotu. " He sang in “Tannhauser” and “Lohengrin” and other Wagnerian tenor roles, and be- came known in every capital from Glasgow to Madrid. Mr. Sche ‘w1 be accompanied at the womai party concert by Grete von Bayer, a gifted planist, who will alsq play several solog, “Polo- (Chopin), THE Choral Society to Repeat “"Messiah™| HANDEL'S inspirational work, “The Messiah,” will be sung by the Washington Choral Society at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, m Wednesday svening. The solo parts will be sustained by Netta Cralg. ioprane; Theresa L. Hubner, mezzo- contraltd; John Wilbourn, tenor, aind Charles Trowbridge Titt- mann, basso. Charles Wengerd will be the con- luctor and Charles T. Ferry will be the accompanist. The chorus is :omposed of some 5 £ the best voices in Washington and has on many for- NETTA CRAIG. mer occasions presented cho: v of eIy high order. S 8 performance. the second of tho oratorio by the society this season, Is to be given under the auspices of the splendid choir of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. This churoh aiming to give the best in music and takes pleasure in extending an Invi- ::Lflor;“ul:l lh‘a publlo to attend any of cal performanoe: from time to time. SRRt Christmas Eve Fete. The annual Christmas eve music fete, to be given tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in the auditorium of Central High School, under the aus- pices of the Community Muslc Asso- clation, offers a program of high! contrasted features - i A concert band from the Army Musio School will furnish the musi- cal background, assisted by Eliza- beth and Mary' Keyes, harp, violin and vocal; Alfred Gsell, chimes solo- ist; Howard Lloyd, —marimbalist of tho University of Virginia: a brass quartet of soloists from the Army Music School, composed of = Carl chueneman, Willlam H. Le May, Willlam Temple, Charles Wadding- ton; three dance features, furnished by the Hoffman & Hoskins Salon of Dance, and a shawl dance, by Le- vanche C. Eason. Carols will be sung by the audi- ence, under the direction of Robert Lawrence, accompanied by brass quartet and chimes, assisted at the pipe organ by Mrs. H. Clvde Grimes. ABOVE SUSPICION By Robert Orr Author of “The Second Bullet,” *Unseen Hands,” “The Trigger of Conscience,” Eic. Copyright, 1823, by Robert M. McBride & Co. that individual put in an appearance, and then he drove tho rattling little car straight down the newly-cut loop of driveway which led to the unfin- ished garage. “Hello, Geoff™” 1la greeted the mason in a loud tone, obviously in- tended for the benefit of other pos- =ible listeners. “Guess I'll leave the old bus here where it won't be in the way of the main drive. Lo, Doc.” Geoff responded, ap- proaching the car as the other shut off the engine and edged his stout body out from behind the wheel. “I don’t reckon any o' the folks is to home yet, but they'll tell you up at the ho . 1 been busy.” “They'll he here in less than an hour,” the doctor remarked in a low. hurried tone. “Knock off work at five and go down and hide behind some“of those concrete piles under the boathouse. I'm going to take Lane down there for a little talk." “’Taint by business Geoff's tone was as low as his companion's, but even more firm. “That new pri- vate detective ain't showed up, but the district attorney feller has been hangin' ‘round pesterin’ me again and I don't aim to git mixed up in this thing no more'n I bo a'ready!” uit yourself.” the doctor chuck- led. “T'll be wiliing to bank on your being there, though! Remember, not later than five.” Without another word he started for the house with the tails of his linen duster flapping against his short legs, and as Geoff watched him a slow grin spread over his own face. Doc Hood knew him, all right! As a matter of fact, it was not yet 5 o'clock when a workman in plas- ter-caked overalls sauntered lotsurely along the beach from the rear path which started back of the garage: then suddenly he ducked in among the fat piles in the shadows beneath the boathouse and was lost to view. The attorney’s sedan had returned some little time before, and pres- ently the tall, immaculately groomed figure of J. Stoneham Lane descended the terrace steps in company with the dowdy obese country doctor; and they, too, made for the boathouse, but mounted to its veranda. “I am delighted to be of any serv- ice that I can,” Lane way saying in his smooth, well-rounded voice. “I don’t mind telling you. doctor, that we—as a close friend of the family, 1 think I may speak for them as well as myself—are far {rom satisfied at the lack of progress which has been made in this investigation.” “We're slow-golng folke out here in the country, Mr. Lage, and we like to be sure were right before we go ahead.” The doctor's tone was mild, almost apologetic_and yet there was an undernote in {t which caused the unseen eavesdropper to grin once more in anticipation. “That's why I asked you to come out here privately and tell me a few things that'll may- be save us a lot of time and you a slight bother. Of course, we know every word passed between you and Mr, Benkard In the dining room just befors you went away at half past ten or 80 on Wednesday evening——" “The hell you do!” The smooth, self-contained tones had coarsened. but the doctor apparently took no note of the hoarse ejaculation. “We know that you stopped for gas and ofl at the Reliable Auto Service garage in Brooklands at about half-past 11, and that you did not reach your own garage in New York, the Cavendish, till half-past 3, nor your rooms at the Burminster until” fifteen minutes ~afterward. There's a lot more that we know about your relations with Mr. Benk- ard for some years back and how they changed all of a sudden, but we won't go into that mow. All we'd afternoon when | | 1lke to know is just where you were Dbetween half-past 11 on Wednesday night and half-past 3, Thursday morning.’ “You would, would you!” Lane urst out with a stream of profanity. “You blithering, fat hick! You bring up what was said in the dining room that night and prove every word of it by reliable witnesses, if it's as compromising_as you're trying to insinuate! What of it, if I stopped for gas and ofl? Is there anything incriminating about that? You prove what time I put up my car and what time T reached my rooms, and if you can establish a discrepancy of four hours, as I them in for yourself! 3 ou—fnd out the rest. I o {%hall not utter another word! CHAPTER IX. Other People’s Business. “You down there, Geoft?” Dr. Hood leaned cautiously over the veranda, at the farthest side of the boathouse. “It's all _right; Lane's gone. What do you think of his refusal to make even an excuse about where he was on Wednesday night?” “Better come down yourself, Doc, or you'll bust that railin’.” advised a nasal drawl from below. “Drop your watch or somethin’ over the other side in case anybody’s lookin’ —T'll see where it lands—and then smoogh in wnder and purtend to be SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 23, 1923—PART 3. THE FLONZALEY QUARTET TO PLAY HERE. Twenty years ago the late J. de Coppet, a New York banker, who maintained a summer residence at Lausanne on Lake Geneva, and had for his immediate nelghbors there Paderewskl, Mme. Sembrich and other distinguished artists of the musical world, organized for his personal pleasure a string quartet, to which he gave the name of his Swiss villa, Flonzaley. This origlnal Flonzaley String Quartet is the same Flonzaley Quartet of today, with only one change in personnel during all that time. Mr. de Coppet brought the organi- zation to New York for the winter months and took it back to Switzer- land with him for the summer months, and its only function at that time was to play privately in his homes, both he and Mme. de Coppet being enthusiastic lovers of chamber Chipperfield. huntin' for it Wae can't talk here long, though, or Tl git discharged, and T am to finish my work on that there garage afore I quit' The doctor obeyed, and a thick gold timepiece of the turnip variety glint- ed as it fell from the other side of the | rail and promptly disappeared in the loose sand. In another moment its owner had scramblied down the steps, marked the place where it had va ished with a chip and, grunting, stooped and crawled under the boat- house itself to the side of his un- enthusiastic colleague. “What do you think about Lane?" ho demanded. “It's a pity you couldn’t have seen his face, but you heard how flabbergasted he was! He just blustered and didn't attempt to | make up any sort of an alibi! Oh. we've got him!" Geoft's expression did not denote that he shared the other's jubilation, and he replied dryly: “Since you axk me_ Doc, it kinder looks 'sif he's got you instead. I don’t bet nor play nothin’ for money, but if I was to sit in at a game o this here poker and the other feller was to lay down all his cards face up on the table, I reckon I'd bluff him till the cows come home, par- ticlar when 1 seen he ain't filled You told him all you knowed, and what did vou git from him? A lot o' cuss words! ‘Tain’'t no affair o' mine, but if I was his best friend, weems to me T couldn’t have warned him more thorough. “I thought if T showed him what a strong case we've got against him ha'd come across quick with an alibi if he had a straight one, and if he didn't he'd give himself away by a lie that the man from headquarters could nail like a shot” The doctor's round face flushed, but he added stubbornly: “He didn't try to prove an ,alibi becausa he couldn't; he was up’to something that night, Geoff, and it was something that had to do with Joseph Benkard.” “Reckon it had,” Geoft agreed. “He ain't no simple-minded fool, though, Doc. 'S far as I kin figger, he's been ltvin’ by his wits and gamblin’ high for vears down on that there Wall street, and blufin’ is second nater to him. Whatever he done. he's playin’ for timo, and now he's got it! ‘Sides, where's your strong casc agin hin Not that it's any o' my——" “Yes, it is your business!” His com= panion interrupted with unusual as- perity. “You've been eecing this through with me from the start and you're not going to quit mnow! Wasn't he almost the last to see Ben- kard slive, and didn’t he threaten to ‘get’ him? Didn't he try to fix it with the garage men in New York to say he brought his car in three hours be- fore he did, and doesn't he refuse to account for those hours and the one before {t? By Jiminy, I could almost go before the district attorney with that as it stands!” “You ain't heard agin from that headquarters feller?’ Geoff scratched his head reflectively. “Kinder thought it was funny you let Lane git away this mornin’ fo go to the funeral afore you tackled him.” “Oh, I banked on his coming back with the family. all right; he won't miss the reading of that will tomor- {to maintaining the singing, ! made secondary to the music. musie. The only public appearances of the Flonzaley Quartet during the first three years of its cxistence were occaslonal concerts for the benefit of charitable organizations, to which Mr. de Coppet loaned his organization. During this early period the Flon- zaley Quartet achieved what seemed to be the highest point of chamber musio excellence, but only the privi- leged few within Mr. de Coppet’s cir- cle knew anything about it. After three years of continuous artistic ef- fort in the interest of Mr. de Coppet alone, the gentlemen of the Flonzaley Quartet expressed to Mr. de Coppet a desirs for a publio career in Americ; The latter generously gave his con- sent and the first tours of the quartet | began to take shape. The success of the public appearances was immedi- ate, with the result that the demand in both the United States and Canada eventually made it necessary for Mr. de Coppet to relinquish more and more of his personal claims upon the services of his organization. Upon his death the quartet devoted its time ex- clusively to annual tours in America and Europe. It is generally conceded to be the greatest of any chamber music organization in the world. For the past seventeen consecutive years the Flonzaley Quartet has played con- tinuously in America, and, except for the period of the war, in Europe also. In America it plays annually from 85 to 100 concerts, between the first of November and April. The development of chamber music appreciation in America and the su: cess of the Flonzaley Quartet are re ciprocal, in that the appearances of the Flonzaley Quartet creates appre- clation of chamber music, and the a) preciation thus developed creates d mands for the appearances of the quartet which exceed the ability of the organization to fulfill. The Flonzaley Quartet will appear in Washington, under the auspices of the Washington Society of Fine Arts, January 21, February 11 and March 10. HowHarv ardSing’ersKeepFit S a men's chorus standards of program and pe formance, the Harvard Glee Club, which will be heard at the Masonic Auditorlum on New Year night, in its conduct much at varlance with | college Gles Clubs in general. Under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison of the Harvard music department a chorus of exceptional merit has been developed; and on these Glee Club trips first thought is alwavs given standard of tho interests being | Sev- | eral apparently harsh rules are | necessary for this purpose. and among them are: 1. No smoking is allowed | on trains or within three hours be- fore a concert. 2. No drinking is| allowed. A man who touches alcohol liquor will be sent home at his own | of the highe all other | expense. 3 On a night before a con- cert each man must be in bed at given time to be set by the executive ommittee. Each member agrees to obey these rules before he can be taken on a trip, and only once in the history of the club has {t been necessary to #end a man home at his own ex- pense. Only by such conduct as this can the wear and tear of travel be brought to a minimum, and the good health which is necessary to good singing be preserved. The members themselves are the first to realize this. and it is they who orginally made the rules. The spirit with which they obey them is founded upon their unqualified bellef in the ideals of the Gles Club, and their desire to make each concert a musical success. This spirit makes any active enforcement of the rules practically unnecessary. —— T row! But wherse do vou suppose I was all day until now?" T ain't posin’ nothin® more *hout this case!” Geoff asserted. “If any thin® else consarnin’ Lane shéuld come my way, I'll tell it to you for what it’s wuth, but I'm through guessin “Well, T went to the city, to head quarters. and arranged for another man to trall Lane and not let him out of his sight. He met the funeral party as they left the gates of the cemetery, and I don’t doubt he's hang- ing around hers somewhere now. Al- len, his name fa: a quiet, staid-look- ing middle-aged man. who might be a commuter from some little cottage in the nelghborhood, with a responsi- ble but poorly-paid position in New York. You know the kind.” The doc- tor paused, and then weng on I'm telling you'this so you won't mistake | that private detective of Newbury's | for him. If he ehould come up and speak to you you'll recognize him, be- cause he'il ask you first when you're going to lay the new floor in his cel- | Jar, and you can tell him anything you see fit about our man.” So that's why you let on to Lane what you did know 'bout his doin’s on Wednesday night; you think that the first chance he gits he'll go to somebuddy he thinks1l 'stablish an alibl for him, providin’ he did_come back here, or else to wherever hs did 80, in order to make sure the folks he saw will prove it if thev're called on, and you can check him up by this teller, Allen.” Geoft shook his head slowly. “Don’t you reckon Lanes slick ‘nough to “figger you'll have him watched and act accordin'?" “I'm taking no chances!” the doctor retorted. “We've got Lyons working on it in the meantime, you know. I'm going to crawl out from under here now before I get curvature, fin- ish hunting for my watch and then have a little talk with Newbury up at the house. See you tonight or tomor- row." He retrieved his ancient timeplece and went up e terrace steps. After w discreet intérval his late companion turned In the opposite direction and sauntered along the shore past the dividing line of the Cayley estato un- til a jutting point concealed him from view. He was about to strike inland and follow the edge of the marsh beside the creck to his own small domain when a cautious voice hailed im. “Geoff! Hello, there!" Rupert Ashe, in a bathing suit which revealed the slim, taut lines of his boyish. well knit frame, a frame like that of some vouthful athlete of old, had paddled up so nolselessly in a long cedar canoe that the other had been unaware of his approach. about, and then, leaning aga'nst a kree, he produced his pipe. “Family returned vet from the fu- neral?” “Yes, and I heard tel] that Mr. Lane was with 'em and the lawyer Mr. Newbury, but I ain’t laid eves on nonc o! 'em.”” Geoff replied. “Shouldn't he s'prised if one o' thess here private | Betective fellers showed up later, too, but T'd just as llef vou didn’t say nothin' fo nobuddy ‘bout that. only a notion 1 got from somethin’ that was eaid 'bout Mis' Cayley not bein’ pleased with the way Doc Hood and the district attorney's feller was handlin’ the case. 'Tain’t none o’ my business.” “It wouldn't be a bad idea, if they honestly want to find out who killed Mr. Benkard!" Rupert turned the canoe around with a recklees shove of the paddle and ran it up on the shelving, sandy shore. “Of course, 1 won't &y anything about what you tell me to—to any one, Geoff. We're too good pals for that.” “You think mebbe they wouldn't want to find out who the murderer was?" (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Gum Reveals 0ld Ruins, From the Adventurs Magazine. Gum chewing, the national sport of the youngest civilization, has been the means of bringing to light in- formation regarding one of the old- est civilizations, aoccording to Syl- vanus Griswold Morley, noted archo- ologist. Buried In the vast tropical forests of Mexico and Central Amerlca are relics infinitely precious to the arch- eologist and "the scientists of the Mayas, & brilliant aboriginal civillza- tion of Central America. whioh existed while our own northern Euro- pean ancestors were still plunged in barbarism. In these forests are found also chicle, which i3 the basic ingredient of chewing gum, and which is ob- tained from the sapodilla or sapote tree. The gatherers, or “chicoleros,” as they are called, are the native Mex- icans, Indfans and halfbreeds. Intent on securing the precious chicle, which to themm means money, they often stumble in the tropical bush, unaware, on less obvious treasures than the hierogiyphio monuments, sculptures and ruined cities of the ancient Mayas. Knowing this, archeologlsts have offcred & standing reward to all chicleros for information of any new group of ruins where there are hiero- glyphic monuments, and already, it is said, this expedient has resulted in “*Evenin’. Mr. Ashe.” Geoff glanced of soloists from the Army Music School, who music fete at Oentral High School, is Willlam Temple, Charics Waddington, composed of, reading fro; several important discoveries. tomorrew might in Christmas eve hts Carl Schueneman, Willlam H. LeMay, T8 MUSIGRAPHS The very first of the puplle of Leo- pold Auer to become famous in America was Efrem Zimbalist, who was acclaimed and established as a peer among violinists upon his first appearance on this side of the At- lantic with the Boston Symphony In 1911. Previous to this he had re- ceived the highest honors that could be paid to a violinist in Lelpzig, where he_was designated the suc- cessor to Joachim. This honor was formally consummated by the selec- tion of Zimbalist to play in the high- est official event in the famous Ge- wandhaus—the New Year concert, in which Joachim had appeared as the violin soloist every year for fifty years before Zimbalist's coming. This significant honor was followed in quick succession by equal laurels in many other capitals of Europe, with Richter, Nikisch and other famous authorities. Zimbalist's Is a many-sided genius. He Is a talented pianist, a composer of works that have become standard for violin, and also the composer of the comic opera “Honeydew,” and other sprightly compositions in the lighter vein. He was born in Rostov- on-the-Don, Russis, and began his musical training early on both vio- lin and piano. The surprising facility which he displayed with the former led to his being sent to the Petrograd Conservatory, where he became the pupil of the “master of masters,” Auer. Zimbalist will be presented by T. Arthur Smith, Inc., at the National Theater, on January 10. Raymond G. Moore, baritone. was soloist at the banquet of the public audit committec, Board of Trade, in the City Club, last Wednesday. On Tuesday evening Miss Beatrice party of friends at her studio in Seymour Goodwin entertained a honor of her uncle, ex-Governor Clem- ent of Vermont, and Miss. Clement. After a program of music by Miss Goodwin, Mrs. C. G. McRoberts and Carl Holer, Gov. Clement was host at a supper dance at Lo Paradis. (GEORGE EUSTIS CORCORAN, well known in Washington as a music lover and patron of the arts, has written The Star of an unusually interesting oconcert given on Sun- day afternoon, December 2, at the “Augusteo,” the concert hall of Rome, Italy, where he {s spending some time. This Augusteo s the mausoleum of Augustus Caesar and dates from 23 B. C. It s a circular bullding, larger than the Pantheon and one of the few ancient monu- ments which the barbarians did not destroy. Mr. Corcoran says that it has marvelous acoustic qualities. “A most extraordinary concert was glven there, conducted by Eric Wolf- gang Komngold,” said Mr. Corcoran, “and was_entirely of Korngold music. and carnival from his Jjanta”; two movements from his “Little Symphony.” a sym- phonic overture, part of his suite of inciden music for ¥Much Ado About Nothing” and the dance and epilogue from the “Todte Stadt,” by which Korngold well known in America, especially in New York. “Thers was a good deal of talk among the musiclans and music pub- lic beforehand about the propriety of a composer giving and conducting a AA\[O.\’G the most beautiful and orig- inal scenes in the Christmas Bible drama, “The Word and the Way,” by Bess Davis Schreiner, which had its first performance last night in the auditorfum at Central High School by the Churches of Washington, was the preluds, the Beginning of Time—%Let There Be Light— which was the symbolic interpreta- tion of the creation of the world, set to muslc, and expressed In rhythmic motion by groups of velled figures representing spirits of the sky, the waters and the earth, as they were evolved from chaos, followed by other lovely veiled figures of the sun and the moon and, over all. the ethereal blue light of the spirit of God, the whole ecena showing nebulous and hazy through wonderful cloud effects. The second symbolic scene, an in- terlude marking the Passing of Time, and called “They That Walk in Darkness,” was given also under the Girection of Caroline McKinley, and was set to heavy chaotic music of doubt and despair. The scenes were played in intense darkness as a dull gray light grows on a group of huddled figures representing the tribes of Isrmel, bowed in contrition before God. Twelve in number, they knelt, beseeching the mercy of Jehovah, while, dimly 1lit. appear nations and men, as in deep shadow, walking Takoma Theater Christmas Music A delightful diversion from the routine program of the silver screem is planned by the Takoma Theater. Aslde from the regular feature and comedy attractions, a Christmas musical will bo presented as a part of the Monday evening program. {The first number will be b"oh Holy Night,” by Adams, sung TS Fronk Rice. 'This will be followed by Neidlinger's, “The Birthday of the King.” by the Trinity Fpiscopal Church cholr, with the incidental solos sung by Hubert D. Lawson. The musical program will be brought to a close with the “Chris: mas Carols,” sung by the music sec- tion of the Takoma Park Civic Study Club and others. Marine Band Concerts. At the United States Marine Bar- racks tomorrow at 3 p.m. the concert by the United States Marine Band Or- chestra, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader, will present tho following program: March, “Liberty Bell” (Sousa); overturs, “Domino Noir” (Auber’ octurne, “Monastery Bells"” (Lefebure), chimes obligato by Mu- siclan W. D. Kleffer; scenes “Around the Christmas Tree" (Tobanl); waltz, “The Skaters” (Waldteufel); excerpts from “The Fortune Teller" (Herbert); suite, Day in_ Venice” (Nevin); Marines' Hymn, “The Halls of Monte- zuma,” and “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” Immediately after the concert there will be a dress parade by the Marine Corps Institute detachment on the parade ground. The usual Wednesday evening con- cert will have the following program: March, “Old Comrades™” (Teike); over- ture, “Festival” (Lassen); entr’ acte, “Schelm Amor” (Eilenberg); inter- meszo, “Passacalle” (Gregh); grand scenes from ‘Carmen” ~ (Bizet); waltz, “The Bachelors” (Santelmann): “Serenade” (Becker); music de ballet “Egyptienne” (Luigini); Marines’ Hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” —_————— Appropriate Name. From the New York Sun. Willis—That pup of yours is about all legs, isn't he? What are you go- ing to call him? Nillis=Revue Mrs. Luther E. Gregory, Sopr broadcasted ‘Tho Angel's Messa a Christmas song, acoompanied the Marine Band, as o feature of concert offered by the band by r: between 9 and 10 o'clock. ° Gregory was especially anxious broadcast at this time bacause hoped that her mother and fric in Seattle, Wash, might be ab! “tune in” on it This {s not the first time that has been assisting soloist wit! large band. During the expositio San Francisco in 1815, Mrs. Greg sang with Sousa’s Band, and ber that she appeared at several o certs with the Philippine Consta’ lary Band of ninety-one pleces, ' of the larmest organizations of kind in the world Miss Helen Bglt, violinist: Marie Belt Ozaol, planist and companist, and Miss Esther Link soprano, gave a pleasing progran the Home for Incurables last V. nesday eveniug. Gurle Luise Corey gave the ond of her series of interesting n operalogues last Friday evening. senting Gounod's “Romeo et Jullr Miss Corey precedes each act - an interesting explanation of story and musical motifs, with beth Gardner Coombs at the plar Dogothy Wilson, contralto, sai be the youngest church solofst Washington. has been engaged fr leading part in Rollin Bond's 1 opera, “Cherry Blossom Time. Ross Sokol. goprano, gave a ing group of songs last Sunda. {he 1lebrew Home for the Aged Miss Mildred De Hart sang Wednesday evening at ths mee! of the Petworth Citizens' Asso tion. Albert E. Summers gave : eral numbers at the father-and meeting of the Takoma commur the same evening. Both wers | sented by Prof. Harned, who, v his small son, Albert E. Harned, £- a plano duct on one of the progra | Well Known Washingtonian Hears | Unusual Roman Concert concert consisting entirely of his o work, and there Were many pros cons, especially as it had never be. done in Rome before. But &5 It W known that Korngold had been pecially requested to do what he 4 no objection was made before or dt ing the concert. “Korngold, twenty-seven years o and rather stout and pale, was n very impressive when he came o to the conductor’s desk, but tho m ment he raised hi baton the aud ence instinctively —and _remarkab! for a Roman audience—came to a tention and prepared to listen ser cusly. “Here was a composer, skilled his art, the pupil of many well know living musicians, & master of orcher tration. full of inspiration and n ashamed or afrald of melody, in fact making melody predominate. Koru gold's music is not easy for ths or dinary musician, much less for t general public to listen to for t! first time, or for the second or thir time. But his melodious strains a peal to everybody, however much bl original treatment and remarkab orchestration may puzzle them. 1 was evident that the large audienc making _melody predominant, Korn gold had a distinct ovation given hin afterward by the many musiciar and critics present. It is hard to te where to place Komngold or wher he will eventually place himself. SymbolicScenesin**‘TheWord and theWay“ to Be Repeated in darkness, down the ages, the a tion being expressed entirely throug:. the rhythmic movement of mys figures, who struggle, fall, and final one by one, reach the Light whici pours on them from above, & shini pathway, from the prophets to Chrl The symbolism is completed in t final scene, the Fulfillment of Tim entitled, “Arise, Shine, for Thy Ligh Is Come, and “represents a thron. set in heaven, with seven angel around about the throne, and seve: lamps of burning fire” Altogether a beautiful plece of symbolism, an: presented in rhythmic motlon, ex pressive of the music to which th scenes are set. and closing with th “Sanctus” and the “Halleluja! Chorus”, from “The Messiah “The ‘Word and the Way" will b~ repeated on Thursday night, at o'clock. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. 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