Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 44

U Washifl EASTF,R. named for Ostara, divinity of spring in the ancient Norse mythology, is being widely celebrated today with the presentation of vocal and Easter festival of modern times is a originally celebrated April 14. Therefore, there are good reasons why modern Christian civilization should the glorious season. Churches of every Christian denomination are offering special musi- cal programs, both morning and eve be given in the afternoon by hundreds of little children. and organs roll in pulsing tones the It seems especially fitting that bolic crown of spring in Washingto glory today. celebration of Easter. A to “Cherry given its premiere at the National Th conductor . of many ambitious poser of the score, and Genevieve F: Iyrics. It is claimed that senators, secretaries, “flapper bootleggers” and motor cycle cops will lend much in laughter to the plot of the production. HE Philadelphia Symphony Orch have been waged on account of the demand for higher salaries for its members, threatening the cancellation of a planned European tour and a change in the personnel for next se: for the final concert of the year. The two soloists at this performance will be Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, pianists. together in Boston cight years ago advance steadily in their art. and a pupil of Artur Schnabel. and also a graduate of the Boston United States Army during the war and played a joint recital in Paris while still wearing khaki uniforms. many important cities in this country. recent tour is said to have been through Australia and Tasmania. RIDAY evening two interesting musical programs will be presented. 3 v. the little Russian pianist who created a sensation in America last vear, and who already has given three recitals within the Shura Cherkassk past twelve months in Washington, It is said that the reception given him in Boston was reminiscent of those given supreme favorites, and that } Chicago as did Josef Hoimann a third of a century ago. being a_skillful ‘pianist with remark: personality and a sturdy boyish manner of attacking his work that win his audience almost as much as his_exce! tions of the great masters of piano The other Friday event will be Dariters. dance with other musical forms in three thousand years old in theme, usually impressive numbers. CONC Marine Band, United States concert at the barracks at 8:. The Philadelphia Symphony Orche: day afternoon at 4:30. Nordica Clubs’ concert, the Raleigh Hotel, 8 p.m. Tuesday. Shura_Cherkassky, boy pianist, a 8:30 p.m. Stafford Pemberton Dancers, Pre Marine Band Programs At the White House, at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, a concert by the United States Marine .Band will be given on the lawn: William I Santelmann. leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader. The program will include: March, “The Washington Evening Star” (Stannard); overture, “Light Cavalry” Suppe); intermezzo, “Basket of Roses” (Albers): grand scenes from “Romeo and Juliet” (Gounod); waltz. “The Bachelors” (Santelmann); fan- tasia, “Scenes from Spain” (Langey); grand march, “Queen of Sheba” (Gou- nod), and “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” In the band auditorium of the United Sttes marine barracks, Wed- nesday, at 8:20 p.m., the usual evening concert by the United States Marine Band Orchestra wiil be presented. The program will be: March, “True to the Empire” (Warnken): overture “Oberon” (Weber); “To a Wild Rose" | and “Scotch Poem” (MacDoweil); ballet music, “La Source” (Delibes); trombone solo, “Celeste Aida” (Verdi), Musician Robert E. Clark; suite, “Peer Gynt” (Grieg); “Torchlight Dance, No. | 47 (Meyerbeer); Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Philadelphia Symphony Tuesday. The Philadelp Orchestra will play the final local program Tuesday afternoon at the National Theater. Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, pianists, will be soloists. The selections will include two numbers for the orches- tra alone, the “Fourth Symphony” of Schumann and _the overture “La Grande Pague Russe” of Rimsky- Iorsakow, and two corcerted bers by the soloists, the Moz certo in I3_Flat’ and Leo S “Ballad.” Mr. Sowerby the American Academy in Rome, a disgnction awarded him in 1921 'He is feemn the middle west. Most of his wmusical training was secured in | Chicago, where he made his public debut as & composer in 1913. his vi- olin @@ncerto being performed by Glenn Dillard Gunn at a concert of | « fellow of MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Mrs. Ellen Sparrow Teacher of Studio, 2 Girard St. Phone North 447 ‘WILL RENT My beautifully furnished studio with grand pisme for summer. S.eeping quarters. Address Box 290-B, Star ofice _ * MARGUERITE BROWN Soppase 8 Yetrs' Buopeen Teninins Phons North 2004 . MIS8 AMY CLEMENT LEAVITT PIANO, VOICE AND HARMONY ‘Ceaching and Accompanying 708 Fleventh Btreet N.W. Ly at 5 Washington Studioc House the day, week sad momth Stadies by y, Freakiia 6363 1764 K Bt. N.W. Wi Corner 1 . H. Ave,, at Dupont Circle, Main 7858 vn-n:rum, Voice, Saxophane, cte. Yearbook Start the Children Not . WOODRIDGE SCHOOL ¥ oice—Piano—E xpression el Y BESSIE N. WILD Harmony Weice Owmtare, Piaso and 73" R. I Ave. N. W. e e Norin F1il, Walter T. 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White House 30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, and usual 20 p.m. | “Ah, Love, But a Day. memorial of the Christian passover, 1ift its voice in song and welcome ning, today, with many additional to Bells will ring glad welcome of the Eastertide. the beautiful cherry blossoms, sym- n, should be in the fullness of their heater tomorrow night. Rollin Bond, musical enterprises, is com- arnell Bond author of the book and # % estra, over which heated discussions ason, comes to Washington Tuesda Since their first appearance these performers have seemed to Mr. Maier is a native e of Wisc Both artists served in the school. Since then they have appeared in . in London and Paris, and their most g will appear at Central High School. he impressed the musical critics of In addition to able technic, Shura has a charm of Ilent interpretations of the composi- music o the spring recital of the Pemberton It is based on the It was the custom to combine the eligious observances, and this dance, is said to afford these dancers un- HELEN FETTER. THE DONNA MARIA National ERTS | SHURA CHERKASSKY lawn, program at Wednesday night stra at the National Theater Tues- . t Central High Schoo!, Friday at | sident Theater, 8:30 Friday night. American music. He has a number of compositions to his credit, of which | the orchestra of the Quaker City has presented his overture, “Comes Au- tumn Time." The Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are under the local management of | the T. Arthur Smith, Inc., Concert Bureay, at 1306 G street northwest. Nordica Clubs' Concert Tuesday. The Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra and the Nordica Banjo Club, under the direction of Walter | T. Holt, assisted by Ruth Peter, so- prano: Fred Bacon. banjoist. and the Columbian Male Quartet (Paul Ledig and W. E. Braithwaite, tenors; Wil- lard Haynie, baritone, and John C. Smith, bass), will present the twenty- fifth annual concert of the organiza- tion in_the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The program will include the fol- | lowing numbers: Nordica Mandolin and Gultar Orchestra. overture, “As- modeus” (Rollinson); mandolin ‘solo, ‘Grand Valse Impromptu” (Stauffer), H. von Bernewitz, jr.; guitar accom- paniment by Mr. Holt; Soprano solo, (Beach), Ruth Pater; Mrs. Howard Blandy, accom- panisi; orchestrs, “The Dying Poet” (Gottschalk, arr. Odell); mando-cello and guitar trio, “Sing. Smile, Slum ber” (Gounod); “To a Wild Rose (MacDowell), Raymond A. Hart, W. S. Whitman, Charles A. Conrard; orchestra, “Sympathie,” “Napeli” (Mezzacapo): (five minutes’ intermis- sion); Nordica Guitar Club, ‘“Sere- nade” ~ (Schubert), “Love Song”" (Holt), Charles A. Conrard, director banjo solos, “University Grand Waltz' (Glynn), “In_the Twilight,” air varie (Farland), “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground” (Foster-Bacon), Fred J. Bacon: Columbian Male Quartet, “Deep River” (Burleigh), “The Mu sical Trust” * (Hadley): Hawaiian Trio, “Kawaihau Waltz” (arr. Awai), The Last Rose of Summer’ (arr. De Harport), Edith P. Tschiffely, Hawaiian guitar: Miss A. E. Hill, guitar; A. L. Williams, tiple; ) Banjo Club, “Mia Amorita “A Footlight Favorite” rdica (Bacon), (Grimshaw). Shura Cherkassky Friday. Shura Cherkassky, Russian piano prodigy, will give a recital at Cen- tral High School Friday evening at 8:30 under the auspices of the Com- munity Center Department of the public schools. Hiz program will include Harmonious Blacksmith” “Sonata in_E Minor, Op. thoven “Impromptu in Major, Op. %0. No. 4" “Spinning Song” (Mendelssohn), Hunting Song”’ (Mendelssohn), tude in A Flat Major’ (Chopin), Etude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4”; “Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2"; “Vaise in E Flat Major, Op. 18" (Chopin); “Melodie in E Major.” “Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. (Rachmaninoff); “Reverie” (Debussy), “Prelude Pathetique” (Cherkassky), “Waltz in E Major” (Moszkowski). Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. “The (Handel), 90" (Bee- A Flat (Schubert); Pemberton Dancers Friday Stafford Pemberton, Washington dancer, will present the third of his annual dance recitals at the Presi- dent Theater at 8:30 next Friday evening. Mr. Pemberton has an- nounced a number of new dances in this spring programs, including an Egyptian ballet entitied “Dance of David Before the Ark of God,” and a Spanish pantomime telling the tale of love and jealousy of a celebrated toreador for a famous Spanish dan- cer. A symphony orchestra will ac- company the dancers. The music to be used in present- ing thess dances will include Men- delssohn’s “Rondo Capriccioso,” Mar- tez's “Spanish Dancer,” Saint Saens' ‘Music in Motion” and ‘Samson et Delilah,” Chopin's “Funeral March,” Rimsky-Korsakoffs' “Hymn to the Sun” and “Dance of David,” Glaza- Central High School Club and School Notes THE Washington College of Music will give its thirty-seventh public concert in Central High School Thurs- day evening. The public is invited. There will be no reserved seats and no collection will be taken. These concerts are given for the benefit of the students of the college, -their families and friends. . The senior orchestra of sixty mem- bers will open the program and play several accompaniments. There will be two distinct features on the pro- gram. The junior orchestra of thirty-five members will make ijg in- at the conclusion of the there wil' be a chorus of forty stu- dents, accompanied by the full senior orchestrs The program’ follows: Overture der Freischutz” (Weber), orchestra ano, “Witches' Dance” (MacDowell), Sophic Snyder: soprano, “Del Mio Cor Orfeo”) (Haydn), “Gong to the Fair’, (Coats)), Naomi Phelps; violin, “Sbuvenir” (Drdla), Beatrice de Ladurantaye; ‘Minuet in G (Beethoven), Victor de lLadurantaye: soprano, “Ocean! Thou Mighty Mon- ster’ (von Weber), Marie C. Deal: organ. “Evepsong” (Martin), Ruby Booth: overture, “The Bridal Rose (Lavalee), junior _orchestra; vocal duet, “Quis Est Homo" (Rossini) Misses Barrett and Todhunter; piano, “LiEspair’ (Ratner), “Scherzo, B Flat Minor’ (Chopin),” Benjamin Ratner; violin, “Romance” (Svendsen), Rena Greenberg; _ baritone, “Eri Tu” (“Masked Ball”) (Verdi), Lueiano Furland; violin, “Mazurka de Con- cert” (Musin), Mildred Fleenor piano, “Rondo Capriccioso” (Mendels- sohn), Doris Thornett; “Greeting to Spring” (Strauss), chorus and = or- chestra. The accompanist will be Marjorie Davi Well known local artists will pre- sent a musical program, including Vocal and instrumental selections, at the soiree and concert of the Wash- ington Salon and United Arts Society ( | Thursday evening at the Playbouse, Rudolphe de Zapp, presiding. = Winitred De Voe, soprano, will sing “Connais-tu__le Pays?" from - gnon"'; 1 Know a HIill” "Hl.ll!.nN (Mana-Zucea) and “Going to Market (Diehl). She will be accompanied by George Dixon Thompson. The piano solo, “Paraphrase de Concert of Eu- gene Oneguine” (Tschaikowsky), will be played by Miss Winifred McGregor Michaelson. 7. Edmond Boyer will present the tenor solos, “The Stars Are Brl’“hlly Shining,” from “La Tosca,” and “The Lilac Tree (Gartlan). He ylfl be ac- companjed by Mrs. T. S. Lovette. Anna Sloan, cellist, assisted at the piano by Mrs. Elizabeth C. Sloan, will play “Minuet in Minor'" (Beetho- ven) and *'Religioso” (Goltermann).. Kdna Brandt Duncan will give in- terpretive dances and Dorothy Gates will present a "Gypsy Dance, with Mrs. Brown at the piano. Prof. Stanwood Cobb, principal of the Chevy Chase Country Day School, will _speak on “Educational Falla- cies,” and among the celebrated art- ists to be presented are W. Clark No- ble, eminent sculptor; Miss Elizabeth Sabin, who won a poster design com- petition, and Frank Godwin, well known illustrator and painter. The Dalgleish Music Study Club gave a delightful program Monday cvening. Those participating were Mrs. Hamlet, Mrs. Gertrude Russell, Mrs. Madeline Cornish Nichols, Mrs. Lueille ~ Altman, Miss Margaret Hughes, Miss Gertrude Meisel, Miss Mabel McCalip and Miss Pauline Knoeller. The Friday Morning Music Club an- nounces a business meeting for all active members of the organization, to be conducted at the home of the president, Mrs. Byrnes, 2120 Le Roy place, at 10:30 sharp Friday morning. FTHE Chaminade Glee Club, directed by Miss Esther Linkins, will give a concert at the Calvary M. E. Church Wednesday at § p.m. The club will be assisted by Miss Helen Belt, vio- linist, and T. Russell, tenor, and Miss Gertrude M. Locher, accompanist. The feature of the evening Wil be the cantata, “Three Springs! by Paul Bliss, which was presented by the club last spring with great success. In addition to the cantata the club will give several groups. Miss Beit's selections will be ISicilino Rigaudon” " (Francouer - Krei- ance” nouv's “Bacchanale,” Debussy’s %2 G St N.W. “Adam and KEve,” Herbert's ‘Indian Summer”’ and Tschalkowski's “Slave Market” and ‘Andante Cantabile. i T Hear You Call will “I Hear You ing. (Marshall), “On the Road to Maadalay™ (Wieniawskl). SUNDAY itial appearance in one number, and | program | SINGERS AND MUSICIANS APPEARING IN WASHINGTON AUDITORIUMS EASTER WEEK J.FRANK DUGGAN" Nfiahofiailr (Oley Speaks) and “Marvis” (Craxton). Dr. and Mrs. T. S. ‘Lovette pre- sented an interesting program be fore the members of the Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at its meeting last Ty v ovening at the Wash- ington Club. tiose pacdcipating included Edythe Crowder, soprano; Jack Ward, mez: soprano; F. Edmund Boyer, tenor, and Gladys Hillyer and Mary Matthews, pi The and pianists were received with much enthusiasm. Bertha Thompson Nelson, pianist, and Wand Webber, soprano, were heard in a joint recital last Wednes- day evening at the Playhouse, under the auspices of the New Civilization School of Psychology Miss Ida Greer Weller of New York, mezzo-soprano, will give a short re- cital tonight at the Playhouse, under the auspices of this organization, preceding the lecture. She will be accompanied by Mrs. Bertha Thomp- son Nelson. A special program is to be given at the Arts Club of Washington Friday at 8:30 pm.. by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Gena Branscombe, Phy Fergus Bthel Glenn Hier. Mary Turner Salt | er, and Harriet Ware six of the out- {slandinx American woman compos- | ers, who are in Washington attend ing the convention of the League of American Pen Women, and the con- forence of American Women Com-~ posers. Each composer will preside | &t the piano. A:sisting artists are Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Gena Brans- combe, Ethel Glenn Hier, Mary Tur- ner Salter and Harriet Ware will ap- pear jointly in a recital Wednesday evening in the lounge of the Shore- ham Hatel, in conjunction with the biennial convention of the League of American Pen Women. These famous composers will be in Washington at- tending the conference of American Women Composers. They are all members of this organization, and this concert will mark something new in recitals, as it will be the first in which more than one American wom- an composer has appeared in person on one recital program. Other feminine composers “doing” groups of their own compositions during the period of the convention will be Mrs. Grace Porterfield Polk of Indiana, Mrs. Luther E. Gregory of Alaska, Mrs. Katherine Call Simonds of Florida and New Hampshire, and Phyllis Fergus of Chicago, each of wohm will appear on the pro- gram Saturday evening, following the reception for the newly elected na- tional president of the pen women at the Arts Club. Among those ass ing these com have its premiere tomorrow evening All the company, from the most in to look on” during the last few over the earlier rchearsals. circle about the basi the society chaperone, and J. Frank ‘legger; Juliette Francey is a piquant Edward *Halbach, G. Larry Zuch, William F. Raymond, Bessie Doolan Frieda and Elsic Mary Pardee, & JULIETTE TRANCEY Ruth | AmericanWomen Composers lee Concert. A Busy Week of Rehearsal For **Cherry Blossom Time. VERY night and nearly every afternoon last week the fiity members of Rollin Bond's “Cherry Blossom Time” company gathered on the stage of the National Theater rehearsing, putting the finishing touches to the new comic opera of jazz-age Washington, which will member of the chorus, are Washingtonians, and The scenery, which was designed at the Hippodrome studios of New York, is most attractive, and the featured scene is the cherry blossom Mrs. Alexander G. Bentley, who will sing the dramatic soprano role of comedy role of Senator Klevahr, are probably the most experienced singers in the cast. The other principals are young singers with unasually big, fresh voices and charming personalities that are said to fit their roles afmirahly. Evelyn Gribbin, the Iyric soprano, plays the flapper heroine; Helen Marie Koontz, contralto, has the unique role of an oriental boot- baritone; Everett Sterns Hardell, romantic tenor, whose voice has been highly praised by both Fritz Kreisler and Mme. Schumann-Heink; and Joseph E. Cogan complete the leading masculine singers. The premiere danseuse is Donna_ Maria. , Madeleine Murton, Katherine Fisk, Edna Smith, Selma Shulze, Marguerite Maxwell, Edith and Helen Oriani, Breithaupt, J. B. Peat, Raymond Eschérish, Charles L. Maxwell, Fred Knapp, Charles F. Waddington, William E. Rice, Patrick J. Michaud, J: R. Viehmeyer, Thelma Schmitt, Alberta Calevas, Tereta Sheaffer, Edith Smythe, Anna Hassel, Marybelle Moles, Adel Wood, Helen Bennett, Berenice Stevens, Helene L’'Hommedieu, Peggy Garrett, Florencc Potter, Mary Solomon, Beulah Bailey APRIL National ELINORA PRARE- President Gretchen Hood, soprano; Flora Me- | Gill Keefer, contralto; Warren L. | Terry. teno Lucien Marsh, baritone, | and Jules Falk, violinist The selections will include: Quar- tet, “Shena Van” (Mrs. H H. A. Terry, Mr. Marsh; terborough Woods” (Ethel | Hier and Miss Hier): “Kishna" | “I Bring You Heartsease Branscombe and Mr. Marsh); Poems.” with musical settings, y lis Fergus and Miss Fergus; “Stars and “Boat Song” Harriet Ware and Mr. Terry; “Come to the Garden, | Love” and '*“The Sweet o' the Year" | May Turner Salter and Mrs. Keefer; | “Adagio” from A Minor Sonata.’ “Carnival.” and “An Old Love Tale, Gena Branscombe and Mr. Falk; | “June.” and “Elle et Moi." Mrs. H. H. | A. Beach and Miss Hood: quartet, “The Year's At the Spring.” Mra H. H. A Beach and Miss Hood, Miss Keefer, Mr. Terry, Mr. Walsh. 1 wihs, program will be broadcast by | posers in interpreting their composi- tions will be Grethen Hood, well known local dramatic soprano; Lucien Marsh, baritone: Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer, Washington's popular con- | tralto, and Warren L. Terry, local tenor. Marjory Marckres Fisher, violinist, of San Jose Calif, who has been coaching in New York with Leopold Auer, will come to Washington espe- cially “to attend this convention, of which she s a member. Richard Lorleberg, local cellist, will also appear on Wednesday's program. The program wiil include: Quartet, “The Year's at the Spring” (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach), Miss Hood, Mrs. Keefer, Mr. Terry and Mr. Marsh: quartet, “In the Carpenter’s Shop.” “Down in the Glen” and “If You Must Go, Go Quick- 1y (Ethel Glenn Hier), Miss Hier, | Miss Hood, Miss Fisher and Mr. Lor- | leberg: baritone, “Krishna” “With Rue My Heart Is Laden” and “I Bring You Heartease” (Gena Branscombe), Mr. Marsh; piano solos, “The Hermit Thrush at Morn,” “The Old Chapel by Moonlight,” “Nocturne" and “Dancing Leaves” (Beach), Mrs. Beach: tenor Solos, “Stars,” “Iris” and “Boat Song” (Harriet Ware), Mr. Terry; contralto solos, “Come to the Garden, Love.” “Last Night I Heard the Nightingale" and “The Sweet o' the Year” (Mary Turner Salt), Mrs. Keefer; quartet, “The Song of Liberty” (Beach), Miss Hood, Mrs. Keefer, Mr. Terry and Mr. Marsh. LR at that theater. experienced principal to the greenest critics who have “dropped days report marvelous improvement Duggan, bass, who has the leading French maid, Lawrence K. Downey, Others are H. R. Hendley, Wesley Peckham, Victor Russell, Krieg, Renee Shea, Gwendolyn Myers, Betty McMillan, Zora 20, 1924—PART 3. Musigraphs ETTA CRAIG, Washington so- prano, will give her cotume Te- cital at the Lincoln Road Methodist Episcopal Church Friday night, as- sisted by Dr. J. Walter McNeil, reader, and Mrs. Bertrand Trenis, ac- companist. Other dates for presen- tations of this same recital elsewhere in the city, it is stated, will be an- nounced later. This singer is to be guest soloist at the reception given this afternoon by the historical group of the District of Columbla League of American Pen Women, D. A. R members. Miss Craig will sing the group of Cadman numbers given at an interesting musical at the Arts Club of Washington about a year ago with George Daland, pian- ist, now of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Miss Craig’s accompanist will be Charlotte Klein, well known local pianist. Both singer and ac- companist are members of the D. A. R., as well as of the Mu Phi Epsi- lon Musical Sorority. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, a leading American composer, state vice presi- dent from New Hampshire of the League of American Pen Women, will be the pianist at the authors’ break- fast to be given at noon Saturday, in the hall of nations at the Washing- ton Hotel. She will give her own works, assisted by Miss Gretchen Hood, well known local dramatic so- The selections will include “For Me the Jasmine Bud “Ah, Love But a Day,” “Go Not Too Far,' “Chanson d'Amour’ and “Elle et Moi." Ruby Smith Stahl, Washington so- prano, has just returned from a visit in Chicago, where she gave a recital during her stay that won high praise from the leading critics. C. E. Watts, editor of Music News, stated in a lengthy review. of this recital that Mrs. Stahl sang the “Lia” aria of Debussy in a manner that was truly remarkable. The reoital was given in Lyon & Healy Hall. In this pro- gram, ‘in ali her programs for some time, Mrs. Stahl gave half of her songs in English and used prin- cipally “American comnositions for these groups. A second concert origi- nally planned for this visit was de- ferred until some time during the summer. Mrs. Stahl will be soprano soloist at an entertainment to be given at All Souls’ Episcopal Church next Wed- nesday night. Mary Helen Howe will be soprano soloist at the Easter service at St Mary's Catholic Church, Piscataway Md. Among her numbers will be “Regina Coeli” (Giorza), and Maria” (Millard). Miss Howe also sang the soprano part at the same church Palm Sunday, in_ Flynn' “Mass of the Immaculate Virgin.” Le Roy Lewis, well known local musician, has been appointed bari- tone soloist at the Washington Ca- thedral and will begin his duties there today. Mr. Lewis will retain his position as director of the chorus choir at Emory Methodist Church South, which has its musical service at 8 o'clock. This choir will sing Stainer's “Crucifixion” at the eve- ning service. Fred Schaefer, Jules with will sing the solo parts, Edna White, organist Miss Ella Ellis, dramatic soprano, will sing the solos in Rogers cantata, ew Life,” this morning at Emory M. L. Church South. _Mrs. George M. Gayle of Frankfor: Ky., a delegate to the D. A. R. con gress, will sing Granier's “Hosanna at this morning’s service at the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Gayle is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Berryman, where she is a guest, Gurle Luise Core: gave the last of Beach), Miss Hood, Mrs. Keefer, Mr. | her _series of mon-opera-logues last | Czechoslovakia, A Day in the Pe- Glenn | and Friday evening, presenting her orig inal “interpretation of Donizetti's “Lucia di Lammermoor,” with Eliza- beth Gardiner Coombs as accom- panist Dorothy Wilson, contralto, was en- thusiastically received last Sunday, when she appeared as soloist with the Elks’ Band, giving the famous aria from “Samson and Dalilah” and Eville’s “Just That One Hour. Four members of the Corey opera class will appear in leading roles in “Cherry Blossom Time.” are: Dorothy Wilson, Marguerite Petit and Gladys and Gayle Hunt John Marville, baritone soloist of St. Stephen’s copal Church and the Eighth Street Temple, sang “Eili, Eili,” at the musical recently given for the Women's Alliance of All Souls’ Unitarian Chureh. Mme. Flora Greenfield, concert so- prano of New York, co-artist on tour with Giovanni Martinelli, was in Washington Monday evening to sing at the entertainment given by Almas Temple to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mme. Greenfield has charm and per- sonality, as well as a cultivated so- prano voice. Her tone is freshly strong and sus- taining in the upper register, aug- mented by clear enunciation. Dr. Carl Von Riedel, from the Met- ropolitan Grand Opera Company of New York, was accompanist for Mme. Greenfield. playing the piano for her solos sympathetically. @ On Tuesday, April 29, at 8:15 p.m.. in the baliroom of the New Willard Hotel, a concert sponsored by the War Mothers of the late war, for benefit of the boys at the several Army and Navy hospitals of Wash- ington, will be given. The artists who will give their services are Franceska Kaspan Law- son, sopramo; C. A. Woodrum, bari- tone; Josef Kaspar, violinist; Isaac Minovich, violinist: Mary Muller Fink, harpist, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Chind- blom, pianist It is hoped that a section of the Marine Band will also assist. This concert is being arranged by the Washington biusic Bureau. ad Max Hunt. . in honor of the visiting| Riker, John Ryerson and Irving Beck- | They | (U HE Corcoran Gallery of Art has purchased for its permanent collection a winter landscape by Hobart Nichols, now of New York. formerly of Washington. Mr. Nichols was born in this city and received his art education here, study- ing at the Art Students’ League. For a number of years he held a wovern- ment position and his painting was done in epare time, on Sundays and holid:ys and in summer when on leave. Even 50, his work took on a thoroughly pro- fessional character and found admis- sion, not only in the local exhibitions, but in the leading exhibitions held in othier cities. From the first there was Invariably a lyric quality in his pic- tures. Not only was he a good drafts- man and an excellent colorist, but sensitive to the beauty in nature, and his interpretations réflected his own poetic vision. Those who recall the exhibitions of the Washington Water Color Club and the Socicty of Washington Artists twenty years ago will remember well Mr. Nichols' charming nocturnes and his pictures of the landscape around about Washington, into which he some- times introduced animals or figures, which lent a note of special interest He was a member of both the Society of Washington Artists and the Wash- ington Water Color Club and was active in the interests of both organi- zations and also in arranging exhibi- tions held at the Cosmos Club. It was through his instrumentality that a notable exhibition of water colors by Henry B. Snell was shown in the Cos- mos Club's assembly room. For over ten years now Mr. Nichols has lived in New York or its vicinity and given his entire time to painting, and he has met with exceptional suc- cess. Not only has he been elected | to membership in the National Acad- emy of Design, but his works have repeatedly received award. rother, Spencer B. Nichols, is also \ artist and has won distinction as |an illustrator and painter of decora- tive compositions, as well as a de- signer. Mrs. Nichols is a painter, and one of their daughters within the last couple of years has exhibited in one of the annual gxhibitlons of the National Academy of Design. The picture which the Corcoran Gallery has purchased shows a snow- covered landscape. There are trees in the foreground seen at close range. Across a little brook, unfrozen and refiecting the blue heavens over- head, is a snow-covered hill which rises gently to a high horizon. Mr. | Nichols, it ‘will be remembered, was represented by a similar picture in the Corcoran Gallery's recent bien- nial exhibition. * % % % HE great international exhibition of paintings, to which all Europe as well as America has come to look with interest, opens in Pittsburgh the last of this week. It will comprise about 400 pictures, and of these only about 170 will be by artists resident in the United States. For four months Homer Saint-Gaudens, direc- tor of "the Carnegie Institute, was abroad collecting the most repre- sentative works by the leading art- ists in Great Britain and European countries. In Spain he loaga and Anglada and secured from each a group. He visited Poland and France, Italy and | England and has brought back with him a representative showing. But | he warns those who visit this exhi- bition not to expect to find from | many of these foreign countries pleas- ant pictures, for the symbols of their art are different from our own, and |at present it would seem that' they are not looking for pleasantries. Those who organized the internation- al_exhibition in Pittsburgh were not selecting pictures for a permanent coliection, hut endeavoring to show us here in America what is going on |in_the studios abroad. Not only did Mr. Saint-Gaudens bring back with him pictures, but dis- tinguished jurors—Albert Besnard of France, for years head of the French | Academy in Rome and now head of the Beaux Arts, in Paris, one of the foremost French artists of our time, and A. J. Mummings of England, who has gained celebrity as a painter of sporting life, of horses and racing scenes, who served as members of the international jury of award. Mr. Mummings is executing a number of commissions while in this country. M. and Mme. Besnard. however, are returning_to France the last of this wonth. Mme. Besnard has given a number of lectures while in this country on French art and she and her husband have been much feted. A reception was given to them by the governing committee of Brooklyn Museum on April 18, and April 19 they were guests in New York of the president and council of the National Academy of Design. It is greatly to be regretted that they will not visit Washington. Unfor- tunately, their stay in America is too Umited {o permit it. This _exhibition, which opens on April 25, will continue through June 15, and will undoubtedly well repay a journey from Washington. * % %3 JFOR a number of years while he was modeling the pediment of the Capitol, Paul Bartlett had a studio in this city. He is now in Paris, but ris, which is to be erected delphia, had lately been Baltimore foundry. As there has been some disagreement in regard to the site that this statue will occupy and in Phila- Notes of Art and Artists His | bare | visited Zu- | the | his interesting statue of Robert Mor- | cast in a| the matter is still undecided, the statue has been temporarily placed in Roland Park. * % % % AN exhibition of graphic arts opered at the Baltimore Museum of Art on April 3 and wili remain on view through Sunday, May 14 One gallery ) s devoted to examples of printing. A serics of twelve charts has been loaned by the division of graphic arts of the National Museum These show in a remarkably interest- ing way the development of early woodcuts, Japanese prints, the Ameri- can school of wood engraving, line engraving, mezzotinting, etching, aquatinting, lithography, collotype process, photogravure, screen proc- esses, paper and book making, type making, bookbinding, etc. Two cases from a Baltimore engraving company show, step by step, the ma of & Bair tone and of & jine cut. ¢ °f * There is one group of etchings by Baltimore artists and another L members of the Brooklyn Societ Etchers. In the main galle are original {llustrations been assembled and sent out by American Federation of Arts _ On three successive Thursdays dur- ing the period of this exhibition there will be demonstrations in the eve- nings. The first of these was on the evening of April 10, by William Auer- bach-Levy, who made an fore the audience; the se evening & April 17, was by | | of y there that have the Freder- ick Reynolds, who showed the pr esses of mezzotint and dry-point, and on the evening of April 24 the demon- istration will be by Wil Simmons of w York, who will make an aq tint and describe the process. Ktch- ings and aquatints by Mr. Simmons ar now on exhibition herc in the Smithsonian Institution. * % £7F American Federation of Arts THE announces its fifteenth annual convention to be held in this city May 14, 15 and 16 at the Willard Hotel. An interesting program is promised. The addresses on the first day will be by H. M. Kurtzworth, director of the Kansas City Art Institute, on “Our |Part in American Art"; by Florence Levy, director of the Baltimore Mu- seum of Art, on “The Usefulne: of an Art Museum to the ty’ | by Anna Curtis Chandler of the Metro- | potitan " Museum “of Art, on ‘“School | Children and the Art Museum,” and by Robert Underwood Johnson, per- manent secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, on “A Plan for the KEstablishment of Art Museums” Am the interest subjects to be pres sions are “National Tendencies in 1 dustrial Art,” “Home Industries “Marketing Art,” “Abolishing Country Billboards” and “Technical Art Train- ing for University Students,” all by | well known authorities The afternoon of the 15th will be devoted to inspection of the Freer Gallery of Art and its collections. The convention will be concluded, as usual, with a dinner on the evening of the 16th, at which there will be distin- guished speakers. FIESETE NDER the auspices of the National Geographic Society Fred P. Clat- worthy of Rocky Mountain Park re- cently gave a demonstration of the present possibilities of color pho- {tography, showing both afternoon and evening before large audiences his series of beautiful slides of western scenery. Possibly few of those who had the | privilege of seeing these slides real- ized how much art went into their making. The photographer, quite as much as the painter, however, must respect the principles upon which all art is founded if he is to succeed, and | when the lumiere or other color | process plates are used a new element | of difficulty is added. Mr. Clatworthy's pictures are, in the first place, charm- ing_compositions, which means that he chooses his subjects well and with the pictorial viewpoint in mind; and, secondly, they show admirable distri- bution of light and shade; finally, he takes into his reckoning the effects of atmosphere and light, and renders with amazing skill these subtleties of impression, the _interpretation of which heretofore has only come with- in the range of the painter. In ex- plaining his pictures Mr. Clatworthy mentioned several times that these effects were only to ba had at cer- tain hours of the day, which went to show that, though he was using me- chanical methods, he was literally painting with light. To a remarkable ree his color photographs have hat painters would call technique, breadth of effect coupled with « measure of detail, so that the eve takes in the whole at a glance. Here- in, as a rule, lies the difference be- tween a photograph and a painting. * x x % | A SPECIAL exhibition of pencil { ™ portraits by the Duchess of Rut- {1and will be held under the patronage {of the ambassador of Great Britain |in the Vandyck galleries, 1611 Con- {necticut avenue, commencing April | This group of pertraits has been shown for the past two weeks at the Duveen galleries.in New York and in- cludes several portraits of Lady Di- ana Manners, the daughter of the art- t, who is acting the double role of | the Virgin and the Nun in the scenio | play “The Miracle The Duchess of Rutland is widely | known in her own country, where her |portraiture is much in demand, but | this is the first opportunity that the |art patrons of Washington have been | given to view her work. This group consists of about fifty portraits. giv- ing ample proof of her versatility | _Announcement is also made by the llcries of an exhibition of of the Barbizon School, 22 to May 3, inclusive LEILA MECHLIN “THE HOUSATONIC IN WINTER,” A PAINTING BY HOBART NICHOLS, PURCHASED BY THE COR- CORAN GALLERY OF ART. - A X