Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 59

ODAY is Mother’s day. In Washington in many local churches the day not only will inspire sermons, but be in evidence in the sing- ing of musical compositions find in lists of songs there parent as compared with only four about “Father.” are obvious. In fact, the popular Machree” seem small in comparison universal appeal. about “Mother.” It is interesting to are thirty-two about this beloved Of course the reasons variations on the theme of “Mother with the bigness of the theme and its In the history of music there is hardly a name of a great composer or artist that does not have linked with it tales of a mother’s encourage- ment in the face of obstacles and, on the other hand, frequently unfeeling antipathy toward a chosen profession by the struggling musician's father. A striking example of present-day mother love is the fond preparation and constant attendance of the mother o f little Shura Cherkassky, Russian boy pianist, who is making her son a definite and worthy personality in the highest music circles in the world. Many others there are, and there have been thousands through the ages of music’s progress. * M * % THE unique feature of this week's music in Washington will be the presentation of “The Four Winds,” a secular oratorio of Carl Busch, by the Washington Choral Society at Central High School, Tuesday night. The text for this work was taken from the second part of Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” Mr. Busch, listed among the eminent American composers, born in Denmark in 1862, is at present a composer-con- ductor of the middle west. He is especially noted as a writer of a sym- phony, a symphonic rhapsody, heroic cantatas, violin music and songs. Charles Wengard will conduct his organization, and the Marine Band Orchestra will play the accompaniment. Special arrangements have been made for the accommodation of scheof children to hear this work at a nominal fee. a text in the English course at the In view of the fact that the “Song of Hiawatha” is used as schools, this would seem a fine op- portunity for students to get a broader view of this masterpiece of American literature from a different angle. The soloists in this oratorio will be Gretchen Hood, soprano, and Er- vine J. Stenson, tenor. Miss Hood has studied in Brussels, London, and Paris, and has filled numerous operatic and concert -engagements in this country. Miss Hood’s most recent success was last _season with the Greenwich Village Theater Company, in which she sang French folk songs of the sixteenth century. She has returned to make her home here again. She is a favorite singer on local radio programs. Mr. Stenson also is an American singer, born in northefn Wisconsin. He was the protege of a Norwegian surgeon who in private life was a fine pianist and a pupil of Leschitzsky and Grieg. with Edward Kuss of the Munich Mr. Stenson studied voice Opera. He later became associated with Karl Jorn of the Metropolitan Opera, and they toured during a period of two and a half years, playing with success in nearly all the larger cities of South America and many this country. Mr. Stenson toured Mme. Barrientos. of the important musical centers of New England with Alma Gluck and He sang the role of Iolan in Frederic Converse’s “Pipe of Desire” with the Chicago Opéra, and had numerous other concert engagements until interrupted by the war. service in France on the British front. of He saw twenty-two months He has since then devoted much time to study and composition. His setting for Riley’s “The Prayer Perfect” is said to be one of the best examples of American song writing. HE other big concert of the week will be given by another of Washington's large choral organizations, the Interstate Male Chorus, Friday evening at the Masonic Auditorium, with Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass, and Lucy Brickenstein, pianist, as assisting artists. Proof of the popularity of the work of this chorus is shown in the fact that cight of the eleven numbers to be sung are “request” numbers, especially asked for by auditors at the last concert. * k% ¥ AST week the women's choral clubs held sway, with fine numbers pre- sented by the Rubinstein and Cecelian Glee Clubs. American contralto soloist with the with her simpler lyrical offerings, technique. an Gl Kathryn Meisle, Rubinstein Club, won special honors given with fine tone and finished I.meres_ti'ng news was the statement issued at the Rubinstein concert that in addition to engaging three artists of international fame for next season, the club hopes to raise a fund whereby those with exceptional talent vocal, instrumental or in the composing field, will have proper encouragement and financial assistance, if needed, to complete their development. HELEN FETTER. TheStory of ‘The FourWinds’ TEE poem, Hiawatha, by Henry W. Longfellow, is a compilation In verse and song of a number of In- dian legends reflecting the religious thought of America’s natives, as handed down from aboriginal tribes. They have been added to from time to time by imaginative medicine men and patriarchical leaders and told in chant and story in the wickinp in winter and around the evening ‘fires by the river bank after the day's hunt had ended in the summer. The second part of “The Song of Hiawatha,” the “Four Winds." set to music by Carl Busch, is to be given Tuesday evening at Central High School by the Washington Choral So- ciety, with the orchestra of the Ma- rine Band accompanying, sponsored by cabinet officers and many of the social and political leaders of the na- tion, as well as by the educational board. The blending of the harmony throughout the song will give the impression of the particular wind represented at each subclimax, and while the music is in progress, the listeners can easily recall in their own experience instances and wind sounds of which the music will re- mind them The evening should be of particular interest to students in the schools on account of the historic value of this song in the literature of America and its place in the English language. The “Four Winds” starts with “Honor be to Mudjekeewis,” who had excursioned into the land of the White Rabbit in the cold north, and by great trepidity “had stolen the belt of wampum from the neck of Mishe-Mokwa.” The string of beads (wampum) worn about the neck was the mysterious source of power and _authority which had _made the Great Bear the terror of the In- dian everywhere, and Mishe-Mokwa was the king of the bears, and while wearing the belt of wampum did im- to his awkward tribe a power which did not readily submit to the blows from the “war club” of the primitive redmen. But_Mudjekeewis, after acquiring the *belt of wampum” from the sleeping bear, became powerful. He “Smote the mighty Mishe-Mokwa In the middle of the forehead. Right between the eyes he smote himJ* And tauntingly cried out: “Hark you, Bear! you are a coward, And no Brave, ag you pretended” ou know our tribes are hos- “Long have been at war together; Now you find that we are strongest, You go sneaking in the for MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. WANTED —Learners fo_practice on my piano. 1406 Hopkins st.. near 20th and P n.w. 11% BESSIE N. WILD Voice Cuitore, Piano and Harmony Btadio, 6824 5th st., Takoma Park, D. C. Phone Adams 5549. Washington Conservatory of Music 1408 N. H. Ave., at Dupont Circle. Main 7858 Vi Sa , ete. Yearbook. Vo Wk COCRSE. EPBCIAL RATES ~ MARGUERITE BROWN joprano—8 Years' Furopean Training - Sn;flar Course in Voice Cultore Phong Nerth 2004 CLEMENT LEAVITT }nsmo.‘"v%xcz AND HARMONY Coaching and Accompanyiz 98 Eloventh Street N.W. A Walter T. Holt Studios TENOR BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, BANJO, HAWALIAN GUITAR AND UKULELE, Eosemble Practice with the Nerdies Clubs. _ Established 1894. PHONE COL. 946 1801 COLUMBIA RD. You go hiding in the mountains! Had you conquered me in battle Not a groan would I have uttered, But you, Bear! sit here and whimper, And disgrace your tribe by crying Like a wretched Shangodaya.” Then the people shouted: *“Honor be to Mudjekeewis! Henceforth he shall be the West- ‘Wind™ Thereafter he was called Kabeyun: “And hereafter and forever Shall he hold supreme dominion Over all the winds of heaven.” “For himself he kept the West-Wind, Gave the others to his children,” ‘Wabun took the East-Wind. to Shawondasee the South-Wind, “And the North-Wind, wild and cruel, To the fierce Kabibonokka.” Then the song goes to the story of the sons of Kabeyun. Wabun “loves a lovely maiden,” whose blue eyes are like “two blue lakes among the rushes.” He “wooed her with his smile of sunshine,” “With his sighing and his singing, Gentlest whispers in the branches, Softest music, sweetest odors,” “Till into a star he changed her” As the “Morning Star” “Wabun-An- nung,” “And forever in the heavens They are seen together walking.” “Once the.fierce Kabibonokka” re- turned, announcing, “Who is this that dares to brave me?’ ¥inding “Shin- gebis, the diver, fishing, long after Wawa, the wild goose, had gone to the land of Shawondasee, but though Shingebis “Felt his presence by the coldness, Felt his icy breath upon him, Still he did not cease his singing, Still he did not leave his laughing, Only turned the log a little, . Only made the fire burn brighter.’ He “Challenged Shingebis, the diver, To come forth and wrestle with him. But the fierce one lost the battle, “And retreated, baflled, beaten.” But, “fat and lazy,” - “Listless, careless Shuwondme._ In his heart one sorrow had he. Had a love For the maid with yellow tresses. But he was too fat and lazy To bestir himself and woo her”; Until “He beheld her yellow tresses Changed and covered o'er with white- ness.” When his heart burned with jeal- ousy for his snowy, more energetic brother. Then “Nevermore did Shawondasee . | See the maid with yellow tresses! The dandelion had changed her headgear to snowy white. . : mn St. T. LOUIS will coms one step nearer its dream of opera by, for and of St Louisians when, as a closing per- formance of its sixth season of mu- nicipal opera in Forest Park, it will prodace “The Beggar Princess” with socore by Noel Poepping, St. Louls band- master and composer, and book and lyrics by Sylvester Maguire, a St. Louis theatrical man, author of many popu- lar songs. ““The . Beggar Princess” concerns mythical Balkan kingdoms, rival claim- ants to a throne, an American ol king who wpuld buy throne, country, oil and all from the would-be revolutionists; his son, who is in love with a gypsy girl (who is the true princess), and his daughter, who is ultimately won by the rival prince. There are two acts, a ballet of four movements and eighteen song and chorus numbers, Noel Poepping has been promi- ~ THE Musigraphs JARRY EDWARD MUELLER, or- ganist and choirmaster at .the First Congregational Church, leaves this week to take a position at the famous Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N. C, as solo organist. Mr. Mueller has been the organist and choir- master at the First Congregational Church for five years. He organized and directed the chorus chofr of sixty voices, a church glee club. and the George Washington University Male Glee Club for the past two years. He inaugurated the musical vespers at the church and. has assisted in many of the delightful concerts which the church gives during the winter months. Julia' Culbreth Gray has just returned from a successful south- ern tour, where she gave seven con- certs in North and South Carolina. Mrs. Gray is specializing in costume vork and sings songs of Russia, France, Italy, Bohemia, England and other countries in costume appropri- ate to the country which she is rep- resenting. Thursday night she will give a®recital at St David's Parish Hall, on Conduit road. Assisting Mrs. Gray at thi will be Katharine = McCaffre Mary Cook, pianists; Inez Smith, Wadna Bradley, sopranos: _Leslis Coyle and James Kidwel), baritones; | Warring Barnes, viollnist. Mrs. Gray goes tomorrow to Hagerstown to give her recital be- fore the Women's Club there. These concerts are under the man- agement of the Washington Music Bureau. recital and Dr. T. S. Lovette of this city has announced that he will open a studio in Carnegie Hall, New York, on June 15, when he will divide his time be- tween Washington and New York. Lucy M. MacMorland, soprano, gave a Jenny Lind recital, wearing cos- tumes of the period 1850 and singing songs made famous by the Norwegian singer in a benefit for the Immanuel piscopal Church Braddock Heights, Alexandria, Va, in the Young People’s building Friday eve- ning. Esther Barkley, pianist, and Robert Barkley, bafitone, were assisting artists. Harvey Townsend sang at the com- munity meeting held in the Sherwood Presbyterian Sunday _School Hall Tuesday evening. Willard C. Smith was his accompanist. Elizabeth Bernheimer. violinist. as- sisted by Louise Bernheimer, cellist, and Clara Moran Bernheimer, pianist, was presented by Frieda Hauf Irwin in a recital at the First Reformed Church last Monday night. Netta Craig, soprano, and Margue- rite Meakin, IMezzo,SOPrano, repre- sented Canada and the United States Thursday night at the reception held at the National Press Club, when a painting of the late President Hard- ing was given the club as a token of good will of the Vancouver Sun, Van- couver, B. C. Miss Cralg left Washington Friday for New York, where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Kellogg. and will sing this afternoon at a reception of the Girls' ¥Friendly Society of that city, of which Mrs Kellogg is president This morning Miss Craig is to sing at the oldest Protestant Episcopal church of Brooklyn. Mildred Kolb Schulse, pianist, and her mother, Mrs. Anna V. Kolb, are established 'In the apartment at 2854 Connecticut avenue, which they have recently taken. Mrs. Schulze will, however, keep her studio at 1406 H street. New Negro Spirituel. A new negro spiritual composed by Wellington A. Adams, entitled “Go Wash in That Beautiful Pool” will have its first public hearing tomor- row evening at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, with Virginia Quiv- ers, soprano, as soloist. It will be a feature of a joint musical program to be given under the auspices of the Columbia Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Quivers will also sing two other com- positions by Mr. Adams, entitled “In My Midnight Dreams, I Hear Your Gentle Voice Calling* and “That Red Rosebud Is You.* Wellington Adams’ compositions have received favorable comment from well known mausicians. Other features on the program are the annual student program of the Columbia Consercatory of Music, in- cluding _selections by Janie M. Green, soprano; Helen Litaker, con- tralto; pianoforte, Laura E. Tross, Julia Coles and Alfreda Nalls; violin, Edgar E. Redmond and Harry Young: banjo-mandolin, Dorothy Williams; tenor banjo, Les Outlaw, Bennetta Bullock, five years, and Miss L. Rice, sixty years, the youngest and oldest pupils, respectively, in the school will play the piano. The Third Baptist ChurcH choir will sing. Burleigh's “Go Down Moses" and Dett's “Listen to the Lambs." The members of the National Federa- tion of Music Students’ Clubs will give a brief program and several young violinists will play. This will be the Columbia Con- servatory of Music's contribution to- ward the nation-wide “May Mausic Week” movement. Maryland University Festival This Week TE:E third annual May festival of the University of Maryland will be held at the University in Collegs Park Wednesday and Thursday with afternoon and evening programa. Margery Maxwell, prima donna so- prano from the Chicago opera, will give an artist's recital at 2:30 Thurs- day and will take solo parts in the oratorio “Stabat Mater” In the even- ing. A concert by the University of Maryland Glee Club with Raymond Simonds of Boston, tenor soloist, is the attraction for Wednesday after- noon. Miss Gretchen Hood of Washington, Miss Aimee Olson, New York, con- tralto; Raymond Simonds and Charles Trowbridge Tittmann Will have the solo parts in the “Rose Maiden” Wednesday evening. The university chorus has been un- GRETCHEN HOOD Interstate Male Chorus, Clyde B. Aftchison conducting, will give the third concert of the season Fri- day evening at 8:30 in the Masonic Auditorium. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, bass, will be guest soloist. Chorus will bs assisted by a sec- tion of the Army Band Orchestra, un- der the direction of Technical Sergt Bingert, in the following numbers: “Chorus of Bishops and Priests” (from “L’Africaine”), by Dudley Buck; *The Birth of the Opal” by Neidlinger; “Salamis-a Triumph Song” by Gern- aheim; “Invictus” by Lynes, and the cantata, “The Nun of Nidaros,” by Dudley 'Buck. Ross Farrar will sing the incidental solos in this cantata. The orchestra will also play Elgar's A CONCERT will bo given at the Playhouse Friday evening at § o'clock under the direction of the Associated Studios, Otto Simon, voice; La Salle Spier, piano; Henri Soko- lov, violin. La Salle Spier will be at the second piano. Mrs. Jessle Blais- dell and Otto Stmon will accompany the viglin and vocal numbers. The publicis invited to attend. The following program will be given: “Concerto Romantique,” Opus 35 (Godard); “Allegretto Moderato, Adagio Non Troppo, Canzonétta-Alle- gro Moderato” (Harry Cherkassky “Vol che Sapete,” aria from Kigar (Mozart), Sylvia Grazzini; “Amari 1a”, Canzone (Caccini), Charles Watts; L' Avou,” “Furios “Zephyr,” from Opus 82 (Hellor) ph Snyder; “Elizabeth's Pravyer,” aria from “Tannhauser” (Wagner), Anna Led- ward Patterson; “Je Veux Vivre Dans ce reve,” ariette from “Romeo and let” (Gounod), Hazel Gem Hughes ‘oncerto, Opus 26" (Bruch), fia.rnuel Goldshear; “The Bond-Maiden' ‘ILZ: 10), Frances van dflor; Bogert; ':.Ng;: Pergolesi);: “Rendi’l Sereno al Ci l(in'.' g(‘;lande]\. Dr. Carson _ Frailey “Rondo for Two Pianos, _D Major (Gurlitt), Jean Stimson: ‘Rondo_for Two Pianos, Minor” (Gurlitt), Vir- ginia Shull; “Slowly the Day Ldght Departs” (Borodini Mrs. Ida Willis Seato “Ah, Fors'e lul” aria from “fa Traviata® (Verd)), Lillian Ade] S instein), Martha e tein), E “f\":’";“mm meeting of the District of Columbla Federation of Musle Clubs, to be held ‘Wednesday e ?— ning at 8:15 o'clock in All Soul's Sunday school house, Dr. John Tigert, United States commissioner of edu- cation, and Senator Fletcher are to be the speakers. Mrs GeorgeWalson, local pianist, and the Tommy Tuck- ers, directed by Mrs Walter Bruce Howe, will furnish the music. K brief business meeting of the boAa:d is called for 7:30 sharp, and at 8:15 the meeting will be thrown open to the public and all musicians and music lovers are invited to at- tend. - " The music will be: ‘Chorale’ talina” (Howe), “Ding (Bache); 1o (Wood), (he Tommy Dell” mmy ?\?gfars: erzo, B Flat Minor’ Chopin), o Somton™” (Greig), (Grainger), Mrs _ George “Deep = River” (Burleig] When Soft_ Voices DI ~Sapphire Seas” (Friml), Tuckers. Gladys Hillyer, Mary Rath ?Iztlhc;'_s ertha_Thompson Nelson, pi- :;-nn‘:msmd Edythe Crowder and Fan- nie Gluckstein, singers, all well known in the younger music circles of Washington, will be presented in 2 recital in Carnegie Hall, New York, next Wednesday by Dr. and Mrs. T. S. Lovetts of this city. Mrs. Lovetto will play for the singers. A pre- tentious program has been arranged and a group of prominent Washing- ton and New York people will act as patrons for the affair. Orpheus Club will hold its last mThfngrg'rmm season _Tuesday eve- ning in the studio of Victor Golibart At 1723 I street at 8:30 o'clock for the annual election of a chair- man. The club, which is just a year old, is a unique organization, as it has no officers and no dues, the chairman is elected annually and ap- points two members to serve with him as a committee. For the first season Katharine Brooks is chalrman and Mildred Kolb Schulze and Georse Tommy der training weekiy for the entire school year, under the direction of Dr. Homer C. House. Mrs. Jessie Blaisdell is the pianist. *The Beggar Princess” Louis.- nently identified with civie music in St. Louis for many years. He is a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and in the summer time for several years has directed municipal concerts in the city parks. He com- posed several numbers for the St ‘Louis pageant and mm:‘;‘iln 1914, which preceded the m opera. Mr. Poepping is musical director of the St. Louis Fashion Pageant and composed fine musio for the Missouri centennial celebration in St Louis two years ago. Sylvestor Maguire was for many years manager of theatrical com- panies and stars. Besides his play, “In Panama,” he adapted “The Girl Behind the Counter,” for Lew Fields, and one of his plays, “For Better or for Worse,” is to be_given early pro- duction by George M. Coban. As a song writer he has achieved popu- larity through “If I Had a Thousand Lives to Live.” “Why Did You Make Me Care?’ “Yearning,” ‘Mine” and many other hits, Three Marine Band Concerts SPECIAL Mother's day concert A Gt bve miven at Walter Reed General Hospital at 3 o’clock thisaft- ernoon by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. The program will be: March, “Sons of the Brave” (Bidgood); overture, “Zampa” (Herold); entr acte, “Val- ley of Popples” (Ancliffe); trombone solo, “Little Mother of Mine” (Bur- leigh), Musician Robert E. Clark; scones from “Bohemian Girl** (Balfe); Wwaltz, “Donauweibchen® (Strauss): grand fantasia, “Songs of Scotland (Lampe); “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” Tnited States Marine bar- ot o omorrow. at 3 o'clock pm., a K ert by the United States Marine Band m will be giyen. The will be: March, “Fail PhoE T air" (Sousa); overture, “Mar- the: (Fotow): “Andante Cantabile” from tne siring ausrtet “opus II e atton (Verdl): characteristic, “Baginage” (Herbert); waltz, “Naren- tar (Romzak); _suite, “Caucasian Ehotcnes (lvanow): marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Monteruma,” and “Thg 1ed Banner.” S dbesgay night, at 8:15 o'clock, at the berracks, the usual concert by the United States Marine Band Orches- tra will be presented, with the fol- SOLOISTS IN ORATORIO AT C. H. S. Invitations are out for the annual series of individual recitals by mem- bers of the Saturday Afternoon Pianists’ Club. These recitals will be glven Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of this week and Monday and Tuesday of next week by Helen h, Fleanore Colborn, inifred haelson, Mme. Continho, Katherine Smith, Helen Willlams, Ann Keliher, Rebecca Easterbrook, Louise Ryan and Arline Gilbert. The programs will be given at the home of Mrs. Martin A.+Morrison, di- rector of the club. InterstateMaleChorusFriday “Salut d"Amour,” Mr. Altchison con- ducting. The program is largely made up of numbers specially requested by the auditors at the last concert given by orus. Among these are “Ab- by Frank Lynes; “The Slumber with a special arrangement B. Aitchison; “Goin’ Home"” (on themes from Largo movement from ew World Symphony” by “Banjo Song,” by Brewer, and “Wake, Miss Lindy,” by Warner. Mr. Tittmann will eing for his first group “Pro Pecatis” (from “Sabat Mater™), by Rossini; ‘“The Air of the Drum Major” (from “Le Caid™), by Thomas, and “O Primavera,” by Tirindelll. * Miss Lucy Brickenstein will assist him at the piano. His second group will consist of “Come Again, Sweet Love, by Dow- land; 'ome Down to Kew,” by Deis, and »anny Deever,” by Damrosch. Club and School Notes H Wilson are serving em the com- mittee with her. The last meeting wis postponed from April 29 to last Tuesday eve- ning because of the recital of Louis Potter, pianist-composer, who is a member of the club. The program Tuesday was of Italian music given by Miss Brooks soprano, and Raby Stanford, violinist, Mrs. Schulze ac- companying both solosts. ‘The regular Monday evening musi- cal soiree to be held at the studio of Krank H. Schoedler will be present- ed tomorrow evening, when Dr. Al- exander Henneman will lecture on Schumann and the romantic school of music. Prof, Schoedler will play some of Schumann's compositions on the piano and Miss Edna Sheehy sing some of that composer’s vocal compositions. “Recreation Litteraire et Musicale” is the title of an entertainment to be presented Friday afternoon at 4:30, Saturday afternoon at 4 and Sat urday night at 8 o'cloek at 2118 Kalorama road 'at Connecticut ave- nue, when the following program will be given: Class enfantine—-Mon Petit Agneau, Ronde” paroles et musique de_ Jacques-Dalcroze, and “Fleurs et Papillons,” danse. Cours infrerieur—"Les Petltes Filles de Piorre,” gestes, rythmiques ot poses plastiques de Jaquez-Dalcroze. Cours Moyon, *Le Jeu du Chemin de Fer.” de Jacques-Balcroze. Scene de“Tar. tuffe,” Moliere—Mariane, FElizabeth Marechal, and Dorine, lantha Smith. Cours superieur, charade en quatre tableau, Marthe Maret, officer d'Acad- emie, premier tableau, “Au Jardin*— Mme. Soupolet, Bernice Safford; Ra- meau_Fleury, jardinier, John Evan; M. Shouldworry, un voisin, Edwin Denby, jr. Deuxieme tableau, “Un The chiez Mme. Bonaccueil”—Rose and Madeleine, femme de chambre, Nina Randell and Elizabeth Nugent:; Jo- domestique, Edwin Denby. jr.: Bonaccueil, Barbara Wilson Grandsavoir, Priscilla Evans Mma. _ Boisgentil, ' Harriet Ballard. Mile. Belarchet, Mary Stuart Lattrell Mme. Valenfleur, Jeanne Maddux. Mme. Newly-Rich, Ann Mallory; Mlle. Fullofpep, Marion Denby: Mme. Gris- soury, Anna Randell; Mile. Reine- des-Pres, Mary Elizabeth Keane; Mme. Sonfile, Enid Blevden, and Mme. Sanservel, Louise Waller. ' Troisieme tableau, '“A la Promenade"—Cora, bonne d'enfant, Elsie Behrend, and Luly, une petite fille, Inez eane. Quatrieme tableau, “Te Mot da 1a Charade”—Sonnet, Arabecca Dulaney. Cours Academiqus, “Cendrillon.” oper- ctto-feerie, de Felix Mousset—cCen- drillon, Margaret Benham: Alphena and Rosalba, soeurs de Cendrillon Eleanor Wilson and Iantha Smith: La Feo Charmante, Elsis Behrend: Ta Reine. Nina Randell; dames de 14 Cour, FElisabeth Marechal, Arabeces Dulaney, Elizabeth Nugent, Barbara Wilson and Priscilla Evans: une ser- Jante, Bernice Safford. " “Les Froei. ennes oeur a deux voi Bordese). = Gaist Ruth Mae Hansford, lyrio will preside at the mhsmpfi.::r:T:: ner of business and _professional women of the Women's City Clab, to be held at the clubhouse, Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m. The speaker of the even- ing will be Florence Hyde, who will speak on “Songs and Song Writers.” Miss Hyde is_chairman of music of the League of American Penwomen. Ruby Smith Stahl, dramatic soj will give a group of songs. Julla Culbreth Gray, mezzo-contralto, sin- ger of folk songs, impersonator and cntertainer, will appear in “Strains from the Sunny South,” in costume. Charles T. Ferry, composer and pian- ist, will give a group of his own compositions, accompanied by a short explanation of each. Mr. Ferry will also accompany Mrs. Stahl and Mrs. Gray at the piano. sa V¥ -— lowing program March, Jefferson” = (Santelmann “Ruy Blas’ (Mendelssohn’ in G Minor” (Krzyanowskl); scenes from ‘Il Trovatore™ “Serenade” (Pierne); Not"” (Macbeth); “Siegfried Idyl” (Wagner); suite, “L'Arlesienne, No. 2” (Bizet); marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Span- gled Banner. “Thomas overture, e grand (Verdi); “Forget-Me. Hook and Eye Experts Needed. COUPLE of strong-armed ex- pert hook and eye manipulators could get steady work these days at the Paramount studio. They must be able to loose a hundred hooks and eyes in ten seconds flat And they must stand by for emergency calls to hook them up again. This skill is required becanse of the fact that Lady Mary, the Duchess of Mariborough, the Duchess de Montmorency, and a number of ladies-in-waiting making ‘“Monsieur Beaucaire” have to step out of sight occasionally and take a few deep breaths. Their royal highnesses and their aides are slightly pinched. Each court costume averages about 200 hooks up the back. No ordinary studio attendant can make the nec- eed six or eight times a day. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 11, 1924—PART 3. In the Churches R Mother’s day at the Chureh of the Covenant this evening Her- man Fakler will sing the baritone #olo “Once More to Touch Her Fragile Hand,” by Elizabeth Collison-Hill, a rexident of Washington. The service will begin at 8 o’clock, and music will bs given by the eve- ning choir of one hundred voices, Claude Robeson, director; Harvey Murray, organist; Mra. Howard Blan- 4y, planist, and the solo quartet. The choir will sing, Me” (Coenon); “Sweet 1s Thy Mercy” (Barnby), and “Watchman, What of the Night?” (Sargeant). ‘The music for today’s services at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, under the direction of R. Deane Shure, will be as follows: Morning, organ prelude, “Preghiera™ (Rava- nello), Mrs. Frank A. Frost; anthem, “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” (Am- brose), the Mount Vernon chorus; quartet, “Still, Still With Thee" (Ger- rish), W. Arthur McCoy, first tenor; B. Louis Goodyear, second tenor; J. Benton Webb, baritone, and Howard P. Bailey, bass; organ postlude, “Pre- ludio” (Ravanello). Evening, twenty- minute organ recital by Mr. Shure, featuring Nevin's “A Day in Venice,’ which will be played by request, and the *Toccato,” from Widor's “Fifth Symphony”; anthem, “Hosanna to the Son of David” (Lorenz); quartet, *“‘The Lost Chord” (Parks); organ postlude, “Grand Choeur in A Flat" (Faulkes). This morning at ",';fgi“?“ lemuut Congregational Chu or the oclock service, the music will be by the Mount Pleasant chorus, and the solo quartet, under the direction of Norton M. Little with Claude Robeson at the organ. For the vesper servics, beginning at 5 o'clock, the music is by the solo quartet. The program follows: Morning serv- ice—Organ prelude, “Andantino,” (Le- quartet, “I Hear Thy Echoing Voice” (Bates); offertory chorus, “Abide With Me” (Churchill); organ postiude, “Procession” (Boolmann). Vesper serv- ice—Organ prelude,* Eventide” (Steane); contralto solo, “Just As I Am” (God- ard), Mrs. Buchlen; offertory, quartet, Softly and Tenderly, Jesus Is Call- (Murray), and organ postlnde, are” (Dubois). Ruth May Hansford will sing at the morning service of the Cleveland Park Congregational Church as a so- prano solo “Mother, My Dear’ (Tre- haine). Mrs Page McK. Etchison, the pianist and director of music, will play as a prelude “Ave Maria” (Schu- bert, as an offertory “Mother Ma- chree” (Oleott-Ball), and as the post- lude *“The Heavens Are Telling” (Haydn). Mausic at_thiy morning’s service at Columbia Heights Christlan Church will includs an anthem by the chorus choir, “Send Out Thy Light” (Gou- nod), 'and a number by the solo quar- tet, “Come, Ye Children,” from “The Prodigal Som” (Sullivan), the inci- dental solos being sustained by Belva Hoch, soprano, and Robert M. Olone, tenor. At the evening service the choir will sing “Fear Not. O Land” (Rogers); offertory trio, “Praiss Ye,” from “Attila” (Verdi), soprano, tenor and baritone. Music at the First Baptist Church today will be: Morning—Organ prelude, “Communion in D" (Grason): offertory solo, “The Name of Mother” (poem written and arranged to an old English melody by Florence How- ard); organ, “Postlude” (Rennes); organ recital _at 7:45, “Prelude” (Jungmann); “Evening Rest* (Mer- kel); “Fantasia” (Stainer); anthems by evening chorus. “Dream of Galilee” (Marsden); “The Day Is Gently Sink- ing” (Doane), and organ postlude, March in ¥ (Boise). Charles Ferry, organist and Flor- ence Howard, ' soloist, will have charge of the music. Tomorrow night at 8:15 an organ recital will be given at the Brookland Baptist Church by Adolf Torovsky, organist of Epiphany Church, assist- ed by Ambrose Durkin, bass. The public is invited. Thers will be a col- lection taken for the organ fund. Luther Place Memorial Church mu- sic today will include: Morning serv- ice, 11 o’clock—*“Prelude et Cantilene™ (Roussean); anthem, “Jubilate Deo” (Wagner), tenor solo, by Mr. L. M. Leisenring; _offertory, ‘“Morning" (Hollins), and “Postlude” (Ashmall). Evening service, § o'clock—Prelude, “Canzone” (Hall); anthem, “The Good Shepherd” (Barri); offertory, “Eve- ning” (Hollins); anthem, “The Sun Shall Be No More” (Woodward), and “Postlude” (Clark). Mount Vernon Chorus to Sing “Creation™ May 28 \\/EDNESDAY evening, May 2, has been selected as the date of the pefformance of excerpts from Haydn's “Creation” which will be sung by the Mount Vernon chorus at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Epis- copal Church South, under the direo- tion of R. Deane Shure, director of music of the church. The chorus, which eighty voices, will be assisted by Mrs. 3. Frank Rice, soprano: Mis Gratchén Lord, contralto; W. Arthur McCoy, tenor; B. Louis Goodyear, tenor: J. Beton Webb, baritone; How- ard P. Bailey, basso, and Mrs. Frank A Frost, organist. This will be the third and last of a series of sacred concerts given by the Mount Vernon chorus for this season. “Dawn in the Desert” a Christmas oratorio_written by Mr. Shure and Rossell Edward Mitchell, also of the Mount Vernon Place Church, was sung at the church and at Keith's Theater, as was “The Atonement,” by the same men at Eastertime, the lat- ter being selected for the second con- secative years as the last of midday Lenten services. Several of the choruses, as well as trics, duets and solos, in’ the “Crea- tion” ‘will be sung on May 28, enough having been selected to provide about an hour's program. NOTICE! All contributions for The Star music page must be in The Star Office not later than Thursday at 9 a.m. consists of Notes of Art and Artists NOTABLE addition has been made to the National Gallery collections in a group of paintings by oid masters, lately deposited in the gallery's keep- ing by Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson of this city. The collection consists of works acquired by the late Ralph Cross Johnson, through whose mu- nificence the National Gallery has al- ready been greatly enriched. It is made up chiefly of works by painters of the primitive schools of Italy and Klanders, but comprises also a few later works, likew%ss of conspicuous merit. Mr. Holmes, director of the National Gallery, has arranged these paintings in the first of the series of galleries {n the National Museum, now devoted to the national collec- tions, and has so hung them that they may be studied with the utmost ease and appear to the best advantage. Like the room devoted to the Ralph Cross Johmnson collection and that given over to the paintings lent by Mr. Perkins, this room gives the vis- itor a foretaste of the delights which await one in the great galleries of Europe. Here is painting of a superb sort—color which ravishes the eye and delights 1he senses, grace and ex- quisiteness of drawing, a reverent rendering of subjects and such con- summate art that even the uninitiat- ed is moved with amazement and wonder. Beginning on the left thers is a painting of an old man, supposedly Judas, by Ribera, dark, but resonant in tone, showing in the robe a splen- did red, and in the lights a flesh tint of warmth and brilliance. Next, in quite a different manner, is the “Head of a Young Woman,” the work un- doubtedly of an Italian artist and probably by a follower or pupll of da Vinci's—high-keyed in color scheme, slight in modeling, yet full of+grace and beauty. Next comes a panal of Gothic design, set as the center panel of a triptych, but with the doors un- painted; an_ entombment attributed to Van der Weyden, and certainly in this master's style—a complicated composition, showing in the back- ground extensive landscape and ar- ranging with great deftness and clever “use of Dprospective, a large number of figures; a painting which might well have been originally pro- duced for an oratory or as the study for a great mural. Turning the corner, one comes upon a “Study of an Old Man" quite dif- ferent from the Ribera, undoubtedly a fragment, the work of an Italian painter, attributed by some to do Vinci himself and sufficiently know- ing to have been from the masters brush. Then, there is a lovely little Madonna of an earlier period, painted agalnst a gold-decorated background, reminiscent of the day in which the Della Robbias_produced their lovely Madonnas in high relief, garlanded with flowers and fruit in color. As a center on this wall hangs a figure of Christ. with hand upheld in bless- ing, by Bonifazzio of Venice, a piece cut, evideatly, from a larger canvas, for the attendant figures are not all complete, and the composition is ob- viously fragmentary. The robe of Christ is that rich Venitian red which it is impossible to imitate today, and it is painted in a manner which defies repetition. Apparently the pigment has been laid on heavily and then glazed and overglazed, with the re- sult that a beautiful surface is cre- ated and that lights seems to glow from beneath. The figure of Christ is stepping forward and there is a certan animation in it which is un- usual even in paintings of this period Beyond, to the right, is another figure of Christ, ascribed to Giorgione, who boasted, it will be remembered, that his works possessed the masterly draftsmanship of Michael Angelo and the coloring of Titlan. The painter of this picture might be excused for boasting, for it is a powerful, a su- perb work, possessing unquestionably the coloring and draftsmanship of a great master. There is a quaint picture, “The Visit of the Wise Men™ by Van Orley, a primitive work, showing one of the three offering to Christ a casket filled with gold coin, which the baby in his mothers lap reaches out for in childish curiosity, while Joseph, standing at the back, looks on with apparent disapproval, the other wise men holding aloof, awaiting the op- portunity of presenting their gifts. Centering this third wall is an ex- quisite “Virgin, Christ and St John,” attributed to Albertinelli; and to the right and the left are little pictures, one of “The Baptism of Christ” and the other of “Christ in the Temple,” by Tiepolo. On the third side, to right and left of the doorway hang two portraits of later period, one a magnificent portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence, by himself, the other a beautiful portra of Pgince Charles, by Janssens Van Ceulen. This last shows a man with a long, narrow face and an abundance of dark hair, wearing a black velvet coat belted in with a red sash, and a deep, exquie~ itely designed 'and wrought lace col- lar. So perfectly is the collar painted that. it could be well imitated today by an expert lacemaker.. This is a painting which should stand an example of portraiture for all time. There is no suggestion of pigment; the delineation is extremely definite, but the outlines fade off into shadow, shadow whici is full of color—atmos- eric darkness. The privilege of seeing these pic- tures and their educational value are so great that it is difficult to esti- mat - *x ok % [DOWNSTAIRS in the National Mu- seum, under the joint auspices of the National Gallery of Art and the American Federation of Arts, is now being shown an exhibition of work by Viennese schoof children, which is of cxtraordinary quality and interest. These children, who are chiefly of the poorer classes, are taught by Prof Cizek, who is an innovator in educa- tional methods. The children, from the ages of seven to fifteen go to him for three hours on Saturday and two on Sunday, but the class is not compulsory. There is no charge made; it is free to rich and poor. He claims the difference in his method and that of others is that he does not teach too much; that he gives the children_oppcrtunity for self-expres- sion. He places wmaterials at their disposal and skillfully directs. their thought and effort. For instance, he will take “Autumn” as a subject. He will tell them to draw a figure {llus- Y 0} A “GIRL IN A GARDEN,” A DRAWING BY A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD, AND EXHIBITED WITH THE WORK OF VIENNESE SCHOOL CHILDREN AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. trative of autumn, and that the head of the figure must touch the top of the paper, the feet the bottom, and he advises *hat it should properly fill the space. Then without further sugges tion he tells them td go ihead, paint or draw, and when, after an hour and a half, the works are finished. o put them up and comments upon them one by one, always kindly, and even when adversely, with a certain sense of humor and the purpose of correc- tion. The results are magical, amazing. and as one looks over the drawings in black and white and the paintings in color that have come from thess V ennese youngsters, one would almost wish that they might continue ever children, for, according to Prof. Cizek when the nupils get past fifteen and develop sélf-consciousness all save the very talented Jose thelr skill— the fairy gift is withdrawn. Be that as it may, the showing that is made is remarkable, and it is one which demonstrates what an Inspired teach er can do under given circumstances. This is an exhibition which al teachers and parents should see, but ‘which children also will heartily en- joy. When shown first in London it attracted a great amount of atten- tion. It was then brought to New York, and the Educational Associa- tion thought so well of it that it | financed while in America by one of the great foundations. It has been shown in Brooklyn and in Baltimore and is later to go on a circuit of the principal cities of the United States. * ¥ ¥ % T the Corcoram Gallery of Art two interesting small exhibitions have lately been put on view—one, of etchings and small paintings by Caro- line Armington of Paris; the other of water colors by Helen Breess Wal- cott of this city, the daughter of Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Miss Walcott's water colors, eight- een in number, were done in South America, while working in the field with an expedition under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. They are all, therefore, of South American subjects—"The Wind- ward Isles.” “La_Paz, Bolivia”; " calyptus Trees, Puert’ Montt Plaza, Mendoza, Argentine Republic “At Castro, Southern Chile.” Thev are broadly rendered, forceful works in the style of Sargent and the other great water colorists; bold notes, vig- orously set forth, with a full brush and apparent ease of expression works which have no_trace of femi- ninity, but are rather insistent virile * % % x MRS ARMINGTON'S paintings and etchings are in the south gal- lery, on the first floor devoted to modern bronzes, and are of scemes in and about Paris and of French landscape. She and her husband, who is also an artist, are both Canadians, but have lived for more than twenty years In France. She is a strong etcher and her works show great ex- actness of draftsmanship, a certaint and firmness of touch. Among the most charming are those of “Mont St. Michel,” the entrance doorway at Cluny, the stately, graceful tower of the Cathedral at Antwerp and the fountain at St. Jean du Doigt. These are all quite large, a little larger perhaps than the majority of etchings, but for the Queen's Doll House Mrs. Armington produced a tiny little etching of one of the great bridges across the Seine, which is scarcely larger than a postage stamp, and this, too, she is exhibiting. Her paintings are very French in style and show indebtedness to the school of impressionists. They are high-keyed in color, atmospheric and as interpretations of place extreme- ly true. Two of the canal at Moret are especially pleasing. A portfollo of Mr. Armington's etchings and lithographs may be seen by interested visitors to this exhibi- tion. They are quite different in styls from Mrs. Armington's work, and at the same time very engaging. Hi Paris scens, both in etching and Uthograph, are full of the atmos- phers of the place, complicated com- positions, with many figures and much suggested movement. Mrs. Armington gave a demonstra- tion of etching last Monday after- noon in the assembly hall of the Cosmes Club to a number, of art lovers invited by a group of Wash- ingtonians. *x % ¥ New York from May 5 to Mav 24, at the Kraushaar Art Gallerles, Marjorie Phillips, wife of Duncan Phillips of this city, is holding an exhibition of sixteen of her paintings Guy Pene du Bois, a New York eritic fn an Introduction to the catalogur, says: “This ts the first comprehensive exhibition of the paintings of Mar jorte Phillips. She shows these paintines with little or no forr- knowledge of painting for the pur pose of exhibition. Her works ma- strike the casual observer. at firt glafice, as wanting in sophisticatios The seasoned exhibitor sometime deals in greater natural emphasi Sometimes he Is strident. Sometimes he deals in tricks Very often it i Tmpossible to hang his_exhibition pictures in homes. Marjorie Phillip’ plotures, more than those of the aver- age seasoned exhibitor, have the qual- ity of intimacy. They are withon' compromises made for better public understanding. They are painted primarily, one is led to believa for herself. This does not mean, as in the case of the informal jottings of conventional painters. a great deal of carlelessness. Her compositions are generally very well knit, even though they never seem forced and are never awkward. Her color flows with eas It has variety and grace, a lightness that escapes frivolity. Tt has mo ments of true intensity. Though this color is a heritage from the Frenc! impressionists, the direction toward form in which it is led takes it defi- nitely out of that school™ ‘Washingtonfans have already had the opportunity of seeing two or three of Mra Phillips’ works; one a picture of New York, painted from a high window; _another, view through a New York window. veiled with filmy white curtains and partly screened by growing plants: and a landscape, the last included in thr Corocoran 'Gallery’s recent exhibitior of contemporary art. That she has rare talent and a subtle power of interpretation is obvious: that this talent and perception has been per mitted to develop with complete fres dom is undoubtedly well, and under these conditions it is easy to prophes for her ewen greater achievemen! in the furture. * k% AT the Vandyck Galleries, 1611 Con necticut avenue, an exhibition ol paintings by Vietor Charreton, i French luminist, whose work has at- tracted very favorable attention botk hers and abroad, Is mow on view, exhibftion will continue fot two weeks or more. * % ¥ ¥ T the Arts Club, 2017 I street, may now be seen a collection of oil paintings by R. McGill Mackall of Baltimore, who has won for himself a distinguished place in the fleld ol art, and silhouettes by Baroness E line Maydell, a Russian artist whe has made silhouette cutting a spe cialty, and_oll paintings by a Mr Knake, a Polish artist of Warsaw, who studled in Paris and Rumania. * ¥ % % EORGE JULIAN ZOLNAY leaves tomorrow for Missouri to super« intend the erection of two fountaing which he has made, one for the Mis« souri State University at Columbia, the other for Washington University at St. Louis. He is also going t1 Kansas City to see the site for a wat memorial for which he has been coni missioned. LEILA MECHLIN.