Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1924, Page 46

HE Chicago Civic Opera Company has announced (l('fmil? plans for operas to be produced in the Windy City during the coming season. Several new works will be given initial production and many old operas will be revived. It may be of interest to \\ashmglo!llar}s te learn than Kathryn Meisle, the contralto. who won such enthus_lastfc praise on her reci here in May, with the Rubinstein Club, N to sing in Ponchielli's “Gioconda,” the opening performance of the C?ucaga opera season, November 5. Rosa Raisa probably will sing the title role and Giacomo Rimini also is listed to sing in this opera. Promincnt among the works to be presented by this company for the | first time is the English version of “Bianca,” written by Henry Hadlfy. composer. Bizet's “The Pearl Fishers,” and Auber’s ‘.‘Pra also new to this company, will be produced. Among revivals scheduled are Montemezzi's “The Love of Three Kings,” in which Mary Garden probably will sing Werther,” Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande,” Verdi's “Masked Ball,” Meyerbeer's “Prophet” and Wagner's “Tann- hauser.” 3 The new members of the company include Augusta Lenska, Antonio Cortis, Toti dal Monte, Elvira Hidalgo, Elsa Genthner-Fischer, Helen Freund, Gladys Swarthout, Ivan Dneproff, Ciro de Ritis, Douglas Stans- bury and Roberto Moranzoni. As the Chicago organization is to offer three performances in Wash- ington during the coming winter, the new personnel of the company offers opportunity for interesting speculation as to whom of this group | will be heard here. Elsa Genthner-Fischer sang prima donna roles \vilh! the Wagnerian Opera Company when in Washington last fall, and Douglas | Stansbury’s rich baritone voice has been heard over the radio many times, | as well as when he appeared here in person with “Roxie's” famous “gang. rumored that R * X % % Ir rd Straus. the great German composer, who | celebrated his sixticth birthday this summer, when he received the | Pru Munich universities, and who also had his contract as general mu~i\} director in Vienna rencwed, is writing an opera on the “Cl heme. His much-discussed “Whipped Cream Ballet.” recently produced in Vienna. already has been succeeded in interest by “Intermezzo,” the so-called | hourgeois comedy.” which is to have its world premier in Dresden this | Fall. The variety, abundance and artistic quality of this composer’s works seem truly wonderful American Diavalo, * ok Kk % HE Prince of Wales, scheduled to visit Washington next month, is said appreciation of music, as well as a catholicity of positions. Early this month he attended the great onal music festival, held annually in the country which supplies his title. The prince has stated in no indefinite manner that he is keenly interested in jazz. and is planning to hear the newest efforts alo this line while visiting this country. * k k¥ tor of the new musical conservatory in Philadel- phia. the Curtis Institute of Music, has issued an interesting statement Fearding the policy of that establishment, founded and endowed by Mary Louise Curtis Bok. daughter of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, to foster the musical development of this countr; The institute is in nowise a commercial venture. In his remarks. Mr. Grolle emphasizes the thoroughness of general training of all students who will be enrolled in the school. He says, in part: “Of course, from the practical standpoint. each pupil must have his speciality. But we are not going to teach anvbody to be just a pianist. a violinist or a singer. We shall teach each and every one to be an all- around musician, and my idea of an all-around musician is one who not only knows all there is to know about music. but also is well informed on all the sister arts and in all the parallel studies that go with the arts Each student must be taught to realize that music itself is bigger than the artist. and that the bigger the artist the greater his responsibility toward music.” There is to be a preparatory department limited to 400 students and a conservatory of 250. A large normal department will be developed in the conservatory in order to spread the liberal educative methods of the in- stitute throughout the country. These plans should mean much to the progress of American music and musical appreciation, if carried out The idea of the institute brings to mind enticing prospects of what might be done in Washington if the national conservatory of music, suggested by more than one congressman, should ever actually materialize jn the Capital City. * ¥ ¥ % RIML'S “Firefl a comic opera, said to possess unusually “catch: melodies, will be the musical diet offered Washington this week by the De Wolf Hopper Opera Company, that produced John Philip Sousa's military operetta, “El Capitan,” with such vim and vigor last week. Olivett; who has played the role made famous by Mme. Trentini, for many per- formances, be with the company for this production. HELEN FETTER. MUSIGRAPHS 'ONSTANCE RUSSELL, local child prodigy at the piano, was a so- loist on a program at the convention held last week at Perkioma, Penns burg, Pa. She played a Beethoven sonata and seve other composi- tions arranged for her last program in Washington last season by Mr: Routt-Johnson-Manning. There was a large audience at the convention, representing many cities of that gen- eral locality. They received the little girl's efforts enthusiastical Her parents and friends from Washington were present at the entertainment. sess a high OHN GROLLE. direc just returned from a concert tour of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she met with fine success Miss Reddish already has a list of engagements for the Fall and Win- ter. She was Maid Marian in the high school production of “Robin Hood" and last vear, in “Chimes of Normandy,” presented by the same organization, she had the leading part. _Word comes from California that Vivienne Gillmore, soprano soloist at Holy Trinity Church, this city, is doing considerable concert work. On August 7 she sang for the reception given by the Lions and received an ovation. At the United Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles she sang in a concert and also a Sunday service. Mrs. Gillmore will be en route to Washington within the week. Mrs. Gillmore is planning a recital for the coming season which is to be “different.” It should be appropriate for schools, colleges and other educa- tional institutions. Jerome Williams, Washington pi- anist, is spending the summer travel- ‘ng abroad. He will return here about September 1. Lewis Atwater, organist, of this city. is spending the summer at his cottage on Long Island. He plans to reopen his studio here next month. Julia Culbreth-Gray, tralto, has returned after filling summer school engage- ments in the Carolinas. She pre- sented her costume folk-song recital at the Virginia Normal School of Petersburg, Va.; East Carolina Teach- ers’ College, Greenville, N. C.; the Choral Club, Windsor, N. C.; Furman University, Greenville, S. C.. and Cul- lowhee Normal School, Cullowhee, N. C. This week Mrs. Gray is leaving for appearances at Williamston, N. C. and the Carolina_College Summer School of Maxton, N. C. Mrs. Gray has resigned as con- tralto soloist at the Church of the Ascension, where she held that posi- tion for three years, in order to de- vote her time entirely to concert and entertainment work. mezzo-con- to Washington Joseph Iseman, pianist, of this city, has just returned from a trip through the Middle West, visiting Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and many other Western cities. Mr. Iseman will spend his vacation at Atlantic City and expects to stay a week in New York before returning home. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pian- ist, will leave Washington tomorrow for a motor trip to Ocean City, Md., where she will spend the remainder of the month. Mrs. Coombs, who has been pianist at the Chevy Chase Pres- byterian Church for several years, has accepted a similar position at the Wesley M. E. Church, which is being built on Connecticut avenue in Chevy Chase. Today Mrs. Coombs will play Rachmaninoff’s “Melody in E” as pre- lude at the 11 o'clock service at the Wesley Church, and Sinding’s “Song Without Words” as offertory. Ruth Simpson, soprano, will be the soloist. H. Le Roy Lewis, baritone, has left ‘Washington for New Haven, Conn.. where he will visit Mr. and Mrs. J. ‘W. Belcher at their summer cottage at Woodmont, by the sea. Mr. Lewis will return to the city early in Sep- tember to reopen his studio for the ‘winter. Zelda L. Miller, local pianist, has returned from a trip including visits to Mr. and Mrs. J. Wescott Miller of Asbury Park, N. J, and with Miss Anita Collins and Miss Glenn Barnes of New York City. Miss Miller has opened her studio for the coming season. Dorothy Reddish, young Washing- ton soprano, sang at the graduation exercises of the Central High sum- mer school, Friday morning. She MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. 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Estelle Wentworth, director of the cholr of Christ Church, Alexandria, Va., announces the following at the musical program for the 11 o'clock service at that church today: Organ prelude, ‘Melody” (West); “Te Deum' (P. A. Schnecker); offertory, soprano solo, “Come Unto Me," from Handel's “Messiah”; organ, ‘Postlude in F" (Chappelen). Katherine Fowler is the organist; Hazel Kirk, soprano; Alice Strauss, contralto; Ellsworth Condron, tenor, and Russell Cordrey, bass, in the quartet. Herndon Morsell, well known In local music circles, and Mrs. Morsell are spending the remainder of the summer on the Jersey coast. James L. Jones, bass, will be the soloist at the Westminster Presby- terian Church, Seventh street south- west. Mrs. H. M. Test, who is sub- stituting for Mrs. Carrie Byram, will assist at the organ. Lucie Scharwenka, daughter of Prof. Xavier Scharwenka of Berlin, has been the guest of Mary Isabel Kelly. She left yesterday for New York to sail for Europe. Miss Kelly her to ihe.malropolis, ian Order of Merit, had degrees conierred upon him in Berlin and &l . EMMA REDELL. American Singer Visits Mozart's Birthplace EMMA REDELL, Washington os- prano, who has been receiving vorable comments from Buropean while touring abr her last coneert for th in Salzburg, home of Zreat composer. on Indepe 4. Joseph Ma fon director for 1% Lithuania, of the Am tribution Committ Washingtonians who atte this sonaert - told an interesting story upon his visit here last week of the Miss ftedell made upon Saizburg s lived, extival “Ari it crities wave 1923-24 zart, the dence day reconstruc atvia and t Dis- only mpressic her Mozart Mozart omposer’s also ¢ whers wwram for the ert_included th der Graetin fron Ine Hock des Figaro™: Verdi's aria from Masked Ball”® and an wria from “Traviata,” Richard straus” ‘Ieh Trage Meir *and “Zueig- nune, renes ninow’'s “Vor Mir die im’s "0 Wuensst Ich Doch irueck,” “Wehe, So Willst " “Auf dem Kirchof” Staendchen,” and prologue from “Ba- and house audicr Visit to the Her p Gretsch B den Weg 7 du Mich hd oneavalio’s Mareus tells x5 as follows music lover considers it his or her duty to visit the birthpl that great composer, W On the third floor of th nir located at No. 8 it Salzburg. Austria, vith low ceilings Mozart was bor ived the Mozart family for Every day of the year > is filled with pilgrims from over the world, who come to their respects. “On the Fourth of July the writer group of Americans tempo. residing Vienna, A spent the holi in Salzbure. wvening Miss Emma Redell, the W ington singer whose home is at 300 M street northwest. gave a concert in co-operation with Maxim Orloff. a Rus ritone. Despite unusual warm weather, beautiful Mozart Hall was filled to capacity pression that the American singer made upon the audience scemed to that she was a native of the ‘rich- t country in the world’ On all sides vou could hear women in the indience making remarks as to her heautiful silk dress. her jewelry, and her genel rance. She the true representative of America. That was all until she began to sing. All that the Salzbury audience, one of the most critical in matters mu- sical, had expected, but what the had not expected was that she would move them to a point of admiration seldom accorded by Salzburgers. She displayed remarkable technical skill, fine command of the languages in which she sang. and a vocal quality of unusual beauty. In her aria from the ‘Masked Ball’ she touched the audience to such an extent that many men and women were in tears was later on ascertained that only a few days before her concert she had received word from home in Wash- ington that her mother had passed away. But this situation did not keep the artist from presenting the songs by Brahms, such as '}\vc, So willst Du Mich Wieder,' or ‘Verge- bliches Staendchen,’ with such spirit- ed Swing that it could hardly be be- lieved that it was the same person who only a few minutes earlier made verybody cry. " The Sazburger Chronik wroto of her under date of July 5, 1924: ‘The so- prano of Emma Redell, a native Ameri- can, is of extraordinary beauty. Rich- ness and brilliancy of voice combined with superbly cultivated expression were moticed at the very outset of the of Miss are two In one of and in these rooms them rooms many the all pay .| v and delicate cdell's | The first im- | looked | It | program in the rendition of the arias from “Figaro” and “The Masked Ball.” Hut in the songs by Brahms she fun nd the “Wehe, I so " she sang | wi mimated swing. The 6ong, “Vergebliches endchen” rendered was followed by a éncore from Men- als ded rare fineness, Willst Du Mich Wiede! B { floria colorature delssohn. & urg being the Dbirthplace | . Miss Redell sang a_number of Mozart. ‘The following day an group accompanicd the Mozart’s house. The two are now a muscum. One finds the pi 0o and the spinet on which Mozart plaved his wonderful npositions, the chair on which he sat, photographs of the composer and his family and even the photograph of Mozart’s worst enemy, who was at that tim the conductor of the St Opera n Vienna., a_certain Italian. In the corner where Mozart's cradie etood now vids @ fine bust of the composer. artists have a pretty custom of bringing flowers to piace in the vase tanding near the bust Miss' Redell was particularly singer | rooms there inter- of Mozart. It was raining and not one rson accompanied the great musical us to his eternal offin was followed only by dog. The picture of this episode touched the singer and, with tears in her eyes, she approached the manager the museum and asked why such cond prevailed. She was informed ¢ starving, 5 o the wife and little ould ot Ko friends who did « ery abandoned the the funeral and the art out for the ceme- idea because of bad weather. Turning to our group, Miss Redell said “let us hope that our ountry w r fail to recognize ‘her composers and will not permit a sim- o be committed.’ case in the center of the small violin on which Mozart played, many of his handwrit- ten manuscripts, letters in his nd- writing and the skull of Mozart. Ten death it was decided P Guiht to ba preserved | and. inasmuch’ as he |in the chefapest coffin possible, there | was the danger of everything being itroyed, so they exhumed his skull | and plac the above picture. There is also | shown hanging in the case the watch | presented to Mozart by Maria Theresa, | Queen of Austria. | ““Upon my suggestion the Washington singer consented to have her photo- graph taken in the room where Mozart was born and near this glass case Upon applying for permission to the manager of the place we were informed that never in the history of the museum had anybody been permitted to be photographed on the premises, ‘but,’ he continued, ‘T attended the concert last | night of this American singer and her room are the beautiful that I feel duty | an exception in her case and shall even ‘onsider it an honor to have her photo- aphed in the place where the immor- 1 Mozart was born.” The Tonkuenstier Symphony Orchestra | of Vienna has invited Miss Redell to glve Some concerts with them of all-American compositions. She is now in search for some of the best American com- postions written for orchestra with solo, as the Viennese audience would like to hear an American artist present some of the best American classical produc- tions. It might be well for the leading composers to make their suggestions to the singer by addressing her at Dob- linger Hauptstrasse 33, Vienna XIX, Austria, bei Silberstern. It will be in s her engagements in European coun- tries come to an end she hopes to re- turn home and sing for American audi- ences, but it will be another year prob- ably before ehe comes home. - Federation of Music Clubs News. subscription cards for the monthly bulletin together with membership certificates were mailed to all organizations belonging ECENTLY to the National Federation of Music | Clubs, by Mrs. Stapleton, national treasurer. The local organizations may consider the 50-cent subscription to the bulletin obligatory, but such is not the case. Word has just come from Mrs. Stapleton to the effect that the payment of 50 cents for a sub- scription to the bulletin is purely ot it i b S S and goes from there to Lake Suna- pee, N. H., where she will spend her vacation. Carl F. Stuhler is substituting for Frederick Stitt, organist of the new Presbyterfan Church at Chevy Chase Circle. Mrs. Stuhler, member of Ru- binstein Club, and daughter, Jean, are visiting relatives and friends in Jowa. Mr. and Mrs. Stuhler have bought a home on McKinley street, and will move to Chevy Chase in October. Franceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano, gave a song recital at the University of Virginia last Sunday at the vesper service. This was Mrs. Lawson's fourth recital at the university. Emilio de Gogorza will open his season with a recital in Washington Octobér 16, according to present plans. Dusolina Giannini, the American singer who has won highest laurels while on tour abroad this summer, will return on the Homeric, due to arrive in New York August 27. She is scheduled to begin her American tour as early as October 17, when she will sing in Morristown, N. J. Georges Enesco, Rumanian violin- ist and composer, will play at the Pittsfield fostival and at Harvard and Yale in September, but will not begin his regular American tour of the coming season until early in January. He will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra January 23 and 24, 1925 el voluntary for the federated organiza- tions. The payment of club dues en- |titles each organization to a certain | auota of bulletins but as the bulletin s published at a great expense to the |national body, it was thought that {s(ome organizations might be willing |to contribute this additional 50 cents toward its publication, so the cards were inclosed with the membership certificates. Checks for subscriptions to the bulletin may be made payable to the District of Columbia Federa- tion of Music Clubs and be sent to Homer L. Kitt, local treasurer. All musical organizations, whether members of the federation or not, are invited to register their concert dates for the coming season, as soon as de- cided upon, with Mrs. May Brooks Ramsdell, chalrman for concert regis- tration. More than once last season two or more local musical organiza- tions gave concerts on the same eve- ning. 1f all organizations will regis- ter dates with Mrs. Ramsdell these conflicts will not occur. This Invita- tion is also extended to individual artists arranging concerts. Esther Linkins, president of the District of Columbia Federation, will appreciate it if all club presidents and choir directors will notify her of changes in board representatives from their respective organizations, that the work may be reorganized in the Fall as easily as possible. Also will board members please notify Miss Linkins as to the day of week and time most convenient for them to at- tend board meetings. Last season they were held Saturday afternoons at 4:30 but this proved an inconveni- ent time for some, 8o if a more con- venient time may be selected for the majority it is her desire ta do so. Herman Richards is a new associ- ate member of the local federation and Mrs. Ralph P. Barnard and Percy S. Foster have joined as artist mem- bers. Mr. Foster has agreed to serve on the local board. Ruth L. Jeffers, vice president of the Chaminade Glee Club, has joined the past presidents’ assembly of the National Federation of Music Clubs. It is hoped more past presidents will join this branch of the national of | | ested in a picture depicting the funeral | ildren were ill and | had been buried | d it in the glass case ehown | the interest of American art. As soon | American Composers GRACE PORTERFIELD POLK INDIANA has become noted as a State where many famous authors have been born and lived. Now the Hoosier State is bidding for another title, that of a leader in the musical progress in America. Much of the credit for this State's wide-awake at- titude In the musical arts is due to the splendid efforts of Grace Porter- field Polk, prominent American com- poser. She was born in Preble County, Ohlo, and was a baby when her fam- ily moved to Richmond, Ind. She con siders the latter “delightful Quaker clty” as home. Following Grace Por- terfleld’s graduation from public grade and high school, sh studied piano with Laura Gaston and, also, with Prof. Max Lecker of Indianapo- lis. She later attended a girls' class- ical school of Washington, D. C., fol- lowing this training with a course at the College of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied voice training with Mme. Tecla Vigna and continued vocal studies with Prof. Bush Foley. She also has coached with Oscar Saenger of New York. “I did not take harmony and theory very seriously,” says this composer, “and my mother was extremely di: pleased that I spent two seasons in concert with the Star Lecture Bureau of Cincinnati. I, however, considered that work as a very wonderful ex- perience. Then I went from Rich- mond to Indianapolis, a distance of 75 miles, eve: week end to sing in the Meridian Methodist Church, under the direction of my former piano teacher, Prof. Leckner. Just three months after I met Mr. Ralph Polk, a prominent business man of Indian- apolis, we were engaged, and, after a most delightful courtship, were mar- ried in six months—so I can recom- mend short engagements.” Grace Porterficild Polk's husband’s interest in music has proved a great help to her in her work—interesting others in mysical progress. After the loss of three lovely children, she turned to music for consolation, and found that she was endowed with the unusual gift of creating songs, ge ting words and melody simultane ously. Mrs. Polk was the first national ju- | nior chairman of the eration of Music Clubs, and enjo: feeling that she, as she expressed it, “had all the children of this U. S. J under her wings.” “To accomplish ideals we must be- £in with youth” says Mrs. Polk. “Four years ago Mr. fath passed be: munity of Greenwood, a suburb of In- dianapolis, in which the Polk family had long been residents, a gift of a Polk Memorial Community Building, which cost $100,000 “It is equipped with a library, ban- quet halls, clubrooms, a swimming pool, and an auditorium with a seat- in capacity of 1,000. This gift in- red me with the thought that 1 puld do something for musical com- posers of Indiana. It has been a strug- gle for me to accomplish what 1 have far in compe fon and I often wonder how composers ever lis through the struggles to achicve recognition when they really have to write music to keep the wolf from the_door. “The first year 1 gave prizes of $100 cach for the best art song and best ballad, and a $50 prize for the sec- ond best of each. I had 350 manu- scripts submitted. Geoffrey O'Hara and Frederick Gunster were on my Natiol Fed- »nd and left to the com- | | | | | first program at the memorial build- ing. Wean McCuteheon of De Pauw University, A. A. VandeMark of Buf- falo and George Fischer of the large music publishing concern, also were present State memory contest develop interest cal app tion. senior clubs have pr wards Polk's tat esented b thirt performancs for juniors to in music and musi- Now all ju such contests with Last season, one of Mrs 15, “Blossomtime,” was hildren, and a boy band 4 before the Two seasons ago. Mrs. Polk’s operetta, “The Magic Rose, was given by the junior club of Miami, Ind., 100 children participa ing. The procecds were sent to the Children's Hospital of Miama, Fla During the war Mrs. Polk sent hun dreds of copics of her songs to friends [ to b 1 at Red Cross musicals and the proceeds used for that or- ganizition's funds. Mrx Polk sang for and with the soldier boys in many camps. Mrs. Polks mother inspired the or- ganization of “grandmothers’ clubs.” The daughter wrote a syng entitled | “Sunshine Cotta to commemorate the delightful home in mond, Ind. her mother spent her last Mrs. Polk b to the India Bloomingzton, Ind., Grace Porterfield | Polk for composition. This year the col- lege pave a prozram of only original smposi t was unusual, ion to her activities in or- N of musical s and sup- neentives for music students k tow Polk the operetta Misic members little where ars s given a scholarship University at wn the Scholarship kn as “The Ros mann-Heink) ngtime Is Tiny iSRS S Y S Nadia Boulanger, Organist. ADIA BOULANGER, famous French ‘woman pianist and organist. is coming to the United States next season, following in the footsteps of her distinguished colleague, Marcel Dupre, to appear at a number of o certs in this country during the Win- ter. Mlle. Boulanger comes under the auspices of the ew York phony Society, and Walter Damro has stated that he considers her the best woman musician in the world. She is said to be able to take the manuscript score of any orchestral number and play it on the piano with ease and Intelligent shading of mond and tone. Mlle. Boulanger will be over here during January and Febru- ary, and it is hoped that arrange- singing of the Mozart numbers was so | MeAts may be made for her to giv bound to make | two or three lectures in Washington Her talks are on French music for the piano and organ. Mile. Boulanger was the winner of the second prix de Rome. She is the daughter of one of the professors of the Nationale Conservatoire at Paris, who himself was a winner of th prize. Mademoiselle's sister Lilli won the first prix de Rome. She was a gifted composer, but an invalld, and died before her eight years of study were completed. Her works are played by leading orchestras and artists of France. Mlle. Boulanger is a professor at the American Conservatory of Music at Fountainebleau, and her charm- ing personality, as well as her great talent as teacher and performer, has won praise from Washington musi- cians attending the conservatory. Navy Band Concerts. HE concerts by the United States | Navy Band for the coming week will be heid on the following date. Tomorrow, at the Capitol, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, at Lincoln Park, at 7:3 pm., and Wednesday, at the band- stand at the navy vard, at 7:30 p.m. For programs, please see the daily papers. Ames Innovates. INTHROP AMES has his own ideas of preparedness. When the actors engaged for his forthcom production “Old Man Minick” assem- bled at the Booth Theater for their first rehearsal they found the scenic investiture was already completed. There was not a chair, nor a rug, not a picture that was not in its place. Further, Mr. Ames had already di- rected “lighting rehearsals,” and every detail of stage mechanism had been carefully worked out. Only those who have experienced the turmoils of rehearsals during which flurried stage hands attempt to assemble scenery they have never seen before, while electricians scurry hither and thither turning spots on here and floods off there, can appre- ciate what this innovation means to e actor. e is sald to be the first time in the history of American theatricals where the scenic environment of a new production has been completely assembled before rehearsals them- selves have started. The importance of it is that right from the start the actors can live in the proper atmos- Phere, knowing exactly where en- trances, chairs and properties are and as soon as the company is any- Where near letter perfect, Mr. Ames plans to allow them to rehearse in costume and make-up, thus aiding the feeling that each rehearsal is in reality a performance. Getting in Trim. (COLLEEN MOORE s emulating Mrs. Wi . She 15?"""."!15 a minjature cab- bage patch in the garden in back of her heme. Celery Is also planted in her half-acre farm. The reason is not a travesty on “Tho Man With the Hoe,” but the sud- den neoessity of learuing all about cabbages and celery for her ne plcture, a vision of Edns Ferbers “So Big,” in which Miss Moore has the Fole Of & truck farmer's Wifc, 3 At the last Hiarden red ir new m trans f Perinsylvania. D r League mads mecting mp two recruits were mus- arles MeLaughlin d Will 1 Seyford L Departn it artment Command- address announc- ng that arranzements had been made with the various departinents of the Government for leav: for Spanish War Vetera tend the national encam Michigan City, Ind., S 10 Commander William Rink rittee on w! ate th nent C of asia ment at ptember 7 to League appointed a member of th and means to © department band. st y nder Mattocks in- perp rades that Senator Ar- | and Repre- | thur Capper of Kansas sentative John M. Robsion tucky were nominated by large ma- jorities in th ate primaries for United State Or and represent- ative, respectively. Senator Capper and Representative Robsion voted to override the President's veto of the Bursum pension bill at the recent ion of Congress and received a large s for nomination. At the semi-monthly meeting of Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp P. E. Sho- mette was elected to fill the vacancy of senior vice commander for the balance of the year, and F. W. Wil- son as cfficer of the da vice P. E. Shomette. Past Department Com- mander Charles W. McCaffrey and Ernest Goltz acted as installing offi- cer and master of ceremonies, respec- tively. of Ke Comrade Ball, formerly chaplain of the camp, has been reinstated after an absence from the city for a num- ber of years. Past Department Commander Wil- {liam L. Mattocks, official editor of the United Spanish War Veterans and 2 member of the national legis- lative committee, spoke on the neces- sity of the members friends of the organization gress. in Con- A meeting of the District delega- | tion to the national encampment was held Friday night at 921 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, when | plans for attending the encampment | were discussed. Past Department Commander James J. Murphy, who is chairman of the committee on ar- rangements and transportation, will give a statement of the completed plans of the delegation during the weck, announcing the number of del- egates and members of their families, along with the number from the la- dies” auxiliaries, who will attend, the time when sale of tickets will begin and other details. The railroads have | granted a rate of one fare round trip. The delegates of the District have been receiving literature from cam- paign committees announcing the candidacies of Chauncey W. Herrick, | national chief of staff and past de partment commander of New York, and Herman A. Fink, past department commander of Missouri, for the office of commander-in-chief at the na- tional encampment at Michigan City, Ind. Several other candidates are expected to announce for the office, and it is said there will probably be eight or nine candidates for leader- ship of the organization. The meetings of the camps and auxiliaries for the week are as fol- lows: Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, Fri- day night, Odd Fellows Hall, 419 Seventh street northwest; Richard J. Harden Camp, Thursday night, Pyth- ian Temple, 1012 Ninth street north- west; Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, Thursday night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Gen. M. Emmett Urell Camp, Wednesday night, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street northwest; Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxil- iary, Monday night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Gen. M. Emmett Urell Auxiliary, Wednesday night, Pythian Temple, 1012 Niath strees northwesta 1 “The second year we had the first| or and | Rich- | Richard J. ! to cnable them to at- | dier vote in their campaign | | of the United supporting | Army and Navy News By M. H. Mclntyre. NAVY. of radio equipment for the fleet Certain proposed changes in the fi“fll;)';)-fz";w'-nf:' transmitter (2,000 4 commanders of battleships are mot [ Gif0 1\;’]‘)"‘(}:;‘_’, ","r‘zq;‘;.;‘_’l‘;’:"’;)“ looked upon in a favorable light by | 3,000 kilocycles will b cene ta” o) o Bitcan of U &S California for test. “Exper] e ments wi also be conducted Navigation and secs on avig: low and intermediate and a high| Rear Admiral frequency receiver. In recent tes] William R. Shoe- conducted on an airplane an antenn maker, chief of rigged from bow to wing tip provel the bureau, is in- to be most satisfactory. sisting upon an adherence to the Medals have been awarded by th two-year tour of | fleet training division, Bureau « duty of all the | Naval Operations, Navy Departmen Cnaberst ot | to enlisted men on the U. S. S. Ne: the ships in the | York and on the ©. S S. Shirk fe ey | Scores made during short-range bat With the exist- { te practice. The Knox gun pointe ing shortage of medals are presented by the Sons o officers in the en- B E the American Revolution of the Com tire fleet, there 5 monwealth of Massachusetts in mem Gfs froauint lcons 4 ory of Gen. Henry Knox, chief o made upon the artillery in Washington's army dur Bigu el e ing tho Revolution. These are award tains for IMpor- Resr Adm. Shoemaker,| 3 2RAUAIY to the set of gun pointer - S ;| in the Navy making the highest mer: tant shore assignments to relieve | for guns at short-range battle prac ;S)IH{ commanders prior to the com- | tice. The medals have portrait o pletion of their two years afloat. It |Gen. Knox on one side and winge is contended by Admiral Shoemaker | Victory on the other. For 1923.24 1 that the transfer of a commander of s have been awarded to C. 1 a battleship should not even be con- | Schrantz, coxswain, and D. O Mas<, sidered by the department until he | seaman, who are both attached t. has served at least eighteen months. | hir! 5 Two years s preferable, and it is in- presented by the Ed sisted by the admiral that strict ad- | ward Trenchard section of the Navyl {herence to this two-year duty policy [ League for the set of turret pointer is the only way in which the ef-|making the highest merit for tare {ficieney of the ‘flect can be main- | Runs at short-range battle practied tained. {were awarded to the second set o This policy should also apply to the | pointers of the 14-inch turret Ne. executive IA‘nd navigation officers, and | of the U. S. S. New York. They ar | under no circumstances wouid the bu- | J. M. Smith, scaman, second clags: 1 reau relicve a_commander, executive | L. Mason, seamon, first elass, and K officer and navigation oflicer at the | R. Robinson, scaman, second class same time. The new chief of the | bureau is desirous of having the | tours of duty of these three officers | 0f the cruiser class for the year overlap, so that one of the three will | 1923-1924 has been awarded to the remain with the ship in the event ' U. S. S. Denver, Capt. Willlam N, that the tours of duty of the other | Jeffers commanding econd honors y the U. S. S. Cleveland The engineering trophy for vesse two will terminate at the end of the | Were S | Capt. William E The efficiency and the close eo-op- | While the - Omaha was third cration among the vessels of the fleet | The Omaha was commanded by Capt nnot be maintained, insists Admiral - David C. Hanrahan, U. S. Navy, until hocmaker, if the ship commanders Frederick J. Horne took command re not assigned to them a sufficient | This is the first year that the Omaha length of time to develop it. Reduc- | ing the number of changes in ship commanders to a minimum is the fund priz most effective way to secure team- | 2924 has work. {of the 12-inch turret No. 4 of the . lv. s. oming. _battl ass A submarine training school has | while RNl A or inie just recently been established by the won the anti-aircraf: Bureau of Navigation, > These two crews ment, at the submarine base, st merit at short London, Conn., the object of which is e. This fund was to give preliminary training in sub- [started by = Marjorie Sterrett . of mari; to men Who are to be Brooklyn, N. Y., for the purpose of gned to that duty and who have | building a battleship. A sum of no prev Xperience th 22,000 has been collected submarine service. The duration of Dt in a trust fund, the rse varies from four to twelve in awar dependent upon the rating s During this course of those men who are ur submarine vy are elin general service The M. errett battieship money for the year 192; been awarded to the crew ious T ding tion for Maj whil to the marine ves Recruiting land, tern, tral recruit notified by men who comple . New ur. Eng ng activi st Art and orida, have been 3 interview ‘ de Armo nt in | Ar chief of the training se with a the chief of Field Ar- ning whether such 1 leave Washington tomor- men desirc to enter th spect t M. T. C. and service through this special school . Field Art units, which and appear to be desirable for p at e Camp, near Madi this character of service, 3 ks, N. Y. He will return of the following ratin f - o week {thorized to receive Ordirs h Deen issued by the 1c, War Department authoribing the at electrician’s tendance of two non-commissioned i gt of whom will tak nE divisions the bureau to the ratings appearing view 1o determ Aupus seamen, petty office only me plete this course fleet for this duty, and though they probably be assigned and contlnued on this duty during satisfactory serv- |J. Kicrwan ice, their future transfers are de- | Thomac Mack. Edwin F. Mitchell and pendent upon conditions in the fleet | Staff ts. Marcele Bezdek, Charles and promises relative to future duty H. Smith ang Jes H. Smith. Sergts. | cannot be given them. | Joe Tafolla, jr., and George H. Wan- . |ton will take the course which will being made of | pe given at Camp Holabird. author! torily com will be sent to Holab take the are Technic Rawlings, Patrick Benjamin - . Snyder. Distribution is now Navy education study courses for coxswains and boatswain's mates and for quartermasters. The atten- on of the authorities in the depart- ment has been called to the fact that in some cases ecnlisted men have {experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining the courses distributed by the bureau due to the limited num- ber of certain courses on board ship, while in some c; men were not cognizant of the availability of cer- | tain courses for distribution. The |rata points of delivery to be consid first_distribution of these courses is | ared by the 100 bidders whe. eon approximate only and any requests|peted. A considerable reduction in for additional courses Will be grant- | nrices over those obtained last year cd immediately. i\\'ns noted. | Under date of July 14 the quarter- master general inaugurated a corps campaign in the field looking toward the curtailment of the number of files of general orders, circulars, etc., and |a consequent reduction in printing in so far as the Quartermaster Corps ix {concerned. From reports already re- ceived the indication is that a reduc- tion of about per cent of this sort ¥ of the quartermas- ter general with reference to the purchase of coal was successfully demonstrated at the Chicago quarter master intermediate depot recently when proposals were opened for son hundred and fifty thousand ton various kinds of coal, anthracite and bituminous, for posts in the Sixth and Seventh Corps Areas were 59 different items and 35 sepa The new poli After a number of conferences be- tween the Secretary of the Navy and the controller general a comprom: was reached under which disbursing officers are allowed to withhold only 20 per cent of an officer’s pay when | there is a question as to the legalit of the allowance. The Secretary of the Navy holds to the opinion that the ernment and that the Supreme Court | the Quartermaster Corps. States is decisive. | contrary view is held by the con- ! troller ~ general. Though it was agreed to reduce the amount with- | held from an officer's pay to 20 per cent, this will not_ sacrifice any of the rights of an officer in court and he can bring suit for the total amount of his allowance. As « result of the agreement which has been arrived at between the Sec- retary and the Controller General the Navy Department made the follow Announcement was made this week of the basic course, 1924-1925, of the schedules of instruction of the Army Medical School, Army Veterinary !School and the Dental School. Al three courses will begin their in | struction September 2, 1024. | " The basic course of the Army Med- !fcal School consists of five depart | ments, viz, surgery, clinical medicine | preventive medicine and clinical path- {ology, roentgenology and ophthal- i mology and oto-laryngolosy, totaling ingiannonncements 5 hours. That of the Veterinary the | |in all for the | “In order that officers will not be | & Gha < erins deprived of sufficient funds to meet | SChool includes 777 hours of work in their current necessities it is hereby | the departments of meat and dairs directed that no disbursing officer | h¥Eitne, veterinary forage inspectio shall withhold more than 20 per cent|Rreventive medicine and clinical path- of any officer'’s current pay without©l0RY, roentgenology and veterinar is consent because of alleged over- | Surgery and pathological horseshos payment to him of commutation of| \BE. In the Army Dental School the quarters or rental and subs ence | 775 hours of instruction will be a allowance on account of dependents;|portioned among the following de- and, furthermore, it is directed that|Partments: Clinical dentistry, pres such cases disbursing officers | thesis, oral surgery, preventive med pay 80 per cent of the pay hereafter|icine and clinical pathology, roent accruing of which has been hereto- | Senology and special lectures. fore withheld unless the amount of | the total alleged indebtedness has| S < 5 B0 heretofore been withheld. The Con- | &e¢neral's oflice "_,‘"fl‘ f_r‘"m‘l--" troller General agrees to allow credit | t0 1923 there were 10,735 fractures re to disbursing officers for payments Ported to the office of the sur»v--]" above directed and further agrees| Seneral, of which 9508 were simple that the acceptances by an officer of ! fractures, while were compound less than his monthly pay in such|fractures. ~Of the compound frac- cases shall not be deemed an acqui- | tures, 11.82 per cent were fatal, while escence on the part of such officer in|17.6 per cent were given their dis withholding any of his pay. Inform |charge on account of disability all officers concerned that they may | Fractures of this character necessi accept such payments under protest|tated a long time in the hospital and that the controller will reopen| The surgeon general's office is now any case upon request of the officer preparing a ('Ofnplln(lnn on this sub- concerned. |Ject which will give the differe ‘Nothing contained herein shall be | percentages according to branches. construed to deny any officer the| right to pursue such legal remedies | as he may desire or as intending to | ofter any officer an opportunity to| secure an unjust advantage of lhe: Government.” atistics compiled show in the surgeon R e Gloria Now “Funny.“ HE ability of Gloria Swanson (o wear gowns has not been ques = tioned since Gloria emerged as a Mack According to official figures pre-|Sennett bathing girl and went in .{3r pared at Coast Guard headquarters heavier drama. Her ability to === enlistments secured by Coast Guard | once seriously challenged seems to be units during the month of May num-|at least fairly well established. bered 214 men; June, 416, and July,| UP to now, however, the suggestion 577. For the same three months the | that Gloria can be funny might cause number of enlistments secured by rnllcu‘l evebrows to rise with amused ecruiting stations for Coast|surprise. g::f-’a Tty was for May, 15; June,| Yet Director Allan Dwan, for 193, and July, 126. The Tampa, Pim. | mer protege of D. W. Griffith, is said lico and Kankakee did the most ship | to have caused Gloria to be actually recruiting during the past month, |funny, in “Manhandled.” Gloria's suc with 42, 38 and 36 enlistments, re- |Cess as a comedienne is given as the spectively. chief reason for the extension of the engagement of this picture in Wash- 1a order to determine the charac ington this week. B