Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 9

. et anie INQUIRY INTOMINE | HORRORIS STARTED State Board in Secret Ses-| sions Seeks Light on Blast That Cost 33 Lives. Br the Associated Press FAIRMONT, W. Va oMcial investigation tc cause of the cxplos mine No. 41 of the Bethlehem Mines Corporation a week ago, with the loss of 23 lives, got under wayv today following the recovery last night of . the last bodies of the victims. The board of inquiry was . chief of the Virginia mine inspection, and it indicated that several d required to investigate lous re- Dorts as to the origin of the blast No report as to the progress of the investigation will be made until the findings are announced officially. March 24 determine the headed West was are being held in connection with a report that the mine may have been bombed. It had been operating upon @ non-union basis since last October. No serious labor disturbances had oc- curred, however, and at the time the bombing report was first circulated officers gave it little credeng MUSIC & American presented & delightful nrogram at the Mayflower Hotel last night, in spite of the noise caused by nconsiderate members of several box parties, who talked and laughed loudly during the numbers, The entertainment was called “An Evening With Artists From Dixie. Ars. David Allen Campbell of the National Council of Women present- ed talented young people most of whom were born south of the Mason #nd Dixie line. Undoubtedly the hit" of the evening, at least from a 1rue Southerner’'s point of view, was the realistic accent and method of singing of the negro spirituels by Nelda Hewirt Stevens of Kentycky. Miss Stevens knows her songs and | the Southern colored folk thoroughly. Her ease and knowledge combined, | aided by her sweet, fresh voice, -An | 1 which wrecked | would be | singers | cluding Dvorak's “Goin' Home"; the Italian “Nebbie,” by Respighi; Gaines' “Rosges in the Morning,” and, as a fea- {ture of special interest to Washingto- Life Is Today,” a new composi- fon by Mildred Kolb Schulze, promising young local musician, who was at the piano. This song is not pretentious, but it is well balanced and melodious. The audience demanded its repetition. Ofher singers were Jerdone Brad- | ford, contralto, who sang familiar old Irish and F | vienne de Veau, soprano, bers included Lily Li') Batteau": ingale F v My Mother's Hea ton, colored comp % from * lleria Rustie: 2dwin - Hughes, native Washing- | tonian and r concert planist of New Y. group of modern warks by an composers, e flecting different phases of American musie. The first was “Poema de Ja Mer,* by Mrs. Parr-Gore, a leading woman composer. enry Cowell's “Tides of Manaunaun” was a unique teature. Homer Grunn's vivid ar- rangement of the Zuni Indian “Rain Dance” was a fascinating number. ugene Putnam's “Quill Dance” and id Guion's a ngement of the familiar “Turkey in the Straw” were interesting, and MacDowell's “Shadow Dance” was a delightful finale, Mr. Hughes is a skillful musician and has individuality of touch and interpre- tation Katharine Riggs, another favorite local musician, gave three fine harp numbers, Hasselman's “Romance,” “A Prayer,” by Gounod, and Faure's “La Fountaing” as the finale to an interesting evening. Bess Hagimer ot New York proved a skillful ac- companist for most of the singer: Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been reported to Turner Lay- and an aria na.” Sandridge, 24, Kaone, 80 2 E A Parker, 65, | University Hospital ew P. Peaccck, 50, George Tuberculosis Hos An pital Murgaret P'. Siobssat, 42, Tubecculosis Hos- tal 38, Providence Hos- Mary V. G. Kalahan Bancroft pl Children’s Hospital umbia Hosplt Georgetown Univer 9. .41, Freedmen's Hospital rows, 2. Freedmen's Hospital court. HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C AMUSEMENTS Poli's—Chauve-Souris. The Old World came to Washing- ton and charmed a large audience at {Poli's Theater last night, when { Baliefl's Chauve-Souris—Balleff's Bat Theater of Moscow—opened for a week's run The entertainment consists of meries of entirely unrelated scenes: la Kind of revue or glorified vaudeville, each scene a masterpiece. The atmos- phere is as foreign to Washington jas Moscow and Paris. But humor, | passion, comedy and tragedy are not limited by national boundary lines; the elementals of human life are found in varving forms evervwhere {under the sun. *And if the language | falls strangeiy on the ear, and cus- toms seem strange, the appeal and the interest are not lacking. There is a feeling of guaintness, a lapse into older times, due, perhaps, to the fact that in years gone by | America patterned many of its dra- matic amusements on European mold Nikita Balieff, the key, the inter- preter, who links the foreign scenes with the English-speaking auditors, is a host in himself—a witty and somewhat sarcastic philosopher. The scenery was executed in a Parisiair studio, and the costumes are vastly different from the settings and the draperies found on the modern Amer- ican stage. 1t is dificult to choose among the long list of scenes on the program which delighted the Washington .the- atergoers last night. The almost bar- | baric brutality of “Stenka Razin” an episode in the life of a legendary | bandit whose depredations took place |in the regions bordering the Volga during the seventeemth cen- gives a ense opening to the | performance. This is guickly eftaced, | howev by “The Rendezvous of | Love,” an old polka, based on &n em- | broidered pattern of an old Russian h 1 by Karabanova and Hight and amusing and quaint. “The Zaporozhtsi” (the Dnieper Cossacks), fashioned after a | famous painting by llva Repin, | whisks the audience again into the |rude past. The Cossacks stood be- | tween civilization and the Turks in | the eighteenth century. | he Arrival at Bethlehem.” how- ever, is, perhaps, the most interest- ing 'of the eutire group of sketches. 1t bears a flavor of the Middle Ages which is rarely found. Tragic, in- deed, is “The King Orders the Drums | to Be Beaten.” The drums are an j omen that his, majesty has deter ’|Illllfl‘ to command one of his nobl { to surrender his wife to the ro will. 1t is taken from an old Franch ballade. The players' voices and the music depict the impending tragedy more than words could do. It is an admirable piece of acting. But humor and comedy are inter- spersed in equal degree with the tragady in this most unusual pro- duction. . “The Four Corpses,” de- scribed as a traglc-comic opera, Is screamingly funny, and so is “Amour et Hierarchie” (Love in tne Ranks). None of the sccnes is more pleas- ing, however, than “A Country Pic nic’in a Distant Province of Rus a picnic, be it well understood, which took place prior to the bolshevic rule. . Balieff was kind enough to pre last night several extra num- bers—numbers which his company made famous in previous visits, in- cluding the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” and “Katinka.” The Russian producer, noting the presence of n. Pershing in a stage box, with a graceful compliment called the attention of the audience to the presence of the former com- mander of America's forces in Eu- rope, and announced that the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” would be given particularly in his honor. . s “ Gayety—"Step This Way. The show at the Gayety Theater this week is one of Jacob's and Jer- mon's, productions, featuring I B. Hamp, billed as the Swedish come- dian. Hamp has a peculiar method, some- thing out of the ordinary, but rather effective in getting the laughs. He is provided with good lines and a ca- pable assistant® in Fred Binder. Al Golden has a good deal to do as “straight” man and dJdoes it well, while Ben FKFox furnishes the dance t necessary %o a burlesque produc- The stellar role among the girls is carried by the soubrette Gertrude Beck, a young woman with ability and a pleasing personality. Others in the cast are Bernice La Barr, Peggy Ahern and Arthur Young. A good specialty introduced during| the evening is the Six Rockets, a group of girls who perform difficult athletic feats on a pair of ladders. The chorus includes a score of lively young girls, handsomely costumed. Mistnal=AT Reves It's homecoming week at the Mu- tual, with Al Reeves, a native, with an aggregation quite up to the former high standard maintained by this pro- ducer, as the attraction high-class entertainers are numbered A galaxy of | in the cast, which also boasts the prettiest chorus, “all under 20" seen at the Avenue playhouse this season. Furthermore, tire presentation is clean throughout Reeves himself is conspicuous by his absence until the final number, when he appears and displays no mean abll- ity with the banjo, his forte. In Charles (Bimbo) Davis and Jack Ormsby he has a palr of excellent comedians, particularly the former. Stella Morrissey, in the leading fe- male role, specializes in songy. She soars to dlzzy heights in a vaudeville number, a sweet song which appears rather incongruous as a burlesque feature. Bebe Montclaire, ace high in pulchritude, excels in poses. Bobby Dixon and Jackie Makon, young women who sing and dance well, and Mark Thompson round out | the entertainment The attraction has much merit. e RITES FOR MRS. E. A. IREY | TO BE HELD TOMORROW | Services Will Be Conducted by | Pastor of Ninth Street Christian Church. ! Funeral services for Mrs l:hz.m-\hl Ann Trey, who died yesterday at Sib- ley Hospital, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mattie V. Whit- ney, 1217 B street northeast. Rev. C.'Stauffer, pastor of the Ninth Stree Christian Church, of which Mrs. Irey had long been a member, will offi- ciate.” Interment will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Irey was 6 vears old. She was born in Baltimore and removed to Washington in 1892 e leaves six children. Mrs. Whitney, Mrs George 1. Furmage and Waiter C.. Bdwin ., Elmer L. and Hugh C. Irey.| MRS. N. C. 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