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By Helen Fetter. number of Music and Letters al trenchant manner the player- R. SYDNEY GREW., in the (London), discusses in his us; piano’s good and bad points. He draws the con:lusion that “the 3 ial art of the player-piaio lies beyond its natural capacity to make lovely sound with but a listener’s labor on our own part; and, as it7is an admitted trath that the further we go into art the heavier the nevitable that the amateur who starts with quickly become confused, and so quickly give demand oun us for work, it the wrong point of view w up- the instrument.” Mr. Grew advis¢s amat=urs who are debating whether or not to take up the player-piano to analyze their interest in music, and only to deter- purchase if they bel'eve themselves desirous of becoming students per Would, alas, that everybody who player-piano into smzll morning hours of these hot, soul before giving a helpless and on of assisting at a musical marathon. are terms unknown to the majority of player-piano’s remarkable possibilities. Their preference goes to pieces of the Their ideal performance is the playful “Kitten on jaguar. And mankind suffers de- mine of of music and musical mance peda’s a he open-windowed nighis so scarct exhausted ne ghborhood the Matsic -and my those cdl performanc who avail themselves ¢ Speed-and noise are their aim pile-driver rhyibn Keys” fenzelessly the transiormed into a panting %, IRk EZRA moved to. shame mu POUND. exquisite poet, has been <howing up their lack of appreciation for one of the most talented “innovators” among them. At the Three Mountain Press, in that cians by Paris, appeared a book of Mr. Pound’s entitled, “Antheil and the Treatise of Harmony.” \Ve have vet to see the book itself. But reports in French papérs have it that Mr. Pound pronounces young Mr. George Antheil as “doubtless the first Amqrican composer who must be taken seriously.” Mt. Antheil was born in Trenton, N. J, on July 8, 1901. True to the slogan of that admirable city (connected in the minds of some people with a charming anecdote about a curtain speech of Lillian Russell's), it may be confidentiy expected that “Trenton makes, the world takes'— Mr. Antheil is described by Mr. Pound as “a world of steel girders, not and ivy.” Mr. Antheil, it seems, prefers to live. however iand of steel construction. and is at present resid- ing in France. a pleasant land of old stone and ivy. May the Trentonian flourish among the monuments of Francis Il and . His mus: ofi old ston far from t schoo! Louis X1\ of music * K Kk K GROWING America in carillons, for which the low coun- tries of Europe have been noted for centuries, has received added in- centive John D. Rockefeller, jr., has lately donated a set of carillons to his church in New York City. At the present time, Kamiel I #ievere of Maiines, one of the younger carillonneurs of Belgium, assist- ant fo Joseph Denym. considered the greatest at this art, who is carillon- neur of the finest carillon in the world, that of Mechlin, Belgium, is giving special Summer concerts in Cohasset and Gloucester, Mass. According to the New York Times, Mr. Lefevere began a series of these concerts ephen’s Church, at Cohasset. May 25. e continued these concerts throughout June and will give them every Tuesday evening from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock and every Sunday after- noon from 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock through the month of July. Mr. Lefevere is, also giving these concerts in the Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage, at Gloucester, Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 9:30 during the month of July. - . “The €ohasset carillon reeeived its impetus from a gift of 23 bells} by Mrs. Hugh Bancroit. The bells were installed in St. Stephen’s tower in June, 1924. They were tested and pronounced perfect in tune and tone v Sir Hugh Allen. In May, 1925, Mrs. Bancroft made a gift of 20 addi- tignal bells; which, with the original 23, constitutes one of the largest carillons in the world. The art and craft of the carillons can be traced back . to. Hoiland, Belgium and northern Germany of.the fifteenth cen- tusy. ‘England borrowed the idea and now leads in the manufacture of bell-pedls. There are now 12 carillons in North America.” Tf the Potomac can only lure cooling breezes to Washington later in thé Summer, it:would be interesting to have Mr. Lefevere release melodies from W. rest in recent ington’s carillon in Epiphany Church. { * % k% { To how many musicians in Washington is he ! A friend of Debussy in hig youth, late in life he was hailed as the patron saint by a band of voung hot-bloods who talked | of dethroning Debussy. Satie was eminently French in one particular— that of wit, not always iree from malice. His ironic little pieces are amusing caricatures rather than finished miniatures. At the énd, with the mantle of-a prophet thrust upon his shoulders, he felt obliged to show himself in“a serious vein. But he did not convince. And yet he will have his place in musical history. however modest. He was a pioneer. He scandalized the Philistines. That is his chief merit. Perhaps-the oppor- tunities to develop were ot given to him. He spent many years playing in cabarets of Montmartré; that Parisian quarter of joy unconfined and sometimes unrefined. He would walk in the early dawn to his little house in the outskirts of the big city; to his garden patch, to his trees andI birds twittering a welcome to the morning. Could he have never left his} retreat he might have been a poet. It was the-city and its cruelties which probably made him the caustic “blagueur.” * % k ¥ HOSE in charge of arrangements for the’international music festival to be held in Venice, September 3-8, have just announced the com- posers to be represented on those programs and the works to be given. Among noted performers to participate are Steuart Wilson, who will sing Vaughan Williams® “Merciless Beauty”; the Hoffman, the Kolisch, the 7ika and the Quartetto Veneziano, all quartets to play chamber composi- | tions: Arnold Schoenberg, Signor Casella and M. Erdmann, ! The programs will ‘include a string quartet by Erwin Schulhoff: | “L’'Horizon Chimerique,” for voice and piano. by Gabriel Faure; duo for | violin and piano. by Hans Eisler: nocturne and Korean sketch from Henry | Fichheim's “Oricntal Impression RIK SATIE dead more than a name? is azzband,” for violin and piano, by | Wilhelm Gross: pigrammas ironicos sentimentales” and “Historietta” | No. §, by Heitor Villa-Lobos; Chamber Music No. 2, for 12 selo instru- | ments and piano obbligato, by Paul Hindemith: sonata for piano and cello, by Caspar Cassado; three preludes for piano. by Samuel Feinberg; sonata for violin alone. Zolton Szekely; five pieces for string orchestra, by Max Butting: three songs, by Ladislav Vycpalek; string quartet, by Leos lanacek: one by Erich Korngold; two movements for two flutes, clarinet and bassoon. by Jacques Ibert; sonata for cello' and piano, by Arthur Honegger: “Joures de flute,” by Albert Roussel; “Tzigane for Violin and by Maurice Ravel; sonata for piano, oboe, clarinet and horn, by Vittorio Rieti; string quartet, by Mario Labroca; piano sonata, by Arthur Schnabel; “Merciless Beauty,” by Vaughan Williams; “Serenade,” by Arnold Schoenberg: string quartet. by Karol Szymfhowski; “Le Stagione Italiche,” Francesco Malipiero: “Angels,” for six trumpets, by Carl Ruggles: piano sonata. by Stravinsky; “Daniel Jazz,” for voice and small orchestra, by Louis Gruenberg. . It is for similar programs that the new little auditorium, nearing | completion in the Library of Congress, should prove an excellent setting. | * ok k * i EORGE GERSHWIN. who wrote the composition that has proved (hei highly successful “piece de resistance” of Mr. Whiteman's ambitious “concert” orchestra programs, is the subject of a delightful paragraph in a recent issue of the London Musical News and Herald. “The record of George Gershwin in attaining both fame and fortune at so early an age must be unique,” says the paragraph, “especially when it is remembered that his contribution to music is so novel. While musicians were discussing the possibility of accomplishing anything serious in the medium of jazz—and generally deciding against jazz—the thing happened and the ‘Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, conquered on behalf of the composer in America, with the aid of Paul Whiteman's hand, and in England, with the aid of the Gramophone Co. Mr. Gersh- win's success may be explained, probably, by the fact that his music ap- peals to musicians and his medium to a more popular audience.” - It is our private opinion that Mr. Gershwin would have furnished that prolific writer. Horatio Alger, with the latest novelty in heroes®for his well known and much-read “from rags to riches” series of literary ef forts i ling band leader. Organists Convention.’ "T'HE eighteenth annual of the National Association of Or- ganists, to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, August 4, will have convention head- quarters at the Cleveland Art Mu- senum. An elaborate program has been prepared. Noted recitalists and prom- inent educators from leading universi- ties will participate in the four-day yrogram, which will include a brief social hour Mcnday evening, with the convention officlally opened Tuesday morning by addresses of-welcome from W. R. Hopkins, city manager, and Russell V. Morgan, as a representative of the State organist: President T. Tertius Noble of the N. A. O. will re- spond. Features Tuesday will be a 1alk by John Finley Wiliamson, direc- tor of the famous Westminster choir of Dayton, Ohio, and organ recitals by Carleton H. Bullis, A. A. G. O., at the temple, and Edwin Arthur Kraft, ¥. A. G 0., at Trinity Cathedral. Wednesday the ‘mornifig’ session will be given over to the Soclety of Theater Organists, with demonstrations at the State Theater by Ernest Hunt; " ist of that theater, and John Ham- mond and Frank Adams of New York City. Palmer Christian of Ann Arbor, Mich., will give a @ ong'The Devel- opment of Music th€ Organ and convention | Orchestra,” and \will play several il- lustrations ‘&t the afternoon meeting. In the evening Charles M. Courboin, representing the American Organ Players’ Club, will play a recital at the Art Museum. Tuesday H. Leroy Baumgartner of Yale University will open_the morning session with a talk on “Placing and Plahning an Organ.” In the afternoon Albert Riemen- schneider of Cleveland will talk on “The Development of Organ Music,” and Charlotte Mathewson of New York City will give a recital. Mr. Riemenschneider will also play a pro- gram of French compositions. The evening recital will be played by Rus- sell. Hancock Miles of the University of Illinois and Arthur-H. Egerton, representing the Canadian College of Organists. Friday “The Organist's Duty to the Young™ will be the sub- Ject of a discussion to be conducted by Arthur Quimby of Cleveland. and Reg- inald L. McAll of New York City at the morning session. The final recital of the convention will be played in the -| atternoon by Lillian Carpenter of the Institute of Musical Art of New York City and Charles E. Clemens, musical divector of the Western Reserve Uni- versity of Cleveland. X All meetings are open ta_the publig, THE -/ TRANCIS TYLER. Marine Band Concerts. The United States Marine Band William H. Santelmann, leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader, will give five concerts this week. The two tomorrow are listed, with programs; the other three will include a concert at the Capitol at b o'c Vednesday afternoon. one in th van Theater of the Monument Grounds night at 7:30 cert in the S day evening at The p conceris sues of The Star At the Marine Barracks at 5 tomorrow the program will be: Ma rooke’s Triumphal” (Seitz); overtwi®, Semiramide’ (Rossini) nocturne, Monastery Bells” (Lefebure), chimes obbligato by Musician Wilbur Kieffer: cornet solo, “King Carnival.” polka de concert (Kryl, Musician John White: excerpts from “The Runaway Girl” (Caryll): suite, “From Foreign Lands" (Moszkowski) lavonic Dance, No. 1" (Dvorak): marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and Spangled Banner.” At Dupont Circle at 7:30 p.m. tomor. row night a concert by a section of the Marine Band will include: March, “Chicago Tribune” (Chambers); over- ture, “French Co dy” (Keler Bela): romance, “Eleanor’ (Deppen); excerpts trom “Rose Marie” (Friml): “Scarf Dance” and “The Charmer,” from the ballet “Callirhoe” (Chaminade); valse intermezzo, “"Maesmawr" (Curti); melo- dies from light opera (Roberts); “The Star Spangled Banner.” vlvan Theater on Satur 5 o'clock n.m Army Band C;ncerts. HE United States Army Band Capt. R. G. Sherman, command- officer; Willlam J. Stannard, will play at McMillan Park, First and Bryan streets north- west at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow day they will play at Walter Hospital at §:30 p.m. program will be broade til 8 pm. through station from the auditorium of the W Col- lege, Washington Barracks: Thurs- day the band will play its first Ellipse concert of the season af 5:30 o'clock and Friday a_ concert will be given at the War College bandstand The Ellipse_concert will include in the program Eurlau's overture, verh and Sousa's popular suite, “Looking Upward.” Mr. Euhlau's work, featured seyeral times by the United States Army Band, was origi- nally ‘Written as one of a group of plano selections. So far as records g0 to show, this overture as arranged by Mr. Schmohl for the full strength of the Army Band, is possessed and played only by that organization. Navy Band Concerts. THE United States Navy Band will hold forth in three concert pro- grams this week. The first, tomor- row afternoon, will be given at the Capitol Grounds. ‘The second will be presented Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at Garfield Park, Second. and F streets southeast. The third, Wed- from 6:30 WCAP | nesday, at 7 p.m.. will be given at the bandstand in the navy vard. The laiter two programsa will be published in daily issues of The Star. A The program at 5 p.m. tomorrow, at the Capigol,, by the United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter, U. 8. N., director,. will be: grand march, “Slave” (Tschalkowskv): rhap- sody, “Southern” (Hosmer); cornet solo, “Serenade” (Schubert), G. De Glorgio, bandmaster, U. 8. N.; charac- teristic, ‘‘Reminiscences of Irelan (Godfrey): sketches, "American” (Myd- dleton): largo from the “Fifth Sym- phony” (Dvorak); suite, “Le Feria (Lacome); excerpts from “Eileen (Herbert): march, “On the Mallj’ (Goldman): finale, “The Star Spangled Banner.’ New Faces in Pictures. IRST National's West coast head- quarters, in its new release prom- ises some faces that will make movie patros sit up and take notice: First, there will be Dorothy Sebas- tian. George Archainbaud had her slated for “Joseph Greer and His Daughter,” and then Edwin Carewe, noting her talents, had a bigger part for her, and she went a step higher up the iadder of film fame. Then comes Edward Earle, who has been in pictures for some time, but only recently has come to the fore. He will be seen in “The Lady Who Lie dwin Carewe's latest. and iater in “The Séa Woman" and “Vien- nese Medley.” Both pictures are now being made, and Earle is jumping from one stage to another and putting on one makeup in the morning, an other after Junch First National recently signed two | vouthful players who also will bear i some keen observation, Joyce Comp- ton and Hugh Allan. Miss Compton i"as a winner in an extra girl contest recently. She has a five-vear contract with First National. Y Big Indian Gathering. INCE the Indian outbreak of almost 50 years ago, when the tribes as- sembled on the Little Big Horn and massacred the pursuing party under n. Custér, it is claimed there has !never been a meeting of the tribes to approach -In - proportions -the one’ at Kayenta, the Indlan trading post on the Navajo reservation in ‘Arizona. Ten thousand members of the Apache, Navajo; .Hopl, Sapunis, Havasupais and Wallapais tribes are encamped there to take part in the motion plc- ture production of “The Vanishing Ameriean,” Zane Grey’s epic story of the passing of the red man. ‘Willlam K. Howard is making the production for Paramount, with Rich- a®d Dix in the title role and Lois Wilson as leading Jady, _— The awesome majesty of the Grand Canyon will provide the locale for the opening scenes of “The Road to Ye: terday,” Cecil-B. De Mille's first per- sonally directed independent produc- tion, ' “The Star | Wednesday a | SUNDAY STAR, WA Thursday | ‘clock. and a second con- | | »srams of these three latter | **H ill be given in'detail in is-| 2 1 | set | { 1 | SHINGRON D. ¢, JULY “PINAFORE” HELENA MORRILL “*Pinafore’’ Anchors Here M. 8. PINAFORE,” the gallant three-decker. has been r missioned for another cruise a sail at Poli's Theater this week. beginning tomorrow night. She just s shipworthy as when she was first launched on May 25, 1878, in the Savoy Theater in London, with those three great “Savovards.” Sir Arthur Sullivan. Sir William Gilbert and D'Ogly Carte in command. That was a prosperous vovage in that day. run- ning for 700 nights to capacity au- diences. A hit, a palpable hit"” said the London Press, and so it has heen ever since. The good ship with its stout crew will be anchored at Poli's for a successful week The crew for this sail consists of Robinson Newbold, whd ships under the title of The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B.. Edward Orchard, who is listed as Capt. Cor coran, commanding H. M. . Pina- fore; Sudworth Frasier will walk the decks as the gallant Ralph Rack straw, able seaman; Francis Tyler will swagger _around as Dick Dead eve, Plerre Remington js Bill Bob- stay, boatswain; Helen “Morrill sails as °Josephine, the captain’s daugh- ter; Eleanor La Mance will be Lit tle Buttercup, and Augusta Spette, Hebe. First Lord's sisters, his cousins and his aunts, saflors, etc., will complete those on board The ship was ordered into commis. | sion by the Generous Citizen of Wash ington who refuses to publish his name, but supports this season of light opera classics in the belief that the present generation should know their fine and lilting melodies and know them as done by this full pro. fessional company. whose inferpreta tlons are authentic and of high caliber. Half a’ centur¥’ has passed since these ~wholesome, rollicking operas is | were first given to the world in Lon don. They of the English-speaking world. Now here in our Capital they are being revived again by the Washington | Opera Compang. under the direction of Edouard Albion and under the patronage of this generous public benefactor. The prices are kept low enough to he within reach of every one and the productions are tax ex . u the Washington Opera Company is incorporated as an educa tional institution This work is too expensive ta be carried forward indefinitely at a loss. %0 the length of the season will de- pend entirely upon the real appre- ciation of the Washington public as expressed at the box office If inter. est demands the continuation of the season, “The Fortune Teller,” “Yeo man of the Guard” and others equally good are slated for production. MME. GALLI-CURCI has just com pleted her Australian tour. Auckland, New Zealand, S. Aorang! Tuesday. In | her party’ are included her husband, | Homer Samuels. composer - pianis Jack Salter of Evane & Salter, her managers: Manuel Berenguer, flutist, and her maid | sailed from ir\n the S, booked to sing { coming Mme. the large crowds wel Galli-Curci at raliway stat with cheering and speeches brought memories of scenes witnessed in the palmy days of Adelina Patti’s singing journevs On her return Mme. Galli-Curei will give a concert at Hawali, as she did on the outward voyage. After a short stay on the istnd she will embark for America, where she Is due the | early part of August. OCAL PIANIST TO SFUDY WITH RACHMANIN( MILDRED KOLB SCHULZE. A YOUNG Washingtonian who has won increasing recognition as | Mrs. Schulze was the winner in a ompetition for a gold medal and also are a part of the heritage | | Galli-Curei on. Reco;l Tour. | She | On arrival at cities where she was | pianist of ability and talent, both as| gave a recital at the Columbia Thea- solo artist and as accompanist, is|ter in 1911. The following Summer Mildred Kolb Schulze, born and reared | she plaved in Newport at the homes in the Capital Citv. She has studied |of many famous people and later the piano ever since she was ten spent a vear teaching piano at -the years old. Now she is ready for the | Woman's College of ‘Greenville, S. C. final training under a master of the|Then she came home to get married art of piano playing,#nd she has been accepted as a student by Serge Rach- maninoff, noted Russian composer- pianist. ‘She will begin her lessons | with him in the fall. Mrs. Schuize has received all her | training to date in Washington with the exception of a series of lessons in accompanying under Frank La Forge in New York last Winter and Spring. She studied for six vears under Mme. von Unschuld in a group which in- cluded other brilllant young pianists. In this group were Gertrude MacRae Nash, now teaching in the Cornish | which accounted for quite a hiatus in | her professional career, before she: re- | sumed her teaching and her own work, which, includes not a little composition. During the month of August Mrs. Schulze expects to spend much of her time working out some of these com- positions while resting at her cottage at Tall Timbers. Md. Among them is a group of sengs which Mr. La Forge encouraged her. to work up,_ for .publi- cation in begk form. : Next Wi _&l’gr she will give two reci- tals in Washington during the season and will give an “old masters” pro- School of Seattle, Wash.; Katherineygram at the Friday Morning Club. McNeal, a brilllant performer of ultra- modern works, who, is at present in Venice, en route to Paris to work with the young modernists 0 compose that exotic group, “The Six"; Louls Potter, who recéntly left here to ac- cept the position of organist and choir director of the Temple Baptist Church of Charleston, W. Va., and Russell Hill, who is making successful appear- ances abroad. In these six years Mrs. Schulze's training was along the sound, funda- mental lines of the European school of instruction. - Harmony. counterpoint, theory, musical history amd . sight- reading were required in sufficient amount te instill a thorough working knowledge. At the end of that period She will continiie her accompaniment work to a certdin extent in addition to taking her lessons with Mr. Rachman- inoff. Mrs. Schulze is intérested in the work of: the moderns as well as in the classical masters of piano music. She also has a keen interest in the possibilities of light, humorous musical compositions. Last Spring she created much merriment at a meeting of the Friday Morning Club with her clever | performance of the musical parodies | written by Edward Ballentyne of Har- vard University on the theme of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” using the styles of 10 famous composers. Mrs. Schulze: has some very .original and. logical ideas on arranging concert pre- grams, o aa e ‘ “Sings" in Georgetown. UNDER the auspices of the George- town Citizens' Association, which sponsored the pageant of Georgetown given on Decoration day before an au- dience of 4,000 people in Montrose Park, a series of three community { singe will be held this Summer at the same place under the direction of Rob- ert Lawrence. | The first is scheduled for Tuesday evening, July 21, at § o'clock, with | Miss Netta Craig as soloist. The re: maining two will be held August 4 and 18 | year previous showed a great interest |and appreciation in outdoor singing |in Georgetown. in which every one may be a listener or performer, as they please. The words of well known | songs are projected on a large screen, |and the ability and enthusiasm of Rob- |ert Lawrence as a conductor assure a pleasant hour They are free to the public. Burleith bus line passes within a block | of the park | R streets. Boy Carueo mv T;vo Fetes. | AUSTIN LEROY LAWRENSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Law- renson of 110 T street northwest, is & | boy _soprano of Washington whose voice 18 so individual in quality that | he has been calied the “Boy Caruso.” | He will sing this week at a lawn fete | at 8t. Martin's Church, 1908 North | Capitol street, both tomorrow and | Thursday nights. | “Master Lawrenson's numbers will |include Irish songs. such as | Machree.” “Mother o' Mine, | “West of the Great Divide" ‘Honest and Truly.” He sang week at a simllar fete at Rt valus' Church PR Cole Piano Recital. RS. CHARLES COLE presented a plano recital at her home re- cently in which the following voung people participated: Gladys Fielding, Evelyn Nichols, Edgar Wright, Ar- thur, Katherine and Margaret Hai- slip, Mary and Alice Harrington, Vir- ginla_Cole, Marjorie Burton, Flora and Marion McKenzie, James Coun- cillor, Helen Steers and Elmon Bur- tor Pantomime a RETA NISSEN, beautiful Norse star, who is hailed as the present- day sensation of the screen, claims as her greatest asset in motion plcture work the art of pantomime, which she studiéd for vears in Copenhagen. “I have just completed three pic- tures,” says Miss Nissen —*‘In the Name of Love,' ‘Lost—a Wife,’ and “The Wanderer,’ and during the months spent in making them I never yet have begun or ended a scene with- out a fervent pra; of gratitude for the years I spent in studying panto- mime. This training T have found to be of inestimable value to me in my screen work. After all, the twe are essentially alike. “Pantomime is the expression of certain moods, - feelings, emotions— love, tenderness, passio hatred. through the medium of the body, the use of the hands, feet. eves and mouth, virtually evervthing except speech. Tts two great requirements are aincerity and simplicity. The attempt to overdo defeats its own end 'The main objective of pantomime is the expression of certain univer- sally understood feelings with simple means, and that, as I understand it, is also the purpose of the screen player. “By a coincidence, the pantomime that was taught me was solely for my dancing. I had never even -|dreamed tHat, unconsciously, I was de- veloping myself for quite another art, motion pictures. And the marvel of it all is, to me, that the girl who is an aspirant for screen fame stresses on studying the drama, the dance and athletics, and seemingly neglects the most essential attribute of all—panto- mime. At the Rovel Opera, where I stud- ied, our pantomime teachers contin- ually pounded the fact that gesture precedes speech and that pantomime ‘was possible even before a vocabulary was developed. We learned also that in the eighteenth century pantomime had a double revival in France and England. \ “In France, Noverre elevated the bal- let d'action, that is fo say. the story told in pantomime, and adorned it with dances, Sometimes these ballets d'action ‘were in several acts, relying for interest on the skmple, ingenuous plot and only decorated, 8o to speal with accasional dances. . From No- verrs and from ¥rance, the tradition of the -pantomime, with interludes of dancing, spread at first fo Italy and Austria, and later to Russia. “In England the most.famous im- personator of the clown was Grim- aldl, whose memoirs were edited. by Dickens. Even in far-off Denmark, at our school there, we learned of your Americans, the Fox brothers, who played in pantomime ‘Humpty- Dumpty,” in the late 60s. Indeed there are pictures of these Americans at the Royal Opera, and also-of the Ravels, French pantomimists, who toured America, and the later-day Hanlons. . < “What seemed most ‘to impress us when studying pantomime “was the oft-told story, by our professars, of the great French actor, Frederic Le- overstrain just as he was ab the height Lof his career, and of d’Ennery, who wrote a’play for him, “The Oid ral in which he appeared as a.sol r | biennial festival of the federation |to | has been |dramatic_soprano. 8. . | sotoist Sintilar events last Summer and the The | located at Thirty-first and | | reaches practical maitre, who lost his voice -through |- UNIQUE feature 1o be presented | over the radio, via station WRC, every day-but Saturday, is a series of organ_recitals arranged by George Ross, In which leading local organists | will participate. The recitals will be | given during the noon hour. from 12 | Il 1 o'clock. They will be broadcast from the First Congregational Church. The public is invited to come to the church for the recitals as well as to listen by. radio. The programs will be miscellaneous. This week the organists who will give the “daily dozen” on the organ Charlotte Klein; Tues- 3 Torovsky: ~Wednesday, Malton Boyce: Thursday, Mr. Boyce: | and Friday, Mr. Torovsky, again | These recitals should offer eppor- | tunities to try out new organ works or others by old masters that are rarely heard | Esther Linkins, president of the District of Columbla Federation of Music Clubs, is enjoying the ice-laden breezes of Alaska, according to a card received from her. She has done considerable touring of the western_ part of the country in con- junction with the attending of the | at | Portland. Oreg., last month Miss Linkims will probahly r-lurv\] washington a week from to- morrow. | Word comes from Portland, Me.. that Olive Fremstad. well-known singer, has just been granted a di- | vorce from her husband, Harry Lewis | Brainard of New York Citv. The| singer claimed the divorce on grounds of desertion. | = | The Municipal Opera Company of | New York is also to offer Gilbert and i ullivan's operetta of the sea, “'H. M S. Pinafore,” which will be given in Washington this week by the Wash ington Opera Company. at the Polo | Grounds of the metropolis .July Tom Burke is the impresario. = The entire cast of the New York company insured, according to Mr. Burke, for $250,000 Dusolina Giannini. young American is" piling up new abroad. She j= 1o be first philharmonfc con cert in Berlin and the first wand haws concert in Leipzig he ~ will give recitals in Hamburg. Breslat, Co. logne, Hanover and Mannheim, with another Berlin recital and probably | several in Stockholm. hefore her re. turn to America laurelz daily at the up the classics, while| anathema to the majority of the | lovers of classic music, is a practical way of creating a taste for the mas pieces of music among the younger generation ac- cording to Spencer | Tupman, director | of a local orches- {tra. Mr. Tupman i has made a num- ber of dance or- | chestrations of | classics which he ool | has presented both p { in_vaudeville and | over the radio. “Dancing, you imay say, is the fayored amuse- ment of at least 90 per cent of bhoys and girls of _to |day.” " said Mr. | Tupman. “Thus & TCPMAN. dance music | all of the younger | generation. If in this dance music there is incorporated the wonderfu! motifs of the classics, it is certain tha the melodies of the classics will be | heard and appreciated by many thou- | sands who would never hear them| otherwise. 1If there is latent musical | appreciation, these syncopated classic will arouse it, and may very well act | as an incentive to secure a better knowledge of really fine music of the serious sort | I am sure that this viewpoint is Screen Asset. of Napoleon's ‘Old Guard’ who had been-stricken dumb during the retreat from Russia. “This exploit of Lemaitre’s was not as extragrdinary as it may seem. A titily accomplished actor qught to be able to forego the aid of speech. Even in our present-day plavs gesture is more significant than speech. To place the finger on the lips is more effective than to say ‘Hush.' I it not s0? “In all good acting the gesture pre. cedes the word: and often the gesture makes the word itself unnecessary, be cauge i has succeeded in conveving painted EARING painted pajamae at the beach is the Iat, Hollywood tad. Santa Monica, the fashionable beach of southern California, literally gasped when several parties of film stars, pajama clad, aired themselves | on the sand over the week end. H The pajamas, in bright colors, many | of them hand painted and almost cubistic in effect, were worn for lounging suits on the sand, while underneath, for actual swimming, | were worn the usual tight-fitting, one- | t piece bathing suits or the boyish suits | with jumper and trousers. One of the colorful effects was worn | by Esther Ralston.” Over a tight one- | plece suit Miss Ralston wore a pair of pajamas painted with a maze of bright triangles, light blue, dark blue, green and orange—a Chinege effect. She carried a short-handled Chinese umbrella, painted bright yellow on the outside and painted with multic colored triangles on the inside, to match her pajamas. . She also wore & small pagoda-style.bathing cap. ‘The hand-painted pajama fad origi- nated at Lido, Ttaly, the smartest bathing beach in the. world, accord- ing to Howard Greer, designer of screen fashions, who has just re- turned from a trip to Europe. It is being adopted by Hollywood with a rush. o . Greta Nissen, the beautiful -Norse girl recently elevated. to stardom by Paramount, and a riumber of friends in a party” at Santa Monica were pajama clad. Miss Nissen carried a small umbrella which matched her white, hand painted with big roses. Betty Compson, who with her hus- band, James Cruze, entertained a number of film friends, wore a gay pair of men's silk pajamas of solid color, embroidered with various freak- ish animal~designs—elephants, fish, dogs, pelicans. Bessie Love wore a striking pair of lavender pajamas, with a long Jjacket and extra wide trousers. She carried a muffler of fuchsia_shade about her shoulders, and addedto the boyish effect of the costume by carry- ing .a silk handkerchief of . fuchsia shade in thé breast pocket. Greer. explained the new fad by saying that the pajamas, with their high necks and long sleeves, prevent sunbuen_on the shoulders and arms, 80 objectionable to moat women and ! ing theatrical | students du t | of music pajamas of ‘yellow. Her jacket was| nace Jan Paderewski.who has re celftly been knighted by King George of Engiand, in addition to many other honors which have been showerad upon him this vear, has issued the announcement that, in spite of hir new title, he is to continue to ac knowledge only Mister, Monsieur or Herr as a preface to his name. He will not use the title “'Sir,” which the conferring of this knighthood makes possible. “Ghosts,” a new song by Karl Holer of this cily, was sung by Rawley ( Donohue, baritone, from radio statior WRC iast Thursdey night Julia Culbreth Gray of Washington is giving a series of folk song recitalx in the south this season, filling en gagements with the Georgla Ninth District State School, at Clarksville the Asheville Normal School, Ashe ville, N. C.: Cullowhee Normal School N. C., and the East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville. N. C. These are all Summer schools. Late this month Mrs. Gray a program af Alfred Univers mer School, Alfred, N. Y. At shé is in Richmond. ¥ will give v Sum present The Commiinity Cenier's Band at Franklin Park under the direction of James E. Miller, gave a program las Friday evening that included well known selections by Sousa. Luscumhb Luder, Mendelssohn and Herbert, mod ern dance hits and ““The Star Spanglad Banner. Nina Norman of “Washington has been engaged to sing on the Steel Pier Atlantic Cit J., with the Comfort Symphony Orchestra, this afternoon Miss Norman will motor back with Es telle Wentworth, also of Wasnington who has been filling two concert gagements on the piet as gnest soloist with that orchesfra Word comes from New York tha three young Washingtonians whe have appeared in productions given under the direction of Rollin Bond this city have won places with lead companies In the me tropolis Collette zaged by company Franc: the “Galla Lawrence of a leading role in Time.”” i now singing In t “Music Box Revue': Bett now with Ned phonie . "Jazzing Up the gassics.‘ | e¢ yazzinG not a visionary 1 have had such actual resnits brought to mv a tention time and again Recently professor of Svracuse University me that, although he had been tensely prejudiced against anv med dling with classic music several years ago. his observations among e last few months had convinced him that puttihg ghe classics in dance form had really roused the intérest of his students in good music and he'ped them to appre clate intrinsic The dance rhythms made the very eas for them to listen to: also they listened closely because they were dancing. Consequently they were also listening told | closely to the melodies of some of the The vs was that the he finer sort { these synco finest the e with_these college b developed an interest as a resu pated dance selections Mr. Tupman expressed that converting a class dance form need not process neopation he said musie assics outcoms the heliar selection intn be a fiippant iz inot. a musical It has been used: in classic Dvorak's ‘New World Symphony.’ for instance. An aria can be put in dance form without commit ting _musical mavhem, and ean be handled so that it will also appeal to hose educated in music. 1 know of number of cultured men who appre. ciate grand opera who state that thev enjov hearing eperatic selections or chestrated in dance rhythm crime the impression und in making the full effect by ftself, @0 that the spoken word actually becomes superfluous. “This vocabulary of gesture is only a codification of the signs which we naturally make—shaking the head for no.’ nodding for ‘ves,’ and layinz a finger on the lips for ‘hush.’ The basis of any such vocabulary must be the series of gestures by.the aid of which man_has always. expressed his i This is why the traditiona ures of theatrical pantomi: not. indead cannot, differ greatly the gign language. “To American girls who are prepar ing for a screen career.l suggest.the study of pantomime for action. and dancing for grace. I am still studving and practicing both.” e de from Pajamas fatal for film stars. because make-up over sunburn is impossible. Thus far most of the hand-paintsd Pajamas have been importations from Europe, although a few have been made here. The pajamas are painted before -the silk is cut, Greer states. N fugente Besserer, who plays a prom Inent role in Gloria Swanson's new pic ture, “The Coast of Folly,” formerlv held .the fencing champlionship for women. Miss Besserer, born in France, has been an actress since the age of 3. She was Margaret Anglin's understudy and starred in several stage productions. Her best sqgeen |role was in “Anna Christie.” “Flower of the Night,” which ix expected to be one of the most eolor- ful pictuges ‘in whith Pola Nesri has appeared, has a Mexican back- ground and treats the Mexican peo ple in a sympathetic fnanner. 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