Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1925, Page 48

By Helen Fetter HE entire country has been stirred by the announcement that the estate of the late Victor Herbert, prolific song writer, amounts to a sum _of only $38,156 for his widow and children. A total of more than 700 musical compositions, many of which have proved excecd- ingly popular, is valued, with future royalties included, at only $7,000—a amere $10 apiece for such songs as “Kiss Me Again,” “Gypsy Love Song,” “March of the Toys” and many other favorites of light opera and musical comedy successes written by the genial American. One group of 80 songs, appraised at $500, included “hits” from “Prince Ananias,” “The Wizard of the Nile” and “The Veiled Prophet.” group of 480 songs, valued at $2,500, includes songs from “The Fortune Teller,” “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “Babes in Toyland,” “Mlle. Modiste” (* s Me.Again"), “Naughty Marietta,” “The Red Mill” and “The Princess Pat.” weethearts” and “Natoma,” Mr. Herbert's grand opera, are included in L list of 60 works valued at $500. Mr. Herbert's newest works; valued at R3:500, numbering 100 compositions, include songs from “My Golden Girl,” *The Century Girl,” ‘music for the “Follies” of 1917, 1920-1-2-3, “Girl in the Spotlight,” “Orange Blossoms” (“A Kiss in the Dark”), “Dream Girl," “Angel Face,” “Her Regiment,” “Oui, Madame,” “Little Old New York" and his interesting suite of “Serenades,” played here last Winter by Mr. WWhiteman’s concert orchestra. ' Truly art must find its compensations for the artist in itself rather than in gold, even when it is an art so popular and gay in its appeals as The music of Mr. Herbert has proved for more than a quarter of a century. . * ok Kk ok R. OLIN DOWNES has been att€nding some of the performances of light opera in the famous St. Louis Municipal Opera Theater, so mas- aive in its proportions and so cunningly conceived that its acoustics are ex- cellent for the most remote in an audience numbering 10,000. Mr. Downes seems to have been duly impressed and enthused. In more than two col- nmns in last Sunday’s New York Times devoted to his opinions concerning this great enterprisc he mentions that “The significant thing to a musical recorder is not the technical equipment of these institutions. It is the sPirit and the quality of the ideas that have gone into their making, and the manner in which they reflect the astonishingly rapid artistic advance oi certain American communities, Their development has come about through that not infrequent combination of executive ability and genuine idealism that animates a good many people in America.” § When one realizes that this flourishing season of 12 weeks of light opera is only six years removed from the first season of St. Louis munici- al light opera, in 1919, which lasted six weeks, and faced a deficit, it gives {;fibre than a ray of hope for the success financially, as well as artistically, of the Washington Opera Company’s Summer season, already definitely planned to begin next May. In the four weeks of light opera offered by the local company under many handicaps this vear, closing with last might's performance of “H. M.’S. Pinafore,” there have been many mo- iients of thorough enjoyment, both musically and histrionically. Each ¥ember of the cast seems to have worked with enthusiasm and earnest- ness, doubly admirable in such stifiing weather as Washington has suf- igred during most of that period. The chorus has sung vigorously and Well. Max Hirshfield, conductor, and Paul Callan, stage director, both de- serve special commendation, as well as Mr. Albion, gereral director of the oyganization. The foundation seems to- have been solidly laid for the building of a fine season next year. * kK kx 1 HE newest step in music has been taken by a musician of the new world. Julian Carrillo, called “Mexico's greatest musician,” has offered practical demonstration of his system of music without tones and semi- tohes. He uses guarter, eighth and even sixteenth tones. 3 - Senor Carrillo is known in New York for his “D Major Symphony,’ Which he conducted with the American Symphony Orchestra in Aeolian Hall several years ago. It is said that he has many pupils in Mexico City Swho are now playing and singing his novel works. February 15, this year, at the principal theater of that city, Senor Carrillo and his pupils played @ program of 10 of his compositions, all showing tones and semi-tones as the exception, with a predominance of quarter tones, eighths and six- teenths. K e Musical Advance states in an article about this remarkable musician : “This musical revolution of Senor Carrillo is too much for the present time; hundreds of years must pass béfore his theories are accepted; yet all his ideas are based upon his first experiment in 1895. Since then he has per- fected his system until it has reached its present stage. He has solved all the_problems for orchestral presentation, and has.commenced the com- position of a symphony, a violoncello concerto, which he intends to present in New York City October 12, 1926." g This performance should prove a unique musical event. CoUk ok ok R TRIO by Zoltan Kodaly was played for the first time in Washington at one of the concerts of the Washington Chamber Music Society last Winter. The work baffled’some hearers and strangely moved othérs, while not a_few confessed to be exasperated by it. “De gustibus,” etc. Mr. M. D. Calvocoressi, in the June number of the Music Bulletin (Lon- don), sums up, “International festivals, nationality in music and other matters.” In the course of his article the writer claims that “Nowadays, two Hungarians, Bartok and Kodaly, are greatly contributing to the en- richment, and the permanent enrichment, of both the repertory and the idiom of music. They are doing so in a way which is very different from what we find, or might expect to find, in any other country. Why this is the case is a problem for the philosopher and the esthetician. Musi- cians and music lovers need be concerned with the practical issue only.” * Ok Ok K ONTEVERDI'S opera, “The Return of Ulysses,” written in 1641 for Venice, and rediscovered about the end of the last century, has been given in Paris, with an orchestration made by Vincent d'Indy, whose in- terest in Monteverdi's operas has been evinced before. The performance made a deep impression on the audience. d* kK K AZZ came in for another “appreciation” in the July number of Music and Letters (London). The “appreciator,” Mr. Cecil Austin, speaks "or a larger public, perhaps, than his countrymen when he says: “It is doubtful whether the magic terrors of jazz will scare many people over here, although by exploiting to the utmost the fallacy that good music is beyond the mental capacity of the ordinary citizen, and by holding up jazz to the popular veneration as an art that can be under- tood so easily and enjoyed by all, no one will deny that large. fortunes can be made by those who deal in this commodity.” * ok k% UDIE with the exception of those composed largely of people _of Latin nationalities, who are noted for unhesitating expression of their feelings upon various and sundry occasions, including concerts, are generally considered as a.group of complacent and possibly mildly critical folks filling the great open spaces of the concert hall. It is, therefore, of unique interest that such an incident should occur in Queen's Hall at a recent program consisting entirely of works by modern British composers as is recorded by the critic of the Monthly News-Herald (London), who states : 3 brand-new’piano concerto by Herbert Howells. a young composer of whom high hopes have for some time been entertained, proved ex- tremely disappointing. Skillful but hard and ungracious music, only in the slow movement were there glimpses of fleeting poetic beauty; the rest of the work seemed to be aiming at an uRcompromising severity of utter- ance, which was not only monotonous, but repellent. It seemed ironical that the solo part should have been performed by one of the most able exponents of the gracious and beautiful moods of music, Mr. Harold Samuel. Mr. Samuel brought all his wonted skill to the interpretation and did ‘his best to soften the crudity and angularity of the composer's thoughts. TIndeed, one shuddered to think what might have been inflicted upon us by a more virile pianist! “The work was coldly received, but an untoward ineident turned the tide of opinion in the composer’s favor. At the conclusion of the concerto an occupant of the balcony stood up and shouted, ‘Thank Heaven that is over!" “It is doubtful if such™a demonstration will do much to stimulate further intcrest in a work which' in itself made so little appeal to a mysi- cal audic z ' -, I.\' the June number of Die Musik a contributor draws a sharp profile of Dr. Karl Muck, remembered here as a much-discussed problem of troubled days not less than as the wonderful interpreter of orchestral music on unforgettable nights. isked by Angelo Neumann to introduce the Wagner tetralogy in St Petersburg and Moscow. -At the time Muck’s father sent to his son the following telegram: “Cigarettes and Wagner—the nails to your coffin} Your decply worried father.” They did not kill him. Something else nearly did. We arc told that at present “only his hair is lightly streaked with gray; the malaria, which he caught somewhere north of Florida behind barbed wires may have contributed to the small wrinkles which have been graven into the nar- row face.” When the times of misunderstandings will have receded far enough mto the past, perhaps the picture of a very great conductor will stand out all the clearer, a conductor whose merits have not been overshadowed or effaced by the spectacular performances of more “temperamental” visitors. Friday Morning Cluh. FORECAST of next season’s pro- rams for the Friday Morning Musle Club was-made by the pro- —— a morning of Pan-American music; romantie music devoted to Weberand Schumann and including two plano ensemble, Polish music, a Wagner program, a Bach program, a Mozart S oo en N e e et it T b ol ss Lucy Brickensteln. and Mrs. |} ¥ Frank Howard before -they left |manhood: a morning devoted to the Washington for the Summer period. | BI& Six" modern French composers, The board of governors will meet |ensemble music by the choral en- November 6 and the entire active|Semble of the club and a program membership will hold its_ first busi- lb»"“h‘? B‘““"" Bflflld Orchestra. ness meeting November 13. Mrs. Byrnes, president of the-club, ,From November 20 until ,\'nn‘z.flu molortlin'(‘ulon(( the ‘;}}ew BE';I‘{lnd 20 morning musicals are scheduled | coast and Cape Cod. Miss Bricken- Yor every Friday at 11 o'clock, In the stein. musical director, is in the suldtorium of the Cosmos Club, | Adirondacks, and Mrs, Howard, ome especcally interesting and un- | sistant dll‘e(‘lory will leave town for usual YeatUres- are promised, such ulsprln: Lake, N. J, next week, 4 Another. When Dr Muck was barely 30 he was | Army Band Concerts. DURING this week the Army Band, Capt. R. G. Sherman, command- ing, and Capt. W. J. Btannard, direct- ing, will be heard in a series of ton- certs, as follows: Tomorrow at Grant Circle, Fifth and Varnum streets, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mount Alto Hos- pital, at 7 p.m., under the direction of Assistant Bandleader L. S. Yas- sel—Feature numbers, the overture, “Willlam Tell” (Rossini), and Fan- tasia on Motifs, from Richard Wag- ner's “Gotterdammerung.” Friday, Washington Barracks, regular post concert, beginning at 6:50 p.m. and continuing until 8:30. An exceptionally attractive program has been arranged, including “Dance of the Hours"” (Pon- hielli), and that ever popular number, Dance of the Serpents” (Boccalari). It may be interesting to note that this last number practically “took New York by storm” when rendered by the Army Band at Central Park during its recent visit to that city. Saturday, at the Sylvan Theater, at 7:45 p.m., a concert will be broadcast by station WEAF and associated companies (not local). Special pains have been taken to insure an enjoyable hour and a half for those who attend. Interspersed with the numbers pro- grammed for this week's concerts will be found several numbers from South America, easily recognizable by their peculiar rhythm and melodies indige- nous to those countries. Washington’s USTIN LEROY LAWRENSON, 12- vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lawrenson of 110 I street northwest, is a boy soprano of Washington who has won the title of “The Boy Caru- 50.” Austin has been singing since he was 5 years old, and was featured in the performance of the “Ode to Cleo- patra,” sung to the Queen of the Shrine in the big Shriners’ convention here two years ago. He is a member of the St. Aloysius’ Boy Choir, and has sung recently at lawn fetes both at St. Aloysius and St. Mark's Churches. He sang at Keith's Thea- ter for one week a couple of years ago, and will be a feature of the pro- gram the entire week of August 2 at| the Rialto Theater. In addition to his interest in sing- ing, Austin ia * is in the sixth grade of the Blake School. He also is responsible for a Star route, serving newspapers to peo- ple living in the vicinity of Fifth and G streets. Austin’s great - great - grandfather, James Lawrenson, was a_writer for The Evening Star and also for the| Baltimore Sun. The boy’s great-grand- father, Richard Sewall Lawrenson, was with the Post Office Department | for 58 years; with his son, the two Lawrensons served in positions of this department for 129 years. Austin's father is engaged in business here. There are four generations of the family living in Washington at pres- ent. Austin is not at all sure that he Marine Band Concerts. ’I’I{E United States Marine Band, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader, and | Taylor Branson, second leader, will give two programs tomorrow—-5 p.m. at the Barracks, and 7:30 p.m. at Grant Circle. The programs are given below. Other programs of the week, which will be published in the daily papers, include. a concert Tuesday at Walter Reed Hospital; Wednesday afternoon, concert at the Capitol, Thursday, a program at the Sylvan Theater in the Monument Grounds, and a program Friday at the Naval Hospital. The Marine Barracks program, at p.m. tomorrow, will be: March, “With Sword and Lance” (Starke): overture, “Barber of Seville” (Rossini); patrol “Emperor's Trumpeter” (Vollstedt: trombone solo, “Phenomenal Polka (Innes), Principal Musician Robert E. Clark; mosalc from “‘Sicilian Vespers™ (Verdi); descriptive fantasia, “Spring Jubilee in the Alps” (Gungl): grand march, “Entrance of the Guests in the Wartburg,” from “Tannhauser” (Wagnel i hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma,” and “The Star Span- gled Banner. At Grant Circle, Fifth and Varnum streets northwest, at 7:30 o'clock to- morrow evening, the program will in clude: March, “The American Legion" (Pryor); overture, “Joan of Arc” (So derman); scene Espagnole, “Sevillana” (Elgar); excerpts from “Naughty Mari- etta” (Herbert); idyl, “The Shepherd | lson); waltz, “Artist's Life" grand scenes from “Mer. chant of Venice” (Pinsuti) and “The Star Spangled Banner.” An Evening of Music. An evening of music will be given by R. Deane Shure Wednesday. ‘Those who will appear on the pro- gram are: Olive Smith, Dorothy Skean, Mary Ada Parsons, Louise Charlton, Nina Buzzard, Katie Gross, Kate Beam, Dorothy Hobart, Helen Abbott, Marie Lindsey, Thelma Tavenner, Stanley Hall, R. D. Keller, Emera_Johnson, Mrs. L. F. Stricklin, Earl Masincup. Charlotte Salkeld, Mrs. R. F. Crofton, Zoe Salkeld, Helen Salkeld, Floyd Gessford, James Bowan and Mary Bertha Shure. Navy Band Concerts. ’I'HE United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, director, will give three programs this week, including one tomorrow afterncon at the Capi- tol, a Tuesday concert at Brightwood Reservoir, Sixteenth and Kennedy streets northwest, and one Wednes- day evening at the bandstand of the navy yard. The program at § p.ra. tomorrow at the Capitol will be: March, “The Screamer” (Jewell); overture to ‘Wil liam Tell” (Rossini); duet for flute and horn, “Serenade” (Titl), J. Bell and J. Powell, bandmasters, U. S, N.; prologue from ‘‘Pagliacci” (Leonca- vallo); grand scenes from the opera “Sampson and Delilah” ((Saint-Saens); se de concert. “The Debutante” antelmann); ballet; “Egyptien” (Lui- gin); excerpts from “Naughty Mari etta” (Herbert); march, “The Lure of Alaska' (Benter); finale, “The Star Spangled Banner. . PRETTY BIRD (Wil STORIES. Swallow, Robin and Wagtail Sub- jeots of Portuguese Legends. From the Baltimore Sun. The Portuguese have some pretty bird legends. According to the Portuguese, the stone chat of the fields on the evening of the great betrayal cried, “‘Chas, chas, por qui bem bas” (“This is the way"). The chaffinch tried to lead the soldlers in the opposite direction, crying, “Pin, pin, por aqui ben vin” (“Come this way™). The nightingale was the father of sharp practice. Before Adam was created it tricked its Maker, Having obtained leave to sing -three months in the-year, it sings both day and night, thus making the period equal to six months. The. awallow is considered ‘a sacred bird and respected because of the legend that it wiped the blood from Christ's wounds on the cross and thus became reddish- at Its throat. The same story is told of the robin red- breast. . . Here is a pretty Portuguese legend of the wagtail: “When_ the Virgin Mary fled into Pgypt with the infant Christ a wagtall followed, obliterating the trail by brushing away with its tail the donkey's footprints.. Our lady therefore blessed it, giving it the power to kill the hawk by attack- ing it under the wing." i regular fellar,” and | OTTORINO RESPIGHI. *Boy Carus ) o wants to adopt singing as a_protes- sion when he grows up. He just knows that he likes mighty well to sing now, and works hard to do his part well on the programs for which he is engaged to sing. Herndon Music. The Herndon, Va., Music Stud; Club held its July meeting Friday with the president, Mrs. Annie Robe: Walker. It was voted to give an en- tertalnment at Ivakota Farms, Clif- ton, at an early date. It was also decided to give a concert in Herndon on “Herndon day"” night The subject of the meeting was | included: “A Major thoven), played by pen; vocal solo, “I Love You Truly (Bond), by Mrs. Willlam H. Dawso! Telody in F” (Rubinstein), by Mrs. George R. Bready; vocal solo, * build a World in the Heart of a Rose” (Nicholls) by Mrs. Floyd Thompson: “Gavotte” (Brahms), by Miss Annie Gibson; vocal solo, “A Little Pink Rose,” by Mrs. Frederick Webb Robingon: violin, “To a Wild Rose” (MacDowell), by Miss Dorothy Dick; “Fifth Nocturne” (Leybach), by Mrs. A. Walker. Sonata” (Bee- Miss Helen Cri £ (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) “Who Is she?’ Gertrude inquired under her breath. “I dislike her any- how. I wanted you to dine with me.” | “I don’t know whether I ought to apologize,” he observed, “for having lost the American habit of introducing. Her name is Susan Yeovil. She's very charming and very popular. Her little set keep things moving down here.” “Is she by any chance the daughter trude asked eagerly. rant nodded. ‘Lord Yeovil is down here for the International Congress,” he replied. “They have a villa at Cap Martin. “What does he want to see you for? “I thought that you might have learned our secret. from what Lady Susan said,” he confided. “We solve the ‘Field’ bridge problems together. Very interesting, some of them.” “You're simply horrid,” she de- clared impatiently. Ity was the old pout which he re. membered so well and a momentary tenderness beset him. He crushed it back. “What are you in Monte for alone just now, Gertrude?” he demanded, turning’ the- tables upon her. She drew a newspaper cutting from a thin gold cardcase and handed it to him. It contained a list of visitors at the various ‘Riviéra hotels, his own name ‘among them-——underlined. THe took the slip of zaper from her fingers and looked at long and earnestly. Then he handed it back without re- mark. “That is why I came,” she con- fessed. “It is perhaps just as foolish an impulse .as the impulse which swept me off my feet and made a horrible woman of me three years and two months ago. But it came and 1 yielded to it. And now, the first night that I am here, you are |invitation from that forward young | woman whilst you are sitting by my side.” He smiled imperturbably. His im- pulse of tenderness had passed. He knew now why she had come, and the knowledge gave him an advan- tage. She had no idea that she had betrayed herself. I told you that I had Jost my conceit,” he-sald, “and I am not go- ing to take you literally. There is no hardship, you see, in-exchanging Berlin for Monte Carlo in February.” ‘There are other places on the RI- viera,” she reminded him. “We have a villa at-Cannes and quite a num- ber -of friends there. Let me know the worst, Grant. What about to- morrow?"” “Tomorrow I am entirely at your service,” he replied, “except for the matter of some tennis in the after- noon. We must lunch together.” She sighed contentedly. “You aren’t going to be absolute- Iy horrid, then?" “miscellaneous music.” The program | of the English prime minister?” Ger- | Carlo | dining out. You actually accept an | | later, with Rafael Joseffy. | coloring such works as the Schulz-| ERNESTO CONSOLO. MARIO CORTI. Huston Ray, Young Pianist. HUSTON RAY, the young American | pianist, who was featured at the Rialto Theater last week, studied hlx‘ technique thoroughly with Sigismund | Stojowski (a2 pupll of Paderewsk! at | the same time that Mischa Levitski studled under the Polish master), and, Now, how- ever, Mr. Ray has developed his own system of piano playing, based upon an accidental discovery of a novel use to which weights might be put in or- der to limber up the wrist ligaments. The idea is not unlike the theory of complete relaxation and weight attack used by Robert Schmidt in training | students, especially for interpretation | of_the modern works for the piano. | Mr. Ray performed with apparent | ease and considerable individuality of | | | vier arrangement of Johann Strauss’ | “Blue Danube Waltz,” David Guion's | arrangement of “Turkey in the Straw” | and Mr. Ray's own “Fantasia in F Minor,” for two pianos, which he plays | with remarkable skill, with the Duo- Art reproduction of his own playing of the second part supplementing his per- | formance of the first part. He proved in this last-mentioned number to be a clever composer as well as pianist. The composition shows good workman- ship and rich embroidery of simple, clear melody Mr. Ray was born in Buffalo, N. Y., a little more than a score of years ago. He gave his first recital when five vears old and has appeared on profes. sional programs ever since. He at- tended both Locke Conservatory of Music, in Buffalo, and the Ithaca Con. rvatory of Music. He has made phonograph and reproducing piano records. He came to Washington from an engagement at the Capitol ater, New York, where his salary is said to have amounted to $2.500 a week. He is planning a world tour shortl. “The weight behind the blow” is the motto of this voung man. He telis the following incident of his discovery of the great assistance that lead weights could afford him in his prac ticing—a discovery.made when, in an | emergency, he was called upon to substitute for a Russian pianist, new to New York, who failed to appear for his first recital, for which a large and expectant audience had gathered. “I asked for 15 minutes and prom- ised to then perform the program as printed,” says Mr. Ray in telling this story. “My whole thought was re- garding my technique. Could I per- form the program without sufficient One of the Best Mystery Stories Ever Written :T; By E. Phillips Oppenheim. \ | (Copgright, by Little, Brown & Co.) ‘H"P'H-H-r-l-fi-l—-l-l-i her. “All the same, I am afraid that I'm running a terrible risk.” Again the smile—and with it the little stab at his heart. He was a man with instincts of faithfulness. "I may be running that risk my- self,” she whispered. CHAPTER II. Presently Grant and his companion rose and moved to the rooms, crowded now with a strange medley of people, men and women of every nationality and speaking every tongue, differing racially but brought into a curious affinity—the women by the great dressmakers of the world, the men by the unwritten laws of Saville Row. The corner in which they found themselves was an auspicious one, and they stood for a moment or two looking on. They themselves were the objects of some attention. Ger- trude, after her last season, divided between London and Paris, had be- come recognized as a beauty of almost European fame. Her companion— Mr. Grant P. Slattery was the name upon his visiting card--had also ac- quaintances in most of the capitals of the world. In a way he was a good foil to the woman by whose side he stood—a tall, good-looking young American, a little slimmer than the usual type, looking somewhat older than his 30 years, perhaps because of a certain traveled air, a quiet assur- ance bdrn of his brief but successful diplomatic career in three of the great capitals. “My adopted country peaople are back again in force,” Gertrude re- marked. “They interest me more than any other people here,” Grant confessed. “It is as though the nation had changed its type.” “Explain yourself, please,” she in- vited. : “I must speak frankly if I do,” he warned her. “As frankly as you please. I hold no brief for my husband’'s country people. T like some of them and hate others.” “Well, then,” he continued, “it seems to me that the women are no longer blowsy and florid and over- dressed, the men no longer push their way and swagger. Somehow or other the women have learned how to dress and the men have acquired manners. They are not in the least llke the traveling Germans of, say, 30 years ago—just before the war.” “They are feeling their way, remarked cynically. He looked down-at her with the air of one who has listened to wise words. In reality it was he who was feeling his way. . ‘I am not so sure,” he reflected. “I wonder sometimes whether the whole nation has not changed, whether the war did not purge them of their boastfulness and conceit, whether this present generation has not acquired a different and a less offensive® outlook."” ‘Do yeu. really believe that?" she asked, .o cuoa o “T am simply speculating, she he an- couldn't be for long,” he assured | swered. ~“To begin with, there is a The- | technical practice? Would my fingers respond, for it was a cold night and the hall was not very warm? With these thoughts I went to the piano in | the artist's room. Looking across the | room, T observed that some painting | was being done, and two cans of lead paint had been left on the floor. Tak- {ing the two cans, 1 quickly placed the handles over each wrist, padding them with handkerchiefs. Rapidly 1 ran | most-needed exercises with the sus- | pended cans of the lead weight hang- ing loosely under each wrist. My hope was that the weight acting as a means of resistance would be a medium for loosening the ligaments and creating rapid blood ¢ ulation in my and hands. After 10 minutes of pra tice in this manner I walked to the platform. My hands were |warm. It seemed as though I had | been practicing for hours. As I start- |ed the Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata™ there was a gratifying response to all | effort, and my fingers seemed to have unusually sensitive touch and feeling “From the day of that concerf when 1 was only 19. to the present time I have never made a professional appearance without warming up with little sacks of lead weights tied to |my wrists. 1 now practice 10 min- |utes with weights, whereas I used to | spend hours without them,” concluded Ra: I(gr'eaz change in your aristocrac | Young Prince Frederick, for instance. | Every one says that he has modeled | himself exactly upon what the pres- | ent King BEdward VIII of England was like when he was a lad of 20. All the older statesmen tell us that he was the most popular young man {in the civilized world, modest, demo- |cratic, charming. These are not Teu- tonic qualities, you know, but vour | oping them.’ “I wonder.” she murmured “Tell me, what is your own attitude | toward your husband’s country peo- {ple?” he went on, almost biuntly, in them or don't you?" She looked around her a le nervously. The rooms were thronged with people, but the corner in which they were standing was still almost isolated. My friend.” she confided, “I am a simple woman and not a psychologist. I live amongst the German people. I do not dislike them as I am sure I should have disliked the Germans of 30 years ago, but I do not unde: stand them. You must remember that of the Germans who made their coun- try the moat hated in the world before the war of 1914 I naturally knew notht 1 wasn't even born when the peace of Versailles was signed. The German of those days is, so far -d‘ I am concerned, as extinct as the odo?" If he is not extinct,” Grant said, “he is at least not in the limelight. ““He has perhaps learned to wear the sheep’s clothing,” she suggested. “You will not be able to induce me to say one word either for or against these people, whom I confess that I do not understand. If you would really like to know all about them,” she went on, “shall we ask the one man who ought to know? Have you ever met Prince Lutrecht?” ‘Never,” Grant replied. “I know of him, of course, and I have heard Lord Yeovil speak of him several times lately. They meet most days, of course, at Nic “I shall present you,” she prom- ised. You ‘will find him a most in. teresting and delightful man, and, if my husband is to be believed, it is he who, for the next generation, will de- cide the destinles of his country. “It will give me great pleasure to meet him,” Grant assured her. “He was not in office when I was in Ber- lin, but I remember being told he had a great dislike for America and American: She shrugged her shoulders, “His father was of the Hohenzol lern regime,” she remarked, “and the republican government of today is a bitter pill for the aristocracy of a score of generations. He seems to be alone just now. Wait until I call you. She crossed the room and was wel- comed cordially by a tall, exceedingly aristocratic-looking man, apparent] about 60 years of age, dressed wit the utmost care, handsome and with a charming smile. A moment or two Jater he made his way with Gertrude by his side to where Grant was stand- in, He brushed aside Gertrude formal introduction. ~"“T had interests in the foreign office at Berlin when Mr. Slattery was at the American embassy," he said. * remember him quite well. I regret very much to hear that you have left the service, Mr. Slattery. We need all the help we can get nowadays from Americans of your status and culture.” “Germany has shown lately that she needs no help from any one, sir,” Grant replied. The prince smiled gravely. “You aure very kind. There is no power on earth which could hinder jquickly. MUSIG 'THEL HOLTZCLAW soprano, who is slowly recovering from a severe illness, has been ad vised by her physician to tancel all| musical activities until Fall. Her du- | ties as special soprano soloist of Gun- ton-Temple Presbyterian Church end- ed in June, and her protracted illness has necessitated her resignation from the quartet of Eighth Street Temple, where she has been associated for some time. John McCormack, the famous tenor, has announced a recent decision to| retire from the concert stage when he | is 50 years old. He is now 41. He too, that there will be no “fare- | 1e']l ““just be through.” | adds the Irish John, 1 may return to sing now and again for charity, but never for my own profit.” | GAWLER, | wrists | flushed and | | Prince Frederick is certainly devel- | “Do you like them or don't you? And, | more important still, do you believe | Aleko,” a short opera’ by Serge Rachmaninoff, eminent Russian com- | poser and pianist, was a feature of | & bill presented by the Moscow Art Theater Musical Studio late in June. The libretto was inspired by Russia’s great poet; Alexander Pushkin, and is said to tell the story of love, jeal- ousy and hate among the passionate Romany tribes. Mr. Rachmaninoft’s | music is described as possessing a | vigorous style. Frances Peralta, heard in Wash- ington last Winter with the Washing- ton Opera Company in the title role | of “Aida,” will sing that role in the first performance of the series of free presentations of grand opera at Eb- bets Field, Brooklyn, August 1. She | alo will sing Santuzza in “Cavalleria | Rusticana,” which will be given with “Pagliacel” August b, Lula Root, who will sing Lucia in the performance of ““Cavalleria Rusti- cana.” i3 a member of the Washing- | ton Opera Company. She will also | sing Martha in a production of | Gounod's “Faust.” The State Symphony Orchestra has | completed its plans for the 10 special | rehearsals of works by American com- | posers to be held Saturday mornings | in Carnegle Hall. Ernest von Dohn-| anyl will direct the first five, and Alfred Casello the remaining five. They will receive the co-operation of an advisory committee composed of Henry Souvaine, Dr. Eugene Noble, Leonard Liebling, Frank Patterson and Sigmund Spaeth. A “*Holiday Co DR. ALICJA SIMON, special assist- | ant to Mr. Carl Engel, chief of the music division of the Library of | Congress, has just received interest. | ing news from abroad to the effect that a “holiday course of music for | Americans” is being given at excep- tionally low rates in Italy this Sum- mer. The course opened last Tuee- day. The members of the faculty are all_world famous. | The following are detafls of this new course, as described by Dr Simon: | “The latest musical Summer school r Americans {s the “Holiday Course | |of Music for Americans” at the Villa | d’Este in Italy. This institute, found- | ed under the high patronage of the | Italian Board of Education, is hold- | |ing classes for the training of both | |vocal and instrumental music from | July 14 to September 12 at Tivoli, one of the most attractive places in | the mountainous neighborhood of | Rome. “The musical course is designed for advanced American musiciane only, and is intended to give them the op- | portunity and the advantage of studving with well known masters. | The head of the new institute, the! famous compos Ottarino Respighi | | fo the German (people from attaining to their destiny. But we need under- standing and we need sympathy. We are not always represented to our friends as we would wish. I hope that I shall see more of you in Monte Carlo, Mr. Slattery. I am staying at the Villa Monaco and shall be glad to receive vour visit. I am usually to be found at home at any time when the Congress at Nice is not sit- ting.” He passed on, with a low bow and a - whispered farewell to Gertrude, |leaving in Grant's mind a curious im- pression of unfriendliness, for which he could not in the least account. Even his civility had seemed un- natural. “They say that he is to be our next president,” Gertrude confided. Her companion watched the prince thoughtfully as the latter paused to accept the greetings of a friend. “I don't think I ever met z man who looked so ill-fitted to be the president of a great democracy,” he remarked dryly. “Could you think of a more suitable post for him?". He nodded. “I_could more easily imagine him the Mephistophelian chancellor of an autocrat.” “Back in the Hohenzollern days?” “Or in the days which may be in store for us,” he replied. Bhe looked into the baccarat room. “An empty place at my favorite table!"” she exclaimed. “Call on me early tomorrow, Grant, and we'll plan something. Forgive my hurrying. I can't afford to miss this.” He watched her pass into the outer room ani seat herself contentedly in the vacant place. Then he strolled from table to table, risking a louis now and then, but scarcely waiting to see the result. A spirit of rest- lessness pursued him. He stood aloof for some minutes watching Gertrude immersed in the baccarat. Then he wantered into the bar, where Susan Yeovil presently found him. She sank into a chair by his side. “Broke!” she announced ruefully, turning her little handbag inside out. “Not a louls left, and the others| won't be ready to go home for an hour vet.” ¢ “Can I be of any assistance?” he ventured. A 8he shook her head. “I've been too nicely brought up. T couldn't possibly borrow..money from you. Tell me about the beautiful lady. “She was very well known three or four years ago in Washington as Ger- trude Butler,” Grant confided. “She is the woman to whom ¥ was engaged and who married Prince Otto von Diss.” She was instantly grave. “You poor thing!’ she exclaimed. “How horrid for you meeting her like that. Did you mind much?” “I don’t know,” he replied. asking myself that que came up. I have never been able to analyze exactly my feeling for her, either during those days of our en- gagement or since. I was very much in love with -her, if that counts for anything.” “It doesn’t,” she assured him. Being in love is just a Spring dis- eage. I fancled myself in love with Bobby before I heard of him adver- tising himself with that Russian lady in Nice. Six sets of tennis this after- noon, three eclairs and the cocktail you are going to give me presently have completely cured me.” “Fapcy intruding your own experi- ences in such a serious matter! You are only a child,” he reminded her with a smile. ‘I'm 19,” she retorted “Surely that is old enough for anything. I am of age for the great passion itself, if only it would arrive, and arrive 1 believe 1 heard that | Valert T was | fon as you | RAPHS Native-born composers should sub | mit works for the first five rehearsals to be received by the organization a! Carnegié Hall not later than Septen: ber 20. Those submitted for the othe five rehearsals should reach there be fore Januery 1, 1925. A place on the program wiil be given in.the order of the receipt of application The Denishawn Dancers gave twn dance programs, the first dance nun. bers ever given in the Lewlsoh: Stadium, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, with marked success. is announced as thelr last appear here before making a two-year tour The music used included w Beethoven, Godard, Debussy Chopin, Tigenfritz, Brahms, Schur Richard Strau well as fana,” a work based upon music by the three brothers Johann, Josef and Edouard Strauss The augmented Philharmonic Orche tra of 110 pleces played the accon paniment. Ernest von Dohnanyi is summerinz at Pontresina, Ober-Engadin, Switzer Jand, where he = said to be preparing programs for the State symphony next season and orchestrating his new opera e Tenor.” the libretto of which was written by Carl Stern heim. At the morn services of the First Reformed Church Pauline Holer soprano, and Rawley . Donohue baritone, will & duet Divine, All Love ry Smart, with organ Special musical se Baptist Church today will include Morning—Organ prelude, “Andante (Ph Bach); quartet, “The Lord 1Is My Rock” (Woodmany; base solo, “The Ninety-first Psalm' (MacDermidy; post lude, " “Russian Theme” (Tschafkow sky). Evening—Organ prelude, “Sir fonica” (Holloway); contralto solo “The King of Love My Shepherd Is ounody; tenor “Morning ar Evening” (Spicker); postlude, *Fa farronade” (Collison-Hill) The personnel of the quartet consist= of Mrs. Deewall, soprano; Mrs, Bost contralto; Mr. Austin, tenor, and Mr Sebean, bass, with Ellzabeth Col son-Hill, organist. st urse“ for Americans in Ita]y has surrounded himself with id faculty of wide experience reputation—Maestro Ernesto Conso (piano), well remembered from his long sojourn in New York; Maestro Mario Corti (violin), professor at the Licco Ste. Cecilia, Rome, and Signora (singing) “The course will last for two month and there will be provision made f rivate les in composition, pian and violin of 50 minutes and singing of 30 minutes twice weekly, besides one class lesson “The fees are exceedingly low. The whole course (three lessons weekly) costs only $135 for the session of two months. The average cost of board and lodging will be about $100 for the period of two months. “Tivoli, for its natural beauty and historic associations, cannot be com pared with any other place in the world. The epot to which Brutus and Cassius are said to have fled aft the murder of Caesar has ever been a favorite retreat for artists of all lines. he Viila d'Este was bullt by Ip- polito II. Cardinal di Ferrara ( 72), the son of Lucrezia Borgia a Alfonso d'Este and the patron to whom Palestrina dedicated some of his works.” a splen croupler call out number 14, I know T shall end by hesmirching my good name and borrowing a louis from you.” He laid a handful of notes upon the table beside them. She shook her head again. “Don’t tempt me,” she begged. “Be. sides, I think I would rather talk. I am interested in the Princess. Tell me just how you are feeling about her.” couldn't,” he confessed. “Is she here without her husband?” “Yes.” “Cat! Of course she's come to flirt with you.” “I don't think so. I think she has come here with an-altogether differ ent purpose.” “What purpose He smiled at her with affected to! erance. “After all, you know,” he said ‘young people shouldn't be too curi ous.” She drew lantly. “I wonder,” she complained, “why you always persist in treating me as though I were a child. “Well,” aren't vou?" he rejoined “Nineteen isn't very old, you know “Anyway, if father can tell me things,” she argued, ‘I don't see why you should be o secretive.” What does your father tell you? othing that I_am going to re peat to vou, Mr. Inquisitor. I will tell you this, though,” she went on dropping her voice a little. “He isn't at all happy about the way things are going over at Nice. Did you know that it was he who insisted upon sittings being suspended for a day and that he and Arthur sent no I than 20 cables away last night.” “Yes, T knew,” he admitted, ‘but 1 had no idea that you did.” She permitted herseit a friendly lit tle grimace. “I only mentioned it just to show that every one doesn't ignore me as you do,” she observed. ‘Here's Ar thur. He's having a day off, fsn't he?"” The young man came up and dis plaved a handful of plaques. He was good-looking in a pale, rather tired way “Why do T slave for vour father Lady Susan,” he demanded, “fora vul gar pittance, when there are thou sands to be picked up here without the slightest effort away from him petu OF MUSIC 1408 N, H, Ave. Adjoining 1 Dupont Circle | Summer School Opened July 1 Start Now. Enter the Children Practice Rooms. __Yearhook Main 7 Re e Voice Cuiture, Plano and Harmony. Studio. 6824 HUh st. Takoma Park. D. C. 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