Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 56

By Helen Fetter ERCY A. SCHOLES, the English musical critic and educator, is intending to visit the United States next Winter for a short lec- ture tour. Mr. Scholes has recently published a handy little vol- ume entitled, “The Appreciation of Music by Means of the Pianola and Duo-Art” (Oxford University Press). It contains some of his lec- tures which in the past have met with wide and deserved popularity. As an aid and guide to the pianolist it is invaluable. It should awaken the heightened joy of understanding where, otherwise, only a penumbral sense of delight would exist * kK ok . N these days, when our industrially prominent country is beginning to talk about and acknowledge the absolute necessity of music as*an in- tegral part of every individual's life, it is interesting to recall that Aristotle, Plutarch and other leaders of ancient civilizations conceded the re'.a\ly vital importance of music. In an enlightening and entertaining article entitled “Thoughts on Music and Musicians, Gleaned from Sources An_- cient- and Modern,” in the July issue of the Musical Quzrlerly,}] .(,, Prod'homme lists a series of such quotations. Among the most intriguing in the ancient group one finds a5, ,: “Every musical note has its birth in the heart of man; music is in touch with the classes and the attributes. Hence, those who are ac- quainted with the tones and do not know the notes, having no knowledge of music, are ordinary human bemgs; it is only the wise who can know music.” (From “Memoirs of Seu-ma T'sen,” Chinese translated by Ed. Chavannes.) ¥ “It is impossible not to recognize the moral potency of music, and since this potency is ver; music must, necessarily, form a part of the education of children.” (From the Greek Aristotle’s “Politics.”) “It is evident that the ancient Hellenes acted judiciously in bestow- ing every attention on musical education, deeming it needful to form and temper the souls of the young to virtue and uprightness by the aid of music, this being helpful in all worthy matters.” (From Plutarch’s “On Mausic.”) 3 > “I hold, with Plato, that nothing so easily penetrates tender and sensitive souls as the varied sounds of music; its influence for evil as well as for good is incalculable. It animates those who languish and calms the most agitated spirits; now it relaxes the mind, and again it imparts strength.” (From Cicero's “Laws,” II, 15.) o 9 “It is the vital property of music, not solely to rejoice, but likewise to lead and guide the souls of men in all relations; all the wisest men o! antiquity have said the same., and every day the fact confirms itself.’ (Palestrina, dedication of the “First Book of Motets,” May, 1569.) * % ¥ ¥ Y % A] the recent convention of Zionists in Washington. Mr. Ernest Bloch, assisted by the violinist; Andre de Ribaupierre, perfornied three of his recent compositions, -entitled. “Baal Shem,” and intended to portray scenes of Chassidic lifc. These pieces had their first performance in Eu- rope last February, in Paris, where they were played by the Hungarian violinist, Josef Szigeti. The impression created by these pieces in Paris was so marked that Mr. Szigeti felt obliged to repeat them at his concert n March, in the auditorium of the Paris Conservatory of Music. * X ¥ X HE most noteworthy event at the music festival at Kiel appears to have been the performance of an a capella mass by Kurt Thomas, a voung man of barely more than 20. THe work is being hailed by all the Ccritics, in an exceptional unanimity, as one of the most remarkable proofs of creative musical talent. * K X ¥ USICAL characters inscribed in a language that was old 2,000 years before the birth of Christ have been translated into understandable scores by Prof. Curt Sachs of Berlin University, who has deciphered Babylonian hieroglyphics that reveal a complete’ musical composition. This work is described in detail by Prof. Sachs in an article entitled “Ein Babylonischer Hymnus,” the feature of a recent issue of Archiviuer Musikwissenschait. The first publication of his discovery was made in an article in La Revue Musicale a year ago, written by Dr. Alicja Simon, now with the Library of Congress, in Washington. _ The contents of the text, inscribed on a plate from Assur, in the Berlin Museum, along with the music, tell of the creation of man out of the blood of two gods. It notes that “the gods made the earth and the sky and deécided to kill the Lamga and create humanity outflo( his blood, so the humans would cultivate the earth and serve the gods. This is said to be the first time the world of today has been afforded an actual example of the music of those ancient times. The tune is de- scribed as lacking half-tones and to possess five notes to an interval in- stead of eight, as in the modern octave. Prof. Sachs says that a harp of 18 strings was used for this music, and it sounds quite similar to Chinese tunes. * k ¥ ¥ R. LEIGH HENRY, in his column of “American Notes and News,” in the current issue of the London Musical Standard, strikes a vital point in a genial and friendly manner. He urges that America, known as the land of advertising, devote more ingenuity and concentration-upon letting the rest of the world learn of our music. Says Mr. Henry, in part: “After the general dullness which marks our musical life, and in| which our English concert-givers scem to be doing penance for their brief post-war departure from the conventionalities established in the Victorian era. it is a delight to encounter, in their annual visits, friends and colleagues from the States, where, lin spite of occasional evidences of a lack of discrimination. one feels that a healthy and live interest not only exists, but i developing. In nothing is this more evident than in the general interest which such visitors express in cotemporary British music. an interest which I wish one could honestly say was reciprocated in this country regarding American music. Apart from a certain un- warrantable attitude of superiority toward American art, however, the British musical public at large is not entirely responsible for the hiatus in our knowledge of cotemporary music represented by the general igno- rance concerning American music which one notices here. America has instituted no American music propaganda; in Paris alone is American music at all familiar, and not too much so there. British music can be scrutinized; we have exhaustive catalogues, bibliographies and diction- aries. % “Through the mediation of Carl Engel, Deems Taylor, A. Walter Kramer, ank Patterson, Frederic Jacobi, Daniel Gregory Mason, Lagare Saminsky, Louis Gruenberg, Emerson Whithorne, Richard’ Hammond, Marion Bauer, Alfred Hertz, Albert Elkus, Mrs. Arthur Reis, M. H. Han- son, Sokoloff, Lawrence Gilman, Norman Frauenheim, Eva_ Gauthier, Robert Schmitz, Greta Masson, Bernard Rogers and many other good friends in the States, I am at last obtaining something like the material necessary to put me in touch with what I require for the book on Ameri- can music, on which I have been working for nearly two years past. Anything approaching a comprehensive dictionary of American music and musicians is, so far as my strenuous efforts can discern, non-existent. Americans themselves are much to blame for this, as for the lack of due recognition of American music abroad. * * * America accords some meed of due admiration and respect to its poets and writers from Whit- man to Frost, Amy Lowell, Sandberg and their like today; toward Ame; can native music it maintains a discouraging attitude of disconcerting iperiority.” Unusual Choir to Come Here "THE Dayton Westminster Choir of | music in churches rather than music Davyton, Ohio, composed of 60 men | transplanted from the operatic or and women, who speclalize in a ca- | concert stage. Church music should pella work and singing from memory, | be primarily spiritual in its thought, has established a reputation for itseif | thus demonstrating the spiritual value that s nation-wide. John Finley |of beautiful music. Mr. Willlamson Willlamson is the director, and fea- | has had demands for more than 60 turee American compositions in his | choir leaders for churches all over the programs. The choir will mdudef('ounlry- He hopes to supply these Washington in its tour this season, | demands as rapidly as students of the ‘oming here under the auspices of | Westminster Choral School are pre- Mrs. H. I5. Talbott, chairman of the | pared for the work. i board of directors, in November. It| The eastern tour of the choir this ix said that eminent musicians, such | years will begin in October and in. as Ernest Bloch, James Rogers, Her- cludes Pittsburgh, Boston, New York, man Devries and others, have praised , Brooklyn, Philadelphta, Baltimore and the sincerity and artistry of the work | Washington in its itinerary. The pro- of this choir. grams will include works by such Among the members of the choir | masters of various periods of music are 24 who include representatives | as Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Men- from 10 States in this country and delssohn, Tertius Noble, Peter Lutkin, from France and Japan. This group | Clarence Dickinson, Johann Cruger, is studying especially under Mr. Wil-| Schumann, Ippolitof Ivanoff, Gretch: liamson' in his novel school for choir | aninoff, Da Palestrina, Antonio Lotti, leaders. The ultimate object of the| Anton Bruckner, Rachmaninoff, An: organization is to aid in developing | ton Dvorak, Nathaniel Dett, Melius better music in the ‘churches of | Christiansen, Orlando Gibbons, Ark- America, the concert halls, the homes | hangelsky, Healey Willan, Nikélsky, and workshops. Particular emphasis | Gilbert Alcock, Philip. Nicolai and is laid on the use of only pure church | Maurice Besle; Unfinished Puccini Opera Navy Band Corlcem. Will Be Sung. HE United States Navy. Band will *TURANDOT," the _posthumous give concerts tomorrow, Tuesday opera of Glacomo Puccini which |and Wednesday of this week, under he never finished, will be per-|the leadership of its conductor, Lieut. formed during the coming season at the famous ia Scala Opera House,|for the two latfer copcerts will be according to a report received from |published in The Evening Star. Rome. It seems that the manage-| The program at 5 pam. tomorrow went In doing this will be fulfilling [at the Capitol will be: March, “Illi- a testament of the composer to the |nois” (Woods): overture, “Jubel” (Von effect that the opera be given exactly | Weber), introducing *‘America”; duet as it was written and without the |for cornet and baritone, “A Night in final love duet. After the premiere, | Venice” (Lucantoni), G. De Giorgio the work will be completed with an |and J. Manganaro, bandmasters, U. S. adaptation of fragments of the score N.; fantasia, “A Darkey's Dream- written by Puccini. The name of the |land” (Bidgood); grand scenes from composer who will undertake this|the opera, “The Bohemian Girl" work has not been made public. |(Balfe); suite, “A Sevillan Festival” Toscanini, impresario of La Scala, and { (Tavan); waltzes, ‘“Jolly Fellows" Antonio Puccini, son of the late com- | (Vollstedt); excerpts from “The Pi- poser, are conferring with this un-|rates of Penzance” (Sullivan); popular, known musician constantly regard-|‘“Selected Fox Trot"; finale, “The Star ing the work. Spangled Banner.” THE SUNDAY Novelties. HE New York Symphony Orches- tra, Walter Damrosch, conduc- tor, will give four concerts in Washington the coming season on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock at Poli's Theater, beginning November 10. December 8 the soloist will be George Gershwin, composer-pianist, who will play his “New York Con- certo,” for piano and orchestra. Mr. Gershwin has been especially com- missioned to write this work for the New York Symphony Society. Feb- ruary 9 an all-Wagnerfan program will be given, including important selections from “Rienzi, Wagner's first opera, and from “Parsifal,” his last work, with Kathryn Meisle, Della Baker, Richard Crooks and a chorus of 350, Mr. Damrosch will precede this concert with a short planatory talk on the music. March 16 Otto Klemperer wili make his fir: appearance in Washington as guest conductor. He is a promi- nent German conductor. The soloist at this concert will be Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company. As the New York Symphony will discontinue {ts concerts at Central High School, provision has been made for a large number of medium- priced seats, available to the patrons of the evening concerts. Orders for seats are now being filled at Mrs, ‘Wilson-Greene's Con- cert Bureau, Thirteenth and G streets. An American Opera With Jazz Rl’xyd‘lms preeentcd “THE Music Robber,” an American opera that is- said to use the syncopated rhythms generally asso- ciated with jazz, in its music score, will be a featuré of the last August programs of the present highly sue- cessful season of Summer opera at the famous St. Louis municipal opera open air auditorium in Forrest Park, St. Louls: with presentations August 28 and 29 in a double bill with Mas- cagni's opera, “‘Cavalleria Rusticana." Only the first act of the new work will be given. The writer of the Ii- bretto is Richard L. Stokes, music critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The composer of the score fs Isaac Van Grove of the Chicago Civic Opera Co. The first act was presented in Chicago during June and won ex- tremely encouraging remarks from the eritics. It should prove unique in that it tells the story of an episode in the life #f Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most subtle of the classical composers, yet has the rhythms of modern-day jazz. Special Evening Concerts. MRS. Wilson-Green announces that in response to an urgent appeal from patrons of music for evening concerts a series of six recitals will be given during the season of 1925-26 at the Washington Audl- torfum at 8:30 o'clock. In this series, artists of the first magnitude will be presented at moderate prices The series will include John Mc Cormack, Irish tenor; Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, two of the world’s greatest planists, in a tw. piano ensemble concert; Mischa man, violinist: Paul Whiteman and his concert orchestra, with George Gershwin’s opera, “Blue Monday," sung by distinguished soloists, as the second half of the program; Anna Pavlowa, premiere dancer, and her ballet russe with full symphony or- chestra, and Mme. Frieda Hempel, soprano, In her famous Jenny Lind concert, by request. These concerts will all be given on Charles Benter, U. S. N. The program | Saturday evenings, with the exception of Paviowa, which will be Thursday evening. These artists will be heard in full recital programs. Orders for seats are now filing at Mrs. Wiison-Greene’s Concert Bureau, 13th and G streets. e Marine Band Concerts.. THE United States Marine Band, Willlam H. Santelmann, conduc- tor: Taylor Branson, second leader, will give two concerts tomorrow, the programs of which are published here, and concerts Tuesday at the Waiter Reed Hospital, Wednesday at the Capitol, Thursday at the Sylvan Theater and Friday at, the Naval Hospital. 2 At the Marine Barracks at 5 p.m. tomorrow the cencert will include: March, ‘“True to the Empire” (Teike); ‘overture, “Pocahonta#” (Santelmann): descriptive fantasia, “Musical Scenes from Spain” (Langey): cornet solo, “Birth of Dawn" (Clarke), Principal Musiclan Arthur 8. Witcomb; “‘Remi- niscences of Weber” (Godfrey); waltz, Joy of Life" (Strauss); grand march, ‘The President” (Tregina); Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma'’; “The Star Spangled Banner.” At _Stanton Park, Fifth and C streets northeast, at 7:30 p.m. tomor- row, a concert by a section of the United. States Marine Band, Principal Musician Arthur S. Whitcomb con- ducting, will have the following: March, “Marine Corps Institute” (Branson); overture, “Light Cavalry” (Suppe); 'valse intermezzo, “Spring Zephyrs” (Vesella): excerpts from ‘The Red Mill" (Herbert); serenade, Sparklets” (Miles); valse de concert, “Adele” (Briquet); descriptive fan- tasia, “A Hunting Scene” (Bucalossi); “The Star Spangled Banner. Army Band Concerts. HE ARMY BAND, Capt. R. G. Sherman commanding and Capt. W. J. Stannard directing, will present its first concert tomorrow at the Reservoir, Vermont avenue, Tenth and U streets northwest. The concert will commence at 7:30 p.m. and will be under the direction of Capt. Stannard. On Thursday an attractive program will be presented at Mount Alto Hos- pital, under the direction of Assistant Band Leader L. S. Yassel, to begin at 7 p.m. Attentlon is called to the feature number, “Dreams of Love’ (Frank Liszt), in which several beau- tiful cadenzas and. duets for clarinet appear. The ‘overture ‘‘Sakuntala” (Goldmark) will also be rendered. The regular weekly post concert will be given on Friday at Washing- ton Barracks, commenaing at 6:50 p.m., to which the public is invited. This concert, directed by Capt. Stan- nard, will continue until 8:30 and should prove one of the most inter- esting concerts of the season. Fea- tures are grand selection, ‘‘Herodlas™ (Massenet), and “‘Ballet Russe” (Lul- gini). Saturday will find the Army Band broadcasting from the auditorium at Washington Barracks. The program will start at 7:45, but will not be sent out on ‘the air locally. Radio fans can get this concert by tuning in on station WEAF, New York. Rubinstein Guest Artists. THE artists for the coming season of the Rubinstein Club were an- |nounced at a meeting of the board held July 24 at the studio of the president, Mrs. Robert H. Dalgleish. At the first concert, December 8, the club will present Miss Daisy Jean, said to be a thrice-accomplished artist, being an interpertor of the ‘cello and harp as well as possessor of an unusual soprano voice. - Fraser Gange, Scotch baritone, will appear. March 9. Miss Devora Nadworney, mezzo-so- prano, who appeared with the club several seasons ago, will sing at the last concert May 11. Miss Nadworney sang a role in the Washington Opera Company's performance of “The Bar- ber of Seville” last Spring, STAR, . o) BARITONE SINGS LATIN AMERICAN SONG HARLAN ARLAN RANDALL, the subject of the artistic photograph above; is one of a small group of earnest Washington vocalists who have be. come interested in the songs of the Latin American republics, especially those in the Spanish language, which Mr. Randall, for one, has studied tharoughly This promising young baritone was | New Boston O RANDALL. a soloist on a number of the Latin American radio programs given under the auspices of the Pan-Amerk can Union, of which Mr. Franklin Adams, authority on such music, was in_charge. Mr. Randall is planning to include many of these little-heard numbers | In his repertoire next season and will | doubtless participate in some of the | unusual musicals being arranged for the new series at the Unio pera Company Organized. THE Boston Civic Grand Opera Co., Inc., recently organized and financed by a group of wealthy and prominent citizens of that city, an nounces its plans, including a two- week engagement at the Manhattan Opera House in New York City, ginning Monday, October 19. This company aims to produce grand operas on a higher plane than has been hitherto attained at popular prices as a civic offering to Boston, not looking for financial profit there | nor in other citfes of its itinerary. Its incorporators ate Miss Clara Jacobo. president, Angelo Rocco, vice pre: dent; Joseph A. Merenda, secretar: Charles D. Malaguti, treasurer, and others. Signor Alberto Vaccolini, one of Italy’s best known conductors, is be- | director of this company. He is now in Italy engaging artists new to Amer- ica. These will appear in casts with other singers already in this The organization will have s tra of 40 and a chorus of 60, a large corps de ballet and elaborate scenic |and costumic equipment, the total membership numbering over 150 The Boston company, after engage- ments in its home city and New York, plans to appear in Brooklyn, Phila- delphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pitts. burgh and other citfes this side of the Mississippi. Returning to Boston late in the season they will zjve the final two weeks of their season there, The New York office of the company is at 1619 Steinway Hall in Fifty- seventh street. Artl'sts' ancl Phflharmonic Courses. THE twelfth season for the Artist's Course of five concerts and the jeighth season for the.' Philharménic Course of five concerts will be given in 1925-26 at Poli's Theater at 4:30 p.m. These two concert courses in- clude leading singers and musicians. The Artists’ course this year will feature Dusolina Giannini, young. mezzo soprano, who became famous in two seasons and is singing abroad with phenomenal succees this Sum. mer; Rachmaninoff, famous "pianis Galli-Curci, coloratura, who has beerf absent one year in Europe and Aus- tralia; Benjamino Gigli, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, who will make his initial bow to a Washington audience; and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, \con- ductor. . The Philharmonic Course will in- clude Fritz Krefsler, violinist; Tito MUSIG pAC s BLEYDEN has closed his Washington studio for the rest of the Summer and is en route to Rock- land, Me) where he will spend the month of August. While vacationing he also will hold a class for advanced singers and one in operatic repertoire. Mrs. Bleyden, who has been seri- ously ill for the past two months and is recuperating from a major opera- tion, will join her husband in a couple of weeks. Franceska Kaspar Lawson returned to Washington ten days ago from a concert tour of eleven recitals given in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Last Thursday she gave a recital at Buck- nell University, Lewispurg, Pa., and next Thursday will appear for the fourth time at Shepherd College, West Virginia. Following the latter, she will go to visit Mr. and Mrs. Josef Kaspar at‘ their Summer home in Bluemont. According to a news note from Lon- don, England, Ludwig von Beetho- ven’s Opus 129, which bore the titl written by Schindler, “Fury Over a Lost Penny, Vented in Caprice,” won the highest price of any musical man- uscripts and autographs in the collec- tion of Henry Schlesinger, music pub- lisher of the early nineteenth century, sold recently at Sotheby's. Such an autographed Beethoven manuscript is rare. This one brought $1,250. One of the great composér’s letters brought $255. Other especially prized manu- scripts in the collection were a Cho- pin “Nocturne” (Opus 62, No. 1), dedi- cated to Mlle. R. de Komeritz, sold or $750; Lisat's ‘“Reminiscences of n Juan,” with presentation inscrip- tion to Mr. Schlesinger, §27 Meyer- beer manuscript, $220, and a Weber duet, $210. Composition by Mendels- sohn, Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and] Cherubini also were included in the collection. 1t is interesting to note in this con- nection that this rare group of manu- scripts_was first brought to America and offered for sale here in several cities, including Washington, where it was refused. ™ Ray Palkin, Washingtonian, is sing- ing at the Grossman Hotel at Atlantic City. Before leaving Washington she sang “The Voice in the Wilderness” and “O Lord, Be Merciful” for the young people’s service at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Edith B. Athey, well known Wash- ington organist and teacher of music appreciation in the public schools of the District, gave an organ recital in fl’le music hall of Misslon Inn, Schipa, Iyric tenor of the Chicago Opera Company; Mme. Jerltza, Vien- nese soprano from the Metropolitan Opera, after a year's absence in this city; The Boston Symphony Orches- tra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor; and Sigrid Onegin, contraito, who was booked the past season, but owing to Aliness cancelled her tour. This will be Onegin's first appearance in Wash- ington. So great has been the success of the Boston Symphony Orchestra the past season under Mr. Koussevitzky that there will be no public sale in Boston or New York, as all the tickets are subscribed for in both eities, with a long walting list. Orders for season tickets for both the Artists’ and Philharmonic Courses may now be filed at Mrs. Wilson. Greene's Concert Bureau, Thirteenth and G streets. RAPHS Riverside, Calif, Thursday, before a party of tourists from Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, who were the guests of E. R. Rochester of Washington at a luncheon. Fol- lowing an auto ride around River- side, the party left by special train for Los Angeles, where they will spend a week. During the absence of T. Guy Lucas, organist and choirmaster of St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, in England, Mrs. Mary C. D. John- son will be in charge of the music, with volunteer soloists from members of the parish. A. Harlan Castle will be guest soloist during the month of August. Today he will sing the recitative and ara, “If With All Your Hearts,” from Mendelssohn’s “Elijah’; next Sunday, he will sing Dudley Buck's “Fear Not, Ye, O Israel”; August 16 he will sing Richard Hageman's ““Christ Went Up Into the Hills”: and August 23 his selection will be the recitative and aria, “Comfort Ye” and “Every Val- ley Shall Be Exalted,” from Handel's “Messiah.” The song “Mother's Voice,” words by Miss Helen Copeland of the De- partment of the Interior and music /by Mabel Linton Willilams, local organist and planist, was broadcast in an orchestrated version by the Mayflower Orchestra last Tuesday night. James G. Bain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bain of River road, Washington, D. €., has ben apointed “Taps” player of the cadet orchestra at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where he is a member of the class of 1928 This orchestra is the pride’ of the corps, numbering about 20 cadets, and sometimes performing compositions ‘written by the members. Gertrude -Lyons has returned from Bermuda, where she gave a recital in St, George's. The house of Tom Moore, author of “The Last Rose .of Summer,” made famous by Adelina Patti, was visited by Mrs. Lyons, who had her picture taken standing under the inscription “Tom Moore's House, 1652.” Mrs. Lyons will substitute today at the First Congregational Church for Mrs. Stahl who is out of town. Charles W. Moore, bass of the quar- tet at Calvary Baptist Church, an- ;‘wnc- his resignation, effective- to- 1day. WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 2, 1925—PART 3. L e e e T e e e Filmograms. HOMAS MEIGHAN is not through with Famous Players. He has signd a new contract. But Glorfa Swanson is still meditating. First National has bought a story, “Prisoners,” by Ferenc Molnar. ‘Work has commenced’ on “Simon the Jester,” with Lilllan- Rich and Eugene O'Brien featured in the cast. Wallace MacDonald will appear in “Wondering Fires,” with Henrietta Crosman and Effie’ Shannon, directed by Maj. Maurice Campbell, at the Whitman Bennett studio in Glendale. Lenore Coffee, who with. Eve Unsell adapted “Hell's Highroad,” has signed with Cecil B. De Mille and her next pictures will be “Eve’s Leaves.” Dorothy Gish is to be co-featured with Leon Errol in “Clothes Make the Pirate.” Lewis Stone's first picture with First National is to be “Spanish Sun- light,” in which he will be co-featured with Barbara La Marr. Pleasant news comes from the coast new | of the visit to the pictures centers by Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher of the Crandall forces of Washington. Exhibitors everywhere want the new Charlie Chaplin picture, “The Gold "Rush,” but are howling to heaven about the prices asked for it, Which means that the public must pay well to see it Under the title “The Mystery of the Soul” the Freudian theory of psycho- analysis is to be put on the screen, so that he who runs may read, by Ufa, of Berlin, according to reports. Dr. Freud is to help make it clear for the uninitiated. From Meshrab-Russian Film Co. comes the news that a picture called ‘“The Mechanism of the Brain' is to be made, sponsored by the Institute of Experimental Medicine, with six eminent Russian professors assisting. It is to be technical in character. Now. report has it, despite vigorous denlals, that the Stanley Co. of Amer- ica {s after the Crandall chain of theaters. Charles Ray is to be featured with Pauline Starke by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer-in “A Little Bit of Broadway,” with Robert Leonard directing. The Stanford University is produc- ing a historical film for the Hoover War Library from a scenario made by Rosalie Ashton. Marion Davies next picture will be known as “Lights of Old Broadway’ instead of “Lights of Old New York.” First National is said to be after Harry Langdon, the English come- dian, who is under contract with Mack Sennett until October. The mayor of Los Angeles will head the “‘Greater Movie Season'’ parade in California and Joseph M. Schenck will be grand marshal. Gloria, the. daughter of the late George J. and Edith Kingdon Gould, has been made the managing direc- tress of the New Embassy picture house which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will open in New York in August; and she is running things according to the modern trend, the news reports say. What is technically known in the industry as “the Hays office” has banned production of “They Knew What Th Wanted,” “The Green Hat” and “The Firebrand.” Valentino’s new picture has been changed in title from “The Black Eagle” to “The Lone Eagle.” The critics are saving mighty fine things of “Ths Goose Woman,” a Universal Jewel which features Louise Dresser, who is credited with strokes of gentus in bullding an unforgettable mother role. “Tracked in the Snow Country,” a RIn-Tin-Tin feature, is being called the best of the dog star's four pic- tures. Mae Murray is to be matched with Francis X. Bushman in “The Masked Bride,” from the story by Leon Abrams, by Josef von Sternberg for Metro-Godwyn-Mayer. Comes the news from the West that | Rudolph Valentino has purchased an Italtan villa, surrounded by several acres of ground, in Beverly Hills, near ‘Hollywood. Jackie -Saunders, the blond ‘sun- kissed star of California,” has been placed under contract by Hunt Strom- berg for a picture to be directed by Tom Forman. Four Warner comedies will be ready in 30 days—"Bunker Bean,” “The Man on the Box,” “The Love Hour” and “Seven Sinners.” Louise Dresser will appear in “The Lone Eagle,” Valentino's new picture. Fox has started work on “The Silver Treasure,” from Joseph _Conrad’s “Nostromo,” with George O'Brien and Inez Rene in the leads and Lou Telle- gen and a host of notables in the fol- low roles. John Barrymore is to be starred in “Don Juan Lord Byron's famous story poem. Sidney Franklin is to direct Norma Talmadge in “Paris After Dark,” in which Ronald Colman will have the lead. It is both announced and denied that Al Christie has bought the film rights to “The Nervous Wreck"” for $40,000. The principal character in “Lor- raine of the Lions” is a man monkey. They :are still working on “Ben Hur.” Film Dalily says the construc- tion of the Circus Maximus is under way on'a 60-acre lot to be ready Sep- tember 1 for Fred Niblo and his com- pany. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer esti. mate its cost as between $100,000 to $200,000. Constance Talmadge is to be di- rected by Eric von Stroheim in a story called “East of the Setting Sun,”” which was orginally designed for Norma. ¢ “The Greater Movie Season” begins with a roar in New York tpday, with Wells Hawks as general manager and countless committees preparing a wonder program. Lila Lee’s run on the stage in “The Bride Retires” has caused production of the photoplay “Counsel for the De- fense” to be deferred. Film Daily states that the French branch of United Artists is exploiting “Livingstone,” the film produced and acted by M. A. Wetherell, an English- man, who last year set out with his own party and followed, in Africa, the exact route covered by the famous explorer. A special trade show is being arranged for under the patronage of the French ministry of instruction and fine arts. First National has changed the titles of “Joseph Greer and His Daughter” to “What Fools Men" and “The Sea Woman” to “Dangerous Currents.” Predictions are being made in Los Angeles that the screen will be vir- tually flooded with World War dramas next year. Director Herbert Brenon and J. Roy Hunt, cameraman, have resumed an association of ten years ago. For four years Brenon and Hunt were t ther as director and cameraman. ong the pictures brought out was “The Daughter of the Gods” with An- nette Kellerman:' Then their paths Outdoor. Attractions. Glen Echq Park. General Manager Leonard B. Schloss of Glen Echo Park announces an_extraordinary attraction at Glen Echo this week, beginning tomorrow night, in Miss Kate Smith, Washing ton's popular singer of the jazzlest of jazz songs, who has been engaged to appear and sing her songs exclu- sively at Glen Echo Park, prior to her leaving for a tour of the leading vaudeville theaters of the country. She will sing every evening at 9:15 and 10:30 in the ballroom and will be accompanied by “Happy” Walker and “The Golden Pheasants” band. For thrills there are the derby racers with drops of 85 feet, and the coaster dips, the most eccentric ride in the world, together with the car- rousel, ginger-snap whip. the skooter, the big midway with its dozens of fun features, the old mill and penny arcade, as well as dancing on week nights from 8:30 to 11:30 to music by “Happy” Walker's “The Golden Pheasants” Band. Next Tuesday, Au- gust 4, Willlam Hahn & Co. will be hosts to the Hahn Fun Club at its first annual outing at Glen Echo Park. On the program for the day is & costume parade with prizes to win- ners, a band concert and a program of athletic events under the direction of Mr. C. E. Beckett, physical director of the Y. M. C. A. CHEVY CHASE LAKE. Chevy Chase Lake announces car nival evenings of different types as| follow: Tuesday is “Dixieland Night,” Wednesday “Vaudeville Night” and Friday “Opportunity Night.” . Vaudeville evening will be cele- brated Wednesday with the “Quartet of Syncopated Steppers,” Jimmie Mulroe, Willlam_ Kuehling, Bill Raf- erty and Earle Bishop, Capital ama- teurs who have joined forces to_ put on a jazz dancing act, and Miss Pau- line Loria, clever young ‘blues singer, will be an added feature. “Dix- feland Night” will be featured by the bright little colored entertainers that regularly appear on this night, rang- ing in age from 7 to 15, and dancers and singers all. “Opportunity Night" will offer clever juvenile artists of the Capital an opportunity to display their talents and compete for substantial prizes. ARLINGTON BEACH PARK. Arlington Beach Park, across the Highway Bridge, in close proximity to Washington, offers bathing, dancing | and other amusements. 1 The Arlington Beach Orchestra,| under L. W. Strickland, which has attained a reputation for the in-! separated. They will reunite on “A Kiss for Cinderella.”” “Just Suppose,” which has been| bought for-Richard Barthelmess, is an | A. E. Thomas play, which was pro- duced in New York in 1920, just after the visit of the Prince of Wales, and is a romance of an American girl and an incognito prince. Patricia Collinge was featured in the play. To Lucien Heiser, internationally known chef, went the honor—and re- | sponsibility—of preparing the fatted calf for the homecoming of the prod- | igal son in “The Wanderer,” famous | biblical spectacle, which was put on the screen. | Heiser has acted as chef for some of | the most exclusive hotels in this coun- | try, Germany and France. i |and dividuality of its orchestrations for the dancers. Day and night bathing, a new roller coaster, which has a dip that s said to eclipse in thrills any ride in this vicinity; the aeroplane swings, merry go-round, whip, dodg’em, rerris whe and other devices provide diversion for pleasure seekers. CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Chesapeake Beach, bay resort, an hour's ride by train from the ecity, of fers relief from city heat, with salt water bathing, jazz and thrills and merriment on' the long boardwalk. and dancing to music by the Dagmoir Orchestra in the over-the-water pa vilfon. Trains leave the District line at regular intervals LE PARADIS ATTRACTIONS. Gayeties of the Chateau Le Paradis, at Ammendale, Md., and the Le Par adis roof garden in Washington in clude clever vaudeville specialties “theatrical night” Friday at the chateau, and the dance music of first line Meyer Davis bands. Nathan Brusiloff is the director of the Chateau Le Paradis Band, while the Le Paradis roof garden band is led by Harry Al bert. play ARSHALL HALL. Marshall Hall, located in a beaut! ful and historic spot on the Potoma 18 reached by the steamer Ch Macalester, and offe: asure attraétions, ther groves for famil ings tables, benches grounds for the kiddies thrills there are the a roller coaster, The steamer ester leaves the Seventh street wharf dafly at 10 am., 2:30 and 6:45 p.m and Sunday at ) a.m. Steamer St. Johns. Colonial Beach, bathing, fishing, sandy beac vilion and s reached trip of 70 miles on the Johns, with free dancing on deck music by Sokolov's Band, which leaves the Seventh street wharf every Sun day, Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m ry Saturday at 2 ery Monday, Wednes day at 7:15 the seamer S ries pleasure seekers on moonlight trip down the Potomac, re turning to tbm city about 11, with free dancing going and rety salt-wate Next Week's Photoplays METROPOLITAN — I Stone and Virg “The Lady Who Lied COLUMBIA—Jack Holt Ethel Ralston in Horse Mesa.” PALACE—Anita Stewart Bert Lytell in “Never Twain Shall Meet.” RIALTO—"Kivalina of the Ice- lands.” TIVOLI—Rict in “Soul F Desert,” * “Raffles.” and the Thomas Meighan has gone to Ire land to make a motion picture whose | background will include the famous| Lakes of Killarney, Muckrose Ahhe}'.{ Rose Castle and Blarney Castle. Some of the scenes will be made on a noted | race course near Dublin. L | Lawrence Gray, the talk of Holly-| wood, has started for New York on the California Limited to be Gloria Swan- | son's mew leading man in “Stage| Struck.” He is a nagive Californian| and first attracted attention in a role | in “The Dressmaker From Paris.” ap. | pearing also in “Are Parents People?" Glorla picked him herself. Two former newspaper cartoonists ‘were uncovered during filming of “The Trouble With Wives” at the Holl: wood Paramount Studio. Director Ma. colm St. Clair used to draw for two | Los Angeles papers, and Ford Sterling | labored on the Chicago Tribune. He | originated the cofnic strip “The Ster-| ling Kids.” Manager Lawrence Beatus of Loew's Palace Theater is planning to entertain a group of prominent offi- clals of Loew’s, Inc., who are expected to reach Washington today to be present for the opening of the vaude- ville tour of Daisy and Violet Hilton, the San Antonlo “Siamese Twins.” Members of the Irish Players, one of the most famous theatrical groups in the world, are to be recruited for the cast which will support Thomas Meighan in the new Paramount pic- ture which he will make in Ireland. It is an adaptation of “The Imperfect Impostor,” a story which appeared re- cently in the Saturday Evening Post. The presentation of “Beggar on Horseback™ {n Washington immedi- ately follows its elaborate inaugural in New York at the Criterion Theater, where it played at $2 prices and was preceded by a stage prelude called “Business in Business,” also written | for the Criterfon management by | George 8. Kaufman, one of the origi- g:lklut.hon of “Beggar on Horse- Alleen Pringle, rabid on the subject, is quoted as declaring vociferously, emphatically and unequivocally that she has never played a “vamp” role, and furthermore, to quote her own words, ‘“never will because I want to act as a human being would—and vamps are inhuman both in appear- ance and conduct.” There, that ought to sufice, and perhaps Miss Pringle may not have to resort to the courts after all. Tzick photography abounds through- out the entire dream sequence of “Beggar on Horseback,” the James Cruze screen version of the Kaufman- Connelly comedy. People walk into a scene, start to speak—and vanish. A great cathedral turns into a great railroad station as one looks. The rallroad station presently dissolves into a grotesque drawing room, then into a jazz palace, then a courtroom and finally a bedroom—all while on watches the film closely. . Charles Ray has completed ‘“The Winner,” his second rural comedy drama for Chadwick Pictures Corpora- tion, It will be released November 15. Ray's first production for Chadwick, “Some Pun’kins,” will be released on September 1. Jerome Storm directed both these Ray pictures. Mae's Sister Seeks Movie ‘Career. 'RANCES MARSH, sister of the fa- mous Mae Marsh, the movie star, is trying to make a name for herself in motion pictures, but wants to do it on her own ability and not on the name of her sister. Frances is now a script clerk for Director Webster Campbell, but some day she aspires to be a scenario writer, and figures she Is gaining a lot of good experience. “I don't want to be an actress,” says Frances. “Let Mae take care of that for the family. I want to write scenarios, and I want to do it on my own. I wish people would forget who I am and let me go it alone.” Frances graduated from Sweet Briar College, Va., in 1922. A year in art | who knew | the motion picture industr AMBASSADOR — Who Lied,” * Are Parer ROOF ™ The Hunted Weman, Soul Fire “Greater Than a Crow CENTRAL—Aileen Pringle in “Wildfire After Business Hours,” “The Talker” and “Up the Ladder. What Stars Must Know. **] WAS sitting in a cafe in Holly wood not long ago,” says Corinne riffith, “after a hard day's work on ‘The Marriage Whirl." At the table was a newspaper mar his wife’ and a girl friend of mine little, if an: about “The talk turned to the question of motion pictures as a real, honest-tc goodness business proposition. “My friend of the press argued tha: the position of a star required on! talent, beauty and the abllity to do as_the director instructed ‘I was forced to take issue with him. “I have been in moving pictures a long time. I started at the very bot tom. T have suffered heartaches, like hundreds of others—like hundreds of girls are now suffering—in an attempt to win recognition on the screen. “In the years I have appeared be fore the camera I have made a study of this business. And a business it really {s. The star of today mu only possess talent and beauty, but sbe—I am talking principally from the feminine player's standpoint must have a business head and must know the public with whom s engages in business. She must school herself in the departments foreign to eup and acting., he should know something about the cutting of her pictures, about the distribution of them by the big film corporations; she should know how much a picture is worth to the ex hibitor in the small town and to the one in the big city; she should know what her public wants from her. “If she doest't know, she should find out.” Somewhat Sarcastic. 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