Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 62

14 The “Toughest NO drama of fiction, it s claimed, ever surpa: d the real life drama | of the filming of The \':m(sh(nl) ine_Grey's tribute 1o a| ng race, the American Indian, was six months In the making, | four of them in America and Uta the Nav Indian Reservation, 160 10 200 miles from the nearest railroad, with 10,000 red men in the cast as well as Richard Dix, who appear the Indian hero: Lois Wilson. Noah Beery, | Maleolm and scores of e The Vanishing Ameri number of dif called fo i present culties in produe- | Indians, plenty of | 1l scenery that wouid be | with its “epic theme of the 1 disappearance of the Indian | There cient Indi ench other vation, in ery ¥ one place where suffi-| ns and sufficlent scenery | und keeping companv with That is the Navajo Rese: Northern Arizona. up. into Utah, a territory as bi= as ates of Massachusetts, | 1 and Connectieut, with | ians and only a scattering | ut a telephone or tele- | A single line going per- | U thitd of the distance from end i roads impassable when it 1 no roads at all leading to ! the points which had been | for with some of | spots the rafl-| with one of | scenic beauty. the Bridge, accessible mile pack trip. i s divided as follows: | from Flagstaff, at| entive street had to be terial hauled entirely from This_street is the Govern- of Mesa. on a fictitious rvation created for the purpose of story. It consisted of 26 separate | including a schoolhouse and | except those road oss the desert s of Rainbow an 8 1 1l Some 90 miles Moenavi, un Hlt, of m T stafy the buildingzs 0 Picture. highway. The cliff dwelling was in | the Sagi, and could be reached only on horseback. A portion of a set was built here and all the material had to be hauled In on_muleback. Also at the Sagi episode had to be shot. h on | recruiting an army of would-be movie | asplrants at Flagstaff, transporting them in automobiles 180 miles across the desert, outfitting them in uni- forms, feeding them, putting them under military discipline. These raw ecruits manned the battery of Civil War cannens used in the picture, and sent them down the hill into the bed of the Sagi Creek at a speed which wrecked half of them so badly that | they were abandoned where they col- | lapsed. The fourth phase involved the great- est difficultfes of all. Some 50 miles further and 200 miles from the rail- road, on the Utah line, in the Valley of ti:» Monuments, was greate.t scenic spectacles to be found in America—a vast plain, dotted with great blocks of stone, some of them 1 thousand feet high. Preliminary explorations h: rabllity of this reglon for the picture purposes. Up until this time vast numbers of Indians had been used, following the outfit on horseback, and being fed at the company commis- sary. The Monument Valley region is S0 barren that only a few Indians live In it, and transporting thousands of others there on horseback would have been impoggible through lack of | In this contingency the entire what was left of it by ed in a fleet of 14 touring cars and 10 trucks, with emergency ations, and in three days of sweat ing and toiling succeeded in getting the outfits of three different locations, where separate nes were taken. The difficulty of the travel is shown by the fact that at one point, craw ing as slowly as it could, one of the trucks, top-heavy with standing In- upset, injuring seven of them, feed. company, then, emba the Kit Carson ' This involved | one of the! | i established the desi THE SUNDAY New York Symphony | N© singie orchestral event in Wash | ington this 1s expected to attr more and atten- tion than the appearance in the Capi- tal this Winter of Otto Klemperer, German conductor, as guest condu |tor of the New York Symphony Or- it the fourth and last of hat organization’s concerts in the | Capital on March 16. Herr Klemperer is, at present, con- ductor at Wiesbaden, and spends half the vear traveling as guest con- |ductor in Russia, Italy, Spain, Aus- [trin and the larger cities of Germany. Like Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York ‘mphony, Herr Klemperer was born at Breslau. He is only 40 vears old and has had a phenomenal rise to fame since Gustay Mahler first realized his talent and season et interest | chestra | | | | | STAR, W (Continued fyom Fifth Page.) addition to her Washington studio work, Miss Eversman has organized a class for «)eclal operatic training in New York City, to he held under her supervision there weekly. % During the past Spring Miss Evers- man toured Cuba and Central Amer- ica with the Sonora Grand Opera Com- pany. She was the only native of the United $tates in the comp: v. Sh sang in “Madame Butterfly,” *“Tosca, “Il Trovatore,” *‘Cavalleria Rusti- cana,” and several other works. with marked success. “A Sunday In Old Russia” was the title of a novel Russlan divertissement arranged by Elena de Sayn, Wash ington violinist, which she presented with success in Asheville, N. C., dur- tng the Summer. It s probable that Miss de Sayn will give the program here during the season. peclally interesting In the He- brew music played during the New Year services recently held at the Eighth Street Temple here were the two Hebraic melodles, arranged by Maurice Ravel, French modernist, played on the organ by Louis Atwater. McCall Lanham, the New York baritone and vocal teacher, will re- sume his class at the Chevy Chase School Thursday and his Washington classes at his studio, 1310 Nineteenth street, on Friday, thereafter on Wed- nesdays. Mr. Lanham sings his first pro- gram at the Chevy Chase School next Sunday evening at 8:30 o'clock, where he brings his artistry to bear in a fine program, ranging from the masters of the bel canto school to modern songs of the day, showing his versatility in four languages, with finely chiseled interpretations, prov- ing his growth in the years succeed- ing his work with the European mas- ters, Sbriglia, Granier, Henschel und others. ASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 'Klempercr and the MUSIGRAPHS :-;::lc particularly of the religlous |clalize in dance music in the May- There are vacancies for several new singers in the choir, especlally for tenor voices. Regular attendance at rehearsals and painstaking develop- ment of phrase finishing as well as accuracy of tonal effects are required of members in thi is chotr. The St. Anthony Church cholr, Brookland, will resume its activities next Sunday for the Fall and Winter, under the Behrendt. Mrs. past five years, w! Louise 11l return, leadership of Prof. Leo Mclnerny, Wwho has been the regular organist the The per- sonnel of the choir remains the sam with an addition of one or two new members. This evening at the Church of the Covenant, beginning at 7:45 o'clock, a special musical service will be given by Katharine Rige: violinist. L. Chase, harpist; Mrs. A. Herman Fakler, baritone, and Claude Robeson, organ- ist. o'clock. The first rehea rsal The regular service starts at § of the evening choir, Claude Robeson, director; Har- vey Murray, organist; Mrs. Howard Blandy, planist, and the solo quartet was held Wednesday evening in the chapel of the chui sing next Sunday time this season. rch. The choir will evening for the first | Any one desiring to join the choir may communicate with the secretary, Miss Mildred avenue 3451. Moore, 111 Tennessee northwest, telephone Lincoln T. Guy Lucas, organist of St. John's will give an hour of music Friday night at 8 o'clock in the church, assisted by the Church, Lafayett chotr. The selections will include ‘Tender Mercies “Andante in D,” e square, ake, by by Toccata and Fugue in D Minor,” by Bach; un- accompanied chorus, “Lord, for Thy Farrant; Alfred Hollin: chorus, “Praise the Lord, O My Soul, Wheeldon; by Goss: * chorus, “Teach cas, nata.” Cantilene,” by Me, O Lord, and Mendelssohn's by “Fourth Lu- S0- n 3. 1925—PART flower Gardens. The instrumental makeup of the teresting. A harmonium, or “baby gan,” supplements the piano, provid ing deep undertones. Two viollns, a bass and cello complete the ensemble. “In working out this Instrumenta- tion,” sald Mr. Tupman, “we have tried to secure an ensemble especially adapted to secure the finer gradations in melodic effects. No br d | Even the saxophones, whicl as invaluable in a dance were eliminated In favor monjum and cello, which will give excellent effects, suitable to a dignified room, and will also broad- | cast well." Lucille Chalfant’s brilliant colora- | tura voice, it is sald, has been lost to American musical comedy for a son at least, and perhaps for all time, for Miss Chalfant, American, previ- ously a star of the Greenwich Village | Follies, has at last achleved her grand | opera ambition Mme. Martha Braarud, under whose | tutelage Miss Chalfant has been for the past three years, yesterday re- ceived a cable from her star dated Milano, Italy, in which Chalfant announces that she ally been persuaded to accept the re- newed offer of an important contract to sing with the San Carlo Italian Grand _Opera Company of Napl orchestra, of har- which she will be heard in a reper- toire of varied prima donna roles She will remain abroad a year. A One-Man Picture. HE Lawful Cheater,” a forth coming Preferred release, s sald to be a “one-man picture.” Frank O'Connor guided the making of this melodrama for B. P. Schulberg through every step of its production. | He wrote the original story, super- vised the scenario, personally cast it, then handled the direction, editing and | title writing. The picture is an interesting experi- Presidential Orchestra is especially in ‘ 1 regard | 1 believe | | band and handed me the keys to the throughout the coming season, during:| A | jand I heard Roy | eraman which was photographing ‘The Amer- | “The American Venus." FAY LANPHIER, winner of the 1925 beauty pageant at Atlantic City, will be one of the most famous beau- | ties in America within a year, accord- ing to Jesse L. Lasky of the Famous | Players-Lasky Corporatio | Merely one of the entrants in the annual beauty contest at the famous | | seashore resort, on September 12 the | Judges of the beauty contest awarded her the coveted “Miss America” as the most beautiful girl in the United States Now fame and fortune await her in a movie career that is assured by a long-term contract for her appearance in Paramount pictures, beginning with “The American Venus,” in which she | will have the title role. Mr. Lasky's enthusiasm for Fay Lanphier preceded her selection as “Miss America. “I went to Atlantic City,” says Mr. Lasky, “to see what it was all about and (o have a look at the annual roll- ing-chalr parade. From the moment of my arrival at the raflroad station, where the mayor met me with a brass city, I was dazzled by the beauty as- scrubled there from all over the coun- and by the enthuslasm in conne tion with the annual beauty pageant. | “On the Boardwalk that afternoon I specially noticed ‘Miss California’ because she is from my home State. I had never heard of her before, but | I was impressed by her unusually | wholesome zood looks. happened to be sitting on the grandstand just below the stand | where 11 cameramen were working | Hunt, the head cam- | with the Frank Tuttle unit; fcan Venus,' exclaim, “There is the prettiest girl in the whole batch.” At| that time 1o prizes had been awarded | and no selection had been made. “We had a committee, consisting of three men, Frank Tuttle, the director of the plcture, “The American Venus,; Larry Hitt, art director, and Armand T. Nichols, director general of the pageant, who were to choose from | “Miss_California Chaminade Glee 5 Club Convenes The Chaminade Glee Club of Washington, D. C., will begin its fifth season with a business meeting to be held at the home of {its director, Miss Esther Linkins, at 8 o'clock to- morrow night. All members are urged | to attena. candidates for award. “Off in a room at another hotel three judges for the American Venus award compared notes and agreed upon Miss Fay Lanphier. “That night we all went to the Mil. lion-Dollar Pier, where 5,000 peopls sat {n hushed expectancy awaiting the award that would make one of the 64 intercity beauties the queen of all the beauties in America. “I was delighted when Miss Olive Anne Alcorn, styled ‘the world’s most beautifully formed girl,” who will ap pear as Miss Greentown In ‘The American Venus,’ came to the judges’ stand and presented the American Venus trophy to Miss Fay Lanphier entered as ‘Miss Callfornia’ in the the ‘Miss America’ | competition. “Half an hour later Miss Atlantio City’ struck a golden hatchet on a golden apple and broke the ballot box which contained the decisions of the 15 judges. “‘One by one these names were read over by the director of judges, M:. Louls St. John. There was drama and suspense as he read first ‘Miss Calf fornia,’ then ‘Miss Los Angeles,’ then and again ‘Miss Los Angeles.’ But after that there came five consecutive votes for ‘Miss Cali fornfa,’ and 1 knew then that the Judges had chosen the same girl for their grand award as our committes of three judges had selected for the title role in ‘The American Venus.’ “I think fate must have had a ha in this whole matter. “Fay Lanphier is a delightful ex ’ r There the body of the story was | dians The coloists in the choruses will be | mant in reflecting the personality of a | @MoNg the 64 beauties one girl to|ample of the old-fashioned girl who ix made to Rainbow zround. down to > and trip of a month wa: Bridee, traveling as| sleeping on the from sunup to sur throush as soon as pos the burden of trans | s possible work lessen Sagi Canyon, 85 miles the_desert. 2 camp suffi- house 500 peuple had to be built for the prologue, which goes back to the dawn of history, including laid in a cliff dwelling situ- | miles beyond the camp. The was constructed on the main' camp one o badly that he had to be rushed back 75 miles to Tuba City The climax to this part of the trip came when, on the last night out, a sheep-dam under which the party had camped gave way, sending down enough water to wash the costumes and props a half mile out into the desert and to make every one plunge through watér waist deep in the early gray of the morning. But—it's “in the box,” in studio parlance. Whatever it cost, in time and money and effort—there “The Vanishing American,” “toughest” plcture made. the .7 by Kate L. McLaurin. will be a New York attraction October | 5, under the direction of Gustav Blum. Roval and Clark Silvernail f Mary Borden's “Jane, now &n rehearsal. elina ranger, 7 Nature” is the “Gunpowder.” the play *. Nugent, which and J. C. New York last week. new name by Elliott opened in David Belasco and Sam H. Harris have placed In rehearsal “Wolf at the Door.” a play by Milton Herbert Grop- per and Raymond O. Hill Chalmers | have been hultzer's “The t offering of the s Theater. Thomas Dumbri cast of the Actor Derek Glyr and Douglas added to the Call of Life.” season of the “The ton Toff Oeta Monck New York with Dennis Neilson-Terry and his wife, Mary Glyn rived from England last g the cast ked week, head- Basil Broadhurst, George Broadhurst, has been appointed gen eral man: for Boothe. Gleason & Truex. are to produce “The son of Isabel woman in duced by Lowe will be ‘he leading “First Fiddle,” to be pro- Richard Herndon ess. who is h her own week from 2zi. Ttalian ac New York w arrived last Maria B: o appear i pany, Jurope Motte, presiding genius at is a bellever in late en- ertainme He is going to put over another midnight matinee October 9, with “Sever n" as the attra tia As that will be the date of the ime of the world series, Ira is opening his s \le now The Temple Four, conventional attir gloom, one of the ( White's “Scandal thei melodious h monies Earle th week. Tra La the Gay three chaps in and a blackface former features of will warble at the Ha Steppe’s big show at the Gavety this week was the Columbia | birrlesque attraction selected by Sam A. Scribner, president of the cireuit, to run all Summer at the Columbia | Theater on Broadway last Summer. Washington will see it intact Vie € acter man w this week, has smore, the burlesque char- o comes to Washington the happy knack of | impersonatit morously French alian roles without giving of: to people of those nationalities. Shuberts have announced that Romberg-Smith _operetta | n called heretofore “The r of Zenda” will not bear that | when the first curtain rises on hey say they nev ad any ldea of calling it by that name. Noel Coward, the young English actor-dramatist-producer, whose play, “The Vortex,” was recently seen here | and is now stirring the enthusiastic Amiration of the metropolis, has an- other which illed “Hav_Fever” The " Goull quicklyfrade for | Studebaker| i Power Durability- Finish | Transmission and rear axle gears are the most mpor- | tant thing about a Motor Car or Truck, because they | carry the whole driving load. It is through them that the power generated by the en- gine is transmitted to the rear axles and wheels, and the car moved. These parts are unseen and difficult to get at. Automotive Engineers say: Tse EBONITE and be safe. Buy with your mind made up. Demand EBONITE. Take no substitute. At dealers in five-pound cans at service stations from the EBONITE checkerboard pump’ onty. "EBONITE (1Ts SHREDDED OIL) FOR TRANSMISSIONS | turesque love story of the tropics Great Price, In thé Spotlight i in London, but is being prepared for production here by the Shuberts as “Still Life,” with Laura Hope Crews in the leading role. Brooklyn will be the first to see the new musical comedy called “May- Howers,” in which Joseph Santley and Suwyer will be featured. The chorus girls for “Gay Paree.” which is to be produced by Rufus Le Maire and the Shuberts, in conjunc- tion or in association, are to be se- lected for their beauty and their dancing ability “without regard to previous experience.” William Hodge's new comedy this E . in three acts, is entitled “The Judge's Husband,” and it will make October. “Aloma of the South Seas,” the pic- will descend upon Chicago tomorrow eve- ning after a_more than six months run in New York. The Actors’ Theater, which won dis- tinction last season with “Candida,” Ibsen’s “Wild Duck” and other dra- matic masterpieces, contemplates the establishment of producing units in other big cities of the country. The organization boasts of a masterful ar- ray of acting talent. Archibald de Bear, the English pro- ducer, will arrive in New York this week from London. Two De Bear re- vues probably will be seen.on Broad- way this season. . After holding for eight years Rob. ert McLaughlin's play, “The Pearl of ' A. H. Woods ha AND BEAR AXLES BAYERSON OILWORKS - COLUMBIA 5226 it is, | its appearance in Pittsburgh early in | (e obtained for him, in 1907, the post of conductor at the German Opera House at Prague. He conducted at the Berlin Grosse Volkesopern last season. e is sald to possess a charming personality and be a fine interpreter of both classic and mod- ern music. Mr. Damrosch will conduct the first three of the orchestra’s perform- ances here, November 10, December 8 and February 9. The solofsts who will appear at the second, third and fourth concerts are mostly well known young Americans, George rshwin, composer of “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Blue Monday Opera” and other “experiments” in “American music.” will be the soloist his arrangement of “The New Concerto,” specially composed Mr. Damroschs orchestra. , On the all-Wagner program, Feb- ruary 9, including selections from “Rienzi” and “Parsifal,” the soloists will be Kathryn Meisle, Della Baker, Ernest Davis and Frederic Baer, with a Washington chorus of 300 voices. Lawrence Tibbett, brilliant young American baritone of the Metropoli- tan, will be the soloist at the final concert, Otto Klemperer, conductor. All appearances of the orchestra in Washington this season will be on these four Tuesday afternoons at Poli’s, under the local management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. It has been necessary for the orchestra to di continue this vear the series of Mon- day evening concerts at Central High {School. which proved so popular here. | Thirteen new musicians will ap- pear with the orchestra this season, including two changes in first {nstru- men Mischa Mischakoff will be- gin his second season as concert master of the orchestra, while Ru- dolph Rissland remains as personnel manager and Hans Goettich as libra- | rian. York for cided to place it in rehearsal this week. Mr. McLaughlin fs sald to have gotten action on his play by spread- ing the report that he had sold it to Florenz Ziegfeld. Doris Keane has returned to New York after a vacation in Europe to start rehearsals of a new play as yet unnamed. TLast Wednesday afternoon in New York. Billy B. Van celebrated his fif- tieth vear on the stage. He is said to have made his debut at the age of 5. Many stage notables helped Billy cele- ! brate at a matinee. December §, playing the piano part of | the Kennemore Music Club gave a musical entertainment with several comedy sketches and dlalogues. The affair, given In honor of Mrs. Lillian G. Kennemore, was a surprise. Those taking part were Lula Bachre, Imilt A. Huteh, Ruth E. Greers. Annie L. Lawson. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. King and Mrs. C. C Edmonds, Messrs. Charles W. Hunth, Edward L. Smyth, James C. Harrison, Paul E. Neall and William P. Trus sell. Beatrice Koch of Kane, Pa.. who has been studying in Washington dur- ing the past two seasons with T. S. Lovette, returned to this city the past week from Europe, to continue her studies, besides taking up her work as assistant plano teacher at the Lov- ette studios. During her trip abroad, Miss Koch spent some time in London, where she attended lectures on music by Toblas Matthay, Harry Flelds and Ernest Hunt on the psychology of music. Before coming to Washington, Miss Koch was a member of the faculty of the Warren Conservatory of Music, at Warren, Pa. She recelved her musical training under Le Roy Camp- bell, planist and author of books and articles on musical pedagogy, at the New England Conservatory of Music, with Toblas Matthay of London, and is now beginning her third season here. She will make her New York profer slonal debut during the coming season. Tuesday Miss Clelia Fioravanti, mezzo-con- tralto of this city, has returned from Swarthmore, Pa., where she has been vacationing, to resume her musical activities. Among them she announces the opening of the fifth season of the Washington Studios of Music, at 1764 K street northwest. Miss Elizabeth Jordon will sing this morning, at Petworth Baptist Church, “Cast Thy Burden,” by Hamblen. Anton Kaspar has returned to Washington and reopened his studio, following a Summer spent in motor trips through Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. His daughter, Priska Kaspar, has returned from Vienna, where she has studled the piano for the past two seasons with Prohaska and Hoffmann. Ruby Smith Stahl, soprano and di- rector of the choir of the First Con- gregational Church, announces the reopening of her studios at the church and at the Portner. Mrs. Stahl has interesting plans for the season for unusual features in choral singing. She is interested in the Russian choral KNOWN FOR RELIABILITY SINCE THE “OLD DAYS” Since the days when you perhaps were learning to drive—Since the days when the street filling stations were being in- troduced by Paul Himmelfarb, who first offered the motoring public more than “Gas”—The Penn Company has held the confidence of the motorists of Washing- ton with whom it has “Grown Up” and come to be— - A Washington Institution PENN OIL COMPANY PRODUCTS HTNING MOTOR FUEL 25 t035% MoRRPEP-NORE POWER- MORE MILES T. C. Jeffer: L. 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