Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 59

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. FEBRUARY 7. 1926—PART 3 By Helen Fetter. F i STARS OF CHICAGO OPERA COMPANY WHO WILL APPEAR HERE THIS WEEK | | | cal-dramatic institution known as opera seems | eet of vital discussion in many communities, not only in this country but in the world at large, at the present time. Fhe week just starting has an intriguing list of operas and principals announced for Washington when the Chicago Civic Opera Co. brings the finished product of an industry that is capitalized at millions of dollars and financed by the people of Chicago to the Capital. This | company. generally looked upon by the public at large as a collection of ! singers of stellar importance, and a fine orchestra and baller, under the direction of famous conductors. is in reality an industry within an art. ie emploves also include such personiges as cxpert needlewomen and even talented anmorers. Sewing machines, forges, casels, lathes, cutting tables and drill presses are d in the mechanical equipment which makes the artistic rinished product possible. Such is the heritage art owes to i v. When Rosa Raisa's tresses for Desdemona cascade over her robes, it is an exhibit of the art of that company’s ne wigmakers and costumes department; when Mary Garden sings | the 1 song. garbed in all the correct details of gypsy dress, when | ito Ruffo. in “Rigoletto.” sings beiore an imposing ducal court in a set- ng of regal splendor—all tf amour and beauty is increased by the accurateness of these m tircless workers whose names do not appear ! vhere on the prograi. I\ is these qualitics of the <etting tor operatic gems that form the theme 0f one of the inimitable papers written by those masterly pens of \ddisc nd the famous Spectator, a pioneer_in English riodic paper No. 5 of Tuesday, March o, 1710, says one these 5 ay be aliowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decora- | design is to gratiiy the senses. and keep up an indolent | and e mon <ense, however. required that therc “iould be nothing ccines and machines which was appear childish : % and absurd. n..’«‘ the wits of King Charles’ time have laughed | 2 1 g 5 MLLE to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest i robes of ermine, and sailing | in an open boat upon a sea of F pas steboard?” y L ¢ f the owr.l as L- 1« today than this (l(~~€rtat\ul| on the settings | Premiere opera is No. 18. which is headed with the quotation e, | CHARLES | g : March 21, 1710, apparently written ) b HACKE_TT and . H A ' — i A & Army Band Concert. NSSEAU 5 1 et T T R ~ TITTA RUFFO : Tk W B ’ ag MARY GARDLN Cuadindiocen i e ' \ - Pu}olei‘to ' WEVEN Dravest fearts May Swel In Carmen ers ueed to sit together lilie an audience of foreigners in their | SeliNe sluen adbalba Nonelsols a- to hear whole plavs acted beiore them in a tongue JiE Y Pand Sqccompaniment,. by ;the Clifton A, Woodrum. Represe lid not understand. ! p noe” was the first opera that gave us a t of ltalian music. {y, . ki T 3 e T R P success this opera met with produced attempts of form- | Kreisler and Gigli Pupils in Recital. 3 Army Band. He \:x; s "i_ 3-1;‘. p H S y plans. h should give = iore maturall andi ! (@oncerts Mhis Month'| s Leand Bl Parker presant Rosare.” by Ethelbere Nevin, and one nme ¢ be met th in the claborate : compositions of Williar ‘that nation. This alarmed the poetasters of the | MJRS. WILSON-GREENE announces | tumber o i : Pierson, “Calling for Yo 10 were used 1o deal in a more ordinary that two famous o o5y (PIEDO xecital i YR ke fne SDERI @ nts Uy | (RIS W ed : the program put on the air thron tabl vle, vh received as his dJay, solo programs B T ¢ is rec 1 lo programs und g he pupils 2 WOCAP and affiliated stations Wedne there- | e ., lh o o 1 < hat 1. not nonsense.” This at nothing is capable of be L e Loy onss BIs | nent during February are Kreis Clara Young B soprano. Amor inl was no sooner received!but we inmediately tell to) translating the I SR A PRl S8 et e were Beatt ralian operas. and as there xa\ no great danger of hurti the sensc b el witl Colema 1 xel \ H Additional offerings are i these extraordinary picces, our hors \"ould oiten male words of !y ke L sfarpd B Dorothy 3 Jleanor T of “Span National Melo % Dl u v 1 make his f \rance 3 3 ir own, which were entirely for the meaning of the passages ! here this season & i eater, | Dorothy Robbins, Esth L ,"‘};”’*"*, ro) he opera + pretended to translate, their chisf care being to make the numbers | Friday afteruoon. Febra i Doris Zabel, Jessica Tab - e Lk e gl Conicers the Luglish verse answer to tho-e of the ltaliar, that both of them |o'clock. This will he the second Sh e i % Otello R e Pt ight g0, to the same tune. Thus the famous song in *Camilla, ‘Barbara | certin the Philharmonic cot b i Nehiio tmBone, pioEany tendo, ctc. (Barbarous wor .1 know vour meaning), which | iicludes, additlonaliy, _concerts b cpresscs the resentuents of : lover, was tramslated into that|aioe. Mrih Jeritzn, Stennese prim: CONCERTS RIS ANIGhE (Conie uglish lamen Frail are a lover's hopes. cte. And it was pleasant | Sigrid Onegin. contralto. i : ind the Army see refined perso the British lving away and | make her first Washingion g ina program given jointl; g to notes that were filled with a spirit of rage and indignation. | ance Wednesday, M P e z Bl and Wiz, il 1 also very frequently, where the sense was rightly translated. | final Washinston ¢ f th easl _ TUESDAY. it gl i S s ransposition of Words. which were drawn out of the phrase | 1o Symphony Orchestra. Tuesd York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damros wduct the Arn another, made the music appear very absurd | “Tnoon. April 19 L BN B ed by choru d oloists. in \Wagnerian program. at Pol ¥ Spersed thus, word for word. "And turn'd my rage into pity. which | pearunce at Polis Theater Frid “Ot v Chicago Civic O t the Wash '~n for r:'._"nv: sake trans! ‘And into pity turn'd my rage” {afsernoon. Fobruuar 30 o'clock UL B . o S 3 means the soft notes that were adapted to pity in the Italian ' His concert will he ¥th i the WEDNESDAY. b fell upon the word rage in the English. and the angry sounds that wer Artists course 1 ! cazo Civic Ope 2 turned to rage in the original werc made to express pity in the transla- | the appearance of GaliiCur 1 1 tion. It ofttimes b 1. Tikewise, that the fimest notes in the air fell | Mareh 1t THURSDAY. the m H ant words in the sentence. I have known the N e g 8 + Hihice e e >rd ‘and’ pursued through the whole gamut, have been entertained with et e g . ! I many a melodions ‘the’ and have heard the mest beautitul graces, quavers i k SATURDAY. < Liezt z i N o and divisions bestowed upon ‘then, for and frc to the cternal honor of | Cary 0 hicago Civic Opera Co. . . o 1 ufday afternoons { Iy board meeting of “The nest step in our refinement was the introducing of Italian actors | Rigoletto,” by Chicago Civic Opera t the Washington . s : mbla, Federation into our operas, who sang their parts in their own language at the same | FRATIEIING RIGOS Auditorium a8 pa ; ST i pizet ) adag to-i- : b e e ot pified ¢ that our countrymen periormed theirs in our ce tongue. T Imily Harrold. 1 4 e e i : t or hero of the play genera Italian, and his slaves answered [ he the et i CHICAGO OPERA TUESD e = f sednal hEn o0 i The lover ntly made his court and gained the!Club Toesday cvening SEDAY A, TOR AN B NEW YORK SYMPHONY—TUES- he s cess in a language which she did not understand. One ! prosram under the R s ; : L ¢ & hit it very diificult to have carried on dialogues after this | ‘\'("\'” Sy % A Walt inanmer w.thout wn terpreter between the persons that conversed to- | L Opera gether, but this was the state of the English stage for about three years. | R nization ashin its season of four per cioek, t length the audience grew tired of understanding half the opera.| '3 Red Re : Lo e ks aislock. i, thereiore, to case themselves entircly of the fatigue of thinking, have | Ui : eI LR S e <o ordered it at present. that the whole opera is performed in an unknown | . Bl Ant e et lotaanges | ToschT Tnaly mareh has tongue. \We né longer under hie language of our own stage: inso Pre. turday at nd 8 poa.. respectively. (on with the orchestra thi e orchestr; “h as T have often been afraid when I have scen our ltalian performers | “U3i, ) g : Tuesday evenir i< foursctr (he remaining conce 1t hasehe 3 e chattering in the vehemence of action, that they have been calling us Eiven March 16 will he conducted by | Music School to : 3 ¢ Z brilliant violi made hig pames and abusing us among themsel I since we do put such Hlempese mar thicon-| c8 tend HIShe Unie - : n : ver 10 vears agon gh they may it, with the same safety as if it were behind our ; e ; \ : T . : St e leading military hands. As its t ; < 1 i 1l 4f Pe- the sreat. violinists of the —bx o swrites two or three hundreds yea nce. and does not know | 3 : tonio > lda Morelata and “*1 Club chorus, Ticien { Innes, | bright clement e ! i ise forefatliers. wil! make the following reflection: ‘Ir J E in ot 5. Roberto Morat Univ Penn - i e At rn in Russia, % century the [talian tongue was so well . % Ry The performanee | IV b i terstood in ® England that operas were acted on the public stage in that 3 8y tart at 8 o'clock. The e also will e ot " “It does not want any great measure oi sense to see the ridicule of ¥ T % s . ral Ernest Davis. tenor. and B. Jokn monstrous practice. but what makes it e e ; B Wednesas "0t S ook with | [rederic Baer, barvitone the taste of the rabble, but of persons of the greatest politeness which | ¥ 0 sard T e R Dr. Damrosch bas selected as ex- 4 rnes, Mary Ka e Rl AT established it At presen our notious of music are so vers - Guges Bakla | oL from SRlenale theschonus tar - uise Cassid “rtrude hris ported v ¥ i t s0 it be of (ur'flgn urn\\xh 1 . Mojica, Ernesto |y, Davis), Adriano’s air = (Miss 7 Haave eree 5 . Blanch Rome. j aimself by ytions to tche liter Frénch or high Dutch, it is the same thing. In short. our - v . more thah 5018 thryn Meisle), and the battle hynin 1 Hilda Siegel. Doris Klesner, Herbert | fEe 1 L and jthe ypian Eugli . i< quite rootad ont, and nothing yet planted in its stead.” 1 e fl | kers, w fances by Mile. | Al Duvis and male chorus). $ ¥ G0l Clavence Huffman. Richard | S0 e #iven t e it iy 3 = muels and corps de let. Giorgio ! mhe selections from *‘Parsifal” will : Waooley. Jimmie Sprout. Juck Mury e oo al play. 2 Y 3 3 ; B co. musical director of the Chi: | inelyde the entire temple scene from { Los Siens o S e AT Sl b sl I\ New York at the present time the subject of supreme importance 3 0 Civic Opera Company. will con-i act I. including the processional of /4 li Thocabers Jj S eludi : ESRE ST £ s , | iuct and the performance will e given ' i 1 i | Elizabeth Thornberry has heen sing- g regarding the historical institution of opera in that ¢ concerns th: e A ey i g the Knightsaofithe Holy (Grail;cine ing at the Metropolitan Theater d cater that houses that institution and not the musical problems of its 3 i B iy PR nt of Amfortas, the ceremony of . i |ing the pust week. Her engageme cafin with the perspicacity and ¥ of the true general seems to have e BE.Blzelry “Ganmen: Whic 18 of sopranos, altos, tenors ~ £ Ledneenire rranged cverything so that even thie flanl attacks on rebellious box {Mr. Polacco will conduct, at the mati- ind basses g e 5 - &0 Lolders have been successiul and generally conceded that the Metro ince, starting at 2 o'clock | Seats are on sale Greene's . The soprano solofst's posi pofitan Opera Co. will begin the operatic season 1927-28 in a new home lay ‘afternoon. Anssean. concert hureau. 1300 ¢ street north : st Church, southeast, wis at will undoubtedly enjor the most complete of all modern improvements IEGCUIRa G TE Ul onlice HELE S westaandbds Boll lcater BIUESO IS W Christine Irish Jast Sunday i the style of opera houses ST I E ey, Dt e edicen: A \bsence of the regulir soprano. ) ! Mojic 1 othe ——————————— s e * with thre let number: ¥ A % Woodruff Youngs. tenor, substitu NEST NEWMAN. English critic. who was a guest critic oi « leading {Act IV and incidental dances street northwest, local mabager for e it the Southern Methodist Church, g ;3 % This ope will be sung in Ere: the Chicago Civie Opera Company, ¥ Alexandria, last Sunday \ll SICAL INST RU (Tll)\ “ork journal last y writes of Vati 3 st of his 3 S . It-\t '\ o o 1‘{ £a lfi} c ”jfl‘\uhunal Opera Trust of hi wurday night, at & oelock’ Edith | Seats also will he on sale at the Wash- | ¥ i . 1 land, suggesting how ‘the English people are to “reconcile the talk R son, supported by Charle: ¢ 'ington Auditorium prior to each per- 4 Evelyn Gribbin Randall. who ha out the demand for English opera with the complaints of the B. N. 0. C T et e e hiance T el e W LL H <hout poor houses in so many of the towns it visits. The circular gives us avi and others, will sing in Verdi . SIDNEY ROCHE her dutles today as soprano soloist of to this question: it merelv repeats the old emotional platitudes MILY HARROLD. tizoletto.” 1o be presented in Ttalian. The Friday Morning Music Club will 7 ¢ { the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church ‘Teacher of Singing the subject. T have beea told that the Beecham Co.. vhen it got fairls et il e St dinces T enjoy & Drogran (s weck of the Tol | SRV of U marching ] yaners of the senior cliss of the 1764 K St. NW. Fr. 6843 i EAS ; 5 J By )s de balle enry ;. Weber will | Jowing music: care-free hizh school boys, and seems rers of the senior class of th soing. was a seli-supporting business. I that is so, and if the B.N. 0. C. (Mins L E it tbe piano,) 1] et CDIyC A lowing mu; % ' Master School of the Piano were en- M B e i s guilisle, Heniy G Weberinll lowing: " e e aster School of the Pizno were en. MARGARET 2 B e Llf-suppoctinig maay not one of the feasons be that s perform oL SONaL. Wi SARD et Mhe bevfomance Wil Sart |y Choraie, e (vese Frangi). e Aoy rand, under G Stan | (ertained a Miss Hilda Turke's home | geanr RET DAY, ‘CELLIST: nesday eveninz nces fell for a time to much below those of the Beecham Co.> The o S o Hen under ! : i on s Mrs, Wilson- - Kathenne Les Jones: suite for i | nard. has plaved this march in W ¢ present public, before it subscribes to the National Opera Trust. want g Saetmal oSSl A nsent . Burean osCT; piann (iancoim’ Dicson 1 M, i ington, The musical program was given by « little morc information about opera in Lngland £+ Again, Mr, | “The Litile Cud Riissii | e o S Roche, the composer, ix a | Hilda Lurke. Tmma " Ezoir. Hobert | PipeQp, anTumon— = N ewms e up unother angle oi the argument of Mr. Addison, his | This is tn fivsi. Joint ecital atamius o e old Centril g | Relinects v Rosenbers. Jrs. Charles .m?m. .5 T. G“)'L“Cfls countryman of two centuries ago, when he says. “But after telling us in of thete o @il vounz musiciun: NOTE S 2 . School, where he himself was in one | Cassidy. Iazel Wasson, Agnes arr. | (0900, ¢ P W i 2. = ~ . an o four ca 0 KA1 i v old ! e Jenkins 1 Newtor Jean = e o other Rovopean couniry. frould apera be tojerhee, | of Washingion, Shi 11 prosram wil TED SOLOISTS IN D. ( pE four cader pemgpie O e S Guaty Weoker (L & = s 5l 5 o 1| present an il comBiaadant or annus assembly g ands ey ¥ n.w cept in iolated cases. in a Janguage the people could 't tand." o anid Iy e ot or. the platfogm with Maj. Fred Fi Miss Grace Gilchrist presided. Joc MISS AMY CLEWENT LEAVITT the circular tells us, in another column, ‘that the National Opera Trust . % 5 . back ¢ g and rton | Atchison sisting. gav readings PIANO, VOICE ll\n\m\\ interest is the roun of four old folk ommanding Maj. Burton Coachin A Ross “bossing.” as Mr. Roche puts from Shukespeare, Poe and Paul De % and_Accompany has been constituted to raise a permanent income-producing fund to sub- | songs, Sones whivh are toually Suns oss " as MrRor from & s s Assommariag | oS it. This was about 1898, Then M. | Musset. t N sidize, aid, develop and stimulate the production aud performance of ! to the accompanimeni of some plucked grand opera in Engli ther language throughout Great Dritain. | instrument. such sis har ritar, zith 3 Roche was graduated from the Geor e Rectnils esenfed SO hocl S I P Treland and the Domini i He rarthtridown ih thelarticle ALE New. | erioniute. Miss uarioi Washington University Law School !, e Tl e aaate v P, aln ‘e\ apa: man sugge-ts, “Or. perkaps. on second thought, by some ‘other language’ | SONSS With A = have likewis ! and Is wow a raember of the local Db ! cints” Groomes, who plaved the Ru TENOR BANIOCHAWSTAY : s anan izen of voteless ' gan ajrs by J. Weiss; Vladimir Gri | AR AND UKULELE i glish, the autl oe: French or G seen chosen hecause of their distinetly £ a5 han Engli I, the author of the circular does not mean French or G emman | e i ccompan g Washington, being a member of the - 46 b e the NW. Franklin 600, i | hington Board of Trade, the Mon- | forn Planist. Who B in: 3 LE MARQUIS. " Potomac ‘]t.ll\an. but the strange language that is usually sung in English opera.” | {itten orisinally for st : And so the argument for or against opera in English carries on down | Aiss Riges will piar Alhorty Sl v b delegite to the Fon” i turne in 1 flat” by Chopin: Wilmer v Miss Riges will play Alberto Salv Svening Ulub, delegute to the Fed- . (100, s o uh o rough the carly twen century as well as the carly cighteenth with | “Scherzo™ in het cron & el ion of Citizens Associations of the | SOlWell, boy, violinist. who wae heard Walter T. Hol+ Studios arent ndless pos L one of the few known ‘compositions 4 i District of Columbia, secretary of the | mn @ SUlte by &g ETS S 5 2 parently end e e g 1 4 » D O ety Of the I Thompson, o child of 7. who plaved || TENOR BANJO. MANDOLIN. GUITAR L . oL ehe: S eldom, 3 aton tind “hoving been formeny : little pleces by Ann Carse very credit BANJO. HAWAIIAN GUITAR AND Tn CU:,,.‘ on with the reorganization of the Washington Choral So- | ™ {RCC 8 QI 10 Washington. i ; 3 deputy auditor of the District of Co- cicty, Dr. £ . 5. Larnes, director of music in the public schools, has | gow in'Wax lle not quite so well | k. | Seputy uas Miss Riges, | 1 Mr. Roche is studying with the a letter, in which he ufllar(‘~ that he has not accepted the leader- | has sung « leal in Bl ! deal in Baltime end requested to sel '-m of the society, but has only agreed to take over direction if a paid jund in a numbe { south®rn cities faculty of the Army Music School x[:)‘ul an :“ JT,{- :n .”.:l ,-fflw.!:‘,ff : wembership of 100 be obtained i particularly in the vicinity of Ashe- e | taking band instrumentation and ar- | " g e - = Mr. Barnes sa e \‘]"h 1 the past week she has 3 i Bregeid with William C. White. princl- | _ Invitations have been-issued by the i BEEEX{"‘NZ“ V‘V‘{LD seen solol il of the school. : smposition | ¢ 12 GIUh o Ttasthid ad oice 1o and “ olol: 1position | Chaminade Glee Club to its third an- | gu@ic® gGRe B ot Takoma Park n e “\liss len Fi . “eb. 1, 1926, with the Choral Club H e izs Helen Fetter Feb. 1, 1926. {550 Sinder hora ab; g | with James ¢. Eldridge. All of his . nual banquet_to be held Tuesday, el Phone Adums 5549. The Evening Star. Washington. D. ¢ Mirlam Hilton gave 4 delightful pro-| 3 3 | compositions are subhitted by him | yuary 6. at 7 pan.. in the La Fayette v Dear Miss Fetter in Thursday 4t the Tweatioth Gen:| | g % | divectly to Percy Goetschius, famous ! potel, Miss Lillian M .\n(h-)\nm_.nlnly ; { Imusician and scholar. whose book on | president. will p Representi “I am writing to ask you to urrlu[ the statement appearing on tury Club meeting, repeating the pro- | | 5 H | 3 i Farmony is widespread in its use as !tive Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia ~ Piago. Tenor Banjo Guitar. Diums, eic, 15ic page ¢ The Sunday Star. Jan. 3lst, to the cffect that 1 am taking | eram o week azo at the Friday £ ' the work of the Washington Choral Society. : Morning Musie Clui, 2 A o i the accepted text book on that subject. | will Al the dual role on_the program Ir 10 to 20 Lessom “I am not willing that the \\n~1nn"ton ]H\M!L should get such an - . 3 » . 1‘(’"“ oetschius is a friend of Mr. ‘l——, = = Raz, Jazz and Ponular ap5 et Tl dJ £ i to O T et ELoEs e sC N apscialens npressio he Tuesday Lvening Chorus., Di < : Tering i ¢ e s a = t v 00l Frees e : b : . - e ¢ & been born in un Army H8s. | il Tenor Banjos, Mandolins, e e Sronove fob hookler. Freds T am uot taking over any “dying hopes'—have enough worthwhile rector Mrs. Frank Howard, accom S pital and living in Army quarter: oo 3 .’nd Ulmle‘l,el-l.l Greitary 1 G S N, CHeOL OF w‘,‘r : . e gs to do as it is. 3 vanied by Alma Partridge, will sing - 3 about 18 years, it is small wonder A T am. however. trying to help the society to reorganize. and i they |[Wo TOUS of early Linglish and Amer : : that ‘even Mr. Roche’s musical en- ||| e’ iar o aeeameie. Gme o . P g e & 57 i plete of aecessories. - jican songs at the colonial concert 2 leavors sl H i it e e I S srocure what 1 asked of them a few weeks ago-—100 paid memberships. | 30 SORES S0 Tne wolonial concer ETRIM Z bt .= deavors ghould be of a military na- | for. the famous Bacon Banjos and Stahl 2 Dupont Circls vith a propey proportion of men—1 shall accept the directorship, Ml Brer o A D IMBALIST = 4 ture. It would seem that the “Wash. | || Mendalias and suitars Airacts ShemaTe G tais o E 2 opera Company, for - 1 ington High Schools” march should | iCtve sindion. suitablo for. music a Sincerely Tl e Washington |loupital,” 1'ebru National GZ{wam/) e e tor onth oo WALTER T. HOLT STUDIOS N i Keasonanic rentais. h PARNES ary 92, is also heing orchestrated as a foxtrot S 2 | Tele & SR 1l l whose was plaved was Mr. Roche's mur zton High Schools.” and + aved by the Meye is Orchestra rric drar - founded ¢ Shalkespe i will be s fatthews, director. hoth rdel nan; Kreis 7 30_G_street next vecital will be given March Encemble Pra Those 0 are ereste 0 ubs Th ho are interested to at- || pooc Clubs X