Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 60

v “By-Howard P. Bailey. ITH plans already under way for a music season even more stren- W uous than last year's, Washington, like other cities, faces a re- p _newal of a condition that may bring about a great revolution in methods of obtaining musical entertainment or may result in a curtailment either of concert or radio programs. There is little question but that radio programs are cutting decidedly into concert attendance. With the rapid improvemeiit in receiving sets and broadcasting methods has come a corresponding improvement in the char- acter of programs given. S Last season there was an apparent falling off in attendance at concert programs given in the evening when counter attractions of high merit were offered over the air. As an example, one world famous organization by gave a program soon after a radio program and only a few hundred were present to hear it play. Its appearance was a financial failure and, con- trary to advance opinions, its radio program failed to attract a large audience. Highly enthusiastic comment followed its performance over WEAF and associated stations, but, having heard it, the listeners pre- ferred to stay home and listen to something new. f K ok kK HAT will the outcome of this condition be? There are those keen lovers of music who will be no more satisfied with a radio concert than they are with a phonograph record when an opportunity may be had to hear the artist or organization in person. There is a certain mag- netism in a concert audience that seems to. intensify the power of a musician to sway his auditors. There is the social contact, and, aboye all, the moving appeal of a great personality on the concert stage. These things are missing, of course, in the radio program, just as they are missing _in a program of phonograph music. These factors in the enjoyment of music will always draw many, regardless of the counter lure of the radio. On the other hand, there can be little doubt that the radio has cut greatly into audiences. Just as an example, during the past Winter there were a number of concerts given over the air by the New York Philhar- monic Orchestra, concerts of a very high caliber. Perhaps on some of the evenings on which they performed excellent concerts were on the program in this city. With a decision to be made between dressing and going down- town to the concert or staying at home and listening to the orchestra, there is no question but that the personal comfort of the home would be the deciding factor with many. A comfortable chair, or a couch, dim lighting, informality, complete relaxation, all of these are certainly con- ducive to the greatest enjoyment of music by one who might be weary and worn from a difficult day. .Add to these other conditions inclement weather, and the choice of the great majority would be for the radio program. Bitter cold, heavy snows, icy pavements, enemies of all concert promoters during the season of greatest patronage, come at a time when radio is enjoying its greatest success. * ok k k ANOTHER consideration is that of expense. After the initial cost, radio programs come mighty cheap. Once a year or so, new B batteries and perhaps $6 a year for chaqfing of A batter; That is mighty small ex- pense for the privilege of hearing great artists. Certainly it is far less than the cost of concert tickets. On this question of expense hangs the whole problem of the future. Taking a minimum in estimating the size of a radio audience, suppose 150,000 per¢ons heard a famous tenor sing over the radio on a program. That would be the equivalent of the total of 10 good-sized audiences who might go out to hear him in a concert. Setting his concert fee at $1,000 for the 10 concerts, his radio -concert would represent audiences worth $10,000 to him. Who would pay him that amount for his radio appear- ance? Could he take a one-concert fee for the equivalent of 10 concerts? Would his radio appearance attrzct people away from concerts by other individuals on the same evening? Should this latter prove true, will fu- turé years see a great reduction in the number of performers before the |s public? These questions are a serious problem to artists and producers. * ok ok ok O N the plher hand, there can be no doubt that radio has brought a great increase in the number of music lovers in this country. Many people who have shunned concerts in the past because they have been sandbagged on the few occasions they have ventured out with music far beyond their grasp, music requiring a considerable technical knowledge for full appreciation, now are becoming ardent lovers of music almost without their knowledge of the fact The basis of all music must be rhythm or beat. The power of a fife and-drum corps, for instance, to thrill any one illustrates the response in the human make-up to steady rhythm. Jazz, the scorned, has played a great part in the development of a musical taste in many. The development of a sense of rhythm has been followed by appreciation of melody and an understanding of the technique of harmonies. The constant repetition of compositions has-brought famiiliarity and understanding to many who had no musical training in their youth. For instance, the beautiful intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” has been played and played until now probably millions recognize it where thou- sands did a few years ago. * ok k% HE development of America into a Nation of music lovers, which seems to be part of its destiny, will be largely due to the growth of radio hroadcampg. The big question is whether this will draw concertgoers to the radio or eventually swell the ranks of concertgoers by large accre- tions from the ranks of radio fans. The problem is a serious one for young people starting out on' the long grind of yvears of preparation for appearance before the public as artists. They must decide whether the yumre holds for them a golden opportunity or whether their years of study will prove futile because of THE SUNDAY . .STAR, 7 U. §. MARINE BAND. A concert will be given at the Marine Barracks tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. ‘by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader, con- ductin The program will be: T ST Hesnger “Melody In A Maio; Saxophone 010, grand fantasia M e llet ‘mugic, “Coj Fontaita, "X Spavien Festal”, Marche Arilitatr % rhe "Biar Spangied At Anacostia Park Tuesday at 7:30 of Montazuma™ ‘Baoner. WASHINGT D. C, JULY 25 Concerning Popular Music HAT is “popular’ music, anyway? This much-debated question bring fresh answers every day, and the wide . difference of opinion ex- pressed in various quarters indicates that it 1s in no fair way of being set- tled any time soon. In one city, or one section of the country, “popular” music seems to mean one thjng, while in other places it means something entirely different. For example, it is said that popular an | doncerts in Boston include Beetho- ven and Brahms, while in Sioux City or.Tulsa they are more likely to be taken up chiefly with the compositions of Bershwin and Irving Berlin. Of course, this doesn’t mean a great deal, p.m. another concert will have the following program: agines of Belleau Wood." Branon “Poet, and Peasant'. Suppe pile. " Rustle_of Spring ng rom *The Chocolate Soldic: ). Strauss (a) March characteristic, “Hamaida." Seharbau 1) “Sigmess Patrol" . Lincke altz, “Jolly Fellows™. "' Grand "'l'g'tllll. “‘Songs of Scotl “The Siar Spangied mner. At the United States Capitol Wed- nesday at 6 p.m. the program will be: March, Oyerture, ‘Scenes Duet for Grand scenes from ' “Grande Valse Brillante d Farando “Arlesienne” . ‘Southern Rhapso “The Star Spangled Banner. The final concert of the week will be given at the Sylvan Theater, Monu- ment Grounds, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The program will be: “Florentiner” ............ . Fuoick . “Maximilian ‘Robespierre,” " Litolff | ‘'wo movements from the’ ballet 'S, Iv\!l»“' (&) Yalse Lente. o (b} Plzziondl Polka, Duet for flute and French horn. “Serenade.’ 4 Musicians. Clayton Lindsay and Adolphe idler. Fantatia, “Le_Cid" [ymn to the Sun,” from “Golden Cocki i Rigas !‘Mru\u of the Gods in dg."fl' 1rom “Rheingold"" ... Wagner Finale, “Fourth ‘Symphon; Tachaikow: “The Star Spangled Bamnerr ot U. 8. ARMY BAND. A concert will be given by the United States Army Band, Capt. Wil- Yam J. Stannard, band leader; Mr. Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, at Mount Alto Tospital at 7 p.m. The program will be: March, “The Virginian". . ..... Qverture. “Light Cavairs, Euphontum ‘solo, “‘The 'Wandere e Fanpteadre altz we Tovettors B, h‘:‘:'emu"]dlene . Macbat! 2) “Then T' o4 oo o 301 o ever R o™ Kan-Forits lotst Herbert | ;Cadman ib) Sweetheal Arizona”. ... .\ “The Star Spangied Banner. Tuesday at Walter Reed General Hospital, at 6:30 p.m., the band will pla; arch. “The Virginian . Oertire. Ehedre et Trumpet' solo. Stars in & Velveiy Sky," Clarke Thomas F. Darcy. soloist. Waltz, “The Waltz We Lo Flute ‘solo, "Little Sweethear Sergt. A. Lutkiewitz, Fox troy Brockenshire soloist. Ta) “hen 111 Be .Clare (B) "1 Never Know % T e R it A8 Baritong solo. - Phe Wanderer - Harlow erel. Samjiel Johneon. woiotai, Selections from ' The Serenade” ... .Herbert March, “From Tropic to lfl'{fi iexander *“The Star Spangled Banner. Wednesday at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 6:30 p.m., the program will be: - Tachaikowsky Homer Tiszt the curtailed demand for artists. The same serious guestion lies ahead for the music publisher and the composer, Will they find a stimulated market for their productions or awill the number of copies required decrease in inverse ratio to the swell- ing of the size of the radio audience? * ¥ % NE branch of music, however. seems fairly safe from competition by the radio. ductions of grand opera. Radio has failed to cut into the following of stage pro- i e Radio performances of curtailed operatic pro- ductions haye been given and have served only to emphasize that opera “is not music alone, but musical drama. Without the settings and the action of the principals opera falls flat. The music, with the exception :of the oceasional gems, cannot stand alone. The long recitative passages would be interminable and boresome without the accompanying action. H In this, opera is like the play and the base ball or foot ball game. The jeye must supplement the ear. he air version is better than nothing, but Iwho would listen to an air description of a base ball game if he could at- “tend the game? The only danger to opera lies in the possibility of ing inertia th t grow at might keep an opera lover home to listen to some other type‘ of program over the radio rather than to undertake the effort of dressing and going out to the opera. To be more to the point, there is the danger of sub- 'mission to a laziness that jabor- cases. ving devices seem to develop in many * %k X * WHAT_ thlc radio may dodin th:I way of bringing about a revolution in ¥ _musical entertainment depends, of coitrse, largely. on what is - plished toward elimination of three great evils—static, interferen:':c‘::ld fading. Until these problems are solved music lovers will be constantly irritated by unpleasant breaks that usually occur at the finest points in any perfermance. The delicate shadings that a performer can get are oft air by distortion and fading. Often what lhmgld be log::azoztli;:: {,hs comes in reality a diminuendo, ability. : as the tone fades aw: in- of the station to keep its volume constant. skl A The great advances in the past few years, ho: reat 2 ¥ ., however, would he ample justification for the greatest optimism that these e\vils”v:irl'lI l:: climinated. Once they are corrected the issue of radio versus-concert is likely to come rapidly to a head. Will the great singer# and other musi- cians, seeing the handwriting on the wall, refuse to perform ¢ ai or will they hurry to the radio to get in on the (re\gnd fiéorolv):;o:t‘i!a"q‘ too late? Will the radio. on' the other hand, prove a booh ta concert pro- ductions? Tt is likely that the next three or four years will see decided indications of what the future holds in store. e ic and just as many who are optimistic. disclose, to use the words of a famous bishep, but only the Lord knoweth.” Two Violinists to Make Debuts in U. S. Two mnew violinists of Kuropean fame are promised for the American concert stage this Fall. Geza de Kres: Hungarian by birth, will play ew York at the opening Roosevelt recital, supporting Mary Garden in her first New York appearance since 1921. De.Kresz is well known in the violin world as a pupll and protege of the great Ysaye. He lived for many years in Rumania, where he was court violinist to that famous patron of music, en Sylva, Queen of Rumania. After her death he spent several vears-in Ber- to in 1923 as & the Hart House String Quartet at the University of Toronto, o;zefi- which he now officlates as first viol Mm now in New York learning English and preparing for a program for her ‘Winter concerts in America, is the only woman who has ever recelved the Prix d'Honneur of the Paris Con- servatoire. Her place on the French concert stage was crowned in 1920 by her appointment as sololst for the Lamoreux Orchestra in its Beeth anniversary concerts. Since that she has been a regular feature of the important in France, Bel gium and the Hart House The work - Quartet, with De Kresz as first ist and leader, is fairly There are many who are c. What the future will any man can prophesy, both sides of the Canadian border. Its recent all-Beethoven concert from the Toronto bmdeutlw statioh was se- locted by the United Press as one of the five best radio proT‘ml of the week. The quartet will appear at Chicago University August 6 and at Cedar Rapids, Towa, August 2. Tkl Plan Three Outdoor Sings for Georgetown Arrangements for a series of thrée evenings of outdoor community sing- ing at Montrose Park, Thirty-first and R streets, have been completed by a committee of Georgetown resi- dents for the evenings of July 27 and August 10 and 24 at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. The singing will be directed by Wil- llam T. Plerson, director of programs for WC. In addition, special num- bers will be given by soloists each eve- ning. The soloists for next Tuesday evening will be Miss Jane Smith, contralto, and Mrs. Effie May Reeve, soprano, The committee of arrangements in- cludes Albion K. Parris, William T. I Trumpes solo. *Grand Rusalan Filntasia,” vy m. Darcy. filllfit e | . sololat. aprice Tiatien' g % Thursday at the Tuberculosis Hos- pltal at 7:30 p.m. the program will be: Marche Excerpts Trom “Hobi Hood d P m “Robin f LA Ky T e ey weethea A. Lutkiewitz. soloist. Friday at Washington® Barracks at 6:50 p.m. the program will be: t for a L ‘oncert walts, “Joil AR Descriptive. é at West - Bendi: e ot Dri i 3 X Round-avous Way 1o (b) Tonight's My Night With i | ment of his A concert will be given tomorrow at the Capitol by the United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, second leader, at 6 p.m. The program will be. fie. Inlermeaso. Solotor clarinet. - Crage o8 15 e T :K n: m"'l'ua Imorovization.” Excernts ““Robin Hood''.....De Koven hfiqk‘.’,’-m‘ 1o %’.nmmA orsakow ar selgeiiong tar Spangled Banner.” Tuesday at 7:80 p.m. at Lincoln Park the program will by March. “Transcontis 1| Jazz is inescapable. t reM' swains. ¢ radios and phonographs in innumer- ar | the musical art. vertiire, X LS ;.‘)Tfi“:. i, LA B o AL itid Blacis".. ¢ et b, Graid s Tron ths opera """"bj: Fo‘x“’,rglt. w;ofirl *‘Carnival Secret: “Star Spankled Banner." An all-Spanish_program will be given by request Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the band stand, Navy Yard. The program will be: Tk (c! rand Two 8 ish mberse— G erehade Mitsummer Nights: . 1.,‘: ';') r.‘;'.sunuldfi:g Danea ity { 3 * ! ufolero"dd Cdie. - - ) 4 The progtam Friday at 6:30 p.m., at ‘Walter Roed General Hospital, will be: arch. “The Gladistor’ erts “Mort because Boston is famous for that which other citles have not. According to Albert Spalding the average layman is frightened away from so-called ‘‘classical” programs because he thinks they are ‘“high- brow” and “too deep” to be readily |a! understood. This average layman, he contends, ‘wants' something that re- quires no,_effort to listen to and no effort to comprehend—in other words, jazz and the ephemeral love songs that pass in the night. Mr. Spalding ob- tfl' to this state of mind, declaring t many so-called classics require no more effort to appreciate than the r|stuff that is served out in night clubs. The really popular music, he claims, is the music that has'come down to us through the ages, that has been tested by generations and found n|worth of recognition: in short, the music that is generally called “high- brow.” He infers that much of the reason for the failure of the average person to appreciate this music lies in his timidity—his fear of it as some- thing that it would not be quite manly to lke. * kK THERE is doubtiess a great deal «in this. If this much-discussed aver- age man were forced to listen to cl sical music as much as he has to lis- ten to jazz he would probably like it in self-defense if for no other reason. It is whistled all over the streets, in corridors of of- fice bulldings and at night by lovelorn It is played on countless able eating places, shoe-shine parlors and barber shops. 1t resounds through- out night clubs and dance halls and the ballrooms of country clubs. It is everywhere. After hearing a tune so many thousand times one can hardly be blamed if-one attempts an experi- mental whistle in a fit of desperation or absent-mindedness. And after that comes the business of really liking the thing. If all the jazz in the country were suppressed for a_month and all the whistlers, victrola players and radio tans had to take classical music or nothing, the chances are that it would be on the road to popularity in no time. It'is that superstition, that fear of the “high-brow.” that has made this & jazz-loving Nation. Paul Whiteman, that monarch of !nzz, has proved this. BSeveral years ago he selected a—to the average man practically unknown little tune, nsky - Korsakow's “Chanson In- doue,” and pepped it up a bit and then made a record.of it under the tile of “Song of India.” The country went mad over it. It outdid the wildest jazz of the day In popularity. En- couraged by this success Mr. White- man continued along the same line, making records of the ‘Meditation” from ‘“Thais,” Rimsky’s “Hymn to the Sun,” and several others. The same thing was done by other orchestra leaders, with the result that the aver- age man’'s whistling vocabulary was enlarged by some two dozen tunes that formerly had been tucked away in the pigeonhole labeled “high-brow stuft.” * % o % THIS. however, is going to an ex- treme in what one regards as popular- music. Relegating jazz to a musical inferno, interested persons want to know what sort of classical 1| music is most popular with the aver- age audience. This question receives more than usual attention at this time of the year beca: this is the season of the outdoor performance, the band | sp! ‘agner | concert, the open air opera, and ite sym- | back all over | wisely—C. C. W. Out-of-Door Concerts the country are going in for music out of doors on a big scale; conductors are engaged as for the regular season and impressive operas are being staged Naturally, these affairs can be heard by several times the number of people that listen to indoor concerts: The character of the audience is somewhat changed, too. People go who scarcely ever attend the bigger musical features in the regular season. It is essential. therefore, that programs be selected that will be enjoyed by thig hetero- geneous collection of persons, and so the standard of popular enjoyment is sought. Where a conductor at a Winter concert could choose a pro- gram that was confined to some par- ticular fleld with the assurance that there would be enough people who liked it to flll the theater, the .con ductor at one of these open-air con- certs must select a program that wili attract the greatest number, prefer- y a program of great variety. "The results of observations of the ef. fects of various kinds of programs on the audiences have been a little sur prising. It has generally been found that people’s tastes are far better than was popularly supposed. Naturally enough, the heavier compositions have met with less résponse than those of lighter vein—there is no record that Tschalkowsky's “Symphonic Pa- thetique’ has even so much as been tried on an open-air audience—but at the same time it was discovered that gome of the less known compositions and those,of the type that is usually considered over the head of the crowd have been enthusiastically recefved. As a result there has been a general let-up In the eternal recurrence of many of the old stand-bys, such as Beethoven's “Fifth Symuhony. ubert’s “Unfinished,” and the eve lasting “Willlam Tell’ overture. has been observed that audiences are as well, if not better, satisfled with Stravinsky and other moderns. This growing popularity of modern music is a thing which has astonished many musiclans of the older -school and which has equally delighted the sup- porters of the newer movements. The classicists claimed for a long time that nobody could understand the stuff— they themselyes didn't understand it, they declare. Now they find that average audiences, it they don’t under- stand it, at least like it, and the dis- from thelr sails. It may be, however, that this popu- larity of modernism is merely another example of the thirst of the Amer- jcan people for new effects and new sensations; that it is akin to the popu- larity of jazz. If this is true there may result from the spirit of the age something different, something that will satisfy those who see in jazz a national music as well as those who hope for new developments from the use of the whole-tone scale and that sort of thing. There may be a union of two opposing, vet equally revolution- ary tendencies, and the result of such a union would be a thing to conjure with. IR, Getting back to “popular’” music, it would seem that it is music of almost any sort that has been forced on the attention of a sufficiently large num- ber of people. It may be brought to their attention by merits which have kept it alive through severul gemera- tions, or by some eatchy refrain, or, even, by the sheer banality of the thing. Many popular songs owe their | popularity to their insipldness. Others have become popular because they have been repeated over and over again for two or three hours during some operetta or musical comedy. That is an old trick, employed in grand opera as well as in “musical shows.” In any case, it seems that anything will become popular if some- body can get it known. ‘Which leaves us where we started. But the increasing popularity of! outdoor music in the Summer is doing much to raise the standard of appre-| clation in the average person. Hej| finds that good music is not such a bugaboo after all, that it is in many cases as catchy as jazz, that it is as |rhythmic and as tuneful. He hears a “classical” plece, and he likes it in} of himself; he applauds. And of the scenes the sages nod Dhony ‘concert Large ciies all over wisely C O W, Gershwin Insi Belon gs “Does Jazz belong to art?” asks George Gershwin, the jazz composer, in the July issue of Singing. As the foremost writer of music, he insists upon a serious appraisal of he con! ersy. 5 “No student of singing can afford to ignore jazs music,” de- " Germhwin, "of to niff at it as a thing of low estate and negative cultural value. The study and prac- tice of jazz has a very important con- tribution to make toward the complete training of any inodern disciple of 1t can be of positive benefit to the vocalist in every depart- P rythm which It I understanding of rhythm whic} parts will simplify and amplity all his repertoire.” ?l'ehe editor of Singing- declines to indorse completely the composer’s viewpoint. “We present his article, the editor comments, “not because we agres with him, but simply because we wish to give a respectful hearing to the arguments of the foremost creative artist of the jazs school. We agree that jass is & vital expression of certain phases of our modern life, but it is a reflection of ugliness and clatter, Mr. Gershwin is an earnest young musician with sophisticated ways. His earnestness and inventive gifts set him in a special niche, and we look for a truly representative American operetta from his pen after the jazz flood has subsided. Anyhow, | sts Jazz in Concerts we intend to be present when M Gershwin and the mercuric Mme. d'Alvarez begin their invasion of our tranquil recital halls. Mr. Gershwin invites controversy by nting the following list of eleven as “sultable for concert Kern; “‘Japanese ndi Louts Blues,” HAMY: Jazs City,” Souvaine; be ,” Youmans: hid e Donaldson; ''They Did- tairway to Gershwin; ‘Nashville Nightingale, The new | Ger: P for his Winter recitals with Mme. d'Alvarez will include two or three new. jaszz “preludes” on which he is now working, and which come befors the public then for the first time. Mr. Gershwin is 28 years old. He rooklyn and studled mustc under Rubin Goldmark and Charles Hambitzer, writing his first musical comedy at the age of 19. Dur- ing the past nine years he has composed the scores of 22 musical comedies, as well as the ‘Rhapsody in Blue,” “The Concertoin F',"” and a one- act opera entitled “135th Street.” The concerto, hitherto unpublished, s to be printed in full this Winter by a German publishe: "R.xcl-a Pictures’ Offend. o5 supposed commertial demand for ‘rich plotures’ is-one of the most hampering requirements of the American market confronting the for- eign director,” says Dr. Alexander Arkatov, co-director of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligarl.” “The theater owner from Whose rentals the producer derives his profits lo¢ | 1s presurfiably more fmpressed by an enormous show of furniture than he is by a forceful story. Here, indeed, lies t.fi’a reason for many of the absurdities perpetrated on the American screen— absurdities which not only offend the sensibilities of the better classes here, but carry into foreign countries false of life in the United States. “Abroad we believe that the story and the actors' method of telling it are the important things. Audiences are in ily in the dramatic interplay of human emotions and come to* pleture MII;‘I expecting it—not an exhibition of costly furnijure and rugs. These dead elements totally unnecessary t6 European technique. “It has been my good fortune to visit the homes .of several rich New Yorkers in the last few months. Yet at no soclal fun have 1 a pool. in the dras room. bu of b‘tnlnF g rnffifi-m; :;u: !um in g azvmeh have actually seen in Am pictures re- e hs depiorable gnemsfld such lieve that the American strests are covered with money and that the peo- test Mmh:;n spending it “But lving here we witness every day how hard the people work— miners, office clerks, right up the so- g‘l hggar to the bnhnm bt:am-;lvu. verybody, everyyhere, busy, busy, busy, making money at the high cost of his physical or mental energy. ““Why cannot the American screen sincerely reflect American life Just Cheating. ‘'WWHENEVER I lose keen interest in the roles I am portraying I am going to quit the screen,” says Blanche Sweet. ‘“There is nothing more unforgivable than that of a stage or screen player running through & role merely to get it over with. That hurried, unfnter- ested feeling is conveyed to the audi- ence, and though they may not sense exactly what is wrong, they know it is not as good as it should be. "'Not long ago I went to the Orphe- -salaried covery has taken some of the wind | % 1926—PART MUSIGRAPHS A. Harlen Castle, tenor, assisted by Mary C. D. Johnson at the organ, will be heard in a. recital of sacred songs, at Hood College, Frederick, Md., this afternoon at b o'clock, and will give the following program: Three prasers— . “Oh Correct b. 0. o6 ©. Recitative and aria. itk Heario-"[rom "Rebek rige There Ever Lo 187" from “Olivet t Three sungs of confideno e Lord ¥ My Light' Pour Out Th b Be' ord o ‘Barnaby ike .. .Maunder o e Harker ore the s Molique 1 With' Al m ... .Mendelssohn At St. “Paul's Rock Creek Parish today the solo quartet, composed of Mabel Foote Witman, soprano; 8. wlizabeth Kerr, contralto; Ellsworth Condron, tenor, and Charles Seamon. bass, wiil sing for the last time until September 1. * The following given: “Venite' “*Benedictus program will be (Randall). “Te Deum'. (Field). (L 1. CKyries' (Sears). o e XL Thee Will 1 Put My Trust” "(Protherce) Ruth Farmer is the organist. Miss Dorothy Bedford, pianist and accompanist, has gone to Lake George, N. Y., for the remainder of the Summer. She will assist Marjorie Meyer, well known concert singer of New York, in’the preparation of her programs for next season. They are at Bolton Landing. the Summer resi: dence of Louise Homer and Marcella Sembrich. During the past season Miss Bed- ford taught at Chevy Chase School. Kaspar Mrs. Francéska Lawson, soprano, sang twice in colleges in Virginia last week Wednesday night she sang at the Teachers College at Farmville and " nursday night at the University of Virginia. The musical and entertainment held recently at the Franklin Square Hotel for the benefit of the Children's Aid Society took plage with a fine array of local talent. Under the direction of the Hoff- man-Hoskins School of Dancing, the following pupils took part, each con- tributing beautiful and appropriate costumes to the numbers: “Two Southern Peaches.' Frances Ander- i song specialty. 3 few ‘high kicks, Linda Ann Smith: “Charleston Champ.’ Blanche : the “Charleston Steppers.” by all Ray Ervin followed with his uku- lele and pleased the audience with popular songs. ~An infant prodigy, only 4 years old. “K, the Drummer Boy,"” performed like a veteran. Miss Irene Bontz and Dominic Fal- coni danced the tango, both being attired in Spanish costumes. The performance closed with a piano and whistling recital by Mrs. David H. Kincheloe, who delighted the audience with several humorous encores. Miss Jean Kincheloe danced the Charleston and other fancy dances. S Adirondack Mosquit;)es Rout Song Bird The plague of mosquitoes which in- fest Adirondack resorts this yvear has driven away Miss Esther Dale, th prima donna soprano, who was vaca- tioning In a camp near the spot se- lected by President Coolidge for his Summer White House. Miss Dale had planned to spend her Summer vacation preparing for her Fall concerts, and had set out her piano under the trees. But the mos- quitoes proved an insuperable ob- stacle and she was compelled to move over into Vermont, where conditions are more consonant with musicianly effort. She will sing next month at the ‘Hollywood Bowl, in Hollywood, Calif., after concerts in Chicago, Pitts. and Manhattan, Kans. 1 return to the Adirondacks in September, when the mosquito season is over. About Goorge ABhett: GEORG!! ABBOTT has collaborated with almost every playwright in America except Otto Harbach and Sam Shipman, but he is still young. So far he lists among his literary partners James Gleason, with whom he wrote “The Fall Gu; ‘Winchell Smith, with whom he wrote “The Holy Terror”; John V. A. Weaver, with whom he wrote “Love 'Em and Leave 'Em,” a current hit on Broad- way; Maxwell Anderson, Frank Cra- ven, Paul Dickey and now Philip Dun- ning, with whom he wrote ‘‘Broad- ‘way,” which will be Jed Harris’ first production in New York next season. The ardors of playwriting must be appreciably lessened by working with the genial Abbott, for the list of his colleborators includes the authors of such successes in the recent history of the theater as “What Price Glory” and Zat So?" Next season he will have four plays on Broadway and two companies tour- ing the road with “Love 'Em and ve 'Em.” The four plays are which will be presented by ‘Cowboy Crazy,” which resented by L. Lawrence Weber; “Norma,” a serlous play, and “‘Broadway.” PR 3o Dominating Actors. ONDON, July 21 (#).—"Dominating actors are the curse of the Lon- don stage and ought to be “hit on the head.” At least, this {s what the Irish playwright, Sean O’Casey, thinks. He says that actors who want to make their roles the dominating rts, thereby “hogging” the play for them- selves, ruin many a performance. Sean O'Casey’s views have been widely heralded in theatrical circles and many dramatic critics are giving thelr opinions about the criticism.- Virtually all the professional critics agree the “dominating actor” is a pest in the theater, but are inclined to agree that the “star” system is now much in the discard and actors are not permitted to throw a play out of perspective to the same degree they were a few years ago. - —e Hand “Stars” on Screen, ATHE announces -that it will re- lease a series of four subjects from the pen of Hy Mayer, the noted cartoonist and producer of animated cartoons. It will be recalled that Mayer’s hand holding his pen appears at the opening and close of his films as well as often in the course of the subject. 1t 1s, therefore, as famous as the facial likenesses of many of theé big sereen stars. The first reléase, on September 5, will 'be “The Family Album,” which, like the rest of the series, is a combi- animated sketches and mo- Mayer has o screen work. Will Film Vajda's Playe - of the most famous of Ernest Vajda's are to be made available for ount's use on the screen. Vajda, who is under contract to star. | write exelusively 'another and merrier * Fl!gog' rams W’HO would have supposed that Claire Windsor's real name is Olga Cronk and that Sally O'Neill is really. Chotsey Noonan, vet an Asso- clated Press story says so. 4 The Warner Bros. announce’ that they have discontinued ‘“The Honey- moon Express,” after starting produc- tion on it, because it is not up to the standard of their other pictures. This is a real reform. J. D. Williams has signed Will Rog- ers io appear with Dorothy Gish in “Tip Toes.” Nelson K2y, the English actor, will play in the same picture, which is to be made in London. Albert Parker is to direct Gloria Swanson's first pleture for United Artists, even though he is not one of the “big ten.” James Howe, Hollywood's only Chinese cameraman and sald to be a wizard in obtaining camera effects, had his opportunity in the gorgeous outdoor beauty of the Canadian wil- derness that served as a background for Sinclair Lewis’ story, “Mantrap.” Vell Gwy! the daring romance turing Dorothy Gish that was made England, is promised soon at Loew’s Columbia. Most of the story is said to be historically true. “Racul Walsh s rapidly becoming famous as a producer of Oriental spectacles. His latest, “Lady of the Harem,” which comes to Loew's Co- lumbia August 1, follows his produc- tions, “The Thief of Bagdad” and “The Wanderer.” George Rigas, the young Greek actor who made quite an impression in “The ‘Wanderer” and who was rewarded with a prominent part in “That Royle Girl,” the Griffith jazz epi teps out again in Zane Grey's “Desert Gold.” Production has been completed on “Love Me and the World is Mine,” by E. A. Dupont, the mported director who made ‘“Variety.” Lillian Gish, in the screen version of “La Boheme,” and Dorothy Gish, in the screen version of “Nell Gwyn,"” were Broadway attractions last week, the former at the Capitol Theater and the latter at the Rivoli. Emil Harder, director of Sunshine Films, has signed Wesley Barry for the lead in “The Frankfurter Victory.” “The Waltz Dream,” a much herald- ed UFA production, described as ‘Merry Widow."” Angela Murray - Gibson, according to Film Dally, is a young woman who took the motion and now writes her own scenarios, recruits her casts from the townfolks of Casselton, N. Dak., does her own directing and camera work, and now her productions are being handled by five exchanges. Gladys Unger has been added to the staff of scenario writers of /Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. Barry, in Film Daily, says that Ed- die Cantor likes Hollywood so much he wanted to stay there. They told him he could if they could get another story for him, so he wrote one himself and Paramount has accepted it. The cry again is abroad.for “new faces and new bright ideas” on the screen. George Bernard Shaw, like othe who do not like the movies, now a cuses the American product of anar- chistic and violent propaganda, “far more obnoxious than harmless stage sex pls He, too; it will be ob- served, has an ax to grind. Famous Playérs-Lasky announces that “Glorifying the American Girl” has not been abandoned, only post- poned until next Fal Rod La Rocque is to be pictured in “The Cruise of the Jasper B,” with James Horne directing. Charles Gilpin, the noted colored actor, has gone to the Pacific Coast to play the part of Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” “The Son of the Sheik” will have its New York premier at the Mark Strand today. Richard Thomas, a coast director, is said to have perfected a color proc- ess, a sort of three-prism arrangement, which can be attached to the camera ft by a beit ad lib and utilized to make a color sequence or to film an entire production in colors. William Fox of the Fox Film Corpo- ration is sald to be the second most heavily insured man In the. world, carrying $6,000,000 of life insurance, $4,500,000 of it being in favor of his company. After a. cessation of 18 months, the Yale-University Press is to resume production of ‘““The Chronicles of America.” Eighteen threereelers and one two-reeler are to be made. These are wonderful historical pictures. A total of 126 theaters are reported elosed in the territory under the juris- diction of the New York Film Board of Trade, 61 of them in New York City and Brooklyn, and 14 are report. ed to be running on part-time sche ules. Doesn't look like a greater movie season up that way. Patsy Ruth Miller will play a lead in “Private Izzy Murphy,” George Jes. sel's picture, under Henry Lehrman’s direction. Charlle Murray is to revive his old stage role in M len's Row of Flats,” for First National releass next ‘Winte: Paramount is to film “The Passing Stran " story by Jim Tully, with 8! John Waters directing. Tiim Dally says ‘“The Last of Mrs. Cheney” will not go inté productio for several weeks and no director has been assigned for it A newa note states that while in London Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Plckford remained in seciusion. They have not been wont thus to have done. When Jack Holt and 80 other Para- mount players and technical workers went on location in Utah recently he took his 6 d son, Jack, jr. along with the youngster's Shetland pony. Then Director John Waters ‘wrote a small part into the pleture, “Forlorn River,” for Jack, jr. Mary and Doug are-coming home again. They are scheduled to sail on MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. the Majestic August:10. Buf after a brief stay in Hollywood=they will wander again, this time to {he-Orient. Baltimore has enacted Tégislation not only to restrict theater. construc tion, but the remodeling of theaters as weil. onas The German board of censors has banned “Potemkin,” which was her alded as the Russinn Soviet's greatest | production effort. “What Price ( Heaven” and “Saventh hooked Hory' has been charges $1.65 as its top pr shall hear more of this latei The Warners have loaned 'Svend Gade to direct Corinne Griffith n “The Lady in Ermine.” While the price of pork goes up in the States, Canada is adding vaude ville acts to its, picture exhibition and reducing the cost of agmissic The Palace Theater -at Otfawn done this. 2 The ice man doe: make a g0 picture star, apparently “Red Grange, who is reported had beer <nl sidized by the screen, after making his first picture, decided to reiurn ‘to his $18 per week on the ice wagon in the old home town. Four weeks of screen art was enough. “The Cheerful Fraud” will be Reg inald Denny's next for IIniversal, witl Willlam Seiter directing. Morgantown, W. Va., evading = Sunday blue law, started a pieture show immediately after niidnight on Sunday night and- turned ‘em away Pauline Garon, it i< sald, proposes to have herself billed hereafter Mrs. Lowell Sherman, for such she Mrs. Leslie Carter has filed articles of incorporation for the Mrs. Leslia Carter Film Co.; and there you are, Glen Hunter, “Merton- of tha Mov- ies,” is taking a rest from them this Summer ‘with a stock company in Rochester, N. Y Harry: Beresford, an old stage actor 1s to show the evolution of a father, from a foot baller of 1899 1o a feliow student of his son in 1926, in “The Quarterback.” As “Red” Grange fades” out as a great star, Gene Tunmey, the prize fighter slides in, and according to re- ports is -an honest-to-goodness ‘ar- tist.” Clara Kimball Young's old pieture, “The -Eyes of Youth,” :has been bought, and s to be made over for Glorfa Swanson. Evelun Brent having amicably ter- minated her connection with Film Booking Office will now ‘“free lance,” so it is reported. Anne Robinson, formerly with Roxy. is playing the West in a presentation act at. the Colorado Theater, Denver. Gladys Hulette is to play the lead in “Unknown Treasures,” opposite Robert Agnew. Corinne Griffith is now pushine “Just Off Broadway” for First Na- tional. Dr. Arkalov, director of “The Cabi- net of Dr. Caligari’ doesn't lfke screen “vampires,’ and he advises American producers against giving Europe a false and very misleading impression of American women. Ziegteld's “Follies’ "’ girls have been heavily advertised in moving pictures. One would think there were thousands of them. As a matter of “fact; very few have ever appeared in: moving plctures. One of these few is. Jane Reid, who has been assigned to play opposite Neely Edwards in a series of comedies to be directed by Edgar Ken- nedy, alternating with Jay Belasco, Curtis Benton -is adapting King Baggot's Universal-Jewel “Down. the Stretch,” from the late Gerald Beau- As a racetrack story thi It has no Kentucky colonel, no mint juleps, no doped racehorse or jockey. no mortgage on the old homestead and no girl riding the horse ta a whirl wind victory. - King Baggot is looking for a Thesplan jockey. Although Universal City has ac- quired one of the very few existing plans of . the old houses of Parlia- ment, about which much of, the action of . Victor Hugo's story, “The Man Who Laughs,” revolyes, it has mot been definitely decided whether this roduction wiil be made in Wniversal ity or in Paris. . Definite decision rests with Carl Laemmle, and be will nat make it until he has thoroughly re- confid from the operation for appen- dicitis which was performed & Lon- don hospital. It is predicted he will be up and about inside a week, = - Clarence Thompson, - & Harvard graduate, soclety youth and protege of Arthur Brisbane, who has a five- year acting contract with- Universal, will have his first novel, "The Hotise of Love” issued in September by Boni & Liveright. He has just com- pleted an important role in “Butter- flies in the Rain” in support of Layra La Plante. Al Cohn has been assigned to #ri a screen scenario of ‘‘The Cat:and the Canary” for Paul Lénl's-:fieat American-made plcture. has great. confidence in Mr. account of the way In ch s People” and ‘“The Cohers “and Kellys” registered at the box ofiés. % Rex Taylor is writing the edntifiu. ity for “The Wrong Mr. WrIght,” by George Broadhurst, which will be made on the Universal City 1ot ®ithin the next few months, with Jean Hers- holt in the feature role. 2 Beginning August 15, Crandalls newly refurnished Metropolitan The- ater will offer an innovation.that.will again ‘place the etamp of driginglity upon its weekly offerings. e novelty will be permanent and Will e fully set forth at a later dat: for it—Iit's worth it! 2