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B MUSIG (Continued from Seventh Page.) — and the soprano, Mme, ‘Crozia, in a recital of French songs, Dupre, who was teaching there, was also heard in recital, and a concert of Boulanger's works, conducted by Jerry Reynolds of New York, were of particular interest. The choir of the First Congrega- tional Church, numbering 60 voices, under the direction of Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl, will begin this season’s work on the first Sunday of October. Mrs. Stahl has been away most of the Summer studying voice at Oscar Seagall's Summer colony of musicians in the Adirondack Mountains. The choir will continue its a capella work, for which it has become famous around Washington. Willlam H. Witt of Pittsburgh, who recently purchased Robinson’s Music Store, has joined the Federation of Music Clubs of the District of | Columbia_as an associate member. Gertrude Lyons, member of the board of the Federation of Music Clubs, District of Columbia, has be- come an artist member, and Frances Gutellus, who is counselor of the District of Columbia Junior Music Clubs, will be assisted this year by Mrs. Catherine P. Thyson. h Paul De Long Gable, organist at the First Congregational Church, has just returned from a month’s vacation spent in New York and at the seashore. He will resume his duties as organist next Sunday, reliev- ing Miss Charlotte Klein, who has substituted during his vacation. Mr. Gable will reopen his studio at the church October 1, 1927, teaching piano, organ and harmon; Mrs. Dorothy H. Baxter has return- ed to the city and takes up her duties this morning as organist and choir digector of the First Universalist Church, whose services are being held in Crandal's Ambassador Theater pending the erection of the new church. Mrs. Baxter and her daughter Ruth spent the month of August in James- town and Newport, R. I; New York. Niagara Falls and Philadelphia. While in New York they were entertained by “Arthur Clyde Leonard, a for- mer organist and choir director of Christ Episcopal Church, Georgetown, who went to New York about 16 vears ago_to take a similar position in the First Methodist Church, Yonkers, N. Y. Miss Ruth Baxter .was the winner of the silver cup awarded to the best musical composition submitted in the annual “Sing-Song” contest at Wilson Normal School {n June of this year. In the party were also Mr. and Mrs. Reginald B. Looker and family. Mrs. Looker will be remembered as Miss Emma Houchen, who for a number of vears was contralto soloist in Christ Episcopal Church, Alexandria; Vermont Christian Church, this cit and others. The attache of the Salvadorean lega- tion and Senora de Melendez have visiting them the former's mother, Senora Isidra P. de Melendez, a very well known pianist in Salvador. Senora de Melendez when only 15 years old had attained such proficiency on the piano and displayed such extraordinary talent that she was in- vited by the President of the Republic to play at the executive mansion. Senora de Melendez studied in Munich, Germany, with Herr Henry Drews and ‘with other prominent pianists of Eu- rope. She has frequently been heard over the radio in Salvador and has also done considerable work at the National University of Salvador. Carolyn Bender, who has been visit- ing in Kingston, N. Y., will return next week and open her studio for the Fall season. Elizabeth Winston has recently re- turned to Washington, following a visit to her cousins, former Gov. and Mrs. Frederick S. Flower, at their ‘Watertown, N. Y., Summer home. ‘Warren 8. Johnson is guest organ- ist this month at the Christian Science Church on Columbia road. He has been assistant organist at the Cathedral. Estelle Wentworth, with her hus- band, Albert Parr, and her mother, Mrs. G. O. Wentworth, who left Au- gust 26 for a motor trip to New York, sailed on September 3 for Bermuda, where they will remain until thé end of the month. Miss Wentworth and RAPHS Nina Norman, pupil of Estelle Went- corth, has signed a contract with the Schuberts for the West Coast com- pany of “My Maryland” and will first appear with the company in Denver ptember 18 The Frances Gutelius Studios are continuing the Leouise Lakin School of Fomndation Music and will open on October 3. Miss Lakin Is in Europe for a period of study and has left her school in charge of Miss Gutelius. Miss Gutelius has been a suc cesstul teacher in Washington for a number of years. As junior chairman of the Federation of Music Clubs she has done much to bring the teachers of music together. Mary Ware Goldman will be asso- clated with Miss Gutelius and will glve her course of lectures on “The History of Music” to the Frances Gu- telius pupils as part of the class work. Lieut and Mrs. Leon Chali nor Frost, the latter formerl ryn Jean McNewl, pianist of ton, are hee in their apartment s 2100 Massaciusetts avenue. They will g0 to Norfol: tomorrow and will sail Wednesday from Hampton Roads for Lieut. Comdr. ¥Tro: new post at Port an Prince, Hait Ruby Smith Stahl, choir director of the First Congregational Church, an- nounces that there are vacancies in the choir and will be glad to hear from people interested in serious choir work. Rehearsals have already begun in preparation for program to be given during the coming season. Comdr. Elena de Sayn returned from her vacation this week and has opened her studio. The Elena de Sayn tet scored quite a s String Quar ess in a tour of prominent universities and towns | in the South, principally Carolina, one paper refe outstanding in North ng to it as organization of which the city of Washington may well be proud.” = The quartet has been re-engaged for a tour next Sum- mer. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wormelle have returned from New York City, where Mrs. Wormelle spent several weeks studying with John M. Williams, a well known normal training special- ist for the piano. This was Mrs. Wormelle’s second course with Mr. ‘Williams. In his system the pupil is given a sound technical foundation, and every effort is put forth oy the use of attractive material, attractive- ly presented, to make the child ac- tually enjoy the study of music. Rox Rommel, popular conductor of the Rialto Theater Orchestra and a very able pianist, is opening a studio in the Rialto Theater Building, 734 Eighth street. This is Mr. Rommel’s office at the theater and will make an excellent place to receive pupils interested in the study of the piano. The King-Smith Studio-School will open its eleventh season in Washing- ton with the beginning of the Fall term on October 10. The school is es- sentially for young people who wish to specialize along artjstic lines in- stead of going to collegd, the chief de- partments being voice, piano, dancing, dramatic art, languages and litera- ture. August King-Smith, the direc- tor, is teacher of voice, and Emmanuel ‘Wad will again head the piano depart- ment. Paul Tchernikoff and Elizabeth Gardiner, having their private studios at King-Smith Studios, will have charge of the dancing. Caroline Mc- Kinley is planning another attractive series of plays for the dramatic art de- partment. The King-Smith Fauvettes will start rehearsals in October for their annual Washington appearance in January this season. Advanced students in voice and dancing are eligible for this organization. A feature of the studio activities is the Monday night concours, when stu- dents of all departments informally present what they have ready before the others. This is the training school for public performance, The classes for children in music will again be under the direction of Mrs. King-Smith, who uses the ad- vanced educational ideas in the teach- ing of music to children, according to the Fletcher music method. This month sees the opening of the Lawrence Voice Studio at 1145 Con- necticut avenue, with George F. Kort- zenborn of Chicago as director. Prof. Kortzenborn succeeds Mrs. Robert Lawrence, for several years head of Mr. Parr will open their sixth season in Washington October 1. the Lawrence Studio, who goes to New York to join Mr. Lawrence in his mu- - | Trio concer THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SEPTEMBER 11, 1927—PART 7. sical activities there and in Philadel- phia. During the last 19 years Prof. Kort- zenborn has followed a musical career | in and around Chicago. At his studios | |in Kimball Hall and the Fine Arts Building he acquired an enviable repu tation for his ability to organize and | promote live and harmonio choirs and choruses. Among the well known churches in which he has been music director are Campbell Park Presby- terian, Ravenswood Baptist, nia Avenue Congregational, Avenue M. Church 1n Oak Ill, and the Olivet M. E. Church of Chicag: For the last elght years Prof. Kortzenborn also has been head of the vol department of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill., which ll musical faculty of 12 teacher he was director of the Men's | and of the Oratorio Soclety. Helen Ware, violinist, who reopens her studio here this month, was for four years teacher of violin at the King-Smith Studios, and for two years was at the Martha Washington Semi- nar: | . Miss Ware is the founder of | Washington Trio. in which she k peared here in chamber music recitals \r.n the past two notably the Rauscher’s last Octo ber. Miss Ware makes a short con- cert tour of the larger cities each year. the s ap- Holer, director of the Young Club, is planning for this season's work. The club was organ- ized for' girls and boys between the ges of 10 and 16 ye: , to encours them in the art of musical composi tion. They are taught to compose short piano pieces, to think and write musically and to provide musical set tings for short poems. Mr. Holer also ha vate instruction for pupils in pia playing, elementary and advanced har mony and*composition. va Whitford Lovette, z prano and vocal teacher, has Teturned | home from Atlantic City, where she went for a rest after completing her mmer course in New York. She will open her Washington studios on September 15, and will_have associ ated with her Mr. George Thompson, pianist and teacher. Lovette and Mr, ning to give a joint rec future, Karl Compot courses in pri Mrs, 1in the near The Mount Vernon Chorus is plan- | ning some very interesting activities | for the present season. A series of out-of-town concerts will be given starting with gne at Manassas on Oc- tober 4. Thisfwill be followed by one at Leesburg on the 1lth. Concer will be given in Baltimore, Rockville and Frederick. Deane Shure is introducing a unique feature in connection with the chorus choir this year. He is offering, free of charge, an hour of class work follow- ing the rehearsals each Friday night to all who sing in the choru course will consist of harmon: training, history of music, music preciation, ete. Washington singers who are interested in choir work, whether they be members of Mount Vernon or not, are cordially invited to join the chorus and take advantage of this special study with Mr. Shure. The first local recital will be given next month, when Mr. Shure will open the program with organ music and will play for the first time in Wash- ington his new organ suite on Ber- muda. Mr. Shure will introduce the new harp stop that is at present being installed in the organ by Mr. Pilcher of Louisville. Mary Helen Howe. coloratura_so- prano, was soloist at the concert given by the Frederick Orchestra Club un- der the direction of Mrs. Maud Waters Dittmar in Baker Park, Frederick, M., during the past week. Miss Howe sang with charm and brilliancy. The orchestra played with taste and good shading compositions Zamecnik, Mendelssohn, Horlock, Waldteufel and Herbert. The audience of several thousands was able to hear excellently with the use of amplifiers. The con- cert was broadcast. Mrs. Dittmar, pianist, organist and a thorough mu. sician, has inaugurated these park concerts with her Orchestra Club to encourage good music in_Frederick and the outlying districts. Miss Howe spent the greater part of the Summer in Europe, visiting England and France. Minnows Only. From the Boston Transcript. Madge—Have you had many pro- posals? Marie—Yes, but not one from a man worth suing for breach of prom- ise. | than Dixon | Thompson are plan- | FIG TREE PROSPERS INWOMAN'S YARD {Fruit Yield This Year Ex~ pected to Reach Record. Started from Sprout. The spirit of Ttaly and the South |seems to have invaded the house of Mrs. Margaret Donohoe, 3822 Fifth street as the flourishing fig tree in her | yvard every vear entwines itself more irmly about her porch and reaches | branches a little higher and ‘bears more of its delicious fruit, supplying ot only its owner but many of her neighbors with an abundance of figs. | Cont to the general supposition that the climate of Washington is un- | fitted for the existence of fig trees, the tree, which is growing in the front | vard of Mrs. Donohoe's home, i8 30 {feet h % nd its fruit is sweet and | well grown, some of it measuring | inches in diamete Last | r the tree bore 150 dozen figs and r Mrs. Donohue estimates that reach a record yield of 200 it will dozen. n years brought from Genoa, Roge who hoar Donohoe. Mr. Rogers planted sprout in the yard and two i from then it began to bear fruit. Since then it has grown to its present di | mensions, despite the fact it has been | elipped sev al times to prevent its spread over the neighbor's porch, and |shoots have been given to friends go a fig branch was Ttaly, and given s with Mrs s | some are bearing fruit | Mr. Rogers attributes its unusual growth to the fact that the Ita trees of this variety are much hardis the domestic fig tree and are easier to cultivate. . [Catholic University Has 1 New School of Muslc | THE departments of music of the Catholic Universtiy and of the Sis- ters' Col a new school of music known as the Catholic University Schola Cantorum. The Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the Uni versity, and the Very Rev. Patrick McCormick, dean of the Sisters’ lege, have the two institutions will have a school of music fashioned after the schools of music in P: Rome and Vienna Several changes have been made in the faculty. The Rev. W. J. Longchamps has been appointed head of the new school. Mrs. Jhstine B. Ward, founder of the Ward System. will have personal supervision of that course of music. Conrad Bernier. pupil of the famous French organist, Joseph Bonnet, has been added to the staff. The Schola Cantorum is to be housed in the large home of the late Very Rev. Thomas E. Shields, in Brookland The curriculum will include a com- plete course in Gregorian Chant, the | course in the Ward system; courses in harmony, counterpoint, composition, ete.; instructional music, vocal culture, | choir training in liturgical music, and the traning of boys’ choir. Night classes will be held in Gregorian Chant (theory and practice). The schola will hold their evening classes and Tehearsal in polyphonic music heretofore. These la: which will be schola will answer a long felt need; a school where teachers and stu- dents of music, choir directors and or- s can receive a thorough tran g in sacred music as well as in all other br Early Caterpillar Train. A Hampstead correspandent recalls that _nearl. ago he saw in Hyde Park a’ trial of a military train of wagons loaded with soldiers dressed in fatigue jackets and drawn by a steam engine bearing the name India. This engine, he says, laid and raised its own track, each “slipper’ being apparently about 4 feetlong, mounted, and revolving on rollers much like the modern caterpillar movement. The experiment, accord- ing to the London Post, appeared to aim at improved military transport, and the men hauled would probably number about 200 in eight wagon GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Charles W. Healy Building and Carroll Monument Lyons, S. J., President College of Arts and Sciences Graduate and Undergraduate Departments Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Foreign Service and A.B, B. S, Ph. B. Courses Preparation for Medicine, Law and Dentistry R. O. T. C. Unit, Basic and Advanced Courses Law, Training School for Nurses ege have been united to form | des | i | FIGS GROW IN D. C. FRONT YARD | Famous Florentine Choir '\Un]mown Tenor to Make May Give Concert Here ‘Deb\xt in "King‘s Henchmafl" HE OHN ROBERTS, a young tenor comprised of 50 men and women comparatively unknown in the posse of glorious voices, will | United States, but who has been | arrive in New York City on October | hailed with acclaim by FEuropean 6 on the Italian steamship Martha |audiences before whom Roberts has | Washifigton. The following two days |sung under an assumed foreign | will be devoted to the making of |name, will make his American opera | phonograph records, after which the |debut in “The King's Henchman." | choir will begin its transcontinental |the Deems Taylor-Edna St. Vincent | concert tour to the Pacific Coast. lay Metropolitan hit of last | Arrangements are now being muhn\\luter which will open its trans- for a concert in this city { continental tour with a_performance | The members of the Florentine|at Poli's Theater on Friday after- Choir are from the best families of |noon, November 4. Florence, the best loved city in Ital According to present plans, They are steeped in the artistic tra- | faelo Diaz of the Metropolitan Florentine Polyphonic Choir, Ra and the | These clippings have prospered and foot fig tree in yard at 2822 Fifth The three hore 1,800 year and 2,100 are expected mh season. street. IVIOICS Thrcaremng GOlfch Domam Attacked With Poisons and Trapping‘ The lowly mole. long a nu to the farmer and gardener, is Nearing it when he tours his burrow. e forces dirt into the trap the | threatening the golfer’s domain. Re- i;\'.rgh,.r b LR L quests as to best methods of elimi-| poons throush him. nating the animal duffer come fre-| Repellents, or odorous chemicals, quently to Government mole experts, | Whose ting fumes drive the according to Pames Silver, mole and [mole away, effective for short rat_specialist. | periods, at A common _repel- e it |lent goes by the high-sounding name main reasons. There is little plow.|Paradichlorbenzine. = Some time ago ing there, o they are rarely dis- (& New York State golfer wrote the turbed. And they thrive on the rich | United States Golf Association that soil, easy o tamnel through and |he had experienced excellent results highly - productive of juiey® angle. | With it. He opened runw: vorite mole food |tervals of 6 to 10 fect, One golf course in Indiana is so | teaspoonful of the poison ith moles that Government and put back the s e using it as an experiment | ACtiVity in the area fine h eems to b S the mol minating | ance sets into the ground | | golt courses for two dropped into each noted. to Like Fnther, Like Son. | From the Boston Transcrint “What_ were you punishing boy for this morning?” For lying. He said he saw a fish in the pond as big as the one I've Colf authorities have heen trying three chicf methods of control: Poi- soning, trapping and the use of repel- lents. Poisoning has proved disap- pointing. If applied in the form of strychnine, arsenic or barium carbo- nate on vegetable bait, it produ poor results because the mole i hivorot Trapping is slightly more effective. However, traps are bulky and clog up the golf course. Moreover, most traps must be placed in the mole runy where the mole will not touch them. He is extremely sensi tive to anything foreign in his bur. row. One type of trap works somewhat better than the others because it is not placed in the runway but ex- |to wonder what became of that tends afound It. The runway’s top |ship” that was going to revolutionize is depressed an the trigger of the'travel a while ago? e your me there last week." “But maybe he did see it.” Nonsense! There isn't a fish that big in the pond.” Outclassed Already. | From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Now that all the oceans are being crossed by airplanes do you ever stop Arts and College of Engineering, Teachers Telephone For information apply to Telephone Class A, American Law Schools. Foreno For information apply to th 720 20th Street, Te the mole | a | S No further | been telling about that got away from | rotor | George Washington University FOUNDED 1821. Department of School of Graduate Studies, Columbian College (Liberal Arts), Day and Late Afternoon Classes For information apply to the Registrar, 2033 G Street Medical School Law School American Bar Association, Member Association of dition of that great city. Florence,|judson House will regularly alter- as is generally known, is the well |inate in the tenor role, but John | spring of Italian art. It was In|Roberts will be added as a_third | Florence that the wo first opera | tenor, “The King's Henchman" was given, and it w the hil ‘\\nu carry a double cast of principals i et il the Christian | on tour, and Moes Zlatkin will al- | religion was first preached As far OUSSOU( Dack o the year 1310, Florence hag | (cate with Jacques Eamouteoud. o | tormer musical director of the Wash- an active choral society and had as | ;7% Opera Co, as conductor. M one of its original members none less | G on SPTE® LA OV, T8 taking {than Dante. “The King's Henchman” for its first The English musicograph, Charles | tour of American citles. Burney, visited Italy in the latter | present arrangements call for tha of the eighteenth century and | first performance of the Taylor-il- rd in the Church of Santa Maria |jay gpera in Washington on Novem- de Pazzl and in the streets, the|pi. "s" gollowed by a second per- Laudisti; the singers of lauds, chant | oty ot o® VB i ore the follow- ancient hymns that were true songs | ;0" evening. Mrances Peralta |of the people. It is said that Saint M: Sundat S hoth. 1of it Francis himselt wrote some of the | Marle Sundelus. bort G0 TIC words of the songs sung by the | [OPOTMAR BPEN T ing during ‘Ioln Laudisti. The Florentine Choir, which is | known in Italy as “The Master Singers of Florence,” is under tbe musical |Taylor that constituted the direction of the celebrated Maestro, | (jon of the Metropolitan ndro Benelli, professor of choral | fiouse last February. inging at royal conservatory 3 Luigi Cherubini of Florence. Maestro Benelli comes from a_ thoroughly artis | tic family, his brother Sem Benelli, being Ita ywright and | author of the oper: more Dei | Tre Rei” and “La Cena Delle Beffe,’ | current successes at the Metropolitar ind Chicago opera houses The highest ecclesiastical, govern- 2 mental and musical authorities of |4 featured soloist with the Ph Ilorence, including his eminence. | qolphia Orchestra when that org Cardinal Mistrangelo, are sponsors for | ;ation makes its Washington bow the Florentine Choir. It is intended |der the local management of T. to reflect great credit on Florence. | thur Smith The program that will be given for | Horowitz, nearly unknown on the the first American concerts—the | shores, has set all Europe agos acred music in Latin gnd the secular | the mastery of his effort. He music in Italian—incluties: been praised by wthe Continen Greetings to the American People |critics and has been hailed by so (Refice); “We Adore Thee, O Christ” | of the more conservative ones as (Palestrina); Responsorial Alleluia” for | greatest technician since Lisat.” two alternating rina); | * The young pianist was born choral setting of Dante's paraphrase, [ 1904 at Kieff, of well-to-do R “Our Father,” from the “Pur " |sian family of artistic interests. .t | (Verai): setting of the angelic early age he is said to have shown tion, “Hail Mary,” for double choir |remarkable talent in music, and wis with soprano solo and accompaniment | entered as student in the cony of organ (Perosi); “Madrigal” (Monte- | servatory. of his native ecity, whera | verd On the Banks of the Tiber” |some years later he graduated wih (Palestrina); “The Swalloyw" (Pizzetti): | high honors. The first years of hi | “Behold the Waves Murmur” (Morte- | career were spent in concert tours verdi); folk songs for soloists and choir |through Russia. In 1924 he besin | with ~accompaniment of ces or|a tour of Germany, Holland, Italy, | pianoforte: “Tuscany, Refrain” (Fer-|France and Spain | rardini); “The Two Drums' (composer | This American presentatio unknown); Neapolitan songs: “Emi- |ing in the very flower of h grants Song” (Bongiovanni): “Boat [ will carry him to the various citl (composer unknown); the lulla- [in which the symphony erchest anna” (Leoncavallol | Boston, Cincinnati, Philadelphia (De _Curtis): St. Louis will appear. “The Firefly” (Brogi); “Mz —_ . e Cona); “Troops on the In some old Greek cities it March.” Neapolitan marching 0 customary to sacrifice 100 oxen ta SREIGRGIIY. the gods when a citizen discovered 2 new theorem in geometry. and Met- the fe Deems sensi - Opera. Henchman” the | opera-in-English success by he King's Young Pianist to Be Featured With Orchestra LADIMIR HOROWITZ, the tional 23-vear-old pianist, his debut in the United States will sensa- who maks in New York on Januar com. n and rrentino (Guido): wag e Natural Supposition. | — Prom the Boston Transeiot sesssse »“ouonouqon gauzy costume, sea green in color and | ildren’s spangled with silver to represent the | foam of the waves, Meeting a gentle. | Saturday Class [man she” knew she asked how he | o iked her dress. T ek ve et <t National School of what is ntended to represent?” . . “Why, the ocean, ‘of course, ‘& e‘l replied rather pettishly. | Flne Apph Afl [ Ab, at low!tide, T presume,” w FELIX MAHONY, Director is rejoinder. C i onnecticut Avenue & M Main 1760 200000000000000000000000¢ The Mississipp! flood has covered over 3,000,000 acres of crop land in five States. Sciences College, and College of Pharmacy. West 1640 the Dean, 1335 H Street, Main 7875 on and late afternoon classes. e Secretary, Stockton Hall, lephone West 1640 .