Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1929, Page 22

22 ® JULIETTELIPPES | “{SOLDE” PRAISED Large Audience Attends Third Performance of Wag- nerian Opera. Nez Perces Decline To Participate in Inaugural Parade By the Assoclated Press. LEWISTON, Idaho, February 6. —When those in charge of Her- bert Hoover's inaugural pageantry planned to have eight members of every Indian tribe in the United States march in the pa- rade, they did not reckon with the dignity of the Nez Perces. After a tribal pow wow yester- day the Nez Perce chiefs an- nounced that, “although other tribes may send warriors to march in the great parade for Herbert Hoover, the Nez Perces will not. It is undignified for them to dress up in feathers an4 parade for anybody, even the great White Father.” Again a large audience turned out, for the most part arriving promptly at | 7:45 pm., at Poli's last night, for the | third performance in the season of | Wagnerian opera presented by the Ger- man Grand Opera Co. in Washington. | The opera was that masterpiece of all operatic literature, “Tristan und | was effective dramatically. _Franz| Isolde.” The production, while not |Egenieff was a good Melot, and Walde- elaborate, was adequate, and the sing- | mar Henke and Albert Marwick were ers were generally of good caliber. Dr.|adequate in their short roles. But the Walter Rabl, one of the leading au- | music, the marvelous tapestry of sound, thorities on the interpretation of every note necessary and eloquent with | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1929 ATWATER K EX-SERVICE MEN TO HOLD BENEFIT BALL TONIGHT Disabled Veterans Complete Plans for Elaborate Annual Entertain- ment at City Club. More than 1,000 ex-service men and their guests are expected to attend the annual ball of the District of Columbia Department, Disabled American Veter- Scores of disabled veterans from nearby hospitals will be special guests. Millard Rice of Chicago, national commander, and Willlam Pate of At- lanta, past national commander, will be present. Most of the veterans’ organi- zations in the city will be represented, as well as a number of women'’s service societies. George W, Phillips is chairman of the | general committee. W. U. Employes’ Annual Dance. ‘The annual dance of Western Union employes will be held tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in the auditorium of the National Press Club. A number of offi- cials representing the company and its employe organizations will be present. by Wagner, conducted. He led his 55 | significance, was the thing; there is musicians through the shimmering | surely no music that is quite the equal beauty of this score with excellent read- &{qél}‘!r stupendous score of Richard ing of the portentious undertones as | Wagne - wfn as xhppdnmin.mt themes every | Tonight there will be no opera. To- moment of the performance. There was | MOITOW night the third of the four operas in “Der Ring des Nibelunge s slight tendency on the part of the |OReras in “her Ring des HWibelu brasses to be a little to loud, but they | ¥ill be given, beginning 7:45 pm. Iy 1 er | Dr. Rabl will conduct. The title role :-(p}::rgfi:le;;:lr]lip::(bmndl’d tone with the of 4" will be sung by Karl | Joern, heard here previously as Loge Juliette Lippe was one of the finest | JA0T Sllor o xgxss meie = Snfg‘ Isoldes that any one might hope to|fhd 23 SHEHiSs gliang hear anywhere. She sang superbly las! . night, and her ability to show dramati- | == cally the constant turmoil of the Irish | princess first in wrath and later under the spell of deepest love was amazing.; She rode the turbulent phrases of her angry sbng of the first part of the open- ing act as a haughty vessel rides the ocean, dauntless and With clean-cut sincerity. She ordered Brangaene to prepare the poisonous drink and told Tristan that he was to drink it wit all the aloof scorn of outraged royal Then, just as convincingly, she show the utter change into t atic love spell after she, too, had drunk of the potent magic brew that Brangaene had | mixed instead of the poison ordered. | Her “Liebestod,” too. was admirable. Willy Zilkin, the Tristan, in his open- | ing phrases seemed to be just another Wagnerian tenor, but in the love-spell music he, too, became immersed in the dramatic interpretation of the change wrought by the drink and rose to his | rtion of the duet effectively. Later e Was obvious that he was constantly fighting a marked cold. Even so, he did valiantly in the vision scene of the | prevents complications, last act. The loveliest moments of the | entire opera—the soft phrases of the and hastens recovery. duet in the second act—were excellently done by both Miss Lippe and Mr. el S PR Zilkin, For colds, gri and flu takgg . alotabs TRADE MARK REG Relieves the congestion, Sonia Sharnova was an adequate, but not a brilliant Brangaene. She was at her best in the off-stage “Warning," beautifully sung in the second act. The Kurvenal of Marcel Salzinger w fair—not inspiring. Karl Braun show & resonant bass voice in the compara- tively small role of King Mark and also Hear the New ELECTRIC DYNAMIC ATWATER KENT &z 920 14th St. N.W. Open Evenings BLADES Re-Edged, 3c & 4c “We guarantes a 20% better ige than new ome’ Used Blades Bought Razors Honed Genuine Gillettes. Gem and Other Makes Sold for 6 for 25¢ BRING or MAIL VELVET-EDGE CO. 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