Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 5

FOUR MORE CASTS COMPETE TONIGHT Contestants in Tournament to Present Plays at Wilson Normal. The fourth of the scheduled seven competitions of the Community Drama Guild’s one-act play tournament will be staged in the Wilson Normal School auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight when the last four of the 27 amateur Klnyer groups will present their bids for honor. The troupes which will play tonight are: The Petworth Players, offering “Two Crooks and & Lady;” the League of Amerfcan Pen Women, presenting “Strong Tower;” the Cleveland Park Players, staging “Will o' the Wisp,” and the Jewish Community Center Players, presenting “Box and Cox.” Four Given Last Night. Four other player groups competed last night at Wilson Normal School. ‘They were the Town Players, present- ing “The Rector,” by Richard Crothers, under the direction of Edmund Stevens; Newcomb Club of Bethesda, Md., offer- ing “The Failure,” by R. B. Lawrence, one of the players, under the direction of E. Larrett Prettyman; Park View Dramatic Club staging “Wrong Num- bers,” written by Essex Dane and directed by Yvonne Levy, and the Montgomery County Federation of | ‘Women's Clubs, presenting “The Duch- ess Says Her Prayers,” written by Mary Cass Confield and directed by Mrs. ‘William J. Peters. The individual players in tonight's meet include Lannie E. Taylor, Mabel H. Test, Rose Le Fever and Irving L. Buckland of the Petworth group, who will play Eugene Pillot's “Two Crooks and a Lady” under the direction of Yvonne Levy; Anne Darlington, Dor- othy Dunlap and Edith Rice of the Pen Women group, who will present Miss Darlington’s own play under her direction; Charlotte Patterson, Lesah H. Pope, Lenore W. Smith and Sophie deV. Washburn, Cleveland Park Play- ers, who will present Doris F. Halman's “Will o' the Wisp” under the direction of Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks, and Alfred L. Dorf, Hannah Stolar and Samuel ‘Wesiberg, Jewish Community Players, who will stage John Madison Morton’s “Box and Cox” under the direction of Alvin Neuberger. Eliminations End Next Week. ‘The tournament eliminations will be concluded next Saturday night when the seventh and final groups will offer their contending plays. The tournament finals will be held in the McKinley High School auditorium February 27, ‘when the four companies adjudged win- mers of the current meets will compete for the final award. The judges of the eliminations are Mrs. John Otto Johnson, Comdr. Theo- dore Jewell, Denis Connell, Rev. Dr. Edwin Ryan and Maurice Jarvis, who will determine the best plays, and Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw, Frank Baer and Arthur ite, who will determine the MUSIC AARON COPLAND'S LECTURE. An audience that seemed to include equal parts of those possessing academ. ic curiosity abou: the new music and those who are well known musicians of Washington filled the little auditori- um at the Y. W. C. A. last night to hear what one of America's leading young composers had to say on the sub- ject. Mr. Copland, although he has come to be known chiefly as a serlous composer who has adapted jazz ideas and effects to his own uses very clearly, is recognized in serious music circles as a_writer of original and very worth while orchestral music. Tonight, in New York, & new trio written by Mr. Copland, based upon *he theme of a song he heard in “The Dybbuk” a sea- son or so ago, will be given its premiere. ‘This work s for violin, violoncello and piano and will be played by such artists as the fi violinist and cellist of the famous Belgian Pro Arte String Quar- tet and Walter Gieseking, probably the foremost planist who plays the ultra-moderns as sympathetically as he does the works of the classicists. In opening his talk last night, Mr. Copland touched briefly upon the fact that music is the most difficult of all the arts for people generally to under- stand in its most modern complexities, for it is not like a new book that the ambitious seeker can reread for himself and so become accustomed to, or a plc- ture that can be studied over and over again. On the contrary, even the most keenly interested musicians — young composers who are working toward similar ends—find that even in New York, where the new music is more available than anywhere else in this country, these new works are not played frequently enough to give one most sympathetically interested sufficient op- portunities to hear them. Music, how- ever, cerebrally conceived and cleverly written on paper, must be performed to live. Mr. Copland then briefly took up the chief divisions of music—melody, har- mony, rhythm and form—showing that, in the final analysis, the only one of these four that seemed weakly developed in the newest music was form. He stated that the principal need of the present time was & new form to fit the new uses of melody. of the revived barbaric rhythms and the mew harmonic ideas as involved in polytonality and atonality. He spoke of the naturally romantic quality inherent in music and the de- finite trend since the days of Debussy and Richard Strauss, away from sub- jective use of music such as is broadly examplcd in the Wagnerian works, to- ward an objective attitude. Mr. Cop- land divided his “moderns” into three decades, roughly speaking—1900-10, the period of Debussy and R. Strauss; 1910- 20, the period covering two definite schools—the pre-war, with Strawinsky and Schoenberg as dominant figures, and the post-war, with Anthell, Hindemith and the Group de Six of Paris; 1920 to the current date with Strawinsky and Hindemith still dominating figure among international composers. Mr. Copland emphasized the ne- cessity to the fact that “Harmony is not static.” He touched upon outstanding points demonstrating the aims and uses of polytoriality (when two or more tonalities are fused to give individual awards for excellence in dic- tion and best performance, respectively. ‘WOODWARD intricacy in effects in a composition) and also of a tonality when the com- & LLoTHROP 10™ 1™ F axp G Streers Feminine Curves Return to Fashion Even the most slender of women must wear some sort of foundation garment— for the really uncorseted woman scare- ly exists today. 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It was the most genuinely intelligent and well-balanced lecture-recital on authentic modern music which really treated of the serious present day, even present hour, composers that has been given in Washington, and it was re- ceived with alert attention and applause by the audience. The event was spon- sored by the American Association of University Women. H P MRS. KEEFER'S RECITAL. The large ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel was filled with a distinguished audience yesterday afternoon to hear the song recital of Flora McGill Keefer, | in Washington mezzo-contralto, assisted by Frank La Forge, internationally known accompanist, writer of songs and ar- ranger of folk music, and Harrington van Hoesen, a young baritone of New York. Mrs, Keefer's artistry and sense of complete musicianship are qualities long recognized and acknowledged here as well as elsewhere, for she is one artist who is not without recognition in her “home town.” The singer was en- thusiastically applauded after every number, and urged to give several en- cores. Her flowers covered the entire top of the plano with a gay tapestry of roses, lilies and Spring blossoms. Vocally, Mrs, Keefer seemed in good form, and was at her best perhaps in Mozart's “Allelulia” and the air, “Ah! Mon Fils,” from Meyerbeer's “Le Prophete.” She gave the best interpretation of La Forge's dramatic “Hills” that this re- viewer has ever heard given. Mr. La Forge's “Into the Light,” his newest song, sald to be inspired by Col. Lind- bergh's flight across the Atlantic, which Mrs. Keefer introduced to Washington earlier in the season at the Friday Morning Music Club, was one of the most popular numbers with the audi- ence. Mr. van Hoesen opened the program with & group of numbers by Haendel, Grieg, Loewe and Respighl. He later pald tribute to his teacher, Mr. La- Forge, singing the latter’s arrangement of “Yo Paso la Vida,” a Mexican song, with true Latin feeling and sense of rhythms, and Mr. LaForge's “To a Messenger,” giving his “Song of the Open” as encore. Mr. van Hoesen has 8 pleasing sense of artistic style and a rich baritone quality. This reviewer him best in Jacobson’s “Chanson Mr. his title to supremacy uenmwnylnp-?domg s0 excellently for both singers—made a brief appearanc as planist in his own light work, “Ro- ” and a brilliant “Etude de Concert,” by MacDowell. He won much a) tion from his audience. liowing the concert the artists re- ceived friends and admirers lnlo;n;lly. HARP, SONG AND PIANO MUSIC. Three young Washingtonians who are heard frequently on programs in and about the city appeared before the mem- bers of the Friday Morning Music Club yesterday. Katherine Riggs, harpist, gave a gmu; of distinctive selections, very old and very new. Rosa Pollio- Jarman, contralto, sang songs by com- posers of five nationalities. Minna Nie- mann, planist, gave two interesting groups of piano selections. Of Miss Riggs' numbers by far the most unusual was the little Prokofieft “Prelude,” which is quite amusing in its flippant glissandos and other elabora- tlons on the simple theme of a major dlatonlc scale. Loukine’s “Impromptu C Flat Minor” was another clever work in more serious vein. Miss Niemann showed her 3«.!.1 gift for interpreting the more modern com- posers in her charming reading of the Debussy “Reflet dans 1'Eau,” Repper’s suave “Tango” and Gabrilowitsch's “Caprice_Burlesque.” Miss Pollio-Jarman, who was ably accompanied by Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, showed a natural relaxation in her style of singing that was par- ticularly pleasing. She has a rich con- tralto voice of considerable volume when she chooses to emphasize a phrase dramatically. Yesterday she sang with- out forcing of tone or obvious restraint, achieving 1n most part a softly round- ed tone. One high note in the Singing “There Cried a Bird,” was beautifully placed and colored, showing that in time, this young singer will realize the thoroughly artistic effects for which it is obvious that she is striving intelli- gently. She has warm sense of interpre- tation—the real, fundamental gift of a singer—the love of singing, and ability. Probably no singer, not excepting the finest professional artist, has sung Mrs. Beach’s “Ah Love But a Day” in Wash- ington, o intelligently and, at the same time, with so much feeling and_origi- nality. —H F. ol e e Feed Plants Weekly. NEW YORK (#).—In the Winter house plants need to be fed once a week, says H. W. Becker of the New York Botanical Garden. The meal should be made of proportions of one heaping tablespoon of cow or sheep manure and a pint of water and should fill the plant pot. CHARGES DENIED LIFE OF NOMADIC “TOLD IN SMITHSONIAN BOOK IN CARNES CASE}vcabirs o iove o Baptist Mission Board Head Says Prosecution Was Not Mishandled. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., February 16—Dr. Luther Rice Christle, president of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, has addressed a letter to Dr. J. Powell Tucker, Raleigh, N. C., chairman of the executive com- | mittee of the general board of the church, denying mishandling of the prosecution of Clinton 8. Carnes for his embezzlement of mission board funds, and demanding that critics of the come to Atlanta and make spe- cific charges. Dr. Christie's letter was in reply to a resolution signed by Dr. Tucker con- d!mnlt;¢ the Home ‘Miuion flnurd‘- consent agreemen! or a five-year prison sentence for the defaulting for- mer treasurer of the board, and de- manding the resisnation of five mem- bers of the mission board. Dr. Christie's letter was written co- incidental with the compilation and preparation for mailing of a complete report of the board’s action in the Carnes case to Baptist State secre- taries and to Baptist officials generally throughout the South. 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