Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 66

THE ‘SUNDAY - STAR, . WASHINGTON, D.7 C..s MAY:« 12, : 1929—PART. Navy. In view of the approaching gradua- tion of the 1929 class at the Naval Academy and the convening of the an- nual naval line selection board that will begin its de- liberations on June 3, considerable in- terest is being evinced in the probable number of | selections in the senior grades and the number of pro- motions among the junior officers of the Navy. The| commissioning o f the members of | this year's Naval Academy graduat- | § ing class will not | result in an in-| crease in the al-| lowed number of officers in any grade of the line of the Navy and it is | expected that the total number of mid- shipmen to be commissioned will prob- ably just about offset the attrition in the line since June, 1928 Four rear admirals will attain the statutory age limit of 64 years between | and June 1, 1930, these ng Rear Admirals Thomas Washing- | ton, on June 6, 1929; Philip Andrews, | darch 31, 1 Andrew T. Long, April 1930, and Richard H. Jackson, May | 10, 1930. 1In the event the 1929 selec- tion board continues the usual practice in making its selections this year, it is believed that selections for promotion to the grades of captain and com- mander will number approximately 19 and 25, respectiv The number of | motions in the Staff Corps will de-i end to some extent on the action of he line board, since such number is de- termined by applying a fraction of the line sclections during the ensuing four- | year period. If the fraction last used is not materially changed it is estimated that the promotions in the staff to the rank of captain will equal 13 medical | officers, 1 in the Supply Corps and 2 in the Construction Corps. As it is almost improbable that the line selections | { among licutenant commanders will ex- | tend to the running mate of any Staff ! Corps lieutenant commander, the -pro- motion of staff officers to that rank 1s not anticipated. Promotions in the Jjunior ranks of the line of the Navy ‘will occur only as officers in the grades above lientenant leave the active list. A perusal of the Navy list reveals the fact that three captains, one com- mander and six lieutenant commanders will, if not selected for promotion by the 1929 selection board, be retired on June 30 because of ineligibility for pro- motion. These retirements would pro- vide for the promotion of 10 lieutenants and the same number of lieutenants (Junior grade) on July 1, 1929. Notification has been made by the Navy Department of the policy requir- ing that the resignation of officers who had graduated from the Naval Academy would not be considered until they had served at least two years subsequent to graduation. Under the new policy that has been approved by Secretary of the Navy Adams, the resignations of officers graduating from the academy will not be accepted until they have completed at least two years' duty at sea subse- quent to graduation. Resignations of Admiral Washington. | |Army Veterinary ~School, ¥ |When Col. R. Vans Agnew retires on Philadelphia Groups Join For Opera Production T ‘HE affiliation of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Phll:a;!p:x: Grand Opera Co., as was recel - nounced jointiy by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, founder and president of the institute; and Mrs. Joseph Leldy, | president of ‘the opera company, an | the combination of the financial and artistic resources of the two organiza- tions, will provide for Philadelphia pa- trons of music, grand opera of the highest standards of artistic excellence. Dusing the season 1929-30 a number of artists of international reputation will be presented. Among the first of these to be engaged is John Charles | Thomas, the eminent American baritone. | Mr. Thomas, who also has been heard in Washington in “Thais,” “Aida” and Rigoletto,” with the Washington Opera Co., is considered by many authorities to be one of the greatest, artists on the eratic and concert s ay. PN, Thomas will be heard with the Philadelphia th}:nd Opera Cflhinb:’efivle‘x:é Corps until next January, during which | roles which he has sung w = month Lieut. Col. Walier R, Pick will |success during his European engage be placed on the retired list. As Lieut. | ments. Col. Pick will be promoted to colonel in | —_— | A New "Old World Trio. July, he will be retired a full colonel. at Fort Omaha, Nebr. NTON ROVINSKY, pianist, who is Considerable interest is being uinrl-dlA noted as an exponent of cotem- in the Wainwright proposal that would | porary’ music, does not by any means increase the Army Medical Department. | POTEY, S00 G C00% odernism. ~ On the It has been made known that the per- (0ntare “his interest in the art knows sonnel divislon of the War Department |, parriers of time, and he cherishes a fatled study of this proposal, and that | particular affection for the earlier com- there will be submitted a recommenda- POSCIS. | "OWo YOUES MED, BL COCTG tion in favor of certain increasos in the | {H lected old works to the atten- commissioned and enlisted strength of | the neglected o0, Wors (0 1 o8 & the Medical Department. While the ! ton 5 reparing an extensive rep- general Staff report on this subject will | YTy sy e greater part of lnst probably not be regarded as adequate S v for the current nceds of this branch of SO EREIG A the service, it will be an indication that | Feh® 3 the ‘War Department_appreciates the | The new organization is calied the necessity of an improvement in person- | Old Worl St ki el nel conditions in the various branches |8nd the Instruments used aze <} of the Medical Department. SiChordior Spiiet: Kiie VIR MREAOES W' = the viola di gamba. Early compositions As a result of the efforts of Maj. Gen. |of the Italian and French schools and Frank Cheatham, quartermaster | German works written before the time general of the Army, the quarters for |of Mozart constitute the major part of officers, warrant officers and non-com- | the repertoire. The Old World Trio is missioned officers of the Regular Army | pow ready for public appearances and are to be furnished with specially de- | engagements are alrady being booked. signed furniture of the Sharaton type th here and there a modified infiu- ence. It is interesting to record in this instance that this is the first time in the history of the military establish- ment that furniture has been purchased by the Government for warrant officers and non-commissioned officers. ‘The furniture that will be placed in the offi- cers’ quarters will be made of mahogany, while that for the non-commissioned officers_ will be made of birch, the strongest wood used in furniture manu- facture, with a mahogany finish. For the purchase of this furniture there is available at the present time the sum of $326,000, and on July 1. 1929, the beginning of the 1930 fiscal year, a similar sum will become avail- able, which means that more than $600,000 will be expended within the next few months for furniture for the Army. This will furnish 613 sets of quarters. The furniture for the officers’ quarters is being inspected by Capt. John N. Gage, Q. M. C., while that for the non-commissioned officers’ quarters will be inspected under the supervision of an officer in the office of the quar- termaster general. In addition to this, electric and gas ranges are being installed wherever pos- sible, as the old coal ranges reach the point where they are beyond repair. As the refrigerators reach the point where they can no longer be used, they will :emrephced by electric refrigeration nits. ensigns who have completed a course of {hsteuction on shore lasting five months or more will not be accépted until they have completed at least one vear's duty at sea subsequent to completion of such course of instruction. Army. ‘Though the recent death of Col. Jules | | Ori, V. C., at Walter Reed General Hos- | pital created a vacancy in the Veteri- nary Corps of the Regular Army, it was immediately filled by the appoifitment of Second Lieut. Arvo T. Thompson, who has been assigned to dullhyl at :hr‘j s o May 28 another vacancy will be created, but this will filled immediately. fter this there will be no more age- retirement separations in the Veterinary | AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. HE imitation that is -sincerest flattery found expression in a street car the other day. An elderly gentleman, who was of a portliness that pre- vented his standing in the narrow seat space to get at a button over his win- dow neighbor’s seat, sat back comfort- ably and pushed the button with the end of his cane. ‘The performance er's umbrella, and before she could catch what he was | cagh; had doing, he aimed it at the button over seat before him, but, failing to reach the mark, came down on the hat of a woman ahead. The owner of the hat flashed around to show a face of bewildered consternation, but. at the sight of the child taking a second shot, she raised her arm to ward off the um- brella and caught the second discharge on_her fingers. ‘This was naturally good cause for warfare, but perhaps the adventure- glamour in the baby eyes changed her mind, for she smiled as he told her, in proud but happy jumble: “I's & big man pusn a but'n wif a cane.” Having also seen the big man push the button with his cane, she under- stood the child's idea exactly, but the | mother-woman displayed another point of view, for she yanked the child by the shoulder and grabbed the umbrella from his hand: “You bad boy! Just wait until T get you home. Trying to break Mama's umbrella like that.” And it was his knowledge of the spanking ahead that doubtless made him look appealingly at his victim and whimper. The woman | thereupon straightened her hat satis- factorily and voiced reprimand: “He isn't a bad boy! He was just| playing that he was a man pushing a | buttan with his cane.” “Well, he's going to be whipped, all the same.” “I reckon he will. You mothers never allow for a child’s imagination. That’s why there are so many dull-minded people in the world!” There was more to it, but the only thing worth telling about the incident was that it happened. | The day in tribute to man’s holiest | memory and childhood’s best friend. * k% ¥ A SMALL car was parked in front of | a downtown business buflding. In | the car was » small terrier that had | been_curled up on & front seat until a | couple of young men—still boys enough to make mischief—stopped at the car and tried to coax the dog either to get out or to let them inside. The little terrier stood guard; his four small legs planted in defiance. Once he showed his white teeth and made a yappy sound that, in a big dog, would have been a growl. And if you are right well acquainted with terriers, you would know that he was telling those young men: “I am in charge of this automobile, and I'm going to take care of it until my man friend returns. See this suit case on the back seat and the umbrella across it? They belong to him, and he is depending on me to see that they are taken care of. Mayb> you are just fool- ing with me, because the new Spring makes us like to play. Maybe, again, you might want to get in and make a | get away—" Hence the snapping teeth, the small, growly noises, and the four legs planted in defense. In either case, the young men kept up their coaxings and commands, until an_elderly gentleman came along an- halted to watch proceedings. And at the bare sight of him, the terrior re- | laxed his rigid body and wagged his tail. He had recognized an ally. 2 For a minute the elderly gentleman made no comment. Then he voiced wisdom: | __“Might as well give up the fight, boys. %hat little chap is a whole army of de- r the | A fense! No chauffeur could out-match him for loyalty, because, you see, he is a dog, and knows no better. But he does know that he is in charge of this machine. And that he is going to guard it. I tell you what, young fellows, if dogs could be trained to count money there would be no dishonest cashiers.” ‘The young men may have been fool- ing or the other thing, but as the owner came brisking forward from the steps of a business building, they gave the dog a somewhat boisterous farewell and went their way. So did the elderly gen- tleman. And it was his somewhat dras- tic reflection on human nature that made a listener tab it down: “If dogs could be trained to count munf’ there would be no dishonest ers.” AT TELEGRAPHER had been jiggling two fingers on a sending key. Then the message was through with and he started in on a five-minute talk about his suburban garden—interrupted a few minutes before. “As I say, I couldnt get things going as they are if it wasn't for tramps. day or two a hobo comes along and offers to do a job in pay for a meal or a place to sleep, and they help me out fine. Most of them know more about digging and planting than I do, and givg me good ideas about hedges and the best way to mow. And there has never been one to trick me yet. You could get a lot of good stories out of those chaps—with this one about the-oddest: 3 “He had just been discharged from a poorhouse hospital and was still too dazed and weak to know exactly who or what he was—or where he was going. I felt sorry for him, and be! one of these chilly May nights I tol I would give him a cot to sleep in and a good supper so that he would be stronger for the road tomorrow. Then I had him help me make a grate fire in the living room. “While he was laying the chips he noticed my wife, who was paintin, our little daughter posed by her on | stool. Alice is no great shakes with a brush, but she likes to dab, and I think she gets along right well for an am- ateur. Well, sir, the man dropped those chips, lifted my wife from before the easel and began to handle the paints like mad. Daisy was too curious to move, but I wish you could have seen the eyes of her. And he painted her to the life—in about five minutes—a portrait that is going to be our prize possession. “Just as he finished he toppled over on the floor and we had to send him to the hospital. After he revived he was able to show that he was a well known English painter who was to make portraits of some big-wigs in this country and mysteriously disappeared. “Lots of thoee road trotters have the | makings of novels in them.” Then the wire gave a warning click and he was back on the job. X W BELOVED friend of the column asks this one: . “Do you know about double-breasted funerals?” Your answer will depend upon | whether or not you have ever lived in ‘that section of the city on which the Capitol's bronze Freedom looks down. This double-breasted idea was the happy inspiration of a certain under- taker, whose worry, for years, was the perplexing precedence situation, due to rival claims of families and relatives s to the right of priority in the mat- | ter of having their carriages follow di- | rectly behind the hearse. The mortician evolved a magic method, which now permits all funeral cortezes to follow the remains in dou- ble line of carriages—which satisfies opposing partles, relatives, relieves the undertaker, and probably makes no dif- ference to the rider in the hearse. e A siadiasy | Retrial Wins Shorter Term. GENOA, Italy (#)—Luigi Stopploni, convicted in an earlier trial by default and sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a fascist, returned and stood trial and got away with a term of 16 years. The crime took place in Janu- \ary, 1023, Musigraphs (Continued From Fourth Page.) Friday evening when Greta Lorleberg Von Bayer, planist, will be the guest of honor. A miscellaneous program will be given by Grace Biddle Brown, Virginia | ‘Cooper, Adelaide Harbers, Catherine Gross, Cecile Littlefield, Lillian Llewel- Iyn, Ethel Pote, Enid Williams and Ina Holtzscheiter, Donna Taggart will Harriette 7, who were sing- George Washington Uni- dour operetta, “Sometime from the ing in the | versity troubag Gertrude Dyre and Isabel Squibb of the Washington College of Music pre- sented several pupils in a piano recital at the college Friday evening. ‘Those on the program were Ruth Walsh, Marion Wolberg, Myra Kramer Helen Furr, Edith Barsky, Rose Pol- lan, Helen Pratt, Ethel Gray Sharpe, Dorothy Schmidt, Martha Bass, Nancy Fitzwater, Grace Powell, Elizabeth Roach, Irving Gertler, Eleanor Gary |and Edith Donovan. The recital hall was filled with parents and friends of the young students. Dance Recital. “JOTA ARAGONESA,” an original dance of Spain, will be a Teature on the program to be given by the ‘Tchernikoff-Gardiner dancers on May 24 and 25 at Wardman Park Theater. The dances are done to Spanish folk tunes, and the costumes worn are authentic Aragon peasant dress. Miss Gardner has arranged numbers for an unproduced ballet by Chopin, the theme of which concerns an episode in the life of the poet, Alfred de Musset. me For the relief of unemployment, Fin- land has granted nearly $80,000 to be used in the construction of post office buildings, bridges and roads. _H. C. Fleming Motor Co., Hyattsville, Md. Leonardtown Motor & Hardware Co., Leonardtown, Md. Lusby Motor Co., Prince Frederick, Md. Bishop Darlington’s Ct;l-lection of Quaint Old Instruments has added to his residence, one of the, historical houses of Harrisburg on North Front street. It is his intention, how- ever, to present the collection to the State when a suitable museum has been erected. Miss Styron’s pregram was especially | | appropriate to th: setting and was | greatly appreciated by the audience. 'EW people realize that one of the largest, if not the largest, private | collection of musical instruments is but {a few hours' ride from Washington. |Its owner is the Right Rev. James Darlington, Bishop of Pennsylvania, and |the collection is at the Lee House in Harrisburg. Under the auspices of the Harrisburg Chapter of the American Federation of Organists, Sade Styron, Washington pianist, gave an illustrated talk on claviers and a program of clavier music at the Lee House. Following the pro- gram, the guests were given an oppor- tunity to examine the old instruments which they had seen depicted on ti creen in slides of old paintings of the soventeenth and eighteenth century nasters. of an Gypes, but s especlally rich 1 .y principles of building construction e i which make it possible for a brass | ok Sae rette sncestors of the planio, | ¢ o ronsstra to play fall dbIast | here 15 a splendid specimen of the old | j, one room, while an infant peacefully hurdy-gurdy, almost luteshaped and gmpers in the adioining room. Promi- | resembling the present-day hurdy-gurdy | STumbers in the adjoining room, Promi | only in the fact that it is played by | " delegation of builders will formally turning a crank. There also Is an ex- | t.ct the new noise-proof facilities of | cellent dulcimer, the instrument played | tho building at the official opening. A With a hammer, which undoubtedlV |, mpor of radical modern devices are | suggested the hammers of the plano. | BTN 1™, Miding. inclnding @ | Of the immediate ancestors, there is A | cpecial private code of electric light very fine clavichord from the Stienert | gignals o community kitchen and many | collection, an unusually early Ttalian | S¥a!® % Communty, Klicher and SEny | harpsichord and a rare spinet, said | fha Tast word in twentieth contury con- | coveted by the Metropolitan | ¢iruetion. | Museum. Among piano curiosities is a | ""The Sherman Square Building is the | small affair called a Mozart piano, | conception of Henry I. Cohen, long a which is & combination of musical in- | fo of needless notes in the Metropolls. strument and_toilet table, and Stewart | who crected the Jewelers: Building i harp-piano. The last named is a curi- | New York, one of the most noted struc- ous affair, the lower half resembling | tures in the country, and other im- an upright and the upper half a concert | portant buildings. After the final scientific tests are made Wednesday it is announced that the same noise-proof principles will be embodied in the plans of hospitals and school e Sound-Proof Studios. | AMERICA'S first sound-proof studio | building, said to be a triumph of | scientific design, is scheduled to be offi- | clally opened in New York Wednesday afternoon, with a demonstration and special program. in which leading mu- sicians, scientists, engineers, architects | and others from many citics wil take | part. | | | harp. |~ Among the early pianos is one owned by John Harris, the early settler for whom Harrisburg was named, the piano dating about 1700. | At present the collection is kept in a Officials of the Anti-Noise Society of | handsome old English hall with galleries | New York have been invited to attend land a great fireplace which the bishop ' the opening challeng We’d like to have you compare the new Dodge Brothers Six with anything in its field—for looks, for quality, for performance, for value. Come in and let us show you. No obligation. 272 E. B. Semmes, Inc., Alexandria, Va. Open Sunday and Nights Main 6660—Night Phone Main 1943 Frye M local contests will be held in the cities and towns of every State, open to ama- teur singers from 18 to 25 years old. State auditions will follow and will be broadcast from a central point in each State. Two winners, one boy and one girl, will be selected to represent each State in district contests, of which there will be five, held at central points in the East, Middle West. Southeast, Southwest and Far West. The 10 final- ists (one boy and one girl from each district) will be put on the air over a | coast-to-coast network in December, for opportunity for further study as well as | fAinal rating by a board of musicians of increased monetary awards. | national standing. All expenses of con- The announcement of the increass of | testants to the district and fnal au- financial benefit to the candidates for | ditions will be paid by the Foundation, national honors makes the aggregate of | gl the prizes $25,000 instead of $17,500 as * PR ¥ - was the cass in 1927 and.1928. But, the | Music of “the Americas Sponsored by Association outstanding feature of the contest, in which more than 100,000 young singers have competed since it was inaugurated | FI\HE Pan-American two years ago, is that all finalists are to S e be given a chance to prove the sound- Composers, organized last Spring by Edgar Varese, Henry Cowell, Carlos Chavez, Carl Ruggles and other North | American and Latin-American compos- ness of the musical judgment of the listeners who helped szlect them by fur- |ers for the purpose of aiding presen- tations of works by composers of the ther study and such increased oppor- for a musical career as this | Americas, sponsored a concert of works | of Latin-American composers presented by Stephanie Schehatowitsch, pianist Raul Paniagua, composer-pianist; Crys- tai Waters, soprano, and Martha Whit- temore, cellist, at Birchard Hall, 113 West Fifty-seventh street, New York City March 12. The program included works by Carlos Chavez, Alejandro Ca. turla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Amadeo Rol- dan and Paul Paniagua. The Pan-American Association dur- ing the Summer and Fall has arranged, through co-operation of Henry Cowell, for the publication in the New Music Quarterly of plano works by Adolph Weiss and Ruth Crawford, a violin so- natina by Carlos Chavez and a full symphonic score by Charles Ives, and productions in San Francisco of works "by these same composers. By arrange- ment with Adolph Tandler, the Pan- American arranged orchestral perform- ances for works by Ruggles, Cowell, Crawford. Chavez and Varese. Arrangements for the coming season are now pending with other conductors and performers. Atwater Kent Foundation Increases Awards for 1929 IGNIFICANT of the trend of music to what might be called a listen- er's rather than a musician's point of view—as the result of radio broadcast- ing—is the announcement of the At- wal Kent Foundation for its 1929 Nation-wide audition, recently made from New York. This year all 10 final- ists, who are selected by popular vote as well as expert opinion, will be given ' saild Mr. Kent, president of the foundation, in the an- nouncement, “that after devoting nearly a year to preliminary contests, in which 50,000 or 60,000 voices are tried out, we should make certain that all 10 of the finalists be assured of further vocal instruction and the means with which to pursue it. For that reason we have added $7,500 in cash prizes and two years in tuition to the former awards. We have received innumerable assur- ances from all sections of the country that the radio audition is worthwhile, and I am, therefore, delighted to take advantage of the opportunity to hold another one this year.” The awards this year will be as follow: Winners of first place (one boy and one #irl)—$5,600 each two years' tuition in an_American conservatory. Winners of second place—$3,000 each and uition. of third place—s$2,000 each and s tuition. of fourth place—s$1,500 each and one vear's tuition. Winners of fifth place—$1,000 each and one year's tuition. During the Summer ‘and early Fall €S 8 Dupont Circle SEMMES MOTOR CO., Inc. s3csunw Mitchell Motor Co., La Plata, Md. Fzince Gaorges Motor Co., Forestville, Md. =, otor Co., Leesburg, Va.