Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 52

MU BY HELEN FETTER. N addition to the marked in- ' crease in interest in opera in America this season, has continued into the Sum- mer, there seems to be a general trend toward unusual combina- which | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 30 SIC performance of Brahms and Arensky’s music. In Mrs. Tcwnsend's series of | morning events, two particularly |fine ensemble programs were 1glvcn by Beatrice Harrison, cellist | with Harold Bauer, pianist, and Myra Hess, pianist, with Yelly| d’Aranyi. An admirable ensemble group, composed of Paul Koch- | anski, violinist; Felix Salmond, cellist, and Pierre Luboschutz, pianist, gave a program that, had | it been half its length, wculd have | been one of the best events of the year, tions utilizing ballet groups, and also to much more chamber music. Such indications are shown not only in Washington, but also in the larger cities. A much- heralded event of the season 1928- 29 in Philadelphia was the Ameri- can premiere of Oscar Wilde's “Salome” as a ballet with musi- cal setting by Henri Elkan and conducted by Mr. Elkan, Novem- At the Library of Congress the | ber 15, with the Philadelphia |Mozart-Faure program, which Grand Opera Co. It was dazzling | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, pian- in its spectacular stage effects, but /ist; ~William Krolk violinist; not marked with great originality. | Francis Rogers, baritone, and The recent announcement of Emanuel Bay, pianist, presented, the merger of this opera company, | was an unusual and highly artis- with the Curtis Institute of (tic event. The Little Symphony Music, of which Mrs. Edward W.|group of Washington musicians Bok is founder and organizer, under Kurt Hetzel’s conductorship suggesv.s that an even more sig- |also gave a delightful hour of very nificant program will be outlined |old music at the Library. Char- for the coming season. , Mary lotte Klein, one of Washington’s Garden is to make her first ap- | mcst gifted organists, played Bach pearance with the company early delightfully on this occasion. in the season in Massenet’s opera, | One outstanding student event | “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame.” in ensemble work was the play- Other noted stars, including many | ing of Haendel's “Largo,” by 40 Americans, will appear in the|violins, under the direction of operas to be given during the com- | Josef Kaspar at a Spring pro- ing season. |gram in April. This was so at- In New York an outstanding |tractive a feature that a local mo- sensation of the season just|tion picture house arranged for closed was the dancer, La Argen- |the repetition of this number on tina, whose Spanish programs | were so well liked that she had | to double the original number of | scheduled programs. She is now | delighting Parisian audiences, ac- | cording to latest reports, and will | appear Washington next | ‘Winter. | The New York season closed in a particular blaze of glory and publicity surrounding the Ameri- | can premiere of Stravinski's ba]~‘ let, “Les Noces.” It was doubly | billed with Monteverdi's aged opera about Clorinda and Tancred. e following night, Irene Lewi- sohn’s remarkable ballet inter- pretation of Richard Strauss’ tone poem, “Ein Helden-Leben,” with orchestral reading by the Cleve- land Symphony, under Sokoloff, created yet a second sensational finale to the séason. It provided many writers on musical subjects with' material for comment for weeks afterward, even including comments from European writers. And still another ballet sensation of the year 1928-29 was provided in the Revolutionary Russia group of dences performed by the Dun- can Dancers, who came here from Moscow. In Washington, too, there were distinct evidences that the ballet was arousing new interest in its wider scope of miming and inter- pretation. Only two professional groups outside of Washington ap- peared here this season, but both were well received. The Adolph Bohm Ballet on generally admar- ing comment and showed, espe- cially in the work by Agnes George de Mille, the new turn toward characterization through ballet. Her Degas sketches and & ’49” will not soon be forgotten. Also M. Bohm's own work and the general excellence of his ballet groups in traditional compositions struck a high water mark not touched locally since the last appearance here of Pavlowa and her ballet. ‘The Doris Niles Ballet was in- teresting, primarily for its Span- ish color and the delightful play- ing of the group of seven guitar- ists who lrpelred in that section of the ballet program. Angna Enters, character inter- preter through the dance, won great appreciation from her local audience in a benefit program. * ¥ ¥ * ‘WASHINGTON has had un- usually rich- fare in the chamber music programs this sea- | son. Four string quartets, several trios, and less usual combinations of instruments are listed in the 15 major events presenting this most exacting and musicianly t; of music. Of them all, two string quartets dominate. The Roth String Quartet of Budapest, Hungary, which made its Ameri- can debut at Mrs. Coolidge’s festi- val at Pittsfield, Mass,, early last Fall, appeared a few weeks later in Washington in a program at the Library of Congress. This is an unusually artistic and balanced quartet. There is the vigor in tone that might well be expected of its youthful members, yet the careful blending of tones in polished phrases is an equally im- portant characteristic of this quartet. The return of the “Roths” next year is eagerly awaited. | The supreme quartet event of | the year was the public farewell | program for the National Capital | given by the famous Flonzaley | String Quartet, so long and so Jjustly established as a fine musi- cal group that it had long since | become an international institu- tion. This farewell program was beautifully played and given, quite appropriately, under the| auspices of the Community In- stitute of Washington. It was really a gala event. Later, the newly organized Friends of Music in the Library of Congress en- ioyed a special program given by he Flonzaleys and Harold Bauer. Another newly visiting quartet | was the Swastika String Quartet of the Curtis Institute cf Music, a pleasing group of young musi- eians, who are to be especially | commended for putting the works of Americans, such as Charles Griffes, on thdir programs along with the classics. The National String Quartet of Washington appeared with mark- | ed success in quite a number of rograms in the city this season. e group revived a quartet written by Von Dittersdorf that won cial favor with audiences. ‘This National String Quartet pre- sented a particularly distinguished rogram at the Friday Morning usic Club when playing with Mary Howe, Washington composer and pianist, and Anne Hull in a combination of two piano and string quartet music. The quartet at this time also gave the first local hearing of Ethel Glenn Hier’s new work in that form. ‘The Friday Morning Music Club, in addition to the two above men- tioned programs, had quite a wide representation of other chamber music compositions in other pro- grams. . and Mrs. Alden Finckel gave a delightful program of pilano and violoncellogmusic. one of the Sunday bills. * X ok ok THREE morning programs espe- cially paid honor to American composers. The series was spon- sored by the Misses Sutro. Mrs. H. | H. A. Beach, dean of woman com- posers, was honored at the open- ing program. Henry Hadley, com- poser-conductor, was author of works for the second, and Francis Hopkinson, the first authentic American composer (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) dominated the composers on the third and final program, a “Co- lonial Music Morning.” John Prindle Scott, the song| writer who makes his home in! Washington for a couple of/ months each Spring, was honored by local singers and cther musi- cians in an all-Scott program. An all-American program at the Washington Auditorium last | Fall was given by Henry Seibert, organist; Louise Lerch, soprano, and Sigmund Spaeth, lecturer and humorist on musical subjects. The program, however, was badly bal- anced and not at all representa- tive of the best composers in the United States. There also were two programs given by Ameri- can woman composers; these were hardly “representative,” however, and only increased interest in works by Ethel Glenn Hier and Mary Howe, which had been played here earlier in the season. The other composers listed brought nothing that was nearly up to that standard set by the two above mentioned. * % % % T the Arts Club of Washington there were quite a few pro- gnms by singers and instrumen- alists who also appeared else- where during the season. One remembers particularly Eleasantly the duet, “Veronique,” that Emily Harrold Marsh, soprano, and Horace Smithey, baritone, sang at the clese of a program which also featured several songs by the dis- tinguished musician, Percy Ather- ten. Kurt Hetzel's informal pro- gram of “more Wagner trans- criptions” was a delightful eve- ning, too. Young singers who won added laurels this year were Hazel Arth —the Atwater Kent prize-win- ner of 1928-9; Charlotte Harri- man, whose lieder singing is con- stantly improving; Wilbur Evans, an earlier Atwater Kent winner, in a benefit program, and George Beuchler, District of Columbia winner in the Atwater Kent con- test last December. Winifred Michaelson, who has just been awarded her graduate diploma from the Juilliard Foun- dation, where she has had several years in succession as scholarship student, played a group of Rach- maninoff preludes and a Bach suite charmingly at a Friday Morning Club meeting. Malton Boyce, established pian- ist and organist, came forth fromn a long silence as a soloist with a terrific program of “warhorses’ and particularly distinguished himself in the three preludes and fugues of Bach with which he opened that program. ‘Three young violinists—Harry Cherkassky, Oscar Levine and| Ernesto Vallejo (the last a very | young Filipino)—showed special talent in solo work. In local ballets the Tchernikoff- Gardiner school put on a particu- larly good annual recital, and so did Mme. Vassilieff. Evelyn Davis gave originality and charm to one dance in particular on her pro- gram—“She Has a Date.” In it this young dancer was a flapper par excellence. * k% X URING the Winter and Spring Washington has enjoyed many really fine organ recitals by local members of the Guild of Ameri- can Organists. Only two famous organists from other lands have appeared here. They 4re the young Italian, Signor Fernando Germani, who gave the dedication program on the new organ at St. John’s Church, on Lafayette square, and Charles Courboin, formerly of Antwerp Cathedral, who gave the initial program on the new organ at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church. * x X x CHORALLY Washington has fared plentiously. Especially notable were the following: The chorus work in “The Messiah," under Albert Harned, by the Na- tional Capital Oratorio Associa- tion; the grogram by the new Schubert Choral Club of women, the first performance in Washing- ton of Saint-Saens’ “Deluge,” by Hamline M. E. Choir, under John Marville, and the third annual massed Chorus Festival, under Frederick Alexander of Michigan. GALA concert the evening of Sl(-‘ urday, November 2, will mark | the opening of musical activities at the new Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution | at Eighteenth and C streets northwest, | according to an announcement just | made by Mrs. Wilson-Greene, who is sponsoring a course of six Saturday evening concerts there during the com- ing 1929-30 season. Arrangements for this event have just been completed and confirmed by Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, chairman of the building and grounds committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who has stated that this is to be the first public musical event in the hall. She also said that she ex- pects many members of the D. A. R. in Washington will attend this musical inaugural of the new D. A. R. Hall. At the same time Mrs. Wilson- Sopuie BrasLau- G("cne has announced the cancellation o John McCormack, tenor, originally scheduled to open the Constitution Hall Saturday evening series with a concert late in October. Mr. McCormack, it seems, canceled the arrangement after giving his prelimi- nary consent in order to devote his entire time during the Fall and Winter to the production of a sound motion picture which will introduce the Mc- Cormack voice to many remaining mil- lions who may not up to this time have heard him. A group of artists, two of whom will be Efrem Zimbalist. the celebrated Russian violinist, and Sophie Braslau. brilliant young American contralto, will be on the opening program. It is hoped that Josef Hofmann and one other | 1929—PART 4. A STUDENT recital will be given in| Amy C. Young presented a group of the auditorium of the Washington | piano students in a recital at her resi- Conservatory of Music, Wednesday, at |dence studio recently. 8:15 p.m., when the students’ orchestra, | Those taking part in the program Vladimir Vasa, conductor, will open the | Were Blanche Ely, Inez Haven, Jane program with a Beethoven selection. | Martin, Mary Martin, Sofia Pollock, Solo selections are to be presented by | Mafy Schwaner, Evelyn Summons, Beatrice Vickers, Barbara Rudolph, | Charles Strickler, Rita Smith and Ella Elinor Quirk, Virginia Webb, Sally White, Maria' Rojas, Marietta Eckam, Tasia ' Pappipoff, Yehudi Merkel. Elsa Jorss, Roce Pincus, Sylvia Helder and Christine Vermillion. Mrs. Albert N. Jones presented stu- | dents in a recital at the home of Mrs. | Cecil Blake on Taylor street June 20. | Elizabeth Rankin King. honor student EFrEM ZIMBALIST- memorable the opening of Constitution all. the concert appearance there of | Hall the famous Irish| It seems that Mr. Hofmann has never before appeared as one of a group of artists. It is hoped that Mr. Hofmann, in the event that he appears, may be persuaded to play with Mr. Zimbalist the latter’s composition, “Sonata in G Minor for .Violin and Piano.” | " Sophie Braslau is a unique figure in | contemporary musical life. Like Rosa Ponselle, she is Amcrican born and achieved fame without the background of a European reputation both in con- | cert and with the Metropolitan Opera | Co. Her voice of uncommon range and | flexibility, her enormous repertoire and | her faultiess diction in eight languages, not to mention an electric personality, have made Braslau an outstanding led | figure among modern_contraltos. to the group of artists whose appe ances promise to make musically Zimbalist, though Russian by birth, is, in many respects, an American 1artist. He has just turned 40, and | since the age of 9 has been achieving musical honors. He was the first violinist in a grand opera orchestra be- fore he entered his ’teens. His Ameri- can debut was made with the Boston | Symphony Orchestra October 27, 1911, giving the first performance in America of Glazounoff’s “A Minor Concerto.” Other later attractions announced |for the Constitution Hall series are: | The Boston Women's Symphony Or- | chestra, Ethel Leginska, conductor and roloi Sigrid Onegin, contralto; Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Rosa Raisa Giacomo Rimini, leading soprano and baritone of the Chicago Opera Co., in | an operatic program, and Louise Homer, | contralto, and her daughters, Louise | Homer Stires, soprano, and Katharine Homer, pianist. Orders for seats may be placed at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Con- cert Bureau in Droop's, 1300 G street | northwest. and the Interstate Male Chorus| all appeared in programs similar to those for which they have | found steady audiences for some | seasons now. 2 In a benefit program, the Chevy Chase Women's Chorus, Herndon Morsell, director, made its public | debut, and, like the Schubert | Choral Club, won instant, definite | approval as an asset in local | musical endeavors. As the Pan-American Union is | about to give a Summer program next week, comment upon the programs offered under its aus- pices during the season just closed will be discussed in this | column next week. sl Film Official Negro Song. | AN official announcement has just‘ been received by Wellington Adams, | composer, Washington, D. C., that his Wanamaker _ prize _composition, ~cn- | titled “Let Preedom's Music Ring.” has | been chosen as the official song by the | Texas State Assoclation of Negro Mu- siclans in a mammoth feature in which it is planned to have at least 10,000 take part in honor of the forthcom- ing convention of the National Associa- tion of Negro Musicians, Inc. to be| held in Fort Worth, Tex, August 25| to 3 The Fox Film Corporation is send- ing a unit of movietone and camera- men from Los Angeles, Calif. to take | a picture and register the singing as a National News Reel to be exhibited in the principal cities of the world. The State of Texas alone has a member- ship of about 2,500 musicians afliated with the national body. e Mrs. M. A. Perry presented her stu- dents In their annual recital June 21. Following the program a gold medal was given to Louise Berchtold for effi- clency and a silver medal to Margaret Williams for effort. Selections presented were works by Lavalee, Saint-Saens, & Liszt arrange- ment of Wagner's “Song to the Evening Star,” Dvorak and Massenet. CHURCH SINGERS TH! chorus choir of the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Col- umbia road near Fifteenth streetgnorth- west, has an enroliment of 38 singers —15 sopranos, 9 altos, 7 basses and 7 tenors. The chorus, though composed of volunteer singers, is heard at both morning and evening services with an average attendance of 30 members. The choir was organized by Louis A. Potter, popular as organist and pianist, who is director, upon his return to this city from Charleston, W. Va., last Sep- tember. The crganization has been funetioning regularly since October 1, giving from two to four anthems each The Schola Cantorum had some fine programs, admirably done. The First Congregational Church Choir gave two of the “a capella” programs for which it has become especially noted. The Davison Mrs. Hesselbach's trio gavéa fine Glee Club, the Rubinstein Club Sunday and music services at Christmas an im Sunday., They were obliged to repeat the latter, due to the many urgent requests. The balance of voices being ideal, this cheir al- ready has included in its repertoire a number of anthems s capells in four, six and eight m‘ Service Band Dates. THE U. 8. NAVY BAND. THE concert to be given tomorrow night at the Capitol by the United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, leader, will have Lillian Pairchild Jesso, soprano, and Musiclan Ralph Ostrom, cornetist, as soloists. Mrs, Jesso will sing Dell 'Acqua’s “Villaneile.” Other features of the evening include scenes | from Victor Herbert's opera n:‘;: Haydn Wood's “Virgini sody. ‘Tuesday night the band will play at | ‘Thirty-seventh and U streets northwest, opening with Von Suppe's overture, “The Beautiful Galatea. The regular Wednesday concert at the Navy Yard will be canceled this week as the band will attend the dedication that day of & memorial to North Caro- lina soldiers at Gettysburg. The full programs will be printed in | The Star. THE U. S. MARINE BAND. There will be no concert at the Ma- rine Barracks tomorrow night as the band is participating in the opening of the Cambria County Industrial Exposi- tion at Ebensburg, Pa., that day. The United States Marine Band, Tay- lor Branson conducting, will play a program preliminary to and dur! the Independence day celebration Thurs- day at the Sylvan Theater on the Monument Grounds at 7:30 g.m, Other concerts listed for the coming week include Tuesday at Mount Alto Hospital at 7 p.m, Wednesday, United States Capitol at 7:30 p.m. Friday, United States Naval Hospital at 3 p.m. The programs will be printed in daily issues of The Star. U. S. SOLDIERS’ HOME BAND. ‘The military band at the United States Soldiers' Home will give two pro- grams in the bandstand Tuesday and Saturday afternoons this week at 5:30 o'clock, under direction of John 8. M. Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Point- | ner, sscond leader. | The programs will include the usual | combination of light and classical works, OF WASHINGTON— Ruby Potter is soprano soloist. She possesses a voice which not only en- ables her to assist the chorus effectively, but also to do the incidental and spe- cial solo work with outstanding artistry. Some of the most telling work of the choir has been made possible by her clear true high notes in those anthems with obbligato solos, such as the “In- flammatus,” by Rossini; the “Psalm CL,” by Randegger; “Gallia,” Gounod, etc. Mrs. Potter is & pupil of Paul Bleyden and Myron Whitney of Wasl n and has coached with Isador Luck- stone and Frank La Forge of New York. John B. Switzer is the tenor soloist. Mr. Switzer began his career as church singer when a boy, singing in the choir at St. John's Episcopal Church. He has since sustained solo positions at Rock OCreek Church, Church of Our Father, Universalist, and All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase. His Scholarship for Organists. (QROANISTS who desire to secure a better position by taking a thorough, the opportunity of competing for a free scholarship for the coming season in York City. Dr. William C. Carl, director. This offer is made possible througn the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Berolzheimer, who offer four free scholarships to young men end women who possess the necessary talent, but who have not the funds to pay for the tuition of the school. ‘The examination tests will be held | Priday morning, October 4, at 9 o'clock. Application for the scholarships should be made in writing, accompanied th written references regarding the character and financial standing of the | candidate, also a signed physician's | statement stating that the candidate is | in sound health. All applications must be received by October 1, when tite list will be closed. Full information may be obtained b: addressing the registrar of the Guii- mant Organ School, 17 East Eleventh street, New York. {Concerts Are .p]a;lncd for Hughcs Summer Course class, which will be in session in “Nul York City. from July 1 to August | 10, will feature Wednesday evening recitals by the following pianists: Al- ton Jones, John Crouch, Anca Seidlova, Jenia Sholkova, Marvine Green, Lols Spencer and Marion Engle. The closing program of the series will be a two-piago_recital by Edwin and Jewel Bethany Hughes. systematic course of organ study have | the Guilmant Organ School of New | DWIN HUGHES' Summer master | '|Musigraphs | | [LA SALLE SPIER'S setting of Edna St. Vincent's Millay’s poem, “God's | World,” will be sung by the Mount Ver- {non Chorus of Mount Vernon Place ichurch. M. E. South, this morning. This Washington composer is well | known for works for solo plano and for chamber music groups, but this choral work will be in a new fleld for | his_writing. R. Deane Shure will direct the | chorus, as usual. The first annual commencement of | the Tnstitute of Musical Art will take | place Tuesday. The public is cordially | Invited to attend. | _The last full service at Concordia Church will be given today. Such serv- ices will be resumed in the Fall. At the | German service, Thelma Rice will sing | “The Heavens Declare,” by Beethoven. | At the English service the anthem wili be “I Waited for the Lord,” from Men- | delssohn’s “Hymn of Praise,” with so- | prano and mezzo-soprano ' solos and | chorus. Miss Rice and Carla Santel- ! mann will sing the solos. | Lillie_Porter Bailey, faculty organist of McKinley High School, is attending | the Summer session of the Eastman | School of Music at the University of | Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Oscar M. White of this ecity, known professionally as Cav. Bianco de Palermo, announces that he has had several offers made him for ap- pearances as guest conductor of or- chestras. He is particularly noted for his interpretation of Italian and French and | “The list of those enroiled in the | ballet music, and it is only due to his | class includes pianists, teachers and |long iliness, from which he recovered musical educators from all parts of the | @bout & vear ago, that he has not ap- by | | volees took the naive, United States and Canada. and will be printed in full in The Eve- ning Star. The usual Thursday program will be omitted due to its being a holiday. peared actlvely in such work for several seasons. Helen Miller presented Frances Sta- bler in a recital Tuesday evening. Com- | positions by Clementi, Bach, Beethoven, | Schubert and Chopin were played. ARY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUR blending quality has been of value to the tenor section of the chorus and quartet, while his fine diction and pleas- ing tone work makes his solo work ef- fective. ‘The junior choir is an established in- stitution at this church, numbering 30 boys and girls. ing service the last Sunday in each month. Some of the most interesting and new work done by Mr. Potter at choirs comMBined at Christmas and Easter. At Christmas, an oid Spanish carol was used in which the children's artless theme, while the adult voices accompanied in six and eight parts a capella. Again the two choirs were used antiphonally, while in the “Hallelujah Chorus,” at Easter, the junior choir was used with telling effect in theaelimaxes only, being 80 well drilled at it made its entrances accurately" without a director’s It sings at the morn- | this church has been the use of both | signal. A continuance of this year's work will be in order next year. One particu- lar plan will be the giving of Handel's “Messiah,” somewhat in miniature, but sufficient for the church auditorium. This will be given in two performances, Part 1, complete, at Christmas and the remaining_parts, ncarly complete, at Faster. In this way some beautiful parts will be heard which are not gen- erally possible where cuts must be made to condense the work into one per- formance of acceptable length for mod- ern audiences. Both performances will have accompaniment of orchestra and organ. In the accompanying picture of the adult choir and about half of the junior choir members Mr. Potter is in the center of the second row from the bot- tom, and Mrs. Potter is at his left. Mr. Switger, tenor soloist, is fourth from the left on the top row. ‘The public is cordially invited. | Mallette Roach Spengler presented a group of students in a vocal and piano | recital Thursday afternoon at the Wom- |an's City Club. The program included compositions by _Beethoven, Bach. Schumann, Grieg. Paderewski, Chami- | nade. Nevin, Schubert, Cadman end | Spross. Those participating were Emily Bog- ley, Catherine Stevens, Marion Brinker- hoff, Eleanor Baughen, Nancy Giiliam, Anna°Wyman, Margaret Wyman, Wini- | fred Essex, Catherine Spengler, John Bogley, Irving Houghton, Melvin Weav- er Carrico, Willlam Roach. George Reld, Charies Lusby and Wililam Gil- iam. Savona Griest presented a group of students in piano and voice before a large audience of friends at her resi- dence studio last Tuesday night. All numbers were given from memory and enthusiastically received. Those taking part were Jean Swann, Winifred Smith, Lenora Baldus, Joseph West, Joyce Cafferty, Elizabeth Ahern, Hilda Ball, Mary Alice Michael, Mary Elizabeth ~Tinsley, Marion Michael, Sarah Kirkman, Lillian Pruitt, Ruth Craegger and Rachel Merritt. Interesting feature numbers were the dances given by Marie Barrett and Peggy Plantz. Mrs. Griest gave a group of songs, accompanied by Mrs. Merritt, and also played a final piano number, Jean M. Beall presented & class in violin and piano in two recitals at th2 Methodist Church in Beltsville, Md, | June 22 and 23. The students appearing in Satur- day night's program were: Betty White, Marjorie Huepler, Claude Reese, Vir- ginia Hughes, Jean Brelsford, jr.; Eliza- beth Taylor, Harry Grayson, Margaret Holmes, Margaret _Loveless, Ademar Weingartner, Mary Bever, Carlton Hey- ser, Bobby Chaney and Edith Johnson. Sunday afternoon the children par- ticipating were: Fillmore Buchanan, May Groves, Nancy Mowatt, Carey Singleton, Prances Ann Bowers, Arde- shir Irani, Mary Schwartz, Harold Bril, Weldon 'Rawley, jr.; John Schwartz, Leland Worthington, jr.; Betty Rawley, Charles and Woodrow Schwartz. Dorothy Campbell, Bobbie | Chaney, Richard Case, Frances Rogers, :\ld;llrjorle Huepler and Howard Blais- ell. Shirley Wolman Rosenburg, a 17- year-old dancer with three years of teaching experlence, presented her class of children, aged 4 to 17 years, in a recital at Pierce Hall Friday, June 21. Those participating were Jeanne Goldberg, Mary O'Connell, Barbara Barnes, Dorothy Rose, Beatrice Green- berg, Alice Venesky, Alice Ebert, Carol Cristy, Kathleen Nelson, Jessie Becker, Marshall Rosenburg, Audrey _Jones, Seena Glaser, Helen Schanberger, An- nette Rosett, Charlotte Cohen, Thelma | | Schmidt, ~Norma__ Himelfarb, Edna | Walker, ‘Mildred Brooke, Mary Healy, | Leila Rose, Frances Brooke and, as| accompanist, Mae Rosett. Prof. and Mrs. H. Clay Murray pre- sented 130 students in their :nnuynlnscq ies of Jecltals four jevenings last week, une 18, 19, 20 and 21, at Ingram Me- | morial Church. g, Sl Compositions of Beethoven, Chopin, Bach and a number of popular melo- dies were given. Those who were graduated and re- celved diplomas and gold medals were | Miriam Posey, Evelyn Montgomery, Lois Power, Frances Glick, Margaret | { Johnston, - Ruth Kaldenbach, Minna | | Jones and Fay Kaldenbach. Post-graduates receiving _certificates | were Helen Murray, | and Louie Barber. Mrs. C. Carroll Burke presented some | | pupils in a piano recital at the studio | Monday. ‘Those participating were Billy See- ! ger, Grace Raub, Elizabeth Andrews. | Dorothy Haislip, Robert Fellers, Mabei | Howard, Betty Jane Rodrick, Eliza- beth Howard, Alice C. Neal, Helen How- ard and Mr. A. H. Rodrick. Mrs. Neal gave songs by Oley | Speaks, Brae, Rasbach and Dichmont. Mr. Rodrick’s readings were by Riley. | At the conclusion of the recital prizes | | for diligent study were awarded Helen | Irene Howard, Betty Jane Rodrick, Elizabeth Howard and Billy Seeger. | Eva Virginia Johnson presented her | students in two recital programs at the | John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church last Monday and Tuesday nights. Those on Monday's program _were Georgia Holmes, Ruth Lewis, Ostein | | Jones, Roy Jones, Myrtle Jackson, Wal- | ter Dixon, jr.. Juanita Prather. Ber- nice Brown, Bessie Fitch, Alice Parker, | | Dorothy Clark, Marion Gatewood, Ruth | Brannum, Sadie Wood, Moncerie Jack- | son, Louise and Margaret Ball, Louise | Pinkett and Imogen Holland. Tuesday night the soloists participat- | ing were Robert G. Lee, Ruth Brown, Flora Cavanaugh, Foster Harris, Bessie Prather, Florence Kelly, Preston Balti- more, Jessie Jordan Allen, William Turner, Reva Harris, Hattie Opey, George L. Fantleroy, Marion Jones, Ruth Love and George Hardmon. Mrs. Mary F. Thompson presented a certificate for graduation from the course in plano to Robert Gordon Lee. Margaret Cooksey | | Eunice Louise Graves presented a group of students June 22 in an after- noon _program. Those _participating were Margaret Fletcher, Elaine Young, Edward Fawsett, Mary Kengla, Vir- ginia Burdette, ' Paul = Stoutsenberger, | Clayton Loughran and Josephine Ditt- | a | Perpetuati of the year, was awarded the gold harp medal. ~ Catherine Church and Francis Blake received medals for general im- provement and expression. Class pins ere nted to four students. Elizabeth Evans, soprano, gave group of songs. accompanied on piano by Miss King. Those participating in the program a the | were Elizabeth Rankin King. Catherine Edith Church, Francis E. Blake, Lulu Liphard, Mildred Hutchinson, Vivian Gould, 'Marguerite Franklin, Loreen Murphy, Beatrice Murphy, Catherine Cronenberg, Norma Morrison, Mildred Bowman, Alice Schwertz, Charlotte Schwartz, Marguerite Rice, Nannie Hamilton, Berry Simpson, Doris Dia- mond, Frank Espey. May Fern, Florence Simmons, Marvin Fewell, Jane Winkel- haus, Gwendolyn Magill,'June Mehifelt, Gertrude Grant, Frederick Church, Mil- dred Callan, Marion Gallagher, Helen Gallagher, ‘Wilhelmina Cronenberg, Mary Virginla Conway and DeNiece Orudoft. Co]lc;n's Unusual Songs. ELODIES and lyrics for “Foot- lights and Fools,” Colleen Moore's next talking picture, will be decidedly novel. lily Pom Pom Plee” is an- nounced as one of the songs to be sung | by Colleen in this First National-Vita- phone production, in which she will appear as a vivacious French actress, singing several entertaining numbers during spectacular theater _ episodes of e story, which are to be photographe in_technicolor. e The composers of the muslc, Al Bryan and George W. Meyer, have v\'l"rtylln | many songs for Miss Moore's picture, to demonstrate their ability to achieve something decidedly new and different. Early Ambitions. VWHEN Buck and Bubbles, former colored vaudeville stars, were mere youngsters down in Louisville there were two things they wanted more than anything else. One wes a job on the stage and the other was & chicken farm. They “teamed up” at an early age, mastered a song and dance routine and achieved Broadway almost at a single jump. Pathe offi- cials signed them next for the principal Toles in a series of talking comedies based upon Hugh Wiley's “Wildcat” stories. Now that they can afford fried chicken for breakfast, they can see no use in bother! et ering to raise the ——— ng a Great P]ay. ngzslr always attaches to any anecdote concerning a great which has once thrilleq and then é’é:i the way of all things mortal. It has been many years since “The Great Divide,” William Vaughn Moody's famous drama of the Great West, with Henry Miller and Blanche Bates, both distinguished players of the stage, ap- peared to divide honors with David Belasco's equally famous “Girl of the S?}lldef’n lwm.'i And1 the mention of play always is reminiscence, P “The Great Divide” was first made | Into a silent screen production by Regi- nald Barker in 1925. And now National Pictures, Inc., is to mlk’:rs: Vitaphone production of it, with Daro- thy Mackaill, the screen star, in the Blanche Bates role and Ian Keith, well- known leading man, both of the stage and the screen, in the Henry Miller role. Mr. Barker has also directed the Vitaphone version of the play, which is now reported as completed. = As it is also described as an “all dialogue” ple- ture, those who saw the play as pre- sented by Henry Miller and Blanche Bates should have 2 fine opportunity to compare screen and stage work in | the presentation of drama and perhaps reach a verdict as to their Gt eir comparative Advice to Scenarists. NOW is the opportune moment for amateur writers in Hollywood, claims Lenore Coffee, successful scen- arist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. “Producers will read anything which savors of a sound picture. Plot is no longer foremost in their minds. Clever dialogue situations and scintillating conversation are necessary to any film today. The country is mad over sound pictures, and only certain stories lend themselves to talking and music.” This writer gives advice to beginners. She came up in the writing field from many who started with her. “Study mystery plays. At present I am dia- loguing ‘The Bishop Murder Case,’ and it is good training for any mind. If I were beginning all over again, I would dissect mystery plays. Study plot and construction. This type story is always most intrie , In order that interest will not lag. Write the story in your way and see if your ending is as logical and breath-taking as the one the au- thor used.” I “It is a mistaken idea that writers work when the spirit moves them,” says Miss Coffee. “The authors who are accomplishing things work as reg- ularly as stenographers or clerks. So many hours per day are given to work. Whether or not they feel in the mood does mot enter their minds. Writing is a profession, not play. Unless you are willing to write and rewrite don't try to compete in the scenario fleld, for the business changes so quickly that even the best producers are not Iways certain just what they want.” STUDIOS OF VON UNSCHULD| UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC, Inc. | Mme. Marie von Unscl Pres. 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Dupont Circle Summer July 1st. Concentrated Ve Cradis of One rses Gi Entire Semester in V Piane. w Group 'nts Symphony. MONTHLY PUBLIC llClTyATl Next Recital—Wed., July 3, 8:15 p.m. BESSIE N. WILD Studio 6834 ®