Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1929, Page 60

MU BY HELEN HERE probably is no more . genuinely American prima donna from earliest history of the first of these exotic sonzbirds to those active today than Geraldine Farrar, who re- cently gave out the statement in an interview that she would never sing again in opera and intended to retire permanently from ail stage appearances, in concert or otherwise, after she is 50, whici will be three years from now, ac- cording to her own figures. Geraldine Farrar says: “In America artists who study for opera don‘'t have a chance to grow. In America, supposing the young artist does get in at the Metropolitan, she may be so for- tunate as to get 20 appearances a season. It isn’t 20 appearances a season that makes an artist. It's 60 and 80 and work like the devil all the time. Moreover, you don't learn to sing in opera in a studio. What you do to become an artist is to establish first your vocal foundation. For that foundation I consider the Italian method the best—not the French. Then, as your powers develop, you try them out on the stage, and they begin to grow. “Good, heavens. don't I remem- ber my first appearances and: every other young artist’s first ap- pearances in new parts? Rotten. I tell you, rotten! Well, as we re- peated our roles on little stages or big ones, in Berlin or Monte Carlo or in some small German town and theater, we gradually got used to them and worked them up. In the grind of the routine we put an edge on them. | That is the way a singer gains authority, confidence, technique, and there is no other way to do it. “In America we haven't any such chance. It isn't that the American artist is discriminated against. It's simply that in his| or her country there are so few | opportunities.” * THE above is quoted because there is so much practical truth in what this musically and dramatically brilliant daughter of an American base ball player says. It is true that the Atwater Kent Auditions, for instance, offer in-| creasingly substantial prizes and | scholarships for young Americans who have beautiful voices which have been started in training .in the right direction and have pos- | sibilities for future development. Mrs. Bok's famous Curtis Insti- tute of Music offers special en- couragement and further training | for such voices. As do other musical schools including the * % X | which are good for solo work are | students.” | practical experience and small |lish by members of the American | Gounod's work in Italian version |at La Scala, in SIC FETTER. tion, and then subjected him to a sight reading test. As each was heard, Mr. Wohllebe noted down | his judgment and the applicantz were notified subsequentiy by let- ter whether they had been ac- cepteu for the chorus. | ‘I heard many excellent voices which were not suitable for our work,’ Mr. Wohllebe said. *I want those who were rejected to understand this. Sometimes voices not suitable for a chorus—chorus voices must not be so penetrating | that they stand out from their fellows. Some volcgs were too small for a concert hall. But most of all, the difficulty was that the | singers were not trained in music | and could not read the scores.| The 20 who were chosen will be a splendid addition to our chorus.| They include 12 sopranos, 1 tenor, 2 basses and 5 altos. We still need tenors, basses and altos.’ “Many more women than men applied for places in the chorus. Most of those heard were music * K ok % = IT is splendid to note such wide- awake and constructive en- couragement of young singers. What America needs now is to create operatic outlet channels— operatic laboratories, if you will— | to carry on from the point where | such opportunities as the above- | mentioned bring their singing| winners and leave them stranded. Of course, the now famous American Opera Co. is doing & fine work in giving young singers salaries in the singing of “opera | in the language of the audience” | —meaning American. This, how- ever, does not fit young singers completely for appearances with the lar%er opera organizations | either of this country or abroad when opera is sung in the langu- age in which it was written. Of course, it may be argued that Gounod’s “Faust” learned in Eng- Opera Co. is just as good experi- ence as the same opera learned in Italian to be sung in Ferrara. The fact remains that whereas young Italian singers learning will have opportunity to sing it in that language perhaps later on ilan, the young American, learning to sing the opera in English, will have to re- learn it in the original French if it is to be sung with either the Metropclitan or Chicago Opera companies. This is not a plea for opera in | the language of the American people, Neither is it a plea for Juilliard Foundation, the Cincin- | nati Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory. | ‘There are private thoroughly; equipped teachers who also can | give valuable assistance in train- | ing young American voices how opera in the original Janguage in which it is written. 1t is only a statement of existing present con- ditions that are to be considered by the young would-be opera singer who wants to sing event- ually, if luck and telent are with Tribute to Lilli Lehmann Accepted by Library FFICIAL acceptance by the Berlin State Library of & unique port- folio of letters from world famous mu- sicians to Lilli Lehmann has been an- nounced by the Lilli Lehmann League of which "Edith Nichols, soprano, is the founder. Miss Nichols, prominent disciple of the famous teacher and soprano was passed on May 17, has just returned to New York from Ger- Johannes Wolf, direztor of the musical section of the state library, that the portfolio is to be placed wi'h the pre- cious documents, music, letters and other “Lehmanniana,” all of which are to be catalogued and placed per- building. The testimonial portfolio was col- lected by Miss Nichols last season with the idea of presenting the tributes to Lilli Lehmann on her 81st birthday. The renowned Wagnerian interpreter, however, passed rather suddenly, be- fore this {nternational tribute could be delivered into her hands, Among the writers of the letters are: ‘Walter. Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Al- bert ' Coates, Alfred Hertz, Josef Lhevinne, Serge Koussevitsky, Nikolai Sokoloff, Prank ven der Stucken, An- tonio Scotti, Margaret Matzenauer, Mary Garden, Karl Krueger, Alberto Bimboni, Walter Gieseking, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Serge Rudolph Ganz, Edward Johnson, Ernest Hutcheson, Carolyn Beebe, Augusta Cottlow, Olga Samaroff, Solon Alberti, John Barnes Wells, Arthur Hartmann, Maria _ Winetzkaja, Richard Hale, Meta S¢humann, Wilhelm Middle- schulte, Edwin Hughes, Katheryn Meisle, Marie Morrisey, Marcel® Sal- zinger, Aurelio Glorni, Eva Gauthier, Isobel Richardson Molter, Edith Mason, Mabel Garrison, Oscar Ziegler and many others. Noted kpianist Comes As Guest Teacher CHARLES COOPER. A DISTINGUISHED American planist, a member of the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., is to be a guest teacher at the King-Smith Studios this Winter. He is Charles Cooper, who, born and reared In San Prancisco, Calif. had Benjamin Fabian of that city as his first teacher. He later studied with Hugo Mansfeldt, pupil of Liszt, Her- mann Genss, and Oscar Welll, and later manent'y in a special section of the ' Rachmaninoff, | many with an announcemént from Dr. | | GRACE POTTER CARROLL AND ELENA DE SAYN. J FLENA DE SAYN, well known Wash- | 8:30 o'clock; the second is an afternoon " ington violinist, announces that she | €Vent 8t 4:45 o'clock. Both are free, Ithough admission is by card only. will give two programs of musie for vio- | Cars wil be mailed umx{ request, & lin and plano jointly with Grace Potter ‘The music for these concerts, which Carroll, pianist, of Asheville, N. C., at | are to be given in an intimate, informal her studio, 1705 K street northwest, atmosphere, will include works by Friday and Saturday of this week. The | Schuett, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, first program will be in the evening at ! Bach, Grieg and Debussy. nd Familiar Artists New a FIV!} internationally famous artists—| Sophie Braslau, contralto; Efrem Zimbalist, viglinist; Anna Case, { prano; Hans Barth, pianist, | nella Otis Skinner, impressionist announced to appear under the man. | agement of Mrs. Wilson-Greene at a | gala concert Saturday evening, No- vember 2, which will inaugurate the new Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution as Wash- ington's newest music hall. This will | be the first of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's series of six Saturday evening concerts ! to be presented there during thé com- | ing season. | Through arrangements made with local authorities of the Daughters of the American Revolution, this will be | the first public performance to be given | in the new D. A. R. Auditorium at | Eighteenth and C streets northwest. It also will be, in all probability, the | most pretentious evening concert ever given in Washington. Among the interesting features of this performance will be the appear- ance of Miss Braslau and Miss Ci both as soloists and in a series of duets. Miss Braslau, whom the late James G. Huneker called “a gorgeous contralto.” is an American artist who was firmly established in the United States before duplicating her American triumphs in To Appear in Gala Concert| in Paris with Harold Bauer. Mr. Cooper spent a number of years abroad in study. While residing in Paris, he was invited by the Duchess @'Uzes to give a recitad for the French section of the Lyceum Club. The Fi- garo, a well known Parisian dally, in reviewing this concert, commented upon Europe, while Anna Case is an out- standing American soprano. Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, is known all over the world, both as virtucso and .composer. A pupil of Leopold Auer, teacher of Heifetz, Zimbalist made his American debut in°1911 with the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra. Since that HANS BARTH. at Barbados” and “An American on the French Telephone” are said to be masterpieces of this art. Hans Barth, pianist, makes his local debut in selections that require three to grow. But for practical, actual him, in the leading opera houses the “great individuality and temper: types of pianos—the harpsichord of long experience, especially in operatic work, the opportunities are ex- tremely limited in this country. It would seem as though what we | need at this time is not training | scholarships, but rather “experi- ence scholarships.” Washington has three very well known cases of young singers who | are making good and who had to go outside the United States to secure that necessary training. | Only last week word received about Ruth Peter, a soprano born and given early training in the| Natfonal Capital, showed that she | is getting along very well gaining | actual experience singing leading roles in “La Boheme,” “I Pagli- accl,” “Andrea Chenier” amd other | operas in small opera houses in Italy. i Recent word from Eleanore La Mance, mentioning that she has! been accepted and given contract by the Metropolitan Opera Co. follows several years of much ex- perience in Italian opera houses and theaters in Egypt and else- where since she won the interest of friends in Washington when when she was singing here with the Washington Opera Co. It was| these friends and their assistan that made the oractical experi- ence in provincial opera houses abroad possible to Miss La Mance | and prepared her for that debut of debuts operaticallv that is to be hers this Winter at the “Met.” ! Emma Redell, a dramatic so-! prano. a second native-born Washingtonian, is to have her, -initial conecert program in a lead- | ing New York hall October 16.| Miss_Redell has concertized all/ over Europe and had renewed con- | tracts for several seasons in small German opera houses prior to this first New York appearance. * Xk K A ATWATER KENT, president | * of the Atwater Kent Founda- tion, is reported as having said, in stating the plan and purpose of the national radio auditions: “It seems to me that, after de- voting months to preliminary con- tests in which 50,000 to 60,000 voices are tried out, we should | make certain that each of the ten finalists be assured further vocal instruction and the means with which to pursue it. For that reason we have added $7,500 in cash prizes and additional rewards | of tuition to the former list of awards. We have received in- numerable assurances from all sections of the country that the Radio Audition is worth while, and I am therefore delighted to take advantage of the opportunity to hold another this year.” Another fine audition oppertu- nity that is offered to singers, chiefly in New York, is reported as held by the Society of Friends of Music in the metropolis. The statement just issued reads: “One hundred and eighty were heard, but only 20 were chosen for the Society of the Friends of Music chorus in the first three auditions for new members. More auditions will be held this week to obtain the 15 more singers who still are needed to bring the chorus up to 140 voices—the en- largement of the chorus being a part of the expansion program of the society for the coming season in Mecca Auditorium. “The Assembly Hall, 109 East Twenty-second street, was packed with aspiring singers all three audition nights. Walter Wohllebe, chorus master, heard each one in .music of the singer's own selec- |of to suggest to all who plead the| his own country. As such, this article aims only case cf American singers in opera in America that they concentrat> at least a portion of their vocal |and financial energies on creating |opportunities within the United | States for native singers, so they may, after thorough .training, | secure at home what only hard-| working experience in cpera will give them. New Band Director Boosts Subtle Ja:: HARRY ALBERT. ARRY# ALBERT, the young di- rector who has bzen named by Meyer Davis as leader of the new Le Paradis Band, is an indorser of the newer trend in dance mugic. Finely worked out harmonies combined with tricks of syncopation, he belleves, will soon replace the more obvious forms of jazz. The young Le Paradis leader studied violin and harmony at Joachim’s in Atlantic City, Later he decided to en- ter the legal profession and entered Georgetown Law Schoo!, planning te work part of his way through college by playing in dance orchestras. Meyer Davis soon recognized his ability and placed him at the head of an orchestra. Shortly afterward Mr. Albert decided to devote his entire energies to music. He has directed a number of prominent Davis orchestras, Last season he played at the Hotel Excelsior at the Lido near Venice, being one of the first directors selected to represent the Davis or zation in Italy. While in Italy he also studied advanced harmony. - Chaminade Glee Club Holds Business Meeting 'HE Fall husiness - meeting of the Chamihade Glee Club will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m., at the home of the director, Miss Esther Linkins, 3615 Newark street northwest. ‘The first rehearsal of the season will be held the following ‘Wednesday, Oc- tober 2. at 7:45 p.m., at the Institute of Musical Art, Eighteenth and I streets northwest, All girls interested in choral n;u;lc _are cordially invited to visit the club, All Material Intended for The Special Music Issue Sunday, September 29, Must Be Sent in, Typewritten, Not Later Than Tuesday Noon. ment of this young American artist.” Owing to the outbreak of the war, | Mr. Cooper wes obliged to abandon his plan for a concert tour of “Europe in 1915. He returned to New York and | made his debut there in the Fall of 1916. During the past six years Mr. Cooper has been a member of the piano fa ulty of the famous Peabody Conserv: tory of Music in Baltimore. One of his diploma pupils won a Juillard Fel- lowship this past season. He does not, however, permit his work as a teacher to overshadow his activities as a con- cert pianist. He appears frequently in concerts in Baltimore and surrounding districts and has given concerts in a number of the large cities of the East. Last Summer Mr. Copoer held a spe- clal class in Asheville, N. C., from July 1 to August 10. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. | I HENRY VERBRUGGHEN, Belgian ! conductor, will be heard in Wash- ington this Winter when he will conduct the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which he has directed for some years, in a concert Febraury 13 at Constit | tion Hall, under the management of T. | Arthur Smith. ; Philharmonic-Symphony i Orchestra of New York T ARTHUR SMITH announces’ the * _ usual series of three concerts by the New York Philharmonie-Symphony Orchestra at Constitution Hall, Tuesday afternoons, Janusry 7, January 28 and March 4. Z The famous orchestra, which visits “Washington annually, has 85 consecutive i years’ of musical history and tradition behind it. Arturo Toscanini, Willem Mengelberg and Bernardino Molinari will conduct one concert each. Tickets for the series are on sale at the concert bureau in 1330 G street northwest. Music Knowledge Classes Planned for Conservatory T GUY LUCAS has established * “classes in musical appreciation at the Washington Conservatory of Music, 1408 New Hampshire avenue northwest, where students and music lovers may acquire considerable knowl- edge of musical subjects in non-tech- nical fashion. These classes are modeled on similar classes held at Cam e, England, where Mr. Lucas was a student. Fa- mous _composers, ler ints in harmony, history “of schools in compo- sition, de other topics will be dis- cussed. ®An informal apd social at- mosphere is encouraged for these classes and the fee is nominal. New Composition Published. “FOLIAS “DE ESPANA,” by Fer- dinand Sor and _compositions and lrf"n ents byu m hn‘v?: r;.r Papas, ashington 8l 3 4 cently been issued g; a music company. Folias is the name of an old Spanish dance. It has four variations et o e e o Anares Sesovia, mad vel ul via, 7 :’!mhh guitarist, who plays it uently in his con . ‘Most of the compositions and arrange- Mr. Papas, included in his have been heard by t his concerts and is “To Tsopono- cnukq(olk song_which “The Little Shepherd: his sheep ents which has | time, he has played in practically every, large city in the world and is the com- | poser of an operetta, “Honeydew”; a “Suite in Old Form” for violin and | | piano; “Three Slavic Dances.” a fan- tasy on the motives of Rimsky-Korsa- konk‘s “Coq d'Or” and many other works. an interpreter of character rivals that | of the world famous Ruth Draper, is daughter of the celebrated actor, Otis Skinner. Like her famous father, she chose the stage as a career. Miss Skinner's character sketches such as “Snowbound in Iowa,” “On the Beach MUSIG RUTH PETER, the young Washington soprano who had a contract for only two performances as Mimi in “La Boheme” at the Malibran Theater in | Venice, Italy, in August, made good w} definitely that she was asked to sing | four instead and sang her fifth on the fourth day of this month, according to word just received from Venice. Miss Peter also sang two perform- | ances of Nedda in “I Pagliaccl.” The | tenor who sang opposite her in this | opera was Vittorio Fullin whe has sung with the Metropolitan Grand Opera | Company and has been heard also in ‘Washington, Elvina Neal Rowe, one of the most popular of Washington sopranos, will sing a group of sol ‘Thursday over radio station WMA! Mrs. Rowe was scheduled to eing last Wednesday but | a conflict in events listed made it| necekulry to postpone her date to this week. Mrs. Rowe will feature “Dream Clouds” by the Washington composer, R. Deane Shure. She also will sing “Serenata,” by Toselli and the popular song, "There’s Something Spanish in ‘Your Eyes.” Amy Alki Bustin, dramatic soprano, was soloist at the home of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Hoxle at a reception Tuesday afternoon. Miss Bustin also sang at another re- ception at the Hoxie residence Thurs- day evening. Miss Georgia Miller has returned to ‘Washington after spending part of her vacation in the mountains of Pennsyl- vania_as the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Paul Wilson of Altoona. Miss Miller has opened her school at 1406 H street. The music study class will have its first meeting the first Monday in October. Pauline Graff, plenist, has returned to the city to resume study at the Virgil Clavier School. Miss Graft has spent the past three years in professiona? stage work in New York, Chicago, Buffalo ‘and other cities. Eveline Mqnico Papas, licentiate and medalist of the Royal o Music, London, and for two years a member of the music faculty at Na- tional Park Seminary, announces plans to resume her studio work this Fall and will take pupils in composition and coun Mrs. Papas'is an_exponent of the Matthay method. Tobias Matthay, who is the originator of this head of the piano dej t at the academy where Mrs. Papas studied. The GospelsMusic Class will resume rehearsals Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the studio of the tescher, Mrs. Isabel Garvin Shelley, 1824 H ties as organist hfi' mlrm:a e lut as and cl T Of Church of the Epiphany, after hav- spent a vacation at Anna) Md. reopened has in the pai houss and will continue with his classes in organ, piano and theory. Charlotte Harriman, Washington con- tralto, who has established herself in New York for the season, where she is tic strionic Cornelia Otis Skinner, whose fame as | ( &huo. harmony, rpoint. was ago, the piano of today and the new quarter-tone piano of two keyboards which some authorities think will revo- lutionize piano technique. . This concert will be the first of six which will offer, in_addition, Ethel Leginska and the Boston Women's rchestra December 11; Sigrid Onegir, contralto, January 11; Jascha Heifetz, violinist, January 25: Rosa Raisa, so- prano, and Giacomo Rimini, both of the Chicago Opera Co., February 8, and Mme. Louise Homer March 8. Seats are on sale al the concert bureau in Droop's, 1300 G street. RAPHS tic over the work and has been busy, too, with church work. Recently she was soloist at the Fifth Avenue Pres- byterian Church. Miss Harriman is busy now with the roles of Sicbel and Martha in Gounod's “Faust,” in her operatic studies. Frances Gutelius, pianist and special- ist in classes for children, has returned after three months of travel in Europe (n:rlldlrcopen:d her studio on Dupont rcle. Robert Ruckman, organist and di- rector of music at Douglas Memorial M. E. Church, announces that he has opened studios for teaching piano in both northwest and northeast locations in the city. Mr. Ruckman is a certified teacher of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. For four years he studied under Edwin Hughes, Lynnwood Farnam and David McK. Williams in New York. He stud- ied approved methods for tsaching be- ginners and children and also features technical training for advanced stu- dents. He can be reached at telephon» Adams 4126. Warren F. Johnson, organist at the Church of the Pilgrims, announced that Mortimer H. Davenport, well known Daritone, hi oy as been engaged as soloist Mr. Johnson left Tuesday for a va- cation, returning t6 Washington about October 15, when he will begin a series of Sunday evening recitals. Elizabeth Carpenter has returned from White Sulphur Springs and Hot Spl:lnls, Va., where she spent her va- :;z.}?:r. .;l‘fiouznolunces e reopening at 18 RO 16 Kilbourne place -Beatrice Seymour Goodwin has re- turned from a vacation spent ln‘:n:il through the Canal Zone and Central American countries. Miss Goodwin will e in charge of the music at St. Alban’s :.glli pel:rhthe 'md(;mlng service. She er ason to- r'-ml studio for the ses to. Goodwin annou & few vacancies in the ltfr::r t:‘n!;ec:rzf g‘fgx‘-’u "udctlonxu of usz. Alban’s choir. applicants are re telephone ufn Goodwin. Sanesear b George Cornwell, Washington pianis*, reports having spent a busy sgmmcr. Duflm; hot weather the city &tudio itinued and classes were co- ducted at Great Falls, Va. Mr. Corn- well also Eld charge of music at Great thod, is the | Falls Par] After the close of the park-season, Mr. Cornwell joined his cousins at their camp on Lake Cayuga, near Ithaca, N. Y. He enjoyed considerable sight- seeing around that section of the coun- try and a motor trip to the Starke home in New Brunswick, N. J., where he spent the remainder of his vacation. He returned to Washington last week and announces that he will resume teaching at the studio in 1406 H _street northwest and his work at Calvary Church, wn. Katherine . Washington concert harpist, has returned to her home at 1837 Kalorama road after spending the greater part of the Summer at Marble- head, Mass, Most of her holiday time she devoted to rest, the preparation of this season's recital ms and in arranging her work f ‘coming sea- (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) - |The Soldiers’ Home Band To Feature American Work T}m brogram Saturday which the United States Soldiers’ Home Band will present at 5:30 p.m. in the band stand, is to feature a work on American ":}%fl"’i‘,, '(’:nt:llcl bby“.!ohnwn. entitled “The Death of Custer.” The openin motive is a Sioux Indian war %‘lnce'. there also are many American bugle calls used in this work. This program is to conclude the outdoor band concerts of the season. Beginning Monday morning, October 14, indoor orchestral concerts ‘will be | resumed. These concerts will be given each Monday; Wednesday and Friday morning at 9 w.m. in the hospital of the ! Soldicrs’ Home. The evening concert season will be resumed in Stanley Hall for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. The public is invited and requests for certain selections are wel- come. John S. M. Zimmerman is bandmas- fer and Anton Pointer is assistant leader. The two other band concerts this week will be Tuesday and Thursday at the bandstand, at 5:30 p.m., when the usual variety of classic and poular num- bers will be presented. Additional Classes Open At College of Music ANY additional classes for the Autumn and Winter will open this week at the Washington College of Music, with Fanny Amstutz Roberts, dean of the college, at the head of the theory department: Marguerite Carter, as instructor in pedagogy, and Dr. Ed- win N, C. Barnes in charge of publi. | school music and music education. Students in harmony, counterpoint, composition, and fugue, at the college | will study texts prepared by Percy Goetschius, who was for many years | a teacher at the Institute of Musical ! Art, New York supplemented by studies in orchesiration, using the Berlioz and Richard S‘rauss texts. The college encourages the students to do original composition- at all stages of | training. Mrs, Carter, who conducts the peda- | gogy courses, is a graduate of the In- stitute of Musical Art, and also did post-graduate work under the personal direction of Frank Damrosch, Kneisel, Letz, and Svecenski, with lectures un- der W. *J. Henderson, Krehbiel and Tapper. ¥ Other classes opening this week in- clude classes in Italian, under Harry | Baker Humphrey; and the children’s | (asses, under the direction of Cath: | erine Benson, which features the or-; ganization of & Toy Symphony, and| | children’s chorus as part of the train- | | ing, the purpose being to instill a love | | for music and develop the sense of | : rhythm in the child. ‘ e | Philadelphia Opera Co. | Plans American Premiere | TH! Philadelphia Grand Opera Cou‘ which has recently affiliated with | the Curtis Institute of Music, and whose ! offices are: Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis| chairman; Mrs. Joseph Leidy, | president; Mrs. William C. Hammer, | secretary - treasurer and director; | | Willlam C. Hammer, vice president and | | general manager, will give 12 perform- ances during the forthcoming season at the Academy of Music. They will open with “Carmen,” with Sophie Braslau in the title role, October 23. | Others to follow will be: “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame,” with Mary den in the leading role, October 31; “Butter- fly,” November 14; “Lakme,” with Jose- | phine Lucchese i the title role, on| Thanksgiving evening, November 28; | “Masked Ball,” which will mark John ! Charles Thomas' first performance o the season, December 6; “Il Seraglio,’ | foliowed by the American premiere of “Judith,” Eugene Goosens' new opera, on December 26; “Lohengrin,” in which Chief Caupolican will be heard in ih!l role of Telramund: “Rigoletto,” Febru- 4 20: “Tieflant February 26; - e Dame,” in which two new ar- tists will make their American debut, | Madame Gonitch Alexander Kour- | | ganoff, March Pagliacci” and “Cavalleria Rusticana,” April 10; and | “Alda,” April 24. | The Philadelphia Grand Opera Com- | pany will again be sponsored by the | Philadelphia Grand Opera Association. | | Bok, 1 . . i The Philadelphia Orchestra. 'THE Philadelphia Orchestra Associa- | tion announces its usual series of | four concerts in Washington at the { Constitution Hall on Tuesday after- | noons, November 5, December 10, Jan- | uary 21 and February 18. The season brings to the conductor’s stand Leopold Stokowski and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, each conducting two concerts. This year marks the Philadelphia Or- chestra’s thirtieth season, the seven- teenth under Mr. Stokowski. -Tickets for the series may be secured at T. Arthur Smith's concert bureau, 1330 G st. n.w., in Homer L. Kitt's | music store. | | | { An Answered Prayer. | ‘A “TWISTED LEGEND” about the | Barrymore family has been straight- | ened out by Fred Johnson in the San Francisco Call after an interview with Ethel Barrymore. ‘The story, first printed years ago, ran to the effect that Ethel’s unvarying plea in her nightly prayers as a child was “Oh, Lord, please make me as good actress as my Uncle John is an actor. “How absurd! It wasn't like that at all,” Miss Barrymore exclaimed’to her interviewer. “The truth is that John, Lionel #hd I at one time said a prayer | together which my father had outlined for us. was having his joke. The words he had us say after him were these: ‘Oh, Lord, please bless father and mother, land, if you can, make Uncle John a good actor.’ " “This supplication referred, of course, to Uncle John Drew. Those who know their theater will agree that these inno- cent prayers of the Barrymore children must have been heard, for Uncle John became indeed a ‘“good actor.” Mrs. ‘Barrymore, however, put an end to the sacrilege which her husband had taught their offspring. MUSICAL STUDIOS OF WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, INC. 1408 New Hampshire at Dupent Circle Loyis Thompson. Scholarships n woics Symibony’ Ouchesira. Cutalor, SHEH. Bir rchesira. : I R orin_6244. - Now Omen. - Catainene. - LEWIS C. ATWATER Chureh Organ Washington College of Music Nothing was sacred when he| Ch Chairman of Kent Audition Announces Committee List PERCY 8. FOSTER, chairman of the District of Columbia committee which will sponsor participation by Washington singers in the third Na- tional Radio Audition, yesterday an- nounced the members of his committee, as follow Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, Robert V. Pleming, Clyde B. Aitchison, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, A. W. Harned, Wil- llam C. Barnes, Mrs, Wilson-Greene, Edgar Priest, Rev. Z. B. Phillips, Miss Helen Fetter, Miss Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, Miss Ruth Howell, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, Mrs, Gertrude Lyons, Miss Lucy Street, R. E. Myers, Miss Mary A. Cryder, Miss Elizabeth Winston, Dr. C. E. Christiani, Mrs. George Gravatt, Justice Wendell P. Stafford, W. W. Delano, T. Arthur Smith and R. Deane Shure. ‘The National Radio Audition for 1929 has awakened real enthusiasm among Washington singers and music lovers. | It was a Washington girl, Hazel C. Arth, who last year captured the award | of $5,000 offered by the Atwater Kent | Faundation for the best American girl | amateur. The audition offers a total of $25,000 in cash and 10 music scholarships to | the best young singers of the country. In plans for the country-wide contest the Dis‘rict of Columbia is given the same status as one of the States of the Union and will be allowed to qualify two singers. a boy and a girl, who wiil sing later in a Tegional contest with singers from the Northeastern part of the country. By elimination, 10 ha- tional finalists will be chosen to com- pete for final awards in New York next December, As a result of preliminary try-outs here in Washington, the dates of which soon will be announced by Mr. Foster, a small group of the most promising singers will be selected for local or Dis. trict finals, which will be held in Octo- ber. Ralph Edmunds, director of WRC, :sinzunner of the audition for the Dis- rict. Because of his wide experiencs in music work, the Atwater Kent Foul . tion feels that it is unusually fortunate in having Mr. Foster for its chairman this year. He has served as chairman of the board of judges for previous au- ditions. His long association with mu- sic, both in the Capital and throughout the Nation, includes service as director of music at every presidential inaugura- tion from McKinley to Hoover and as director of music at the international Christian Endeaver conventions in all parts of the United States for the past 37 vears. Washington amateur singers within the ages of 18 and 25 desirous of en- tering this contest can receive full in- formation from the Atwater Kent Foundation, Room 624, Albee Building. For Male WANTED—BASS For Male 4 Address Box 403-S. Star Office. .| BESSIE N. WILD | %, Guilure. Piano and Harmopy ;| £ Vol Studio 6874 5th st. Takoma Park. D. O. 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