Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1929, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D DECEMBER 22, 1929—PART FOUR. THREE PRINCIPALS IN MUSIC OF “THE OTHER WISE MAN” WHICH WILL BE GIVEN THIS WEEK Bits of Life in Opera Careers The Talking Chromo Portrait by Q/a{w&% ST REAMS mean little to me, but I had one that proved startling. It | came true almost to the dot. Some| might regard it as a warning, some as a strange coincidence. This much is certain, it made the weirdest experience in my life. | When it all happened to me, Wwhich | was in my early youth, I was touring | on the Pacific Coast with a light opera | company. Our engagement ending in | |a city on Saturday, we were to rtart for a distant one next morning. The | night before leaving I had my dream. | BY HELEN FETTER. l HE old familiar carols and others, perhaps equally old, but less well known, lead in the musical interests of the coming week. Beginning to- day the churches are having only music_appropriate to the season. The first Christmas oratorio of the local church performances was R. Deane Shure’s revised “Dawn in the Desert,” which had its first performance in this form Tuesday night at Mount Vernon M. E. Church South, where Mr. Shure is director of music. The oratorio, which has become a veritable institution—Haendel's Messiah"—without one perform- ance of which no Christmas seems complete, will be sung to- day at Calvary M. E. Church, where Louis Potter is director of music. Another work that also seems to have gained permanent estab- There certainly could not be a | finer object than the helping of | the association to raise a tund! that will give solid foundation to| carry on this colony founded by ! Edward MacDowell and sustained | by persistent, unflagging effort on ! the part of Mrs. MacDowell, in sgisl.e of much illness and other obstacles, to give opportunity for: young American talent in all the | arts. * % x % 'HE newest organization formed | in the interest of American | music for Americans is the Ste-| Bhes Bosterstoatety. - boores In it I seemed to be lying on a little | Foster, a singer, who is of the! i : ’ . e e PR LB same family, heads the group of | . 3 % i 1 ;mmm:nmrg;u P’)lAbr:ihfi"l‘uUznvc:lll?: musical folk who have launched ; ing e to move out of an icy draft in | this society recently, witn an in- *.hich I lay or I would never sing again. | augural program presented in the | Trying to obey, I could not move. Of | auditorium of the Home-making | course, tired out, I was too sound asleep | Center of the New York State Fed- | * Then’t ‘ eration of Women’s Clubs, Grand | Then the dream switched suddenly, lishment in Washington — the ageant-drama arrangement of an Dyke's “The Other Wise Man”"—will have three perform- ances during the coming week. Katherine Riggs, young Washing- ton harpist, is responsible for the --excellent musical score as ar- ranged appropriately for this en- tertainment. Other Christmas oratorios, can- tatas, pageants and the singing of carols and anthems will be %lven, as mentioned in detail in he special page of yesterday's Star—"Music in the Churches”— throughout the many Christian churches of the city of Wash- ington. * ok ok % AGA‘KN, Ruth Peter, Washington soprano, has scored in still another opera in Italy. In Fer- rara, the same place where she made her operatic debut, as Mimi in- Puccini’'s “La Boheme,” Miss Peter sang her first performance of the role of Liu in the same “Turandot,” Novem- Italian newspapers, Miss Peter won, afresh, definite success. The warmth of her voice quality, the sincerity of her interpretation of the role, both were commented on. Moreover, as this perform- ance was given in the town in which she had her debut, the audience showed its interest in her by hearty applause at her first appearance o'n this occasion. 5 * x ok x “MUSICIAN'S GAMBOL,” it is announced, will be held at Car- negie Hall a week from tomorrow night for the benefit of the Ed- ward MacDowell Association of Peterborough, N. H. There have been many unusual events pre- sented for the benefit of this same, very worthy cause from time to time. Later in the Win- ter a novel program for this bene- fit is being arranged in Washing- tan, in which many leading pian- ists of the city will participate. In the New York “Gambol,” a kgly dazzling list of names of ous artists is given, led by Ernest Schelling, chairman for this event. Those listed include Lucrezia Bori, Harold Bauer, Georges Barrere, Chalmers Clif- ton, Ruth Draper, Walter Dam- rosch, John Erskine, Carl Fried- berg, Ignaz Friedman, Ossip Ga- brillawitsch, Rudolph Ganz, Eu- gene Goossens, Emilio de Gor- ;onl. Ernest Hutcheson, Jose Tturbi, Serge Koussevitsky, Paul Kochanski, Joseph Lhevinne, Mrs. MacDowell, Willem Mengelberg, Yolanda Mero, Alfred Pochon, ©Olga .Samaroff, Felix Salmond, John Philip Sousa and Albert Stoessel. Central Palace, New York City. Dr. Otto Kinkeldey, chief of the music division of the New Yori: Billings Hunt, musicologist, illus- trated the beginnings of American music. Harold Vincent Milligan, director of the National Music League and biographer of Stephen Foster, gave a sketch of the com- poser. Miss Foster contributed a group of Foster's songs and two unpublished melodies from the Kentucky mountains. American musical antiquities also were on display. It is the plan of this most re- cent sponsor for the development and exploitation of American folk music collections to bring the mu- sic before American audiences by actual performance as wel! as in the more academic form of print- ed material. Miss Foster gives as a basic principle of the organi- zation the encouragement of in- itiative and the working out of na- tive themes. She says, in part: “America’s musical life has been too dependent on the works of the Old World. America must turn to her folk songs, her folk lore, her native sources and build an American music, as has every na- tion of the earth. In this activity our schools are of utmost impor- tance. It is impossible to estimato the service American educational institutions can perform for Amer- ican music, by keeping our own music before us.” This is all very true and worthy, perhaps. However, who that is really musical would find the values and appreciate them in American music who did not possess the background of the many European works that have come as the heritage of the American people? As Glinka and, later, the Russian Five helped to establish the backbone for music recognized by the world as great music inspired by Russia; as Bach. Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Wagner have placed varied German musical standards for their country; as Palestrina, Scarlatti, and—leaping a chasm—Respighi, and Malipiero have emphasized the outline of music in Italy, so it is to be hoped that MacDowell, Stephen Foster and Charles Griffes have been among those planting the sign- posts for the development of an eventual music that_is native to America. Even Mr. Foster's most popular and lasting songs, how- ever, are original and not merely dressed-up folk melodies. Such is the really lasting. music of any country, although the folk melodies frequently play a very definite part in providing the ele- mental frame upon which inspira- tion may hang a glorious mantle. Harvard Instrumental Clubs In Program December 30. Harvard University instrumental clubs, which will give their only concert in Washington this season at the Mayflower Hotel Monday evening, December 30, at 8:30 o'clock, comprise one of the most famous organizations of the university on the Charles. Each ‘Winter this musical and social organi- zation makes an extensive trip during the latter part of the Christmas vaca- tion. ‘The history of the organization is particularly interesting to those who are at all familiar with Harvard and its tions. Some years the Uni- versity Glee Club and the Instrumental Olubs separated from each other. This split in the organization, which has f made quife amicably, was due to & desire on the part of each group to pursue the path to which it felt its talents were best suited. The Glee ©lub, under Dr. A. T. Davison, felt that the paths of more serious music inter- them. However, feeling that there was a geniuine demand from grad- | uates and undergraduates for the hter and more traditional music which the glee club had abandoned, the instrumental clubs in 1926 formed their now well known vocal unit. ‘The instrumental clubs render the traditional songs of Harvard, as well as & variety of lighter classical music, marches, spirituals and chanteys. This rear the vocal unit is under the leader- ahip of P. Stacy Holmes, '31. Coached by P. B. Mehaffey, the unit has a pro- gram which cannot but appeal to every one Harvard graduates will be particularly delighted with the selection of such songs as “Johnny Harvard,” “The Long- shoreman” and “Come Landiord, Fill the Flowing Bowl,” .while Rachmani- nofl's “Glorious Forever” has been ac- claimed by the best musical critics as a well finished presentation. Tickets can be had at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's concert bureau, 1300 G street northwest. Ru'dy'l- Idea of a V:ntion. MAMHALL NEILAN received the shock of his life the very first day he began directing Rudy Vallee in “The Vagabond Lover.” “Setore the magic word “go” or “cam- e or whatever the starting signal might be, could be uttered, Rudy blithe- ly stepped out and announced to Nei- Jan, “At last I have a vacation.” Neilan simply gulped and gazed. Rudy hadn't the remotest idea of quitting his new-found job before he started, as & matter of course. What he really did mean was that for the past two years, in New York, he had srisen at an early hour to make phono- graph records; from noon until 10 p.m. he and his Connecticut Yankees filled theater engagements: from that time until some wee sma’ hour in the morn- ing the Villa Vallee Night Club claimed him. And picture making for him was —well, & sort of lark, a dream of idleness. It was Rudy's capacity for work, this genius of being always fresh and orig- inal in his entertainment, and his limit- less versatility that recently aroused the interest of psychologists throughout the country, And | Calvary M. E. Church Gives “The Messiah" Today. LOUIS POTTER. HE choir of Calvary M. E. Church, Columbia road near Fifteenth street northwest, under the direction of Louis Potter, will give the Christmas portion of Handel's oratorio, “Messiah,” today at 4 o'clock. voices with guest singers and soloists. Mrs. Emily Dickinson, organist of th National Baptist Memorial Church, will accompany, with an orchestra of ac- complished musicians. Ruby Potter, regular soprano soloist of Calvary M. E. Church, will sustain the soprano recitatives and solos, The contralto soloist will be Helen Turley, soloist at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. ‘The tenor recitative, “Comfort Ye,” and aria, “Every Valley,” will be sus- tained by John B. Switzer, soloist of this church. Mr. Switzer will be heard’ for the first time in this work. ‘The bass-baritone solos will be given by H. Blaine Cornwell, jr., of Charles- ton, W. Va., who at present is living in Washington. He is soloist at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church. ‘The Choir Invisible, a choral organ- | ization especially noted for its radio work in this city, will sing the chorus, “Glory to God,” from the back gallery {of the church. It was Handel's own idea that the first part of the chorus be_given “piano, as from a distance.” In giving this oratorio, part one alone will be used, concluding with the “Hal- lelujah Chorus,” thus giving some cho- ruses not usually heard in complete | performances. T Rebecca M. Reichard had charge of a concert sponsored by the League of | American Civic Service last Monday at the Mayflower Hotel. ‘Those presenting the musical num- bers were Katherine Floeckher Cullen, planist; Rose Maxwell Dickey, violinis Dorothy Sherman Pierson, soprano: | Ambrose Durkin, bass-baritone; Frank Davis, reader, and Christopher Tenley, accompanist, Public Library, presided. Arthur | ‘The chorus will be augmented to 50 | KATHERINE R N1USIC plays a large part in “The Other Wise Man,” the legend drama of Yuletide, to be presented this year for the fifth season at Luther Place Memorial Church on Thomas Cir- cle. A company of 100 players of re- ligious drama in the city of Washington will appear in the three performances. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at pm. Bess Davis Schreiner, chairman of religious drama in the Washington Federation of Churches, which this season, as in timewpast, is indorsing the presentation as part of the cele- bration of the Christmas of the Na- IG&S- tional Capital, is arranger and director. Harp music as played by Katherine Riggs, organ music as played by Mar- garet Hammerness, vocal music as sung by Charlotte Harriman, all will enter into the presentation of the drama, forming a three-fold atmosphere of mel- ody in accompaniment to the impres- sive scenes as the age-long story of “This Other Wise Man"” is told in brief, effective dramatic presentation. Judy Lyeth likewise, in interpretative of rhythm, will give her rendition of the spirit of the Parthian slave girl, who calls on Artaban, the Median, for aid, “ C HARLOT and to whom he surrenders the last of his treasures, “his pearl of great price,” which for three and thirty years he has been keeping for the king. Miss Riggs will play Brittain’s “Ori- ental Suite,” Stoughton’s “Persian Suite,” Marcel Tournier’s “On the Tem- ple's " Threshold,” Frieburg's “Day- break” and “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” during the opening scenes of the drama. Later in the story, as_the scenes approach the crucifixion hour and the people throng the streets of Jerusalem on their way to Calvary, the music changes to Borodin's “Reverie,” TE I-]ADQIX/\AN- " tradi- . an an- Grieg's “Ase’s (Peere Gynt' Suite), and the “Benedictus” from Gounod's “Ave Mrria,” Miss Harriman will be hearli in an old Hebrew lullaby, “O, Shiof Mein Feigele,” and later in the passover music and the finale. This will be Miss third season with “The T Wise Mal and she is remain- ing in the city until Saturday night, December 28, in order to appear in all | three presentations of the drama. Chopin’s “Prelude in C Minor, Scenic and Other Changes In American Opern'Wor]fi RARELY before in the whole history of opera, grand, comic or otherwise, has any director or scenic designer taken such libertles with operatic tra- dition as Vladimir Rosing, artistic di- rector, and Robert Edmond Jones, | scenic’ designer, have taken in adapting to modern English presentation the va- rious operas in the repertoire of the American Opera Co., which makes its third annual appearance in Washing- ton next month at Poli’s, under the local management of Mrs. Wilson- Greene. Not only have Rosing and his asso- ciates revised entire librettos to adapt the phraseology to modern English lan- | guage demands, but the scenery, the acting and even some of the costumes have been modernized for such operas as “Mme. Butterfly,” “Faust,” “Car- men” and others. Incidentially, all three of these operas will be presented during the Washington engagement. Mr. Rosing frankly warns opera audi- ences not to expect these operas to be presented in exactly the traditional manner, with -merely the language changed. He is not giving an operatic equivalent of “Hamlet” in evening dress by any means, though Rosing points out the modernization of these operas has resulted in a version that, while fasci- natingly interesting, is, nevertheless, & changed version to some degree. Lighting, costumes and particularly scenic effects of the various operas have aroused much comment. Massive stage sets as well as almost miniature settings find their place in the scenic equipment, which fills five cars of the special train that the American Opera Co. uses in its tour. Bold splashes of color, daring angles | and curious lighting effects—includin: some modernistic touches—have been | introduced by Robert Edmond Jones, and, in some cases, only the music| scores and actual stories remain irtact. Above all, the productoins of the Amer- ican Opera Co. emphasize beauty, hu- man appeal and romance, rather than vocal qualities at the expense of the physical verities. There are no 200- pound prima donnas interpreting slen- der maldens in Rosing’s outfit. Mrs .Wilson-Greene has announced that four operas in all will be given in Washington next month. The open- ing attraction will be the nev American opera “Yolanda of Cyprus,” on Mon- qaay evening, January 20, followed by “Mme. Butterfly,” Tuesday evening, January 21. The third evening per- | formance, Wednesday, January 22, will be: “Faust,” with “Carmen given at a matinee performance at 2 p.m. the same day. Reservations are now being filled at | Mrs. Wilson-Greene's concert bureau, | 1300 G street northwest. Congreuional"’Country Club | Has Christmas Carols Today | THE annual Christmas carol service given by the Congressional Country Club will be held this afternoon at 5 | o’clock. when the Wil-Nor Choral Club | again will present the program around the Christmas tree in the lounge of the club. ‘Those who were privileged to hear that carol service last year will recall the beautiful picture ‘these carolers made in their old English costumes. One of the unusual features of the | carol service this year will be a group of children's Christmas songs and the telling of that lovely old fable, “Why ! the Chimes Rang,” to the children and those who “never grow up.” ‘The members of the club, the chil- dren and their friends are cordially in- vited to be present. German Opera Lectures. THD opera lectures on the German Grand Opera Co.'s repertory for | Washington, to be given by Kurt Hetzel | at Barker Hall in the Young Women's Christian Association at Seventeenth and K streets, are arousing much in- terest. Mr. Hetzel is an_ authority on Wagner. In the days of thebgreat Felts Mottl, during the Munich festivals of opera under his guidance, Mr. Hetzel was his pupil and was associated with him in the famous festivals that are | still the mecca for all travelers to| Europe. As artist pianist, Mr. Hetzel brings a | rare gift to his elucidation of the op- | eras and their music scores. He knows | his Wagner so completely that he plays the music_entirely from memoty—the entire operas—in much the same vir- | tuoso way as when we find Toscanini or Stokowski conducting without their | scores. 8. Hurok, managing director of the German Opera, has arranged to have Mr. Hetzel give these lecture-recitals to the public. They are presented under | the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. through its chairman, Mrs. Edw:n B. Parker. | Invitation tickets, to the capacity of | the hall, may be obtained from the muslc department of the Y. W. C. A. or from the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bu- reau, 1330 G street northwest, | | and Brangane in Women.s Clty Cl\lb Has Program Today 'HE Women's City Club Musical En- semble will give a program of Christmas carols at the club house, 22 Jackson place, this afternoon, when “Le Sommeil de ~ “nt Jesus,” especially arrang women’s voices by Ger- trude L,ons, organizer and director of this ensemble, will be sung, the solo part being sustained by Marjorie De La Mater; the Besancon carol (old French), “Wbat Child Is This?” (old Irish}: Luther's cradle hymn, “Ring Out Ye Bells,” and “Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming” will be sung a cappella. ‘It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” Balfe-Parks, and “Cantique de Noel," Adam, will have piano accompaniment played by Gertrude Walter and violin obbligato by Lucienne Strocker. ‘This same group of singers rendered several of these Christmas carols over WOL last Saturday evening, and will sing several of the carols at the Mc- Kinley High School before the North Capitol Citizens' Association tomorrow evening. Arts Club Has Carols For Thuruday Program A PROGRAM of Christmas music will be presented at the Arts Club Thursday at 8:30 p.m. by the Tuesday Evening Music Club, Florence Howard, director, will have assisting Evelyn Scott, violinist; Alice Aljen Merrell, cellist, and Donna Tag- gart, pianist. The members of the Tuesday Evening Music Club are: Margaret Allison, Mar- jorle Brockett, Florence Bugbee, Vir- ginia Cooper, June Doorley, Clara Forbes, Adelaide Harbers, Ina Holtz- scheiter, Laura Lyle, Grace Brown, Ruth Godfrey, Cecile’ Littlefield, Flor- ence Burdick, Elizabeth Baugh, Winl- fred Royle, Enid Williams, Helen Wii- liams, Helen Neumeyer, Jean Fera, Reba Will,” Catherine Gross, Dorothy Ling- rell,” Lillian Llewellyn and Frances Tucker. The program will be presented in_the costumes of the early English carolers The same choruses will be sung to- morrow at the annual Christmas tea | of the University Women's Club, with H!;lwn Willlams, planist, as assisting soloist. AMERICANS SING IN GERMAN OPERAS MILO MILORADOVICH. WITH the brilliant solo casts an- nounced for the German Grand Opera Co., Mr. Hurok is proud to point to the fine group of young Americans who have solo parts in the four operas to be sung here in January, which has reversed its order, placing’ “Die Wal- kure” as the first opera, on January 6, with “Tristan and Isolde” for the scc- ond opera, on January 8, Mozart’s “Don Juan” on the original evening of Janu- ary 10, and with the second novelty of the series “The Flying Dutchman.” for the Tuesday matinee, January 14, to permit more boarding scheol students to hear it. Ten American artist soloists will come with the German opera, despite their forelgn names. All of them were born in this country, though most of them have had extensive opera experi- ence abroad. Sonia Sharnova, con- tralto, will sing Fricka in “Walkurs Tristan and Isolde. Dudley Marwich, bass, sings King Mark in “Tristan” and the Commandant in “Don Juan,” that droll character who is later the statue that comes to life. Mabel Ritch, contralto, sings Mary, Mrs. William T. Reed gave a cycle | of songs by Nellie Yale Hauberg at ths | { installation ceremonies of Esther Chap- | 'ter at Masonic Temple Thursday night. | Mrs. J. Harry Cunningham was the accompanist - Senta's nurse, in “The Flying Dutch- man,’ role made famous by Mme. Schumann-Heink. Milo Miloradovich, soprano, has many friends in Washington to wel- come her in the German opera rank: |8he will sing the lovely “Batti, Batti, as Zerlina in the Mozart “Don Juan' and will be one of the eight Valkyries | in “Die Walkure.” Milo Miloradovich is a native of the State of Washington, of Spokane, and her studies have ranged from there to Old World centers. Her somewhat romantic name is that of her Russian ancestry, a family whose history is one with Russia since the days of the Empress Catherine. The singer's per- sonality is eloquent of her traditional background. In her earliest years it was decided | | Mengelberg will conduct. ' should become & concert violinist her career in that medium was sandoned only because the natural seauty of her voice became the pelling force. Miss Miloradovich has appeared in leading operatic roles in Europe and in America and as soloist with well known oratorio societies and orchestras. Edna Zahm, soprano, has the de- lightful role of Donna Elvira in “Don Juan” and she also is one of the cight | Valkyries, Others of the Americans to complete | the Valkrie group, of which Director | Knoch i 50 proud, are Isolde ven Bern- hard, Shella Fryer, Merran Reader, Mabel Ritch, Helena Lanvin and Maurs, | Canning. Seats for each of the four operas can be had at T. Arthur Smith's con- | cert bureau, 1330 G street northwest. im- | The Y. W. C. A. Carolers Give Candlelight Service Singers of the Young Women's Christian Association who have been singing Christmas carols all during the week at the dinner hour in the K street building of the association, under the personal direction of Lucy Street, national director of Y. W. C. A. music, played a prominent part in the old English custom of “The Hanging of | the Greens” Thursday. evening, when carolers from the Girl Reserve Glee Club sang in the lobby and corridors, and the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club sang their Christmas carcl program in Barker Hall, during the evening, as the colorful Yule-tide ceremonies took place, including the bringing of the wassail bowl, the lighting of the Yule log and other delightful festivities which always accompany the Y. W. C. A. Christmas program in this city. The beautiful candlelight _service Will be held today in Barker Hall, in the main building, at 4 o'clock, when all | gToups in the Y.'W. C. A. will join in carol singing, including the Elisabeth Somers Glee Club, Girl Reserve Glee Club, the staff members, other ¥, W. C. A. groups, the Glee Club of the Epiphany Girls' Friendly Society and many others. The Girl. Reserves will present a “Carol Tableau” as part of the ceremonials, and will themselves present the “Processional of the Can- es."” The program for this afternoon in- cludes two groups of very old folk carols from Czechoslovakia, White Russia, France and England, to be sung by the Elizabeth Somers Club; a group of carols by the Girl Reserves Glee Club, including a Coventry carol, and “Shep- herds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep"; the old English carol, “I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In,” by the Grade | School Girl Reserves, and in the carol tableau Bohemian, Dutch, German, Austrian and Polish carols will .be sung in costume, The Soldiers' Orchestra. THE orchestra of the United States Soldiers'’ Home Band, John S. M. | Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Poin! ner, assistant, will give three concerts, |88 usual, Tuesday, Thursday and Saf urday afternoons at 5:30 o'clock in Stanley Hall. The programs will, as usual, combine classic and lighter numbers. Home | Lovette Choral Club In Carol prcgl’am! THE Lovette Choral Club will sing two carol programs tomorrow eve- | ning, going first to the Home for the | Aged at 1255 Wisconsin avenue and | to the Louise Home. Audrey Koons, so- | prano, will sing “The Birthday of a King,” and the duet, “Christmas,” by Shelley, will be sung by Nellie Barber | Brooks. soprano, and Pauline Bruner, | contralto. he program includes “The Pirst " “God Rest You Noel,” “Silent. Nigh! | Merry Gentlemen "We Three Kings y Night" and | of Orient Are,” 3 Eva Whitford Hol; “Joy to the World.” | Lovette will direct the singing and Pauline Lishman will be the accom- panist, e o The U. S. Marine Band. T“E, United States Marine Band will | | 8lve a band concert tomorrow at | | 4 pm. and an orchestral concert Fri- ‘diiy at 3 pm., both concerts to take | blace in the auditorium at the Marine | Barrack: There will be no concert | Wednesday night. | The Marine Band will give a program of sacred music at the lighting of the national community Christmas tree at Sherman Square Christmas eve. - The concert will begin at 5:30 p.m. and | the program will include a cornet solo, Cantique de Noel,” by Adam, to be played by the second leader, Arthur S. | Witcomb. The concert will b= under | | the baton of Capt. Taylor Branson, ! leader of the United States Marine Band. N. Y. C‘;;hestr:]‘;n—uary e HE Philharmonic Symphony Orches- tra of New York will open its sea- son in Washington Tuesday afternoon. January 7, at Constitution Hall. Willem Alexander BErailowsky, pianist, will be the soloist. Mr. Mengelberg will present Richard Strauss' “Don Juan.” This will be fol- lowed by Chopin’s “Piano Concerto in E Minor,” Mr. Brailowsky. After. the intermission “The Fifth SyL.phony,” by Tschaikowsky, will be played. The remaining two concerts here will be January 28. with Dan Gridley, tenor soloist, and Bernardino Molinari con- ducting, and March 4, with Arturo Tos- canini as conductor. The concerts are under the local management of T. Arthur Smith, at whose concert bureau the tickets ma be secured, 1330 G street northwest. Elena De Sayn, Washington violinist, left for New York to meet Miss Evers- man. She will spend the Christmas holidays as her guest: - | lJAzZz as dreams do, to sound of a great com- motion in the next room. There was | the crack of & pistol shot. Sharp pain | ran through my body. I had been wounded. With that I woke up, laughed at the unreality and went to sleep again. Next morning our whole company left early, traveling all day and the night | through. Reaching our destination we | went straight to the theater for re- before was to be given. This ended, 1 stayed behind to see about my costume, Most of the rest had gone to a hotel, which I found on reaching it to have no vacant room for me. A little later 1 got quarters elsewhere. After a restful nap I dined. Then came the performance. The opera proved a great hit. Happily excited, nobody thought of going at once to bed. What did a 24-hour trip, a re- hearsal and a performance mean in the first flush of youth? Going with my friends to their hotel, we had a jolly supper of cheese and sandwiches. Then something curious happened. On entering my room late that night I noticed for the first time a chromo | portrait of Abraham Lincoln hanging just above the bed, exactly as I had seen it in the dream. Also I discov- ered that a cold wind swept full length of mydpnythln‘ but downy cot. So T dragged it to the far side of the room. Too drowsy to bother over either co- incidences or things occult, I climbed in and went to sleep. The next thing I was conscious of was.a commotion in the adjoining MUSIG N _interesting musical program will be given at the Dodge Hotel Christmas eve by Mrs. William T. Reed, assisted by Gretchen Hood, Mabel Loftus and Flor- ence Yocum, vocalists, and Jean West- brook, violinist. At the conclusion of the program, the Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins, director, will sing carols during the lighting of the Christmas tree in the garden. As Tuesday will be Christmas® eve, the usual rehearsal for members of the Washington Choir has been called in- stead for tomorrow night at 8 o'clock by Kurt Hetzel, director. Ruth Thomas. presented a group of plano. students in a_recital recently. Those taking part included erg(s:eer. Doris Depp, Marie Sauter, thy Louise Smith, Robert Sauter, Dorls Long, Helen Smith, Verona Bogue, Martha Steer, Sylvia Headden, Audrey Headden, Betty Flather, Jean Lambert and Edna Braithwaite. Beulah Beverly_ct;;mbers presented at her studio last Sunday afternoon. Those taking part were Angela Adams, Cornelia Gray, Grosvenor Far- well, Kitty Riggs, Mario Cuniberti, Audrey Kubach, Betsy Farwell and Leila Hulbert. At the close of the program Mrs. Duff Lewis and Miss Chambers played com- positions for two pianos by Schumann, Henselt, Saint-Saens and Wagner. Helen Bury, soprano, assisted with a group of English and Irish songs. Loulse McNerney accompanied her. Robert Ruckman and Clay Coss pre~ sented the first of a series of recitals in their studios December 14, assisted by Edith Martin, soprano. Students participating were Dorothy Marks, Elizabeth Hall, Neil McKillen, Audrey Moler, Elizabeth Hunt, Frances Boss, Grace Swift, Anna Hunter, Wil- mer Helmuth and Gwendolyn Eddy. Anita Schade, well known dramatic | reader, will give a reading of the orig- inal German text of Richard’s Wag- ner's “The Flying Dutchman,” Satur- day night, January 4, at 8 p.m., at her residence, 1529 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Alice B. Harvey, pianist, will play Wagner himself called this music drama. Members and friends of the German Literary Society will attend. All others who know German and are interested in hearing the reading are cordially in- vited, also Members of the music section of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase gave a program of Christmas music at the De- cember meeting Wednesday. A trio composed of Rose Maxwell Dickey, vio- lin; Dorothy Jordan, cello, and Mrs. Daiwson Olmstead, ptano, gave selections as follows: Vido's ‘“Serenade,” De Bussy's “Romance,” Haydn's “Mindet” and “Jesu Bambino,” by Pietro Yon. The soloist was Edith White, con- tralto, who sang “O Babe Divine,” by Hamblin. Adam’s “Cantique de Noel” was sung by Mrs. Marshall C. Guthrie, soprano, hearsal, as an opera we had not sung | a group of students in a piano recital | parts from the “romantic opera,” as | LAWRENCE TIBBETT. room. A man and woman were quar- reling violently. There was a scuffle. I jumped out of bed to pound on the thin partition. In that moment a p! shot rang out. In a flash there was sound of running feet toward the next door, on which people began pounding. Pulling on my trousers 1 joined the rest, just.in time to see through the open door a man and woman and hear lame explanations that the pistol had gone off by accident. Disgusted per- haps at finding so much ado about nothing, the survivors being still intact, the group melted off to bed. ‘Then my excitement started. When I reached my room I saw in the glare of electric light a bullet hole in the partition and level with the spot where I should have lain had I not moved my bed. Things had appeared and had turned out precisely as I saw them in my dream, all but the speaking chromo portrait. But the cold draft foretold in that dream had proved all-sufficient warning to me to move my bed. (Copyright, 1929.) RAPHS and Mrs. Ralph Wilson, contralto, the obbligato for violin and cello being given by Mrs. Dickey and Mrs, Jordan. .Mrs, Olmstead accompanied all numbers. Herndon Morsell, musical director of |the section, led the club in singing | Christmas carols. Alice Eversman left France December 16 and is expected on the Leviathan to- ay. Short:, before sailing Miss Eversman was active in a production sponsored by the Prince of Greece, author of a gbr:tm set to music by Count de la Toix, 5 ‘Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening, : He will play Christmas March,” by Harvey Grace; “Variations on a Gevaert. Christmas Carol,” Mauro-Cottone; “Behold, a Rose Is Blooming,” Brah 1Mlmh Form,” .Roland Diggle, at the 11 | o'clock service this morning. Virginia < W. Cureton, well known Washington violinist, who is studying at the Chicago Musical College under | Leon Sameteni, has returned home to | spend the holldays with her mother, |Mrs. V. B. reton. Gertrude Lyons, lyric soprano, and Margaret Bowle Grant, pianist, gave a program of Christmas carols Thumda“l afternoon over WOL. Miss Grant | played “Gesu Bambino (Pietro Yon) |and Mrs. Lyons sang “An Old Sacred | Lullaby” .(Liddle), “O Holy Night” ! (Adam), Luther's cradle hymn, | “Christmas Lullaby” (Gabriel), “The First Noel” and “Silent Night.” Mary D. Junkin, sponsored by Ger- trude Lyons, sang “The Morning Is Calling” (Robert Ferry), “An Irish Love Song” “Loch. Lo~ g “Song of the Little Folk” (Eric Coates), “My Lover Is a Fisherman” (Lily Strickland) and “Wounded Faun" (Thurlow Licurance) over WOL Saturday afternoon, with | Margaret Bowie Grant at the plano. “First Performance’ Operas In Philadelphia Thursday HE Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. will give a double bill of unusual interest Thursday evening. ‘“Judith” | will have its American premiere. It will be sung in English and conducted by its distinguished composer, Engene Goos- sens. The. entire cast for this opera, Bianca Saroya, Ivan Steschenko. Ralph Errolle, Berta Levina and Carroll Ault, have been personally chosen by Mr. Goossens. The score of “Judith” is sald to be of a decidedly modernistic trend. The orchestral accompaniment will be played by 75 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 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