Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1930, Page 61

STAR WASHINGTON, IARCH 30, D 1930—PART FOUR Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, re- between Four-and-a-half and Sixth | o 0 o) o R e o ®elved a classification of excellent in target practice during the last annual » encampment. according to a letter re- ceived last week from the commanding general of the 3d Corps Area, who, in transmitting the information from_the chief of the Militia Bureau of the War | Department, sald: “The excellent rating | 15 most gratifying to the commanding | general, and he takes this opportunity | 1o congratulate this organization for its | excellent work.” | In dispatching the letter to Maj Walter W. Burns, commanding the 260th Coast _Artillery. Gen. Stephan added this: “It is with pleasure that the commanding general notes the classifi- cation of Battery A, 260th Coast Ar tillery, as ‘excellent’ as a result of tar get practice conducted at the last en- campment. The cammanding general congratulates the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the battery on the | excellent results attained and is confi- | dent that efforts will be continued to | secure this rating each year hereafter Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan has been detailed as a member of the board of officers appointed to meet at Fort George G. Meade, Md., on May 14 to conduct examinations. He is to take the place made vacant by the relief of Brig. Gen Herbert O. Williams Revamping of the t gation of engineer regiments att to Infantry divisions so as to fortify the Medical Department with increased commissioned personnel was suggested in a letter sent to the National Guard Association committee by Lieut. Col. F. H. Smith, adjutant general of the local militia. The local engineer regiment has only two medical officers attached to it. If one of the positions is vacant er one of | the two officers is unable to go to camp for one reason or another it throws the burden on the other of taking care of the sick of the entire regiment. It is practically impossible, in such instances. when the regiment is operating singly for the medical officer to get any relief and his duties keep him busy day and night. In addition to the two medical off cers in the regiment there is a medical officer of the State staff who is available for duty if the staff goes with the regi- ment, but this is not at all certain. A vear or two ago at Camp Ritchie, Mr., Maj. George J. Allen, then serving as head of the Engineer Medical Depart- ment detachment, was the only medical officer in the camp, and in addition to the regiment had the military police. the State staff and the stafi of the 29th National Guard Division. This necessitated the officer remaining in camp. on call, day and night. It is to preclude such a condition as this that the local Guard is asking for study with a view to replacing a veteri- narian now allowed in the tables with a medical officer. The recommendation is contained in a letter to Col. D. W. De Prez at Shelbyville, Ind. “In accordance with memorandum from the president of the National Guard Association,” the letter of Col Smith says, “the National Guard of the District of Columbia requests that your committee give study to a change in tables of organization pertaining to the | engineer regiment in an infantry di- vision. suthorize the appointment of one vet- erinian per regiment. However, these regiments are not permanently equip- ped with horses, so that. except during the camp period, the veterinian's serv- ices are not required. With only two | medical officers, the regiment is handi- capped and it is recommmended that the change made in the table authorize the appointment of one additional medical medical officer in lieu of one veterinarian. This will not increase the cost to the government and will be of material advantage to the National QGuard. During the past years this ition has been left vacant in the 21st Engineers. Three units of the local Guard mu tered enough men at drill last week o obtain a classification of superior in attendance, and two of the organiza- tions had 100 per cent of their men in the ranks. They were the Medical rtment Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, and the Quartermaster Corps Detachment, in this class was the 29th Division Mili- tary Police Company, with a percentage of 9523. The other organizations, in their respective classifications with per- centages, follow: Excellent—Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 260th Coast A tillery; 89.65; Headquarters Detach- ment, 20th Division, 89.58; Band, 121st Engineers, 87.37. Very satisfactory—Headquarters and ‘Service Company, 1215t Engineers, 75.51; Company F, 121st Engineers, 72.41; Headquarters Detachment, 20th Divi- sion, Special Troops, 71.43; Company C, 121st Engineers, 70.00. | Satisfactory—Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery, 69.84: Battery B, 260th Coast 68.96; Company B, 121st En- 2 y 260th Coast 62.06; Company A, 372d In- 61.64. Company A, 121st En-| gineérs, 60.34. Unsatisfactory—Company E, 121st En- gineers, 56.52; Company D, 12ist En- gineers, 51.61. Very unsatisfactory—Medical De- partment Detachment, 121st Engineers, 47.36. Appointment as_chief of Coast Artil- lery of Col. John W. Gulick is taken as & compliment to the National Guard according to a statement of the Militia Bureau sent to Guard organizations He served four years as executive offi- cer of the Militia Bureau, and the ap- pointment, says the statement, “is a well merited recognition of his effi- clency and of the importance accorded the National Guard in the scheme of national defense. The National Guard throughout the country may well con- sider this appointment a compliment to it and will be pleased to know that Gen. Gulick is continued in a position where his interest in the Guard and knowledge of its problems will still benefit it. “During the past four years there has been marked improvement of the National Guard in every particular, and the most amicable relations have been fostered and maintained between | it and the War Department. To Gen. Gulick, as executive officer for both Maj. Gens. Hammond and Everson, the former and present chiefs of the Militia Bureau, belongs no small part of the :‘redlt for the present favorable situa- jon.” While their new armory in the Na- tional Hotel Building will not provide @ drill hall, nevertheless, with the com- ing of the Summer weather the troops will have a large outside space in which street and the buildings housing the Census Bureau and_the historical sec- tion of the Army War College. mission has been granted for the use of Seaton Park for night drills, and this is bounded by Third and Four- and-a-half streets and Missouri and Maine avenues. With the space available for night drills, it is probable that more effectiv lighting arrangements will be made so that those training the troops can see | every detail with a view to correcting any mistakes that are made. The drill- ing on the park space will necessitate a march of from two to three blocks each way every drill night. Rapid headway has been made by the local Guard in transferring its effects from the old Government Hotel Build- ings, on the Union Station Plaza. to the National Hotel Building. at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, which will serve as an armory until the Govern- ment_decides to raze it to make way for the buildings of the new municipal center. The alterations necessary for its use as a temporary armory were made be- fore the heavy paraphernalia was moved, and it was indicated that the Per- | 'mond Escherich, tenor, and Mayne R. Coe, baritone. The Washington Conservatory of Music and the Dupont Circle Girls’ School will present a joint recital by children Thursday at 7:20 pm. Those participating will include Billy Lang- | ston, Marietta Eckam, Betty Smalley, Helen Morley, Richard Myer, Tack Du- |lin, Willie Carey, Harriei Sloan, Ber- nard Lettaeu, Bobby Locke, Alma Mar- tin and Rose Pincus. ‘The orchestra from the conservatory ! will give a selection as closing number, |E. W. Ladovitch, conducting, with Maria Rojas as accompanist. Friday night at 8:15 o'clock the con- | | servatory will present a group of stu- | | dents in a senior program. Those tak- | t are to include Maria Roja: | Moxley, Marcia Williams, Ch itine Vermiliion, Genevieve Jacobs, | Eloise Nyce, Frederick Milton Mercury and Signor Giuseppe. The orchestra {also will play on this program. | Sidney and his Mayflower Orchestra { have opened the new season of Sunday |evening concerts at the Mayflower | Hotel | Tonight at 7 pm. the program in | the presidential room will include works by Beethoven, Waldteufel, Lohr, Bart- lett, Massanet and the popular “Rogue | Song,” Lehar-Stothar. Later in the evening, beginning at |8:45 pm., a piogram will be played in the palm court. in which works by | | Herold, Drigo, Yradier, Herbert, Gran- | | Beck. Present National Guard tables | The other organization | troops’ will be quite comfortably lo- | cated for at least awhile. While settled | here temporarily, the officials will begin | the formulation of a program, to be pre- nted perhaps to the next Congress, ooking to the provision of a perma- | nent armery here, and thus back up any aid which might be given by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which has voluntarily taken the Guard armory question under its protective wing, at least long enough to kill the Bowman bill, which provided for the purchase for the Guard for use as an armory of the Washington Audi- | torium. The commission has made a gesture on the armory by the collection of some data as to the needs and requirements for such a structure. but so far has not made public any definite recommenda- tion for the location of the building or to suggest even what kind of a structure should be built for the loca »ops. At any rate, the Guard officials whose duty it is to look after the training of these units_are in a mueh better position to say just what kind of facilities are needed and should be provided than those who do not have a direct contact with the situation | | _Engineer regiments this year will be allowed $300 for material for training, | but the regulations point out that in so | far as practicable this material should be utilized in improvements to the | camp where the regiment is taking its | training. Musigraphs __(Continued From Fourth Page.) gagements as planist, organist and in the role of accompanist. At the presentation of the play, “Great Catherine,” at Central High School last Friday, Miss Athey furnished the music, which included a short or- gan recital before the performance and selections between the acts. The choir of Trinity Episcopal Church will sing the Maunder cantata, “Olivet to Calvary,” tonight under the direction of George Middleton, organist at the church. - Soloists will be: Mrs. George Lambert, Mary Elizabeth Parsons, Larry !Z‘v.illrik George Lambert and Victor Rus- Maud Sewall will give the tenth and final of her series of illustrated lectures on history and music apprectation at the Institute of Musical Art tomorrow at 5 p.m. Her subject will be “The Reper- !IOX;“{ of the Metropolitan for Washing- st Mary S. Parker played a group of Chopin selections Anp the “Wfl'shlnpzlon Evening Star March,” written by Capt. W. J. Stannard, at an entertainment at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Mead in Col- | lege Park last Sunday afternoon. Aime Bustin sang “Sweet Mother of Mine,” with words by Mrs. Ralph Lozier of Mis- :o‘l;;l, ?nil‘ rendGl poem written by the vife of Maj. Gen. Amos Fries. Maxwell read a poem. b Telicia Rybier, pianist, returned Satur- day from ‘the South. She announces re-engagements in Florida for next | season. "Saturday of this week she will | broadcast a program over WBAL, Balti- | more, the first of a series of six con- certs. She has received fine reviews of programs given in her Southern tour. Ina Holtzscheiter, soprano, and Helen | Neumeyer, contralto, with Mrs. Frank Byram, accompanist, gave a program 18t the meeting of the Washington Readers' Club March 17. Songs by La Forge, Homer Samuels, Cox and Manna Zucca were presented. | _The music section of the Woman's | Club of Chevy Chase, Md., had a | musical tea at the home of Mrs. Louis | Boeckhoff last Monday. | Walter Holt and Alice Hill opened the program with a duet for guitar and | mandolin. "Soprano solos were con- | tributed by Mrs. John T. Stewart and | Mrs. J. L."Brooks: Mrs. Frank Wilmot, contraito, and Mrs. S. J. McCathran, pianist, were other soloists. Mrs. Dawson Olmstead read some of her own Hawailan poems and gave a Hawaiian d With . R. C. Wilson, she ang ‘a duet, “King’s Serenade.” A sextet sang the familiar “Aloha Oc" with ukulele accompaniment. Louis Potter. ir., a youthful violon- cellist of Washington, will play two selections at the evening service at Centennial Baptist Church tonight, ac- cording to announcement by Dr. Swem, pastor. The numbers will be “London- derry Air," arranged for this instru- ment, and Saint-Saens’ “Le Cygne.” Ethel Holtzelaw Gawler. soprano, will assist Lewis Atwater, organist. in a pro- gram of Scandinavian music this after- noon at 5 o'clock in All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Mrs. Gawler will sing “Cradle Song.” by Runeberg, and “I Saw a Gull,” by Sinding This will be the concluding program of the season. At the German service at Concordia Lutheran Church this morning Esther Celander, soprano, will sing “Gebet" (“Prayer”), by Guion. She will s'ng the English translation at the evening service at 8 pm. ados, Horlick, Bolsdeffre and Mascagni wil resented. Richard Lorleberg, violoncellist, will be soloist in Giranados’ “Romarza.” At 4:30 this afternoon the Evangeline Glee Club will repeat at the Washing- ton College of Music the program ren- dered last Sunday at the Evangeline Hotel. Louise Walsworth is the director of the club and Roslyn Carter the accot planist. Both are members of the col-| lege faculty. ‘The public is invited to attend. Phebe Gates will sing at the Women'’s City Club at a banquet given by the| Spanish Club section Saturday. She| will give a costume recital of Spanish songs, which will include “A la Orilla | del Palmar” (At the Palm Grove),| “Cielito Lindo” (Beautiful Heaven) and | “Preguntale a las Estrellas” (Ask the Stars) Guitar accompaniments will be played | by Miss A. E. Hill of the Walter Holt Studios. This will be Miss Gates’ third appearance in recital at these City Club Spanish banquet: A student recital was held March 21 at the Washington College of Music. The recital hall and reception rooms were fllled with students and invited guests, Dr. Hugh Roberts presented Aurelia | contralto; Adele Delano and Mamie Rouse, sOpranos. | Mr. Zetlin, head of the violin_ de- partment, presented Anna Mary San- ford and William Hanrahan, jr. Mr. Carter had Margaret Oxenberg and Winifred Chamberlain, pianists, on the program. Mrs. Tyler of the voice department presented Eugenia Brown and Janet Oliver, both sopranos. Other teachers of the piano depart- ment, including Mrs. Dmitrieff, Miss Squibb, Miss Carter and Miss Becker were represented on the program by Jane Burns, Pauline Leatherwood, Edith Harrison, Sarah Cauthen and Pauline Slavin. Ethel Hicks of the violin department presented Grace Powell. Catherine Ben- son was the accompanist for the eve- ning. Mary Gross of the piano department and Evelyn Scott of the violin depart- ment of the Washington College of Mu- sic presented several students in recital Friday evening the 28th instant Those taking part were Jean Gib- bons, Lila Bess Scott, McPherson Hul- bert, Bernice Biron, Anna Shapiro, Sarah Wasserman, Ruth Shapiro, Doris Lemley, Emanuel Bretandeau, Mary Dempsey, Marjorie Butler, Herman Zabrek, Joseph Wheeler, Margaret Rus- sell, Frederick Haskell and Albert Ar- nold. The recital hall was filled with pa- rents of the young musicians. Edwin Hughes, another former Wash- ingtonian who is doing considerable worth-while work elsewhere, announces from his New York studio that his fourteenth annual Summer master class for pianists and teachers will be held in the metropolis June 30 to August 9 this year. A vrogram of American music is to be presented shortly by Elena de Sayn, violinist, and Eugenia Cherniavskaja- ! Brumen, two Russian artists who make their homes here. The date of the re- cital is to be announced later, _ Frances Gutelius, Washington pianist, is in Boston for the Brahms festival She is being entertained by friends while in that city and is stopping at | | the Hotel Touraine. | Minnie Volkmann, soprano, will sing | two songs written by a member of the | Washington Readers’ Club at the club meeting Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Woman's_Alliance 1oom of All Souls | Church, Fifteenth and Harvard streets | northwest. The composer of these | songs, Miss Anita Schade, will, by re- | quest, give two “spoken songs,” accom- panied on the piano by Mrs. Frank By- ram. Emily Theresa Harrold Marsh, so- prano, of Washington, who, since her marraige last November, when she be- came Mrs. Guy Withers, has been on a | Southern “tour, vacationing _principally | in Florida, has returned to the National Capital. Maj. and Mrs. Withers are at the Martinique. Mrs. Withers expects to | resume her musical activities here this Spring | with them also. The chorus sings at | Robert Frederick Freund, director of the Romany Chorus of Palm Beach, Fla., writes that the chorus is enjoying a Righly successful season this year. Mr. Freund himself is a Washingtonian. Many friends of his recall his visit| - * the increasing subscriptions for the here last Summer. Philadelphia Orchestra series show & It seems that the Romany Chorus is! marked prefetence for evening concerts. composed of 35 young singers, organized | Mr. Smith has advised the Philadelphis last year under the supervision of Mrs. | Orchestra Association of this and the George A. Dobyne and her son-in-law, | board of directors is seriously consider= the famous baritone, John Charles |ing evening concerts for Washington, Thomas. Mr. Freund is assisted in di- | beginning at 8:45 pm. With a program recting the chorus by B. Gagliano, a |Of 1 hour and 30 minutes’ duration, coach assoclated with the Metropolitan | the concert will close at 10:45. Grand Opera Co. Edna Lee Freund,| The evening hour will enable every also well known here, is accompanist. | One to attend without a dinner rush Sidney Homer and his wife, the con- |and promises to make these concerts tralto, Louise Homer, have shown much | Prominent soctal-musical events. interest in the chorus and appeared | The Philarmonic series of three con- certs will be given in the afternoon as heretofore with the usual 4:30 p.m. schedule, The afternoon hour brings most of the patrons to the hall during the worst c hour of the day if made 4:45, a5 ried this season, which caused incon- | venience to every one. so the usual 4:30 | hour has been replaced for .the New | York_Philharmonic Philadelphia Orchestra May Give Evening Series Here. ARTHUR SMITH announces that private entertainments in the homes of socially prominent residents, as well as appearing in public concerts and cos- tume balls. The group was “filmed” recently by a leading motion picture | concern. Soldiers’ Home Orchestra. 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