Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1930, Page 44

MU BY HELEN FETTER. OW many of the hundreds of music students in Wash- ington look forward beyond the graduation from stu- dent recitals and ever wonder what comes next? Naturally, the individuals who obviously have the spark of genius ‘combined with persistence in preparation for big careers have their years ahead for a decade at least definitely planned out. But how about all the others who study from year to year, knowing in their souls that they will never be great artists no mat- ter how much patient and some- times overzealous teachers urge them on? Some of these students have no illusions at all. They are the happy individuals who realize the great value of music to them for its sake alone. They will not think for a moment of attempt- ing music career, but merely an- ticipate the very considerable Bleasure that music is going to ring them in their homes in later years in hours of relaxation. On the contrary, however, there also is a considerable group of students who have marked talent but not genius. This is the group that is most in danger of falling into the abyss between the other two safe roads. Even the best meaning teachers do not somie- times clearly and with frankness that is real friendliness point out the limitations of the talent of such students, but rather let them think that their gift has bigger market value than it could ever possibly achieve. These are the students who stand in grave dan- ger of having their love and study of music make them definitely | unhappy, even if it doesn't seri- ously menace them by ruining the possibility of making them useful citizens contented in other ca- reers and enjoying their music simply as a side issue. ey 'HERE is another important '™ angle to this very problem. Granted that there are students| in every community, like many the writer can recall in Washing- | ton at this time, who have amaz- ing technical skill at performing upon some instrument or in sing- ing, yet whose artistic gift is only | mediocre, surely there is a place for such would-be musicians in the more modest programs and less ambitious organizations and in the field of teaching in places throughout the United States. But the difficulty is to convince students that these are the places for them. Every young singer who does not have a supremely wise teacher | | is liable to allow buoyantly gay | particularly responsive | respond. | situation in the Renaissance dur- | New York is the center of Ameri- SIC finishing their studies, be just as energetic providing opportunities for those same students having dates to appear after they have finished their training in their “home towns” and see to it that they can make a living there. This would help the product of their own community and help in developing the musical program | of the city itself. This idea seems practical, sound | and filled with possibilities of fine progress and distinctive develop- ment in communities scattered throughout the country. * K X % Il’-‘ you can’t bring the people to | 7 grand opera, take grand opera to the people, seems to be the slogan of - the Metropolitan Opera Co. Within the last few years the Spring tour of the com- pany has been conslderably en- larged. Now, the latest announce- ment made by Otto Kahn, chair- man of directors of the company, states that two test performances of grand opera in suburbs of New York are to be given next De- cember. Full Metropolitan casts and equipment will be used in White Plains, N. Y. planned to have as many popular- priced seats as possible. Empha- sis is brought on the fact that the operas are to be given for the en- tire community and not any one class. The performances will be given in the Westchester Recrea- tion Center. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, chairman of this recreation com- mission, is well known in Wash- ington music and social circles, spending the Winters in this city. This recently completed recrea- tion center is said to be a most remarkable building, with equip- ment that makes various projects possible that otherwise would not be feasible. The building cost $1,000,000. Mr. Kahn is quoted as having said: “I have found that people who live in less crowded com- munities, like our suburbs, are to art. Given good music away from the hurried and bustling element in| our daily life, they are sure to| In art the situation in| America today is similar to the ing the fifteenth century. Then Rome was the center for art, and can art now, but the big centers must always reach out to the provinces to really reach the peo- ple and gain appreciation for art.” * X X % GNACE PADEREWSKI, the great musician of Poland, will pass visions of the stages of the Chi-| cago and Metropolitan Grand Opera Houses come before their| imaginations when studying “Una voce poco fa,” or “Le Reve,” or “Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix.”| The presentation of student re- | citals with the enthusiasm and applause of a largely biased audi- ence of relatives and invited friends, and bouquets of flowers, encourages the young instrumen- talist to feel that the formal con- cert stage may not be out of reach after all. The awarding of scholarships to talented children who haven't genius and preliminary triumphs in community tryouts for national auditions also - have definitely harmful potentialities as well as the admirable and philanthropic intent of the doners’ generosity. These talented boys and girls are inclined to be the artistic counterpart of the rural youths who break from the parental ties as soon as possible to seek fame in the big world. * X X X 'A T a conference of music super- visors held in Chicago this Spring an unusually worth-while address that dealt with the prob- lems for the musically gifted youth of America was given by Dr. John Erskine, famed prima- rily for his book “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” and later, musically, for his work as head of the Juilliard School of Music in New York. The main point of the problem most urgent for solution was ex- pressed by him as follows: “The fact is simply this, that in our land where you have numeri- cally more talent than elsewhere in the world and where we are beginning to cultivate it, where we have young opera singers com- ing on, there is no opera for them to sing in; where you are training these youngsters to be orchestra players, there are no orchestras for them to play in. If you should succeed in producing such mas- terly singers as we have just lis- tened to (Emilio de Gogorza), there is almost no platform from which they can sing, and if you can produce composers they will have no chance, practically, to hear their compositions. “That condition follows an- other condition, that all the mu- siclans who are trained in this land to follow a career, the very best of your students in schools, those that are urged to go on to fulfill their destiny, will all try to fulfill it in a very few cities, ghiefly in the East. “Today in New York, to some @xtent in your city here, Chicago, and to a great extent in Boston and Philadelphia, you will find far more symphony players than all the population could listen to if they gave their whole time to it, trying to play or starve. You will find singers of very great gift out of a job. You will find the conductors, experienced and in- experienced, with no orchestra to lead. You will find the musical talent of this country, and a great deal of that of Europe, too, stran- gling itself. “While out in the land at large there are vast numbers of people who have never seen a symphony orchestra, whole States which have never seen or heard an opera (unless they have heard it over radio), people who delight in good music but don’t get it except over the air.” * | * % % THE remedy that Dr. Erskine ad- vises for this condition is that the community organizations, which so blithely and with kindly intent raise funds to send their gifted sons and daughters S g cq%: finest conservateries for the milestone of his threescore years and ten the 6th of next No- vember, yet he has announced from Paris just pricr to spending the rest of the Summer in his chateau in Morges, Switzerland, that he will come to the United States on an extensive tour next season. In an interesting inter- view given in the French capital the artist is quoted as having said: “This age is not propitious for art. It is an age of economics. It is an age of production, and as such it has great value, for it has brought greater comfort to the masses. If it is well directed it may later come to be regarded as one of the most valuable epochs of this ever-changing system of human life. “But genius, and therefore the creation of great art, is impos- sible under the present system of living. Genius requires not only the divine spark which comes as an accident, but also favorable conditions in which to develop. Most essential are quiet and in- tense concentration of mind. “There is another handicap to the creativeness of art in the in- creasing tendency toward collec- tivism. People are,K more and more working in groups. They form trusts, corporations and fed- erations, and thereby accomplish marvels commercially. But no poem or painting was ever cre- ated by a syndicate. Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual, and today the in- dividual is being merged and lost in the group. * * * Where is there any one today who is reach- ing the heights of Bach, Beetho- ven, Mozart or those later Roman- ticists, Schumann and Chopin, or tha* youngest and most powerful genlus, Wagner? “I try to keep my mind open, but I cannot understand the meaning of most of the music that is being written today. On my programs are the works of modern composers — Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Schelling—but the average composer of today seems to be seeking color only, and color is not music.” M. Paderewski is further quoted as looking to America for the re- turn of art, first, because wealth It will be. T TWO SINGERS GU "T'HE ffty-first concert of Latin Amer- fcan music to be given Tuesday, under the auspices of the Pan-American Union, will feature the United States Marine Band. Capt. Taylor Branson, the leader, has secured compositions covering & wide range of type as well | as of origin. The feature number will be a speclal arrangement of themes from the Brazilian opera “Il Guarani.” | The composer, Carlos Gomes, visited the United States at the time of the ‘World Fair at Chicago and served as guest conductor for the great orchestra assembled for the exposition. The over- ture from “Il Guarani” was rendered on many occasions during the fair and has become popular with major musical organizations throughout the United States. The selection to be played Tuesday evening will receive its first rendition in this country. Four soloists from the Marine Band will appear in the Pan-American pro- | gram. Second Leader Arthur S. Wit. comb will play some Latin American alrs especially arranged for cornet: | Winfred Kemp and Robert E. Clark will | play trombone and cornet duets: and | Vibraphonist Wilbur D. Kieffer will fea- | HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 6, 1930—PART FOU S ON PAN-AMERICAN PROGRAM TUESDAY WITH MARINE BAND Abigail Parecis, the young Brasilian soprano, in native Indian costume, which she will wear for some of her numbers Tuesday night, and, inset, Rodolfo Hoyos, the other singer-of the evening, who has become a favorité here. ture two Latin American numbers by request. The assisting artists will be | vocalists. Abigail Parecis, & young Brazilian 5o [in the principal Latin American clp~i n 12. prano, reached the United States but & few weeks ago directly from engage- ments in the leading opera houses of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Besides arias from Brazilian operas, she | will sing & group of folk songs from | Brazil, accompanying herself on the guitar, and wearing native Indian cos- tume for one number. | Rodolfo Hoyos, Mexican baritone, ap- | | peared in a Pan-American program two vears ago, and his reappearance is in the nature of a popular demand. Senor | Hoyos is recognized as possessing one of the most impressive voices that has | come to us from his very musical land He has appeated with the leading opera | companies of Mexico and is well known | as an operatic and concert artist in the | leading capitals of Latin Ameica. The entire program from 8:30 until 10:30 pm., Eastern standard time, will | be broadcast over station NAA, Wash- ington, D. C., 690 kilocycles, and the last half hour will be sent out over a chain of the National Broadcasting Co. The International General Electric Co. of Schenectady will use its two short- wave radio channels, W-2XAD on 15,340 kilocycles and W-2XAF on| 9,530 kilocycles, so that the program may be rebroadcast from the stations itals. The program is as follows: 1. March, “Union Panamericana” (Galeano), Honduras United States Marine Band. Capt. Taylor Bransoa, iibur | S. Grand selection the opera “I} Guarani” (Gomes) . i Brazil (First rendition in Uniied States) United States Marine Band 6. Vocal solos . “Ojos (Tol b “La M Morning (Garcin) e. “Rayito de (Grever) Rodolfo Hoyos George H. Wil: 7. Characteristic, Robles) ... .. u (Eyes of Youth) na_esta ‘de’ Fiesta the Festival ventud” United '8 Marine Band 8. “Indigenous Mavan Minuet” | 1oy, | United States Marine Band 9. Ballet, “La Fete Chez Therese’ (Hahn). Venezuela United Btates Marine Band. 10. Duet for cornet and trombone. “la Golondrina’ £ Wi (Serradel) ...........Mexico (Tavares) Brazil and. ocal solo, “Ojos Tapatios ™ (Eyes of the Guadaiajara Girls) (Velasquez). Mexico Rodolfo Hoyos George H. Wilson. accom “Cueca, “Manana " (arran United States Marine Band rnet solo. “Estrellita” (Ponce)..Mexico 8. Witcomb. second leader, United ates Marine Band. lo. “Aria” from the opera ‘Il i (Gomes) 5t a BT Abigail Parecis. 19. Vibraphone solo, *Hindo (Bemberg) .hm;‘(l d) > Missud). Chile 17. Coi Arthur Love 8ol Argenuin; er. ed States) (Gigante), Ecuador United States Marine Band. "Star Spangled Banner Announcers will be Enrique C. Can- ova and Herluf Provensen. 5 N Wilbur D. Kiefl (Pirst rendition {n Unit 20. Criolla, “On the Playa’ LIZABETH GUTMAN, American so- prano, is returning from Europe after triumphing as a propagandist in the interest of the evolution of Ameri- can music on the continent. A native of Baltimore, Miss Gutman has many friends in Washington, too. She has visited many large cities, giving recitals in Milan, Vienna, Venice, Turin, etc., in a descriptive repertoire of old, mod- ern and intermediate period songs. She was assisted by Lazar Saminsky, di- rector of the choir of the Temple Emanu-El, who explained the origin, evolution and growth of American song literature, its unique atmosphere, through geographical allocation and specific colloquialism. This was illus- trated in songs by Miss Gutman. The program covered various periods and gradations from Stephen Foster to George Gershwin. Following the early Foster songs were typical Kentucky mountain songs, transcribed by Howard Brockway; the Southern Negro spirit- uals of H. T. Burleigh, as well as other Southern Bayou and Creole songs, typi- cal Western American cowboy chanties | and ballads, followed by examples by modern American composers. The mod- ern school was represented by Charles T. Griffes, Emerson Whithorne, Ernest Bloch, John Alden Carpenter and Mr. Saminsky. U. S. Programs Requested. Miss Gutman was invited to present these concerts in European countries | by special request and definite arrange- ment, making her appearances under the auspices of the International So-| clety for the Promotion of Modern | Music and the New York Polyhymnia | Society. In Turin the great Italian musicolo- | gist, Franco Alfano, composer of “Res- | urrection,” who completed Puccini's | “Turande headed the list of patrons | to present the soprano. Mr. Alfano arranged for the singer's return engagement in 1931 for concerts at the conservatory, of which he is the director. ‘The success of the concert in Vienna was immediately cabled to the United States, After the enthusiastic recep- alone will permit it, and second, because the standard of education in America is constantly being| elevated. On his American tour he will include 75 cities. Incidentally, the Washington manager, Mrs. Wilson-Greene, who is abroad, has arranged by cable for M. Paderewski to give several concerts in nearby cities, but, due to his established atti- tude toward the National Capital, the pianist refuses to make a date for Washington. Mrs. Greene talked with Dr. Koussevitzky about programs for the Beethoven Festival to be held here next December. She also writes of Ponseile’s debut in “La Traviata” in Covent Garden and tells of planning six weeks of va- cation at the Lido, near Venice, Italy, before returning to Wash- ington. Chaminade Glee Club Announces Recent Election THE following officers were elected at the business meeting of the Chaminade Glee Club June 19: Pre dent, Louise Munsey; first vice presi- dent, Grace Weed; second vice presi- dent, Edith Henrickson; secrstary, Mil- dred V. Myers; treasurer, Laura Lind- ley; librarian, Miriam Abel; assistant librarian, Miss Homrichausen; publicity chairman, Gertrude Karst. ‘The team captains next season are to be Elizabeth Black, Erminie Leonardo | ». tion of the concert in Milan, the vocal department of the Milan Conservatory sent a request for the list of all the songs presented, including the names of authors and publishers, so that they could be added to the conservatory’s curricular repertory. 3 Singer, Also Paints. Few in the musical world are aware that Miss Gutman is also a painter of renown, and those in the world of the art of color are unaware that she is ually equipped as a talented singer. year again her canvases and water colors, in which she now is specializing, have been exhibited, as in past seasons. American Soprano Carries Native Programs to Europe ELIZABETH GUTMAN. The 1930 Washington exhibit was in | the Corcoran Art Gallery; in Baltimore | it was at the Water Color Club, at the Baltimore Friends of Art and at the Maryland Institute. Miss Gutman spent much of her time between concerts and rehearsals paint- ing. She made a special trip through Spain for a twofold purpose, making canvases and collecting Spanish folk- songs and general folklore which would enrich the settings of both of these arts, She also made a study of the national costumes in endless variety, as | particularly adopted by the up-rm; Spanish provinces. Every detail of every dress, scarf and headdress was noted. In Andalusia she had a com- plete costume made by the authorita- tive dressmaker of the province, who also assisted in obtaining the correct headdress for the event for which the costume was intended. Miss Gutman has sold many can- | vases, especially modern water colors | of small landscapes and floral groups. The significant sale of the year was a purchase by the famous Cone Collec- tors of Modern French Art. Miss Gutman also is very much in- terested in all work and societies con- nected with animal welfare. She is the vice president of the Baltimore County Humane Society, is on the board of the Baltimore City Dog Shelter, a member of the Societe Humaine des Animaux of Lauzanne, Switzerland, and of the Humane Society of Florence, Ttaly. Distinguished From Confer ERNIST HUTCHESON, pianist and dean of the Jullllard Graduate | School, who is well known in Washing- | ton, has returned to New York from | Berlin and is en route to resume his Summer duties as head of the piano | department at Chautauqua Institution, | Chautauqua, N. Y. Mr. Hutcheson will teach and conduct master classes there for six weeks during July and August. This Summer school is referred to by Dr. John Erskine, president of the Jullliard School of Music, as the leading Summer music center in the country. | The piano department alone this season | has attracted more_ than 100 students | from all over the United States, who | will study with or under the direct | supervision of Mr. Hutcheson. During | the Chautauqua season Mr. Hutcheson | will play 18 recitals and his students will present 12 programs. ‘While abroad, Mr. Hutcheson ap- | mred in recital at the Bachsaal in | 1lin, where he aroused tremendous enthusiasm. As a result of this success he has been asked to make arrange- ments for a European tour during the season of 1931-1932. An unusual honor was bestowed on Mr. Hutcheson when the German minister of fine arts, Dr. Grimme, in- vited him to speak at a conference on important questions of musical educa- tion. The information he was able to give of artistic conditions in America was attentively received by the prom! nent musicians taking part in the co: ference. Dr. Wilhelm Purtwaengler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Pianist Back ence Abroad ERNEST HUTCHESON. | Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts; the eminent music critic, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kiatte, and the directors of all the Berlin conservatories of music were among those present. Mr. Hutcheson will resume his ac- tive duties at the Juilliard Graduate | School in the early Autumn. Noted Hflrpin Comes Here And Plans Concert Series | AMILXA CONTI, who for 15 seasons has won distinction for her work as harpist of the Chicago Civic Opera Company's organization, has resigned and come to make her home in Wash- ington, where her son, Arnaldo Beren- guer, is a student in the School of Forelgn Service of Georgetown Univer- sity. Mme. Conti is planning a series of concerts to be given here next season. ‘This harpist has perpetuated a re- markable record of fine artistry dating back to the eighteenth century. In that period her grandfather, Luigi Conti, was clarinet player in the orchestra of Maria Louisa, wife of Napoleon I and Duchess of Parma, Italy, where she held court. This position was secured for mxrlt t.hr%ufléth:’ lgflu&nce of his father- -law, Dr. Car] uspaggiari, cia) to the court of Maria Louisa. pEEia It remained, though, for Luigi's son, Alml]d& father (;t Amelia Conti, to place the name of Conti among th of the world's artistic Sbrttien d THE U. S. ARMY BAND. APT. WILLIAM J. STANNARD, leader of the United States Army Band, will be out of town Wednesday. He is to be guest leader of the Newark Philharmonic Concert Band, Newark. N. J., when he will conduct a program beginning at 8:20 Wednesday night. The opening number will be the com- position written by Capt. Stannard him- self and dedicated to The Star, known as “The Washington Evening Star March.” The leader’s other very popu- lar march composition, “National Vaude- ville Artists,” will be played later in the program. Activities for the Army Band in Washington this week include: Monday—Concert at Garfleld Park at 7:30 and Roberta Brieson. About 30 members of the Chaminade lee Club enjoyed a boat trip down the Potomac June 328. Companied by & few usss of tha el "l'rimau—co-un at Walter Reed Hospital m. . Wednetday—Concert at Sylvan Theater at We | sta T} S Ea g Priday—Concert at east steps of the Capi- tol at 7:30 p.m. Detailed programs will appear daily in The Evening Star. The Army Band's policy of featuring variety programs of classic, popular and solo numbers. will obtain. THE U. S. MARINE BAND. ‘The schedule of concerts to be played by the United States Marine Band duy- ing the coming week will be as follows: Monday—8 pm., concert at Marine Bar- racks. Tuesday—8:30 p.m., concert of Latin ». -American Union. ““‘"“‘.'h‘i“;'_° 30 o concert at Unied irsdas3:30 pm. concert at Sylvan Theater. Priday—3 p.m., concert at Naval Hospital. Detailed programs are printed daily in The Evening Star. THE U. S. NAVY BAND. A new. march, “Naval Aviation” dedicated to the aviators of the Navy, will open the program by the United States Navy Band at the Capitol tomorrow night. Other com- positions to be played at this concert Delibes’ Goucher, xylophone, will be heard in solo numbers. Tuesday night at Sylvan Theater the program will include the overture “Tancred” (Rossini), excerpts from the musical play “Chu Chin Chow” and a trombone solo played by Musician Jerry Clm:n. Of special interest on the prograi to be played at the Navy Yard Wed- nesday night is the suite “Bresilienne” (Nepomuceno). suite was pre- sented to the Navy Band by the com- poser, Other concerts this week will be Tuesday and Thursday afternoons o'clock in Navy Yard and Friday, p.m., st Mount Alto K Detailed will be published at 3 6:30 programs daily in The Evening Star. THE SOLDIERS’ HOME BAND. ‘The band of the United States Sol- diers’ Home, John S. M. Zimmermann, leader, and Anton Pointner, assistant, will give three concerts as usual—Tues- day, Thursday and Saturday afternoons at 5:30 o’clock in the bandstand. | career and entering the Conservatory of which combine ‘The full light and Wm will be ‘published in datly issues of The Staz, made for him to study engineering at | Milan, where he went, but with the secret intention of abandoning that Milan. At the age of 20 he made his debut as conductor, beginning & career which was to make him one of the leading musical directors of the day. It is of interest to note that among the great artists from Parma are Maestro Toscanini+ and Maestro Pizzett!, both intimate friends and admirers of Maestro Conti. Among the early successes of Maestro Conti as a conductor were two seasons at the Italian Opera in Paris, where he became intimately acquainted with Jules Massenet and married his protege, Lucie de Ferry, a lyric soprano. Mme. Conti has a small collection of letters from Dubois, Massenet and Puccini to her father, of which she is very proud. The season in Paris was followed by others in the leading cities of Italy, Portugal and Spain, Maestro Conti be- ing knighted by the King of Portugal. After these he undertook the first of 20 seasons in South America, taking with him such stars as Tamagno, Caruso, Patti, Maurel and Battistini. It was at this period that Amelia Conti graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory of Milan. After playing with Toscanini on a concert tour of Italy at the age of 16, she went to France to play under the direction of Saint-Saens and later to Austria with Weingartner. At this time she was offered the position of instructor of harp at the Conservatory of Palermo, but refused that she might pe free to play for her father on his last two trips to South America, In the year 1906 Amelia Conti toured the United States with the original San Carlo Opera Company, managed by Henry Russell, under the artistic direc- tion of Maestro Conti and including such celebrities as Nordica, Nielsen, Constantino and De Segurola. After a second tour of the San Carlo Company it became known as the Boston Opera Company, with Maestro Conti as it musical founder and director. While in this country she married Manuel Beren- guer, for years solo flutist of Amelita Galli-Curcl. In 1915 she became the first harpist of the Chicago Civic Opera. | under the direction of Maestro Cal panini, where she remained for 15 sons. ~During these years she also devoted much time to teaching and made several trips to Cuba and Central America, where she is very populaz. | house. MUSIG ILDRED MULLIKIN, organist, and Paul Gottwals, tenor, will give & program at Mount Ver- non Place M. E. Church South at 8 o'clock Wednesday night. The event is under the auspices of th: church's school of music. ‘The organist will play “Prelude and Fugue in G Minor,” Bach; a group of four selections from the ‘“Lake Con- stance Sulte” of Karg-Elert; three com- posi by R. Deane Shure, “Spirit Wind,” “Kidron, Brook of Sorrow” and “Cathedral Clifts”; Mendelssohn's “Sonata No. 2.” Mr. Gottwals’ numbers are to in- clude arias from Haydyn's “Creation” and Handel's “Messiah” and “Samson”; s group of songs, “Dvorak’s My Mother Taught Me," “Celeste Alda” from Verdl's opera, and “Ah, Moon of My Delight” from Liza Leh- mann’s “In a Persian Garden.” Elizabeth Sherier, assisted by her students, Agnes Fogelgren, Virginia Pigg, Ellen Leane and Frank Law, cel- list, with Alice Law at the plano, pre- “‘Songs sented a program at her residence | studio June 27. Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play “Finale,” from “Sonata No. 3" (Carl Reinecke ‘Berceuse” Harry (Farjeon) Eugene Gigout). Mary Helen Howe, chairman of music of the District of Columbia Catholic Alumnae, arranged the music for the special Sacred Heart services during May and June at the Visitation Monas- tery at Bethesda, Md. ‘The soloists for these services in- cluded Mrs. Willlam J. Walsh, soprano; Mrs. Sinnot, contralto; Mary Helen Howe, coloratura soprano: Clement Gelbel, baritone; Aloysius Horstkamp, tenor, and Fanny Sylvia Howe, soprano. Louise Ryan McNerney presided at the organ. The exercises of the Preparatory School of the Washington College of Music were held last Monday evening in_the college buildings. Those receiving certificates in the RAPHS varlous grades were: Edith May Harri- son, Claude Holmes, Faiga Elvove, George B. Kennedy, jr.; Fulton Krup- saw, Pascha Slavin, Estelle Tabb, Marion Wolberg, Sylvia Cohen, Theresa Cor- rado, Sidney Greenspan, June Hall. David Humphrey, Edwin McLeod, Gil- bert Sireet, Abba Schwartz, Evelyn Wil- liams, Mildred Bryant, Goldie Niefeld, Rita Rubinstein, Mary Webb, Pauline Slavin, Mary Louise Marriot, Sara Cau- then, Francis Dowden, Pauline Lichten- , Edith Harrison, James Thompson, Lily Pappas, Harry Stine, Emily Nick- las, Dora Dobkin, Dorothea Mann, Bella Tash, Virginia Grove, Ella Marle Boote, Jerome Plitman, Waldo Banos, Frederick Roy, Emanuel Bretendeau, McPherson Hulbert, Arthur See, Roger | Allanic, Howard Cranford and Joseph Haimovitz, Beatrice Seymour Goodwin presented Eleanor Virginia Dyer, contralto, as guest soloist at Grace Episcopal Chureh, iThern, Va., last Sunday. Mrs. Dyer sang “O Rest in the Lord,” from Men- delsohn's oratorio “Elijah.” | The Kaspar Concert Trio presented 8 program at the College of Willlam and Mary, at historic Willlamsburg, June 27. The program was so enjoyed that the group was asked to make a return engagement. This was Mrs. Law- | son’s fifth appearance there | The trio is composed of Anton Kas- | par, distinguished violinist of this city, |and his two nieces, Ethel Garrett Kas- par, planist, and Franceska Kaspar | Lawson, soprano. Each member of the trio gave two solo groups and opened |and closed the program with ensemble | selections. | The choir of St. Stephen's Chur Margaret M. Slattery, dire gave farewell concert last Sunday night in honor of the Rev. L. Vincent Fitzger- ald, who is leaving to take charge of a | parish of his own and who has been | very interested in choir work during | his"stay in this parish ‘The soloists were Angeline Ciffo, Nora O'Connor, Rose Green and William Miss Slattery, who played the organ accompanied ail the singers 4 r solo selections. ” 2 ““‘r NEWS OF THE CLUBS The Business and Professional Women's Club of the District met Monday in annual meeting at the A. A. U. W. Club House. Dr. Florence Everhart presided in the absence of the president, Miss Mary Anderson. Annual reports of committees were read. Election of officers resulted as fol- lows: President, Miss Elizabeth M Haney; first vice president, Miss Mary Jean Simpson; second vice president, Miss Lucy Minnigeroce; secretary, Mrs Augusta H. Brown; corresponding secre- tary, Miss Gertrude Massey, and treas- urer, Miss Penelope Cobb. Board mem- bers—Miss Katherine B. Staves and Miss Mary B. Stewart. The first meeting of the Fall season will be held September 22. Burnside Corps, Woman's _ Relief Corps, met June 26 at G. A. R. Hall, with Senior Vice President, Mrs. Alice Meade, in the chair. Department Pres- ident Mrs. Delia L. O'Brien paid trib- ute to the late Mrs. Caroline Gury, past department president, as well as junior vice president of Phil Sheridan Corps. Others who paid tributes to her memory were Mrs. Charlotte Carey, Mrs. Alice Meade, Mrs. Rose Pennell, Miss Jennie Hamilton and Mrs. Addie Hickman. The vice president announced a new meeting place for the corps at the Sol- dier, Sailor and Marine Club, Eleventh and L streets. At the next meeting, July 10, the installation of the senior vice president and the newly elected president, Mrs. Alice Meade, will take place. Women's City Club—Dr. A. Frances Foye, chairman of the business and pro- fessional section, announces a dinner, | July 16, in the garden of the club Club members and their friends are invited to make reservations. A Western parks illustrated lecture will follow the dinner. Miss Elizabeth M. Haney, passenger representative of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, will give the lecture, assisted by Miss B. M. Boyer. “The History of the District Public School System,” will be reviewed by Mrs, Howard L. Hodgkins, former member of the Board of Education, at the District history dinner, July 30. Miss Julia D. Connor is chairman of the section and will preside. An invitation is extended to members of the club to join the group each Mon- day at 10:30 a.m, to practice contract bridge playing, under the guidance of Mrs. T. H. Dawson. Members of the aviation section met in Baltimore at the Curtiss-Wright air- plane shops for the class work in air- plane engine study, last Thursday. The regular class will be held Priday evening, following dinner at the aviation table in the grill room at 6 o'clock. District of Columbia Federation of Women’s Clubs.—Mrs. Edgar B. Merrit, president, presided at the meeting Mon- day at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mrs, Vir- ginia White Speel gave a report relative to an appearance as a representative of the federation before the congressional committee hearing, on the small loan bill to protest against its operation in the District. Mrs. Gertrude Bischoff re- gomd on the movement to clean up the ousing in Washington's alleys and asked the federation to reaffirm its ac- g:;leln favor of the clean-up, which was Dr. A. W. Harned, chairman of the fourth natonal radio audition contest, sponsored by the Atwater Kent Foun- dation, to be held during the Summer and Fall, to give young people with fu- ture voices an opportunity for training, recognition and reward, also reported. A committee on resolution on the death of Dr. S. M. Huddleson was appointed Mrs. Jason Waterman, Mrs. Virginia White Speel and Mrs. L. B. Stine, Mrs. Speel reported the twentieth bi- ennial convention, held in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Edward Costigan, formerly of the District, now a resident of Den- ver, spoke before the convention, as re- ported by Mrs. Speel. The subject of matrons for public and high schools Was approved. Mrs. L. B. Stine, chairman of the committee on forestry, reported and a request that trees be planted in honor of George Washington was made and pledges of response were made. Mrs. A. B. McManus, recently returned | —. from a trip around the world, gav illuminating talk on Java. Ml‘l: eDc).r,: othy Sinnott gave » group of songs. At the close of the afternoon session officers were presented, as follows: Mrs, Edgar B. Meritt, president; Mrs. William La Varre, first vice president; Mrs. E. C. Criswell, corresponding secretary; Mrs. F. C. Brinley, treasurer; Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel, General ‘Federation director. Absent officers were: Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, second vice president; Mrs. Ernest Daniel, recording secretary, and Mrs. Tamar F. Rorke, auditor. Phil_Sheridan Woman's Relief Corps ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. Hgflfl [G/A[O[L] Ay HUOL HOODH [RI0 (KIETL AT R ETTOE[R I RIE [T]E] met Tuesday night in the new quar- ters secured by the president, Mrs. Cora L. Manoly, at the Soldiers, Sailors ond Marines’ 'Club, 1015 L street. Mrs. Kathleen Broome and Mrs. A. Gene- vieve Craig were elected to member- ship. Mrs. Hattie Canada was elected Junior vice president, succeeding Mrs. Caroline M. Gury, who died June 19, The following officers were installed by Mrs. Addie W. Hickman: Mrs. Esther Lippold, senior vice president; Mrs. Hattie Canada, junior vice presi- dent; Mrs. Irene M. Graf, first color- bearer; Mrs. Eva Schultze, third eolor- |bearer. The corps will recess until August 19. Gov. Welles Society, Children of the | American Revolution.—Misses Dorothy | and Ruth Howe recently entertained the | soctety in their home, on Newark street. | Josephine Davis, jr., president, pre- |sided. Maj. Emig "reported that the |large campus flag which Gov. Thomas | Welles” Society had recently sent to | Berea College, in Kentucky, had been | received. Franklin Willson and friends rendered musical numbers. Edgar Mor- |xis, Gifford Irion and Robert H. Mc- | Neill made addresses. Miss Catherine | Spengler sang, accompanied by her | mother, Mrs. Mallette R. Spengler. Mrs. Percy E. Quin, national president of the C. A. R, stated she was much impressed with ‘the meeting, the first che had been privileged to attend. A soclal followed the program. Donizetti's “Lucia“ Tonigl’n In English on Steel Pier ‘DONIZEI'II‘S “Lucia di Lammer- | moor” will be sung in English this ievenln! by the Steel Pler Grand Opera ’Co. in the ball room on the Steel Pler ! at_Atlantic City. | _The principals include Melvena Pass- more, coloratura soprano, Chicago Civic | Opera Co.; Mae Mackie, contralto, Phil- | adelphia Civic Opera Co.; Harold Han- sen, tenor, American Opera Co.; Leo de Hierapolis, baritone, Philadelphia Grand Opera Co.; Amund Sjovik, basso, for- merly San Carlo Opera Co., and Fran- | cesco Curei, tenor. | Next Sunday evening Thalia Saba- | nieeva, coloratura soprano, Metropolitan Opera Co., will sing the role of Violetta | in Verdi's “La Traviata” with the Steel | Pier Grand Opera Co. Others in the | cast include Mae Mackie, Judson House, tenor, and Leo de Hierapolis, | New Sound Apparatus Patented. Newest of the patents acquired by Dr. Theodoris Henrick Nakken is ome issued by the Patent Office on apparatus |for photographically recording and re- | producing sound. Rights are assigned | to the Nakken Patents Corporation, in which Warner Bros. recently acquired a substantial interest. Musical Studios of Washington BESSIE N. WILD Volce Culture. Piano end Parmopy Tk, D. Studio '"irnb;" o aroms B WALTER T. HOLT School of Mandolin, Guiter and Banjo, Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele Ensemble practl :‘I?:'(‘.-ul-rlltl Clubs 1801 Columbia Rd. N.W., Col. 0846 A77 PIANO PLAYING AR . IN 20 LESSONS GUITAR Ukulele, Ete. or' Backien School of P"S Musie . N.W. iatriet 1278 Vocal Studios 1317 New York Avenue Special Summer Course Coaching for Radio Auditions WOL—Tuesdays_at_6:15 Musio Sehool) Weldon Carter, Director Eleven Years Head of Piano Department of Washington College of Music Open All Summer—Students May Enroll Any Time—All Departments Represented 1201 Clifton St. N.W., Phone Adams 7891