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year, more perhaps than any other, this coun- try has become conductor conscious. It seems almost as if the musical world were more interested in the ways and means of the various symphonic batons than anything current on the musical market. New arrivals, established friends and the gen- eral scheme and pattern of the symphony rograms are being discussed with a fervor that is scarcely reminiscent of anything that has gone before. Evidence of this great wave of | enthusiasm for the orchestras| and their leaders is the fact that these have commenced their ac- tivities earlier than ever before, and have awakened both favor- able and unfavorable comments from the critics at a time when usually these musical sleuths are still browsing on their vacation farms. The Philharmonic-Sym- | phony has come to life whole weeks ahead of schedule and aroused large and greedy audi- ences in spite of the, as yet, pa- cific Toscanini. = Under what| seems' to be the firmly distin-| guished hand of Erich Kleiber | this orchestra sprang a week or 0| ago into favor once more. And with it cante that enormous curiosity about its new conductor —and also about almost any conductor in evidence. Olin Downes recently pointed | out this interest has not always| been the case. “Time was,” he| says, “when the conductor was a| stick waver, as Sarasate believed, who held together a band of play- ers too numerous for the men to keep in time and rhythm with each other without some central signal statlon. The conductor, then the merest factotum, re- hearsed the band and beat time. He was the most negligible per- son on the stage, so far as ‘per- sonality,” so much vaunted today, was concerned, and as an inter- retative force he had no impor- nce.” To say nowadays that the con- ductor is a negligible person would be punch one's own ticket to the River Styx. If there is anybody more engaging the ublic’s attention at this time, it s only the President or some member of criminology, or com- muters in planes from one con- tinent to another. Certainly, the half dozen or more geniuses in the conducting “racket” — this| word being now applicable to any form of physical, mental or spirit- ual exercise—are among the liv- ing immortals. * % x % 'THIS vital and excited interest in these leaders of orchestras, may be laid to—what? Of all the |able to other compositions, and how in the old days the chief complaint against Wagner was that he had "gon'owed" themes unsparing- ly. It was not quite clear which of these various branches of hu- man complainers, as they might be called, Mr. Potter objected to most. Certainly, however, he dis- ed of them all in nimble fash- on and pulled them down right merrily from their self-conceived thrones. * % ¥ % The plight of the critic is apt to be a very sad one. He is strung| between the devil and the deep| blue sea. On one side of him the| raging current of artists, who neécessarily know more than he does,-goad him and, on the other, when he is merely trying to voice a humble and personal opinion, a thousand voices cry out that he is either mollifying for popular ap- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 12, 1930—PART FOUR. {Symphony Orchestras ‘ Plan Brilliant Season| | ANNOUNCEMENT has been made by | T. Arthur Smith that two leading American symphony orchestras will | appear in Washington bringing famous guest conductors and promising bril- liant and unusual programs for the coming season. The Philadelphia Symphony Orches- tra will open Season at Con- stitution Hall with the first of a series of four concerts on November 4, at 8:30 o'clock. All four pi are Tuesda ::Vemfig goneem ant wlllmbe given :{ ‘onstitution Hall beginn rom at 8:30 o'clock. . pfiy' Leopold Stokowski will conduct the first two concerts and Ossip Gabrilo- | witsch the other two. The dates for! the remaining concerts are December 9, January 20 and February 17. The New York Philharmonic Sym- phony Orchestra will make its first aopearance December 16, led by Arturo Roscanini. The second concert of this series on January 27 will also be con- ducted by Toscanini. The third concert on March 10 will be conducted by Bernardino Molinari, the soloist appe: ing at this concert being the Russ! planist, Nikolal Orloff. Club Program. Features proval or destroying for malicious reasons the subject before him.| When he would like nothing so well as to find out just what he thinks about a composition, the clock sits staring him in the face, | and the ominous sounds from the | composing room warn him that| he has but a half hour in which | to thumb out the whys and| wherefores of his beliefs. He is| furthermore, confronted by the| ghosts of the reading public, who | will tell him in the morning | “what he should have known.”| With a kind of mad fury, throw- ing himself upon his typewriter, | he unleashes an imagination that may or may not be working after the mellowing influence of the| music which he has only just| heard. He has no time to muddle over the inuendos of thought that struck him in the middle of some thematic passage, or chat with a kindred spirit as to the soundness of his impressions. emptied from the concert hall to his desk, and there he has his few fleeting minutes to cast into rint what he could willingly ave pondered over during a long and vigilant period. ‘What wonder is it then that there are times when he finds himself indulging in exultant ap- probriums or moaning over the shallowness of the music world, with time or a conscience prick- ing him in the back. Would the most perfectly trained musicians| in the world, with their minds| soaked in the lore of the past, be keep themselves on a constant and even keel? And is he not apt to become, either through the ceaseless browbeat- ing of publicity seekers, or the lackadaisical ignorances that no one ever takes the trouble to en- lighten him about, a sort of in- flammable machine, flaring up Whereas He is literally Wi Prominent Artists | THE University Club of Washington | has announced its first musical eve- ning of the present season. Next Thursday, October 16, the club will have a gala musical program, featuring George O'Connor “and his gang.” Besides Mr. O'Connor and his two accompanists, Matt Horne and George ‘Wilson, there will be an imposing array of talent. Among those scheduled to contribute to the evening's music are Anton Kaspar, violinist; Kaspa, pianist; Jack Bowle, tenor; Thomas W. Brahany, who will act as master of ceremonies; Fred East, baritone, and Willlam F. Raymond, tenor. New Denishawn School Opens October 25 TH] establishment here of a branch of the internationally known Deni- shawn School of the Dance of New York)m:my is of especial interest to ashingtonians. The school in this city, which will be conducted at 1719 K street, and which opens its initial season October 25, is to have as its directors and teachers Mr. and Mrs. Lester Shafer, known professionally as Marian and Lester Shafer. They come directly from Denishaw House in New York m Wwhere they were closely associated Miss St. Denis and Mr. Shawn. Miss Chace and Mr. Shafer have ap- peared in numerous concert productions with the Denishawn company. They were with. the company when it ap- r‘ud -as part of the Ziegfeld Follies n 1928, and have danced important roles in stadium productions in New York City and on tour in other cities of the East and the South. They will be remembered for their dancing of the “Idyll” in the Denishawn con- certs of last Spring. In the stadium R(roducuon last August in New York r. Shafer assisted Miss St. Denis in the production of Angkor-Vat'—a legendary ballet of a Khmerian day. ‘The branch to be established here is the only one of the kind south of New when least expected? rhyme and reason are meant to be in back of all his remarks, may it not be possible for him to wax indignant merely through the human foibles of his own nature? Just as a prima donna may cry conductors that are coming to Washington this coming season, which of them is being looked forward to with bated breath— and why? It seems almost as if these questions can be rolled into one and answered with one long an- swer. At the beginning, however, it seems only just to say that the old, old myth—that the more personality the leader of an or- chestra has the less value he is as a conductor—is no longer true. Although people may be unwill- ing to admit that they:are very, very fond of Koussevit: as a personality, they nevertheless go to hear him because they can rec- ognize in his work the reincar- nated magnetism of himself. Also, if personalities have nothing to do with the lea of an orches- tra, is it the machine quality of Toscanini that the audience wants to hear? Hardly. These two men, as in the case of Sto- kowski, and to a lesser degree Ga- brilowitsch, Molinari and Soko- loff, and perhaps the distant and untraveled Mr. Stock, have what might be called “a way with them,” and that is what will be bringing them into spotlight ap- proval when they come to town. First and foremost, of course, in the case of these neo-gods of mu- sic is their profound skill and knowledge as musicians. This has unquestionably landed them | where they are. But if it had been merely a question of execu- tive ability at the musical helm, herself hoarse in a passage that it should have been sung with delicate nuances, may not the critie forget himself and throw a little lcose ink around? The answer is, of course, he shouldn’t. But he does. And he gets punched for it. On the other hand, when he strikes the musical nail on the head, every one takes it for granted, says “just as I thought,” and dismisses him with the hope that they’ll find something to dis- agree with him about next week. Is temperament to be permitted alone in musicians and critics of critical utterance? IMPORTANT All “copy for the music page of The Sunday Star must be delivered to the Music Editor not later than 10 a.m. the Thursday pre- ceding. grates on her sensitiveness when | York and is one of the three author- ized branches in the country. |Habitants Lend Charm To Quebec Festival TH’! Quebec Festival, scheduled to last through October 16, 17 and 18, with | headquarters at the Chateau Frontenac, | seeks to celebrate th | Canada during | the three centuries of its settlement by | the pioneers of old France. The or- | country for nt - |ermen, woodsmen, spinners,’ weavers, shz&n,‘hh;un and stra eir specialized prowess. All ages are to be resented. A group of 30 Quebec school children and an aged but sprightly Mme. Napoleon Lachance of St. Plerre, Ile d'Orleans, who is to sing at her great loom as she weaves the catalogne, are to be among the many features of native talent. THE SOLDIERS' HOME BAND. ’I'H! band of the United States Sol- diers’ Home, John 8. M. Zimmer- mann, leader, and Anton Pointner, as- istant, will give three concerts, Tues- day, Thursday and Saturday after- noons at 5:30 o'clock at Stanley Hall. The full programs, which combine light and classical selections, will be published in daily issues of The Star. they would have hardly remained where they are. Something more than that—the devotion of the men in the orchestra to their leader, and his effect upon the audience, and the command of his baton, all have to do witH the | success. And personality! | They say that Erich Kleiber | to has a sense of humor. They say, | too, that he is perhaps a trifle| conventional, a trifle unexciting. But he is among the recent re- cruits to the new Grand Order. He will be watched now with green-eyed attention. His every move will be observed. Although he is not coming to Washington, he should be studied from afar. He may be a very great person-| age amidst these conductor peo- le—and again he may not. It s too early for predictions. | - wow o | IT was something of a pity that the other night when Edward C. Potter gave his talk on “Music Critics and Criticism” at the Arts Club that various scribes de- | voted to this muse from other and rhaps greater cities couldn't ave been numbered among the small but devout audience as-| sembled for the occasion. | Mr. Potter, with swift, merciless, | but completely justifiable ardor, | classified and sealed a pearly or| funereal doom on the brother | critics, and pronounced them four-fifths sham and one-fifth gold. He doffed his hat before the “dogen or so"—these were the paragons—who with a background of limitless musical history, sense of harmony, counterpoint, knowl- edge of composers, artists and a enial attempt to exalt rather han to damn, were carrying for- ward and uplifting the banner of music. He pointed a teary finger at the “cri§g” who wrote about the beautiful “legato in the pizzi- cato passages,” and the singing of the Acapella chorus “unaccom- panied.” And he unravelled the ways and means of men, who for their living, make printed eulo- fl:l or eleglesX |.;pon the works of e great musicians. Tlse four-fifths of the music critic world which Mr. Potter set into expert catagories, were the “honey-sweet” critic; the *caus- tic” critic; the “sophisticated critic and the critic who finds that everything has been stolen from evcryv.hinlz ter group he ill “scribbler” when Ros- eminent else. In the lat-| ustrated how one ‘rl-l! forthcoming American debut in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on November 4 of the Don Cossack Rus- sian Male Chorus, is of especial interest ‘Washingtonians, since under the leadership of Serge Jaroff this chorus will be heard here on Saturday eve- | | | | | | | pidri’s “Pines of Rome” was first 4 played, likened it to numerous ‘Don Cossack Male Chorus ' To Have Americe_m Debut | ning, December 13, as the third attrac- | tion of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Saturday };;':Jrlunx concert series at Constitution ‘The American tour of these horsemen of the s been called, will be six weeks—from November 1 cember 15. They will sing, however, 35 concerts in 45 days, although this is the first ap- pearance the chorus has ever made in the United States. The Metropolitan Music Bureau, which is sponsoring the | American tour,"states that these con- certs have been booked for months in advance and that in the past five years the chorus has given over 1,300 con- certs in all parts of Europe. The history of the Don Cossack Chorus goes back to days when the men were Cossack cavalry officers in a prison camp at Tschelengir, near Con- stantinople, and when singing the songs of their homeland formed the one bright spot in their existence. Serge Jaroff, a former church choir leader, noting the | weird, untrained beauty of the voices of his countrymen, set to work to mold | them into a singing unit. | " To these men, their homeland on the | banks of “the quiet, Christian Don,” | as they affectionately call the wide river that flows southward through the steppes to the Sea of Azof, is always a living memory, but one to which they cannot return, now that the Soviet is in_control. ‘The 1:len u‘x“ uu{i to n‘u‘uch upon the stage in military formation, spreading out fan-wise in a semi-circle. %z mili- is enhanced by their dark blue Cossack uniforms, the trousers red stripe and with knee-high leather riding boots. Stand- ing at attention, they await the signal from their leader. Then, without any “giving of the note” they to sing g ‘The Don Cossack Chorus is IHP%OM to have mastered every variety of choral singing. Besides a certain wild beauty In their voices, everything about them is dramatic, even to hair- real- ism of ‘their shouts and 3 that they sing is Russian and all they sing | lained in well-detailed transla- | The Wilson-Greene Saturday evening | concert series at Constitution Hall, of | which the Don Cossack Chorus is an at- | ning. November 8, with a gala program that will present Edward Johnson, Met- | | ropolitan Opera tenor; Maler and Pat- ;n-on. piano ensemble; Salvi, world’s greatest harpist, and Edith Mason, Chi- cago Opera soprano. The second at- | traction will Clare Clairbert, the phenomenal Belgian soprano, with the Don Cossack Chorus coming third on Jose! Hoffman, pianist; Ro- h!.hru. N lum. and Joxzn ‘Thomas, itone, are other at- of l.t\n'dn, evening the | will they go, with !I CONDUCTOR NEW TO THIS COUNTRY I ERICH KLEIBER, Leader of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, who recently came iber had the distine to this country from Berlin. Mr. Kleil tion of conducting the first Philharmonic-Symphonic program of the year. Music of the Future Played by the Screen Editor's Note—An erstwhile member of the famous Roxy stafl and before that prominent composer snd condu apee is now devoting himself to sound film production in Hollywood. He writes as follows: BY ERNO RAPEE. AMONO the many things I do poorly is guess, so I don’t guess any more. I merely adjust my glasses, frown im- pressively, and in & firm and even voice state my personal anticipation as & prophecy inspired by the high heavens of the music world. This fools a lot of people, including me. In & way, I find that the amateur play-acting is more than an affecta- tion; 1t has obtained results. A grvphet 1% not without honor except in his own country, and the only way I could prop- erly impress any one with my predic- tions about music and sound pictures was to stand afar off, try and create the appearance of having no connection with a sordid music-for-money world, and Jet loose my fairly reasonable ob- servations, gained exclusively in the music-for-money world itself. Now, I find myself anointed witn more than three months of intensive Hollywood experience. During my pre- t| vious career I watched orchestras grow from 10 to 110 pleces in theaters. I have seen them struggle from the days ‘when changing a picture did not neces- sarily mean changing the musical score to the time when a New York theater definitely sets aside three-quarters of a million dollars as its music budget for the year, Future of Music. ‘This lengthy face I insist on, be- cause I feel that it is now, for the first time, that I can authoritatively state exactly where America is meandering in the matter of music. For the last year the questions that have flown about the lecture platforms and concert halls and printed pages have become too provocative to remain unanswered by -nyflme who finds music closest to his eart. Will the classicists write down to a movie level? Will the movie level come up to the classicists? Will music for movies copy the stage? And what will the new form be? Very tricky questions, those. Will the classicist write down to a movie level? No, hardly—the classicist cannot write down. And why should he, when there never has been 5o popular an apprecia- tion of good music in the history of the world? In October of last year a New York newspaper ran a poll to discover which radio feature was most popular with its readers. Fifty “hours” com- peted, and the winning program was Roxy's Symphony Orchestra, an hour of classical music played on Sunday | afternoons. Second was the True Story hour, featuring dramatic incidents in the lives of two characters, Mary and Bob. How utterly incongruous this seems! But it is not so. .The True Story was well done, and anything well performed will be popular. "More per- ‘sInging | sons listened to the orchestra which I conducted with such pride (and in the beginnings, I confess, with a pardonable nervousness as to the numl of its listerners) than have listened to any single body of men since the time be- gan. Where do these classical people come from? More important, where good music in their picture houses? 3 Betterment in Music. ‘Will the movie level come up to that of the classicists? This naturally fol- lows. It is inherent in men’s nature to progress and better himself—in taste, in living and in civilization generally. As the best is exhibited, the public turns away from the inferior product. ‘The moment the screen offered a huge symphony orchestra through Vitaphone, the six-plece orchestra fell by the way- side—another casualty of nature's own i elimination contest, the survival of the fittest. The large metropolitan theaters are still able to retain ir orchestras, because their music is supplied by organizations almost as d as can be collected anywhere, either in Vita- ghone‘l studios or the t concert alls. And this is what will keep Amer- ican symphony music jogging ahead of Europe before long. As Vitaphone's music progresses, which it is doing right along, the individual theater orchestras will have to keep pace, and the com- g;tltlon can only serve to introduce a er quality of music than has yet been heard in America. ‘Will music for movies copy the stage? This I *strongly doubt. The accepted forms are too stilted and awkward for the fast-moving and limitless lens. Somewhere between the two extremes of musical comedy and grand opera a musical Burbank will evolve a new type. And this brings up the question of who will do this, if any one. I maintain that some one will rise to the occasion, Some one always has in every line of endeavor and every crisis in histomy, and America can and will produce its Wagner when the time comes. Now that the first excitement of or- anization and mechanical tinkering as dled down, we can get to work on the subtler of movie music. Screws have tightened, bolts ad- Jjusted, the wondrous machine is ready for recording worth-while sounds. There |1s big work to do. We must stress the coloring of the reproduction, and we must perfect the detail of large musical inizations. ge have come far # the last 10 years of films and music. The next 10 should be more fruitful. America should come out of this musical revolution with the | greatest artistic achievements of the | century. And to those timid souls who ask us not to crow until that great day | arrives we can say even now that what | we_have accomplished entitles us to great pride in present events, while the best is yet to come. Freiburg Passion Play Has Interesting Score ANY famous composers are to be included as contributors to the music score which accompanies the Preiburg “Passion Play,” to be presented here at the Washington Auditorium the week-of Monday, October 27. Thirty-one. or- chestral numbers and 11 choral num- bers selected from well known oratorios form the nucleus of the musical ac- companiment. The orchestra plays a part of the “Parsifal” overture from Wagner, fol- lowed by the “Adoration of the Cross,” from Dubois’ oratorio, “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” During the tableaux preceding the opening scene Mr. Adolf Fassnacht, the Christus of the play, sings the “Agnus Dei.” Oné of the most impressive scenes of | the play is that of the Last Supper, during which the chorus sings “Ave Verum,” by Mozart. Other great choral numbers are “March to Calvary,” “Be- side the Cross,” and “Crucifixion & by Gounod, and the “Hallelujah Handel's “Messiah,” with which the play ends. Music School .Brondcast Features Concert Pianist SPONBORD by the United States School of Music, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth's new Musical Enjoyment Club, which started last Sunday evening, will broadcast its second program over the Columbia network this Sunday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Featured in the program will be Leo Dustin, concert planist and orchestral conductor, who has just re- turned from an extensive engagement at the Swedish Exposition. Among the compositions to be played by Mr. Dustin will be Chopin's “Pifth Etude,” popularly known as the “Black Key Etude.” Dr. Sigmund Si)neth‘ pio- neer radio broadcaster as well as musi- clan, composer and author of such well known musical compilations as “They Still 8ing of Love,” “The Common Sense of Music,” “Read 'Em and Weep,” will conduct the program. Dr. Spaeth will discuss the selections played bi’ Mr, Dustin and will give to his radio listen- ers a graphic explanation of the themes and motifs of the compositions as well as interesting facts both about the com- poser and the period in which the selec- tion was written, PROMINENT IN GERMAN OPERA CIRCLES Carl Adler, conductor (at the left); von Schillings, principal conductor, disc which may or may net be ertoire here this season. Gadsbi's home, just outside of Berlin, ; Johanna Gadshi, soprano, and Dr. Mac ussing the score of d’Albert's “Tiefland,” ted with the German Grand Opera Co.'s - 0 taken Lme ph was last Summer In Mme. {Hi £ Music .wryln :he Pu‘l:file Schools Al early as 1836 Dr. Lowell Mason earned the title of “Father of Pub- giving his services in the wl':}t schools of Boston. In Washington first advanced step was in 1860, when the City Council suthorized the posi- tion of a vocal instructor. In 1873 Prof. Joseph H. Daniel was appointed di- rector of vocal music, and with two as- sistants established the department of music of the public schools of the Dis- trict. The introduction of instrumental music came during the regime of Dr. Hamline Cogswell, director of public school music from 1916 to 1921. Classes on the violin, cornet and drums were then conducted during school hours, but under the directorship of Dr. Ed- win N. C. Bares, Dr. Cogswell's suc-' cessor, and the present head of the music | department the instrumental work has been organized on broader lines. | The class method of the school room | is being consistently extended in the group teaching of the piano and all or- chestral instruments, in what is known | as the community instrumental classes. | These classes will meet for their first | lesson during the week of October 13. Instruction on the piano and orches- tral instruments embraces only one sub- division of the opportunities offered in the field of public school instrumental music. Last year a pre-orchestral group made up of pupils from the first, sec- ond and third grades was organized for the purpose of developing rhythmic and melodic sense through the synchro- nizing of instruments with phonograph records. The demonstration of this group, given under the leadership of Elsie Roche of the music corps, proved to a certainty the justification of giving it permanent place as a first group in the gradation of elementary, junior and senior school orchestras. Dr. Barnes, director of music in the schools, has the following assistants in the instrumental work: Ludwig E. Manoly, in charge of high schools; Paul T. Garrett, in charge of bands at Cen- tral and Western High Schools and or- chestra at Business High; Franklin J. Jackson, in charge of Junior High or- chestras; Laura F. Ward, in charge of grade orchestras and supervisor of com- munity classes on orchestral instru- ments; Mary Garrett Lewis, in charge of community classes on piano, 'and Elsie Roche, head of the pre-orchestral groups. i | Recital Announced MUSIGRAPHS UTSTANDING among the news grams items of the past week is the report from Berlin concerning the debut of Sylvid Lent. Miss Lent's talents as a violinist were demonstrated here during the past season. She is a young and capable ’ artist to whom her local admirers ex- s . she will open her free vocal theory class B IR UM S — on 'mlesd.ny zvcnl‘ngs:t 8 o‘chfik inNthn McCall Lanham has announced the | Daniel Studio of nging, 1340 New opening of his studio at 1310 Nh;".'etenth | York avenue northwest. street, Mr. Lanham gave his first re- | Palk e M cltal 'of the year st the Chevy Chase | pyfiu BRIO, SOPTRND, Blaind by ME% School on Sunday, September 28. | FEAE0, SaRK Y | Walter Reed ll:l.mplmlb Cmircls! Mldlo'l;,l: Club_Naomi Chapter, O. ant According to plans made by the Ger- | Club Naomi Chap O.E. 8. and the man Lllelr"lsry sgcmy. half of the pro- | (Continued servatory at the Jnitial meeting of the soclety on October 18. Edna Bis! Daniel announces that STUDIOS OF WASHINGTON begin- ners, advanced pupils; pvt. inst.; no cls instruments at discount to pupils. N. 3 McCALL LANHAM “'N. Y. BARITONE Teacher of Singing Head Voice Dept. L Chevy Chase School w ALTER T. HOI:T Wednesdays by Appointment Studio 131019th North 7305| School of Mandolin, Guitar and . Banjo, Hawaiian Guitar Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes St 4D e, Nerfies clube Instructor in Singing Grete Lorleberg vor: Bayer Planist and Teacher Studied plano with Carl Leimer, Director, Hanover Conservatory, Professor Marle Bender, Royal High gchool for Musie, Berlin-Charlotten- 1 Head of Vocal Department Washington Music Institute 1201 Clifton St. N.W. Fupll of G. W. Chadwick, ATMONY §725" Conservators. Bortin MAY ELEANOR SMITH Phone Pot. 471207 2215 14th 8t. N.W. * nw. . For November 12 ANNOU'NCMNT has been made of the two-plano recital by Rose and Ottille Sutro to be held at the May- flower Wednesday evening, November 12. The Misses Sutro were sponsors last season for three salon musicales, held at the Carlton and the year before at the Washington Club. At these salons, American composers and their music was presented. The first s-ason, the played a two-piano The concert November 12 will be a benefit for the Humiston fellowship for young composers. Autumn Recital Pl;:;\ned. | CAROLINE MCKINLEY has returned to the city after spen the Sum- mer studying in the various dance studios of Germany ard Austria, and has reopened her Studi® of Rhythm on I strect, where the adv: :ced classes are already preparing for .he Autumn re- cital to be given in November. One of the features of the November program will be the presentation of the dramatization of Oscar Wilde's “The Fisherman and His Soul,” as a dance pantomime. Other features will be based on the modern dance technique as | ememplified in the studios of Central Europe, SR, Film Star Invited to Make Concert Tour Gwm SWANSON has been invited to make a concert tour of the United States and Canada next Fall by the National Broadcasting Co.'s Artists’ Bureau, according to word ived from the United Artists . ‘The star, now in Culver City, Calif., has asked, t is said, for a month's time in which t come to a decision. George Engles, head of the bureau, extended the invitation to Miss Swanson. Pre- viously, he reveals now, he had discussed the matter with her New York business manager. Miss Swanson claims that she has no desire to become a prima donna and has indicated that she would sing “only some of the simple, unpretentious songs I know and love” if she undertook the concert tour. Not since she sang in a Porto Rico operetta as a child (her fa- ther, a captain in the U. S. Army, was then stationed there) has her voice been heard from s stage. Last year she was heard from 2LO, British broadcasting station, and from WEAF in New York. Concert by Faculty of Missionary College THE faculty of the music department of Washington Missionary College will give its annual concert next Sat- urday evening, October 18, at 8 o'clock, in the college chapel in Columbia Hall. This is the first of a series of programs to be given throughout the school year on Saturday evening for the benefit of the student body, e concert will be given entiresly by members of the faculty of the depart- ment of music. There will be a group of plano numbers by Prof. Harold A. Miller, who will also sing a group of se- lections. The program will be complet- ed by groups of pleces on the violin, cello, flute, clarinet and trombone. Assisting Prof. Miller will be Victor Johnson, violin; Verna Schuster-Me calf, plano; Ethel Knight-Casey, pian Russell MacMeans, piano; Ruth Lind- up, cello; Boone Holmes, flute; H. D. Clapp, reed instruments, and Victor Dietel, brass instruments. Karolik Prog:a:n. M tional Theater Tuesday afternoon, N vember 18, comes, it is stated, as an ex- ponent of songs that are complete dramas, such as Chaliapin made his own. Mr. Karolik, besides the Russian opera repe with “Pique Dame” has in his repertoire “Carmen” and “Rigo- letto.” His program here will have much that is unusual. Besides songs of Rachmaninoff, Balakirev, Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov he will sing De- bussy, Duparc, Chauson, also Pizetti, Cezzoni and Cassella. Bnii Rathbone in Play. BASIL RATHBONE, making his first stage appearance after a year in pictures on the Pacific Coast, will be seen in person in Washington prior to his New York premier, according to Arch Selwyn, the theatrical producer, in “A Paris Divorce,” an adaptation by Arthur Hornblow, jr, of the Parisian success “Monsieur St. Obin,” by Andre Picard and Tristan Bernard. Ann An- drews has the only important woman's role. Other principgls will include Mon- tague Love, Fred Kerr and Ivan Simp- son. Lionel Atwill has been engaged by Mr. Selwyn to direct the play. Basil Rathbone is the cousin of Frank Benson, the famous British actor-man- ager, and was born in South Africa. He started playing Shakespearean roles with Frank Benson’s company in 1912, scoring in “Romeo and Juilet,” and “Othello” and then in ‘“Peter Ibbet- Bride,” with Mae Murray. He also ap- peared in “The Captive, mand to Love” in “Jus he was star and co-author, and in “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.” ‘Mayer he made “This Mad "Yady of Scandal e siso apr - of indal.” e appeared ite Billle Dove in two First Ni 8~ S e B 3 EULA ALEXANDER Accompanist for Violin and Vocal Artists or Concerts, Recitals Cho- Rhythmic Dancing programs arranged. Cei voice students in foreign langu cellent sight _reader. g mendations. 'Reasonable prices. Special rates for violin and voice students. 2131 O St. N.W., Apt. 102. Ph. 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BRANCH STU} The Kensington Aj 2501 14th St. (Cor. and Adult Inqu to 6, 1644 Ci VLADIMIR VAS CONCERT PIANIST Graduate Conservatory of Music—Prague Former Principal State Music School—Czechoslovakia Former Director Smetana Orchestra and Foerster Chorus—Budejovice Has Returned From Europe and Announces That He Will Have His Studio The Wuhington“College of Music 2107 S Street Northwest Telephone, Potomac 1846 “Vladimir Vasa played the Liszt Concerto with the Philharmonic Orchestra with brilliant technique.” — The Venkov, Prague. “Schumann’s Carnival re- requires an artist of broad imagination and comsummate skill. Vasa very completely filled this requirement.”—The Washington Times. ir Vasa played the n’ Sonata in C Major by Beethoven clear-cut technique, conviction and bril- liance.”—The Evening Star. Telephone for appointment. ’

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