Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1931, Page 10

< “PETER IBBETSON” “Deems Taylor's Opera Wins 5. Big Gotham Crowd—May Be Heard Here. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 7.—One of Ahe most brilliant pages in the history S American opera was written this “Wfternoon ai the Metropolitan Opera “§ouse when Deems Taylor's “Pter Ib- fetson” was given its world premier. Zhe historical opera house, with its fa- Wous golden horse-shoe and the misny Wers of boxes.and balconies, gave evi- ence of the most distinguished audi- ce visible there in a decade, hundreds “ef persons having been turned ay the box-office earlier in the da; wAfter the finale, the artists and the omposer took mors than a dozen eur- fBin calls, while the audience applauded wand cheered and cried “bravo” for a 18 mivutes. 50K Taylor made ‘short speech in which he said, “When g0 home, remember that you have Seen one completely happy person.” May Come to Capital. It was a deeply impressive .occasion. pecially is it of interest to Washingto- , since “if it comes up to expec- m‘:ns," “Peter Ibbetson” will be: in- fTiuded in the repertoire which _this %bmpany brings to the Fox Theater in _fApril. That it came up to expectations hat Washington likely will have an rtunity of seeing this dream fanta- —for it is really more than an opera— two months' time. +Mr. Taylor, noted American com- Pbser written something that one ‘'willingly prophesy as belonging bt only to this generation, but to many nerations to come. '.!The great care and skill he has used $1i the composing of this mfil’ pletur- esque musical narrative which ‘winds to an impressive climax are tre- endously impressive, as well as tre- ndously moving. With the help of espec] adroit libretto, he has gormulated an opera not only that sings, zm one whose dramatic intensity causes der. «' It is essentially a modern —Opera. Mhe chorus work injected into the fdream sequences takes place entirely piistage. There is, in fact, nothing to ct the poignant sequences of the . Especially to be remarked is the vity of speech and the short dia- e. It is a story, too, that will be :’t“;’omxl-r in this version as it was in #he Du Maurier novel. Borl’s Singing Lauded. e greatest glory among the singers ’I‘.‘l'h'o';eby Lu‘crmn Bori in the role 'of the Duchess of Towers—more fre- wmuently “Mismey” in the dream se- Zauences—although Edward Johnson in he title role and Lawrence Tibbett as 1. Tbbetson were consistently splendid. Miss Bori, however, seemed especially $appy, not only in voice but in acting, and received easily the mcst persistent lause—other than the composer— the afternoon. » i Mounted against the most masterly $tage portraits that Jo—-ph Urban has conceived, and dircsted with much fiflvflofl and taste by Tulllo Serafin, opera, which was written by Mr. #Taylor at the request of directors of 2he Metropolitan company, stands out bably as the most important operatic mk by an American thus far. With- out the cu overture and frée k{ the most part of long arias or irecitatives, one might say that the ra is more dramatic and le openg: the um | will arrive here Thursday from Ottawa, de 8. M. ASSERTS NIAGARA’S FATE IS IN BORAH’S POCKET %%y the Associated Press. » 'NEW YORK, February 7.—History punctuated with tales of men who ve held the fate of empires in their ds and, said Dr. Horace McFarland y, in the senatorial pocket of Wil- Eml,molm“-fln(mot agara Falls, #'Dr. McFarland, chairman of the Pennsylvania State Art Commission and ber of President Hoover’s commis- for the preserval of Niagara ls, told the Municipal Art Soclety { New York that for two years Senator rah has carried abdut with him a npun containing plans for diversion water from the main Niagara stream, ich would have averted the recent lide of tons of rock which altered the “but certainly he his pocket the Announces Arrival of Another Shipment of the 1931 Sensation PHILCO RADIO PHONOGRAPH. evident from the demonstration, so | TR {Hugh Guthrie, K. C., Attorney —r PAY TRIBUTE TO WITHERSPOON Members of the Washington Chapter yesterday gathered at the statue of John Witherspoon, one of the signers of the | pendence. Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is placing a wreath at the base of the statue. Declaration of Inde of the Sons of the American Revolution | —Harris & Ewing Photo. GOVERNMENT ACQUIRES OLD SITE OF PRISON USED DURING CIVIL WAR Johnson’s Island, in Ohio, New Cemetery for 247 Con- federates Who Died From 1862 to 1864. By the Associated Press. SANDUSKY, Ohio, Pebruary 7.—The last of the forlorn graves on Johnsons Island, whose rocky, picturesque shores | walled & prison for thousands of Con- federate soldiers, has come into the | possession of the Government the cap- tives fought. President Hoover the other day signed & bill authorizing the War Department to scquire without cost the little 100 by 485 foot plot formerly owned by the Robert Patton Chapter of Cincin- nati, Unfted Daughters of the Con!ed-‘ eracy. The rest of the plots, contain- | ing in all the graves of 206 soldiers of the South who died while prisoners | of war, were taken over in 1906. The little islet was a prison for a total of 13,000 gray-clad men between 1862 and 1864, although the most at any one time was 3,000. There they watched 247 of their comrades die, mostly from wounds, the Union re- ports said. ‘The majority of them were officers— second - lieutenants - to generals—and came from Southern estates where they were used to luxuries and servants. Life was irksome in the hastily constructed barracks, whose knotholes and cracks failed to stop the severe Northern lake winds of Winter. If they wanted chairs and furniture they had to build them irom the virgin walnut. Two prisoners, Willlam Corbin and T. P. McGraw, were taken before a firing squad after they were convicted of recruiting for the South and of carry- ing _information to their fellow captives. The island lies lonely and almost de- serted now. The weathered walls of an old stone power house, a mound where stood. the - fort, the little marble slabs on the graves and a bronze statue of a soldier at salute remain. CANADIAN MINISTER DUE HERE THURSDAY General, to Attend Bar Group Dinner. Hugh Guthrie, K. C., minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, to attend and speak at the eleventh annual reception and dinner of the Federal Bar Association, to be held at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday evening in commemoration of Abraham Lin- coln’s birthday anniversaty. * ? The other distinguislied speaker will be Chieg Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Attorney General Willlam B. Mitchell will act &s toastmaster. .« A final meeting of the Committee on ts will be held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the office of Assistant Attorney General Charles Peck Sisson, who is vice chairman of the committee. e e PO T London electric railways collected more than $78,000,000- in fares last year, increase over 1929 receipts being $3,726,000. Arthritis, Newrii and Rheumatism Sufferers write P. V. C Swissvale, Phg., Pa. for formation about mewly discov- All This Complete, Delivered and Installed for the Am Price of ered remedy. 1817 Adams Mill Rd. | At 18th & Col. Rd. SRR SRR RS TINCAeE Two Instruments .in One. 7-Tube Sereen Grid Radio Newest Electro Dyramic Speaker Handsome Walnut Cabinet Phonograph Egiupped wi@ Electric Motor azingly Low s 118! BALBO SAILS FOR ITALY Flyer and Companion Given Send- of by Brazilian Planes. RIO DE JANEIRO, February, 7 (#).— Gen. Italo Balbo and his trans- atlantic flight companions started for home today by steamer with an escort of Brasilian government planes fiying above them as the ship moyed out of the harbor. ‘The Italian leader's last official act was a visit to Gen. Getulio Vargas, the President. Later he was the luncheon guest of Ambassador Cerrutt{ aboard the Conte Rosso. HOME 'OF SMITH ) BOSS WARD AGAIN REFUSES QUIZ AID 76-Year-0ld New York Re-'New York Publisher Says Na- publican Once Declined Taft Dinner Invitation. By the Assooiated Press. NEW YORK, February 7.—William Lukens Ward, 76-year-old boss of West- chester County, who lives alone in a mansion called “The Castle,” atop a hill in Port Chester, turned his back again today on overtures to bring him into line with the Republican State organization in the effort to force a State investigation into alleged Tam- many corruption in New York, Democratic judges have been resign- ing under fire. One has vanished. Graft charges have been made against departments in the city government. .| The man who stands in the way of an investigation into these matters by the Republican-controlled Legislature is a hide-bound Republican who was once s0o eminent in party affairs that he dared snub President Taft by refusing to attend a dinner in the White House to _the National Committee. Instead of going to that White House function Ward played rummy in & Washington " hotel. ~When reporters asked him why he- had refused to go he said, “I never attend dinners,” and for years, in order to make that ex- planation good, he didn't. Now he goes to one a year. Ward has blocked the investigation into Tammany, ordering the two Sena- tors from his county to vote against it. gvhlhouv. those votes, the measure will 2 los Twenty years ago, Ward was a man of natienal reputation. From 1804 to 1912, he was a member of the Republi- can National Committee, serving on its powerful Executive Committee. He was one of the six or seven men in the campaign of 1908. When Taft was re- nominated he remained regular, but his heart was with Roosevelt—and so he was skidded into nonentity so far as national politics was concerned. In Westchester, however, he remained the benevolent despot. His friends say he would rather run Westchester than the Natio He doesn't like such frank language—"“I'd rather do something for the future of Westchester than to be in a position of power that would en- able me to do something for the future of the State or the Nation,” is more nearly his way of expressing it. ‘Whatever his reasons for preventing an investigation into Tammany-ruled New York City, he has precipitated a colorful fight. He is a colorful man. Possessor of $15,000,000 to $20,000,- 000, he carries on his political business at an old oak desk in White Plains, on which there is nothing except a bottle of mineral water and a scratch pad. He spends his Sundays motoring about the county, every inch of which he knows. . He belongs to a country club from which all women are excluded, for the :;c]usive purpose of playing bridge ere, CLOCK WATGH ANO REPAIRIN SHOES A New Deal!! SMART Sparkling, Scintillating New Spring Two-Trouser Suits $2 Buy 'em early on the Famo Established 33 Years us Kaufman Budget Plan! KAHN on 7th St. Established 33 Years Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Far or Near Complete With Shell or Metal Frames Complete Outfit, With Case and Cleaner Included D. C, 0GHS CONFIENT ABOUT 0. . TRADE FEBRUARY 8, tion Has Survived Worse Times Than These. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 7.— Adolph 8. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, and Clark Howell, pub- lisher of the Atlanta Constitution, sailed for Honolulu today for a month's pleasure trip, leaving behind them pre- diction “the United States has seen worse times and will survive.” Mr. Ochs and Mr. Howell were ac- companied by Mrs. Ochs, Mrs. Howell and Miss Mary Lane, daughter of My B. Lane, head of the Citizens' & South- ern National Bank of Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Milton Ochs, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. W. T. Healey of - Atlanta completed the party. “A friend asked me the other day ‘how do you feel about things?'” Mr. Ochs said. “I told him the world had been through worse times and had survived. The wealth, the resources and American stamina remain in the United States, and in the not far dis- tant future citizens will come to the conclusion they should have had more | sense during this period of depression.” | Young men, the New York publisher sald, should be glad they are alive and on the threshhold of a new era in world prosperity. “Business is generally better,” the Atlanta publisher said. “Both politicsl | parties must realize pussyfooting | around on the prohibition question must cease.” Speaking on national politics, - the Southern publisher said he believed Franklin Roosevelt would be nomin- ated by the Democrats for the presi- dency. WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY Leon Forrest Douglass, Jr., Son of Talking Machine Man, Sued. RENO, Nev., February 7 (#)— Leon Forrest Douglass, jr., whose father was one of the original incorporators of the Victor Talking Machine Co., is charged with desertion, failure to pro- vide and cruelty in a divorce complaint filed here by Evelyn N. Douglass. The father has a palatial home at Menlo Park, Calif, Mrs. Douglass asks custody of a son, but does not seek alimony. Douglass was reported to be in Paris, lain. Oral attendance. DR. FREIOT 407 7th St. N. W. S A M 6P vi: 10°A M. te ) P, ol PHONE NATIONAL 0019 g Mr. A. C. Homan, 1829 Wisconsin Ave., this city, says, “No Asthma for 18 years. 1931—PART. ONE. OGPU OFFICIAL SAYS SOVIET WORKS 662,200 PRISONERS Escaped Convicts Bare 15 Hours’ Daily Toil of Men Who Live at Lumber Camps in Statements to Parliament. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 7.—An affidavit to which a “high official of the Ogpu” (Russian secret police) is said to have sworn, and in which it was asse there were 662,200 prisoners working in Soviet lumber camps on May 1 last year, was forwarded to Premier Ramsay MacDonald today by Carlyon Bellairs, Conservative member of Parliament. With it were nine other affidavits signed by escaped Soviet prisoners, de- scribing conditions in convict labor camps of Russia. The identity of most of the signers was unrevealed “for fear of reprisal on their families still resid- ing in Russia.” Work 5 AM. to 8 P.M. In one of the affidavits Nicholas Ivanovitch Malyshev said he had spent the year in a convict camp at Solovky. The prisoners, he asserted, lived in shacks with earthen floors and leaky roofs, slept on bare planks and worked from 5 o'clack in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. They were scantily dressed and cases of freezing were of daily occurrence. Every prisoner was given the task of felling and trimming five trees each day, he asserted, and those who failed were severely beaten and given short rations. 1,000 Held in Camp. ‘The affidavit of another man, whose name was not made public, said he had been arrested and“without trial sen- tenced to five years’ labor and five ad- ditional years of exile. He worked in a lumber camp where there were 1,000 prisoners. He said that if the daily stint had been completed the men were allowed to buy extra food with money paid them for their labor. The daily allowance of food was about 1% pounds of bread, 1o pound of threshed grain and about 112 ounces of fish. The affidavits were made public to- day by the central office of the Con- servative party. There was a covering letter from Bellairs saying that he had been invited by the government to sup- ply evidence of Soviet prison labor, but that later the president of the Board of Trade and the secretary for foreign affairs had said no consideration would be given the matter, since no public body had protested. i The cost-of-living figure in England and Wales is dropping. CELEBRATION BARBECUE—FIREWORKS Band Music—Singing—Public Speaking Souvenirs--Refreshments--Entertainment EVERYBODY'S INVITED - vy Official Opening ¢ CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, SUNDAY. 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