Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1931, Page 28

MRS. BETTELHEIM WILL HEAD LEGION Women’s Group Ends Ses- sion, Adopting Numerous Welfare Resolutions. The American Women's Legion ‘brought its twelfth annual convention to a close late yesterday with election of officers, Mrs, Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr., being chosen national president by unanimous vote. Mrs, Bettelheim has been na- tional secretary for the past two years *HE EvmanG STAR, WASninwiuN, D. C, FioipAY, MAY 8, 1931 Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. and his chorus repeated it. Ross Farrar ‘and Charles Wood sang the solos. “In Vocal Combat,” arranged by Dudley Buck, was & bit of humor suggesting “an_amicable settlement of the traditional rivalry between tenors sang ‘“Then You'll: Remember Me" and the basses “Rocked in the Cradle, of the Deep,” single and against each other. This also was ted in part. Wallauer has a pretty voice of excellent range and unusual rich- ness' in the medium ister. She sang last_evening wit effect the Romanza from Mascagni's Interstate Male Chorus Presents Interesting Program. Interstate Male Chorus, the choral section of the In- Com-Co Club, gave fts sec- ond concert of this, its elev- enth season last evening in the Memorial Continental Hall be- fore an audisnce that completely filled the auditorium. The chorus,. condt Clyde -B. Altchison, ey was _enthusias- tically received and won spon- taneous & plause for its splendid _ work. othy E. Wal- baugh gl:yed accompaniments !,:hm:'Wl uer. K. B. Large Andience - Hears Nell Hunter in Debut. Pm by I D. Tyler and ‘the Missionary Soclety and listemed to by an audience that defled rain and storm and wind and overfiowed the limits of the Lincoln Temple, Nell Hunter, colored mezzo- soprano, sang in Was| for the first time last night every in- . dication of success. Miss Hunter, who is said to hail from North Carolina and who un- doubtedly is heading northward for jthat should really amount to something, proved that her musical education on the Continent has not been amiss. This was the first time she has appeared in this country after a rigorous course of musical education in Switzerland, and the evidence of it is more than heartening. Her voice has con- siderable range and a sweetness of tone that is especially pleasing in the lower notes. While her enuncia- tion in the German songs was without accompanimen! year’s series. Heinl. with the “When I Gezt-}mme” sung E. de S. MELCHER. \HE Columbis Heights Christian Church, at 1435 Park road, within whose hospitable walls the Washington Planists Club has for several seasons held its annual fes- tivities, was the scene last night of the fourth pair of recitals of this ‘The programs were given by Eli Berg and Kathryn Beck, students, respectively, under Caroline At Bender Hodge and Helen Corbin Eli Berg, who was making his first appearance as a member of the club, showed considerable natural aptitude place on Saturday, May 9, at 8 o'clock and all music lovers are cordially invited. C. DL Tonight's Concerts Feature Local Artists. AN interesting program will be of- fered by Felian Garzia, planist, this evening at the Arts Club for the benefit of the club’s building fund. Mr. Garzia will play the Bach “Prelude E Flat Minor,” three numbers by Chopin, three numbers Danin: ens Poletss by Liss?, eniz; lets,” the M s.&wlyké “Tlnn'e%]e." e ne Mayflower Hotel the George Wa&h}‘ University Gl:e Club will presents its annual Spring con- ge':t," l;ll: Joul}. mplr will present lolin pupi eves Masonic Auditorium. T SOVIET AIR LANES BARRED TO MEARS American Globe Flyer Puzzled by Message and Will Fly to New York for Solution. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, ly 8.—The expres- | sion “free as the air” was an empty one | today for John Henry Mears, the globe girdler. Having ‘&reund a $25,000 monoplane for his rd attempt to establish a world-circling record, Mears yesterday announced receipt of a telegram from Soviet government representatives in ‘Washington refusing him permission to | use the Soviet air lanes. Mears said he would fly to New York next week to see if anything could be done about it. 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At the end of the group of Ger- man songs Miss Hunter sang “The Blue Danube” and was promptly awarded an ovation therefore. An intricate plece of singing, requlr\nfi the talents of a coloratura as wel and succeeds Mrs. Acheson F. Hassan. Other officers elected were Mrs. John # < ras Denby Hird of the Quentin Roosevelt d 3 Indian e Union, first vice president; Mrs, Ed- . i = mund H. Ellis of the George Baldwin tingt. 4 McCoy Unit, second vice president; Mrs. Benjamin Soule Gantz of Flanders Field Unit, third vice president; Mrs. George R. Lukens, national sec:etary; Mrs. Peter A, Hazes of the Gen. Charles A. Doven Unit, re-elected national| treasurer. | The sessions of the convention were | held in the Hall of Service of the American Red Cross, music being fur-| nished by the United States Marine Band, Speakers included Maj. Omar W. Clark, assistant director in charge of adjudication service, Veterans’ Bu- reau; Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, lauer, ‘Tomorrow aff at 4:45. the Washington Choral Festival Associn. tion will present “an hour of music™ at the Church of the Epiphany, with Louis A. Potter conducting. .and facility at the keyboard, play- ing Chopin’s “Fantaisie Impromptu” with brilliance and giving an excel- lent interpretation of the Beethoven “Sonata in D Minor.” Kathryn Beck, who was giving her fourth recital as a Pilanists Club member, played her numbers with beautiful tone and a fine sense of interpretation. Her Schumann son- PAINFUL \wl\(u'}‘plLE/ BT Rl e iy, b ol forms. Thousands successiully treated with PILE-! Money-back guarantes. 81 wood_drug Filke '‘Sp! '}ll‘kh 4 her volce soaring e Sal Robert L. Feuerstein played the accompaniments for the chorus, giv- ing ample support, d 1l w. WooDWARD & LOTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE singing verse of the Na- tional Anthem, g heled 8 B‘I ar Span n- Clyde B. Altchison. nle):,,l A the middle turned and conducted the audience, all standing, in the closing phrases. Outstanding _in beauty were Earl Towner’s ° Ploughman,” . Altchison’s own “When Twilight Dews” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” arranged by william Reddick. They were sung with exquisite shading and tone, the composition by the conductor having much to repommend it mu- sically. i Gretchaninofi’s setting of the Credo, arranged for male chorus, by Charles Reopper, Was one of the most effective numbers on the pro- gram. The solo part was sung by Charles Wood, bass, his clear enun- ciation adding much to his devo- tional singing of the number, District Commissioner, and Col. B. Ryons. «“The Star Spangled Banner” was sung at the opening session by Mrs. Elste Jorss Reilly. 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