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the appointment of Emile Simon, noted cellist, to its faculty. Mr. Simon grad- uated from the Royal Ooq::lrv(:obory of Hague and later from the RO nserv- wrm Brussels with highest honors. After- ward he studied with Pablo Casals in Paris, He has been associated with the state conserv- atories in Geneva and Rio de Janeiro as pro- ‘fessor of cello and ensemble playing. Mr. Simon is also well known in this country, hav- ing appeared as solo cellist with the Cleveland, St. Louis and Philadelphia Orchestras, HE Von Unschuld University of Music, ‘ I starting its 28th season, has announced ¢ ‘NTONIO FERRARA is announced as head A of the violin department of the Washing- ton Musical Institute, with Louis Ferrara and Marguerite Carter as associate teachers. Mr. Ferrara has concertized extensively in Europe, nine recitals in Italy alone during the mmo! 1929. He has also been soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Penn- sylyania State Orchestra and the Municipal Pler Orchestra of Atlantic City. Mr, Ferrara and his brother have both been first violinists in the second stand under the baton of Sto- kowski in the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years, while Louls Ferrara was guest conductor of the Ventnor Pier Municipal Orchestra at Atlantic City this Summer. ROBERT RUCKMAN has been appointed & member of the piino faculty of the Insti- tute of Musical Art. He is a pupil of Edwin Hughes, New York pianist and teacher, and has given recitals at the Wanamaker Auditorium in New York, the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the Arts Club cf this city. He has also becn heard over a national hook-up of the N. B. C. Mr. Ruckman has not appeared in a local recital since 1927, but he plans two recitals here during the coming season. Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Otto i1 Ortmann, director, has announced that 10 free scholarships will bz available for 1931. These include two in piano, one in violin, one in violoncello, two in organ, one in harmony and in voice. All applications should be filed mu forms obtained from the conservatory and returned to the office by Saturday, Sep- tember 26. The examinations for the scholar- ships, which are competitive, will be held before the conservatory faculty on Monday, Septem- ber 28, and Tuesday, September 29. The in- strumental scholarships are open only to can- didates under 21 years of age; and the vocal scholarships to those under 25. 5 SYMPHONIC tone poem dedicated to the memory of Maj. Pierre L'Enfant, planner of Washington, has been written by Al Mitchell, popular conductor of the Fox Theater Orches- tra, and is being played there this week in honor of the theater’s fourth anniversary week. AST Wednesday evening a special meeting was called by Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith, radio travel chairman for the District of Co- Jumbia Federation of Music Clubs, held in the "studio of Gertrude Lyons, president, when plans were outlined for the senior clubs to pre- sent a series of programs through the courtesy of Kenneth Berkeley, manager of WRC. Or- ganizations represented were the a capella choir of the First Congregational Church, the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, the Madrigal Singers, the Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Ep- silon and the Rubinstein Club. Others heard from were the Chaminade Glee Club and the Capital City Choristers. Mrs. Lyons has ap- pointed Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard as chairman of publicity. Mrs. Charles B. Smith and Mrs. . THE SUNDAY STAR,- WASHING’DON, D. C, SEPTEM Edith Virden Smith recently joined the Dis- trict Federation es individual members. EGISTRATION for the second season of the Marian Chace and Lester Shafer branch of the Denishawn School of Dancing will start tomorrow. Classes are starting the week of September 28. Miss Chace and Mr. Shafer announce that in addition to the usual classes in dancing there will be a course in fencing, taught by Wesley Brownton, and a lecture course by George Cornwell on the analysis of musical construction as relating to the dance. Musigraphs Continued from Seventeenth Page been dedicated to the Chaminade Glee Club, and another two-part junior chorus, which has been dedicated to the junior choir of the Church of the Pilgrims. Kathryn E. Bowers, who has resumed her evening ai the annual dinner of the Women's Committee of the American Institute of Bank- the Hotel Roosevelt. Miss Bowers is also be guest soloist at a tea, September 27, to given by Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw at her Goodwin, has been substituting at the Church of the Pligrims for Mortimer Davenport, who has been away on his vacation. Annoufficement has been made that the Chaminade Glee Club will rehearse Monday evenings in the Thomson Community Center., Revrews of the New Books Continued from Sizteenth Page parents no longer of prime interest to each other—probably with good cause. Nobody is qualified to pass judgment upon that, save the two concerned. The problem is the effect of such a condition upon a sensitive child, son or daughter, who feels, unhappily, the effects of these divergent interests. It is along the growing years of this boy that the story runs, in an engrossing interest to the reader, until— well, you would better read it. Some children do not seem to feel the home atmosphere, whatever it is. This one did. And, while you are not able to count Julian among the heroes, you are free to count him among many mil- lions of children who suffer as he did. A tre- mendous thought at the bottom of this story. Under a very simple development one reads, absorbed, and only after the reading is done does he lift the paitern out to fit the many cases that it covers. No preachment. A very fine work of inspired invention instead. However, that is what one looks for here. And gets it. CRUELTY TO WORDS: Or, First Aid for the Best-Seller. By Emest Weekley, author of “The Romance of Words,” etc. New York; E. P. Dutton & Co. - TBEImpuutionhmhmtthenmpm— specimens, cases, what not—of this expo- sition have been taken straight from the books of the most popular current writers. The point is not important. For no more than a passing glance discloses the fact that here are your errors, and mine, and that those of everybody else besides. ‘The split infinitive over which the pedagogue does prodigies of work, to find out at last that the split infinitive is impossible in the Latin source from which our speech gathered it in. Because in the Latin it could not be “split,” the English assumed that it must not be in the new form. Then, with that thoroughly learned, comes hundreds of cases from the best writers where it is almost a habit to Old Indiana Avenue best remembered as the “Know-Nothing” Mayor of Washington, from 1854 to 1855. Returning to the birthplace of Mrs. Middleton at the northwest corner of Third and D streets northwest. Mr., Zevely, in 1902, gives a good description of this building, saying: “Until the Spiing of 1887 there was only one sisters—put their hands over their eyes. Later in the war her father moved to Balti- more, and remained there until peace had been declared. He later disposed of a large part of the farm, but before doing so sold to Samuel Parker 10 acres, beginning at the District line and running north with Queen Chapel road; 25 acres to Col. Green Clay Goodloe, and 10 acres to the Johnsons. The old Ram'’s Horn so mutilate that part of speech, However, there are other cases of “cruelty,” less familiar, or ing closer has led it astray. into its origin of “no one” and the difficulty be- comes less. Again take that clear sinner among words, a pedantic and pretentious sinner at that. The word “one.” When one puts one’s one's pocket only to find that one’s been left at home, then one”"—and so indefi- nitely. Not two weeks I read for novel, author near to the famous mark, that ple does. And what about “I feel badly” or “I feel bad.” Which is it? That word “bad” is a covering one. It may mean “sick” or “tired” or - " or any one of a dozen other emotions. And in any of these cases would we say, “I feel sickly,” “I feel tiredly,” “I feel crossly,” and so on? The verb “feel,” too, is a pesky one, doing not a thing in the world but serving as a link between the subject and its complement, be- tween that which the subject represents and a quality belonging to it. Time to stop. I begin to feel like a school teacher whereas this book is meant only for those who make “best-sell- ers.” Might look it up, just for practical rea- sons. We do do some queer things to our parts of speech, MUSICAL STUDIOS. GraceHazard Wormelle Voice, Piano and Expression 3106 South Dakota Ave. N.E. North 5633 ROBERT RUCKMAN Concert Pianist-Teacher “His performance was nothing short of real greatness.”—Scranton (Pa.) Re- publican. “The Grieg Concerto is a challenge to any pianist’s ability. Mr. Ruckman met the challenge with flying colors.””— Musical Courier (N. Y.). THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART 831 18th Street N.W. 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