Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1931, Page 8

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 18, 1931—PART ONE. FESTIVAL INCLUDES 35 NATIONALITIES| Prizes to Be Awarded for ; Best Performances at Community Center. Prizes for the best performances will be offered in the first Autumn Lantern Pestival of Washington Wednesday | night in Central Community Center. Participants will include men and | womep tepresenting more than 35 na- of this country. | Brilliance will be added by the color- ful ccstumes. The music will include outstanding strains of many nations. The grand finale will be American i songs offered by the entire cast of more than 250 persons. Silver cups will be |52 awarded to the group presenting the | best music and the most picturesque stage effect. Elks’ Boys' Band to Play. A preliminary program of populsr | music will be given by the Washington | Elks' Boys' Band, conducted by James |7 L. Kidwell. The band recently won | first prize in competition with several other musical organizations at the Montgomery County Fair. One of the four episodes will be given | {22 by the Americanization School Assoc tion under the direction of Souren Hi nessian and Vladimir Vasa. Ttal German and Russian songs will be fered by Miss Carmel Ragusa, Kurt Rit- ter and Mrs. Clara Schinskaya. Mrs. ‘exander L. Smith will appear as Co- bia. | “A Venetian Night” will be presented by the Lido Civic Club, directed by Dr. Raphael Manganero. Included will be serenades by the Musical Gondoliers, incent, Joseph and Anthoi notte with Miss L. Mezzanotte as ac- | companist, and festival songs by Miss Fthel Bonuso. Girls to Give Greek Rites. James Mallor will direct a Greek Festival. Among the numbers will be folk dances and an ancient religious ceremony. Fifty girls will give an au- thentic representation of ancient Greek rites. | Boys and girls of Neighborhood House will participate under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. S. Neligh, presenting a group of songs in Chinese costumes. The numbers will include “Festival of Lanterns,” “Welcome Song” =~ and “Neighborhood House Class Soni s it KINDLER APPOINTS =5 CONCERT MASTER Louis Ferrara Is Chosen by Con- ductor of New National Sym- phony Orchestra. Hans Kindler, conductor of Wash- ington's new National Symphony Or- chestra, yesterday named Louis Ferrara, a member of the Philadelphia Orches. tra under Leopold Stokowski, as cert master of the local musical orga zation. member of the faculty of the Wash. ington Musical Institute. He will pear with the orchestra as concert master at_its opening concert, in Con- stitution Hall November 2. The new concert master was born in Italy 40 years ago and had orchestra and concert experience before coming to the United States at the age of 17. A few years after arriving in this country he joined the Philadelphia OF-: chestra. i When the United States entered the World War he joined the Army and | 2 was made assistant bandmaster of the [OF) 309th Fleld Artillery Band, serving a @ vear in France. Returning from the | war, he rejoined the Philadelphia Or- chestra. For the past two seasons he | has been soloist and concert master of the Ventnor Municipal Pler Orchestra at Atlantic City. |8 s FIVE NEW DESTROYERS TO GET HEROES’ NAMES | After Eminent Officers, In- cluding Dewey. More American destroyers will carry the names of eminent naval heroes, it was decided yesterday when Secretary Adams elected to name the five new | destroyers Rarragut, Dewey, Hull, Mac- | Donough and Worden. Most of these | names have been emblazoned before on American destroyers and have taken their place in history. o, ‘Admiral Farragut has been honored | bxgg twice previously by vessels bearing his | name. Admiral Dewey will have a de- stroyer named in his honor for the first time. Commodore Isaac Hull, com- manding officer of the famous old frigate U. 8. 8. Constitution during the War of 1812, will be remembered anew. Commodore Thomas MacDonough is one of America’s outstanding naval heroes | for his striking victory over a British squadron in Lake Champlain in 1814. Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden commanded the Monitor in her famous battle with the Merrimac. The flve new destroyers under con- tract are part of the 11 that Congress authorized to be built. As an economy | measure, however, only five are to be bullt at this tim TAX GROUP VISIT HOOVER California efforts to adjust the State tax base were outlined yesterday to President Hoover. A group of tax experts from the State, led by Rolland A. Vandegrift, director | of finance there, were his callers. On leaving, they said he showed approval of efforts to relieve burdens upon real estate and iculture. 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