Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 38

RUSSIA'SFIRSTLADY | TURNS TECHNIGIAN - Wife of Stalin Completing Three-Year Course in Ar- I ftificial Silk Production. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December ~3.—Soviet Russia’s “first lady,” Mme. Joseph Stalin, is setting an example for ber fellow-country-women by studying to become an expert in the production of artificial Instead of devoting a great part of her life to social activities, as would be essential in other countries, this 29- year-old wife of the head of the Com- munist party and virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, this year is round- ing out a three-year course of technical study at the All-Union Industrial Academy here She it the only woman in a class | of six and she is treated exactly as all other students enrolled at the school Uses Malden Name. ghe is known simply as Nadya Alliluleva, her maiden name. School Officials say she is an earnest and D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 ( 1931, 9y 'Tuba Puffer Held | i Just as Musical | | As Violin Player {Acoustics Expert Proves 'Tone Graduation Theory | by Playing On Bassoon. | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 3. — The husky tuba and the delicate violin are | on the same level as far as artistry is concerned. The tuba player may look as if he just blows hara and presses valves, but his ear must be es accurate as that of the violinist or trombonist, John Bellemy Tayior, of the General Electric Co., | nectady, N Y., told the Acoustical Ly of America. | ylor said belief that the violin, cello, viola and trombane are the | only perfect instruments because their tones can be brought to exactly the de- | sired pitch is a fallacy He demonstrated his point with a bassoon, showing how he could vary | the tone above or below a pitch as sounded on a tuning board by manipu- Jating his mouth and lips. Dr. Dayton C. Miller, professor of the society, and professor of physics at Case School of | Applied Science, did the same thing with a flute. They who play the tubas, trumpets, | horns, clarinets and other wind instru- | ments “should be given credit for being | good artists with es fine musical ears Qiligent pupil and that she refuses o |ay the violinists,” Taylor said. | allow her position to react in any way to her advantage Mme, Stalin is children, but in accord with the Soviet olicy of withdrawing women from Pousework to industry, she does not allow her domestic responsibilities to | interfere with her work She spends 40 minutes each day rid- | ing to and from her home in the Kremlin to the academy on jammed street cars and she spends seven hours five days a week at the school. Sev- eral more hours a day are spent doing | her “home work” after school Works in Laboratory. Most of her work now is in the | chemical laboratory, where she may be seen almost any day bending over re- | torts and test tubes After she eampletes the course this | year she will probably be given a com- bined administrative and technical post in one of the large Soviet rayon in- dustries as is customary for graduates | of the academy. Mme, Stalin is the second wife of | the leader. She is of medium height, inclined to lumpness, and wears her long brown Enlr combed straight back from her forehead and done up in a knot be- hind She wears plain clothes, chiefly skirts and blouses, and dons smocks for her work in the laboratory. ‘Wed When She Was 17, She and Stalin were married in 1919 when she was barely 17. He had already one child, a boy, by his first wife. The boy is now nearly 23 and lives with his father and stepmother. ‘Their romance began in their na- tive Caucasus where she was the daughter of Sergi Allilulev, a locksmith, at whose home Stalin was given sghelter when as a bolshevik chieftain he was by Omrist police for revolutionary activities. ‘The s simple two-room rtment in the Kremlin. Mme. lin's two children are a girl, 6, and & boy of 11. They are now in school at the Kremlin. PRESENT COMEDY Foundry Players to Produce “Wild Oats Boy.” The Foundry Players will present “wild Oats Boy,” a comedy by Lilllan Mortimer, at the Foundry Church audi- torium, Sixteenth and P streets, tomor- row night, Members of the cast include Martin llrk?‘trick, Doris Smith, Marion Hines, Qerald Russell, Evelyn Sligh, Jean ‘Watson, Jane Almond, Ray Kurtz, Carl- ton Smith, Betty Hibbard, Rober: Pes- senden, John Andrews and John Mat- tern §1-year-old Communist the mother of two | Six lengths ahead in a race at Long- | champ recently, Mansieur C. Marechal, | | a favorite, fell and slid backward past | | the wmm?g“ru:. causing the steed to | be disqualified. o oF OOLMOTOR THE SURE-FIRE WINTER GASOLENE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | lation passed by the Parliament of DOMINION RIGHTS BILL | Great Britain, is a step nearer final NEARS FINAL PASSAGE | * 1" Ssised the committee stage tn the House of Lords without amendment, after having been passed last week in the House of Commons. The bill will become effective as soon as it re- ceives royal assent. One clause specifies in effect, that rights of the Canadian provinces under the constitution of Canada are not cur- tailed by the new legislation. Statute Recognizing Power of Sep- | arate Units of British Empire Needs Only Royal Assent. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 3.—The Statute of Westminster Bill, which recognizes the right of the British dominions to make th own laws and determine for themy s if they will accept legis- Italy's crop production is exceeding a1l expectations. 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