Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 12

THE EVEING STAR, W. 4 DE LUXE TRAINS DAILY Via The Double Track — Sea Leve! Route N g L [ N The Miamian Florida Special 530 PML If Coast Lt. Havana Special B ] 3 Other Fast Throuch Trains Dail SHIP YOUR AUTO — Total cost S tickets : for car and 2 passenger Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 132c per day and 5c Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? ‘Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. Back to Pre-War Prices $1.50 to Baltimore and Return 7-day limit Saturdays and Sundays $1.25 W., B. & A. 12th st. and New York ave. n.w. 72 WY 7% % \ \ N § 725 Thirteenth Street N. W. Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital‘s Programl. National Symphony Offers Its Best Concert. T was apparent after the concert given yesterday afternoon by the National Symphony Orchestra at Constitution Hall thatall wasright with the world. The audience was obviously pleased as it trouped out into the night, and second—and more important — Cond uctor Hans Kindler was pleased. Back stage, sit- ting in the re- ception room and holding something of & “grand court,” he not only smiled, but he beamed and he said, “That was our best con- cert, don't you think?"” and beamed some more, and then burst into the middle of the prelude to act three from “Die Meis- tersinget,” humming the music with his well known “ta-ta-ty-ya” and beating time with his right hand. He was, in other words, the pic- ture of a conductor who knows kis job has been well done and who accordingly vents his pleasure on his immediate and pleasurable world. Mr. Kindler was, of course, right. His orchestra had sprung nimbly to its task and disposed of such favorite works as the Wagner “Meis- tersinger” prelude and the prelude to “Lohengrin,” not only with ar- dor but with devotion. The former, in fact, was the crowning of the afternoon, since its progress was neither marred by hesitant brasses, nor slurred by over-nasal violin in- dulgencies. 1t sang its own clear song with a voice that was effective- ly regulated by the conductor, and when it was over the audience could say “Well done” just as much as Mr. Kindler could feel it. The opening number, which has been arranged by Glazounov, the polonaise from ‘“Chopiniana” (the program insisted on giving all the credit to Mr. Glazounov and none to composer Chopin), was played for the first time in Washington. Even those who do not like their Chopin transposed from piano to orchestra must have admitted that this arrangement is more stirring than its ancestor—or, even if you don't care for Chopin, it is still an exciting work and an ideal one for the opening of a program. The symphony was Haydn's “D Major” (London), the best of which by far was the “Menuetto” and the final “Allegro _ spiritoso,” which seemed to herald the best that was yet to come on the program. Rosa Low, heard last Sunday as soloist with the orchestra, was in even better voice yesterday. Espe- cially to be recommeded were her group of songs—her aria from the Mozart “Idomeneo” having been somewhat dampened by an over- loud orchestral accompaniment— and she sang such fervent and lyrical bits as the Rumanian folk song, “Luna, Luna,” with great ex- pressiveness and a faultless quality in the less stormy higher vocal regions. In this, and perhaps even more so in the encores which she so completely deserved, her voice was as clear as a proverbial bell and perhaps even more soothing than that. All in all, this was the symphony's handsomest accomplishment and one which should send Maestro Kind- ler off on his cello tour with not only & smile but that aforemen- tioned beam. E. DE S. MELCHER. Hans Kindler. Olive Maine, Soprano, Heard in Recital. ’I‘HE soprano, Olive Maine, back from a season in Paris, sang before a fashionable audience at Agnes Greene Foster's musical last evening at Meridian Mansions. Mrs. Maine was assisted by the pianists Anne Hull and Mary Howe. The singer planned an interest- ing program, Her first group was composed of early American songs including Hopkinson’s “Give Me Thy Heart” and Reinagle’s “I Have a Silent Sorrow” and an anonymous English work composed in the time of James I, entitled “Have You Seen But & White Lily Grow?” Mrs. Maine followed these with three modern French songs by Gabriel Grovlez. These varied from “Petites Litanies de Jesus” to the frenzied “Guitares et Mandolines.” she offered Massene! Miroir,” from “Thais.’ group was chosen from unusual and infrequently heard modern American works by Dreier, Hagemann and Stickles. The charming “Shepherd- ess” song was picked because its composer, Freer, is a friend of Miss Foster's. Mrs. Maine was most gen- erous with her encores, the last being a song entitled “You,” with words by Miss Foster. ‘The singer gave all she had to her interpretations, whether it was the thin tone of the “Petite Litanies,” reminiscent of the English singers, or the impassioned drama and recitative of the operatic selection. She had great variety of tone and clean-cut enunciation. Mrs., Hauer proved a capable and sympathetic accompanist. Miss Hull and Mrs. Howe gave a very fine group of modern works for two pianos. Their ensemble and the balancing of tone between the two instruments was quite perfect. The quality of tone was always beau- tiful. They brought out the richly varied colors of Rachmaninofl’s “La Nuit-L'Amour” and his “Les Larmes"” with its insistent repetition of four solemnly descending notes. Aren- sky’s “Valse” was lilting and whimsi- cal with clear, fluent embroidery. The last number, “Jota,” and the encore, “Habanera,” were both by Mrs. Howe. They are in a spicy Spanish idiom and were played with an invigorating rhythm and, like all the rest of the group, with complete assurance. D.C. “Faust” Presented by Cosmopolitan Opera Co. HARLES GOUNOD'S “Faust” is still a best seller. Year by year, month by month, almost week by week, it appears in some form or other behind the footlights and is persistently adored by a devout and reverend audience. The audience is, too, not alone in its worship, since the singers invariably give of their best and tread the evening's meas- ures with all the best that is in them. ‘This was true especially last night at the National Theater, where the largest opera audience of this season applauded loudly the Cosmopolitan Opera Co. in its most notable presen- tation since the curtain went up last Monday night, Conductor Jacques Samossoud led his not-too-willing orchestra with an intensity which ‘was heartening, and guided his sing- ers through the evening with great skillfulness. He is to be congratu- lated on having done all that he did. ‘The opera company, as those who have been to its many siestas know by now, is famed for the excellence of one or two of its voices rather than for its ensemble effects, its staging or its costumes (some of the gentlemen of the chorus last night looked like flowers for a pageant). Particularly notable in “Faust” was Alexander Kurganoff as the gentle- man who bargained for youth and the loss of his soul with the devil. Mr. Kurganoff is easily the best of the tenors which this company has displayed, and in everything that he did proved himself a topnotch singer. Grace Anthony, substituting sudden- ly for Gladys Matthew, was only slightly less effective, growing per- ceptibly stronger I volce and in ac- tion after a pleasant, but not excep- tional rendering of Marguerite's jewel song. Others in the cast included Viadi- mir Dubinsky as a believable Meph- istopheles, but one who would have been more so if he hadn't drawled some of his words out of the corner of his mouth; Georgia Hastings, who did well as Siebel; Joseph Royer, who was an average Valentin, and Alice Haesler, who provided a laugh or two as an exceedingly vivacious and genial Martha. Incidentally, the interpolated dances (but for their costuming) were done with pleasant cheer, abandon and a happy sense of time and place. E.de S. M. | |CONVICT INVENTOR'S RICHES TO BE GUARDED $100,000, Paid for Non-Pickable Lock, to Be Held in Escrow Until Marks Gains Freedom. By the Associated Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif, January 8.—Completion of an Escrow agreement under which Harold Marks, young prisoner here, is to receive $100,- 000 for patent rightg to a reputed non- pickable lock which he has invented since incarceration was announced here by prison officials, Authorities did not disclose details but sald Marks would not receive his riches until released. Marks is serving a sentence of five years to life on a Los Arfgeles robbery charge, but his case will come up for parole action in a few days. The lock was described as being of the dial cylinder type immune against even the efforts of the “Jimmy Valen- tines” of San Quentin. SLEUTHING JUDGE SEES GANG GUNS DESTROYED Borelli Watches Chicago Police Dump Nearly 200 Captured Weap- ons Into Lake Michigan. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 8.—Judge Fran- cis Borelli, who sometimes goes sleuth- ing disguised as a gangster, has taken a lake trip in furtherance of his war on crime. As a result nearly 200 shotguns, re- volvers and pistols, some of them for- merly owned by famous police charac- ters, were lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The weapons, some of them seized in the judge’s recent investiga- tion of the “42” gang, were loaded on a fireboat and taken under guard out into the lake and dumped while the judge looked on with satisfaction. “One way to keep crime down,” he said, “is to see that confiscated fire- arms do not find their way back to the owners.” TREASURY TO SELL BILLS The Treasury will sell $50,000,000 in Treasury bills next Monday, Secretary Mellon_announced. The bills, which will be for 91 days, will’be sold on a discount basis to the highest bidders and redeemed at face value on April 13. The proceeds of the sale will be used to retire $51,641,- 000 in Treasury bills which fall due January 13. NOW with the New Year Hawaii, Bermuda and Brazil have been added by the Bell System to the list of for- eign lands you can talk to. One by one the distant lands of the earth are being brought within call- ing range of your voice. First, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. Next Creat Britain and most of Europe. Then northern Africa. Then Australia. Only recently Java and Sumatra. And now these remote islands of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the far southern republic of South America. This new service is a reminder of the spirit of progress that enables you to talk from your own telephone not only to these distant lands, but to thousands of towns and cities in our own country—and with your neighbor across the street. It is in this spirit of progress that the Chesapeake and Potomae Telephone Company, as a member of the Bell System, looks forward to 1932. 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