Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1932, Page 5

TOWN SUSPENDS BUSINESS 5 DAYS Mayor’s ‘Moratorium’ Meets Approval as 1,000 Minute Men Spread Slogan. By the Associated Press. AURORA, Ill, January 23.—The | stores in Aurora were closed today, but most of the citizens were working— | working to make their city a better | place in which to live A five-day “business moratorium,” de- clared by Mayor Conrad Bjorseth to build up public confidence and help set business squarely on its feet, received | practically 100 per cent co-operation from business men. Only drug stores, groceries, public utilities and such ne- cessities remained open And the mayor’s request to citizens to o out and boost” met with approval. | ve'll win,” was the slogan carried to hundreds of homes by 1,000 “minute men” delegated to get pledges of de- positors in the city's five banks not to withdraw their funds. Watchword Is Confidence. Confidence was the watchword every- where, Civic leaders proclaimed their | belief that Aurora can cure its business | ills as effectively as did Urbana, IIL,| where a similar “holiday” was pro- | nounced successful after operating only | 48 hours. | The mayor's proclamation put a quick stop to pessimistic gossip through- out the city. The closing of businesses was_entirely voluntary. Policemen pa- trolling the streets have no authority to enforce the decree, but after its is- suance in an early morning extra of a newspaper, very few shops—and these | mostly small ones—defied it. Purchases Limited. | Food, medical supplies and the new peper with the latest news of the “hol- | iday” were practically the only items | purchasable in this town of 50,000 pop- ulation. “Dentists and such like,” as a fifth-grade lad commented while sit- | ting in a dental office waiting room, also | were doing business, | But the movies were still selling tick- | ets, and the hurrying crews of can- | vassers gave a stir of activity. For any | one who might not have heard of the | moratorium, the closed shops and stores | bore placards on their docrs telling all about it. KENTUCKY LEGISLATORS INVITE RITCHIE TO TALK Maryland Governor Asked to Ad- dress Joint Session of Assembly January 29. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky, January 23.— Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland was invited by the Kentucky House yesterday to address a joint session of the General Assembly at noon, Janu- ary 29. In sponsoring the resolution, which will go to the Senate later, Representa- tive Harry J. Meyers of Covington | pointed out previous 1nvitations to prospective presidential candidates had | not included the Maryland Governor. ( He sald Kentucky wanted to hear Ritchie. THE EVENING STAR, WASHIKGTON, Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital‘s Programg. Martha Graham Dances Before Large Audience. HE most recent of the many dance artists who have wended their way to Wash- ington this seeson is Martha Graham, America's greatest contribution to the Wigman cause, who yesterday afternoon at the Na- tional Theater won a steadily in- cressing ovation and by the time the final curtain was reached had made dozens of curtain calls. Miss Graham is aid to have been doing the kind of dencing made famous by Frau Wigman long before either of them ever heard of each other. It has been rumored, too, that she is very nearly as great s the Germany's terpsichorean heroine, and that her native land has been too long in recognizing her talents. From the reception she received yes- terday it would seem, however, that her art is not only definitely known but also definitely appreci2ted. But Morning Music Club yesterday. The two groups of her own songs and her playing of the second piano part of the Rachmaninoff “C-Minor Con- certo” were responsible for a meet- ing far above the average. The English text of the first song group was & translation of some old Chinese tunes by the Englishman, J. Cramer Byng. Mrs. Cable was fortunate in having as sensitive an interpreter as the contralto, Clelia Flora to sing her songs. The music is not a filling-in_or direct program! copy of the words, but a welding of the spirit of the two into a richer whole. In the current modern trend the piano plays an important part. Mrs. Cable handled it with unusual power and imagination. The group included “Tears,” “World Apart,” “Sadness” and “In Exile” the latter being the clubs avorite. Minna Niemann gave a satisfying rendering of the solo piano part of the “Concerto.” There were mo- ing themes and harmonies tinged with the modern school One missed, however, the rthythm of some of Mrs. Howe's Spanish pieces for two pianos. None of last night's pleces, except the “Fiddler'’s Reel” had that piquancy of which Mrs. Howe has proven herself such a master. Some of the songs were most in- teresting in her choice of themes and deft manipulation of them. The longer sonata work did nct sustain its development so well. Helen Howison’s singing of the “Prinkin Leddie” gave it the Scottish charm it intimately possessed and delighted the audience. The model fourteenth century song “My Dear Moder” and the “Splendid Tear,” written to a poem by Tennyson, were outstand- ing. The final “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” gained musically by its simple, yet interesting, tran- scription for four voices when each took up the melody by turns. The audience called the composer back repcatedly and wes most en- thusiastic over the entire proglgfi%. Harry T. Burleigh to Lecture Tuesday. ANNOUNCEMENT has been made by the School of Music at How- ard University that Harry T. Bur- leigh, Negro composer and soloist, COALITION CABINE FORU. 5. PROPOSED Hoarding Proves Nation Is Not Home of Brave, Engi- neers’ Parley Is Told. b5 girl, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 23 —Assert- ing that “a country whose citizens with- draw $1,000,000,000 from banks to hoard cannot be called home of the brave,”| Col. Hugh Miller, chairman of the| Waterways Committee of the Schenec- | tady Chamber of Commerce and head | of the department of civil engineering | at Union College, last night proposed a | “coalition cabinet” to serve under “no| matter what President.” The cabinet proposed would be com- | posed as follows: Secretary of State, | Owen D. Young; Secretary of the| draw $1,000,000 from banks to hoard | Sec- | tember, 1930, when we first saw her— :My Most Interesting Case BY MISS JEAN S. COLE, Superintendent, Florence Crittenton Home. HE principal character in this story, which had its beginning and ending in Canada, but its climax in Washington, is a beautiful 17-year-old Canadian It was a dreary night in Sep- tention at the Home during 1931. were cared for. Florence as ill a young girl | last year. as had ever stepped within the Flor- ence Crittenton Home portals. What followed within the next 11 months during Marjorie’s sojourn here are incidents which make up our most interest- ing case handled | during the year. Marjorie passed | her early years in | a_children’s home of a small Cana- TODAY. Dance and car | street, 8:30 p.m. | ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Marjorie was one of the 120 girls who received shelter and medical at- Crittenton Ninety babies also ‘There were approxi- mately 8 major and 70 minor opera- tlons performed in our hospital during CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Meeting, League for the Larger Life, 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 8 p.m. | party, Willlam F. Hunt Chapter, No. 16, 2400 Sixteenth Benefit _card party, League for the Hard of Hearing, Rochambeau, 8 p.m. Meeting, Biological Society of Wash- Card party, Good Will Chapter, No. DRY ENFORCEMENT HELD WOMEN'S J0B |Mrs. Henry W. Peabody Lik- ens Political Family to That of Human. By the Assoclated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla, January 23.— Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, nationally known dry crusader, sald yesterday: “Men should be the law makers; wom- en the law enforcers.” “The political family should follow |the lines of the human family,” she sald. “The fathers are not the omes | who make the chidren mind. That remains for the mothers to do. “I should not be in favor of a woman President, Vice President or member of the Supreme Court. if she is meant to be like Wigman she is also very unlike her and quite distinct in most of her many moods. What Miss Graham lacks in fire in some of her own creations, she generously makes up for by her en- semble interpretations. While her “Incantation” yesterday seemed somewhat confused in detail and its expressiveness too wooden for for- reaching inspiration, her “Primitive Mysteries” as arranged against a blue background with her “group” dressed in darker blue, and herself ndent in a white flowing dress, ments of rich beauty, in the second theme of the “Moderato,” in the “Adagio the canon-like weav- ing of the finale, as well as moments when themes seemed, perhaps, con- fused with %their padding. Any piano c to, however, is an un- grateful thing without the color of the orchestral background. The last song. whose words were by Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, was sung by a clear soprano, Mrs. Klingle. Here again Mrs. Cable showed some real originality as a song composer. omething to tickle the imagi- D. n as well as the more esthetic Coming in like a Mary Queen of Scots bent for execution, solidly flanked on either side by her lines of marchers, Miss Graham in- terpreted this series of three dances with extraordinary clezrness and & rhythmic sense of the picturesque hitherto unseen in_ this feld. She, too, had trained her assistants to Pen Women's League Presents Mary Howe in Recital, "[HE opportunity of hearing a com- plete program of compositions a Washington composer seldom occurs. Last night the League of American Pen Women _presented Mary Howe in such a program at Stoncleigh Court There was first a “Sonata in D for by Treasury, Melvin A. Traylor; retary of War, Newton D. Baker: | Secretary of the Navy, Smedley | D. Butler; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of Commerce, Daniel Willard; Secretary of the Interior, T. | E. Grunsky; Secretary of Labor, Wil- liam Green; Secretary of Agriculture, Gifford Pinchot, and Postmaster Gen- | eral, Silas S. Strawn. Col. Miller attacked the proposed St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Ship Canal, as- serting the present plan meant “build- ing a canal for Canadians with Ameri- | can money.” “President Hoover,” Col. Miller said, “has expressed himself as being in | favor of this canal, and yet he has colored, 27, yesterday | spoken against any project which is not was held for grand jury action on|economically sound. The St. Lawrence $1,500 bond following his plea of not ‘Cmr\luis Ci'mngin;fa.flyxntr\sr}un;l. even | <4 | from the Canadians’ point of view.” | guilty to a charge of robbery. before | "¢, "Mijler said that what the Middle | Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court. Jones, police sald, snatched a purse from Mrs. Fannie Cadel, 1318 Kenyon will give an illustrated lecture on Tuesday evening at 8:15 p.m. in the Andrew Rankin Chapel, Mr. Bur- leigh will speak on “Racial Music in General and_Spirituals in Particu- lar,” and will sing many of his own spiritual arrangements as illustra- tions. Mr. Burleigh is the baritone solofst at St. George's Episcopal Church, in New York City. HELD VIN $1,500 BOND AS PURSE-SNATCHER| Johnson Jones, West wanted was a Great Lakes-Hud- | son canal across New York State, and | that this project could be made to pay. | | ate dian community located among hills and rivers. A bappy, lovable child, she knew little of the outside world. Somehow she be- came acquainted with a stranger who had recently stopped in the community. After listening to vivid stories of the splendors e found in the Unit Shates ;ii‘,”lf‘” agrecd 0 50 to Nf,",‘ tion, Raleigh Hotel, 6:30 p.m. ; ork with the man, where he assured | Meeting and dance, Pennsylvania P\fT, nary her they would be married. When we | state Society, Willard Hotel, 8:30 pm. | M. Peabody. here for 8 s o Re ow they had | e | leader’s assembly, said a third ,party is Dance, Ohlo Girls' Club, 1326 Mas- |0t necessary in this country unless come to Washington, the man register- ing her in a boarding house as his sis- | sachusetts avenue, 9 p.m. both Democrats and Republicans nomi- |nate a wet candidate. . ter. He had left her to attend to some — e ke & o bu(sjlnesis.dbut mever seturned. FUTURE. Lor oy womens’ National Coniision arried to our hospital, little hopes | Meeting, Friends' Forum, 1811 I g v % were held for Marjoric's tife as her ill- | street, tomorrow, 8 pm. Miss Mary | oo e s o o, e ness had developed many complica- | White Ovington, New York, speaker. | every possible denominati nEing tions, including severe heart trouble. s behoidan o, no. political ;:}tyw:o Fe e 1S J a e ‘ [4 e home took an immedi. REFUSE PARADE BAN !rsn vote for the dry candidate regard- interest in the slight Canadian youngster and were genuinely anxious S les‘§Gr;{-epa;gh1bition another 10 years Legion Had Requested That Amer- | The drinking women? : form the drinking men? 36, O. E. S, Northeast Masonic Tem- | ple, Eighth and F streets northeast, | 8:30 p.m. Dance, Chevy Chase Chapter, No. 39, O. E. 8, Almas Temple, Thirteenth and K streets, 9 pm. Dinner, Masonic Veterans' Associa- “I have a great sympathy for Cat- rie Nation. /Though not atall militapt | myself, I think I would have done just what she did, in her place. “Women used to be known .as. the gossiping sex. They are only amf- | teurs. Men have incorporated gossip. |If you don't believe that, just watch them Jn action in any political cam- Miss Cole. about her condition, When the doctor veported that transfusions were neces- They will re- such a pitch as made them seem perfection in every move and gesture. Other ensemble groups which were particularly effective were the peas- ant dance “Rustica” the ‘“Prelude to a Dance” and the final “Herotic” which is said to be the peak of this Violin and Piano,” played by Mrs. Howe and Edwin Idler, & New York Violinist, foll'wed by a group of for soprano, three Restaurant s for violin, another song group tenor and a final section writ- for mixed voices. Helen Howi- street, Sunday. star, and his brother Abbie, who live at 612 Jefferson street, were walking to their automobile parked on Kenyon street when they were attracted by Earl Clark, base ball| chouid be imposed so that the railroads He said he felt, however, that tolls | | Would not have to bear unfair com- |0 % petition. The St. Lawrence Canal, he con- cluded, “would cost the equivalent of | 1,000,000 loaves of bread a day for 50 while She sary, seven girls here gave their blood she might live. | undergoing four operations. pumped into the girl’s body that Five months_elapsed the ill child fought for her life, was dismissed from the Florence ican Flag Be Made Requirement. A request by the American Legion | that no more parades be allowed which | ghe said. do not carry American flags was denied | E by the Commissioners yesterday on rec- | politics? I “If 4 per cent beer is a good Bourish- ing food, I want to demand that it be put into all of the school cafeterias” Then with a twinkle in her eye, “My Well I am a Democrat in the lady’s dancing triumphs. Miss Graham'’s particular personal appeal lles in the expressiveness of her features, and her particularly handsome arms and hands which she uses to great advantage. While yesterday she was rather more bent on interpreting sorrow than joy she was amazingly graceful in her “Lamentation” and quite delightful in her “Harlequinade” “Optmist.” Whatever she did was distinctive and original. We, still, however, feel (after the Wigman inundation, etc.) that an audience prefers to see & dance of joy rather than a dance of grief—and that there is too little of the former at present on the dancing stage. E. de S. MELCHER. Rhea Watson Cable At Morning Music Club. RHEA WATSON CABLE carried off the honors at the Friday sang_the scprano, Wilfred Smith tenor. Richey MacLean and J. E Kinsclla completed the quartet. Mrs. Howe accompanied all save the last group, for which George Wilson played The sonata contained many pleas- Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to_your home every evening and Sunday morning. 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