Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1932, Page 47

. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FEBRUARY 7, 1932—PART FOUR. Choral Group to Sing Dettinger’s With National Symphony Rel‘learsals Underway {01‘ Cl’mral Concert—Louis Potter Directing Larg Perform in March Under Kindler. By E. de S. Melcher. R. KINDLER awoke one morning from a deep sleep and reached for the morn- ing paper. It h(\puonr_d a Sunda Or maybe it At any rate, he reached for a paper—and the first thing that caught his eye was the word Bach t word alone striking some kind of fire within him, he then glanced at other words, and suddenly was kindled both in d and spirit by “Sleepers which followed the name Thereupon, he bethought himself of how very pleasant it would be to hear this work and how nice s ¢n without benefit of advance publicity guns : the afternoon, or in the eve- i Mr. Kindler left by a back do of the Arts Club, and well submerged beneath the ot hat and the hangs giddily set forth in to be wasn't He bobbed it is said, in ng a hly bethinking himself of the many times back in Holland when, as a wee small lad, he dreamed of some day becoming the maestro of some great orchestral body He smiled to himself, too, at the jdea that no one was going to know where he was, and that cer- tain backslappers for once would not be able to get near or at him When he walked into the church the commotion is said to have Or rather the At sight| Stokowian shock of near- r and the hat which he fur r is quote nd the members of the 1tion were so flabbergasted very pews shook with look who's here,” said a lady. forgetting she was 1 nd all through the ran that sudden ty and that un- r-necking which arent at the ap- of a greater or lesser Kindler, sensing at once; the sweet substance of| had gone from him for- ver, darted into a side pew, and there, partially hidden from pry- ing eyes, he waited for what he/| had come to hear. It wasn't a| long wait, and before he knew it| the liar strains of that ex-| y lovely work were upon| d the choir was rounding t ot h a finesse which seemed | pleasantly astonishing. | “Now that’s what I like,” said| Mr. Kindler to himself. And the more he listened the more he liked | it, and the more he liked it the more he wondered if something n't be done about it. And that made him think back to his fortune in having reached for the morning paper and in having come across the word “Bach” and on the fun of life in general and how one of its nicest features was coming upon something like this whi proved so unexpectedly stirring And so when “Sleepers Awake” had been disposed of. the newly dubbed maestro of the National Symphony Orchestra hit upon the s p of presenting a great choral work with an augmented chorus of such a quality as the e he had just heard—and in a great hurry he seized upon Louis Potter, whose choir had done so| nicely with the “Sleepers Awake,” and, as they say, in a jiffy had| arranged for the Washington| Choral Festival Association (which Mr. Potter leads) to sing with his orchestra some time in March, it time and energy and enough peo- ple were willing. * % oniw HAT is how the seeds of the choral undertaking which Mr.| Kindler plans to present were | sown. And that is why every‘ Monday night an eager group of | Local “Te Deum” e Chorus Which Will men and women raise their lusty throats in song and pour forth their all into the Dettinger “Te Deum” which Messrs. Kindler and Potter have decided will be per- formed with the orchestra. Now all that remains is for the ranks of this choral association to swell. Rumor has it that there is room for more voices—and that certain unpleasant hedging and bickering and “renigging” on the part of uncivic music leaders have resulted in a definite wall being pla_ed between this group and the outside world. Mr. Kindler won't present the “Te Deum” if strength of voice and training doesn't war- T its appearance. He feels,| however, that t as he “hap pened upon the “Sleepers Awake" | and was thoroughly stirred by it. so might other pcople be stirred by the Dettinger “Te Deum,’ which is a work of great merit and too seldom heard. He needs, and Mr. Potter needs, every one’s sup- port This is a good cause or Mr. Kindler wouldn’'t be undertak- ing it. Incidentally, he will at- tend next Monday’'s rehearsal, in person, to see how the chorus is progressing. * o ox % JDISCUSSING choral work re- minds us that today is the day when services will be held for | the first time at the new Metro- politan M. E. Church, which is now located at Nebraska and New Mexico avenues northwest, and that Harlan Randall (who was| unfortunately referred to as Carl Randall a few Sundays ago) is in charge of the chorus choir. This choir, composed of members of church workers as well as recruits from Mr. Randall's excellent American University Glee Club, will likewise perform today for the first time, with Mrs. James Shera | Montgomery at the organ, and soloists including both Mr. Ran- | dall and Carolyn Schoenthal. An interesting program has been ar- ranged, which will include the Torovsky anthem “Praise Ye the Lord,” Gounod's “O Divine Re- deemer,” Handel's “Hallelujah Chorus” and Knapp's “Open the Gates of the Temple.” ko ox _\MONG the highlights of the past week is the news of the great success won by Lillian Evan- ti, well known local soprano, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The critic of the Detroit Free Press said that “such startling fine florid work has not been heard here in some time,” and that “it brought to mind the Galli-Curci of yore.” Miss Evanti is singing this season under the direction of Richard Copley. Other events, nearer at home, include the great interest shown by Frieda Hempel in the National Symphony Orchestr: the rumor| that Helen Donofrio is being asked for bookings by a prominent Man- hattan concert bureau; the meet- ing of Paderewski and Norman Frauenheim after the former's concert last week, Paderewski be- ing said to have called Frauen- heim “grandson” (because he calls Stokowski “son,” and the latter was the teacher of the former— if you can figure that out); the news that Hans Kindler will con- duct the Reading Orchestra again today, and that his success with this orchestra has been so out- standing that two more concerts have been added to the series, and also the announcement that the newly formed chamber orchestral group, which performed so cred- ibly last Wednesday at the Library of Congress, will give an all mod- ern program at the Library on February 24. Notes MERICAN songs in commemora- { Lincoln's birt} will be sung Pierson this Friday at ¢ meeting of the Fri- c Club at Barker c Cullen_ will no and Hazel Gilson Wood, sing additional songs. de Bac \ C _Sharp, Pathetique,” in E Flat Minor,” certo in G Minor” tions., Miss Sugar, old, is a pupil of Felian ell known local pianist and Keefer, mezzo-con- is' Corning At- -hour program this afternoon at 5 Souls' Church (Uni- | suise Raner, violinist, recently e-recital before the faculty of the Convent of the Miss Raner's lecture, en- | ry of the Violin,” was program _ranging | rough modern vio- Marie C. Hansen was lt; Elsa 1 e a od Heart Sylvia and Joseph Wells, Mary Jeanne Coleman and Flora Blumenthal, puplils | of Etta Schmid Wells, made their l’fldio‘ debut last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. J. B. Colclazer presented a few of her pupils recently in a piano re- cital at her studio, 1319 Allison street northwest. | The music section of the Women's Club will present Gracella Hobley, Dorothy Hobley, pianist, | this afternoon at 5 o'clock. A violin and piano recital will mark the regu- Jar monthly “Adventure in Music” on Thursday. Inez Becker, violinist, and Mary Izant Couch, pianist, will play %The Third Sonata for Violin and Pi- ano,” by Brahms, and “A Sonata for | Violin,” by Hande! ‘Yvonne Rapeer, accompanied by Beu- lah B. Chambers, recently was soloist &t tbe Pan-Hellenic luncheon held af the Mayflower. The Felicla Rybier Music Club en- | joyed a program on Robert Schumann | sored by the District of Columbia Fed- | songs of the British Isles, with an in- at its last meeting, Among the soloists, which included a rendition of Schu- mann’'s “Carnival” by Miss Rybler, were Leah Offenbach, Betty Baum, George | Sklar and Ralph Goldsmith. Grace Hazard Wormelle, accom- panied by her pupil, Eleanor George, planist, sang a group of songs recently at the Febru: meeting of the Wash- | ington Readers’ Club | The Von Unschuld University of Mu- | sic will give its Spring recital this year in New York, where Mme. Marie Von Unschuld has been engaged to give a recital with some of her pupils in Steinway Hall, under the auspices of the broadcasting and television station. The Madrigal Singers, Mrs. John M Sylvester, director, will broadcast the fourth in the series of programs spon- eration of Music Clubs. The half hour will be given to English madrigals and | troductory talk on the madrigal. Mme, Tamara Dmitrieff of the facul- ty of the Washington College of Music presented a group of students in re- cital last Friday evening. Those per- forming were Eunice Irvin, Jean Fair- child, Jane Burns, Sara Cauthen, Lilly Pappas, Olga Miller, Frances Dowden, Mildred Shackleford and Marcia Boyn- ton. The Washington Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the home of Vera Neely Ross, <916 Forty-sixth street northwest. Any out- of-town members. who are here for the Bicentennia! are cordially invited to the meeting and are asked to call the resi- dent manager o Edith B. Athey, presi- ent. Louis A. Potter is presenting Esther Spier, pianist, in recitel at Calvary M. E. Church Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Miss Spier will be assisted by Howard Moor, baritone. The Beard School of Music gave & musicale last Monday evening at the Joppa Lodge Hall. Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital at the Church of the Pilgrims at | 7:30 o'clock this evening. He will play | “Grand Choeur sur la Prose ‘Solemnis Haec FPestivitas,’ " by Adolphe Marty, end a suite by R. 8. Gubgft. Guest Conductor Here With Orchestra This Week [ % Music to Be Featured at Bal. BRILLIANT array of musical talent has been assembled by Marjorie Lowe, chairman of the program for the “Seaport Cabaret,” which is to be a unique feature of this year's Boheme, or “Ball of the Seven Seas.” at the Willard tomorrow night, under the auspices of the Washington Arts Club On the program will be Gretchen Hood, as “Carmen”; Clelia Floravanti and Harry Angelico, Ttalian folk songs: Dr. George Anderson. ballads: Helen Belt, violin solos: Sophocles his mandolin orchestra, inc man von Berewitz, sr. Herman von Berewitz, jr.. Truman Wallace, Philin Florla and Sadie Austin, with Eveline Monico, accompanist, who will be heard in Spanish selections; George O'Connor. character songs; Harry Woodard, jazz numbers on the piano; Ycomans and | McClure, well-known radio artists, with their ukulele accompa nt O'Brien and Wilbert Bogran folk songs; two “blues” singer: Holtzsheiter and Charles V J. Prank Rice, a Greek folk song. Dance numbers on program _will de Flan- Farnham Beverly R Ina Mrs. agan; waltz tango, and William Rodon dance by a group theaters. acrobatic Helen McHale, Mary E Cody O'Neill. all from tr studio; Priscilla Todd pupils of Willlam Baker, Escudero Recital. \'INCEVTE ESCUDERO, the famous psy dancer of Spain, when comes to Washington for his fi pearance February other dancers, a guitarist and a pianist with him. Escudero has won capacity audiences at the New York recitals which w ave numbered five before his coming here He is noted throughout the world as the leading exponent of real gypsy danc- ing. He is no modernist. His dancing has all the primitive virility that the Russian cossacks put into their dances. No matter how often Escudero dances to the musi¢ of a single composition, he never exactly repeats his pattern of dancing; he is continually impfovising He is admitted to be complete master of all the intricacies of heel and castanet work and a great personality beside. Tickets can now be had at Talbert's nd tap dancing. by and Lee and Phil Hayden Robert Reed, in a waltz, | ticket agency, in the Willard Hotel; at A. A. A headquarters and mail orders are being received at the box office in the National, JRAPER——— e + : ¢ URRENT criticism, which s prone to look askance at “the vs” and fling a signifi- cant glance at “the gay nin- ties” as justification for mod- ern development,” may find something in the treasures of an old play album which was started just 31 years ago and was faithfully continued for only four months, when its owner departed for an extended stay abroad. It doesn’t really matter Why or by whom the album was kept, but the pro- grams and other data that make up its record afford a very clear idea of what sort of entertainment was popular and considered of the best type in the theater in the early days of the present century. The record began in October, 1901, and closed at the end of January following. 1In all, 35 plays and pro- ductions are programmed, some of them famous even to this day, and they in- clude performances given at leading theaters in New York as well as in Washington and Philadelphia. One of these, strangely enough, is accompanied with a review and criti- cism by a reviewer of The Star. It is Mrs. Leslie Carter's “Du Barry,” pre- sented by no less a master of the craft than David Belasco story that formed the basis of the for-|actors of the American stage, with Mr. | Boje; “passion,” | Ditrichstein, supported by John A. Rice | jaje. eign silent motion picture, which introduced Pola Negri and Emil Jannings to America. The film industry, even to date, has failed to present either star as graciously or as effectively as did “Passion,” although America is said to lead the world in picture pro- duction. October, 1901, brought a rare display | of theatric excellence, opening With Francls Wilson, one of America’s fa- mous musical comedians, in George W, Lederer's production of “The Strollers.” edapted from a German story, with book by Harry B. Smith and music by Ludwig Englander—incidentally intro- ducing the famous Eddie Foy in its| cast, which also included Irene Bantley. The month brought also the famous Anna Held, the French exquisite who “couldn’t make her eyes behave.” in “The Little Duchess,” by Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith. Anna scored triumph after triumph during her American stay. Frank Daniels, one of Washington's best musical comedy stars, appeared at this time in “Miss Simplicity,” which was clean. amusing and delightful, but which probably few remember today. October also brought a galaxy of superb stars of the stage— | Julia Marlowe in “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” with Bruce McRae in the cast; Mrs. Fiske in “Miranda of the Balcony,” based by Anne Crawford Flexner on the novel of A. E. W. Mason, and David Belasco's “new star,” David Warfield. in “The Auctioneer.” War- field’s first great success, in which he was assisted by Marie Bates, Brandon Tynan and a well balanced cast. It brought likewise Bronson Howard' great military comedy, “Shenandoah, consicered superb in its day, with lin- gering memories that last even until now, and two plays by Clyde Fitch. “The Way of the World,” with Elsie de Wolfe as its star, and “Lover’s Lane"” | ' both written in 1901 by Mr. Fitch, who was an Amherst man, whose career be- | gan as a playwright with “Beau Brum- mel,” in 1890, and written fcr Richard Mansfield, whose memory as a great| actor and tragedian is, perhaps, not yet waning. Mansfield’s first brilliant suc- cess was achieved as Baron Chevrial in “The Parisian Romance,” from which it was continued in some of the great- est productions on the American stage. Before leaving October, mention should be made of the feminine chorus in Anna Held's “comedy with music.” A picture in the album shows them Bal | PLAYS IN \ 1 | =) Upper left is Fritz Reiner, the guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which comes here Tuesday; the sensational Spanish gypsy dancer. Escudero, and his partner, Carmita, who dance here February 16, are upper Physical Education for Women. center, and upper right is Percy Grainger, pianist-composer, who plays Thursday | with the National Symphony; lower right is the eminent American baritone, John Charles Thomas, who sings Saturday at Constitution Hall, is Phil Hayden, local dancer, who will appear tomorrow night as a the Bal Boheme. and lower left feature of Musical Events of the Week. Tuesday. Concert by Philadelphia Orchestra, Pritz Relner conductor and Vladimir Horowitz soloist, at Constitution Hall at 8:45 p.m. ‘Wednesday. St. Olaf Lutheran Cholr, Dr. F. Melius Christiansen conductor, in concert at Constitution Hall at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Concert by National Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler conductor, and Percy Grainger soloist, at Constitution Hall at 4:45 p.m. Saturday. Recital by John Charles Thomas, baritone, at Constitution Hall at 8:30 pm Lawson Piano Recital. ‘\'ARNEH LAWSON, pianist, will give | a recital Tuesday evening at the | Rankin Memorial Chapel of Howard University. His program will include the following Cantata to Be Performed. “J INCOL cantata by two W ingtonians, R Deane Edwin N. C. Barnes, is to be group of 200 from the Inte School Festival Ch Lincoln’s birthday, New York Avenue Pr where Lincoln wors. the pew in which he sa | Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes will conduct i |arrayed in white shirt-waists, long-| sleeved, with natty dark knee-length skirts and high black shoes, doing a military drill with guns, but looking for | all the world like a group of modest matrons of a seascn or two ago. | The first half of November discloses that music, romance, comedy and farce | were predominant, and includes James T. Powers, very popular in his day, in “The Messenger Boy,” a musical comedy, in which appeared with him Georgia Caine, May Robson, Jobyna Howland and Flora Zabelle, afterward Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock; also Charles Dalton in “The Helmet of Navarre,” | adapted from Bertha Runkel's novel; | Lulu Glaser in the comic opera, “Dolly Varden,” with a cast including Richie Ling, Van Renssalaer Wheeler, Mark Smith, Tom Daniels and Estelle Went- | worth-—names that surely are not all | forgotten. _ Stanislaus Stange wrote the | book of * | very popular in its time. | “Are You a Mason?”_a farce comedy | Cahill, whom old-timers Leo | get; Eva Tanguay, jus Louis Gunning and May | |adapted from the German by and dear, jovial Thomas A. Wise, who just the other day passed from life's| stage, Esther Tittell being the feminine lead. It came in early November, to| | our local Columbia Theater, and within | a day or so, at the Garrick, in New | York, Charles Fronman was presenting | Charles Hawtrey, a noted Englishman, in “A Message From Mars,” which had | been having & run of 500 performances | in London. It created almost as much | of a stir on this side of the Atlantic. | 1t was fantastic, it is true, but very pleas- ant and popular entertainment that | never carried an embarrassing moment | to its audience. |~ The last half of November was signal- | | 1zed by the appearance at the Knicker- bocker Theater in New York of a young miss—her picture in the album shows | | her about 20—by the name of Maude | Adams, in a play called “Quality | Street,” by J. M. Barrie. The young| star was seen as a prim young school teacher who had an unfailing recipe for making “a perfect female.” About | the same time. at the famous old Weber & Fields Music Hall in New York, | Weber and Fields, who drew audiences from all parts of the world, were ex- | ploiting “Hoity Toity,” and “A Perver- |sion of A Message From Mars,” with |an all-star cast including 60 names, among them De Wolf Hopper, Fritz Wil- liams, Sam Bernard, John T. Kelly (re- | member his tall black hat?), Lee Harri- son and, star of stars, the famous Lil- | lian Russell, “songbird of her day” of| supreme beauty, with a voice of oper- atic range and excellence that brooked no rival. This almost loses Fay Temple- ton, who was also in the stellar aggre- gation, a glittering gem of,the American | theater never to be forgdtten. At this time, at the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia, Henry Irving, one of England's greatest actors, was thrilling_capacity audiences with his “Louis XL” and, in New York, | Richard Mansfield was winning_new | laurels with “Beaucaire,” by Booth | Tarkington and Evelyn Greenleaf Suth- erland, with Lettice Fairfax as his lead- ing lady. December opened with E. H. Soth- ern, under the management of Daniel Prohman, splendidly advanced in his art since his comedy days in “Lord Chumley,” thrilling big audiences in the Justin Huntly McCarthy play “If I Were King.” Cecilia Loftus was the Katherine de Vaucelles and Sydney C. 1 It was this play | Ditrichstein, one of the finely polished | pon't Care”; Recital at Arts Club. NOE(MAN FRAUENHEIM, pianist, will give a concert at the Arts Club on T evening at 8:30 o'clock. His program will be as follows: Liszt Marine Band Concert. ed States Marine Band and orchestra will play concerts in at the Marine Barracks he following dates February 8—Band concert February 10—Orchestra pm uary 12—Orchestra con- con Friday cert at 3 p. rarely recalled now. Louis Mann, a famous comedian, and Clara Lipman, an actress of great accomplish- ment, also at this time were delight- ing their audiences with “The Red Kioof,” a South African play at the Co- lumbia Theater in_ this city. Over at Albaugh's Grand Opera House (after- ward Chase's) Henrietta Crossman, who happily has not yet commenced to be forgotten, was winning hearts in “Mistress Nell,” a new play by George C. Hazleton, a Washington boy from Capitol Hill, who also wrote the exqui- site Chinese fantasy “The Yellow Tick- et” William Herbert and Geoffrey Stein, both fine and versatile players, played in her support. Mr. Stein was a brother of “Ned" Stein, and for years was the popular treasurer of the old Columbia Theater here. Frank Perley’s singing comedians, about this time, were winning plaudits in “The Chaperons,” book by Frederic Dolly Varden” and Julian Ed- | Rankin and music by Isidor Witmark, | wards the music. It was the story of & with a cast headed by delightful and | young ward and a scheming guardian, | amusing Digby Bell, one of the favorite musical comedians of the day. Marie beginning to “1 among a mighty host of singing and Joseph C. Miron and Walter Jones, very popular but probably for- gotten now, were in the excellent cast brought here by George W. Lederer. December 12, at the National The- ater, David Belasco made his great presentation, at a genuine premiere, of Mrs. Leslie Carter in “Du Barry.” C. A. Stevenson, Hamilton Revelle, Frederic Perr; Claude Gillinwater, Eleanor Carey and Blanche Rice—names to conjure with in those days—were in the famous cast. The critics of the day thought the play very daring and, while 2dmitting its artistic excellence, never- theless, were fearful that its fate might be dismal. Mrs. Carter then, probably at the highest peak of her glory, laid | their fears. “Du Barry” is recorded as one of the classics of the American stage. But the do-and-dare spirit had not then been cultivated by World War effects, nor had it been encouraged by the later modern change in times, man- ners, methods, moods and—well, you know. g Romance, a bit of the bizarre and a new opera rounded out the year 1901. At the Lafayette Square Opera House (now the Belasco) we had “An Enemy to the King. a romantic drama by Robert N. Stevens, while at the Na- tional Klaw & Erlanger's comedy com- pany was presenting Gus and Max Rogers in ‘“The Rogers Brothers in Washington,” with lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by Maurice Levi. Fol- lowing this came James K. Hackett, an actor too good, too great, to be lost in memory, in “Don Caesar’s Return.” The year closed at the old Columbia with Jerome Sykes and the Klaw & Erlanger Opera Co., in “Foxy Quiller,” Harry B. Smith and Reginald de Koven's new opera that fell short of becoming quite: famous. The year 1902, like the one which preceded it, opened with Francis Wil- son, the unique comedian of the musical stage, and again the star, in “The Toreador,” supported by Christie Mac- donald, the queen of them all in her time, and with her Adele Ritchie, Queenie Vassar and Maud Raymond, beautiful, brilliant singers of the starry firmament of the theater, at the Na- tional Theater, on New Year day. The play story was the work of James T. Tanner and Harry Nichols, the lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, the music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monkton—and all of it & Nixon & Zim- will never for- | z e 24 Prokosch Dance Recital. ERTRUDE PROKOSCH one of the younger and most promising inter- | | preters of the dance, will appear here | n recital on the evening of Wednesday, | February 17, at Wilson Teachers' Col- | lege, under the auspices of the George Washington University Department of She will be assisted by George Wash- ington students who are members of | Orchesis, a group Who are training in | the dance under the instruction of Miss | Ruth Aubeck of the university faculty. | Miss Prokosch is appearing this week |in the ballet “Tragedy of Salome,” in | New York City, and yesterday gave her first full New York program at the Re- cital Theater. Recently she has given lecture-recitals at Vassar College and | the University of Wisconsin. (T (Gt Errats "THE Chaminade Glee Club, Esther| Linkins, director, and sting | soloists will give a concert in the Par-| ish Hall of Chri Alexandria, Va, Tuesda: 8 o'clock. This concert is sponsored by the Young League of Christ | soloists will be . who will sing 1 presenta- The Duel”; Harry rles Marbury Sea- 1, violinist, and | Mrs. Howard | the club and Callow, reader. will accompany soloists. Dancer Wlth CIV)C Opera. 1ington Civic Opera, said to for Fall presenta- is to have the as- | tharine Meredith Reese | training & group of dramatic dancers Reese is receiving with Kathryn D | several vear | group and debut at th b a native Washing- her first instruction khorst. She spent Martha Graham New York Theater. She the Neighborhood | Playhouse and & member of the | Diaghilco Ballet, under the auspices of the League of Composers and appeared with the Philadelphia Symphony in 1930. Recently she directed the danc- ing in the St. Louis production of “Lysistrata.” She also appeared in Norman Bel 'Geddes production of | “Hamlet.” merman production, staged by Herbert Gresham This was followed by the famous “Bos- National, in Harry B de Koven's “Maid Van Studdiford, Barnabee and George B. ham in the cast “Robin Hood,” the immortal, by De Koven and Smith and under the brililant talents of » Bostonians, al- ready had won undying fame through- | out the land. It is smail wonder, there- fore, that “Maid Marian” was con- structed, much along the same lines, n.s*‘ a twin sister. While a delightful pro- duction, however, it was but another angle of “Robin Hood,” and folk pre-| ferred the oricinal. The last half of of January brought the album record as well as the month to a brilliant finale. William Faver- sham in “The Royal Rival,” with Fa- versham as Don Caeser and the distin- guished actress Julia Opp (Mrs. Faver- | sham) as Marita lead the proces- sion of the gods over the rainbow bridge to Walhalla. Only a bare memorandum of this attraction is given by the album. The Augustin Daly Musical Co., how- | ever, at the Columbia made things very merry with “San Toy,” which old-timers will remember as the work of Edward Morton, who wrote the book; Sydney Jones, the exceedingly catchy music, and Harry Greenbank and Lionel Monckton, the lyrics. The cast that won fame in its time presents a group of names almost unheard of by pres- ent-day fans of the musical comedy and revue stages. The outstanding event, perhaps, was Robert Marshall's four-act comedy with John Drew as its star, supported in part by Lionel Barrymore, Guy (now Sir Guy) Standing, Oswald Yorke, Ida | | Conquest, Ida Vernon and Louise Prew. It was a “New National” attraction January 20. There were few if any empty seats in those days when John Drew came along. Then came the comic opera “King Dodo,” with the Castle Square Opera Co. behind it, to make things hum at the Columbia January 27. Raymond Hitchcock led the list of funmakers and singers and the cast also included Cheridah Simpson, who is not yet en- tirely forgotten. And, oh, what a galaxy of merry melodies it carried, headed, after the fashion of the da with a_rollicking “Drinking Song.” The little story of the plays in a lady’s life is brought to a close by E. S. Willard, famous in his day, in “The Cardinal,” a Louis N. Parker play that many still live to remember. And, al- though polite vaudeville was then at the height of its glory at Chase's, after- ward Poli’s Theater, now no more, the album _closes its record with a vaude- ville show at Chase's January 29 with Wilfred Clarke presenting his adapta- tion from the German, “In the Blo- graph”; James J. Morton, “A Fellow of Infinite Jest,” and the Seven Reed Birds in “Look Out for Johnson.” Even with its greatest drama of the age, with Ziegfeld's glorified femininity, | its folk plays and many other tryouts, experiments and hodge podge of musi- cal sophistication and gloomy drama, it is doubtful if the present-day theater, in comparison, displays much better in the way of theatrical entertainment. Certainly productions, as a rule, were free from the salacious and the other- wise unpleasant during this four months’ partial record of a year close enough to “the gay nineties” to par- | (August take of their general spirit and cultural inclinations. Perhaps a closer analysis might demonstrate beyond the perad- venture of a doubt why the oldtimer loves to look back to and longs for “the old days,” at least in the theater. Philadelphia Orchestra, Horowitz and Grainger Play Here in Concert Horowitz Soloist With Philadelphians and Grain- ger With National Sympl‘lony—Thomas and St. Olaf Choir in Recitals. HE sixth symphony concert of the Natlonal Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler, conductor, will be given at Constitution Hall next Thursday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. Percy Grainger, the distin- guished Australian-American pianist and composer, will be guest soloist and two compositions by Mary Howe will be featured. Mr. Grainger will offer three pieces of his own composition, “Handel on the Strand,” described as “a jolly good folk song” for piano and string orchestra; “Irish Tune from County Derry,” and “Spoon River.” The Grainger group will be preceded by the overture from “The Magic Flute,” Mozart's famous opera, and two compositions cf Mary Howe, well known composer and musician of this city, including “Dirge” and “Sand.” while the symphonic offering of the afternoon, which will close the program will be Tchaikovsky's Fifth. Another outstanding soloist will be heard with the National Symphony Or- chestra at its seventh Sunday at Constitution Hall on Sunday noon, February 14, at 4 o'clock, Yelly d'Aranyi, the niece of Joachim and the greatest woman viol Europe today, will play Mende concerto for piano and orchestra. PHILADELPHIA ORCH. CONCERT. AN all-Russian program which brings to Washington as soloist with t Philadelphia Orchestra the extraordi- narily gifted young Russian pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, will be given on Tuesday evening in Constitution Hall under the direction of Fritz Reiner conductor of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Mr. Reiner, a can- ductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra during the Midwinter absence of Leo- pold Stokowski, had announced a color- ful and interesting program. The event is scheduled to begin promptly at 8:45 pm. after which time, in accordance with the rule introduced by Mr. Sto- kowski, the doors will be closed ar late comers not admitted ui clusion of the first half o gram. The program follow: Glinka Overture to Ludmiila. Prokofiesy Strawinsky ST. OLAF CHOIR CONCERT. AFTER a concert of the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir, which will appear Constitution Hall on Wednesday ning, there might be heard the question: “What is the origin of this choir? Who is responsible for its tone quality and choral work?” Any sketch of the choir becomes inevitably an appreciation of its direc- tor, Dr. F. Melius Christiansen, who, a native of Norway, came to America at the age of 17. He lived for a time with relatives in California and Wis- consin. Continuing his musical studies, he became teacher, organist and choir- d studied and later taught at hwestern Conservatory at in the St. Olaf Dr. Christiansen g at the con- in 1843 by Men- under the influence Cantor Gustav Ilustrious suc- the historic askirche, Dr. Chris- ed the idea of a choir ar to the choir of the was stu vatory delssoh: for four nsen o America s C Northfield, Minn,, he has held since was organized and e officially the St. Olaf hoir. trips into neighboring towns erest of the outside on college vacations were to concert trips, with the that the demand for engage- is now more than 10 times er than can be filled. e program follows Agnus De! This 15 the Sight That ollege h in 1912 Lutheran Little T B Kallinko eger (1640) J. 8. Bach (1492 Tschaikowsky “Russlan and ngs Albert Kranz i3 1868 By P. Sohren Tchatkowsky for piano and Viadimir COMING ATTRACTIONS. WILSON-GREENE'S Concert announced that Rosa recital at Con- v afternoon, 4:30 o'clock, and that planist, gton appear- a recital to be given on Saturday evening, THOMAS RECITAL. OHN CHARLES THOMAS, ic baritone of the Chicago Civic Or Company, will be presented next Sa: day’ evening, at 8:3) o'clock, in a cital as the fifth attraction of Wilson-Greene's Saturday ever cert series. Mr. Thomas will be as: at the plano by Lester Hodges. The program will include: “Tu lo s (Gluseppi Torelli): Air from “Comus” (arranged by Samuel Endicott) (Thomas Arne); ‘Der Sandtrager” Bungert): “Der Schm! (Johannes Brahms) ; “Der Ton.” the ter a composition of the modern Ger- man school, sung in praise of music; three piano numbers by Mr. Hodges; Prelude, G Minor (Bach-Sza. sic Box™ (Emil Sauer) and Dance” (Manuel de Falla), (Gabriel Faure); “Au Pays” Holmes): “Serenade de Dan_Juan” (Mozart); “O Nadir” (Pearl Fist (Georges Bizet) (Victor Hutchinson); “Clouds.” (Ernest Charles); “Sailormen” (Jacques Wolfe) “Nocturne (Pearl Curran) and “Ulysses” (George Siemonn). 1 musical circles include today of Conchita ) was heard here recently of Mrs. Townsend's musicales; n_favorable impression the new Swedish soprano Gota gberg has made at the Metropol- the all-Liszt program whith Horowitz ve February 26 at Ci Hall in New York; the cele- of Walter Damrosch's 70th ; the eight soloists med for the Bach ich includes Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, who holds a rec- ord for appearances in successive sea- st in these festivals, and : st, Grisha Goluboff, who s made a sensation after the fashion of Yehudi Menuhin. Supervia, W at one Super-Talented. T has been said—and with some degree of truth—that English play- wrights are super-talented—that they can write anything as long as they can write plays. Take the case of John Galsworthy. He writes successful novels while hi: plays are “packing 'em in” in London And the same is true of W. Some: Maugham, who alv has a best-seller the book stores and a play on in New York or London And then there is A. A. Milne—this s xander—who writes run and make money. When doing that, he dashes off books verses, the latter making him Pictures for Next Week. AFF WEEK," starting next Priday, will bring to Loew's Palace the comical Joe Cook, in a personal appearance, and Buster Keaton _and Polly Moran in “The Passionate Plumber” on the screen, with Jimmy “Schnozzle” Durante booked for an important part in the cast Garbo and “Mata Hari” are due for a run at Loew's Columbia, but when they depart, Marie Dressler in “Emma” will take their place 4 ce e | ILLIAN ROTH, the “Sing You Sinners” bright light of stage, screen and_radio, will head the new vaudeville bi at R-K-O Kei ing the ne k. and Helen Twelve- trees’ latest picture, | = “Panama Flo,” will be the screen | feature. ‘ o ox ox . 11 " he has writ- ne love story. There ut it. no artificialit; no veneer of the theater. The sto: spiritual, with em ng for its reality. n “Michael ar ten a truly ge is no pretense ab edy and Otto ing roles. Kruger in its lead- Joe Cook. MUSIC STUDIOS. T BESSIE N. WILD | Volce_Culture. Piano and Harmony | Studio, 6821 5th St. N.W. __ PHONE GEORGIA 8 Pupil of G. W. Chadwick. Harmony Teacher for two years in MAY ELEANOR SMITH Stern Conservatory, Berlin 15_11th §t. NW. * THE February Leap Year Frolic at the Earle, next week, will bring “No One Man,” the Rupert Hughes story, on the screen, with Carole Lombard, Pa Lukas and Ricardo Cortez in its cast, and a stage program headed by “The Fhone Dec Three Sailors,” a trio of eccentric danc- || ROBERT RUCKMAN ing pantomimists. * x ok % | TI’{E Metropolitan, starting FPriday will offer “West of Broadwa: featuring John Gilbert, as its screen attraction. It is the familiar story of the rich young man who returns from the war to discover that his sweetheart has jilted him. National Cit isttan Church Ch TEACHER OF PIANO Institute of Musical Art 831 18th St. N e - post Grace Hazard Wormelle Why Ethel Turns to Classics V"‘.Fe' Piano and Expression 3106 South Dakota Av N.E. 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EDWIN HUGHES, the noted pedagogue of New York City MR. EMANUEL ZETLIN, violinist, is available for ensemble coach- ing as well as private teaching. MR. CONRAD BERNIER, the distinguished organist and composer, will cé)l:duct a class in IMPROVISATION. i 5 ss plano instruction for adults as well as young beginners. NIGHT SCHOOL activities include all phases of musical training under the same faculty members as the day school. Tuition moderate, fees may be met on & monthly budget.