Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1932, Page 49

" THE SUNDAY STAR. Plans Are Under Way for Open-Air Opera Company’s Presentat Giant Operatic Spectacle Will Be Given in June at Griffith Stadium—Former Director of Manhat- tan Opera Compan By E. de S. Melcher. HE appalling conditions in New York, so far as music and musicians are con- cerned, are brought daily more and more forcibly to mind ‘Washington, at the moment, is one of the few oases in the midst of a land of parched musical ac- tivity. Musicians are coming here because they find the situa- tion in Manhattan intolerable. And when they get here they claim that the profits as well as the pleasures are greater than they had possibly imagined. Evidence of this is the recent arrival in this city of Alfredo Salmaggi, who, in the days of the Manhattan Opera Co., on East Fifty-first street in New York. Maestro Salmaggi, a spe- cialist in open-air opera per- formances, is planning much musical activity. Without in any way infringing on the plans of the Washington Civic Opera Co., which hopes to present grand opera in some outlying open-air theater in the Summer, Salmaggi is negotiating for the production of a vast “gala” opera night (a single night) the first Sunday in AJune—at which time he will pre- sent “Aida” as a great operatic | spectacle at Griffith Stadium. Three months ago Salmaggi produced the same opera in Mex- ico City under somewhat the same circumstances, who know their open-air per- formances will, no doubt, recall that back in 1928-29 he was stir- | ring to similar activity perform- ances at the Polo Grounds, and previous to that at the Yankee Stadium and Sheepshead Bay. Maestro Salmaggi, in other words, knows his “Aidas”—as he does his “Carmen” and “Pagliacci,” etc. For his production in Wash- ington, the sponsor and producer will use a local group of ballet dancers and choruses, but will import prominent singers of met- ropolitan reputation. At the mo- ment it seems likely that Rosa Ponselle's sister will appear in the cast, as also Pasquale Amato, or, perhaps, Mario Basiola—heard here with Miss Ponselle at Mrs. Townsend’s final musicale of the | season. Mr. Salmaggi undertook a similar project last season at the stadium in Montreal, Canada. * x * X ‘HE fact that musicians are having such a hard fight for their lives in New York is a further reason for keeping the National Symphony Orchestra afloat here. Evidences of its success were brought out into the open the past week, when it was stated that some $20,000 is being returned this year to the guar- antors. Mr. Paul Wilstack stated last week that wherever he has trav- eled people have asked him how it was possible to launch the Na- tional Symphony in such a pevnl- | ous year, and how it was possible to alight on a first-dlass con- ductor almost immediately. The orchestra’s fame and Mr. Kind- ler’s fame have gone far and wide —and people are speculating on how it was possible only because they know now that it was and | has been possible. Although one hears of troubles | out San Francisco way in the or- chestral field, one also hears of new orchestras which are crop- ping up all the time. For in- stance, Time magazine states that Hawaii has a 62-piece sym- phony, and that at its first con- cert of this season there was an audience of 1555 people—a large audience, but actually 500 less than this season's average audi- ences at National Symphony con- certs. This orchestra, playing out Honolulu way Mendelssohn’ “Fingal's Cave” and Beethoven' Fifth Symphony, is particularly interesting since its nucleus is composed of 7 Filipinos, 2 Japa- nese, 1 Hawaiian, 2 Chinese, 2 Portuguese, I Porto Rican, 2 Ital- lians and 45 Anglo Saxons. * % o * A LADY called up yesterday to find out if Sir Thomas Beecham, the distinguished con- ductor who is leading the New Local directed | those forces at the opera house | and those; ion of “Aida” Yy Announcés plans. | York Philharmonic in the place of Toscanini, is the pill merchant Sir Thomas is not a pill mer- chant. But his father was—and | |it is, perhaps, due to the success| of these small medical nourish- ments that his son was able to devote his life so completely and successfully to music. Trained at | Rossall School and Wedham Col- | lege, Oxford, in musical apprecia- tion, he first conducted a touring opera company back in 1902. His | first orchestral conducting was done three years later with the | Queen’s Hall Orchestra in Lon- don. Here his promenade con- | certs have become an institution —almost a tradition. Sir Thom- as’ only other appearance in Washington occurred back in 1928, when he was guest conduct- or of the Philadelphia Symphony | Orchestra. Sir Thomas is said to have lost | as much as a million pounds on opera. His pet scheme at the moment is an Imperial Opera League, which he told reporters when he recently landed in New York *“has a vast membership of 40,000 and considerable money.” e MERSON MEYERS, one of the younger musical giants in this town, who has given some very credible accountings of his skill during the past season, does not find that all’s right with the world. In fact, he is greatly at odds with those who have at- tended his recitals in a criticai capacity. Mr. Meyers vents his | displeasure with the press in an article recently published in the | Peabody Bulletin of Baltimore. | Says he: “I am always on the watch for comments of construc- tive criticism, and so the first thing I do is to ‘examine’ the per- son who is so interested as to speak to me or of me. Are they even capable of any opinion con- cerning an artistic rendition of anything? That is the vital and important first question and, if subdivided into its possible quoti- ents, could be the last question. “Suppose I first examine the |common or garden variety of | newspaper critics. It seems to me that newspaper editors think nothing of or care nothing for the public opinion concerning the music or a sincere artist. Those people assigned to cover concerts |and recitals seem to me, as far |as my experience goes, anything | but musicians. The best I've seen | was one who played the fiddle in a high school orchestra. Usually | the critics are movie news editors, stock market reporters or society | writers, who volunteer (or are | asked) to do the work for an oc- | casional ‘by-the-line’ or extra |fee * * * With the exception of | a few good ones I rarely ever take |the words of a newspaper critic | without a grain, or, perhaps, a |ton of salt. * * * “I don't believe either that the | player of one instrument can | give a true opinion on the con- | cert of the player of another and, las far as any instrumentalist | understanding a singer, why speak of the impossible? x* k% i | R. MEYERS’ examination of newspaper editors is unusual land the fact that the “best” he has seen “was one who played the fiddle in a high school or- chestra” leads one to wonder just how far he has delved. It would | be interesting to ascertain, too. just who is the “stock market reporter” with musical tastes. Mr. Meyers’ theory that the play- | er of one instrument cannot give a true opinion of the player ol another and the instrumentalist incapable of judging the singer is also an interesting idea—but one which seems particularly out of joint. That is as much as to say that because Mr. Kindler plays the cello he cannot appreci- ate a good or bad voice when he | hears one. In his general scheme | of things, then, Mr. Meyers would |have a Rosa Ponselle criticize a | Jeritza, a Kreisler a Heifitz, a | Gigli a Martinelli, and, perhaps, a |Josef Hoffman an Emerson | Meyers. Notes combined Glee Clubs of George Washington University, under the direction of Dr. Robert N. Harmon, will give a program in the Sunday school auditorium of the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m \HE 1l give an organ of the Pilgrims He wil Warren F. Johr recital at the Churc at 7:30 o'clock th play “Allegro,” from nata.” by Capocci: “Me Mauro-Cottone, and a composition by 2 Washington composer. Lyman McCray, “The Basi composer has dedicated t the violinist, has at 814 Seven- successful Florida es of re- orts _fol- Carl Jaspan, concert returned to his studio teenth street. after a week tour of thern Jmspan’s engagement 1 citals at Florida Jowed his concert in October of this seasor Cathreen rico. so) rtralto. xt Friday ) Morn meeting in Bar a 1a Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-soprano, wili assist Lewis C. Atwater, organist in a half-hour program of Bach music this afternoon at 5 Unitarian Church. sing “Laudamus Te" from Bach's “Mass in B Minor.” Mrs. Keefer Flora Blumenthal represented Esmu Club at the Federation of Music Clubs’ program last Saturday night. Vera Via, contralto. at St. Andrew’s P. E. Church The Retsof Class of the First M. E Church South, Hyattsville, Md., is pre- | senting the Chaminade Glee Club in eoncert Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Assisting artists will be Morfudd Thomas Esther Linkins sand Ralph C. Masters. - | Chopin selections, and songs by Francis six- ing Music Club o'clock at All Souls’ will and “Qui Sedes,” the was the soloist ot the Wednesday night Lenten service | is director of the club and Mrs. Howard Blandy accompanist. A program of music will be given to- morrow afternoon for the Graduate Nurse Association in the Red Cross Auditorium. Miss Mary Cryder will talk on the National Symphony Orchestra and soloists will include Lillian Feld- man, mezzo-soprano, and Mary Alex- ander, planist. The program will in- clude Debussy's “La Cathedrale Eng- loutie,” Godard’s “En Courant.” two Hopkinson, Martin, Ronald, Logan and La Forge The Felicia Rybier Music Club met at 1106 Connecticut avenue last week and enjoyed a varied musical program. Featured among the soloists were Edwin Rogers, Betty Baum, pianist; Isidore Gleser, violinist. and Lea Offenbach, pianist. Miss Baum played the Ravel Sonarina” and Mr. Gleser and Miss Offenbach played the Cesar Frank “So- nata for Violin and Plano.” Readings. were given by Prances Held and Helen Spassoff. Y‘. W. C AA Music HO“Y. JEMILY COVILLE, soprano, and Al- bert Pergament, boy violinist, will be the featured soloists at the Sunday music hour at the Young Women's Christian Association today at 5 o'clock, in the fourth floor assembly room, Ivalee Newell, violinist, and Mary Ware Goldman, planist, are also presenting | Vivaldi’s “Concerto in D Major, for 4 Violinists,” with their instrumental en- semble, including Mary Park Clements. Julia Robertson. Emil Gutheil, Inez Becker, Helen Foster, Daisy Ficken- scher and William Test. Miss Coville will sing a group of songs, with piano accompaniment, and a number with the instrumental ensem- A Capella Concert. "HREE groups of widely choral numbers, representing the best of the world's sacred music of past generations and the present day, will be sung by the A Capella Choir of Washington at its second annual Lent- en concert glc| Friday night at a quar- ter of 9 o'clbek, in the ball room of the Mayflower Hotel. The first group, opening with “Glory Now to Thee Be Given,” by Johann Se- bastian Bach, will include “How Far Is It to Bethlehem?” by Shaw; “O Praise Ye the Name of the Lord,” by Tschai- kovsky; “The Christmas Song.” ar- ranged by Damrosch, and the “Italian Carol” of St. Michael, also a chorus for male voices, “Grace Be Unto You," by Trowbridge. In the second group will be heard a dramatic number by MacKinnon, “Lord Christ Came Walking”; Gretchaninoff's “Only Begotten Son”:; Bennett's “God Is a Spirit,” which is usually heard as a quartet, but is most effective as & choral number, as well as “Gloria Radio Travel Program. THE eighth in the series of radio travel programs sponsored by the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs will be broadcast Tuesday evening at 6:15 o'clock. Gertrude Lyons, president of the fed- eration, has invited guest artists to as- sist in a presentation of miscellaneous numbers from music of foreign coun- tries. Countries represented on the pro- gram will be Poland, “Etude in C Minor” (Chopin), Leah Effenbach; Russia, “The Angel” (Rubinstein), sung by Gertrude Lyons, Sarah Neifert and Lucy Hopkins; Germany, “Tre Walnut Tree” (Schumann-Saar), Mrs d Hopkins; - (Kreisler). played by Arsenio Ralon, violinist: Scotland, “Sing Again the Auld Scotch Songs” (Leeson), “Loch Lomond” and “Bonnie Dundee” (Dibdin), sung by MacGregor Brown, baritone. Mrs. Lyons and MacGregor Brown will be heard in two duets, “Tuscan Folk Song” (Car- raciolo) and “Barcarolle,” from “Tales of Hoffman"” (Offenbach), Gertrude Dyre and Willa Sample, accompanists. | Miss _Effenbach will be heard in “Valse Brilliante” (Mana-Zucca) as the closing number. WEEK OF MARCH 6 h Sunday Ambassador 18th & Columbia R “No_One Man." ApOllO Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in 624 H St . ata Hari Short_subjects. Arcade Hyattsville Paul Luki in NE Md. Carole Lombard and varied , Patri,” by Palestrina, and “An Easter | Hallelujah,” by Vulpius-Dickinson, to |be sung antiphonally by the quartet | and the chorus. Two numbers of unusual interest will | be “There Was & Knight of Bethlehem,” | by Boernschein, one of America's best | known modern’ composers, who _will | come over from his home in Baltimore | | for the concert, and “Christ Is Risen,” | by Billings-Clokey, which is bflns sung in honor of the Bicentennial, as 1t was written and sung in George Washing- ton’s time, The final group will comprisé num- bers by Rachmaninoff, Harry Burleigh, | Balakirefl and Christiansen, “Beautiful | | saviour” being given by repeated and enthusiastic request since last year’s | Lenten concert. In this number Doro- | thy Wilson Halbach, solo contralto of | the choir, will be heard In the obbligato art P Riby Smith Stahl, who organized and conducts the choir. is solo soprano; Francesco Della-Lana is solo tenor and C. Ridgway Taylor is solo bass Yushny's “Blue Bird. TASCHA YUSHNY'S sparkling and captivating Russian revue, “The Blue Bird” offering 15 episodes of | 1aughter, romance, music, caricature and heartbreak, comes to the National Theater one week from next Tuesday | afternoon—on Tuesday, March 15, at | 4:30 pm.. to be exact—as the fifth and | final attraction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's | artists’ series of afternoon musical | events and, incidentally, the final at- | | traction of the 1931-2 season for that manager. “The Blue Bird” is the importation of S. Hurok, the impresario who has | given America such outstanding attrac- | tions as Paviowa and the Ballet Russe, Chaliapin, the great Russian basso; Mary Wigman, Germany's great dancer; | the Teatro di’ Piccolo and many other | offerings of novelty and entertainment appeal. | "Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, | Moussorgsky, ~Glauzunov and other | Russian ~ masters of melody forms a | background for the various episodes of the production. and while the entertain- | ment frequently becomes hilarious and | | gauche the music is always classic in its odd, Russian way. | Monday Tuesday Carole Lombard and _ Carole Lombard and Paul Luk: Paul Lukas n “No_One Man " Gloria Swanson in “Tonight or Never “Washington. the Man nd the Capital Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in “Mata Hari Comedy. News. __ in “No_One Man Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in “Mata Ha: 8! sub) hort ects. Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro, in Mata Hari." Comedy. News. Arcade Rocks Md Dark. Mae Clarke Mae Clarke “Frankenstein.” “Fi kenstein." Dark. Ashton Clarendon Avalon 5612 Con:. Ave Ave. Grand 645 Pa Ave SE. ve Robt. Montgomery “Lovers Courageout Bicentennial il Loretta Young in R Short_subject. Madge Evans and " James Cagney and Dolores Del Rio and Leo Carrillo in ‘The Girl of the ° Rio." Gloria Swanson in “Tonight or Never.” Vitaphone short Subject Sylvia Sidney in_ “Ladies of the Bis ouse Sennett_comedy. Madge Evans and Robt. Montgomery in, “Lovers ‘Courageous Bicentennial film James Cagney and Loretta Young in ‘axi Short_subject. . Robinson in “The Hatchet Man.’ Bing Crosby comedy. Upper, left to right, is: Sir Thomas Beecham, British conductor, who is sub- stituting for Toscanini Tuesday afternoon at Constitution Hall; Ossip Gabrilo- witsch, pianist, soloist Thursday with the National Symphony, and Helen Heinl and Anne Hull, who, together with Mary Howe, are piano soloists today with the local orchestra. Lower left is a prominent Washington composer, Henry S. Gregor, who is playing a program of his own compositions Thursday night at the | Women's University Club, and at right is Ruby Smith Stahl, whose A Capella Choir is giving a recital Friday at the Willard Hotel. Kedroff Quartet to Sing Here NNOUNCEMENT has been made by the Community Institute of Wash- ington that the world-famous Kedroff Quartet, distinguished ensemble of Rus- | sian singers, will be heard in the Cap- ital City on their farewell tour of Amer- ica and Canada, on April 29, for an afternoon concert at the National Theater. | Dr. Barnes' Ten-Year Record '[‘HE man who organized and led the chorus of 7,000 at the opening exer- cises of the George Washington Bicen- ration at the Capitol Plaza y 22 and put over the musical program for the National Education As- sociation Convention, is just rounding out his tenth year of service in the Dis- trict public schools. After experiences as a music super- visor in New England and song leader at Newport, R. I, Dr. Edwin N. C “Washington, the The same singers who were heard on their first appearance here will sing in the farewell performance in April, in- cluding N. N. Kedroff, leader and founder of the organization, who is the baritone of the group; C. N. Kedroff, basso; I. K. Denissoff, and T. F. Kasa- koff, tenors. Described as a “miracle” by Chalia- | pin, and “tne most wonderful phenom- enon of the vocal world today” by Koussevitsky, the work of these men is indescribable The concert is announced as an extra added attraction of the 1932 sea- son of the Community Institute of Washington, following the close of the regular schedule of events for this season. "Emma Redell on Air Today. ASHINGTONIANS will be ested to learn that Emma Redell, the local girl who has risen to a posi- tion of prominent in the world of opera | and concert, will be heard over Station WJZ of the N. B. C. New York studios today at 1 p.m. on the Walter Damrosch hour. She will sing the two roles of Elizabeth and Venus in “Tannhauser,” by Wagner. She will sing for the first time in English. Miss Redell is soon to sail for an ex- tensive operatic tour in South America. Wednesday 2 Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ™ _ Song_cartoon Gloria Swanson in . “Tonight or Never. pe Thursday Frederic Mar. “Dr._ Jeky Mr” Hyde. Song_carto Kay Fran an vs. Tu Rose Bowl gan: Tallulah Bankhead in “The Cheat and the Capita Tallulah Bankhead in “The Cheat." Comedy. _News. Comedy News. Brent Walter Huston in “The Star Witness." “Traveling Hus- = SRS mas: 8 Greta Garbo and Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro Ramon_Novarro in “Mata Hari Chester Morris in Mata Hari.” Gloria Swanson in Tonight or Never." in Vitaphone short “Corsair.” subject. Comedy. Edw. G. Robinson in Buster Keaton and “The Hatchet Man.” Polly Moran in “The Bing_Crosby Passionate Pliffiber.” o comedy. Short_subjects Cameo Mt. Rainier. Md. Dark. Jacl Cooper in Jackie Cooper in B o “Sooky. " Comedy. News. omedy. News. “Evelyn Brent in Evelyn Brent in “Mad Parade.” “Mad Parade.” Comedy. omedy Cartoon. News Cartoon. News inter- h in & Barnes came to Washington as director of music in the local school system in 1922, He first came into prominence here when he led 8,000 children in a serenade to the late President Harding | and Mrs. Harding, at the National League grounds, in-June, 1923. This proved to be President Harding's last public appearance in Washington. Dr. Barnes’ “Brigade Band,” started the year before he came to Washington, has become one of the best school bands in the country. Senior and junior high school orchestras have been fostered, | with the result that the Inter-High School Festival Orchestra and the Inter- Junior High Festival Orchestra made music history in the recent meetings of 12,000 educators who attended the De- partment of Superintendence Conven- tion in Constitution Hall. One-half hour program of the high school group was conducted by Hans Kindler of the National Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Barnes' song. “Washington, Fair Capital,” was sung by 7,000 children February 22 on the Capitol Plaza. He is also the author of a number of books, including “Who's' Who in Music Edu- cational” and “Music_as a Social and Educational Asset.” For the past four years he has been working on a college text book featuring three centuries of American composition. The cantata, “Lincoln,” of which he wrote the text and R. Deane Shure the music, has been performed twice in Constitution Hall; last Fall for the International Oratori- cal finals and recently for the National Education Association Convention. Saturday Sherlock Holmes™ “The Speckled Band Dogville comedy. Short_subject. Sherlock Holmes' “The Speckled Band." Comedy, Short_subject. Friday Ann_Harding in “Prestige Short subject. Cartoon. Song reel Buddy Rogers d Pexgy Shannon in “Reckless Age." Comedy. Kay Francis and William ' Bova" in False Madonna _Comeds. ' Cartoon. Lew Avres in “The Iron Man." Buffalo Bill." Mickey Mouse. ille_and in “The Unexpected ather Buffalo Bill." No. 11 George O'Brien in “Rainbow Trail.” Comedy. ___Short subject. Warner Oland in “Charlie Chan's Chance.” Harry Carey in “Trader Horn.” Bob Steele in “South of Santa Fe." Danger Island, 4 No. 4 " Ann Harding in “Prestige. Our Gang comedy. Buster Keaton and Polly Moren in “The Passionate Plumber.” _ Short_subjects. Song_cartoon. Clive Brook and Regis To Miriam Hopkins in =~ Sue Carol “Twenty-four Hour: Cor Comedy. _Cartoon. omey and ‘Graft Carolina 1th& N.C. Ave SE Central ] 425 9th Circle 2105 Pa_ Ave NW. Chester Morris in Warner Oland in fe Chan's William Collier Jr., n “Soul of the Sl i Comedy. e Dolores Del Rio in “Girl of the Rio Vitaphone short ___ subject. o Ann Harding and ‘Adolphe Menjou n “Prestige.” Chelie: Maorris in ““The Corsair.’ “Comedy. Warner Oland in “Charlie Chan's ance.’” Bicentennial film Sylvia_Sidney and Gene Raymond in ~Ladies of the Big House."” Colony Dumbarton 1349 Wis. Ave. N.W. Fairlawn Bic ppodrome Bosco cartoon James Cagney and Joan Blondell in ‘Blon Crazy.” Comedy. Douk. Fairbanks, jr., and Jown Blonaell in UnionDepot. " Comeay Ronald Ce Unholy Gi Comeds. _ “News. Frederic Mi Dr. Jekyll Mi ch in and Hyde.” by't._Cart’ Sylvia Sidney and 13th & C Sts Jesse i8thnr. RLAV.NE. AEH Com._Cart'n. James Dunn and Sally Eilers in “Dance Team Bosco cartoon. james Ci Ine{ d Joan Blondell in “Blonde Crazy. Comedy. Do Fairbanks. Jr.. and Joan Biondell in ‘Union Depot.” Someay. Ronald Coiman in Unholy Garden.” Comed: “News. Robt. Montgomery in “Lovers Courageous." George Bancroft and Frances Dee in “Rich Man’s Folly.” Comedy. Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in “His Woman." _Rosco_Ates comedy.” Leslie Howard in “Never the Twain Shall Meet “Smart_Woman ric March In __ Buster Keaton and Dr. Jekyll and Polly Moran in Hyde.” “Passionate Plumber.” )L, Sylvia 8i Gene Raymond in “Ladies of the Big House.”_Com. Cart'n. ___ riage.” Comedy. Madge Evans and Pitts-Todd comedy. __ Pitts-Todd comedy Bicentennial flm Paul Lukas in Wallace Beery in “The Champ.” Comedy ” Doug. Fairbanks. jr.. and Jjoan Blondell' i “Union Depot Com._Short subject Will Rogers “Business Pleasar Una Merkel and Wm. Collier, jr., in “The Secret Witness." U.'S.C. vs. Tulane Leon Janney and Matt. Moore in “Penrod and Sam.” Comeay. Comedy 5 Dolores Del Rio in 1 of the Rio. Vitaphone short __subject. Ann Harding and ‘Adolphe Menjou in and _“Prestige” e Madge Evans and Robt. Montgomery in Lovers Courageous on Japney and att Moore 'in “Penrod and Sam.” __Comedy. Jackie Cooper and Robert_Coazan in *Sool e Rovert Covkan in Sooky Cartcon John Gilbert in “Phantom ot Paris, PaulLukas i “Beloved Bachelor Leo Carrillo_and B Sooks Cartoo.: » lie Howard in “Smart Woman." Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in Passionate Plumber.” Bicentennial_film. Winnie Lightner and .Chas. Butterworth in ‘Manhattan Parade.” Comedies. _News. Chas. Butterworth in “Manhattan Comedies. Dark. Lyric Gaithersburg. Md Alfred Lunt in *The Guardsman.” Krazy Kat. News. ifred Lunt in “The Guardsman.” Krazy Kat. A Leo Carrillo in “Lasca of the Rio Grande. _ Dogville comedy. Princess 1119 H St NE Richmond Savoy 2030 147 St. NW Dark. Leo Carrilio in Guilty Generation Bing Crosby comedy " Boris Karloff and Buddy Roxers n “The Road to Reno. Short_subjects. Robt. Mon:gomery Norma Shearer in Private Lives. Vitaphone act. N Cartoon. Sports reel Robt. Montgomery & Norma Shearer in “Private Lives. ews. _ Vitaphone act. News Norma Shearer and Robt. Montgomery in “Private Lives " Short_subect. Leo C A “Guilty Generation. Bing Crosby comedy. - Cartoon Bert Lahr and Charlotte Greens ood in “Flying High" Harry Lauder. Fable. ] Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper 1n The Champ Sports reel Lawrence Tibbett in ““Cuban Leve Sone. Comeds. s, Norma Shearer and Robt. Montgomery in Private Lives Short_subject Bert Lahr and Charlotte Greenwood ) o f ¢ Harry Lauder. Fable. \ icted." edy e Tibbett in uban Love Song. Comedy ws. “Conv Co Ne Forbidden.” Son_cartoon. " Jackie Cooper and Comedy. Winnie Lightner and Aileen Pringle in Barbara Stanwyck in Tim McCoy in “The Fighting Will Rogers in “‘Ambassador Bill.” 00] Comedy Comedy Sherlock Holmes ‘The Speckled Band." Serial Short_subject. _ Doug. Fairbanks. jr. and Joan Blondell in Union Depot. Com._Short subject. __ Will Rogers “Busi i service. ST L Buddy Rogers and Peggy Shannon i “Reckless Ae _Roscoe Ates comedy James Dunn and Saily Eilers in “Dance Team News Tim McCoy in “Shotgun Pass.” omedy. Comedsy Serial —mat. only. Edna May Oliver in _ Edna M Fannie Foley ¥ Robt. Montgomery in ‘Shipmates.” Com. Gloria_ Swanson in n iness and asure George O'Brien in Rainbow Trail. Comed: angh Comed. 5 Richard Talmadge in ‘Scare Head. “Tonight or Never.” ‘Souvenir," No. 5. Leo Carrillo in “Lasca ot the Rio rande Serial. _Comedy. Hoot Gibson in Wild Horse Roscoe Ates comeds. 1al. Warner Oland in Chariie Chan's Chance Serial. _Comedy. _ Hoot Gibson in Wild ' Horse. Roscoe Ates coniedy. Serial Maynard in Men, comedy 1 Ke: sranded y Rubi Thomas Meighan in Skyline Harry Lauder, News, Charlotie Greenwood Charlotte Greenwood ‘and Bert Lahr in and Bert Labr in Flying High ___Act. Cartoon. _ Ken Maynard in “Sunset Trail Flymg_High Act. Cartoon. Jackie Cooper and Robert_Coogan in Ky.” erial “8ool Dogville _comedy. ___Short subyt. Cart'n. Seco Silver Spring, Md State Bethesda. Md Dark. Dark. Ken Maynard in “Pocatello Kid. Mary Astor in “Smart Women." Jean Harlow and Loretta Youns in Loretta Youns in ~Platipum Blonde.” “Flatinum Blonde." U. 8. C. vs. Tulane. __U. 8. C. vs. Tulane. en Maynard in “Pocateilo Kid." Mary Astor i X . Jean Harlow and Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond in “Ladles of the BIE ____ House.” Janet Gaynor Charles' Farrell in licious.” Stanton 0‘!{ lllflr [+ »?'\ NE. Sylvan 103 R I Ave. NW. Takoma Takoma Park. D.C Warner Oland ble, and Albert Pergament will likewise do ‘a group of solos The public is invited to attend the | program, which is & repetition, by re- quest, of the program recently given by Miss Newell and Miss Goldman, at the Friday Morning Music Club. in Charlie Chan's ______ Chance.” Tivoli 14th & Park Rd Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in “Mata Hari Song_cartoon. _ Variety. Cart'n News. Vari Sylvia Sidney and Marilyn Miller and ene Raymond in Ben Lyon in “Ladles of the Big er Majesty Love.” House.” __Comedy. Lunt and Fon- Tallulah Bankhead tanne 2 in_*The Cheat in ‘The_Galloping “‘The Guardsman." 3host Walter Huston and Loretta Youns in “Ruling Voice Comedy. _Ne y Cooper and Claudette Colbert in ““His Woman Pictorial. _News. in “Safe in Hell." Comedy Frances Dee in Nice Women. " dy. Act “Dorothy Mackaill T Sidney Fox and Greta Garbo in “Susan_Lenox “The_Galloping Richard Arlen in “The Touchdown." Danger Island.” Ghost Mickey Mouse Jean Harlow and Charlie Chaplin in Ben Lyon in City Lights “Hell's Angels.” Comedy’ Comedy. Matinee 1:30 p.m._ Charles Farrell and Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez in “Men of Chance.” __Comedy. _Pictorial. _ “Buffalo Bill " serial. t Gaynor and Tallulah Bankhead in ““The Cheat. Comedy. Cartoon’ Jane Charles' Farrell in “Delicious. ty. Cart'n’ News. Warner Oland in Iter Huston in “Charlie Chan's Il ice. _ Chance. T Greta Garbo and Ruth Chatterton in Ruth Chatterton in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Short_subject. in ___com Colin Clive and Boris Karloff in Frankenste: in Cartoon. News artoon Norma Shearer and Root. Montgomery Comedsy Walter Huston in Ruling Voice in Private Lives.” Edw. G. Robinson in “The Hatchet Man.” Roscoe Ates comedy. ‘omorrow Tomorrow _Short_subject and Gloria Swanson York in i Ga. Ave. & Quebes “Tonight or Never,' 8ong cartoon. Gloria” 8wanson Dous. Fairbanks, Jr., in “‘Union 'pot.” Bicentennial film, ‘onight N ad “Tgons carioon &hors sublect. in “Union Depot. Bicenteanial film, Bhort subject. Leo Carrillo in ilty Generation.» Pitts-Todd comedy. Doug Fairbanks. )r, Boris Karloff and W Charles Farrell and Madee Evans in Heartbreak Detective story Bill Eddie Quillan and Marian Nixon in Sweepstakes. ___Comedy. _Serial Norma Shearer and Robt. Montgomery Bk nevieve Tobin in Gay_Diplomat " Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in “Passionate Plumber.” Comedy. in Ge “Private Lives.” _ ° Edw. G. Robinson in “The Hatchet Man.” Roscoe Ates comedy. nie Lightner in ‘Manhattan Parade.” Vitaphone short subjects. “Jack Holt and Richard Cromwell in “‘Maker of Men.” er o 3 ©om. Short subject. Gabrilowitsch, Solois® With Local Orchestra oted Pianist-Composer tional Symphony—Sir HE final concert of its Sunday afternoon series and the last concert but one of its sym- phony series for the current season will be given this week by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C, Hans Kindler, conductor. A brilliant festival of orchestra mu- sic will mark the termination of the Sunday afternoon series at Constitu- tion Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. when Johann Sebastian Bach's “C Major Concerto,” for three pianos and orchestra, with Mary Howe, Anne Hull and Helen Heinl, pianists, as soloists, include two short choral numbers— “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,’ from Bach’s cantata, “Herz und Mund,” and Cesar PFranck's *“150th Psalm’ with 100 singers of the Washington Choral Festival Association Chorus participat- ing. The program likewise offers four excerpts from Manuel de Falla’s one- act ballet, “El Amor Brujo, Liszt's symphonic poem, “Les Preludes.” The program announced by Con- ductor Kindler for the seventh sym- phony concert, to be given at Constitu- tion Hall next Thursday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock, will be given additional distinction by the appearance thereon as soloist of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, inter- nationally famous as pianist and con- ductor, playing Mozart's “D Minor Con- certo,” for piano and orchestra. The program will _also include Bach's ‘Adagio_and Fugue” Strauss' tone poem, “Don Juan.” and two selections | from Berlioz’s “Damnation of Faust”— | “Danse des Sylphes” and ‘“Rackoczy March.” MARY HOWE, one of the three piano soloists appearing on this after- noon's program with the orchestra, is well known in Washington and throughout the United States as both planist and composer, her composition, “Dirge,” having recently found place on an orchestra program under Conductor Kindler's direction. Mrs. Howe and Anne Hull, the second soloist, have given numerous two-piano concerts, in- cluding concerts with the Cleveland, Baltimore and Russian Symphony Or- chestras, as well as recital performances in various Eastern cities. Helen Heinl, the third piano soloist, is also a Wash- ington performer who has elicited | marked critical attention for her work and who has appeared extensively as | soloist on various Nation-wide radio | programs. The Washington Choral Festival As- | sociation Chorus is one of the outstand- | ing choral groups of the Capital and | represents the amalgamation of the | Washington Church Music Council and | the District of Columbia Federation of | Music Clubs. Rehearsals have been | progressing for several weeks under | Louis Potter’s direction. * ook o PROGRAM NOTES. OHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S “C Major Concerto,” for three pianos and orchestra, which will constitute one of the outstanding features of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra’s concerts this afternoon, is regarded as one of that composer’s most imposing instru- | mental compositions. Written, in all probability, between 1730 and 1733, it is believed, at this time, to have been intended by the | composer for performance with his two | eldest sons and Bach's celebrated house | orchestra, which, at that time, had at- | will inaugurate a program that will also | and Franz | At'T hursday’g Concert plays HC)‘C Wi'}l Na- Thomas Beccl’:am COI‘I' ducts New York Philharmonic Orchestra. tained its utmost brilliance. Through- out the concerto the soloists are al- ways on an equal footing and the ac- companying intsruments are treated with considerable freedom. The rig- orous virility of the first movement «“allegro moderato”) and the reflective melancholy of the second (“adagio”) give place in the finale (“allegro”) to a brilliance not without dignity. The concerto will be played at today's con- cert by Mary Howe, Anne Hull and Helen Heinl as piano soloists “Jecu, Joy of Man's Desiring.” the first of the two choral works the or- chestra will give at this afternoon's concert, with the Washington Choral Festival Association chorus as soloists, is an example of Bach's “extended choral” writing: that is. of the type of choral in which the single lines are separated by instrumental interludes It serves as the sixth and final move- ment of the cantata, “Herz und Mund.” | written in Weimar in 1716 for use on the fourth Sunday in Advent. but later accomodated to the feast of the visi- tation of the Blessed Virgin. The m ody is Johann Schopp's “Werde Mun- ter, Meine Gemuethe” (1624), while the text is from Martin Jahn's “Jesu, Meiner Seelen Wonne™ (1661) Cesar Franck's 150th Psalm, the second of the two choral numbers on | today's program, was composed in 1888, | the year in which Franck completed his “D Minor Symphony,” but was not pub- |lished until after his death. Shorter | and less characteristic than his major | works for chorus and orchestra, it is, nevertheless, a graceful, effective piece of choral writing. | “El Amor Brujo,” the De Falla one- | act ballet with incidental songs, from | which the orchestra will play four ex- cerpts this afternoon, was composed in | 1915 for the dancer, Pastora Imperio | with argument by Martinez Sierra, the ‘dls(mguuhed Spanish dramatist. It in- volves the effort of a young girl in love |to frustrate the cruel and jealous specter of a gypsy to whom she had | previously given her affection. | _ Liszt introduces the score of his “Les Preludes,” which also finds a prominent iplace on this afternoon’s orchestra oncert. with a paraphrase from the | poetic meditations of Alphonse Lamar- | tine, who feels that life is but a series | of preludes to that unknown song the | first solemn note of which is sounded | by death. The music follows this pro- eram more or less closely, the succes- | sive episodes corresponding to the va- rious movements of the paraphrase. It | was first performed in Weimar in 1854, with the composer conducting, N. Y. PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, distin- guished millionaire music patron and conductor of the Queen's Hall Or- chestra, London, England, will be guest conductor of the New York Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra, at Consti- tution Hall Tuesday, at 4:30 p.m. ‘This is the third and fina}l program locally of the New York orchestra this season. ‘The program is unusual in compris- ing three famous symphonies, all the works of classical masters. They are: “Symphony, No. 3. in E Flat”... Haydn “Symphony, No. 34, in C Major” . Mozart “Symphony in D Minor”. .Cesar Franck ‘The professional musicians and stu- dents of Wuhmgton are being given a special offer of $2 and $3 seats at half price for this concert. Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur Smith's Concert Bureau, 1330 G street northwest. Sacred Music ngrams. 'HE National Capital Choir will pre- sent two programs of sacred music | in the Universalist National Memorial | Church, Sixteenth and S streets, on Wednesday evening. March 9 and 16, at 8:15 o'clock. The program for the first concert follows: O Come, Let Us Sing O Baviour of the World” (Irene Koehl and Eugene Dahl.| “Surely He Hath Borne Our Grief" (“Mes- siah’) . aneen Handel “A Song of Penitence’ ......Beethoven TJescie Masters ) O Man, Benold Thou Thy Master” (arr. Riege m old song of the Bohemians). « 0 Brasse Ye Goa” Tschaikowsky Jesu, ~And God (95th Psalm). Mendelssohn Moore iend of Sinners" Gounod Created Man" (“Creation™) Haydn (Edwin Singer.), “All Thy Works Praise Thee." Ancient Hebrew melody (Miss Masters.) O Worship the King 2 “Hail, Gladdening Light". *'A'capella. The public is cordially invited. Albert ‘W. Harned is organist and director. PUBLIC LIBRARY Prench carol Geo. C. Martin Music Today. In connection with the appearance of the Philharmonic-Symphony So- ciety of New York and the several concerts by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington during the next two weeks the Public Library calls attention to the following works on modern music and its leaders. Music in America. Our American Music, by J. T. Howard. 1931. VV83.H83 | “‘A pleasantly written compendium of most of the facts that might interest | students and laymen. The influences of the church, the Indian, the Negro are made evident and appraised. Nat. urally, the music of today makes up a good_share of the volume.” | An Hour With American Music, by Paul Rosenfeld. 1929. VV83.R72. “Mr. Rosenfeld deserves the utmost | credit for writing the first book on | American music. He has given a boundary of some sort to a subject which is postively bewildering in its ramifications and has made an attempt at an cssessment.—Jeffrey Mark. Music in American_Life. Present and Future, by D. Zanzig. 1932. | VV83.Z12 to show what is being done in all sorts | of communities, schools, homes and other channels of life to enjoy or to| provide for others’ enjoyment in music, | and secondly, using what is as a basis, to show what might be done in each | of those channels of life.” | Tune in America: a Study of Our Com- ing Musical Independence, by D. G. | Mason. 1931. VV83.M38. | An “interesting and needed argu- | ment for the musical education of the American people and for an art-con- scious, intelligent, less commercial con- duct on the part of the influential radio broadcasting companies.” The Modern Temper. | Music, 1960-1930, by A. J. Swan. VVISW2. o An appraisal’ of modern tendencies in the English, French and Russtan schools. Modern Russian Composers. by Leonid | Sabaneyefl. 1927. VW10.9Sal2.E. 1929, posers as Skryabin, Prokofyeff and | Rakhmaninoff this useful work has chapters on the various musical groups | now working to advance the art, the | American group of Russian composers, and the musical creative art of the Russian revolution. Modern French Musie, by E. B. Hill 1924, VV39.H55. A professor of music at Harvard has written a volume which, “in view of the dearth of good musical criticism in America, * appears especially dis- tinguished.” | American Composers of Todag * sata- | Arturo Toscanini. | chestra conductors with an “The purposes of this book are, first. || In addition to studies of such com- | = logue, compiled by Claire Reis. 1930. VV83.5R3. An exceedingly interesting index to our contemporary composers, listing their works and giving a record of per- formances. A unique feature is the inclusion of works in manuscript. So This Is Jazz, by H. O. Osgood. 1926. VV83.0s3s. “The best way to know jazz * * * | is to dance to it: the best way to learn to chatter about it is to read this book.”—Genevieve Taggard. Among Those Who Make It. by Tobia Nicotra. 1929. VW10.T638n.E. Perhaps the most renowned of or- interna- tional following, the leader of the fa- mous La Scala Orchestra of Milan is now giving a major part of his time to the Philharmonic Symphony of New York. Sergi Koussevitzky and His Epoch, a Blographical Chronicle, by Arthur Lourje. 1931. VW10.K85l. ‘To a virtuoso on the double bass, ap- | plying his art to the rigors of the con- | ductor's desk, has been given the dis- tinction of bringing the moribund Boston Symphony Orchestra back into the ranks of the leading symphony or- ganizatons of the world. My Musical Life, by W. J. Damrosch. 1923. VW10.D187m. A pleasant biography, “including numerous amusing anecdotes about the great and the near-great in the musical life of two continents during the last half century. It contains, besides, a good bit of musical criticism which, for the most part, is sound and free from undue caprice.” George Gershwin, a Study in American Music, by Isaac Goldberg. 1931. VW10 G327g. Now that Gershwin has raised jazz rhythms to symphonic status he must be considered seriously as among the foremost contributors to American mu- ical development. This intimate biog- | raphy gives a popularized picture of | the composer as a genius whose mold has been formed by his environment Marching Along. Recollections oi Men. Women and Music, by J. P. Sousa. 1928. VW10.S087. “The recollections are rich in inci- dents and continuously amusing—a valuable contribution to the srchives of Americana.” Marine Band Concerts. 'HE concerts _scheduled for the U. S. Marine Band and Orchestra ]dou‘:lnl the coming week will be as fol- vs: Monday, March 7, at 3 p.m. band concert; Wednesday, March 9, at 8 p.m., orchestra concert; Friday, March 11, at 3 p.m., orchestra concert. 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