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s;ecial Trai n Planned For Washingtonians Who Wish to Hear Met. Opera Local Music Patrons t o Be Accommodated at Baltimore Performances of Metropolitan Co. Announcement Of Sousa Memorial Concert. ByE. de S. Melcher. LTHOUGH Washington has A been erased from the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany's books this year, preparations are being made to receive local music lovers in the nearby city of Baltimore, whither New York's famous company will travel the nights of April 18, 19 and 20. The first production (which comes on a Monday) will be “Tales of Hoffman,” the second, “Tannhauser,” and the third, “L’Africana,” and Frederick R. Huber, managing director of the Lyric Theater, has announced that a special train will be operated for Washingtonians wishing to attend these performances. This train will leave here at 7 p.m. and arrive at Mount Royal Station, directly opposite the theater, shortly before 8 o'clock, and will return immediately after the per- formance. An added feature will be the inclusion of parlor cars and dining cars, so that music patrons can eat and be merry before and | possibly after the operas. Among the many excitements of this brief opera season will be the appearance of the much- raised and famed Goeta Ljung- erg, who has made such a sen- sation in Manhattan this season, and who, since her travels from her native Sweden, has caused more of a furor in the now de- pressed city of New York than any one short of a Lily Pons. Miss Ljungberg will be seen and heard as Elizabeth in Wagner's “Tann- hauser,” supported in a particu- larly noteworthy cast by Law- rence Tibbett, Rudolf Laubenthal, Julia Claussen and the excellent bass, Ezio Pinza. The casts, too, of the other operas are something out of the ordinary. In “Tales of Hoffmann” Lily Pons will be Olym- ia, Lucrezia Bori, Antonia, and race Moore, Giulietta, and in “L’Africana” Rosa Ponselle will be Selika; Gigli, Vasco Da Gama, and Mario Basiola (heard here re- cently) as Neluska. Others to sing in these operas will be Gladys Swarthout, De Luca, Jagel, Leon Rothier, Pavel Ludikar and Aida Doninelli. The conductors will be Louis Hasselmann and Tullio Ser- afin. IN co-operation with the Greater National Capital Committee and under the direction of the American Red Cross, one of the most interesting of the Spring’s musical events will be the Sousa memorial concert, which will be held at Constitution Hall the night of April 17. This will come as the | climax of the bandmasters’ con- vention, which is to be held here that week. Present at this event be Dr. Gustav Theordore Holst, noted composer; as also Edwin Franko Goldman, president of the bandmasters’ organizatiom. Mr. Goldman has played to 800 New York concerts in the past 14 years, with audiences running from 20,000 to 60,000 persons. In the last four years his audiences have averaged 1,500,000 a season. With the increasing recognition of his primacy in the ranks of band- | masters, he has been invited to all | parts of the country as guest con- ductor of important bands. With his other multitudinous duties, however, Mr. Goldman has found time for a great amount of com- | position. He will produce a new rand march, which will have its rst production, and will be given by the three United States service bands at the concert on April 17. To come to the center of the stage he now occupies, Mr. Gold- man has been working incessant- ly and with a single purpose since the days of his youth. At the age of 8 when he came from the West to New York with his par- ents, young Goldman selected Ris own life work. He expressed a desire to play a cornet and no other instrument would answer the purpose so far as he was con- 2 * K * | cheerful outlook on Opera in Italy cerned. By the time he was 14, Nhe had successfully passed the| examination for a scholarship in |the National Conservatory of |Music in New York. He became a student of composition under Antonin Dvorak, the renowned head of that institution. At the| age of 17 he was cornetist of the Metropolitan * Opera Orchestra, under the direction of Walter ‘Damrgsch. He was the youngest musician ever to hold so respon- sible a position in that orchestra. At the age of 27 he resigned from the Metropolitan to devote his entire time to teaching. But it was several years later that he met the great task of his |life, the successful performance | of which resulted in the organiza- tion of the famous Goldman Band. His first concert season | was started on the green of Co- lumbia University. Before the | | season was half over it was evi- dent that New York liked the kind | of music Mr. Goldman was sup- plying and was virtually assured that the season of 1919 would be begun under more auspicious cir- cumstances. With the aid of | public-spirited citizens, Mr. Gold- | man pursued the work with his band until 1924, when he was en- tirely relieved of financial wor- ries by the Guggenheim families, who have financially sustained the band since that time. In the later years of his mu- sical career, Mr. Goldman has | been the recipient of many hon- ors in recognition of his success as a band master. In 1919 on the steps of the New York City Hall in the presence of 20,000 persons he was honored by the city and a banquet later was tendered him. The occasion was his gratuitous service as leader of the Police Band during the war. On the closing night of the first band concert season in the Mall, New York, in 1923, a medal was pre- sented by the city. In November, 1926, when he gave two concerts in Symphony Hall, Boston, Mr. Goldman was received by . the mayors of Boston and Cambridge and the Governor of Massachu- setts. In March, 1929, he was visited by the French consul and made “Officer de I'Instruction Publique.” * X X X AMONG important musical visitors to this country none is, perhaps, more so than Ot- torino Respighi, composer, who recently arrived from Italy. Senor Respighi brought with him a as also a cheerful report on the condition of Toscanini, who has been suffering from neuritis. He is quoted as saying that the great maestro has regained the use of his right arm through Spartan treatments involving four injec- tions daily and a month’s living in a primitive peasant house in Piazze, where his doctor resides. Perhaps Senor Respighi will also throw some light on his share of that manuscript which was to be written for the Na- tional Symphony’s first concert, and which hasn’t been seen or heard of up until this time. * X ¥ % ‘WORD has just been received from New York that Lillian Evantj, soprano, and well known in Wdshington, who returned this season from sensational operatic successes on the continent, will give a recital at the Belasco Thea- ter next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. This unexpected an- nouncement will come as a pleas- ant surprise to Miss Evanti’s |many admirers, who have nct heard her since she began her tour of song recitals in this coun- try. Miss Evanti, who scored more than a casual success as soloist recently with the Detroit | Symphony, will sing the sante pro- gram here that she will sing on April 3 in her New York recital at Town Hall. She will be as- sisted in both programs by Erich Riede at the piano. Third Junior Club Concert. ‘HE junior department of (hg Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, under the direction of Ivalee Newell, junior chairman, will give its third concert of this season on Sat- urday st 8 o'clock, in the auditorium of the Interior Building, on F street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth orthwest. mhe?“l:'lbluoua program has been pre- pared for this concert by the more ad- vanced members of the junior group, consisting of several string ensembles, the Bach concerto for two violins, Men- delssohn and Mozart piano concertos, a Grieg arrangement for two pianos of a Mozart sonata; piano, viclin, cello and dance solos, and a chorus of mixed voices. The teachers presenting these pupils are Kathryn H. Arthur, Virginia Bestor, Lillian H. Burke, Mary Park Clements, Mme. Louise Coutinho, Daisy Fickenscher, Cornelia G, Harkness, Mrs. Albert N. Jones, Josef Kaspar, Arsenio Ralon, Elena de Sayn, Marie Howe Spurr, Mme, Ludmilla Vassilieff, Mrs. George Prancis Williams, Enid C. Wil- liams, Helen Campbell Willlams and M. Louise Wood. The public is invited. Movies Rehearsing Now. REHEARSALS for motion pictures in the making daily are growing more important in Hollywood, and leading | Hofmann in Benefit Concert. JOSEF HOFMANN will break his resolution not to appear in public | this season in order to play in Car- negie Hall, Sunday night, April 3, for the benefit of the Musicians’ Emer- gency Aid. which is raising a $300,000 relief fund, under the chairmanship of Walter Damrosch. Mr. Hofmann will appear with or- chestra, playing two piano concertos. The conductor will be Mr. Damrosch, who will emerge from behind the mi- crophone for the occasion, which will be his first concert appearance here as conductor in four years. The con-| cert will also be the first public ap-| pearance of the N. B. C. Symphony | Orchestra _of 90 men the ensemble | | that Mr. Damrosch has developed for | his radio concerts. ‘The benefit April 3 will be Mr. Hof- mann’s only concert of the season any- where. It will be his first appearance here with orchestra in several years. Marine Band Concerts. ‘HE activities of the United States Marine Band and Orchestra for the coming week will include the fol- lowing: Monday, March 14, at 3, band concert. Wednesday, March 16, at 8 pm., or- chestra concert. The program of this concert will include Mendelssohn's con- THE SUNDAY here in April. Sousa memorial concert on April 17 at Constitution Hall. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 13, 1932—PART FOUR. Upper left is Dr. Gustav Theodore Holst, British composer, who will conduct the first performance of his prelude and scherzo “Hammersmith” at the Upper right is Edwin F. Goldman, president of the Bandmasters' Association, which will convene Lower left is Adolf Torovsky, local organist, who will be heard in recital Wednesday at the National City Christian Church, and lower right are the two principal dancers of “The Blue Bird” revue, which comes to the National Tuesday afternoon—Mille. Lelik and M. Orlik Mub‘ic in “Rip Van Winkle." GERTRUDE McRAE NASH, pianist, will play. a specially arranged ac- companiment for the forthcoming pres- entation of the dance pantomime of “Rip Van Winkle,” to be presented as the annual Children’s Festival of Wash- ington by boys and girls of the drama and dancing groups of the Community Center Department next Saturday aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock in the auditorium of Central Community Center (Central High School), Thirteenth and Clifton streets. She will be assisted by Walter Nash, who will assist at the organ dur- ing a part of the festival and will like- wise be heard in cello numbers, with Mrs, Nash at the piano. Edith H. Hunter, who is chairman of music for the Children’s Festival, has chosen selections from the works of Grieg and from De Koven for the greater part of the musical background, which will include other numbers chosen by the dance directors of the production for individual dances. Fourteen dance directors of the Com- munity Center Department will have charge of the various episodes of the Children's Festival on Saturday after- WEEK OF MARCH 13 Sunday noon. They are Ivy Randall, Mrs. J. P. Tolford, Donna Taggart, Margaret Car- mody, Judy Lyeth, Margaret Becker, | Marjorie Schuster, Elizabeth Jenkins, | Beatrice Mullen, Alice Louize Hunter, Evelyn Davis, Sarah Bergling, Jane | ‘Wilson and Ruth Hartung. Five hun- dred children will participate. A= ek La Mar Recital Tonight. RACE LA MAR, American contral- to, will appear in recital at the Caroline McKinley studio this evening | at 9 o'clock. Miss La Mar is presented by Gertrude McRa> Nash. Her pro- gram will be as follows Mozart ..Bchubert . ‘Schubert Strauss Strauss _Plzgetti ‘Visione Marina’" . 5 -Cimara Intermission. o 4 Szula Goosens Turina | Longas . Dellus Guion - ‘Bantock | Monday Tuesday Jack Holt and Ambassador . 2eris Eariofin | Co les. 18th & Columbia Rd. Jack Holt and Boris Karloff in “Behind the Mask.” Comedies. Jack Holt and Boris Karloff in “Behind the Mask." Comedies. Mexican Ballet Premiere. | L!:opom STOKOWSKI will conduct the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. in the world premiere of the modern Mexican ballet “H. P.” by Carlos Chavez, celebrated Mexican composer: Diego Rivera, famous Mexican painter, and Frances Flynn Paine, writer. This performance will be given at the Met- ropolitan Opera House on Thursday evening, March 31. The choreography for this work is by Catherine Little- field, premiere danseuse of the company; and Alexis Dolinoff. who has been brought to Philadelphia especially for this performance, will portray the man, H. P. Mr. Dolinoff has been the lead- ing dancer in ths Russian ballet, also with the Ida Rubenstein and Anna Paviowa companies. Wilhelm von Wymetal, jr., will stage the production. { It is the custom ef the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co., fo give each year an outstanding premiere, and for this | year this unusual work has been chosen. Preceding the world premiere of “H. P." the company will present, in Eng- lish, Maurice Ravel's modern one-act opera, “L'heure Espagnole” (The Span- ish Hour), for which the English trans- Wednesday Garbo and Greta Garbo and Novarro in Ramon Novarro in ‘Mata Harl.” ‘Mata Harl." Cartoon Cartoon. Joe E. Brown in “Fireman. Save My crild” Jack Haley ‘comedy. Apollo Joe E. Brown in “Flreman, Save My Child: Jack Haley comedsy. G. Robinson in Hatchet Man.” Pitts-Todd comedy Edw. “The Edw. G. Robinson in Buster Keaton and ““The Hatchet Man. Pitts-Todd comedy. n- Thursday lation has been prepared by Philip L. Leidy. The opera will be interpreted by Charlotte Boerner, as Conception; Ralph Errolle, as Gonzalve; Chief Caupolican, as Ramiro; Albert Mahler, as Torquemada, and Abrasha Robafsky, as Don Inigo. The opera will be con- ducted by Sylvan Levin and stage by Wilhelm von Wymetal, jr. o Torovsky Organ Recital. [HE fourth in the series of organ re- citals at the National City Chris- tian Church being sponsored by the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists will be given by Adolf Torov- sky, A. A. G_O.. organist of Epiphany Church, on Wednesday at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. Torovsky will be assisted by Louis Guzman, flutist. With the exception of the Mozart, American composers are being featured. PROGRAM. “Prelude and Fugue in C Minor." Anton Gloetzner Felix Borowski irst Suite” s D Major,” Mozart “‘Flute Concerto No. 3, Capriceio” (Thistiedown John Hermann Loud Gene Stewart “Nocturne” (M) i .Harry Rowe Shelley ‘Etude de Concert” Friday Saturday John_Gilbert in Edna May Olives “West of Broadway.” ‘“Ladies of the Jur, Com_ Short subject. Roscoe Ates com Newman travel talk. ___Short subject. Buster Keator Edna May Oliver in Polly Moran in ‘“Ladies of the Jury." “Passionate Plumber.” Serial. Vallee song reel Cartoon. Dark. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable 1o “Possessed.” Comedy. Joan Crawfort nd Clark Gable in “Possessed.” Comedy. Ne ontgomery & ge Evans in ‘Lgyers Courageous.” New “Lovers Courageous.” Comedy. News. Comedy. Dorothy Revier and Frank “The Last Comedy. _ Serial. _ Paul Lukas in “Beloved Bachelor.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Dark. Rockville, Md. Wheeler and Wheeler and Woolsey Woolsey A.'\ in “Caught Plastered.” “Caught Plastered" Dolores Costello in o George Bancroft in ‘Expensive Women y . “Rich Man's Folly. George O'Brien in “Riders of the Purple Sage.” Richard_Dix in “Secret Service.” “Buffalo_Bill. Mickey Mouse Ashton Clarendon. Va Dark. Mary Astor in “Men of Chance.” Layrel and Hars “Beau Hunks. Mary Astor in “Men of Chance.” Layrel and Hardy in “Besu Hunks Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in “‘Passionate Plumber.” Short_subect Avalon 5612 Conn. Ave Buster Keaton and olly Moran in “Passionate Plumber.” ‘Short_subject. Frederic March in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Cartoon. 3 om Tyler in ““Two-fisted Justice.” Walter Huston In “A_House Divided.” “Buffalo Bill Clive Brook and Vivienne Osborne in “Husband's Holiday."” Comedsy. Frederic March in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Tew Avres in “Heaven on Earth." Dogviile comeds. Cartoon. o Sidney _Fox ‘Nice Women.” S. Van Dine Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in ata Hari Short_subject. Ave. Grand 645 Pa. Ave. SE Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarrg in “Mata Hari." . Short_subject. Robt. Montgomery & dge Evans in “Lovers Courageous.” Comedy. Kay Francis in “False Madonns Jack Haley comeay. ort ject. 5 omery & Madge Evans in “Lovers Courageous.” ‘omedy. Cameo. Mt. Rainler. Md Dark. 8ylvia_Sidney and Gene Raymond in “Ladies of Big House." Comedy. News. S8ylvia_Sidney and Gepe Raymond in, “Ladies of Big House.” Comedy. News. Constance Bennett “The Common La: Comedy. News._ Constance Bennett in The Common Law.” Comedsy. News Edna May Oliver in Speckled Band.” “Ladies of the Jury.” Dogville Serial h Man's Fol Comedy. Cartoon. York Amsteur night Comedy. _Eerial Carolina Dorothy Mackall in 11th & N.C. Ave S E. ‘Safe in Hell George Bancroft and thy Mackatl in Frances Dee Doty Mol Ruth Chatterton and Tvor Novelio o “Once a Lady." Joan _Crawford and Clark’ Gable fh o ssessed Bally Eilers and Hoot Gibson James Dunn n _“Over_the HilL" Central Edw. G. “The Haichet M 425 9th Bt N.W. mith and Dale comedy. Barbara Stanwyck n ““Forbidden.” Chic_Sale co: James Cagney and Loretts. Young. i James Dunn and Bally_ Eilers Circle Roscoe Ates in “Ladles of the “Dance Team.” Jury.” Frederic March aj Miriam Hopkins in “Dr. Jeksll and Mr. Hyde." Edna May Oliver nd Roscoe Ates in “Ladies of the Jury.” Robt. Montgomery & Madge Evans in Lovers Courageous.” hort suby't. Berial Frederic March and in “The Local Bad T Edna MI) Oliver in “Ladies of the Jury.” Dogville comeds. Dane-Arthur_comedy. Evelyn Brent. and 2105 Pa. Ave. NW i Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in Colony . EEMmE. Ga.Ave & Farragut _ Short subject Dumbarton &z Vinnie Lightner and .Chas. Butterworth in, 1349 Wis. Ave. NW. James Cagney and Buster Keaton and o Loretta Young in Polly Moran in “Passionate Plumber.’ ‘Short subject Winnte Lig a Chas. Butterworth in, Jol more and Marion Marsh in “Manhattan Parade.’ 4 Comedy. Mad Genus. Comedy. _ axi. Laurel-Hardy comedy. Laurel-Hara: Clive Brook and Vivienne Osborne in “Husband’s Holiday." or Travel talk Greta Garbo and James Cagney and Loretta Youns. in ‘Taxi." John Barr, y. Manhattan Parade.” Fairlawn Barbara Stanwyck in “Forbidden.” Barbara Stan: Phillips Holmes & Mi- **Porbldde riam Hopkins in “Two Act Kinds of Women." Curlosity. Snapshot. Cartoon. Frederic March in ch In “Dr. Jekyll and and Mr. Hyde." Mr. Hyde'™ __cartoon Frederic Mar: “Dr. Jekyll Ann_Harding in “‘Prestige.” Ned Sparks comedy. Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in “Mata Harl." ____ Comeds. Paul Lukas and Judith Wood in Comedy. _Cartoon. Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in “Passionate Plumber.” Comedy. ___ Serial (mat.) ct. Anacostis. D. € Cartoon. Hi Crawford and e in 808 K St. NW. Crawford and TRk "Gasle 15 Comedy. _News. Chester Morris in Daybreak.” ““Corsair.” Warner Baxter, in Richard_Dix in ‘Surrender." “‘Secret ice.” ‘om. Linda Watkins in ““Good Sport."" Wwilliam Haine “Tailor-Made Man." Ruth Chatterton in mey and “Tomorrow and James C Loretts Youns 8hort_subject. Ruth Chatterton In _ Wm. Collier, jr., and ‘Tomorrow and Una Merkel 'in Tomorrow. “The Secret Witne Comedy. Comedy._Serial es in Lew Ayres in “Heaven on Earth."” Smith and Dale edy. omery & ans in Comedy. News. # James Cagney and S J i ihor RIAVNE oom woot ogrirn., » J ppodrome 8, Syt "‘Possessed."” Home 13th & C Bts. N.E. Short subject. Jackie Cool d Jisie Conner o Lyric Gaithersburg, Md. Dark. Jackis Cooper and ‘Robert Coogan in *“800ky.” Com. News. Cart'n. Paul Lukas and Miriam Hopkins and _Frances Dee in Phillips Holmes in Working Girls.” “Two Kinds of Comn N en.” cot Helen Twelvetrees & Ricardo Cortez in [ ford d Toap grasterd an ““Possessed. Comedy. Novelty. Crawford k Gab) and le in o m.”_Comedy. _Song Edna May Oliver in ‘Ladles of the Jur: . Sport reel. Oswald. Edna May Oliver in, ‘Ladles of the Jury.’ ur Gang. Sport reel. Oswald. “Bad Company. Se: Com._Cart'n._ Buster Keaton and Polly Moran in sionate Plumber."* arlie Chase comedy, d Polly Moran in ‘Passionate Plumber."” harlie Chase comedy. National Symphony Plays Season’s Final Conce_rt Here Thursday HE National Symphony Orches- tra of Washington, D. C., Hans . Kindler, conductor, will bring its first fuil season of 24 concerts to a close at Constitution Hall next Thursday afternoon, at 4:45 o'clock, with an eighth and final sym- phony concert, which will enlist the services of 100 choral singers of the Washington Choral Festival Associa- tion in a presentation of Handel's mag- nificent Dettingen “Te Deum” and which will present, additionally, the “Vorspiel und Liebestod,” from Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde.” as well as Mau- rice Ravel's captivating “Bolero,” which Conductor Kindler is repeating by re- quest. Leonard Davis, baritone, will be the principal soloist with the group of 100 choristers. The “Te Deum” is probably the most renowned of all the compo- sitions written by Handel durin occupancy of the British post of poser of Music to the Royal Chapel,” a position which required him to provide music for all important state functions. No event touching the royal family, no be commemorated without the perform- ance of some new work by Handel. ex- pressly written for the occasion, and the great “Te Deum in D"—now generally known as the Dettingen “Te Deum"— was written especially for the Thanks- giving service held at St. Paul's on No- vember 27, 1743, in celebration of the defeat of ‘the French by the British forces, which were led by the King him- self, at Dettingen, four months before. The Washington Choral Festival As- soclation is under the administrative tistic direction of Louls A. Potter. The “Vorspiel” (prelude) and *Liebe- stod” (Love Death) from “Tristan and Isolde” combines two of the finest pieces of composition in the entire length of this Wagnerian opera. By orchestra cus- tom, the two are played without inter- ruption, though it is occasionally the practice: of conductors to separate the two by a momentary pause. The Ravel “Bolero,” which will close the program, was done so effectively at the February 14 concert of the National Symphony that Conductor Kindler has received numerous requests for a repetition, which he has granted at this, the final concert of the season. Local OROTHY NEFF TYLER of the faculty of the Washington Col- lege of Music will present a program of French songs at the Friday Morning Club at this Friday's meeting. Anna Yago McGuffey, contraito, will assist Lewis Corning Atwater, organist, in a program of music by Frans Lisst at All Souls’ Church (Unitarian) this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Josef Kaspar will present members of his artist class in an hour of music for the violin at his studio, 1217 M street northwest, @a Friday night a% 8:15 o'clock. Those taking part will include Mary Park Clements, Ethel Hicks, Julia Robertson, Albert Parga- ment, Gerald Rodisky, Jean Westbrook. Accompanists will be Dora Minovich- ‘Herschman and Leah Effenbach. The program will include violin concertos and shorter works by Leonardo Leo, Vieuxtemps, De Beriot, Bach, Pugnani and Bruch. Friends of R. Deane Shure and Ed- ward C. Potter will be interested to know that their joint cantata, “Wash- ington,” will be sung at Fort Worth, Tex., May 13, by a chorus of 300, ac- companied by a civic orchestra of 100. On the same program John Alden Car- penter’s “Song of Faith” will be sung, with the composer present as an in- vited guest. The contest to be held by the Fed- eration of Junior Music Clubs, Aprilb 23, will be divided into the following groups: Hymn contest, harmonics, toy symphony orchestra and rhythm band, music ap- preciation and music memory, composi- tion and essay, piano solo, piano en- semble, organ, harp, violin, viola and cello solos, string ensemble, flute, clari- net, cornet and trombone solos, brass ensemble, chamb;rwmus:: and ?:;1:2: All those desirin] enter are - ed to communicate with Thelma Calla- han, contest chairman. Esther Spier, pianist, recently gave a program at the meeting of the Probus Club at the Hay-Adams House. Charles Wilfrid Smith, tenor of the Covenant-First Presbyterian Church Quartet, accompanied by George H. Wil- son. will sing a group of songs before the lecture on “Kashmir to Siam,” which is to be given by Mrs. Charles Wood at the Wardman Park Theater on Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority will give a benefit program in connection with the Mothers and Daughters’ Circle of Cleveland Park Congregational Church tomorrow eve- ning at 8:15 o'clock. Those participat- ing will be Betty Gray, Tamara Dmit- rieff, Aurelia Beck, Wilhelmina Amiss, Catherine Benson and Mrs, Pope. Thelma Callahan, pianist, and her sister, Mary Etta Callahan, reader and impersonator, were the guest artists Monday evening at the banquet held at the Kennedy-Warren by the Petworth Child’s Study Club. The Tuesday Evening Music Club discussed Shakespeare in music at its monthly research meeting. The treatise on the subject was read by Harrlett Rissler, and a group of songs was pre- sented by Dorothy Sherman Pierson, guest artist. Minnie Volkmann, soprano, sang in place of Dorothy Sherman Pierson on February 26 when Anita Schade spoke on “Goethe in Music” at Corcoran Hall, George Washington University. Dorothy Neff Tyler, soprano, will be presented at the Women's City Club by Mary Izant Couch in a costume recital of Irish songs on Thursday at 8 o'clock. ‘Warren F. Johnson will give an organ recital this evening at the Church of triumph of British arms could fittingly | direction of Gertrude Lyons and the ar- | Kindler to Lead Orchestra in Impressive Program Assisted by Washington Choral Festival Association— Blue Bird" to Be Given. Béats for Thursday’s performance may be obtained at Mrs Wilson Greene's Concert .Bureax, in_Oroop’ 1300 G street northwest, or at Consti- tution Hall an hour before the concert next Thursday. “THE BLUE BIRD" REVUE. | *"THE BLUE BIRD." Yascha Yushny's sparkling Russian revue, which has charmed American cities from coast to ccast during its first American tour, i announced as the final attraction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's 1931-32 concert series at the National Theater next | Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. ! Yascha Yushny, ‘“conferencier” of | the production, introduces each of the | various episodes in a macerated Eng- | lish idiom that is said to be both fearful and fantastic, but always hilarious. No | knowledge of Russian is required to enjoy “The Blue Bird,” which is de- scribed as a fantastic, sophisticated cocktail cf merriment, music, hilarity and heartache, backgrounded against settings of exotic beauty and keyed to the music of Moussorgsky, Glazounov, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Tschaikowsky and other famcus Russian composers. The actors are said to possess the power of pictorial effect in themselves The program is made up of folk songs, dances, scenic episodes tlat beggar de- scription and histrioni¢ interludes of a high order. “Evening Bells,” the open. ing episode. for example, brings cne a nostalgic glimps of old Russia in the days of the czars. Yushny’s Cossack Chorus is a howling burlesque. “Pique Dame” consists of an excerpt from the opera. of that name. “Dance of the Boyars” introduces some remarkable Russian dancing by Mile. Lelik and M. Orlik, the dance stars of the troupe. Yushny himself was one of Moscow's foremost personalities before the revo- lution, and so popular has his enter- tainment proven outside Russia that he now owns his own theater in Berlin, where he has his private workshop, where he employs his own technical staff and where he plans and works out the details of his very unusual per- formance. Seats for the performance may be obtained at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's con- cert bureau in Droop's, 1300 G street, or at the National Theater before the performance. Notes ler, historian, and Helen M. Bellman, chaplain. The sixth Gene B8tewart organ recital will be given at the Waugh M. E. Church, Third and A streets north- east, Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The assisting artist will be Leon Saylor, cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the choir of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will present a Lenten musical service. The cholr will sing Mandelssohn’s “Hear my Prayer,” with Minnie Volkmann soloist, and the modern “Lead, Kindly Light,” by Cyril Jenkins, with Sanford Wells as baritone soloist. Hester Bogardus will play the “Tocatta” from Widor's “PFifth Symphony.” The choir is under the direction of the organist, Marguerite A. Ross. All music lovers are cordially invited to this service. Kathryn Latimer presented the following pupils in an informal recital recently at 4614 Eigth street northwest: Mary M. Trimble, Sherry Parker, Roberts Latimer, Mary Latimer, Lor- raine Maust, Peggy Schneider, Doris Mae Court, Jean Parker, Mitzi Sanders, Shirley Sanders, Betty Rawdon, Richard H. Rausdon, Jean Warren, Jack Cardon and Marian Parker. Harriet L. Wagner and Helen Gene- ieve Wagner gave a joint recital on | Heart That's Free,” “Pale Moon” and “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” Miss Wagner accompained Mrs. Wagner, ;nd l!:?ubllyed Chopin’s “Nocturne in Guest Artist at Y. \{’. C. A SPECIAL program of Lenten music will be given this afterncon at § o'clock in the fourth floor assembly room of the Young Women’s Christian Association, when a guest artist from | Culpeper, Va., Wilhelmina Amiss, vio- linist, will be heard in two groups of numbers, and Mary M. Burnett, head of the music staff of the Y. W. C. A, will be heard in two groups of Easter songs. Both singer and violinist will be accompanied by Catherine Benson, pianist, of this city. Miss Benson will also play a group of piano numbers appropriate to the season. Plans are now being perfected for the annual concert by the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, which always takes place in the Spring, and is an event of the post- Easter musical season her i SIC_STUDIOS. Grace Hazard Wormelle Voice, Piano and Expression 3106 South Dakota Ave. N.E. North 8633 BESSIE N. WILD PHONE_GEORGIA 3233. ROBERT RUCKMAN | Organist | National City Christlan Church | TEACHER OF PIANO | Institute of Musical Art 831 18th St. N.W. MEt. 2511 Armando Jannuzzi Grand Opera, Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method From La Scala, Milan, Ialy Col. 4608 3403 14th St N.W. producers and directors say that, in the | -~ - nesr future rehearsals for film produc- | 70, 0% Violin and orchestra, opus 6%, tions will be accorded the same time | Will Rogers_in BIIL" Boy Priend comedy. no ilers Will Rogers in Tim McCoy in BUL" ‘ “One-way Trail.” Comedy. Serial the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock. He will play the first movement from Vierne's “Second Symphony” and “Evensong,” : VOCAL STUDIO osse: Lynn Harding in “Fatal Hour." Princess 1119 B St NE cartdors. Comeds and attention as rehearsals for stage plays Paramount already has adopted the “rehearse before camera Work’ pro- gram and every picture made In the company's Hollywood studios is care- | fully rehearsed both before and during roduction, so that each player will ow his role so well as to give it his best interpretation. Screen tests, wardrobe fittings and other interrupting factors are not al | lowed to interfere with rehearsals, and even when picture units leave the stu- dios and go to distant locations to make scenes the rehearsal program is con- tinued. The first rehearsals for “Broken Lul- Jaby,” now in a second week at Warner Bros.' Metropolitan Theater, were held on a_transcontinental train running from New York to Los Angeles. Phil- Jips Holmes and Nancy Carroll re- hearsed every scene in which they were to s} 3 camera work was started, Ernest Lubitsch, the director, found that his players knew every line, and pot & minute of time was wasted. | " Priday, March 18, at 3 p.m., orchestra | concert. | Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the | United States Marine Band, will be the guest conductor at a concert to be given in Reading. Pa. on Sunday, March 13, by the Ringgold Band of that city in memory of the late John Philip Sousa, who died there last Sunday’ Scott prcgram in April. "THE John Prindle Scott program to honor the nationally known song Writer, spending his sixth Spring sea- son in Washington, will be given at Barker Hall on Monday, April 11. Solos for the concert will be done by Ruby Potter, soprano; Helen Turley, contralto; Herman Fakler, baritone; William San- Richmond Alexandria, Va. Dark. Joe E. Brown in “Pireman. Save Chil C'umeé,y News. Josn Crawford and Clark Gable in ossesse Act. Cartoon. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in ssesse Act.__Cartoon. Buster Keaton and Buster Keaton and Irene Purcell in “Passionate Plumber.” Comedy. _Cartoon Comeds. _Cartoo Eric Linden and .., Arline Judge in ‘Are These Our Chil- dren?” Comedy. Savoy 3030 14th Bt. N.W. Eric Lindén and . fe These Otr Chil- copfatiine Adfenr™*Comedy. Ricardo Cortez in wuMen of Chanee.” ‘Washington. the Man Capital." i *“Compromises and thy i3 E Com._Short subject. James Dunn and Sally Etlers in “Dance_Team. Sh't sub._Travel ! Tim McCoy in ““Texas Cycione.” ria Boy Friend comedy. Seco Silver Bpring, Md. Dark. Tom Keene “Frien in “Partners.” in ners. . asand “Friends and Lovers." Evelyn Brent in “The Mad Parade.” “The_Galloping Ghost."” Charles “Buddy” Rogers in “Road to Reno." Leon Janney in “Penrod and Sam.” “Danger Island. Mickey Mouse. State Bethesda. Md. Dark. wiord and Gable in Joan Cri Clark “*Possesse @ympic events. News. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in Olympic events. Billy Dove in “The Ase for Lov Cor Douglas Fairbanks n “Around the World in utes.” Comedy. Jackie Cooper and gan in Stanton Robert_ Cool ‘Sooky. 6th and C Sts. N.E. Leo Carrillo and John Mack Brown in_“Laska of the ‘Rio_Grande.” Jackie Cooper and Hobert Coogan' in Helen Twelyetrees Ann_Harding in and ZaSu Pitts in “Devotion A" W Comedy. Cartoon._ Eddie Quillan and Jimmy Gleason, in ““Sweepstakes.” ty. Comedy. Mirtam Hopkins and Phillips Holmes in “Two Kinds of Women.” _Serial Sylvan Lily Damita and Lester Vail in ““The Woman Between.” Comedy. O Buster Keaton Anita Page in Bldewalks of New York.”_Com. News. Paul Lukas and Frances Dee in “Working Girls." Comedy. " Novelty. Tim McCoy in “One-way Trall.” “Riders of the Pur- 4 Detective stor: Gho: le Sage.: Serial” ‘Com: Cart'n 104 R. 1 Ave. NW. Takoma Dous. Pairb telman, concert master of the Marine Orchestra, and John Auer, cellist. Cho- ruses and glee clubs represented will be the male chorus of the Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co. and the Y. W. C. A. Glee Club, directed by Mary Bur- nett, head of the g e Y. W. C. A. music ks, 97 Takoms Park,D.C. ' Union Depot- Jackie Cooper and ir. Robert_Coot Doug. Fairbanks, i ¥union Depot Syivia Sidney n “Ladies of the Big House.” Cogper and rt_Coogan in “Sooky " Sylvia Sidney n “Ladies of the Big House " Wil Rogers iness an Tivoli ™ 14th & Park Rd. York Oa. Ave. & Quebes Constance Bennett and Lyon in dy With a Past.” comedy. Joe E. Brown in i Newman travel talk. Joe E. Brown in hild > Bhort yuby ¢ Newman travel talk. ‘Helen Twelvetrees in “Panams Flo. 8. C. vs. Ti Dogvilie comes Eyans and vers Gouraseous By Fricad comeds. Lionel Atwill and G *The Sfent itness. by Martin. Special music will be played today at Christian Church and a special musical, service will be given tonight at the same church. The chorus choir will be assisted by a quartet composed of Mrs. B. D. Shreve, soprano; Helen ‘Turley, contralto; W. G. Braithwaite, tenor, and J. Horace Smithey, baritone. The Easter cantata, “Seven Last Words,” by Du Bois, will be sung by the choir on Good Friday night. Soloists will include members of the quartet. particu erly interesting program has been arranged for this evening's service by Robert Ruckman, organist and choir director. Edith B. Athey has been re-elected president of the Washington Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon National Honor- Sororif also chosen Constant Pratt, secre Sornborger, treasurer; Ine Olive othy morning service of the National City| MAESTRO A. SALMAGGI Director of the Manhattan 1347 CONNECTICUT AVE. ! Decatur 4845 :