Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1932, Page 4

NATIONAL TRAINING. SCHOOL ASKS AID Institution Supported by Col L ored People Appeals f for Funds. Threatened with the necessity of losing its doors because of general un- employment among colored people, the National Training School for Women and 'Girls has appealed to the public for funds to save a school which the race “has built through years of toil and sacrifice.” Now, as never before, Nannie H. Bur- roughs, president of the school, pointed out, there is need for character build- ing work among colored people, who. she said, are in “a precarious economic and moral condition “I ‘write to beg our white friends to help us keep the doors open,” con- tinued the president. “I would not ask this aid if our own people could save this school. “This school builds womanhood. The race needs the school, but the general depression and the almost universal unemployment of Negroes make it i possible for them to save the school.” The school is in Lincoln Heights and is said to be the only one in the world founded and supported by col- ored people for the education of their rls. "wm: a groundwork of academic and eultural training, the school offers courses in business, social service, home making and other practical occupations. A drive for funds has been in prog- ress among the colored population un- der direction of a citizens' committee of social and business leaders. HICCOUGHS END AT LAST RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., April 23 (®) ~—Hiccoughs which Mrs. Ed Price, 30, suffered for more than a year stonped jesterday after s gall bladder opera- jon. She had been hiccoughing almost steadily since April 1, 1931. She was bedfast most of the time and had lost 60 pounds. . Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. Felicia Rybier In a Piano Recital. RESENT last night at the Sears-Roebuck Galleries was a large audience listening with devout attention to the piano playing of Felicia Rybier. Miss Rybier, who presented somewhat the same program a week or 50 ago in Baltimore, was applauded vigorously and seemed quite as suc- cessful as she is said to have been in the Oriole city Chief among Miss Rybier's many pianistic virtues is the sureness of her touch and the strength of her steel-like fingers. What some pre- fer to call “at- tack” she has to a splendid de- gree, and the deftness of her technic is some- thing to wonder at. Perhaps much of her playing is in the same vein (and again perhaps that was due to the program), however, she is amazingly well eouipped with a rapid- fire touch and with such high pres- sure hands that she can rattle off such a difficult piece as the Scriabine “Prelude and Nocturne” (for left hand alone) with power enough to make it sound double sized Last night's program included the Ba szt “Organ Prelude and Fugue,” Paderewski's “Theme, Varia- tions and Fugue,” the Scriabine selec- tion mentioned above, Ibert's “The White Burro,” Rachmaninoff’s “Pre- lude in G Major,” the De Falla “Fire Dance” and four selections by Chopin. Of the Chopin numbers the “Ballade” was much the best, and of the others the “Fire Dance” and the Paderewski “Variations” seemed most true to form. Miss Rybier undertook all of these difficult pleces without & quiver, sweeping all rather majesti- cally before her, and rising some- Felicia Rybier. World’s KFirs | times to such heights as made her listeners quite breatiless E. de S, MELCHER. Concert of American Muste At American University. A PROGRAM of unusual and in- teresting music written by American composers was given last evening at American University The concert was arranged by Dorothy DeMuth Watson. national chairman of music for the League of American Pen Women, which will open its biennial convention today. The most unusual composi- tion on the program last evening was that of Mary Howe, a local composer, who has adapted t of a chain gang and arr for men’s voices. Its title is “Chain Gang.” The Men's Glee Club the university sang it, conducted by Harlan Randall, and it was ac- companied by Derothy Radde Emery, who played for Mrs. Howe because of the latter’s lame arm Mrs. Howe was there, however, to acknowledge the applause The program opened with the sing- ing by the two clubs of “The Lord's Prayer,” set to music by Josephine Forsyth, who has given it a devo- tional background, and played the accompaniment. Other com- posers whose works were hea evening were Mrs. Emery, Marianne Genet, Pearl Adams and C Branscombe. They all were pre: and played the accompaniments for their own compositions Emery's “Other Side the Hill by the Women's Glee Club, was so well received that it was repea and her “Serenade,” which ceded it, has a graceful, swaying rhythm “The Lancashire Road Song.” by Pearl Adams, was a rollicking bit on the program, and sung by the men's club and accompanied by the composer aroused such_enthusiasm that it was repeated. The women's club_sang two other compositions by Mrs. Adams, “Night on the Dunes,” which savors of the mysteri- ous in its theme and accompani- ment, and “Awakening of Morn." Miss Genet was represented three times on the program, a chorus for men and two quartets for men. “Sea The Love,” written for a man's quartet, is a setting to a poem by Grace Thompson Seton, retiring national president of the league, and copy- righted this year. It gave evidence of beauty last evening with an ac- companiment, of arpeggios giving an effect of the swell of the sea. The closing number was Gena Branscombe's “The Postern Gate,” a chorus for men's voices, which was conducted by the composer. It is well adapted to a men's glee club and Miss Branscombe put life and color into its rendition by her spirited conducting. K. B. Three Artists at Friday Music Club. "THREE splendid artists were heard at the Priday Morning Music Club yesterday, A pleasing contrast of singers—Gretchen Hood, soprano: Leonard Davis, baritone— afforded a delightful hour with the excellent playing of Grete von Bayer, pianist. The vocal duets, in which the voices of the two were well ended, were especially interesting, se by Landon Ronald being espe- ally lovely Leonard Davis is 8 most promis- ing young singer, with unusual in- terpretive gifts as well as vocal equipment His voice was most satisfying in_Schubert's “Du_Bist die Ruh.” To hear the artistic singing of Gretchen Hood was a real joy to the large audience, which showed keen appreciation of her splendid. clean-cut enunciation and her intelligent reading and choice of songs. One of the most gifted pianists of the city, Grete von Bayer, assisted at the second piano by Helen Grimes, gave a mow enjoyable reading of the little hewrd von Weber Kouzer- stuck, Op. 79, with more than her usual grace and charm. Her musi- cal background and her thorough training is apparent in all her play- ing. Another fine pianist on the program was Gertrude McRae Nash ccompanied the singers. Ac- ents of such excellence are rarely heard. M “Revue Intime” At Wardman Park Theater. "THE sccond edition of Phil Hay- den's “Revue Intime” was pre- sented last night at the Wardman Park Theater before a large, eager and generally excited audience Dances of varied types—in fact, of every type—given in rapid-fire fash- fon, and enlisting enthuslastic huz- zahs from those present, continued for a full three hours—in one of the Lony Distance AIR-COOLED TRAIN ™ GEORGE WASHINGTON WILL BE INAUGURATED A pril 2 4 th Here's news —important news— for travelers to Cincinnati, Lexington, Louis- viile, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis and the West, from Washington, Balti- more, Philadelphia, New York, Rich- mond and Norfolk and the East. Forget about the weather, hot or cold. 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Chief among the greater moments of the evening was the cpening of the second half of the program, “Manhattan”; the dancing of Lee O'Neil, who is following fast in the footsteps of his well known teacher, and the dancing of Mr. Hayden himself in a Russian “Mazurka Other contributors of especial note were Maxine Kindleberger, wisely billed as “Broadway _Material”; Charles Cornell, Mary Eller (acro- batically most successful), Be Johnston, the “It” Twins (Ryan twins) and the members of the “Dance Moderne,” patterned along the lines of a Wigman venture. All of these young artists, aided and abetted by the dancing wisdom of Mr. Hayden, provided a program which, although long, was stimulat- ing to dance enthusiasts and re- celved with much eclat by all those present. LINKED WITH DEATH Youth Admits Firing Stray Shots in Gotham Tragedy. NEW YORK, April 23 (#) —The mysterious shooting of a young Rus- sian woman three months ago was be- lieved explained by police Thursday when a youth arrested on a hold-up charge admitted he fired seven shots from a roof next door to the Russian woman's &partment. The youth said | he was testing his pistol The woman, Mrs. Tatianka Koutey- said to be the daughter of a former Russian consul general, was killed the night of January 21, when a stray bullet crashed through her bed | room window as she was dressing for a party. FRENCH VETERANS TOARRIVE IN FALL tertained Here Dur- ing Visit. More than 500 French war veterans | will embark at Havre, France, aboard the 8. 8. Paris for a trip to the United States, arriving in the National Capital September 20 or 21, it was announced today by Dr. George C. Havenner, ex- | ecutive vice president of the District Bicentennial Commission. The infor- mation was furnished the commission |by Col. John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the National Legi Committee of the American Legion The peace-time visit of this French | & ., to cross again the C tral | of Lafavette's troops of the Rev | tionary War, 1s_sponsored ’rmmmn of this country ar American Legion. The group v | vited by President Hoover and He | L. Stevens, jr. national comr | of the American Legion Congress has authorized ture of $50,000 in the entert the French visitors. The hospitality to | be extended reciprocete the elabo- rate entertainment provided by French government when Ame Legionnaires visited Paris in 1927 The Frenchmen will be m: York by Legion represent national and city to hington in Washing? Ame! for veteran chieftai the entire trip a special will carry the French pe: d American |More Than 500 Will Be En-| | | flags as well as the French and Amer- |ican veterans’ colors. | “In Indianapolis the contingent will be broken into ihree groups, one going to Chicago, another to New Orleans and the third to Salt Lake City. Legion headquarters in each of these centers are to be visited and.a French flag presented to each besides war souvenirs |and plaques of amity. | The entire party will return Sep- | tember 30, arriving in France on Oc- tober 6. 'PROSPERITY CLINGS TO VERMONT TOWN Mills Run Full Blast, Everybody Employed and No Paupers at Gilman. By the Associated Press GILMAN, Vt., April 23.—Prosperity stands firmly entrenched on a corner of Gilman's main street. Back in the hills of Vermont near the headwaters of the Connecticut Riv- er, Gilman has enjoyed two years of peace and_prosperity. The leading mill. the Gilman Paper Co., is working 24 hours a day, six days a week. Newsprint is being shipped out by the carload. The mill's gum tape department cannot fill all its or- ders and plans are underway to extend its facilities. The Millet Corporation, manufactur- ers of fiber material and onion bags, is working double shifts full time, and the Craft Bag Corporation, a new in- dustry, plans to locate in Gilman short- 1y and turn out 60 tons of paper cement bags a day. There’s not a man in town out of work. There are no paupers and a strike never has interrupted the town's industrial activities. T New England Telephone & Tele- ph Co. is building a telephone ex- \ange, the first in the town, and a ew business office building is in process { construction. ‘PARAMOUNT PUBLIX CUTS SALARIES SECOND TIME Reduction Affects All Employes. Vacations Without Pay Or- dered for Workers. v the Associated Press. 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