Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1932, Page 45

Outdoor Opera Tonight To Be Given at Stadium "Aida" Will Feature Prominent Cast of Stars—In Case of Rain Performance Takes Place at \Vas}lington Auditorium. HE presentation of “Aida” at Griffith Stadium. postponed twice, but definitely announced for tonight, will renew interest in its composer, Guiseppe Verdi, master of Italian opera. Verdi. born in 1813 at Rencole, showe® signs of musical talent at an early age, but at 16 was rejected at the conservatory at Milan for lack of musical ability. By 1844 he had become the foremost com- poser of Italy. For five years there- after his gen psed into an eclipse, breken by his marriage to the famous prima_donna Giuscppina Strepponi. and the subsequent comporition of letto,” I Trovator” and “La ta,” all in quick succession. These operas carried his name over all the civilized world. For the Paris Ex- position of 1855, Verdi was commis- sloned to write a festival opera; an- other French opera was_written for and preduccd during the Paris EXposi- tion of 1867. Verdi studied diligently the great masters and perfected his own tech- nique, educating and refining his ar- tistic taste. When about 60 years of age he turned his back upon the style that had made him famcus and wealthy and, as his twenty-seventh cpera, wrote " (1871) for the Khedive of Egvpt, the first opera pro- duced in accordance with his newly ac- quired artistic convictions. The music pessesses dignity, power and majesty. Aida’s aria “O Cieli Azzurri,” perhaps the most beautiful and most poignant song Verdi ever wrote, shows his meth- od to perfection. At first accused of being Wagnerian, “Aida” is in reality anything but that. Verdi was too wise not to profit by advances made by Wagner, but did so while remaining | true to Italian tradition. The orches- | tra was not treated in the complex | symphonic style of Wagner, yet it is richer and more colorful than ever be- | fore in Itallan opera, introducing | charming effects of the Orient. Realiz- | ing that in presenting the life of an- cient Egypt much pageantry was need- ed, Verdl wrote rousing choruses for | geat crowds of people and also exotic | dances to enhance the Oriental effect. | As a rule Verdi was not successful in his ballets, but all such music in “Aida” must be regarded as a brilliant | exception. Real Egyptian tunes are used in the ballet dances and elsewhere. | The premier performance of “Aida" | was given at Cairo, Egypt, in 1871, with | unprecedented success. When Verdi | presented it the next year at La Scala | he was recalled 32 times and was pre- sented with an ivory baton and a dia- | mond star with the name “Aida” in rubles and “Verdi” in other precious stones. Verdi's music conveyed his own pas. sionate convictions regarding personal | liberty and was often a call to arms, “the voice of one for millions.” There | Is little wonder that he was elected to | Parliament in 1860 and became a | senator in 1874." In 1898 he donated 2,000.000 lire to the city of Milan for e purpose of erecting a home for old | invalid musicians, 1901, The He died in Washington “Aida” tonight will Ferrara as_ the Egyptian warrior | Rhadames, Leonora Corona as Alda and Dreda Aves as Amneris, Pasquale | Amato will embody Amonasro, King of | the Ethiopians, and Paolo Ananian the King of Egypt. Gluseppe Creatore will | conduct the opera. presentation of Wives Of Candidates Work and Plenty of It Di Texas, Who Rises Duties as Spea This is the fijth and last of & series of personality sketches of the wives of president:al candidates or possibilities. Previous sketches dealt with Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Newton D. Baker. Mrs. Alfred E. Smith and Mrs. Franklin D. Rcosevelt, BY FLORENCE DAVIES, v be pretty hard to the middle of a 30.000-acre is one reason Mrs n never gets excited over It may b one reason, too, why Garner has so much’ common r Carner is nominated for ncy at the Democratic enticn. and elected in is certain: There sense in the White be done without any put on any _airs, put on airs if you > of values: ard you can't in the midst of space il-nce and acres of growing things the clemental processes of life and nshielded by the artificialities ¥ civilization, without getting a scnse cf values. there'll Le no fuss and afrs, 1l be dignity and respect for Tht thing u don’t just g else in e House if Mrs. Garner is its ome day. and that is work, plenty . a driving tireless, almost unceasing capacity for work. Throughout the seascn in Washington the Garners go to bed early, get up at six oclock and walk to work. They like it. But that is only part of the Garner directness and simplicity. The source of it doubtless lies buried deep in their backe: nd and past. Born in Biz Ranca House. It has been said Ettie Rheiner Gar- ner was born in a log cabin, but that i3 not quite accurate. The lcg cabin was a b ach house, with a grand 0. and ctherwis> weil equipped for comfortable living. It is true that it was made of logs, but it was certainly not a cabin, Irs. Gzarner's father, Peter J. Rheiner, came from Switzer- land. and aside from holding a Gov- emnment office on an Indian reserva- tion, he owned a big ranch, which by the way, Mrs. Garner considers a mere handkerchief. A ranch, she says, is a million acres. At least, that's what they mean by a ranch in Texas. I first saw Mrs. Garner walking at a fast clip down the corridor to her office in the Capitol Building. She rather smaller than I expected to find her, with a kind of intelligent face, a slender figure, simply dressed, a black hat with a band of white, a simple black silk dress with a little flower print and black silk hose. At first glance might have been any sensible mid- -aged professional woman or teacher, or just a quiet home body. But the moment she spoke to you, looking at you appraisingly with her keen blue eyes and serious little frown, you knew she was a woman of charac- ter. Although her son is 36, her wavy chestnut hair in untouched with gray. But it 1s her eyes that tell the story. When she tells you she only has a few minutes for you those eyes look but when she begins comes really interested v warm and kind and some- full of fu: At first, when T told her I wanted to talk to her about h . T thought she was gong to be a little exasper- ated “It seems to me that I have done nothing but talk about myself,” she said, covering her face with her hands as if she wanted to hide from every-| body. “Please bring me all the clip- pings,” she said to the secretary, still Jooking annoyed. Then, as if she had suddenly thought | things through and made up her mind, | ¢ her face cleared and she wheeled | around in her chair and said, “Well,| now just what is it that you want to| know? | “I'd just like to know two things”| I said, fast. “One is this: It is now | 10 years since women won suffrag and all these vears and long before | you've been right here in Washington. What contribution do you think they have made to politics in that time?” “Not one word about that,” Mrs. Garner said. “Not one word. That’s| an opinion, and I don't have opinions; or if I do, I keep them to myself.| I help my husband. I have always| helped him, with all this,” and the‘ wave of her hand included the suite of offices. \ “1 take care of the mechanical side is | stinguishes Mrs. Garner of Early and Walks to ker’s Secretary. our family and there was just one girl in the other family, so_of course we played with the bovs. By the time I | was 12 T was getting to be a regular | v, S0 my foster mother sent me San _Antonio to school, where I wouldn't be quite so hoydenish. “After that she made all arrange- ments for me to go to a girl's board- ! ing school in Tennessee, where I stayed until I was graduated, and then I went back to live in the big ranch house with my brother, as my mother had died in the meantime. My own mother died wrhen I was a baby, but when I was 3 or 4 my father married again, “But my foster mother could not have taken any more pains or been more affectionate with her own child. Just to show how much like my own mother she was, I must tell you what happened at school one day. The one other little girl at school who was my inseparable friend told me my mother was not my own mother, and I hauled right off and hit her. Righteous wrath simply swept me off my feet and I lit into her with both fists until the teacher had to sep- arate us. When he found out what the trouble was he didn't scold either of us. “So you see how much my step- mother meant to me,” Mrs. Garner added. In fact, it is to her that Mrs. Garner owes much of her capacity for thor- oughness and efficiency. As a little girl she was put through her paces. One week it was bed making and dusting; another, cooking and sewing. “And my mother was never too busy to see that it was done, carefully and to the last detail. Interest in Piano Legs. “I almost never see a grand plano without looking at the legs,” she laughed. “I can see to this day my mother stand- ing 1n the parlor and looking around, saying, ‘Have you finished the dusting?’ ‘Yes,” I replied. ‘Don’t you think you had better do the piano legs over again?’ she would admonish. “Of ccurse I had forgotten them. “It was the same way with the.cook- ing. When we got to that part of the ework, the old cook had instruc- not to touch the dishes, because d th do the job clear through. When I asked why I had to do all these things, my mother explained that eve woman must know how to do rything about a house so she would ! know when things were right. “Those old lessons stick in my mind, and I owe a great deal to my mother, and to my father, too, because we really lived a good life. “I sometimes think,” she mused, “that it was a better life than the youngsters have nowadays, and by that I mean more real fun. “We had to drive miles to a party, and we had only two or three a year. But we looked forward to each one for weeks, and then we looked back at them fer weeks, and I think they meant much | more to us than all the gayeties which make our young people today blase and Jjaded.” “But where.” T asked, “did all this secretarial training come in?" “It started 30 years ago. when Mr. Garner first came to Washington,” she | explained. This, by the way, is Mr. | Garner's fifteenth consecutive term in Congress. “I had to be at home a good deal with our small son anyhow, and young | Representatives who had been lawyers didn't have much money in those days. | So I set aside a room in our house on | K street for a kind of office, where I took care of my husband’s mail myself.” | “Oh dear, no.” she laughed when I asked her if she had been trained as a secretary. “It wasn't a case of a man marrying his stenographer. But you must Temember that there wasn't much doing in a small town in Texas | 40 years ago, and so when I got home from boarding school I just lived on |our 30,000-acre ranch with my older brother. Learned Typing as Lark. “Both my parents were dead then, but I had 2 girl frlend who was going to San Antonio to take a business ourse and she wanted me to go along. “It looked like a lark, so I went with her just for the fun of the thing, and took up typing and stenography.” It wasn't very long after she re- turned from San Antonio that she heard that John N. Garner, & brilliant young lawyer who played a great deal of poker, was running for judge, and Ettie Rheiner, who didn't think poker and judging ought to mix, organized a sort of “Stop Garner” campaign. “Is it true,” I asked, “that you really did work against Mr. Garner in that election?” Mrs. Garner looked sheep- ish. “Oh,” she said, disgustedly, “you think you know it all when you're young. You get some sense when you're older.” But Miss Rheiner evidently got some sense when she was young, for she have Pasquale | of it, all the routine office work. I| don't’ have opinions—at least, not_for | Same out of hev polltical fght with publication, and often. in fact, not even | g L PNONE FEREE | TT€ (RIS THE Las for him. I have never mixed with that | Jiterally true in this case, for, not hav- part of the work. b | ing been able to defeate the young Only Girl in Famiiy. | judge, she married him. “Well, then” I said, “the second| When they got to Washington, years thing I want to esk is something |later, it didn't take long for her to about the girlhood which has made | practice up the typing she had learned you what you are.” as a girl, so she could care for the “I guess every one knows about that,” | small amount of work a Representative she laughed. “You know, I was born|had in those days. on a ranch in Texas. There was just| That is how it all started” Mrs. one other family near, so my father |Garner explained, “and later it just and this neighbor built a schoolhouse | became part of our way of life, until midway between the ranches, and hired | now I wouldn't know how to quit.” a teacher. I was the only girl in' Instead of the little office room at I3 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHAN( o VITON, At left is Misc | composer and (o are Marion Chace Sylvan Theater. home, Mrs. Garner now has a hand- some suite of offices in the Capitol Building, with a secretary and three helpers, and she keeps right on as her husband’s _secretary, despite the fact that as the wife of the Speaker she could take a good many social airs and graces unto herself. Instead she has achieved a good deal of fame for her skill in cutting yards and yards of social red tape. Every one remembers, for instance, with what dispatch Mrs. Garner settled the famous Longworth-Gann_ squabble. When the mantle of Alice Longworth as wife of the Speaker fell upon Mrs. Garner every one wondered what the | new Speaker's wife would do about the ! matter of precedence. What she did was just plain nothing. Just Plain Folks. “We're plain people from Texas," she {sald to some ore. “What do we care about precedence?” |, But Garners never had to fight that through to a finich, because they i seldom go out to formal affairs. |7 “We accept two invitations a yea ! sald Mrs. Garner, “and that's all of them is the Presid d the Speake e ! sional Clut | cial, end we the time w | friends, plav a few hands of cards, or ! take a walk in the evening and often | end up at a movie. But we're up early and we can't stay up late, t0o.” | When you ask Mrs. Garner about things like social precedence she has a | way of looking at a loss for a moment as if she didn't know what on earth you were talking about | __To tell the truth. that is exactly the | way she looked when I asked her what she would do if she were in the White { House as the First Lady of the Land. { At first she looked perplexed, as if | she thought I must have got her mixed | With some one else. Then It seemed to |dawn on her that her husband had | been talked about as a presidential pos- sibility and she gave a little shrug “Oh, that.” she sald, sort of impa- | tiently. “That's the least of my wor- |ries. "I don't even think about it— | haven't time—too much to do. | “what would I do if I were in the ! White House?" she repeated as if I had |asked her what she would do if missed a street car. “Why, go right on | Jiving, of ccurse, just as we do now. ‘We wouldn't either of us be any dif- ferent. “Of course, naturally.” she added. “the demands of social custom must be met, and I certainly believe in observ- ing the usages custom has established. Work More Important. “You musn't think I despise social customs because I find this work more important,” she explained. “I would like to do more socially. and I really miss not seeing more of the women here. It is only that this work seems more important. “When I was a young woman and first came to Washington I made the tated. But I haven't the time now. And, besides. I've been here so long that the younger women are supposed to call on 2 Up at 6 in the morning. the Garrers usually walk the mile from their hotel to the Capitol, or at least to the foot of the hill, where they take a car or taxi. ‘The handsome limousine and the chauf- feur the Speaker of the House rates from the Government they declined with thanks, “To much bother.” they said. “And, besides, why waste $10.000 a year>” Mrs. Garner seldom eats breakfast, but she is up in time to sit down with Mr. Garner and sip a cup of black coff2e while he eats “And do you know.” she eonfided, as if she had made a kind of discovery, “I think he likes “Why of course he likes it” I thought to myself. “Who wouldn't like so loyal and sensible and cheerful a woman for a comrade and friend, as well as a wife?” I didn't say that, be- cause Mrs. Garner would probably have looked dismayed if I had gone senti- mental. ;obout having been brought up with yS. “I don't think it is a bad thing at all for a girl to be brought up with boys.” she explained. “I was so used y. To me boys were just as common as dirt. and I never did get excited about them.” Perhaps that is why, when young John Garner came along, she knew how to build their romance on the solid foundation of friendship and loyalty. So if the Speaker of the House should be the next President he will have a working partner in the White House who will look after things with effi- clency and dispatch. There will be very few frills and no nonsense. But things will be done with order and decorum and common sense will reign. (Copyright. 1932. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Felian Garzia's Pupils. MANY interesting recitals have been given this season at the Arts Club Auditorium by pupils of Felian Garzia. !In addition to Ann Sugar, Gabrielle lBemler. Delphine Dodge Baker, Eleanor Colborn and Katherine Morrison, a re- cital was given last night by Freda Denison _and Esther Silver; tomorrow night Frances Middleton, Josephine Newell and Sue Taranto will give a piano program; Joseph Barbecot and Ruth Tapke will give a recital Wednes- day, and on Friday this series will clese with Edyth Austermuhl and Vivian ‘Winstead giving a joint program. Lovette Recital. PUP!LS of Eva Whitford Lovette will be presented in recital on Monday { evening, June 27, in the galleries of Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1106 Connecticut avenue. Students of voice, piano and expression participating will Nellie Barber Brooks, Margaret Dickens, Mrs. Brooke Dodson, Margaret Edson, Ethel Lynn Fast, Owenita Harrah, Mathilde W. Kolb, Ione Moler, Mrs. Camilo Osias, Carolyn Schulte and Francise Bass Wilson. Cards of invitation are being sent this week. 1 round of calls and teas as custom dic- | I remembered what she had said | Levitsky \HERE will be a family reunion|for what he intended to be a short | when Mischa Levitsky, famous planist, plays with the National ! Symphony Orchestra next Fall, | for he will be able to visit his | brother, Dr. Louis L. Lorwyn of the Brookings Institution here. The two internationally known brothers, one an artist and the other an economist, have had little time to see each other in the past few yeers— Mischa, busy concertizing in the far corners of the globe and Louis busy with research, book writing and travel. Levitsky is not as well known in Washington as he should be, his tours generally making it impossible for him 1o appear here. The last time he played in public in Washington was about eight years ago. Last year he played at the White House. Besides concerts in this country. he wiil go on an extensive European tour next season. Love of travel has resulted in several unusual “junkets” for Levitsky. He has played in' New Zealand, was a hit in Australia and has been there twice, went en a recital tour of China and Japan in 1925 and. like Conductor Hans Kindler, once made a concert tour of Java Both Levitsky and his brother, Dr. Lorwyn, were born in Russia. Their father, however. was an American, having been naturalized in the United States in the '80's, returning to Russia |of eight. | the a Levitzki, noted pianist, who will be one of the soloists with the National Symphony during the coming season, and at right is Ethel Leginska, ctor, who is bringing her National Wemen's Symphony Orchestra here as one of the features of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's attractions. At center and Lester Shafer, two of Washington's most successful dancers, who are appearing in the pageant “The Great American” this week at the Brothers " | visit. Instead, he stayed nine years, | Levitsky being born in Kremenchug, on | the Dneiper, in Southern Russia. He was something of a prodigy, and gave his first concert recital at the age He is the youngest member of the family, and as Dr. Lorwyn is oldest, considerable of young Mischa's education was imparted by the economist. Later, as the young pianist's talent advanced, he studied at the Damrosch School of Art in New York under Stojowski, and with Ernst von Doh- nanyi, the well known composer-pianist, in Berlin. Dohnanyi was his teacher from the ages of 12 to 16 years, when Dohnanyi told his puptl, “Now it's up to_you.” i Levitsky's success is adequate answer to Dohnanyi's confidence. The pianist’s debut in America was made in 1916 in New York. He had previously played in Berlin, Budapest and other Euro- pean centers. While he was busy with his art, Dr. Lorwyn (who uses Leviisky as his middle name) was busy carving nis own career, teaching at Wellesley and at the Unlversities of Montana and Columbia. He has been with the Brookings Institution since 1925. and | lives at 227 Rosemary street, Chevy Chase, Md . where the reunion between the two brothers will take place next Fall. Institute Commencement. \ JASHINGTON MUSICAL INSTI- TUTE will hold its second an- nual commencement and recital at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A, Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes of the faculty and di- rector of music in the public schools. willaward the certificates and diplomas. | Preparatory certificates in piano will be given to Charlotte Anderson, Gloria Carter, Telula Eubank, Frances Clegg. and violin certificates to Sidney Dorf- man and MacPherson Hulburt. In- termediate certificates will be awarded in piano to June Robinson and Marion Griffith. Graduate diplomas in piano to Virginia Grove and Ruth Diamond. A gold medal, with the seal of the school, will be awarded for the highest | all-around scholarship by Weldon Car- ter, musical director. Miss Evelyn Scott, violinist, and Miss Gertrude Dyre, pianist, both of the faculty, will appear on the program following the exercises. Assisting ar- tists, including Miss Jeanette Bittner, soprano, and her quartet. will inter- pret _several original compositions by members of the harmony department. The members of the quartet are Jeanette Bittner, Reba Will, Roswell A. Bryant and Eugene Kressin. Spler Pupxls in Recital. R. HUGH ROBERTS of the Wash- ington College of Music and La Salle Spier will present Virginia May Sellars, soprano. and Phila Belle Burk planist, in joint recital at the Play house, 1814 N street northwest, on Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock. The pro-| Service Band Concerts. 'HE United States Army Band is scheduled to pay concerts at the following places during the coming veek: Monday, June 20—District of Colum- bia War Memorial, Potomac Park, at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, June 21—Walter General Hospital, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22—The band will furnish the music for the pageant, “The Great American,” to be presented by the District of Columbia Bicenter nial Commission, at the Syivan Theater. Thursday, June 23—Pageant, he Great American,” at the Sylvan Theater. Friday, June 24—At the Capitol, 7:30 pm. Saturday, June 25—At the Sylvan Theater, 8 p.m. Following is a schedule of concerts to be played by the United States Navy Band for week beginning Monday, June 2): June 20—At the Capitol, Reed |the Navy Yard, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 23—Veterans' Hos- | pital, Mount Alto, 6:30 p.m. The United States Navy Band will participate in the parade for Confed- erate Veterans, Saturday, June 25, at 10:30 am. The concerts scheduled to be played by the United States Marine Band during the coming week will include gram will consist of compositions by | the following: Bach, Beethoven, Dell Aqua, Meyer- | beer, Brahms, Sibella, Delibes, Debussy. Lissit Arditl and Mozart. On Thursday evening in the same auditorium at the same hour Mr. Spier will present Julia Fischer and Jessie Blaisdell in individual piano recitals. Wilson, Puccini, tions by Bach, Bach-Saint-Saens, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, | Dohnanyi. Spier, Albeniz, Villa-Lobos and De Falla. The public is cordially | invited to attend these concerts. Garden Recital. FLOR.A McGILL KEEFER'S annual Spring students’ recital was given last night in the garden of her studio |on G street. Louis Annis, tenor, recent | first prize winner in the R. C. A.-Victor recording contest, was guest artist. Quartets, trio, duets, solos and en- cemble numbers were given by the fol- lowing students: Grace Carr, Frances | Cole, Frances Cooper, Elizabeth Cush- | man, Frederick Denniston, Sue Hess. |Tona Hoffman, Dorothy Jost, Ruth Leiding. Lucille Peddicord, Harry Schon- rank, Norma Simonson, Velma Snow, Anna Davis Straub and Martha Ward. Marie Hensen was the accompanist. Cock Fights Draw Crowds. Cock fighting has had a new boom in County Armagh, and many battles have been held despite the vigilance of the police and humane soclety officers. One held at “Long Nancy,” near Crossmag- len, was attended by nearly 1,000 people, many traveling from Belfast, Antrim, Lurgan, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Derry. Seven battles were staged. The event was kept so quiet that law-enforcement men did not know about it until the next day. Race-War Fortune in Court. Seizure of the “race-war fortune” left by Heinrich Basse, Austrian millionaire, until the suit brought by relatives is settled, has been ordered by the court at Bozen. Basse lived and died as a beggar, and bequeathed all his property to the Chinese race on condition that it be used for the extinction of the Eu- ropean race. Relatives are fighting the will on the ground that it is immoral because he wanted to start a fight against the race to which he had belonged. Lauder to Have Jubilee. Sir Harry Lauder will celebrate the completion of his first half-century on the stage by giving a series of special performances at Arbroath, Scotland, where, in 1882, he made his first ap- pearance as an entertainer. He re- cently observed his 62d birthday sanni- versary, | pital, 7 pm. | caitol, 7 | Memorial, 7:30_pm The program will consist of composi- | | pital, 2 pm. g Monday, June 20—Marine Barracks, p.m. Tuesday, June 21—Mount Alto Hos- Wednesday, June 22—United States 0 p.m. 23—District War Friday, June 24—St. Elizabeth’s Hos- Thursday, June College Commencement. MXOREOh W evening the twenty- sixth annual commencement of the Washington College of Music will be held at the college, 2107 S street. A class of 16 students will receive the following recognitions: Graduate diplomas, Maria Roxas y_Moreno Lacalle, Carolyn Frankum Rast and Evelyn Kendall: teacher’s diplomas, Constance Gustat, Everett Warren Stevens, Lena Kash, Myrtle Pear- son, Mildred Cassady, and Aurelia Beck; bachelor of music degree, Frank Joseph Brennan, Charles Edward Gauss, Mildred Ella _Diltz, Helen Bottimore Jones, Helen Mille) bachelor of fine arts (in music) Kath: ryn Latimer. An honorary degree of doctor of music will be conferred upon Miss Julia Schelling, distinguished peda- gogue, writer and lecturer. Miss Schell- ing has been & member of the music faculty of National Park Seminary for the past 15 years. The presentation of the students will be made by their respective instructors and the awards will be made by Dr. Hugh Rowland Roberts, president. A reception for the graduates and their guests will follow 'the ceremony. - Musical Art Commencement TH.E Institute of Musical Art, 831 Eighteenth street northwest, will hold its graduating exercises Thursday evening at 8:30 in the auditorium of the institute. Henry Gilligan of the Board of Education will deliver the ad- dress and B. Frank Gebest, president of the institute, will confer the diplo- mas. Teacher’s degrees, representing a three-year course in varied branches, will be conferred on Martha in Davenport, violin, and Margaret Gilli- gan, voice. A graduate degree will be given to Anne B. Marley, violin. Glenn Carow, piano, will receive a junior cer- tificate. A program by the graduates will follow the exericses. The public is invited to attend. Free Operas for Villagers. Small towns and villages of Spain Hen operas, ‘according. 70 Senor Febs 3 lor = &da des Los Rios, ;unm:r for edu- cation. The plan is one of many new anes to bring culture to all le of the country, e Alice Huber | | zecond largest ciiy. PUBLIC LIBRARY Chicago. 2 In connection with the political con- | vention now meeting in Chicago, the Public Library calls attention to the following works descriptive of the city and its social conditions: Description. Chicago: A Portrait. By H. J. Smith 1931. G896C. Smb54. “An engaging book, of special interest to those who know Chicago well, but not lacking charm for those who want to know it a quiet rejoinder to critics who have | been able to see in his favorite town only vilence, scancal, corruption and bumpticusness. . . . There is an- other sice to Chicago. Gentleness, deli- perception and intelligence are, s book is evidence, quite at home ~R. L. Duffus. Lewis. Introduc- tion and Part II by Henry Justin Smith. 1929. F896C.L58. “The erse City of Chicago, with its century-old characteristics of bad morals and good business, enjoys an- other of its famed breaks of geod for- tune in the decision of Messrs. Smith and Lewis to explain just what made if what it is today, for without benefit of whitewash or biasting the City of Mani fest Destiny 1ts in this fas- cinating. and beautifully dene book ivan. ods and conducts & youn ugh all the secticns of the Mr. Drury is stecped in information concerning all these things, and tells all he knows in interesting style.” Chicago Threugh the Eves of Busine An intimate view of the re as revealed by those who know this city and really understand it. Chi- cago Better Business Bureau, Inc. 1930. G896C.C43 The Book of Chicago. By Robert Shackleten. 1920. G896C.Sh13. “The bock is far from being a cata- logue of landmarks and monuments, or even of merits and faults. It gives to the city a perscnal quality and to the | reader a sense that here is a mass of | people living, breathing and enjoying life.” Chicago Poems. 1916. YP.Sa53c Street Lincoln coming the poets’ inspirations. Bricg>. the bro and Grant, t home across th picni= boats lake, Social Conditions. Chicago: A Mcre Intimate View of Ur- ban Politics. By C. E. Merriam. 1929. JU896C.M55. “Mr. Merriam, a resident of Chicago for some 28 yeas sclence at the University of Chicago, for six years an alderman and for many years both a participant and observer in many political scenes. has written an account of the growth of the city from the fire of 1871 to 1929." Pioneering on Social Frontiers. Graham Tayler. 1930. “Prof. Taylor's book deserves to stand with several others which are gradually making clear to the outer world the real nature of that amazing City of Chicag ‘W. J. Abbot. School and Society in Chicago. By G. S. Counts. 1928. IK896C.C83. “Apart from minor errors, the author knows Chicago and its forces of good, evil and half-good-half-evil. His ac- count of the local press, the leading organizations, the churches, the labor unions as actors in the school drama is remarkably accurate.”—V. S. Yarros. Growing Up With a City. By L. de K. Bowen. 1926. HCB895.B67. A life-long resident of Chicago de- scribes the social life, charities, courts and pregr: of women in America’s By Human Welfare in Chicago. Edited by H. C. Carbaugh. 1917. H896.C17. A collecticn of articles cn art, music, libraries, parks, recreations, philanthro- pies, neighborhood work and other so- cial activities. The Gang: A Study of 1313 Gangs In Chicago. By F. M. Thrasher. IIC.TQlBE “Dr. Thrasher's book will prove of compelling interest to students of crime and city politics. Sociologists and psy- chologists will find in it a model of social research and a significant con- tribution to our knowledge of human behavior. The social worker and edu- cator will find it an illuminating back- ground against which to consider the practical problems of boy adjustment. To the Tomantically minded it will ap- g;flfir:i a %a?:inallng study of ‘the 8s it is spun in the Harvey Zorbuux);L Lt Mockbee Students’ Recital. GE%gUDE SMALLWOOD MOCK- announces the thirteenth an- nual ensemble recital of her piano pupils on Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock, at the Gunton-Temple Presby- terian Sunday school house, Sixteenth ;lelgmmg:x;%e xtm? northwest. Re- awa; esan, will be the ml.s{lng e The program will consist of selec- tions by classical composers. Several two-piano selections and one move- ment from a Rubinstein concerto also will be heard. Those participating will be Martha Richardson, Mary Louise g;‘)l%. Rfi“fix t?ucBehmn n, Marjorie Plitt, edericl 3 Hartman, Leonard, Norma 2 sy ‘Wright, est, Mary Scott, Peggy McMillen, McMillen, Gertrude Hersey, Margaret Woods, Margaret Pardoe, Marjorie Wine and Ruth Schooley. -~ | row | Mildred” Doerner. | Clara Eiiason. Elise Fisher, Cora Lee | Fleshman. | Guess, | Prances_ Kahn, Dorothy Kluge, | garet | Grail, | Thropp. De Witt Thorne, Helen Large I coming season ! loc! By Carl Sandburg. (onight at the Church of the Pilgrims “The volume is truer to its title than | 3% 7:30 o'clock. are manv others—Halsted street. Clark | hese are | . professor of political | Sylvan Theater Pageant Features American Music “The Great American" Has Local Cl’xorus. ML'IS;C to Be Played by the Army Band and prom;nent Dancers in Cfl!t. directed by Albert W. Harned, music by the United States Army Band and the United States Marine Band, and a series of symbolic interludes, to be danced by Lester Shafer and Marian Chace and their ensemble, will be the special musical features incident to the presentation of the Bicentennial out- door pageant, “The Great American.” which will be presented Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday nights of this week at the Washington Monument Grounds and National Sylvan Theater. “The Dance of Bondage,” symbolic of the prerevolutionary period, will be a tragic plastique of fear and oppres- sion, and, danced to drums and gongs, will be an impressive interlude leadinz up to the second action of the pagcant entitled “George Washington, Warrior. “The Dance of Liberty” will follow this action, and prelude the third action, en- titled = “George Washington, Nation Builder.” This dance will be done to the music of “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.” Michael Logan and 24 mem- bers of the Lester Shafer and Marian Chace Denishawn School of Washing- ! CHORUS of 300 selected voices,, semble as Devotion. I'ton will be seen in this interlude In the epilogue. @ “Dance of Truth | Courage and Devotfon” will climax the scene, with Mariad Chace as Truth, Lester Shafer as Courage and the en- Local UNIOR pupils of Mrs. Hamilton- Wolfe will be heard in recital Friday at the Sherwcod Sunday School Hall, Twenty-second strect and Rhode Island avenue north- east. Tnose taking part will be Wood- Long. Billy McLoughlin, Helen Bladt, Dorothy Bladt, Mary Louise Grady, Adelaide Efantes, Anna_Cath- erine Beck, Myrtle Watson, Billy Blcur?, Garret Swain, Charlotte Booth, Mildred Stimmel, Lois Lyle, Frances Pappa- | george, Frank Troutman, Dorothy Sny- der, Donald Robbins, Jube Guy, Vir- ginia Hughes, Dorothy Deible and Hilda Pemerantz, Lucy M. Boyer will present her pu- pils in a piano recital at the Women's Mr. Smith’s presentation is | City Club on Thursday evening at 8 Those taking part will in- Jean and Betty Daugherty, Rodelle Ruckman, o'clock. clude Caroline Feller, Janet Irma Halloran, Eleanor Isbell, Mar- Lustig. Robert _Montgomery Margaret Murphy. Mary Elizabeth M Doris Schutrumpf, Sylvia and Bernice Willett J. B. Laster, tenor, of Birmingham and New York is in the city for the Mr. Laster. in addi- tion to his various radio activities in New York, was a member of the choir | of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's River- side Church. Irma Briggs. lyric soprano, last Fri- day evening sung two Spanish songs by special request at the recital given by Arsenio Ralon for his pupils at the Sears, Rocbuck Galleries. Winifred Lakeman acted as her accompanist. Charlotte Garner Lippitt presented Agnes Fealey, toprano, assisted by Mary Apple, Jean Munn. Donald Prince, Gilbert Linville, Burnetta Der- rick, planist, and Christopher Tenley, accompanist, last Monday evening in a recital at Stoneleigh Court. Last Wednesday afternoon an in- | formal musicale was presented by pu- Chicago pils of Betty F. Place at 4503 Leland street, Chevy Chase. Md. In eddition | to piano solos and duets by Jean Def- andorf. Eileen Kohout, Geneale Laffin and Frances Defandorf, several selec- I tions were given by the rhythm band. composed of voung pupils. Some en- semble singing was also well rendered. A Summer class is now starting which will present history of music. Warren F. Johnson will play “Heroic Prelude,” by Hubert Bath: ‘“Nacht- stuck,” by Reger. and William Love- Scherzo” in his organ_recital The Lovette Choral Club held its an- e statues of | nyal meeting last Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Lucy Mayo. Officers for the coming vear were elected as follows: Mrs. Marietta Brumbaugh, president: Miss Margaret C. Smith, vice presideni: Mrs. William S. Porte treasurer. and Mrs. Ethel Lvnn_ Fast Mrs. Stella B. Nyve and Miss Louise Hartung, members of the Executive Committee. Mrs. H. E. Van Horn was reappointed secretary. The National Capital Choir. under the direction of Albert W. Harned. gave a program for the patients of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital at Towson, Md., last Sunday evening The Junior Bicentennial concert by IGS9€C.T21., pupils of Laurette Marks Hullings was given on Friday. June 3, at the Sears. Roebuck Art Galleries. Solo dances were performed by Ruth Hullings. and other events on the program_included " MUSIC STUDIOS. concert o composer head of her newest and mo ous ing the co: 831 18th St. N.W. It will be danced to the last movement of Liszt's “Les Preludes.” There will also be two early- American dance numbers In the pag- eant, one to be a minuet danced by the Capitol Society of the Children of tne American Revolution, under the di- rection of Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle: and the other to be danced at the “Presidential Ball.” by Mr. Shafer and Miss Chace, to the music of Beethoven's “Minuet in G.” All the music used in “The Great American” has been especially arranged for this presertation, and includes much authentic music of the early American period. ART FORUM CONCERT. THE third of a series of four musicales given by the 1.evly organized In- ternational Art Forr . will be presented at the Scars, R/ b Art Gallery on Tuesday e g at 8:30 o'clock Manuel Giron, distinguished Guate- malan poet and writer, will speak about the musical sentiment of Latin America and recite some of his poems. Mme, Regina Vicarino. Italo-American opera singer, will lecture on opera and sing somre selecticns. The Misses Aurclia and Rosalmira Colomo, Mexican sing- ers. and Arsenio R: Guatemalan violinist, and Er) Vacaro, cellist, will complete the progrom Notes | plano solcs and a rhythm orchestra by boys of the class. Those taking part were Emily Kendrick. Margaret Hall- Volz. Carl Williams, Peggy Ell Eugene Williams, Ba Earl Williams, June Sanford, Richard Swift, Josephine Naylor, Doris Naylor, Constance Rob- ertson, Betty Hyatt, Charles Mehrling, Ann Edge Harvey W ms, v = a Mehrling. Mary O , Au- rey Newman, Geraldin Vhit Reta Wolfes Sa¥ s end ents of yn an Washington st Sung afterncon at the Branchville M. Church South Hall awarded after the recital Lo Leginska Returns. 's musical season will wit- the return to the Capital in Ethel Leginsk3, noted woman concuctor and pianist, at the E ne: orchestral project, the National 's Svmphony Orchestra of 100 s. which will be heard locally at ition Hall on Saturd; % November 12, as one of the at of Mrs. v ning concert series at that auditorium Wilson-Greene's Saturd: The Nation>l Women's Spmphony Orchestra is an all-feminine ensemble. There are 100 members of the orches- tra, chestra are Most of the members of the or- girls still in their 'teens und it necessary. however, import two French horn players there being but six women in the worl she says. who are expert in the use of this instrument. There are 17 first violins. not includ- ertmistress, Mabel Farrar who, incidentally. is & relative of the immortal Geraldine. There are 16 sec- ond violins and 15 violas. Genevieve Lewis captains a cello section of 12 players. while the bass section includes nine instruments. The woodwind sec- tion includes 3 flutes, 2 oboes. 2 cla nets and 2 bassoons, while the brass section numbers 5 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones and the tuba. There is one harpist and four young women in charge of the percussion departmen MUSIC STUDIOS. Armando Jannuzzi Grand Opera, Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method From La Scala. Milan, Italy . 4608 3403 14th St. N.W. : BI:ZSS!Ep N. WILD Yoice_Culture. Piame and Harmens Studio. 6824 5th St N.W PHONE GEORGIA 323 'LOUIS COLANGELO Former Head Trumoeter at Palace Theater Announces a SPECIAL SUMMER COURSE Wind Instruments and Piano Accordion Institute of Musical Art MEL. 2511 INSTITUTE of MUSICAL ART i~ B. FRANK GEBEST, PRESIDENT du: Maintains a full corps of teachers entire Summer. 831 18th St. N.W. Met. 2511 C. E. CHRISTIANI. Mus. D. NSTITUTE. OF MUSICAL ART. FORMIN TMER CIASSES NOW F G ollege of Music 2107-09 S St. ! Summer Session Opens June 20th DISTINGUISHED FACULTY in all departments resident throughout the Summer. Credits gained in Summer study may apply on regular courses. Classes for adult beginners in piano offer the op- 1927. 3 portunity of study with experienced teachers at a very low fee. Potomac 1846 Dormitories Practice Rooms Washington Musical Institute 1201 Clifton St. N.W. Announces a Short Summer Term of 6 to 8 Weeks Beginning Juhe 27th TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TIME OF DEPRESSION THE HEAD TEACHERS ARE MAKING A REDUCTION IN TUITION FEES. Summer Faculty Includes: Piano Weldon Carter Roslyn Carter Violin Marguerite Carter Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes Evelyn Scott Ruby Potter Organ Harmony and Counter Point—Lewis A. Potter Lewis A. Potter Gertrude Dyer Voice