Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1933, Page 39

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON'! D. C, 1933—PART FOUR. ' -« | Oldest and Youngest Paderewski in Benefit Virtuoso in Recitals Concert Next Wednesday ‘Y:rlé's ICrEatest platnll-;'t ]:ndt tLh.e 'Boyi‘:cemus! o Mrs. Roosevelt Patron of Event Being Given to Aid SHE O 5 s el o it e Red Cross Unemployment Fund—Menuhin Here of the Art of Music Which Has No Age Limit. By Alice Eversman. HIS coming week there will appear at Constitution Hall in recital the oldest and the youngest virtuoso before the public today. Ignace Paderewski, the greatest pianist of his day, and Yehudi Menuhin, the young genius of the violin, will prove that where { and the supreme gift of understanding it is con- cerned, there is no question of age or nationality. The,opporlunities for greeting the” magnificent Paderewski are growing fewer and this man who has been called “A Musical Odessey” is resting more and more on the shining laurels | he has won through his enormous ?eniu.s and astounding personal- ty. The applause of frenzied au- diences entice him less often to the routined giving of concerts. Yehudi Menuhin, standing on the threshold of life and predestined for the select company of great musicians, returns with the glamour of fresh European suc- cesses about him to prociaim that the young prodigy has developed into the young genius. In announcing that his recital ‘would be in the nature of a bene- fit, Paderewski is following a cus- tom he adopted on his first Ameri- can tour. During the six months he spent in this country in 1891 he gave 117 concerts. For each of these the public had turned out in enormous numbers and lav- ished on him all the admiration | his extraordinary playing had aroused. His last concert, which was to take place at the Metro- politan Opera House, has been or- ganized to help raise a fund for the building of the Washington Arch and Paderewski seized the opportunity offered to make re- turns to the kindly Americans by donating his services for this per- formance. On his second tour in 1892 he gave four recitals for charity and, wishing to finish with a fitting gesture toward the land which had 8o generously received him, he of- fered to play for the two open- ing concerts of the world's fair on May 2 and 3. 1893. Not only did he turn over the large receipts of these concerts in full, but he postponed his departure for Eu- rope for a week and traveled 2.000 miles from his last concert date in order to participate. In 1900 Paderewski made a still more sub- stantial return for the monetary gains he had made in this coun- try by establishing a trust fund of $10,000 for aiding musical de- velopment in the United States and in particular to encourage American composers. According to the initial arrangement, the trustees were authorized to offer Ezizts every three years for the st compositions by native Amer- ican comvosers. Henry Hadley, Horatio Parker, Arthur Bird and Arthur Shepherd were the first to benefit by this generosity. Perhaps no pianist since the time of Lizst has aroused such personal interest on the part of the public as has Paderewski. His marvelous hair, once of a glorious Titian red, framing a face whose features had the majesty of an eagle, his exotic temperament and his largeness of soul all drew the public attention which, when combined with the marvel of his playing, raised him to the plane of a demi-god. He inaugurated a new era in piano playing. Such technical mastery, tone, color and dal control had not been heard fore and his inspired interpre- tations soon placed him above all other pianists. Walter Damrosch said of him that he might also have been the world's greatest composer, “but then he could not have reigned for so long as the world's greatest pianist.” It has been said that t is Poland’s revenge.” Paderewski has again chosen an all-Chopin program for his concert this week and thus Poland’s dead genius will be interpreted by her living rep- resentative. Paderewski's devotion to Chopin has always been ex-| ago at the | treme. Some years Chopin Centenary Lemberg, Paderewski made the opening address. “H at this very moment, there rises amid us, above us, the radiant spirit of one who was. Through heartache, through creative pain. he marked to his country’s glory the burning trace of his existence. He was a smuggler, who, in harmless rolls of music, carried contraband Polish patriotism to his brothers across Festival in the border; he was a priest who, | far and wide about the world, | brought the sacrament of their martyred home. He is ours and we are his; the whole of our col- lective soul is in him made mani- fest. Blessed be the past, the great, the sacred past which brought him forth.” * §J T is rare that a child of genius becomes a man of talent” had been written regarding Mozart and without doubt this same thought has been in the minds of many as they waited for the next step in the development of Yehudi Menuhin. He is now 16 years old long trousered., and otherwise clothed in a young man’s dignity. He celebrated his 16th birthday by giving a recital at Carnegie Hall on January 22 and the long- awaited moment for according him a definite place had arrived. In Europe, a few months before, an English critic wrote of him: “It is inaccurate to speak of him as a prodigy any longer. There is only one term for Menuhin—he is a miracle.” An eager crowd filled every nook and cranny of the big hall ready to welcome the little boy who had delighted them with his marvel- ous powers a short time ago. He stépped onto the stage, a serious young man, and in a few minutes | there were roars of delight, for the proof of the maturing and deepening of his genius was at once apparent. Onec reviewer wrote: “The occasion wa% the §oung violinist's 16th birthday. ut it might have been his twen- ty-sixth or his sixtieth for the ma- turity of his playing has nothing to do with time. Its only youthful attributes are zest and freshness, | but these are balanced by dis- cipline and reinforced by pro- fundity. The rhythmic elan, the pure and lyric tones are controlled | with Jennie Glennzn at the by a very sure intuition as to form and governed by remarkable taste.” A few days later he played with the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestr ‘And then this 16-year- old moster violinist raised his fiddle, tucked it under his chin, gave an appraising glance toward the conductor and his bow touched the strings of his violin. Then came music the like of which en- thralled the academy-filled music lovers. It was the answer to what the con_ertgoer wants. One of his kind comes every century. Menuhin is our contribution to this period.” In November at the Royal Albert Hall in London Menuhin per- formed an astonishing feat that would have taxed the physical and musical strength of many an older violinist. On one program he played the Bach “E Major Con- certo,” a newly discovered Mozart “Concerto i j and the difficult Ei ‘Concerto” and sup- plemented them with the Bach! “Prelude and Fugue in G Minor” as encore. For his “B Minor Con- certo” the famous composer, Sir Edward Elgar, himself conducted the London Philharmonic Orches- tra and it was a sight to remain long in memory—that of the 75- | year-old composer and his 15- | year-old interpreter side by side |on the platform. The newspapers could not find | words of sufficient force to eulo- | gize this concert. “There was | something touching in the spec- |tacle of the veteran Elgar con- ducting his lovely concerto with this boy of genius by his side as soloist. They carried their audi- ence away from the world of real- ity on the wings of music; the y with his life before him—the man with so much of his life be- hind him.” “Even more astound- ing in a lad not yet 16 years old is his grasp of the music. How comes it that such an one can give such interpretations of works so dissimilar?” “Menuhin’s in- terpretation could not be %ur- passed nor could it be equaled. The sense of freedom and case his playing conveys is not to be found in performers who have reached maturity. They pay the price of knowledge and experi- ence.” So the concerto went on, binding youth and age together in_golden chains of harmony. It will be a fitting climax to the rich musical season we have en- joyed to hear the man who has long ‘been supreme as the great- est virtuoso of the piano and the young boy whom sage critics of the day _have proclaimed the greatest virtuoso of the violin. Felicia Rybier Program. FELICIA RYBIER, Polish pianist whose studio in Washington has Leen established for several seasons on Dupont Circle, is planning to present. an unusually colorful and interesting program at the Washington Club on Wednesday night, April 5. Miss Rybier Wwill have Robert Wiedefeld. voung Bal- timore baritone. as assisting artist. Both will do groups of selections in costume. The dominant number for Miss Ry- bier's part of the program will be Schu- mann’s “Carnival.” Last Summer when Miss Rybier was abroad, she returned to her former teacher, Leonid Kreutzer the distinguished pedagogue at the Koenige Hochschule in Berlin, for some special work on certain compositions. ‘Carnival” was among them. Miss Ry- bi3r also is planning a group of the Lodern Spenish works. Mr. Wiede- feld has just returned north from a fpecial engagement in Palm Beach, Fla. where he sanz a leading role in ‘Night in Old Madrid,” presented by the Remany Chorus. Pupil Recital Yesterday. A PIANO recital was presented yes- terday afterno 1 Burral Hall, Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets, by the pupils of Lois Abernathy. The program included transposition, orfginal composition. a demonstration piano, and & group of rhythm based on the Jaoues-Dalcroze eursthmico. Solo and en- | woforte numbers included works by Bach. Haydn. Mozart, Chopin, | Schumann, Grieg and more modern composers, Those taking part in the program weze Bobby Abernath: e Betty Bogurdus, ne Dagger, . Donald Hay- craft, y 2 Billy Linebach, | Helen Claire Lyons, Ellis Manning, | Annie Lauric Rankin and Helen Smith The demonstration of group piano was presented by the Langdon Junior High School piano class of which Mrs. Abernathy is teacher. Members of this class are Mary Alice Barnes. Pauline Cole, Earl Chandler, Virginia De Marr, Alden and Elizabeth Imus, Margaret Melton, Nancy Rarner, Joseph Birkis and Lois Stackhouse. In the English singing game, a thythm project, done in costume, with Dors Broughor at the piano, the fol- tty Buin, Mary ¢ Leake, Upper, left to right: Felian Garzia. prominent local pianist. who will be the soloist with the National S8ymphony Orchestra in its concert Thursday, and Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous boy violinist, who will make his only appearance in Washington this season in a rect ning. I Guilford Choir Concert. 'HE Guilford College Choir of Guil- ford College, North Carolina. under the direction of Max Noah, will be pre- sented in a program of sacred music at the National City Christian Church Fri- day evening at 8 o'clock. This will be the choir's fifth scason in concert tour. The program for the evening fol- lows: 1 “Judge Me. O “Lo. in the T: The Three Kings .. “All Breathing Life. Sing and Pr the Lord"..... = oo Bartholdy Healy Willan Healy Willan 2 8. X Mendelasoh ppoInt . Adoramus Te Ave Verum Corpus William Ave Maria T.L oa vi Gloria in Excelsis .. Thomas Wer r “As the Waves of the Sea’ ‘The Lord Said Unto My Lord 81 P. G. F. da Palestiing Gretch sl tion Is Created: T Praise Ye the Name of ‘the Lord v, How Fair the Church Christ Shall Stan, F. Melius Christiansen ““The Song of Mary y Albert Kranz In Dulci Jublio ... Gaceks by F.'Melius Christ Arr. st “Psaim’ CXLVIIT'. Gustay A nsen Italian Program at Y.W.CA. N Italian program for the music hour at the Y. W. C. A. 614 E| street at 4 o'clock today has been ar- ranged through the courtesy of the International Arts Forum. This pro- gram will be under the direction of Mme. Amelia Conti. Dr. Giovanni Macerata of the United States Naval Acagemy will also give an illustrated lecture on “The Glories of Ancient Venice,” and Arsenio Ralon, violinist of the National Symphony Orchestra, will furnish the Italian music. Anin; Hospital Pl;odum. MAROARET HATCHER, contralto, of Richmond, Va., will make & spe- cial trip to Washington to assist in a rogram for the patients of St. Elsa- th's Hospital to be given by the Chaminade Glee Club, Esther Linkins, directer, and Mrs. Howard Blandy, ac- companist, in Hitchcock Hall Wednes- day evening. Representative Clifton A. Woodrum. alco of Virginia. will be the other assisting ritist. This marks the fourth time Representative Woodrum Pas sung with the Chaminace Glee Daniel Recital Tomorrow. [EDNA BISHOP DANIEL will present Catherine Schofield Honse, soprano; Raymond Chisholm, ~ tenor; Chester Helms, tenor; Francis Deremer, bass, piano, in & recital in the Daniel Studio of Singing, |1340 New York avenue northwest, to- morrow, at 8:45 pm. Walter T. Holt, some of the vocal numbers. The radio section of the Nordica Man- dolina and Guitar Orchestra comprises Walter T. Holt, conductor; S. Franklin Harvey. A. D. Hilton, Patsy Cunning- ham, Anne May Stambaugh, Alice E. Hill, Ruth O. Peterson, Bob Bories, Wal- ter Holt, jr, Raymond A. Hart, D'Arcy East. J. Z. Stambaugh. and Gladys Baker, Esther Linger Clark, mandolin soloist. ‘The public is invited to attend, Russian Music Featured. RUBSIAN choral music by such cele- brated composers as Rachmaninoff, Balakireff, Gretchaninoff, and Schve- - dof, will feature the approaching Lenten concert to be given Capalla Choir of First Congregationsl Church on Monday cvening, April 3, at 8:45 o'clock in the Hotel Mayflower. This annual concert devoted exclu- sively to sacred music will be also not- able for the singing of certain modern English compositions by Goeffrey Shaw, Gustav Holst, Charles Wood and other: and modern American music by ouf standing composers of the present day. | 'The A Capella Choir is composed of | sixty voles Ruby Smith Stahl, who organized this choir several years ago, | conducts the annual concert. by the A Club. Song Recital Tomorrow. UGENIA EARP ARNOLD, contralto of Baltimore, with Charlotte Klein nccnmpcnyin% will be presented in a song recital by Mrs. Robert E. hauser, Nellie Harn and Marian Synder at the e of Mrs. Funkhauser, 5315 Colorado avenue, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. This recital is a special benefit for the Church of the Trans- figuration. Mrs. Arnold is soloist at the First Church of Christ Scientist and the Madison Avenue Synagogue in Balti- more and was formerly a member of the Baltimore Opera Company. ERZ A I Harned Organ Recital. (ON Wednesday. beginning at § o'clock, Dr. Albert W. Harned will present the fourth of his series of Lenten organ recitals at the Universalist National Memorial Church. Jessie Masters, con- tralto, will assist. The program will be: Reer Gynt Buite. No. 1 .. Handel o. -Beethoven L, LisTt Rubinste'n ~Schumann e Re “Melody 1n Abendlied” Honest Tramp Rewarded. Honesty does pay, according to s tramp who has just made his periodical visit to Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales. On a previous visit he found $2.50 in money and turned it over to the police. When he returned the police told him there was no claimant, and gave him the :‘Z.lfl plus $5 in sppreciation of his onesty. Lower, left to right: Mary M. Burnett, in ch more. who is singing at a recital tomorrow, and Ruby Ye Bach | Holst .. .Griex endejssohn | rg'enof the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club concert, a local event this week: Eugenia Arnold, con! ith Stahl, noted choir director, whose A Capella Choir will give a concert here the first week in April. 1 at Conmstitution Hall Saturday eve- o, of Balti- Local Notes 5 HE Arts Club Choral Group. under the direction of Otto T. Simon. is preparing a program of works by Beethoven, Franck, Elgar and Bantock for its Spring concert. T The club meets each Wednesday eve- | ning at the Arts Club and is in need of tenor voices. be made to Dr. Simon a ‘Applications should the club. A recital of students of the violin, glant‘. cello and voice will be presented y the Associated Studios next Thurs- day evening in the studio of Dr. Otto T. Simon. Those taking part will be the pupils of Henri Sokolov, Grete von Bayer, Richard Lorleberg and Dr. Simon and will include Carlin Borden, Dorothy Borden, Mary Black, Frances Crawford, Scott Dawson, Lilli Frame, Pelix , Haynes, Lavinia Holland, Tracy Mulli- ! gan, Ella Strawn and Mrs. Swett. | | The Capitol City Choristers, under | the direction of Dorothy Radde Emery, gave a concert recently at the Washing- ton Sanitarium. Lena Kash, accom- | | panist for the choristers, was also piano | soloist. | A Lenten musical tea will be given at the home of Mrs. Rae Shafer. 6605 Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, next Sun- day afternoon at 4 o'clock. The artists | appearing on the program are Mrs.| Joseph D. White, planist: Ruth Bron- son Logan, violinist: Harriet B. Inger- sol, reader: Joe Thomas, tenor; Harlan | Randall, baritone; Mrs. Leon Bibber, soprano; Mrs. H. L. Schrader, contralto, | and Mrs. S. J. McCathran, accom- | panist, | Flora Clayton presented a group of | her younger pupils in an informal re- cital at her studio last Friday evening. | Those taking part were Betty Baylor, | George _Behneman, Paul Miller, jr.. Robert Behneman, Loy Shipp and Beth Bon Durant. Ina Sager of the ad- vanced class played the first movement of the “Concerto in A Minor” by Vival- di-Nachez. Mme. Louise Coutinho and Helen Neumeyer Perry, contralto, were the artists for a musicale of the German Literary Society held at the home of Anita. Bchade. Young violin pupils of | Joseph Kaspar, accompanied by Mrs. Carl Chindblom, were also on the pro- gram. Miss Perry was accompanied by Mrs. Frank Howard. Congregational Church, under the di- rection of Ruby Smith Stahl, will sing “We Praise Thee,” by Schevof, at the ‘The soloist for this be Dale Hamilton, who will sing Bartlett's “O Lord Be Merciful.” In the evening the choir will give “Were You There?” by Dett,” and the male chorus will sing La Forge’s “The First The Foundry Junior Choir, Esther Linkins, director, will give a special rogram of music at the opening of | the church services this evening at 8 | o'clock, Marguerite Pope will the | soloist with the choir. The Lovette Choral Club will be ?rmnt next Wednesday evening at oclock in the series of broadcasts sponsored by the District of Columbia tion of Music Clubs, of ‘which Gertrude Lyons is president. Following the eral character of these weekly broadcasts over WRC, the aelections will be of American origin. The club | is under the direction of Eva Whitford | Lovette and is accompanied by Wini- | fred Lakeman. | — Lewis Corning Atwater, organist, will | | play the last in a series of three Bach programs given at the All Souls’ Church this afternoon at 5 o'clock. ‘Warren F. | “Introduction.” g ‘Fugue” by Healey Willan, in his re-| cital before the eve%ce today | at the Church of the 3 ‘The Fri Morning Music Club will present the following artists on its reg- | ular program on Friday at 11 o'clock | am. at Barker Hall: Gretchen Hood, | soprano; Robert Frederick Freund. bari- | ‘Tamara Dmietriff, pianist. Park Clements and Julia Robert- The A Capella Choir of the First| [ scn will play the Vivaldi “Concerto for ‘Two Violins” on the same program. ‘The Takema Park Presbyterian Church Choir, under the direction of Mrs Albert W. Volkmer, will sing “Hear Thou My Prayer,” by Hamblen, and “A Legend” (a cappella). by Tschaikowski. at the morning service today. At the evening service Mrs. D. C. Jackson, or- ganist, will play three compositions by R. Dean Shure, and Mrs. J. Frank Rice and W. C. Gilbert will sing a duet from the cantata “Atonement,” by R. Dean Shure. ‘The hour of music pi this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A Seventeenth and K streets, will be presented by Fanny Ross Hen- best, pianist. Her subject will be “The Architecture of Music” and will include remarks on the significance of outline and form in music, illustrated by com- positions by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and the moderns. The public is cor- dially invited. Charlotte Pomeroy, well known radio singer and member of the Gurli-Luise Correa Opera Class, was the guest artist of the Georgia State Society last week at the Shorcham Hotel. ‘Washington Alumnae Club of the national honorary musical sorority, Mu Phi Epsilen. clected the following of- ficers for 1933-34, to take office next Fall: Thelma Tawney, president: Jane Darby, vice president: Olive Pratt, sec- retary; Dorothy Russell, historian, and Dorothy Sornberger, treasurer. Edith B. Athey will remain as president until the Fall meeting. The National Capital Choir, under the direction of Dr. Albert W. Harned. will sing the anthems, “Praise Ye God, by Tschaikowski, and “O Savior of the World,” by Moore, at the morning serv. ices of the Universalist National Mem- orial Church today, Irene Koehl, so- prand, and Howard Ludwig. tenor, will be soloists. Dr. Harned will play three organ selections by Mendelssohn, “An. dante,” “Consolation” and “Pugu The Institute of Musical Act, 831 Eighteenth street northwest, entertained | last Wednesday evening with a recital by the advanced pupils of Miss Re- becca Dial, head of the cepartment, assisted by Marjorie Wilson, violinist, who was accompanied on the piano by C. E. Christiani. The following students took part: Nell Duree Norris, Abble Henkeis, Emmy Jane Harbin, | Ellen T. Purcell, Alice W. Robertson, Lucie Palmer Meade, Charles Grunwell, Viols D. Reld, Mary Black. Rehearsals of the Washington Ora- torio Soclety are held esch Mon- day evening at 8 o'clock at the Insti- tute of Musical Art, 831 street northwest. “The Creation,” by in preparation for rendi- tion May 2. Singers interested in having & part in such an organization are invited to communicate with the director, Prof. George P. Kortzenborn, at above address or come to rehearsals. Admittance to membership will be limit- ed to Monday, March 20. Myrle Patschke, soprano, will be guest soloist at the Spiritual Science Ch‘uurdz of Christ this evening. Zornma L Ll Club Concert Today. TODAY at 4:30 o'clock the Ten O'clock Club, 1603 K street north- | west, will present Willa Semple, pianist, and Margery League, soprano, in joint recital. The program will be as follows: “Bols Epais’ “Care Selve Miss “Sonata in A Major” Miss Se; | now a ‘ Pons Here Ne);t Week. I ILY PONS, sensational prima donne of the Metropolitan Opera Co. and critically regarded as the world's fore- most coloratura soprano. will be heard in concert at Constitution Hall one week from next Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, as the fifth and final at- traction of Mrs. Wilson-Greene's 1932- 33 artists’ series of afternoon concerts This will be Pons’ only concert appear- ance here this season and comes right on the heels of her phenomenal suc- cess with the Metropolitan opera in Baltimore during the past week. No less than five outstanding oper- atic arias are included in the program that Miss Pons will give at Constitution Hall. The first of these will be an aria from Mozart's “Marriage of o while others listed are the aria. “Una voce poco fa.” from Rossini rber of Seville” Pami aria from Mo- zart’s “The Magic Flute,” the “Shadow Song” from Meyerbeer's “Dinorah” (with flute obligato) and the mad scene from Donizetti's “Lucia,” also with flute accompaniment. Seats for the Pons concert are now on sale at the Wilson-Greene Concert Bureau, in Droop’s, 1300 G street northwest. At}\]eté \i’i:h Perst;na]ity. USTER CRABBE is in the movies because he is an athlete with a per- sonality. If he had been an athlete without & personality. or a personality without athletic cbility, things would have been different. Crabbe, world-champion swimmer, was chosen from among dozens of ath- letes considered to play the role of the “Lion Man” in “King of the Jungle.” | He met all the requircments set by the studio for the role—brawny, but grace- ul figure, a v to match, a striking competition through which Crabbe won himself the role was set under way as the result of the dilemma in which the Paramount Studios, e ducers of the film, found themselves, after it was decided to uce “King of the Jungle.” It was discovered that there was no male player in Hollywood to fit the role of the studio's taste. 8o the Lion Man Contest was undertaken. Numerous prominent athletic stars were considered in the competition. Georges Carpentier, sleek French box- ing star, was given camera tests. Ma Baer, “Adonis of the prize ring,” considered tentatively. So was Nick Lutz, former Notre me foot ball star, rofessional wrestler. Ernie Cad- dell. Stanford foot ball ; Joe Savoldi, ex-Notre Dame star; Bob Hall and Orv Mohler, well known on the teenth | scou Crabbe, who was ultimately sslected {or the role, is well known to sports fol- lowers. As & swimmer, he in two rE ol in 1928 and the last one, held in Los Angeles. He holds five world's cham- pll“mshlps and” 35 national champion- ships. T OHN BARRYMORE and Katharine Hepburn, the screen's newest stellar light, will be seen together in a forth- coming R-K-O Radio production. Long Skirts to Help Trade. The idea that the world depression could be cured by mal Chinamen's shirts an inch longer has brought out in a new phase by a politician of Nanking, China. He proposes to intro- duce laws which will compel women's “limbs” to be “properly covered.” This vel | Will mean long skirts and sleeves in all Leah Effenbach will accompany Miss League. 8 gowns, thus requiring more cloth made by local textile mills. The politician advocates men’s suits mod they would be ‘Women's clubs sre to protest the long-skirt ides. leled “more or ® | less” on mm .fi"‘ except that up to the neck. n'pcer.d rise in matic medium in Saturday—Garzia With National Symphony. GNACE JAN PADEREWSKI, world- famous Polish pianist and former l President and premier of his na- tive Poland, will play an all-Chopin program at Constitution Hall next Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, under the patronage of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the benefit of a Red Cross unemployment relief fund.| This will be Paderewski’s only appear- | ance this season in the Capital and the concert is being given under the local management of the Wilson-Greene Concert Bureau. Just as Paderewski last season gave the proceeds of his Washington concert | to Mrs. Hoover's Red Cross relief fund. so will he contribute the proceeds of this performance to the same worthy cause, with Mrs. Roosevelt sponsoring | this concert. . Paderewski’s pre-eminence as an in- te of the works of his famous fellow-countryman, Chopin. has long been critically accorded everywhere and his decision to make his concert here next Wednesday an all-Chopin one is expected to make it an event of the most outstanding interest in Washing- ton musical circles. He will open his program with the Fantasia from Opus 49 and then will come two noctures from Opus 27. four preludes (Nos. 17, 16, 21 and 24). the sonata in B flat minor, Opus 35. with its five movements: _Grave, Doppio movimento, Scherzo, Funeral Marche, Presto finale; the F minor Ballade. Opus 52 three ctudes (Nos. 6. 8 and 12), Opus 25; C sharp minor Scherzo, Opus 39; Polonaise, E flat minor, Opus 26; two Masurkas: B flat minor, Opus 2¢ and D major, Opus 33 and closing with the Grande Valse Brilliant, 18. OFgeats for the Paderewsk! concert ma afternoon of the Yehudi Menuhin, that youthful gen- ius of the violin, who first astonished | the music world with a Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 10, makes his only concert appearance in the Capital this season at Constitution Hall next Satur- day evening at 8:30 o'clock. His con- cert will be the fifth and final attrac- tion of the Wilson-Greene Saturday evening series. Today, Yehudi is 16 years old. The little trousers, bobbed off above the knees. which he wore on the occasion of his momentous New York concert debut in 1927 and in which he ap- peared so spectacularly as soloist with the Lamoureaux Orchestra in Paris and with the New York Philharmonic Symphony, have been discarded for more formal attire, but the fair hair, the blue eyes, the calm gaze amidst he most tumultuous applause, all are till there. Today Yehudi Menuhin is probably the greatest juvenile musical | celebrity in the world. Yehudi, who will be assisted at the plano by Artur Balsam, will open his program with Kreisler's arrangement of i's G _minor sonata—"The Devil's Trill"—while his second offer- ing will be another sonata. Bach's G minor, for movements. “Adagi | gro). Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnoie.” | Opus 21, is next listed—with its five | movements: Allegro non troppo, scher- zando (allegro molto), intermezzo | (allegro non troppo), andante and | rondon (allegro). At this point there | will be a brief intermission and fol- lowing the pause will come a quintet of shorter compositions, such as the “Praeludium and Allegro” (Pugnani- Kreisler), the Joachim arrangement of Brahms' “Hungarian Dance No. 17 in F Sharp Minor,” Bazzini's “Dance of the Goblins,” Rimsky-Korsakoff's “Flight of the Bumblebee" and “Souve- nir de Moscou,” by Wieniawski. Seats may be obtained at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's Concert Bureau, in Droop's, 1300 G street northwest, or at Consti- tution Hall next Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. Felian Garzia, prominent local - ist, will be sololst with the N 1 Symphony Orchestra next Thursdsy. He will play “Symphonic Variations, by Cesar Franck. The complete pro- gram will be as follows: | Mr. Garzia is & graduate of the Paris | Conservatoire, where Cesar Franck | taught for so many years. He was born | in Nice, Prance, although he is now au | American citizen. He has made many | concert tours, both in Europe and in this country. Somers Glee of the Young Women's Christ- ian Association, composed of 30 singers, most of whom live at the Elizabeth Somers Resi- dence. will present the Seventh Annual Spring Concert of the Glee Club ursday evening, at 8:45 o'clock, in | Barker Hall of the Y. W. C. A. Build- ing, Seventeenth and K streets north- west. Mary M. Burnett, music secre- tary of the Young Women's Christian Association, will direct the glee club {again this year, and Mary Worthley will be the accompanist, assisted by 1 Edith L. Dawson. Bamuel Maurice Stern, violoncellist of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, is to be the guest ar- ist, and Emil Smith, the piano ac- companist. Mr. Stern has studied at the Baltimore Conservatory of Music under Bartwirtz and Leo Schulz. He was formerly staff cellist with Station WBAL, Baltimore, and was for several years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. His program will include: | Berceuse from “Jocel: .B. Godard | “Guitar” . Moskowski “Tarantell .David Popper “The Swan”. lle Saint-Saens ‘Gavotte”. . ....David Popper Allegro Appassionato, Camille Saint-Saens HE Elizabeth Somers Glee Club | ClutLConcert ‘The first group of songs to be sung by the Glee Club will consist of a two- part choral, “The Other Side the Hill” with music by Dorothy Radde Emery. well known Washington composer, and Stephen C. Foster's familiar ballad, “I Dream of Jeanie.” It will also present the following lovely group of Negro ecially arranged for wom- T. Burleigh: “Deep | Low, Sweet Chariot.” | As the glee club is singing all-Ameri- | can numbers this y it has chosen to | present a cantata, “I Hear America | Singing,” with text by Walt Whitman | and music by Harvey Gaul. This can- |tata was written for the fiftieth anni- | versary Chautauqua Institution, | Chautauqua, N. Y., and has piano forte accompaniment for four hands. The | obbligato parts will be sung by & trio | of sopranos—Alta M. Smith, Alma Day and Jessie Gove Hayes. Tickets for the concert may be ob- |tained at Y. W. C. A. headquarters, Seventeenth and K streets, or at the | desk of the Elizabeth Somers Residence, 1104 M street northwest. The glee club plans to use the proceeds of the con- cert this year to establish an emergency fund to be used by those in the Y. W. C. A. who have to do with employment at the present time. ANY pla; ts have written dramas on their cuffs. have been known to jot them down on notebooks. Some per. But Noel Coward is probably the first author to write & play in a cablegram. And “Cavaleade” is prob- ably the first dramatic work so writ- ten. 1t happened this way, as Coward tells the story: “I'd had s play like ‘Cavalcade’ in mind for quite some time. I had always wanted to do something epochal. And one fine day. while I was in New York acting in ‘Bitter Sweet’ I cabled Charles B. Cochran, my London pro- ducer, asking him what he thought of the idea. ‘'ochran cabled me to tell him the story. I sat down and sent what is probably the longest cablegram I ever hope to write. “There are 21 scenes in the play, and I outlined them completely, everything but the dialogue.” With this as a start, Coward, as soon as he arrived in London, went to work on it. Coward talked rapidly and with his customary animation as he told the story of “Cavalcade.” “It has given me more thrills than :m‘hl."luwud—h t, l‘lflfl{. , 8 finally when it went before the foot- ts of London's historic Drury Lane 2ater.” He i3 rather proud of a little device he invented during rehearsals of the play. The script called for 500 people on the stage during several scenes. In the motion picture version these 500 were multiplied 50 times over, 25,000 extras having been engaged to appear in_ the spectacle. Coward had never before manipulated so many perform- ers. He devised the scheme of divid- ing them into groups, allotting a large distinctively colored plaque for each l‘rwg. to be worn by the individual rs. Bach plaque bore a number. Coward wanted one or ooe of I | gnly for a short time. mous diamond politan Opera, and tiaras gleamed and s all sides. Nobility, lord an formal attire, sat in the aisles because other seats were available.” Por Coward this was in striking con- trast to a little scene enacted in an sutomat on Broadway 11 years earlier. There were two actors in this drama, Coward Colman was heading for Los Angeles to make a try at a film career. He urged Coward to come along. Coward had been writing plays_that no ducer would accept. But he right on. “No,” Coward says he told Colman. “I'm going to stay on and keep writing. I don't care how many times they turn me down. Soomer or later one of them will take & ro- Neither knew what was in store for . | S2upl o Xaer Seharwenka, etc. Plano lessons his epportunity. Others | mark them down on scraps of | ythlnf 1 mmeeuu vlu. of | rehearsing, and " | everything—tryiny ladies, in | ept A Cablegram Play. ever intend to act er write directly for the screen. “The stage and screen are both highlv technical. I'm always studyving rd technique and always learning something new. love motion pictures. I think it's an amazing art and a fine one. But I wouldn't know where to start writing for the screen. I just sit and wonder | how they manage to put them together as they do.” Though he is very proud of “Caval- cade” he hasn't the conventional qualms most wuthors profess to experience after selling a book or play to the picture people. “When you sell your brain child. you disown it,” says Coward. “No other has a right to complain about how the film company treats his story or characters. In the case of ‘Cavalcade | I'd be saiisfied in any event. Fox ha: | done a fine job with it.” Colleen Moore Is Back. ]DRAMATIC as are the sagas of T | tired actresses working their wi | back to screen prominence, a little more | picturesque even is the force which brings Colleen Moore back to the | screen. “The star, who breaks her three years of retirement to play the leading fem- inine role in Fox Films “The Power and the Glory,” & Jesse Lasky produc- tion, was in no need of money. She has plenty of money. It wasn't the desire to renew her experience with fame, for |fame, she says, “is only a temporary thing.” Her return to the screen is a desire to work out her profersional salvation after three years of utter boredom—a boredom that drove her to tears, thumb- twiddling and even desperation. “Getting back to work means more to me than any cne will ever know,” she |said. “For three years I've been mis- | erable trying to occupy my mind by traveling. But the little satisfaction I out of that was marred every time passed & theater. “For six months I sttended an art school in Los Angeles, hoping to forget. It was an experience I enjoyed, but Then I went to New York and sought escape in the study of music. You see, I was trying g desperately to de- the motion picture virus that had 9 fotten into my blood and wouldn't wash ouf “But music, fond as I am of it, bored me terribly. Everything would have been all right, I suppose, it the drama pages hadn't persisted in screaming m glories at me, and if my friends dined me as the Colleen Moore who had retired, rather than the film star that was."” ‘There will be no more flapper parts for her, the star said. Hencefc will confine her screen emotional roles—characterizations that will make her feel that she is an actress “rather than a doll” MUSIC STUDIOS. BESSIE N. WILD Mrs. Hamilton-Wolfe fl{ Ber] Qer e if desired). Ori ‘courses, FEaie310 17th St. NE. + Phone Decatur 2400.W, _ % ’ ’