Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1933, Page 39

Five Thousand to Join in- National Music Festival “tht America Must Do Next in Music” to Be Keynote of Convention of Music Clubs Opening Today Before Large Audience in Minneapolis. By Alice Eversman. HE eighteenth biennial con- vention and American music festival of the Na- tional Federation of Music Clubs will open its sessions today in Minneapolis, Minn., and will continue throughout the week. During this time Minneapolis will be the gathering point for artists and teachers from all over the country who are interested in, and working for, the furtherance of good music in the United States. It is estimated that 2,500 leading professors and amateur musicians, 100 young artists and 3,000 repre- sentatives of the music clubs of America will meet in one of the greatest music festivals held this year. Artists, nationally and in- ternationally famous, will con- tribute the best of the world’s music and serve as an inspiration to the continuance of musical ac- tivities and an example of what can be attained by careful de- velopment. The spirit of the convention will be epitomized in the subject to be placed on the boards for con- sideration and discussion by the famous speakers of the day. This subject will be, “What America Must Do Next in Music.” No topic could more thoroughly attract Nation-wide attention and the re- sults of the discussion should be followed with avidity by all se- riously desirous of musical ress. This consideration o future of music in America will be linked with the past and pres- ent accomplishments in a series of addresses and informal discus- sions given during the week by leaders in the world of music who have the facts clearly and correctly before them. Two angles of the subject will be specially emphasized—one in the key address to be made by John Erskine at the federation banquet on Tuesday and entitled, “What Next to Make America Mu- sical,” and the second by John ‘Tasker Howard on “Do the Ameri- can People Want American Music?” No two men are better qualified to give all the informa- tion possible on their chosen themes. John Erskine, president of the Juilliard Foundation and distinguished amateur musician and author, has many attempts to make America musical to Ffls credit. John Tasker Howard is an authority on American music having published a book on Amer- ican composers and therefore completely in touch with the public’s reaction to American music. Following Mr. Erskine's lntro-i duction, the question of how to go about making this country more musical will be discussed briefly by such competent judges as Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson, Howard Hanson, Ernest Shelling, Albert- Spalding and Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelly, = Since American music is distinctly of the modern school, Mr. Howard's talk will be appropriately followed by a lec- ture recital by Paul Nordoff, com- ‘ poser and recipient of the Gug- genheim Research Fellowship on “What_Are the Moderns Doing With Music?” Continuing the ddea, Mrs. Ernest Hutcheson will thave the very absorbing subject, “How Can We Help Our Young ‘American Artists?” at the young artists finals on Wednesday night. International music relations will be discussed on Friday, the list of speakers including Irving | Schwerke, Paris correspondent and director of Bad Homburg “American Music Festival; Dr. Leigh Henry, director of opera in the Incorporated London Acad- emy of Music, and A. Walter Kramer, editor of Musical Amer- ica. Strangely enough, at the time when international relations will be under consideration in Min- neapolis, a like consideration is| taking place in Florence, Italy, | where a May festival is being held during the entire month of May. It is to be hoped that the results of the discussions may be similar. | At the formal opening concert | of the convention, the Minne- apolis Symphony Orchestra will play under the baton of Eugene Ormandy and a combined choir of 400 voices from the Twin Cities will sing. Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz and Mme. Olga Samaroff will play a concerto for three | pia; nos accompanied by the or-| chestra. A massed male chorus | of 250 voices, conducted by| Daniel Protheroe of Chicago, wmi sing a group of five songs. Other artists appearing_during the week are Lawrence Tibbett, Florence Macbeth, Albert Spald- ing and the Jacques Gordon String Quartet. Five symphony orchestras will play and seven chamber music groups will be heard Nine women’s groups, nine men’s choruses and seven mixed choral groups. in- cluding the celebrated St. Olaf’s Choir of Minneapolis will sing. There will also be a performance of “Rigoletto” by the Twin City Civic Opera Co., and of “Mme. Butterfly” by the students of the University of Minnesota. This serious attention in united form to the needs of this country musically is most encouraging. We are at as critical a period mu- sically as financially and the ideas brought to light during this convention should be heartening and guiding to all communities where music is considered of primary importance. N the council meeting of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to be held in Richmond, WVa., from Monday to Friday of this week, Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, president, has promised that it shall be a “singing conven-- tion.” The most representative of Virginia's musicians will take part and provide a program that will embrace each branch of musical interests. Mrs. H. 8. Godfrey of Minneapolis, chairman of the di- vision of music in the General Federation, has combined her efforts with those of Mrs. John Harvey of Huntington, W. Va, and Mrs. J. L. B. Buck of Rich- mond to make the musical part of their convention one of the most brilliant musical events of Richmond. Fmg_ ; in the space of two years. the choral | A patriotic song, “My Country's Flag,” written especially for this occasion by Emily Plumley, chair- | man of American citizenship, will | be sung by the audience and this, | together with the playing of the “Grace Morrison Poole Victory | March,” written by Grace Warner | Gulesian, will be the two outstand- ting features of the programs. Among the prominent Virginia musicians who will take part are | Louise Homer Stires, | Harns, Sheppard Webb Joseph Whittemore. ¥ oxox % | JLONG resident musicians of this city will be interested in hearing news again of Heinrich Hammer, for many years active in local music and, specially so, as director of the then Symphony Orchestra. A dispatch from Bur- bank, Calif., states that an appli- cation has been made by Mr. | Hammer for the post of municipal band leader. Mr. Hammer will be gratefully remembered here for ! the effort he put forth to keep the Symphony Orchestra going whi¢ch | he organized in 1908. Calling it | first the Hammer Symphony it was later rechristened the Wash- ington Symphony Orchestra and | a foundation for musical appre- | ciation in the city was laid by giving such ambitious numbers as the nine Beethoven symphonies ‘While devoting himself mostly to teach- | ing violin and counterpoint, Mr. Hammer also found time to write | an opera, a symphony, the St. George oratorio, three “Indian Rhapsodies,” for orchestra, and an ode, “Columbia Triumphant in Peace.” Born in Thuringia, Ger- many, he was well known as a conductor in Europe before com- ing to this country. He has left memories of his homeland in his composition, ‘‘Thuringian Sketches,” written for orchestra. Diva in Film. MME. MARIA JERITZA, world-famed prima donna soprano, who is an- nounced as one of ‘the attractions of Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey’s Sunday series of 1933-34 concerts at Constitu- tion Hall, is making a motion picture in Vienna, according to dispatches from the Austrian capital. Despite Jeritza renown as & singer and emotional a tress, this is the first time in her career, it is said, that the cinema medium has utilized her' talents. Little is known of the picture at the present time, news dispatches say, though it is understood "that German and English versions will be made and that the latter version will be shown in America next season. The title, too, remains a mystery, though Jeritza, her- self, is said to have the leading role. Since leaving the Metropolitan, where for nearly a decade the great Viennese diva was prima donna soprano, Jeritza has devotsd herself exclusively to con- cert in America, although she has ap- peared frequently in opera abroad. Her appearance under Mrs. ’s man- agement next season will mark Jeritza's first Washington appearance since leaving the Metropolitan ranks. Other attractions to be presented by Mrs. Dorsey in this same Sunday series of 4 o'clock concerts at Constitution Hall will be Lawrence Tibbett, Metro- politan Opera baritone, who thrilled Chicago just two weeks ago with the Ef:m’"‘ performance in that city of | memorable title role in Gruenberg’s operatic version of the Eugene O'Neill play, “Emperor Jones”; the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, one of the most popular ensembles ever to sing in the Capital; Jose Iturbi, the sensational Spanish pianist; Heifetz, the wizard of the violin, and the Vienna Saengerknaben or Boys' Choir, which | made its local debut here last season. Service Band Concert. THE schedule of the Ungjted States Marine Band and Orchestra for the coming week will include the following ' concert dates: Monday, May 22, at 3 pm, band concert; Wednesday, May! 24, at 8 p.m, symphony concert. The program for this concert will be fea-| tured by a piano solo, Liszt'’s “Hun- garian Fantasy,” to be played by the guest soloist, Helen Corbin (Heinl). Included in this program are Haydn's “Symphony in D Major” (London), the suite, “Covered Wagon Days,” by Wil- liam H. Woodin, and the overture and bachanale from “Tannhauser,” by Richard Wagner. Priday, May 26, at 10 am., Patriotic Shut Ins Hour; Fri- day, May 26, at 3 p.m., last indoor or- chestral concert of the season; Friday, May 26, at 6:30 p.m., band concert at Walter Reed Hospital; Sunday, May 28, at 2:30 p.m., memorial service, Depart- ment of District of Columbia United Spanish War Veterans, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital; Sunday, May 28, at 3:30 p.m., and, remarkably | the band will participate in the massing :{ t]h: colors at the Washington Cathe- ral. The United States Navy Band, under the leadership of Lieut. Charles Ben- ter, will play two evening concerts at the Navy Yard this week, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock and Priday at 7:30. Thi y afternoon at 3 o'clock & con- cert will be pla) at Naval Hospital. Concerts will al be broadcast from the Sail Loft Monday and Thursday mornings and Tuesday afternoon. ' Stojowski Cnming. IGISMOND STOJOWSKI, noted composer-pianist and teacher of New York, according to a_recent an- rouncement by Norman Frauenheim, lJocal pianist and teacher. is to come to Washington on next Monday, May 29, to conduct a class in interpretation. Benefit Concert. OUNDRY JUNIOR CHOIR, Esther Linkins, director, will give a benefit ' |F | concert in the dramatic hall of the Feast’ | church, Sixteenth and P streets north- west, next PFriday, May 26, beginning promptly at 8 pm. They will be as. sisted by Karl Holer, accompanist; Marguerite Pope, mezzo-soprano; Mar- garet Yanagita and Karlian Meyer, young pianists, and Philip Capell Wright, young cellist. The program is as follows: .hld Mrs. Crosb: e | Nooturne in E Flat [ Waltz 1o B Fiat Kariisn *beyer. “Triumph, Tfln‘}l“\'fl‘nl.fl" 1 chmaninoff—Clos -Lel, H “1 Steal Ags 2 et 5 Juniér Hymn. y Adams Chopin -Chopin y to Thee. . . nks The Ghotr, TP Pourth Concerto in G, 2d ‘Move, A ¥ Mother (Words e, My 3 “O Saviour, Hear Me' Marguerite Jesus Meek and Gentle’. .. For He Shall Give His Anels Charge” . i The Choir. riccioso’” Flora Linkins inman.) Macpherson Gluck—Buck . .Holler by’ Fiorence 5 -+ ..Protheroe .. Mendelssohn ... .Poldini Haydn . Shaw . Bra | concert next Wedn S UNDAY STAR “’ASHINGTfiX, D. C. MAY 2 1933—PART FOUR. Local Artists in the Week’s News George | Upper, left to right: William Rodo: is an event of the week; Ann Sugar, young pi n, who is appearing in a dance recital at Plerce Hall Tuesday evening; Evelyn Davis, whose senior pupils’ dance recital ianist, who is being presented in recital by Felian Garzia tomorrow night at the Arts Club, and John H. Marvil lle, director of the Hamline Choir, which will give & concert Wednesday evening at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church. Lower, left to right: Vittoria de Andreis, a member of the Zalipsky ‘Theater for the third time this year; Wil opera group; Harlan Randall, direector of the American University Men's Club, which won the senior choral competition at the Fox lliam Braithwaite, prominent choir director, who will conduct the choir concert to be given May 31, and Charlotte Klein, who is sponsoring the presentation of the cantata “The Swan and the Skylark” at St. Margaret's Church Tuesday night. Ann Sugar to Play ELIAN GARZIA, National Sym- phony concert pianist, will present Ann Sugar, 13-year-old pianist, in piano recital at the Arts Club, 2017 I street, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. Miss Sugar played with the National Symphony Orchestra last year. ‘The orchestral part on the second piano and cello obbligato will be played by Mr. Garzia and his brother, Francis Garzia, violinist and cellist. Miss Sugar's program for the recital - Bach hoven -Chopin Debussy anyi ries Minor" La fille aux Chevoux de Lin’ ‘Rhapsodie in ¥ Sharp Mino Concerto in A Minor”... . Zalipsky Opera Scenes. MMEA MARIE ZALWPSKY will pre- sent members of her studio in scenes from four operas at Pierce Hall, Pifteenth and Harvard streets northwest, Wednesday, at 8:30 p.m. The singers will be assisted by ballet from the Bekefi Institute, Theodore Bekefl, di- rector. Instrumental music will nted by Milton Schwartz, violinist; chard Tuttle Bell, organist; Mme. Zalipsky at the piano, conducting each scene. ‘The opening operatic selection will be Gluck's “Orpheus,” in which the two leads will be sung and acted by Sola Holmen in the title role and Marjorie Isaacs as Euridice. Melba Osmond will be the God of Love. The roles of "ngu of the Departed” will be sung by Claire Rudyk, Victoria de Andreis, Maria Peverini, Mary Paull, Liza Wolter, Anna Stica, Helen Vasa, Domenic Baiardo, Melville Slaughter, Donald Helm, John Kiernan, Viadimir Vasa, Franz Groemping. ‘The ballet group of older girls who are “Furies and Spirits” include: Mau- rine Mulitner, Ann Vucinovich, Lila Zalipsky, Ludmilla Plavsky, Frances Rands, Kitty Reece, Novma Ruppert, Ronnie Cunningham. The children in the ballet who are to represent “Cherubs,” are: Lucille Peck, Shirley Effenbach, Gloria Masgoret, Mary Renkel, Phyllis Schwartz, Bernice Sus- ser, Natalie Spangler. Following the Gluck work will come a brief scene from Puccini’s “Tosca,” when Domenic Baiardo will sing the | aria “E lucevan le stelle” from the last act. Next will be a duet scene from Verdi's “Ii Trovatore,” in which Victoria de Andreis will sing the role of the un- happy Eleanore, and Guiseppe Brunu will be Count de Luna. The final opera selection will be the first act of “Die Csardas Fuerstin” (the dlncin{, princess), by E. Kalman, with music Viennese in character. The leading role will be sung by Marjorie Isaacs. The masculine lead opposite her will be sung by the tenor, Eugene Swygert. Others in the cast include: John Kiernan, Nathan Bachrach, Mel- ville Slaughter, Donald Helm, Franz Groemping, Paul Kiernan, Maurice Delaporte and Milton Schwartz. Hamline Choir Concert. 'HE cantata “Hiawatha's Wedding Feast,” that colorful setting by Coleridge-Taylor of Longfellow’s poem, “The Song of Hiawatha, will share honors _with “The Deluge,” Saint- Saens Biblical cantata, at the Spring concert of the Hamline Cholr, to be glven next Wednesday evening in the auditorium of Hamline Methodist Epis- copal Church, Sixteenth street at Alli- scn, at 8:30 o'clock. The choir of 50 voices is under the direction of John H. Marville. It will be accompanied by an orchestra composed of leading mem- bers from the National Symphony Or- chestra, with Edith B. Athey, the church organist, at the organ. Mr. Marville has arranged the accompani- ment for this particular group of in- struments. The soloists at this concert are: Ethel Stickles, soprano, who will be featured in “The Deluge”; John F. Murphy, _ tenor, singing ‘“Onaway, Awake Beloved” in the “Wedding 51 Mabel Flehr, contralto, who will sing the aria “Che faro senza Euridice,” from Gluck’s opera “Orpheus,” and Mr. Marville, bass, in the aria “Il acerato spirito,” from “Simone Boc- canegra,” the opera by Verdi in which Lawrence Tibbett starred at the Metro- politan the last two seasons. The choir will participate in this aria. Concerts at Howard. THE Symphony Orchestra of Howard University will appear in annual ay evening at 8 o'clock in Andrew Rankin Chapel. On Saturday at 4 p.m. the Junior Violin Department will give its annual recital in chapel and at 8 o'clock in the evening the pupils’ recital of the violin department of the School of Music w\?l. be held. Louia Vaughn Jones is head of the department of violin. The junior department in the School of Music, under the direction of Miss Camille Nickerson, will begin its Spring musicales tomorrow at 4:15 p.m., with demonstrations with children beginning in music. A dol;! mfldl by '.het mttlell’r::dhte section lepartment w1 held Ay up in rec june 2. Sto will be in T Local Notes held the final business meeting | of its forty-seventh season last | | Priday at the Y. W. C. A. and | | elected the following officers 'Di ! serve next year: President, Mrs. Eugene | Byrnes; vice presidents, Mrs. Morris ickersham and_Mrs. Walter Hilton; | usical director, Lucy Brickenstein; as- | sistant musical director, Florence How- ard; recording secretary, Mrs. Charles Fairfax; corresponding secretary, Doro- thy Sherman Pierson; treasurer, Kath- erine Riggs; assistant treasurer, Mrs. Henry Robbins; ' board of governors, Mrs. Walter Gawler, Mrs. Ralph Bar- nard, Ruby Potter. Flora McGill Keef- er, Mrs. William Humphrey and Beulah Brown. Sophoclese Papas, well known guitar- ‘ist and teacher of fretted instruments, announces the first concert of the Co- lumbia Symphony Mandolin Orchestra, to be held on Tuesday evening at the | Church of the Covenant under the au- | spices of the Business Women's Club. | | This is ‘a newly organized symphony | orchestra and aims to replace all parts |of the regular orchestra, except wood-| wind and tympani, with mandolin and | banjo. Special arrangements of orches- | tral compositions for symphony mando- | lin orchestra have been made by Walter Kaye Baur of Hartford, Conn. | Mrs. William T. Reed and Helen Corbin Heinl, members of the faculty of Martha Washington , will give a program at the school gradu tion night next Tuesday. The Martha | washington Seminary Glee Club, under the direction of Mrs. Reed, will sing on | | Monday, class night, and also on the graduation program. | | At the annual breakfast of the In-| ternational Federation of Catholic| | Alumnae today at the Mayflower Ho- | tel, Mrs. Fred Rice, chairman of music, | | will present Grace Mary Colliflower, | | winner of the recent oratorical contest; Marion _McCarthy, soprano, of the | Sacred Heart Alumnae; Ednae Jones, contralto, of St. Celia’s Alumnae; Rosanne Roach, reader, of Holy 'rrln»i |ity Alumnee; Leontine Gallenhorn, mezzo-soprano, Notre Dame Alumnae; Pauline Grant, pianist, St. Patricks| Alumnae, and Angela Brosnan, accom- panist, of the Sacred Heart of Mary Alumnae. Elena de Sayne will hold a Summer session for violin students in Asheville, N. C, situated in the heart of the Blue | | Ridge Mountains. Arrangements for | Summer quarters and board will be| made for out-of-town students. Date of the course will be announced later. At T o'clock Tuesday morning, fol- lowing the dedication service at the National Memorial Baptist Church, | Marguerite Allen Ross, assisted by her | pupil, Jane Utgard, will give an organ | | recital for the benefit cf the visitors attending convention in this city. | Edith Hoffman Jones, soprano, and | Howard Moore, baritone, with Jewel | Downs at the piano, presented the duet |from Act 2 of Verdi's “La Traviata,” and “Love Me Tcnight” from “The Vagabond King,” at the luncheon of the Soroptimists Club held at the Wil- lard Hotel on Wednesday, May 17. The Unity Soclety of Washington is presenting Myra MacCathean Myers, soprano; Esther Spier, pianist, and | Howard Moore, baritcne, in concert on Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock, at the Unily Center, 1326 I strcet north- west. ‘The outstanding feature of the reci- tal of traditional Irish music to be | given in the near future by St. Pat- |rick’s Church Choir is the romantic | | ballad, *“Phaudrig Crohoore,” by J.| | Sheridan Le Fann (1814-1873), a noted | | journalist. The story was set to music | by Sir Charles Villers Stanford. Ex- tracts from the work were given many years ago by St. Patrick’s Choir on a program with John McCormack. Eva Virginia Johnson will present | her pupll, George Linwood Hardmon, | | baritone, in a recital Thursday evening at John Wesley Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran strects northwest. Ruth Wil- son Hornszy, a pupil, of the class in piano, wiif assist Mr. Hardmon, The Esmu (Etta Schmid Music) Club | | held an informal meeting on May 6 at the Cleveland Park studio of | | Schmid Wells. Those taking part were | Betty Evans, Eleanor and Flora Blu- menthal, Billy Faust, Jesse and Jo, g. ‘Wells, Sylvia and Jo'::gh Wells, Mart Browner, Mary Sterling, Mary Jean Coleman, Francis and Osborn and Jean Harteg. Members of the Spurron Club gave | their last tea of the season Sunday | afternocn at the studio of their direc- | | tor, Marie Howe Spurr. Those who | took part in the program were Mar- garet James, Mary Ann George, Betty Meyer, Frances Fisher, Ellen Elizabeth Cannon, Mary Louise Hoyt and Harriet iwnler. A two-piano recital will be given by members of the club in June. ‘The District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Gertrude Lyons, presi- dent, is presenting two Wi | baritone, | Braithwaite, director. gram over WRC next Monday evening at 7 pm. Alice Neal, contralto, sang a group | of songs at the May meeting of the | Masonic Fellowship Club, held at the Hotel Hamilton Monday last. Florence Hynson, pianist, assisted at the piano. The Felicia Rybler Music Club met last Tuesday at Miss Rybier's studio at Dupont Circle and enjoved a Grieg program. _Eleanor Hulbert, pianist, and sonata and Anne Y. McGuffey sang several Grieg songs and other numbers. Peabody Conservatory, and member of the Washington Pianists’ Club, will be the soloist at the Ten O'Clock Club, 1603 K street, at 4:30 today. Warren F. Johnson will play the! “Sonata in D Minor” by Cyril Jenkins | at his recital before the evening service today at the Church of the Pilgrims. Evelyn Scott, violinist, will offer a program consisting mainly of modern compositions in a concert to be given next Sunday at the Tome School, Port Deposit, Md. Miss Scott will be accom- panied at the piano by Marjorie Davis. ‘The Chaminade Glee Club, under the direction of Esther Linkins, gave a program at the Florence Crittenton Home last Friday evening. In addition to the chorus, Gladys Cecil, Marguerite Pope and Agnes Sale, members of the club. Ruth Hobbs, a pupil of Arsenio Ralon, gave several violin selections® Eva Whitford Lovette, who has been in charge of the musical program for | the joint meetings of the Northern and Southern Baptist convention during the past week, will be soloist at the last of these sessions on Tuesday afternoon. Winifred Lakeman will assist at the plano in the rendition of “Sheep and Lamps” (Homer) and “On the Throne of Love” (T. S. Lovette). ‘Washington Alumnae Club of the| national honorary sorority, Mu Phi Epsilon, gave concert for the La- fayette Chapter in the Masonic Temple | on Tuesday last. Vocal soloists were Vera Neely Ross, contralto, and Hazel Gibson Wood, soprano. Fannie Ross Henbest and Edith B. Athey gave piano | solos. Helen Bellman played several numbers on the theremin, and later ex- plained and demonstrated that unusual instrument. Violin obbligatos were played by Ruth Bronson Logan an Helen Lefevre Lyon. Mary Burnett con- ducted the chorus and the accompanist | was Dorothy Russell Todd. Erbin G. Thomas, and member of the British Broadcasting Co., was presented in a | recital of songs at the Kenwood Coun- try Club last Thursday by Attorney Gilligan. Elizabeth Gardner-Coombs was accompanist for Mr. Thomas and played some pilano solos. The annual business meeting of the Schubert Choral Club was held last Monday evening in the choir room of the National City Christian Church. The following officers were elected» Miss Jack Charlton Ward, president; Mrs. Helen McGothigan, vice president; Miss Mary Belle Nicol, treasurer; Miss Isabel Addison, secretary; Mrs. Eleanor Nyman, librarian, and Willlam E. Mrs. Mai Koehler was named chairman of the Member- ship Committee and Mrs. Beatrice H. Taylor will head the Publicity Com- mittee, A garden party for the raising of funds for the National Symphony Or- chestra will be given Wednesday after- noon at 3:30 at the home of Mrs. E. I. Kaufman, 4805 Colorado avenue north- west. A musical program will be fur- nished by Gretchen Hood, soprano; Milton Schwartz, violinist, and Sol Sax, pianist. Miss Hood recently ap- peared at the Chamber of Commerce convention and banquet at the Wash- ington Auditorium at which President Roosevelt made the opening address. Bessie N. Wild will present her pupils in recital this afternoon at 4 p.m. at and on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Takoma Park Baptist Church. e Artists at Embassy. MME» LOUISE COUTINHO, Portu- guese phnflsz.h ‘nc;l” Lavinia 1:}nv& lyric soprano, of the ra_Comique Xg:lfls, will be the guest artists at the inauguration of the Washington Chap- ter of the Instituto de las Espanas at the Spanish embassy this afternoon. Special Program. MARC!L ANCHER, cellist of the Na- Couch, pianist, will play a special pro- gram at the National Woman’s Country Club on Thursday afternoon. ‘The solos were given by| ‘Welsh-American | tional Symphony, and Mary Izant | | Dance Recital Tuesday. | HE Lilllan Moore-William Rodon dance recital Tuesday night at 8:50 HE Friday Morning Music Club |lahan, in an interesting two-piano pro- | o'clock,” in Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, will present in the Capital City, for the first time, three dancers of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Miss Moore being at present solo danseuse of the ballet, Rodon being a former solo_dancer of the ballet, and Elizabeth Belcher, assisting artist, who is also a daficer of the | Metropolitan Opera. | Arsenio Ralon, violinist, played a Grieg | | Edward Dawson, graduate teacher of | re- | of being chosen for the | Norma | Star Spangled Banner” Featured on the program will be “Rehearsal,” the new ballet composed by Adolf Torovsky, based upon the story of a ballet master and a ballerina, and dedicated to Miss Moore. Included among Miss Moore’s num- bers are “Terpsichore, 1785, an eight- eenth century idea of the Greek god- dess of the dance; “Ondine”; “Amazon, 1880,” the story of a drudge of the corps de ballet, and “Black Eyes.” With Mr. Rodon. Lillian Mooge will be seen in “Tyrollienne,” ballet dance from the opera “William Tell.” Rodon will include among his solos two unusual character studies in dance form—"Parson Brown,” being the story | of an old Negro preacher who is car- rying on the work of “de Lord,” and “The Gentleman from Harlem,” being the story of his son. He also will dance an interesting “bit” entitled “Evening.” Miss Belcher will offer three dances, “Claire de Lune,” “The Dream of a Naughty Boy” and the Cymbal Dance from “Lakme.” Tickets for this recital are at the T. Artifar Smith Bureau, on G street. . I)HVXS Dance GYO“P. MANY unusual dance numbers based upon _original compositions by Alden Finckel and Martha McClelland Stevens of Washington and Thomas Simmons of New York City will be of- fered by the Evelyn Davis senior dance group on Wednesday night, when at 8:30 o'clock this group presents its Spring concert in Roosevelt High School auditorium. “Threnody,” meaning a sad song, & three-part sculptural dance composed for the Evelyn Davis group by Alven Finckel; also a “Country Dance” and “Three Exaggerations” by him will be offered by the group under Miss Davis’ direction and with Alice Finckel as ac- companist. “Children and Bears,” com- posed by Mr. Simmons, will be an inter- esting dance drama. “The Dance of Masks,” composed by Miss Stevens, with the composer at the piano, will likewise be of unusual interest here; Debussy's “Waltz Lente,” a medieval number; “Midday,” taken from .“The Harvest Festival” of last year's Bicentennial celebration at the Sylvan Theater, and three solo dances by Miss Davis herself are included among the outstanding d | numbers of the program. “Revival” a ritualistic dance based upon a series of spirituals and taken from the service of an old Negro church in Virginia, will be accompanied by the Roosevelt High School Glee Clubs, under the direction of Emma Louise Thomp- | son. Tickets for this dance-concert are ob- tainable by the public at the Community Center ' Department, Roosevelt High School! the A. A. A., also the Willard and Washington Hotels. = Political Club Musical. M‘ifl. EDGAR B. MERITT, chairman of Music for the Political Study Club, announces that the breakfast to be given at the Mayflower on May 27 will be preceded by a musicale in the Chinese room. The program will begin promptly at 12 o'clock, and no one will be seated during the rendition of a number. The following artists will be on the program: The National Quartet, composed of Simonson, soprano: Velma Snow, contralto; James de Valse Mann, tenor, and W. Irving Cleveland, bari- tone. The quartet will be accom- panied Dorothy Radde Emory. Mr. Mann will also give some solos. Lavinia Darve, lyric soprano, will give several numbers, accompanied by Winifred Howell Artaud, pianist; Mme. Amelia Conti, harpist, and Jerold Rodisky, vio- linist. Mme. Cont! and Mr. Rodisky will also play some duets. Mrs. W. W. Deal, soprano, accompanied by Elsie Harvey Weaver, will conclude the pro- gram. Flora McGill Keefer will sing “The at the break- fast, following the invocation by Vir- her studio, 6824 Fifth sireet nortiwest, |5 % Vhite Speel Piano Recital. T of recitals by the pupils of Nor- man Frauenheim will be given at the 10 O’Clock Club, 1603 street, on Thursday evening of this week at 8:30 o'clock. Frances Sanders, former pu- pil of Stojowski and for the past two years a student of Prauenheim, is the recitalist. News of L;cal Dancer. MADELEINE LAZARD, daughter of 1dly :‘m:h:on nechune. m«ffie" A& nhame 8he has classic dancer. for solo work recently or concert to Mme. Paw- lowna in Paris. She i o Prance, Switseriand and Spain, A rap- | O as a Cantata to PRESENTATION of unusual musical interest will be given by the cholr of St. Margaret's Church in the parish hall, Connecticut avenue and Ban- croft place northwest, on Tuesday eve- ning at 8 o'clock, Charlotte Klein, organist and choir director, conducting. A. Goring Thomas' cantata, “The Swan and the Skylark,” a collaboration of the romantic English poets John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly and Felicia | Hemans, should be an event in local musical history appealing to all devctees of the classics. The allegorical theme is constructed | around the lament of the Greek poet, “born too late” to translate into song the glory that was Greece of antiquity; | followed by the plaintive farewell of | the broken-hearted dying swan to the laughing Summer, its native streams and forest glades, simultaneously with the glad welcoming song of the skylark. This work of exceptional musical and literary merit, has throughout - pelling spiritual as well as artistic significance—the symbolism of the mys- terious transition from death to life, | from despair to triumph, from sad | parting to gled greeting. “Summer! 1/ depart”—sorrowfully sings the swan— “Oh, light and laughing Summer. fare thee well; No song the less through thy | rich woods will swell, For one, one broken heart” And in mournful | prophecy he sings on— L Be Given. “And fare ye well, young flowers! Yezlulnotmm! Ye will shed odour still, And wave in glory, colouring every rill Known to my youth’s fresh goun." Then, as if in mockery that. there should be one broken heart below, the exulting skylark, “high in the calm blue of heaven,” quivering with song in glad welcome of the new-born Summer, ac- its advent—"“Summer is here; she hath said. Rejoice. “Mine are the wings of the soaring morn, Mi:oe are the fresh gales with day-spring n; Only young rapture can mount so high— Sing. sing through the echoing sky.” Then follows the impressive apos- trophe of the “listening poet” to won- derful, mysterious Nature's blending of the dirge-note and the song of festival— the dying swan's and the glad sky- lark’s—despair and triumph. Careful preparation for the presenta- tion of this artistic work has been under the direction of Charlotte Klein, or- ganist and choir director of St. Mar- garet’s, and it is to be given under the auspices of the Ladies of the Rector's Aid of the church. ‘The solo parts will be sustained by Carolyn Boardman McDonnell, soprano; Vera Ross, contralto: George E. Ander- son, tenor, and J. Edgar Kidwell and Erbin G. Thomas, basses. Miss Klsin will be the accompanist. Reliable as a BlYOmEfGP. EDWAR-D G. ROBINSON'S smoking habits on the set, while he is work- ing in a picture, are as reliable as a| barometer is about the weather. As soon as a scene is finished the | Pirst National star invariably walks' over to where he left what he was smoking when the scene began. Some- times it is & pipe. At other times it| is a cigar. Robinson seldom, if ever, smokes a cigarette. But whatever it is, on any given! day—a pipe or a cigar—depends very definitely on the nature of that day's work. If the scenes are of an intense dra- matic nature, you can give odds that Robinson will smoke nothing but cigars that day. If, on the other hand, the actiom and dialogue is of a bright, breezy,| cheerful or frivolous nature, you will| invariably find him contentedly smok- ing a pipe. During “Two Seconds,” for instance, in which the clouds of tragedy -ath- ered around the star’s head as a drama in which he was involved moved in- exorably toward the electric chair, Robinson’s pipe appeared on the set for only two days. Those were the days when he was radiantly happy over his courtship of the girl who proved to be his ruin. In “Silver Dollar,” on_the contrary, Eddie puffed happily on his pipe prac- tically throughout the picture, as he portrayed the buoyant self-confidence and unshakable optimism of “Silver Dollar” Tabor. Except for the neces- sity for smoking an occasional cigar in front of the camera, Robinson ad- hered to his pipe day after day, until the concluding sequences of the pic- ture, when Tabor, in tragic bewilder- ment, sees his millions disappear in the wreck of the stock market and he drifts to his death, a disillusioned pauper. During these few days the pipe disappeared and s cigar took its| place as the stormy petrel of the star's | offstage moments. His latest starring picture, “The Little Giant,” which carried with it a broad, lusty spirit of satirical melo- drama, is what m}gfl. be called a “pipe” picture in the light of the foregoing, rather than a “cigar” picture, for Ed- ward G. Robinson. Should Dance. “Em‘l girl—particularly if she is willowy, with long lines, ought to learn to dance if she is m&:turtfl." So asserts Edmund Goulding, famous director of “Grand Hotel” and other hits, now preparing to wield the direc- torial megaphone on the new “Holly- wood Revue,” which Harry Rapf is to produce at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. “I don’t mean she ought to get in a dancing line—in fact, she might never dance on the screen,” elucidates Gouwd- ing, “but practicing dancing gives poise, the ability to move hands and feet{ gracefully, and move with a thythm and smoothness that makes a woman doubly attractive.” | It’s not necessary to take elaborate | lessons, either, says the director. “I advise girls to practice dandng at home—preferably before a mirror, in many cases,” he says. “It’s juit a form of calisthenics in that case, but it adds willowy grace to the body and that means a great deal, especially in younger girls, who are in a formative stage.” Goulding has had wide experience in musical comedy, having in his stage days been associated with Morris G!.st{ and others. He is a song writer, com- poser, playwright and director. In’ his new assignment he and | Alexander Leftwich, famous stage pro- ducer, are to collaborate. Celebrities | of the screen and others famous in Hollywood life are to appear. Goulding has completed a special musical num- ber written and composed by himself for Jean Harlow, and he and Leftwich are at work on other specialties for the elaborate presentation. Helen Turley to Sing. HE‘LEN TURLEY, contralto, will be | guest soloist at the concert to be| given under the pices of Circle 2, | of the Woman’s League of the First| Methodist Episcopal Church of Chevy | Chase, Wednesday evening. The Schubert Singers, under the di- rection of Mrs. Chester Adair and Helen Calhoun, reader, will also give several numbers. Miss Byrd of Circle No. 2, are chairmen of the Committee of Arrangements: Mrs. Fen- ner Powell, in charge oi the refresh- ments, and Mrs. William imutt, in | charge of ushers. The public is invited. Chadwick Concert. IHS annual Spring concert of the| Chadwick Orchestra will be given at 8 pm. on Tuesday, at Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K street mnorthwest. Guest soloists are Martha Byrd! Kemon, soprano, and William Moran, tenor, puj of Edith Virden Smith. ‘The public is cordially invited. ‘The proceeds of the voluntary offer- ing, over and above expenses, will be sent to the National Symphony Orches- tra fund. Braithwaite to Conduct. DOLF TOROVSKY, who has charge of the music for the concert which seven choirs are combining to present | May 31 in the ball room of the Willard Hotel for the benefit of the Columbia Bible Training School, announces that | at a meeting held Tuesday William Braithwaite, director of the National City Christian Church Choir, was chmnme;;n%tmemx:lmnnde,m which near] nng;s partici te. The music selected for this num- r zl"m Heavens Are Tel from Ealld for tomorrom o o for tomorrow (Monday) at 7 p.m. at the Willard. Soloist With Band. Hm CORBIN HEINL, Washing- ton_pianist, will be the soloist at | the final concert of the season of the United States Marine Band Symphony o' e nelnl," nul&m;d‘ b‘ Z accom) Y | fi;j entire ae.zufltn of 80 n;l:lcumn Branson will c Belt and Mrs. Tona Kone, | & ) school recently. Marine Corps News Col. William Peterkin Upshur, native of Virginia, holder of the sional Medal of Honor, has been nated to assume command of the Ma- rine Barracks of the local Navy Yard, approximately July 1, as relief of Col. John Colt Beaumont, who Shanghai, China, to assume command of the 4th Regiment of Marines. Maj. Joseph J. Fegan, attached to the corps schools at Quantico, assumes charge of the office of public relations at_corps headquarters. Capt. William F. Beattie, formerly | attached to headquarters, will leave for duty at Peiping, China, Maj. Louis Whaley and 2trst 5. G. Williams were tem; on duty at corps headquarters week. Enlisted men, re-enlisting after July 1, will not be paid the heretofore al- lowances of re-enlistment bonus A Transfers of enlisted men for edr personal convenience, at Government expense, is prohibited. However, ap- plications for same at personal ex- will be duly -considered, as tending to contentment and higher morale. Junior Stock Company. ADOP’I'ING & new method of supply- ing the screen with new faces and new talents carefully coached and ad- vanced, Carl Laemmle, jr., general man- ager of Universal Pictures Productions, has created a j stock cmflny al Universal City, with Prof. Harold Mer- rill Turney in charge. In form, the Universal junior stock company will be a Summer school of screen dramatics and Prof. Turney, dean of the drama d it at the Los Angeles Junior College and one of America’s foremost theatrical coaches, will have a “little theater” at the studio to conduct his classes in , acting, voice placing and d ent, costuming, screen writing and general motion picture histrionic preparation. Until the completion of the coliege and high school semester, 3 Turney will have auditions each Satur- day at Universal City. Beginning early in June, daily classes will be conducted with each student enrolled only after he or she has been personally inter- viewed by a committee of studio execu- tives, directors, cameramen and David Werner, casting director, who will su- pervise the company. Upon rolled students will be given an Universal contract wil the class room and before the is of sufficient merit, seven-year con- tracts with the senior Universal stock company will be offered, at the comple- tion of the three-months’ course. Hollywood has never sponsored such preparation for a screen career before. Neither has any studio made such plans to supply itself with future stars. Crystal Pool to Open. EXT Saturday will be another letter day” at Glen Echo Park,. it will mark the opening of the Pool, with its enlarged sand other improvements. As visited the Crystal Pool last year know the water is even more pure than de- manded by Government standards, being purified by ultra-violet rays, and at night the place is one of charm, due to unusual lightning effects, both the water and overhead. This year, th kiddie pool will be operated for the benefit of youngsters. enced life guards from the leges and universities will be day and night to see that 100 safety prevails. Olmsted in Recital. STANLEY OLMSTED, pianist, will give .b";ch‘ehlfilum Piano as Ro- mance,” at ashington Club next Tuesday evening at 8:45 o'clock. Mr. Olmsted's program follows: (d) Etude P minor © Fréfae & masor " iton (1) Etude.” G’ Tiat major . “Sonafa.” Opus ‘Allegro moderato, Cantabile. Minueito. to allegro. 4.!Bells Across Leaty Wi Reflections on the Water ‘Satanic Poem” ... (a) “Intermezzo, A c iy (b) ““Capriccio. C Mador’ © "SR Bereic™ Eouts o-mungfi Outgrowths of Symphony. (ONE of the significant outgrowths of the concerts of the National Sym- . Debussy | phony Orchestra this Winter will be seen in a program next Thursday evening when a group of students of the King-Smith Studio-School, under the direction of Caroline McKinley, will give an interpretation of the musical form of the Mozart “Symphony in G Minor” through the medium of the dance. This work grew out of the study of the symphonies played by Mr. Kind- ler and the or , beginni :;peflmen:,h‘ :nd proved to esting they were prompted share it, and will give it before a amall audience composed of the of the Women's Committee of the or- chestra and other musicians of Wash- Another number will be the singing of the Beethoven “Symphony No. 1,” ar- ranged for voices by Mr. -Smith, which, too, grew out of the Winter’s study and which the students sang for Mr. Kindler when he visited the MUSIC STUDIOS. BESSIE N. Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar and Ukulele BINCE 1898 A School of Achie vement, Where Stand- 2re™3% hrieh Emter at Any “Time: Lessons Private, Day and E Students Offered tional Training With the Rordiea Clul 1801 Columbia rd. n.w. COlumbis VON UNS UNIVERSITY of MUSIC, Inc. 1644 Col. 3388 Taylor conduct apd: concert will be given at the Students’ Recitals Sat., 3:15 p.m., ot