Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 48

After Good Music Year Outlook Is Very Bright Past 12 Months Show Splendid Accomplishment, With National Symphony Gaining in Leader- ship—Other Noteworthy Activities. BY ALICE EVERSMAN. E habit of taking an inventory of what the old year brought and glancing into the new year to estimate what one may expect can be applied to the musical situation with the same interesting results as to our lives in general. More than ever before the Washington musical public has a great deal to look back at and much to anticipate in the future. It has been a good year, musically speaking, and one to be proud of. From all indications it is but the forerunner of many more of the same kind. It is the desire of every one to see this city a leader in the musical world, but for many years efforts in that direction missed the point on account of their spasmodic char- acter. in our musical life is certain to b: Nothing better illustrates what can be accomplished by intensive and ef- ficient direction than the growth of the National Symphony. In the be- ginning, it was faith in the ultimate outcome that held the small band of organizers together, but that was only the motive power that led to a well organized campaign to make the peo- ple music conscious. The result has, been a general realization of the im- portance of a symphony in the local life as a true and constant means to & greater musical appreciation. The or- ganization has extended its appeal | beyond the ordinary music enthusiast to many who, of their own accord, would not have been actively interested, but who now are loyal and eager to | aid in every way. From the ranks of the children, through the outward edges of the circle of music lovers to those declaring their lack of music knowledge, the influence of the Na-| tional Symphony has gone, winning adherents in most unexpected places. It required faith also to visualize a well-trained ensemble from the group of musicians first assembled, with so few experienced in playing the type of music required. In four years, | through the concentrated effort of Dr. | Kindler, the orchestra has learned a | technique and musical understanding which today places it on a noticeable | basis with older and better equipped | organizations. This alone is something | to be proud of and grateful for when ‘ itemizing the good accomplished dur- ing the past year. The increased at- ‘ tendance at the symphony concerts | and the warm appreciation of every | program is tangible proof that the Na- | tional Symphony is a popular and | necessary force in clvic culture. From the progress made in the last year, the National Symphony will not | only be able to increase its effective- | ness this coming year, but undertake | wider activities that will attract Na- | tion-wide attention. The good results | will be felt in our music schools and | in the private studios through larger enrollments by those whose talent has | been stimulated by hearing the best | fn music. More knowledge on the part | of students and music lovers will react | | | sic for a Washington audience. | tion of talent. The organization and concentration now becoming evident ring the desired results. only occasional, whereas this year it is practically general. It is encourag- ing to realize that so many are anx- ious to hear the great artists and be- lieve that a sacrifice made so that a ticket can be purchased is amply re- paid by the pleasure and profit they receive. The manner of listening to a program and the understanding of what is good or trivial has undergone a change so that artists do not permit themselves to chose any type of mu- ‘There is an art in knowing how to be & dis- criminating listener without appear- | ing cold and unresponsive, and the character of an audience’s receptibil- |ity is the galvanizing power in the artistic world. The type of programs the visiting artists have presented this yvear can be considered a compliment to the increased musical sensitiveness | of our public. The past year has also seen more organiaztion in local affairs, all tend- mg to help and solidify the musical life. The pianists have taken the lead in the finer co-operation of teachers and a systematizing of aims and prin- ciples. The Washington branch of the National Teachers’ Association has drawn all forms of music teaching to- gether in a mutually helpful organiza- tion. The District of Columbia Chap- ter of the American Guild of Organ- ists is stimulating a wider comprehen- sion of the organ and organ music by its meetings and recitals, while the Federation of Music Clubs is joining in with every movement that will en- courage a national or local recogni- Not only have these endeavors brought worth-while results during the year just ended, but they have paved the way for organized and intelligent achievement this next sea- son. ‘The choral groups and chamber music groups have brought into prom- inence the music that might have been overlooked without their help. The character of their public performances cthows a keener feeling of the respon- cibility that rests upon them and an earnest desire to fit themselves for giving out the rich beauty of their respective branch of musical literature so as to lose none of its poetry and again on the performances and the | programs that the orchestra can give. Once these two factors constructively | gically, If it is to continue let all act one upon the other, there need be | work ~ together with kindliness and no fear of the musical standing of this | sympathy, with humility and sin- city. ‘The large audiences that have taxed | but the highest ideals so that not only the capacity of Constitution Hall at | the outward reward of being con- nearly every concert in Mrs. Dorsey's | sidered a musical center may be ours, series are proof again of the growth of | but the greater recompense of finer sublimity. It has truly been a good vear mu- cerity, with no tolerance for anything | musical appreciation. Last year andi the year before such attendance was | In Local M HE third public rehearsal of the Community Center Civic Symphony _ Orchestra, con- ducted by Bailey F. Alart, will take place Tuesday night, January 15, at 8 o'clock in Central High School auditorium, when the program will be composed largely of original compositions of Washington musicians, to be played here for the first time. The orchestra still needs additional good violinists, a tuba player, two trombonists and several cellists to complete the sections. The program for January 15 will include among other compositions selections from an operetta by Bailey F. Alart, entitled, “Frantzi”; a “March” and a “Tone Poem,” by Lawrence E. Bailey, associate conductor of the or- chestra, and a “Theme, with Varia- tions,” by Edward Dawson, Washing- ton pianist. Other original wm'_ks will have an important place on this pro- gram. The public is invited to be present at the third public rehearsal. The Sunday Music Hour programs for the new year at the Y. W. C. A,, Seventeenth and K streets, will be opened today at 5 o'clock by Evelyn Bcott, violinist, with Marjorie Davis at the plano. Men and women are cordially invited. Frances Gutelius Smith will present Charlton and Garlian Meyer in an evening of music Friday at 8 p.m. at her studios, 1411 Twentieth street. Charlton, 9 years old, was soloist on a children’s program at Central High School, by the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Hans Kindler, when he was 6. Karlian, 15, will give a group of her own numbers at this recital, Mathilde Kolb Bartlett, contralto, gave a lecture on the “History and Stories of Christmas Carols” last Sun- day afternoon at the Y. W. C. A, illustrating her lecture by singing the old carols of the thirteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mrs. Arthur C. Barrett was the ac- companist. Estelle Gates, soprano, will assist Lewis Atwater, organist, in a program of Debussy music to be given in All Souls’ Unitarian Church this after- mnoon at 5 o'clock. Warren F. Johnson, organist, will play “Suite in B Minor,” by Ernest Douglas before the evening service at the Church of the Pilgrims today. Elena de Sayn, violinist, and Dor- othy Paul, pianist, gave half an hour of music on New Year day at the League of American Pen Women at their studio, Burlington Hotel. At a special request of the president of the league, Pattie Paul, the 4-year-old violinist, pupil of Miss de Sayn, played a few short numbers after the close of the program. Mrs. David C. Book presented the Junior piano pupils at a musicale held at her home, on Russell road, Satur- day afternoon. Those taking part were Christina Talbott, Jennie Lingen- felter, Mary Louise Mobley, Betty Strader, Fanny Lee Brooke, Evelyn Dillard, Betsy Porter, Alberta Briggs, Anita Jane Devers, Elizabeth Dove, Helen Dunn, Viola Gompf, Mary Brookings, Betty Kiger, Emily White, Felicia White, Robert Gahagan, Mrs, Joseph A. Hoeft, contralto soloist, and Alberta Briggs, assisted on the pro- gram. Mrs. H W. Nash will be guest sololst | st the Nativity Episcopal Churck Fourteenth and A streets southeast, at Mo 1l oclock service UNs moroing. personal understanding may be had by each and every one. usic Circles Victor George, organist, is director of music. On December 23 a musical program was given at the Congressional Coun- try Club by Aurelia Colomode Alfaro, soprano; Rosalmira Colombo, con- tralto; Emita Colombo, mezzo-con- tralto; Sidney Gottlieb, violinist, and Mrs. David Book, accompanist. Agnes Fealy, soprano, was soloist at the reception held New Year night at the Columbia Heights _Christian Church in honor of the Rev. A. P. Wilson. Program at Epiphany. “TWELFTH NIGHT” candlelight program of music by the Wash- ington Choral Society, conducted by Louis A. Potter, will take place this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Church of the Epiphany, having been arranged because of numerous re- quests for the repetition of the Christ- mas program, with the addition of special numbers appropriate to the season of the “Feast of the Three Kings.” The public, which is invited to attend the program, is requested to cut out this program and take it to the service, which will open with chimes promptly at 4:15 o'clock. Organ prelude—"Rhapsodie on Spanish arols’ onnet Harriet Frush of Des Moines. Towa. Choruses (a capella)—"Sing_ We All Now With One Accord.” “To Us Is Born Immanuel’” “Lo,” How a Rose E'er Blooming” (men's’ voices) i Praetorius “Christmas Oratorio.” parts 1 and . - Bac! Solos—Ruby Potter. soprano: Lily G i Justin _Lawrie tman_ basso. Ac- companist. F. A G. O. Offertory. adagio. chora. choral for New Year day, Gladness” S Miss ‘Fru s sh, Carols, “The Holly and the e Ivy Old English “Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella.’ French Mildred Colvin. soloist. “The Three Kings”... Cornellus dwin Stefle. baritone soloist. Chorus, “Christmas Song”..Herzogenberg Chorus ] Frances Nash, American pianist National Symphony Orchestra at the Thursday evening concert. insert shows Ruth Slenczynski, ph (at left), will be the soloist with the ‘The enomenal child pianist, whom Mrs, Dorsey will present in recital on Tuesday, January 22, at Constitution Give Christmas Program. ON DECEMBER 23 a Christmas pro- gram was given at the Eleanor Ruppert Home for the Aged, at which 150 persons were present. tory remarks were made by Mrs. B. Krumke, president Ladies’ Aid So- clety, and an address was given by Thomas E. Jarrell, secretary and treasurer of the home. The musical program was presented by a string tiio, composed of Ludwig Manoly, Robert Thomas and Edward Wayson; Henry Nestor, baritone; Ambrose Durkin, bass; Ruth Widmer, Nora and Deloris Cussler, Theresa and Elizabeth Herich, Evelyn Shephard and Brother Fritz. Dramatic read- ings by Theresa Marguerite Jarrell and Elizabeth Harmon completed the pro- gram. The audience joined in the singing of Christmas hymns accom- panied by the string trio. piam.sts. Cluh Musica]c. | A CHRISTMAS tea and musicale was given by the Washington Pianists {Club, Mrs. Martin _A. Morrison, ‘Ioundfl' and director, December 29, at the Washington College of Music. Winifred Michaelson, director of the Wilmington, Del, Music School, and Martha McAdams, artist members and Leah Effenbach, active member of the | club, together with Edward Dawson, the club’s president, gave the musical program. Mrs. Morrison was assisted by Fanny Amstutz Roberts, Mrs. Hugo Hesselback, president of the Washing- ton branch of the National Teachers’ Asosciation; Mrs. Lloyd Henbest and Mrs. Felian Garzia. Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week WEEK OF JANUARY 6 Sunday Introduc- | Evening Orth NE of the outstanding evening concerts of the season will be | given by the National Sym- | phony Orchestra in Consti- tution Hall Thursday at 8:30 | p.m. when Dr. Hans Kindler presents | ' Frances Nash, American pianist, in| MacDowell's famous “Concerto in D | Minor.” The concert is the second of | {only two evening concerts scheduled | by the orchestra. The complete program follow: Suite .. :eseescsses. . Ramen Menuetio ~Musette " “Tambourin “Concerto in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra”™ . MacDowell “Larghetto Caimato.” +Presto Giocoso." “Largo—Moito_ Al (Inter “Bymphony No. 7. . 'Poco Sostenuto—Vivace.” vAllegretto.” “Presto.” *"Allegro Con Brio, “Piniandia” Sibelius Frances Naesh was born in Omaha. | In private life she is the wife of Col. E. M. Watson, U. 8. A. She began her study in this country, but made | her concert debut with the | Philharmonic Orchestra. She has | toured her native land extensively, as well as Europe and South America, | appearing both in recital and with the | foremost orchestras. Her deep sin- | cerity and devotion to her art, as well as her brilliant musicianship, has made her a popular favorite with | | music lovers. | MacDowell's “D Minor Conmua,"[ which was dedicated to the great +..Beethoven Berlin Monday | Tuesday l Hall. Rene Le Roy, French flutist (center), and Ninon Vallln, French operatic and concert soprano (right), are the artists giving the program on Wednesday morning at the Mayflower Hotel. “Mother Goose Suite” 5 Ravel Muysical instrument tolr a cello, estraConcert planist, Teresa Carreno, will offer Miss Nash the opportunity of displaying her facile technique and wide range of artistic sympathies, aided by the master interpretation of Dr. Kindler and his orchestra. PR ORKS of 12 great composers, representing the music of 11 na- tions, will constitute the major por- tion of the annual students’ concerts to be given by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Hans Kindler at the Central High School auditorium beginning Satur- day morning at 11 o'clock. The concerts have been arranged in the form of a musical tour to vari- cevevsess. Chabrier ‘The students’ conceris will be pre- sented at two-week intervals, with Germany the next port of call, Jan- uary 26; Austria, Hungary and Bo- hemia, February 9; Italy and Spain, | February 23; Scandinavia and Eng- land, March 9, and Russia and Amer- ica, March 23 Season tickets are available, and’| | single admission tickets will be on sale | | at the door after 10 o'clock Saturday | morning. ] Chamber Music Socie ty. THE second candlelight program of | 7 the Washington Chamber Music lSoclety will be given at the home of | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frost, 2601 Thir- tieth street. a week from Monday, Jan- J ! ous countries, with Dr. Kindler act- uasy 14, at 5 o'clock. Notes on Thurday's Symphony Orchestra Concert In Constitution Hall at 8:30 P.M, By Dr. Hans Kindler, Conductor. HE suite by Rameau is (with those of Gluck, Lulli and Gretry) in the admirable ar- rangement of Felix Mottl, the German conductor of Wag- nerian fame. Rameau, too little known today except by musicians, was one of the great men of composition of the early eighteenth century, and ertainly the greatest French com- poser of that period. The suite consists of a stately menu- etto, a charming “musette,” with the familiar drone-base characteristic of all works of this title, and a remark- ably realistic “Tombourin.” This suite will serve as a chronological in- troduction to the “epitome of the dance” which is to follow, namely, Beethoven’s “Seventh Symphony.” “Concerto in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra”..........MacDowell Frances Nash. Frances Nash, now a Washingtonian, known both here and abroad for her artistry, will play the MacDowell “Concerto,” the best work in this line America has yet produced. “Symphony No. 7 in A Major,” Beethoven One of the consolations of life—the realization that “things are not with- out a purpose”—comes from the con- templation that great spirits, notwith- standing their different mental out- look (this due to differences in social status, in the kind of talent or genius they possess, in the development of this talent or genius, in their different human relations, in a word, to differ- ences in their “fate”) nevertheless final conclusion. near-contemporary, Voltaire. No more different men can be imagined. In Beethoven the heart, not the intellect, predominated; in Voltaire, the reverse. Beethoven, the offspring of drunken poverty; Voltaire, the son of a well-to- do bourgeois. Beethoven deeply lonely, suffering the greatest agony any one, and especially a musician, can suffer— deafness, going through life virtually a perpetual pauper, misunderstood in his human relations as well as in nearly all his greatest works, even by his fellow musicians, cruelly deceived and exploited by the very one he most adored, his nephew Karl, rarely humanly happy and then only for ., inherently and deeply re- liglous, dying & lonely and horrible death at 58. Voltaire, on the contrary, going through life recogmized as the most brilliant wit and intellect of his day, for long periods consulted and adu- lated by the greatest monarch of his time, rising from success to triumph, a cynic in the complete (and not the petty) sense, adored by women until his very end when he died, a wealthy agnostic, at the very height of his fame, with all of Paris literally at his doorstep. But when we take the final census of the message which their work has left us (which is what counts in genius as well as in less great humans) we come to realize that, though their way were different, they arrived at the same final point—the one through his heart, the other through his in- tellect—a philosophic, happy and deeply human acceptance of life as it is, with all its human misunderstand- ing and suffering and misery and dise can and often do arrive at the same | Take the case of Beethoven and his | appointments, Surely when we think of the mes- sage of the “Seventh Symphony” of Beethoven, a message of the greatest | happiness human genius has ever been | able to give to mankind, coming to us, | in music from a deaf man, surely that |is the final and complete realization of the dictum of Vclaire's greatest figure, Candide, when, after a life of the most fantastically grotesque disap- Dointments, he quietly concludes: “Il | faut cultiver son jardin” (“We must continue to work our garden”). And the so deeply human as well as divine frenzy of the greater artists of | Beethoven's conviction has found, | through his musical genius. no greater, no more irresistibly compelling utter- ance than the paean of joy which is the “Seventh Symphony.” Need we wonder that humanity has accepted this gift as a miracle ever to be marveled at? “PFinlandia” . Sibelius “Finlandia,” with the “Valse Triste,” | is the piece which has given Sibelius | a world-wide popularity, but where the i former number is a charmin fle, the latter is of more importance ‘ It starts with the growling anger of | & suppressed people. all the definite | decision to revolt (in the following | martial strain), all the high hope for | liberation in the yearning cantabile melody after that, one of the most moving in the literature of music; and the climax which brirgs the work to a triumphant close makes it one of the most stirring, natic but also and more truly so, universal come | positions extant. | | Choir, Pianist and Dancer HE Vienra Boys' Choir (Die| gram she gave in New York at her Wiener Saengerknaben), who| debut there a year ago. will make their third annual concert appearance in Wash- ington at Constitution Hall two weeks from today as one of the xx OMANTIC Spain, the traditional land of the fandango, the jeta ! ing as guide and expositor | musical form by Dr. Kindler. | through the orchestra to the violin, | The first | The sponsors of these concerts will country to be visited will be France, | be hosts at tea following the program, and the initial program will include | which will include the Shubert Quin- Ravel's “Mother Goose Suite” and |tet, with two cellos, two violins and Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of Animals. | viola, and also the Dvorak Quintet One of the features of these con- | Louis Potter will be the guest of the certs will be the informal talks on |society and will be at the piano in the A side Dvorak number. trip will also be made on Saturday | . Organists Meet Tomorrow. The regular meeting of the D. C. | Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will be held tomorrow at 6:30 o'clock at Epworth M. E. Church | South conducted by Robert Ruckman, tey | subdean and organist of the church oz | The silver anniversary of the guild Saint-Raens | Will be celebrated when a musical pro- D Mino |8ram arranged by Emily Dickinson Franck | cello and harp, with an explanatory | talk by Dr. Kindler on their relation to the orchestral ensemble, Dr. Kindler's complete program follows: Minuet. “Musette” from “Suite”. Ramesu “Tambourin” from “Ballet Buite (INth_century) e ik 1O March. “Hongrolse” '’ ‘Carnival of the Animals tury) : Allegretto from “Symphony in “Gymnopedies™ Wednesday | Fridy | Saturday - Tsabel Jewell in “She Had to Choose.” H Warner in _“Sorrell and Son.” Warner Baxter and vrna Loy Academy S_“L i G 8E. Ambassador ]lt_h&‘columbl- Rd. Apollo 624 H 8t. NE. Arcade Hyattsville, Md, Arcade Rockville, Md. Ashton Clarendon, Va. i Avalon 5612 Coun. Ave. | Ave. Grand | 645 Pa. Ave. SE. in _“Broadway_Bill.” “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” an, Band reel Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier __Comedy. News. George Arliss in 50! = William Powell and Myrna Loy in “Evelyn Prentice.” Comedy. __ Loretta Young and John Boles in “White Parade.” Cartoon. in “‘Merry Widow." | i Tsabel Jewell in “She Had to Choose.” B. Warner in “Sorrell and Son.” Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy Colleen Moore in “The Scarlet Letter." ack Holt in “TI_Fix It.” in n “Broadwav Bill.” “Broadwayv_Bill." Warner Baxter and | Myrna Loy | Thursday Judith Allen in *“Young and Beautiful.” Vivian Tobin in ““The World Accuses.” Anne Shirley in “Anne of Green Gables.” Colleen Moore in “The Scarlet Letter." Jack Holt in U ‘Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy in “Broadwav Bill.” Judith Allen in **Young and Beautiful " Vivian Tobin in ‘The World Ac Satie | Will be given. Bov." of “Tailspin Com._Nov “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and ___ Band reel. Jeanette MacDon: and Maurice Chevalier n_“Merry Widow." Comedy. _News. “'Mrs. Wiggs of the | Cabbage Patch” | and Band reel. | ance Bennett in utcast Ladv.” | Cartoon Comedy. Const. “or Jack Benny in “Trans-Atlantic Merry-Go-Round."” Sport reel Dolores Del Rio “Marie_Galante in and “Madame DuBarry.” _____Comedy. Ruby Ke Dick Powell “Flirtation Wa Cartoon. News 0 - _ | Sport_reel. Carole Lombard in |~ Ruby Keeler and “The Gay Bride.” | Dick Powell in Comedy. | “Flirtation Walk.” News, | _ Cartoon._News. 36, in Hollvwood.""_ Richard Dix in Greatest Gamb! Alice Faye m | | Nizhts in Hollywoo Atliss in Gentleman, Cartoon. News, Gloria Stuart and Nils Asther in “The Love Captive.” | Comedy. _Cartoon. Maurice Chevalier and Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in “The Merry_Widow." William Powell and Myrna Loy in = | “Evelyn Prentice ‘Comedy. Jeanette MacDonald William Powell and Myrna Loy in “Evelyn Prentice.” edy. in “The Merry Widow." 5 Myrna Loy and | William Powell in |“South of Santa Evelyn Prentice.” Cartoon |_Cartoon._Comedy. | _Comedy. Serial Zane Grey's Trac T “Wagon Wheels" 'n Hlytk":g Lee Tracy_in Myrna Loy and “I'll Tell the World.”| William Powell in Comedy. | “Evelvn Prentice.” News. | Cartoon Comedy._ Mrs. Wiggs of the | “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.” Cabbage Patch " Irwin S. Cobb | Irwin 8. Gobb | Ken Maynard in Lee | 1y Heles an b __ Gang_comedy. __ reta Garbo in Greta Garbo in Painted Veil.” “Painted Vetl.” Sport reel. Sport reel. Cartoon Cartoon. Sally Blane “Silver Streak.” | Wil Mahonev ‘short, Novelty. Loretta Young and John Boles in “White Parade.” Cartoon “Loretta Young and | John Boles in l ! Cartoon. Greta Garbo Greta Garbo n in n “‘Prescott Kid." “Painted Veil.” “Painted Veil.” 5 Comedy Comedsy. ‘Fugitive Lady.” comedy. comedy! Anna Sten and Fredric March in oWe Live Asain” Ronald Colman. dog Drummond Strike: Back.” Adolphe Men jou in_“Human Side. Cameo Mt. Rainfer, Md. Carolina 11th & N.C. Ave. 8.E. Central 425 9th St. NW, ‘oman in the Dark, "By Your Leave" and Cartoon Helen Hayes in “What Every Woman Knew: “‘Hollan Tulip _Time.” News, | William Powell and vrna_Loy 'in “Evelyn Prentic SR Gertrude Michael and Paul Cavanagh in “No; torious Sophie L News. Comedy. ) e Dumbarton 1349 Wis. Ave. N.W.| Artist Members to Play. THE District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Gertrude Lyons, president, will hold the January gen- eral business meeting on Wednesday at 8 o'clock, when the directors, presidents and counselors of all fed- erated organizations of the D. C. F. M. C. have the opportunity to hear the reports of the officers and chair- men of the standing committees and also give their own reports of their club activities. Plans relative to attending the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, to be held April 23 to May 1, in Philadelphia, Pa., will be discussed and those de- siring reservations will make ar- rangements with the Transportation Committee at this meeting, as there will not be another general meeting until after the convention has been held. After the meeting, at 9:15 pm., a recital will be given by artist mem- bers of the D. C. F. M. C, William J. Holden and Fanny Amstutz Rob- erts, pianists; Christine Church, so- prano, and Delphine Desio, blind cellist. The accompanists will be Edith Athey and Elena Crivella. This meeting and the recital will be given at 1810 Connecticut avenue. —_— CalumbiansNam Dlay, Tul Columbia Players announce as their next production “The Mask and the Pace.” by C Fernald. The play will be given at Pierce Hall, Pif- teenth and Harvard streets, February 6and Bruce Cabot and Grace Bradley in fead " ‘Re ad.’ __“La_Cucaracha.” _ Anna Sten and R e “We ve ain.* Cartoon. ~New: Dick Povell and Ruby Keeler in “Flirtation Walk.” ___Cartoon. \Pauline Lord and W.O. Fields in “Mrs. Wigi of the Cabbage Prlth‘. Fairlawn Anacostia, D. C, Hippodrome K near 9th Heme 13th and C Sts. N.E. Jesse 18th nr.R.I. Ave.N. Palm Del Ray, Va, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell in _Anna Sten and Fredric March in “We Live Agan.” | “Flirtation Walk.” Cartoon. ~_Comedy. | _Comedy. News Ronald Colman, “Bull- Edmund Lot in dog DrummondStrike Gift of G Back.” Adolphe Men jou in “Human Side Woman in the Dar “By Your Leave “White Parade.” Among the Mi: W. C. Fields in "M Wiggs of the Cabbage an Patch.” Musical. Cartoon. _Comedy. _Cartoon. elen Hayes in Every Woman Knew & Tulip News. Ketti Gallian in “Marie Galante.” Comedy. w Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Durante and Guy Kibbee and |~ Anne Shirley and Chas. T B n C. Fields and W. C. Plelds and | uline Lord in Pauline Lord in & Wiggs of the “Mrs. Wiges of the d@ohn Wayne in Cabbage Patch.” Com. Cabbage Patch.” Com. “Galloping Romeo.” Gloria Stuart in Gloria Stuart in Buck Jones in- - “The Love Captive.” | “The Dawn Trail Dickev Moore in | Ricardo Cortez in “Tomorrow's Youth.”|Hat.Coat and Glove.” ardo Cortez in | Ricardo Cortez i Aadv by Choice.” Thiet’ “I Am a Thief.” “Red Morning" nd reel. Song reel nd reel Ruby Keeler and | W. Dick Powell in | Pa “Flirtation Walk.” |“Mrs. Comedy. News. _ Edmund Lowe in “The Gift of Gab." Among the M. C. Fields in “Tomorrow's Youth. s ! " Ba Comedv’ Comed an Comedy. _____Cartoon Anne Shirley and v, Tom Brown in “Anne of Green Ga- bles.”” Comedies. News. bles” Serial. Butterworth in| Aline MacMahon in “Student Tour.” | “Big-Hearted Her- Comedies. be ert.” Comedies. 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It is “Der Hausliche Krieg” (“The Household War”), by Schubert, himself at one time a mem- Management ber of the Saengerknaben. Also, the | program will include church songs and songs of Vienna, including Strauss’| “Songs of the Vienna Wocds,” Schu- bert's “Serenade,” Brahms' “Wach | auf’ and Emmer's “Sizilianisches | Jagdlied,” with “The Blue Danube” and other examples of the Viennese school of song as encores. The boys will be accompanied by their rector, the Rev. ‘Josef Schnitt and their musical director, Dr. Georg Gruber., RUTH SLENCZYNSKI, child pianist who will make her recital debut in Washington at Constitution Hall on January 22, at 4:40 pm. as the third of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey’s | Tuesday afternoon recital series, ar- rived in New York yesterday, after nearly a year's absence, and began | preparing Zor her first 1934-5 recital in the metropolis next Saturday | evening. Since her memorable debut in New York something over a year ago and | the series of concerts that followed, | Ruth Slenczynski and her father, who | is her principal teacher, have been abroad, * % X % studying and appearing in concert and otherwise developing the | talent that Ruth first revealed to New York audiences on November 13, 1933 appearance in three years at the National Theater Friday afternoon, Franz | January 25, at 4:30 o'clock, under the of Dorothy Hodgkin rsey. The dances of old Spain, La Ar- gentina explains, were the heritage of the Spanish people. Today, one must ask among the older generation for details of these dances. That is what La Argentina recently discovered when she undertook to study the tra- ditional dance of Salamanca, one of the provinces of the new Spanish re- public. Journeying to a tiny Spanish vil- lage called Villares de la Reine, where she was told she might see the Sala- manca dance performed, La Argen- tina was dismayed to hear the sound of a gramophone issuing from the in- terior of the shabby little inn of this mountain village, wherein a group of young people were dancing to the tune of a popular American jazz tune. “They were young people in no way different from the youth of every other village in Spain,” commented the dancer. “When I asked them about the Charrada. the traditional Salamancan dance, they professed en= tire ignorance of it “‘Some one, however, remembered an old man of the village who was wont to boast of his prowess as a dancer in his youth. I sought him out and persuaded him to show me the steps. That dance is now in my repertoire, and completes my collection of the Ruth’s program in Washington, it |traditional dances of all of Spain’s is said, will closely resemble the pro- | provinces.” Piano Recital Tonight GON PETRI, pianist, will make | by special invitation, he played for his debut in Washington to- the first time in England, performing night at 8:30 at the National | there one of his own compositions, a Theater. Originally intended by his father as a violinist, he | | concert piece for piano and orchestra, | conducted by Sir Henry Wood. It was in November, 1923, that, as was taught when but 5 years of age | the first foreign artist since the revo- by his mother, and later by his father, | lution, he played in Russia. He was who was the well-known Dutch vio- | called upon to play 31 times during linist. Henri Petri. From his Tth year | a period of 40 days before the public, he also received instruction in piano- | once giving three recitals in a single playing from several teachers, among | day. them Richard Buchmayer and Teresa | Petri’s program, comprising three Carreno, and later to complete his|Bach numbers, opens with the “Pre- munsical education he studied the |lude, Fugue and Allegro, in E Flat organ and the French horn. From | Major,” 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the | Concerto.” “Cappriccio” and “Italian A “Prelude, Choral and Dresden Royal Orchestra and played | Fugue,” by Casar Franck, will form second violin in his father's string |the second number. quartet. It was only at the age of 20 vears that Petri decided to become a pian ist. and he was encouraged in this desire by the advice of Paderewski and Busoni. ance as a pianist was made in Hol- land, and twice he played at the court before the Queen of Holland. In 1923, His first public appear- | Star Brahms' “Three Intermezzi. Opus 117" and his “Rhap- ody in G Minor” will complete an- ther group. the final offering being ‘Twelve Studies, Opus 25,” by Chopin, Petri's appearance opens the Five series of recitals on Sunday nights at the National Theater, under | the local management of the T. Ar- | thur Smith Bureau. shawn Danceu NCX? WCC]{. 'ED SHAWN, dance artist, noted for the purely masculine quality of his work, spent five years developing the ideas in the program to be given by Shawn and his men dancers at the National Theater a week from Friday, January 18, at 4:30 p.m., un- der the sponsorship of Willlam Al- baugh, concert manager of Baltimore. In 1930 Shawn made a tour of Germany and Switzerland without a supporting company and learned defi- nitely that many people were inter- ested in dancing by men. In Boston, three years later, during a week of performances by the Denishawn Com- pany, Shawn presented his first pro- gram by only men darcers—inciuding ensemble. ‘That Winter Ted Shawn began giv- ing his first course of dancing at the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he still teaches when not on tour, He selected a few from that first class and other men from his 1933 Denishawn Company and began the initial tour of Ted Shawn Men Dancers. They e 115 performances and covered 23,000 miles. It was the longest tqur made In America by a company of dancers last year Ted Shawn prepares these programs AL We old fam calied Jacobs Pulow, in the Berkshire Hills of New Enge |land. Last Summer audiences avere aged 250 a week, attending the weekly demonstration teas in the old barn- studio. At these times Shawn de livered brief lectures on varied phases of the art of dancing, followed by illustrations of basic movements and patterns and dances into which they were woven, BESSIE N. 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