Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1936, Page 16

A—l6 * FRESTONE TOCK TADESREPIRTED Members of Family Active in Deals, Securities Com- mission Shows. BY the Associated Press. Heavy transactions in common stock of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. by members of the Firestone family today had been reported by the Becurities Commission. In its summary of October stock dealings of corporation officers, di- rectors and substantial shareholders, the commission said Harvey F. Fire- stone sold 51,000 shares during the month, which reduced his holdings to 227,105. Russell A. Firestone and H. 8. PFirestone, jr., each were reported to have acquired 10,000 shares. bring- ing their total holdings to 42,002 and 87,820, respectively. ‘The commission also reported that: Gerhard M. Dahl sold 2,200 shares of common stock of the Brooklyn- Manhattan Transit Corp.. while his wife disposed of a similar block through a holding company. John McKinlay disposed of 3.000 | shares of common stock of Marshall Field & Co.. and James Simpson sold 1,700 shares of the same security. Howland Davis reported a partner- ship sold 800 shares of common stock of Bayuk Cigars, Inc., while Louis A. Kramer and Harry P. Wurman dis- posed of 1850 and 532 shares, re- spectively. Samuel Bayuk purchased 426, increasing his holdings to 50,850. | Harry E. Sheldon sold 43,000 shares of Allegheny Steel Co. common, re- ducing his holdings to 11,056. Stock purchase warrants for 50,000 shares of Rustless Iron & Steel Co. were exercised by American Rolling Mill Co. in September, and in addition the company bought 5,700 shares. Large gifts during the month in- eluded one of 10,000 shares of common stock of the Inland Steel Co. by G. Herbert Jones. James F. McCarthy gave away 900 shares of Hecla Mining Co. common which he received through a bequest. A. L. Humphrey gave away 400 shares of Westinghouse In Refxtgsh THE EVENING STAR, Rachmaninoff Acclaimed ing Program |Great Russian Pianist sive in Numbers V | played -here,- but which drew on that | superb and astounding technical en- | dowment of his to the fullest extent. | Rachmaninoff has been heard in | more genial moods than that of last | evening but never so brilliantly impres- | sive. The magnificient mechanism | which he has developed to the highest point of virtuosity transcended the mere form so freely that one was led | along a path of completed musical | sound that was the ordinary classifica- luun perfected. His extraordinary dexterity was allied to the thought in | the phrase with a smoothness that denied any difficulty in the uniting. Plays Bach Fugue. | Beginning with the Liszt arrange- ment of Bach's “Organ Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor,” he brought into | the “Great Fugue” the crystal fulgura~ i tion of his finger adroitness and his | fine sense of balanced contrasts. His |-choice of the Beethoven “Sonata, opus 109" was a happy one in that the lyric beauty of one of the last sonatas written by that master creator llood‘ out prominenily agaimst the sterner | background that Bach provided. One might have wished that Rach- maninoff had arrived at the poetic | mood which found full play in thel | Chopin group for his interpretation of | the sonata. The grace of the first SALVI for COLDS price Sc, 10¢, 25¢ LioU s, Is Brilliantly Impres- Which Demand Virtuosity and Thoughtfulness. BY ALICE EVERSMAN. | HEN Rachmaninoff announces a recital program, his admirers can always count on hearing works not scheduled so often by other pianists that the bloom has been brushed off by too much repetition. Usually compositions avoided because of their technical demands are what he delights in presenting and | Hall was one of these. The great Russian pianist selected not only works | that were refreshing because seldomr last night's program at Constitution movement, the melodic line of the Adagio and the tranquility of the Andante fell short of perfection by | reason of & certain brittleness In tone quality that nevertheless gave lustre to the more fiery Prestissimo. But with the “Polonaise in C minor” by Chopin and suavity of touch which he commands when at his best came forth in full beauty and his playing | of the Chopin numbers progressed to an apex in the final “Rondo, opus 18.” 3 Own Compositions. Of his “Four Etudes Tableaux, opus 33" it is told in von Riesemann's | “Rachmaninoff’s Recollections” that many of them were inspired by Boecklin's paintings. be traced back to @ ESTABLISHED 1365 o 7 72 YEARS Is o Long Time that long since from the confid the Barber p ealing. Todey Bark Washington’s recognized leader. GEO. M. 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