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B—8 Research Paints Human Picture o f Composers Discovery of Frailties Will Lead to More Intelligent and Intimate Interpre- tation of Works. By Alice Eversman. HE trend of the recent biographies of great musicians has been to xhow their very human side. posing of an opus. of every-day life were but sketchily,, dwelt upon. The main thing to stress was their work and its consequences on the development of music. Sud- denly, there has been a great delving intn the correspondence these musi- cians left with the result that what has been unearthed has formed the basis of a picture of the musician as & human being. Tt is to be expected that many things will turn up in this investiga- tion into the past that will not be of | the mast admirable character. Weak- | ness of will, questionable attitudes toward the right thing to do, petti- ness and selfishness will all be ap- parent as also the splendid moments when the greatness of the man over- | &hadowed every other detail. For | manv readers, the ideal conception | of the artist. which they have cher- | ished. will be destroyed, and they | will be unhappy at discovering the'r | dol's feet of clay. It will be diffi-| enlt for many to adjust the new and | more personal picture of the great| eomposer with their reverence for | his genius as exemplified in his | works, PI"HE great composers have not been | human beings in the ordinary | sense of the word to mast of their | admirers. They have occupied & plane | quite detached from that of ordi- | nary mortals, set apart by reason of | their great gifts and kept in this exclusive place by those who hon- ared them. There was little kinship | felt between these great men and | the humble musician who worshiped | At their shrine and glorified the man through his works. It was almost un- | thinkable that one who could create divine music should be subject to the frailties of human nature, | Undoubtedly this hero worship is| the reason that so few, even good | musicians, really have understood | how to interpret the works they essayed. They would not deign to| descend to a human level to find the | inspiration that would help them in | recreating. but tried to reach to a #phere entirely foreign to themselves | and to their listeners. They tried to | read into the music & detachment | from earthly emotions rather than | find the human element unified with the divine through the strains of music, | What these new types of biography | have done is to bring to the fore- | ground the men themselves and show us how, n spite of frailties, they won | through to immortality because they | were trie to the greatest thing within themselves. No matter what they did in their daily relationship, their talent was kept, sacred and unsmirched and | in face of all setbacks and trials they | fought for its existence and for its For many years, almost all that one knew of the lives of those who have made musical history. was an outline of the chief events with emphasis or circumstances surrounding the com- What they were actually like, what kind of a disposition they had, what their idiosyncrasies were and how th v reacted to the demands perfection. Greater than all their human weaknesses was the strength and vitality of their genius, and the men themselves felt their predestina- tion as transmitters of a divine gift. [N READING the livex of great composers, it is pathetic to wit- ness the struggle that each had to make in order that they could do the work for which they were ordained. They fought for it. sometimes resort- ing to petty methods in order to gain their end, but through it all the glow of their determination is a glorious light that dims any smallness of character that one might be inclined to condemn. Human nature being | what it is, it is to their honor that they kept intact from all earthly | blemish the art that enriches the world It is also a reflection on the vast,| majority of lesser mortals who were | s0 slow to recognize genius and made life 80 difficult by their stupid- ity to those so blessed. How much more admirable a man might Wag- | ner have become had he received | sympathy and understanding from the | very first. The many obnoxious means | that he employed might not have | been necessary, and it is even possi- | ble that he could have exceeded | himself had be been helped in ma- | terial and spiritual ways. In the | light of knowledge which the years have brought, one can realize, with regret, how hard the flowering of their genius was made for these great men. | But any tendency to feel a loss | of a hero in finding a man should | not exist. for the most important ! fhing that this more complete view | of the celebrated composers has ac- complished is to endear them to us. The ordinary individual and the fa- | mous figures of musical history are cast in the same mold except for that one divine spark. Outside of their talent they were not supérmen | but small and ordinary like the rest | of us. Bul they had within them that which would not be suppressed and which fought through all hin- | drances to be heard in the world. | This more intimate conception of the writers of music should make the task of the interpreter easier. He should realize that what they felt | and what they endured was of the | same material that the general run | of people experience. He should know that within himself and his own experiences lies the key to the com- | poser's thoughts and feelings, ele- vated, purified and strengthened | through his genius. By a more com- | plete knowledge of the man behind the music can the riddle of music be solved. Service Band Concerts. 'I'HE United States Marine Band, Capt. Taylor Branson, eonductor, | will give the following concerts the | coming week: Monday at 5 pm., sunset dress pa- rade at the Marine Barracks, and at R pm., concert at the Marine Bar- racks; Tuesday at 7 pm. concert at the Veterans' Hospital, Mount Alto; Wednesday at 7:30 pm., concert, | Vnited States Capitol; Thursday at ! 7:30 pm, concert at the District of | Columbia War Memorial, West Po- | tomac Park; Friday at 11 am., Shut- ins' Dream Hour Concert in the audi- | torium at the Marine Barracks, and | At 3 pm, concert at St. Elizabeth's | Hospital. ’]‘Hv. United States Navy Band, Charles Benter conducting, will play the following concerts during the | coming - week, beginning Monday at | 1:30 pn., at the Sail Loft, Navy Yard, | and at 7:30 pm. at the Capitol; Tues- day at 7:30 pm., Sylvan Theater, | Monument Grounds, and at 9 pm, World War Memorial, West Potomac Park; Wednesday at 11:30 am, Sail Toft. Navy Yard, and at 7:30 pm Band Stand, Ieutze Park. Navy Yard: Thursday at 3 pm., Naval Hospital; Friday at 11:30 am.. Sail Loft, Navy Yard, and 6:30 pm., Formal Gardens, Walter Reed Hospital. FT'HE schedule of the United States | Army Band, Capt. Thomas F.| Darey, leader, includes the following eoncerts to be given during the week: | Monday. at 5 pm, in the Army BRand auditorium and at 7:30 p.m. at the District of Columbia World War Memorial, Potomac Park; Tuesday, at 6:30 pm. in the formal garden of the Walter Reed General Hospital; Thursday, at 3:30 pm. in the Army Band auditorium and at 7:30 pm. at. Mount Alto Hospital; Friday, at 7:30 pm. at the United States Capi- tol. and Saturday, 10:30 am. in the Army Band auditorium, THE United States Soldiers’ Home Band, John S. M. Zimmerman, | bandmaster, and Anton Pointner, as- | ristant. has arranged the following programs for next week ¥nesdar Evening, in the Bandstand, at 7 O'clock March “On _ the Farm” Overture. “Tancredi Entracte—.(a) “Pass des Amphores’ (Air de Ballet) Chaminade: (b) Plerette” Air de Ballet). Chaminade Wxcerpis from musical comedy, “Fred- ka" Lehar numbers. “Lazybones.” Car- michael; *IT'm Just a Vagabond Lover.” Goldman Rossini Waltz reminiscent ke Finale. “The March of Time (1886-1036) Richards “The Star Spangled Banner. Thorsday Evening at 7 O'eloek. March. “March Blue” Lake Overture. “Spiritual Rivers” Gault | Entr'Acte——(a) “Elsa Entering the Catbe- | dral” (Lohengrin). Wagner: (b) “Elsa’s Dream” (Lohengrin:. Wagner e Beenes from the Grand Opers “Gibriells.” i7) “Down Among the Sugar “Dancing With the Daf- Little Gungl Losey | Popular numbers, Cane '~ Rose: Waltz suite. “Casino Dances™ Finale, “Hercules" o ““The 8tar Soangled Banner. Saturday Evening at 7 O'cloek. arch. “H. J. C.' Lee Sanford %lr!urfi, “Bv)rn g“lrll;.l ll.ln.l“’sdtmx"lln tr'Acte—(a) “Estrellita” e Ar). Ern:p: :‘br “Eventide (Reverie). Dick ayward. ms from moving picture, ‘“The Oa cade’” numbers. T “The Star Spangled Banner.” 8am C. Cotton, bass-baritone, will} be the guest soloist at the Sunday | morning service at the Georgetown Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 11 ocloek. Mrs. Frank Akers Frost is organist and director usic at the ehurch. JANSSEN CONDUCTS | SIBELIUS PROGRAM | ’I‘HE all-Sibelius program, said to ! be the first in this country, will be given Tuesday evening in the Hollywood Bowl, Werner Janssen con- ducting. Mr. Janssen also will con- duct Friday evening in this series of “Symphonies Under the Stars.” Tues- day will be Mr. Janssen's first concert in the Hollywood Bowl, although he has conducted many of the great symphony orchestras in Europe and | the United States. He recently re- | turned from a tour of Europe, where at Helsingfors, Finland, he conducted his first all-Sibelius program, and the great Finnish composer was in the audience for the concert, CHOIR FESTIVAL IN MARYLAND TODAY ARYLAND'S Mountain ch:»lr Festival is being held today and tomorrow at Mountain Lake Park, Md., where church choirs from large and small communities are taking part. The festival was founded by Dr. Felix G. Robinson, who i its pres- ent director. Dr. Robinson recently was appointed to the faculty of the Westminster Choir School as lecturer on the Christian Liturgies. Dr. John Finley Williamson, dis- tinguished conductor of the famous Westminster Choir, will lead the Mountain Choir Festival's chorus of 1,000 voices tomorrow might in the open-air rainproof amphitheater, when “Winged Messengers of Peace,” written by Henry Holden Huss, will have its world premiere. Ten vested choirs of 35 members each will compete for the three prizes offered, the contest to be decided to- morrow afternoon. THE EVENING Soloists in the Future RAY BAINE, o Tenor, who will be one of the soloists at the Sylvan Theater Tuesday evening when the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group will give the entertain- ment. Bil Effect Is Malay Princess on Like Secing Church Steps. BY IRA WOLFERT. FORT WORTH, Tex, (N.A.N.A) . —Rummaging the Southwest—range count beeves, sheep, desert, nesters tering high heels awkwardly cement walks, mountains. dust, swamp, an inscrutable tangle strong-armed brush, thousands of square miles of land so flat it lies like a griddle under the sun—vyou come inevitably to Billy Rose's Casa Manana. It is a little like seeing a Malay princess standing sleek amid incense on the wooden steps of the July around 17 in oil, c down ; bend an inch before the terrifying in- | I | | | Elm Street Church in Quincy, Mass. | This is no calliope show, but some- thing half a block long and three stories high, #hd what the Rose has done here is raise vet another monu- ment to the popped eve. It's Broad- way clear through, down to its be- dizened toes—or rather a show that Broadway's men dream as they sit among their cluttered spaces and high-rent theaters. | | | | STAR, WASHINGTO. LUCREZIA BORI, Famous soprano, who will be the soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra Novem- her 10 in Constitution Hall, Hans Kindler, conduicting. N, D. C., SATURDAY, JOHN CASSIDY, Baritone, a newcomer in the Wentworth Group, who will be heard Tuesday evening dur- ing “An Opera Rehearsal” at the Sylvan Theater. ly Rose’s Texas Exposition Show a Bunyan-Scale Fiesta tensities of the country in which they Are at present operatine. A reasonable man. fresh from the laundered lawns of the East, might lie quaking in his bed as he felt the prairie pushing in upon him through the hotel window— coyotes, traveling 50 miles for your mail and newspaper, the clank and gush of oil in a wilderness, meeting men who have eaten half a lifetime’s dinners around open fires, wagon wheels hissing through gr A motor chugging lonely through desert, a hun- dred miles of steady ving before you top a rise. the vast blast of endless silence that is Texas' sweet music. But the Rose and Miss Griffith are not reasonable and have clung tenaciously to the Broadway tradition. Only spa- | crossed rifies and brands from most | IS fourth season. ciousness ha Texas. ve they borrowed from No doubt they were wise in, their tenacity, for it is a thrilling thing al- ways to open a door and step into a | foreign land, as Broadway is in Texas. You can go far and see nothing more | extraordinary than Billy Rose's array of noble dance partners—Count Nicoli Veggetti di Caffa, Countess Helen Massy-Dawson, Marquis Bruno Pepe dei Volpicelli, Pasha Ilias Toptani Count Adam Skarbek and Count Alexis | It has Paul Whiteman and band, | PANtaleoni—dancing, suave and stiff- Harriet Hoctor and toes, Everett Marshall and vocal chords, and those wriggly Hindu dancers, Sanami and Michi. and arms. Even more blessed- lv, it has a couple of hundred Texas peaches, who bring a luster as of sun- light to their work, massive settings that are just plain reality itself and costumes that ravish the senses. Scarlett on Tiptoe. The cast tumbles with dispatch and grace through four large-scale num- bers. Once they do a cotillion before a columned Southern mansion that L(l burned down by a band of Yankee soldiers in an effort to prove that what you are really seeing is “Gone With the Wind.” Harriet Hoctor, the ballet dancer, plays Scarlett O'Hara on tiptoe. And once they luxuriate wanton! through some Oriental mumbo-jumbo, enlivened by adagio dancing, all called “Lost Horizon.” And once they prance around grandly in riding habits | | Worth, through half the countries of | to prove that what the world needs to | do is “Wake Up and Live.” And, finally, they shoot up and down in | elevators, ride around on rolling plat forms, spread acres of silk and fields of waving plumes to indicate that “It | Can't Happen Here"—"It” meaning the knotty-fisted indigestion Europe's Italy, Russia and Germany are suf- fering from. The whole is performed lovingly in a theater that is as airy as a cloud. Having seen most of the theaters that lie in an eastward direction between here and the Balkans, it is possible to report with accuracy that there is none more startlingly beautiful in its bold simplicity than this blue and white creation rising around an arti- | ficial lagoon dug into & patch of sandy 20il hard by the Trinity River. They Refuse to Be Awed. However, there is a sermon yearning | to be written around what the Rose has done here for the frontier fiesta | and what Corinne Griffith and her husband, George P. Marshall, have | done for the Greater Texas and Pan- American Exposition in Dallas, 36 miles to the East. Miss Griffith has | devoted herself to the Pan-American Casino, which was stocked—by Joe Mielziner—with a corps of Chester Hale Girls, Stan Kavanagh, Borrah Minnevitch and His Harmonica Rascals. They go amiably and pro- ficiently through the paces of a slick, big-time show, pleasing enough to the most jaded eye. The text for the sermon would be something appropriate about stub- bornneas. For the Rose and Miss Grif- fith are atubborn folk whn refuse to backed, bowing from the waist, click- | ing their heels, smiling with btand eyes, pulling at their little mustaches among the gangling, sunburned, blue- eyed, slouching oil and cattle men. They have come a long way to Fort the world and no doubt through more | than half of its deviltry, and they stand now on the prairie like gleam- | ing balls of oil on a pond of water, ! a sight (o see and ponder over. i Perhaps it was only a coincidence | that it was when Evereit Marshall was lifiing his bull-necked voice in | behalf of something called “live the life of your dreams” that the mourn- | ful hoot of a cow-country train drift- | ed over the audience and lay. clear | | and fresh across his roar. It was at | | this point that I felt tugged most | | powerfully—meaning no harshness to | Mr. Marshall but only because he| is no novelty to me—in the direc- tion of the open spaces. I waited de- | cently for the end and then wandered out in search of drama. And found it, too, in the Frontier Palace, which is raiher more like it.| | A great barn of a place, filled with | | tables, decorated with large and flow- | with | ing nudes, steer horns and | of the ranches in Texas. Crammed | | with people gusty over their pleasure, | | roaring yippee and other shrieking, | | curdling yells as a two-fisted chorus | dame show went rip-snorting, hell Ier‘ leather, through its paces. | And found it in the old dentist | chair with handcuffs to hold the | patient securely through the even- | tualities of a tooth-pulling and in the thin, seam - faced man whose words creaked through the tobacco- | stained gaps in his teeth and through the large mustache that described a | full half circle over his chin. He looked as if he had just high-tailed off the old Chisholm trail as he climbed on the porch of Cactus Jim's to deliver himself of a few words. | (Copyright. 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Young Washington | New York were accompanied by un- Before the semester was over at the Petworth School this year, Stanley Goldberg, 7; Emilie Newport, 6, and Barbara Ann Van Branken, 6, appeared in a playlet, “In Fairyland.” Stanley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Goldberg, 4510 Georgia avenue; Emilie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Newport, 432 Upshur street, and Barbara Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Van Branken, 3915 Fifth street. Monday: John Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Parker, 1532 Otis street northeast. —Star Staff Photo. Symphony | one of Hans Kindler's most enthusi- JULY 17, 1937. Famous Diva Soloist for Bori to Appear Early in November With Local Group. ODMOTHERS sre legion, as most people have them. But it 1s not the common experi- ence of symphony orchestras to boast such a relative, and perhaps no instrumental organization in the world has so distinguished & god- parent as the National Symphony Or- chestra of Washington. Lucrezia 1, the Spanish soprano who became one of the most famous singers on the Metropolitan Opera roster, assumed this role seven years ago, when the National Symphony was still in swaddling clothes. She served it through a lusty childhood and joday the orchestra, with a brilliant career before it, this diva of the opera and concert world remains one of the Symphony's principal benefactors. Vivid is the memory of the afternoon of November 15, 1931, when a very young orchestra, for which every one had less assurance than hope, took the stage at Constitution Hall for its sec- ond concert—the second concert, not of the season, but of its history. A spontaneous ovation greeted Miss Bori as & breathless audience received the firs. artist ever to appear with the National Symphony Orchestra. Miss Bori's singing that afternoon— £he gave an aria from Mozart's “Figaro"—with the orchestra—was tremendously successful. If the audi- ence gave her an ovation before her singing, it followed it with thunderous acclaim. She took many bows before the afternoon was over. Ever since she has given untiring upport to the movement to develop a larger and better symphony orchestra for the Nation's Capital. She has been astic backers, and on numerous occa- sions has aided in the work of the National Symphony Orchestra Asso- ciation. She returned to Washington to be soloist with the orchestra during She was given a most enthusiastic reception when she appeared before the orchestra Novem- ber 1, 1934, to sing another Mozart se- lection, the “Alleluja” from the “Exul- tate Jubilate.” Miss Bori has not been heard with the orchestra' since and now after three years she comes back to the Natioral Symphony on a most im- portant occasion. She will be soloist with the National Symphony Novem- ber 10 in Constitution Hall. Following her retirement from the Metropolitan Opera Co. & year and a half ago, Miss Bori has not sung in public. Out of the scores of requests have grown the plans for her farewell tour, which, beginning early in the Fall, will take her to every part of the United States before completion. Washington will be among her firsts stops. The singer’s interest in the National Symphony Orchestra is characteristic for her lifelong desire has been one to make good music available to the greAt mass of people. Her many years of singing with the Metropolitan in tiring efforts to make that company & medium for presenting the great ‘works of opera to all interested music lovers. In 1935 she became the. first active member of the artist roster to be elected to a post on the company's board of directors. She was selected, | the directors then pointed out, because of her record and the prominent part she had played in the campaign for the $300.000 guaranty fund which the public was asked to supply in order to keep the Metropolitan going through the Winter and Spring of 1933. She had also been honorary chairman of the campaign to increase the number of Metropolitan’s season subscribers. When she returns to Washington to appear with the National Symphony next November music lovers here will, therefore, have the privilege of hear- ing in her farewell tour an artist, who, born in Valencia, Spain, has had the interests of music in America genuine- ly at heart. Season tickets for the series in which Miss Bori appears, as well as for the other series of the 1937-38 Season now may be reserved at the symphony offices, Room 1113 in the ‘Woodward Building. ENSEMBLE CLUB SETS REHEARSALS THE Violin and Viola Concert En- semble Club recently organized by Elena de Sayn, well-known teacher and violinist, has arranged its schedule of rehearsals for the remainder of July. ‘Those who receive professional train- ing in ensemble playing are grouped in accordance with individual profi- ciency. Information may be obtained from Miss De Sayn at 1026 Fifteenth street northwest. “Phantom” Stage Still Used. ‘The opera house built for the Lon Chaney picture in 1925 at Universal Oity, now known as the historic “phantom” atage, is still being used. its latest use being for Deanna Durbin in “100 Men and a Girl.” IN LOCAL MUSIC CIRCLES ILDRED KOLB SCHULZE, composer-pianist, is spending the Summer at Thetford Lake, Vt., where she is at the Hanodm Camp. She made the trip North by motor, accompanied by her son, Hugo Schulze, who was soprano soloist for two years at St John's Church on Lafayette Square Mr. Schulze was graduated last monti from Western High School. Mrs. Schulze has resumed her work with the interpretive dance groups &t Hanoum Camp and will give joint recitals during the season with Brenda Miller, soprano, of Cleveland, and Louise Foote, violinist, of New York, who also are at the camp for the Summer, ‘The chorus of counselors of the camp s&re arranging a concert and will sing several of the Negro spirituals arranged by Mrs. Schulze. The spirit- uals are from a collection made by Mrs. Ormond Lawson-Johnston of London, formerly Betiy Kendall Washington. Mrs. Schulze wrote the accompaniments for the spirituals in this collection and they were published some years ago. Robert Frederick Freund, who will direct the choir of the Metropolitan Memorial National Methodist Church next season, will attend the School of Sacred Music and Seventh Annual Sacred Music Festival at Massanetta Springs, Va, opening Monday and continuing through the 25th. The school is under the leadership of Dr. John Finley Williamson, Mrs. Maurice J. Pierce gave a pro- grem of Paderewski, Rubinstein and Chopin numbers, with descriptive analysis of each selection, last evening in the studio of her instructor, Mrs. Routt-Johnson Manning, at 2700 Con- necticut avenue. Rebecca Chandler presented her pupils in “An Hour of Music” in the Y. W. C. A, at Seventeenth and K streets northwest, Monday evening, June 28. Those who took part were Marylin Anderson, Lily Stone, Frank Stone, Zella Mullins, Reovee Silbers- berg, Elaine Donaldson, Maxine An- derson, Elaine Silbersberg, Marjorie Whitney, Egor Shlopak, John Earle and Wilfred Milofsky. Franceska Kaspar Lawson, well- known soprano, has returned from a two months’ stay abroad., where she | went in time to attend the corona- tion. Following this event, Mrs. Law- son toured in England and Wales and visited on the Continent. She spent much time in Paris, where during her student days: she lived for several years. Mpms. Lawson will remain in Wash- ington with her husband, Dr. Huron W. Lawson, until the late Summer. when they will open their place. Bear Den, at Bluemont, for the early Au- tumn. Bluemont is a favorite place with Mrs. Lawson, her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Josef Kaspar, lead- ers in the music world of Washington, having been pioneers “on the moun- tain.” When the Kaspars bought their tract of land above Snicker's Gap, it was necessary to drive—horse and buggy—from Round Hill in the Clarke County Valley. Both Mrs. Lawson and her brother. Henry Kaspar, pi- anist, spent much of their vacation time at Walhalla, the Kaspar home on the mountain. The late Mrs. Kas- par, who, before her marriage, was Annie Roemer of Baltimore, was the outstanding soprano of her day in the Capital. Kathryn Harrison Arthur presented Helen Frances Mattson in a piano re- cital Tuesday evening in the Grafton Hotel, when Frank Numbers, assisted. Miss Mattson, though only 15 years old, gave a varied program, beginning with Bach's two preludes. one in C major and the other in E major, followed by the allegro con brio movement of Haydn's Sonata in D. She also played two groups of lighter numbers, closing the grogram with Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso. Mr. Numbers sang Robert Franz’ “Dedication” and “Even the Bravest Heart May Swell,” from Gounod's “Faust,” and later in the program he | sang Handel's “Wher'er You Walk"” and Campbell-Tipton’s “A Spirit Flower.” : Katharine Frost, well-known pianist, | who sailed early this month for Eu- rope, motored from Berlin to Dresden | this week. She docked at Bremen, where she met her husband. Capt. Frost., U. S. N, to travel with him during vacation. Later Mrs. Frost will visit in Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland and England, and before re- turning in September, will go to Nor- way and Sweden. A quartet of soloists from the Wash- ington Opera Guild has been engaged for appearances in Manassas, Va. Wednesday. The singers, Evangeline nied by Marie Morris, pianist. Gurle Luise Correa is director of the guild. Gertrude and Leah Effenbach have left for Seal Harbor, Me., where they've taken a cottage for the remainder of the Summer. While there Miss Leah Effenbach will continue her studies under Mme. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, of whom she is a acholarship student. Both girls will take part in the mu- | sical activities centered there. SHMENTS Legitimate Organizations Aware of Excess Profits Taken by Hired Promoters of Benefit Affairs. By Joseph Marian. ODAY let us look back over the past 15 weeks to the Sunday we commenced this series of articles and see what the re- percussions have been to some of the remarks made in them about a num- ber of our charitable organizations, legitimate and otherwise. In our first article we noted that the Retired Piremen's Association, a perfectly legitimate organization, had recently conducted a grand ball at one of our large hotels, the tickets for which were sold through s pro- moter, as was the advertising in the program. We stated that the pro- moter received about $4,000 net for seven weeks' effort, and that the as- sociation received approximately 3 per cent of the groas prooeeds, which we changed to 5 per cent in a fol- lowing article upon being advised that $200 had been turned in intact to the association by a volunteer solicitor. Following our article the promoter made known the fact that he had received a letter commendation from the Retired (] “l tion congratulating him upon the manner in which he had conducted the promotion and stating that the organization was perfectly satisfied with the amount turned in to them. Which is all very fine. If they were satisfled to receive 5 per cent, that is entirely their business. Our only thought is this—we wonder if the per- sons from whom this fund came were satisfied when they 'earned that of the $10,000 they contributed to tickets and advertising the association re- ceived but $500. Maybe so, but we can mention at least 25 business men who were rather wrathful. Two of these solicitors, upon hear- in_ of the enormous net profit realized by the promoter, immediately organized & promotion concern of their own. However, they lasted just three weeks. The Befter Business Bureau, hearing of their activities, gave orders to cease firing and they obeyed, best results were obtained through our oen “panhan- dling.” One yo bo had “guit - 'hap wrote that " end was | ¥ } OF CHARITY RACKETS ' EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the fifteenth of a series of arti- cles exposing vicious rackets being practiced in the name of charity on innocent victims in Washington. The way in which these crooks operate and the schemes and devices they employ are explained in these articles, which reveal in detail actual cases of charity racketeering here. heading toward his home in the Mid- dle West and siated that inasmuch as he had been lured by the beauti- ful promises of his Congressman, he was through with politics forever. At the same time another man wrote that if he could not obtain legitimate employment, he would be forced to join the ranks of the “pan- handlers” in order to support his little family. Through the kindness of one of our readers this young man’s posi- tion in life will be adjusted after August 1. Pollowing our expose of the so- called “Freightmen's Relief Aasocia- ton,” & non-existent organization, we received a letter from the bona fide Freighthandles’ Association to the ef- fect that they had been on the trail of these chiselers for some time, and thanked us for “tipping them off” as to their whereabouts. These solici- tors have since been arrested in a Southern city and are being held for court on the charge of receiving moneys under false pretense. Another article brought forth a rather lengday letter which contained it had us ducking hout eur perusal The author of this letter said in part: i “You might think you have done some good with your squawks against | iltegitimate schemes, but you have | hurt every legitimate scheme in Wash- ington. I am working strictly on the | legit, but can't get to first base since you started your gossip against what you call charity chiselers. “Well, let me tell you, Mr. Joseph Marian, I am trying to make an hon- est living, but nearly every one I call or the phone says something about The Star’s attack on racketeers, and I can't convince them we are on the level. “You have everything your own way. You can sit there at your type- writer and put those wisecracks in The Star and we have no come- back.” There are many more barbs con- tained in his missive, but inasmuch as he does not state the nature or pur- pose of his “scheme,” we have no comment to make. ‘HERE are still two or three crooked solief operating in Washing- to represent & so- L SERIES LISTED jFreight Handlers’ Association Pleased Over | Apptehension of Solicitors for a “Freight Men’s” Outfit. oalled “Navy relief fund,” which is, as we stated in a previous article, an out-and-out “phony.” There is & na- tionally known “Navy Relief Society” that has been doing excellent work for years, but their officers informed us that they do not employ nor authorize any one to act as a solicitor for their society. An Embassy attache advises us that we were correct when we stated that the Embaassies and Legations here are the No. 1 “‘easy marks” for the charity chiseler, but he adds, however, that he believes most of them have now “taken the veil.” At least he says his particular Em- bassy has done so and that in the future & fireman must bring along his hook and lsdder or a policeman his patrol wagon in order to show that an appeal is genuine. He has been in the diplomatic serv- ice throughout the world for 13 years, but he declares this is the only coun- try where charity chiseling is prac- ticed so brazenly and with such seem- ing di rd of the law. He on to sy that whem s person s arrested and oonvicted in his country for soliciting funds for a non-existent charity or misappropriat- ing funds intended for & true one, he is immediately sentenced to prison for a term of not less than five years at hard labor and is actually acorned by his fellow convicts, being consid- ered a “rat” even by them. One of our readers informs us that he was called upon last week to con- tribute to a fund being raised by s group who termed themselves the “League to Deport Aliens.” He said he was deeply interested, but some- how the solicitor’s appeal did not ring | true, and’ when our reader asked him did his organization intend to get rid of those pesky redskins who raise such a rumpus at times and the so- licitor replied, “By all means"—exit solicitor. However, we investigated but could find no trace of such an organization. Evidently just another scheme to cap- italize upon the good work being done by Mr. John H. Molan and his “Alien Deportation and Exclusion League.” of | tenor, | Novelty Offered Tuesday Wentworth Group in Sylvan Theater i Performance. i« N OPERA REHFARSAL" a musical skit arranged and produced by Estelle Weni- worth, followed by the G- bert and Sullivan light opera, “Trial | by Jury,” will be the offering of the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group at, the National Sylvan Theater in tne | Washington Monument Grounds Ties- day evening. The United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter conduct- ing, will make its only appearance at | these festival programs this season Tuesday when the three-way program | will open with a brief concert by the | band beginning prompily at 8 o'clack. Scenes from several dearly loved operas will be presented during “An Opera Rehearsal,” which is new in the Wentworth repertory and is walj | adapted to presentation on the msza of the Sylvan Theater. Virginia Weedon, Alice Brennan, Ray Baina and Ira Meyer will appear in scenes | from “Martha,” and John Cassid~, baritone, will apprar with the group for the first time when he sings in tha | famous quartet from “Rigoletto.” Oth~ | ers in the quartet will be Miss Weedon, Mildred Sherman and Mr. Baine. Miss Sherman wil ard in the praver from “Cavall with tha chorus. Mr. Cassidv will take the rola | of stage manager during this “Opera Rehearsal” and additional numbers | will be given by the male quartet of the group which includes Mr. Baine, Richard Hill, Mr. Meyer and Har ! Yeide. | The leading roles in “Trial by Jury™ will be sung by Margaret Horn, as the bride; Virginia Weedon, as the first bridesmaid; Ira Mever, as tha judge: Ray Baine, as the defendant; Richard Hill, as counsel for tha plaintiff; Harry Yeide, as the usher, and Melville Veitch, as the foreman of the ju The excellent chorus of this group will appear as bridesmaids, the jury, and the fascinated publie. Tickets for this—the fifth Summer festival of the present season—are on sale at the Willard, the Washington Hotel, the American Automobile Assn- ciation and the Commu Center Department. The public is always in- vited to sit on the hillsides for the festival programs and seats also wil be on sale at the Sylvan Theater Turs=- day night. KOUSSE\'I'I:SKY SAILS | HOME NEXT WEEK ‘ SERGE KOUSSEVITSKY, conduetor of the Boston Symphony Orches- tra, will sail next week on the Ile de France, and is expected to arrive in | New York, July 27. He will have | ample time to complete preparations for the annual symphonic festival which the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give at Tanglewood, the estate of Mrs. Gorham Brooks. The concerty will be given Thursday and Saturday afternoons, August 5 and 7, and 12 and 14, and Sunday afternoons, Au= gust 8 and 15. For the first evening concert, August 5, Dr. Koussevitsky has chosen & Beethoven program including the over= ture to “Leonore No. 3.” and thi symphonies, No. 6, known as the * toral,” and No. 5. The second evening program, August 7, will be A mora varied one including one or two works from composers of the modern school. a plan which he also will carry out in the first Sunday afternoon concert, igust 8. An all Wa program will be presented August 12 and tha last program will be all ahms, the i academic festival overture and the | symphonies No. 3 and No, 1 | So many Washingtonians, summer- [mz in the Berkshires, will have tha | { er privilege of hearing this leading or- chestra of the country, a privilege | which is denied them at home. | MUSICIANS’ GUILD | CONCERT GIVEN | | "THE M icians’ Guild of Washington 1 sponsored the concert Sunday aft= ernoon for the benefit of the scholar= | ship fund of the National Association | of Negro Musicians, of which Camille Nickerson is president. C. C. Cappel, manager of the National Symphony Orchestra, gave a talk and Todd Dun-~ can, baritone of the Howard Univer- sity Conservatory of Music, was the principal singer. The National Association of Negro Musicians, organized in May, 1919, has a membership of 1.000 and has ae- | complished much toward its plrposa of advancing the Negro in music. Ale most $1,500 has been given in individ= 1al scholarships and to schools and to Fisk and Hampton Universities the association has given each $150, | $4.000 has been given in prizes in four contests open to Negro aspiranta in composition. This the association was | able to do through the beneficence nf | Rodman Wanamaker. In thess eon- | tests 630 compositions were submited. Summer Concert. 'l‘HF? chorus of the Unitad Kiairy Department of Agriculture, Rabert, Freund, director, gave itsa Summer concert Thursday evening in the au- ditorium of the Agriculture Depart- ment. The chorus presanted an in- teresting program of varied music and was assisted by Hilda Nelso soprans; John M. Wilson, tenor; Rov Gray, bass, and Alice Burrus sn~ Edna Lee Freund, accompanists. Mi Burrus also appeared in two due:s with Prudence Jackson. The concer closed with the ainging of Lieurance's “The Flower Girl"” adopted as the “theme song™ for the chorus, . Organ Scholarships. QCHOLARSHIPS for organ stucv are being offered at the Guilman: Organ 8chooi in New York. They ara given by Mrs. Philip Berolzheims Mrs. Elsie Carl 8mith and the estafe of Lucy Stella Scheiffelin. Willard Irving Nevins is director of the schonl and information about the scholar- ships offered for 1937-38 may be had from the secretary of the achool at 12 West Twelfth street, New York City. | Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pilgrims Sunday Evening Sonata In ¥ Minar - Welfrum ArmandoJannuzzi Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method Sehonl of hel eante lEthA Adams 3687-J Oak St. N.W, (Cor. #r RE