Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1937, Page 17

ART NOTES. AIDING NATIVE ART Feleral Projects Represent Greatest Effort in EVENING MUSIC. B—3 ASKS MUSIC TITLE Composer for Radio to Offer His Work and STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1937. This Field Any Nation Has Made. Varying Results. By Lalia Mechlin. EVERAL additions have been made within the past few months to the mural paintings in public buildings in Washington, These | are in the Department of Justice Build- | ing and the Post Office Department Bulilding, and were included in the | first project undertaken by the Pmn(-‘ ing and Sculpture Section of the Pro- | eurement Division of the Treasury De- partment, after its organization in October, 1934, It was decided at that time to con- #lder these two buildings as one pmwrt: and to divide them into 22 painting and 14 sculpture units. Following the | sdvice of an advisory committee, com- | missions were given immediately to 10 painters and two sculptors, after which | national competitions were set up, | through the medium of which 8 additional painters and 12 additional | sculptors were commissioned. Al of | these artists were given two years to complete their works, but the majority have had to ask and have recefved ex- | tension of time. It will not be long | now, however, before the project is completed. In the Justice Building the majority of the mural paintings will be found on the fifth floor, in the atair-well opposite the elevators, in the elevator lobby, in the adjgcent corridor running east and west, in the Attorney General's recep- tion room and, eventually, in the library, but space has been assigned to | three painters on the west wall of the | stair-well on the first. second and third | floors, and to one in the entrance from the inner court. l the new Interior Department’s audi- torium. The artists to whom wall space in the stair wells of the Justice Build: g have been assigned are Emil Bisttram, John Ballator and Symeon Shimin. | The first has completed his work and it is now in place. This is a panel of considerable size made up of a large center panel representing justice sev- ering the chains of bondage and a series of pictorial side panels showing WOman's present freedom to enter into all fields of intellectual and physical achievement. This work is done with almost painful accuracy and tells its story intelligibly to the dullest mind, but it is spiritless and ineflective— there is no spontaneity in the paint- ing, no imagination in conception; it is the kind of thing one might expect to find in an old-fashioned child's primer. Bisttram has done and is capable of doing far better work than this. The declared intention of the painting and sculpture section of the Treasury Department Procurement Division is “to secure suitable art of | the best quality available for the | embellishment of public buildings.” This painting certainly does not “em- bellish.” Neither does it teach In the field of art we Americans are rather clumsy when we attempt propa- ganda, and those who visit the Justice Department, or are employed therein, are intellectually beyond the primer stage. Wall space in the entrance from the inner court in this building has been assigned to Boardman Robinson, now of Colorado Springs. The first of the 10 pairs of mural | “Defeat of Justice, t K Courtesy of Treasury Department, section of painting and sculp ' mural painting by Leon Kroll, in the Attorney General's reception room at the Department of Justice. ture. large, in fact, that is difficult grasp or comprehend. Overnigh Government of the United States put into operation the biggest art patron- age scheme ever conceived hy any | nation. Thousands of artists were put | to work. Taking this under consider- ation, the results may be said to be astonishingly good rather than bad. Boat Races it to (Continued From Page B-1) the fastest British ships lay in the harbor unable to get cargoes at their standard rate of $17.50, the thirst for speed became real fun. In the new Post Office Department | paintings for the Post Office Building | Building the painters have been eagh | to be completed were by Reginald | given two panels identical in shape and | Marsh and are to be found on the N COASTAL waters, too, speed was becoming more and more essential. It meant little for two vessels to race gize located respectively in the north | fourth floor in the north lobby. They and south lobbies in the center of the | represent “Transfer of Mail From | building on the second, fourth, fifth. | Liner to Tugboat® and “Sorting of | sixth and seventh floors. Also two|Mail,” both very realistic, not espe- | painters have been commissioned to | cially colorful, but well drawn and produce murals for the lobbies of the | painted. Very similar in character eubstation, known as the Benjamin|is the pair by Alfred Crimi in the Franklin Postal Station, Jocated in the | south lobby on the same floor, repre- | department building. Besides which | senting “Post Office Work Room” and the Postmaster General's reception | “Transportation of Mail,” works which | room will be ornamented by 13 half- | serve as a record of current activity— eize statues of mail carriers from and nothing more—and are too “'busy pioneer days to today and two full size | and complex as compositions to be statues of Osgood, the first Postmaster | seen to advantage in the narrow con- General, and Benjamin Franklin, all | fines of their location. by well known sculptors. The pair by William Palmer, lately placed in the north lobby on the sev- enth floor, certainly provide enter- | pleted was the fresco by George | tainment for the young and have pic- | Biddle, which illustrates “Tenement | (O7ial interest. One of these shows, & party of pioneers making their way | and Sweat Shop Conditions Versus | in the traditional covered wagon Bociety Planned With Justice,” to be | across the plains surprised by murder- | quickly followed by Henry Varnum | N Indians; the other vividly sef s dramatic panels representing, | 1O7ih & Stage coach held ip by armed f"" ke P! 5 Prp: MR | bandits, There is plenty of movement ,,'B“" P'r'L 3"""”{"‘ t"-““‘ | and incident, but absolutely no dig- rERt L AndaRhCIOUsthns nity—no trace of the universal which | in the Justice Building, and neither . a alone gives to & work of art last- favorably received by the public. It ing merit was George Biddle of Philadelphia i (originally) who, it is said, first sug- gested to the President the inclusion of artists in the “white collar” groups whom the first relief measure was designed to benefit, and among the persons set forth in his extensive com- first of the paintings to be com- ETTER by far is the pair in the | south lobby on the fifth floor by | | Ward Lockwood. on which the artist | {‘hns been working during the past | months, transferring his very com- each other closely all the way across the Atlantic, with higher cargo prices or bonuses as a goal. if they were to | be slowed down within sight of land | by slow pilots The first pilot to reach an incoming vessel got the fee for bringing it into port, and since the best pilots had the fastest boats speed meant something. Up to this time sailing meant a livelihood to Americans. The only very rich men were the great planta- tion operators of the South. The men in the Eastern port cities were merchants and traders. The dark, unseitled days which followed the Revolution and made living precarious during the period of the Confederacy left little in the way of personal fortune. The business man who made a good profit in trade took chances which today would be recognized only | as the wildest gambling. And the vears preceding the treaty of Paris in 1815 added to the uncertainty. There was no assurance of safe passage for cargoes or men on an Amcrican ship It was after 1815 that the building up of private wealth from trade be- gan. And with prospel came the growth of a love of sports for their own sake as distinguished from a | means of profit. Thu 1844 there were enough pleasure boats around New Y to justify the founding of the first yacht club. 1s it was that by | Featured in Master Work IRVING GINBERG, Young loci of Agriculture Orchestra in two al violinist, will be the soloist with the Department successive concerts to be given on Monday and Tuesday evenings in the department auditorium. Under the direction of Dr. Baue Ginberg will play the Bruch “C r, the orchestra’s conductor, Mr. oncerto in G Minor.” a companion craft, the plans being | changed but little. It was built at a shipyard on the East River and had | position on the walls of the stair hall are members of his family, himself and Edward B. Rowan, superintend- ent of the Treasury art project. As & technical achievement, this work has received hearty applause from artists, but it does not support its thesis. Henry Varnum Poor, who is pri- | plete cartoons to the plaster wall, after the method of true fresco ’l'hese‘ represent “Opening of the Southwest"” | and “Building of the Railroads in the | West” and are very freely interpreted. | Each composition includes numerous | | full-size figures, but the grouping is | She was a pilot boat along very radi- good, the types are well chosen and the treatment is simple and direct About this time George Steers, & |accommodations for more than 30 young boat builder whose father had | persons below deck. emigrated from England, startled the New York yachtsmen and the Sandy Hook pilots with the Mary Taylor. N HER first trials America showed up rather poorly. She was a good, fast boat, but not the fastest, and | was well beaten in her earlier races cal lines, her hull completely break- marily a potter and a very distin- | Also these panels are verv colorful guished one, also, his confreres claim, | Obviously they are pictorial rather | & very sensitive artist, has over- | than decorative, but so are the ma- dramatized his theme and disregarded | JOTity of the present-day mural paint- practically all the tenets of wall deco- | iN&s done under Government patron- Tation, as well es, in one instance, of | 8%€, and a forced effort to be na- | conventional fact (in the scene he | tonalistic. | pictures before the Supreme Court| Among the other painters commis- the lawyer is addressing the audience | sioned to fill twin spaces in these Post rather than the justices). Further- | Office Department lobbies are Rock- more. the figures in his compositions well Kent, painter, illustrator, print- are out of scale with the architectural maker and author (es well as a few detail and s themes do not in- other things). and Eugene Savage variably explain themselves | Academy at Rome fellow and head of tion—two lunettes, | the department of painting at Yale rt Curry, at the north | URIVersity. both of whom have sub- and south ends of the elevator lobby Mitted preliminary sketches which on the fifth floor of the Justice Build- | NaVe met the approval of the Commis- | ing, the one representing “Justice of | 100 0f Fine Arts as well as the| the Plains.” the other ice versus | Treasury Secton of Painting and | Mob Violence"—marked a step for- | SCulpture. — Their completed works ward, evidencing a better comprehen- | Wil it is thought, be ready for place- glon of the requirements of mural | MeNt Within six months. Also. on the decoration. Thev are strong ang SUENRth of other work produced for effective, Eeau but impres- the Treasury Art Project, George Hard- e ing. Karl Free, Frank Mechau and Then came Leon Kroll's luneites for DOTiS Lee have received commissions the Attorney General's reception room. 0T additional paintings in this group e et et Meanwhile, Ton Lea's panel, e Nesters." in the lobby of the Benjamin Boeits anid ranklin Sub-Station has been com- posed. well rer pleted, and its companion. to be done s Alexander Brook. is, it is under- truest sense works of art on "‘r Mar i Lne BRGR ";‘:'f“fi:"l‘;mn;{"j; o Much too can be said in praise of been given appropriate landscape set- | U® Series of panels representing con- ting: both have been composed w ongwork Injprogress mhichihas due regard to the space 1o be filled [ELEnupacemeny on thekvalls tol o me 13 bring commted: | west, where the Procurement Division 2 Lncen e e e ‘lof the Trea Department is D B e aTe” | quartered. These panels are the work EP composition. no overstraining of of Ha::"'d Weston, are quiet l“. color and. strangely enough, Oriental in o b #8 & Whole 35 flavor—they both record and decorate, fully rendered. Here is a very tinguished achievement The “Triumph of Justice” is more Elysian. To the left we see man t productive fields; to the righ goes a-courtir Justice is rep sented by a maiden with hand upheld in blessing, behind whom comes the law in the person, incidentally, of Justice Stone, uplifting (by the F the downtrodden and the igno In the background is & distant mercial or industrial eky overhead are bird feathered and man-made. and { great com- ant— oy the ° Both have HE mural paintings the new | Federal buildings in Washington stand as w €SS to a growing recogni- | tion of the necessity of correlating the arts. Also. perhaps, to an under- nding on the part of the Govern- | of the necessity of patronage, if | s to survive and again flourish. | as compared with the vast acliv- | rried on in this field, by the Government, under the Treasury De- | partment, during the past three vears, | hese works are merely a drop in the | bucket Under these auspices, mural | The coloring 15 high-keyed and | paintings are being placed at the pleasantly varied, the effect is decora- | present time in approximately 500 tive—the work charms the eve, but Federal buildings throughout the fally explains itself. Mr. Kroll, who, | country, the majority of which are, ®8 & painter of easel pictures, has | however, east of the Mississippi River. reoeived the highest honors within| And this does not take into consider- the power of his confreres to bestoW. | ation approximately 200 more that are has tn these lunettes proved himself peing or have been produced for tax | equally capable of carrying work on | supported buildings by artists on relief | 8 larger scale to an equally fine con- | 1one under the W. P. A. Projects. clusion. L‘n{nnunnlel\ these paintings | The ost of the mural paintings | Sre not where, a3 8 rule, they may be| commissioned by the Treasury Depart- | :::d:;’d”"‘“ public. But they set & | yont comes out of building appropri- 2 | ations, from which a small percentage (QTHER mural paintings on this IS sel aside automatically for such fifth floor of the Justice Building, | PUrPose. When the amount exceeds awaiting completion, are a series of $12.000. & national competition is set | small lunettes in the library, allegori- | UP. When less than this, commissions | cally illustrating “The Search for | AT® Riven at the discretion of the Truth” which have been assigned to | PAINtNg and Sclupture Section on Maurice Sterne and have not ad- | eXpert advice. An effort has certainly vanced beyond preliminary sketches, | been made to make such awards, as and one—unnamed—for the curved | much as possible, to artists living in wall adjacent to the Attorney Gen- | the locality in which the new building eral's office, for which Louis Bouche | has been erected. Also care apparently has been commissioned. Mr. Bouche, | has taken to fortify judgment by call- it will be remembered, lately won, in | Ing in artists and art directors of high open eompetition, the commission for | standing as consultants, But this is the mural to go back of the stage in ! patronage on a very large scale—so lin vo A B ities ¢ nd) com- and in the of flight— l ” ing away from the traditional ideas | The svndicate which owned her was | which had been imported from Eng- | q boat to have | land. She was the fir a long, pointed bow, wide beam in the middle and & full, shallow stern. Most of the experts of the day were skep- tical. She might sail. but there were those who doubted it. W a month after her launching she had beaten everything from Boston to the Chesa- peake and firmly established herself as the fastest boat in America. The young yacht club was joyed. Here was a great vessel, finest sailing ship America had ev produced. And it was thoroughl American. England couldn't touch it So Steers was commissioned to build over- the discouraged, while the eyes of the| world were turned on England. Prince | Albert was opening the Crystal Pal- ace at the great London Exposition and every one who could afford the ocean passage was going to London to see the World F: And the New | York Yacht Club synd decided they would go, too. They were going to make their wonder boat for herself. She had cost them $25.000. So, making a pool of $ they set sail for England with 13 men | aboard. Their plan was to race any- | hing they could find and depend on side bets from the $50,000 fund to | make a profit. pay nei 0,000, | They reached Havre about the ( middle of July and spent two weeks refitting. Then. stowing their surplus gear and clearing for a race, th sailed on July 31 for the Isle of Wight, where all Britain's yachtsmen were assembled for the season. The Ameri- cans determined to race the first English boat they saw. Fog forced them to lay to for the night 6 miles from Cowes, but when the haze cleared in the morning the English | cutter Laverock came to meet them, calling a challenge to race in Commodore Stevens accepted and out beat Laverock so badly he was unable | to negotiate another race. Fi d a not he Royal ca would could oduce for a stake of from $500 $50.000. There were no takers for three weeks and the offer was withdrawn While the offer still stood, the own- ers of America were guests of the Royal Yatht Squadron. Commodore nally, ce in Yacht Squadr race any boat n to | stevens tried, by every string he could Await Action by Hearers as Piece Is Broadcast. y Alice Eversman. T IS a rarity indeed to hear of a composer who is at & loss for a name for his brain child or a designation of the character of | his work. It is rarer still to have| ths public asked to solve these prob- lems for him, but this is exactly what Aaron Copland has done with his new composition, which will be played tomorrow on the “Everybody's Music” hour for the first time. This is the third musical work in the series of | six being written especially for rh»i radio by members of the Columbia | Composers’ Commission. All the music composed by the six chosen writers, | including Willlam Grant Still, Walter | Piston, Copland, Roy Harris, Howard | Hanson and Louis Gruenberg, has in | pull, to get her into competition in the almost daily races. But the odd- looking craft from across the sea was not wanted idle as one trophy after another was captured by native craft. Finally, Board of Governors allowed Stevens to enter a race in which the most insignificant trophy of the squadron was at stake. America was to race against the entire fleet, around the Isle of Wight. The course and con- ditions were almost impossible. Only a skipper who had a thorough pilot's knowledge of the peculiar currents, tides and land winds could hope to have a chance. Against nine cutters and schooners, America got away last, but turning Nab Point, 12 miles away, she was fifth, and once she rounded that point she ran into a light breeze against which she had to sail close It was a wind ideal for America, and she soon was out of sight of the otner 18 vessels. Soon, however, the adver: tides caught her, and two British ve: sels came close behind, but she tore herself loose and beat into Cowes 2 full miles ahead of the closest com- petitor and 18 hours or more anead of the last one. The leading British captains protested on a trivial tech nicality, but the board upheld Amer- ica’s victory and the Hundred Guinea Cup went to the syndicate. A GREAT deal of publicity attend- ed the matter, and the press of London was bitter in its denunciation of the English yachtsmen. Finally, Robert Stephenson offered to pit his Titania against America in a 40-mile race for a side bet of $500. America lav to for repairs. but won the race by nearly an hour racing in England. As a money-maker she had been a total failure, and her owners sold her for her orizinal price and came back to America with her single trophy. It was not until three vears later that the surviving members of the syndicate drew up a document giving the cup to the New York Yacht Club | to be held in perpetuity as a prize | to be sailed for between yachts owned [in this country and those owned abroad. The document carefully point- | ed out that challenges must be made | by & recognized club and the cup would become the property of the winning club under the same terms as those of the original document. Since tnen, with the single ex- ception of one Canadian challenge | only the British have tried to get the cup. It has become a point of pride with them, and the one or two ru- mors of an impending challenge from Scandinavia brought prompt action from England Men who sail ships are a v stitious lot. Many of them believe ips have spirits. The saga of the filled h varns of hoodoo ships and good ships, lucky ones and bewitched ones. If ships have sp America’s must have glimpsed the | Stars and Stripes as she slid down | the ways. She had her bad luck, but it was offset by a noble spirit and a patrie m which was reflected in her name. MOTOR TRIP TO LURAY IS DIVERTING Luray v 7me N TSperryville “panorama To Winchester Upperville Amissville? o . Sattiefinis, Conterville O By James Nevin Miller. HAT motor journey within a 100-mile radius of Wash- ington offers more pleasant diversions these balmy Summer Sundays than the one to Luray? Probably none. The moun- tain breeze down in the Blue Ridges of old Virginia is 80 cool and refresh- ing that you may be fairly certain of enjoying a temperature at least 10 degrees cooler than it is here in the District. Luray, only 90 miles from Wash- ington, and a drive of about three hours, is the eastern gateway to the Massanutten division of the George Washington National Forest and less than 10 miles from Lee Highway entrance to Skyline Drive. Of historic interest is the old Salt- peter cave, on the southern boundary of the town, where a large Confederate niter plant was located to provide ammunition for the Southern army. The beautiful caverns of Luray were discovered in 1878. They are famous the world over for their stalactitic and stalagmitic ornamentations. Ex- quisite examples of nature's handi- work are to be found in countless curious and wonderful formations. It’s a good idea to start your journey early in order to avoid heavy traffic. If you take off at 8 o'clock in the morning you can reach the eaverns well before nooa. A picnic lunch is sugzested. There are lots of tables, shaded by stately trees, near the caves. Or, if prefer, you can get at the lunchroom down there or visit one of the many tourist homes for a tasty dinner of fried chicken or Vir- ginia ham. Clip the strip map on this page, especially prepared for The Star by the American Automobile Association. Take Pennsylvania avenue over to Rosslyn, get on the Lee Highway, head for Falls Church and then re- main on route 211 all the way. There seems to be an ever increasing activity in the building of new homes all through this section. The thought strikes you that somebody ought to write a book about Virginia fences. Certainly the Old Dominion can boast of about every conceivable kind Throughout your trip you see five or six types including stone, picket, barbed wire and occasionally a rail fence that bears the genuine stamp of antiquity. UST beyond Falls Church are many kennels where Irish and fox terriers may be purchased. You may also buy hooked rugs and homemade bedspreads at the roadside stands. You pass the Fairfax Hunt grounds, where the annual horse show is held. Ever since the first settlers followed kol you good sandwiches | there | the winding Indian trail that skirted the south bank of the Potomac into Fairfax County this part of Virginia has been steeped in historic interest The county was named for Lord Fair- fax., owner and ruler by inheritance of the “northern neck of Virginia.” Henceforth, you see almost count- less signs describing various phases of the first and second battles of Ma- nassas or Bull Run. Bull Run re- ceived its name from a straggling stream. It was here on a sizzling day in July, 1861, and again in 1862 that the armies of the Blue and Gray met in terrific battles. It was here, too, that Gen. Jackson received his title of “Stonewall” The Confederates were victorious both times. | plains, “The stone bridge, just to the | north played a part in the Battle | Manassas. Here rested the Confeder- | ate left in the early morning of July | 21, 1861. Over the bridge Pope's re- treating army passed August 30, 1862 By all means tarry a moment 50 at the old stone house to the right of the road, situated at about the 28- mile mark. This marks the site of Bull Run battlefield and served both the Blue and the Gray as a hospital 1861-62 Some 200 feet from here. to the left of the highway, & sign points to Ma- nassas Battlefield Park. Just beyond, -~ ‘While crossing Bull Run a sign ex- | o [on the other side of the road, is a Confederate cemetery. From now on around the gently winding curves you are treated to more and more scenic views of the mountains straight ahead All through Fauquier County you pass large estates on which fine race horses and hunters are raised. Around them you see the famous three-barred, wooden fences, every one wearing a new coat of whitewash, that have added so much to the fame of this section of Virginia. Occasionally, too, you note ancient sock fences modeled very much after those found in a typical English countryside. At about the 44-mile mark you strike a short stretch of road under repair. It is suggested that you drive slowly and carefully. The road shoul- ders are none too reliable, | WHEN you reach Warrenton your | Journey is at the half-way mark | f youre now 45 miles from Wash- | ington and the same distance from Luray. If you've never visited War- | renton, by all means do so now. Horse | racing and fox hunting are at their [ best in this section of Virginia. In | and around here are the homes of some of the country’s best known and wealthiest citizens. Warrenton's horse thow is natfonally known. Here on the first Saturday in May of each (Continued on Page B-5.) ’ Day after day she lay | | enough pressure was exerted that the | nine | lost her fore gaff and was forced to | That ended America’s | view the testing of the microphone | as a definite medium for musical ex- | | pression. | Mr. Copland calls his composition, | for the time being, “Music for the | Radio” But there is more to be | deseribed in the work and the creator | it to his radio audience to choose a permanent title from their | own reactions to the musical picture he has painted. The only clue | | is leaving | “The piece lasts about 10 minutes, starting allegro vivace, forte and end- ing quietl The prize which the judges will| award to the listener who sends in| the winning title is an autographed | copy of the original score. The work will be played tomorrow by the Co- lumbia Symphony Orchestra, with | Howard Barlow conducting. {\AMERIC:\NS think of the Ballet | Russe de Monte Carlo as a travel- | ing troupe, always on the go. In their | | annual tours across our continent the | | dancers seldom stay in one city more | than a few nights or a week. Then they fly to another spot to entertain | new a adiences. | That makes all the more astonish- | ing news from Europe just reaching | here that the famous ballet artists | settled down in one place and are dancing there all Summer. That place is London, where the company is counting its stay not by the num- ber of performances, but by the num- ber of months Col. W. De Basil's ballet went to the English capital almost mediately after completion of its fourth Ameri- | can season last Spring. Its Spring engagement at the Metropolitan Opera, lasting 10 days, was the most success- | ful in its career, playing 11 of the 12 performances to packed houses. Sail- | ing on the Normandie, the company visited briefly the Florence Music Fes- | tival for a round dozen performances |and then made haste for the opening | of the Covent Garden season in June. | The dancers have been busy there ever since. The first four weeks they shared with opera, appearing on alter- | nate nights and also providing the | ballet interludes in several operas, | Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. Solid sessions of Russian ballet began early in July, the company offering its standard repertoire and opening with “Cimarosiana,” Bontique Fantasque” and “Aurora's Wedding” London critical comment is reported to have been rhapsodic, and the dancing of Massine, Baronova and Danilova was singled out for high praise. London’s enthusiasm has not cooled | since the first night. A few days later, on June 10, came the command per- formance before King George VI and which he will give is very laconic, |} | pm | are four of | Jane Da | sell Anderson. under Miss Wentworth's direction. Estelle Wentworth began her ope eratic career the role df Maid Marian, with the celebrated Bostone 1ans several years ago, appearing in the role more than 300 times the coming season Miss plans also to produce which her group will he production of d both productions will be given under the auspices of the Community Cene ter Department ROBFRT FREDERICK FREUND, who directs the Gypsy Choru the Ag e Chorus, and who w take up his new duties as director of the choir at Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in September, is leaving Monday for the Westminster Choir School in Northfield, Mass, where he will con idies with John Wy Mr, und will be v the latte; ich time he will coaching in voice Edna Lee Freund. organist at Trine ity Episcopal Church and well-known accompa of city, will go to orthfield with Freund part of Aug receive f ther Mr, The Pastor's Ald Club of the Vere mont Avenue Baptist Church will pres sent the Interdenominational Chomus in a special program featuring gospel and spiritual songs on Friday at 8:30 Program will be sponsored by Deacon George E. Onley. An offering will be taken. Madeline Frances Amato presented a group of her students in a piano recital at her residence studio, 4629 street northwest, last Sunday. Selections were rendered by Mary Bianchi, Teddy Bonanno, John Cifala, Angela Crimi, Ruth Davidson. Joap Feole, Louis Jones and Dorothy Di Trapani. Clara Moran Bernheimer has gons to Schroon Lake, N. Y., to study voica Wwith Oscar Seazle. Accompanying her pupils, Sonia Berman, Dorothy Tirrell and Ruse Marion Hulburt, soprano, will be Ruest soloist at the 11 am. serviee tomorrow at the Georgetown Presby- terian Church. Mrs. Hulburt is a member of the Georgetown Presbys terian Choir, has been its secretary and is now president of the choir. Mrs. Frank Akers Frost is organist and choir director. Lavada Hudge: A member of the Cremona String Quartet and the Library of Congress staff, will spend the Summer in Europe. Setvice Band Concerts ‘HE United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter conducting, will play the f wing concerts dure ing Greater National Capital Musle week, beginning Monday Monday—1:30 pm, sail loft, Navy Yard; 7:30 pm., at the Capitol. Tuesday—8 pm., at the Capitol. Wednesday—11:30 am. sail loft, Navy Yard; 7:30 pm, bandstand, Navy Yard. Thursday—3 p.m., Naval Hospital. Friday—6:30 pm., Formal Gardens, Walter Reed Hospital. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the United States Marine Band, ane nounces the followinz concert sched- ule to be played by the Marine Band during the coming week | Queen Elizabeth. Seats for this oc- casion have been unobtainable, even | at a premium, for weeks before. As the Duke and Duchess of York, the King and Queen had been inveterate ballet fans, attending many perform- | ances each season as well as gala par- | ties given in honor of the dancers. Two other admirers of the ballet, the Duke | and Duchess of Kent, also were pres- | ent. Several of the leading dancers as is the custom, came forward to pay their respects to the royal box, Two weeks ago, on July 15, oc- curred the world premiere of “Fran- | | cesca di Rimini,” the choreographic | | creation of David Lichine, and accord- ‘ ing to a cabled report the work was | received with intense enthusiasm. Be- | fore the end of Fokine was to launch his ballet ver- sion of “Le Coq d'Or,” the first time | that the operatic wo: | muted for ballet company will in | ghileff revivals into the repe | thus augmenting the American list to | six new ballets for the coming season | In August the De Basil dancers will | have several weeks of rest and then they will be at it for the entire | month of September—still at Covent Garden, London. Then to America in October to begin the fifth transconti- nental tour. Reaching Washington, the Russian ballet group will appear with the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra March 9 and 10. While the programs for Washington are not completely ar- ranged, plans are made to include a performance of the ballet's interpreta- tion of Debussy’s “Afterncon of a Faun." ’rWO successive evenings, Monday and Tuesday, will be dedicated to the next symphony concert of the Department, Agriculture Orches- tra, Dr. Walter Bauer, conductor, to | | be given at 8:30 pm. in the air- cooled auditorium of the department (south building, Fourteenth and In- | dependence avenue southwest). The | program features the “‘Wald-Sym- | phony,” by J. J. Raff, and the violin “Concerto in G Minor,” by Max | Bruch, which will be played by the young Washington violinist, Irving Ginberg, known as soloist to many musical organizations of this city. The valse movements from the “Ro- senkavalier,” by Richard Strauss, and the finale from the “New England Symphony,” by Edgar Stillman Kel- ley, will conclude the program These concerts are always open to the public. There is no admission charge nor are tickets required to| | gain access to the auditorium. IDITH B. ATHEY, organist of Ham- line M. E Church, will present Dale Cornor, 16-year-old student, recital on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. in the | | church auditorium, Sixteenth and Allison streets. assisting soloist will be Fenton Froom, tenor soloist of the Washington Missionary Col- lege, Takoma Park. The public is| cordially invited to attend. REGINALD DE KOVEN and mggy B. Smith's famous opera, “Rob} Hood.” will be placed in rehearsal by the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group in the near future and offered early in the coming season with an out- standing cast of Washington singers | in Monday—5 p.m., sunset rade at the Marine Barracks: 8 p.m., concert at the Marine Barracks. Tuesday-——7:45 p.m., concert at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, in conjunction with the Summer Fes~ val sponsored by the Community Center Department. Wednesday—7:30 p.m., concert at United States Capitol Thursday—7:30 pm., Capitol dress pas concert at S in honor of Music week Friday—l11 am., concert in the ium at the Marine Barracks; wt-Ins Dream Hour. Saturday—12:30 p.m., Music Appre- ciation Hour for 4-H Clubs, sponsored by ted States Department of the month Michel | Agri of the United States apt. Thomas F. Darcy, des the following concerts to be given during the coming week: Monday—>5 p.m n the Army Band Auditorium 6:30 pm. in the Formal e Walter Reed General iay—3:30 pm, in the Army Band Auditorium, Friday—2 pm., at Hospital; 7:30 pm., States Capitol Saturday—10:45 am., in the Army Band Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. at the United States Capitol. st at Elizabeth's the United Concerts by the United States Sole diers’ Home Band Tuesday, 7 pm, bandstand. John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Anton Pointner, assist- ant March. “Colonel Gonzales” (Uruguas) Gubitost Overture. “French Comedy’ _ Kelsr-Bela EntrActs (a) “In a Chinese Temple Garden (b) “In & Persian Mark Melange. “Songs From the Old Fol Popu Martinéz M C Tay! Branson “The Star Spangled Bann Thursday, 7 pm Pan-American Program. “Pay 8andu” (Uruguay) irs “Eureka ' (Veneruela Acte (a) fan, (Chili) (b) “Danza Yaqui Costa Pardo Missud (Mexico) Alvarde atidos de m! Patria” (Cuba), & Reinota ( Bustamente “Garanio” (Venezuels) Gutierrs (Guatemala) . Menemos pangled Banner Belection, “L ojanito”" (Ecuador), Waltz suite, “Amor Patria” “The Star S Saturday. 7 March. “Sara o F! Finale, Kyl Kin The Tearin ou “The Sullivan re bras y m the comic opera, Warren F. Johnson, Organist Church of the Pilgrims Sunday Evening Cvyele of Fight Pieces Kare-Flerd ArmandoJannuzzi Grand Opera Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method School of bel eante Adams 3687-J 1849 Oak St. N.W. (Cor. 16th) ® Wy %