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Evening star., 1923-06-24
AROUND THE CITY
BY Mamie Lancaster

FINER comm with devil crabs
-straight-erlong."
And because a fine cook stood be-
hind those deviled crabs, the nrse
ward loved them.
You see. dear moderns, progress
had not yet invented cafes.
CHE had the contour of a prize
- pumpkin, and her yellow crash
was buttonholed with green yarn.
Her earrings were diamonds and Jade
at least they would have been ex
cept that they were glass-and her
bare arms from the elbow were far
and matronly to match her double al
lowance Of chin. Otherwise she was
all voice-what tone experts call a
carrying voice. that caught-and
held-the attention of the street car
from Treasury to Capitol Hill. The
woman with her was merely so much
background; seeing she couldn't get
a word in edgewise:
TITS easy enough for people to say
that we society women have an easy
time, but I'm telling the world that
Shrlner week just fattened me out
You see. my friends. bein' strangers
o'i tic ldI west, ndu 10 nave me
snow EN- how to act right at the
White House and places like that
ana they sure were grand TO 60
around with-season tickets in the
Garden of Allah. and bids to dinners
and things that only high-toned So
ciety could get into-and a twenty
yelier-back for putin them in tn.
swim the right way, like l done from
start to f1nish"-and so on and on.
And while she broadcasted her hon-
ors OF the convention. the high-toned
washington society lady manicured
her fingers with hand file that mad
pen points of the nails
II, however. the greatest detectiye
in fiction had been sitting by. h.
would doubtless have deduced that
lhe woman was better than She T.,
on. For her hands showed for good
honest housework. Housework means
home-a home implies husband ana
cnildren-and no wife and mother has
ever lived in vain-no matter hos
vain she may be personally.
Also. she had made the yellow
crash-any woman could tell.
WHEN dusk comes to a business
w street it. somehow, suggests
clock with its works run down. Cars
of course. and spatterings of people
and lighted shop windows-but the
keynote is silence-as II every cash
register were having time off and
big business. the giant of corpora
tons fairyland. We're sound asleep in
his padlocked castle. Anyhow:
one woman was thinking things
IKE that when she saw an oIdish man
standing before store He was
tall thin man with students stoop
10 his shoulder and the profile of one
who thinks. As he stood, motionIess
and with sense of absorbed con
temptation. the woman - knowing
how slight a thing will recall old
days and scenes-1gured il out that
IN. man had noticed some article IN
the window that had set him 10
thinking of the past.
With the instructive sympathy that
one lonely soul always feels for an
other. she tripped by quietly so as
not to disturb his line of thought. In
passing, however. she glanced at the
window to see if she could determine
what had worked the charm.
Straw hats-Marked down
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Inspired Writing of7he Nrginian

q ranch with more than $4,000 cattle
on the range. His reputation as q
rider and roper spread. until he was
persuaded by Buffalo Bill to appear
at the worlds fair in Chicago. There
he was given the title Of King Of the
Cowboys" and the $1,000 prize that
went with 1t.
About this time Owen wfster be-
gan collecting material for what
later became his famous story, THE
Virginian." He journeyed to Wyo-
ming to see Shanton. Not only was
Stanton made the central figure of
the romance but when the story was
first produced as a play in 1903 Shan
ton came east to assist in its pres
entation at the old Manhattan Thea
ter. He taught the tenderfoot actors
to conduct themselves like real cow
boys and familiarized them with the
vernacular of the plains. In this
f1rst stage version the title role was
played by Dustin Farnum.
Kenneth Hariaf, popular leading
man, has been given the role of the
virginian In the forthcoming Pre-
ferred Picture. -A---- 4si'.. :. ,-.. -
Evening star., 1923-06-24
After Twenty Years.
YOUNG and good.looking, jam,

YOUNG and good-Iooking,. James
Neill played tho role of the gam
bier twenty years ago, in the stage
play, "Salomy Jane.
Today, at the. age of fifty he is
playing the part of Larabee, in the
motion picture version for Paramount.
Inc span or years between the ages
of the two characters in the story is
practically the same as the difference
In Mr. Neills age since he first played
IN Salomy Jane" and today.
AS young man, Mr.. Neill had a.
theatrical company of his own, with
which he made a tour lasting FIVE
years and nine months This was
the longest tour ever made by one
company, he says, and three trips
were made to Honolulu The COM
pany produced eight plays in each
town. and "Salomy Jane was one OF
the most popular on the list. The
story depicts the early days In Calf
fornia.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
A Scarabian Queen.

IN Lawful Larceny" an Allan Dwan
production for Paramount, Nita
Naldi deserves to be called the Scarab
queen" of the movies
She wears the ancient Egyptian
beetles in her hair, on her dresses,
set in bracelets, on her hands and
feet. In fact, she is literally covered
with scarabs in every scene in the
picture. Director Dwan conceived an
Egyptian motif for Miss Naldi in this
picture, and 1T is carried out to the
last scarab.
The scarabs had to be borrowed
from private collections in New York.
and have an intrinsic value difficult to
estimate. One green scarab which
adorns one of her lovely gowns Is
valued at $2,50O She wears one head
piece, with sixty-five scarabs in front
and fifty-three in the back, which has
an estimated value of $4,000
Evening star., 1923-06-24

Otto. Josephine wooIard. Horace
Tucker. Henry Bergmann. Thomas
Woolard, Doris Langley, Geith Barr.
Rodney Hart, Mildred Parker, Betty
Arth. James Hutchinson, Jennie De
Simone. Lucille Roberts and Margaret
Woolard.
Mrs. Frank Byram will present a
program at her studio tomorrow
night. Miss Bernice Randall, mezzo:
Miss Ruth Ellen Ward. soprano, and
Durward Bowersox, violinist, will as
The program will include: prelude
in c. tBach), Dance Caprice"
fGrieg); Alice Law: ITO a Water
Lily lMae,DowelD. "A Curious story
wegian Bridal Procession tGreig).
Eileen Redroe; songs by Miss Ran
dali; "Valcik" (Mokrejs), Katherine
Biondi; cEtude = Mgnon" tschutD.
sard ssra' BaSer.oS aS@snee pspj1en 1p%iheIm Dur
roe; "Mazurka" (Chopin). Scotch
Poem" (MacDowelD. Jean MacGreg-
or; Love Has Wings Rogers), For
March of Dwarfs" (Grieg1' Kath, :,
crime Biondi.
:, Mary, Mary Isabel Kelly presented de-
night, In which the following par
ticipated: Irene Elliott Moore. Syd-
ney Mather. Jean Keever, Elizabeth
White and Deborah Keever
Beatrice Seymour Goodwin pre-
sented an unusually interesting vocal
recital at the Playhouse on June rs,
when the following took part: Jesse
Neitch. tenor; Mrs. Ralph Robey. alto
&. n. Richardson, baritone; Mrs. Law
renee Martin, soprano; c. A. Night
tone; Mrs. Parks Crater. soprano. and
Horace A. Lake, baritone.
Harry Wheaton Howard was the
accompanist for the recital.
A musical. featuring piano. violin
and cello playing by young people of
Metropolitan Nj. E. ea Church last at Tuese tse
day evening under the auspices Of the
queen @ Esther Circle for the benefit of
Pearl Waugh directed the program
and Mildred de Hart, contralto, was
assisting soloists. Those on the pro-
Trio. Winifred MoGregor Miaeimer Michaeiaon,
Betty Baum, Elizabeth Bernheimer,
Lillian Robin, Herminia Ellis, Ber,
tina Robin and Louise Rernheimer.
The Columbia Mixed quartet. COM
posed of Elsie Joress. soprano; Marion
Mccoy, contralto; D. H. Bellheimer,
tenor, and Claughton West, bass. pre-
sented an interesting program of
music before the members of the
New Thought Society at the willard
Hotel last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Willie Pope West was the ac-
companist.
Betty Baum. pianist. with Louise
Bernheimer, cellist, and Elizabeth
Bernheimer. violinist, will give a re-
cital at the Bernheimer home Thurs
day evening at 8:15 o'clock.
Bertha and Lillian Robbins. assist
ed by Winifred McGregor Michaelson
will give piano recital at Walter
Reed Hospital this afternoon.
Miss Pearl Waugh has presented q
number of young pianists in indi-
vidual recitals during these closing
weeks of the music season in WASH
ington. Among them was the recital
of Ruth Garrison, assisted by Minnie
Biairsky, violinist. and Catherine
Duncan, pianist, presented early this
month.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

CONTRACTS will probably be signed
within a few days for the screen
appearance of tn. man whose life is
said to have furnished the basic idea
OF Owen wfsters world famous story,
4The virginian." COL. George r.
shanton, the original virginian, it is
claimed. has expressed enthusiasm at
the prospect of a part in the picture
version. He Is now in government
service for the Department Of Justice
in the south and will arrange leave
of absence in order to go to California.
where the film will be made
Shanton's career has been a pic
turesque one. His family migrated
to Kansas in 1873, when herds of wild
buffalo still roamed the plains. His
boyhood was spent in close proximity
to an Indian reservation where he
made friends with Sitting Bull and
many other famous old chiefs.
Later he moved farther west-to
Medicine Bend. Wyo., as foreman Of
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Producer Writes Song.
TRACE HAsKrNs. produce,

CRACE HASKTNS. producer of
~ Just Like a Woman" has the
distinction of being an artist in two
different lines and doing both of them
we'll
Not only has Miss Haskins, just
twenty-five years old, branched forth
as full-nedged producer, but she
has also written a song in conjunc-
tion with her picture, which it is said
stamps her as both a composer and
lyric writer of pleasing merit.
During the making of her produc-
tion Miss Haskins spent all her time
right on the studio lot comforting with
her assistants. Upon her return at
night she would work on her song.
This song is played during the
showing of the picture.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Concert by Blind
Musicians.

II +. W. MILES, president of tho
i. Columbia Polytechnic Institute
for the Blind, 1905 H street.
northwest, has announced that a spe-
cial concert will be offered at the
New Willard Hotel next Tuesday
evening at Sis o'clock. The pro-
ceeds will be placed in the fund 10
aid these progressive blind people To
become self-supporting.
Most Of the music on the program
will be given by blind people at
tending this institution. Miss Cath
crime Grady will give both piano and
violin selections. Miss Susie L. Duff
fy and John F. Germuelier will also
give piano numbers and lt. W. Swami.
another blind student will give dra-
matte readings.
Miss Marion Larner, soprano. Will
be an assisting artist and give sev-
eral vocal selections. Mr.. Miles will
give an address.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
MUSIC IN THE CHURCHES

Tonight at the Erookland Baptist
musical service before disbanding for
the summer.
The program is as follows: Organ
prelude, Meditation (Batiste): The
Day is Gently Sinking to a Close
(Matthews); soprano. Come Unto Me"
UCoenen), Mrs. D. III. Oertly; Lord
of Heaven" (RossD; 20 Lord Most
Holy" (Abt; bass. THE Earth Is the
Lords" Hynes). NJ. r. Miller; II
Waited for the Lord (Mendelssohn) !;
contralto, But the Lord Is Mindful
of His Own" tMendelssohn,. Miss
Edith r. Dunn; Break Forth into
JOY" (Rogers).
Isabel P. Middlekauff is organist
and choir director.
Luther Place Memorial Church
music today will be: Morning serv-
Ice. II am; prelude. "Idyl" !Kinderl ;
. tNevin); duet. "The Lord Is Ny Light"
'Buck). Miss Eva Bright. soprano,
and I. NJ. Leisenring. tenor; postlude,
.Triumphal March" (Wachs). Even
ing service, CLOCK: prelude, IN
termexxo" (Stearne); anthem, Breast
the Wave. Christian" (Shelley); offer
tory, "Gondolieri" (Nevin); soprano
solo. God Shall Wipe All, Tears
Away" (Matthews), Miss Lydia Justh;
"Postlude in Flat" '(Abernathy).
Christ Church. Alexandria, Va, will
have the following music today:
Morning service at IL a.m.-Organ
prelude, ''Andantino in d Flat"
tChauvet): solo, Lead, Kindly Light
CPuisutO, McKay: organ postlude, HE
That Shall Endure to the End
Elijah" (MedeIssohn). Evening serv-
ice-Organ recital at 7:40; selection
from the works of Arthur Sullivan,
20 Gladstone Light" 20 Pure in
Heart" God Sent His Messenger,
The Night Is Calm and Cloudless, ;"
The Lost Chord" ("The Golden Leg
endO; solo, Lead. Kindly Light
tPuisutD; organ postlude, "Andante
in F Minor" tSullivan).
The organist and choirmaster Is
George Middleton. A. r. c. o..
At the First Baptist Church this
morning the music will include: Or
gan prelude. "Andante" (MerkeD /;
quartet, 20 Sing New Song" (Dud-
ley Buck); quartet. II Sought the
Lord" (Stevenson9; organ. "PostIude
Iii G' tDv1can.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Final Rehearsal
And Boat Ride

THE Washington Choral Society
l. will hold its last rehearsal for
this season tomorrow night, at s
o'clock. at the Church of the Ascen-
sion. 18th and Massachusetts avenue
northwest. All members are urged to
be present.
ride the night of July 20, All mem
bers and their friends are cordially
invited to join the society on this
trip. A good time Is assured Tickets
may be had by telephoning Mr.. Robert
c. starr. Main $40, branch IL.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Is Homesick.

4 NDREE LAFAYETTE, the beauti-
full imported screen star, admits
she has been guilty of an indulgence
in few days of homesickness.
1T is funny" she laughed. II love
this California. but some way 1t
seems / would give anything to spend
ten days in Paris. ThSa / would
probably return to Los Angeles con-
tent to remain here the est of nv
life. Just ten days is all l would
care for in Paris"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Cham;nade G7ee Club
Ad1ourns.
THE Chaminade Glee Club met

THE Chaminade Glee Club met at
l. the home Of it's new secretary, ].
Walter Bernard. Wednesday even
ing. This "get-together" meeting
was we'll attended.
The director. Miss Esther Linkins,
also the clubs delegate to the con-
vention of the National Federation of
Music Clubs at Asheville, N c., gave
most interesting and inspiring re-
port of her visiit there. After re-
freshments were served the club ad-
journed to meet in the hall and re-
sumo their work.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Tully and Pocahontas.
. ICHARD WALTON TUILY claim.

- lCHARD WALTON TCILY claims
to be direct descendant of Capt.
John Smith and Pocahontas. the in
trepid Indian damsel who may or may
not have saved the captain from a
messy fate, and whose grave. when
opened this week. failed to reveal her
whereabouts. Histoi ians insinuate
that Pocahontas was a foresighted
and imaginative girl, and perchance
that is where Mr.. Tully inherited his
dramatic instinct and originality. He
also Is not lacking in the publicity
instinct
Evening star., 1923-06-24


during the coming year. and will be
followed by several of his pupils in
September.
John Russell Mason, orsanist. left
Thursday for Rochester, n. Y, to at
tend the seventy-sixth convention of
the Theta Delta Chi fraternity as the
delegate of the George Washington
University charge. His place at the
Centennial Baptist Church will be
filled today by Noble L. Owings
Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler. soprano
soloist of the Eighth Street Temple
and Third Church Of Christ, Scientist.
left Wednesday for Hot Springs. Va,
where she will sing at the annual
convention of the District Of Columbia
Bankers Association.
During her absence her place at
the Temple will be filled by Mrs
Weber and Mrs. Buehler will sing
for her at the Third Church.
,Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl. soprano,
Will leave Washington Wednesday to
study with Percy Rector Stephens at
the Chicago College of Music. This
Is the third summer that Mrs. Stahl
mas taken course with Mr..
stephens.
Mrs. F'ranceska Kasper Lawson was
the soloist for the Lutheran Choral
Mrs. Lawson sang Angels Ever
Bright and Fair" (Handel), Schubert's
Ave Marie: Hayden's with Verdure
Clad: Hear Ye. Israeli by Mendel-
sssohn;: and Eckert's ''swiss Echo
Next Friday. Mrs. Lawson will give
her third annual song recital at
William and Mary College, Williams
burg. Va. the oldest educational in
stitution in the United States.
Al the June meeting of the Circola
ltaiiano-when Dr. Roseli spoke on
ancient Rome and modern Italy-the
musical program was rendered by
David Legum; a boy of eleven. who
gave the violin concerto by Accolay
and the First Air Vari" by Duncla.
He was accompanied by his sister.
Little David, who Is a pupil of
Prof Sokoloff. played brilliantly and
received the personal congratulations
or the Italian ambassador who was
present at the meeting of the Circolo.
katherine Riggs. harpist. was solo
ist last Sunday morning at the open
'He oSSSioH VI tic ttntH annual con-
gress Of the International New
Thought Alliance in the ballroom of
the New Willard Hotel. Today Miss
iiggs is solofst at the evening service
in the Calvery Methodist Episcopal
Chufch, Frederick. Md.
Mrs. Bertha Thompson Nelson. a
pianist of league. Tex. who has ap-
peared on concert programs In many
OF the cities OF our largest state, ar
rived in Washington during the past
week. and will spend six weeks with
DR.. and Mrs. T. S. Lovette, well
known In local music circles.
Mrs. Nelson, who was graduated
from the Baylor College Of Music,
where she originally studied under
Dr. Lovette, and took a postgraduate
course, will continue her studies with
him while here this summer Until
her marriage, Mrs. Nelson was an as
sistant piano instructor at the Texas
College.
Miss Elsie Jorss. a popular young
singer of Washington. will leave
shortly for Europe, where she expects
10 spend several months continuing
her musical studies. She expects to
spend most of her time in Paris.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
1WUSl:626t0D

music clubs and other holding
retsls closing general music activities until fall Many
and singers preparing the big
and fill their with European music for the
big
filled rapidly with students whose ambitions
by the physical dcomor of hot weather for
well they experience that talent and genius
courted and attended else the tickle gift will de-
its potency and new magic spell begun " the bottom must
be attempted in the fall
majority and professionals
III Washington that our city supplying generous OF the
pupils schools and that those of local music circles who fare
eastward acquire fuller music knowledge not actual training in
wahinstons will open
ability, podigal
and daughters and ideas local
programs.
THE question opera Washington
be answered de6ne There have been several per,en little
floating sometime during
Washngtonian soothing
of light musical comedies of the DeKoven Victor Herbert
will able indulge
like mosquitoes
They the rather doubtful virtue of always
companied by the irritating quality of elusiveness
Maybe wcn have il. and maybe won't
SPEAKING OPERA brings
lucky ST Louis where marvellous Greek amph
,heae surrounded by such Corot has made immortal affords
real % pF msmo1 ps %aans oae whd truly hs ideal heard the triumphant
s5s do d. ss, ss Sa
s ss S of the ,p ss M Rf0do0" of rip Van Wrinkle" give" several
'nfas s0 sa'' P louis
|" addition this big outlet the education
% Which Tower Grove park ie h n ef Of ns
BY Es E
who gossiping frowned silence
his neghbor
sss BY @ fss @ 'f fvee d % % st va, louis
o s neneo n f"h Enc and @ and id m The sn
noted for love of
of the cities and
M @ 5 to na ' u t both asr of s sm lily
As St Louisan remarked, Our has the
children toothbrush
musical entertainments and listen to talented musicians
GREGORY ZILBOORG translator quoted
~ regarding community Louis:
Municipal
for the independence of American theatrical culture The civic
and which is the important that
Of that great dictator of theatrical shalowness which
WASHINGTON does have place where both popular
orchesras Daniel Breeskn returned
% take welding
Buso and George Wilde also supplying music
other houses
There fly the at
sion chosen responsible for this defect
People will quietly enough the upidest possible
uhat always excepting the show
mnu
particularly classical selection the audience will begin buzzns
listen o small talk instead
diplomatic
musical talent appreciation attended motion
picture
he could look in peace all the the subtes Of which he
sh he could not listen the which he
especially to hear.
than before have
and really fine music artistay presented that this attitude should
state intriguing conjecture one inclined to
phiosop Just why should the fact that individuals
"0'"ss music trying V''' HHLRS teSef
Evening star., 1923-06-24

beautiful Spanish girl in California
in the early days. Colorful music is
given in the telling Of this story
which includes gypsies. Mexicans and
the ever-popular throb Of martial
music. Another opera which he has
completed is The Immigrants"
Other works Mr.. Converse has writ
ten include: Plano suite. Might and
Day" (words by Whitman); The
Mystic Trumpeter." a fantasy for or
chestra, inspired by the same poets
work of that title: La Belle Dame
sans Merci," baritone ballad; three
love songs, two songs for low voice,
two songs for soprano voice, Silent
Noon" oratorio, Job; cantata, The
Peace Pipe: tone poem, Ave atque
Vale; 'Laudate Dominum': sym
phony in G Minor. symphony in E
Minor and incidental music to Percy
Mackaye's Joan of Arc"
1t Is said that Mr.. Converse Is now
at work with another Mackaye pro-
duction which will be fantastic
opera when completed, entitled
Beauty and the Beast"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
DANCING.

PROF. AND MRS. ACHER's STUDIO, 1927
10th st. NV. Class Monday and Friday, to
IL pm. Private lessons by appointment
Phone Franklin 1857. Established 1909 2ss
Dancing is q Necessity, Not q Luxury.
CATHERINE BALE,
At 719 9th ut. NV, FIR 6506, will teach you
guar. LAss. at any time. Class Tues. and Fri.
Spec. rates to ladies' Hrs. 10 am. to 10 pm.
DAVISON'S r.of. I32oMn.w. .,,, ,,,.
Teach you to dance correctly In few lessons.
strictly private. Amy hour. Separate studios.
Class dance Sat. evenings. with ofchestra. els
Evening star., 1923-06-24

be: Organ prelude. Spring Song
(kindler); offertory, quartet, DAY Is
Dying n9.t,sas in shs w Vest 3; Sspsah organ
The choir is composed of Mrs. Flor
ence Howard soprano and director;
Mrs. William T. Reed, contralto: Will
liam G. Atherholt, tenor; Arthur Ches-
ter Gorbach, bass; Charles T. Ferry,
organist
A special musical service will be
given at West Washington Baptist
Church tonight.
Mrs. Ruby Smith stahl, soloist and
director, has announced the follow
ing program: Solo. MY Task" CASH
them. Now the Day Is Over
(Speaks), incidental solo by Ruell
Miller; solo, Like AS Father
lScott). Miss Helen Bury: anthem
The Lord Is King (Buck); solo
Consider the Lilies" (Taplin), Miss
Ruth M. Hansferd: anthem: 20 Pray
for the Peace Of Jerusalem" (Knox)
solo, open the Gates of the Temple
(Knapp), Mrs. Clara Grandfield White
At the Calvary Baptist Church. 9Th
and II streets northwest. the male
quartet. composed of w. F. Raymond,
tenor; j. o. Brison. tenor; Fred Ea st,
baritone. and Charles Moore, bass,
will sing at both morning and even
ing services today.
At the morning service they will
sing the anthem, 20 Sing Unto the
Lord" (Adams). and at the evening
service Adams Softly Now the
Light Of Day."
Mr.. Moore will sing Geibefs BE
Thou My Guide as q bass solo at
the morning service and in the even
ing Mr.. Brison will sing a tenor solo. ,
Louis A. Potter. jr., organist and
choir director, will include among
his numbers at the morning service
In Summer" (Stebbins) and "Scherzo
In Minor" (Bartlett).
At the vesper service, at ais pm.
today, in the First Presbyterian
Church. John Marshall Place. the CO.
lumbian Male Quartet--Paui G. Le-
dig, first tenor; W.. Z. Braithwaite.
second tenor and director; willard
8. Haynfe. first bass, and B. A. Line
back, second bass-wilI sing Lead
KE!induy Light" Dudley Buck). "oh,
Thou Blessed Savior" (Shepard), and
The Lost Chord" (Sullivan).
Mrs. G. F. Scvhutt. organist, will
play Venetian Song" (Neyin} and
oh, Thou Sublime Sweet Evening
Star" (Wagner). Mrs. d. L. Rich
mond and Miss Marion Arnold will
sing the duet, ''Oh. Let Me Whose Sor-
row tRubinstein).
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Musigraphs.

~ AINBRIDGE CRIST. vocal
x teacher, Is sailing for Europe
IL for the purpose Of placing his
artist pupil. Pendleton Barr, In
opera Mr.. Crist will teach in Europe
during the coming year. and will be
followed by several of his pupils In
September.