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The Washington times., 1924-11-10
|ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-In

The birthday of s. L. Rothafel
Is probably just one of the 365 days
in the year to the Little Napoleon
Of the Capitol Theater-a day to
be remembered only by a bowl of
lowers on his desk and few
small gifts from his family and
close friends. e.
But the birthdays of Roxy's
achievements are days to be re-
membered and celebrated.
I Since he entered the fields Of
motion picture presentation and
concert broadcasting. the first five
years ago and the second two years
ago. Roxy has risen swiftly past
4 the successes Of his competitors to
"a rank of his own making.
lmitators of his work have at
tempted to follow him and have
failed. There is only one form
OF a Roxy presentation of motion
pictures and >only one form of a
Roxy radio concert.
Inasmuch as the birthdays OF his
two great. achievements fall on
the same date, 1t is a pity that
another anniversary could not have
conceded with the anniversary of
the opening of the Capitol Theater
and the first broadcast by Roxy's
Gang.
I That anniversary would com
memorate the day that Rothafel
borrowed a score of coIlapsible
chairs from the undertaking estab.
/. lishment of a mining town in the
I West that was Roxy's home, in
order that he might open his and
the towns first movie show.
3 It is a far cry from those funeral
chairs to the luxurious plush seats
{of the Capitol Theater and a still
farther cry to the thousands OF
easy chairs in the thousands of
homes where Roxy entertains.
Every invention is nearly always
greater than the uses to which 1t
is put. But Roxy, more than any
br0adcaster. has endeavored to main
tain the use of radio on a par with
the greatness OF the invention.
In his birthday party last night
ii was impossible for the Little Ma
pcleon to mass together all tho
great things he has done in the
theater and on the air. But he made
superb effort
Perhaps all of us who heard the
concert remembered some beautiful
bit of a Roxy program that we
! would have incorporated in the
birthday entertainment but which
Roxy omitted.
However. there will be more
birthdays and more Roxy successes.
We submit our congratulations to
he shuffled and lost in the thou
sands of fluctuations that are nour.
ing into the Capitol Theater on
this dual birthday of Roxy's achieve
ments.
We have taken a peep at the
clans being made for the benefit
midnight revue to be broadcast
Wednesday night by WCAP for the
Washington Radio Hospital fund.
ard they look immense.
Gretchen Hoou is arranging the
musical program and Leonard Hail
is booking the visiting theatrical
talent for a second part of the en-.
tertainment.
be new alignment of Capital voices
in quartet to be known as the
Euterpeans. 1t is to be made up
Of Miss Hood, Hazel Arth, Everett
Hardell and. j. r. s. Kinsella. Other
/ artists who will appear are Jack
Nesbitt, Artie Faye Guilford, Helen
Gerrer, Zoe Wilson, Arthur Pierce.
I red East, George O'Conno., and
George Wilson.
The Washington times., 1924-11-10
Warns Middle-Aged
Women to Check
High Blood Pressure
Use Norma

Thousands of women at the changing
time Of life are in danger Of high
blood pressure. It is caused by poison
Gus waste matter accommodating In the
system or the weakening of one or
more organs. This forces the heart to
do more work and raises blood pressure
The symptoms are dizziness, hortncss
Of breath, head pains, flushed face,
nervousness or sleeplessness. High blood
pressure must be treated and stopped
for everyone knows it brings on Bright's
disease, apoplexy and often Sudden
death. 1t is too dangerous and quick
acting to go without needing its symp-
toms.
Norma is doctors prescription for
high blood pressure that has been used
with great success
Being a purely vegetable medicine II
contains no habit forming drugs il
harmless and works in such way that
II drives out waste matter, lessons the
duty of the over-taxed heart and re-
duces blood pressure swiftly and safely,
Often one bottle brings great RELIEF.
0Ot bottle of Norma today and free
yourself of life shortening high blood
pressure. For. sale by Peoples Drug
Stores.
The Washington times., 1924-11-10
LOCAL SKINNY FOLKS WELCOME
IMPROYEDCODLIVEROIL TABLETS

millions of Cod Liver Oil vitamines
and they make it possible to take
this terrible tasting, fishy smelling,
stomach upsetting oil as easily -
candy. Besides, they contain tho
combined hypophosphites of lime,
soda and iron to purify the blood
and increase strength and vigor;
quinine, manganese and strychnine
to aid the stomach, heart and
nerves, as well as the greatest of
an blood enrichers. peptonate Of
iron. It's the same formula which
has been used for years in the cela.
brated Earle's Hypo-Cod in liquid
form.
Recommended in Washington by
Peoples Drug Stores and other good
druggists everywhere.
The Washington times., 1924-11-10
Hypo-Cod in Tablet Form
Guaranteed to Build Up
Flesh, En- ergy an d
Strength for Men, Women
and Children.

The great popularity Of Hypo-
Cod in Tablet Form. the improved
compound Cod Liver Oil and Hypo-
phosphites Tablets can easily be
understood. These tablets are sold
on a riloney-back guarantee, and
hundreds of local skinny folks are
finding them of great value in
building flesh. energy and strength
Hypo.Cod Tablets are rich in the
The Washington times., 1924-11-10
Heads Canoe Club

r.. Abbey Bogley last night was
elected commodore Of the Colonial
Canoe Club. Lawrence X. Hyde was
chosen vice commodore and secfe.
tary, and w. o, Biggs, treasurer,
The club met IN the City Club.
The Washington times., 1924-11-10
II3I'IIIlNIIlN
Men Are Worth
AS Much As
Their Glands
GIandogenP Provides Simple Method
OfTaking GIandular Treatment

nR, SERGE voRoNoFF, Of
~ France. who has devoted
years to. experiment in glandu-
lar treatment, has said: "A man
is worth only as much as his
glands" He has also stated
that the functioning of. our orr
gans is no more than the result
OF the activity Of our glands, and
when the bodily functioning is
/ disturbed, the cause in most
cases should be sought, not in
the condition Of the organ itself.
but in the condition of the gland
which controls it.
Glandogen, the new scientific
gland tonic, prepared in tablet
! sorm provides a simple method
OF taking glandular treatment.
Glandogen, for men and women,
is obtainable at all stores of the
Peoples Drug Co.
GLANDOGEN
Evening star., 1924-07-13
"SOuls" of Animals.
NJ

NJ MoUQCET, a member of the
staff of the Paris Museum of
Natural History. is the author of an
interesting article, recently published
in the Paris Revue d'Histoire Natu-
reile Applique, on the treatment of
animals in medieval times. At that
time animals were supposed to have
souls and a knowledge Of good and
evil, SO were often brought into court
for their misdeeds and tried. or duels
were arranged between them and hu-
man beings. A story is told of a
handsome dog whose master had been
found murdered in the forest. The
dog insisted upon fercely attacking
a certain man whenever he met him, so
that the latter was suspected of hav-
ing committed the murder and SEN
fenced to a duel with the dog. A club
was named as the mans weapon and
the dog was allowed a kennel to take
refuge in. The dog won
Evening star., 1924-07-13
In the Churches

The following music, under the df-
rection of Estelle Wentworth, will be
presented at Christ Church. Alexan-
dria, Va, today: Morning service, II
am.-Organ prelude. "Adagietto"
(Bizet); 'Te Deum" (Schnecker); Of
-fertory anthem, God Shall Wipe
Away All Tears" (Field): organ post
lude, "Marche Celebre" Hachner).
Evening service, 8 a.m.-Organ pre-
lude, Air in F. Minor" (Pergolesi) :
anthem, 20 Saviour Of the World
(Goss); offertory, tenor solo by Ellis
worth Condron; organ postlude,
March in D Major" (HandeD.
The quartet at Christ Church is
composed of Janet Pickett, soprano,
Alice Strauss, contralto; Ellsworth
Condron, tenor, and Russell Cor1rey,
bass. and Katherine Seeley is the or.
ganist.
The music for today's services at
Episcopal Church South, under the
direction of r. Deane Shure, will be
as follows: Morning, organ prelude,
selected; anthem, 'Great Is the Lord
(Ashford); soprano solo, 81 Will Give
Thanks" (Wilson). Louise Charlton;
organ posuude, selected. Evening
Twenty minute organ recital by r.
Deane Shure; anthem, "He Leadeth
Me" (Gilmore-w WILSON,; baritone solo,
"The Lord Is My Light" Irving T.
Horn; organ postlude. selected.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
NAVY Band Concerts.

concert will be given tomorrow
at 5.m.. at the Capitol by the
United States Navy Band. Charles
Benter, director.
The program will include: March,
The Charlatan" (Sousa): overture,
william Tell" (RossinD: suite. ''The
Song OF Songs (Moya); Arabian
Dance (Crist), Chinese Dance"
(CrisD; Grand March, "Hongruise"
from "Damnation de Faust" (Berlioz)
grand scenes from the opera Tam
hauser'' (wagner), and Prologue
from "Pagliacci" GIeoncavallo); fan
tasia. Dixie" (BellstedD; Excerpts
from, "Erminie" (JakobowskD: val Sc
de ballet "Bluette" (Drigo); finale,
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Tuesday evening a concert will be
presented at 7:30 o'clock, reservation
322b, 18th and Shepherd streets north
east, by the United States Navy Band.
The program will be: March "Thun-
'The Beautiful Galatea" (Van Suppe)
suite, THE Western World" (Sousa)
characteristic, "reminiscences of the
Plantation" (Chambers); excerpts
from the musical comedy. "Katinka'
(FrinlD; valse de concert, ia Belle
kODnlalne (lVOnlVlCa), popular SeleC-
ton. finale, THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
A third concert by the band will
be given Wednesday evening at 1880
O'Clock, at the banGStand of the navy
yard, under Charles Benter. director
Invincib1e Eagle" (Sousa); overture.
"Mignon'' (Thomas): suite de ballet.
from "Coppelia' CDelibes); grand
arch. "Heroique" tSaint-Saens)
grand scenes from the opera, Ca
valleria Rusticana" (MascagnD; suite
Moment Musical" (Schubert), and
"Minuet" from Don JUAN" (Mozart)
tone picture, THE North and South
(Rendix); excerpts from "F1orodoro"
(Stuart); valse de concert, Gold and
Silver dehar); popular selections,
finale, "The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1924-07-13

he differed from Mozart So long as
our audiences do not hear American
music except in negligible propor-
non there can be no American school
because there is neither incentive
nor reward for the American COM
poser. Our country has little oppor-
tunity to know what it can itself
produce in music.
england had the same experience
untli the war. Then there came a
generation of English conductors
headed by Goosens and Albert Coates
HaVlng their opportunity, they made
good-So good that America has he
gun importing them Both Goosens
ana coates are at Rochester conduct
ing the Eastman Orchestra
In Europe last winter I met PanI
Ielt1ens, who had taken an opera
Which he wrote while at the Mac
lowell Colony, at Peterboro, N. n. to
.refmany and was seeking a produc-
Ion tnere IN the hope that ultimately
ne could. by reason of European sue
cess, get a hearing in his home coun-
Try. TettJenS wrote the music for
Ihe Wizard of o." and his "Car-
naval Mr.. Ganz played at a pop"
concert in st. Louis in the course of
MS hrst season in the city"
Charles Previn's father. a BROOKLYN
cantor. had destined him to be a
teacher of modern languages. His
1ather was musical and his sister Was
d brilliant pianist. from whom the
Municipal Opera conductor took his
,irst music lessons. Previn's school
French and German. Musical tainnf
biossomed early. He won a scholar
snip in the New York Conservatnrv
That was followed by a scholarship
at cornell, where he majored in mod
ern languages, at the same time win
ming. scholarship in the conserva-
tory at Ithaca. He played in the col
Iege orchestra, taught piano and was
active in the glee club and under.
eontrih,,to erntuhte musical life. In 1908 he
caterpiller," the annual college mu-
sical play. In 1909 he comnosed the
score of "Hoolong" for the same at
fair: Mr.. Previn graduated, got a lob
,s,ith, with music publishing house and
attention of Alfred Aarons. general
manager for A. l.. ErIanger' who Of
fered him a place.
Come True" and His Honor the
Mayor" were some of the works in
winch he served apprenticeship as
| conductor Then came "The Choco-
Iate Soldier" with the original com
paas' Ta La ihe hnciis Kivsria Girl" "Maytime,'
Two Little Girls in Blue" He was
with Jolson for a year in "Sinbad ;,
with The Passing Show in 1915"
M M|Ith q. M. Anderson in the second
| Greenwich Village Follies." Then
ne became Mr.. Erlanger's general
musical director and conducted some
1Wenty-eight New York premiers.
| There came a big offer to organize
a jazz band and tour in yaudeyiIie
but Mr.. Previn says he can't see a
future in jazz; the eternal beat OF
rhythms gets too monotonous. Then
ne was offered the opportunity in st.
| Louis.
I'll work little at composing this
summer, perhaps" concluded Mr.. pre-
win, IF can, but / know this-I will
get some good work in this winter
for I'm going back to Europe and
win reputation and then come
home"
Evening star., 1924-07-13

hundreds singers to European
shores aurel
the articles this subject
the Vanity Fair in which Fritz Krese vont
the modernis in music:
melody harmony they use; euphony
eaded of positive weakness. They casting tradition
the composers
delight the children chanting
alphabet nventing
and calling for instruments because the Old unable
to produce the sounds required They seek replace harmony
with dionances frankly admit there of the modern
whom
from what have learned
have but they leading
anharted We can only watch their experiments
-paheey and what of them
some men who can make real music today conentng themselves
making noise"
mature Mr. Hsf Of s e bdo fHd W m a"k the attitude the
al the world with his Interpretation masters Of
tevnots on PGxnss % 9 the s New Ho5 similar
uner sefge Roussek G" e e Pr nf cses
"ss s:ss ;s1sp S as, s1e
s a M fas fss be" h1t told e a at
70? "Sa S':s "'f IS
SG"s @ @ o e % '"e d66 or @ Pfsst S 5G ss h
How his music will open
"d & o ss H s" a @
Dance eeo oHest nime % M m
phones conducts an with no % bra and sao-
aved a t M d puOn @ sfneTay showing an interest in Jazz slightly
and spend s0 d trick s % % % 5o mPf t for
with exception Of "What Do mehouse Blu sed ] and and
inger Awhile there
the wised
definite
ne" THIS on and retaining instead of throwing
general public from ~ '"s >N' ''e
composers busy the
director OF music at the Mount Vernon Place NJ f South and
ihS year OF distinctly religious
he brilliant piano suite Washington played
programs mas Just completed another
gung meodes is based bird motifs Schuyler
BOOK Wild Birds
GA PERMISSION OF the author There four in suite
and bird through dav
with the pert bobonk IN that JOY lne
u @ neat or dTowsy noontlde rrod the voupuou Of the
the backbird Then
oefosd dusk comes the dancing melody OF nnet told in
o the
gGm @ me ,neyitabIe will pnve the
series composition enchants
ing IN the owls note and other night fitting finale to
49,. HELEN FETTER.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Musiigraphs

MARY NJ WILLIAMS. organist of
Christ Church, Georgetown, spent
the past week in Richmond, Va, re-
turning home in time for the service
at the church this morning. She will
leave town again on Wednesday, go
ing to Chautauqua, N. Y, where she
Will join her aunt and uncle, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. wilkins of Alabama, who
are motoring in that part of the
return to Washington from this trip
on September /.
Audrey Hall. twelve-year-old vio-
linist, daughter of Capt and Mrs. T.
Hall of Miami. Fla, delighted an
audience or music lovers at the Hotel
she played a program worthy of a
Vlrtuoso. Her selections included
numbers by Kreisler, Chaminade.
Cesar Cut, Drdla and De Beriot. She
Is pupil of Auer of New York and
stopped in Washington on her way
voted to studying in New York
Alice Glassmail Sharpe, soprano, sang
several selections at the service at St
Peters Church during the Price we'd
ding ceremony. Mrs. Sharpe sang in a
prominent church on the Pacific Coast
before coming to Washington and also
has sung in grand opera with Paul
Althouse OF the Metropolitan Opera
company. She has sung during serv-
ices in both Sacred Heart and ST.
Patrick's Church, recently
Julia Culbreth Gray, meZZo-contralto,
Will leave Washington tomorrow to fill
summer school engagements at the Vir-
gfnia Normal School, Petersburg, Va;
East Carolina Teachers College, Green
vile, \. c.; Choral Club, Windsor, n.
c.: Furman University, Greenyille, S.
c., and other points in western North
Carolina.
Mrs. Gray's program is an illustrated
folk lore recital
Evening star., 1924-07-13


eradicated."
Mrs Bond is now president of G.. J.
Bond & Son, publishers, and has fire.
quently designed her cover pages for
her musical compositions. She also
has beautiful bungalow near Holly
wood, Calf, which she designed her
self Her storytelling with her songs
is one Of the rare treats, artistically,
that one is allowed these days. Mrs.
Bond writes her music in "A manner
that is easily singab:e by the major
ity of people and is equally readily
understood by them, causing it's great
popularity. For this style Of music
she has made a niche for herself in
the list Of composers. She is a mem
ber of the League of American Pen
Women-in fact, was one of the earli-
est woman composers, il not the ac-
tual first, to become affiliated with
the organization. 1t is hoped that she
will be able to be in Washington next
April, when the American woman
composers connected with the league
stage their own musical festival"
Mrs. Bond is also member Of the
Woman's Press Club, the Amateur
Musical Club and an honorary mem
ber of Kappa Beta Gamma.
Mrs. Bonds songs include: Seven
Songs" Ten Songs" Eleven Songs"
"A Perfect Day u910). Little Pink
Rose" "A Haunting Memory" God
Remembers When the World For
gets To-day" and DO You Rene m
ber?"
Her more recent compositions are:
THE Lazy River" a song of the stern
wheel boat driving up the Yukon
River. dedicated to her friend, the ia =
nous singer Marguerite Sylvia: His
Lullaby" dedicated to the great con-
tralto, Nine Schumann- Heink; Lit
tie Lost Youth of Me" the well known
Il Love You Truly" and Just
-Wearyin' for You
Evening star., 1924-07-13
American Composers
Carrie Jacobs Bond
. HERE are few musical COM
positions which are more
generally loved by the Amer

l
positions which are more
generally loved by the Amer
lean public than "a Perfect
Day." by Carrie Jacobs Bond, one OF
the most prominent in a list of Ameri-
| can woman composers. The plaintive-
| ness of the simple melody, the uni
versal appeal of the human pathos in
| the simple lyric and the marked
| swing of the tempo all combine in
giving this work immortality with
| the average American.
Few people, however. know that
| this composition was inspired by a
| veritable perfect day" spent by the
| composer herself. She had taken
| trip with friends across the great Mo-
| jave Desert by automobile and re-
| turned during gorgeous moonlit
| night. Mrs. Bond, however, has told
Dorothy De Muth Watson, well known
| Washington writer on musical SUBJ
| jects, that she thinks she has done
even better with her newest song.
| Il have another. newer song, which
/ think will replace the Perfect Day"
| in the favor of the American public,
| and | hope it will" said Mrs. Bond.
| 1T is called Hand Of YOU" Mrs.
Bond was on her way for a Mediter-
| ranean voyage. just stopping over for
! little visit in Washington, the last
| time she was here.
Carrie Jacobs Bond was born in
GAINESVILLE, Wis, August II, 1853, the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hannibal
Jacobs. She was educated at the pub
lie schools, and in June, 1887, was
married to Frank l.. Bond. doctor of
medicine, of Iron River, Mich. 1t was
not until her husbands death, in 1895.
that it became necessary for Mrs.
Bond to help support the family, and
she turned to her musical profession
and gave concerts. Mrs. Bond had
shown musical ability at an early age
and toured both America and Europe,
singing her own compositions.
Several years ago, at an informal
gathering of the members Of the local
chapter of the League of American
Pen Women, Mrs. Bond was the guest
of honor for the tea hour and she was
prevailed upon to play some of her
own compositions. Then II was that
she told a story that was featured by
the pluck and pathos of her efforts in
the face of indifferent audiences dur
ing those early struggles to gain rec
ognition and livelihood for her
amily
The first time l appeared in pub
lie | was so poor that l could not af-
ford an evening dress for the occa-
sion said Mrs. Bond. 80 j took
fine lace curtain and tried to con-
struct frock out of that. It was, of
course. quite obvious to the women in
my audience what had furnished nv
costume. yet, instead Of appreciating
my need and giving me courteous at
tentlon in my musical efforts, those
women made fun of me and implanted
Evening star., 1924-07-13
The Hair Net Industry.

THE future commercial prosperity
of Chefoo, China, a city of 100,-
900 population, can be determined
only when it is known whether Amer
lean women will continue to bob their
hair or return to flowing and errant
tresses. Chefoo's chief industry is
making hair nets and they sell
s5.000,000 worth to this country each
year, in addition to exporting $3.-
060,o00 worth to France and other
countries. In China the price for the
nets runs from 81 to 81 a gross and
for making them factory workers are
paid cents a day.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Proposes School for
American Conductors

"THE chief hope for an American
school of music lies not in
jazz but in "A school Of American
conductors, states Charles Previn,
musical director of the st. Louis Mu-
nicipal Opera, and that is why each
year when the European songbirds
take their flight for American con-
cert halls Mr.. Previn travels in the
opposite direction-to Europe. In the
spring he returns after years study
with the European masters. For
to achieve a European reputation
before your own countrymen will
give you a hearing in America"
Charles Previn is as American as
Brooklyn, where he was born, and
Cornell. where he was graduated in
1909. He conducted more than sixty
musical comedies before devoting his
time to work as operate and
symphonic coAductor and composer.
1t was to carry out the latter plan
that Mr.. Previn accepted his position
with municipal opera in St Louis
and. like the famous symphonic con-
ductors, after his season here he
rusheS off to Europe. Last winter he
spent in Vienna studying with the
famous composer and critic, Egon
NelleSZ tnImSelI pupil OF SchOen-
berg). Mr.. Previn specialized in mod
crn harmony and composition. The
season before was spent in Berlin
studying the techniqIe of conduct
ing.
We can't have an American school
OF music until we have American
conductors" he repeated $50 long
as we import conductors we will i'm
port our music Each conductor
trained in his own national school
will, instinctively. build his programs
largely upon the work of that school
Because before the war we had a.
preponderance of German conductors
our music was mostly German.
80 much of the enjoyment of music
rests in the fact of recognition and
OF custom. Mozart was condemned as
an innovator because he had adopted
into the symphony some things diff
fering from Haydn Beethoven was
condemned as a revclutionist because
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Mirrored Vision.

GAM TIANA, a fourth grade pupil in
~ Fairmont, w. Va, public school,
has a mirrored vision. Sam sees back
ward, reads backward and writes
backward. The teacher has to hold
his writing to mirror to read it In
stinct has taught the youth to take
care of himself. When he is crossing
a street he realizes that a car which
seems to be going away from him is
actually coming toward him. When
Sam sees steps which seem to lead up,
he steps down or goes around them.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Dogs as ReScuers.

MRS. RUBY PETT1s' who lives on
A'A a ranch near The DalIes. Ore,
was pinned under heavy wagon,
which turned over when she was on
the way to town. Her two dogs, Jacks
and Pup, imm ediately dug a hole un-
der her head and body, thus enabling
She was unable to extricate herself
and was not rescued for fifteen hours,
when a neighboring rancher came
along.