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The De Sayn Quartet.

THE Elena De Sayn String Quartet,
appearing Wednesday evening at
the First Congregational Church, will
be heard in a program of classic and
modern composers. The combination
OF one, two, three and four instru-
ments will be featured.
The concert is under the auspices
and for the benetit of the Business
Women's Council. The members of
the quartet are: Elena de Sayn,
Frieda Irwin, Lydia Brewer and Her
man Sevely.
The program will be: Suite in
Old style for String Quartet (Jan
Brands Buys); duets for violin and
Gallo. "Berceuse" and "Etude"
fGliere); trio for violin, viola and
cello (Beethoven) children's tone pic
tures, Little Gnomes Meeting A
Frog" "In the Swing "A Frolic,"
vision du Monde Antique "a Lit
tie Girl Imploring Her Mother" "A
sad Story Which Ends Well (Rebi
kow); "Scherzo" QppolitowI Ivanow)
Quartet IN O Minor 1Grieg4
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of many of the States of the Union
will be present.
{ The soloists will be the same as
have sung the leading parts in many
of the performances in Bethlehem,
where the mass is sung every May.
This is the first time that ii will be
given in Washington by the choir.
Charles Trowbridge Tittmann. well
known bass of this city, win sing
his accustomed role. Other soloists
are Mildred Faas, soprano; Mabel
Addison, contralto, and Nicholas
Douty, tenor.
Tickets for the performances are
on sale at T. Arthur Smiths Concert
Bureau, 1906 G street northwest.
While the choir is in town the
members will be entertained at many
luncheons and dinners. including a
tea at the Women's City Club, given
by the members of the Friday
Morning Music Club, following the
choir's reception at the White, House
by President and Mrs. Coolidge.
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Rebew Public Rehearsal.

THE Rebrew Orchestra, under the
direction of H. w. Weber, gave
the fourth of its series of public re-
hearsals recently in the lecture room
of Keller Memorial Church. The
soloists were Helen Hanlein, So
prano, who sang THE Rosary" and
Vale; Marcel Provost, baritone
whose numbers included There Is
Sunlight in Your Eyes" and Brown
Birds Singing" and +. A. Buell., who
gave 1.-THE Lost Chord and "Then You'll
Remember Me-" Mrs. John G.. Klein
and Mrs. Z. l.. Weber, accompanied
the singers. The orchestra numbers
included Battle of the Waves
(HalD, overture, 'Pique Dame
(Suppe); reverie, Sunset Land
(kaweola) selections from Lilac
Domino" (Cavallisr), BLACK Queen,
overture, and Deed of the Pen,'
march,
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Caryl Bensel.

CARYL BENSEL will be heard in
~ Washington April 20 in the fourth
promenade concert of the All-Ameri-
can series being held at the May
flower Hotel, when a program fea-
turing opera numbers will be given.
Miss Bensel is we'll known in the
East and South. She is said to pos
sess "a voice of unusual beauty which
she uses skilfully and with under
standing of the finer elements OF in
terpretation and phrasing."
Tickets for this concert are on sale
at the Mayfiower Hotel and at Home er
L. kits, 1880 G. street northwest.
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pearance in Washington. Mr.. NUM-
substituted for Ethel Leginska in the
New York recital scheduled to be
given by her at the time of her sud-
den disappearance.
His program will include Organ
Toccata. Adagio and Fugue, c Major"
Bach -BusonD; Moonlight Sonata"
Opus 27, No CBeethoven); "Menuet''
CRameau Godowsky) Moment Musi-
car' (Schubert- -Godowsky), Tango
(Albeniz-Godowsky prelude, G.
Major" (Rachmaninoff); "Etude
Tableaux, B Minor" (Rachmaninoff) !:
"Etude Tableaux, E Flat Major"
(Rachmaninoff): "Nocturne" (Cho-
pin), "Mazurka" Chopin, "valse"
(Chopin), and "Polonaise, Opus 53'
(Chopin).
Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Wilson
Green's Concert Bureau, Thirteenth
and G. streets.
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Jascha Heifetz Next Sunday

WASHINGTON will have the only
w opportunity to hear Jascha
Heifetz, famous young violinist, for
nearly two years next Sunday eve
ming at the Washington Auditorium.
when he will give a concert featuring
Grieg's Sonata in c Minor" He ex-
poets to leave the United States for
a tour of Europe and the Orient
shortly after this performance and
has already given his farewell con-
cert in New York City. Mr. Heifetz
will be accompanied by Isidor
Achron and will play Joseph Achron' s
composition, La Romanesca," for the
first time in Washington in this
program.
Tickets for this recital can be pur-
chased from Peggy Albion's Concert
Bureau, in Jordan's, Thirteenth and G
streets
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negie Hail March II this year. She
toured Europe in concert work for
two years and during that time
played with the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra. She is stopping in Wash
ington to give this one recital before
going to the West for an extended
tour. She is native of Iowa and
thus is particularly interested in the
State Society meeting at this time.
1t is probable that Miss Niemack
will include the Lale Spanish Sym
phony" in her program Thursday
night. She received special praise
for her playing of that work in the
New York recital.
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NJ u S I c.
By Helen Fetter.

DURING the past few months several who have stood in the small
Lie The passing of these personalities deeply mou5ned
Apr Se1 foo"i"s
the s~ uSya s9P m:"B who
Tin de f9ks sang at the MeTGpoan Opera ous the
heard in this country two greatest sgfed He
the g In an 669 s0i 2en in the New ] York Ree & R1s
G 1gf & D old I rO the elder & &
@ med H % pbe s w l g % & yGg S go a % q IN d t ]
m Tesrdfd % p pu6e & should ask Why doesn't he co. He lives in the
art who embodied the pobi
was something beyond beauty
mind and heart hon through potency
sompeHs pndeFy eeythng
record, efulgcnt page in history
ME- ERNEST NEWMAN the eminent English spent
m S e F aea"s n Fa S the u sssd 5o5 New sne
4s s aaa Ss9 S 4 My TS 1 5as 'i i'll s
as es'' and @
Mr. crisp nd s:ssty % mus"
THE MusFbs des Anbruch Uienna) de
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Moseow Symphony Orchestra plays without and plays
IN the dondon editor Sir Terry
sn listens every possible good u but his real
Opera comique in dieth anniversary the first
and M s house Be seeP s Ssa @ h 50 Ya ae
know how performances of opera all
oo ppeasd Which m f5s Rasned
the untimey and ever-deplorabe death OF the composer
papers read last year before the Musical Association in
"A George Dyson OF the Living
Here pertinent quotation from this 1T
apparently Of no mind critically 0 CONSIDERED
There plenty enbum tReTe ph9G % no
b Back Sad 5 % G P % pubic 81 W 3
Pes by the It same eG % s PeS ese o 7 sGsa Of s
5Ss SH Of FS @ s @ h @ OF equal
IN Music and Letters Qondonl April medicine"
The case OF the internal although its has been
sfaetGry theory to its working which has been generally
S h H o hf H s S1 Not G long
d THAT that q % ear . DR. our n piG fdsn % mot fully
degree changes have taken
place in the music Of the last two three The
music. Alas, it
THE memory Asgcr Hameri Danish musician who was director OF
ls the night OF April when bTonze mdaon pre Im
d It Eeness Mr. Hm % ho ded Gt th cophae 5Iee Ta n Us Is
@ of e s in ] @ onnd % % M
H"s %ss ms PSs pa %o 2% own works " this
THE musical miracle play The Pilgrims Progress written by Edgar
den London by the joint cho of Birmingham Wvhampton
The ots we're Ugsua G sea EDITOR of the
New YORK sP Wam Denn m No 5d ' John f fs 5
ngdm shd M Gs 1sT a0 & took Kfnns Ken
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the OF the to be held by
the 10 ne5naTna ter Society for Conempor4ry Mus in Prague May
IN the New York papers contains the following paragraph
invited with
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dea Enke BehusIar MaTnq Vaughn Williams Krenk MaHpero
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of the band, will play Verdi's Celeste
Aida
The overture TO THE Roman Carni
VAL, by Berlioz, will open the pro-
Capt. Santelmann' waltz suite,
"The Debutante," and Dvorak's fifth
symphony, opus 50, popular under the
title "The New World symphony,
will complete the program
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q - n .
A special fea :
ture of this con
cert will be the
first performance
of the tone-poenl
Indians of Amer
ica" by Principal
Musician Sieg-
frie d Scharbau.
Mr.. Scharbau ha S
been a member of
the band for over
eighteen years.
He has several
meritorious COM
positions TO his
credit. Principal
Musician Robert
E. Clark, the
cnlni
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tlt d u III CNl 10 a
Rauscher's Thurs
day night at $50,
when she will be
the soloist for the
meeting of the
Iowa State So
ciety at a pro
gram to be fol-
lowed by dancing &.
Miss Niemack
was soloist with
the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra
W h e n she was
only IA years old,
and created a sen =
sation when she
played with the
New York State
Orchestra at Car
- CT
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Oer the auspices
of the Community
G c n I e r Depart
m ent of the Pub
lie Schools. This
will be the last
concert in the
students course. ="
This young ar
tist made a sue
cessful tour of
the West recently.
He toured Aus
tralia last Sum
mer. Recently he
appeared as solo
ist with the Bos-
ton Symphony Or
che stra and kous-
sevitzky. This will
he his first an
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grams arran ged
for children at
that theater dur
ing S a I u r d a y
n o rn ! n & S this
Winter. He has
replaced jazz with
good music, cal
C u ] a I o d to in
creas Sc the chill
dren's innate mu-
sical sense and
develop interest
in such works as
will lead later TO
sincere apprecia-
ton of real music
on the part of
these C h / dre n
when they are
DTnNrn
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PLAYS New Tone Poem.

THE United States Marine Band Or
L chestra will give its April sym
phony Friday, at $50 pm. in the
band auditorium at the Marine Bar
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Ilse Niemack, Violinist.

TLSE NIEMACk, a young violinist
who is said to have remarkable
talent and fine finish in her playing,
though only 20 years of age, will be
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DrNORA NhDWORNEY
A New Pianist Here.

'MIECzYSLAw NUM-. the Polish
~ pianist, will be heard in recital
Friday evening at $50 o'clock at the
Central High School. Auditorium un-
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HAROLD PEASE, organist at the
l L Tivoli Theater, has won special
commendation for the fine taste he
showed in music chosen for the pro-
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John r. Monroe presented Edith
Miller Haring, soprano, in recital II
Advent Parish Hall recently. kath
crime Riggs, harpist, assisted The
singers numbers included works by
Arditi, Barthelemy, Veracini Wagner.
Brahms, Schubert, Bizet, de Lara,
Massenet, Handel, Burleigh, Ronald
and Chadwick.
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sylvania avenue: George w. Sousa,
522 Seventh: William c. Taylor, 759
Sixth; George H. Saulsman, 541 Ninth:
Charles V. Schofield, 512 E. Mary Cox,
1110 E: James B. Daily, 1926 Fifth;
Ferdinand G. Beckert. 400 Eighth:
Philip F. Biegler. 1901 E; William c.
Buckingham. 229 Ninth; Pauline Ise-
mann, 1116 c; Fritz Isemann, Is
Sixth; John W. Arth, 351 Eleventh
Hattie l.. Barney, 533 Eleventh; Carl
and Will Au, 819 B; Louis NJ. Kruger.
761 Seventh: Hugo Kuerschner, lib
B: William Esputa, sos Eighth: Cal
vim P. Huestas. 116 Tenth; Mary l.
Hobgood. 209 Third; Edward Hurting
641 A; Edward Hurting, his son. 639
A; Henry Jaeger. Is Fourth; Joseph
A. Jaegle, 710 E; Joseph Haina, 400
Twelfth; Jane Herold, 230 New Jer.
sey avenue; Frederick w. Fletcher,
722 Twelfth: James w. Flood $50 E:
Alfred Giacchetti, 1905 E: William
Giacchetti, S11 Virginia avenue
Joseph Giovannoni, 913 Tenth; Mitch
ell Dausch, 911 B. Henry j. Davey,
718 Seventh; Alfonso De V.ncente, 914
Eighth; Antonio Eopolucci, 712 Ninth;
Samuel Eopolucci. ia I. and VIII
liam Esputa, sos Eighth. The Ram
bier will be glad to be reminded of
old Southeast musicians he has over
looked.
Capt William H. Santelmann lived
in the southeast and is old enough
to be included in this list. 1 have
on my desk The Star of March 8,
1928, with story that Capt. Santel-
mann ''is observing the twenty-fifth
anniversary of his leadership of the
Marine Band" In this / read that
VIII SSntelmarM enlisted in the
Marine Band in 1885 and at the time
of this observance of his twenty-fifth
anniversary of continuous service had
served 33 yeacs.
After eight years in the band he
left to enter orchestral work, played
in the orchestra of the Lafayette
Square Opera House for some time
and conducted the orchestra of the
Columbia Theater for several years.
He returned to the Marine Band In
1898 as its leader.
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in 1920, was trained in the art of
music from childhood, and played in
bands and orchestras in Italy. He
came to the United States and to
Washington in 1S43, enlisted in the
Marine Band. and made his home in a
house on Seventh street southeast,
between G and /. He remained in the
Marine Band till some time in the
Civil War, when he helped recruit
and organize in the military camp,
band for service in the Union Army
of the Potomac.
That band served with troops in
the field, but what it's name and serv-
ice were the Rambler does not know
Not long before the end of the war
Gaetano Repetti was a member of
Ford's Theater Orchestra, and then
later joined the orchestra of the
Theater Comique, later Kernan's
changes, The President Theater He
retired from music and went into
business in southeast Washington.
Soon after enlisting in the Marine
Band. he bought the frame house
No. 527 Sixth street southeast, and
two of his children, Henry Repetti
of the Marine Band and Miss Anna,
are HVlng there. 1t is one of the
old and comfortable homes of the
street.
Gaetano Repetti married Miss Lena
Dilgers at New York. She was Ger
man-born, and the bride and bride
groom came 10 the Sixth street home
There all their children were born
In The Star. Monday, June 20, 1904
was this death notice: ION Saturday,
June 18, 1904, at 2 pm. at his resi-
dence, 527 Sixth street southeast.
Gaetano Repetti in the Saith year of
his age. Funeral from his late resi-
dence, Tuesday, June II, at pm
OF the sons of Gaetano the Ram
bier remembers Joseph, William,
John, Henry. Albert and Frederick
All the boys studied and practiced
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straw stack on either side of his plane.
He had landed squarely between them
without foot to spare on either side
If he had tried the feat in the day
time he would have hit either one,
without doubt, but landing in the
dark, he was lucky enough to steer
exactly between the stacks, and miss
cracking-up.
Lieut.. Leslie P. Arnold, one of the
Army Air Service officers who recently
completed the round the world flight,
tells about a forced landing he once
made in France during the war. He
picked out what looked like a level
spot in the dark and made a perfect
landing. He then found himself head
ed directly for a single lone tree in the
center of this large level open space
the only tree within miles, and he was
going to hit it, But luck was with
him and after escaping all the bullets
Of the enemy he did not succumb
ironically to fate. His machine glided
carefully up to the tree and stopped
with the wings tight against the bark.
X
COME of the narrow escapes pro-
~ vide considerable humor-after
they are all over. Capt. w. H. Davis
an aviator of>the Marine Corps, was
flying in Virginia eze night. His gas
oline ran out and he realized that he
would have to land, but it was very
dark, so he circled about to land at as
slow speed as possible. Sometimes
it is possible to cut down the speed al
most to nothing, and In this case he
dropped gently down in the blackness
of the night and landed in the top of a
tree in a park in the middle of a small
town. The inhabitants were awakened
from a sound slumber by what seemed
to be a new species of owl. In the top
of the tallest tree of the village was a
dark object that uttered fiendish
shouts, much to their astonishment.
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" HREE men came into the pie
shop where take my pran-
dium and said: Il slept under
i blanket last night. There's
always a cool breeze out my
way. No matter how hot it is down
town, we always have a breeze at
Thistlehurst." There's no night in
Summer when we folks on Prickle-
bush avenue don't sleep under blank
ets." This morning l had shredded
roses and cream for breakfast-roses
out of my own patch and cream from
my own COW. You fellows ought to
move out to Brushwood Park
The kiosk on the Avenue said 105 in
the shade and there was no shade. The
bathing beach was done away with.
The fountains, so far from playing an
sparkling, had no water in them. John
Garland Of the Water Department con-
voked council of reporters at the
District Building and said: Boys,
tell 'em to slow up on the water. Even
that stuff may get scarce
Edefs Summer garden on E street,
Charlie Engle's on East Capitol, George
Halls and Johnnie Loffier's near the
Navy yard, Chris Heurich's, George
Drivers, Juennemann's and the
Schuetzen Park are but foamy mem
cries. Jean Perreard. Charlie Rupper-
tuS, Sebastian Aman, Fritz Reuter-,
John Appich, Ernest Gerstenberg, Pat
Cannon. John DeAtley, Charlie Dis
mer, Andy Hancock, Henry Klotz,
Dennis Mullany, Charlie Mades and
Charlie Osborn and Patrick Hoban no
longer divert us from the heat
Yet, on the day l write this-while
reporters are calling out all their ad-
jectives in honor of the heat, and ad-
dressing the sun as Old Sol-these
vaingloriouS ruSticS from the suburbs
come in and say: We'll. boys, it's hot
downtown, but out at Cocklebur Ter
race / slept under blankets last night"
One of them lives In house with
tin roof, and two blocks down the
road stands lonely pine. When !
lived In Uniontown, l would come to
town on July day when merchant
princes of the Avenue were sitting on
the sidewalk before their stores, for
air, and would say: We'll, gents, /
slept under a blanket last night. No
matter how hot it is downtown.
there's always an Atlantic City breeze
off the Eastern Branch. and for
breakfast / ate grapefruit grown in
my own back yard"
**
THE Rambler has assumed to re-
call to you the musicians of youne
Washington. Many of you do not
need to recollect them: YOU remem-
ber them and will remember while
you live. The Rambler holds in gem
tie memory those he knew, and he
hopes that as these stories go along.
You VIII bring to his notice names of
musicians he has forgot or did not
know.
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be the desire for it. They are making
tremendous effort to turn an empire
of ages into republic. 1t cannot be
done overnight. There are some that
say 1t cannot be done at all, but the
Chinese are essentially liberty-loving
and an individualistic race, so there is
no real reason why it cannot be done.
The great danger lies in the menace
of bolshevism before republica is
truly understood. Because of their
proximity to Russia. with it's blood
thirsty propaganda, they are gravely
threatened by this evil. and China in
the deathgrip of the Soviet would be
lost to civilization. But while boil
shevists plot and denounce, militar-
lists rise and fall, foreigners come and
go, the coolies plod along, laughing a
little. weeping a little, contented if
undisturbed. In the green fields, in
the crowded cities, on the great riv-
ers, doing what they have always
done, believing what they are told
thus YOU will find them. and thus you
will leave them-the coolies-cheap
Chinese labor.
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extra each month through the time
honored system of squeeze" or COM
mission, on all purchases bought by
any member of the household. The
tradesmen are supposed to pay this.
but, of course, it is always included
in the purchase price, so it is actually
the employer who pays, and pays, and
pays. You cannot help being gen.
timely fond of these white-robed servi-
tors, who, as rule. give you "a hours
of faithful, if sometimes misunder-
stood, devotion. They try to compre-
hend your strange habits, and orders
given in foreign tongue. With one
or two exceptions we will cherish af
fectionate memories of all whom we
have employed.
The Menace of BOlshevism.
1t has been said that the Chinese
mind will ever be incomprehensible to
the Western mind. And l believe that
that is so. Therefore. we will never
be able to solve their many problems
for them. Reform must come from
within, and, first of all, there must
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III. F. RANNEY.

" HE great aviators-those who
have made successful flights
year after year without, as
the records give it. "a serious
accident''-have developed a
curious ability to "crack-up" without
getting hurt. Cracking-up is the
term used to designate a crash or
accident of an airplane pilot.
One who knows nothing about
aviation would think that the aim Of
an aviator. when his engine stopped.
would be to glide slowly down until
he settled on the ground at COM
paratively level spot. That, of course,
is what he does try to do-when 1t
is possible But often there is no,
level spot handy. And quite often
the accident occurs before the plane
has left the ground far enough be-
meath to make volplaning successful.
In such cases an expert pilot saves
his life by special tricks of cracking
up.
Sometimes, of course, it is possible
for a pilot to save himself by means
of the parachute, but this wild hop
into space is in itself dangerous, and
sometimes he would have been in
jured less if he had remained in the
plane and crashed with 1t.
II requires d very nigh ueSiSc VI
skill and a sort of seventh sense to
know when and how to act when an
accident is imminent. Often the
length of time between the knowledge
of the crash and the crash itself is
only three or four seconds. But sue
cessful pilots swear that that is long
enough to form and execute plan
for minimizing the effect of what
could be a fatal accident.
The worst kinds of accidents
those in which the occupants of the
plane are burned to death, or in
which the fuel explodes and every
one is blown up-are the results OF
head-on crashes or nose dives.
Sometimes an engine goes wrong
Immediately after taking the air, and
when the area around the field is
surrounded by buildings; the first
thought would be to turn about and
try to land lightly on the field which
has just been left. This is fatal. For
the plane dips forward and noses
downward toward the ground at
a speed which is the sum of the speed
of the plane plus the falling speed
of a heavy body. The engine is
driven into the cockpit, the gasoline