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Evening star., 1925-11-26
Mrs. Dell Married to
Representative Gambrill at Noon.

The marriage of Mrs. Edna A. Dell,
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas o. Armacost of Baltimore
County, Md, to Representative Ste
phen w Gambrill of Maryland took
place today at noon. The ceremony
was performed in the apartment of
the brides brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs Leo Francis Fitzpatrick,
in the Mayf1ower Hotel, the Rev. DIR.
Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
officiating.
Mrs Edwin SeabrOok Holloway was
matron of honor and the best man
was Col. William German Gambrill,
II. S. A., brother of the bridegroom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel B. Casley an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Dorothy 3. to Mr.. Charles
DAILY, jr., the wedding to take place
early in January
Mrs. Casley and Miss Casley will
70 to New York for the ArmyNavy
game and will be at the Vanderbilt
Hotel for several days.
Miss Elizabeth Marie Van Luven,
daughter of Mrs. FRANKLIN Elmore
Van Luven of Napanee, Province of
Ontario, Canada, and Mr.. John WILDER
Jenkins, formerly of Washington, now
of New York, will be married this eve
ming in Naponee.
Mr.. H. Wellen Fisher, 3205 r street,
announces the engagement of his
daughter Elizabeth to Mr.. Royal Hyde
Miller Of Boston. Mass. The wedding
Evening star., 1925-11-26
Miss Williams Bride of
MIR. O'Brien Last Evening.

The marriage of Miss Virginia Claire
Williams, daughter of Mrs. Samuel
Lewis Helton, to Mr.. William Henry
O'Brien, son of Mrs. Harriet O'Brien
of Lynbrook, Long Island. took place
last evening. The ceremony was per
formed in the home of DR. and Mrs.
Helton in Chevy Chase, Md, the Rev.
II. Fl. Sterrett, rector of All Souls Me-
mortal Church, officiating at $50
o'clock. The house had a pretty ar
rangement of pink and white chrys-
anthemums with ferns and palms and
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This will be the first affair given by
the society for this season.
The next function of the society
will take place Friday evening, Jan
uary 8.
The Tau Beta Phi Sorority will give
a dance tomorrow evening in the
garden house of the Grace Dodge
Hotel.
Evening star., 1925-11-26

The Southern Society has issued
cards for a dance to be held in the
large ballroom of the New Willard
tomorrow evening from to l O'Clock
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SOCIETY

Continued from Eighth Page)
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| for which charge OF 81 per perform
ance is made. The first IL rows are
sold at S1.50 per seat, the next IL
rows at 81, the next % rows at so
cents and the next IL rows at % cents.
In addition to the reserved seating ca
pacfty there are 1900 seats free to
first-comers.
raise the artistic standard OF the per.
formances, and this year is undertak.
ing an ambitious repertory. The sea
son will be inaugurated with Johann
Strauss opera, "A Night in Venice. -
Following in the order named will be
produced Victor Herbert's Mile. Mo-
diste," Gilbert and Sullivau's "Ruddi.
gore" Victor Herbert's Her Regi.
ment," De Koven's Rob Roy" Ju.
Ian Edwards Dolly Warden" Jako.
bowski's ''Erminie," Masca gni's Ca.
Sullivan's III. NJ. S. Pinafore" as a
double bill. Lehar's 1.-THE Count OF
Luxembourg" and Won Flotow's Mar
tha"
The cast is headed by Yvonne D'Arle.
who has sung with the Metropolitan
Opera Company. Other principals are
Eleanor Henry, Bernice Mershon, con.
tralto; Leo de Hierapolis, baritone:
Forrest HUFF, tenor; Detmar Poppen,
bass; John e. Young, principal
comedian; William Mccarthy. second
comedian. and Roland Woodruff, i'll.
venile. The productions will be staged
by Frank A. Ranger, who has been
the associations general stage director
for the past three years. Charles Pre-.
win, also veteran of three years. is
musical director. The chorus will be
composed of 96 boys and girls selected
from zoo singers who attended the
associations free chorus school.
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A Unique Scholarship.

"AMERICA is the coming musical
"A center of the world" according
to a reported concensus of opinion
among European as we'll as native
born artists of today Progressive
educators, realizing this, have trans
ferred their pedagogical activities
from abroad to this country in the
belief that the future of music lies
In the United States. Prominent In
this movement is E. Robert schmitz,
who claims that he holds his classes
in this country because "the atmos-
phere, unweighted by the past, makes
for progress"
The announcement is made of a
unique scholarship, to be awarded
at the end Of Mr.. Schmitz's Summer
session held at Boulder, Colo, from
July 20 to September 8. The scholar.
ship is given as an encouragement
to those who have vision broad
enough to enter whole-heartedly into
the unbiased spirit of the educational
program of the classes. 1t is main.
tained by a yearly appropriation from
the master session receipts plus in.
dividual contributions and consists of
500 and the interest on the funds of
the preceding season.
The requirements include the fol-
lowing interesting clauses: The best
Interpretation of any group of COM
posers widely divergent in style or
epoch, such as Bach and Debussy:
Scarlatti or Couperin and Stravinsky
or Schonberg; Schumann and Casella
or Mendelssohn and Szymanowski;
the most cooperative attitude toward
the work and fellow students; the
highest attainment. in resisting the
lure of ''soloism'' by two-piano work;
the best presentation of unknown or
little known compositions of the
pupils own country; the best sight
reader at a contest of unpublished
works written especially for Mr..
Schmitz by leading cotemporaneous
musicians.
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St. Louis Municipal Season

IHE seventh annual season of Sum
mer opera, under the auspices OF
the Municipal Theater Association OF
ST. Louis, will open tomorrow night
with financial success assured
through the medium Of an advance
sale amounting to 100000. If favor
able weather rules this Summer it is
expected that the attendance during
the 10week season will exceed
100000. with resulting receipts of ap-
proXimately $40, 900. The previous
high record for the St. Louis enter.
prise was in 1928, when 426 900 per.
sons attended the performances in 10
weeks. The ticket sales that year
were S295,719.
The st. Louis project is heralded as
being the one self-sustaining civic
operatic venture in America. Its
only losing year was in 1919, the first
season, when the newness of the idea
and unfavorable weather resulted in
a deficit of S11, 900 at the close of a
siX-week cycle. The deficit was met
by public spirited guarantors, who
were repaid at the close of the 1922
season when operations resulted In a
surplus OF SAL 900. The budget for
the present Summer calls for expen.
ditures of 100000.
The permanancy Of the st. Louis
venture in civic opera is assured by a
reservation system which guarantees
season subscribers the same seat To-
cations each Summer, provided that
the option on the seats is exercised
before September ! each year. Re.
newals for next year have passed the
$40 900 mark.
The admission prices for the st.
Louis performances have been at a
fixed level for the last five years. The
highest priced seats are in the boxes,
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"Ermine" at Md. University

DIRECTED by B. Louis Goodyear,
- thee Maryland opera club played
"Erminie" to large audience in the
University of Maryland auditorium
at College Park Wednesday night.
While Katherine Baker in the title
role and Marie Massicott, Margaret
Haeseker, Winifred McMinimy and
Ethel May Kharaseh in lesser parts
were given a good share of applause,
three male members of the cast were
accorded premier honors. AS the
Chevalier de. Brabazon, George
Schmidt kept the audience in a
merry mood during the entire three
acts of the. comic opera. while Doug
las Burnside and Cecil Propst, as
Ravennes and Cadeaux, proved the
most villainous of villains.
Other principals were Jack Bowie
Harry Kelchner, George O'Neil, Ed
ward Barron, Edward Evans. Stan
leigh jenkins, Richard Bartlett and
Watson Ford.
A chorus of 80 and a student or
chestra of Is pieces assisted in the
production.
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cents. The signal for the curtain III
rise was n rather vigorous humping
on the floor back stage. After tho
first act almost the entire audience
rose and went outside to promenade,
This was repeated, though not 10 such
an extent, between other acts. There
was a full house, with many foreign.
ers present, and toilettes that must be
passed without description because Cf
incapacity in that respect as writer.
Washington firemen would have been
surprised to see extra seats sold IN
the main aisle of the orchestra, buc
as the seats automatically fly up OUT
of the way when the sitter arises. per.
haps the fire hazard thereby is net
greatly increased.
Applause was generous but not in.
sistent. After the first act one audi.
tor. man. was heard in good Ame-i.
canese TO eXclaim 'Bosh" Doubtless
he was longing for the Moulin Rouge
or. the Comedie Franchise However,
when the lovely quartet was sung he
showed real enthusiasm, perhaps hay.
ing learned to like 1t on his phono.
graph at home, It was like meeting
an old friend.
The Opera Comique also is largely
patronized by Americans for its pleas
ing presentations Of light and comic
operas. Inc CnOTuSeS IN IaGlS thea.
ters are said TO be usually either
American or English girls who have
more ability TO do ensemble dancing
than the French girls. As soloists the
French dancers are superb. but the
individualistic trait is said TO. make
precision in group dancing inferior to
the American girls work
"Chaliapin is singing Boris Godu-
nof' three times here: Heifetz is Civ.
ing recitals: John Mccormack is on
the continent. and other artists highly
favored in Washington make the
tourist feel at home musicallv."
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due to the continued illness of her
mother.
Miss Craig was especially active in
the development OF the musical part
of the Georgetown pageant held yes
terday at Montrose Park.
Following her success as soloist
at the Newark music festival and in
recitals in Montclair, Passaic. Ridge
wood, Paterson and other New Jer-
sey cities, the newspaper editors and
publishers of New Jersey have ex-
tended an invitation to Sylvia Lent,
Washington violinist, to play before
the New Jersey Press Association at
its sixty ninth annual meeting. which
will be held in the Hotel Aspinwall
LenoX, Mass, June 26-2e. Miss Lent
Will give recital in the auditorium
of the hotel following the business
sessions Of the convention.
The forty members Of the Wood
lothian Chorus Of Washington will GO
to Leonardtown, Md, this week to
give performance of the concert
that was so popular at it's presenta-
ton at Central High School recently,
for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church in Leonardtown. The singers
also gave this program last Saturday
Evening star., 1925-05-31
The Melting Pot MusicWeek

play before a committee of excellent
judges supplied by the New York
Music Week Association and get a rat
ing and criticism. Those who win an
average OF 75 per cent and over in
these district contests are given a
bronze medal and the right to com.
pete IN the borough contests, which
means second elimination contest
from among the bronze medal winners.
The winners in the borough contests
must win an average Of S5 per cent in
order TO gain their silver medals and
the right to compete in the INTERIOR.
ough competition. For the first time
this year. the famous committee of
Worlf known musicians already listed
consented to hear the children in the
finals. A crowd that packed Cayns.
gle Hall to the rafters witnessed the
coming or age OF distinct nusical
life for the children Of a great city.
An important point about these
competitions Is that they are never
tournaments. The guerdon which
every child faces is that of excellence
and the competitions arc not based on
comparisons between performers. The
contests were first organized two years
ago and the first competitions enrolled
1000 children, which grew to 10000
this year. The standard Of perform.
ance among the children has kept pace
with this growth and one of the out
standing features of the present Music
week was the high-grade work shown
by the children. In the interborough
contest for the gold medals, where the
famous musicians sat in Judgment
Auer, Zimbalist and Kneisel gave
marks as high as 971s per cent and
the Messrs. Rachmaninoff, Godowsky.
Bauer and Hutcheson gave ratings as
impressive. The need for musical en-
couragement of very young children
is shown in the fact that most of the
children Of unusual talent in the violin
and piano are discovered in the ele-
mentary and in the junior classes
which take in children under 10 for
the elementary and from 10 to Is for
the iiipior
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Summer Music In Paris.

Az interesting article on the Amer
can enjoying Summer music in
Paris during the month Of May, now
closing, has just been received from
William Rufus Scott. a member Of the
Star staff now visiting in the giddy
capital city OF France. Mr. Scott says:
Unlike the American opera season,
Paris in Spring is enjoying music to
the fullest when the Metropolitan or
the Washington companies are quies-
cent. In addition to the Theatre Ma
tional de fOpera or grand opera, the
season here is more yiyacious than
usual through the offerings OF the
American French Italian aggregation
of stars, principally from connections
in the United States and headed by
Mary Garden at the Theatre de Ia
Gate -Lyrique.
"Sampling the national opera. as
many Americans do (some men being
dragged there by Uivesl an exception
ally finished performance Of 'Rigo-
letto' was witnessed. Incidentally as
supporting those who advocate opera
in English in America, it may be
noted that this Italian opera was
given in French, showing that this
country also likes opera in its own
language. Nine. Marguerite Monsy
was q charming Hlda. NJ. Duclos
as Rigoletto did his part with marked
ability in acting and singing. NJ.
Rambaud. as the Duke. and the other
principals were equally effective. A
noteworthy aspect of the opera was
the excellent accord between orches-
ira and singers.
ITO the American visitor some fea-
lures Of the service stood out as
unique. The gray-haired women
ushering in the orchestra section was
one. They expected a tip for showing
you to your seat, and programs are
sold at two francs each, or about IL
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Viii Present Jazz Symphony

4 COMMUNICATION has been re.
i ceived from the concert bureau OF
the Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia
to the effect that a symphony based
upon jazz and other popular American
melodies will be played on the same
program as an organ concerto in an
evening program in the near future
Both works are by an American com
poser. The details follow:
Nearly one hundred prominent musi-
clans will participate in a unique eX-
pertinent in modern American music
to be presented in the Grand Court of
the Wanamaker Philadelphia Store
Friday evening, June 5, when SYM
phony orchestra, composed of 80 Of
Stokowski's men from the Philadel.
phia orchestra, an augmented popular
Syncopation band, the Grand Organ
and four guest conductors will take
part in a gala concert, illustrating
phases OF American rhythm.
The program will range from CO.
temporary popular of Jazz music
especially arranged for the occa sion,
to a. fufl-grown symphony based on
syncopated rhythns and melodies. An
organ concerto also will be plaved
The symphony, which will have it's
world premiere on this occasion, is the
work OF noted American composer,
Eric Delamarter OF Chicago, who, in
addition to being one of America s
finest organists, is assistant conductor
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
in association with Frederick Stock,
chief conductor of the Chicago Civic
Orchestra, and also Of the Chicago
Solo Orchestra. The work is scored
for a full symphony orchestra and is
in three movements, the first based
on two popular melodies of some years
ago, the Grizzly Bear" and "The
Honeysuckle and the Bee; the second
movement upon several Lonesome
Tunes from the Kentucky mountains,
and the last upon rhythms of the fox
trot and melodies from Jerome Kern
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Japanese Fantasy Recital,

\ novelty in the form OF a Japanese
fantasy, in costume and action. was
presented by the pupils OF the vocal
department of Gunston Hall School
Monday evening.
The fantasy was arranged and CON
Quoted by Nellie Floyd Cutler, head of
the department. The songs were con.
trasting in character, following the
Japanese models with their peculiar
intervals built on the five.toned scale.
The action of the singers was spon-
taneous. naive and simple, befitting
the portrayal OF the little japanese
maiden.
Characteristic dances were inter.
spersed throughout the program. and
in their dainty gracefulness were II.
Illustrative Of the merry whirl Of the
Geisha girls amid the cherry bloom
OF the F1owery Kingdom
The effective arrangement Of the
stage as Japanese garden deserves
special mention. 1t formed an appro-
pirate setting for the gay colors of
the kimonos and the blossoms-cher-
~ bloom, lilacs and wistaria II was
adjudged unique success. as we'll as
pleasing novelty in the form of a
song recital
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the days of Beethoven and Schubert.
Her book gains in value through the
large number of musical examples
and excerpts which are appended to
It, and which are the fruit of the
authors long and painstaking re-
search among old lutte tablatures pre-
served in the libraries of Cracow,
Warsaw, Vienna. Paris. London,
Brussels. Berlin, Munieh,; Dresden
and Breslau.
DR.. Simon is equally well at home
in French. Italian, Russian, German
and English as she is in her native
Polish tongue. She has written many
articles in these various languages
dealing with historical and critical
aspects OF music. Nor has she re
manned aloof from it's sociological
question. Having spent the years Of
the war in Italy and Switzerland, she
became interested in the conditions
among musicians during these times.
This interest brought her in touch
with the cooperation intellectuelle'
OF the League of Nations.
In 1928 she was appointed to serv.
ice in the international labor office
to study the postwar conditions
among European musicians.
Her literary output is soon to be
enriched by "A Survey of Musical
History which will be published in
Polish. Besides her research work in
the leading libraries of Europe. DIR.
Simon has had valuable experience in
specialized library science through
the preparation of a photography on
old lutte music, undertaken for the
Paris branch of the International Mu.
sic Society, and through her connec-
ton with one of the largest antigua
rians and book collectors in Berlin.
Thus she is eminently well equipped
for her task in the Library of Con.
gress, in Washington, where she
joined the staff of the music division
after her arrival in this country last
December.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Hoxsey. y.iichaelson Recital.

Another Of the group of interesting
recitals given under the auspices Of
the Pianists' Club OF Washington was
presented May u when Minnie Hox-
sey, pupil of Wesley Weyman of
New York, and Wirifred Michaelson,
presented by Pearl Waugh and Mr..
Weyman, gave a joint program.
Miss Hoxsey played a Bach pre-
lude and fugue, MacDowell's Sonata
Eroica", a group Of Schumann num-
bers, and .Mendelssohn's Concerto in
G. Minor" Mrs. Christine Nilsson
Chindblom was at the second piano.
Miss Michaelson played a group of
Russian compositions, featuring Glaz.
ounow, Rubinstein, Glinka -Balakirew
and Moussorgsky.R y.Rachmaninoff. as
we'll as Bach fantasy and fugue and
1.isZts Concerto in Z Flat Major
with Miss Waugh at the second piano
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Opera Wins Over Law.

THREE men who would have been
lawyers are now stars on the
grand opera stage. They are Fred
erich Schorr. baritone; Giuseppe
Danise, baritone, and Giacomo Lauri-
Volpi, tenor.
Schorr was grinding away at
Blackstone when an impresario at
Graz, Austria heard him sing. From
then on his rise was a. succession OF
triumphs in Europe and America,
Lauri-Volpi started to study law in
his native land at the University OF
Rome, but his singing attracted at.
tention and he decided on an operate
career. For four years he was q
captain OF infantry in the Italian
army. After the war he continued
his musical education. He made his
debut in Rome and later was en-
gagged by the New York Metropolitan
Opera Company.
Danise, native of Naples, was
given an excellent education and
began the study of law as his pro-
fession when he was urged to culti-
vate his voice, and, after a European
debut, also came to America as q
member of the Metropolitan Opera
Company.
Now all three are entertaining
American music lovers through radio
as well as from the stage. .
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Dawson Glee Club Program

On the occasion of the recent con-
cert of the Harvard Glee Club in
Washington DR.. Archibald T DaVi-
son conducted a rehearsal of his
namesake organization and spoke in
glowing terms of the fine work o.
the club both as to membership and
the results accomplished under MIR.
Monroe's direction.
Rehearsals of the club are held at
1914 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
every Tuesday evening, Summer and
Winter, at $50. There are still some
vacancies in the bass section open foI'
real lovers of choral music who are
willing to do great amount of hard
work for the satisfaction of achieving
beautiful and worthwhile results and
for the instruction contained in the
work. Applicants should get in per
sonal touch with Mr.. Monroe at the
above address. phone Franklin 6717.
Other communications should be ad-
dressed TO A. c. Walling, manager,
at the same address
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Navy Band Concerts.

THE program Tuesday at 7:30 pm.
at Montrose Park. Thirtieth and
r streets northwest, by the United
States Navy Band, Charles Berxer. di-
rector, will be: March, THE Sceam-
er" UewelD; overture, Tampa" Tier
old; suite, Summer Days" Coates:
grand scenes from the opera La DO
heme" PuccinD; valse, Gold and Sn-
yer" neharl; fantasia, Dixie" .(Rell-
stedtl; excerpts from THE Pirates
of PenZance" (Suilivan): popular,
"Cheatin' on Me" CYellenl; finale, The
Star Spangled Banner"
The other program this week Will
be given Wednesday at 7:30 pm, al
the band stand at ithe navy yard. i
will include: March, THE Gateway
City" king; overture. "Midsumme1,
Nights Dream" (Mendelssohn): suite
de ballet, Masquerade" OacomeJ.
grand scenes from the opera Madame
Butterfly" Puccini); intermezzo, "Al
| Fresco" HerberD; valse. La Invita-
ton" Von Weber,; excerpts from
King Dodo" Uudersl: Characteristic.
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
(JesseD; finale, "The Star Spangled
Banner"