The Washington times., 1925-11-30
WILL ROGERS IS
FEATURE At
CONCERT
Appears at Auditorium With
De Reszke Singers in "AlI
Male" Program
By JESSIE MCBRIDE
den and music surely came into
,ir own last Saturday evening.

by jessie (1MacbR1DE
Men and music surely came into
their own last Saturday evening.
A record concert audience. with
preponderance Of men, attended
the joint recital OF Will Rogers
lasso and all--and the DeReszke
singers, a fine male quartet, at
the Washington Auditorium, when
Mrs. Wilson Greene chose to ven
ture the famous humorist and
newspaper columnist within the So
called high-brow precincts of a
concert course.
Music Very Fine
How to start it. and what to
call it" are the two things that
puzzle Will Rogers in his amusing
informal chat with his audience
He does know that the quartet part
is called "a concert = And fine
concert it proved with much en-
thusiasm and many recalls from
the audience. for these four singers
are musicians first and fine
interpreters OF both popular and
classic music, the latter finding
them quite as thrilling as an opera
quartet, with voices that make one
wonder what next" In their
scheme.
VIII Rogers grows confidential on
The most intimate matters of state.
He repeated his much-talked-of
gridiron dinner talk on President
Coolidge that, he confessed, was de-
livered much to the amusement of
the Chief Executive himself, or it
might have sounded like ''lese ma
jeste''-werep anyone but Rogers,
with his beaming, good-humored
lace, his ingenious manner. to have
said it.
Though he called himself the
Male AsQuith of America" dub
bling Margot OF the serpent's tongue
the scandal monger of England,
the only alarming serpent's tongue
that VIII Rogers evinces Is when
he lets loose that long lasso of his,
running it out at full speed, In q
great circle over the audiences
head until 1t whirls the whole
length of the rope. That was some
stunt!
Dempsey in Cabinet?
As for making a Presidents Cab
met, who so forcefu1 and convinc-
ing as Secretary Of War as Jack
Dempsey? In all, he was the same
inimitable VIII Rogers Of print,
only infinitely more lovable and
good-humored as Just himself.
So the delightful singers are rele-
gated to q second place, though
they did nOts stand that way in e.
TEEN. Their individuality, too,
should be stressed, for the appeal.
ing sweetness and lyric beauty OF
the voice of the second tenor,
ERWIN Mulch, for the high tenor
quality of HardeSty johnson, Ior
the blend of the wholes with How
ard Kellogg, bass, and Floyd Towns
ley, baritone.
They sing much unaccompAn
music. though Mr.. Johnson was
ALSO effective as accompanies. In
the ssfiaifs' OF their 0perattc work
nefhaps they are bringing to us
some & Of the charm Ok Jean De-
Reszke, the famous French Romeo
of opera, for they coaeled with him
for two summers.
A Great Success
So the Leoncayai1o 'Mattinata''
took on additional zest and the
"serenade oliver Of Saint-Saens
was a lovely poetic thing. with its
humming chords and its fine
melody. Then there was something
quite inimitable in the quartet ar
rangement of the old Irish Next
Market Day" and for fine musi-
o;ansI,;n the infernolated ION
Wings Of Song" by Mendelssohn,
was the high-water mark.
Some sea chanties and some
negro spirituals completed their pro-
gram, to which they added, as en-.
cores, Loves Old Sweet Song,
the "Invictus" of Bruno HUM. an
amusing travesty, Alexander" the
negro "Scandalize My NamI, "
Swing Along" by Cooke, and a
ditty on the Cow"
Truly. the mems concert" Is
both a diversion and a success.