Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
sounding Brass .

|ONE Of the outstanding features in
the jazz orchestra world is the
coming Of Vincent Lopez to Wash
ington today. Mr.. Lopez brings with
him his celebrated Casa Lopez Club
Orchestra. which will play here dur
ing the current week.
This popular conductor says: by
combining the proper music with its
logical colors we are ab1p to please
the sensibilities Of OUT audiences
through wide variety of rhyth-
mically colored selections ranging all
the way from extreme restfulness to
barbaric turbulercy."
David Rubinoff, 1.-The Man Of a Mil.
lion Melodies will appear at Loew's
Palace tomorrow as soloist and guest
conductor Of Tom Gannon's Concert
Orchestra. for n limited engagement.
Rubinoff Is distinguished for. his
ability to score and time motion pic
ture productions. Before @he audience
sees the film Rubinofp times each
scene and arranges the music to each
passing phase of emotion as depicted
on the screen.
Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian con-
tralto, with the Chicago Opera Co,
will appear with George Gersh-
win, the jazz composer. in
series Of recitals in New York this
Winter. She says: Jazz Is Amer
ica's greatest contribution to a great
art. 1t would be difficult for me to
live without jazz" She even ven
lures the opinion that jazz is the
main reason for her living in America.
Marjorie Joesting, otherwise Miss
Washington" who represented the
District in the annual beauty pageant
at Atlantic City. has accepted an offer
to work with Ed Dowlings Honey.
moon Lane" production after her par
ticipation in the pageant Is COM
pleted.
Helen Alt, formerly with st. Pat
rick Players Of this city, Is at present
with the Honeymoon Lane show
as an understudy to the prima donnas,
Pauling Mason and Martha Morton.
st. Patrick Players also announce
that three of their former members
are now with Keiths circuit They
are Stephen Segan, Clifford Cox and
Royal Foster. working in the wig
wan Act" from the St. Pats Review.
The symphony orchestra at the
Metropolitan Theater. Daniel Bree-
skin, conductor, has been much inn
proved. To the first violin section
has been added d. H. Bowersox,
former pupil of Carl Flesh. The brass
section has been augmented by the
addition of Arthur J. Zeccola, for
merly with Vincent Lopez, and Ben
Bernie. Charles Williams, tenor
saxophonist, returns to the Metropoll-
tan Symphony after an absence OF a
season. Another to return Is Emil
Splitter who plays the oboe and Eng
lish horn and was formerly with the
Boston Opera Company, the Russian
Symphony Orchestra and in Europe
played first oboe and English horn
with the Royal Opera in Vienna. The
new bass player OF the Metropolitan
Symphony Is Ellery Charles Quimby,
who studied under Kuntze, the first
bass player of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, and played formerly at the
State Theater in Boston, Mass. and
also played trumpet II years with
Victor Herbert. Added to these dis
tinctions Is the fact that he was band
master of the Sth Massachusetts, Reg
iment for years. Mr.. Quimby not
only plays string bass. but doubles in
sousa phone. This partial reorga MIA
ton of the Metropolitan Symphony
has greatly strengthened its instru-
mental families and places 1t at the
very top Of permanent orga nizations
in this city as among motion pictures
and legitimate houses.