Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

This contention pro and con re-
= garding classical Music versus Jazz
is all very we'll but what could prove
more conclusively than this little
: aueedote that after all the contenders
might as we'll be reConcilcd to both
as ''its all in the family'3 s'
III lingering easily with Summer
- delight over the rosiness OF
romance, it is with distinct pleasure
that. the writer noted the marked
success of the beautiful Mary lewis,
/ American Follics girl who is gather
ing operate rosebuds abroad. in the
role of Marguerite i'll Faust" Since
her marriage to that resourceful and
extremely gifted operate parsonage,
Michael Bohnen. and her honeymoon
in Europe. Mary Lewis Bohnen
seems to be taking advantage of her
newest assets with true American
alertness and ability. She has been
proclaimed one of the finest OF
| Marguerites and won unstinted
praise in Germany, the land where
| Marguerites are usually much more
| buxom and rarely so beautiful as the
tall slim girl from Arkansas.
MORE romance! Eugene Ysaye,
w noted Belgian musician and
violinist, on the threshold of his
three score years and ten has dehed
/ time and tradition and married a
pupil who has seen but quarter
of century of this mundane exist
ence. Under his tutelage Annette
Dincin, daughter of Brooklyn
physician. has appeared in many
| concerts i'll Europe and even before
crowned heads.
Reports received to date do not
indicate whether or not the former
! Miss Dincin is as beautiful as the
| former Miss Lewis, but at least it
shows that in some channel Euro
peans are not slow i'll recognizing
| American talent.
| A RECENT news note states that
"A John T. Adams, president of
the we'll known .Wolfsohn Musical
| Bureau, has just returned from Paris
with a plan tucked under his arm to
offer a solution to the problem of
| young Americans desiring operate
experience as yet unavailable to
large extent in this country.
Mr.. Adams, it seems, has made
| contract latter a series of confer
ences on both sides of the =Atlantic)
with a series of opera houses in
Italy, Spain and France under which
| they will receive from him from time
! to time stated number of American
artists, who will be given practical
stage routine in operate perform
ances. Negotiations cover institu-
tons in practically all other Euro
| pean countries, too. The practical
application of such arrangement and
adjustment of details has not yet
been. completely worked out.
This sounds very. good. 1t would
| be so nice if somebody would get
some practical plans going for build
ling opera houses i'll this country to
give further opportunities to our
young singers after the European
training in provincial houses. With
the controversy still waging over
Ewhere the new Metropolitan Opera
House is to be erected to replace the
most famous institution of its kind
existent at present in, America, in
New York, it looks as though other
cities would have to mark time even
longer before the mirage Of; smaller
opera houses throughout. the coun-
try becomes reality. '--., - 81:
X " ** s
MEANTIME, nothing daunted, the
IN American Opera Co.. has car.
ried its cast practicing for. the pre-
sentation of grand opera in Eng
lish in New York and Chicago next
season to the small town of Glouces-
ter. Mass. An eminent humorist of
today has made immortal the state
ment that Gloucester has a distinctly
fishy effect on ones olfactory nerves,
| both in Winter and Summer. We
know, too, that little theaterx move
nents and artists colonies seem to
receive inspiration and make marked
progress in this atmosphere Now
grand opera is to try this town that
smells of brain food with Vladimir
Rosing directing its activities "un-
der the elms" of Gloucester. More
power to them.
| X X ~
CINCE Mr.. Beethoven's death GEN.
~ tenary was so persistently and
apparently successfully celebrated
with that master musicians music
throughout the world, a new idea is
sent forth at this time announcing
that plans for the Schubert center-
NAL celebrations are nearing COM
pletion in Europe. .- The. basic idea
seems to involve the writing of the
best finale for the famous "Unhn-
ished Symphony" of Franz Schubert.
There are those who will consider
| such an idea as sacrilegious. There
are others who will sit themselves
down in glee and do their best to
write something that will win one
| of the prizes totaling $4,000. The
| Columbia Photograph Company,
| which offers these prizes, states that
the invitation to participate is ex-
tended to composers, teachers and
! students in 70 countries. A recent
!. announcement says: ~
"The messages from Europe repor.
that Germany is most enthusiastic in
its welcome of the plans. The jury
4 nominated for that country includes
many noted musicians, among them
. Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Max
Won Schillings, Wilhelm Eurtwaeng-
= Ter, Max Liebermann,' George Schune.
man. Siegfried Ochs, Otto Sehnabel
Prof. Won Hausegger. George Schu.
) mann and Hugo Won Hoffmannstahi
I'm the Austrian zone the follow.
/ ing public men have become mem.
bers of the Schubert committee
President Masaryk, Czechoslovakia
{ and the Austrian chancellor, DR.