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Evening star., 1927-05-26

was Jefferson Meagher. the New York
champion. He came 10 Washington
accompanied by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs Frederick J. MeaEher. Coming
down from Binghamton last night the
younger Meagher. whether because Of
visions of the coming battle or other
wise, could not get his regular quota
of sleep. Consequently. rs soon as he
reached the Willard he hoped into
he'd to make up for lost time and tn
prepare himself for the coming ordeal.
Entertainment for the young ora
tors got under way almost as soon
as they reached Washington. The
Kiwanis Club had invited the entire
contestant field to he it's guests AT
its weekly luncheon in the Hotel
Washington this afternoon. Miss
Carlson, "AieCk" I.oker. Carl Abort
and De Lisle Crawford. four of the
five orators now in the city. accepted
and were entertained by the XII
WanianS, who evidenced their belief
i'm the contest. and more particularly
their admiration of the contestants.
in their own good fellowship way
Guests mt Tea.
After the luncheon at the Wash
ington. the orators were free for n
afternoon they are 10 be the guests
AT tea of Mrs. Randolph Leigh at her
home, "A llesketh street. Chevy
Chase, Md. The young speakers will
nave their second opportunity, then.
To become better friends and at the
same time they will meet for the
first time the wife Of the contest
founder, who will accompany them
throughout the long tour of Europe.
Tomorrow morning, the orators will
be presented to Mrs. Coolidge. at the
temporary White House." at 11:45
O'Clock. At 1890 o'clock they will
be presented to the President at he
White House and at lis o'clock they
will he entertained at luncheon by
The Eastern High School. There
after they will he "on their own"
with an opportunity to test the
ampiifyinE system in the Washing
ton Auditorium. until the big con-
test at s o'clock in the Auditorium.
Evening star., 1927-05-26

Gen. Amos A. Fries, District depart.
mental commander of the American
Legion, will make the address.
Other services on Saturday will BE
conducted by George T.. Killeen Post,
and Auxiliary of the Legion in Holy
Rood and Oak Hill Cemeteries, and by
George Washington Post and John NJ.
Beauchene Posts at Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Memorial services for the deceased
members of the Police and Fire De
partments of the District will be held
Sunday night at s o'clock in the board
room of the District Building under
the auspices OF the Policemen's Asso-
citation and the City Fire Fighters
Association. Secretary of Labor James
j. Davis, Commissioner Proctor L.
Dougherty. in charEe of Police and
Fire Department affairs. and Rev.
Francis !. Hurney Of St. Patrick &
Catholic Church are to deliver the ad
dresses.
Soldiers. sailors and Marines who
died a I sea will he honored by Wrea Tbs
placed upon the waters of the Potomac
Sunday, when the L. s. s. POrpoise
sails from the Navy Yard at 1890
O'Clock Monday the L. :. S. Sylph
VIII rave tIt NdIu dl ~ y CiDth anu
likewise place a wreath OF poppies on
the waters. The ceremonies aboard
the Sylph will he under auspices Of
the Admiral Robert T.. Peary Ship.
427. Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
Rear Admiral Leigh, chief OF the
Bureau of Navigation, will make the
memorial address.
The annual services for airmen will
be held at $50 pm. Monday on Key
Bridge. "ecalling the first memorial
service for airmen, inaugurated in 1920
by Mrs. Mary NJ. North. president of
the department of the Potomac,
Woman's Relief Corps. From the first
the Army. Navy and Marine Corps
have co-operated.
At the exercises Sunday addresses
will he made by Chaplain A. G.
Oliver of the Army and NJ. NJ. North
following which carrier pigeons will
he released and planes from the Army
and Navy will drop poppies over the
Potomac.
Aside from the services in the
cemeteries Sunday, there are several
others which will be largely attend
ed. Among these are the exercises
10 be conducted at Hains Point by
Victory Post. No. 4, of the American
Legion. at y o'clock
Evening star., 1927-05-26
CHURCH PHONES FOR DEAF
Devices Work from Transmitter in
Pulpit.

ARKANSAS CITY. Kans., May &c
tP>.- Special hand phones have been
placed in the pews in the First Pres
byterian Church of Arkansas City to
enable deaf persons to hear the ser.
mons
The device consists Of transmtter
attached to the pulpit with connec-
ton to eight phones in the pews.
Church officials announced more
phones would he added if needed.
Evening star., 1927-05-26
MEMORIAL DAY
EXERCISES OPEN
Costello Post Dedicates
Cross in Front of District
Building.

Dedicated to comrades of the Dis
trict of Columbia. who gave their lives
in the World War a Flanders Field
Cross erected in front of the District
Building by Vincent r. Costello Post
No. Is, Of the American Legion, was
decorated today at the first Of a series
OF Memorial day exercises that will
culminate Monday at Arlington Gene
terry when President Coolidge delivers
the annual Memorial day address.
Its funds depleted by the Red Cross
drive for Mississippi flood sufferers
and the District Memorial drive. Cos
tellO Post made 4 brave effort to carry
out its program today as in former
years. A large crowd, attended by
some of the District officials. congre-
gated on the lawn in front Of the
Municipal Building. where William
+. Fra nklin. adjutant of Costello Post,
presided at the informal exercises.
Today's program marked the begin
ming of more than score Of exercises
that will he held at the various Ceme-
teries in honor of the dead of all wars
The committee representing the post
consisted of Thomas A. Costello chair
man; Charles s. Cherry, Fred Bach,
Conrad Reinhart and Joseph Enrght
President Coolidge to Speak.
Washington will command the Ma
tiOn'S attention on Memoria day,
Monday, when President Coolidge, in
accordance with me-honored custom,
will make the memorial address at
services in the amphitheater at Airing
ton National Cemetery at l o'clock.
Mai Gen. John l.. Glenn. commander
of the Department Of the Potomac,
G. A. r., will preside.
Exercises at Arlington will bring
together not only the fast t-dwindling
ranks Of the Union defenders, but also
veterans of the Spanish and World
Wars. Their ranks will form for the
procession at $50 o'clock In the
morning around the G. \. r. Build
ing and the Treasury and march 10
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave
nue., where special cars will take
those who cannot walk to Arlington.
Among the veterans will he many
Evening star., 1927-05-26

disabled veterans of all wars, and 1t
is in behalf of these, as we'll as the
feeble men who wore the Union blue,
that Watson ID. Miller. chairman of
the transportation committee of the
G. A. r. and allied veteran associa-
tions, has appealed to the public for
the use of automobiles to convey them
to Arlington. Mr.. Miller can he reach
ed by telephone at Main 1920 or by
postcard to room Ait Bond Building.
Unless automobile conveyance can he
provided, many of the older veterans.
to whom Memorial day means so
much. will miss one event of the year
that stands out in their lives.
Arthur League. chairman OF the
finance committee, states that dona-
tons to the flower fund, out of which
the graves in Arlington and other
cemeteries are to be decorate are
coming very slowly. and he again ap.
peals to the public for assistance.
Those wishing to help can send their
gifts direct to Andrew kimmel. 6lJ
street southeast. or deposit them
in collection boxes. which can he
found in stores and business houses
throughout the city. =
Gifts Of Flowers Urged.
Adit. Franklin of the floral commit.
tee wants gifts of flowers and an
nounces that they can be left at the
nearest sChoolhouses on the morning
If May ~ They will he collected
the same day and kept in cold Stor-
age until placed upon the graves of
soldiers.
A score OF services will he held
Sunday and Monday under auspices
of the Army. Navy. American Le-
gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and
other veteran associations. Aside
from the Arlington exercises. national
interest centers in the services that
Will be held at the tomb of President
Wilson in Washington Cathedral A
wreath will be placed on the tomb by
George Washington Post, No. |, of
the Amerit, . legion. TO which the
war President belonged, at 3 o'clock in
The afternoon.
Bureau Plans Services.
Bureau Of F.ngra wing and Printing
Post, No. 23. of the American Legion
will hold its exercises Saturday from
l2.15 to l pm. dedicated to all EN-
ployes Of the bureau who died while
in the armed forces of the United
States. There will be music by the
United States Marine Band and Mai.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD, Russia. Cha
liapin tells in his new autobiogra-
ply how the great Rachmaninoff once
became so undignified as to conduct
IAN early morning serenade consist
ing of cats music played on impos-
sible instruments. The occasion was
Chaliapin's wedding in 1898 to the bal
let dancer Tonnage.
1.-The next morning" Chaliapin
says, there came across from beneath
my window &C deuce of a noise--a
group of my friends with the composer
Rachmaninoff at their head had COM
posed in my honor an early morning
serenade. ..
A "Cat" Serenade.
'"rhey tapped on the window and
whistled and shouted an lmpromptu
concert" Thus, he remarks, Il started
on my married life"
Chaliapin's marriage was an I'M
usual affair.
There was nothing that one usually
has at weddings" he says. mo beau
tifully decorated tables, no speeches.
On the carpet were punches of wild
flowers and bottles of wine. We drank
out of the bottles"
That same year Chaliapin was given
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Nj RIA PHS

and Frank Byram. bass They will
sing an arrangement of 20 Love That
viii Not Let Me Co" by J. Il. Her
bert. and Now the Day Is over" by
Barnby.
Ina Holtzscheiter, soprano. will sing
Let Not the Wise Man Glory in
His Wisdom" by MacDermid. Mr..
Tolson will be heard in Morning and
Evening" by Obey Speaks. Rest in
the Lord" a duct written by W. ii.
Black. for soprano and baritone. will
be sung by Miss HoltzsCheiter and Mr..
Tolson.
Raymond G.. Moore baritone soloist
Of the Church of the Covenant. will
be special soloist at musical service
tonight at the Grace Reform Church.
Frederick, Md.
Mr.. Moore's numbers are as follows:
20 God, Have Mercy" est Paul.
Mendelssohn
Honor and Arms" Samson 80. Handel
Hold Up the Cross" ............. Russell
Consider and Hear Me" ........, woOier
The inmates of the Home for Incur
bles were entertained with a concert
recently under the auspices of the
Government Printing Office Orchestra
William Il. Buckingham. leader.
The program included America
First; excerpts from The Student
Prince. characteristic. The Boy and
the Birds; fox trOt, LAS Long as
Have You; waltz, Sometime; Sex.
tet." from Lucia di Lammermoor' ;
patrol, American" concluding with
That Night in Araby." During the
evening Stanley William Bell sang
Continued on Ninth Page.)
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Melius in "Rigoletto.
THE engagement of Luella Nell

THE engagement of Luella Melius
famous coloratura, to sing the role
of Gilda in "Rigoletto," which will
be sung at the Washington Audi
forum March by the Washington
National Opera Co. under the dlrec-
tion of General Director Albion,
brings Miss Melius back to Washing
ton for her second appearance Oh the
season in what is probably her
greatest role.
Critics all over the country who
have heard her sing this role, are
reported to have gone into superia-
tives in describing her singing. Inc
San Francisco Bulletin in comment
ing said, "Melius won trump "A
throng which filled every inch OF
seating capacity acclaimed her. we
have heard remarkable Gildas. but
none brought such spontanelty ana
ebullience to the role. She sang
"Caro Nome" like a thrush that Is
drunk with Summer sunshine. Ihe
Chronicle in a headline stated thai
a big audience roared its approvai.
Every seat in the huge auditorium
was sold out two days In advance
and great crowds thronged outside
trying to get in on the night or
the performance.
In Chicago the triumph was re-
peated.
Washingtonians who were at the
performance of "Lakme" saw Miss
Melius stop the show" During the
famous BELL Song" Miss Melius was
stopped after the introduction by
great bursts of applause and after
it's completion she was forced to
repeat the final passage. Her re-
turn as Gilda is arousing great in
terest among opera lovers.
Ralph Enrolle. who sang opposite
Miss Melius in "Lakme," will again
be in the leading male role. The
role Of the duke will give him oppor-
tunity to display beautiful "top
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Chaminade Club Party
Proves Successful

THE Chaminade GIee Club, "a
women's choral organization, with
Esther Linkins as director, held its
fourth annual banquet at the Hotel
La Fayette Tuesday night. when many
distinguished musicians We're among
the guests. Miss Lillian Anderson
president of the club. presided. and
read greetings from Nine. Chaminade.
after whom the club is named There
We're gala decorations i'm the club
cOlOrS, which are thoroughly appro
pirate for st. Valentines, and a unique
centerpiece was the large staff OF
music with notes of roses and two
Happier dolls holding sheets of music
Mrs. Hean Warren Carrick. Oregon
State chairman of Junior work in the
National Federation of Music Clubs.
was guest, and gave a short talk
Florence Hinman. club poet, told the
history of the club in verse. Ruth
LETTERS Saunders-club bride--was sur
prised with a bridal chorus from her
associates with original words, and
Mrs. Saunders also gave her usual
humorous talk. She was the clubs
first president and charter member
Musical selections were played BY
Helen Belt, who presented compost
tons by Karl Holer. local composer.
which were especially well received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Unusual Cen IS Planned
By Colored Musicians

THE concert season of 1927 under
the management of Wellington A.
Adams offers unusual musical at
fractions. Tuesday evening, March %.
Roy Wilfred Tibbs. professor of piano
in the Howard University School OF
Music, will give a concert in the series
being given at Armstrong High audi
forum under the auspices of the conf
munity centers department OF public
schools, divisions 1913. Mrs. Gabrielle
Pelham, general secretary.
Thursday Nine. Ethel Hardy Smith.
popular lyric soprano of Boston.
Mass, will appear in a recital program
at SIS pm. at John Wesley Zion
Church. She made her debut in joint
recital with her first teacher. Roland
Hayes, in Jordan Hall of the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music. Later she
matriculated at Boston University.
where she specialized in the fields Of
sociology, fine arts and religion. Now.
as a pupil of Maestro Isidore
Braggiotti. Ethel Hardy Smith returns
to active participation in the concert
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Chimes of Normandy
Here This Week

1.-THE CHIMES OF NORMANDY"
with the principal cast and chorus
said to be the finest single ensemble
The Washingtonians" have ever as
sembled will be presented in three
performances at the Wardman Park
Theater Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day evenings. Rollin Bond, director
of this civic opera company, says that
this opera has both melody and quaint
comedy Elsie Schulze, dramatic
soprano, and Il. Harry Myers, tenor
robusto, will have the principal roles
Dorothy Davenport, Gayle and Gladys
Hunt and Mary Welchel form the col.
oratura until that covers the technical
florid obbligatos in the finale in unison,
ending with climactic hold on Z
natural above high c sustained for
five measures in waltz tempo.
Tickets may be obtained at the
Wardman Park Theater and at the
office of the Opera Club of THE
Washingtonians," in the rear of the
club, first floor, at 1411 Massachusetts,
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Sylvia Altman In Concert.

SYLVIA ALTMAN. scholarship pupil
of the Washington College of
Music, will give her first public con
cert next Sunday evening at the
Jewish Community CENTER. Soon
afterward she will leave for New
York to enter the Alfred Cortot
School. Although she has appeared
publicly a number of times, Sylvia.
who is only - years old, is thrilled
at the prospect of a real recital"
With her will appear her 11-year-old
brother. Julian, who has shown such
rare ability on the violin that he, too.
has won a scholarship, awarded by
Alexander Bloch, assistant to Leopold
Auer.
Besides her musical talents. Sylvia
has a scholastic record of which any
one might well be proud, having com
pleted the course at Central High III
two and one half years and matricu-
lated at George Washington Univer
sity at an age when most girls are
still playing with their dolls. In fact.
she was the youngest student ever
matriculated as a freshman at the
university in the los years of its exist
ence.
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LOCAL MUSICIANS FEATURED
Tonight.

~ a musical which will be given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Sophocles T. Papas at
their studios this evening four Wash
tngton composers will be featured,
Henry Smidt -Gregor, pianist, Will
uIay two of his compositions, Rus
sian Danse" and the "Noeriand
&cherzo." He will also play other
numbers among which is his arrange
,uents of the blue Danube Waltz"
Sophocles r. Papas, guitarist. will
play his "valse des Amoureux" and
The Song Without Words" and his
,rraneenent of Calling for You" by
William Il. PierSon.
Another feature of the evening will
lie the singing of Three Little
Songs which were set to music by
Eyeiine Monico Papas, pianist -conl-
poser, Dorothy Sherman Pierson.
SOPRANO. will be the artist who will
sing them for the first time. The
words for the three songs were writ.
ten by Nav Poultney Ellicott Sturgill
If this city
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Rachmaninoff Played Prank
On Chaliapin SHEDDING Day

the part Of Boris Godounov to study
under Rachmaninoff's direction.
'Rachmaninoff had just left the Con.
servatoire," he says. He was man
who enjoyed life, a distinguished mu-
stefan and q pupil of Tschaikovski'
The elements of music | learned from
him and l owe him my theoretical
education.
Il was 50 delighted with Boris Co
dounoV' that | wasn't content to study
my own part only, but learned every
other part in the opera by heart, both
male and female roles, SO that T could
sing the whole opera from beginning
to end. Later I learned that such IL
thorough mastering of a whole opera
is for "a singer an enormous advan-
tage; and SO l always did the same
afterward with every opera l appear
ed in.
After l studied the music of Boris
Godounov' to my satisfaction, l want
ed to know all about the work from
the historical side. | read Puschkin,
Karamassin and others, but failed to
obtain from them a correct picture of
the epoch. Then | got to know the IA
nous Russian historian Klutschueski,
who described the time of Boris Go
dounov" SO graphically that I saw the
characters standing alive before my
eyes"
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Marine Band Programs.

THE February symphonic program
to be given by the United States
Marine Band Orchestra Wednesday at
Sis pm. in the band auditorium at
the Marine Barracks. will have for its
feature a piano solo with orchestra
accompaniment, LISTS Hungarian
Fantasia" to be played by Musician
Herbert w. Erisman. Carl Gold
marks warm and poetic symphony
the Country Wedding" has been
selected by Capt. Santelmann for this
concert. First performed at Vienna in
1876, it's program is really a sketch of
a rural wedding. The first movement,
called wedding March" is a series
of II variations on a march theme.
The graceful and delicate second
movement, Bridal Song" is a charm
ing melody in aria form. The scherzO
is replaced by "serenade" of charm
and color, followed by a movement
called I'm the Garden" a. melodic an
dante. The finale is a rustic dance
theme in fugato form, in which the
preceding andante is interpolated in
the middle of the movement, after
which a brilliant stretto brings the
work to a close. The beautiful pre-
PLAYED, the concert closing with
Weber's Der Freischutz" overture,
familiar to all by it's impressive adagio
opening, followed by the beautiful
French horn quartet.
At the Marine Barracks. Friday at
$3.50 pm, a concert by the United
States Marine Band Orchestra. Will
liam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor
Branson, second leader. will have as
the program:
/. Entrance of the Queen and Process
sional March,. from 1.-THE Queen
of Sheba" .Goldmark
5. Piano solo-"Hungarian Fantasia" List
Musician Herbert w. Erisman.
4. Excerpts from 1.-THE Singing Girl
Herbert
g. "valse Romantique". !. -. .Debussy
g. Observation-Disclosures of the Gnomes"
Noack
z. Caprice italian" TschaikowGky
Marines HynE--'Fhc Halls - M 'nte..As4a
~. Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Swarthmore Music Clubs
Here Saturday Night

PRESENTING a program of instru-
mental and vocal numbers. to be
followed by dance, the musical clubs
of Swarthmore College will be heard
in concert at the Raleigh Hotel at
$50 Saturday night.
The clubs again are under the lead
ership of Carl Nocka, who was di-
rector for the concert here two years
ago of the same organization. A fea-
ture of special interest to Washing
tonians will be the participation of
Paul M. Kistler of this city, who is
college band leader. A series Of jolly
college songs will be presented by the
glee club. which will also sing, among
others, ION the Sea" (Buck), Deep
River" (Burleigh), Tell Me Not of a
Lovely Lass" Forsythe) and I'm ST.
lent Mood" Emerson).
There will be instrumental numbers
by the orchestra, and Mr.. Gram. bari
tone, and Miss Catherine Emhardt,
pianist, will be heard in solos.
Music for the dancing to follow will
be by the Garnet Serenaders, the col
lege orchestra.
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SCOTCH overwhelmingly.

ONE Of the outstanding celebrations
~ of Washington's birthday Is to be
an evening of Scottish music, planned
by the board Of lady managers of
George Washington University Hos
pital. to be given In the university
gymnasium, entrance on Twentieth
street, between G. and II streets north
west, through Stockton Hall, at 8:15
o'clock Tuesday evening.
The program, called "a Birthday
Party at Mount Vernon Given by Gen.
and Mrs. Washington in Honor of Their
Scottish Neighbors at Alexandria and
Dumfries," is to be presented by the
Scotsmen-Baldwin Allan-Allen, bari
tone: Roger MacGregor. pianist; Angus
Frazer and John Ross. highland dan
GERS and pipers, each of whom is prob
ably the most celebrated artist in his
own line in this country.
BagDipe selections, which will open
the program, will include THE Camp
bells Are Coming Bonnie Dundee, :"
1.-The Hills of Glenorchy," Bundle and
Co." THE Flowers of the Forest"
1.-The Blue Bells of Scotland" Wa s
Me for Prince Charlie" and will Ye
No Come Back Again." to be played
by Angus MacGregor and John Ross.
Scottish love, songs to be sung by
Mr.. Allan-Allen, are: my Love She's
But a Lassie Yet" Sorrow" Sing
the Praises o. My Dearie.' Hey, My
Winsome Mary" with Roger Mac
Gregor at the piano. There will be a
sword dance by Angus Frazer and
John Ross.
Songs from the Gaelic include ITO
the Lord of the Isles" coronation
chant), "Eriskay Love Lilt." Heart of
Fire Love-" Seal Woman's Sea JOY"
and "Hame Cam Bottachah."
A highland fling viii! be given by
Angus Frazer and John Ross.
Songs of Scottish history include
THE Hundred Pipers,' Loeb Lo-
mond," THE Bonnie Earl of Moray"
Sweet Alton" and Scots Wha Haze
WI Wallace Bled."
A Scottish reel will be under the
charge of Mrs. Walter Tuckerman.
"Auld Lang Syne" is to be sung by
the audience, lead by the artists of
the occasion.