Evening star., 1928-11-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


The Philharmonic course of afternoon
concerts presented by Mrs. Wilson,
Greene at Polls Theater will open to-
morrow afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock, when
Vladimir Horowitz, brilliant young Rus
sian pianist, will offer a program.
Horowitz who is still in his twenties,
is the latest pianiStic marvel to reveal
his genius in this country. A native of
Kiev, Russia, he has been a concert
performer since the age of 13 and he
was famous in Europe before making
his American debut last January at
Carnegie Hall, New York City. His
success was so emphatic and immediate
that he embarked on a concert tour
the United States, in the course of
which he appeared with some of the
most famous American orcheStras as
soloist.
Horowitzs program tomorrow will be:
organ Prelude and Fugue in D Major
(arranged by BusonD D............... Bach
Three intermesai, op. 1T, lls and lls.
Brahms
Sonata. op. 81" ''Appassionata'O.
Beethoven
Andante con moto.
Allegro ma non troppo.
INTERMIssIoN.
"Balade in G Minor .............Ch Chopin
Two maZurkas. "E Minor" and &C sharp
"scherzo in Minor; ....:.........C Chopin
schubert,s song. "Liebes5otschsft' List
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VrtuoSo variations on a theme OF Car
men NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .BlZet-HorowltZ
Tickets may be obtained today at the
concert bureau in Droop's 1900 G street
northwest. or at Polls Theater before
the concert.
AMERICAN OPERA CO.-TOmorrow
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Beginning tomorrow evening at S:l5
o'clock, the American Opera Co., under
the direction of Vladimir Rosing, will
inaugurate its second annual Washing
ton season of opera in English
at the Keith Theater with a
presentation of Bizet's Carmen" with
cast of youthful operatic stars. The
engagement will be for three evenings
only, Flotow's Martha" being the
opera selected for Tuesday. while the
season" will come to close Wednes-
day evening with a performance OF
Gounods Faust"
This is the same American opera
company which made it's bow to Wash
lngton last December under the auspices
OF a group of prominent Washington
society women and under the local
management of Mrs. Wilson, Greene,
who is also managing this, their second
appearance locally. Since their first
Washington appearance. which was at
tended by President Coolidge, many
cabinet members and brilliant official
and society audience, the American
Opera Co. has achieved not only ma
t1onal tour, but three great metropoli-
tan successes in New York, Boston and
Chicago
The American Opera Co. not only
offers opera in the language of the au-
dience-twentieth century English-but
1t also offers performance in which
the dramatic verities of the story being
unfolded are never Subordinated to
mere singing. Practically the entire cast
Is youthful, and characters not only
sing their parts, but look them as we'll.
Bettina Hall, who plays the role of
Carmen, Is said to be a charming girl
In her early twentieS, who does not
hesitate to emphasize the romantic ap-
peal of the character in a thoroughly
dramatic fashion. Her sister, Natalie
Hall, gives Marguerite in Faust" all
the girliSh appeal that belongs to this
character. The enunciation as we'll as
the singing are of standard operatic
caliber, with the result that the entire
performance becomes a good show first
and an opera secondly.
Director RoSing will be assisted by a
capable technical staff, which includes
Frank st. Leger. former conductor of
the Chicago Civic Opera Orchestra. as
conductor. Settings are by Robert Ed
mond Jones, the distinguished scenic
artist, while the English texts were pre-
pared by Robert A. Simon and J.
Campbell-McInnes. The stage direction
is that of Mr.. Rosing and George
Fleming Houston, assisted by Anna
Duncan and Michio ITO.
cert bureau, 1900 G street northwest,
and at the box Office Of B. F. Keith's
Theater.
JOHN CHARLES THOMAS--Thursday.
The young American baritone, who
first became famous as a light opera
and musical comedy singer and now is
as firmly established in popularity as
an opera and concert star, John Charles
Thomas, will present the second of the
series of Cooperative Artists Course
concerts at the Washington Auditorium.
Thursday night. at 8:15 o'clock. DR..
Harold M. Dudley is manager of this
event.
1t should be interesting. especially to
WaShingtonians, to know that Mr..
Thomas was given his first grand opera
Chance" with the Washington Opera
Co. in the Spring of 1925, when he sang
the role of Amonasro in an all-Ameri-
can cast for aida" After he came
back from Brussels. where he gained
further experience as an opera star, Mr.. |
Thomas again partook in an all-Ameri-
can cast Of the Washington Opera Co, !
presenting "Rigoletto," singing the title |
role with great success. He also has |
been heard here several times in CON-