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Evening star., 1929-07-21
M u SIC
BY HELEN FETTER.

sentially dramatic, If the motion
picture companies disregard the
dividing of the action into the stiff
four or five stage acts called for
with the operatic stage limitations,
then the artistic development of
operas into impressive sound pic
lures should be quite within the
realm of achievement. Much de-
pends, too, upon the histrionic
ability and physical comeliness of
the singers chosen to interpret the
roles in these talkie operas. No
waSh-tub sopranos or runty tenors
with wooden hands and sparse
ness of gestures should be taken
for such productions, no matter
how beautiful their voices, for
they will undo the very idea that
they are trying to put across
familiariZe the public with the
beautiful music and dramatic val
ueS of opera. The inadequately
equipped singer who is a great
vocalist but poor actor can hold
his audience at the regular opera
performance regardless of his lin
itationS because of the color, the
actual physical presence of that
great flow of melody from his
throat In the sound pictures,
however, this appeal is minimized
or totally lost. A singer with a
much smaller voice that is well
trained, who has the dramatic
gift and charm of person, can sue
ceed in motion picture opera
where he or she never could hope
to succeed on the actual operatic
stage, for the clever mechanics of
the art of tranScribing his voice
into terms of picturized sound can
enlarge the power of his tones
quite easily. It is chiefly q mat
ter of how near he is to the micro
phone.
GO it goes. Through the mechan-
~ ical means of phonograph,
radio and sound pictures the
great art that is music is being
served. Millions of people who had
not the time or facilities available,
even though. in many cases they
might have some degree of talent
as individuals, to become trained
for musical appreciation and pro-
duction, have shown by their wide
approval and keen interest in each
Of the three mechanical devices
that they are interested in music
and are not losing an opportunity
to hear what music has to say to
them through these mediums. In
dicationS strongly favor the idea
that radio and motion picture pro-
ducers will find that the public is
interested in the finest music
through their particular instru-
mentS, just as the public has
shown its favor for master works"
for the phonograph. It is what
the public wants that, as usual,
will decide what is produced. Pro-
ducers are in their various lines
of business for profit and success.
All the peSSimiStic, scholarly mu-
sician has to do in hoping for bet
ter music through all these me-
diumS is to develop personal pa
tience and wait until the public
generally has reached the point
where it demands, as a great over
Whelming force, the best music via
radio and motion picture screen.
Evening star., 1929-07-21
Musical Features Successful
In Atlantic CITY Jubilee

A TLANTIC CITY, celebrating its
diamond jubilee and the tiftieth
anniversary Of Edison's discovery Of
the incandescent bulb, is recording the
greatest season in its history. Music is
a great factor in the celebration. The
Steel Pier. following its policy of many
years, offers, in addition to the finest
program of attractions in its history,
performances Of opera in English in
the Steel Pier ballroom every Sunday
evening at 9:15 o'clock and an operate
concert in the afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
by noted artists from the foremost
opera companies.
Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"
will be given tonight, with Elizabeth
Amsden, prima donna soprano of the
Chicago Civic Opera Co.; Cecil Turrill
prima donna contralto of the Hinshaw
Mozart Opera Co.; Mae Mackie, mezzo-
soprano of the Pennsylvania Opera
Co.; Fernando Bertini, principal tenor
Of the San Carlo Opera Co., and Leo
de Hierapolis, principal baritone Of the
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Ever Seeking Novelties.
A MUsEMENT parks, like all OF

A MUSEMENT parks, like all other
purveyors of entertainment must
ever be alive to the current and always
current demand for novelties. Glen
Echo Park, even in the midst Of Its
season, is looking ahead for surprises
for next season.
Henry C. Baker. amusement park
engineer, was a visitor at the park the
past week overlooking the things on
hand and arranging with the manage
ment for new things, among them
new thriller called, tentatively. "the
beezer." Just what the beezer may be.
or how it acts. is not explained but
the mere fact that possibly it will be an
attraction next season is expected to
furnish conversation until the real
thing arrives.
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VIENNA, July SIN 1872 the young
er Johann Strauss received an invita-
ton to come to Boston and take part
in the centenary celebrations of the
Declaration of Independence. He was
asked to conduct number Of concerts,
among them a big choral performance.
The master of the waltz felt greatly
flattered. but he hesitated little, for
at that time a voyage to the New World
was still considered great affair with
almost q heroic note in 1t. Unforeseen
things could happen on the way, and
there was the specter of seasickneSs, q
rather discomforting idea for the man
who has drawn inspiration from the
blue waves of the Danube, but was not
so sure about his qualities as an ocean
going sailor. However, the wish to see
America and collect new laurels and
wealth proved too great temptation
to be resisted. He went and tri-
umphed. His IA concerts in Boston
and four in New York were a series Of
victories.
Directed 2e,000 Voices.
In letter to his wife. Strauss gave an
amusing description Of the mass con-
cert in Boston which he directed. In q
great hall. especially constructed for
the festival. he directed q choir of 90
900 singers before an audience Of
100000 people, unheard-of figures for
musician who was accustomed to
deal with small orcheStras which never
exceeded 80 or 40 people.
"On the musicians platform" he
wrote Of his adventure, were massed
thousands of singers and orchestra
players, and I was supposed to direct
them. To assure my control over these
crowds ] had secured the help of 100
sub-conductorS, but I could only see
those few OF them who stood next to
me, and despite repeated rehearsals
could not dream of a really artistic ac-
complishment or anything deserving
the name OF concert. A cancellation
would have meant the risk of my life.
Imagine the situation I was in, faced
by public of 100000 Americans!
There I stood on the central con-
6uctor's tower. A cannon shot goes
OF suddenly, a tender hint to the
10000 that they must begin. The
Blne Danube is on the program.
Got "Hullabaloo Of Noise"
"I give the sign, my 100 sub-conduc-
tors repeat it as quick and best they can
ana off goes hullabaloo of noise, which
1 shall not forget for the rest of my
life. AS we had all started about the
same time, I concentrated my energies
on making us also close at the same
moment. Thank goodness! I succeeded.
The 100000 roared applause, and drew
a sigh of relief when found myself
back in the fresh air and felt firm
ground under my feet" To recover
from the hardships of his American
tour, Strauss withdrew for q while to
Baden Baden for q rest.
The Viennese are this year commemo-
rating the thirtieth anniversary of
Johann Strauss death. and many
American lovers Of his music have at
tended the concerts and opera perform
ances undertaken in his name. Among
the former were some attractive open
air concerts in the Burggarten, a beau
tiful old park on the RingstraSSe, flank
ing the new wing of the former imperial
palace. A grandson OF the elder Strauss
and nephew of the composer OF THE
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"MUN1cIPAL OPERA" st. Louis
AVA famous non-prof1t civic endeavor
to provide lighter music. romance and
fun for its citizens in the unique Mu-
nicipal Theater in the center of a
l,700-acre Forest park throughout the
Summer evenings, is feeling the effect
Of "the talkieS."
Also the effect is not in the way
Municipal Operas directors had ex-
pected; least of all as the movie mag
mates had anticipated.
The first three weeks of the 1929
cycle of IL open-air operettaS in Forest
Park showed a remarkable increase in
attendance and in receipts over the
same period in any one of Municipal
Operas 10 previous seasons.
AS compared with last season there
were 1878 more people in the audi
enceS, and there was an increase OF
Sill ,79250 In the box Office for that
identical period, covering exactly the
same weeks in the Summer.
Municipal operas directors-a group
of As civic spirited business, manufac-
turing and financial executives who
give their time to that civic enterprise
without any pay-sought to find the
reason in an analysis of the box Office
figures. The big increase. both in
numbers and in cash receipts, was in
the sale Of seats at Csc and soc, claSsi-
ficationS in Municipal Opera, with its
auditorium seating 10000, has literal
Evening star., 1929-07-21
Mum s Make-Up.

PAUL NUM-, the young stage actor
who made his film debut in The
Valiant" spends days studying and per
fecting the makeup for each Of his
charactertZations.
NUM- is getting ready to play seven
different characters in one picture. to
be called "Life's Gamble" The theme
is about a wax figure exhibit, and was
taken from Richard Connell's Saturday
Evening Post story, "A Friend of Napo-
leon" In the story seven wax figures
come to life, and MUM will portray
each.
A mask of Muni'S face is the starting
point for each character. NUM- builds
on this mask with putty, grease paint
and crepe hair the character he is con-
c>-ned with at the moment, and after
he has completed it to his satisfaction
he makes up his own face to resemble
the mask.
Evening star., 1929-07-21
An American From La Scala
ENGAGED for Philadelphia

WILLIAM c. HAMMER, general
manager of the Philadelphia
Grand Opera Co, announces the en-
gagement of Augusta Ottone, bass, from
La Scala Opera.
Mr.. Ottone, who is an American, re-
ceived all of his musical education in
America at the Peabody Institute in
Baltimore. He has won distinction in
Italy and Germany.
His appearance with the Phila-
delphia Grand Opera Co. in the two
German operas to be presented during
the season will mark his first appear
ance in America since his great sue
cess abroad
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THE u, s. NAVY BAND.

Beethoven'S "Marche Heroique," two
numbers by Percy Granger, and the
polonaise from Tchaikowsky's Third
suite" will feature the concert to be
played at the Capitol tomorrow night
by the u S. Navy Band, Lieut.. Charles
Benter, leader.
Tuesday night at the Sylvan Theater
the program will open with the over
ture, The Lily of Killarney" by Bene-
dict, and will include the rustic suite
from "Pique Dame" by Tschaikowski; :;
"Marche Indienne," from "L'Africaine, :"
by Meyerbeer, and excerpts from the
musical comedy, Show Boat" by Kern.
Notable numbers on the program to
be played at the Navy Yard Wednes-
day night are grand scenes from the
opera "HerodiaS," Massenet, and Haydn
Woods Southern rhapsody, Virginia. A"
Soloists for the week will be Band
master Louis Goucher, xylophone, and
Musician Ralph Ostrom, cornet.
Complete programs will appear in
daily issues Of The Star.
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FentreSs, at the right of Miss Ford:
Ruth Herman, contralto, and Mrs.
Brandes, who sings alto. Both Miss
Ford and Mrs. Fentress are sopranos.
The double male quartet is COM
posed Of J. C. Price, Jerry w. Breeden,
Harry J. Wedding, Arthur Dunning,
Charles L. Hargitt, Presley Wedding,
William C. Heller and William Z. Had
den. The complete membership of
choir and orchestra includes:
Choir-Mrs. T. v. Alley Mrs. II. j.
BrandeS, Hattie H. Driscoll. Helen We'd
ding Mrs. E. Rives. Marie King, Mrs.
Leslie Perry. Mrs. F. p. Crawford, Mrs.
William E. Hadden, Catherine Fentress,
Ruth Herman, Grace Ford. Mrs. Robin
son, Effie c. Miller, Mrs. Kozios. Mildred
Hadden, Charlotte King Ruth Biting,
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THE n. &. ARMY BAND.

The dates for concerts during the
current week to be presented by the
United States Army Band, Capt. Will
liam J. Stannard leader; Thomas F.
Darcy, second leader, are as follows:
Tomorrow-Reservati 400, Sherrier
place and Macomb street northwest;
1880 pm.
Tuesday-Walter Reed General Hos
pital. $50 pm.
Wednesday-Sylvan Theater, Wash
ington Monument Grounds; 7:3O pm
Thursday-Army War College. $50
pm.
Friday-United States Capitol, 7:3O
pm. e.-
Saturday tuberculosis Hospital,
Fourteenth and UpShur streets north
west.
The full programs will be printed In
daily issues of The Star.
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Had to Get 200 Eskimos.

WHAT is considered one Of the most
w difncult problems ever to confront
a studio casting Office was experienced
prior to the start of production Of
Lenore Ulrics first starring production,
Frozen Justice Jack Gardner, chief
casting director. and Dave Todd, ms
assistant. together with the force Of the
central casting bureau, worked weeks
to secure 200 real Esklnaos for the pro.
ductinn.
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Service Band Dates.
THE u. s. MARINE BAND.

THE U. >. MARINE BAND.
The dates on which concerts during
the current week will be played by
the U. s. Marine Band, Capt. Taylor
Branson. leader; Arthur S. Witcomb,
second leader, will be as follows:
Tomorrow, Marine Barracks at 8 pm.
Tuesday, Forty-fourth street, Foxall
and Conduits roads, at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday, u. S. Capitol, at 1880 pm.
Thursday, Sylvan Theater, Monument
Grounds, at 1880 pm.
The feature program of the week will
be a symphonic one at the u. S. Capt.
tol, Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock,
with the Pathetic" symphony by
TchaikowSky, as the main number.
The SoloiSts will be Frank Wiblitz-
hauser, saxophonist; Musician Wilbur
D. Kieffer. xylophone and chimes, and
Musician Luis Guzman, piccolo.
The full programs will be printed In
The Star the day Of each concert.
Evening star., 1929-07-21
Conrad Bernier Gives
Third Concert TODAY

CONRAD BERNIER will give his
~ third organ concert of the series
at the Catholic University Summer
School this afternoon at 4 o'clock in
Caldwell Hail.
The program will include the follow
ing numbers of ancient noels: Chris
mas carols-"Or Nous Dittes Marie"
and "Une Vuerge Pucelle," N. LIE Begue
u630-170O: Won Hummel Hoch," J.
Pachelbel G653-1703); I'm Dulci Ju-
bilo," J. S. Bach Q658-175O; Noel
Lorrain," c. d. Aquin 1694-1772).
Crudelis Herodes-"Two Verses" ].
Titelouze Q563-1633); "Fugue," in five
parts, N. de Grigny Q671-1703.
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Hinshaw Mozart Opera Co. These art
lists also will give an operatic concert
this afternoon
Next Sunday "The Bohemian Girl, -
by Balfe, will be presented, with Hazel
Huntington, prima donna soprano of
the Hinshaw Mozart Opera Co.; Marie
Stone-Langston, prima donna contralto
of the Philadelphia Civic Opera Co;
Harold Hansen, principal tenor Of the
American Opera Co.; Paul Parks. BARI
tone, and Francis Tyler. principal basso
of the HinShaw Mozart Opera Co.
The operas and concerts are included
in the general Steel Pier admission.
Evening star., 1929-07-21

Mrs. lie Roy Starkey. Ruth Wilson,
Elsie B. Heller, Margaret Byers, Mar
garet Snapp. Mrs. H. c. Byrd, Mary
Smith, William E. Hadden, W. c. Heller,
l.. P. Stafford, H. c. Byrd. r. G. - eed,
Mr.. Macdonald, J. c. Price, v. H.
Heflin, James r. Steele, S. T. Brown
lie Roy Starkey. Arthur j. Dunning,
Jerry Breeden and c. L. Hareitt.
Orchestra-Mrs. j. M. Sharer, pia-
mist; H. Ellis, Lois c. Burton. Ruth
Leitch, Alice McNally and Dorothy
Wedding guitarists; Sadie B. Warters,
Loretta N Chapman and Florence
Rohrback, mandolins; August Daros,
violin Harry Wedding, Presley Wedding
and John Mcdowell. trombones: Glenn
Brown. Mrs. H. Ellis and Pearl Hargitt,
cornets.
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orchestra is John M. Sharer, who will
standing at the extreme right. in the
front. H j. Brandes, organist. who
studied under DR.. Bischoff, is in the
center of the second row from the top.
Mrs Sharer, the pianist, is first from
the left in the first fun row. DR.. Collier
is in the center Of this row, with Mrs.
Christine Peirce of Toronto, Canada.
well known evangelist and radio singer,
at his left. Mrs. Peirce was in Wash
ington giving guest sermons at the Full
Gospel Tabernacle at the time this pic
ture was taken. June l6, when an all
day convocation was held.
Special soloistS of the choir are Grace
Ford sixth from the left end of the
second row from the back; Catherine
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this week at $50 o'clock. under direc-
ton of John s. Zimmerman. leader,
and Anton Pointner. second leader.
The programs will include the usual
combination of light and classical works
and will be printed in full In The Eve
ming Star.
Evening star., 1929-07-21

U. S. SOLDIERS HOME BAND.
The military band at the United
States Soldiers Home will give the usua
three programs in the bandstand Tues
day. Thursday and Saturday afternoon!
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az North Capitol and K streets, Of
which the Rev. Harry L. Collier is the
pastor. At this church, which presents
the gospel with the idea of divine heal
ing as its chief theme, and is interde-
nominational. the choir is given sup
port by an orchestra of fretted instru-
ments as we'll as organ and piano. This
combined group has presented some
popular hours of music in the taber-
nacle song hour, via station VOL
The musical director Of the choir and
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

room made comfortable by an American-made electric fane. The power that runs the fan may come from one of many electric genera tors imported from America.
 '"Thc streets Of the larger cities that are filled with American auto mobiles and bicycles, have their oriental bazaars where a gay array of goods. ranging from cheap trinkets to fine metalware and fab rics are on sale, but there are also modern shops in which American cement machinery had a construc- tional part. There, too, American made flashlights, batteries, spark plugs and other automobile acces- sorics, are displayed under the rays of American-m made electric light bulbs.
 "Sometimes the same ships that take American products to Java re- trTn with many native products which are popular in this country. Many head colds and cases of ma laria in America are treated with quinine extracted from the bark Of the Java cinchona trees. The rub Der heels on ones shoes or the tires on ones automobile may contain Java rubber. Perhaps your morning coffee and your afternoon tea orig mated on a Java coffee or tea plan tation while there is bare possi- bility that some of the small quanti- ty of Java sugar imported by the United States may have been used to sweeten these beverages.
 American varnish manufacturers use Java copal and damar; mattress
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

assumed that Ciemenceau will have plenty to say about post war French ] policy, especially since the French have criticized him rather widely for not getting better terms for | Franco in the peace treaty. This Tiger of France-what sort 1 of man was he anyway?
 Enemies Nicllnamed Him His nickname, The Tiger" came to him from his enemies, not from 1 his friends. For many years he was one of the most hated men in political life-hated, that is. by the other politicians. He was known as a wrecker of cabinets: and it is an odd fact that despite his great prominence and power it was not , until he was 66 that he himself ever held cabinet seat
 Clemenceau's story began in 1S41, when he was born the son of @ country doctor. Early in life the young man became a bit of d fire brand in the field of journalism and before he was 20 he was imprisoned for an attack on the government. Released, he finished his medical education; then, in 1866, he decided that he could not live in peace under Napoleon III, so he emigrated to America.
 Lived in America
 1 He lived in America for four years. He spent much of his time in New York, practicing medicine without much enthusiasm of profit and supporting himself chiefly by acting as American correspondent for certain French newspapers. 1 Then he got a position as teacher ot French in a girls school at Stam- ford, Conn.,, and while there he met and married an American girl. Mary Hummer.
 ! In 1870 Clemenceau took his l bride back to Paris and established hlmselt again as a practicing phy- slcian. He quickly got into politics in the stormy days of the Franco Prusslan war, and took a prominent part. on the radical side, in the revolution which followed that war. busted Napoleon and set up the third republic. From that time on he vas in politics up to his neck; beginning in 1876, he served IT years in the Chamber of Deputies.
 Edited Newspaper
 1 In 1880 he founded and edited La Justice. He was a bitter foe of the royalists, and by his editorials and his speeches was credited with de- stroying five royalist cabinets.
 In 1893 ruin came upon him. He was charged with corrupt practices in connection with the Panama scandals: and although he made his innocence clear his voters dropped out Of parliament J-ndaunted he returned to journalism and became editor Of L'Aurore in which post he took up the defense of Dreyfus with such vieor that he quickly re-cstab- llShcd himself as figure in politics.
 In 1902 he was returned to the senate, and in 1906 he became pre-
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29
headquarters of the National Geo. graphic Society.
 American Automobiles Popular

headquarters of the National Geo. graphic Society.
 American Automobiles Popular
 Picturesque, horse drawn carts with wheels from six 10 seven feet in diameter now must compete with speedier American made auto trucks; and native two-whceled pas senger carts, once the only pas senger vehicles in Java cities, are being crowded off the streets by shiny, new, American made pleas ure cars. More than half the au- tomobiles in Java are popular Amer ican makes. Italian factories rank next to the United States in export Ing automobiles to Java, but Amer lcan manufacturers ship about ten times as many as their Italian com petitors, American commerce re- ports show.
 "The island, about the size and shape of Cuba, is traversed by net work of good roads and railroads. While travelling on either the Amer ican tourist is seldom out of eye- shot of American products or prod ucts of American machinery. A traveller may engage an Italian, Brit lsh, spanish or French automobile for a tour but portion of the road he traverses is apt to be the product of American road building machin- cry.
 should a blowout occur on the highway, it is likely that one of the thousands of American-made tires that are shipped to the island an nually would be as readily available as one of foreign make. And the new ure may contain some of the rub Der which Q short time before flowed from one of the trees on q vast rub Der plantation nearby.
 The traveller who prefers seeing the island from a train window is unaware that machinery and tools bearing familiar trade marks to keep his train running on schedule.
 Cling to Antiquated Implements
 Rice farmers. whose watery farms rise like a series Of silvery lakes up the sides of Java hills, cling to antiquated wood implements, but here and there the blades of blows and harroWs from American factor Ies glisten in the Java sunshine on prosperous tobacco. sugar and coffee plantations. A glimpse inside the sugar mills, tobacco factories and Waterworks in the agricultural re- gions reveals Amercan-mado ma chincry.
 with moro than roo inhabitants to the square mile, the natives must be efficient farmers to feed the population. American fertilizer is the farmers crop insurance, and when crops contract disease, Ameri- can chemists furnish the medicine 10 bring them back 10 q healthful state.
 American Fans stir Torrid
 Java Freezes
 Situated but a few hundred miles below the Equator, Java is hot. but the traveller often finds his hotel