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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-11
City Briefs


SO For Tomatoes.-The chamber
of commerce has received a letter
from w. ID. Googe, bureau Of eco
Monies. United States department OF
agriculture. who was here during
the past tomato season, and who Is
now IN Jacksonville. East Texas.
stating that the season there now
* in full swing with a large number
~ cash BUYERS. The letter said re-
Gently $40 was the price being paid
growers.
Restaurant. darlingen. for sale
Fully equipped, attractive PROPOSE
tion Also grocery store and meat
market. Weslaco: good opportunity.
See Walker Craig Co.-Adv. n.
Improving.-Miss Maivira Carl
bav. Who occupies the information
desk at the chamber OF commerce,
and wht has been IL for the past
three vecks. Monday was reported
in an improved cOndit.I: 81 Leg
" will resume nor place 5o0l.
- 49,
For SaIe-Registered German po-
lice dogs DR.. Lawrence, w. 18TH y.
Phone 39.-Adv.
New Officer.-Lieut. w. G.. Rear
don. who has Just completed q
course in the cavalry school at Fort
Riley. Kan, and now Of the 18th
cavalry. arrived here Monday. He
has not yet been assigned TO any
Stop Dandruff Immediately and
prevent its return by applying I'M
perial Remedy; pleasant odor, not
greasy. Your druggist.-Adv.
Stated meeting Rio
81. Grande Chapter BIT, r. A.
- NJ, 8 this evening, Tues
NGAY day. at Masonic Temple.
SA Election Of officers. Geo
W. Mansur, H. P; w. w. Ball
Secy.-Adv. III.
Wanted-Two subscribers TO The
Herald to see AL Jolson in The
Singing Fool at the Capitol the
alter. Free tickets r available at
the business office Of this newspa-
per. 18th and Adams. If your name
appears IN the classified columns
today call and receive two tickets.
An Opportunity your name
appears in the classified column OF
The Herald today you are entitled
10 two free tickets to the Capitol
theater TO see Al Jolson in The
Singing Fool" If you find your
name call at The Herald business
office and receive your tickets.
Held on Beer Charge-W. j,
Avants. San Benito. charged in a
complaint with unlawful possession
Of liquor appeared before Justice
Of the Peace B. l.. Cain Monday
afternoon for examining trial and
was bound over to the grand Jury
under $500 bond. which he made
Members Of the sheriff's department
found more than 140 bottles OF
home brew on his premises in a
raid late Saturday, they said.
Leaving on Trip-H. d. Seago,
county clerk, was to leave late
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Tuesday or early Wednesday on a
vaction trip which will take him to
his cid home at J~erseyville, Ill,
where he will visit his mother. Mrs.
Seago and daughter. Mary Frances
will accompany him on the jour-
ney. which Is expected to take two
or three weeks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-11

Stated meeting Rio
Grande Chapter BIT, r. A.
M. 8 this evening, Tues
day. at Masonic Temple.
Election Of officers. Geo.
Mansur, H. P; w. w. Ball,
Secy.-Adv. IL.
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Club Renovated - Re-decoration
of the Elks' hall is going ahead rap
idly. Workmen were taking old
plaster from the ceiling Of the pool
room Tuesday.
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Leaving on Trip-H. d. Seago.
county clerk, was to leave late
Evening star., 1929-12-15

BECAUSE of the brilliancy of Wag-
ner's opera Die Walkuere," and
the stunning cast that Managing Di-
rector Hurok has chosen for Washing
ton, the German Grand Opera Co. has
decided to open its season here with
that opera Monday evening, January 6,
at Polls Theater, announces T. Arthur
Smith, who presents the operas here
and in Baltimore.
Nine. Johanna Gadski sings her great
est role of Brunnhilde in this opera,
bringing us the most famous Brunnhilde
Of opera today. Nine. Juliette Lippe is
appealing and lovely, as Sieglinde, CIV
ing two of the leading sopranos in a
single opera. That most notable of BARI
tones, Gotthold Otter, who has few II
any peers in opera in Europe today will
be the Wotan, and Rudolf Ritter tenor,
who comes with fine reputation, will
be the Siegmund, with Sonia Sharnova
the Fricka.
Don Juan" of Mozart, that rare nov
city which as Don Giovanni" has been
the big revival at the Metropolitan this
nesday, January 8. 1t will, of course,
be sung in the language in which it was
written, German. THE Flying Dutch
man." with its romance charm, will be
given Friday evening, January 10, and
the matinee performance of Tristan
| and Isolde" will remain as announced,
on Tuesday afternoon, January IA.
The season tickets for the German
Grand Opera Co. can be had until to-
morrow, Monday, evening" which is the
last day for subscribers for the series.
Seats for the separate four operas can
be had beginning Wednesday morning
at the T. Arthur Smith concert bureau,
1880 G street northwest.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
The Cast Is Announced
For Goossens' New Opera

THE American premiere of Eugene
Goossen's opera Judith" will be
presented at the Academy Of Music,
Thursday, December rs, by the Phila-
delphia Grand Opera Co. This opera,
which had its premiere in Covent Gar
den, London, last June, was enthusiast
ticalIy received. For the Philadelphia
production Blanca Saroya has been Sc
lected by Mr.. Goossens to create the
title role. Ivan Steschenko will sing the
role of HoloferneS. Ralph Errolle will
be heard in the role of Achior and Berta
Levina in the role of Haggith. Carroll
Ault, who will make his first appearance
with the company on this occasion, will
be the Bogoas.
This performance, which will use rs
members of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
will be conducted by the composer.
Mr.. GoossenS, and will be sung in Eng
lish. A special feature will be the spec
tacular ballet in which Catherine Lit
tlefield, premiere danseuse, and the en-
tire corps de ballet will appear.
Following judith" will be the first
presentation in Philadelphia Of Mozarts
Abduction from the Seraglio" to be
sung in Italian. For this performance
cluding Josephine LuccheSe, Beatrice
Belkin, Josef Wolinski, Ivan SteSchen-
ko, Albert Mailer, Alessandro Ange-
lucci and Mario Vale. The Mozart work
wAl be conducted by Emil MlynarSki
and both performances will be staged
! by Wilhelm von Wymetal, jr. Both
! operas will be invested with new and
! elaborate scenery, costumes and lighting
effects,
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Christmas Pageant-Drama
Has Three Performances

4 NUMBER of new musical features
will be added this year to the an
nual presentation of the Yuletide legend
drama, THE Other Wise Man" Per-
formances are scheduled for the three
nights Immediately following Christmas
Place Memorial Church, on Thomas
Circle. The director is BeSs Davis
Schreiner, who arranged this pageant
drama. The musical setting will be
played by katherine Riggs at her harp,
a service Of music which she has rem
dered each Of the four previous years
of the presentation of this appealing
drama of the Christmas spirit abroad
in the world.
Indeed, Miss Riggs is responsible for
the arrangement of the entire musical
accompaniment of 1.-The Other Wise
Man" Two years ago, in addition to
her playing of the harp for the inter-
ludes and incidental music Of the five
scenes, Miss Riggs also appeared for the
first time in the role of 1.-THE Narrator" !"
and she will do the part again this year.
Charlotte Hartman, wen known as
one of Washington's leading contralto
soloistS, who is now in New York City
preparing for an operatic career, will
come to Washington Just before Christ
mas and remain over, to take her part
of the Hebrew mother, for the third
season. Miss Hartman also will be
heard in other numbers during the
scenes of the drama.
Judy Lyeth, who has played the part
of the Parthian slave girl ever since
the first year, will enact this role again,
adding a ceremonial dance number in
the temple scene.
Margaret Sykes HammerneSs at the
organ will play the prelude music for
"The Other Wise Man"
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Four Operas in English
To Be Sung in January

-FOUR operas, sung entirely in Eng
Hsh, will be presented here by the
American Opera Co. during its third
annual appearance In Washington at
Polls Theater, January 20, 2l and ~,
1880, according to Mrs. Wilson Greene,
who will continue to present this popu-
lar company Of native young singers,
who are professionals, to Washington
music lovers.
"Yolanda Of Cyprus" the much-dis-
cussed new American opera by Clarence
Loomis and Gale Young Rice, will be
the first opera. "Yolanda" is scheduled
to open the engagement Monday eve
ming, January 20, at o'clock. The
second opera, to be given Tuesday, jan
uary 81, at pm, will be Nine. But
terfly." Carmen" is announced as the
attraction Wednesday matinee perform
ance at Q o'clock, January %. The
same evening the engagement will close
with performance of Faust"
Although casts of the various operas
to be given will not be announced until
after the turn of the year, it is expected
that the popular Natalie Hall, whose
Marguerite in Faust" was one of the
features of previous appearances of the
American Opera Co. in Washington,
will not only play that role again, but
will also have the title role In "Yolan-
da." Charles Kullman will have the
tenor role Of Amaury in the latter pro-
duction.
Bettina Hall, sister of Natalie Hall, is
expected to appear in the title role of
Carmen. Cecile Sherman probably
Will sing the title role of Mime But
terfly" with Charles Hedley opposite
her as Lieut.. Pinkerton.
Since the last appearance in Wash
ington of this company, IA ne wartistS
have been added to the organization, as
well as new conductor in the person of
Isaac Van Grove, formerly musical di-
rector for Mary Garden and for the
Chicago and Cincinnati civic opera
companies. Frank st. Leger, former
musical director of the American Opera
Co., has returned to the Chicago Opera
Co. New scenery, designed and executed
by the eminent Robert Edmond Jones,
will be an added feature of the 1880
engagement.
Evening star., 1929-12-15

. DEANE SHURES Dawn in the
Desert" will be given three per-
formances during the holiday season.
This work, which requires an hour and
half in performance, has just been
issued by a Boston music publisher.
The work will be given by the Mount
Vernon Chorus and the Takoma Choral
Society, making a unit of 125 voices.
1t will first be heard at Mount Vernon
Church, Tuesday at pm. Wednesday
it will be given in the new school audi
torium in Takoma Park, and next Sun
day again in the Mount Vernon Church.
The soloistS will be Elvina Neal Rowe,
soprano: Mathilda Kolb, contralto:
John L. Mitchell, tenor, and Arthur NJ.
Talbot, bass. A special double male
quartet will sing the Hymn of the
Wise Men," Nelson Anderson and Paul
Gottwals, tenors; DR.. William S.
ors; Howard P. Bailey and Ralph C.
Shure, baritones, and DR.. D. owen
Penney and A. M. Talbot, BASES. DR..
w. A. Lambeth will preside, with Edith
GottwalS at the organ, and the COM
poser conducting.
The work, which was sung here four
years ago from manuscript, will be
heard in many cities throughout the
country this Christmas season.
A New York publisher is bringing out
Mr. Shure's latest organ number, in
Spired by the statue peace of God, /"
by Saint GaudenS. The composer uses
the same theme for the organ number
which he used in this portrayal in his
orchestral sketch, which was played by
the United States Marine Band Orches-
ira several seasons ago.
Evening star., 1929-12-15

angels and the shepherds, His naming
and the visit Of the Magi. Its music is
pervaded by the feeling of Christmas,
many of the chorales being familiar ma
tivity hymns. The narrative, from Mat
thew and Luke, is carried in recitative.
broken up by reflective passages, arias
and choraleS.
Written by Bach for the Christmas
of 1874, the oratorio is intended for
presentation on six days-the three days
of Christmas, New Year, the following
Sunday and the Epiphany. 1t is thus
a group of six loosely linked cantatas.
The work ordinarily requires two full
concerts-on the rare occasions when.
even abroad 1t is given in full. Usually
only the first two parts are sung. Mr..
Bodanzky has preferred to cut the work
differently, to give an idea of the ora
torio as whole. And so, while retain
ing the first two parts almost in their
entirety, he has kept considerable por-
tions of the other four, and has thus
carried the narrative to completion and
brought the work to the musical close
which Bach designed
Evening star., 1929-12-15

"S1No1Na in nearly every corner of
the globe has brought me strange
experiences, but none stranger than
one in Cairo, Egypt. went there
shortly following my debut at the great
ConStanzi Theater in Rome, having
been engaged as prima donna with an
Italian opera company giving a season
at Alexandria.
Arriving there at the wrong time
of the year, disaster followed. The
company was disbanded; principals and
chorus got back home as best they
could, some aided by the Italian consul.
I alone remained. Newspapers in Cairo
had chronicled my Alexandria successes.
An impresario came from the opera
there and offered me a contract. As
sured by 1t Of my passage money back
to Italy, detail until then unsettled,
I accepted.
Cairo audiences proved not only de-
lightfully appreciative but strongly pic
turesque. Many of the men wore bril-
liant red fezzes; there was the glitter
and gold of military uniforms; foreign
women were reSplendent in evening
dress. and just the right touch Of ORR
entail mystery was given to the gay
scene by women of the reigning Khe-
dives harem, veiled to the eyes in
white and sitting in a stage box
screened with lattice work.
"On the night when my adventure
came, Lucia was the opera in per-
formance. The first two acts had gone
glowingly. After many curtain calls
following the second, I hurried to my
dressing room to get ready for the
third. The room was big. Feeble
lighting left it full of gloom and shad-
ows. I was alone, my means in those
days not allowing me a maid.
"Hurriedly I donned my costume for
the Mad Scene Taking as good a
final survey as I could before the long
mirror in that uncertain light, caught
the reflection of some object darting
along the floor. Snatching up a can
die, my eyes swept the place. There,
with its back against the single door
sat the biggest rat have ever seen, the
size Of rabbit, shaggy, loathsome. Its
beady eyes were fixed on me.
Already the music of the third act
had begun. My big scene was soon due.
There sat the rat against the door. ]
must get out. Stamping my foot and
calling scat in five languages brought
no result. Grabbing up a hairbrush,
my only weapon, was about to throw
1t, then halted. Stories I had heard
of rats attacking people flashed to
mind. And that rat looked to me big
Evening star., 1929-12-15
The Messiah" Next Sunday

THE choir Of Calvary M E. Church,
Columbia road near Fifteenth
street northwest, under the direction of
Louis Potter, will give the Christmas
portion Of Handel's oratorio Messiah"
next Sunday afternoon at 4 O'Clock
Vesper service. The chorus will be
augmented to so voices with guest sing
ers and soloists. Mrs. Emily Dickin-
son, organist of the National Baptist
Memorial Church, will accompany with
an orchestra of accomplished musicians
Besides her duties at the Baptist
Church, Mrs. Dickinson is director and
accompanist for Schubert Choral Club.
Ruby Potter, regular soprano soloist
Of Calvary M. E. Church, will sustain
the soprano recitatives and solos. Her
voice is eminently suited to this work,
which she has given before at occasional
concerts and in performance of the
entire work at the Baptist Temple at
Charleston, w. Va.
The contralto SoloiSt will be Helen
Turley, soloist at the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church. Mrs. Turley's splen-
did singing at the Sixth Presbyterian
Church last Winter upon the occasion
of the program of the works of John
Prindle Scott will be remembered. She
has been heard in the Messiah arias in
Omaha, Nebr. She also sang this role
in Elmhurst, Long Island She has been
heard in various cities in concerts.
The tenor recitative, Comfort Ye,"
and aria, Every Valley" will be sus-
tanned by John B. Switzer, soloist of this
church. Mr.. SWitzer will be heard for
the first time in this work, although he
has taken solo parts in other special
events of this choir and in preceding
solo positions.
The bass-baritone solos will be given
by H. Blaine Cornwell, jr., of Charles
ton, w. Va, who at present is living in
Washington. He Is soloist at St
Thomas Episcopal Church. His ap-
pearance in solos at the Friday Morning
Music Club and Twentieth Century
Club last year created very favorable
impression. Though young, his voice
is OF firm timber and sufficient range
to make it we'll suited to this work.
The Choir Invisible, a choral organi-
zation especially noted for it's radio work
in this city, will sing the chorus GLORY
to God" from the back gallery of the
church. 1t was Handels own idea that
the first part of the chorus be given
piano, as from a distance"
In giving this oratorio, part one alone
will be used, concluding with the Halle
lujah Chorus" thus giving some cho-
ruSes not usually heard IN complete
performances
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Brailowski to Play With
Philharmonic January (
THE New York Philharmonic-sym-

THE New York Philharmonic-Sym-
phony Orchestra comes to Wash
ington under the auspices of r. Arthur
Smith, for the first time this season,
January 7. Alexander Brailowski, bril-
liant young Russian pianist, will be the
soloist He will play Chopin'S piano
Concerto in e Minor"
This concert, to be given at ConSti-
tuition Hall, will be under the leadership
of Willem Mengelberg. Bernardino
Molinari will conduct here January %
and Arturo Toscanini is scheduled as
conductor for the final program,
March 4.
Willem Mengelberg has been a con-
ductor for so years. He made his debut
at the age of z, when he conducted
youthful chorus.
He was born in Utrecht March %,
1871. His father was an architect,
a recognized authority on early Gothic
architecture.
At 6 Willem had his first music
lesson and later entered the Cathedral
School of Utrecht. Following his studies
in his native city, he was sent to the
conservatory of Cologne, where, under
Wuellner, Jensen, and SeiSS, he pre-
pared for a career as a concert pianist.
His concert in Washington is greatly
anticipated and an interesting pro-
gram is promised.
Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur
Smiths bureau In Homer L. kits
Music Store, 1880 G street northwest.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
MUSIGRAPHS

cital at Hood College, Frederick, Md.
Mr.. Potter is member of the faculty
at that school. The SingerSgave songs
by BaSsani, Schubert, Strauss Beetho-
ven, Saint-Saens, DebuSsy, Hahn.
Moussorgsky, La Forge and Winter
Watts. Mr.. Potter played works by
Bach-Bauer, Scarlatti, d'Albert, Cesar
Franck, Brahms, Scriabine, Moszkow-
ski and Saint-Saens.
Frances Gutelius presented a group
OF her pupils in an hour of music
yesterday at the Dupont Circle studios.
The youngest Soloist was Home Nc
Allister, four years old who played four
numbers. The rest of the program con-
sisted of one and two piano pieces
played by Barbara Boiling, Letitia
Lucia Ellis, Ruth Haycraft, Margaret
Marie O'Meara, Betty Marshall, Janet
O'Leary. HARLAN Meyer, Mary Kath-
crime Perry, Walter Drummond Swank,
Bernice and Beatrice Wyman and
Margaret Yanagita.
Warren F. Johnson will give an organ
recital at the Church of the Pilgrims
at 730 o'clock this evening He will
play Variations" on Haydn's hymn,
God Preserve the Emperor" by E. T.
Chipp, and caprice, "Whims," by H.
L. Vibbard.
Mr.. johnson will play "Fantasie, +"
from the Second Sonata" by Rhein-
berger, preceding the service at IL
o'clock this morning.
Nina c. Piozet, soprano, formerly of
Washington, now residing in Hyatts-
vile, Nd, reports busy season. Her
Sunday afternoon concert at the Hy-
attsville Arcade Theater in September
with Louis Goodyear, tenor, and Jessie
B. Blatsdell, pianist, proved a success.
The choir of the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church OF HyattSville is under the
direction of Mrs. Piozet. The Prince
Georges County Federation of Womens
Clubs, with Mrs. Piozet as dramatic
chairman and director, is giving SUBJ
Scription series of four plays to raise
the budget fund.
Among various Maryland occasions at
| which Mrs. PioZet has sung or played
| recently are at meetings of the fedora
ton, a reception at the Hyattsville
Presbyterian Church, an evening service
at the Baptist Church, a play at st.
Luke'S Episcopal Church in Bladens-
burg, reception at the First Methodist
Episcopal Church of HyattSVille, the
elementary school play and the road
celebration banquet.
Besides community activities, Mrs.
Piozet teaches.
The junior choir of the Church of
the Pilgrims, Esther Linkins, director,
elected the following officers at recent
meeting: Imogene Bird, president; Jean
Farrell, vice president; Charlotte
Haynes, secretary; Walter Bird, treas
urer.
The choir now numbers 40 girls and
boys from 8 to 18 years of age. A COM
TNnftfinVH hnc AAA -ko knI 10. 0ek
resume of the sermon each Sunday
night. The choir is divided into three
groups, according to age, and prizes will
be awarded in each group.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Unusual Christmas Program
Planned for TODAY

FREDERICK ALEXANDER of Ypsi-
lanti, Mich, who directed the fes-
tival concerts last Spring in Washing
ton during national music week. will
collaborate with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra in Orchestra Hall. Detroit.
Mich, in a Christmas program this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, Eastern
standard time. WWJ will broadcast
The orchestral numbers will be:
Prelude" to the opera "Hansel and
Gretel, ballet by Rameau and Johann
strauss overture to Die Fielder
maus." Mr.. Alexander's chorus of
2OO voices will sing sacred choral COM
positions by Purcell, Greig, Mendels-
sohn, Gretchaninov. Tschesnokov, Lvov-
sky and the old French "ChanSon JOY
euse de Noel" Also they will sing cho-
raj miniatures by master musicians cell
eoratlng moonlight. bird songs, poets
love sorrow and French coQuetry of the
thirteenth century, robin Maine" by
Adam de la Hale Q825). The finale
number is Charles Gounod's dramatic
motet, by Babylon's Wave"
AT the State Normal College in YpSi-
lantl Thursday this program will be
given, but in place of the orchestral
numbers a prelude will be presented,
when these 200 adult singers will be
augmented by $50 childrens voices sing
ing. from the west gallery of the con-
cert hall to the accompaniment of an
eighteenth century Bible e-harmonium,
celeste, clarinet and flute, noels from
Rouen, Coventry, Provence and an
English wait"
John Challis will play suites and
partitas by william Byrd. Rameau anG
Bach on virginia. brought by him from
the Dolmetsch Studios in Haslemere
England. 49,
Evening star., 1929-12-15
NJ U SIG
BY HELEN FETTER.

always loved to sing best Of all,
and her uncle brought her home
many phonograph records made
by famous singers. These records
were her first voice teachers.
Then one day President Machado
heard Emma sing and insisted
that she should have opportunity
to really study voice If she would
promise to take the study seri-
ouSly. It was Beniamino Gigli,
the favorite tenor Of the Metro
politan Opera Company, who took
the young Emma to New York and
placed her with a teacher more
than two years ago.
If Miss Otero should follow the
precedent set by many other sing
erS and write an autobiography
eventually, it might well be called
Emma, the Policeman's Daugh-
ter" or From Poverty to Opera
Prima Donna"