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The Washington times., 1929-04-06

COSO VA S""AS''
Miller Higgins is a great fellow
for psychology, and the psychology
tHis year favors the Browns more
than it does the Athletics. The
Browns last year figured to he no.
"where, and they came along to
surprise even themselves and finish
thirt. This year they'll be in thcre
figuring that they're sood-and
when any team gets the notion
2hat it's a winner then you got
hard club to lick.
As to the Yankees, a lot of folks
figure that the law of averages will
get t1s. They point out that m
30 years no American League club
has ever won four pennants in a
rowland that it has been done
only once in the National League.
All of which is true enough. But
Ehen, no team ever won the w0rld
series twice in A row in TO IT
etraight games either. But we
did it.
L If the Yankees are whipped for
the ncHnant this year it Will be
because of something that no one
, ever figured on, and not because
! *he team goes to pieces. Accidents
might take us down. Or sore arms
Eor some of those things that you
cant figure on. But on paper we
will still figure to win, and l don't
care if its four in a row or seven.
we've got the ball club to do it.
Mind, I'm not bOaSting. I'm
merely sizing the thing up the
way it appears to me. I'm not
worried a lot about the Ath.
z letics. There are two other
clubs that fear a lot more
i than the AS personally. One
of them is st. Louis. The other
club is Detroit
The Tigers have a team much
like the Yankees--a team that has
- plenty Of punch and can get out
there and drive in runs. With
Ruckv Harris handling them. they're
likely TO come strong, and if they
ever get the winning fever they'll
be the hardest outfit of all to lick.
At least that's the way it looks
v from where I'm sitting.
Here's another thing to remem.
ber. Some of the tail-end clubs are
\ going to be a lot stronger this year
than they have been before. The
club. Bill Carrigan made fine
deal when he made that Myer trade
with Washington. Bill got himself
five or six players. all of them
good, and they'll make the Sox
look lot different this season.
CASTOR and I.isenbee added to the
a Boston pitching staff will make it
one of the toughest in the league,
and that Sox team is a good de-
fensive outfit, too. They haven't
enough punch to win any pennants
or even finish in the first division.
but mark this one down: they'll
bwin a lot of ball games this sum
mer, and they'll win games from
the contending clubs, too. And
that's what makes a race really
close,
fCopyriEhl 1924 hv the Chrrsty
Walsh SYrdicRteI
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

He played with the Washing.
ton Club in 1909 when Jimmy
Mc.AIeer was managing the
local team. He made his debut
in professional baseball years he
fore then with the Springfield
team of the cd Connecticut
and then moved over to Bridge.
port of the same circuit. Then
he switched to Reading of the
old Tri-State League before
coming to Washington.
Then he joined the International
League and Eastern League and
managed the Frederick, Md, Blue
Ridge League team in 1916. The
next season he became an umpire
and Officiated in the Virginia State,
International. Western and Pacific
Coast League until last year.
Funeral ARRANGEMENTS are in
but the remains lie at
1902 ID st. S.E. Members of the
District Umpires' Association are ex-
pected to attend the funeral in a
body,
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

1t must have been like the
Morris Plan and required three
Endorsements, so that when you
stole the piano, there would he
q man at each leg to help you
carry it back.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

They have what they might he
plea sed to consider their servants
better trained. James Rraid and
Harry Warden are the immortals of
ali British golf Yet they enter the
grounds with the rest Of the help
and the club house never at all.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

They want him and all profess
lOnaIS to be grateful OF their
tolerance. He fIaunts his superb
Ority in their very faces and, in
his absurdly gprecOCiOus way, lie
even argues his right to enter
the club hOuse-Of all places.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
ALSO DREAD
De 7 TRO|T
TIGERS
BY Babe Ruth

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,
y April 6.-I notice in the papers
that most of the experts are
picking the Athletics to win
H. the pennant. I don't think
they willard I'm not saving
that because I'm a member of
the Yankees, either.
Here's why | pick the
Yankees and not the Athletics.
In the first place the Athletics,
a as [ see it, have not strengthened
their team this season. They may
he a bit stronger as far as Aome
pitchers are concerned. but there
are others who figure not to oe so
strong. The weakness at third
Ybase now is just about as 1t was A
! yaer ago. The outfield is no better
But the way l figure the thing
the big feature about the Athtetl-s
is that they had their chance last
season and muffed it. They won t
forget that either. Last season
they came from behind to overtake
NIl6 dnheSS anu SO lIAbO LII 81
They had less than a month
to play and they had five
games in row with the
Yankees. 1t was the greatest
= chance any club ever had-aHH
they failed. This year they'll
be remembering that and it will
cost them plenty Of games.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

Those who were on the list re-
Ceived credentials and were pre-
sumed to be gentlemen until such
time as they were found out.
Those who weren't on the list
were ignored on very large
scale.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

Mind, I'm not bOasting. I'm
merely sizing the thing up the
way it appears to me. I'm not
worried lot about the Ath.
letics. There are two other
clubs that fear lot more
than the AS personally. One
of them is st. Louis. The other
club is Detroit.
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.Talkie Progress Rapid.
BY ROBBIN COONS.
Associated Press Festure.


TODAY'S great discovery for the bet
Il terment of the talkies is more than
likely to be tomorroW's antiquity, so
rapidly has the noisy screen progressed
since its first raucous squawks a SCI
entific age ago.
And nowhere is this improvement
shown more conspicuously than in the
aspect Of the sound stages wherein the
talkies are made
Remember The Birth of a Nation?"
That was hailed. as the first movie
which demonstrated the screens posi-
bilities as an artistic medium. It first
appeared some IS years ago. Recently
in Hollywood it was taken from the
shelf, busted and rescreened in series
of classic revivals for charity Some Of
it may have struck as antiquated.
But on the other hand now recall
interference" That, many critics said.
was a really good talkie. Some even
went so far as to say that 1t was the
best 80 far produced" Perhaps 1t was,
perhaps not. But good or poor, accord
ing to dramatic standards, it remains to
this day a drama within four walls.
It had to be. The recording equip
ment at that time was so far from ade-
quate that only the smallest stage,
henmed In so that 1t seemed the actors
must choke for breath, could be used.
And Interference, be it recalled, was
ballyhooed with 24-sheet electric lights
in Times Square-only last Summer.
Then 1t was one of 1.-The" talkies. Today
it is not far from being a museum piece.
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Canadian Concert Series.

WORD has been received at Banf.
Alberta, that Viscount Wilmington.
governor general of Canada, will extend
his patronage to the Canadian-Pac
series of concerts of British and Cana
dian music to be given across Canada,
commencing in the Fall Of this year
and continuing until the Spring of
1880.
The artist opening the series will be
Marjory Kennedy Fraser in songs Of
the Hebrides, in which she will be as
sisted by her sister, Margaret Kennedy
Fraser. They will start their tour at
Victoria in September. subsequent to
the Highland Gathering and Scottish
Music Festival to be held at Banff
August 80 to September The second
group in the series will be Stanley
Maxted, tenor, and Mary Frances
James, soprano. starting early in No
vember at Toronto. The third will be
Florence Hood, violinist; Jean Rowe,
soprano, and Winifred Macmillan,
pianist. starting at the end of Novem-
Der from Toronto. The fourth will be
John Goss, English baritone, starting
from Victoria in January after the
Sea Music Festival in that city. The
fifth will be the Hart House Quartet,
starting in March from Toronto. The
sixth will be Rodolphe Plamondon,
Frend&-Canadian tenor. with Lucien
PlamoAdon, 'cellist, starting in April
from Toronto.
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THE U. S. MARINE BAND.
Opera in Atlantic City.

CUNDAY performances of grand
~ opera in English in Atlantic City
will continue, owing to the attendances
recorded at these performance. to
September IS. The performances given
In the ballroom at the end of the
Steel Pier on Sunday evenings at 9:15
are drawing large houses. A Sunday
afternoon operate concert Is given each
week by the principals of the evening
performance. This Sunday, August IL,
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor" will
be sung by Melvena PaSSmore, soprano
Of the Chicago Civic Opera Company;
Mae Mackie, contralto of the Pennsyl-
vania Grand Opera Company: Dimitri
Onofrei, tenor; Amund Sjovik. bass;
Francisco Curci, tenor, all Of the San
Carlo Opera Company, and Leo di HER
apolis, baritone. of the Hinshaw Mozart
Opera Company.
On Sunday. August 10, Bizet,s mas
terpiece, Carmen" will be presented
with Berta Levina, prima donna con-
tralto of the Philadelphia Grand Opera
Company, In her debut in the title role.
The cast includes Vanette Van, So
prano; Mae Mackie, contralto, of the
Pennsylvania Grand Opera Company:
Fernando Bertini, tenor: Giuseppi In
terrante, baritone; Amund Sjovik, bass,
and francesca Curci, tenor, all princi-
pals Of the San Carlo Opera Company.
John Philip Sousa and his band
begin an engagement on the Steel Pier
Saturday, August "a. Soloists for the
engagement include Marjorie Moody,
soprano; Winifred Bambrick. harpist;
and the principals of the various band
choirs.
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Coolidge Festival.

THE next festival Of chamber music
l. In the Library of Congress, Wash
ington. under provisions Of the Eliza
beth Sprasue Coolidge Foundation, Is
announced for October Z, and 9. The
first of the five concerts scheduled this
year will be given Monday evening. Oc-
tober z. There will be two concerts
October 8, afternoon and evening, and
two October 9, morning and evening.
Chamber groups to appear include
the Roth Quartet. Budapest; Barrerre
Wind Ensemble of New York and the
Gordon String Concert Of Chicago
Other participants will be Harold Bauer
and Arthur Loesser, pianists; George
Meador, tenor; Lynnwood Farnam, or
ganist; Frank Bibb and Lewis Richards.
harpsichordists. and Marion Kerby and
John j. Niles in program of American
folk music.
A chamber orchestra drawn from the
Philadelphia Symphony. under Leopold
Stokowski, will play October 9 an Or
chestral arrangement Of Bach's Art Of
the Fugue," by Wolfgang Graesser, and
Paul Hindemith's concerto for organ
and chamber orchestra The latter will
have its first American performance at
that time.
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strument playing as a form Of recrea-
ton has long been recognized and can
not be too strongly emphasized. The
plectrum instruments are also finding
recognition In public school work. Pro-
gressive superintendents and supervisors
are admitting to their schools the group
teaching of these rather easily mastered
instruments. which give the young peo-
pie not only a cultural means Of self
expression, but a form of musical pro-
ficiency which will always be an asset
to them in their social life"
An impressive feature of "Fretted In
strument Orchestras" is found in the
Al pages of reports on 248 existing fret
ted instrument ensembles in all parts of
the country. Those reports were received
in the course of the bureaus survey on
the subject, which extended not only
throughout the United States, but into
Canada, England and Japan. OF the
ensembles thus represented, 100 are to
be definitely listed as mandolin orches-
tras and SO as banjo bands. In addi-
ton, there are 10 miscellaneous in ma
ture, as mentioned above, besides II
classified as banjo, mandolin and guitar
clubs, and % as guitar ensembles.
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Foreign Singers Engaged.

MRS. JOSEPH LEIDY. president Of
AVA the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co..
announces the engagement OF Nine.
Faina Petrova. mezzo-soprano OF the
Moscow Grand Opera. Nine. PetroVa,
who Is one Of the most prominent sing
erS of modern Soviet Russia. was born
in Mini Novgorod, on the Volga. Her
exceptional musical abilities were mani
tested at the age of S, when she began
the study of the piano, making her
debut on the concert stage when only z
years old In order to complete her
musical education she entered the Mos
COW Musical Academy, and was gradu-
ated in two special claSses-piano, UNI
der the guidance Of Prof. Goldenweiser,
and singing under Prof. nloliton-Ivan-
of. With the purpose Of perfecting her
dramatic ability she made special
study of dramatics under the celebrated
Stanislavsky Of the Moscow Art Theater.
Mime. Petrova will be heard in the all
Russian cast when "PiQue Dame" Is
presented by the Philadelphia Grand
Opera Co., and will also be heard in
several other operas with the company.
The Philadelphia Grand Opera Co.
further announces that Hertha Har-
mon, German dramatic soprano. will be
heard in the role Of Marta when Eu-
gene D'Albert's "Tiehand" is presented
by the company during the Forthcoming
season. This opera. which was revived
by the Curtis Institute of Music on
May IL at the Academy Of Music. was
received enthusiastically. Miss Harmon
comes to America with brilliant record
of achievement in the leading opera
houses of Europe. and her performance
in "Tiefiand" will mark her first ap-
pearance in this country.
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The Minneapolis Symphony

THE Minneapolis Symphony Orches-
= ira. which is scheduled for a con-
cert appearance in . washington this
season, has an extensive schedule for
the coming musical year. according to
reports from Arthur j. Gaines, mana
ger Of the organization.
A growing popularity which has car
ried the Minneapolis Symphony, under
the distinguished leadership Of Henri
verbrugghen. through most of the
United States, as well as to Canada
and Cuba. has added to its out-of- town
demands in such fashion that its Mid
winter tour is already almost completely
booked.
This tour Is limited to four and q
half weeks. opening January 20 at Mil
waukee, Wis, and will include the fol-
lowing cities: Chicago, Ill; Evansville,
Ind; Nashville. Tenn; Birmingham,
Ala: New Orleans. La: Mobile, Ala;
Pensacola. Tallahassee. Daytona Beach
and Palm Beach, Fla; Havana. Cuba;
Washington. D. c.: Pittsburgh, Pa:
Flint. Mich. Negotiations with other
cities in Florida and in other States are
pending. This will be the orchestra s
fifteenth engagement at New Orleans
and tenth at Pittsburgh. and will mark
the seventh successive annual visit to
those two cities.
In addition to the Midwinter tour the
orchestra's annual Spring tour q year
hence is likewise rapidly nearing COM
pletion. The tour usually confines it.
self to Midwestern territory, though
this coming season 1t will extend as far
as Denver, Colorado Springs and
Boulder, Colo, as q result of the or
cheStras successful visit to those com
| muntties year ago.
The twenty-seventh season of the or.
chestra opens at Minneapolis on Octo-
Der 18, and will carry on for IS weeks
during which time there will be Is eve
ming symphony concerts in Minneapolis
duplicate series in st. Paul, in addi-
ton to the usual number of young PEG.
| pies concerts in both cities and an elab.
crate series OF radio concerts, employ
ing the entire membership of IS per-
formers, under the direction of Henri
Verbrugghen. The Spring tour fol-
| lows the close Of the home season and
opens, approximately, the middle OF
April.
In making known the touring plans
OF the orchestra, Manager Arthur
Gaines divulges some interesting infor-
nation with reference to the organiza-
tons out-of-town record. Because OF
incomplete early records this informa-
data have finally been gathered COM
plete, with the following results: Since
the first tour in 1907 at the end of the
fourth season, the orchestra has given
total of 2,19l concerts. representing
1,095 engagements of varying lengths in
354 cities, of which 345 were in the
United States, 8 in Canada and in
Cuba. OF the AZ States In the Union,
the orchestra has visited 40. the excep-
tons being Maine. Vermont, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware, Rhode Island and New Mex
leo.
Winnipeg. Canada, leads with the ac-
tual number Of concerts given in one
city, with 70. during is engagements.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, holds second place
with Is concerts during II engagements
and Aberdeen, s. OAK, follows with q
concerts,
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THERE are 26 young girls in this
attractive junior choir of the
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church.
All OF them were not present when the
above picture was taken. but most Of
them were. They range in age from
IL to 16 years and sing once month
in place of the regular choir, the adult
group which is composed Of q quartet
of soloistS and chorus choir Mrs.
D. C. Jackson, organist, also Is director
of music at this church.
At the end of June this junior choir,
which sings entirely without words or
music, singing always from memory,
Joined the adult choir in presenting q
cantata accompanied by violin. organ
and piano. The juniors did the obli-
cato parts. Frequently they assist the
older group singing the obligatos in
five-part music or singing antiphonAlly
from the balcony.
Such junior groups are becoming in
creasingly popular in Washington and
have considerable time for practical
experience in the Summer months
when the older choristers take well
earned vacations from their church
work. The training Of these young
singers is certainly to be given all pos
sible encouragement. as such training
>oC only prepares the coming genera
ton for active participation in musical
events, but also aids in developing a
keen interest In all things musical and
appreciation generally.
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New Composition Praised.

tune portraying the rush Of the pilot
boat to an approaching vessel. Herein
Is native ctanty, notated for the first
time. Sea Fam the third title, is an
airy. seductive scherzo suggested by the
purple sea growth of that name. The
finale, Cathedral Cliffs is an nagtra-
tive tone poem following the program
Of Tower Crimes and 'Mermaid's Hymn
Of Thanks
mot music of the old type, it is de-
signed for theater and recital. The
music is not hard to play nor unduly
dissonant; certainly 1t Is effective and
will offer much play for keen, colorful
registration. It is music of valid in
terest, offering note of novelty which
will be cordially ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or
gan music, well set for the instrument,
tuneful and suavely written, rhythmical-
~ vital, set out In spicy idiom well in
keeping with the bizarre subjects. One
Of the most appealing of the newer
issues"
The"Enchanted Isle" referred to In
the compositions title is Bermuda, where
Mr.. Shure spent a vacation.
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Plectrum Instruments.

A S part Of its educational work in
developing a greater interest In the
plectrum instruments, the National Bu-
reau for the Advancement of Music has
recently issued a 100-pase book on Fret
ted Instrument Orchestras." This vol
ume, illustrated with Is pages of photo
graphs, is guide to procedure on or
ganizing and maintaining ensembles Of
banjos, mandolins, guitars and other
plectrum instruments. The keynote Of
the bureaus campaign on these instru-
ments is expressed on the front cover
of the book, as ut Is Easier to Listen.
But It's Fun to Play" The attitude of
the bureau toward this educational de-
velopment is expressed by its director,
c. M. Tremaine, in his foreword to the
book. In speaking Of the revival of in
terest in the music of the fretted instru-
merts, Mr.. Tremaine states:
This new trend has served as q re-
minder-in the midst Of the develop
ment Of the regular band and orchestra
nstrumentS-that SUCH instruments as
the mandolin, banjo and guitar are also
highly attractive and valuable. That
value is apparent. first Of all. in the rec
reation field. The appeal of fretted in
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as composer of distinction and as the
first woman conductor Of Importance on
either side Of the Atlantic.
Thus it came about that Ethel Le-
ginska was the first and only choice for
the post Of conductor of the new Bos-
ton Women's Symphony Orchestra when
that now-famous organization was be-
ing formed in Boston four or five years
ago, and in the meantime there has
been no reason to regret the choice then
made, for Leginska is credited with a
ma jor portion of the diligence and hard
work and enthusiasm that has made
the Boston Women's Symphony Or
chestra one of the outstanding organiZa-
tons of its kind in America.
Leginska's slender girl figure, although
bobbed as to hair and apparently not
more than Is. holds nothing of the flap
per type, 1t is said. Rather she seems
to give the impression as she conducts
Of being hung on wires, so light Of
movement yet so emphatic and direct Is
her conducting. But she appears to ad-
vantage not only as conductor. but as
piano soloiSt, playing her own concerto.
This has come to be one of the fea-
lures Of concert by Leginska's femi-
nine orchestra.
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THE musical season OF 192s-30 will
dover Washington with brilliant
group Of musicians, but probably none
of these great artists will eclipse the
public interest that is already being
shown in the scheduled Washington ap-
pearance of Ethel Leginska, pianist and
conductor, who will bring her Boston
Women's Symphony Orchestra to Con-
stitution Hall as the second attraction
of Mrs. Wilson Greene's Saturday eve
ming course Of concerts.
LeginSka was a famous musical figure
in the United States and abroad long
before the formation of an all woman's
orchestra in Boston was ever considered,
but 1t is as the conductor of this or
chestra and as piano soloist with the
same orchestra that Leginska Is achiev-
ing new laurels and a new public.
Ethel Leginska was born in Hill.
England. in an unmusical part of what
is generally conceded to be an unmusi-
cal country. and her musical education
was gained in Germany and as a IA
vored pupil Of the great Leschetizky in
Vienna. When she returned to England
she achieved triumph that took her
all over Europe and America and made
her famous not only as pianist but
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Chicasos Opera Future.

THAT opera in Chicago will be "a
certainty for all time when the
plans Of the New Chicago Civic Opera
Company are finally realized, is the
expectation of Samuel insult, president
Of the company. expressed recently at
a meeting of officers and directors of
the Associated Civic Opera Clubs Of
Metropolitan Chicago.
In the next ~ or 80 years the in
come Of the new company will be SUI
ficient to pay of the entire cost Of
producing opera and leave the insti-
tuition with not less than $500, 900 a
year to be devoted to the cultivation
Of music in Chicago. Mr.. insult said.
This income. he continued, will insure
the education of artists. orchestra
musicians and opera technicians. and
the creation of a first-class chorus
school and a first-class ballet school.
The new opera house, Mr.. insult re-
ported, should have value of $4,000
a performance, and a large income Is
expected from the buildings Offices.
A deficit of $52S.356 was suffered
last season by the Chicago Civic Opera,
and was met by the guarantors. In
that season 272.006 persons attended
the opera, as against a total Of 307. 1854
for the previous season. The receipts
were S94S, 469, as compared with ST.
0l3,664 for the preceding year.