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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

THE choir of Hamline Methodist
Episcopal Church will give the first
concert performance in Washington in
80 years of the Requiem" by G. Verdi,
Wednesday evening. May %. 1t will
be given in complete form by q solo
quartet, a chorus of so voices and an
orchestra of IS pieces, with Edith Athey
at the organ, all under the direction of
John H. Marville.
To present the Requiem with special
effect, Edward Austen Kane Of Atlanta
has been engaged as the tenor soloist.
Mr. Kane is one of the outstanding
tenors of the day, having come into
prominence when he won first honors
in the national radio addition last De-
cember This will afford Washingto-
mans an opportunity to hear this prize
winner.
The other soloists. all washingto-
mans, are Ethel Stickles, soprano; Mabel
F1ehr, meZzo-soprano, and John Mar
vile and Thomas Leef, BASES.
Verdi wrote his Requiem" as his
tribute. to the memory of Allessandro
Manzoni, the famous poet, who was
the idol of all Italy. Having been com"
missioned by the government to write
the Requiem" upon his offer to do 80.
Verdi completed the manuscript in time
for the first anniversary of the poets
death. 1t was given its first perform
ance In st. Marks Cathedral, Milan,
May ~, 1874, Verdi conducting in per-
son. Visitors came to hear it from all
parts Of Europe and so deep was the
impression made by its beauty that
there was a clamor for other pres
entations. Accordingly, three were
given in La Scala Opera House, the
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Richard Crooks Sings
With phi1adelnh;s c.

p ICHARD CROOKS, celebrated Amer
lean tenor, will be heard with the
Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. during
the season Of 1s30-31, according to Mrs.
Mary Louise Curtis Box, chairman OF
the Philadelphia Grand Opera Co.
Mr.. Crooks has been acclaimed by
press and public as the leading Ameri-
can tenor. In addition to his recital
tours, which take him from coast to
coast each season, he has appeared as
soloist with all the leading orchestras
Of this country and Europe Added to
the laurelS garnered by his brilliant sue
cesses as recitalist, Mr.. Crooks has
created . sensation in grand opera in
many music centers Of Europe. His
frst appearance with the Philadelphia
Grand Opera Co., which will be in
"Tosca" on Thanksgiving evening, No
vember 81, will mark his operate debut
IN America. Ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

THE above singer from New York is
to be the guest artist in a special
production Of the popular operetta
"The Chimes Of Normany," which Is
to be given next week by the Ameri-
canization School of this city.
Nine. Marie Zalipsky is director Of
the production. Catherine HertZberg.
we'll known in local singing circles, will
have another of the leading roles.
Oba Jan Gibson, lyric soprano, as
sisted by jeanette Lewis Doty, accom-
PIANIST, rendered a costume program at
st. Matthews Lutheran Church Tues
day evening. Compositions by John
Prindle Scott, Harriet Ware, Valverde,
Puccini and BiZet were presented, also
a group of folk songs.
In addition to being concert pian-
ist, Mrs. Doty Is organist for the above
church and Is also we'll known locally
as q teacher of stringed Instruments.
The last week of the King-smith
Studio-School will find 1t presenting
several interesting recitals The f1rst OF
these will take place tonight at B
o'clock, at which time there will be q
song recital by Margaret Handy and
dramatic reading by Penelope Tarwater.
Tomorrow at S:15 the dramatic art
class will present THE School for
Scandal" on Tuesday, May 20, at 6:1e,
there will be q song and instrumental
recital, and on Wednesday the ballet
dancing students will present q dane
ing recital.
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MUSIGRAPHS

D EBECCA DIAL, daughter Of ex-
N Senator N. B. Dial Of South Caro-
lima, has been engaged to take charge
Of the expression department at the
Institute Of Musical Art. Miss Dial Is
q graduate of the Curry School OF Ex-
preston, Boston, Mass, and of Converse
College, Spartansburg, s. c., and q
city. For several years Miss Dial was
engaged in teaching expression in
Southern schools and for the past two
years has maintained her studio at
the Portland Hotel.
This Winter Miss Dial was given an
award for best diction in the Dramatic
Guild tournament, when she appeared
in her original one-act play, "A Social
Success"
The viotu Club has been organized
at the Washington Conservatory Of
Music for the study Of Viotti's violin
concertos and duets as well as works Of
other composers Of the early violin
period In Italy.
Mr.. LAdovitch also arranges work 20
that flute, oboe, cello and clarinet are
included.
The Junior Club Of the school an
not meet as usual this month owing to
illness of several Of the child soloists.
Membership for more children Is open.
The age requirement IL from to is
years.
Warren F. johnson will give an or
gan recital ct the Church Of the Pill
grims, at 1880 o'clock, this evening. He
viii play: prelude, Chorale and Ale
gro," Gigout; Landscape in Mist"
from Seven Pastels from Lake Con-
stance" Karg- Ebert, and "Scherzetto,"
from Pieces en- style ,libre," Vierne.
The Columbia Heights Community
Center Orchestra, under the direction
Of w. j. Oates, gave the following pro-
gram at Highland. Nd, recently, for the
benefit Of the M. E. Church South:
Orchestra selections, THE Fox Hunt
ers," Magnolia Blossoms" Lincoln
Highway" "Torchlight March, Hearts
Longing" "rhe Old Clock" and Peace
Forever; soprano solos, Trees" and
I'm the Garden Of Tomorrow" Mar
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@HE Lewis Studios Of Voice Cul-
tlre will present the last OF o
series Of song recitals in Barker
Hall, Y. w. G. A. headquarters,
Tuesday ut Sis pm.
Soloists on the program will include
Philomena Petrone, Ida Lessner, Grace
Defandorf, Elizabeth Kerr, Wilma
Shiyely, Esther Hopkins, Ruby Grimsley,
Clara Bernheimer, Mary Pearson and
Wilfred Smith.
ituals will be sung by Harry Myers and
watson Ahlenfeld. There also will be
quartet and sextet selections.
LEROY Lewis Is director OF the
studios. with Minnie Volkmann, Lois
Shively. Clara Bernheimer and Chris
tine Chindblom as assisting teachers.
Mae Dawson. 9 member Of Dancing
Masters of America, presented students
in q program of all forms of stage,
ball room, a>slsical comedy, clog and
tap dancing at Meridian Mansions Fri
day night.
were listed: "DanSe pAoule," q Cau-
casian number, by Virginia Lewis, with
Estelle Lewis at the piano; "The Blue
bird Ballet" with Diana Perry, Della
Mae Hunsberger, Nell Quinn and Ruth
Davis, 1Eoldn O1AASCs NCAAJ 9S6OB
"Vagabond Tap Dance" by Ruth Davis
and Bernice MCGEE, and Rhythm Tap
Dance" by Joe Simmons.
Smaller students were in the Baby
Toe Dance" and Spanish Dance" fea-
turing Mary Massino, Rita Nicholson
and Ruth Davis.
Following the student recital Miss
Dawson, whose latest study was last
Summer in Pittsburgh, under Ted
Shawn, presented several dance solos
herself.
Two studio recitals were given May
and 10 by Mary Park Clements for
the families and friends Of her pupils.
The programs included both violin solos
and ensemble numbers.
Those playing were Nell Anderson,
Katharine Coale, Margaret Compton,
Helen Hunt, Virginia Kennedy. Murray
Robert Litman, Robert Merritt, Ira
Pearlman, David Profitt, Sydney Selus,
Marian Virginia Simmons, Elizabeth
Toole, Thomas Tucker, Constance Ellen
Tyler; accompanies, Thelma Callahan,
Christine Merritt and Mrs. Thrush.
A group Of students OF the White
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Final Music Programs.

THE Sunday afternoon music hour
which has been q feature at the Young
Womens Christian Association through
out the season, under the direction Of
Lucy Clark Street. national secretary
Of music of the Y. w. C. A., will be
presented today at o'clock In Barker
Hall. Seventeenth and K streets. Dor
othy Hobley, pianist, assisted by Amelia
Menefee Oimsted, will play the Saint
Saens africa Fantasia" as the out
standing feature of the program.
Miss Hobley's program also Will in
clude the Bach prelude and Fugue IN
c Minor" Beethoven sonata, the &c
Minor Prelude" and "A Flat Major Ma
zurka" of Chopin, and two Liszt num-
bers. Nightingale" and THE Dance
of the Gnomes."
The final Sunday afternoon program
of the season will be given next week.
Flora Magill Keefer will present, IN q
song recital, Frances Bingham Cole
soprano. with George Wilson at the
piano, and Louise LoWndes, soprano
with Louise McNerney at the piano:
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation invites the music lovers OF tne
Capital City to attend these hours Of
music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

THE National Federation of. Music
Clubs has announced It's ninth BIZ
ennial contest for young artists. the
finals to take place June. 1891, ut the
national convention In San Francisco.
The artist chairmen are Nine. Louise
Homer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch Albert
Spalding. Felix salmond and Wallace
Goodrich.
Contestants will be heard from Is dis
tricts, covering the United States.
Alaska and the Philippine and Hawaiian
islands. The contests are under the
American Musical Department, Mrs
Charles Davis Of Bridgeport, Conn.
chairman; Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley,
honorary chairman, and Mrs. Arthur
H. Morse Of Cincinnati. Ohio, executive
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Pan-American Union
Plans Esplanade Concerts

nR. L. 8. ROWE, director general of
the Pan-American Union, has an
nounced three concerts for the Summer
season, to be held on the esplanade of
the Union.
The first will be held Monday eve
ming, June 8, from $3.50 to 1890 o'clock.
The program of Latin American music
will be furnished by the United States
Army Band, Capt. william j. Stannard
conducting, and assisting artists. The
vocalist for this occasion will be the in
ternationally known Chilean baritone,
Leopoldo Gutierrez, who will sing sew
erai selections, with band accompani-
ment. Senior Gutierrez has sung with
the leading concert bands Of Latin
America and Of Europe. He will feature
in his second group Of songs an aria
from the Brazilian opera 1.-THE Buyer Of
Diamonds" by Mignone. There will be
two numbers especially arranged for
three marimbas featured in this con-
cert.
The second concert will be held Tues
day evening, July 8, when the program
will be furnished by the United States
Marine Band, under the leadership of
Capt. Taylor Branson. There will be
two assisting artists from Latin America.
The final concert of the season on the
esplanade will be held Thursday eve
ming, September IL, when the program
will be furnished by the United States
Navy Band, under the leadership of
Lieut.. Charles Benter. There will be
two assisting artists.
All of the programs will be broadcast
by Station NAA of Washington and the
last half hour by the Red network of
the National Broadcasting Co., and the
international General Electric Co., at
Schenectady, will broadcast the pro-
grams over their two short chan
nels. 30 that they may be picked up
and rebroadcaSt by the stations In
Latin America.
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Friday Morning Music Club
Holds Election of Officers

prano; Grace Lincoln Temple, lecturer;
Marcelle Privat, mezzo-soprano; Alden
Finckel, celliSt; Gurden Whitaker, tenor:
Sophocles T. Papas, guitarist; Clelia
Fioravanti, mezzo-soprano; Isaac Mino-
witch and Milton Schwartz, violinists;
Mrs. Ormond-Johnson, soprano; Charles
T. T1ttman, Louis Potter and Adolf
Torovsky.
The largest form Of ensemble music
presented was tho University Glee Club
of South Carolina, Maurice Matteson,
director. Other choral groups were the
Friday Morning Music Club Ensemble
at the Christmas program and the
Tuesday Evening Music Club. En-
sembles Of instrumental music include
the National String Quartet, the Trio
Intime and the two piano recitalists,
Mary Howe and Anne Hull
Duets were featured on two programs
violin duets by Isaac Minovitch, and
Milton Schwartz, and vocal duets by
Ruby Potter and Mary Apple.
Three programs of national music
were arTanged-a Scandinavian, a
Spanish and an Irish program.
The club presented 10 pianists: Mrs.
Cullen, Mrs. Won Bayer, Mrs, Finckel,
Miss Hoxsey, Mrs. Emery, Mrs. Alex
ander, Miss Niermann, Miss Styron,
Mrs. Heinl and Mrs. Howe; one harpist,
Miss Riggs; three violinists, Miss Scott,
Mrs. Randall and Mrs. williams; one
violoncellist, Mrs. Merrell, and II sing
ers, Mrs. Potter, Miss Apple, Mrs. Lyons,
Mrs. MacMorland, Mrs. Muse, Mrs.
Jesse, Mrs. Sindell, Mrs. Pierson, Mrs.
Tyler, Mrs. McGuffey, Mrs. Reed, Mrs.
Hilton, Mrs. Korner, Mrs. LIE Fevre,
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Howard and Miss Ed
wards.
Miss Sewall has appeared on several
programs in the role Of "program-noter. /"
A total OF 80 active club members
appeared during the year.
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Student Spring Recitals

croft Piano School presented In .
recital May 8. Enid williams took
charge Of the program and three other
members Of the faculty-Helen Miller,
Clara Lundell and Helen williams
gave piano selections
The students taking part we're:
Ellen Jeffers, Norma Kirton, Naryne
Hughes, Cecile Riordon, Mary Whitney,
Doris Patterson, Carl Hughes. Nancy
Mariner, Jean Parrish, Marcella Hodge,
Frances Eastman. Frankie Renaud, Isa-
belle Slye. Janet Calender, Dolly
Renaud, Fanny Goldman, Janet Brown.
Betty LETTERS, Peggy Magruder, Olive
Reed, Lucille HeSsick, Marian Drescher,
Rachel Duffield, Virginia Junkin, Eli
Berg and Anne Woodbury..
The closing recital for the season
will be given June Z.
Marjorie Lowe will present Ann Cary
Moss, soprano, in a graduation recital at
night.
Miss Moss will sing selections by
Pergolesi, Mozart, Gounod, Schubert
and Besley.
The Institute Of Musical Art an
nounces q recital Of piano. violin and
vocal music, to be given in the hall of
the school Friday at 3: 10 pm. by stu
dents, assisted by Rebecca Dial, a new
member Of the faculty, who will give q
reading.
The following students will particle
pate: Louise Cogswell, Edna Jones,
Mary O'Donoghue, Anne Marley, Hanna
Booth, Hazel Smyth, Jane Rist, Emile
Bishop, Josephine Bergeson, Nouris
Thies, William Nation and Stanley
Smith.
Friends Of the students and Of the
school are cordially invited to attend
without further invitation.
Gertrude Lyons and Margaret Bowie
Grant, teachers Of voice and piano Of
the Lyons Studio, will present students
In o recital Friday at 8:45 pm. in the
ball room Of the Roosevelt Hotel, 210l
Sixteenth street.
The following students will be pre-
sented Mrs. Victor H. Esch, Irna
Briggs, Audrey Dean. Grace Hart, Mary
Julnkin, Alice Sherrer, Margaret Yakel
and william Nolte.
Friends Of the students are cordially
invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

in 1887 the theater which was entirely
erected by the municipality from taxes
received, no subscription being taken.
This building seated 1900 people and
was in use for over so years when 1t was
replaced in 1910 by q new building of
beautiful design, an Illustration of which
is shown.
While the exterior of the building is
less ornate and more severely classic
than usual the interior is very elaborate
and richly decorated with beautiful mu-
raj paintings, hangings and furnishings.
With the abundant supply of natural
gas obtainable at the time of the cree
ton Of the building, 1t was lighted with
magnificent crystal chandeliers which
gave great brilfancy to the interior,
The building contains not only the
great auditorium for operate perform
ances where stars such as Sarah Bern
hardt and company and the great
Spanish and French companies have
performed. There are also restaurants
and cafes and a remarkable ball room
of great dimensions where functions of
state and social balls and festivities are
held amid all the splendor OF o beau
tiful setting. lHere, in fact, Is the
social center ofsthe city. which Is the
capital Of the nation.
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guerite Leannarda; cello solo, Forgot
ten" Thelma Norton; tenor solo, "Give
Man q Horse He Can Ride" and In
the Garden Of My Heart" Z. H. Swy-
CERT; trombone solo, THE Palms." Pres
ley Wedding; violin solo, Last Rose Of
1.-THE First Automobile Ride" Ruth
Gary.
Edna May Miller, James Mcdonald
and George Bruce were the accom-
panists.
Frances Bingham Cole sang two
groups of songs Thursday evening at
Pierce Hall. She was assisting artist
for the Pierce Hall Players, who pre-
was accompanied at the piano by Mil
dred Kolb Schulze.
Carl e. Stuhler has been chosen sub
stitute organist for the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church. Last Sunday he
played Metcalfs Absent" (for mothers
away and Tours Mother o. Mine"
(for living mothers). The choir sang
% Lord, How Merciful." and 10, How
Rose Fer Blooming" under the d.
rection OF George F. Bayliss.
The Chaminade Glee Club will have
benefit and theater party at the Ma
tional Theater, Monday evening, June 2.
Mrs. Elizabeth Black, Columbia 1881, Is
chairman.
Helen Bury, Mezzo-soprano, sang a
group of songs at the meeting of the
Women's Auxiliary of the District of
Columbia Dental Society at the City
Club, Tuesday. Miss Bury was accom-
panied by Louise McNerney.
Miss Bury also sang at the Pierce
Hall Friday night, giving two groups Of
songs.
At Concordia Lutheran Church this
morning the chorus choir will sing the
chorale 20 Rejoice Ye Christians
Loudly" by J. 8. Bach. and the an
them, 20 Lord, My Trust Is in Thy
Mercy" by King Hall, with soprano
solo by Mildred Keyes. The o6ertory
soloist will be Alice Wilcox, soprano.
who will sing with Verdure Glad"
from THE Creation" of Haydn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

THE orchestra of Mckinley High
School will give selections In Con-
stitution Hall Saturday at 8 pm. The
director and organizer Of this group is
Dore Walten, well known in the city
also as q violoncellist. This orchestral
program will be in connection with the
national finals Of the oratorical contest
to be held at the hall that evening
The orchestra is very proud of being
the first musical organization to have
played in WaShington's new concert
hall on the occasion Of the international
finals last october. There are 70 in
the orchestra
During the evening the orchestral
numbers will include: Overture to
Norma" by Bellini; Friml's fantasy,
"Firefly"; the andante movement of
Beethoven's First Symphony; "Sere-
made" by Pierne, and "Cortege de
Bacchus," by Delibes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Friends of Music Concerts
At Metropolitan Next Year

NEXT seasons concerts of the Society
of the Friends Of Music In New
York will be given at the Metropolitan
Opera House, 1t has Just been an
nounced.
The society is returning to its former
schedule Of 10 concerts, Artur Bo-
danzky, musical director and con-
ductor, having decided that this COM
ing year ut the Metropolitan will be
such . heavy one that he cannot un-
dertake . larger number Of Friends OF
Music performances.
All concerts, IS in the past, viii
be given 1t = o'clock Sunday after
moons. The season will open October
26, 1890, and close March az, 1891.
Subscriptions will be for the single
series of 10 concerts Allotment of
seats will begin May /.
Discussing its plans and prospects
Tor the coming year, o statement says
1.-THE Society of the Friends of Music
looks forward confidently to the new
season, expecting it to be the most
successful in its history. 1t has passed
through q year OF rapid expansion, its
SOhSC1Go having attLdCJCo lhISCI huul-
ences than ever before. During 1880
1881 these gains will be consolidated
under conditions more favorable to
artistic performance and to the pleasure
of those who attend the concerts.
In the programs subscribers and the
public in general may expect the same
high standard. the same policy Of bring
ing forward the best works, both new
and old, which are seldom, II ever. to
be heard elsewhere in New York. Mr..
Bodanzky has prepared q series of 10
programs. predominantly of choral type,
in which novelties uncluding firSt
performance in America of large
modern work.. revivals Of unfamiliar
masterpieces and major compositions
from the society's present repertoire,
will figure. A list OF the chief works
to be performed win be announced
within the next two weeks"
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latin American Republics
Represented by SONGS

SONGS written by composers native
to six Latin American republics will
be presented in the program to be given
June at the Washington Club by
Gonzalo de Arrange, young Cuban tenor.
The countries so represented are Argen-
tina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia
and Cuba.
BY special request from q member of
the diplomatic corps, Senior Arrange will
sing the waltz Nelly" written by
Horacio Bates of Argentina.
Many members Of the diplomatic
group here viii sponsor this recital
Senior Arrange - to leave Washington
for further special study in New York
Immediately following the recital. He
will be assisted on this program June 5
by Mrs. Eula Alexander, pianist.
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Comic Operetta Listed
For Nav Is and %

"IN OLD VIENNA" comic operetta
i In three acts, music by Benedict,
will be presented ct the First Congrega-
tional Church by the Washington Comic
Opera Club, under the musical direction
of Paul D. Gable.
This operetta will be presented two
evenings, Monday, May rs, and Wednes-
day, May rs, at 8:15 o'clock.
The production Is staged by Katherine
Fowler and the dances are arranged by
Virginia Rowell. Vesta Pollock. Mabel
Owens, Elmer Corn, SCOTT Pollock,
Mamie Rouse and Stanley Working have
the leads In this popular operetta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
An Orchestra Announcement
ARTHUR SMITH announces tbs

IT ARTHUR SMITH announces that
renewals for subscriptions for the
Philadelphia Orchestra and the New
series will close May "a, at which time
the Office will close for the Summer
New subscriptions by mail will be
filed and acknowledged.
The increased subscriptions for the
Philadelphia Orchestra series indicate
the change to evening concerts has been
most welcome by music lovers.
The Philharmonic Symphony Orches-
ira, with Toscanini conducting two con-
certS next season in Washington and
Molinari conducting one, will be given
in the afternoons at 4:30 Is heretofore.
This arrangement of the two orchestra
concert series is planned to meet all de-
mands Of orchestral patrons.
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The Holy Cross Academy
Announces Spring Concert

MUCH interest is being shown by the
members Of the Holy Cross
Academy Glee Club in the Spring con-
cert. which will be presented Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock
The program will be dedicated to
Right Rev. Thomas j. Shahan, D. D.,
rector emeritus Of the Catholic Univer-
sity of America.
The club will be assisted By the pri-
vate vocal students, comprising Betty
Waters, Elizabeth Coping, Norma
Hughes, Mary Lerch, Mary Smith,
Mabel Hunt and Clotilda Salono.
The 0lee Club numbers will include
"Hark, Hark, the Lark" by Schubert;
II Know . Lovely Garden" by
dHardelot: Loves Benediction," by
Silver; "A Bird in the Hand" by
Roeckel: IT Hear the Voice Of May"
by Moffatt, and Spring JOY" by Chap
man.