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ON the 23d Of June, 1923, Miss Thank
full c. Hutchinson, q young lady Of
Boston, Mass, was made very happy by
the gift of q piano from her uncle and
guardian, James H. Bingham, Esq. II
wasn't every girl who had a piano In
those times. Indeed, whole towns got
along without a single one OF the in
struments, and in Boston the few to be
found were mostly from London. some
OF them part Of the booty taken from
captured British merchantmen. But
Thankfuls piano was an honest-to-
goodness American product, the frs,
one made by Jonas Chickering, erst-
while farmers lad and cabinetmaker's
apprentice.
Jonas had come to Boston a slip Of
lad with few dollars in his pocket
and notion in his head. Five years
earlier he had laid eyes, for the first
time In his life, on a piano. That was
in New Ipswich, N H., whittier the in
strument had somehow found its way
from the court of George III. The
mechanism Of the thing enchanted
Jonas. It's possibilities for development
drove him to the city, and into the en-
ployment OF a man named John
Osborn, who was making a few Euro
starting his own shop. There hi
promptly turned out Thankful's piano
1t was a modest music box compared
with the pianos found in the home,
and boarding schools of wealthy girl:
nowadays. It may be seen now in the
big piano factory on fremont street
Boston, a square-bodied fellow with O
thin, sweet voice and round embellisheC
legs. Thankful was contented with it
When she travelled to another towr
Thankful rode fat-bodied stage coach
that swayed precariously on high
wheels, and was drawn by sturdy horses
changed at frequent stops. Her trunk
was strapped on behind, and her wide
hoopskirts flower over the seat inside
She thought the beaux who talked II
her quite handsome in their skin-tight
trousers and curly-brimmed tall hats.
Evolving the First Upright.
Jonas Chickering. dreaming by nigh
and toiling by day over Improvement
to the pianoforte, presently evolved hi
first upright. The pictures show q tai
narrow piece Of furniture with the tor
lined with gathered silk. There is ont
Of that type. only earlier and cruder
in the once Of George w. Chadwick
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AN Italian tenor, formerly of the Met
"A ropolitan Grand Opera Co, and be-
fore that a leading singer with many
opera companies both abroad and in this
country, came to Washington last Fall
to make his home and establish q studio.
The tenor is Armando Iannuzzi, who
when very young wen scholarship to
study at the conservatory in Milan that
prepared students for appearances at
the famous La Scala Opera House. Fol-
lowing his training Signor 1annuzzi had
six years of experience with the COM
pany at La Scala. He also engaged In
considerable concert work, and when he
came to this country sang with both
the Metropolitan and San Carlo COM
panies.
Signor Iannuzzi counts among his
most interesting Of many experiences
his contact with Mussolini, now premier
Of Italy, when both were young and
comparatively unknown. Even as far
back as 1914 Mussolini was recognized
as an adventurous spirit and leader Of
men. He was adviser of a society
formed in the interest of musical artists
of italy. He himself was never a con-
cert artist, but he was thorough musi-
clan and a gifted violinist. He was a
warm sympathizer of the cause of the
musical artists OF Italy.
When MussOlini Helped Iannuzzi.
It was six years later, however, when
Mussolini definitely helped Armando
Iannuzzi and smoothed the path for q
musical project which the latter had or
Ranized and sponsored. In 1920 Signor
Iannuzzi was asked by authorities in
Geneva, Switzerland, to take the opera
company which he had formed from
Milan to Geneva. At that time Musso-
lini was editor of newspaper called
Publica Italiana. The project and
other Italian officials refused to grant
Iannuzzi the necessary passports to
carry his company from italy into
Switzerland to keep this offered en-
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W. C. T. u. Notes

Mrs. Charles Wilde, director of
Child Welfare, Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union of District of Columbia.
arranged a meeting with Mrs. w. A.
Winkelhaus, director of Americaniza-
ton, w. c. T. u, District of Columbia,
at the Gospel Nilsson auditorium, John
Marshal place and c street, last Sun
day evening. Mrs. N. M. Pollock. pres
ldent OF District Of Columbia Union,
presided.
Mrs. Winkelhaus and Mrs, Windle ex-
planned briefly the work of each depart
ment.
Mrs. Harvey Prentice, president of
Gospel Mission Union, assisted by the
following members of her union, Mrs.
Jones, Gunther, Blount. Hutchinson, Glib
son and Mrs. Lampell, presented q
sketch entitled THE Message Of the
Flowers" Mrs. A. M. Peterson sang.
Miss Marietta Callahan gave humorous
readings.
Miss Maxine Cardwell gave her prize
winning prohibition grafton.
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member the American youth
among all the thousands of per-
sons and things he had to at
tend to?
Life in Bayreuth was a unique
affair during the festival. The
town of 10000 souls was quite IN
prepared to take care of such an
invasion Of musicians and lis
teners. Most of us had to seek
rooms in private houses and fight
for our meals at Angermann'S S.
His tables were occupied long
before mealtime, while outside
were world-famed singers and
players and composers sitting on
kegs and boxes, glad to get a
sandwich and a glass Of beer"
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method of teaching music in the home
and club.
The Writer'S League Of Washington
will meet at the Mount Pleasant Public
Library, Sixteenth and Lamont streets,
next Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The
following program has been arranged:
Short stories by Miss Bailey, Mr.. Nc
Fadden, Mrs. leila Newcomb and Mrs.
Marguerite Wilcox: a lecture on the
work of Leonardo de Vinci, Mrs. Barron.
Visitors are welcome.
At the last meeting 1t was decided to
postpone the close OF the short story
contest to the last meeting In October.
The Department Of the Potomac
Woman's Relief Corps met at the
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club,
Eleventh and L streets, Tuesday at 3
pm, with Mrs. Della OBrien, depart
ment president In the chair.
The Grand Army Of the Republic
and Woman's Relief Corps encamp-
ment at Cincinnati, Ohio, August "a to
80 we're discussed and plans on the ar
rangements made for the participation
in the program.
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Shaw, past depart
ment president, was reported i'll at the
Homeopathic Hospital.
SoroptimiSt CIuh.-MrS. Ethel knight
Pollard, regional director of the Mid
western and South Atlantic district and
member of the national board Of the
American Federation, returned last
week from attendance at the interna-
tional Soroptimist convention in Lon
don, England.
DR.. Lulu I. Waters gave . home
coming" party for Mrs. Pollard at her
home in Wesley Heights. She was as
sisted by Miss Grace Goodpasture and
Miss Gene c. Bearmore.
The club viii entertain the delegates
next Thursday evening at the Congress
sional Club when the gavel, which has
been welded during her absence by the
vice presidents, Miss Nora Huffman and
Mrs. Adam. Klein Peter, will be turned
over to Mary CatheyinN xewis.
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MISTAKEN for q German singer and
acclaimed as lone Of the finest
voices in Germany" Marie Won Essen
Kent Of Detroit has returned to her
native land with contract as a lead
ing contralto of the German Grand
Opera Co. She arrived recently on
the S. S. Dresden.
The story Of her engagement is
unique. ]. j. Vincent, managing di-
rector of the company, had come all the
way from New York to Germany to
engage artists and conductors. He had
heard innumerable contraltos, none of
whom proved entirely satisfactory. He
went to hear "Goetterdaemmerung" In
Dresden. The role of Waltraute
usually entrusted to a meszo-soprano
was being sung that night by a young
contralto, voice rather deeper than a
mezzo and higher than the customary
contralto pitch. Her name on his pro-
gram was German, of course. He was
so impressed that he went backstage
and spoke to her in German. You can
talk American to me-" she said. Il
come from Detroit" He engaged her
at once.
Nine. Won Essen Is better known to
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the American public as Mary Kent, con-
cert and operate singer. She was born
in Detroit, was educated and studied
music there, and gained her first eXpe-
rience by singing in church choirs.
Later she went to New York and had
her first operate experience when she
was engaged by Antonio Scott, bari
tone of the Metropolitan, to join the
touring opera company which bore his
name. She remained with the company
an entire season, then was enrolled
among the artists of Fortune Gallo's
San Carlo Opera Co. A season with
this troupe left her convinced that her
particular meter was German opera;
and she went abroad for study and ex-
perience. She had sung IN nearly every
opera house In Germany, including all
the important cities, when Mr.. Vincent
heard her in Dresden.
She will go to Detroit for a visit to
her family and plans to return to New
York in the Fall for concert tour
before joining the German Grand Opera
Co. in January.
When the company comes to Wash
ington next Winter this young Ameri-
can contralto will be heard for the FIRST
time In the Capital Of her own country.
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St. Adams Quartet Sings
At PENNSYLVANIA Resor'

CT. ALBAN's QUARTET. composed
- of Beatrice S. Goodwin, director
tralto; Granville Leef, tenor, and F. g.
Schaefer, bass, made a week end trip
to Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, for the pur-
pose of giving concert at the Parish
House Hall for the benefit of the IL
brary.
They were unusually well received by
a large audience composed chiefly of
musical people from Baltimore, Phila-
de1phia and Washington.
This quartet is rapidly taking It's place
among the finest organizations of its
kind in the city
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Cantata Choir Closes
Rehearsals Thursday Nigh

THE soloist at the German service at
Concordia Lutheran Church this
morning viii be Robert j. volland, ten
or, who will sing "Saget eS, Danket
him." from the "Lobgesang" OF Men
delssohn, and 20 VIE Sehoen LIST Define
Welt" by Franz Schubert. At the Eng
lish service at 11:15 Beulah L. Brown,
soprano, guest soloist, will sing Fear
Not Ye, o Israel" by Dudley Buck.
Next Thursday evening will be the
last rehearsal of the cantata choir for
the Summer. Rehearsals will be re-
sumed early in September. Considering
the hot weather, the attendance at these
rehearSals has been remarkably good
during the Summer months.
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THE SOLDIERS HOME BAND.
Opera Leader Is Chosen
To Head COMPOSERS Grour

CABLED advices from Germany an
nounce the selection of DIR. Max
Won Schillings, guest conductor at the
Staatsoper in Berlin, and recently en-
gagged as the principal conductor for the
third American tour of the German
Grand Opera Co.. as president of the
Association Of German Composers, to
succeed Richard Strauss upon the lat
ter'S retirement.
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Service Band Dates.
THE U. S. ARMY BAND.

The u. ,. ARMY BAND.
4 CTIVITIES of the Army Band for
the week starting tomorrow will in
clude:
Monday - Montrose Park, Thirtieth
and r streets, concert at 7:30 pm.
! Tuesday-Walter Reed Hospital, con-
cert at $50 pm.
Wednesday-sylvan Theater. concert
at 1880 pm.
Thursday-Concert at Army War Col
lege at pm.
ENHANCEMENT at east steps, Capitol.
at 1880 pm.
In addition to the regular popular
and classical numbers, several solos will
be featured at the different concerts
during the week.
THE, U. S. NAVY BAND.
! THE U. s. Navy Band, Lieut. Charles
Benter, leader will play at the
Capitol tomorrow night. Rossini's over
ture to William Tell" excerpts from
the Gilbert g. Sullivan opera, "Mikado"
and solos for xylophone and cornet are
among the numbers on this program.
Tuesday night, at Sylvan Theater,
the program will include the Overture
in F." by Kalliwoda; sections from Vic
tor Herbert's Fortune Teller" and the
finale from "Ariele," Bach.
Wednesday night the band will play
the regular midweek concert at the
Navy Yard
Other concerts scheduled for this week
are Tuesday and Friday at 3 pm. at
the Navy Yard, and Thursday, 2 pm,
at st. Elizabeths Hospital.
THE u. S. MARINE BAND.
During the coming week the United
States Marine Band will play concerts
at the following places:
Monday-Marine Barracks, at pm
Tuesday-Chevy Chase Circle, at 1880
pm.
Wednesday-United States Capitol. at
| 1880 pm.
Thursday-SyIvan Theater, Monu-
ment Grounds, at 7:30 pm.
These concerts will include works
| from Wagner, Leoncavallo. Smetana,
| RoSSini and Beethoven. The soloist
will be Musician Winfred Ramp, cornet.
THE SOLDIERS HOME BAND.
The band OF the United States Sol
diers' Home, John S. M. Zimmerman
leader and Anton Pointner assistant
will give three concerts, as usual, Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday afternoons
at $50 o'clock in the bandstand.
The full programs, which combine
! light and classical selections, will be
published in daily issues Of The Star.
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Organ Recital Tonight.

WARREN F. JOHNSON will give an
w organ recital at the Church of the
Pilgrims at 1880 o'clock this evening.
He will play Fantasia in FL &C. B.
PollerD. "Andante and Fughetta" (Hen-
ry Smart) and "scherzo' by Reginald
Goss-Custard.
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A number of officers of the Reserve
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RAYREUTH, where, in the Villa
Wahnfried centered the home
life of Richard Wagner and his
second wife, Cosima, daughter Of
Franz List, was also the home
town Of Jean Paul Friedrich
Richter. It was indeed the logical
place for the erection of the Wag-
ner Festspielhaus. One does not
wonder that, intimate friend
though he was to Ludwig II, King
Of Bavaria, Wagner turned down
the royal offer of that monarch
to establish the Wagnerian Thea
ter In Munich. The one in that
city now Is said to be a replica
of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth.
Wagner disliked the distractions
Of a capital. He found what he
wanted as the setting for his thea
ter in the secluded, humble little
town Of Bayreuth, a short dis
lance northeast of Nuremburg,
capital Of the district Of upper
Franconia. It is not many men
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SC0el0! 1nrce answered. 1
had made up my mind he said,
to admit no one to the rehearsalS,
not even List. But he has gone
in and / have admitted few
others, so you might as we'll come,
too
He then asked me for my card
and told me I would get in II /
gave my name to the doorkeeper.
did so, and had the time of my
life watching the great master
experimenting every detail of the
performance. He had a special
little bridge, by means of which
he could pass from the stage to
the auditorium and back any mo-
ment. He would sit near us look
ing and listening, his face eX-
pressing a hundred successive
emotions. Then he would rush
onto the stage to show a singer
how to pose or to phrase. The
next moment he would look down
into the orchestral abyss and beg
the players: Not quite so loud,
please. Remember the singers
come first
at was a wonderful experience
for me thus to be in the very
workshop of the greatest operate
genius the world has ever known
This Bayreuth festival was surely
the beginning Of the Golden Age
of Music.
THE next morning as I entered
the theater Wagner saw me, came
and shook hands, and asked me
If I had got in. I thanked him
profusely. How could he thus re-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
MARINE MUSEUM
 IS BEHIND BILLS
Newport News May Be Scene Of
 Vast Lake Plan ....

Richmond, Va, March P}-The News-Leader said yesterday that plans for the creation at Newport News, Va, of a vast marine museum to entail the expenditure of from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 and cover an area of approximately 1000 acres are behind two seemingly un- important bills that are now before the general assembly.
 The project, the paper continued, is contemplated by Archer Hunting ton, Homer l.. Ferguson. presiden of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock company and others. provides the establishment of the largest museum of the kind ever at tempted. The museum would be on 1000 acre lake and would contain reproductions of every type of ves- sel from the earliest days of the crude dug-out canoe, the ancient galley to the modern vessels.
 The News Leader said that the in- terests behind the proposed museum reported 10 be headed by Archer Huntington, son of the late C. r. Huntington, are ready to begin the development of the marine museum at once. It was learned on good authority, the paper continued, that approximately S4,000,000 would be spent in the development of the first phases of the project.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
MAN|LA'S SCHOOL
 STRIKE SPREADS
Several Hundred More Join
 10000 Already Out

Manila, March (P) - Manila S school strike spread today when sev- eral hundred more students joined the 10000 already out. Many non- striking students, fearing violence, remained away from classes.
 More than a score of non- striking students were attacked during the day. Many of those who attended classes in spite of the strike, armed themselves with knives, clubs and whips. The police confscated most of tlte weapons to prevent possible bloodshed.
 The position of both the strikers and the school authorities remained unchanged. Governor General Dwight r. Davis summoned Alejau- dro Albert. acting secretary of pub lie instruction, and Luther B. Bew- ley, director of education to the ex- ecutivc offices this morning but the results of their conference were not announced.
 Removal of Albert, Bewlcy and the principal of Manila North High school constitute the principal de- mands of the strikers, although the original purpose of their walkout, was to force the reinstatement of four students who had been expelled from North High school for leading g. previous strike as a demonstration against Miss Mabel Brummitt, American teacher.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
DEMOCRATS FAVOR
 ENFORCEMENT BAN
Rhode Island Committee FaY0rS
 Repeal of State Dry Law

Providence, R. l., March (UP) The democratic state central committee of Rhode Island today placed itself on record in favor of repeal of the state prohibition en- forcement act.
 The committee asserted that the state law was inconsistent with the refusal of the state of Rhode Island to ratify the GSth) amendment. and with the states understanding of the rights reserved to it at the time of it's ratification of the constitution itself
 Pending such repeal" the com- mittee said: The enforcement of this law should be impartial. The republican hypocrisy in giving the drys the law and the vets the liquor has led to demoralization."
 The statement in which the com- mittee expressed it's views on pro- hibition was described as a "dec- laration of principles of the demo- cratic party in Rhode Island, unani- mously adopted by the executive committee of the state central con- mittee."
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
TOWN ID ATTEMPT
 ID COLLECT TAXES
Hetty Green Estate to Be Sued for Back Duties

Rockingham, Vt, March 5 R}- Town officials today proceeded to- wards legal action attempting tte collection of taxes which may total several millions of dollars on the estate of the late Hetty H. R. Green, i, known as Americas s wealthiest wom- an, who lived here many years and who died in New York in 1916.
 In the largest town meeting If years yesterday, the 3S7 voters 7 unanimously adopted a resolve in structing the listers of the town to levy a tax for one year upon the es- tate on it's full value as shown by . the probate court inventory. Col. Edward R. Green of South Dart mouth, Mass, only son, has sworn the estate was valued at s67, 100000.
 The action followed Investigation by a Boston detective agency a11 Boston ncwspaperman which reveal ed an alleged "gcntleman's agrcc- ment' between the late Mrs. Green %and the town. The investigators say that she agreed to make Rocking ham her legal residence on condi- ton that she be taxed on not more than $l2,000 real estate and S100,- GOO personal property. They say that she was taxed on that amount.
 Grand Jury May Act
 Former State Senator Matt L. Di- r voll, who introduced the resolve, e- clared that the agency had mad: plans to lay the affair before the grand jury to determine any possible \ criminal guilt.
 Mrs. Green died one year before the state passed an inheritance tax law. Town officials said yesterday however, they believed they could collect back taxes on the full value of the estate during the years of he, residence, which began in 1885 Mrs. Green left a daughter in addi- ~ tion to a son.
 Rockingham has a population oi approximately 1000.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
Telephone Company Is Now Worth Four Billion Dollars and Is the
 Property of 469,8OO Stockholders
Company Is Only 45 Years Old But Has 29 Million Customers Here and Abroad.

New York, March 5 Pl-A "scien- tiilc toy of doubted commercial value was the popular verdict of an incrcdulous world when Alexander .S Graham Bell invented the telephone.
 The scientific toy of 1875 has be- come the greatest commercial en- terprisc of 1880.
 Fifty-fve years later, a genera ton that regards the telephone more as d necessity than d luxury srects the four billion dollar cor poration that was made possible by !. Bells creative genius that gave wings to the human voice.
 A lineal descendant of the first Bell company, the American Tele- phone and Telegraph company, par ent organization of the present Bell system, became the worlds first four billion dollar corporation in 1929.
 A Had Rapid Growth
 In a year of phenomenal growth, the concern spent $600,000. 900 in ex- banding it's facilities and boasted of assets of $4,22S,O S,OOO,0o0 at the end of the year. That is d new high figure for the wealth of an American corporation and so far as A. T. and , T. officers know, is not equalled by |, any private enterprise in the world The A. T. and T. is only 45 years old. It was born at $40 a. m March 8, 1885. It was the child ot the American Bell Telephone con- Hpany, then the parent organization of the Bell system and the great great grandson of the first Bel company. It started life with Theo. dore N. Vail as president and tc link the lines of the various com. panies, as it's main purpose.
 Organized under a New York charter, it acquired the parent com. pany, a Massachusetts corporation Dec. 1, 1899 and since has reignet as the undisputed father of the Bel system.
 < Great strides have marked the development of the telephone busi ness since that first conversation be tween Bell. and his assistant Thomas Watson over 30 feet of wire Those two telephones have growi into a system of 20,000,O00 and tn, 30 feet of wire has expanded into 69,519,000 miles of wire and cable NThe power of the human voice car ried only faintly between Bells lab oratory and his bedroom in tn, same house now spans the continen and the ocean, and a telephone sub scrjber can talk to 29,000,000 other on two continents.
 The original seven stockholder in the Bell company that operated yunder a trust agreement has ex banded until Walter $. Clifford, th president of tthe A. T. and T. re ported the concern was owned b, .469,S0O persons.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
Mabel NOrmand Leaves
 All Estate tO Mother

Los Angeles, March 5 R-Mabel Normand, film comedienne, who died of tuberculosis, February 2S, left her entire estate to her mother, Mrs. Mary Normand, of Staten Island, N. '.
 William R. James, attorney, who will probate the will, said today it would be several days before the pe- tition for administration can be filed, because some time will be necessary to determine what the assets of the actress were.
 Lew Cody, screen actor and hus- band of Miss Normand, said he had seen the will and that nothing was left him. That is the way I want cd it. he said. Mabel left all of her property to her mother, which is as it should be-"