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JIM THE
CONOUEROR
By PETER B. XYWE

"Shes very polite, no matter what
her other faults may be-" Hackett re-
marked to Crooked Bill. Roberta ig-
nored him and read aloud:
LOS ALGODONES, Tex,
June 81, 1925.
Miss Roberta Antrim, Hillcrest, Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y.
Your uncle Tom had an argument
with a cowman yesterday. Stop. There
will be a funeral tomorrow. Stop. 1
got your address by frisking Uncle Tom,
on whose person found your letter to
him of the second instant Stop. If
you insist I will send him to you
charges prepaid. Stop. However, If
you will take the advice of a we'll in
tentioned stranger you will permit him
to await the trump of resurrection in
the land his sheep made fallow Stop
If you have any interest in his estate
suggest you take steps to protect it.
Stop. If unable to do this Immediately
wire me authority and I will take
charge of it. Stop. Most usually I am
honest. Stop. Reference Federal Trust
Company, El Paso.
JAIME MIGUEL HIGUENES.
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Toms funeral" she suggested. I'm
the last of the Antrims and 1t would
be rather indecent of me to permit
strangers-and not very sympathetic
strangers, fear-to bury him."
Crooked Bill was always practical,
even If mysterious. II wouldn't do that,
honey. I'm afraid Uncle Tom won't
keep until you get there. have never
heard of ice or undertakers in Los
Algodones, and as for Theoretically
sealed caskets, there just aren't any. I
have friend down there, however, ana
I'll wire him to attend the obsequies
and send flowers for you and wreath
of cactus for me-"
why have you always disliked Uncle
Tom SOP"
Because you're his niece. not mine,
and he's never showed the slightest in
terest in you, except to send you IS
at Christmas and on your birthdays;
because l staked the unholy wretch In
the COW business, and he sold out the
cows, refused to pay the loan, went to
Mexico, where couldn't collect, and
set up in the sheep business; because he
was ornery from birth and looked 1t;
because, from the day married your
aunt until the day of her death Uncle
Tom grated off me on the strength of
the fact that I was a relative-in-law;
because it was his nature to approach
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ship to the deceased.
IT shall start tomorrow" Roberta
decided, and added maliciously: Il can
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Jaime Miguel Higuenesp
To be continuedO
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SECOND INSTALLMENT.

TILL LATHAM'S voice was the
- first to break the silence when
Roberta had finished reading
~ this remarkable communication.
Its true There's q ProVi-
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Roberta Antrim, has Just received Dord
Of the death of her uncle, Ton, Antrim.
She reads the message to Bill Latham,
an uncle-in-laW, NTH whom she makes
her home, and TO Glenn Hdckett, a
sutton, phose suit is not progressing any
too fduordbiV.
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JOBLESS WOMEN MARCH

~ Engl1Sh Texr11e WorAeEs 4reA
to London as Protest.
LEEDS, England, April ~ R.-Thirty
woman textile workers from
Bradford reached Leeds last night
F'ootsore and exhausted after one day OF
their march protesting unemployment,
they are due in London April 20.
Members of the local Communist
party gave them tea. ointment for their
feet and Accommodations for the night.
Later they held a public meeting, ap-
pealing for heavy walking stockings and
knapsacks for the demonstrators.
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Continued mild weather permitted the
continuation Of Denmark's building
boom through the Winter.
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St. Louis Opera Co. Has
Largest Revolving Stage

WHAT Is claimed to be the largest
W revolving stage i'm America and the
largest open-air revolving stage in the
world, was iraugurated this season in
st. Louis, Mo, where it is the property
of the Municipal Opera Co., for which
the citizens OF that city have raised a
guarantee of 100000 for the Summer
season of productions. This Is the
twelfth annual season.
This stage makes 1t possible to set
If necessary, for any production and
thus to secure excellent speed in chang
ing the scene. The turn-table stage is
operated by electricity. 1t is said that
a scene can be changed in 10 seconds II
desired. Magnificent oak trees form the
proscenium arch, framing the picture
on the stage, and natural forest back
ground is the setting which has seen II
productions, operettaS and grand operas,
come and go in IL years.
The first production for which the
stage was used was Romberg's Nina
Rosa" presented beginning Decoration
day. This week, for the newest work Of
the current season, the revolving stage
will be the wheel of a romance which
turns in its circle through the course
of 80 years. The work is "Maytime,"
with book and lyrics by Rida Johnson
Young, who wrote Brown of Harvard"
and other famous successes. The mu-
steal score is written by Romberg. Guy
Robertson has the leading role, with
Margaret Carlisle of the original New
Moon" cast in New York playing oppo-
site him.
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MUSIGRAPHS

Students from the Mount Vernon
School Of Music are giving the regular
Sunday night recitals at Mount Vernon
Place NJ. E. Church. Mrs. George Phil
lips will play tonight. Nina Buzzard
will play next Sunday.
Gertrude Lyons entertained students
of her Summer class and friends Thurs
day at a downtown tea room, where
they enjoyed having fortunes read in
the tealeaves. Mrs. G. NJ. Gardner had
charge of arrangements.
Special anecdotes were related by
Marchal Landgren, formerly of the Ju-
tnior Dramatic Guild OF New Haven,
Conn; Raymond PiRott, who. while
living in Texas, was a member of the
San Antonio Civic opera Co., and Eu-
gene Thomas, recently returned from
trip to California.
zenaide Hanenfeldt of this city, play
ed a program on the theremin, ether
wave instrument, at the home of Count
Szechenyi in Newport Monday night.
She is to appear on a program for the
Newport Art Association tomorrow.
The soloist for the German service
at Concordia Lutheran Church this
morning will be Mabel Kennedy, meZzo-
soprano. She will sing Sci Still Dem
Herrn' from Elijah" OF Mendelssohn.
AT the English service, which follows.
the Soloist will be Mrs. Fred Grabner,
who will sing. THE Lord Is My Light"
by Frances Allison.
While the regular choir is on vaca-
| ton in July and August, rehearSals of
tn cantata choir are being held Thurs
days, at 7:15 pm. and will continue I'M
til August Is. The first cantata to be
given will be Thou Guide of Israel"
by j. S. Bach, on which rehearsals will
| commence this week. There are still O
| few openings in this choir. Applica-
| ton should be made to John r. Mon
roe, choirmaster, phone Metropolitan
| 37l4.
| Lucia Maxwell McQueary, Washing
ton soprano. is vacationing in Kentucky,
where she is filling engagements at the
| Chautauqua at Olympia Springs, and
will sing over WHAS at Louisville and
WIFC at HopkinSville. She also &C
| cepted an invitation 20 sing before
the Kentucky Press Association Con-
vention during the past week, when
all the editors of the State attended.
The convention, which is an annual
affair, was held at Somerset.
Mrs. McQueary is accompanied on
her vacation by her husband, D. e.
McQueary, and her young son Everett.
They will visit the old homestead OF
the McQuearys whose forbears were
pioneer settlers who accompanied DAN
lei Boone in the days Of his journey
! to Kentucky.
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7 UCY BRICKENSTEIN sends line
II from Lake Thun. in Switzerland,
where, with her sister, Miss Mary
BrickenStein, and friends, she is spend
ing several weeks Earlier in the Sum-
mer both the Misses Brickenstein were
in France with Lady Henschel for three
weeks. Lady Henschel is to come to
the United States in october with Sir
George, when he will direct the same
program which he led the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in at the time of its
debut SO years ago. Sir George Hen.
schel is now 80 years old, but Is still
an active musician.
Warren F. johnson will give an organ
recital this evening at the Church of
the Pilgrims at 1880 o'clock. He will
play "Allelulia" Gordon Slater {;
"Arioso" (Bach), and Grand Choeur
in D Major (Guilman).
Karl Holet's sacred song, Harvest
Time" words by Sallie p. Fitz Hugh)
was sung by Pauline Holer at the First
Reformed Church last Sunday morn
ing.
w. E. Braithwaite, choir director of
Vermont Avenue Christian Church, has
been appointed chairman of the music
committee of the International Con-
vention to meet in Washington in Oc-
tober. He is now organizing q choir Of
800 voices from various Christian
churches 10 present programs. The
first general rehearsal was held last
week
Virginia Woodbridge Cureton, gradu-
ate Of the Washington College OF Music,
and the Institute of Musical Art of this
city, has returned from Chicago where
she completed an intensive year of
study in violin. counterpoint, compo-
Sition, history of music, solfeggio and
orchestra at the Chicago Musical Col
lege. She received teachers certifi-
cate.
Miss Cureton did advanced violin
work under the personal direction of
Leon Sametini, head of that depart
ment in the Chicago school.
In conjunction with her sister,
Frances Cureton Hubbard, graduate in
piano under B. Frank Gebest, Miss
Cureton will open branch of the In
stitute of Musical Art at GIG Decatur
street northwest this season.
Helen Bury, mezzo- soprano, has been
| engaged as substitute soloist at All
Souls Unitarian Church, corner of Six
tenth and Harvard streets, for the
Summer. Miss Bury will sing this
morning 1.-THE Good Shepherd" by Van
| de Water, and HE That Keepeth
Israel" by Schlosser.
Lewis Atwater will be at the organ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

HE young Hungarian pianist, Mlksa
Merson, who has been residing and
teaching in Washington for several
seasons, will appear in q concert to-
morrow night at Newport, r. L He is
presented under the auspices OF the
Newport Art Association with a brilliant
patronage that includes Count Lazslo
Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the
United States, and Countess SZecheLyi.
Mr.. Merson'S program will consist all
most entirely of selections from the
works of Franz List. He is stepped in
the List tradition, having studied I'M
der Arpad Szendy at the Royal Academy
Of Music at Budapest, where for six
consecutive years he was awarded the
List prize, anc later worked with Emil
Sauer Of the Master School of the State
Academy at Vienna. Both these mas
tiers were pupils OF List.
Mr.. MerSon made his debut at the
age of 10, when he played for Princess
Liechtenstein. Later he frequently APP
psared in recital for the Archduchess
Augusta, wife of the Archduke Joseph
of Hapsburg. His Interpretation shows
the discipline of thoroughly mastered
technique, and his touch is sincerely
clear and true.
Zenaide Hanenfeldt, the young Rus
sian who plays the ether-Wave instru-
ment, shares the program with Mr..
Merson. She received her instructions
from Leon Theremin, inventor Of the
ether-waye instrument, and Is aSso-
ciated with him in both his studio and
concert work. She is one of the fore
most opponents of this development,
which Morris Gest describes as nothing
short of a miracle. Her rendering OF
her instrument Is both subtle and
delicate.
These artists are both well known in
Washington. Mr.. Merson appeared in
q recital at the italian gardens of the
Mayflower Hotel last Spring and Miss
her success led 10 her being engaged TO
play at the Italian embassy at recep-
ton In honor Of Toscanini and Pizzetti.
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Mt. Vernon Church Choir.
To Prepare st. PAUL

MINE years ago, when r. Deane Shure
came to Mount Vernon Place M. e.
Church, he established a custom of pro-
ducing one standard oratorio each year
with the vested chorus of 60 voices. The
first one given was The Creation" by
Haydn. This has been followed by
Messiah" Handel, and seven others.
Mendelssohn's "St. Paul" has been
selected to be given during the coming
season, with rehearsals beginning in
September. The chorus will be aug
mented for the occasion with all singers
interested in this great work and espe-
cially those who have sung it before.
The first rehearsal will be held Septem-
Der 5, at o'clock.
All who have sung in est. Paul" and
those who wish to become familiar with
the vocal score kindly send names and
addresses to Mr.. Shure at the church
studio.
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Architecture and Music
Subject of Convention

IN discussion of the effect of archi-
lecture on music, the organ builder,
the architect, the acoustician and the
organist will gather together at the
twenty-third annual convention Of the
National Association of Organists in
Los Angeles July 28-August /.
These four technicians of their own
trades have met many times under the
unfinished roofs of churches and thea
tiers under construction. There, seated
on bags of cement, with blue prints
spread upon an upturned mortar box
the question of effect of architecture
on music has been discussed, the organ
builder, the architect, the acoustician
and the organist each arguing for his
own demands as to how he wants things
when construction is completed.
When the church or theater Is COM
pleted, the organist is the man who
holds the bag" The organ builder the
architect and the acoustician depart
The organist remains to play on what
hath been wrought"
There will be no bags of cement at
the convention In Los Angeles, and
there will be no blue prints spread on
upturned mortar boxes. There will be
discussion on music and architecture
Ernest M. Skinner. of the craft of
men who build organs, will present the
organ builders point of view.
Clifford NJ Swan, authority on acous-
tics, will tell what's needed by an organ
in the erection of an amphitheater from
the point of view of the acoustician.
T. F. Bludworth, leading authority in
the development of mechanical repro
duction and application of sound,
will present another angle on the
subject.
Warren D. Allen. organist of the Uni
versity of California, will present the
interests of the organist. The views of
the architect will be presented by q
leader in the field of building design.
The forum on music and architec-
ture will be conducted by Harold Vim
cent Milligan, president of the National
Association of Organists and executive
director of the National Music League
of New York. Mr.. Milligan is organist
and musical director of the Riverside
Church, New York City. The associa-
ton has invited all organists, both here
and abroad, to attend the convention
and take part in the discussions.
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TT seems to have required the magic
touch of Rudy Vallee, the leading
"crooner" of them all on the radio to-
day, to have brought an old marching
song from obscurity and turned the
spotlight full on the real author of the
music known as THE Stein Song of
the University of Maine. 1t seems there
even has been some erroneous informa-
ton circulated concerning the writer of
this number.
The editor Of this page has lust been
informed that The Stein Song" was
adapted from an old march entitled
"Opie." The writer of this march was
a visitor In Washington recently as
guest Of his sister, Mrs. Evan John
Fuge OF 642 K street northeast. While
here he told her of the error that has
credited another with the writing of
the march.
It seems that when James Opie
Brokenshire wrote the "Opie March" he
submitted 1t to the head of a leading
music house, through whose efforts It
was published. but had little sale. In
fact, it laid on the shelf for nearly 80
years, and was only recently resur-
rected after 1t had been popularized by
Rudy Vallee.
The original arrangement bv Mr..
Brokenshire was scored by the composer
for band use, and given his middle
name, which is the family name of his
mother. AT the time the composer was
band leader OF the 7th Cavalry Band.
He served Is Of his 81 years in the
Regular Army in that capacity. He
also wrote several other marches. in
Guiding THE Glory of the Trumpets"
and THE Gallant 7th."
At present Mr.. Brokenshire is in
spector of the instruments at the
Schuylkill Arsenal, in PHILADELPHIA,
where he has been since his appoint
ment by the late President Wilson in
1918.
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Hurok' s New Opera Group
ATo Give Russian Works

c HUROK, well known New York
~ manager of musical events, who
took over the German Grand Opera
Co. two years ago and ended a season
begun as a fiasco with flying colors. and
during the year just closed carried the
company through a long second an
nual tour with marked success, an
nounces that he has organized q new
opera company, with headquarters in
Philadelphia, to open its initial season
January. 1881.
At present Mr.. Hurok is abroad in
vestigating rare operas and gathering
additions TO his personnel. While in
Paris he is to hear the Russian COM
pany there, and announces his plans
to bring two of its best productions with
full cast to America. He also announces
revival of "Salome" for this country.
In addition, he is to present la Juive, "
Die Fledermaus" and the Wagnerian
works, Tristan und Isolde" 'Lohen-
grim "Goetterdaemmerung'' and Die
Walkuere."
Additional enterprises include. the
making of sound films of two light
operas and a short synchronized YER
sion of Die Walkuere," using the third
act only.
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A WASHINGTON soprano, Fran
~ ceska Kaspar Lawson, whose
"A family is one of the most noted
4 a musical families of the National
Capital, was on a concert tour
in New England last Summer, and hap
pened to include Pennington, Me, in
that tour for the first time. There 1t
was that she found the birthplace Of
one of the greatest prima donnas Of
the world-the American, Lillian Nor
ton, more widely known as Lillian Nor
dica This Italianized version of a
typically English American name was
a concession to the general public feel
ing of that day, when the supposed
superiority of the foreign artist preju-
diced many people.
Mrs. Lawson found the simplicity of
Nordicas home so charming, as it is
being restored by an association organ
lied for the purpose, and the natural
setting with the Maine landscape 80
inspiring that she sent The Star music
editor a good deal of data and the
above reproduced picture of the Nordica
home in Pennington.
Much more recently s. Burtis Baker,
noted American portrait painter, who
makes his home in Washington, hap
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or twice in her life had she really left
the stage feeling, There, 1 did It'll"
Frequently she practiced while she was
being painted, and the artist rarely got
her quiet in actual sittings for more
than 20 minutes at a time. Sometimes
he would suggest she sing an aria, and
she would give one from "Mignon" or
Die Walkuere." Often there was the
difficulty of having visitors present dur
ing the sittings and on a fine day
invariably the sitting would be short
ened and the singer insist the artist 60,
too, for a drive.
There are many more interesting an
ecdotes, too numerous to state here, but
certainly from the above it is not diff
cult to glimpse the picture of a rare
personality that deserved her high
throne among the great of the earth in
the American girl, Lillian Nordica.
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Dancers Join Army Band
In PROGRAM Wednesday

7 lisa GARDINER of the Gardiner
~ Tchernikof Dancers announces that
a group Of these dancers will appear
in a program given by the United States
Army Band, Capt. w. ]. Stannard,
leader, in the Sylvan Theater next
Wednesday evening.
There will be six dance numbers, in
Guiding q selection to be danced by Miss
Gardiner herself One of the most
unusual numbers will be Yaqui dance.
The music of this dance has been
played by the band at Pan-American
concerts with marked success. It is a
Mexican number. 1t will have Its
premiere with a dance Interpretation in
Washington Wednesday The arrange
ment follows closely the ritual dances
of the Indians. beginning with the
invocation, developing TO a battle climax
and with a peaceful, victorious ending.
The costumes for this number are de-
signed after ancient bas-reliefs, the
hieroglyhpics being copied exactly.