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Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-26

Bakersfield, Kern county, had re-
ceived more rain at Christmas than
at the same time during the pre-
vious 10 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-26
Here And There
In Sport World
lIiniici Prpsil

United PresS)
OAKLAND, Calf, Jan. 26. -
Hans Birkie, 1876 blond young
German heavyweight Of Oakland,
knocked out Leo Lomski, 1886, of
Aberdeen, Wash, in the ninth
round of their scheduled 10-round
bout here last night.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-Ray
Jacobs, at first base last season
and for several years in various
infield spots for the Los Angeles
baseball team. was given his re-
lease today. The release was given
so that he might deal with other
teams as a free agent. The pur-
chase OF Earl Shecly further forti-
lied the Angels in the inlicld and
made Jacobs unnecessary, it was
said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26. - Sam
Stein. popular Jewish wrestler.
went after Jim DondoS' crown so
hard with a flying tackle last night
that he landed on the concrete
floor outside the ring unconscious,
Inasmuch as Sam did not return
10 the ring, the Greek champion
retained his title.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 90
Gar Woods crack speedboat, Miss
America ", will streak across the
smooth blue waters of Indian
creek today in a second attempt 10
return the worlds speedboat rec
ord to the United States.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 26.-Cefer-
mo Garcia, Filipino. and David
Vclasco Mexican, viii mix it for a
scheduled 10 rounds at Olympic
auditorium tonight Last week
Garcia knocked out Alfrefo Gaona,
Mexican. but so also has Velascc.
Frank Simms and Dynamite Jack
son also will box 10 ROUNDS in the
gcmi-Windup.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-26
Reckless Driver
Fined BY Court

A cloud of dust and an automo-
bile in The ditch was all that Don
Campbell, deputy sheriff, saw, but
it cost 3. Mumabas, Filipino, $50
Evening star., 1932-06-05
ZOO HELPS TO PAY
OPERA EXPENSES
Receipts From Wild Animals
Support Cincinnati Music
Events.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. June 4-The
only city in the country that takes its
another distinction this Summer.
Cincinnati will be the only city enjoy
ing an extended season of grand opera,
and the credit will go partially to un-
failing "angels"-lions, bears, elephants
and monkeys.
The business arrangement that par
TALLY finances Cincinnati's nationally
famous zoo opera includes the wild ami
mails, hot dog, peanut and ice cream
vendors and dancing pavilion.
Music Lovers Satisfied.
While the surroundings are not as
esthetic as some would desire. they are
a means to an end and the ma jority Of
music lovers appear to be satisfied.
While the opera house, an open-air
structure inside the ZOO grounds, has
attracted $4,000 to 10000 persons in a
week. like many others, it has failed
to pay.
Charles G. Miller, business manager of
the zoo. explains that the deficit has
been made up in part by money from
the sale of CONNECTIONS during intermis-
sion. as well as from admission to the
200 itself and from a dance hall adjoin-
ing the opera house At time when
many cities find themselves unable to
enjoy Summer opera because Of the
Of the usual angels" the
value of Cincinnati's opera connec-
tion with the ZOO is emphasized.
Funds Still Needed.
However, it still is necessary for a
group OF public spirited citizens to do
nate guaranty fund to see the season
The ZOO opera will enter its twelfth
season June II, and continue until
August 20. A performance will be
staged every night with change twice
a week
Among the operas to be offered are
Carmen" II Trovatore," La Bo-
heme," "Tannhauser" and Martha" as
well as several novelty operas.
Isaac Van Grove of the Chicago
Civic Opera has been engaged as artis-
tic director. and contracts are being ar
ranged with outstanding talent.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
LIGHTER ALLOYS ARE SOUGHT
AMONG Z METALLIC ELEMENTS
Combinations of Magnesium Surpass Cast
Iron in Strength, Although One
Third Less in Weight.

If the present era is one Of iron and
steel. the next may possibly be called
an age Of light alloys. The development
of light. fast moving machinery, Of
automobiles and aircraft, has already
created an insistent demand for metals
having tensile strength and other quail
tiles approaching those of steel, but
lacking its weight.
The first answer of metallurg;sts to
this demand was the development Of
aluminium and its alloys Within few
years this metal has progressed from
rather expensive curiosity to struc-
tural material so common that its use
rarely eXcites comment. Its lightness is
such an outstanding quality that nine
'ersons out Of ten believe it to be
the lightest metal known, and many
will express violent disagreement when
told that there is common metal
lighter by one-third.
AS a matter of fact, there are at
least seven metallic elements lighter
than aluminium, as well as special forms
of two Others Aluminium itself weighs
a little more than a third as much as
iron. The metal element lithium weighs
less than a fifth as much as aluminium,
and alloys Of this metal may some day
be devised that will float On water
for lithium itself weighs only a little
more than half as much as water
Besides lithium, the metals lighter
than aluminium. In order of decreasing
weight, are strontium beryllium. mag
nesium, calcium, sodium and potassium.
Unfortunately none of these is suit
able as structural material in the pure
state. Some corrode too easily; others
lack tensile strength, have low melting
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Ideal Opera Planned by
Philadelphia Conductor
Leopold Stokowski Announces Production in
Which Actors, Singers and Synchro-
nized Music Are to Be Used.
By E. de S. Melcher.

instead of just large voices and
large persons, will be actors who
know what to do with their hands
and their feet and who can bring
out the action better than the
music.
Speaking of this, Stokowski said:
I'm producing opera one of the
main difficulties is to find artists
who are equally suitable as sing
erS and actors and whose phySi-
cal appearance fits the part.
"Often the artist has a magnifi-
cent voice, but does not look right
for the role. Sometimes an actor
looks well for the role, but his
voice is unsuitable. Sometimes
the voice is perfect, but too small
to carry over a modern orchestra.
I have been trying to find a way
to obviate all this, and believe it
has been found"
** X x
At the moment nobody seems
to know just when all this is
going to take place. Mr.. Stokow-
skis opera, his production and
the final details of his plans are
still in the dark. Certain it is,
however, that singers who pride
themselves on their appearance
embryonic Lily PonSeS, reduced
Jeritzas, undersized Giglis and
starved TetraZZiniS are being
combed for the length and
breadth of the land. Whether
they will be mute throughout the
action of the opera-merely pup
pets, killing. kicking and embrac-
ing each Other-and occasionally
bursting into mild hummings or
Second-rate ariaS, leaving the big
moments to the offstage
recordings, is still a mystery. A
also as to where this will
take place. Nevertheless, this
ideal of ideals, this sudden lurch-
ing into the realms of fictiOnal
fiction, this insulting of the words
to music and the music to words,
is certainly an original scheme,
and one which has again placed
Mr.. StokoWski at the helm of
perSonages. His ability
to create excitement is rather
phenomenal. Few conductors be-
fore him have been able to pro-
vide so much continual front-page
news. Even our own Hans
Kinder, while blessed with that
remarkable story about getting
the President ito throw out
fiddle" at the opening concert,
has hardly begun to tread the il
lustrous path of publicity which
his former mentor now is promot-
ing Mr.. StokoWSki is not only a
great musician, but a great per-
sonality. He has sometimes been
compared to New York's popular
Mayor Walker
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Student Recitals.
EcENT student recital activit

u ECENT student recital activities at
the Washington College of Music
have included the presentation by Sara
Cooper Wolloch of Ruth Bordow, whose
Sunday afternoon program included
smaller compositions Of Bach, Bee
thoven. Schumann. Moszkowski and Pol
DIM. all played with simple and un-
affected manner and with glimpses of
mature Interpretation quite unusual in
a child of 10 years
Tamara Dmitrieff presented Mildred
Leith Shackleford in an evenings pro-
gram which listed a Bach "Bouree,"
the Sonata, Op. 10, No. 2" Of Bee
thoven's and the posthumous "E Minor
Waltz" of Chopin. the Sibelius "Ro-
nance" and a final group, including
the Moussorgsky "Hopak," the first
Debussy "Arabesque" and the "Segui-
dilla," by Albeniz. Miss Shackleford
also added considerably to her musical
standing with the good ensemble feel
ing which she displayed in assisting
a young violinist, Howard Crawford
pupil of Mr.. Fritz Maile: they played a
Schubert "Sonatina" and the Noelck
Concerto in A Minor"
Mr.. Male also marshaled a group
OF 10 young violinists in a splendid
program. Miss Catherine Benson played
accompaniments. talented student,
Helen Wootton, also of Mr.. Males
class, assisted Ruth Bordow on her
program.
Helen Cooper Lord presented Gladys
Broz. pianist, in company With group
of those who have been under the
tutelage of Miss Helen Clark.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Not as It Used to Be.

HORACE HEIDI. who brings with
him to the Warner-Earle Theater
his Californians-all natives of the
Golden State and with the added dis
tinction Of all having as their alma
mater the famous University Of Cali
fornia-keenly alive to the modern de-
velopment of what are commonly
termed orchestras-and he Is said to
have one of the best Of its kind in
America-calls attention to the require
mentS of the term versatile" when
applied to the modern orchestra player.
Time was" he says-and many,
doubtless will remember it-"when to
be ranked as a musician implied a
thorough knowledge of music and abil-
ity to express it vocally or instru-
mentally. A musician who could play
music at sight on several instruments
was deemed really versatile musician
and respected accordingly.
Nowadays, however-and 1t may be
because of innovations introduced by
the makers of sound pictures. or indeed,
it may be the fault of so-called col
legians musician who merely
reads the classics and can play them
offhand on one or more instruments
isn't considered such a great asset in
a modern orchestra Not only must
a trained musician be able to do this,
or at least make a bluff at doing
it. but he also must be able to sing.
dance. act and entertain, for Of such
is the modern collegiate orchestra,
which has many imitators."
1t is this kind Of an orchestra Mr.
Heidi is bringing to the Earle, and
there isn't an earthly doubt that it
will be popular and royalty welcomed.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Outdoor Performance of
AIDA Postponed a Week
Stadium. With Imported Cast Chorus and
Ballet From Metropolitan Opera

gist, Mariette Bey, who had come upon
the idea, during his excavations in Egypt
of burial of living persons, and from this
the plot of the opera was built up. From
the rough draft of the plot Camille du
Locle, a former director of the Opera
Comique. in Paris who happened to be
visiting Verdi at Busseto, Italy, wrote
libretto in French prose and this was
put into Italian verse by Antonio
Ghis.anzoni. Aida" was not used to
open the Grand Opera House in 1859,
although it was ready at that time. The
outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War
caused the costumes to be held in Paris
and the operas premier was delayed
until 1871.
The story concerns Aida the daugh-
ter OF an Ethiopian king, who is slave
in the Pharoah's palace in Memphis.
Both she and Amneris, daughter of
the Pharoah. love Rhadames, the hand
some Egyptian general. One of the
major events is the triumphal return Of
RhadameS from Ethiopia, a scene which
for pomp and splendor is unexcelled -.
the realms of opera. In this pageant
are troops, divinities, trumpeters. sway
ing -nnlels and elephants, and cory
pnees, who execute their curious Egypt
ian steps before the victorious warrior,
while the orchestra supplies ballet mu-
sic Of exotic hueS. The setting Of the
last scene, which Verdi himself is said
to have devised, is also remarkable,
having a divided stage with the upper
half showing one scene and the lower
half another
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Local Notes

gram: Pianists, Mary Leigh, Mar
garet Smith and Glenn Carow, vio-
linists, Martha Davenport, Henry Ho-
gan, Madolin Norris, Daniel Cevinson
and Dolores Spence voice, Unger Muir
nan, Mary Black, Mary R. Turner, La
vinia Holland. Alma Otterstrom and
Rose Bright; reader. Viola D. Reid.
The music for the Confederate me-
mortal exercises to be held in the Con-
federate section of Arlington National
Cemetery this afternoon will be fur
nished by the Marine Band, Capt. Taylor
BranSon, leader. and double quartet,
composed of the following: Fannie
Shreve Hartsill and Estelle Hunt Dean.
sopranos; Lillian Chenoweth and Marie
KoontZ. contraltos; Ellsworth Condron
and Joseph ODonnell, tenors, and
William Mattingly and S. H. Hilder,
basses.
Warren F. Johnson will play the fol-
lowing organ music at the Church of
the Pilgrims at 7:30 o'clock this eve
ming: Fantasia in F Major" (Best,
nata' philip James,; lie Carlton de
st. Paul dOrleans" (Adolphe Marty
At the birthday anniversary party OF
the Columbia Heights Citizens Asso-
citation on June Colonial music will
be rendered by Mrs. Charles Haig. So
prano, and Elizabeth Eaton, contralto,
with Miss Doree Germaine Holman at
the piano. The three artists will ap-
pear in costume
The Bernheimer Trio was featured
in Bizet's "Agnus Del" at the novena
services last week at the Visitation
Monastery at Bethesda, Md These
services closed on June 3, the feast of
the Sacred Heart, with Mary Helen
Howe, coloratura soprano. as soloist.
Miss Howe, who has had charge of the
music for these services. has been as
sisted by Delphine Barr Walsh. So
prano; Raymond Holden. baritone;
Mrs. Martha Barbee organist Clement
Geibel. tenor; Mary Howe Wallace of
Fort Smith. Ark, violinist. and the
Misses Barbee. Louise McNerney has
presided at the organ.
Frances Gutelius is giving a series
of four recitals at her studios. June 3,
4, 10 and IL, presenting different
groups of pupils on each night. Cards
of admission will be mailed upon re-
quest.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Love.te Club Concert.

THE Lovette Choral Club will be
heard in its fifth annual Spring
concert at Barker Hall. Y. w. c. A, on
Wednesday evening, at $50 O'Clock.
The program will consist of choruses,
vocal and harp solos. Choruses to be
sung are "C'est Mon Ami (Saa)
I've Been Roaming" (Horn): River.
River" tzoltaD; Moments Musicale
(Schubert; prelude. "Raindrop" (Cho-
PIN; ITO Spring" (Grieg); 1T S Merry,
Merry May" (Huerter); The Two
Clocks" (Rogers).
Katherine Riggs, harpist. will play:
"Chanson De Guillot- Martin" perl
hoW Variations Pastorales" and Sur
Un Vieux Chanson" tRousseauD;
"Amaryllis' (Bsaujoyeuse) The Brook
(Hasselmans): Groves of Blarney"
(Ancient Irish) and "Ar Hyd Y Nos"
Welsh folk melody. which is in respect
to the memory of Thomas S. Lovette,
Welsh pianist and composer, whose
name the club bears.
"On Wings of Song" (Mendelssohn)
and None He Loves but Me" (Eckert)
will be sung by Nellie Barber Brooks.
lyric soprano. and Ethel Lynn Fast,
coloratura soprano. will sing The
Nightingale tWarQ SteVenSl ana
Song of the Open" LA Forge. The
other soloists are Francise Bass Wilson.
mezzo soprano, who will sing only a
Cry" CWattS and Smelling Peas"
Gohn Dukes. and AN der Shoenen
Blauen Donau" (Straus5) by Mathilde
w. Kolb contralto This arrangement
was written eepe cially for Miss Kolb.
group of songs written by Mrs. AL
fred 6 CIillett Of Washington will be
sung. "A Reverie in My Garden" and
THE Love Whisper" by Eva Whitford
Lovette. and Music, Birds and Flow
ers." by the club.
The accomp- niment Of the final
chorus to be sung by the club. "Tri-
umph of the Dance" will be played by
Karl Holer of Washington, the COM
poser.
The singing will be under the d.
rection of Eva Whitford Lovette, with
Elsie Cranmer at the piano.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Service Band Concerts.

THE first of the Summer series Of
concerts at the Capitol by the
U. S. Navy Band, Lieut.. Charles Benter,
leader, will be played tomorrow night
at 7:30.
Solo.sts at this concert will be Mu-
sioians Birley Gardner, cornet, and
Charles Brendler, clarinet.
Tuesday night at 7:3O. the band will
play at Chevy Chase Circle. Other con-
certs scheduled for this week are: We'd
nesday night, 1880, at the band stand.
Navy Yard. Thursday, $50 pm. at
tuberculosis Hospital Friday, pm,
st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The following is a list of concerts
scheduled for the United States Army
Band, Capt. william ]. Stannard,
leader; Thomas F. Darcy, second leader,
during the coming week:
Monday, June 6, at the Sylvan Thea
ter, Washington Monument Grounds
7:30 pm.
Tuesday, June 7. at the Walter Reed
General Hospital, $50 pm.
Friday. June 10, at the United States
Capitol. 7:30 pm.
Saturday June IL. at the Sylvan Thea
ter, Washington Monument Grounds,
7:30 pm.
The schedule of the United States
Marine Band for the coming week will
include the following:
Sunday, June S. Confederate memo
rial service III Arlington Cemetery at
3 pm.
Monday, June g. band concert, Ma
rine Barracks, at 8 pm.
Tuesday, June Z, band concert, Home
for Incurables, at 3 pm.
Wednesday, June 8. band concert,
U. s. Capitol, at 7:S0 pm.
Thursday, June 8, band concert. DIS
tyict World War Memorial, at 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1932-06-05

points or exhibit other peculiarities
which hinder their use in the construc-
tion of framework or machinery.
Lightweight Alloys.
The same objection. however. was
true Of aluminium, but metallurgists
solved it by discovering satisfactory al
loys which in one way or another re-
moved the objections to the. use of
this metal. In like manner they
have now made available to industry
another of the light metals-magnes-
ium.
Alloys OF magnesium are now man
ufactured in quantity here and abroad.
Cast magnesium alloys have the tensile
strength of cast aluminium alloys, sur
passing that of cast iron. Wrought
magnesium alloys approach the strength
of duraluminum. They resist corrosion,
and have fairly high melting point
Most striking of all, these alloys weigh
less than one-fourth as much as ar
equal quantity of iron or steel, and a
third less than aluminium.
Though the development of mag
nesium alloys to such an extent that
they are seriously threatening the su-
premacy of aluminium is a relatively
recent event, other light compsDtors
are already in sight. Most important
of these are alloys of beryllium. Beryl-
lium is not quite as light as magne-
SUM, but it possesses several quite
definite advantages. One is its extreme
hardness and another is the high melt
ing point, which is about the same as
that of iron.
The chief obstacle to wider use of
beryllium is its cost.
The possibilities of other light metals
have not as yet been realized.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Beall Student Recital.

THREE evenings of music with IS
students represented in the pro-
gram were given last week in the
twenty-ninth annual recital by the
pupils of Prof. William A. Beall at
the Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth street
northwest
(, Certificates in harmony and medals
were awarded to Constance Catherine
Dennihan, Jean Evans. Lillian Katz,
Ro-e Shoub. Naomi Vigderhouse. Sophia
zalkind Ward Hugo Beall, John Gil
bert Haerer. Malcolm Douglas Lam
borne and Aaron LASER Raebach.
Pupils taking part in the program
were Helen Bonnet. Audrey Quick.
Vivian sullivan. Bertha Mathews. Ruth
Cohen, Catherine Fiefield, Ida Schulz
man, Mildred Krupsaw. jeanette Sian.
Kathleen Tumelty, Rose Kessler, Bessie
Lazer. Ethel Schwartz, Freda Levin,
Beatrice Schwartz, Helen Cozen, Cath
crime Chaconas, Sylvia Kay, Helen Field
man, Clara Feldman, Edna Wood. Anna
Rappaport, Shirley Sachs. Gladys Rudi-
cal, Zelda Groves, Ruth Jaffe, Kate
Chadekel. Dorothy Ehrlich. Rita Stein
man, Bertha Schwartz, EVELYN Hitler
son, Miriam Bernstein Miller, Rose
VERIFIED, Sylvia Litovitz, Dorothy Rohr-
man. Bertha Dickinson, Bertha KatZ,
Doris Raebach, Eutha MOTIFS, Edna
Witte, Natalie V.gderhouse. Tessia Field
man, Dorothy Loveless, Elizabeth Beuch-
ert. Sophia Zalkind. Evelyn Brown,
Miriam Abelman, Lillian Katz. Con-
stance Deenihan. Rose Shoub. Anita
Weitzen. Regina Deenihan, Jessie Dick
inson Kimmerling, Elizabeth Beuchert.
Jeannette Emmert Ford, Margaret
Kane, Viola Weaver Hazel Miller Beall,
Naomi Vigderhouse, Laura Carrera,
Jean Evans. Anna Gelfand, Bertha
Loveless Quick, Katherine McCalmont,
Sonia Berman, Lillian Mindlin, Norman
Bernstein, Robert Pittle, william A.
Beall, jr.; Chester Crawford, Roland
Jones, Norman Stein, Ralph Epstein,
Michael Agriesti, Claude Clagett, Ed
ward Middleton, Carlos Profeta, Harold
Sachs, Aaron Raebach, Malcolm Lam
borne, Ward Beal and John Aaerer.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
4 SINGLE performance will be
Y given next Sunday evening at8:30

A SINGLE performance will be
~ given next Sunday evening at 8: 80
~ O'Clock at the Grifith Stadium
\ Of Verdi's opera. Aida by
company of several hundred
persons and a chorus, ballet and Or
chestra imported from the Metropolitan
Opera Of New York especially for this
production. Leonora Corona, soprano,
of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will sing
the title role, and other well known
artists-Dreda AYES, contralto; Gladys
j. Briggs, Pasquale Ferrara, tenor;
Pasquale Amato, baritone; Nino Ruisi,
bass; Paolo Ananian, bass. and EMO
giant spectacle. The opera is being
and Giuseppe Creatore will conduct the
orchestra.
Aida" has an interesting history. 1t
was written at the request of Ismail
Pacha, Khedive Of Egypt. for the dedi-
cation Of the new Cairo Theater Italien
and the opening Of the SueZ Canal.
The Khedive requested Verdi to compose
sort Of national opera, dealing with
the past grandeurs Of Egypt. Verdi was
eminently fitted for the task He was
elected to Parliament in 1860. and be-
came Senator in 1875. Francis ToYe
who last year wrote an exhaustive tcrk
on Verdi, states that the Egyptian ma
tional anthem was taken from Aida"
but the Minister III Egypt, Sesostris
Sidarouss Pash5. IN Washington, does
not verify tkls statement.
The subject of Aida" had been pro-
posed by the famous French Egyptolo-
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Recital at Clarendon.

MORE than 40 piano pupils of Miss
A'A Eleanor Furr took part in a re-
cital Wednesday night at her home in
Clarendon. Va. Ranging in age from
6 to IA. the pupils gave a masterful
demonstration Of their ability at the
pianoforte. those in the elementary
class playing simple little waltzes and
lul,abyS. and those in the advanced
classes playing the more difficult clas-
sizes of Beethoven. Tschaikowsky, Men
delssohn and DelibeS.
Miss Furr's pupils include Jeanne At
wood. Mary Ashby, Mildred Shepherd
Betty Balinger, Elizabeth Reiners. Vir
ginia Skillman, Betty Chinn. Carl Fuss
Eustice Waller. Gene Ames, Fern Whit
lock. Anne Noland. Mary Loos, Helen
Price, Anne Calhoun Ames, Peggy
Rucker. Marjorie Trammell. Marion
Davis. Mary Ashby, Jane Anne Alvey,
Elizabeth Dinges. Catherine Hagan.
Leonard Rollins, Jack Woodward, Grace
Mcclure Betty Rowell. Inez Brown,
Mary Elizabeth Ports. Elizabeth Fuller
Ann Lou Mitchell, Mrs Waller, Donald
Brashesrs. Nancy Ashby and Catherine
Keith.