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Evening star., 1933-10-08
Weaver Brothers Career.
lust 80 years ago, long before most

lust 80 years ago, long before most
vaudeville stars of today had even
thought about school, the weaver
brothers (kbner and Cicero left their
home back on a farm in the Ozark
Mountains, Missouri, in search OF a
vaudeville career. Abaer, the Older
brother, had convinced his parents that
the world owed them something more
than q mere living by farming and
pretty poor farming at that.
With no stage experience whatsoever
and little to depend upon from an en-
tertainment standpoint, aside from the
fact that Cicero was able to extract
music from a common. ordinary hand
saw and Abner's strumming on banjo
or guitar, they started out into the
world via the medicine show route. Old
Doc A. D. Christy. who peddled cure
alls" from the tailboard Of his wagon
at the crossroads of Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, had induced them to Join him,
entertaining the customers as ne
passed out the magic fluid This was
all fun to the Weaver brothers; they
were now troopers" as they termed
themselves, and their first time away
from home One year with the medi-
cine outfit they then visited St. Louis,
their first big city. where they eau
tiously sought an opportunity to show
their wares, where once given try
out made good" and then and there
they started climbing the ladder to
success.
AS the years rolled on they improved
their act, moving up into the better
class Of vaudeville until recognized as a
standard act, after which they toured
America many years.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Artists Scheduled.
FRITZ KREIsLER, the world-famc

FRITZ KREISLER, the world-famous
violinist, and Sergei Rachmaninof
noted Russian pianist and composer
whose Constitution Hall concerts here
this Winter are attractions of Mrs
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's Tuesday
concert series. will reach New York on
October 81 on the Europa
Kreisler will be heard here on Tues
Gay, January 16. While Rachmaninoff' S
appearance is timed for Tuesday, Feb
ruary 20. both at 440 pm.
Kreisler has spent the greater part
of the past Summer vacationing on the
Riviera, with Mrs. Kreisler He is
working at the present time on the
music of a new and so far untitled
operetta, which will probably be pro-
duced in Vienna some time in 1884
His latest operetta. "Cissy," which
opened in Vienna last December. is
still running and has played more than
300 performances
Rachmaninof has also spent con-
siderable time this Summer composing
at his chateau in Switzerland He has
also been very much absorbed in the
construction of new chateau, over
looking Lake Lucerne, not far from
where Wagner once lived.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
NAVY Band Concerts.

CESAR FRANCKS S symphony In .
~ Minor" the overture to Wagner s
Flying Dutchman' and the prelude
to Debussy's Afternoon Of Faun''
will be included in the symphony con-
cert to be played by the United States
Navy Band Orchestra at the sail loft,
navy yard, tomorrow evening at
o'clock
play the second movement from Cello
Concerto in A Minor" by Saint-Saens
The public is invited TO this concert
and all attending will be given season
tickets for the series, which will be
played regularly each Monday evening
throughout the Winter
Tickets may also be obtained by call
ing at the band ONCE, or addressing
requests to the United States Navy
Band Washington, D. c.
Evening star., 1933-10-08

lius-Charlton Meyer, aged 8; HARLAN
Meyer, l3, and Walter Swank, IA. The
was contributed by Elvia Allpress
two piano numbers. The public Is in
vited.
Mrs. William T. Reed has resumed
her teaching at her resident studio,
2608 Cathedral avenue. Mrs. Reed is
head of the vocal department Of Mar
tha Washington Seminary and gave a
special course in singing at the I'm
maculata Seminary during the past
Summer.
Georgia E. Miller, director Of the
Virgil Piano School. has reopened her
studio at 1852 Newton street north
west. Last Monday evening there was
meeting Of the study and repertoire
class and program Of piano numbers
was contributed by Elvia Allpress
Meyer. Norma Bell Carly, George Corn
well. Elinor Webb and Margaret Loane
Assisting artists were Aileen Cornwell
Mustead. soprano, and Ira Meyer, bari
tone. The singers were accompanied
by Elvia Allpress Meyer and George
Cornwell. The next meeting will be
held the first Monday in November.
Virginia Sellers. soprano. has been
engaged as soloist for the month Of Oc-
tober at St. Adams Episcopal Church,
Massachusetts, and Wisconsin avenues.
winifred Lakeman, formerly Of New
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Federation Meeting.

THE District Of Columbia Federation
of Music Clubs will hold its frst
Fall assembly meeting tomorrow eve
ming in the auditorium Of the Potomac
Electric Power Co. Building, Tenth and
E streets northwest. when a musical
program will be given at 9 o'clock.
Shara Kerbel, contralto. will sing
Gypsy Song" from Carmen; Whilst
du Dass Ich Geh" (Brahms) and
''Morgen Hymn" oGeorg HenscheD !;
Gilbert Winston Linville. tenor, will
contribute "Vesti la Giubha," from
"Pagliacci': "Mattinata" Leoncavallo)
Spirit Flower" Campbell -Tipton) :;
Elizabeth Clayton Bacon. dramatic
soprano. of Philadelphia will sing "One
Fine Day" from Pucciniss Madam
Butterfly; The Star" (Rogers)
"Wiegeulied" (MozarD; Elena de Sayn,
yiolinist and chairman of music for
the Pen Women's League, will con-
tribute several selections. and dancers
from the Liza Gardiner School OF
Dancing will take part. Winifred Lake
man, concert accompanist. will accom-
pany the singers and Mrs. Edith H.
Hunter the dancers.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Novelties on Program

sectasy; the angel departs; Mary sinks
again to sleep. CID The Miracle
Marys fear and anguish; voice Of COM
fort from above; Mary remembers the
prophecy; the miracle is preparing; the
miracle is wrought.
Mr. Josten states that "the idea for
the Concerto Sacro was stimulated
by the mysterious dark triptych painted
for the Isenheim altar at Colmar by the
Rhenish master Matthias Gruenewald
(sixteenth century,"
The composer has scored the work
for string orchestra and piano. First
performance was by the orchestra CT
the Graduate School of the Juilliard
Musical Foundation. New York, in
March, 1929.
Werner Josten. born at Elberfeld,
Germany. in 1888, was a student of
Munich-a master pupil of Humper-
dinck and with Jacques -Dalcroze at
Geneva. Since living at Northampton.
Mass, Mr.. Josten has become interested
in the revival Of ancient operas. num-
Der Of which have been given under his
direction. His list of compositions in
cludes choruses, songs and ballets.
Gliere's composition vas issued as a
symphonic movement in 1880 By the
Music Section of the Russian State
Publication Bureau at Moscow. Follow
ing an Introductory section, the work
begins with a variant of the theme Of
the sailors dance-a tune in synco-
pated rhythms which is heard in its
definite form in nine sections Of the
orchestra, with the l2bar theme treated
in the manner of passacaglia and
ending in a whirlwind finale.
Goldmark's concert overture to the
masterpiece of the great East Indian
dreamer and poet. KalidaSsa, MADE him
famous when "Sakuntala" was pro-
duced first by the Vienna Philharmonic
in 1865.
Tschaisowsky's Fourth Symphony
dates from 1876-77 and is interwoven
with the inner history Of the COM
poser's relationship to the two women
who vitally dominated his life.
Evening star., 1933-10-08


+ when music of a devastating quality is
with US from early morning to late at
night. the musical taste of the young
est generation is in danger of being
completely warped, and the possibility
Of appreciating good music destroyed
forever. 1t is a common experience
even now to find children impatient
with the slow, Sonorous music ana IN
vowed harmonies of the simplest clas-
sic, after a diet of primitive I.ythm
and melodies of the easiest wa. type.
An education confined entirely to our
modern jazz music leads to nowhere,
but arouses a craving for constant
musical stimulation OF an unhealthy
kind
Good music also provides stimula-
ton, but of a different sort, and IS
as necessary to round out human be-
lngS character as any other eouca-
tional feature. In the concerts that
the National Symphony plan for the
children. the instinct for the apprecla-
ton of fine music is inStilled as subtly
as the morals that emerge from the
fairy tales whereby the first notions OF
what is good and bad are implanted
IN childish consciousness. Parents have
no more right to overlook the influence
of the right kind of music in child's S
character building than to ignore the
principles of proper civic behavior.
No one understands better than DR..
Kinder how to make music interest
ing to a child. while never losiEg sight
Of its higher mission. In every great
artist there remains a greater residue
of the visions and imagination Of child
hood than in the ordinary individual
who has sacrificed this blessed quality
Nf hn N1n fNp
life. This is the secret source of the
greatness of most artists, the ability
for enthusiastic belief in many things
the business man has discarded as
hampering executive progress. the cher
ishing Of impossible dreams and the
cultivation of an imagination that
once rejoiced in the triumph OF virtue.
and the punishment of wickedness that
invariably impressed in the tales of
childhood DR.. Kinder remembers
what held the childish attention. and
can link it to the deeper message OF
music which his own fine artistry un-
derStandS SO well. and which he gives
out SO sincerely in his interpretations
of the programs he selects for the SYM
phony concerts.
One has grown accustomed, perhaps,
to think of DR.. Kinder as the man
whose energy and musical knowledge
has made the orchestra what it is, the
man who controls its operations and
plans its artistic future. But can one ever
appreciate sufficiently what it means
TO this city to have an artist of his
caliber devoting his entire time to fos-
tering love for music in old and
young, difusing the results Of years
of personal study and artistic endeavor
for the benefit of a community's musi-
cal growth.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
George White With Fox.

EOXS big news Of the week is the
signing of George White, producer of
George Whites Scandals" and promi-
nent member of New York's theatrical
profession, who will bring his talents
to motion pictures for the first time.
He will produce and direct an annual
edition Of his Scandals" on the screen
for five years, according to the terms
Of the contract. The first film will be
started at the Fox studios in Hollywood
on November / and will be released
early in 1884.
Whites signing last week follows
closely on the announcement thet Erik
Cherell, internationally ramouS i'm
presario and former associate of Max
Reinhardt. had also been engaged as
a producer.
Evening star., 1933-10-08

The Symphony Orchestra began its
rehearsal3 With the assurance and
positiyenesS Of group OF men who
knew what they we're to do and how
to go about doing it, while DR.. Kinder
returns TO his duties after a Summer
that has added fresh laurels TO his con-
ducting fame. In Europe New York and
Philadelphia DR.. Kinder was acclaimed
an orchestra leader who at almost the
first hearing placed himself on a level
with the most famous conductors the
musical world has been honorlng for
many seasons. A compelling and Strlk-
ing personality with splendid balance
OF mental force and artistic SureneSS.
he had no difficulty in making place
for himself in the rarified circles of
great directors. Through him also the
name CT the National Symphony Or
chestra has penetrated beyond local
limits and been classified with the few
great orchestras that supply the coun-
trys needs.
Beyond the simple statement that
the National Symphony is again to be
a prominent feature of the musical
program planned for this Winter lies
the story of the heroic struggle to give
it existence Every tone and every
phrase of next Sundays concert will
proclaim the victory OF the devoted men,
women and children who have toiled
and made sacrifices that it might carry
on. 1t will not be solely musical
event or a society event, but public
proclamation of the faith and courage
OF the many citizens of this city who
have realized the need of Incorporating
a source Of spiritual refreshment in the
civic life that would reach all types of
people. They have provided a refuge
from the b.untnesS of the WOrk-a day
world where each individual may find
an answer to his search for the beauti
ful
This coming Winter should bring
still more univers al appreciation of
what the National Symphony means.
With the readjuSted schedule of work
that has burdened many with time
they do not know how to employ, the
National Symphony will offer. the
means of filling in that time. n will
be an employment that will bring sur
prises for those who have bestowed
little attention to the subject. They
will find food for thought in what the
music has, to tell that will appeal TO
their intellectual leaningS, repOSe from
strain III the sOftening melodies, re-
freShment in an uplifting moment and
inspiration for their artistic tendencies.
For the many who have been work.
bound these many years 1t will prove
an enlightening experience. and for
those who have always sought the de-
lights of music it will carry the sense
of pride in the ownership Of an Or
ganization that has proven its artistic
value in three short years
Still more appealing are the oppor-
tunities the National Symphony will
give to the children to develop a love
for music. At this present moment,
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Sundays S Symphony.

THE first major event Of the Fall con-
cert season will take place next
Sunday. when Conductor Hans Kinder
will begin at o'clock the opening con-
cert Of the National Symphony Orches-
ira at Constitution Hall. The concert
will also bring to Washington the pop
ular pianist, Ernst Hutcheson. Hutche-
son will play the great Concerto in E
Flat (No. 81" of Beethoven.
The complete program will be:
Concert Prelude and Fugue, c Minor,
Bach
Transcribed .frcm the organ by
Edgar T. Paul)
Concerto No. S, E Flat (for piano
and orchestral ........B Beethoven
Ernest Hutcheson, soloist.
Intermission.
"Scheherazade" -. .Rimsky-Korsakov
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Kremer Here Tuesday.

ISA KREMER, internationally IA
nous as a singer of ballads and in
terpreter Of folk songs. will be presented
in recital at the National Press Club
auditorium, Fourteenth and streets
northwest. on Tuesday evening at $50
o'clock under the auspices of Icor. Miss
Kremer sings in eight languages and
interprets her songs with dramatic &C
ton Irving R. Korenman, pianist. will
share the program with Miss Kremer
as well as act as her accompanist.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Y WITH two numbers scheduled
n and two time-honored ia
A YnriteS IeopQld StOkOXSki,

~ hIlu LWO IA
wv vorites, Leopold StokowsH,
music director, will open
series Of four concerts sched-
uIed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in
Constitution Hall on the evening of
Tuesday, October II, under the manage
ment of T. Arthur Smith Concert Bu-
reau. The performance will begin
promptly at 8:45 pm, after which time
the doors will be closed and late corners
not admitted until the intermission.
The program opens with Goldmark's
"Sakuntala," an overture which fer
many seasons stood first in the popular
choice when request programs" were
voted upon. This will be followed by
two numbers played for the first time
this season by the orchestra-Concerto
Sacro No. /, by Werner Josten, and
Gliere's "Danse des Matelots Russes'
dance of the Russian Sailors) entitled
"Jablochko" and derived from the COM
poser's ballet "Pavot Rouge" The
symphony, which occupies the entire
second half Of the program. will be
Tschaikowsky Fourth in F Minor.
Josten. German-born composer, who
since 1928 has been instructor in music
composition at Smith College, North
ampton. Mass, is remembered for the
SYMPHONIC IUONelIlcIlI
gle" which was introduced to the au-
diences of the Philadelphia Orchestra
at last seasons opening concerts.
The present work. composed in 1925
and revised in 1927, was conceived
originally as one concerto in four move
ments Of such character and balance
that 1t is feasible to perform either
half of the work as an entity in itself.
To facilitate this division the two parts
have been entitled collectively Con
certo Sacro LII 1t is part that is to
be performed at the concert.
The movements of the "Concerta T.
are called "Annunciation" end The
Miracle" and the program is as follows
% The Annunciation" -Mary's dream
dialogue between Mary and the angel:
o sanctissima; the passion: the angel
proclaims victory over DEATH Mary
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Smith Succeeds Ruckman.

WILLIAM F. SMITH; II for formerly sriy.+ as, s.
the National Cathedral. has been chosen
as organist at the National City Chris
tan Church, to succeed Robert Ruck-
man. Mr.. Smith will begin his services
today. At the morning service ne
will play Choral" by Boellman, and
"Antiphon No. g" by Smith. The
chorus choir and the mixed quartet will
The evening hour of worship will be
riven over to the first of the monthly
music services to be given through the
year by the choir, under the direction
of w. e. Braithwaite.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Win Scholarships.

TWO young Washington, D. c., music
students were among the nine sue
cessful candidates for the free three
year scholarships offered by the Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, for
the year 1933-1934 Louis Potter, jr
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Potter, 1881
Porter street northwest, was awarded
the Peabody violoncello scholarship
10. l, while Max Kobre. the 13-year- old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Max Kobre, 643
Pennsylvania avenue southeast, was
awarded the Peabody violin scholarship
No. l.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Country Club Recital.

a JOINT recital will be given next
"A Sunday afternoon at the Congress
sional Country Club by Sonora Aurelia
Colomo de Alfaro, dramatic soprano
ard Henry Nestor, baritone.
Sonora de Alfaro, the wife of the
attache of the Panama legation, will
sing a group of Spanish and American
songs. while Mr.. Nestor has chosen a
group of operatic arias for his pro-
gram.
Sonora de Alfaro and Mr.. Nestor will
be accompanied by Mrs. Elizabeth
Gardner Coombs, who will also be heard
In a number of piano selections.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Musical Festival.

THE Washington Council of Social
! Agencies is sponsoring q musical
festival from October 80 to November
IA. Austin Zanzig of the National Rec
reation Association will be the leader.
Musical groups in Washington are
sponsoring this festival as well as the
Community Center, Department Of
Public Schools and the Playground De-
partment of the District. The settle
nlents and recreational groups in Wash
ington are taking part.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
In Local Music Circles

TINE CAPITAL CITY CHORIS-
TIERS. Dorothy Emery, director,
and Lena KaSh. accompanist.
i have resumed rehearsals at the
studio of Helen Ware. 1901 Con-
necticut avenue. Meetings will be held
every Tuesday at pm.
Lorraine Esputa Bentley. dramatic
soprano, will sing the offertory solo at
Concordia Church this morning at the
II o'clock service.
The members Of the choir Of the
Brookland Methodist Episcopal Church,
Fourteenth and Lawrence streets north
east, will present an entertainment en-
titled The Singing School" on next
Friday evening. The public is invited
to attend
Minnie Volkmann, soprano, and S.
Elizabeth Kerr, contralto, of this city
and John Irving Carpenter. baritone,
Of New York are appearing in concert
at Rehoboth, Del, on Tuesday. Flor
ence King Salin, pianist, will accom-
pany the singers.
May Eleanor Smith. teacher Of har-
mony, has reopened her studio at 22l5
Fourteenth street northwest.
The opening music hour program for
todayat the Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth
and K streets. at S pm. will be given
by three young pupils Of Frances Cute
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Additions to Alice.

FURTHER additions to the cast Of
l Paramount's Alice in Wonderland"
include Polly Moran as the Dodo Bird,
Raymond Hatton as the Mouse. Sir Guy
Standing as the King Of Hearts and
Colin Kenny as the Clock.
Because Alice is bad little girl who
climbs down tunnels, through mirrors,
I'D trees and the Ike, Charlotte Henry,
who plays the role. will have six iden-
tical costumes, one for each day OF
the week, since she must appear on the
set bright and clean every morning.
The outfit consists Of six blue dresses,
eighteen pink petticoats, SIX pairs Of
pink stockings, six pairs Of black patent
leather slippers and Ok hair yibbonA
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Benefit Concert.

DLANS are being made for concer,
to be given on Wednesday evening
October l8, at st. Patricks Hall, under
the auspices of the st. Vincent de Pau
Society. The artists will be Edythe
Marmlon BroSiuS. concert harpist
Mlnna Nieman, pianist; John Talber1
Haslett, baritone, assisted by Karl Ho-
Ter, pianist; Mary Park Clements, vio-
linlst. and Armand Gumprecht, jr.
flutiSt,
Evening star., 1933-10-08

York, announces the opening Of her
Washington studio, where she will con-
tinue her work as repertoire coach and
accompanist.
The Chorus Choir Of Calvary NJ. z.
Church on Columbia road near Fiji
teenth street began its seasons work
last Sunday. Louis Potter, organtst and
director OF music, announces few va
cancies for new members Rehearsals
are held at the church on Friday eve
nings at 73o o'clock.
The United States Marine Band, Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader left today for
the Chicago Worlds Fair Century Of
Progress" the band being invited to
take part in Chicago week" The band
will return to Washington October l3.
Counselors of the junior clubs be-
longing to the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs will meet
Wednesday evening to formulate plans
| for the season. The meeting will be
held at the nome Of Mrs. Charles
Brooks Smith, in Harvard Hall. Mrs.
Smith was appointed chairman OF
Junior Work, succeeding Ivalee Newell,
who resigned in June. Mary Ware
Goldman is supervisor of junior work
Florence Vincent Yeager has opened
| her studio for voice and piano at l24l
Shepherd street northwest She will
direct her Choral Club in the first re-
hearsal Of the season Monday evening
! at 745 O'Clock. in the music room OF
Roosevelt High School. The first
presentation Of the club will be an
American Indian legend, ''Mondahmin, -
by Paul Bliss.
! The Choral Unit of the Eastern Star
under the direction of Adolf Torovsky
will rehearse in the Masonic Temple
on Saturdays, October IA and %, at
! 7:30 pm.
Lucille Shannon Etchison has re-
| opened her piano studio at the Cleve-
land Park Congregational Church
Thirty-fourth and Lowell streets. and is
specializing in classes for smaller chill
dren. Mrs. Etchison is the organist at
the Cleveland Park Congregational
Church.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Cowboy Au:hor Acts.

WILL JAMES, famous cowboy author,
" whose book Smoky" which is
being made by Fox into a film, sold
more than 100000 copies, will add
actor" to his descriptive title when he
appears as narrator In the Fox flln.
Victor jory and Irene Bentley head The
Evening star., 1933-10-08
National Symphony <
Begins Third Season
DR.. Hans Kinder Rehearsing Local Orchestra for
First Concert, Which Is Scheduled
to Be Given Next Sunday.
Bv Alice Eversman.

opening of Bachs majestic Organ Pre-
NJ lude and Fugue in Minor break the expectant hush
waiting audience Constitution Hall Sunday
beginning the third of the Ma
assembling
the Winter.
Next Sunday the patrons Symphony officially
the opening of series OF 6 performances
Evening star., 1933-10-08
PHOTOPL4AYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK
Saturday

Lew Ayres in Don't
Bet on Love " Hoot
Gibson in "A Mans
Man" Mickey Mouse" ="
Colbert -Arlen in
Three Cornered
Moon" Comedy. ca--
toon. Ghost City 3.
Young ard Jory in
Devils in Love"
Thelma Todd comedy.
Kit Carson No. 3.
.Tar1~G Du~r in Hole d
Ne Tight" B. Steel IN
Son CT Oklahoma. p"
No. .. Phantom of Air.
Randolph Scott in
Sunset Pass"
Episode No. q. Whis-
pering Shadow. Com.
Conrad Veldt and
jill Esrnond in
Floating Platform l."
Serial and comedy.
Spencer Tracy and
Fay Wray in ''Shang-
hal Madness" Ghost
City No. 5. comedy.
Holt robin in The
Wrecker." Gordon of
Of Ghost City No. 4.
Cartoon, travel talk.
Son OF the Border" I"
sailors luck" Epi-
snde No. =. Whisper
Shacow, and comedy.
Tim Mccoy il The
End of the Trail"
Thelma Todd and
Pitts comedy.
lack Holt in
The Wrecker."
Arbuckle comedy,
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