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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-14
ATTORNEY SUING
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WEDDING DAY IS
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SEN LONERCAN
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Evening star., 1933-07-30
"Mikado" to Be Given.

GILBERT and sullivan's operetta,
The Mikado," will be given by
the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group
Wednesday evening at o'clock, in the
National Sylvan Theater at the WASH
ington Monument. presented by the
Community Center Department and the
Office of Public Buildings and Public
Parks. as the eighth Summer festival
program Of the present season there
This travesty of Japan will be given
i'll the Sylvan setting at the foot OF
the Monuments greensward More than
40 singers OF Washington will appear as
principals and chorus in this Mid
summer event.
Ira j. Meyer as Koko lord high exc
cutioner of Titipu, heads the cast of
favorites. j. Raymond Baine as Nanki-
Poo, the wandering MINSTREL Harry
Grow as the Mikado; Elliott Button as
Pooh Bah; Harry Yeide as Pish-Tush.
are also featured
The Three Little Maids From
School," Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and
Peep-Bo. will be sung by Alma Harris.
Betty Galbraith and Ella Neuland, and
"Katisha" will be acted and sung BY
Helen Mark, one of the Capital City's
most promising young singers, who first
sang this role last February with the
Wentworth group
Chair privileges for 1.-THE Mikado"
are now available at the A. A. A.. tn.
Willard Hotel. the Washington Hotel
and the Community Center Department.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

motor with friends to Massanetta
Springs to attend the School of Sacred
Music conducted there under the lead
ership of DR.. John Finley Williamson
Miss Volkmann will not return to
Washington until after Labor day.
Dorothy Patcn of Ann Arbor, Mich,
national president of the honorary
musical sorority Mu Phi Epsilon. was
recently the guest Of Edith B. Athey
who entertained the local Washington
Alumnae Club in her honor. Miss
Patton was returning to her home from
Miss Athey has been president OF the
Alumnae Club for the past two years.
A recital was given last night at the
home Of r. Deane Shure by a group
Of his private pupils The following
appeared in a program Of both the
classic and modern school: David
Mitchell Pearl Currey, Pearl Krost
z. T. Hamilton. jr.: DR.. o. N. Fansler
Frances Rives, Nelva Rec Smith. M. D.
Bowles. L. j. Myers. Margaret Helen
Jensen. Dorothy Scott, Dorothy Ar
mold, Jimmie Flinchum. Julia Arnold
and Mary Bertha Shure.
Kenneth Frisbie. organist and choir
director of Trinity Church. Takoma
Park. entertained the Summer faculty
Of the George Washington University
with an organ recital on Saturday eve
ming, July %. at the Maryland estate
Of DR. Robert w. Bolwell. dean Of the
Summer sessions Compositions by
Handel Guilmant. Franck. Faulkes
and others were included in the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Service Band Concerts.

DURING the coming week the United
- States Marine Band. under the
direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, will
present concerts as follows:
Monday July 3l-Band concert at
the Marine Barracks at pm.
Tuesday. August 1-Broadcast, "Op-
cratic Hour Marine Barracks at IL
am.
Tuesday, August band concert at
Mount Alto Hospital at pm.
Wednesday. August Band concert
at the United States Capitol at 7:30
pm.
Thursday, August 3-Band concert at
the District Of Columbia War Memorial
at 7:30 pm
Friday August 4-Broadcast. "Patri-
rine Barracks at 10 am.
Friday. August 4.-Band concert at
st. Elizabeth's Hospital at 2 pm.
The schedule of the United States
Army Band for the coming week is as
follows:
Monday. July 3l-Concert ct the Dis
trict of Columbia World War Memorial
7:30 pm.
Tuesday. August Music of the
Americas" radio program: to be broad
1890 am Concert at the Army Medi-
cal Center Walter Reed General Hos
pital. $50 pm.
Wednesday, August 2-Concert at the
tuberculosis Hospital. Fourteenth and
Upshur streets northwest. $50 pm
Radio concert, to be broadcast from
the Army War College, 1890 pm.
Thursday August 3-Radio concert
to be broadcast from the Army War
College. 3 pm.
Friday, August radio concert to
be broadcast from the Army War Col
lege, $3.50 pm. Concert at the Capt.
tol, 7:30 pm.
The following schedule Of cosuerts
will be played by the United States
Navy Band during the week Of July 81
Monday. 7:30 p.m-At the Capitol
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.-Stanton Park
Sixth street and Massachusetts avenue
! northeast
Wednesday, 7:3o p.m.-At the Navy
Yard
Thursday. 3 pm-Naval Hospital
Friday, 8 p.m.-At the Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Chopin Concert Planned.

CINGERS from leading church choirs
and singing societies Of Baltimore
and Washington. numbering 500. are
being recruited for the Great Chopin
Memorial Concert planned by the Polish
Choral Society of Baltimore to be held
in the National Capital during the
third week Of November
This society, formerly known as the
Polish Musicale Circle. is composed of
the finest Polish singers In the sister
city. Is making big preparations for the
concert. which will be held in observ-
ance of the removal Of the genius-mu
sician's remains from Paris. France. to
Warsaw. Poland. land Of his birth. The
removal is scheduled for this Fall
Leading Washington musicians and
Poles will meet with the Executive
Committee this evening at the Willard
Hotel at 8 O'Clock for the purpose of
organizing a National Chopin Memorial
Committee, which will have charge Of
the program and arrangements.
The concert is to be national in scope
and international in character. which
it is planned to hold in the great Con-
tinental Hall in which singers repre-
senting 10 different nationalities will
take part.
MiecZyslaW NUM-. celebrated Polish
pianist. is scheduled to play several
Chopin compositions while the big
chorus will do half score Of numbers
in the Polish, French and English Ian
guages. The local concert is to be a
duplicate of the one that will take
place In Poland on the day Of the ar
rival Of the remains. The Polish en-
bassy has already taken necessary steps
to obtain direct from the Polish gov
ernment programs and all information
pertaining to the memorial.
Nationwide interest is being dis
played in the project and contributions
ana inquiries are coming from musi-
clans and lovers of Chopin compost
tions everywhere asking for permission
to assist in whatever way possible to
do their bit in honoring Chopin, the
genius s-musician
Peter F. Rydzynski. 637 South
Streeper street. Baltimore. Md. is the
president Of the Executive Committee.
while Walter S. Paul of the United
States National Patent Once. branch
28 is the local representative of the
committee.
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Music Guild Formed.
"A NEW musical organization has be

IA NEW musical organization has been
- esta blished at the National City
Christian Church, known as the Music
Guild. which promises to make its con-
kibution to the ideal of music in the
city as we'll as in the local church. The
purpose of the guild is stated as being
20 foster the cultural and spiritual
ideal of music in the church and city,
10 give support to the musical leader
ship and organizations of the church.
to encourage the development Of the
young people of the church in music.
and to sponsor musical and other pro-
grams in the fine arts in religion.
Membership is open to all, whether or
not members of the congregation, who
are interested in the development OF
music in religion.
The guild will hold its first regular
meeting, which will be open to all who
are interested in the purpose OF the
organization. tomorrow evening at
O'Clock at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. v. Pugh. 690l Glenbrook road,
Xdgemoor, Md. Mrs. Clarence Athearn,
suthor of Christian Worship for
American Youth" and other publica-
tions on the subject of worship, will
speak on Music and Worship" A pro-
gram of religious music will be given
BY William P. Shanahan. baritone
soloist at the Mount Pleasant Congre-.
sational Church, and the National
Brass Quintet.
Aside from the quarterly meeting OF
the guild, which will be given over to
musical and other programs based on
the fine arts. the organization plans
this year to sponsor three public pro-
grams The first will be held early In
December, when H. Augustine Smith
professor Of the fine arts in religion
OF Boston University. will direct a
dramatization of Dudley Bucks "The
Coming Of the King"
Omcers Of the new organization are:
3lrs. Leo Tooley, president; w. }.
Nolan, vice president; Miss Pearl
Henry, secretary, and Miss Grace
Weed, treasurer.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

&C. stands for the actors own NAM.
which is Goldenberg.
So far as is known. John Barrymore
was named John Blythe and given no
additional initials Wallace Beery
Frederic March, Spencer Tracy. Will
Rcgers-all these have dispensed with
second names. if they had them
Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth.
which is admittedly too much Of
name for any star whose presence in a
picture is to be advertised in lights.
Ruby Keeler has never told Hollywood
her second Christian name and Ann
Dvorak. who was legally Ann McKim.
has been equally reticent about hers.
Richard Bathelmess has one Of the
longest names in screen history: add to
that the middle name Of "Semler" and
it becomes unwieldy. He has never
been secretive about his middle initial,
but has never used it in pictures
George ArliSs was born George Au-
gustus Arliss- Andrews, according to
English records. but he has used less
than half of that throughout his long
career. If AL Jolson had any more of
name than that of Asa Yoelson to
begin with he has never made It public.
warren William took his second name
as his stage and screen surname. His
liam Krech Joan Blondell was named
Rosebud to begin with. but she changed
1t herself very early in her career.
few players have specialized in
middle names and initials and made
them pay. Anna @. Nilsson was one of
those. Before a series of accidents took
her of the screen for long period of
time, hers was perhaps the most famous
name with mysterious middle initial.
Not many ever knew what the *" of
Francis K. Bushman really stood for.
Mary Miles Minter used three allitera
tive names to good advantage. but 9TH
ers of that day. Marguerite Clark, Mary
Plckford, Gloria Swanson, Douglas
Fairbanks, sr.. and Charles Chaplin.
were all content with only two names.
The public wouldn't know them if
they changed Who would be interest
ed today in Mike" Chatterton or Sem
Ter Barthelmess? How many would 20
to see pictures featuring Edwina Fran
els or Ruth Elizabeth Davis or even
Horatio Powell?
But on the other hand who would
know Anna Nilsson without that curl
GUS O.?
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Refuses to Play.

q
violin virtuoso. whom Mrs. Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey will present at Consti-
tuition Hall next Winter as one of the
attractions of her 1933-34 Tuesday con-
cert series, is the latest musical celeb
rity to follow the example of Arturo
Toscanini, world famous conductor
in refusing to appear professionally il,
Germany as long as the Nazi govern
ment discriminates against Jewisi,
artists.
Press dispatches from Berlin report
Kreisler as refusing to appear as solo,
list with the Berlin Philharmonic Or
chestra until he makes sure that Hans
Hinkel, PruSsian state commissioner
for culture. meant what he said when
he stated that the free artistic activi-
ties Of foreigners and non-AryanS
(JewS) shall in no wise be hindered."
Kreisler was recently invited by Dr.
Wilhelm Furtwaengler. conductor of
the Berlin Philharmonic, to appear as
violin soloist with the orchestra in
August
Much as I appreciate Furtwaeng-
ler's invitation" Kreisler is quoted as
saying, Il do not want preferential
treatment for myself, but would rather
appear, If at all, at the end of the sea-
son, after I have seen 1t demonstrated
that Commissioner Hinkel's words have
been translated into action"
Art Is international and I oppose
chauvinism in art whenever I encoun-
ter it."
Kreisler is said to realize that his
refusal to appear in Germany until
such men as Bruno Walter, Jewish con-
ductor. who has been barred, also are
welcome. probably will be as little un-
derstood there as was his action in
financially supporting entente artists
imprisoned in Austria during the war
understood in the United States.
Kreisler is the second attraction in
Mrs. Dorsey's Tuesday concert series.
which opens ON November % with the
first Washington appearance in two
years Of Lily Pons, noted French COL
oratura soprano Of the Metropolitan
Opera. Other attractions Of this series
Will be Rachmaninoff, the Russian pi-
anist-composer; joint concert by Lotte
Lehman, German lieder star of the
Met, and Heinrich Schlusnuis, BARI
tone Of the Berlin Staatsoper, and a
final recital by Tito Schipa, new lead
ing tenor Of the Metropolitan.
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Next Seasons Program

John Powell. noted Virginia pianist
and composer will appear with us this
season He will play one of his own
distinctively American compositions. 4
new work by the we'll known Washing
ton composer, La Sale Spier. is being
considered
Kinder brought back with him from
Europe several noteworthy works of
foreign composers. among them the
Fantastic Bourree," by Chambrier, and
a Summer Concerto" by PiZZetti. the
modern Italian composer Kinder and
Pizzetti. together with Emil Ludwig.
Erich Remarque and several OF er ce-
lebrities. recently visited Arturo Tos-
canini at the latter's Italian villa, where
an entire program of Pizzetti's works
was played for the distinguished gath
ering
Another interesting number to be
included in one Of next seasons pro-
grams of the National Symphony is a
''Saraband," by Debussy. recently Or
chestrated by Maurice Ravel Of "Bo-
lero" fame. This will mark its first
performance in Washington
After closing his series Of concerts
with the New York Philharmonic Or
chestra, Kinder will conduct a week
Of the Philadelphia Orchestra's Sum-
mer concert in Robin Hood Dell. He
will return to washington about Sep
tember 20 to begin rehearsals with the
National Symphony.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

bit of theatrical claptrap as you will
often see.
The baby dies, giving old Emil an
emotional bit which Mr. Fields handles
with power and real pathos, and later,
believe. although l was unable to see
the final scene, there is a reconciliation
between father and son-in-law before
the misguided Hofnagel is lugged OF to
Jail The piece was unevenly played In
Pelham and its mixture of yokel comedy
and stacy melodrama was by no means
worthy of all that Mr. Fields could have
contributed but doubtless it win be i'm
proved before 1t comes to town.
MISS KATHARINE CORNELL, sail
ing fc- holiday in the Bavarian
town Of Garmisch after her months in
Alien Corn" announced that she would
return in October to 60 on tour with
Candida" The Barretts of Wimpole
Street" and probably with Romeo and
Juliet" Miss Cornell regards Juliet as
in the nature Of a baptism Of fire.
which, if it succeeds will be followed by
her appearance in other Shakespearian
roles
One of the troubles with the theater.
according to Miss Cornell is the genera,
upsetting Of old values and convictions
WHICH. IN the past century, permitted
the writer and artist 10 view the word
as unified thing travelling toward somr
certain goal All the old creeds. thoso
of religion. democracy. of orthodox eco-
nomics. have been unsettled bv a vari-
ETY. Of influences. the Great War, revo-
lutions that followed it. and the world
depression among them. and writer's fo-
the theater, IN common with other
writer's find themselves -attlinp round
a sort of vacuum. with little positive
to cling to. In this situation farce and
satirical comedy are possible enough. bu.
serious dramas. written out of profound
and passionate conviction are hard to
come by. Miss Cornell didn't despair Of
the spoken drama however, but de-
clared that it would founder out Of its
present doldrums. inasmuch as the
world wanted flesh and blood and the
magic of the human voice on the stage,
always had. and always will
Evening star., 1933-07-30
What's In a Name

TINE signing CT Anna G. Nilsson
with her distinguishing middle
initial. for a role in The World
i Changes" by Warner Bros, may
arouse some curiosity about the
disappearing middle names CT most of
Hollywood's famous people.
What, for instance. is Ruth Chat
terton's middle name or initial. if any,
What second name did James Cagney's
fond parents provide at his christening? d?
Who knows definitely whether william
Powell has middle initial in his legal
name and if so. what is it?
Neither Who's Who" nor any studio
records provide any clue to Miss Chat
never had middle initial II is under
stood that her father wanted her named
Ruth" because it was short and could
not be shortened any further into a
nickname. So her family and friends
called her Mike" But that story gives
no light on her lost middle initial
With Joe E. Brown it is different
Everybody knows that second capital
letter in his screen name and a sur
prising number of people know that it
stands for Evan" In fact, in his early
days with the circus. ice was billed on
occasion as Evan Ash" Later he used
Evan Brown" as stage name. There
is no mystery about that e"
James Cagnev. however. has sue
ceeded in evading the subject entirely
Even his earliest contributions to his
own life history failed to indicate any
more of a name than James Cagney
There is runner, not completely
authenticated. that William Powell
when he first came to Hollywood to
work in pictures was known as Will
liam H. Powell. The same unauthenti-
Gated rumor says that III" stood. not
for Henry or Harry, but fer Horatio
a family name. In recent years, how
ever. Powell has always signed himself
merely William Powell"
Kay Francis was christened with a
double name-Katharine Edwina. She
used several names before striking on
the happy combination which she has
made famous. The middle name or
initial never appears
Edward G. Robinson is like Joe e
Brown. The middle initial is part of
the screen name-as distinctive in his
case as the lack cf middle names is in
others. Since Robinson is an adopted
name, it is generally supposed that the
Evening star., 1933-07-30

"RROOMsT1CKs, AMEN" the play
about Pennsylvania Dutch vii
layers with Lew Fields in the leading
role, tried out at the Manor Theater in
Pelham, has little of that affectionate
inside" observation and understanding
found in the works of Helen Martin and
some of the others who have written of
this quaint corner of America Its au-
thor, Elmer Greensfelder, has the. air
Of an outsider. interested In making a
marketable piece for the theater rathe-
than in the human beings concerned.
and merely CHANGING on some Of the
Pennsylvania-Du superstitions re-
Gently exploited in the newspapers as
promising material fo- such an enter
prise.
''Hexing" and the cures for such
witchcraft, through charms hung about
the victims neck, a red string dangled
above him or pulled across his body
thus pulling his disease out with it,
and similar numbo- jumbo. is the stuff
he chooses to work with, and the main
anatic clash is between old Emil Hof
nagel (Mr Fields, a successful practi-
toner of such anti-heXing methods, and
the latter's son-inlaw, young doctor
OF orthodox medicine.
10 Ola EHlll regular DOCTORS are al
abonination. and when he learns that
his daughter has gone and engaged her
self to one OF these nuiSances and is
even about to have a baby without bene-
fit of clergy. he drives both young
people from his door with all the We
hemence of old-fashioned melodrama
They are married, nevertheless, and re-
turn with their baby year later to
live with the old folks. The baby falls
Ill, and when old Emil. by laying a
broomstick across the doorway finds
that it is the babys own father who
has "hexed' it. he determines to step
in with his own incantations and even
forbids the father to touch the child.
Poor Mr.. Fields is even called on to pull
out gun. in true gangster melodrama
style. in this scene. and n the scufiie
which follows to shoot and seriously
wound the young medico-as arrant a
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Vocal Pupils in Recital.

THE vocal pupils Of Otto T. Simon OF
the Associated Studios gave a vocal
recital at his studio, 1924 H street, last
Thursday evening. The following pro-
gram was rendered:
20 Luce di Quest ANNA" from
Linda" tDonizettD, by Mary Black
Nina" (Pergolesi, Elm Ton" (Cor-
nelius), MY Lady Walks in Loneliness"
(Charles). by Felix Haynes; My Sweet
Repose" tSchubert), Dawn" (Curran)
Pale Neon Nogan). by Frances
Crawford; The Blind Girls Song. La
Gioconda" Ponc:liellD, Allah" (Chad-
wick), Grade Song" (Brahms), by
Edna Marie jones; "Rendi Serene al
Cigiio," Sesame" tHandeD, "Sere-
made" (TostD, by Lillian Clara Frame
'Lasciate Morire" Montever
Jet aime Toujours" tMacMurphey)
"Qui Ia Voice." Il Plritani" (BellinD.
By Lillian Adelaide Watson, and LA
ci Darem Mano," Don Giovanni mo
zart), by Miss Watson and Mr.. Haynes.
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west, on Friday, July 81. Those
who participated on the program were
Verna Fullard Seena Chaser, Sherley
Soloman. Dorothy Schwartz. Milford
Glaser. Edwin Soloman and Ruth Toe
chinsky. At the conclusion of the
piano numbers the class was enter
tanned with songs and dances by Seena
and Milford Chaser.
Dorothy Davenport. dramatic color
ature and winner Of the Atwater Kent
addition. gave a program OF songs for
the boys at Mount Alto Hospital re-
Gently.
The Washington Juvenile Artists
Club. composed of a talented group
of Young stage and radio artists.
broadcast every Tuesday morning at
1890 am. over WJSV. Harold Gray
is the announcer and Elizabeth Gard
ner Coombs the accompanist.
Warren F. Johnson. organist. will
play "Pastorale by W. T. Best. and
psalm Of Thankfulness," Op. 145, by
Max Reger. before the evening service
at the Church of the Pilgrims today.
BY special request Nine. Marie Won
Unschuld has arranged recital with
group Of her pupils of different grades
for the Catholic Sisters attending the
Summer course at Catholic University
and Trinity College. The program will
be given this afternoon at AS O'Clock
at the OConnor Auditorium of Trinity
College.
Felicia Rybier IS leaving today by
boat for Cape Cod. Mass. Miss Rybier
expects TO go to Maine to visit her
sister before returning to the Capital
early in September to resume her
activities here.
Minnie H. Volkmann. soprano, will
be the guest soloist today at the Tab
ernacle Baptist Church Richmond.
Va On Monday Miss Volkmann will
Evening star., 1933-07-30
New York Goes in for
Season of Light Operas
Milton Aborn Sponsors Move and Opens With
THE Bohemian Cirl"-Katherine Cornell
Sails for Vacation in Bavaria.
By Percy Hammond.

uTON ABORN the benevolent revivaist to
M opportunities years
Iv Gilbert Sullivan sympathetic
hand light Bohemian
Thursday evening last the novelty
That Dwelt Marble Halls
Other Hearts, and all the other familiar ballads
revival included Aberna Rasch ballet
real Arabs tacuy worked into the general fabric that they
shocking the traditions OF those brought the old Other
Meanwhile activity in the drama remained as in
weeks in the Summer theaers
horhoeds Nearly pieces which
Broadway to villagers
dwers those adventures
OF wandering the evenings
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Reunited.

EDMUND LOWE and Victor McLag-
- len starring partners of What
Price Glory" will be reunited for the
only time this season by Charles r.
Rogers. independent producer for Para
mount, in mo More Women" The
story. an original, by e Richard
Schayer, will bring the pair together
as deep-sea divers.