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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
YOUTH TO BLAME
 FOR MANY THEFTS

A youthful purse snatcher has been responsible for three thefts tn the Grove and Prospect street sec ton within the past month. it was reported today by Chief Inspector William F. Keegan of the detcc- tive bureau. His latest pffense took place Saturday, when he snatched a handbag from woman pedes- trian and then raced away. The bag contained $4 and a number oi personal papers.
 The same lad is responsible for all three crimes. according to. Chief Inspector Keegan. A good descrip- ton of the lad, who Is believed fO be about 13 years old. was given to police by the woman who was robbed Saturday,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
PLUMBERS GATHER
 HERE WEDNESDAY
Will Discuss Wages at Dis= trict Code Meeting in
 FOreSterS Hall

Representatives from 35 towns are expected to attend the district meeting of master and jourReymen plumbers which will be held in Foresters' hall. 34 North Main street, Wednesday night. James H. Lowe, of this city. member of the state code compliance committee has called the local meeting and will preside.
 The purpose of the meeting Is to arrange for q revision of the mini mum rate of wages in the industry and to elect representatives from this district to attend the state meeting at Hartford, the goth.
 Plumbers of the following towns in the district are invited to attend the meeting here: Beacon Falls. Bethlehem. Bristol. Burlington. Canaan. Canton. Colebrook. Corn wall, Pennington, Goshen. liar winton. Kent. Lakeville, Litchfield. Midd.ebury Morris, Winsted, Naugatuck. New Hartford. Nor folk. North Canaan, Plainville, Plymouth. Salisbury. sharon. Southington, Thomaston, Torring- ton, Warren, Washington, Water- bury, Watcrtown, Winchester, Vol colt. Woodbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
SOCCER CLUB TO
 FORM AUXILIARY

A meeting for the purpose of forming an auxiliary to the Wa tcrbury Portuguese Soccer club will be held this week at the club rooms. The committee In charge of arrangements includes Mrs Rose. Costg, Mrs Mary Pals. Mrs Alzira Almelda and the Misses Olivia Cunha and Alice Martins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
WASHINGTON CAMP
 MEETS WEDNESDAY

The first meeting of the new year of Washington camp Is, P. 0. $. of A. will be held on Wednesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
BLACK MARIA IS
 BACK IN SERVICE

Waterbury's police motor patrol. off the roads since last week, went back into service at o'clock this afternoon on order of supt. of Pos lice Joseph H. Mclean. The su- perintendent said this morning that he believed driving conditions had improved enough to make It prac- ticable to put the police cars back on the streets.
 Since the cars were called in last week for the third time this winter, members of thepatro1 have been doing street duty, augmenting the regular force of patrolmen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

evening at Mechanics hall. All members are requested to be pres ent to vote on the new bylaws. The meeting will be called to order at o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

Domestic producers of Brazil are fighting the flood Of Japanese goods pouring into the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

sanded so as to prevent accidents on the water-covered ice on the highways.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

YOSE ITURBI, the young Span
ish pianist, who in five sea-
sons has forged into the front
~ rank of recitalists, will make
his fourth consecutive annual
appearance in Washington at Con-
stitution Hall this afternoon as the
final attraction of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey's second Sunday recital series
there. The recital will begin prompt
ly at 4 o'clock. and the following pro-
gram will be given:
Air +, with =, ySriations. THE HARMONIOUS =,
"RIsaudon, Musettc ct Tambqqrin.
"soeur MoniQue" e".........6F GSnpeTinI
III.
"Etudes symphoniaues' r Schumann
Intermission.
..1mpromptu A Flat Major" Fr. Schubert
Two etudes, p Execution Transcendante.'
F Minor MaS9F No. No. 10" 'pfsPo ''palesPe. asltato
molto).
Fr. List
,DIuyeleS .s'ss ssssssss. y. Deousey
"Feux d'Artiflce" ..........C. Debussy
The Spaniard was born in Valencia
and studied in the Valencia Conserva-
tory, where he was acclaimed as a
child prodigy. Leaving Valencia, he
continued his pianistic studies at
Barcelona under Joaquin Malats,
from where he went to Paris for
course of study at the Conservatoire.
from which he was graduated at the
age of II with highest honors. In
1919 Iturbi accepted the post of head
Of the piano faculty at the Conserva-
tory of Geneva, position that List
once held. He remained there for
four years, until his concert work al
lowed him no further time for teach
ing.
THE announcement Is made by
Evans & Salter, Inc, manager Of
Nino Martini, who will make his vocal
debut in Washington at Constitution
Hall early next month in joint recital
with Gladys Swarthout, Metropolitan
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Choral Music Festival.

ON TUESDAY night at the Hotel
~ Willard the third annual Spring
festival of church choral music will
be held by six outstanding church
choirs in the city. sponsored by the
Columbia College of Christian Edu-
cation. The program, which was ar
ranged by the directors of the choirs.
with r. Deane Shure as chairman.
will begin at 8:l5 o'clock. Each choir
will offer three numbers under its own
conductor, the six choirs uniting in
a finale comprising two numbers.
Dvorak's Going Home" from the
New World Symphony" and Men
delssohn's Thanks Be to God." with
r. Deane Shure conducting the first
and George F. Ross conducting the
second number. approximately 200
singers will participate in the finale.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Iturbi Concert Today

Opera soprano, as the final 1934-5
attraction to be presented by Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey, that the young tenor
has recently been signed to appear in
a series Of musical screen productions
to be produced by the Fox Film Corp
Each picture will be produced under
the personal direction OF Jesse L.
Lasky, with Martini featured.
Martini'S screen contract will not
interfere with his operatic. concert
or radio singing. He will begin work
on his first picture about May IL,
after the close Of all his operatic. con-
cert and recital work.
THE Boston Symphony Orchestra,
under DR.. Serge Koussevitzky,
will make its final visit of the season
to Washington next month, under the
auspices of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey
The famous orchestra and conductor
will appear in Constitution Hall on
Wednesday afternoon, April 8, at 4:40
o'clock.
The Boston Orchestra will conclude
a notable season in Boston with
Bach-Handel festival on large scale
commemorating the 250th anniversary
of the birth of the two composers.
ID USSIA and America will be the
~ ports of call next Saturday morn
ing. when Dr. Kinder and the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra resume
their Musical Tour of Various Coun-
tries" The concert will be the last
in the series of six scheduled for al
ternate Saturdays which were inaugu-
rated January II.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

-HE Burney Club will hold its
third annual concert next
Sunday afternoon at pm. at
i Barker Hall, in cooperation
with the music department OF
the Y. w. c. A, Mary A. Burnett, di-
rector. Three pianists will cooperate
In giving the program, which will cele-
brate the 250th anniversary on the
birth of John Sebastian Bach. The
artists are Margaret Tolson, who will
play the second "Partita," and Sade
S. Styron ard La Sale Spier, who will
play the italian Concerto" arranged
for two pianos by Harold Bauer. In a
short Introductory talk about the
music being played, Miss Styron is US
ing slides made from an interesting
collection of pictures. The public is
cordially invited to be present.
DR.. Nathaniel Dett, nationally and
internationally known choral conduc-
tor and composer will be in the city
today to conduct one Of series of re-
hearsals with the Nathaniel Dett
Choral Society prior to its appear
ance in the Washington Auditorium.
April %.
April "a, DR.. Dett will appear in
recital with artists of national note.
These offerings are in connection
with a music festival given by the
citizens of the city for the benefit Of
the Community Committee Of the
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c. A.
A program of choral music will be
given Wednesday evening at the CAL
vary M. E. Church South, in George
town ION @ street between Thirtieth
and Thirty-first streets northwest), +,
by the quartet and choir of the Fran
els Asbury M. E. Church South. The
quartet (Fannie Shreve Heartsill, So
prano and director; Helen Marie
Koontz contralto; Ellsworth Con-
dron, tenor, and Fred G. Shaefer,
bass) and choir will be assisted by AL
len H. Watson, organist: Richard
Taber, pianist, and Stuart j. Dewey,
trumpeter and guest conductor.
The choir of the Washington City
Church of the Brethren will sing a
program of contrasted sacred music
this evening at 3 O'CLOCK at tne
church. Fourth street end North
Carolina avenue southeast.
Among the soIoists to be heard are:
Mable Owens, soprano, and Robert
Hobbs, baritone. Rosa Long is or
ganist and David P. Weimer director.
The Francis Asbury Church Quar-
tet-Fannie Shreve Heartsill, soprano
and director; Helen Marie Koontz.
contralto; Ellsworth Condron, tenor.
and Fred c. Schaefer. bass-will sing
several special numbers this morning
at the First Methodist Church in
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The Calvary Baptist Church choir,
under the direction of Thomas Moss,
with Mrs. Glen Edgington. accom-.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Miss Preece Sings Tuesday.
Wand PREECE. rnezzo-cnntraltt

MAUD PREECE, mezzo- -contralto,
will be presented in song recital
by Mccall Lanham on Tuesday eve
ming at $3.50 o'clock at 1910 Nine
teenth street northwest. assisted by
Robert Sheehan, baritone.
Miss Preece. who was born in Here
ford, England. comes of a musical
family, her mother having been an
accomplished singer. Since coming to
this country IL years ago. Miss
Preece, who is an expert equestrian,
has taught riding. but will now devote
herself to professional musical
career. Her work has received the
encouragement of Frank La Forge and
others, and her New York concert
debut is planned for the early Fall.
Her program on Tuesday will COM
prise "Speso vibra per suo gioco"
(ScarlattD, "Lungi dal caro- bene"
(SecchD, "L'Esclave" Nalo), lie
Mitoir" CFerrarD. "One Who Has
Yearned Alone" (Tschaikowsky), go,
Lovely Rose" (QuilteD; Danny Boy"
(Weatherly), Down in the Forest"
CRonald). and the aria Mon coeur
souvre a to voix," from Saint-Saens'
Samson ct Dalila," and duet. In
the Hush of the Starlight" (AylevardD.
Mr.. Sheehan will sing songs by Car
rissimi, Purcell, Handel. Dunhin and
Speaks.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Featuring Ravel's New
Concerto for the Piano
Harold Bauer Will Be Soloist With National
Symphony Orchestra Thursday Afternoon.
Notes on Program Numbers.
Bv Hans KindIer.

its ever increasing brilliance, brings
the concerto to a successful close.
Les Preludes" ...............L List
ES PRELUDES" of List is one
of the most popular works Of
the prolific and still misunderstood
genius. We are so apt to confuse
brilliance with shallowness. and dull
ness with depth. A composer, who
besides works of the importance Of a
Faust symphony for orchestra and
the "B Minor Sonata" for piano, has
written the charming works known
as the "Annees de Pelerinage," the
two piano ballades, the transcend
ants etudes, as we'll as works such
as today's preludes, the "Mefisto
Waltz" the Second Rhaposdy," the
E fat and A major piano con-
certos, the Hungarian Fantasy" and
countless other works which today,
after nearly 100 years, are able by
their sheer vitality and exuberance to
enthuse and excite audiences every
where: when we consider that this was
done by a man whose life was partly
taken up by being the greatest pianist
of his time; that this artist had
extraordinary literary talent which
resulted in dozen volumes on diff
ferent subjects, that he was the
protagonist of every young and gifted
composer of the time, that Wagner,
whom he helped constantly, said that
no other conductor had given as great
a performance of his "Lohengrin" and
'Tannhauser" as LisZt; that he was
the inventor Of the new art form, the
symphonic poem; when We consider
all these and other things, we cannot
help but smile about those detractors
Zone cannot call them critics. who
accused this genius of shalloWness and
insisted on trying to bespatter his
noble figure with the obvious and
ever recurrent platitudes of their
putrid imagination.
The "Preludes," his most famous
symphonic poem, is an idealization Of
the life of man-of his endowments
In the preface of Les PreludeS" We
read that "life is but a series Of prel-
ude5 to that unknown song, the first
solemn note of which is sounded by
death. Love is the enchanted early
part of life, but this happiness is
nearly always interrupted by some
storm. Man then takes refuge in ma
ture, but, after a while, life calls him
back to the taste of life. The trumpet
call 10 arms is heard, and defines In
the struggle his full consciousness of
himself and the complete possession
Of his strength" The music follows
this program rather closely and with
great and expressive felicity.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
In Local Music Circles

panist, will give benefit concert Fri
day at $50 pm. at Woodward Hall.
Eighth and H streets northwest. The
guest artist will be Evelyn Scott. vio-
inist, accompanied by Marjorie Davis.
Other soloists appearing on the pro-
gram are Erna Embrey. soprano; Jes-
sic Werner, contralto; William Ray
mond, tenor, and Fred Eden, baritone
At the musicale this afternoon at
the Congressional Country Club, ar
ranged by Hazel M. Williamson. the
artist will be Nine. Edythe Marmion
Brosius, harpist, who will give pro-
gram of Irish selections.
Esther Strife. contralto and Kath-
ryn Latimer. pianist. will present the
program at the o'clock hour of
music at Friendship House, 324 Vir-
ginia avenue southeast, today. The
public is invited.
The pupils of Mrs. Allan Fisher will
be heard in recital today at 4:30 pm.
at the studio, 1855 Fuller street.
Those participating will be Gerald
Auerback, Jerry Blustein, Ann and
Edna Gutenberg, Irving Madorsky,
Lorraine Wolpin and Fred Fucker.
Ray Palkin. soprano. will sing for
the Lewis Memorial Chapel at Joppa
Lodge Hall Wednesday. March AZ.
Miss Palkin has recently sung for sew
eral Eastern Star and Masonic Clubs
Warren F. johnson, organist, will
play prelude and Fugue in A Minor, I"
by j. S. Bach, before the evening serv-
ice at the Church of the Pilgrims
today.
The program for the music hour
today at S o'clock at the Y. w. c. A..
Seventeenth and K streets, will be
appropriate to st. Patrick's day. Sing
ing by the audience, which will be
led by Mary M. Burnett, music sec
retary of the Y. w. c. A., will in
clude Irish folk songs. H. Phelps
Clark, bass. accompanied by Leslie
Phelps Clark, will be the assisting
soloist. Carrie Sanders will be at the
piano and Winona and Erva Barger.
in costumes from Galway, will assist.
Marjorie King. soprano. will be guest
Soloist at Foundry M. E. Church at the
morning service today.
Dorothy Russell Todd will present a
group Of her piano pupils in recital
today, assisted by Joanna Best Russell,
soprano. The pupils who will play are
Robert and Doris Proudley, Jane Mad
dax, Shirley Miriam Seigel. Dorothy
Anne Washington. Betty Tracie,
Marian Bonavita. Carol Dietzman and
Margaret Russell.
Marvin Gardner, baritone, with
Dorothy Radde Emery. pianist, will
give q half hours program Of music
at the Women's City Club today at
Is o'clock.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

tons. at the conservatory, the father
died. The memory of this father never
left the young violinist, even n his
greatest riumphs, and he used &c say
that it was his father who had really
earned the applause and that he ought
to be there to enjoy 1t. He said he
always played best when he imagined
he saw mis- father in the audience.
His first step toward fashioning a
career for himself after a dishearten-
ing tour through Bohemian towns and
villages was to go to Vienna where
he had the good fortune to secure the
protection of the Viennese millionaire.
Frederick Brosche. who presented him
with a Joseph Guarnerius violin. He
played many times in Vienna, gave
% concerts in Budapest and toured
Austria. Hungary. Rumania and Italy.
He was decorated by King Charles I
of Rumania, the King of Serbia and
Pope Leo XIII. who was greatly dis
appointed that Kubelik did not bring
his violin with him when he came to
receive the honor. His first American
tour in 1901, year after his Paris
and London debuts. was followed by
his marriage to the Countess Sell, at
which time he became a Hungarian
citizen. At this time he rivaled
Paderewski in popularity and retained
the affections of high and low alike
until the advent of the series Of wun-
derkinder which the great Auer gave
to the public.
There are many tales told to ac-
count for Kubelik's superb playing.
Some claimed he practiced for IA
hours a day but Kubelik himself re-
flutes this story and says: mo one
could do that or, if he did. would do
such bad work during the last six
that he would undo the good he got
from the first eight hours. I never
habitually worked more than five or
six hours a day. I have sometimes
practiced from to 10 hours, but
only as an experiment. to see how it
would affect me. I soon decided that
overWork was a mistake. In music
there is absolutely no mechanical
work. Unless the heart has the
power to control and direct, the
fingers will be sure to go astray."
Nevertheless he was thoroughly
drilled by his master. Sevcik. The
name of Sevcik was made great
through Kubelik, although it was
Sevcik's boast that he could make
a violinist out Of any good boy" He
was the most famous violin teacher
of that day and up to the time of his
death few years ago.
1t was also said that Kubeliks
remarkable ability was due to the
shape and size of his hands. In an
interview in London in 1907 this
idea was also demolished. The writer
says: "As a matter Of fact. Kubelik's
has small, well shaped hands, deli
cate in structure, the fingers having
equal strength from tip to palm.
There is a wonderful development of
muscle on the back of the left hand"
When some one remarked to Kubelik
of his left hand he replied. that it
was good but could have been better
had the little finger been longer"
There has never been a satisfac-
tory explanation of musical genius and
still less of that of the violin. When
Kubelik was at the height of his sue
cess he was looked upon as Paganini
come to life. but today he can be
considered as the link that bound
the traditions of that great musician
to the genius of then unborn gen.
Grafton of great violiniSts.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

AuDcllh, LIS uIdl NC1Ouo
technique and strong personality. it
is doubtful If we would have heard
so soon of Elman Zimbalist, Heifetz
and even Menuhin. He showed vio-
linists that the feats of Paganini were
not legendary nor impossible of ac-
complishment in this era and he not
only demonstrated how such superb
playing is done, but resurrected the
compositions that best displayed 1t.
He also was the inspiration for the
remarkable books on violin technique
which his teacher, Sevcik. wrote with
such minute care and which provide
numerous ways of preparation for
every conceivable technical demand.
The high standard of violin playing
today is the direct result of the phe-
nomenal success of Kubelik when he
flashed like a meteor on the musical
horizon.
His riches and his marriage at the
age of % to the wealthy Countess
Sell was the cause of his retirement
from active concertizing. but the violin
was not forgotten. for he trained his
twin daughters to be concert violinists,
and his son Rafael as pianist and
composer. His daughters have ap-
peared on concert programs with him
in Europe, and for his American tour
he brings his son as accompanist.
The life story of Kubelik reads like
q fairy tale and would have finished
with the customary happy ending had
not the worldwide financial upheaval
touched him also in his castle in
Bohemia and forced him to again take
UP his violin as means OF livelihood.
It requires courage for an artist to
come back after a long silence. for
the remembrance of his former play
ing is already surrounded by a bright
halo that time lends to all pleasant
things. and the loyalty of his former
audiences has withstood all onslaughts
from the generations OF violinlsts
which followed him.
Kubeliks childhood differs from
that of other prodigies in that 10 one
considered him a genius. His father,
a gardener by profession and the best
musician Of the village, knew that
his youngest child had the greatest
talent for music of all his children.
The father was q violinist of no great
merit, but enough love for the instru-
ment to make him decide to begin his
sons instruction on little violin
when the boy was years old. kube-
lik writes If that violin and those les
sons: THE violin was made out of
cigar boxes upon which my father
gave me the first and most valuable
music lessons" In six months little
Jan knew more tran his father and
people came from miles around to
hear him play.
1t is a strange fact that in the
case of every famous violin prodigy
there is a background of fathers
devotion and sacrifice. The Kubeliks
were very poor and lived in the small
Bohemian village of Michle, near
Prague. When the father realized
the extent of his sons musical gift,
he found himself at the cross roads Of
a great decision. He could make him
self rich by exploiting the boy or he
could toll the harder to give him time
for further study and normal de-
velopment He refused all offers to
bring the boy out as an infant lihen-
omenon, fearing to endanger mis- fu-
ture, and for six years. while Jan
attended the conservatory at Prague.
he worked to send him the money TO
live on.
At the time of his final examlna-
Evening star., 1935-03-17

The chorus of the Department of
Agriculture Musical and Theatrical
Guild, under the direction of Robert
Frederick Freund. will present The
Crucifxion." by Sir John Stainer. on
Thursday at $50 pm. in the Depart
ment of Agriculture auditorium. The
public is invited. No seatings will be
made after the curtain rises.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Ernest White Recital.

THE District of Columbia Chapter
American Guild of Organists, will
present Ernest White. organist, who
for the past six years has been director
of music at st. James Church in Phil
adelphia, in a recital on the organ Of
the First Congregational Church.
Tenth and G streets, tomorrow night
at $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
PROGRAM Of chamber or
cheStra music under the
auspices Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge will be given

by members of the National
Symphony Orchestra. DR.. Hans Kind
Ter, conductor. in the auditorium OF
the United States Chamber of Com
merce this afternoon at 4 o'clock. 1t
will be the third annual concert of
chamber orchestra music and, as in
previous years. admission will be free.
The so,oist will be Viola Mitchell,
violinist, who achieved a distinct
triumph when she presented Mali
piero's concerto, which is dedicated to
Mrs. E. S. Coolidge. with the National
Symphony Orchestra in Constitution
Hall, February Z.
Miss Mitchell will also play the
Respighi concerto for five instruments
and orchestra, the violin being the
principal part. This composition has
had only one other hearing in this
country. at the Pittsfleld Festival early
last Autumn.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Eeon Petri Lectures.

THE next lecture recital by the ia.
4 nous Dutch pianist, Egon Petri,
will take place at the Arts Club of
Washington. 20l7 street northwest,
Wednesday evening at 8 O'Clock.
"Octaves, Trills and Arpeggios" will
be the subject.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Kubelik, After Many Years,
Returns to Concert Stage
Famous Violinist of Another Decade Brings His
Son, Pianist and Compensatory
of the Artists Career.
By Alice EverSman.

return Of Jan Kubek the famous yiolinist Of another
decade the concert of the most interesting
events of the musical season Whatever his ability at
glamour great still
To the of his early he the rencaa
Paganin but he has still another fame that
insper of the violin prodge who dazzled the musical
tion of our artist circles