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The Washington times., 1935-10-14
GiUes Him Up

For some reason Simanko was
once urgently called out of the
barracks by Shapovalo. BY mis-
take he had on the uniform cap
of engineer Chernayev when
he ran out. AS he reported to
the commander, he noticed that
the latter was covetously looking
at the uniform emblem on the
cap. Simanko Immediately sug-
geSted that the commander try
on the cap and made some flat
tering remarks to the effect that
it was particularly becoming. The
commander was as pleased as a
child with a toy, stepped up to
the mirror, saluted, took the
cap off and put it on again. I'M
pressed by this interest, Simanko
Immediately made him present
Of the cap.
They started talking and, taking
advantage of the good-humor Of
the commander, SimaDko persuad-
ed him to organize a special at
tachment of "intelligentsia," to
put him at the head of it, and to
give it assignments of an easier
nature.
The sacrifice was fully awarded.
Simanko was invited to have sup
per with the commander and re-
turned to the barracks drunk as a
lord. He was not quite sober in
the morning and took extraordi-
nary pains to explain to Engineer
The Washington times., 1935-10-14

was considerable. 1t should have
been operated on Immediately.
But there was no doctor at the
work post and Orlov hoped to save
the victim with household RENE
dies and ice. Until morning he
tried to stop the flow of blood.
All requests to provide a horse to
take the sick man to Ust-Sysolsk
met with refusal. The commander
said horses we're more urgent
ly needed in the forest, and that
the medical attendant was talk
ing nonsense.
"He won't die," he StubbOrnly
retOrted to all arguments. mo,
he'll come through well enogh,
don't worry. You may carry
him there If you like, but l
won't give you a horse"
The Washington times., 1935-10-14
KITCHIN GIVEN
J0BCLEAN|NG
DRIED FISH

sion was in sessi, r.. In the cen.
ter sat Fedakov, flaxen-haired
with a puffy face and light blue
eyes, faded from alcoholic ex.
ceSSes. To the right and to the
left of him were officials in uni.
form, trying to show off their
Importance. At the end of the
table stood Petkin.
Petkin addressed me in French
and delivered the following TRADE
without batting an eyelash:
"Regardez ceS idiots. lis for.
ment la commission Qui doit
etablir uotre specialize. ObSerUes
leuS figures: le president a PGtr
dun Ur1i cochor, son compdgnon
de droite est un SGludd, celui de
g1uche-un imbecile. CeS mes
SieurS decideront tout de suite de
Uotre sort. MdiS n'1yes Gucune
Granite, nous UouS tireronS dat
taire ct uouS caSeronS a une bonne
place"
The Washington times., 1935-10-14
SnOW Is Deep

The foreman led us back to the
forest, swearing like a trooper.
The new work was much more
difficult. The snow was deep, the
little crooked paths wound their
way among the trees and the
logs were very heavy. Several OF
the largest logs got the best Of us.
We thought we could never carry
them to the road, a distance OF
some 500 yards. Wren we finally
got them there we were all in.
The largest log was abandoned in
the forest as we simply could not
move it. We finished our addi-
tional assignment at 8 o'clock and
waited for our foreman. He did
not come and we sent one of our
old men to fetch him. In the
meantime we sat around the fire
and tried to keep warm. 1t was
dark and the moonlight shone but
dimly through the snow-coVered
trees.
The foreman brought us grief
instead of joy. The large log had
to be brought out and we could
not 60 back until it was done.
The log was long and difficult to
handle. It seemed weighted with
lead. inexperienced as We were,
we lifted it several times and
dropped it again. Finally we sue
ceeded in heaving it up on our
shoulders and carried it forward.
The heavy load pressed unmerci-
fully on our shoulders. The fore
man walked ahead and yelled
at US.
We were within 20 feet of the
road when the agriculturist, who
was at the head of the line,
uttered a loud scream and fell
down in the snow. He was the
strongest of our group and had
selected the most responsible posi-.
ton and the big end of the log.
The man next to him gave in
under the added strain, and the
others followed suit. The fore
man pounced on US with a torrent
Of licentious cursing.
"You weak swine, damn your
tra-ta-ta-ta-ta," he shouted.
Lift that log or I'll make you
stay here all night"
He stepped up to the agricul-
turist, who was still lying in the
snow, and kicked him in the ribs.
He cursed at him and ordered
him to get up. Dull moaning
came in reply.
. The foreman lowered his Ian.
tern to the mans face. 1t was
pale and covered with perspira-
ton. A dark stream of blood
trickled down to the snow.
Everybody got excited. Some ran
to the work post looking for the
medical attendant, others impro-
vised stretcher and carried the
moaning agriculturiSt towards the
work post, stepping carefully. The
warm blood ran down our hands
and dropped to the road, marking
our trail in the snow.
When we brought our load in,
Orlov, our medical attendant,
quickly undreSSed the agricultur
ist and diagnosed the casualty as
q burst intestine. 1t was a seri.
Gus case and the loss of blood
The Washington times., 1935-10-14
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The Washington times., 1935-10-14
OGPU Cruelty Costs Life of Another
PRISONER or THE oGPU

The author describing suffered from 1928
Soviet to tDch he sentenced
umpedup charges OF espionage. citizen OF Finland, in bust
ness Russia he sent to the OGPU
DiScipindrinns trusty CONFLICTS in
pathy In the last tnStaluent the author
of completion of the II days march through dS
By prisoners to another Dork camp
after completed descriptions
died from pneumonia brought BY the terrible
priUdtonS he suffered.
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Texas Music Program.

CPECIAL events already scheduled
- for the musical program of the
Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas
in 1886, include the Southwestern
Music Festival, at which folk songs
and music of the South and South
west will be presented.
Songs of the cowboys of the Western
range, jubilee hymns and spirituals
Of Southern Negroes, the Spanish bal
lads of the Southwest as sung by the
romantic vaqueros of the Texas Dor
der country and New Mexico will
mingle at the Southwests first Worlds
Fair.
AS a sequel to the Southwestern
Music Festival. plans are being made
for bringing the National Folk Festival
to Dallas This festival, first staged
in st. Louis two years ago. has at
tracted national interest in the music
world.
Another feature Of the $4,000 900
exposition's program will be the gath
ering here in the Fall of 1886 Of the
Board Of Directors of the American
Federation Of Music Clubs. This will
bring to the Worlds Fair outstand-
ing figures in American musical fields.
The Texas Federation of Music Clubs
may likewise hold its annual conven-
ton in Dallas during the Worlds Fair.
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American Ballet

universal, Influenced, naturally. by
national character.
American themes occupy promi-
nent part of our repertoire and have
tempered our technique so that already
there are distinctly American varia-
tons of the classic form.
Moreover, the native talent is
splendid. We have gifted dancers pos
sessing promising potentialities. Many
are technically skillful and others
gifted with great imagination capable
Of becoming talented maitre de ballet"
While modern influences have
Striven to make the dance a medium
solely for the expression of ideas, Mr..
Balanchine insists that the ballet is
purely spectacle.
1T is pictorial, but it is more than
that" he asserts. 1T expresses move
ment beautifully. 1t appeals to the
eye and to the ear. 1t is a synthesis of
color, movement and music. No other
art form accomplishes this as purely
and as simply as the ballet.
IF ideas emanate from the dance
they are implications only. The primary
appeal is to the senses. In my opinion
that is all the dance should strive for"
At the Metropolitan Opera as well
as on its tour, the American Ballet
will furnish Mr.. Balanchine with op-
portunities to prove his theories. The
engagement Of the company by the
Metropolitan management is consid-
cred long step in the development
of the dance in America. The ballet,
of which Mr.. Edward M. NJ. Warburg
is director. was organized only two
years ago and gave its first New York
recital last March.
Mr.. Balanchine has composed all of
the company's repertoire and is con-
tinually engaged in producing more
works as well as training American
dancers and artists to become choreog-
rapherS.
The American Ballet is sponsored
by Musical Art Management Corp,
Alexander Merovitch. president.
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ANNE YAGO McGUFFEY.
Opera at Steel Pier.

NERDTS II Trovatore," in English.
with Josepha Chekova, the new
diva from the Prague National Opera.
as Leonora, will be presented by the
Steel Pier Opera Co. this evening on
the Steel Pier at Atlantic City. Myron
Duncan, principal tenor of the Royal
San Carlo Opera, Naples, will sing
Manrico; Grace La Mar, the role OF
Azucena; Dorothea Leary, IneZ; Leo
de Hierapolis, the Count di Luna;
Warren Holland sings Fernando and
Thomas Nelson Ruiz. Henri Elkan
will conduct.
In celebration Of the 250th ami
versary of the birth of Johann Sc
bastian Bach, Jules Falk, director of
the Steel Pier Opera Co., announces
the composers rarely given opera
'Phoebus and Pan" in double
bill with Humperdinck's 'Hansel and
Gretel." Saturday and Sunday eve
nings, August "a and rs, on the Steel
Pier at Atlantic City. The double
bill, presented in English by the Steel
Pier Opera Co.. includes Cecile
Sherman, Paceli Diamond, Lawrence
Power, Myron Taylor, Arthur Kent,
Alfred Drake and Arthur Van Haelst
In the principal singing roles, while
the noted Mary Wigman dancers ap-
pear in the ballet in "Phoebus and
Pan" The uninterrupted ensemble
Of principals and dancers continues
from beginning to end in the Bach
opera.
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Charles Joseph. He was always good
for an interview, always good copy"
They liked to say, Beneath the fore
head turks the Bonaparte smile. 1t
is there all the time" His interviews
show him to have been conscientious,
man of many peculiar tastes, but
with few sympathies.
His property gradually slipped
through his fingers, although he was
diligent with his accounts and never
missed a day at his office. When not
at work in the modest legal quarters
he maintained, he divided his time
between his town and his country
house. This latter was Bella Vista,
about IS miles from Baltimore. From
there he used to drive to town each
morning behind a pair of fast-step-
ping "roadsterS."
He was fond of the life Of a gentle
man farmer, and on his 300-acre
place, stocked with blooded horses, 80
COWS, fine sheep, hogs and poultry. he
maintained studious neatness, from
stable to dog houses. He was a good
judge of horsef1esh and fond of French
harness.
For seven months of the year. from
May to December, he lived as a Mary
land farmer, in this grass covered val
ley. He rose punctually at $40,
walked an hour, then drove to Balti-
more, silent on the trip. He habit
ually retired at 9 in the evening and,
a fresh-air "fiend," insisted on open
windows and doors.
Thus he passed his last days.
AS a neighbor once said, Sensible
folks like him, and the damn fools
don't"
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Bonabarte Founded G>Men

the Omen, as such, were to gather
details and make arrests in the then
all-important "bucket-shop" cases
which sprang up all over the country,
and to break up the strong rings of
violators of the Mann act.
Thus were born the Omen of to-
day, really a governmental body 81
years old.
With the retirement of President
Roosevelt in 1909, Bonaparte went
back to his law practice in Baltimore
after three years and eight months
in the cabinet.
For the remainder of his life he re-
manned active in politics, however. AS
lawyer, he was sharp in repartee,
was an eloquent speaker, noted for
his wit, vocabulary and sarcasm
keen as a Damascus blade" accord
ing to contemporaries. He became
founder of the National Municipal
League, and later its president. He
was for IL years an overseer of Har-
ward University. He was much in
demand as public speaker in civil
service reform, remaining an advo-
cate of the merit system to the end
Of his days.
Florid, Complex Style.
He wrote continuously and volumi-
nously for newspapers, magazines and
in book form He was frank in his
writing, hating waste and hypocrisy
in deadly way. His style was ford
and complex, with sentences 500
words long commonplace. Books,
speeches and essays now moulder
forgotten.
His relationship undoubtedly got
him certain prestige, but he never
mentioned it. Once, denounced as
"transplanted Frenchman" and there
fore sinful, he promptly replied that
he was Italian and Scotch, and with
out drop of French blood. He never
visited France or the Bonaparte fam
lily in Europe, and it irritated him to
be told he looked like Napoleon. 1t
membrance of Betsys desertion and
the annulment of the marriage by
Napoleon.
He had few intimates during this
latter portion of his life. visited no
places of amusement, and was seen
rarely at social functions He became
valued adviser to Cardinal Gibbons,
and seems to have made this great
Catholic his main companion. In this
capacity, and as trustee for many years
of Catholic University of Washington,
he rated the newspaper reputation of
lone of the greatest Catholic laymen
in America
He is described by those who knew
him as tall, sturdy, with a large,
strong neck and a massive head: "a
vast round, rugged head; a double
decker head; cannon ball head, like
warriors. with room for two sets
of brains, bald and shiny" His hair
and eyes were jet black, his hands
and feet small. He had the clear,
rudy complexion of an outdoorsman.
He constantly wore black. carried an
umbrella-not cane-and looked like
"studious professor"
He did much of his thinking on the
street, striding briskly along, his mas
sive head-"with curious rises over
the temples from side to
side. Thus in transit he seldom rec
ognized his most intimate friends un-
til reused.
Newspaper meg liked to interview
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Music Is Now Major Study
Promoting School Talent
Cooperative Efforts of Handful of Men
Behind Toy Symphony Results
in Roll of 900

steal education of students entering
them has its bands and orchestras,
as well as classes in music apprecia-
ton, choral singing and piano. Gen.
trail is even equipped to offer a class
in organ playing.
Each of these subjects is major,
ive-times-a-week class. Mckinley
was the first school in the United
States to recognize the more than
simple cultural value Of music and
place it on par with any other
academic subject in the curriculum.
More than 900 boys and girls are
numbered among the school orchestras
all over the city. The parochial
schools, too, must be counted-Holy
Comforter, st. Johns, st. Gabriels
and Gonzaga-the latter with IS in
its orchestra. Wilson Teachers Col
lege has 35-piece orchestra; Web
ster Americanization School Associa-
ton has a uniformed band
Va w k1DAJOIb NONdb4O11dA
School has an orchestra.
At the end of each SC. ! year, d.
rector Of music in the public schools,
E. N. c. Barnes, effects a further
tie-up of the system with the musical
organizations of Washington and the
rest of the country. He attempts to
salvage all possible interest which has
been started while students have been
under his supervision.
A list is made of all graduating stu
dents in the city who have been at
any time in their last year connected
with one of the classes in music.
Many Of these have elected to go on
to college, either in Washington or
elsewhere. A letter is prepared to
introduce each Of these students to
the musical director of the college he
is to attend. In this way a great
many promising musicians are
marked" people before they set foot
on their future campuses.
Where no college preference Is ex-
pressed, letters are sent with the stu
dents names to all local musical or
ganizations-choral clubs, string trios
and quartets, church choirs, even to
private dance orchestras and bands.
No slightest shred Of interest Is al
lowed to fall sterile if it can be caught
in some way.
Music in the schools is now con-
sidorad hoth bv etrIde0tS epd parapt
as a professional, practical subject,
and studied along with literature,
history and algebra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Grand Opera Festival.

THE United States Marine Band,
conducted by Capt. Taylor Bran
son, with three assisting artists, Anne
Yago McGuffey, contralto; Justin
Lawrie, tenor, and Robert Frederick
Freund, baritone, will present the
grand opera festival concert at the
National Sylvan Theater, in the Wash
ington Monument Grounds, Thursday
night of this week at o'clock, under
the Joint auspices Of the Community
Center Department and the ONCE OF
National Capital Parks.
It will be the fourth annual con-
cert of grand opera music offered by
the Summer Festival Committee at
the Sylvan Theater in cooperation
with the Marine Band, and this sea-
sons program is Of special interest
as it includes wide variety Of the
most popular Of grand opera arias sung
by these three outstanding Washing
ton singers.
Mrs. McGuffey, who has appeared
on all the grand opera programs at
the Sylvan Theater except last season,
when she was out of the city, will be
heard in two arias, the "Habanera, -
from Bizet's Carmen" and "Ah Mon
Fills" from Meyerbeer's LIE Prophetic"
accompanied by the Marine Band, and
with Mr.. Freund will sing the duet,
Back to Our Mountains" from Verdi's
IN Trovatore" Mr.. Freund will offer
the Vision Fugitiv," from Massenet's
"Heriodiade," and will sing with Mr..
Lawrie the famed duet from Fora
del Destino."
Mr.. Lawrie will be heard also in two
solo numbers, accompanied by the
band, the tenor solo from "L'Elisir
d'Amore," by Donizetti, and the "Vesti
la Giubba." from Leoncavallo's PA
gliacci."
The Marine Band will offer q pro-
gram Of numbers from the worlds
most popular grand operas, featuring
instrumental soloists Of the band.
Tickets are now available ut A. A. A.,
willard and Washington newsstandb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18

IRON the TOY symphonies" Of
l. the elementary grades through
the very doors Of the National
Il Symphony itself runs the
thread of musical training in the
public school system of the Capital.
In dozen years, guided by the CO.
operative efforts of only handful OF
men, it has interviewer the vast web
work of musical organizations in the
schools themselves and score or more
Of similar groups outside the schools.
No less than 10 members Of the Ma
rine Band. for example, and nine
members of the present symphony,
plus a hundred or more individual
artists in the city have been trained
for their positions by the school sys-
TENS musical instructors. All have
been at one time or another members
of one of the 80 junior or senior high
school bands and orchestras.
At the kindergarten age, when they
are but years old, Washington chill
dren have already begun their musical
education. Here, up to the age of 10,
in what are called "pre-orchestral"
groups, they are taught the funda-
mentals of sound and time in the toy
symphonies, or rhythm orchestras."
Tiny drums, xylophone pipes" Gym
balls, clogs and drumsticks, tambour-
ines, triangles, bells-literally toys
are their instruments. They work out
their own orchestrations; they count
out their own measures.
In the public schools are go of these
groups. averaging about 40 children
each. The private schools have SINH
lar classes.
Talent and interest in music are
caught up by the % instructors of
musical activities in the junior high
schools. Each Of the IL junior highs
maintains an orchestra, with enroll
mentS of from 20 to so members. Four
Eliot, Gordon, Langley and Stuart
have school bands in addition. Four
of the colored junior highs have also
an orchestra, numbering about 40
members each.
Both white and colored junior highs
maintain mterSchool orchestras, con-
sisting of the best musicians from
all their schools. All in all, these
junior instrumental organizations
alone can account for more than 700
boys and girls with a continued in
terest in music.
There is no break in the thread
An almost entirely new body Of Is
instructors takes charge Of the mu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
TINE American dance is re-
gaining the glamesoIS- estate
attained by history making

attained by history making
- ballets Of the past" said
George Balanchine in an interview
today. George Balanchine is the
director of the American Ballet. which
is to take over the dance features and
choreography of the Metropolitan
Opera for the coming season.
Every phase of the national char
acter here-its vastness, imagination,
resources and curiosity. plus healthy
interest in the arts, makes me hopeful
that we can equal and perhaps Surpass
the creations and technical skill of the
great companies Of the past" Mr..
Balanchine continued in discussing
plans for the American Ballots forth
coming tour and its preparations for
the dance features Of the Metropolitan
Opera Association.
THE ballet reached its greatest
heights in Russia. At the Marinski
Theater in Leningrad and at the
Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, captivat-
ing spectacles have been put on with
companies Of more than $50 on the
stage.
"In America we cannot stage ballets
Of such proportions at the present
time. But in a few years productions
exceeding such programs will be
realities. This, I am sure, will happen
If we plan intelligently. Americans
are interested in the dance, and be-
cause Of definite similarities in
aesthetic pursuits which prevail in
Russia and this country, the dance will
flourish here.
There is that love of bigness that
is 50 important part of the ballet.
The skyscrapers, vast fields, gigantic
machines, all make for thrilling
spectacles"
Although brought up in the classical
school of the great Russian balle2, Mr..
Balanchine believes that the dance is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Quartet Sings Today.

WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PARK
w has secured the services of the
Euphonic Male Quartet Of Takoma
Park for the regular concert today.
The quartet consists of Robert
Eldridge, first tenor; Irving Beckwith,
second tenor: Charles Eldridge, first
bass. and Merrill Dawson, second bass.
This is repeat engagement for
the quartet in response to many re-
quests. Their songs include several
old hymns, Negro spirituals. and other
sacred and secular compositions. They
will be accompanied by Edith B. Athey
at the organ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Revive The Henrietta. u

A FAMOUS old comedy from the
pen Of one Of the foremost play
wrights of his day, Bronson Howard,
will be revived by the Roadside The
alter as its sixth production of the
Summer, beginning Monday. August
26. 1t is THE Henrietta" which many
will remember as the most successful
vehicle Of the comedy team of William
H. Crane and Stuart Robson.