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Evening star., 1936-10-15

Post Once Building and the old In
terror Department Building. Twenty
five obsolete elevators have been re-
placed SO far this year.
Following an inspection OF the old
elevators In the Veterans Administra-
tion, John A.. Dickinson. Bureau OF
Standards mechanical engineer, said
he noticed overlooking that might
put q serious strain on the emergency
elevator stops In event Of accident.
He declared:
such conditions would not be per-
mitted to exist in buildings under pri-
vate ownership. Faulty elevators
would be put out of commission by
Evening star., 1936-10-15

rector Of the National Park Service,
in charge Of buildings, said additional
contracts will be let as soon as pos
sible for new elevators in the old
Pension once, old Land Once and
old Patent once Buildings. and in
the former Southern Railway Build.
ing at 1900 e street.
Peters admitted the old elevators
are inadequate for the demands
placed on them. but described this
condition as an Inconvenience to
Government employees rather than q
threat to their safety.
Obsolete elevators have been re-
placed in recent months in the old
Evening star., 1936-10-15
MILD WEATHER STAYS

Continued mild temperatures and
possibly light rains are in prospect
for the Washington area today and
tomorrow, according to the Weather
Bureau.
The mercury Is not expected to drop
below the 60-degree mark nor climb
above the low 70s during the next
"a hours. The lowest mark of the
last 24-hour period was SO degrees,
reached at am. today. At 10 am.
the thermometer stood at 66.
Yesterdays high Of II was recorded
at 4 pm.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

The new 1887 TUXEDO.
Smartly styled coat and
trousers In rich worsted.
Buy yours now At this low
price Of S27.5o and you'll
save plenty.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Sergt. Stewart Fernie, London's
heaviest policeman. who weighs 308
pounds, has retired after rs years Of
service.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
More Lace and Frills.

Women in Great Britain are wear.
ing more lace and frills than in sew.
eral years.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
In Local Music Circles

direction of Adolf Torovsky, will sing
the short Lenten cantata, "Penitence,
Pardon and Peace by j. H. Maunder,
ON Sunday, March l, at 8 pm. At
7:30 o'clock Mr.. Torovsky will play
the first of series of half-hour organ
recitals, to be given each Sunday eve
ming during Lent. He will be assisted
by the choir soloists.
The February meeting of the Lyric
Music Club, Dorothy Sherman Pier
son director, will be held at the home
of Grace Shannon Tuesday evening. A
paper on the subject of the evening,
"TschaikoWski, will be read by jean
ette Higgins, while Frances Burger
and Thelma Elizabeth Steele will illus
trate with some of his songs, with
Grace Shannon at the piano.
The music section of the Woman's
Club of Chevy Chase will give pro-
gram tea at the home of Mrs. Edward
F. Loomis, 1914 Military Road, Mon
day afternoon at o'clock. The guest
artist will be Dorothy Radde Emery,
pianist-composer. Esther Holden Bib
Der, soprano, and a trio composed of
Mrs. William Collins, Mrs. Howard
Hosmer and Mrs. j. Robert Bryant,
jr, will sing. Mrs. Raymond L. San
ford will read one-act play.
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A Cappella Choir Concert.
THREE groups of ensemble numbers

THREE groups Of ensemble numbers,
sung without accompaniment, will
feature the sixth annual Lenten con-
cert by the cappella choir of First
Congregational Church, conducted by
Ruby Smith Stahl, on Monday night,
March Is, at $50 o'clock in the May
flower Hotel ball room.
The choir will repeat, by request,
three numbers sung previously at
Lenten concerts, one of them being
Maud Sewall's Jesus, the Very
Thought of Thee" sung last season
for the first time by the choir; also
Trowbridge's Peace Be Unto YOU"
for\male voices: and Bring Torch,
jeanette Isabella" which has become
a tradition at the Lenten concert.
Compositions by Bach, Brahms,
Palestrina, Nicolsky, Lewandowski,
Gretchaninoff, Arkhangelsky and other
famous writer's of chorales will be
included in the program of this occa-
sion, in which there will be number
of incidental solos by the solo quartet,
including Dorothy Wilson Halbach,
contralto; Don Waite, tenor; Dale
Hamilton, basso, and Mrs. Stahl
soprano. Paul DeLong Gable is the
accompanist of the choir.
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Philadelphia
Orchestral S
.3rd Concert
Jose Iturbi to Come
as Conductor and
at the Piano.
THE Philadelphia Orchestra will give

THE Philadelphia Orchestra will give
its third concert of the season
at Constitution Hall on Thursday.
March II, with Jose Iturbi conducting
and at the piano.
Iturbi's American tour included ap-
pearances with orchestra under
Stokowskl, Mengelberg, Reiner and
others. A great pianist, as remarkable
a personality and musician as vir-
tuoso, the Spanish pianist arrived in
this country for the first time in Oc-
tober, 1929, sailed again for Europe
in January, 1880, and in little more
than three months had made his name
household word in musical America
Iturbi was recently decorated by
France with the Cross of the Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor. He has also,
within the past year. distinguished
himself as a conductor of rare ability.
Tickets for the Philadelphia Or
chestra are on sale at the T. Arthur
Smith Concert Bureau, 9l0 G street
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Lecture at Library.

I 1NDER the provisions OF the Eliza
beth Sprague Coolidge Founda-
ton, DR.. Edmund H. Fellowes of
Windsor Castle, England. will lecture
in the auditorium Of the Library of
Congress on Friday at 4:45 O'Clock.
His lecture will be Tudor Church
Music" The lecture will be illustrated
with phonograph records made under
his direction by the English Singers
and the st. Georges Singers. DR..
Fellowes has not spoken in Washing
ton since 1927 and plans to abandon
his American lectures at the end of
this season.
Admission is free, but by ticket only
Tickets can be obtained-until the
supply is exhausted-at the T. Ar
thur Smith Concert Bureau, at 910 G
street northwest. beginning Tuesday,
at 9 am. Telephone and mail Or
ders cannot be accepted. Because of
the limited capacity of the hall, tickets
should be called for early. Seats can
be reserved only until the hour set
for the beginning of the lecture, after
which time an effort will be made to
seat those who have been unable to
obtain tickets. Persons unable to
use their tickets are requested to re-
turn them before the day of the lee
ture.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Mile. Pons Would Find Charm in Duties of Decorator
Prefers Old Furniture With
Touch of French Color
and Real Warmth.

refused to take nearly right" fol
an answer. The dining room is in
a high key. Victorian rosewood chairs
and the wrought-iron supports of q
long refectory table are painted white
The walls are pale blue, the uphol-
stery and table top pale green. My
window, deep set under an oak beam,
is filled with red geraniums and ivy
and across the window shelf parades
a line of swans.
HERE I do become an interior dec
= = orator! I shout "Provencal' from
the cellar to the attic-I should put q
breath of it. at least. in every house
had anything to do with. Nothing
is so comforting to me in low
moment as my Provencal living room
with its soft blue greens, reds ano
browns, its rubbed beams and white
plaster walls.
Then suddenly, in the midst of this
day dreaming, there comes thought
Suppose some one said, "All right,
Mile. Pons, If you want to, go aheac
and be an interior decorator. But,
remember, no more singing!" That
is usually enough to make me real
ize how much opera and singing
mean to me!
remember. for instance, the strong,
heady feeling of applause after an
aria; I think of the thrill of q debut,
of an opening night; of singing great
music to eager audiences, with some
of the greatest artists in the world; !;
of living for q few hours the high
drama and excitement that Is grand
opera. I know that could never
really give up the excitement, the
glamour, the sheer hard work of
opera and concerts.
But there's no law against think
Evening star., 1936-02-22

here last season with the Metropolitan
Opera Quartet, which had Grace
Moore as its soprano and Edward
johnson. now general manager of the
Metropolitan Opera Association, as its
tenor. The quartet will be heard in
an all-operatic program of arias. duets,
trios and quaretts from standard oper-
attic music and should prove one of the
vocal delights of the season.
GRACE MOORE, the star of opera,
concert, radio and the screen, is
announced in recital at Constitution
Hall on Sunday afternoon, March 8,
at 4 O'Clock. Special attention is
called to the fact that Miss Moore was
originally announced in recital for
March 20, but owing to certain changes
in her itinerary it became necessary
to change the date of her recital to
March 8, when all tickets for the
March 20 concert will be honored.
The third March attraction will be
Josef Hofmann, world famous pianist,
who is now making his 50th anniver-
sary tour, and the fourth and final
March attraction is Gladys Swarthout,
mezzo- soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera.
Owing to the exchange of dates be-
tween Miss Moore and Miss Swarthout
for their Washington recitals, all
SWarthout tickets will be accepted at
Constitution Hall on Sunday. March
90, despite the fact that they were
originally printed for March 8.
Seats for all four attractions are now
available at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert
Bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G street
northwest.
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Bach Recital by Friskin.

HE February meeting OF the Wash
ington Music Teachers Associa-
ton will take place Monday evening
at 8:l5 o'clock, at 1927 Sixteenth street
northwest through the courtesy of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Steele and Minna Me
mann.
James Friskin of the Juilliard In
stitute of New York will be the artist
of the occasion, giving a Bach lecture
recital. MIR. Friskin has paid the
teachers an especial compliment in
selecting to play the Goldberg Varia-
tions"
Announcement of the date and hour
at which Mrs. Roosevelt will receive
the Washington Music Teachers AS
sociation at the White House will be
made at this meeting.
Applications for membership in the
association should be made to Myron
Whitney, chairman of the Membership
Committee. 1924 H street northwest.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Echaniz to Play March 4.

Jose ECHANIZ, distinguished Gu
ban pianist, who is appearing in
concert Wednesday evening. March
4. at the Willard Hotel grand ball
room under management of Beren-
Brook Artists, is appearing two days
later as guest artist with the Phila-
delphia Symphony Orchestra in the
American premiere of the Malipiero
Concerto, conducted by Iturbi.
The appearance of Ernesto Lecuona
originally announced for March a,
was Cancelled owing to his illness.
Hurried long distance calls found
Echaniz to fill the breach, and Wash
ington music lovers will have the op-
portunity to hear another of Latin
Americas greatest artists. Marta de
la Torra, generally acclaimed as the
leading woman violinist from below
the Rio Grande. was originally sched-
uled as assisting artist to Lecuona,
and will appear with Echaniz, playing
group of Spanish compositions.
She will feature "El Poema de una
Sanluquena" for violin and piano by
the noted Spanish composer, Joaquin
Turina. She had the honor of play
ing the world premiere of this number
in Seville with the composer at
the piano.
Echaniz. whose full name Is Jose
Maria del Sagrado Corazon de Echaniz
y de Justiniani, is appearing for the
first time in Washington. although his
fame has been established for some
years with music critics of the lead
ing music capitals of the world
Born in Havana, of Spanish, French
and Italian ancestry, Echaniz comes
of a long line Of professional musicians
and patrons Of music. Young, hand
some and intellectual, he belongs to
the brilliant school Of pianists. Tickets
are available at the Willard Hotel and
at Beren-Brooks Artists, 1341 Con-
necticut avenue.
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Concert Schedule
Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
Lily Pons, song recital, Con-
stitution Hall, 4 pm.
Monday.
Bach lecture recital by James
Friskin at Washington Teachers
Association meeting at 1927 Six
teenth street northwest, 8:l5 pm.
Navy Band Hour of Mem
ories" program, II am.
Army Band, pm.
Tuesday.
Lecture on THE Valkvrie" and
"Siegfried" by Julia Schelling at
Washington College of Music,
8:l5 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, 8 pm.
Marine Band, patriotic shut
ms dream hour, II am.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra. $50 pm.
Recordings group concert, pub
lie library, 7:30 pm.
Wednesday.
Evening program presented by
artists of the International Art
Forum at Washington Club.
Navy Band, weekly concert on
young peoples music appreciation
course, 4 pm.
Aryov Popd 11.on m
Marine Band and Symphony
Orchestra, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Lecture-recital, What Price
Jazz?" by Henry Gregory, Uni
versity Club, $50 pm.
Navy Band, patriotic half
hour, 1880 am.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, $50 pm.
Friday.
Lecture on Tudor Church
Music" by DR.. Edmund H. Fell
lows of Windsor Castle, England
auditorium, Library of Congress,
4:45 pm.
Organ recital presented by
Friday Morning Music Club at
Western Presbyterian Church.
1870 am.
Army Band, AIS pm.
Marine Band, 3 pm.
Saturday.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Noted Coach Opens Studio.

opera conductor and vocal coach
of New York, will open a music stu
dio in Washington about March Is.
One of the features planned by
Maestro Papalardo will be the forma-
ton of different sort of choral grour
for men and women whose avocation
is singing. This group will be pat.
termed somewhat along the lines of the
Schola Cantorum of New York and
will be trained in a varied repertoire
including operate compositions. The
chief object of this group is to provide
real outlet for all those who have q
| genuine love of singing.
| AS director Of the Suffolk operate
Society in Long Island, Maestro
Papalardo trained his artist students
and his professional group to ap-
pear in costume recitals and opera
with Metropolitan Opera stars as gues
artists. He expects to find sufficient
material in Washington to produce
several quartet combinations.
In addition to the choral group
every branch of the singing art viii
be taught, from individual instruc.
ton in tone production and style
coaching in opera, oratorio, classic
and modern song literature, to clas:
instruction in voice, which will in.
clude training for duets, trios and the
several quartette combinations.
Maestro Papaiardo. who plans t
divide his time between his studios ir
New York and Washington, has con.
Quoted opera in Italy, Russia, South
America, New York and twice on tou
in the United States. He is equally
famous as a teacher and coach o.
many famous singers and stars OF tht
Metropolitan and Chicago Opera
Among them are Lucrezia Bori, Ethe
Parks, Dusolina Giannini, Rafaelc
Diaz, Toti dal Monte and many 9th.
ers. He was also coach of the Met.
ropolitan Quartet, with France,
Aida, Marie Sundelius, Rafaelo Diaz
Alfredo MARITIME and many Other
professional groups.
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7 ENRY GREGORs composer
j pianist and head of the Piano
1 Department of National Park

- pianist and head of the Piano
Department of National Park
Il Seminary, will give lecture
recital on What Price Jazz?" at the
University Club on Thursday evening
at $50 o'clock.
The Friday Morning Music Clut
will present an organ recital at West
ern Presbyterian Church, 1906 H
street, Friday at 1880 am. The fol-
lowing organists will give the pro-
gram: Edith Athey, Mabel r. Frost,
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery, Kath-
ryn Hill Rawls and Mrs. j. Horace
Smithey. Christine Church, soprano,
is the assisting artist.
William Webster, vocal teacher of
New York and Washington, will pre-
sent group of his pupils at the
Washington Club on Monday, March
2, at BIS o'clock. The following sing
ers will be heard: Mrs. G. NJ Myers,
Dorothy Aiken, Mary Mcleod, Mar
garet Rogers, Jeanne Snow. Mrs.
Arval Anderson, Ruby Arnold, Lillian
Latham, Elizabeth Graebner, June
Baer, Halle Hoffman, Aubrey Becker,
Erbin Thomas, Harry Chaconas, Mau-
rice Thompson, Paul La Prade and
Hobart Strieford.
The junior division of the District
OF Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs will give program Saturday
evening at o'clock in the Sale de
Recital, 1925 G street. Those appear
ing are Betty Bean, Joann Croarkin,
Doris Demaree, Rae Alice Elmer,
Mary Gray. Jean Gordon, Janet
Guess, Linea Hedquist, Lisa Inasawa
Weston Jones, Jean McCandlish
Josiah McHale. Ann Myers, Jacque-
line Neff. Hilda Parks, Olive Rickard
Joan Riddick. David Sickles, Ella
Mary Steese, Nancy Wakefield, Jane
Wells, Bernice Willett, Ruby Lee Will
liams. Iris Bland Smith will give a
talk on Dalcroze Eurythmics.
Warren F. johnson, organist, will
play "Intermezzo" and Finale" from
Third Sonata" by H. B. Jepson, be-
fore the evening service at the Church
Of the Pilgrims tomorrow.
Felian Garzia, pianist, will play at
the Women's City Club, 1876 jackson
place, Thursday at 8:15 pm. This
program is presented under the spon-
sorship of the French section of the
Women's City Club. Mr.. Garzia S
program will include compositions by
Bach. Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin,
Debussy, List and Strauss.
Marjery League, soprano, with Villa
semple, pianist and accompanist. will
present the program for the music
hour tomorrow at o'clock at the Y
w. c. A., Seventeenth and K streets
Olive Dean, president of the Education
Council, will act as hostess. The pub
lie is cordially invited.
T. Guy Lucas will play his sixty
seventh organ recital at st. Johns
Church, Sixteenth and H streets
northwest, on Monday evening at 8:15
o'clock. The program will include the
Bach 'Fugue in e Flat" (St. Anne)
and pieces by Brahms, Debussy and
Schumann. The choir of men and
boys will sing.
Epiphany Church choir. under the
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Forum Presents Artists,

THE February recital sponsored by
the International Art Forum on
Wednesday evening at the Washing
ton Club, 1910 Seventeenth street,
features program of operatic and
modern classics.
The program presents Estelle Gates.
soprano, in works of Debussy, Critics,
Martin Shaw, Delibes and Arensky-
Koshetz; Kathryn English, contralto,
in numbers by Verdi, Hageman, Car
penter, Eric Wolff, Winter Watts and
LaForge, and Grace Powell, violinlst,
playing compositions by Purcell,
Gluck- -Elman. Bach, Debussy, Delius
and Boulanger.
Tickets and programs are available
at the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 910
G. street northwest.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Famous Singer Admits Big
Thrill in Music, Finds Home
Beauty Is Magnet.
By Mile. Lily Pous.

r. VERY one in a while I find
- myself wondering what I'd
like to be If I weren't an
- opera star. The thought is
particularly insistent after a trying
concert tour, when am speeding back
to the Metropolitan Opera House and
to New York's hustle.
The rushing hills and lowlands, and
the regular melody OF the train wheels
are a perfect accompaniment to a
day dream. And yet always answer
the question the same way. If
weren't an opera star I should want,
more than anything else in the world,
to decorate peoples homes for them
and to work and live in the country.
I would want to bring beauty and
color and warmth into the lives of
many people. I should want to sur
round those I know with the charm
of France as know it-a charm
which f1ourishes so well in the Amerl-
can countryside. too. In no other way
could / do these things better than
as an interior decorator. Outside of
my singing, no other profession would
give me more satisfaction.
I THINK that this avocation (Which
practice even now Is natural
antithesis to my profession as a
singer. No matter how much love
singing. must nevertheless recognize
its disadvantages-the irregular life
the photographs, costumes, rehearsals
the constant moving from town to
town, living. as 1t were, practically in
a trunk. -.
Interior decorating would give me
freedom-freedom to enjoy regular
hours, to spend week ends and vaca-
tions In, the. country-something I
never seem to sat enough Of.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Ballet With
OrganGives
Originality
Galpern and Famous
Group of Dancers to
Appear in March.

THE unusual program, combining
organ music and bale. interpre-
tation of masterpieces written for the
liking of instruments" which was to
have been presented by Lasar Galpern.
Russian danger, and his ballet of 20
people, with Virgil Fox at the organ.
at Constitution Hall Tuesday, has been
postponed until early in March.
The program is sponsored by the t.
Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, and 40
per cent Of the proceeds will go to
funds for the Volunteer of America.
Mr.. Galpern. an outstanding expo
nent Of the Russian school of dancing,
has worked out not only the choreo-
graphic designs of his dances-which
include Interpretation of the various
voices" in Bach 'Fugue" and THE
Prodigal Son." by Cesar Franck-but
also has designed skillful screen back
grounds and the costumes for his
dancers in colorful manner.
Mr.. Fox, 21-year -old American or
ganist, has won recognition both in
Europe and America. When IT, he
won the National Federation of Music
Clubs biennial festival prize. Later
he studied in Paris with Marcel Dupre
He has been called natural" organ
ist, which gift, along with thorough
musicianly training, has won him wide
recognition.
Mr.. Galpern studied the art of ballet
under the great master who also
taught Nijinsky and Pavlowa-Legat.
He has taught in the Chamber The
ater. in Moscow, and directed ballets
in Germany and Italy. He was guest
artist on programs in Paris with Nj
jinskaya. and from 1929 till 1891 pallet
master at the State Opera House of
Cologne. Mr.. Galpern presented
Scrlabine's ballet, Sonata" at the
formal opening of Radio City Music
Hall, IN New York, few seasons ago.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Talks on Chopin's Life.

n
and authority on Chopin, will
give brief talk on the composers life
at the musical evening of the Public
Library Recordings Group ON Tues
day at 1880 pm. in the music division
at the central building of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets, DR..
George F. Bowerman, librarian, has
announced.
In addition to Miss Rybier's talk on
Frederic Chopin, Elsa T. Posell, chief
of the music division, will supervise
the playing of a number of Chopin re-
cordings. including the famous Rev
olutionary Etude" and the "B Minor
Scherzo." AS the seating capacity is
limited, persons expecting to attend
are asked to notify Mrs Posell before
Tuesday evening.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
SERMONS ANNOUNCED
BY REV. w. NJ. MICHAEL
"For Their Sakes' and "The
Closed Door" Will Be Themes
for Services Tomorrow.

At the morning service in Eldbrooke
M. E. Church tomorrow Rev. Walter
M. Michael will use For Their Sakes'
as his sermon theme and in the eve
ming, THE Closed Door"
The Young Peoples Society will be
entertained in the parsonage at tea
at $50 and will meet for the devotional
service in the church at o'clock.
The Community Ladies' Bible Glass
will meet in the church Monday eve
ming for election of officers and social.
The members will participate in the
corporate communion service to be
held in Foundry Church Wednesday
evening, this service taking the place
of the regular midweek service.
The Married Couples Club will have
a dinner and social in the parish hall
Thursday with DR.. and Mrs. Louis
Maxwell in charge of arrangements.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Second Wagner Lecture.

THE second of the three lecture-re-
citals on The Life of Richard
Wagner and the Trilogy' being given
by Julia Schelling will take place
Tuesday evening at the Washington
College of Music at 8:15 o'clock The
lectures, which are the same that Miss
Schelling gave at Bayreuth in 1890
and 1881, will be illustrated with slides
from a rare picture collection. The
subject on Tuesday is THE Valkyrie"
and "Siegfried,' for which Fanny Am
stutz Roberts. pianist, will play the
music associated with the story.