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another dance number which starts
train of thought that not only con-
tinues, but enlarger itself otter the
performance is ended. Nor can one
easily name another instance when art
and the dance in particular-has
overstepped the boundary of its do
main to hold up so vividly to ridicule
the very circumstances and atmos-
phere which destroy art.
IF KURT JOOSS has not set the
pace for future growth in art, he
has at least opened the eyes of many
to its untouched possibilities. For him,
art Is not a medium of dreams and
aspirations, but force capable OF in
fluencing opinions in affairs without
its province. In the hands OF his
genius-for genius he Is. conforming
his art technique to profundity of idea
the plant, delicate fabric OF his
art hides steel under its soft covering
that can rip through the sheath of
pretense and reveal things as they
are.
Yet again, the revelation that Mr..
Jooss has made of the puiSsant char
acter which art can assume. makes
one realizes how few artists there are
in the world capable of disclosing the
gift of genius, for only those en-
dowed with super talent may dare to
attempt a similar creation. And yet
once again, is not the very curse
against which he breaches so poig-
nantly in THE Green Table" respon-
sible for the slow development of
great art? When war comes, and
terrible as is the suffering in every
walk of life. it is art that requires
the longest time for recovery.
The World War not only destroyed
many promising artists of every coun-
try, but it annihilated the careers
of others and polluted the soil in
which art fiourishes. Stark neces-
sity and bitter thoughts took the place
of quiet endeavor and high-minded
aspirations. 1t cut the delicate thread
that binds the artist to the sphere of
finer things and crumbled the pillars
of faith. hope and charity, which are
the mainstay of artistic striving.
Nothing good musically has come
from the sentiments which war en-
genders. and no great work can trace
its inception to the sorrow and dis
aster that follow the quarrels of ma
tions. Yet the voice of art is so small
as to be lost in the general clamor
The greatest good that could come
from such performances as THE
Green Table" would be that other
artists would try to think and create,
in the manner of Mr.. Jooss. in pro-
test against the ways of the world
in destroying the fine and uplifting
elements that constitute is excuse for
existing
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generally commented upon as the first
step forward into a vital yet new field
beyond the type Of dance program de-
veloped by Diaghilen.
X URT JOOss, the young leader Of
the group. who is of Danish ex-
traction (and whose name Is pro-
nounced "yooss" with a long 20" in
stead Of "juice'), has built a company
Of "a young dancers, who have been as
thoroughly trained in the art of acting
as in dancing. They do not sacrifice
any Of the technicalities Of the dance
art, yet add much depth Of characteri-
zation to their work, through the dra-
matte effectiveness of their interpre-
tations.
Four ballets will be presented to-
morrow night. The first, "Ballade,"
with music by John Colman, is a
clever satire on court life in France,
in the days when a jealous queen could
solve her problem by handing the I'M
fortunate court favorite a poisoned
bouquet and get her king back-at
least in the eyes of the court.
The costumes for this first ballet
are the work of Helm Hechroth and
are made Of cellophane in exquisite
colorings.
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Second Talk by DR.. Barnes.
IN THE second of his series of

IN THE second Of his series of 10
lecture-recitals on "Milestones in
American Music - 1636-1936," to be
given in the women's City Club ball
room Friday afternoon at O'Clock,
DR.. E. N c. Barnes, local public schools
music director, will develop our mu-
sical history from 1910 to 1880 in a
talk entitled Growing Pains-the
Midnineteenth Century"
Americas first matinee idol, Louis
Moreau Gottschalk, creole poet Of
the piano." rose to prominence in this
period, according to DR.. Barnes, and
the last decade, between 1870 and
1880, was one Of great progress.
Ann Sugar, popular young local
artist and pupil Of Felian Garzia, will
play Gottschalk's romantic piano Sc
lections. 1.-THE Dying Poet" and 1.-The
Last Hope" and the Alumni Male
Quartet will sing a group Of old-time
hymns to illustrate DR.. Barnes &C
count. Other illustrations will be rem
dered in excerpts Of period numbers
by famous artists in reproductions and
. preliminary Commute recorded con-
cert.
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Second on the program Is to be the
ballet, new to Washington audiences,
Johann Strauss, Tonight" which
Is said to be gay and very comic in
theme, with the alluring strains of
the great Strauss beautiful waltzes
IS musical background.
THIRD in the program will be I'm
pressions of a Big City" which
caricatures various types to be found
in the streets of a great metropolis,
and in which a man-about-town Of
the night clubs wins the innocent
heroine from the young workman
lover. Music from Alexander Tans-
mans Symphonic TransatlantiqUe'
is used in this ballet
The entire second half of the eve
ning's program is given over TO the
highly dramatic. vivid Green Table"
the ballet which put Jooss and his
company on the map of entertainment
successes.
William A. Albaugh Is presenting
the company here, and tickets can be
secured at the box Office, National '
Theater.
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manager of the orchestra, reports
Inquiries may be made at the box
Office.
Members of the National Symphony
Orchestra Association and their friends
are, in the meantime, engaged in a
spirited campaign to sell season tick
cts. They are organizing ticket-selling
groups, as we'll as concert-attending
clubs in the Government departments,
in the private schools and in Wash
ington's colleges and universities.
Through the cooperation Of the
Welfare Association. Mildred Skunk
of the Civil Service Commission is Or
ganizing the concert-goers in her de-
partment.
Several Of the private schools in
and near the Capital have already
volunteered their cooperation in ar
rangements to send student parties to
the National Symphony concerts.
Among them are the Madeira School.
the King-Smith Studio School, Ar
lington Hall. Chevy Chase School and
the Mount Vernon Seminary.
GIMILAR activity is going forward
on the several college and uni
versity campuses. Unusual interest is
being displayed at George Washington
University, which will send members
of its combined mems and women's
glee clubs to one of DR.. Kindler's con-
certs as assisting artists. The glee
clubs will be presented in an all
Beethoven program in Constitution
Hall on December 13, and will support
the orchestra in q performance of
Beethoven's Choral Fantasy" Harold
Bauer, pianist, will also be q guest
artist at that concert.
The Suburban Committee OF the
Orchestra Association planned the
organization Of groups at a meet
ing last Tuesday in the home of
Mrs. Robert La Fevre, 112 West
Thornapple street, Chevy Chase, Md,
vice chairman Of the Suburban Com
mittee.
Another group Of orchestra hackers
met Wednesday in the Arts Club to
lay plans for advancing the season
ticket drive. DR.. Kindler's plans for
exceptional orchestral features and for
the presentation Of an outstanding list
Of soloists are expected to bring the
orchestra the largest following in its
history.
MOST Of the renowned artists en-
AA gagged to appear with the Ma.
tional Symphony Orchestra in Wash
ington during this season will also be
soloists with other great orchestras
in the United States this year, and
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Music Teachers Meeting.

THE Washington Music Teachers
Association, Alice Burbage Hes
selbach, president, will hold its semi
annual business meeting on Sunday,
October 10, at S o'clock at 1910 Con-
necticut avenue. Herman c. Rakeman
Is this year filling the office Of second
vice president, Mabel Duncan is an
nounced as chairman Of the Program
Committee and Eta Schmid Wells as
chairman of the Hospitality Commit
tee. Tickets for the National Sym
phony Orchestra concerts, to which
the association is entitled because of
Its membership, will be distributed at
the meeting.
Program meetings Of the associa-
tion take place on the last Monday
evening Of each month, with the ex-
ception of December. The October
program will be given by Alexander
Sklarevski, Russian pianist, who will
play on October as in Barker Hall.
Membership cards are necessary for
admission to this and other programs
throughout the year. Myron Whitney
Is chairman Of the Membership Com
mittee.
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Schumann
Work Gets
It's Revision
Kreisler to Present
His Music When He
Plays at Chicago.

ERITZ KREISLER, the noted Aus
= trian Holinist, who will appear
here in recital on Monday evening.
October 2e, at $50 o'clock as the
first attraction Of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorsey,s evening recital series at Con-
stitution Hall, has completed re-
vision of Schumann's Fantasia for
Violin and Orchestra" which Kreisler
will perform for the first time on Oc-
tober 20 with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Frederick Stock conduct
ing.
This announcement was made .
few days ago in New York by Charles
Foley, Kreislers personal representa-
tive in this country. The work has
never been played In this country,
Mr. Foley said.
so far as Is known" said Mr..
Foley, this work has not been per-
formed since the death Of Joachim
and probably he was the only violin
ist ever to attempt to play it. Mr..
Kreisler's determination to rescue the
work from oblivion and restore 1t to
the current violin repertoire dates
back to q memorable evening in vi
emma when he was 10 years old.
THE occasion was one of the weekly
gatherings of the Vienna Tonkunstle-
verein. Brahms, frequent visitor at
these informal gatherings, was pres
ent. So was the distinguished violin
ist, Joseph Joachim. The evening
started with chamber music, in which
the youthful Kreisler took part. At
the supper which followed, Kreisler
was privileged to sit near the great
men Of music, and the conversation
turned to Schumann, and in particu-
lar to his Fantasia. Opus 49,
Joachim, to whom the work is ded-
icated, deplored its neglect by other
violinists and ventured to prophesy
that after his death 1t would sink
into oblivion. Brahms thought that
the beautiful portions q the work
might be saved for posterity by judi
cious revision, and eliminating the
few meaningless passages. He also
suggested celebrating the wonderful
but far too short middle episode.
"Kreisler told me that from that
day on he was filled with burning
desire to undertake such a revision,
but he waited until after the death
of Joachim, thinking the latter might
undertake a revision. Twice Kreisler
attempted a revision and twice dis
carded his efforts. The present re-
vision was finished during the past
Summer. At the time he plays 1t in
Chicago he will also perform his own
arrangement Of Paganini's "Konzer-
stuck"
The Schumann Fantasia was writ
ten in 1853 and was played for the
first time by Joachim in 1854. 1t
was one of Schumann's last works.
He died two years later"
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Program for Music Clubs.
THE first general meeting of the Dis

aE nlSt general meeting OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia Federation of
Music Clubs. Eva Whitford Iovette.
president, will be held at 1910 Connec-
tlcut avenue on Wednesday evening
at 8 O'Clock. There will be a brief busi-
ness session, following which q pro-
gram OF piano music will be played by
Ben Jones. guest artist. He will in
clude on his program the Bach-Liszt
"A Minor Prelude and Fugue, the
Beethoven ''Waldstein Sonata" the
suite Pour le Piano." by Debussy; a
Bortkiewicz "Etude," the Chopin
"Fantasie Impromptu" and the "Stac-
cato Etude." by Rubenstein. Mr.. Jones
was the winner Of the Edwin HUGHES
master class scholarship in 1895, his
study since having also been done with
Mr. Hughes, while previous training
had been received from his mother.
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Single Baton
Cherished
By Ornandy
Philadelphia Leader
Has Used It for
All Programs.

IT IS not unusual for orchestra
conductors TO use three or four
batons in a concert program. For
Eugene Ormandy, however, who con-
ducts the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra in most Of its programs,
both at home and on tour this season,
there is only one baton that he will
use-and he hangs onto it tenaciously.
This baton is a simple and very
much worn shaft of light wood, which
shows traces of many years service.
The point at the handle where he is
accustomed to hold it is almost COM
pletely worn through and looks, as
Ormandy himself admits. "as if a
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Music Activities at Y. W. C.. A.

THE Sunday afternoon music hour
at the Y. w. C. A., Seventeenth
and K streets, will begin tomorrow al
O'Clock. This is the eleventh sea-
son for these informal musicales. to
which the public IS invited, and, as
has been the custom for several years
the first one will feature informal
singing by the audience. Music and
poetry of the out-of doors will be the
theme Of the program. and the music
director, Mary M. Burnett, will be as
sisted by Mabel r. Cook, Girl Reserve
executive, and the Girl Reserve Glee
Club.
On October 18 Helen Campbell VIII
liams, young Washington pianist, as
sisted by Elizabeth Everett, soprano,
will be heard, and on October IS the
program will be given by the Gipsy
Chorus, directed by Robert Frederick
Freund, with Edna Lee Freund at
the piano.
For those who desire study and par
ticipation, not as professionals, but as
amateur music lovers, private lessons
in voice and piano can be arranged
at hours convenient for employed peo-
pie. Glasses in appreciation, sight
reading, rudiments of music and har-
mony and Dalcroze eurythmics are
available also. The teachers in the
department are Pearl Waugh, Helen
harrington, Katharine Lee Jones, May
Eleanor Smith, Jessie M. Olin, Mrs.
Benjamin B. Wallace and Iris Bland
Smith.
The new practice rooms in the just
completed Strong residence offer the
chance to practice daily.
Choral groups form q very active
part Of the department and con-
tribute to many activities in the Y. w.
c. A., as well as giving many outside
programs each year. The Girl Re-
serve Glee Club is open to Girl Re-
serves of all senior high schools, with
tryouts the week Of October IL. The
Elizabeth Somers Glee Club Is made
up Of young business girls and women
who love the experience OF serious
work in the field of two, three and
four part music. Tryouts for this
group may be arranged with Miss
Burnett in the music Office, and there
are several vacancies at the present
time. The president Of this group
is Gladys Darke, and it meets on
Thursdays, at z pm, at the Y. w.
c. A., Seventeenth and K streets.
The business and professional
women's department offers an inter-
esting musical activity on Tuesday
evening, at tbs, in the Y. w. G. A.
building. In addition to choral work,
q fine series of musical programs Is
planned for the third Tuesday of each
month, as well as recreational hours
and informal singing. Bonieta Sweet
is president. Assisting Miss Burnett,
the music secretary, with choral
groups this year will be Helen Mid
dleton Of the Girl Reserve staff. Mary
G. Worthley, Riethel Grim and Edith
L. Gawson..
Mrs. Edwin B. Parker is chairman
of the local Music Committee, as well
as being national music chairman of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations Of the United States. In her
absence this Fall, Mrs. Russell J.
Clinchy, vice chairman, will act as
chairman. Mary M. Burnett Is music
secretary and Gertrude Cowsill regis
trar and office secretary. All classes
and activities can be arranged for In
the music office, sixth floor Of the
administration building.
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that has ever been thought Of BY
means Of the dance, associated for
centuries with delicate, ephemeral
subjects and used in the cause Of es-
thetic advertisement, he has stirred
the world and awakened it TO renewed
horror Of the utter fruitlessness Of
such carnage as was its inspiration.
The "Green Table" featured num-
ber on the Jooss Ballet program to-
morrow at the National. begins with
the portrayal Of diplomatic gentle
men gathered around a conference
table to decide the fate Of their coun-
trymen. They argue. gesticulate and
confer with each other in pompouS
dignity, keeping clearly in view their
own importance at this critical mo-
ment. Nothing definite happens.
Then come the scenes of war, which
their diplomacy was powerless to pre-
vent. Devastating, heart-rending and
useless is the panorama which un-
folds, and in which the sincerity of
patriotic feeling and the spirit of
bravery does not lessen in the slight
est the sordidness and horror which
the genius of Jooss has ever kept in
the foreground. At the end, the
sams gentlemen are assembled
around the same table, still pompous,
still arguing in utter futility.
TT IS one of the most remarkable
. and significant facts that the
dance, heretofore less emotionally ex-
pressive than music, could be utilized
10 depict the most terrible curse that
humanity has had to combat since the
beginning of time, and the foolish
manner Of humans in handling it. 1t
b further remarkable that a young
man, who first enjoyed the distinction
ct being the best waltzer in his vii
lags, should have thought in terms of
the dance in such powerful and illu-
minating q fashion as to have pro-
tected an idea that leaves no one
who witnesses it unmoved. where
famed politicians of the world have
failed.
While the entire dance episode Is
dramatic In It's eHect, IL Is noG py
means Of drama exclusively that he
achieves his end. He uses still more
potent means, that of satire. In his
sardonic reproduction of the confer
pnce. one catches the amusing angle,
and while still in this mood, is trans
ferred to the grim reality in which
there Is no more humor to be found.
Then, before the audience has had
time to sense the need Of relief, the
scene Is switched back to the original
eet-up and the irony of the situation.
The extraordinary thing about this
ballet Is not the immediate reaction
Of the audience, but the endurance
Of the impression left. One may
search . long time before recalling
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UTH MARIE GARDNER, pupil
Of the late Herbert Wither-
spoon, director of the Metro
y,o1itap nr,oro mill nracapf

4 y politan Opera, will present
tIazd E. Spith, soprano, in song re-
cital Thursday evening at $50 o'clock
In the Sale de Recital. 1925 G street
northwest, with Elena Crivella accom-
PIANIST. Miss Smith will be assisted by
Sohn L. Correll, pianist, pupil of Miss
Crivella and winner Of the highest
honor in the 1886 Federation of Music
Clubs contest.
Elena de Sayn, violinist, will give
her recital on Saturday evening, Octo-
Der "A, at the Grafton Hotel, entrance
De Sales street, instead of October
90 as previously announced. Miss
de Sayn will be assisted at the piano
by Dorothy Paul.
Norman Frauenheim, pianist, has
been engaged to conduct q piano class
ut the Greenwich Academy, Green
Gich, Conn, in addition to his teach
ing In New York City and in Wash
hgton. He will resume his local
GLASSES on Monday.
The monthly meeting of the Piano
Eeachers' Forum will be held at Co
tumbia Heights Christian Church, 1435
Park road, Thursday evening at 1890
o'clock. Marybeth Garvey, pianist,
secretary Of the Preparatory School
of the Washington College of Music,
will be the special guest. Ofiicers for
the coming year will be selected and
matters of interest to teachers will be
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w. M. I. Presents Vocal
Coach.

THE Washington Musical Institute
will present Paul Simmons, vocal
teacher and coach of New York, in
an informal program on Wednesday
and Thursday afternoons at $50
O'Clock to which the public is invited.
Mr.. Simmons also will hold additions
on these days and on Wednesday eve
ming between $50 and $3.50 o'clock
without charge or obligation.
Mr.. Simmons, pupil Of Rulon q.
Robinson Of the New England Con.
servatory Of Music, viii come from
New York,
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Takoma Park BAPTIST.

Homecoming day will be observed
tomorrow and invitations have been
sent to members and friends. Rev.
William Z. La Rue will have for his
morning sermon theme, Can We Be
Enthusiastic?" In the evening he
will speak on "Shall We Compromise?s
The Women's Bible Class viii meet
Wednesday evening.
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To Give Recital.
TRYING LEAN, violinist, forme,

IRVING LEAN, violinist, former pu-
pil Of Anton Kaspar and winner
OF the National Federation of Music
Clubs violin contest for the District
Of Columbia in 1881, has been study
ing for the last year with Raphael
Bronstein in New York in preparation
for o series Of recitals. Mr.. Lean will
give q program at the Wardman Park
Hotel on November and also will
play in Pittsburgh and New York.
Assisting Mr.. Lean at the piano will
be Theima Stein Of Troy. N. Y, pupil
of Egon Petri.
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Lutheran Banquet.

The Lutheran Missionary Union OF
washington, D. c., will have a ban
quet at the Y. w. C. A. November 10,
at $50 pm. A feature of this ban
quet Is the address by DR.. w. H.
oreever, secretary Of the United Luth-
eran Church Of America.
Evening star., 1936-10-10

EDMUND SERENO ENDER.
Graduate of the Music De-
pdrtment OF Yale University
and formerly music director
at South Dakota State COLLEGE,
Carleton College OF Minnesota
and Goucher College, 11ho
trill teach DocGl at the Wash.
tngton College OF Music this
season.
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JOOsS Dancers to Give
Most Famed of Ballets
"Green Table" Takes Half of Program Of
fered in Performance to Be Presented
Tomorrow Night at the National.

GREEN TABLE that most famous Of all modern baes
1t the first time
feature Of the
Ballet at the National
theme and the marked originality
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Drama and Satire Give
JOOSS Ballet It's Force
Art Technique Turned Into New Field for
the Expression of Thought and Emo
tion in "The Green Table,"
By Alice Eversman.

that have succeeded the Great War has fallen to the lot
probably satzng the tragedy which
in particular for
In
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Symphony Season Here
Is Backed by Campaign
Ticket-Selling Groups and Clubs for Organ.
lied Support Are Launched by Many
Institutions of Capital.

ME National Symphony its sixth with Sunday afer
october Constitution
heavy opened
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had been working on, in conjunction
with outstanding religious leaders in
this section. Among those consulted
were Rabbi Israel Of Har Sinai Con-
gregation, Baltimore; the Rev. Allen
Stockdale Of Washington; Father L..
c. Vaeth of Baltimore, formerly Of
Hagerstown and DR.. C. E. McAllister.
head Of the Washington Diocese.
DR.. Nanny highly praised the work
of the campus Y. W. G. A. organiza-
ton and that of the Student Govern
ment Association in collecting and
distributing baskets of food and
clothing to needy families in Mary
land. He also had enthusiastic praise
for the Baptist Club and the Episco-
pal Club which are two of the strong
est on the campus.
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Old-fashioned Mother Ito her mod
ern daughter); BE a good girl and
have a good time"
Daughter, Con way to party !:
Make up your mind, mother"
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PACKARD SALES

The following are sales of Packard
cars by the Coston Motor Co., in
the last month: DR.. Peregrine Wroth.
A. J. Klinkhart, Miss Frances Di-
mouro, Rev. Paul Powles, Edward
Seibert, Edward Phillips, Harry R.
Rudy, Peter Murray, Rudolph Shoe
maker and DR.. G. L. Mowrer.