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Concert Schedule
TOMORROW.

1oMSNRoW-
National Symphony Orchestra.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Kedroff Quartet. Garden Room,
Mayflower Hotel, $50 pm.
Evelyn Scott, violinist; Harlan
Randall, baritone; Roosevelt
Hotel, $50 pm.
MONDAY.
Ellen Repp, contralto, recital,
1927 Sixteenth street, $50 pm.
Navy Band, 2 pm.
Army Band, 6 pm.
Marine Band, AIS pm.
TUESDAY.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano re-
cital. Constitution Hall. $50 pm.
Martha Roosevelt High
School, Sis pm.
Cremona String Quartet, Old
Coach House Hall, $50 pm.
Navy Band and Symphony Or
chestra, 8 pm.
Marine Band and Symphony
Orchestra, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra.
$50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band and Symphony
Orchestra, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Alix Young Maruchess, viola,
viola d'amore recital. Textile Mu-
scum, 231o s street. $50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Army Band, 4:30 pm.
SATURDAY.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
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for this occasion. opening with the!:
Fugue in G Minor" and giving as its
second number the Beethoven So
nata, Opus 109," in four movements.
Three Chopin selections are listed:
The &C Minor Polonaise," "MaZurka'
and the "Rondo, Opus 16"
After the intermission, Mr.. Rach-
maninoff promises -Four Etudes-
Tableaux (Op 33" Of his own COM
position: c sharp minor, G minor,
E fiat minor and E fiat major. as
well as LISTS "Sonnetto del Petrarca
No. q" the Paganini-Liszt ''Etude in
e Major" and the Weber-Tausig
Invitation to the Dance"
For more than two decades, Mr..
Rachmaninon has been making an
annual recital appearance in Wash
ington and year after year capacity
audiences crowd Constitution Hall to
hear the foremost living Russian
pianist and composer.
ENTERING the st. Petersburg Con-
servatory at the age of .. Rach-
maninon transferred to the Moscow
Conservatory some three years later
to study first with Tschaikowsky's
friend, Zvierev, and then with Siloti,
taking theory and composition with
Taneiev and Arensky. Winning the
conservatory gold medal for compost
ton. he went on long European
concert tour and . few years later
he was appointed conductor Of the
Moscow Private Opera" BY that
time. his piano pieces, songs. large
secular choruses IN dorchestral works
were gaining wide recognition.
An invitation from the London
Philharmonic Society to appear in the
three-fold capacity Of composer. con-
ductor and pianist afforded Rach-
maninoff his first great opportunity
outside Russia, and his performance
on that occasion stamped him as not
merely . Russian but q great inter-
national artist. His first symphony
Philharmonic Society, Artur Nikisch
conducting. in 1909. the wear he
made his American debut, and stree
that time the whole musical world
has watched Rachmaninoff's progress.
During the Summer he retires to
his chateau on Lake Lucerne, in Switz.
erland, where he composes steadily un-
til the call comes to take the road for
his Winter concert tours. Here it was
that Rachmaninoff last Summer fin
ished his Symphony No. s." which
was recently given its premiere per-
Torrance In New York by the Phila-
delphia Orchestra.
Seats for the Rachmaninoff recital
are available at Mrs. Dorsey's Concert
Bureau, In Droop's, 1900 G street.
THE Don Cossack Russian Male Cho-
rus, sensational singing ensemble
Of So former officers of the Russian
Imperial Army, who celebrated their
3,000th concert Just year ago, and
who are returning to Washington for
the seventh consecutive annual ap-
pearance, will be heard at Constitu.
ton Hall Sunday afternoon, Decem.
Der 8, at o'clock. as one of the at
fractions Of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's
Sunday afternoon eoncert series at
that hall.
No longer wild riding conauerors
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In Local Music Circles

Saturday afternoon, November 81, in
the studio of Elena de Sayn In the
Belasco Theater Building.
Evelyn Scott, violinist, accompanied
by Marjorie Davis, and Harlan RAN
dali, baritone, accompanied by George
Ross, will be heard tomorrow evening
at the Roosevelt Hotel at $50 O'Clock.
The program tomorrow at the Y.
w. C. A. will be given by the Depart
ment of Agriculture Chorus, Robert
Frederick Freund. director, and Victor
Neal, accompanist. The chorus will
sing Maunder's Song of Thanksgiv-
ing" The public is cordially invited.
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concert instrument. ltS cnlel use Io.s
day is in an orchestra or in a cham
ber music ensemble where its role Is
that of a bridge between the lighter
toned violin and the darker color Of
the cello. Many other instruments of
the orchestra have lost their lndi-
viduality as solo instruments. and
have been absorbed into the orches-
tral tonal body, with only few mo-
inents allotted them by composers
where their original value as an inde-
pendent and interpretive instrument
can be appreciated.
Miss Maruchess, who is also
violinist of superior caliber, has spe-
cialized in music of the viola and its
romantic sounding sister. the viola
d'amore. Moreover, she has adopted
q modern way of bringing her pro-
grams to all sections of the country,
which is romantic enough in itself to
damore was In prime favor Travel
ing in trailer attached to her auto
mobile, she and her accompanist take
the the road in gypsy fashion, stop
ping at places where her concerts
have been arranged for, giving A pro-
gram of this charming music. and
continuing her journey at her pleas
ure. She calls her yearly series
Caravan Concerts" and her last ap-
pearance in Washington was on one
such tour.
THE viola is not only an older in
strument than the violin. but it is
also the Oldest in the string family.
In the early centuries it was made
in two sizes, with the name of tenor
and alto. and it was not until Stradi-
vari decided that the smaller alto was
the more practical instrument for the
players hand to manage. that the
present size was adopted to the ex-
clusion of the real tenor. The old
large-size viola had a powerful tone,
capable Of holding its own even when
used in conjunction with the more
sonorous brasses
The viola of today has a tone of
sweet but slightly muf1ed quality,
which is the sacrifice that had to be
made to fit it to the strength of the
ordinary hand. But what it has lost
in volume it has gainedin beauty. and
its expressive range is peculiarly
adapted to soulful sentiments and the
pure line Of classic melody.
Composers have well understood the
lovely effects to be produced by the
viola and have honored it by having
it voice some of their most beautiful
musical thoughts. The repertoire.
while not extensive, is choice one,
and requires an artist of Miss Maru-
chess caliber properly to interpret it.
The origin of the name, viola
d damore, is lost in obscurity. but it
does not need great stretch Of imag-
ination to place it in the period when
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recitals in my life, but it Is 20 years
since heard this particular work. 1t
is for this reason that the two move
ments, namely, the grave and allegro.
both Of which are eminently worth
hearing. will be played on tomorrow's
program prior to the Cesar Franck, a
symphony for the performance Of
which We have taken into considera-
tion the wishes of many of Washing
tons music lovers. Time and again
we receive requests for Franck's SYM
phony. This is but natural, as 1t is
now favorite work of music lovers in
general.
What is not natural is that at its
premiere this wonderful work was a
complete failure, as far as the public
and press, and even large part Of the
were concerned, but not as
far as the composer himself was con-
cerned. The aged Franck went to the
performance. which received scarcely
any applause. Upon his return home
his anxious family inquired "how it
went" The old man beamed: 1T was
splendid; it sounded exactly as I
thought 1t would"
This typifies the simple master of
the organ loft. the completely un-
worldly artist who wrote, who created
great art, art which If worthy of the
name Is always created lad majorem
Del gloriam." and not for reasons OF
personal aggrandizement or other ma
terial consideration.
RY NOW the Franck Symphony" is
common property. Notwithstand-
ing this, how rarely is its real and deep
est spiritual quality felt! And how
completely does its message fail of its
real purpose, unless this quality is
realized" in every sense of the word!
That is what this music is-a sermon
in tone-and as great and lovely and
convincing one as was ever spoken
by human tongue. Hence. it seems to
me useless to try to speak about the
music. If its deep and lasting message
Is not felt by the listener, no account
or explanation or elucidation or
guidance" will help.
"On Hearing the First Cuckoo in
Spring" by Delius, Is one of the most
direct tonal interpretations of what the
title evokes 1t is curious that certain
music could only have been written by
people Of certain nationalities. could
not possibly imagine this work to have
been written by any one but an Eng
lishman. just as much as. for instance
Wordworth's poetry could not have
been written by any one but an Eng
Iishman. Why this is so probably has
to do with biology. of which I know
nothing. but do recognize. and think
my listeners will. too, this particular
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Famed Vocal
to
Here
Kedrof Program to
Be Offered at the
Mayhower.
-HE most famous vocal quartet

THE most famous vocal quartet
in the world for nearly half q
century-the Kedroff quartet
L Of Russian singers. formerly of
the Petrograd Opera-will give their
first program in Washington for sew
eral seasons tomorrow night at the
Mayflower Hotel, in the garden room,
at $50 o'clock. This is the program
originally scheduled for last Tuesday
night, November "a, at Constitution
Hall, which hao to be postponed be-
cause Of changes in the quartet's
schedule.
N. N. Kedroff is organizer and
founder Of the quartet and sings bar
itone in the group. The tenors are
I. K. Denissoff and T. F. Kasakoff.
The basso is K. e. Kaidanoff.
The program tonight will include:
a Pine Tree Stands 30 Lonely"
xgsss ~, ,as ss,s55. & SsSS3sr
words and Arrangement By u; KedEoa1
Complaint Tschaikowsky
'ArranTed by Kedrof)
Group II: Oriental Songs
Caucasian SONG -TShercashian n
"Georgian Cradle Sons" Tcherepnin
"Orientale Cui
Words and arrangement by Kedrofl
Persian Song" A. Rubinstein
ARRANGED by Kedrohl
INTERMISSION.
Group III: Folk Songs-
Wedding Song"
Province of Arkhangelsh
The Merry Bear" Province of Tvor
"Bells of Novgorod''
Province OF Novgorod
about Mosquitoes" Province OF Vologda
tHarmoniZed by Kedrof)
Group ": Classics Not Russian
Summer Evening" Mozart
"Old Songs Mozart
Words and Advancement by Kedrofi,
Evening Serenade' F. Aot
waltz" - J. Strauss
The quartet is presented locally by
the T Arthur Smith Concert Bureau
$40 G street northwest.
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Elnnan tOAid
Philadelphia
Orch es ira
Tschaikowski w ork
Made Popular by
Great Violinist.

n n ISCHA ELMAN. one Of the
nu worlds greatest violinists. will
V be guest artist with the Phila-
4 L delphia Symphony Orchestra
in that organizations second pro-
gram here this season a week from
Tuesday, December 8, at s:45 pm.
at Constitution Hall.
Mr. Elman will play Tschaikowskys
Concerto in D Major for Violin and
Orchestra with the Philadelphia
group at this time. He is credited
with having brought to the fore
many great compositions which had
long lain dormant and neglected Until
he espoused them by putting them on
his programs. The most noteworthy
case of this kind is the Tschaikowsky
violin concerto mentioned. which was
totally ignored by virtuosi until
Elman. with characteristic artistic
courage, resurrected it and made 1t
celebrated.
1t is we'll known that this concert
caused its composer an Unlimited.
amount Of pain. During his life
the concerto was generally considered
failure. and there is we'll
grounded belief that the composition
hastened the composers death.
In Germany. where Elman first
played it, the work was even less
popular than elsewhere. 1t was even
disliked, but today the demand FOR
it is continual. and has been since
Eman first played it. The following
year he was requested to play it 25
times with leading orchestras.
The Philadelphia,s program next
week opens with Wagner's Zine
Faust Overture" and the symphony
Is to be Brahms mo. 2 in D Major"
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Local Group
To Be Heard
In Martha"
Opera Performance
to Be Presented
at High School.

TSTELLE WENTWORTH and
- her opera group, under the
auspices Of the Community
- Center Department, will pre-
sent the opera, Martha" at Roosevelt
High School on Tuesday. at S:l5 pm.
This Is the first time that this popular
opera has been revived in the District
for II years.
The trials of the high-born lady
who goes a Summing, and her love for
a poor farmer make a tuneful and
colorful light opera that has endeared
itself to thousands in the ninety some
years since it was first presented. The
parts Of Martha and Nancy are taken
by Virginia Weldon and Nina Norman,
while the equally lovable Sir Tristan,
Plunkett and Lionel are taken by
Harry Crow, Walter Perry and Ray
Baine.
The three lackeys Of Lady Harriet
are Charles MacLenden. Lee Conant
and Albert Bird, while the maid SER
wants are Luna Ereza, Ruth de Jar
nette, Margaret Phillips, Ruth Barn
hart, Ruth Gorhan, Beatrice White
more and Anna Piper. Melville
Veitch is the sheriff, the farmer is
Perfield Connor and the farmers wife
is Helen Bache.
The chorus is composed of Margaret
Horn, Alice Forest. Florence Smellings,
Lola Hatten, Margaret Price, Margie
Parrish. Jeanne Pope. Margaret
Schrobel. Evelyn Kelly, Sarah Sped
man, Agnes Williamson, Helen Perry.
Ruth Lippincott, Mary Burton,
Marian Seaman and Eleanor McWil-
liams.
Charles Strickler, Marvin Fisher.
Carl Horn and Richard Hill are to be
the men In the chorus.
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Persinger's Master Class.

Otto Ortmann, director Of the Pea
body Conservatory of Music in Balti-
more. announces that he had COM
pleted arrangements whereby the
world-famous pedagogue and concert
artist, Louis Persinger, would conduct
a master class for advanced violinists.
This class will meet weekly, on Thurs
days, at the Peabody Conservatory
during the months of January and
February. Prom necessity the enroll
ment will be limited and the classes
will consist of performances Of ad-
vanced work and critical analysis Of
the technical and interpretative prob
lens involved. All members win be
required to perform st the classes.
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Resumes Teaching.

EDNA BISHOP DANIEL announces
the reopening Of her Studio Of
after two years Of rest follow.
ing 20 years Of teaching activity in
Washington. An authorized repre-
sentative Of William zerfn in the ap.
plication Of his teaching principles,
Mrs. Daniel Is the bearer Of a GER
tificate to that effect. Her new studio
is located In The Portner. Fifteenth
and q streets northwest.
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Lectures Postponed.

ON ACCOUNT of the rush Of the
Christmastide, the three hnal
lecture recitals in the Milestones IN
American Music series, to have been
given by DR.. Barnes at the Womens
City Club the first three Friday after
moons In December. have been post.
poned TO January .. Is and AZ. Sub
jects and participating artists VIII be
announced early IN the new year.
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Special Dance Course.

X ARL w. PETERS of the New York
dance studios of Mime. Sonia Ser
ova and Evelyn Hubbell will give a
four hours teachers material course
tomorrow at the Peggy Kelly Studios,
1918 Eighteenth street northwest.
The course will include an hour each
Of limbering and stretching. beginners
one hour devoted to terminology and
analyzation.
Mr.. Peters has appeared before the
Dancing Masters of America at their
normal school, the Dancing Teachers
Business Association, the New England
Council Of Dancing Teachers and the
Boston Teachers Association.
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The board of directors of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs will hold regular monthly
meeting on Wednesday at the home
of the president, Eva Whitford Low
cite, 1910 N street northwest.
Owing to the importance of this
meeting full attendance by men,
bers of the board, including chairmen
Of standing committees. with reports
on current activities, is particularly
urged.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto T. Simon. with
the members of the Orpheus Quar-
tet-Hazel Gem Hughes, soprano;
Elaine Sebring Ford, contralto; Jesse
Nussear, tenor, and George Randolph
Balthis. hass-will be honor guests at
the International Student House, 1708
New Hampshire avenue northwest,
tomorrow evening. The quartet will
give musical program.
Margery League, soprano, and Villa
semple, pianist. will be guest artists
at Robert Ruckmans studio tomor-
row afternoon. They will repeat the
numbers which they performed for
the Friday Morning Music Club this
past week.
A meeting of the Marks Music Club
was held on Saturday November 81.
The following officers were elected:
Edna volz. president; Jean Baxter,
vice president; Charles Volz treas
urer, and June Lee Jones, secretary.
The next meeting will be held on the
third Saturday of December. The
club is under the direction of Lau-
fette Marks Hullings
John H. Marville, bass soloist and
choir director at Hamline Methodist
Church, will assist Lewis Corning At
water. organist, in program of Ger
man music tomorrow at O'Clock at
All Souls Church (Unitarian). Mr..
Marville will sing two Brahms num-
bers.
At the November meeting of the
Piano Teachers Forum the following
officers were elected for the coming
year: Chairman, Thelma Callahan;
recording secretary, Lillian H. Burke;
corresponding secretary. Mrs. Walter
Sale; chairman of Program Commit
tee. Eta Schmid Wells. Betty Baum
gave program of piano numbers.
The Felicia Rybier Music Club will
introduce Mercedes Giron. coloratura
soprano, to its members and guests on
Wednesday evening at Dupont circle.
The other soloist will be Helen Spasoff.
pianist, who will also accompany Miss
Giron.
Thelma La Dow, soprano. has Just
returned from o short concert tour
of New York and vicinity. While in
New York City, Mrs. La Dow had
several successful additions with i'm
presarios. and will be heard in recital
In Washington In the near future.
The music section Of the Woman's
Club Of Chevy Chase held the first
Of the seasons monthly musical teas
on Monday, November 23, in the home
Of Mrs. w. Cole McCreery. 6 virgilia
street. The. artists appearing were
Emerson Meyers, pianist, and Paul
Brightenburg. violinist of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra.
Iva Loughlen Guy presented group
sf her Junior pupils in piano recital
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MISS WARE TO BE
PROGRAM ARTIST

THE Friday Morning Music Club
will present Helen Ware. concert
violinist. on Friday. December 1. at
1880 am, at Barker Hall. Y. w. 9. A.
Miss Wares program includes Con
certo in D Minor" Bruch; . group Of
solos by Csolt, modern Hungarian
composer. and . group Of her own
compositions.
She will be accompanied by Wini-
fred Lakeman. Emily CoNlle, soprano,
u the assisting artist.
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RachmaninOff Coming
With Superb Program
Russian Pianist to Make Only Recital
Visit of Season Here Tuesday Evening;
December Date for Cossacks.

CERGE RAcHdAN1NoFF the famous Russian pianist and
recently added fresh laurels to his fame with the
completion Of his symphony No. g. will make his only recital
Washington Constitution Hail. Tuesday
there the second attraction
and recia
Mr.
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Viola Experts Concert
To Revive Older Music
Glimpse of Another Age to Be Given at
Textile Museum by Miss Maruchess
in Program on Thursday.
Bv Alice EverSnan.

\ Of present instruments and
the variety the individual Of
has evolved glimpse Of
the will be when that
another OF popular concerts
Thursday Textile Museum
q the violin
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By DR.. Hans Kinder. Conductor.

Of Bachs works today the mode Nevertheless
that
Of being either improvement
acquaint the public
likely o
organ Concerto in Major"
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BRILLIANT PROGRAMS BRING OLD AND NEW MUSIC
Great Works Offered
At Symphony Concert
Splendid Franck Composition and Part Of
Organ Concerto by Bach Are To Be Given,
AS Well AS Other Types of Music.

program for tomorrows Is follows:
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Evening star., 1936-02-29

German Whalers.
Germany will have q whaling fleet.
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maintaining building and mortgage
standards.

MAINTAINING pullQlng ana mortgage
standards.
Both of these steps are calculated
to bring the architect more fully into
the small house field by emphasizing
the value of architectural service as
compared with the use of plans only.
"A short form of agreement and
general conditions suitable for use in
connection with small house work has
been prepared and approved by the
institute. The Federal Housing Ad-
ministration co-operated in its prep
aration and the document is now
being sent to all F. H. A. field officers.
"The Federal Housing Administra-
ton reports receiving many inquiries
from the building public for archi-
tectural service. Prospective owners
and builders will be referred by the
administration to officers of the insti-
tute's chapters. The local representa-
tive of the F. H. A. will be instructed
to help in bringing together the pro-
spective builder and owner and the
architect"
Members of the institutes Commit
tee on Housing, in addition to Chair
man Shreve, include:
Frederick L. Ackerman, j. Andre
Fouilhoux, Arthur c. Holden, Robert
D. Kohn. all of New York; Louis JUS
tement, Washington: c. Dana Loomis,
Baltimore; Frederick Bigger, Pitts
burgh; Robert Taylor Jones, Minneap-
oils, and Lancelot Sukert, Detroit.
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Housing

Continued From First Page.)
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ton to accept the buyer as sound
financial risk.
Also Aid TO Purchaser.
Many lending institutions have
found the appraisal by the Federal
Housing Administration to be a most
effective aid in assuring the prospec-
tive purchaser that he is getting a
sound residential property.
They also have found that this serv-
ice will materially reduce the period
of time necessary to insure the mort
cages. as a larger part of the work will
already have been completed before
the sale of the property and the exc
cution of the mortgage.
Another factor favorable to the
ready sale Of the property is that the
prospective purchaser, under its single
mortgage system Of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, will have only one
long-term mortgage on the property.
This mortgage may bc for as much
as 80 per cent of the appraised value
and may run for as long as 20 years.
Payments are made each month to
take care Of the interest on the mort
guge, gradual reduction of the prin-
cipal. anticipated taxes. assessments
and other charges against the prop
erty. Often these payments are lower
than the monthly rent bills for similar
properties.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
SYSTEM HAS 55%
OF HOME LOANS
Federal Bank Set-up Chief
Lender on Mortgages
During 1885.

No less than IS per cent Of the est-
mated $220, 100000 total mortgage
loans made in 1885, for the building
Of new urban on-to-four- family homes
by all classes Of private financial in.
stitutions in the United States. was
made by member institutions Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank system, ac-
cording to an analysis made public
today by the board. Loans made last
year by these member institutions
for new homes aggregated about
$121 900, 900.
The Home Loan Bank system, estab-
lished late In 1882. now has 3,495
members, chiefly savings and building
and loan associations. The large ex-
tent of their new home financing In
1885 indicates the important part
which these local. private thrift insti-
tutions are taking in the general re-
covery of small-home construction,
through their new home financing
activities.
Including refinancing loans, the
1885 total Of loans made by all mem
bers Of the Home Loan Banks Is esti-
mated at $347. 100000, or A per cent
Of the estimated s776,o00. 900 total Of