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Shakespeare Program.

WASHINGTON ALUMNAE CLUB
Of the national honorary musical
sorority Mu Phi Epsilon, will meet at
the Congressional Country Club on
Monday night at o'clock.
The, meeting will be open to rela-
tives and guests and Shakespearean
evening has been arranged. Mr..
Trowbridge, architect Of the Folger
Library, will give an illustrated lecture
on the construction of the library.
Hazel Gibson Wood will sing two songs,
accompanied by Edith B. Athey. There
will be piano duo, following out the
idea of Shakespeare-"The Merry
Wives Of Windsor" by Dorothy Sorn-
borger and Dorothy Russell Todd.
Ruth Bronson Logan, who has Just
been reelected president of the club
for the coming year, will represent
the Washington club at the national
convention in June at Oakland, Calf.
She will play for the club the
Tartini Sonata in G Minor" both
on Monday night, next, and at the
convention and will be accompanied
by her sister, Frances Bronson, on both
occasions.
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Dance Group Schedule.

Dance Group Schedule.
THE New Dance Group Of Washing
ton, affilated with the New Dance
League of New York, will hold the
first of six consecutive Sunday classes
tomorrow, at the National Academy
of Stage Training, 1000 Connecticut
avenue northwest. Ruth Allehand,
director of the New Dance League
of New York and one of the out
standing exponentS of the modern
dance, will be in charge Of the
classes.
The schedule, which includes l8
hours work during the course, will be
as follows: IL a m, modern tech
nique; IL m, group dance, and pm,
rhythmics.
The Dance League was formed in
New York about two years ago, be-
cause Of the growing need for a dance
organization that would bring together
those people already interested in the
I1ldJ WOdlO OCNloC WdyS dLlu
means of encouraging others to be-
come interested. The league Is a
national organization for all dancers,
whether soloistS, teachers, members
of groups. professionals or amateurs,
willing to support its purposes and
basic aims: First, to assist in the
development Of the American dance
to its highest artistic and social level;
second, to contribute to the cultural
life of Washington by promoting an
understanding of, and participation
in, dance in the community; third, to
provide the opportunity for all mem
bers of the community to study vari-
GUS forms of dance for both recreation
and self-expression; fourth, to pro-
mote a greater interest in the dance
as a means of expression for the indi-
vidual and the community. and, fifth.
to interpret modern trends, contem-
porary scenes and social problems Of
the present day.
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Glee Clubs Sing Tuesday.

Clee Clubs Sing Tuesday.
THE George Washington University
= Glee Clubs will be heard in their
annual Spring concert at the Willard
Hotel on Tuesday night.
The concert will climax another
successful season for the young COL
lege singers which has included the
presentation Of programs before nu-
merous groups in Washington and, for
the mems club, an appearance in
concert with the National Symphony
Orchestra. The clubs will donate half
the proceeds of the concert to the Ma
tional Symphony.
The glee clubs hold a place Of ma
tional prominence among collegiate
musical organizations and on several
occasions have won high honors in
the intercollegiate glee club competi-
ton.
An alumni section Of so voices will
appear with the clubs this year in
several Of their numbers. In the
alumni group will be representatives
Of each year since 1924, when DR.. and
Mrs. Robert Howe Harmon first be-
came musical directors of the clubs.
The Brusiloff Stringed Quartet will
provide musical interludes between the
groups on the program and the
Brusiloff Orchestra will play for the
dancing which will follow the concert.
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world-famous artists appearing on
each program. The dates for the
series are December %, January 1,
II, 10, Is, February l and 8.
Among the celebrities to be pre-
sented are two of the greatest man
singers Of the day, John Charles
Thomas, baritone, and Lauritz Mel
chior, tenor. 1t was Mrs. Townsend
who urged Mr.. Thomas to go to Brus-
sells to begin his operatic career and
gave him introductions to the famous
singers at lie Theatre de la Monnaie.
such as Melba, Clement, Homer,
Mary Garden, as well as to the AM
bassador. William Phillips, now Under
secretary of State
Mr.. Melchior, who is acclaimed the
worlds greatest Tristan and who
celebrated his Tooth performance Of
that role last Winter at the Metro
politan Opera, will make his debut
in Washington under Mrs. Town
sends auspices this Winter. Mr..
Melchior is equally well known for
his interpretations of the roles of
Siegfried and Parsifal in the Wag-
merriam operas.
Among the new sopranos to be
heard here for the first time this
season is Gertrude Wettergren, Swed-
ish mezzo-soprano Of the Metropoli-
tan. who was introduced to the opera
management by her friend, Kristen
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Joe Brown Series.

R-K-O RADIO will release series of
feature comedies starring Joe e.
Brown and produced by David L.
Loew's new organization, according
to the terms of a contract signed by
executives Of both companies.
The pact is said to be a term one,
to go into effect some time early next
season. Brown is now completing his
long service for First National Pic
lures, Inc, his last film being Earth
worm Tractor" His latest picture,
"Son o. Guns" Is about to be shown
nationally.
David Loew. son Of the founder of
the Loew enterprises and former vice
president Of Loew's, Inc, recently an
nounced plans for independent pro-
duction, with the popular Joe E.
Brown as his first star.
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Mcdowell
Program to
Be Offered
Works to Be Played
at College by Wife
of Composer.
TOMORROW evening at 8 80 o'cloc

TOMORROW evening at $50 o'clock
at the Washington College of
Music, Mrs. Edward Mcdowell will
play a program of her famous hus-
bands compositions and will relate
incidents in the life of the composer
and their efforts to establish on
permanent basis the MacDowell
Colony for the benefit of which this
program is given. All proceeds are
to be turned over to Mrs. MacDowen.
The sequence of the program stands
as follows: the first movement of the
ID Minor Concerto" to be played
by William Holden and Fanny
Ansturtz Roberts, then showing of
unusual pictures of the composer and
the colony by Julia e. Schelling, fol-
lowed by Mrs. MacDowell, who will
include the Prelude" from the First
Piano Suite; from the Fireside
Tales" she will play THE German
Forest" "Of Salamanders." "a
Haunted House" "Of Br'er Rabbit;
the "Andante" from the Sonata
Eroica," the Eagle" and "Rigaudon. I"
OF the piano Concerto in D Minor"
H. K. Krehbiel wrote, 1T must be
placed at the head of all works of its
kind produced by either q native or
adopted citizen of America" and Law
renee Gilman wrote Again and again
one is aware that that sheer inimitable
Celtic note which we have long known
how to recognize in another art, is
being sounded in the music Of this
composer who has in his heart and
brain something of the wisdom Of old
romance"
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt heads
the list Of patrons.
A local committee of sponsors in
cludes DR.. Joseph Quincy Adams. di-
rector of Folger Shakespeare Library;
Duncan Phillips Of the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery. Mary Howe, COM
poser; Lewis Moneyway, president of
the Arts Club; Phyllis eFrgus Hoyt,
president of the National Pen Women's
League; Maj. E. L. Dyre, president Of
the Free Lance Writer'S Club; Grace
Dunham Guest of the Freer Art Gal
lery, Julia e. Schelling and Alice
Burbase Hesselbach.
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Tory to Vacation.

VICTOR JORY. Columbia contract
player, will leave Hollywood soon
for q six-month tour Of Europe to
study European technique in motion
picture production.
Jory has booked passage for HIM
self and Mrs. Jory (Jean Inness) on
the Normandie the latter part Of May.
First stop will be Helsingfors, Finland,
then to Russia for the Drama Festi-
val. Later the Jorys will stop in Ber-
lin and Munich to see the State
Opera and state theaters and VIII
then journey to London for the thea
ter season there.
Jory, who Is now playing with Ed
ward Arnold and Lionel Stander IN
Meet Nero Wolfe" will return to the
United States on the Queen Mary.
staying in New York for about
month to catch some Of the Broad
way presentations, finally returning to
Hollywood.
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Concert Schedule
TOMORROW,

TOMORROW.
Mrs. Edward MacDowell, bene-
fit recital for MacDowell Colony,
Washington College of Music,
$50 pm.
MONDAY.
Navy Band, Hour of Memories
program, IL am.
Army Band, pm.
TUESDAY. 4
George Washington University
Glee Clubs, DR.. and Mrs. Robert
Harmon, directors, willard Hotel,
evening.
Marine Band, Shut-Ins Dream
Hour, 10 am.
WEDNESDAY.
Cathleen Carrico, song recital,
Pasquale Tallarico, pianist, as
sisting, Wardman Park Theater,
$3.50 pm.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, 8 pm.
Army Band, 1890 am.
THURSDAY.
Choral group of Arts Club,
Otto T. Simon, director. Arts
Club Auditorium, $50 pm.
Navy Band, Patriotic Half
Hour, 1890 am.
FRIDAY.
Marine Band, 2 pm.
Army Band, $3.50 pm.
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Robert Frederick Freund presented
his pupils in recital Tuesday at his
studio on Sixteenth street. Those
taking part were Virginia Wittstatt,
Myrtle Alcorn, Roy Gray, Erma CAL
vert, Beatrice Holland. j. Rollins
Murray, Jean White, Helen Robi-
chaux. James L. Young, jr.; Anne
Evans and the Gypsy Chorus.
Warren F. johnson, organist, will
play "Fantaisie" by Marty and
'Mystique" by Widor before the eve
ming service at the Church Of the
Pilgrims tomorrow.
The Glee Club Of the Catholic Uni
versity will give its annual Spring
concert on Monday evening at Sis
O'Clock ut Mcmahon Hall auditorium.
A program appropriate to Mothers
day will be presented by the glee clubs
and honor music group at Friendship
House under the direction of Jessie
M. Oin, head Of the music depart
ment, tomorrow at o'clock. Solos
will be sung by Norma White and
Gregory Segretti. Leah Cannon will
give several readings. The public is
invited.
e. William Bracket, organist and
master Of the choristers, st. Johns
Church. Georgetown parish, Is giving
an organ recital in the parish church
Monday evening at Sis o'clock. A
silver Offering will be taken for the
benefit of the Summer outing for the
choir boys. There will be no admis-
sion charge and the public Is invited
to attend.
Two student recitals will be held
this week at the King Smith Studio
School by the piano pupils Of Katha-
rine Frost and the voice pupils of
August King Smith, the first of which
will take place Monday at noon and
the second Thursday ut the same hour.
The Monday recital will present the
following pupils: Jane Ellison, Sara
Messner. Elizabeth Oderl, Jane Allen,
Barbara Dyer, Jane Chidester and
Rose Berkshire. On Thursday Jane
Ellison. Margaret McNaughton, Bar
bara Fulton and Cornelia johnson will
be heard.
A reception will be held by the
Misses Maret to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary Of the founding OF
the Maret School on Friday evening.
Following the reception musical pro-
gram will be given by Prof. Felian
Garzglia, assisted by the musical di-
rector of the school, Francis Garziglis.
In keeping with National Music
week, the Emory Methodist choir. un-
der the direction OF dtorge r. Kortz-
snborn. viii give . slEsial program Of
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There will be no change in the
prices for season tickets, which have
always been in q range within the
reach of all music lovers. An advance
in price of single admission for GER
tain of the concerts, notably the two
at which the Ballet Russo de Monte
Carlo will appear, is planned. Sub
scribers who held season tickets dur
ing the last season will have an option
on their locations through June IS,
Mr.. Cappel announced, and may make
their reservations by applying at the
headquarters Of the National Sym
phony Orchestra Association in the
Woodward Building.
THE success and popularity Of last
seasons expanded schedule Of
students concerts has led directors OF
the orchestra association to use 1t as
q model for next years series. Nine
concerts will again be presented in
three high school auditoriums-Cen-
trial. Eastern and Western-while for
a final program the student listeners
will be invited to Constitution Hall
for q festive event. Exact dates for
these programs will be announced
later, although 1t is decided to give
the first of each group in January
and the Constitution Hall program
the morning Of March 20.
Under the musical direction Of Dr.
Kinder, the National Symphony will
continue the policies assuring sub
scribers a season of the highest artis-
tic excellence. Already the manage
ment has negotiated with several
artists of world renown to appear here
as orchestra soloists.
The season, for example, will bring
the Monte Carlo Ballet Russo here for
its first appearance in the Capital with
a full symphony orchestra. DR.. Kinder,
at recent conferences with ballet direc-
tors in New York, arranged for two
ballet performances in Constitution
Hall. At one concert the famous troupe
Of dancers will give "Chorsartium," a
ballet for which Brahms Fourth
Symphony" serves as musical back
ground. The Ballet Russo Is tenta-
lively engaged for early November
dates.
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music at the evening service tomorrow.
Soloists will be Madalynne Powell and
I. G. Beckwith.
A paino recital will be given tomor-
row afternoon at 3 o'clock at the studio
Of Clara Moran Bernheimer, 1921 Crit
tenden street northwest, by Zelda Dia-
mond, Elaine Oxenburg, Phyllis Bluff
festone, Zona Applebaum. Harriet Vir-
Nelson and Clementine Barship. On
Tuesday evening at $50 pm. Ben
Michaelson, Charles Haga, Joseph zeis,
Angelo Tommasi. Lee Bradley and
Eber Riley will be heard in vocal pro-
gram.
At Calvary Baptist Church special
musical programs viii be given at the
morning and evening services tomor-
row under the direction Of Thomas
Moss, organist and choir director. The
quartet members are Erna Embrey, So
prano: Grace Donahue, contralto;
William Raymond tenor. and Fred
Eden, baritouA
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To SinS for Study Club.

ETHEL PYNE, soprano, will be the
guest artist on the program at
the annual breakfast Of the Political
Study Club, to be held Saturday, May
%, at the Mayhower Hotel, when
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
the guest speaker.
Miss Pyne is well-mown nationally
on the concert stage and was soloist
with the Hungarian Court Orchestra
on tour.
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popular students concerts, all con-
Quoted by Hans Kinder, are included
in the 1867 plans, now nearly
complete.
The Sunday concerts, as in the past,
will be at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
but two important changes have been
made In the time for the midweek
musicale, the announced schedule of
dates shows. Instead Of Thursday,
the concerts will be given on Wednes-
day and while in previous seasons
most of the programs have been pre-
sented in the afternoon, four of the
eight are now announced for $50 pm.
The Board of Directors Of the
orchestra association, during the last
season, received innumerable requests
for changes in time for the midweek
concerts. In fact, so many of the
orchestra's patrons found the Thurs
day afternoon hour inconvenient that
the directors felt obliged at least to
try a new day and hour next season.
"The directors decided to have more
night concerts than previously be-
cause Of the popularity of the two
evening programs of last Winters
Thursday SERIES" Mr.. Cappel said.
These night events were much better
attended than the afternoon presenta-
tions."
BY moving the concerts from
Thursday to Wednesday the orchestra
will avoid conflicts with many society
and other events which occur on that
day and meet the wishes Of many
friends and patrons of the orchestra.
THE first Of the midweek concerts
will be an evening event. 1t will
be at $50 pm. Wednesday. Novem-
Der 4. Guiomar Novaes, noted pianist.
Is now definitely engaged to be soloist
on that occasion. Other night con-
certS are scheduled for November IL,
January 20 and March II. The or
chestra will make Wednesday after
noon (4:45 PM appearances on
November IS, December Is, February
II and March 81.
The Sunday afternoon concerts will
come on October 18 and IS, November
/ and Is, December l3. January 8,
10 and 81, February IA and % and
March IA and 28.
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Scharbau Work to Be Heard.

THE tone poem "The Dome Of the
Capitol" the text of which, by
Samuel B. Pettengill, has been set
to music by Siegfried Scharbau Of
the Marine Band, will have its first
performance on Wednesday at 8 pm.
during the concert by the Marine Band
in the auditorium of the Marine Bar
racks. Mr.. Scharbau will conduct and
the vocal soloist in the work will be
Principal Musician Winfred Kemp Of
the band.
Mr.. Pettengill has used the dome
Of the Capitol to symbolic the great
ness of this country as exemplifled by
the varying character of the land, the
famous historical events and the i'm
mortal sayings of its Presidents. Mr..
Scharbau has written the music on
the same noble scale, effectively por-
traying In tone the idea Of the poem.
The lyric Is dedicated to the Presi-
dent Of the United States, and Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt has been extended
an invitation to attend the first
rendition.
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THE following information concerns
the eminent new conductor Of the
Philadelphia Orchestrs and the art
lists who will appear on the Washing
ton programs Of that organization.
when Eugene Ormandy takes his
place as conductor for the Philadel-
phia Orchestra in its first concert Of
next season he will have as the first
artist Of the four in the group offered
the eminent pianist, Josef Hof-
man, on October 27. Later in the
season, in the January IL concert,
will be heard, the great Russian pian-
ist, Rachmaninoff."
'Rachmaninoff' attitude toward his
art as an inspirational means Of
Interpretation Is wholly modern.
Added tribute to the greatness Of
Rachmaninoff Is the whole-hearted
and sincere enthusiasm he accords
other brilliant pianists. He Is quoted
as saying "The greatest living pianist
today is Josef Holman, not only as
technician, but as interpretative
artist"
Conducting without score means
nothing in ITSELF" says Eugene
Ormandy, magnetic new conductor Of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, who has
always conducted from memory. "For
some of the worlds finest musicians
have poor musical memories
But Mr.. Ormandy finds scoreless
conducting vital for himself, because
Of the eye-contact he Is able to keep
with each musician In his orchestra.
Through the eyes," says Mr.. Or
mandy, "a conductor can convey his
own emotions to the men, he can
suggest what is going on in his own
imagination. Eyes are really barom-
eters of q conductors SOUL
THIS constant wireless transmission
from piercing eyes has always
been one Of Toscanini's great sources
Of power over the musicians in his
orchestra. There is an hypnotic quality
in his eyes that makes each man
sense a certain current constantly
set up between himself and the CEN
trail dynamo, Toscanini. And this
electric tension, emanating to the
audience, is one of the chief factors
that make a Toscanini concert a
thrilling event."
In Eugene Ormandy one senses a
similar electric tensity. Whether this
quality, common to the 71-year-old
maestro, greatest of them all. and
the 36-year-old Ormandy Is due to
their phenomenal musical memories
can only be a matter of conjecture"
Second only to the great Toscanini's
musical memory Is that Of Ormandy.
He can learn an entire symphony
in two days, and it is then fixed in
his mind forever, Mr.. Ormandy claims.
Once Mr.. Ormandy memorized Verdi's
Requiem" which takes about an
hour and a half to perform. and made
the choral rehearsal without score" 4"
Recently, while rehearsing Bee
thoven's Seventh Symphony for the
first broadcast of his Thursday night
series with the Minneapolis Orchestra,
Mr.. Ormandy suddenly stopped and
said to the second fiutist, You've
played C-natural instead Of C-sharp,
just the way you did four years ago
at our annual concert in Chicago
The fiutist answered, Tt was "The
Firebird" where I did that, Mr.. Or
mandy Mr.. Ormandy smiled. OF
course he answered patiently, you
made that mistake in THE Firebird,"
too, but that was only three years ago,
and not in Chicago, but Toledo. You
first played that C-natural for
C-sharp four years ago."
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Fleming on Sea Story.

COMPLETELY recovered in health,
Victor Fleming has returned to
ro-Goldwyn-Mayer to direct Rud-
yard Kipling's saga of the Labrador
fishing banks, Captains Courageous"
Heading the cast will be Spencer
Tracy as Capt. Disko Troop, the great
est fisherman in the Crank Banks
feet, and Freddie Bartholomew as the
little rich boy who is rescued from the
sea and whose life with the rugged
crew makes a man Of him.
Fleming's last picture was Farmer
Takes a Wife" His last assignment
for Nom was Reckless" co-star-
ring William Powell and Jean Harlow.
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Concert by Choral Group.

THE Choral Group Of the Arts Club,
Otto Torney Simon, director,
Katherine Morrison at the piano, will
give the Spring concert of Its fifth
season on Thursday evening in the
auditorium Of the Arts Club. Grace
Powell, violinist, accompanied by
Lyman McCrary, will be the assisting
artist.
The program will be made up Of
Russian and English numbers. Among
the Russian will be the chorus from
Rubinstein's Tower OF Babel"
Glinka's "Cherubim Song" and the
Militant Song" from Joshua" by
Moussorgsky. The English numbers
will include Bantock's Spring Fan
tasie," "On Himalay," words by Shell
ley, The Tiger" words by William
Blake; Hugh Roberton's "AnAabel Lee, Z"
and "a Memory" words by Arthur
Symons, for female voices.
A second concert of the same pro-
gram will be given for the Association
of Arts and Science on Wednesday,
May 20.
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n. Y. Symphony to Play Suite.
DEANE SHURE'S symphonic

p DEANE SHURE'S symphonic
Ne suite, Circles of Washington, I"
which was given its world premiere
in Washington by the National
Symphony Orchestra, with DR.. Hans
Kinder conducting, during the past
season, will be played by the New
York Symphony Orchestra at Chau-
taqua, New York. on August 18th
with the composer there as guest.
The work will be conducted by
Georges Barrere in the absence Of
Albert Stoessel who will be away on
q years leave of absence.
MIR. Shure has just completed his
"Berkie Symphony in D Minor" upon
which he has been working for the
past year. 1t is written in memory
of his daughter Mary Bertha. who
passed away last Summer. The work
will be given its world premiere by
one of Americas major orchestras
during next season.