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annual mid-year recital on Friday
night at o'clock at the residence
studio, 5000 Seventh street northwest
Those participating will be Virginia
Smith, Evelyn Fankhauser, Jenny
Jorg, Doris Hartman, Catherine Lay
cock, Bryna Jacobs, Calvin Hartman,
Mildred Friedi, Charles White, Mrs.
Helen Summers, Doris McKimmie.
Barbara George, Teresa Campbell,
Henry Bagelmann, Irene Tayman,
Barbara Frishett, Marjorie Raab,
Peggy Summers, Ann Eleanor Searle,
Billy Searle, Dolores and Priscilla
Griest, Mildred Balderson, Hildreth
Friedli.
The Solo Quartet and Chorus Of
Keller Memorial Lutheran Church will
present a program Of special music
at the morning service tomorrow.
The Solo Quartet is composed OF
Esther Holden Bibber, Gladys Man
chester Walin, Robert Ferguson and
James Magill. Gertrude Lyons is
guest conductor and Lillian G. Wines
is director and organist.
Warren F. johnson, organist, will
play Sonata in B Minor" by Ronald
Chamberlain, before the evening serv-
ice at the Church Of the Pilgrims to-
morrow.
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gained now from an 1talianized name.
so the American artist can try for
public esteem legitimately under his
Anglo-Saxon nomenclature.
TN THE end, America will be indebted
to Europe for the formation of its
artist group, for 1t Is to be hoped that
the same concentration on native
talent will be adopted here as in
Europe. But as much desired as this
condition is, what will we do with the
quantity of fine talent in this country
which is waiting for opportunities to
display itself? Even here in the
Capital of the Nation there is not a
place where opera can be given, and
no interest to remedy the situation.
We do not need an opera company
running In competition with the
Metropolitan, but it would be possible
to have a place where the excellent
singers of the many fine conserva-
tories could develop themselves fur
ther.
The Metropolitan season in Balti-
more, which many Washingtonians
will patronize, will consist of La Bo-
heme." on Thursday, April 2, with
Martini, Bori, Tibbett and Helen
Gleason in the leading roles: Tristan
and Isolde" on Friday. April 3. with
Melchior, List, Flagstad and Branzell,
and Carmen" on Saturday, April 4,
with Rosa Ponselle, Hilda Burke, Rene
Maison and Ezio Pima. There will
be no Saturday matinee, and WASH
ington might have had the Metro
politan here for that free time had
there been a place adequate to give
opera. There is decidedly a need for
expansion in the question of theaters
and concert halls, for the continued
growth of the musical season will need
to be taken care Of.
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New Moore Film.
"THE KING STEPS OUT" will

"HE KING STEPS OUT will be
the title Of Grace Moore's cur
rent starring vehicle for Columbia
Pictures. Franchot Tone plays op-
posite the star. and Walter Connolly.
Raymond Walburn, Frienda Inescourt,
Alice Shannon, Mary Ann Mattas,
Katherine Durant. Bernice Taylor,
Eileen Tyler, Johnny Arthur and E. E.
Give head the cast.
Josef Won Sternberg is directing
''The King Steps Out" The music
is by Fritz Kreisler, while Dorothy
Fields wrote the lyrics and Josef
Pasternack is acting as musical direc-
tor. Sidney Buchanan adapted the
screen play.
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ACappella Choir Program,

THE A Cappella Choir OF First Con-
gregstional Church conducted by
Ruby Smith Stahl, will be heard in its
sixth annual Lenten concert on Mon
day night, March 16, at 8:45 o'clock
in the ball room Of the Hotel May
flower. The tradition Of this group
Of 60 Washington singers Of sacred
music was further upheld when on
last Monday afternoon the group sang
ut the first Lenten musicale Of the
present season at the White House,
for it was during the Coolidge ad-
ministration that Mrs. Stahl formed
the choir which sang many times at
both public and private events at the
Executive Mansion at Mrs. Coolidge's
invitation.
The program for this years Lenten
concert will be offered in three groups
of songs, several Of which are to be
given by request, repeated from last
seasons concert; among these Maud
Sewall's Jesus, the Very Thought Of
Thee" sung by the choir for the first
time in 1885, and Bring a Torch,
Jeanette Isabella" one of the annual
features OF the concert for several
years. Trowbridge's Peace Be Unto
You," for male voices, will also be
sung again this year.
The opening number will be Bach's
"Jesus, Priceless Treasure; followed
by. Holy, Holy, Holy (Alcock) !;
christmas in the Wood" mabel
Daniels: 1.-THE First Psalm" for mems
voices Ga Forge); Grant Me the
Joy of Thy Salvation" (Brahms), and
another song by Mabel Daniels. "The
Christ Child"
Aschenbrenner's arrangement Of
Gretchaninoff's "Nunc Dimittis" will
open the second group followed by
numbers composed by Arkhangelsky,
Bach Christensen, Palestrina and
Nicolsky. Burleigh's my Lord. What
a Mornin'" will be among the num-
bers in the third group, which will
comprise songs by Samuel Richard
Gaines, Gustav Hoist. Trowbridge and
Lewandowski.
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''Porgy and Bess" Coming.

GEORGE GERSHWIN apparently
- has realized his ambition to
write an opera for the many rather
than the cultured few" In "Porgy
and Bess," fo- which he wrote the
score. and which will be presented
by the Theater Guild at the National
Theater commencing Monday, March
16. Mr.. Gershwin long has been
ambitious to write an opera. He first
turned to serious music with "Rhap-
sody in Blue" which has won him i'm
mediate success. However, when he
decided to write an opera, there were
two things he desired to accomplish.
The first was, to create work that
would have continuous run, rather
than spasmodic performances; the
second was to write thoroughly
American opera.
The latter wish was quickly fulfilled.
Mr.. Gershwin says that, as soon as he
read DuBose Heyward's novel nine
years ago, he knew that ne had found
his American theme. It contained
every element, including humor as we'll
as drama. 1t was about Negroes who
inherently possess the gifts of song
and dance. He Immediately wrote to
Mr.. Hayward, suggesting the idea of
collaborating, and since then they have
conferred at frequent intervals.
Mr.. Gershwin concentrated entirely
on the opera, spending part of his
time in Charleston, where the scene
Of it is laid, and where he has studied
the people and their music. He did
not borrow from Negro musical sources,
however, for every bar of "Porgy ana
Bess" is original, including the spirit
uas. Nine months ago, he started
work on the orchestration score, which
he has done entirely by himself. At
about the same time, he began hear
ing aspirants for the cast, and listened
to almost one thousand Negroes before
the 80, who now appear in the opera,
were chosen.
The two years apparently were we'll
spent, because the opening night of
''Porgy and Bess" not only brought
cheers from the audience. but high
praise from the critics. Mr.. Gershwin,
having achieved the most ambitious of
his ambitions, intends to continue at
work along serious lines.
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sented by Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey.
Miss Moore will have, as assisting
artist, Marcel Hubert, cellist, one OF
the most distinguished of the younger
cello virtuosi, who wields magic bow
on his marvellous Grancino, and who
combines startling technique with
o poetic sensitiveness. The program
TO be given by Miss Moore and Mr..
Hubert follows.
ssonstS IN Roceherini
MI. Hubert.
IT,
"Air de Lila" from 'L'Enfant ,.-
:.9ou!.s ::.9ouyres Ton Occur Sl..t
s.sesuid,lia'I--speF Falia
Miss Moore.
Air from Louise" charpentier
Miss Moore.
1NTERMIss1oN.
::fn,srmezzo", from "doyescas" "--Gransdos
Mr.. Hubert. '0'-
"
There's Not Swain" Purcell
who'll Buy MY Lavender Edward German
'Serenade" e"---..---John Alden Carpenter
Miss Moore.
VI.
sGavotte'' from ''Manon" Massenet
THE concert by Grace Moore, to
- be given tomorrow was originally
scheduled for Sunday afternoon,
March 20, but owing to certain changes
In Miss Moore's itinerary it was
moved forward two weeks, with the re-
suit that all tickets sold for the
March 20 concert will be honored at
Constitution Hall tomorrow after
noon.
Seats for Miss Moore's concert will
be available at Constitution Hall after
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
After an absence of more than five
years, Josef Hofmann, the celebrated
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John Francis Steele.
7 EVEE before on so momentous
an occasion as the funeral
rites of a king has the Eng
lish national anthem been

lEIl IldIlOlldl dlltllSul Uccll
carried bv radio to every hamlet of
the eartn Never has God Save the
King" fallen on more sympathetic
ears.
John Bull, doctor of music. who saw
the last of the Tudor dynasty and the
rise of the Stuarts, is credited with
the authorship. Born in 1865, he was
organist of the Chapels Royal in the
reign Of Queen Elizabeth, chamber
musician to James and professor Of
music to Gresham College.
He had all the temperament attrib-
uted to genius and longed to 60 about
unllampered, which he usually did,
much to the embarrassment of his SOW
ereigns Reviewers show that he
deigned to please the Queen. but with
her successor. James I. he was far
less emenshle to discipline. So it was
across tire Channel in Antwerp that
the genius of John Bull reached its
greatest height.
The air of repression which pre-
vailed at oxford was hostile to his un-
shackled spirit, and while his royal
master kept calling for his return he
remained wholly unperturbed by the
royal orders. Evidently his good
will" at oxford remained unchanged,
despite his refusal to return to court.
His portrait bears the unique in
scription:
1.-THE bull by force in field doth reigne,
But Bull by skill good will doth gayne.
Although he lived to see a new
King take the throne, Charles I, 1t Is
not recorded that he relented and
returned home. He could not forgive
the delay of his admission to doctor Of
music at oxford on account OF the
"rigid Puritans there who could not
endure church music"
60 IMPORTANT has been the an
- them that the Scotch and the
French have quarreled over it. and
some have attempted to give Handel,
the illustrious German composer who
spent most Of his life in England,
credit for it. He did. however, write
an anthem which ends with Long
Live the King:
''The rebels will fly
As with shouts we draw nigh
And echo with victory ring;
Then, safe from alarms,
Well rest on our arms
And chorus 1t, Long Live the King!' "
Although it was used in England to
help "save" George II from the
Scotch, their claim to the anthem
has been long and vigorous. It is
based on the loyalty Of the Jacobttes
in the restoration Of James VIII Of
Scotland. They also dug up q drink
ing cup at Fingard Castle, Carse Of
Gowrie, the seat Of p. Murray Threip-
land, whose family stood stanchly for
the house Of Stuart. This glass had an
inscription, one. seemingly. that
proved just how Scotch q national an
them could be. This argument went
down under the claim that glasses
are tricky-the glass may be old and
the inscription new.
The London Times In 1878 related
the story regarding the French claim
to the authorship Of the anthem.
Lully. the French dramatic author,
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Songs Of Love Waltzes, {"
by Johannes Brahms. selected
/ from opus So and edited by

<aE songs Oh Love WdlIIeS,
by Johannes Brahms. selected
from opus So and edited by
L Albert Stoessel, will be pre-
sented at the Friday Morning Music
Club on Friday at 1880 am. by Ina
Holtzscheiter, soprano; Frances
Tucker, mezzo-soprano; Ray Baine.
tenor; Edwin Steffe, baritone, and
Margaret Tolson and Marjorie Davis,
pianists. Miss Tolson and Miss Davis
will also play several Hungarian
dances Of Brahms and the program
will be completed by selections from
the operas, ANDRE Chenier," Faust"
and "Rigoletto."
The second Lenten organ recital
will be played by Adolf Torovsky at
the Church Of the Epiphany tomorrow
evening at 7:30 o'clock. Lillian La
them. soprano, will be the assisting
soloist.
Myra McCathran Myers, soprano
soloist, was soloist last Sunday morn
ing at the First Divine Science Church
and will sing at the morning service
tomorrow. Seymour Amick is accom-
PIANIST.
At the bimonthly 5 o'clock hour OF
music tomorrow at Friendship House,
324 Virginia avenue southeast, the So
loists will be Marguerite Moncure.
soprano, and Marybeth Garvey, pianist.
There will also be reader. The pub
lie Is cordially invited.
Kathryn English, contralto, will as
sist Lewis Atwater, organist. in pro-
gram Of Italian music tomorrow after
noon at 5 o'clock at All Souls Church,
Unitarian.
The program for the hour Of music
tomorrow at the Y. w. c. A. at Seven
teenth and K streets at S o'clock will
be given by Carolyn Schoenthal, So
prano. accompanied by Mabel v. Hol-
gate, and by Anne Smith, pianist. The
public is cordially invited.
washington Alumnae Club of Mu Phi
Epsilon, the national honorary musical
sorority, will meet Monday night at
the home Of Mrs. Myron Writers, 2100
Plymouth street northwest. The club
is studying the Symphony Orchestra
concerts In advance this year, and
the evening will be devoted to the
program of March is, with excerpts
Of the main numbers by several mem
bers Of the club.
Savona Griest, teacher OF voice and
piano, viii present her pupils IN the
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Lecture by Edwin Hughes,

EDWIN HUGHES, New York pianist.
- will give the fifth of series of
lectures on the development of mod
ern piano technique at the Washing
ton College Of Music on Monday eve
ming at 8:15. Mr.. Hughes will hold
his twentieth annual Summer master
class In New York from July 6 to
August IS.
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Astaire Rehearses.
ERED AsTA1RE has already st.

L>RED ASTAIRE mas already started
intensive work creating the new
dance routines for the next R-K-O
Radio musical romance, tentatively
titled "Never Gonna Dance" In which
he will co-star with Ginger Rogers.
Astaire's schedule calls for So hours
work q week until production starts
next month. Jerome Kern is writing
the music and George Stevens will
direct. Astaire estimates that well
over 800 hours Of rehearsal will be
needed to perfect the routines for the
new show. Miss Rogers joins him
soon to learn and rehearse the mum.
bers they will do together.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Dead End" for Screen.

CAMUEL GOLDWYN has secured the
screen rights to Sidney Kinssley's
Dead End" one Of the major hits Of
Broadway,s current season. The price
paid by the producer for the rights
to this drama of New York's East
Side is reputed to be among the high
est given in recent years.
Dead End" now takes 1t place on
the Goldwyn schedule for the coming
season as one Of the eight screen
productions being planned BY the pro-
Queer.
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Choir for Davies Film.
THE famous Hall johnson Choir q

THE famous Hall johnson Choir Of
Negro singers, now in Hollywood
working in 1.-THE Green Pastures" at
the Warner Bros Studios, will also
appear in Hearts Divided" Marion
Davies next starring picture. They
will sing three songs in Miss Davis
film. Hearts Divided" Is o cosmo-
polttan production for Warner Bros.
release. Frank Borzage Is directing.
The leading masculine role opposite
Marion Davies Is played by Dick
Powell.
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Washington Will Hear
Miss Moore Tomorrow
Glamorous Soprano to Have Young Cellist as
Assisting Artist-Hofmann's
Anniversary.

most important event on the music calendar the appearance at
who Capital since November
with Metropolitan right after
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TRAVELLING incognito and enjoying

Il AVA SA144NS AAASO6A4tO h4lA ClAJOy
the freedom of an unhampered
existence in Germany, John Bull ap-
piled as q novice to famous musician
of st. Omers. The master showed him
about the place and conducted him
to his vestry, where he displayed with
a great deal of satisfaction a compost
tion in 40 parts. To him the work
was the acme Of artistry, and he ex-
pressed himself as challenging the
world to add one more part to it.
Requesting tools and musical pa
per-" John Bull asked to be left alone.
In two or three hours the musician
returned to the vestry to find his
novice" had added not only one part
to his song, but 40.
From that moment life became in
creasingly interesting for the great
composer. His name and his fame
buzzed from court to court: France
wanted him and Spain wanted him.
he could have any job in either do
main that suited his profession. Even
back In those days-that was 1601-
news Travelled and when it trickled
across the Strait of Dover to the
sagacious Queen Elizabeth, that was
the end Of John Bulls furlough. Just
what words she used, whether 1t was
| q comamnd or couched In the pleas
ing phrases her majesty could use
at will, is not recorded. Anyway,
he returned to London.
However, it was to her successor,
James I, that he accorded the honor
Of the anthem, and this seemed to
be in the nature Of 'pacifier," rather
than caring . whit whether the King
was saved or not. Thus In 1916.
over three centuries ago, John Bull
wrote the marvelously stirring Eng
lish anthem, "0od Save the King"
Numerous original manuscripts Of
the song have been discovered from
time to time. An interesting one
Is that purported to have been signed
by Thomas Hunter, Grays Inn lane.
An observing customer In . cheese
monger's shop perceived that the
shopkeeper had served . little girl
with butter wrapped in Q piece Of
music in manuscript. The customer
became curious and inquired II the
shopkeeper had any more. and he
replied that It had come In . lot Of
waste paper and only one copy re.
! manned.
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BOri Retirement Comes
AS Opera Faces Change
Great Singers Aid to Metropolitan Initiated
Methods Which May Be Encourag-
ing to Americans.
Bv Alice Evevsman.

the Baltimore the Metropolitan Thurs
will for the
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British Anthems HISTORY

was credited with it, stating that it
was first produced in honor Of a visit
Of Louis XIV Q643-1715) and Nine.
de Maintenon to the Convent Of
Demoiselles de st. Cyr. and that years
afterward it was appropriated by
John Bull.
There is a pleasant Tilt to the
French version:
Grand Dieux, sauvez le Roi,
Grand Dieux, venez le Roi,
Que toujours glorieux,
Louis victorieux,
Voye ses ennemies,
Toujours soumies,
Grand Dieux. sauvez lie Roi,
Vive le Roll"
The English critics were quick to
show this up as gross anachronism,
as Lully was not born until five years
after John Bulls death, his own death
occurring one year before the occasion
of the singing of the noble damsels"
at Versailles.
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Jose ITURBI, spain's great
pianist, whose progress from
the keyboard to the conductors
~ podium during the past three
years has marked him as q Nrtuoso
Of both, will ofiiciate as conductor and
soloist at the third concert by the
Philadelphia Orchestra in Washing
ton this season in Constitution Hall
Thursday at 8:45.
The program is as follows:
Overture "Oberon" Weber
Concerto No. 3 in c Minor"
for piano and orchestra Beethoven
Jose Iturbi,
Funeral March from
"Gotterdammerung' wagner
"Liebestod" from Tristan and
Isolde" " WAGNER
l. Euages.
Three dances from "The Three-coEnered
i. The neighbors.
.. Dance of the miller.
3. Final dance.
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THE concerto which Mr.. Iturbi will
play was composed by Beethoven
in 1900 and published in Vienna late
in 1904. The first performance in
public was probably on April S. 1903,
at the Theater an der Wien, where
Beethoven played the piano part.
Dedicated to Prince Louis Ferdinand
Of Prussia, the work has been char
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Savons Griest, teacher Of voice and
piano, viii present her pupils IN the
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-07-03
NIGHT WATCHMAN WEARING
 HOME GROWN FUR COAT
B. P 0. E.
A. N. B. HALL

Earl West, night watchman at the Wrangell Packing Company cannery. has been wearing for the past week a fur sleeveless coat when it gets chilly on the water front after midnight.
 The garment is very much in the All Alaska class. It is made from selected portions of two hairseals which he shot last winter. The skins are beautifully colored and matched. West put into use his trade as a tanner at which he sery- ed seven years when a boy in Wis consin and as a consequence there is not the slightest odor in the fur. The coat was made up by MT. Vests aunt, Mrs. N. Wellesley. The zipper fastenings, he comedies, are outside products, otherwise the gar ment is home grown.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-07-03
PAUL LEAVES WASHINGTON
 FOR ALASKA NEXT SUNDAY

William Paul, Jr. stopped off at Wrangell On his way home to Ju- neau from the University of Wash ington where he has completed his first year in law school.
 Following his graduation from high school Paul did three years of pre-law and then had two years of study in his fathers law office.
 He received a telegram yesterday from his father, Wm. L. Paul, that he was leaving Washington next Sunday whether or not his appoint ment as Administrator for the h. dian Reorganization Act in Alaska known in its first form as the Wheeler Howard Act, is officially confirmed. The confidential ap. pointment, he said was made some time age.
 Paul, Jr., on his arrival in Ju- neau will outfit with crew ot four men to do development work through the summer On group of mining claims at Glacier Bay.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-07-03
Club COOperates In
 Policing Forest Park

At a special meeting of the Civic Club held last Monday to consider concessions for the Fourth of July celebration, it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of a com mittee consisting of Miss Irene Coulter, Mrs. Carlotta McDade and Miss Margaret Mccormack. The club is greatly interested in get ting tennis court for the use of Wrangell young people and the committee was given power to en- list help in the money-making en- terprise considered. At the time of the meeting, it was not known whether a celebration would be held. The hot dog booth planned at the last regular meeting of the club was given up for want of a suitable location.
 An important part of the bus mess of the special meeting was the approval and signing of a CO., operative plan drawn between the U. S. Forestry department and the club for the policing and protec- tion of the park details of which will be made known later.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-07-03
DANCING PARTY ENJOYED AT
 HOME DORISANNE BARNES

A party at the F. s. Barnes home Friday evening with Doris anne Barnes and Jim Nolan as hosts. was keenly enjoyed by a group of young people who danced in the spacious living room and sun parlor After arriving the guests found' that the party cele- brated the birthdays of Jim Nolan and Curtis Bradford.
 A buffet supper served by Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. w. T. Hale, aunt of young Nolan's. included a huge birthday cake decorated with 36 candles, representing the combined birthday years.
 The guests at the party were Irene Sundberg, Arlene Sain, Pa tricia Wies, Amelia Minear, Dor othy Voss, Glenora Waters, Mildred Iverson, Vivian Close, Jean Fergu- son, Garnetha Rulaford, Vivian Green, Earl Heitman, Harry Lar son. Leon Wies. Willis Smith, Bob Harris, Ed Arola, Arnold Prus2. Elliot Bradford, Curtis Bradford, Bill Darlington and Jack Waters.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-07-03
NOME PLANE CRASHED
 BY BOLT OF LIGHTNING

Flying into thunder head mid st fleecy clouds, Pilot Fra Il k Whaley was struck by lightning recently about 100 miles east of Nome. and wien at a height of 1000 feet. As a consequence Whal ey and another man were taken to the None hospital
 Reports received from Nome say that four men were in the plane when the accident occurred. The ship went into a spin two or tfrea times while falling. Each tine Whaley brought it out, and landed with a crash in a shallow lake A wing was smashed, and the engine thrown out of the plane into the fake. and the four men in the ship were knocked unconscious. Wnaley and the man in the front seat were thrown through the windshield. It was hours. it is said before they came to. "Snoopie," Wnaleya lit tie dog. which has flown 75,000 miles with him, left the wrecked plane and swan ashore and waited.
 Pilot Jack Hermann went out from Nome in another plnne and located and took the injured men to Nome. The Whaley plane is said to be a total wreck. It had been carrying passengers to the interior from Nome.