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Unfortunately. at some time in their
long past, the tapestries in the Clark
collection must have been cut down to
accommodate their placement in cha
teau or castle. But after ALL one does
not miss what one has never possessed
and the depreciation has not been
great. The largest Of the series meas
ures IL by is feet; the next In size
is 10 by IA feet, and the two others
are each 10 feet high by respectively
10 and II feet approximately wide.
They are beautifully shown, it will be
recalled, in separate gallery lighted
by window of early glass
But to return to the Brady sale and
the current art market. An 1spahan
rug Of the sixteenth century included
In this collection, which, by the way,
took five days to disperse, brought
$4,000. and for = Chippendale sofa
covered in needle point, $3.50 was
paid. Then came the surprise Of the
record price Of nearly $1,000 for the
painting by Remington and $500
each for two canvases by Charles M.
Russell, the cowboy painter-"Hunt-
er's Luck" and 'The Holdup"- paint
ings primarily of interest because Of
subjects, illustrative of scenes once
thought typically American. Such
prices are completely out Of scale for
those paid for works by artists Of
greater reputation In this and other
sales throughout the year.
In fact, there has been great huc-
tuation in values in paintings Of late,
which may be attributed to confusion
Of ideals or waning interest IN this
particular held Of art. The highest
price for the season for . painting
sold BY the American Art Association
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washington Civic Orchestra, at

Washington Civic Orchestra, at 8
o'clock.
Conductor Samuel Page Ford of
the Civic Orchestra has chosen a
program Of Gilbert and Sullivan
music, as we'll as other appropriate
selections preceding H. M. S. Pima
FORE which Miss wentworth will
conduct as well as play the entire ac-
compartment.
Leading roles will be sung by Nina
Norman as Josephine" j. Edmond
Veitch as Capt. Corcoran." Ray Baine
as Sir Joseph Porter. the first lord
OF the admiralty; Richard Hill as
Ralph Rackstraw.' Margaret Phillips
as "Hebe," Alice Brennan as Little
Buttercup." Other roles will be sung
by Kenneth Burgess as Dick Dead
eye" Harry Yeide as Bill Bobstay'
and Melville Veltch as Bob Beckett"
OF the crew OF H. NJ. S. Pinafore."
Tickets are now available at the
Willard, the Washington Hotel, the
A. A. A. and the Community Gen.
ter Department In Franklin Adminis-
tration Building. The public is al
ways welcome to sit on the grass for
the Summer festival programs
In case OF inclement weather on
Tuesday night the festival will be
given on Wednesday.
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works Of American artists and crafts
men, realized $93.407. At this sale
q silver teapot by Jacob Hurd brought
$4,40o. an Adrian Backer tankard,
$3,100, and the John Coney punch
bowl, with removable rim, the record
price of $4,000. The last was con-
signed by George c. Gebelin, the WELL
known silversmith Of Boston. and was
sold during pause in the dispersal
Of the Lawton collection.
At this same sale the Museum OF
Fine Arts, Boston, was lucky enough
to get Copley's portrait Of elizabeth
Ross Tying, Aged Sixteen" for $4,000.
Another notable sale of early Ameri-
can silver during the past season was
that of the collection assembled by
Mrs. Miles White, jr.. of Baltimore.
well known to Washingtonians by par
tial exhibition here and also In the
Baltimore Museum. An early Ameri-
can tankard, made in New York. and
given by George Washington to DR..
Elisha Cullen Dick Of Alexandria. Va,
included in this collection. sold for
IS, 900; = tankard by George Fielding
of New York brought $500, and .
porringer by John Coney, $500.
High prices prevailed also for slight
works by painters Of the French mod.
ern school. In the Cornelius J. sulli.
van sale. . small pencil drawing BY
Seurat sold for $500; for . wash
drawing by Picasso, $l,050 was paid:
. water color by Cezanne fetched
s., 500, and . painting Of Tahiti" BY
Gauguin was bid in for $1,700. On
the other hand, . bronze figure Of
dancer by Desas WAS purchased for
only 3425. Fashion and vogue 60 far,
1t would seem, In the determination Of
values. But again surprise-a bronze
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VIOLIN STUDENTS
TO GIVE RECITAL

ELENA DE SAYN, violinist and
violin pedagogue, will present
group OF her students In solo and
ensemble in violin recital Friday
evening at $50 o'clock at the Grafton
Hotel, Connecticut avenue and De
Sales street. The recital Is open to
the puplic.
The program will include Fritz
Kreisler's new Concerto in c Ma
jor," rendered by Norma Coombs;
Haendels Sonata in D Major" BY
Ellen Dawson; Purcell's Golden
Sonata" for two violins, in which two
youthful violinists, Mary Alice Fegus-
son and Marion Maxwell. aged 10
and l3, respectively. will be heard.
The last two will be heard also In
solos, as will Sally Osburn and Bobby
Creveling.
Miss de Sayn will play two selections
and will lead the ensemble. Helen
Spassoh will be the accompanist.
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evening OF November Is. although no
announcement has yet been made al
to what opera or operas will. be given
at that time.
This reucence on the part Of the
management is due entirely to de-
sire to present that opera which
seems most in demand among Wash
ington music lovers and Mrs. Dorsey
invites all opera enthusiasts to write
her at Droops, 1900 G street north
west. indicating their choice Of rep
ertoire. The salzburg repertoire in
ciudes the following opera:
The Coronation Of Poppea," by
Claudio Monteverdi. composer OF
"Orfeo." adapted by Ernst Krenek,
author Of Johnny Spielt Auf," with
Krenek conducting. An opera deal
ing with an episode in the life Of Nero
and profound and moving dramatic
musical production. Two Mozart op-
erS: "Cosi Fan Tutti" and The
Goose Of Cairo" both brilliant operate
comedies in the vein of The Marriage
OF Figaro" lie Pauvre Matelot" (I'he
Poor Sailor by Darius Milhaud, q
musical Grand Guignol. The Ma
trimonial Market" by Rossini.
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MUSIC INSTITUTE
IN FINAL RECITAL

THE Washington Musical Institute
- will give It's ninth rectal since
occupancy of its new quirters in
December on Friday at 8:3. pm.
In spite Of the difficulty attendant
upon adjusting full academic
schedule to its new and permanent
location, in the middle of tie school
year, the Washington Musical In
stitute will have given min recitals
from December to June.
At this final recital certificates will
be presented to Carolyn Koottz, Janet
Harlow and Jack Henry for complet-
ing fourth grade preparatory work,
and to Jean Guaragna md George
Gibson for completing sixsh grade
or intermediate work. The musical
program will demonstrae Z work Of
the preparatory. intern ediate and
college departments.
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Anderson Galleries is reported to be
$4,000 paid for = portrait Of Rea-
burn Of Master George John Fraser"
sargeant's portrait Of Nine. Helleu"
went for t4,7oo; Van Dykes Edward
Sutton, 9Th Lord Dudley" which once
was owned by Gainsborough. brought
only $4,000. and orpen's portrait Of
his little daughter, Kit" sold for
$4,000. On the other hand, . paint
ing by Corot brought $4,000; = "Shep-
herdess" by Millet. $500; . Turner.
$4,10o; = Troyon, $500, and a Bou-
guereau, $4,000.
With these, prices for works by de-
ceased American painters were COM
parable. The Butterfly Orchid" by
Henry Golden Dearth, brought 32,500,
and October Afternoon" by j. Fran
els Murphy, $500.
But 1t was not 30 very long ago that
Childe Hassam was asking $4,000 for
his canvases, and that . like amount
was paid for . painting by Tarbeu.
Probably these heights will never be
recovered, at least not within the life
time of present-day buyers. However,
at the Rothschild sale in London two
months ago, 4 tiny painting by Pieter
de Hooch, q Dutch interior with figure,
was bid up, by leaps to 5000, to the
astonishing sum Of $S7 ,500-and even
this amount IS but . fraction of what
Mr.. Mellon Is reported to have paid
for some Of the rare works that he
has acquired for the National Gallery
Of Art.
MEANWHILE, however, the prices
" 60 up for early American silver
and furniture. The Herbert LAwton
collection, eompr1Sing exclusively The
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in the world, is doing unique work in
the way OF preparing future bands
men. The three bands which make
up the college group are the First and
Second Regimental Bands and the
Concert Band, numbering = total Of
800 members. Entrance to member
ship Is determined by examination,
although choice is given the students
between taking the military drills and
tactics prescribed by the university or
joining the musical organization. The
FIRST two divisions play for all athletic
events and military ceremonies, in
addition to the study Of concert
music. Through this latter, the
musicians are prepared for the con-
cert band, which is a select organiza-
tion numbering about ITO members.
The bands have been an institution
in the university curriculum for ~
years, and for 80 years the training
OF the members has been in the hands
OF Prof. Harding. The repertoire,
which comprises hundreds Of selec-
tions. embraces the finest symphonic
works Of the great masters.
Prof. Harding has q noteworthy
library Of his own. which is now
enriched by the valuable Sousa COL
lection. During the year, the bands
perform about 300 compositions and
in addition do useful work In explor-
ing orchestral and instrumental lit
erature for numbers adaptable to
band transcription This service has
been invaluable to publishers and
bandmasters who are seeking to
enlarge the possibilities Of bands.
THE University Of Illinois bands
have also clinic for bandmasters,
which has been helpful to many and,
in cooperation with the School of
Music, trains talented players to
become conductors and arrangers.
The enthusiasm with which the musi-
clans follow their work and the high
artistry of their performances have
been generally commented upon by
musical auLlOTltleS.
This musical group from a Western
city has felt the inspiration of Sousa's
attainments and Of his interest in
everything pertaining to the progress
OF musical appreciation. Their cher
ished possession is the legacy he left
them, which they have reverently
retained intact and in appropriate
surroundings. Yet the city of hts
birth, and the beneficiary OF his
genius, has, so far. made no effort to
honor him with a fitting memorial.
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DE}REE IN MUSIC
10 BE CONFERRED

NAfA BOULANGER, distinguished
Hench pedagogue, will receive in
abserta the honorary degree of doctor
of mi BIC from the Washington COL
lege 4 Music at its thirty-f1rst annual
comnincement ceremonies this eve
ming IT $50 o'clock in the concert
roomi of the college.
Thl awarding of certificates, di-
plom3 and degrees will be made by
Fam Amstutz Roberts. president of
the pllege. Immediately after the
acadalic procession. Those receiving
the tto-year college certificate in piano
are nthony Chanaka, Violet Ihre,
Elizafth Powers of Richmond, Va,
and farjorie Vesta Wilkins; in vio-
lin, Aizabeth Bullock.
Thu teachers diploma in violoncello
'will e awarded to Anne Langston
Farqhar; In piano, to Lucia Perez
of Qito, Ecuador. The degree of
dachep pr Of music in piano will be
lreceiWd by Martha Lanyon Ristine,
studeit Of Mrs. Roberts and Edwin
Hughs.
+. Thd name Of the recipient Of the
1878 Hugh Rowland Roberts me-
morris award will be announced and
. ree option for the gradukes and
their guests will follow the exercises.
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Opera First
For Sylvan
Series Here
Wentworth Singers to
Appear Tuesday in
"Pinafore." :"

THE Summer festival season will
open at the Washington Monu-
ment on Tuesday night in the Ma
tional Sylvan Theater when the Com
munity Center Department and the
office Of National Capital Parks will
present the first in the series Of
II outdoor events, lasting until the
first week in September. The OPEN
ing event will be the Estelle Went
worth Opera Group in "Pinafore," !"
preceded BY q festival concert by the
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In Local Music Circles

-H public IS cordially invited to
attend . recital Of . group Of
young voice studentG, to Esther
L Iinkins, to be held In the Pen
Women's room at the Grafton Hotel,
Connecticut avenue and De Sales
street. Thursday at 8 pm. Joan Aller,
Charles Burton, Judy Conklin, Harry
Gauzza, Edith Harper, Weston Jones,
Cabot Meyer, Sylvia Radish, Marjorie
Reed and Billy Ringle will be heard
in solos and duets. Piano solos will
be played by Judy Conklin, Edith
Harper, Nancy Lnkins and Marjorie
Reed. Alden H. Emery, IT,, will con-
tribute = hute solo. A studio chorus
also will assist. It will be composed
Of the above mentioned and Barbara
Armiger, Betty bort, Robert Emery,
Janet Hartley, Shirley Howes, Eliza
beth Killian, Dorothy Marsh, HARLAN
Meyer, Kanneth Meyer, Joan Ray,
Elsie Swan, Sonny White and Anthony
Winston.
Mrs. Emery and HARLAN Meyer
will serve as accompanies. Mrs.
E1mery's Night Song" will be sung
by the chorus. the baritone solo be-
ing sung by Mr.. Burton.
Thelma Callahan will present q
group of her pupils In piano recital
Thursday in the Petworth M. E.
Church, Grant circle and New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest. Two-piano
numbers and solos will be played by
Virginia Baker. Genevieve Billhimer,
Marian Bonavita. Leon Briggs. Betty
Jean Dodge, Margaret Evans, Olive
Fewell, Dorothy Fielder, Ann and
George Filgate, Frank Hermann, Har-
rison, John and Warren Lefner'
Jacqueune Lewis. Jean Macy. Jean
Oliver, Margaret OMeara, Virginia
Perrin, Fred Powell. Olive Rickard
Wilmer Schantz and Jean Sherwood
Presentations will be made by Rev
r. L. Wood. National Federation OF
Music Clubs certificates will be pre-
sented to winners in the recent con-
test for Juniors by Eva Whitford
Lovette. president of the District OF
Columbia Federation OF Music Clubs
Florence Vincent Yeager will pre-.
sent her pupils in voice and piano in
recital at Hamline Church, Sixteenth
and Allison streets. Thursday at BIS
pm. The following pupils will be
heard: Betty Phillips, Dorothy Jear
Decker, Charlotte Wenzel, Margaret
Ann Jackson, Rosemary Lennon, Billy
Phillips, Lillian. Virginia and Car.
leen Chandler. Helen Miller, Nancy
Ellen Repass. Janis Housley, Margaret
Hinson. Sevilla Hinson. Ruth Orr
Jane Orr, Dolly Ashby, Harry M. Will
kins and Florence v. Yeager.
The Walter T. Holt Studios will
present group of students in re-
cital of mandolin. banjo and guitar
selections at Christ Lutheran Church
Eighteenth and Gallatin streets north
west, Friday at s:l5. The pupils to
be heard will include Bob Rappleye
Joseph Bowles, Phyllis Buxbaum
Joseph Perna, Langdon H. Fulton
Ruth Peterson, Lawrence Schurmann
Charles A. Baughman, Louise ane
Leslie Teller. Robert Guy, Ethel Selby
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ROSE D'AMORE IN
PIANO SELECTIONS

MABEL WALKER WIILEBRANDT
~ prominent lawyer and socialite
Of the city, will present Rose d'Amore
in piano concert at the Sulgrave
Club on Thursday evening. Miss
d'Amore, former pupil of Rudolph
CAM, will offer her Interpretation Of
the following groups: Variations in
F Minor" Hadyn; Sonata In D
Minor" Beethoven; claire de Lune"
and Ministries" Debussy; Soaring"
Schumann, and &C Minor Nocturne"
and "Scherzo in B Minor" Chopin.
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Shares
In Salzburg
Opera Tour
Event of
Next Season Here
1o Apoo,,pooJ
Is Announced.

THE forthcoming visit to Washing
: ton Of the Salzburg Opera Guild
promises to prove one Of the most i'm
portant events Of the 1878 music
season in Washington. Announced as
one Of the five attractions to be Of
fered in Dorothy Hodgkin Dorseys
evening concert series at Constitution
Hall. the Salzburg Guild, with orig
inal cast. symphony orchestra and
technicians direct from Salzburg, will
give . single performance here on the
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MUSIC TEACHERS
TO MEET IN FALL

THE Washington Music Teachers
Association will not meet again
until october, the Executive Board
deciding to omit the customary ami
versary celebration on June 10, due
to the fact that most teachers are
busy with the concluding Of their
teaching season.
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Leland Hunter in his admirable book
on the subject Of tapestries has said,
all great Gothic tapestries are French
Gothic, whether woven in Northern
France or in the French Netherlands,
for under Philip the Good, Duke of
Burgundy, in the fifteenth century.
Bruges and Ghent and Tournai and
Brussels were all capital cities of
French culture, and on order Of this
Burgundian duke the greatest art of
the period =, was produced. Beside
which, Arras and Tournai are not
more than 40 miles apart. and there
Is reason to believe that In some
instances the two looms co-operated
In the use of cartoons. Be that as it
may, the tapestries in the Clark COL
lection are very similar to those
which until lately hung at Inisfada,
and one can gain from them an ex-
cellent idea Of the character Of these
priceless works.
RY ALL connoisseurs, the Flemish
Finnish Gothic tapestries are
ranked as most fne. Crowded with
figures, essentially pictorial, they re-
main nat and function perfectly as
wall decorations. Would that the mu-
raj painters Of today would take note.
In them red Of lovely quality is dom
inant and 50 excellent were the dyes
used that their colors are still almost
undimmed Also. as MIR. Hunter points
out, these tapestries stress line rather
than form; there Is no attempt to
initiate the painted picture or to create
the impression Of a third dimension by
L 'deling or perspective. But how
lovely they are-how animated and
ensaginSl @-
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SOuBa Deserved Honor
Asked at New Bridge
Great Composer Whose Genius Added to
GloE of Flag, Left Priceless Collection
10 University of Illinois Archives.
BY Alice Eversman.

solution introduced in the Senate this week by Senator Copeland
oname the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge
Scfa and thus
bandmaster draws attention neglect to honor
It's Amou Several
hitting Sousa Paralene this
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The Pepco Glee Club entertained
the Lions Club Of Anacostia at the
Beaver Dam Club, Landover. Md, on
June 9, Harry Yeide Is conductor
and Cornelia Long Kinsella the accom-
panist.
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The pupils Of Josie F. Fraily will be
heard IN piano recital in stansbury
Temple on Friday. Miss Fraily will
oe assisted by Amelia Patterson, syl-
via Gotkin. Mrs. S. Pope, Norma Bell
Carly and Hope Haverty.
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Week Opening Quietly With Gay and Very Busy Week End in View
By theWay-
Beth Blaine

THE Maryland Hunt Cup like Christmas Easter and all
good things but and event to which
Washingtonans looking forward
We will that most Eastern cities Saturday
afternoon Worthngon Valley luck with the
affair." the rain held though pretty
have that beautiful rolling country
Maryland it a festive and colorful gathering.
gets 1Oithin four fve miles of race
is chance OF losing ones for there steady stream
of emery road leading as though to Romel The
Maylandites old young rich and alike the
somewhat of To be several fathers
carrying infant children their arms; this eraggera-
tion Euen there uith who they could leaUe
ther chadren that was no reason for them to miss the
No, sir!
matter If you go to the race from Washington
Baltimore Wilmington New York Boston, weeds clothes
the order of the what outfits Saturday.
Bright paids not chosen the women
from the hunting and racing circles
of the ladies!
1t probably of the erhausttng sport euents
from Standpoint for continuously running into
friends from cities 10hona one has not seen in some
time, much of the before after race is run
up dashes here and there 1h 1ohoops of
joy Dld erclamaons "Why Eleanor
must find out uhere they going after
Then that after trouble, "Where so and SOS
house? on, somewhere the Green Spring Valley"
eOer in spite OF the terrific crowd of
Maryand State police They kno0 their job and do Oe
We discovered that OF friends pretty good
the @ aaa % n5y y d pIaee sad
had mastered getting from
s5sa s z15' s; Il
sae s5 al o5s1 Then asgara s. to the stsoq
tamy to sip mint juleps cocktails before dressing for
me hln oaA and uaous other parties OF Which there
a goodly number on that euentful night.
For others it was dash back to Washington
parueS mere Quite day. and fun than shake
stick at from point Of view good and already
we are thinking OF the next looking
WONDERFUL luncheon
with our pals" from far ' e0
WE WERE pleased read yesterday Yue and
in pas e Ro the Yae
made though the friends new that the N
Messa sisters Mrs Wolcott Blair and Mrs Carroll
at the wedding the former
4ulle, was unable to come from Ireland.
IL seems sad that Nancy Melissa
missed each others weddings We the Adares
were married IN Palm Beach several Winters Yuie
at that time i'll in New York
could not leave him. Melissa Palm Beach knowing
hat her parents heart broken to be
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Miss Yoder to Wed
Mr.. Sangster in June

Mr.. and Mrs. Jocelyn Paul Yoder
announce the engagement of their
daughter Leona Jacqueline to Mr..
George Edward Sangster, son Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. John James Sang
ster Of Fairfax, Va. The marriage
viii take place early in June.
Miss Yoder, who is a graduate Of
William and Mary College at Will
liamsburg, Va, is the granddaughter
OF Mrs. Leona KidWell Of Washington.
She is the third Leona in succession,
her mother, Miss Leona Kidwell, hav-
Ing been prominent in Washington
music circles before her marriage.
Miss Yoder's grandfather, the late
Jocelyn z. Yoder, came to Washington
to serve as cashier Of the House OF
Representatives and, with his family
made his home here until his death a
few years ago.
Mr.. Sengster is a student Of elec.
trical engineering at George Washing
ton University and is graduate o1
Benjamin Franklin University Hi.
family has lived at Fairfax, Va, fol
many years. his father being Ia,
minister of the Methodist Church.
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Dean of College
To Attend Dinner

DR.. w. c. Jackson, dean of the
Woman's College of the University OF
North Carolina, will come to Wash
ington to attend the annual dinner OF
the Washington Club, alumnae asso-
citation of the college, Thursday eve
ming, May 6, at the American Associa-
ton of University Women Club, 1885
street northwest. All former students
of the college are invited to attend,
and reservations can be made through
Miss Charlesana Fox on or before
May l at 1915 Sixteenth street north
west.
The activities of the club this season
have been devoted to raising funds
for the student loan and check will
be presented to Dean Jackson at the
dinner. Officers for the year are Mrs.
M. B. Satterfeld, president; Miss Alice
Rankin, vice president; Miss Miriam
Block, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs.
r. L. Mcdonald, program chairman.
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(See BY THE WAY, Page B-5.)