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Evening star., 1937-05-29
PIANO PRIZE WON
BY WASHINGTONIAN
NTTO ORTMANN director Of ,

OTTO ORTMANN, director of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music,
Baltimore, announces that Glenn Ca
row of Washington is the first recipi-
ent of the Elizabeth Distler Piano
Prize Of sl00 for excellence in piano
playing. Mr.. Carow, who is pupil
of Alexander Sklarevski, was one of
seven contestants for the prize. which
was awarded by judges selected from
the personnel of the Peabody Con-
servatory faculty. The contestants for
this prize are restricted to those giving
at least one individual recital during
the year, and each contestant must be
further certified by the teacher and
the director. The prize will be given
annually to Peabody student by Mrs.
John Cyrus Distler.
Evening star., 1937-05-29

group of her pupils in piano recital
this afternoon at O'Clock at the
Women's City Club. Those on the
program are Rene Wilkins, William
Cogswell, Barbara Harter, Alan Fitch,
Nancy Abbot, Ellen Mae Burgdoff,
June Ney, Nancy Wakefield, Robert
and William Hartshorn, Jacqueline
Blunt, Betty Walker, Julia Ann War
then, Harris Ball, Betty Bean, Jean
Guy and Mary Graves.
State honor roll certificates (seven
pieces) with high honor won in the
recent local piano playing tournament
will be presented to June Ney, Jacque-
line Blunt and Betty Walker; national
honor roll certificates 90 pieces to
Betty Bean, and national honor roll
certificates, with high honor, to Julia
Ann Warthen, Mary Graves and Jean
Guy.
Agnes Simmons gave a farewell
Jenny Lind recital on Sunday at
White Haven, accompanied by Mrs.
F. D. Benton. This is the fourth
twilight musicale to be given by an
artist Of the Washington Opera Guild.
Mrs Simmons preceded her songs
with q short explanatory talk on epi-
sodes In the life Of Jenny Lind, and
was costumed in an exact copy Of the
gown worn by that singer on her first
American tour Mrs. Simmons will do
extensive concert work In the West,
where she will make her home during
the next few years.
Evangeline Tully gave program at
Opportunity House Sunday afternoon.
She was accompanied by Marie Morris,
director of these musical events.
The Baptist Sunday School Union
of the District of Columbia and vicinity
will hold Spring Music Festival
tomorrow at $3.50 pm. at Shiloh Baptist
Church, Rev. Earl L. Harrison, pastor.
More than 800 children Of 16 Sunday
schools from this city and vicinity are
expected to participate in this festival
held under the supervision Of the
music department. Ct the union.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
PIANO GROUPS
TO BE PRESENTED

THE Emery Studios are presenting
the piano students Of Dorothy
Radde Emery, Villa semple, lone
Hoffman and Jessica Hartman in
series Of recitals beginning this after
noon with the Beginners Glass, fol-
lowed by a recital by four of the ad-
vanced students. to be held at the
studio of Villa Semple, 2007 I street.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. Lewis M.
Bartlett will open her home for a re-.
cital by the eight students winning
honors on the District, State and ma
tional honor rolls Of the piano tourna-
ment. The fourth recital, of inter-
mediate and advanced students, will
be held Thursday evening at the
Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
In Local Music Circles

Jane Devers, Louise Saunders, Marjory
Nell Tinkle, Vivian Long, Betty Kiger,
Viola Gompf, Virginia Jones, Mary
Brookings, Polly Stephenson, Anna
Lou Talbot, Robert Berry, Cameron
Robets and Robert Gahagan, assisted
by Mrs Albert M. Briggs, soprano
soloist, and John Kiger, jr., violinist.
The third Of the series Of recitals
will be held the first week in June.
The INSTRUMENTATION Chorus
will render special program at the
Vermont Avenue Baptist Church fea-
turing gospel and spiritual songs
under the auspices of the young peo-
Pile of the Vermont Avenue Baptist
Church at $50 pm. on Friday, Dea-
con George E. Onley sponsoring the
program. Rev. c. T. Murray is pastor.
Sigma Alpha Iota, national hon.
orary sorority, will hold a dinner and
business meeting for its Washington
alumnae on Thursday evening at the
Highlands, Connecticut avenue and
California street. Reservations may
be made through Hazel Brown Piers.
A musicale was presented by Ed
ward j. Henneberry Sunday afternoon
at 1880 Sixteenth street, when the fol-
lowing musicians were heard: Lenore
McComas, Norma Henneberry, Edward
,Jnhn CnnninU ir "a rle
jr.; Fern Duey Schneider and Fran
cesco Della-Lana. The program was
concluded by group OF numbers by
Mr.. Henneberry
Martha Gwinn, Baltimore pianist,
and Mrs. E. Colvin, jr., soprano, &C
companied by Ethel Martin Blackwell
gave benefit concert for the Regional
Scholarship Fund of Radcliff COL
lege at the home of Mrs. Jouett Shouse
Sunday afternoon. The concert was
sponsored by the Radcliff Club Of
Washington.
Ruth Pinch will present number
OF her pupils in recital on Saturday
afternoon, June S, at 3:3O in her coun-
try studio at Hillmead. Those taking
part are Alice Garner, Jane Gray,
Anne and Nancy Nilsson, Ann and
George Myers, Alicia Noval, Ida Hume
Peach, Margery Teal, Betty Blue,
Jimmy Morrison, Gilbert H. and Fran
els Gloyd Await, Patty Sutton and
Margie Kempton.
Marvin Gardner, baritone, will give
recital on Wednesday at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis NJ Bartlett,
451l Argyle terrace. He will be ac-
companied by Dorothy Emery. Mr..
Gardner sang for the National League
Of American Pen Women at the Will
lard Hotel in April and as assistant
artist recently in a concert in Pierce
Hall.
Iva Loughlen Guy Is presenting q
Evening star., 1937-05-29
FEDERATION TO BE
BALTIMORE GUEST

THE 1889 biennial convention of the
National Federation of Music
Clubs will be held In Baltimore, it was
announced by Mrs. Vincent Hilles
Ober. national president. The prob
able time is May and the exact dates
will be decided later
In selecting Baltimore the COM
mittee was motivated in part because
OF the especially strong financial guar
antee. the largest in its convention
history, because a ST 900 prize for the
young artists contests has already
been donated, and because the prox-
unity of Baltimore to New York's
World Fair, which will then be in
progress, will constitute an additional
inducement to delegates.
The Baltimore Music Club, one Of
the largest and best known music
clubs in the country, will be host
for the affair, but the invitation comes
from all the musical organizations Of
the city, including the Peabody Con-
servatory Of Music.
The arrangements as to hotel and
convention headquarters will be left
to Biennial Program Committee, to
be appointed at the September meet
ing Of the Board of Directors of the
federation to be held in Chattanooga.
While detailed program plans will also
be left to the committee, it Is known
that symphonic and choral music will
pair ho Streesnd os of the hjon nj Ia |
of 1887.
So successful was the children's con-
cert at the recent biennial convention
in Indianapolis that the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, under the di-
rection of Ernest Schelling, will prob
ably be invited to give children's
concert, Mr.. Schelling having estab-
lished a particularly enviable reputa-
ton in this important field.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
, YLVIA KAPLOWITZ of the
Homer L. Kilt Studios of
/ Music will present a series Of
, three recitals during the month

Homer L. Kit Studios of
Music will present a series Of
- three recitals during the month
Of June.
Frederick Farris, accordionist, and
Rita Rubenstein, pianist, will be pre-
sented on Sunday, June 6, at $3.50
pm, at the Homer L. Kilt recital hall,
1880 G street. Mervin Cohen, &C
cordionist, and Miriam Madden,
pianist, will be presented on Sunday,
June 13, at $3.50 pm, at the same
recital hall.
Sunday evening. June 20, at 8
o'clock, at the Playhouse, 1914 N
street, Mrs KaploWitz will present
her advanced group in an accordion
and piano recital.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend any or all three of these recitals.
The May meeting of the Lyric Music
Club Dorothy Sherman Pierson, di-
rector, will be held at the home of
the treasurer, Mary Ellen Folmer,
Tuesday evening. A paper on the
subject OF the evening, Handel will
be read by Florence Dordell, and the
following members will participate in
singing Handel songs: Ethel West
Bonuso, Eileen Burger, Mary Ellen
Folmer, Nina E. Gardner, Thelma
Burger, Elizabeth Grant, Edna
Cecilia Moreland, Betty Sando,
Inbebord Stone and Kathryn Waltz
with Edith B. Athey at the piano.
Violet Warren Pierson will also en-
tertain with appropriate readings.
Edwin Porter Brereton, pupil Of
Washington Musical Institute, as
sisted by Louis Potter, jr., cellist; Ed
ward Dawson, accompanist, presented
q musical program on Thursday, May
20. in the recital hall of the institute.
Mrs. David c. Book presented a
number of her pupils in piano recital
on Friday evening at her studio in
Rosemont. This was the first Of series
of recitals to be held and the following
pianists were heard: Beverly Allen,
Lillian Miller, Mary Kennedy, Frances
Kidd, Courtney Lynch, Lula Frances
Moss, Betty Strader. Betty Clark,
Jennie Amann, Martha Lou May.
Jean Hulfsh, Joyce Wood, Barbara
Briggs, Leila Payne, Nancy Washing
ton, Annie Jones, Marguerite Bailey,
Elizabeth Briggs, Helen Dunn, Betty
Kiger, Margaret Eddington, Clara
Jayne, Robert May and Robert Gaha-
gan assisted by Rosalmira Colonro,
contralto soloist of Washington, D. C.
The second of the series of reci-
tails was held on Saturday afternoon
and the following pupils were pre-
sented: Jane Wallace, Jennie Amann,
Harriet Hammond, Marcy Morris,
Betty Long, Joan Hulfish, Beatrice
Wishard, Ellen Babcock, Alberta
~4ggs, Katherine Anderson, Anita
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Return Visit
by
Ballet Russo
Monte Carlo Dances
to be Given Here
Next Season.

DEF1NITE plans to bring the Monte
Carlo Ballet Russo to Washing
ton for a return engagement with the
National Symphony Orchestra next
March and 10 were announced last
week by the orchestra's management.
The famous ballet company will ap-
pear in two programs, both entirely
different from the performances given
with the orchestra last Winter A high
light of this second engagement will
be a presentation Of Debussy's After
noon Of Faun."
This number and many others will
be staged in the same brilliant man
ner as were last years programs. In
fact, 1t was the success OF the per-
formances last year that led to the
completion Of plans to once more COM
bine the Monte Carlo organization
with the National Symphony.
Previous to last year the Ballet
Russo de Monte Carlo had made al
most annual appearances in Washing
ton. Its wide following more than
filled the theater In which the troupe
gave its performances. A year ago,
when it was announced that for the
first time the ballet would appear in
Washington combined with a complete
symphony orchestra-and one Of the
Nations major orchestras, at that
unprecedented enthusiasm broke out
as lovers Of both the symphony and
the ballet anticipated the concerts.
At the same time there were many
who feared that the ballet perform
ances, even with the support Of SYM
phony orchestra, could not be ef1ec-
lively staged without the property IA
cilities OF regular theater. But so
convinced were DR.. Kinder and ballet
directors OF the need for adequate
symphonic support for the company's
interpretations that they became de-
termlned to overcome all obstacles.
They met the test by placing on the
programs here some Of the most diff
cult and spectacular numbers in the
Ballet Russo repertoire One evening
the "Choreartium," the ballet's su-
perb Interpretation of Brahms Fourth
Symphony" WAS staged, while on the
other evening of the engagement there
was presented the brand-new ballet
Interpretation OF Berlioz's Symphony
Fantastic"
So enthusiastic were the audiences
that crowded Constitution Hall for
both concerts that re-engagement of
the company for the symphony's 1887
38 season has been taken for granted
since.
Next seasons programs also will in
clude numbers which require a large
orchestra to set them of to best ad-
vantage. Debussy's Afternoon of q
Faun," q work which all the great
symphony orchestras keep in their
concert repertoire, is such a number
Essential to any successful interpreta-
ton through the medium of ballet
would be a finished performance by
complete symphony orchestra.
Or. Kinder, announcing plans for
presenting the Ballet Russo here again,
stressed the fact that the programs
will consist of sets Of ballets entirely
different from those presented last
year. One OF the concerts will be in
the symphony's midweek series of con-
certs, and will be one Of the features
offered patrons who obtain season
tickets.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
SLAVIC SOCIETY
GIVES PROGRAM

ON WEDNESDAY evening at 8:45
o'clock, at the residence Of Mrs.
w. Duncan McKim, l7Ol Eighteenth
place, given for the members Of the
Slavic-American Society of Music and
fine arts, Elena de Sayn, president,
through the courtesy Of Mrs. McKim.
Mrs. McKim, formerly Leonora Jack
son, violonist of European and Ameri-
can fame, will present a formal
program of violin music; accompani-
ments will be played on the piano
and the organ. Mrs. McKim has the
distinction of having been decorated
by several crowned heads of Europe
before the war, and appeared as soloist
with the worlds greatest orchestras.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
MUSIC TEACHER
OFFICERS NAMED

A DDITIONAL officers Of the WASH
ington Music Teachers Associa-
tion unanimously reelected at the
last business meeting are: Treasurer,
Dorothy Nef Tyler; programs, Mabel
Duncan; membership, Myron Whit
ney, and hospitality, Eta Schmid
Wells. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, who is
member Of the board as representa-
tive OF the associate members, also
was re-appointed by the president of
the association, Mrs. Hugo Hessel-
bach.
Evening star., 1937-05-29

meeting artists, and We get some very
Yes, sir, some very fine ones t. Why,
only day before yesterday I had an
other one on this une!"
"You did," I asked him, "and who
was that?" He seemed to enjoy my
curiosity, for he added: Guess who?"
I told him I hadn't an idea
well. all right, Ill tell you who it
was. Eddie Cantor. You know him,
don't you?"
told him no, I didn't have that
pleasure, and asked him whether he
had been as funny as he was supposed
to be.
Funny? No, he wasn't funny!"
Whereupon I inquired what he
might have been doing In the neigh
borhood. why, he was singing in q
concert at Raleigh"
Eddie Cantor, a concerto" I asked
in establishment.
He answered, Sure, why not?"
A sudden suspicion had come over
me and I asked him, Are you sure
1t was Eddie Cantor?"
Sure as can be-"
persisted, Are you positive 1t
was he?"
why, yes, why not?"
Couldn't it possibly have been Mel
son Eddy?"
Another big smile, and, "Oh, now,
sure 'nough, that's right, that's who
it was-Nelson Eddy. I got them
mixed up!"
So much for fame!
THE next day, on my return trip,
I was reading a book, when sud-
denly heard a voice next to me say,
And how's Mr.. Kinder these days?"
looked up and here was Nelson him.
self. I hadn't seen him in 10 years.
Before that time we had both lived
in Philadelphia and given concerts
together. And I was pleased to see
that he had changed but little-per-
haps trif1e more gray at the temples,
few lines here and there-but with
the same nice, big, open-faced smile
on his Irish countenance.
was naturally delighted to meet
him, and asked him to sit down. We
reminisced about the "old days" and
after while told him the story of
the railroad conductor and the mix
up of the Eddies. He doubled up
with laughter, and 1t warmed the
cookies OF my heart to see how COM
pletely unspoiled he had remained, in
the face OF the kind of success which
would have turned the head Of many
another man.
Suddenly an idea came to me, and
on the spur of the moment I asked
him: Tell me what are you inner
reactions, both as q man and as an
artist. toward the particular kind OF
| adulation which is yours these days?"
A rather weary and wistful look
came over his face. and he asked me
what thought was rather pathetic
question in return, Would you believe
me if I told you the TRUTH" II
nothing else would have made me be-
| lieve in his innate honesty, his hearty
roar at the story at his expense would
have, and I told him 30.
We'll" he answered. you see that
man over there" pointing to his man.
ager across the aisle, who was having
an advantage over both Of us by sleep.
ing the sleep Of the just, well, /.
that man could guarantee me at the
beginning Of the season that I coulc
travel without having to get out Al
the wrong side Of the train upon my
arrival In a city where concert i
announced for a certain date; II
wouldn't have to 60 through boilel
rooms in order to get to my room il
the hotel: If I wouldn't have to &
through the ordeal OF thousands upor
thousands Of autographs during tn,
course Of the season, not to talk O.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
TO GIVE
RECITAL SUNDAY

ELIZABETH GATES, pianist, will be
presented by Nine Marie Won Un-
schuld in piano recital at the
Women's City Club, Sunday, June 6,
at BIS. Miss Gates has included in
her program compositions of Bee
thoven, Bach, Chopin, Strauss and
LiSZt.
Evening star., 1937-05-29

the more personal annoyances, I
would guarantee him $4,000 In ad-
vance. And that Is the truth"
I DID not doubt him. Why should
not this kind OF rather maudlin
enthusiasm be distasteful to nne
and sensitive person? But 0en II I
would have doubted him I would
have seen the truth OF his remark
shortly afterward upon arrival in
Greensboro, where we had "lay.
over" Of an hour. He suggested a
cup Of coffee in the drug store Of
the station. Only few people were
in the station, but We had not been
in the drug store for longer than five
minutes when eight persons had come
up and asked him for his autograph
For the sake Of the honor Of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra I must
confess that three of them requested
| mine, too, but I am certain shone
only by reflection.
We talked some more upon our
return to our Pullman, and he ex-
pressed his very definite and clear
eyed views Of the cruelty involved in
career in Hollywood. of the fact
that some one who had been tops"
out there could never accept Sec
ondary position. and that such
| person, after the proverbial seven
fat" years, which a career out there
| lasts on the average, means abso-
lutely nothing from box Office point
OF view afterWard in the eyes of the
ones who make and break the desti-
MES of their stars.
L wouldn't want to live out there
for anything in the world after III be
through. A nice little place on the
New England Coast for me. l love
that part Of America more than any
place in the world I used to 20
there every Summer and live in a
tent. 1t was marvellous and so easy
and simple and healthy and natural!
Now I pay $4,000 year for rent in
Hollywood. and I'm only there half
the time"
He SEEMED so sincere about it
that silently wondered why he
didn't go for this ideal this very
minute, but I didn't ask him the
question. knowing only too we'll how,
after all, fame and wealth and repu-
tation and applause and success are
strong and powerful magnets.
Instead, told him I had Just ac-
quired little farm in Maryland my
self. and described it in minute and
enthusiastic detail. Boy, oh, boy"
he said, "are you lucky! The con-
ductor Of the National Symphony Or
chestra and at the same time
farmer! Well. when I get through
with the movies I'll do the same thing.
and I'll come and sing oratorios with
you and the orchestra for nothing.
That's my ideal Of singers life. You
seem to have achieved yours" he
added with rather wistful smile.
I explained that my life also had
its difficulties, its hazards and disap-
pointments and constant problems.
He understood and agreed, and within
my heart in turn understood his nos
talgic longing for escape. So we talked
and smoked for another hour, until
Winston-Sale the destination of nv
next concert, was announced.
The train stopped, the porter took
my bags and We went to the platform
together. Then we shook hands.
glad to have run across each other
once again in this curious world OF
artists who travel from one place to
the next.
AS I was walking away he shouted
after me: Listen. II you ever get
sick OF that farm Of yours, let ME
know, will you?"
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Music Donations Give
Professional Burden
Leaders Who Are Interested in Standards
for Capital Indorse Efforts to Find Remedy
for This Phase of Studio Activity.
Rv Alice EverSman.

the the when music schools and private teachers
! the Winter sessions
greatly gifted
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Nelson Eddy Confesses
He Admires Simple Life
DR.. Kinder of National Symphony Makes
Contact With Public Also and Finds Eddie
Cantor Confused With Great Singer,
BY DR.. Hans Kinder.

recent tour while going from Rock Hill to Chapel
examining
Aren't the leader Symphony
~ confessed Whereupon q sized appeared face
continued
here road
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

So far Harpo Marx has shown
no inclination to strum the unique
harp sent to him from Paris hv
Salvador Dali, surrealist. The in.
strument is strung with barber
wire!
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ROBINSON AND DAVIS
FILM COMING TO ND.
''Kid Galahad" Is Made
Order for Famous
Film Headliners

With three famous stars head
ing it's cast-Bette Davis, Edward
G. Robinson and Humphrey Bo-
gart-a drama of the prize-ring
called kid Galahad," will have
its local premiere next Thursday
at the Maryland Theatre.
Made from the best-selling
novel by Francis Wallace, ace
sports fictionist, this Warner
Bros. thriller deals not only with
those elements of the boxing ring
with which everyone is familiar,
but with the "reminiscences maneu-
vering of fighters and managers.
Eddie Robinson 0staunchly
backed by his girl friend, Fluff
played by Miss Davis( has one
contender for the championship.
Bogart has another. There's an
11-round fight for the champion
ship (said to be the most fiery
ever thrown on the screen), a duel
to the death between the two
managers after the fight, some
vast scenes OF Madison Square
Garden-and yet, withal, tender
romance between Eddie's fighter
and Eddie's sister.
Besides the three well-establish-
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
RUGGLES STAR IN
MARYLAND PICTURE
''Turn Off the Moon" Is
Paramount's Newest
Musical Comedy Hit

Music and laughter are equal
ingredients mixed in liberal pro
portion in "Turn Off the Moon"
Paramount's newest musical com
edy hit which begins on Monday
at the Maryland Theatre.
Charlie Ruggles heads the cast
of movie and radio stars assembl-
ed for this latest must on your
movie list. He is aided by Flea
more Whitney, Johnny Downs,
Kenny Baker, Phil Harris and his
orchestra, Ben Blue, Marjorie
Gateson and the Fanchonettes.
The latest Paramount musical
mirthquake marks the debut of
Fanchon, famous for her Fanchon
and Marco stage units, as a full
fledged motion picture producer.
Under her expert supervision,
dance director Leroy Prinz has
created new terpsichorean craze
tanning" that Hollywood ex-
poets to be as popular as the ia
nous Charleston.
"Turn Off the Moon" is an orig
inal screen play by Marguerite
Roberts, Harlan Ware and Paul
Gerald Smith. In a light vein the
story kids astrology as royal aid
to romance and an additional
headache to Charlie Ruggles'
frustrated sweetheart.
The music was written by Sam
Coslow and includes three songs,
that are bound to be successes
That's Southern Hospitality"
Turn Off the Moon and "Jam-
ming"
IF you are square you will play
fair"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Genealogy and family trees are
OF little interest to Mae Clark
She is content to list adam and
Eve" as her most famous ances.
tors.
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ed stars previously mentioned,
there's new stad, revealed in
the person of Wayne Morris, 90
year-old who plays kid Galahad"
big handsome blond boy who
gets the name because he has
reyerent ideas about womanhood.
And new young leading lady in
the person of Jane Bryan, with
whom he falls in love.