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structure designed for many thou
sands of people. This again would
defeat the end. as has been proven in
the past. But II such an enormous
hall is wanted, there are many ways
of getting around the difhculty Of
size by studying some Of those already
in operation in various cities where
special devices shut the hall of for
the desired number. The main points
are the questions of acoustics, stage
and location, with the last perhaps
the most important. No matter how
ideally constructed, If the auditorium
is situated in an inaccessible place.
its usefulness is doomed. Most every
one will stop to consider the time and
the cost of traversing the entire city
to reach a place far from the center
of town.
Naturally the question of acoustics
must be considered. The minute q
hall has the reputation Of bad acous-
tics, it is finished, as far as a paying
success is concerned. There are many
examples of bad acoustic planning
in the city which even experts brought
from Europe have been unable to rem
edy. A hall that is correct acousti-
cally for music is also correct for con-
VentionS or any other kind of assembly
where speakers or music may have to
reach the tarthest spectator. Too
much stress cannot be laid upon this
important factor, and modern science
has developed many new ideas in this
respect.
I LIKEWISE modern science has oc-
cupied itself with stage construc-
ton and lighting and all the new in
ventions are at the disposal of the
planners. The stage must be large
enough for large presentations, but. at
the same time, there are many inven-
tions that will allow of the diminishing
of space for a smaller platform. There
is also the idea of double stage, each
projecting into a different room that
could do service for large or small
hall. In fact, there are so many new
ideas that it would be merely a ques-
tion of choosing what suits the local
needs best. Novel experiments by
Maude Adams and by foreign theaters
in lighting have brought artistic and
labor-Saving results.
If one but studies the progress in
theatrical presentation from the time
when Wagner wrote so voluminously
on the subject to the present day.
when the keenest minds have seen
the immense possibilities in it, one
would be full of enthusiasm. We, in
Washington. have a serious problem
before us, one that has been talked
about continuously, but the solving of
which has stopped with talking.
Since the Inauguration the subject
has come up in a way to indicate that
at last something constructive is to be
done about it. and in this the musi-
clans should be most vitality interested.
But, like all things connected with
music, unfortunately, We will not be
taken seriously unless extra effort is
put forth. If nothing comes of the
project now, when will such an oppor-
tunity arise again?
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Lovette Club Event.

"FcHoEs OF ERIN" the fifth call
endar event Of the season. will
be presented by the Lovette Choral
Club on Monday at $50 o'clock In the
club room Of the District of Columbia
League of American Pen Women,
Grafton Hotel. Associate members
and guests Of members are invited.
Louise K. Hartung. president, will
be the hostess and Mrs. Roscoe King
is in charge of the program. Evelyn
Scott, violinist, will be the assisting
artist. Artist club members appear
ing on the program include Hazel
Cake, soprano; Francise Bass Wilson.
mezzo-soprano, and Elsie Cranmer,
the club accompanist, who will be
piano soloist. The Choral Club will
be heard in an ensemble number.
Folk dances will be given by a
group including Marjorie McGann,
Carol Shea, Kathleen Davis and
Gloria Cone; also dances by Eileen
Jordan, all from the Alice Louise
Hunter School Of Dance.
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CLUB TO PRESENT
LECTURE RECITAL

ETHEL PYNE, soprano. will assist
Julia E. Schelling in a Wagnerian
lecture recital for the music section
of the Twentieth Century Club on
Tuesday at 3 o'clock She will be ac-
companied by Nation Boyce.
Miss Pyne, formerly of New York
City, has appeared professionally in
more than 125 cities in the United
States and Canada, in concerts. re-
citals, as soloist with orchestras,
church engagements and radio. Her
repertoire includes operatic arias, con-
cert songs, ballads, oratorios and
church music in seven languages.
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for mass events, the gigantic enter-'
prises staged in the auditoriums Of the
leading cities from coast to coast,
bring home with real conviction the
sincere desire for more and better
music that will reach every type of in
dividual to brighten daily lives. The
sad part about all these hiStory-mak-
ing events is that none Of them can
take place in the Nations Capital, and
why? Because there is no adequate
building where such large enterprises
can be held.
What about the proposed audito-
rum? Are the leading musicians OF
the city doing their duty toward max
ing clear the absolute need for such a
place, and are they doing their best to
have a properly equipped hall for mu-
sic included in any of the planning?
One cannot reiterate too often the
great necessity for two things, large
and a small hall for music events.
And what is more important still, not
Just any kind of hall will do. There
must be constructed an auditorium
specially designed for music, yet in
spite OF these specifications, 1t need
not be put aside exclusively for music.
Whatever is done to make nall suit
able for musical presentations will also
benefit those who use it for any other
purpose.
AS THE season draws to close
"A every one who attends concerts
must be impressed with the dearth OF
proper halls. Constitution Hall Is
ideal, but it has its limitations. Where
are the smaller halls, conveniently To-
Gated, where events that will draw but
small audience can be given In COM
fort to all concerned? In all this
lovely city of beautiful and grandiose
buildings there is not one place that
one can point to with pride as a real
temple of the greatest gift of God to
man, music. Surely this state OF az
fairs has gone on long enough and 1t
Is time that we energetically plan for
q remedy.
The chief asset of such an under
taking, but one difficult to impress
halls would be self-supporting. There
would be no need for charity or for
many months to pass before financial
results would be apparent. Siaply to
make q list of all the musical and
dance events of the year, big or small,
with the cost of the halls beside them
would give an idea of a round sum
that could be, offhand, counted upon
If combined in one direction. Add to
this the many choral, student and
like events that come every season
and the sum augments. Many more
schools, teachers and music clubs
would be glad to increase their public
presentations if they knew there was
an attractive place TO give them. Not
only that, but more artists and more
attractions could be brought here if
that question, Where could it be
held?" did not always remain unan-
swerable.
- ND in speaking of an auditorium
there is no need to visualize vast
Evening star., 1937-03-06

Friday Morning Music Club
will present Evelyn Scott,
violinist; Dorothy Sherman
a Pierson, soprano. and Alice
Brooks. pianist, on Friday at 1l:30
am. at Barker Hall. Y. w. c. A.
A special musical service will :.
given tomorrow evening at 8 O'Clock at
Foundry M. E. Church by the Male
Glee Club Of Washington Missionary
College In the absence Of the direc-
tor Prof. William F. Schadel. Justin
Lawrie will conduct. The soloist at
tomorrow mornings service will be
Evelyn Baird Long. soprano.
Elizabeth Gates. pianist graduate Of
the Won Unschuld University of Music.
will play at the reception for State
officers given by the Catherine Mont
gomery Chapter and for the Martha
Washington Chapter, D. A. r.. and
will give piano recital this Spring.
Miss Gates has recently played at the
Political Study Club the Native Club.
the Lucy Holcomb Chapter. the Mary
Bartlett Chapter and the Abigail Hart
man Rice Chapter. D. A. R.: the Ia
koma Women's Club and at the Arling-
ton County Red Cross benefit.
At the Y W. C. A. music hour to-
morrow at o'clock, the program will
be given by Elsa Busch and Margaret
Hall. duo-pianists Of the music faculty
of st. Timothy's School, Catonsville,
Nd.
Mabel Flehr. contralto, will assist
Lewis Atwater in program of music
by Franz List at All Souls Church,
Unitarian, on tomorrow afternoon at
5 o'clock.
The first half Of the Passion Ac-
cording to st. john" by Johann
Sebastian Bach, will be given at
Concordia Lutheran Evangelical
Church. Twentieth and G streets
northwest, tomorrow at O'Clock in
the evening by the Concordia Cantata
choir. The soloists are Cathreen
Carrico. Henrietta Flynn, Raymond
Escherich. David Raab. Howard
Bursley, Howard Samsel and William
Thomas.
During March. at services of the
Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Mrs.
Frank Akers Frost, the organist and
choir director, will use four more Of
the offertories recently composed by
Mrs. Dudley C. jackson, organist Of
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SHAWN is WRITING
ARTISTIC HISTORY

THE development Of an entirely new
art form, uniting the athlete with
the artist, is accredited by critics to
Ted Shawn, leader of the notable
group Of man dancers who will give
a single performance in Washington
at Constitution Hall. Monday evening,
March Is.
The startling idea of an entire eve
nings program for man dancers was
first evolved by Mr. Shawn three years
ago, and he resolved to venture q sea-
sons tour Shawn now laughs at the
tribulations Of that inauspicious start
in 1888.
On financing as slim as the pro-
verbal shoestring, the group took OH
from New York in a motor cavalcade
of third-hand cars, which the dancers
had to drive themselves. The artistic
adventures ate 15-cent lunches when
necessary, changed tires when blow
outs occurred in lonely places in the
midst of snowstorms, unpacked the
show, hung the scenery and lights and
played before audiences of farmers
and cowboys clear to the coast.
In a small Texas town an organiza-
tion of so cowhands announced they
were going to break up the show, OBJ
jecting ION principle" to man dancers.
But the brilliant performance 50 inter-
ested then that they forgot their
threats completely.
From such pioneer adventuring the
Shawn dancers in three years won
complete recognition. Now they are
regarded as authentic creators Of q
significant and virile art form. They
come to Washington fresh from a
series of spectacular successes in this
country, England and Cuba, where
they have been writing artistic his
tory with their imaginative and bril-
liant choreography.
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Monthly Musicale.

THE Felicia Ryder Music Club will
give its monthly musicale We'd
nesday at $50 pm. The participating
artists will be Louise Bernheimer.
cellist; Frances Jackson, meZzo-so-
prano, and Helen Spasoff, pianist.
Helen Herbert-Peck. a student Of
Irish in America. will give Lady Greg
ory's Rising of the Moon" Cards
will be sent out.
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Solos,
Old Melody
OnProgran1
Nine. Brosius Takes
Some Selections
From Bards.

EDYTHE MARMION BROSIUS,
concert harpist, will be heard in
recital at the Sulgrave Club on Fri
day afternoon at 4:3O O'Clock. Nine.
Brosius has arranged many Of the
old melodies used by the bards of
Scotland, Wales and Ireland for the
Irish harp and will include several
in her program, which will be given
in the following order:
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Singer at Roosevelt.

pITA ROZADA, noted mezzo-con-
tralto, will be presented in concert
tomorrow evening at $50 o'clock at
the Roosevelt Hotel in a varied pro-
gram, wearing Spanish costume.
Nine. Ro2ada, who is Of Spanish ex-
traction, will sing several Spanish
songs.
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Artists on Club PROGRAM,

HELEN TURLEY, contralto, will
= sing with the Schubert Singers at
the third adventure in music which
Mary liant Couch will conduct on
Thursday at $50 o'clock at the Wom-
ems City Club. 736 Jackson place. The
title Of this program is "Minstrels and
Troubadours" The Schubert Singers
are under the direction Of Mrs. Chester
Adair.
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Song Recital at Howard u.

THE next recital in the Howard Uni
versity concert series will be given
on March 16 by Louise Burge, con-
tralto. Miss Burge is a graduate Of
the School Of Music at Howard Uni
versity and has held a scholarship in
the Juilliard Graduate School for
three years.
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"Symphonologue" at Club.

"Symphonologue" at Club.
ON THURSDAY evening the Arts
Club will give another in the
series Of symphonologues, when the
program will include q discussion Of
the works to be played by the National
Symphony Orchestra during the
month of March. Charles Edward
Russell, who received his symphonic
education under the great musical
pioneer, Theodore Thomas. will dis
cuss the music, stressing particularly
the Brahms &C Minor Symphony" as
sisted by Marjorie Davis at the piano.
Friends Of the club who are interested
viii be welcome.
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Miss SWarthOut Gives
Only Recital Tomorrow
With Well-BalancedP Program-Lawrence
Tibbett Later in Month.


Gladys
Constitution Hall
Dorothy Hodgkin
eighth attraction Mrs Ds 1s7 Sunday afternoon
at Constitution Hall
swarthout Metropolitan
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Suitable Hall for Music
Needed by Capital City
Mass Events Held Elsewhere in Music Week
Are Reminders of Washington's Loss
in This Entertainment Line.
Bv Alice EverSman.

ANNOUNCEMENTS have been pouring in for some time Of the plans
festival
~ music Merely
successfully operated to
adults and children recruited
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Georgetown
GleeClubin
HOnneEVent
Campus Concert Has
Mid-Lenten Place at
University.

TOMORROW evening the George
town University Glee Club, male
chorus consisting of 40 voices. under
the personal direction of Edward p.
Donovan, will present its annual mid
Lenten concert on the university
campus in CASTOR Hall The Glee Club
will be assisted by Joseph M. Barbecot,
baritone, and students orchestra.
Mr.. Barbecet, who is we'll known in
musical circles, has sung with the
club before
During the last two months the
Glee Club has appeared before many
colleges and varied audiences in Wash
ington and Baltimore, including the
Massachusetts Society, the Phi Beta
Kappa Association OF Washington and
the Knights of Columbus.
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SONG RECITAL AT
WASHINGTON CLUB

NINE. SARA FLAKsHAAR will pre-
sent Sanford Donaldson, bari
tone, in a song recital at the WASH
ington Club on Wednesday evening at
$3.50 o'clock. The assisting artist will
be Crete Won Bayer, pianist, and Vic
tor Neal will be the accompanist. Mr..
Donaldson has appeared in concert
several times this season, recently
assisting Nine. Flakshaar in joint
recital under the auspices of the
League of American Pen Women. The
program for Wednesday evening will
be as follows:
"Der Wanderer' ------ Schubert
s'Mondnacht" ------------Sch Schumann
"Fruhlingsnacht" --S Schumann
thinner Leise Wird Mein schlummer"
''vergebliches Standchen'' Brahms
sTiebliche Wangen" Brahms
"Raindrop Prelude Chopin
"Fantasie 1mpromptu" Chopin
Crete Won Bayer.
''Die Loreler' - Franz Liszt
eMorgen" Richard Strauss
''Thine Eyes 50 Blue -Lassen
'The crying Of waters" -Campbell-Lipto
wotan's "Abschied Won Brunhilde,'
from the opera Die Walkure."
Richard Wagner
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Tunes. to be announced. of the ancient
harpers of Scotland Wales and Ire
land, played on the Irish harp. CAR
ranged by E. NJ. b
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
MRS. GEORGE c. LOGAN

Mrs. Clara B. Logan, aged sc
years, wife of George G. Logan, of
Rowlandville, died Wednesday night,
April %, at the Homeopathic Hospit-
al, Wilmington, following an opera
tion sustained the Monday previous.
Private funeral services were held
at her late home Saturday afternoon,
and interment made in Hopewell
cemetery.
Surviving, besides her husband,
who conducts a general merchandise
ing business at Rowlandville, are two
daughters and one son, Mrs. Dorothy
Reardon, Of Rowlandville, Mrs. Lucy
Holcomb, Kennett Square, and John
r. Logan, at home. Three sisters
also survive, Mrs. Edna James, All
dubon, N. j., Mrs. Pearl FiEney.
Frazier, Pa, and Mrs. Maud Young,
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Logan was daughter of the
late Benjamin F. and Ellen Riley.
and was born in Keyser, West Va,
but the greater part of her life had
been spent in Rowlandville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
HOOK AND LINE FISHERMEN
ORGANIZE

The hook and line" fishermen of
this county held public meeting u
the Court House, Elkton, Wednes-
day evening, May 5, at o'clock, with
the express purpose of forming an
Anglers Club, to investigate the
ponds and streams of this county,
and find ways and means Of stocking
same.
The meeting was sponsored by
Theodore Brown, Of Rising Sun, one
of Cecil county's most enthusiastic
fishermen.
This county has for some unex-
planned reason been sorely neglected
by the department in Maryland hav-
ing charge of stocking and investi-
eating the streams in this State.
Almost every other county in the
State has received its share of bass,
pike, trout and other game fish, but
outside of Conowingo Lake, Cecil
county has been entirely left out of
the States Conservation program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

This is to give notice that the sub
scriber of Cecil County, has obtain
ed from the Orphans Court of said
County, Letters of Administration on
the Personal Estate of
KEYS GARRIS
late of said county, deceased. Ali
persons having claims against the
said deceased are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated, on or be-
fore the 7th day of November, 1887,
they may otherwise, by law be ex-
Guided from all benefits of said estate.
All indebted to said estate are Ie-
quested to make immediate payment
to the subscriber.
Given under my hand and seal this
28th day of April, 1887.
CHARLIE GARRIS,
Administrator.
True Copy--Test:-
JESSE PIERSON. Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
ROGER s. TAYLOR

Roger s. Taylor, of Conowingo,
widely-known superintendent of the
Susquehanna Power Company, died
at the Maryland General Hospital,
Baltimore, on Tuesday, April 81, fol-
lowing an illness of about four
weeks duration. He was born fifty
five years ago in England and came
to the United States at the age of
sixteen. He had been in the employ
of the Philadelphia Electric Company
for twenty-one years, and for the
past twelve years had been station
superintendent at the Conowingo
electric plant.
Mr.. Taylor was vice-president and
treasurer at various times of the Bel
Air Rotary Club, was a past master
of Excelsior Lodge No. 491, member
of Signet Royal Arch Chapter No.
251 and was an active member of
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, American Society Of Me-
chanical Engineers, Pennsylvania
Electric Association, Edison Electric
Institute and was an active member
of Grace Memorial Protestant church
of Darlington.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Sarah ].
Taylor. he is survived by one daugh-
ter, Miss F. Eleanor Taylor, one son,
Mr.. Roger S. Taylor of Ardmore, Pa;
one grandson, Roger s. Taylor, Jr.
His mother, Mrs. Mary Taylor Of
Philadelphia, and three brothers and
two sisters, also survive.
Funeral services were held at II
O'Clock Saturday, at Grace Memorial
Church, Darlington, the Rev. Ken
meth Albaugh fficiating. Interment
was made in West Laurel cemetery,
Philadelphia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
INVITATION ATHLETIC MEET TO
BE HELD MAY is
High School Students From Eastern
Shore Counties Will Participate
State Teachers College SpOn-
sOrs Movement

An athletic event of particular in
terest to high school students and
their friends is the Invitation Athle-
tic Meet to be held on the grounds of
the State Teachers College at Sails
bury on Saturday, May 10. The col
lege, under whose auspices this first
Invitation Meet" is being held has
sent announcements and entry blanks
to the high schools in the Eastern
Shore counties. From the interest
being shown in this field and track
event, the college athletic instruc-
tors, Miss Helen Jamart and Mr..
Benn Maggs, expect many entries.
Representatives from the various
high schools will compete for the
large felt banner which the college
will award the high school winning
the greatest number of points. In
addition to the prize for the school,
Miss Jamart and Mr.. Maggs, who are
in charge of the meet, announce that
badges will be given to the first, the
secand, and the third place winners
IN each event.
In order to give high schools hav-
ing a small enrolment an even
chance with those having large en-
rollment, the following regulations
have been agreed upon: high school
may not enter more than 20 individ-
ual girls, and 20 individual boys in
the meet; a girl may be entered in l
field event, track event, and in vol
ley ball; boy may be entered in 1
track event, / field event, and in
speed ball. it is understood that sub
situations may be allowed upon the
presentation of an authentic excuse.
Weights are not considered for eligi-
bility in any events.
Events for the girls are: run and
catch relay, SO yeard dash; broad
jump, high jump, volley ball. The
mems events are listed as: 100 yard
dash, 22O yard dash, 440 yard dash,
$50 yard run; medley relay, speed
ball, pole vault, discus, javelin, rum
ming broad jump, running high jump,
shot put.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
MOTHERS WAY

The best kind of tribute for Mothers
Day
Is to try to do things in Mothers
way.
Is Mother honest, and kind, and
true?
Then that is the way that you should
do.
Is Mother brave as the day is long?
Then try to face life with a cheerful
song.
Does she deny herself for others?
Ills not amiss in those not moth
ers.
Yes, Mother is human, and so are
you;
But try to be her Ideal come true.
And then, when she's proud of you,
some day,
Just tell her you're doing things
Mothers way.
Una c.. Rands.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
JOHN BLACKBURN, SIR.

John H. Blackburn, Sr., aged S8
years, life long resident Of the up
per Cecil county section, passed away
suddenly at the home of his son John
H. Blackburn, Jr., at Colora, April
80. The deceased was miller by
trade, and one of the oldest residents
of this section, having been born
April IA, 1849. The funeral services
were held Monday, May 3rd, in West
Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
with interment in adjoining GENE
terry Mr.. Blackburn Is survived by
four sons, Clifford and George, of
Port Deposit; Albert, of Colora, and
John H., Jr., with whom he had made
his home since the death of his wife
twenty-five years ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
ORPHANS COURT

Bond of Charlie Garris, admins
traitor of Keys Garris; bond of Grace
Wells Donovan, Administrative C. t. a
of Jesse B. Minker; bond of Harriet
Owens, executrix of T. Morgan Ow-
ems; bond of Lidie ]. Fluffy, admins
tratrix of John Fluffy; bond of Rus
sell M. George, administrator of Sar-
ah NJ George Potts; bond of Rose M
Constable, administrative of Alice S.
Drennen; fifth and final account of
The Elkton Banking and Trust Com
pany; first and final account of Tho
mas Mitchell Garrett, executor of
Clarence Williamson Garrett; first
and final account of Hedwig E.
Mack, executrix of Bruno o. E. Mack,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-07
ORDER NIsI

In Re. The Mortgaged Real Estate
of Richard NJ. Balderston and
Rachael Mckee Balderston, his wife
In the Circuit Court for Cecil County.
In Equity No. 5167
ORDERED, BY the Circuit Court
for Cecil County, in Equity, this 10th
day of March, 1887, that the sale of
property mentioned in these proceed
ings, made and reported by VIM.
Pepper Constable, Assignee of Mort
gage for the purpose of collection
and foreclosure, be ratified and con-
firmed unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the
Srd day of June, 1887, provided a
copy of this order be inserted in
some weekly newspaper, printed and
published in Cecil County, State of
Maryland, once a week for one month
before the Srd day of May, 1887,
next.
The report states the amount of
sale to be 100000.
WALTER E. BUCK,
Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
WALTER E. BUCK,
Clerk.