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Evening star., 1937-05-15
In Local Music Circles

T THE closing meeting OF the
n German Literary Society to-
II night Wilhelmina Spanhoofd
1 \ Walter, soprano, will sing
lieder by Schubert, Wolf, Mahler
and Strauss, with Crete Won Bayer
at the piano, and Grace Powell. vio-
linist, will play the "A Major Sonata"
by Brahms, accompanied by Lyman
McC4ary.
The seventh and last OF a series
Of Spring recitals by piano students
OF Robert Ruckman will be given at
Barker Hall, in the Y. w. c. A.
Building at Seventeenth and K streets,
on Thursday evening at o'clock.
The following students will be
heard: Michael Agriesti, Elizabeth
Applegate. Katherine Butler. Travis
Butler, George Harvey Cain, Mar
garet Copeland, Dorothy Goebel, Ruth
Hartzell, Mary Ellen HUE, Alma
Douglas Jerome, Lillian Krick, Ethel
Minot Lehman, Robert Mead, Ruth
Nave, Barbara Nelson, Irma Nor
wood, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Ira Pearl
man, Jesse Ridgeway, Ephraim Ro-
sen, Charles Forrest Rupert, Ger
trude Sherman, David Tate and Eve
lyn Toye.
On Friday evening at $50 o'clock
in the parish hall Of the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church, Columbia
road at Fourteenth street, recital
will be given by Dorothy Raynor,
American opera soprano. Mrs. Ray
nor was with the American Opera
Co. and appeared in Washing
ton in Puccini's Madame Butterfly"
She will be accompanied by Claude
Robson The recital is being given
under the auspices Of the Fireside
Group of the church for the benefit
Of the Junior Choir. A silver offering
will be taken at the door. The public
Is cordially invited.
The Community Center Depart
ment Is in need Of good used piano
suitable for outdoors at the Wash
in9ton Monument for the Summer
festival programs, which will open
for the 1887 season about June le
to continue throughout the months
OF June, July and August under the
Joint sponsorship Of the Community
Center Department and the once Of
National Capital Parks.
Already. due to request Of Eliza
beth K. Peoples, director of the Com
munity Center Department and o1
the Summer festivals, a number oi
pianos have been offered by public.
spirited citizens of Washington, but
to date no instrument has been found
that will be able to withstand the
rigors of Summer on the Sylvan
Theater stage, where 1t Is in USE
every week for rehearsab and per-
formances
All persons having a piano which
they are willing TO donate to the
success OF this seasons Summer fes-
tivas are asked to communicate with
the Community Center Department
at the earliest possible moment.
Virginia Sellars. soprano, made hel
operate debut as Mocaela in Car
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Famed
ViOliniSts S
TOBe Heard
Programs Of Season
Are Arranged by
Philadelphians.

TWO of the most famous violinists
in the world today will appear
with the Philadelphia Symphony Or
chestra in programs in the series Of
five to be given at Constitution Hall
Tuesday evenings next season. accord
ing to the T. Arthur Smith Concert
Bureau, which has been presenting
this orchestra in Washington for more
than quarter Of century.
The opening program, october 26,
will mark the appearance Of Fritz
Kreisler. with Eugene Ormandy con-
ducting. Kreisler, master both Of the
violin and OF the art OF composing mu-
sic for 1t, has not appeared here with
orchestra for two years. Last season.
on the same date. October rs. he
opened Mrs. Dorsey's series as solo,
ist
The other great violinist, younger
than Kreisler and Hungarian,
whereas Kreisler is Viennese, who
comes with the Philadelphians on Feb
ruary l, 1898, with his fellow country
man. Ormandy. conducting. is Joseph
Szigeti. His debut in Washington was
at the Library Of Congress with the
brilliant French pianist, Alfred Cortot,
in a sonata program. Since then
Szigeti has made two tours around the
world. His debut with the Philadelphia
Orchestra under Stokowski was made
10 years ago in Beethoven's Concerto. I"
The third soloist for the series To-
cally next year Is the American bari
tone, John Charles Thomas, who first
made his mark in the popular field Of
operetta as the leading star Of Apple
Blossom Time" Then he began the
concert work which is still his most
popular field and also did great deal
Of singing in opera both here and
abroad. He was guest artist with the
former Washington Opera Co. both
before going abroad to win laurels in
France and Belgium and since. Mr.
Thomas will be soloist on the final
program OF the Philadelphia Orchestra
in Washington next season, April s,
when Eugene Ormandy will conduct.
Leopold Stokowski will lead the Or
chestra in its local program November
80 and the other Of the five programs
will be presented January II, with
Ormandy holding the baton.
Season reservations can be made
now at the Smith Concert Bureau, 9l0
G street northwest.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Sklarevski to Teach Here.

A LEXANDER SKLAREVSKI, Rus
sian pianist, will conduct master
classes in piano from June l to JULY
Is, at the studio of Rose dAmore, 1901
Connecticut avenue northwest.
A native Of South Russia, Mr..
Sklarevski started the study of the
piano at an early age, graduating
from the Imperial Conservatory in
Petrograd in 1908. His concert tours
have taken him all over the world,
including the Far East, when he filled
more than $50 engagements. After
successful appearance in the United
States and Canada, he was invited to
join the faculty Of the Peabody Con-
servatory in Baltimore, which position
he accepted in 1923 and has held con-
tinuously ever since. In addition to
his teaching, Mr.. Sklarevski continues
his solo recitals and ensemble work.
Reservations for the master classes
in Washington may be made through
Miss d'Amore.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Kinder Sails
For Musical
Tour Abroad
Symphony Chief Has
Engagements as
Guest Leader.

nR. HANS KINDER, conductor
- of the National Symphony Or
chestra of Washington, will sail for
Europe this week to fill the first Of a
series of guest conducting appear
ances for which he has been engaged
this Summer.
Sailing Wednesday aboard the liner
Normandie, DR.. Kinder will go first
to Paris. Later he visits Holland and
Belgium, where he will conduct in
The Hague, Scheveningen aid Os-
tende. His soloist in the Holland con-
certs will be Rose hampton, the Met
ropolitan Opera Company mezzo-so-
prano. In addition to filling these
and other engagements the Washing
ton conductor plans to spend consider
able time, while abroad, gathering
material to present before National
Symphony audiences in the Capital
next Winter.
Returning to the United States next
month DR.. Kinder will begin a sched-
ule of conducting engagements that
will take him all the way across the
country DR.. Kinder will be at Ra-
vinia, the beautiful Summer opera
and concert center located just north
of Chicago, in mid-July. He will be
guest conductor Of the symphony
orchestra there for concerts on July
IT, 18 and 49, Then he will start
Immediately for the West Coast, where
he will be guest conductor in the IA
nous Hollywood Bowl from July %
until August TO-
The Hollywood Bowl, the largest
natural amphitheater in the world,
will present its sixteenth season Of
Summer concerts this year. As usual
outstanding musicians, including SOLO
lists and conductors, will assemble there
from all parts of the world.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Program of Quartet.

4 IL SOULS CHURCH will present
the Cremona Quartet - Elsa
Raner and Lavada Hudgens, violins;
Inez Becker, viola, and Mabel Dun
can, cello-in concert at Pierce Hall
on Monday evening, at 8:15 o'clock.
The program will comprise Quartet
in A. Op. 80, No. g." Boccherini;
"Andante," Schubert; Londonderry
Air." arranged by Frank Bridge; ALA
spagnuola," Glasounow, and Quartet
tn A Minor, op. Il, No. l." eehumann.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

opportunity for public work in Europe,
but this only emphasizes the wrong
attitude here in America. Why must
American singers go to Europe to
have practice in operatic roles? Why
must pianists and violinists have
European concert experience before
they can interest their compatriots?
| Why must students go to Europe for
atmosphere" and spend years in
learning a foreign language and to
adjust themselves to foreign stand
ard? Why can we not create such op-
portunities and such atmosphere"
in America?
OF course, the seriousness with
which Europeans study music and
the broadening influence Of contact
with an older civilization are bene-
fetal to artists, but the American
public has such splendid access to the
best music nowadays that a romantic
setting or the novelty Of association
with other nationalties is not essential
The only thing which matters is
direction, and surely, now, we are able
to do that in music as We are able to do
it in other things. But such thinking
and working will never be stimulated
unless we can convince ourselves that
our efforts are worthy OF nationwide
recognition and support.
A few OF our artists are welcomed
abroad, and, OF course, there are
many foreign artists that we are
honored IN including in our Winter
seasons. For these, the doors are
wide open in every country. But
the lesser artists, the fine and solid
musicians, are, many Of them, helpless
against the influx Of foreigners in
positions which they could just as
we'll occupy. Many cannot earn a
living, and many eat their hearts out
in sorrow that, in spite OF all their
talent and study, they are not wanted
in their own country, but must give
way to foreigners OF no greater
ability. 1t is for the protection OF
these fine musicians and the en-
that policy of selfshness is advo-
Gated in Americans
THE future of American musicians
is a serious problem, which will
have to be solved. Above all else, we
must stand back Of each other and
generously encourage every attempt
worthy of consideration. We must be
proud of our schools and proud OF our
talented musicians, for we are greatly
gifted in this line, If we only would
recognize it. In our primary school
days We learned the proverb about
the prophet in his own country, but
surely, as adults, we do not need to
model our attitude on it. 1t would be
safe to wager that, if Americans de-
manded only native talent, the num-
Der and quality that would be
unearthed would astonish the world.
At least, it might be given a fair
trial, and there always remains the
possibility of return to our old
attitude, If We experienced
disappointment.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
JOINT OFFERING
OF TSCHAIKOWSKY

ELENA DE SAYN, violinist, and
Thora Hinshaw Seaton, lecturer,
will combine in presenting Tschai-
kowsky program Tuesday at o'clock
in the afternoon at Barker Hall, Y. w.
c. A. The program will be given under
the auspices of the music division of
the Twentieth Century Club. After
the book review of Beloved Friend" by
Mrs. Seaton, Miss De Sayn will play
the "Serenade Melancholique," "Melo-
die and the Concerto in D Major"
all OF which are Tschaikowsky's repre-
sentative compositions for the violin.
Nation Boyce will be the accompan-
list.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
SOLOS AND IUETS
BY THREE SINGERS

7 E ROY LEWIS will present in re-
cital Margaret Ecloff, soprano:
John Hall, tenor, and Robert Ewing,
baritone. on Tuesday vening at 8
o'clock at st. Andrews Parish Hall,
New Hampshire avenue and v street
northwest.
Miss Eckloff, who is 6 years old,
will make her debut as avocalist She
will be heard in a group OF solos, as
we'll as in two duets, oe with Mr..
Ewing, La ci darem la 1ano," from
Don Giovanni" by MORT, and an
other with Mr.. Hall, "Voageurs," by
Sanderson. Frederick Waver OF Bal
timore will be the acconpanist and
also will be heard in grup Of piano
solos. The public is cordlly invited.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Recital at Women's Club.

EDW1N ORLANDO SWAIN, BARI
tone, Of New York, will give a
concert at the American Association
OF University Women club house,
Monday afternoon, following tea. His
program will include wide range Of
classic and melodic songs, in which
he will be accompanied by Theodore
Webb.
Mr.. Swain is an American, born in
Florida, and received his musical
training In America, largely with
metropolitan teachers and Metropoli-
tan Opera coaches His first signal
success was the singing Of the role
of Amonasro In the opera, Aida. F"
He has appeared extensively as solo,
ht with orchestras and in recital,
festival and oratorio engagements.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
PEABODY ARTIST
IN PIANO RECITAL

4 USTIN CONRADI Of the Peabody
Institute of Music in Baltimore
will present Helen Spason in a piano
recital on Friday evening at $50
o'clock at the Washington Club, 101o
Seventeenth street.
Miss Spasof is graduate of the
Peabody Conservatory, where she has
been studying during the last two
years with Mr.. Conradi. The program
includes compositions Of Bach. Bee
thoven, Brahms, Chopin, List and
others.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Pons' Good Luck Charm.

GEVERAL years ago, when the opera
La Sonnambula" was revived at
the Metropolitan expressly for Lily
Pons, the opening night found her
extremely nervous. Just before her
first entrance she clipped small piece
Of cloth from the drop curtain and
held 1t throughout the performance.
When Gatti-Casazza smiliugly asked
her why she had done this she replied,
Tor luck"
Evening star., 1937-05-15
DOROTHY SEEGAR'S
MUSIC OFFERING

DOROTHY sEEGAR will present a
unique program Of songs, in which
she employs the elements Of voice,
dance and costume at the Wardman
Park Theater on Monday evening at
845 o'clock. Frederick Bristol, pianist,
who recently gave successful Town
Hall recital in New York, will assist
Miss Seegar. The program will be
as follows:
Women.
Court Lady.
L'EventaiI' -------J. Massenet
"Chanson de Marie Antoinette'
Myron jacobson
Amorous
Radical -' ''-
Rebel Song" Everett Stevens
"Balinese Ritual" Everett Stevens
"Old Greek Professional"
III. M.do,n. Pindar arr. BY Thierfelder
Il Extase do Ia vierge"----J. Massenet
1ntermission.
"Poissons Dor" Debussv
General IAvine tEccentric1 ---- Debussy
Prelude On. 80. No 1O" Rachmaninoff
"Etude Op. is, No. 1O'' Bortkievicz
Mr.. Bristol.
".
Songs Of the
Elegant sos.
Gay QOs.
Tickets are available at Dorothy
Dorsey's Concert Bureau In Drops,
1900 @ street northwest,
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Recital by MIR. Frauenheim.

NORMAN FRAUENHEIM, Wash
ington pianist, will give his only
recital this season at Pierce Hall,
Fifteenth and Harvard streets, on
Friday evening. May 2l, at 8:45. Mr.
Frauenheim has recently returned
from an extended tour of the South,
where he has many return engage
ments for next season, including con-
certs in many of the musical centers
of that sector.
Mr. Frauenheim's teaching activities
have been extended to New York and
Connecticut as well as Washington,
Where he maintains q studio He has
concertized in many of the worlds S
prominent cities, appearing in New
York, Paris, London and in Madrid,
under the old regime at command
performance at the palace of the In
fante Isabelle. He WAS q pupil of
Lazare Levy at the Paris Conserva-
toire and Sigismund Stojowski in New
York.
The program for May 81 follows:
Prelude and Fugue in A Minor"
"Andante With Variations in F Minor.'
| .ph.n+s,o ~ , Haydn
TaIk marx, the LARK -Schubert-Liszt
"Nocturne in F Major Chonin
"Mazurka in Sharp Minor CHOPIN
Wind Over the Plain" -Dubussy
| Isle OF Dehussy
Evening star., 1937-05-15
American Music Needs
Recognition at Home
Worthy Policy Of Selfshness Would Give
Wider Opportunities in Country Which
Shows Appreciation of Such Talents.
By Alice Eversman.

HEN the Dksen bill proposing limitation Of the importation Of
artists public
which has great bearing the future
Being the kndheaed Nation that
Evening star., 1937-05-15
us l19 No. 4-E Flat Major. A"

"Opus l19. No. 4-E Fiat Major"
This IS the closing music hour Of
the season and the programs will be
resumed early in October. The public
is cordially invited to attend these
hours.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
LAST MUSIC HOUR
AT THE Y. w. c., A.

MRS. RALPH JACOBSON. known
in Washington as Winifred
Michaelson, will be heard at the Y. W.
c. A. tomorrow at o'clock, at the
regular music hour Mrs. Jacobson is
the director of the Wilmington Music
School, Wilmington. Del, and will play
the following program:
"Psvana. the Earl Of SALISBURY
william Byrd
"Boree" - ~ Richard Jones
"Galliard'' Bull
Italian Concerto" S. Bach
Allegro giusto.
Andante.
Presto
Robert schumann
"of Foreign Lands and People
"A Curious Story"
Catch Me"
"Entreating Child"
Perfect Happiness.'
An Important Event.
"Revere"
AT the Preside
Almost Too Serious
The Child Falling Asleep"
Etudes- Frederic chopin
9Dus 9Dus e g No. No. IS IS s1st sharP nsi69 MlpoF
Intermezzi@ Johannes Brahms
opus lis. No: s-c Major:'
Opus l1s, No. 6-E Flat Minor"
Evening star., 1937-05-15

Virginia Sellars, soprano, made her
operate debut as Mocaela in Car
Evening star., 1937-12-25
INDICTMENT HINT
|NL|MER|CK CASE
Police Relax Questioning of
Mrs. Langdon Over
Holiday.

Status OF the reopened investigation
OF the mysterious murder seven years
ago of Beulah Limerick remained
unchanged today as police relaxed in
their questioning of Mrs. Rose V.
Langdon. whose arrest several days
ago in New York caused the case to
be dug out of the "unsolved" file
The only new development was an
intimation that an indictment for
murder will be sought before an arrest
Is made Just whom they expect to
arrest or will seek to indict, however,
police have refused to indicate. They
will not say even whether the suspect
Is man or woman.
Detective 1t. Floyd Truscott spent
considerable time talking yesterday to
Mrs. Langdon. whose husband. Robert
F. Langdon. was the patrolman on the
beat when the 19-year-old Limerick
girl was slain. The trend of the ques-
tioning was not revealed.
Still the subject of ballistics tests Is
.25-caliber pistol of the type used in
the murder. which was reported found
in a trash heap near the Limerick
girls home. in the first block of Nine
teenth street Sc. two years after she
was killed. Results of these tests also
have been kept secret.
Miss Limerick, usherette at the old
Polls Theater, was found dead in bed
December 81. 1880. She had been
shot in the head, but the wound had
been SO cleverly concealed with hail
that it was not discovered until she
was taken to an undertaking estab.
lishment.
Evening star., 1937-12-25
HUGH R. O'DONNElL
FOUND DEAD IN CAR
Body of Former W. P. A. Official
Here Discovered by Wife.
on Coast.

Hugh r. ODonnell. "a. former Of
fetal of the Works Progress Admin
istration here was found dead today in
his automobile in a garage at his home
in Beverly Hills, Calf. according to an
Associated Press dispatch.
Police authorities were making an
investigation to determine if he died
from monoxide poisoning. Mr.. O'Don-
nell's wife. the former Lille Roose-
velt. second cousin of the President.
made the discovery and reported it to
police. She said the garage door was
partially open.
Police found the ignition switch was
on, but the motor was cold, the Asso-
ciated Press said.
Until last September. when he moved
to California with his family. Mr.,
O'Donnell had been with w. P. A.
for long time. For a while he served
as chief liaison officer for the agency
Besides his wife. Mr.. O'Donnell is
survived by daughter, Diedre. 4; a
son, Robert Roosevelt ODonnell. :;
his mother, Mrs. Julia e. ODonnell,
who lives at 1929 Sixteenth street
NV: three brothers and sister.
Evening star., 1937-12-25
First Holiday
Baby Arriues
At 1922 Am.

At 1922 am. today Santa Claus
presented Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Moder
with the first baby born this Christ
mas Day in Washington.
The girl, born in Sibley Hospital
and weighing 6 pounds 91z ounces.
will be named Fran, Mrs. Moder said.
'She,s the best Christmas present
I've ever had" the young mother
declared. This is Mrs. Moder,s first
baby, and hospital authorities reported
that both mother and daughter were
doing well. The Moders live at 12l
Thirteenth street NE.
Sixteen other infants. born up until
10 am. today. will be celebrating
Christmas and their birthdays to-
geth1. At George Washington Hos
pital, two babies just missed being
born on Christmas Day. They arrived
shortly before midnight.
The girl infants outnumber the boys,
two to one. in the birthday count
which was taken at nine hospitals in
the city. Gallinger led the roster Of
Christmas babies with i've born this
morning.
Evening star., 1937-12-25

a red-jacketed football suit, because
he wants to be Redskin when he gets
big.
Boy, oh, boy. sure would like to
be like old Sammy Baugh! Can't he
pass. thought" Max clutched foot
ball Santa brought and broke into a
grin, sending a trickle Of tears down
from the bad eye. He just wiped it
on and laughed some more.
+ He didn't know which toy he liked
best, there were so many. Mechanical
automobiles, an armored tank that
fired machine gun, popping pistols of
every description, handouts. Oman
squad car. tops, toy wagon with a
wooden wrench to take off the wheels
games-just every thing old Santa
could think Of
Max had wanted that pair of boots
"for to walk in the snow" and Santa
pulled out his roll of greenbacks and
left several with his father in order
to make sure of the right size.
Max and Bubby were too busy play
ing to talk much, but they both agreed
that Santa Claus was pretty good
old fellow. Asked what kind of a
Christmas they were having, they just
smiled, and Bubby came over and
grinned at him. Max smiled back
and wiped his cheek.
Evening star., 1937-12-25
.YULE OUTLOOK BARE,
Man GOES BERSERK
Christmas Turns Out to Be Glum
After W. P. A. Laborer Goes
Wild With Hatchet.

Christmas turned out to be a glum
affair for Harry o. Poteet-all be-
cause he lost his head" and ran
amuck with a hatchet when his FAM
lily was faced with bleak holiday.
Poteet, a 51-year r-old w. P. A. car
penter, went berserk yesterday at 220
c street NV, when something
snapped" while he considered the
fact that his wife. Estelle, and five
daughters. ranging from S months
to nine years, would have to 60 with
out toys.
Today, when arraigned in Police
Court, Judge John p. MchIahon. rec
commended probation in the case. but
the sraveness Of the charges-assault
with a dangerous weapon on roomer
and destruction Of private property
forced the jurist to change his mind
Poteet was held for the grand jury
under $500 bond on the assault
charge and fined $40 for damaging
five doors in the rooming house. where
he and his family have basement
quarters.
The defendant had told The court
II lost my head because We were
poverty-stricken ard everything lcok-
ed so dull" His wife and children
sat in court when he appeared.
Early yesterday, according to po-
lice. Poteet dashed through the house
vita hatchet, hacking at doors and
finally threatening Edward Weidman
when he tried to stop him.
Il was supposed to get a Christmas
check from the w. P. A., but I didn't
get it ALL" Poteet was quoted by police
as saying in explanation of his in
ability to provide q cheerful holiday
for his family.
Evening star., 1937-12-25
CHRISTMAS PARTY
HELD FOR CHILDREN
More Than 700 Provided Gifts
at Martinsburg Celebration
in Market House.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va. Dec. as
More than 700 under-privileged chill
dren, selected from relief rolls and
through teachers in the public schools.
were given toys. fruit and candy at a
Christmas party in the market house
here this morning The So-Ath Club
and Auxiliary, of young men and
women, sponsored and conducted the
affair. Toys were contributed ut q
benefit theater party and money for
the gifts was donated by the public.
The Elks' Club made its annual
pilgrimage to the County Farm this
morning, bearing gifts of food and
other articles. They also provided 4
program of Christmas music.
Church organizations dominated the
evening observance of the holiday with
special programs, and a similar en-
phasis will continue tomorrow.
One new event this year will be a
complimentary dinner on Wednesday
evening to approximately $50 school,
boys who have served as schoolboy
patrols at traffic crossings during the
past year. Business men are providing
the testimonial. Medals will be given
the group for their work.