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and constantly practiced loyalty to
the highest ideals for American art
and American artists Sometimes
aggressive, bluff and outspoken, he
used all his qualities to press forward
himself and urge others forward to
the ideals in which he believed. At
all times he never hesitated to con-
denim mere cleverness; he was bitterly
opposed to all kinds of sham, and
above all things proud of the dignity
of his profession. He met opposition
and made enemies, but 1t was this
man, sometimes accused of selfishness
and intolerance, who when his life
was done left everything he had to
the art work he loved and to his
fellow artists, whom he desired to aid.
With a broad-minded liberality and
patriotic foresight he left all he had
for the advancement of art and
artists
OF THE five paintings by Henry
w. Ranger included in the orig
inal Evans gift to the Nation, the best
known and most popular is undoubt-
edly that entitled "Bradburys Mill
Pond"-a woodland scene painted
when autumn had turned the green's
to russet. sunlight drifting through
the foliage, CLINT of water in the
foreground to the left, q narrow
vista to the right leading beyond.
1t is not perfect composition but
it is charming, lyrical in feeling,
colorful, alluring-once seen, not soon
to be forgotten. Every inch of the
canvas is carefully painted with due
regard to the relation of tonal values,
and yet as whole it has distinctly
emotional power Connecticut
Woods" also an Evans purchase, is
a somewhat similar theme but quite
differently handled-a later work.
THE Cornfleld," presumably later
still, is simpler composition and
much more broadly handled, while
"Groton Long Point Dunes" and
Entrance to the Harbor' will both
be found frank transcriptions testi-
flying to the catholicity of his taste
and breadth of vision. No one can
say that Ranger was not a good
painter.
TURNING now to the paintings
purchased from the Ranger
Fund. Comparatively few have as
yet come permanently into the posses
sion of the National Collection of Fine
Arts, as a majority of the artists
whose works have been purchased are
still living, and the Smithsonian In
stitution. as custodian, has had in
suficient space to display those
works which have been given Among
the works deposited with the National
Collection at the time of purchase
are beautiful landscape, "Tohickon,"
by Daniel CARRIER: a marine, Even
ing Tide, California" by William
Ritschel; Grey Day" by Granville
Smith, and THE Chiefs Canoe" by
Belmore Browne. A year ago five
paintings by artists deceased over
10 years were recalled and offered to
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Lynn, Regina and Pat Delaney, Bobby
Hanger, Mary Edith Hardie, Shirley
Shaw, Mary Ann and Goldie Reynolds,
Betty May, Sherman Leonard and
Wilston Brown. At the conclusion Of
the recital two selections were rem
dered by Elisabeth Prender Buchanan.
Elsa Koppel and Benjamin Rather
presented an informal recital OF vocal
and piano students at the studio of
Nine. Koppel, Cathedral Mansions,
5000 Connecticut avenue NV, on
July 7. Those participating were:
Eleanor Oliver, Phillis Schwartz, Harol
Lee, Louis Dreeben, Dominik Baiardo,
Bernice M. Rather, Louise Michael,
Naomi Miller and Jean Kowaleski.
Agnes Simmons has returned to
Washington for the summer, as the
guest Of Mime. Gurie Luise Correa,
director Of the Washington Opera
Guild. Mrs. Simmons has filled "a
concert engagements in the South
west, where she has specialized in
Jenny Lind costume recitals. The
first Of q summer series Of informal
recitals by members Of the Washing
ton Opera Guild was given on Friday
evening, when Dorothea Caverli and
Irene Kand1s were presented in .
joint recital.
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Singer a Guest Here
After Her Tour.

GERTRUDE BORZI, coloratura
soprano, returned June 80 on the
S. s. Bremen with her sister, Mary
Borzi, from successful concert tour
Of Europe. She is spending several
weeks in Washington with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Borzi, 1904
Buchanan st. NV, before returning
to New York to prepare for the coming
seasons activities. Miss Borzi, who is
a native Of Washington, received her
education exclusively in Wash
ington and Philadelphia and is
pupil of Nine. Giannini- Gregory,
vocal teacher now at the Curtis In
stitute in Philadelphia.
She first appeared in concert here
last October at the Mayflower Hotel,
when she was presented by her aunt,
Nine. Agasta. Later she made her
debut in New York at Town Hall.
Before sailing for Europe on her
tour, Miss Borzi was soloist at the
luncheon given by the 73d Congress
sional Club in honor of Mrs Franklin
D. Roosevelt at the Shoreham Hotel.
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Jones Chosen
Leader for
Bach: Choir
Musician to Make
Plans for Home
In Bethlehem.

A INVOLVEMENT has been made
by the Office Of the Bach Choir
Of the election of Ifor Jones of West
field, N j., as conductor of the Bethle-
hem Bach Choir to succeed DR.. Bruce
Carey of Philadelphia.
Since the death of the late DR.. j.
Fred Wolfe, founder of the choir and
its, director for 33 years, it has been
the ambition of the Executive Com
mittee of the Bach Choir Association
to engage a director who would take up
his permanent residence IN Bethlehem
and who would devote his entire time
to the study and production of Bach's
music. DR.. Carey's duties in connec-
ton with Girard College, Philadelphia,
makes 1t impossible for him to give up
his connections with the institution
and he therefore leaves the work with
deep regret.
Mr.. Jones Is native of South Wales.
At an early age his natural bent for
music began to exert itself and at the
age Of IL he began the study of the
organ, including Bach's music. He
entered the Royal Academy of Music
at London in 1921. He won prizes
and scholarships. His conducting the
"Eroica" symphony by Beethoven
attracted the attention Of the great
British conductor, Sir Henry Wood,
whose assistant Mr. Jones became and
whose favorite pupil he WAS He was
q colleague of John Barbirolli, the
present famous conductor of the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Or
cheStra.
Coming to the United States in 1927,
Mr.. Jones toured the country as an
organist, after which he accepted a
professorship at the Woman's College
Of the University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick, N. J. He gave annual pro-
grams of the organ works of Bach and
formed the Bach Cantata Club of New
Brunswick. Mr.. Jones also organized
the Handel Choir OF Westfield, N. j.,
his home town.
Besides his connection with the
Handel Choir and as orsanist of the
Bound Brook Presbyterian Church,
Mr.. Jones is conductor Of the choral
group of the Monday Afternoon Club
of Plainfield, N. j.; Of the choral group
Of the Musical Club of Westfield and
the Mendelssohn Glee Club of Plain
field. He is also composer of choral
music.
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scum Of the Art Association at Dali
las, Tex, and Frederick Waugh's
West Indian Seascape" is now to be
seen in the Museum of History, Sci
ence and Art at Los Angeles, where
Its turbulent waters may be compared
with those of the Pacific Ocean not
many miles away. The list of museums
profiting through the Ranger bequest
by prolonged loans if not permanent
gifts of paintings by American artists
of distinction, is SO long that it would
seem to embrace all, but in a report
rendered by the trustees a few years
ago it was stated that so others were
at that time on the waiting list.
Knowing all this, can one fail to rec
ognize the extraordinary beneficence
of the Ranger gift and endowment?
How much better to have these paint
ingS distributed in this way all over
the country, than permanently in one
place! Eventually, of course, some will
be recalled in order that the National
Collection, which is for all time, shall
be made fully representative, but
other, newer purchases will take their
places, and through them interest will
be kept up.
Each picture is not only messenger
of good will, but envoy extraordinary"
representing to the community to
which it is sent the ideals OF art
handed down by the masters of the
past and Illuminated by those Of the
present. In short, the Ranger Fund
is doing precisely what Galsworthy
once said most needed to be done-it is
carrying on the eternal propaganda
of beauty" And in the simplest pos
sible way, without flourish of trumpets
or noticeable effort, it is doing it,
under the guidance of the Council
of the National Academy Of Design,
wisely and well.
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In Local
Music Circles

THE program OF selections from
Verdi's Requiem" to be included
in the National Broadcasting Co.'S
special program commemorating the
first anniversary of the death Of
Guglielmo Marconi. inventor Of radio,
over Station WMAL Tuesday, from 8
to $50 pm, has been announced by
Maestro Arturo Papalardo, director Of
the National Capital Parks Schola
Cantorum, which will sing the num-
bers.
The famous offertory, Domino
Jesu," principal ensemble number from
Verdis great masterpiece, will be sung
by Alton Margetts, soprano; Elsie
Cook, contralto; Ray Baine, tenor. and
Howard Millner, baritone, accom-
panied by the Schola Cantorum
Other selections to be sung by the
Schola Cantorum are "Dies Irae,"
"Lacrymosa Dies Illa," "Agnus Del"
Requiem Aeternam," and the final
fugue, "Liberame Domino"
James Smiley will accompany the
vocalists at the organ. The program
will be given under the auspices of the
Lido Civic Club of Washington and
the Office Of National Capital Parks.
Laurette Bombara, pianist, and Ruth
Barnhart Mayberry, soprano, will give
q recital at the home of r. Deane
Shure, 8 Pine avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, on Saturday evening at 8
rDr srrtly S1&x
Chopin's Revolutionary Etude." De-
bussy's "Clair de Lune," Tschaikow-
sky's November" Bendel's by Noon
light" Beethoven's Sonata in F.
Minor" and two numbers by Mr. Shure,
the minuet from "Berkie" symphony
and Butterfly Orchid"
Mrs. Mayberry will sing the aria
"Je Suis Titan!a." from "Mignon";
Puccinfs eff I Were Like You; the
cavatina Roberto, o tn che adoro," by
Meyerbeer, and Curran's Dawn"
The Union Playhouse of Local No. 2
is organizing an orchestra and q mixed
singing group. These groups will be
an integral part Of the Playhouse and
will appear in many of its perform
ances. The mixed group will be under
the direction of Howard r. Green,
Washington composer and choir leader.
Mr. Green has led group in Groton
and Buffalo, N. Y, as well as in Mount
Rainier, Md.
Persons desiring to affiliate them
selves with either group are requested
to write to Room 604, ITO Fourth street
NV. for an interview. These groups
are open to all persons regardless OF
union afiiliations.
Myrtle Fishburn Leonard Of Lyon
Park, Va, will resume the teaching of
her class in piano within the next two
months, having concluded the sum-
mer's work with . recital by her pupils
on the evening of June az at her home,
712 North Daniel street. Lyon Park
The pupils who performed In the
recital wsre Barbara and Nancy Lee
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the National Collection, two of which
were accepted by the National Gal
lery of Art Commission and three
returned to become the absolute prop
erty Of the institutions to which they
had previously been lent. The paint
ings accepted were Central Park
and the Plaza" by William A. Cof-
An Q855-1925), and Cliffs of the
Upper Colorado River, Wyoming" by
Thomas Moran (1837-1926); those
returned were a landscape by Ben
Foster and one by Dwight w. Tyron,
both Of whom were already we'll rep
resented in the National Collection,
together with painting entitled THE
Maumee River" the work of the late
Carlton T. Chapman This gives in
dication Of the way the system works.
OUTSTANDING among the Ranger
Fund purchases are Man in
White" portrait by Cecilia Beaux
of her brother-in-law, the late DR..
Drinker one-time president of Lafay-
ette College; Evening Interior" by
John c. Johansen: figure painting,
Sleep" by Leon Kroll; Nancy" by
Lillian Westcott Hale; a portrait, in
character. Captain Taylor's Sister"
by Ernest L. Ipsen; beautiful Still
Life" by Frank w. Benson; a typical
figure, THE Necklace" by Richard E.
Miller; two winter pictures by Aldro
Hibbard. one Of the strongest of our
present-day landscape painters; one
each by George Elmer Schofield and
the late Gardner Symons; a typical
Western landscape, lyricized, by Will
liam Wendt, and a superb painting of
the sea by Paul Dougherty. Also
very fine canvas of "Hurrying River"
by Robert Nisbet; marine by the late
Howard Russell Butler, a landscape,
"Hemlock Grove" by Emil Carlsen,
who has now died, and an exquisite still
life, White and Silver" by his tai
ented son, Dimes Carlson, who is car
rying on the tradition There are,
moreover, works by Dewing and Dewey
and Desssr, Hassam and Ochtman,
Waugh and Wiles and Tarbell, all but
the last represented in the Evans Col
lection, besides many others. Three
erstwhile Washington painters are rep
resented-Everett Warner, by a paint
ing Of Failing Snow in New York;
Hobart Nichols, by a landscape,
Across the Valley" and his brother,
Spencer Nichols. by a figure compost
ton entitled THE Bathers." There
are, of course, many more.
THESE paintings are distributed
North, South, East and West. The
Beaux portrait is in the Brooklyn
Museum, the Still Life" by Benson in
the Palace of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco; Nisbet's "Hurrying
River" has found welcome and place
ment in the Telfair Academy of Art
and Science, Savannah, Ga, while the
two Carlsens are in the Gallery at
Portland, Me. The Cincinnati Museum
has the Dewing, and the Denver Art
Museum the Hale Captain Taylors
Sister" has travelled as far as the mu-
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monic under Werner Janssen's baton
at Hollywood Bowl.

monic under Werner Janssen's baton
at Hollywood Bowl.
REETHOVENs infrequently played
'First Symphony" has not been
on q National Symphony program
since 1884. A youthful work, it Is,
nevertheless, worthy to stand as the
first in the series of the immortal
nine. The magical "Oberon" overture,
which opens Sundays program, is q
romantic work that colorfully reflects
the iridescent hues of the fairyland
that forms the background for the
Weber opera. The dances from lie
Cid" being given for the first time
by the National Symphony, occur in
the second act Of Massenet's opera,
accompanying q festal scene outside
the Cathedral of Burgos.
Tickets for this weeks concerts, at
rs cents. so cents. rs cents and 81,
will be on sale after IL am. at the
Water Gate box Office, Republic 1857.
During the week tickets are on sale at
Julius Garfinckel & Co.'S store, Ma
tional 1910, and the A. A. A. ticket
bureau The Water Gate box Office
opens at $50 pm. on Wednesday.
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Plans Complete After
Years Spent Waiting
for Realization.
BY Cynthia Cr0weU.

THOSE who for many years have
sincerely hoped and steadfast-
ly worked for a naval museum
= at Annapolis see their ambi-
tion near realization, now that the
plans for the building have been COM
pleted. They were drawn by F. w.
Southworth, architect of the Nays
Bureau of Yards and Docks, who has
had general supervision of Naval
Academy architecture for more than
20 years.
That its appearance may conform
with that Of other buildings on the
Academy grounds, the new museum
will be Of white pressed brick with
granite facings. 1t will be los feet
wide and rs feet deep, and will be
erected between the Officers Club and
Sampson Hall, the front on a line with
Mahan and the back to the Tripoli
Monument. Whenever it becames
necessary to enlarge the museum, two
wings will be extended from the rear,
and the Tripoli Monument will stand
in the center of a court.
Construction will cost 100000.
Three-quarters of this amount was
given by the Navy Athletic Association
and the remainder by the United
States Naval Institute, both of which
will have pertinent administrative
Offices on the second floor. Only the
first floor will be occupied by the
museum proper.
CAPT HARRY A. BALDRIDGE has
been appointed curator of the
museum, and to 1ill this position he
was taken of the retired list and
ordered to active duty by the Navy
Department. The position Of curator
is one of great responsibility, for many
Of the Nays most treasured relics and
priced possessions will be on exhibition
in the Annapolis museum.
The most valuable of these will be
the million-dollar collection of model
ships, willed to the Naval Academy by
Col. H. H. Rogers. According to the
terms Of his will; the models were to
be inherited by his grandson unless,
within a reasonable length of time, an
appropriate place for their display
were provided at Annapolis. Tentative
plans for . museum 1T the Naval
Academy had been long In suspension
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Pittsfeld Music.

T Asst Sunday marked the begin
ming Of the 18th season Of sum-
mer chamber music concerts es-
tablished on South Mountain, Pitts
field, Mass, by Elizabeth sprague
Coolidge, the world-renowned pa
troness Of chamber music. The artists
heard last Sunday afternoon at the
Temple Of Music were the South
Mountain String Quartet Cfounded by
Mrs. Coolidge), which has as its
members Kathleen Parlow and Edwin
1deler, violins; Conrad Held, viola,
and Willem Willeke, cello, and dunnar
Johansen, pianist, as assisting artists.
This was the first concert of the series
of eight afternoons of chamber music
under the direction Of Willem willeke.
The other dates Of the series are
Sunday, July II, a., 81; Friday, August
5. IL; Sunday, August Al and 2s.
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Concert appearances Of late have
occupied an increasing portion of his
time. Mr.. Peerce has sung in concert
and recital in the last two years in
Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New Ha-
ven. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Roch-
ester, Hollywood and Miami With
the Philadelphia Orchestra he was
soloist in An American program. He
sang with the Los Angeles Philhar-
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Koussevitzky conducting. Here you
have two works representing the old
and the new in violin composition,
played by the foremost artists Of the
day.
Fritz Kreisler has taken this first and
only known movement of the Paganini
concerto, and what he has done to it is
little short Of marvellous. In studying
Kreisler's compositions and transcript
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CAM to Direct Concert
At Water Gate Tonight
Jan Peerce, American Tenor,
To Be Soloist-Work by
Beethoven Offered.

E National symphony Orchestra tonight will begin the
Memorial with Rudolph
distinguished
Of noted be
Wednesday
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Great Artists in Records
Show Violin Achievement
Kreisler With Ormandy and
Heifetz Combined With
Koussevitzky.
By Alice Eversman.

E Victor Co. to be for releasing two such interesting
and outstanding the
No in Major Transcribed by Fritz
and the Philadelphia
andy the Concerto
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THOSE who for many years have
/ sincerely hoped and steadfast-
/ ly worked for q naval museum
Il at Annapolis see their ambi-
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
Gillette Stand
On Court Issue
As IOQUO Votes

DES MONIES, Iowa, Nov. 7
GNSD .-Replete with contradic-
tions, a stormy Iowa election cam
paign today drew to a close with
United States Senator Guy M.
Gillette CD branded a foe of the
Supreme Court.
Gillette, who won his renomina-
tion as a friend of the court, thus
figured in the New Deals second
Iowa test Of the year, this time on
the opposite side of the issue.
Former Senator Lester j. Dick.
inson, Republican who keynoted
at Hoover's denomination, and re-
garded by New Dealers as an arch
conservative, bore the blessing OF
DR.. Francis E. Townsend, pension
plan originator.
Gillette's two-way Court posi-
tion arose from the fact that
while he opposed the Presidents S
Court reform bill, he introduced a
measure which would have pre-
vented bills being declared uncon
stitutional If two Justices dis
Sented.
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
Nearly 5 Million
Vote Tuesday in
Keystone State

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. u
1.N.SD.-Acrimony of a seven
months gubernatorial campaign
that shook Pennsylvania to her
political foundations reached its
climax today in the closing ap-
peals of the statewide candidates.
Tomorrow some 4,650,0O0 voters
will write the verdict that even
now defieS prediction.
BY Wednesday morning, the
Keystone State-Republican for
A years until the Roosevelt tide
carried Democratic administra-
tion into poWer-will know its
new governor and United States
senator.
272 OFFICES AFFECTED
The 272 State offices being
filled include also a lieutenant
governor and internal affairs Sec
retary, along with all congressional
seats, half the State senate and
the full State house membership.
AS governor-elect, Pennsylvania
will have either Judge Arthur H.
James, Republican, or Charles Al
vim Jones, Democrat. Its Senator
elect will be either Gov. George
H. Earle, the political newcomer
of four years ago, or Senator
James ]. Davis, Republican in
cumbent, who has spent a good
part of his adult life in public
office.
FARLEY o. ks EARLE
Second only to New York in ma
tional Importance, the outcome
of Pennsylvania's voting tomor-
row is regarded as at least a par
tial test of New Deal strength for
the 1910 Presidential race. The
clear-cut issue of a choice between
Roosevelt-Earle and COP policies
has been dimmed by sensational
charges of Democratic graft and
counter-accusations of special
privilege control" in the COP.
The final campaign weekend
was marked by one development
important on the Democratic side
an endorsement of Earle's
candidacy for the Senate from
Postmaster General James A.
Farley, Democratic national chair
man.
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
G. o. p. Hopes
High IN Mo.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 7 G.N.SO.-Be-
tween 1,25O.00O and 100000 Mis-
souri, voters are expected to go to
the polls tomorrow in an election
which will see a United States
Senator and 13 members of Con.
greSS chosen.
Barak T. Mattingly, chairman
of the G.. o. P. State committee.
expressed the belief that the Re,
publicans, who now have only one
congressman from Missouri, would
elect six or seven candidates for
the House.
United States Senator Bennett
Champ Clark. seeking his second
term, heads the Democratic ticket
Henry 8. Caulfield is the Republi
| can nominee.
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
McLeUy Factor
I1c Connecticut
Election Races

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. Z
GN.SO.-Socialist Jasper Nc
Levy, Mayor Of Bridgeport, now
waging a determined fight for
gubernatorial honors, was the
outstanding question mark today
in Connecticut's concluding po-
litical campaign in which the
governorship, a United States
senatorship, six Congressional
seats and a complete State ticket
are at stake.
Approximately 100000 votes are
expected to be cast Aside from
McLevy, Democratic Gov. Wilbur
L. Cross is battling for re-elec.
ton against opposition Of Ray
mond E. Baldwin, Republican
leader of Suburban Stratford.
McLevy is expected to be the
deciding factor-even should he
lose-in the battle between Cross
and Baldwin,
The Washington times., 1938-11-07
w. Virginia to Vote
On Six Congressman

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. Z
G.N.SD.-West Virginia's 1,000,-
900 voters will go to the polls to-
morrow to elect six congressman,
II State senators, "a members of
the house of delegates, county Of
ficials, and to pass upon a pro-
posed amendment to the State
constitution.
The congressional fight was re-
garded as affording a clear-cut
expression of the public attitude
toward the New Deal.
All six present congressman, re-
nominated, are Democrats and all
have been consistent in their sup
port Of major New Deal legisla-
tion. The candidates are Robert