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Music Clubs Week

The directors Of the District Of
Columbia Federation of Music Clubs
at the recent monthly meeting
formed plans for observance Of
Music Week which will occur dur
ing the week beginning May 7. On
Tuesday, May 8, under the chair
manship of r. Deane Shure, the
annual Sacred Choir Festival will
be held in the Mount Vernon M. E.
Church South. The choirs selected
for this event are the A Capella
Choir of Washington Missionary
College. Washington Chapel of Lat
ter Day Saints, St. Johns Church,
Petworth Methodist Episcopal, Ana
costa Methodist and the Adult De-
partment Chorus of Calvary Baptist
Church. Wednesday, May 10 is the
date set for the federation's ban
quet and concert. Mrs. r. E. Espy,
1921 S street NV, has been named
chairman for this occasion for which
full details will be announced at
an early date.
Enrollments for the young artists
and student musicians contests
closed March l and the prelim-
inaries were held in Washington
yesterday.
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In Local Music Circles

Baptiste Faure. today at the 12:45
am. mass at st. Michael's Catholic
Church, Silver Spring, Md. Mary
Keane, director of the choir, will
accompany Mrs. McDevitt.
The Catholic University Trio
Elena de Sayn, violinist; Father
Hugh O'Neil. violoncellist, and Her.
bert Herzfeld, guest pianist-gave a
trio recital last night at the Sisters
College of Catholic University. The
program included trios by Beethoven,
Leclair and Frankenstein. The or
ganization will appear in recital at
Mcmahon Hall, Catholic University.
on April 20, as part of the program
of the jubilee celebration year.
The Washington Choral Society,
directed by Louis A. Potter, has
begun weekly rehearsals of Bee
thoven's "Missa Solemnis," which
will be sung here next season. AS
far as is known by the choral So
ciety, the "Missa Solemnis" has
never been heard here. and is rare
ly presented because of the extreme
difficulty of its adequate presenta-
ton. It's most recent performances
have been given by the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra. Rehearsals are
held each Tuesday night at o'clock,
at Central High School, and audi
tions for new singers desiring to
join the chorus are held at 7::3O,
by arrangement with Mr.. Potter, in
advance. Additional tenors will be
especially welcome, but all singers
are invited to apply for addition.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Season Near
Its Close for
Symphony
Walter to Conduct
Orchestra Here
Next Week

Three Washington concerts remain
in the National Symptoms 1938-39
schedule following its return from
the final tour OF its eighth season,
this week.
Next Sunday DR.. Hans Kinder
will present a program of Music of
Springtime," devoting the final por-
ton of the concert to the "Evolu-
ton of the Waltz" At this concert
there will be the first performance
Of an orchestral transcription of
Cesar Franck's "E Major Organ
Chorale." made by Louis Potter, dis
tinguished Washington musician and
conductor of the Washington Choral
Society. Mr.. Potter will conduct his
own composition.
On Wednesday, April II, Bruno
Walter, world-famous symphony and
opera conductor, will appear as guest
leader of the National Symphony in
his only public concert appearance in
the United States this spring.
The final concert of the season
will be given ON Sunday, April 16,
with DR.. Kinder conducting the
annual request program. Balloting
for the works to be played at the
final concert is now in progress and
will close on Monday, April 10. All
requests are welcomed and should
be sent to the National Symphony
office, I'LL Woodward Building,
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Choir Will Sing

A group of 18th century motets
appropriate for the Lenten season
will be presented this afternoon at
o'clock by the Washington Cathe-
dral Choir, under the direction Of
Robert Barrow. The Elizabethan
composers will be represented chiefly
on the program, which will include
works by William Bryd, Orlando
Gibbons and Richard Farrant. Two
Palestrina motets, Il Will Magnify
Thee, o Lord" and 20 Bone Jesus"
will also be presented.
OF particular interest is the motet
for six voices. "Hosanna to the Son
of David" by Thomas Weelkes,
which was especially intended to be
sung on Palm Sunday. This work,
as we'll as several others in the
group, will have its first perform
ance in Washington on this occa-
sion.
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Navv Band Program

RENO Luoma, pianist, will appear
as guest soloist on the program to
be presented by the United States
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday evening at $3.50.
Mr.. Luoma, who will play Serge
Prokofieff's Premier Concerto"
made his debut last year at Town
Hall, New York, and is known to
Washingtonians through his per-
formance of the Liszt "E Flat Con-
certo'' at the Water Gate.
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organist, as soloist, and the second
by the Sistine Chapel Choir, directed
by Lorenzo Perosi. Verdi's Requiem"
will be given on two successive days
with choir, soloists and orchestra
directed by Toscanini and one eve
ming will be devoted to chamber
music when the Busch Quartet will
play.
Wagner in Switzerland.
Switzerland has much to offer the
student of Wagner for it was in this
country that he lived some Of his
happiest days and composed some of
his greatest works. In Lucerne Is
the famous Villa Tribschen where
Wagner lived for six years, now q
museum housing his beloved Erard
piano manuscripts, letters, pictures,
documents and. under glass, the
original orchestral score of the
"Siegfried Idyll" and some sketches
of parts of "Lohengrin" and die
Meistersinger."
And not far away is Zurich where,
in a little house bearing a tablet
with the words, "In diesem Hause
wohnte Richard Wagner, 1853-1857,"
was born the great Ring" the most
wonderful operatic conception of the
human brain. There too, not far
away, is the Green Hill" where the
house of Mathlida Wesendonck still
stands in imposing dignity. The
little cottage at its side, the Asyl,
where the drama Of Wagner, ''Minna
and Mathilda." found a climax, has
long since been destroyed but the
Wesendonck villa remains just as
it has always been pictured.
In the town itself is a "Bierstube"
where Wagner was won't to spend
his time and which commentaries
this circumstance with a tablet on
the wall to that effect. Important
from the human interest angle is
also the angry letter written to the
proprietor of Tribschen by Wagner,
berating him for the long time he
has taken to install a bathroom
in the villa.
Switzerland has many other
memories connected with the great
ones of the musical world who have
sought peace and quiet in its beauti-
full surroundings. But the greatest
of these was Wagner and in this
land he found the right atmosphere
to decide the form which his surg
ing inspiration should take. The
associations connected with Wagner
in this country. outside of his home
land, are nearly as great as that of
Bayreuth. Some day, perhaps,
Switzerland will be another shrine
of the master musician and pilgrims
will gladly foregather there to do
honor to his memory.
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MAJOR, MaZOuTka III oIldTp
Minor" "Mazourka in C Major, !"
"Ballade in G Minor" "B Minor
Sonata (Opus 58)," "Polonaise IN
c Sharp Minor" "Grande Valse
Brillante," "Nocturne in E Major"
and "Scherzo in c Sharp Minor"
For the convenience of concert
goers,, the box Office at Constitution
Hall opens this morning at 10
o'clock.
Although the Hofmann recital
closes Mrs. Dorsey's concert activ-
tiles for 1938-39, plans have already
been made by that manager to bring
to Washington next season, as one
of the attraction of her evening
concert series, Vladimir Horowitz,
the celebrated Russian pianist, who
was last heard in America in 1885
and whose concert here early in 1887
was Cancelled due to illness.
HoroWitz recently emerged from
period of rest and retirement and
his playing, according to foreign
critics. not only reveals all of its
former brilliance, but q richness of
expression and maturity of style
which clearly reflect the iconcen-
trated study made possible by the
artists withdrawal for period, fol-
Lowing his recent illness. Horowitz
returned to the concert stage last
October with a charity concert at
the Zeurich Opera, given in asso-
citation with the Busch Quartet. Re-
citals followed throughout Europe.
Before coming to America next year,
Horowitz will make a tour of the
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Annual

The Agriculture Chorus will be
heard in its fifth annual presenta-
ton of Du Bois' THE Seven Last
Words of Christ" to be presented
in the Agriculture Auditorium
Thursday afternoon at S o'clock.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery,
chaplain of the House of Repre-
sentatives, will speak. Soloists will
include Prudence Jackson, soprano;
Ralph Marston, tenor, and John M.
Wilson, baritone.
Robert Frederick Freund will di-
rect and Victor H. Neal will accom-
pany the chorus. The performance
is open to the public without charge.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

British Isles, playing Is concerts.
He is known not only as one of
the worlds greatest pianists. but
also as the son-in-law of Arturo
Toscanini, conductor of the N. B. C.
Symphony Orchestra.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the noted
Russian pianist and composer, who
is usually heard in Washington as
an attraction of Mrs. Dorseys eve
ming concert and recital series, will
be heard next season in the first
Sunday afternoon recital he has
ever played In the Capital.
Another eminent Russian-Amer-
ican pianist, Mischa Levitzki, will
be heard here next season under
Mrs Dorsey's management. He will
appear as the pianist of the first
Sunday series.
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ASSA~e~~~S~~
ing from musical angle. Under
the leadership of two renowned con-
ductors, now eminently connected
with the musical life of the United
States, the public of New York at
least will be made acquainted with
the work of its most notable COM
posers. Modest in the publicity OF
its musical proWess as in other
things, the famous land of sturdy
historical background and marvel
Gus scenery will undoubtedly add
to it's renown in the artistic sense
by this concert.
Several Swiss composers have al
ready attained world recognition.
Although Arthur Honnegger has
been completely identified with the
Young French School" he is in
reality Swiss composer, ranking
prominently among the famous
six" of Paris. In both his creative
bend and it's characteristics he en-
bodies the Swiss elements in his
works and as such is the prototype
of the modern school of Swiss COM
posers. Likewise associated with an
other country because OF his style
and education is Othmar Schoeck,
whose operas especially have cast a
bright light on his genius.
Beck Swiss Born.
Other composers of note are Con-
rad Beck, born in Switzerland ana
educated in Paris, whose distinctive
talent has found expression in SYM
phonies and many vocal works OF
large dimensions; Karl Heinrich
David of St. Gallen, writer OF
chamber music. ballets and a comic
opera; Albert Moeschinger of Basle,
who has composed number OF in
strumental works: Willy Burkard
from Berne. particularly noted for
his cycles for voice and chamber
orchectra; Richard Sturzenegger,
Adolf Brutaner, Werner Wehrli, and
in French Switzerland, Frank Mar
tin. Roger Vautaz, Jean Binet, An
tome Chenaux Andre Patry and
many others.
That Switzerland is coming to the
fore with rapidity is also shown by
the programs planned for the Second
International Music Festival to be
held at Lucerne from the middle OF
July to the beginning of September.
The symphony concerts during the
festival will be conducted by Tosca-
mini, Sir Adrian Boult, Ernest Anser-
met, Bruno Walter and Fritz Busch.
Among the soloists to be heard will
be Gigli, Pablo Casals, Rachman-
inoff, Alexander Kipnis, Ria Ginster
and Herman Schey, with Othmar
Schoeck at the piano, and Vladimir
Horowitz. There will be two choir
concerts, the first by the Strassbourg
Cathedral Choir with Bonnet, the
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Tonight at $50, at the last con-
cert of the season at the Roosevelt
Hotel, Juanita Claxon, soprano, and
RENO Luoma. concert pianist, will
be presented in joint recital. Both
of these young artists have ap-
peared earlier in the season. Their
return engagement for this closing
concert is by popular request.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Edith B. Athey. organist. was the
guest recitalist at Mckinley High
School Auditorium recently, as a
part OF the Teachers Institute,
Board OF Education. Miss Athey was
formerly a member of the music
department of the public schools.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Hofmann Closes Series
In Chopin Music Today
Great Pianist to Make Only
Recital Appearance of
WASHINGTON Season
Washington Season

recitals Dorothy
Constitution
pan his recital
that expected provide the nsc
of the
play "Polonase "1mprompu A
Evening star., 1939-04-02
All>Swiss Symphony Concert
To Be Given in New York
Musical Event of Worlds Fair
Opening Will Feature Swiss
Soloists and Pianist
By Alice EverSman.

One opening Of the Worlds
New York philharmonic Orchestra on May H. The
Rudolf
piano ooists together with the Swiss pianist Oscar
Switzerland
probably Switzerland
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Warren F. johnson, Organist
Church of the Pilgrims
22nd and p SITS. NV.
Sunday Evening
1880 O'Clock
Toccata, Fugue and Hymn on "Ave
Maris Stella" Flor Peeters
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goes with his
crowd and I GO
with mine. l did
invite him to
one of my Sun
ay breakfast
parties a couple
of times, but he
was working, or
too usy a I
home to come"
(Shades of the
sc en- Andy
Hardy!)
Miss Ruther-
ford, who be-
lieves in the
brain as some
Evening star., 1939-11-27

Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Kiss the Boys Good
Bye" Lucia Lull in the Clare Boothe
hit comedy: $3.50 pm.
Earle-"We Are Not Alone" Paul
MUM in the James Hilton story:
10:45 am, 1:3O, Ais, 7:O5 and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: 1880, $40, $3.50
and 9:15 pm.
Keith's That's Right - You're
Wrong" new musical with Kay
Kyser: 11:25 am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:35,
7:35 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Daytime Wife," roman.
tic comedy: II am, 1:45, 4:3O,
7:15 and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1880,
1855, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Palace-"Babes in Arms" Mickey
Rooney goes musical: 10:45 am,
1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan "The Roaring
Twenties," story of a tumultuous
decade: II am, LOS, $40, Sis, 7:20
and $40 pm.
Columbia "The Real Glory"
Gary Cooper VS.. Philippine insur-
rection: II am, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35
and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Escape From Yesterday"
realism from France with Jean
Cabin: 11:20 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35,
TAO and Gas pm.
Trans-Lux-NeWs and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-11-27
Civic Launches Season
With Ambitious Project
'Merrily We Roll Along Is Offered
Here for First Time With Most,
IfNot All, Its Values
BY JAY CARMODY.

AS an admirably ambitious start its
Thater last Washington its first glimpse of "Mlv We
Roll Along" at Wardman Theater. ~
Not the most brilliant of their commentaries on
the absdes OF artists that and Moss
neat piece stagecra its ronc
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S-ASAA AAS]ho pay. VA ga WI
asking, Have you ever seen the
devil?" the communique continues:
III not you are invited to witness his
personal appearance at Eastern High
School Tuesday, December S, at 8:15
pm"
This, of course, is the date of the
groups presentation of "The Devils
Host" but if they draw, as they
seem to wish, every one who has
never seen the devil, one night Ger.
tainly won't be enough. Offhand
we could fill the auditorium with
people We know have never been
startled into the paths of right by
sudden appearance of a Mephis-
topholean shade in the middle of an
ale tankard.
Maybe that, too, is just as well If
any such a phantom woulu be like
the one of ''The Devils Host" for
the central character in this goes
around uncovering hidden secrets in
the lives of all the people of the
play. These people, incidentally,
will be impersonated by Pat Blake,
Florence Rice, Ernest N. Johnson,
Gus Wildt, Nancy Vaughan and
others. L. zaff Rogers is the director.
X X
George M. Cohan, says Father
Gilbert Hartke, has been swell about
it all and has given no end of time
and aid to the people Of Catholic
University, who are producing the
play about his life. This, you prob
ably know already, is the Yankee
Doodle Boy" which has been writ
ten by Walter Kerr and Leo Brady
and which will be staged by the
c. U. speech and drama depart
ment December 16, II, 10 and 10.
While he was here with Madame,
Will You Walk" at the National
last week, Mr.. Cohan saw the script
of the play. Not only did he not
change a single word, but gave
Evening star., 1939-11-27

ing is underlined in Ray Bells no.
tice to critics that tomorrow will be
screening day for "Intermezzo," the
Capitops next screen attraction
Last Friday, being an open date for
critics and their turkey hangovers,
the Earle screened Jamaica Inn,"
which leaves only Joe Cooks stage
show to be caught this week in that
house . . Latin American diplo-
mats will be the special guests at
one of Everett Marshall's singings
tonight of Tom Brahany's 1.-The
Front Line of the U. S. A." . The
Capitol has fairly bulged for three
days with friends down to hear and
applaud Mr.. Brahany's patriotic
lyrics Getting back to Thurs
day openings at this late sentence,
they will continue at both Loew's
Palace and Columbia At least,
until further notice ~. For those
who would like to see it for the
'steenth time (Which 1t deserves)
or the first, 'The Informer" will re-
turn to the Little Theater at the
last show tomorrow night 1t is
one of the several films which shows
just how dramatic q movie really
can be.
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lavishly of his time in assisting the
authors and director in the produc-
ton details. Even after that ILL
ness of the middle of the week the
Yankee doodle boy spent consider
able time after the Saturday matt
nee posing for pictures with Marian
Wolberg, Margaret Mary Edmonston,
Jimmy Graham, Paul Tisdale, who
have leading roles in the play, and
Ed Wynn, who is not going to be in
yankee Doodle Boy" but just hap
pened to be around. Mr.. Cohan
even repaired to piano for a ses-
sion with couple of his old hits,
that Jimmy Graham, who is playing
George in the biographical drama,
would know just how to sing tune
in the Cohan manner.
r X X X
On another college front the i'm
mediate business at hand is another
program of one-act plays, which
the George Washington Cue and
Curtain Club will stage December S
and 6 at the Western Presbyterian
Church, Nineteenth and H streets
NV. These are to be Release"
which seems to be one of the prison
dramas Warner Bros. missed; "A
Cup of Tea" this in a farcical vein,
and "Confessional," TN which busi-
nessman has a struggle with his
conscience. Players taking part in
the program will be Julian Hatcher
Jack Salamanca, William Bernstein.
Sydney Hay, Keith Adamson, Joan
Giles, William Darnell. Ann Peter
son, Frank Hargy, Edward johnson.
Amorah Fortune, Margaret Cope
land, Ken Parks, David Chapman
and Ann Tilghmann.
Addenda:
The Agriculture Players are now
rehearsing 'The Late Christopher
Bean" that hardy perennial, and
will stage it December IA and Is.
The Blackfriars Guild has a
downtown ticket Office at st. Mat
thew's Book Stall, 1854 M street
NV. Tickets are on sale there now
for the production of Shadow and
Substance" which Is scheduled for
December 5, 6 and Z.
Philip Barry's "The Joyous Sea-
son" is next on the Montgomery
Players schedule, to be presented
Saturday night at Montgomery
Junior High School, Chevy Chase,
Md. ---... ....---
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His Installation of it needed the
restrain and evenness of tempo and
as another way of presenting the
famed sonata, it had its points of
interest.
Kreisler Works Included.
Hendrix Endt, who was at the
piano, was far too aggressive in tone
and style to fit in with what Mr..
Menuhin desired. In other works
Gin which the piano top had been
lowered he brought a better bal
ance and proved himself convinc-
ingly, the fine accompanist that
he is.
In the final group, where the
sterner character of the music is
abandoned, there were two works
of Kreisler, his own La Chase"
and his arrangement of Dvorak' s
Going Home" theme, Nin's "An-
dalusa,' the Debussy Hartmann La
File aux Cheveux de Lin" and Lo-
catelli's Labyrinth" In all of these,
the young artists technical f1uency,
his rich tone and above all, his depth
of understanding, so prominent a
feature of his playing, gave delight
to his listeners.
Menuhin seems to have special
sympathy for Kreisler and for his
encores he played the Caprice
Viennois" and Dvorak's Songs MY
Mother Taught Me- in the Kreisler
arrangement and the Schubert ave
Maria where his beautiful spinning
of the lovely melody is matchless.
The enthusiasm of his audience
mounted with every number with
many recalls when no more encores
could be counted upon.
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|
genius and what, in his first years
was dazzling for its virtuosity now
reveals the unfolding of the deeper
side of his nature and its applica-
ton to his art. The force of his
individuality is being manifest and
his determination for self expression
in every sense. Yehudi Menuhin is
the kind Of artist who will always
have something new to bring to his
playing, something that is of him
self and in no way stereotyped.
For his major works Mr.. Menuhin
programmed the Cesar Franck So
nata, the Bach Sonata No. in A
Minor" for violin alone, and the
Wieniawski Concerto No. in F
Sharp Minor, op. a."
With his clear, mastery technique
and expressive tone, Menuhin does
not rest content but seeks to make
them the medium of putting forth
ideas that are thoroughly his own
For sheer brilliancy of delivery, the
Wieniawski concerto took first place
| for in this seldom-heard work the
| young virtuoso gave rein to his warm
temperament and played 1t with fire
and structural symmetry. AS it is
work designed to show more of the
superficial powers of the player than
his depth of emotional discernment
it is rewarding for its effectiveness
in spite of the difficulties that are
present in every measure and which
Menuhin so splendidly encompassed.
Real ElOquence Achieved.
The two preceding numbers called
for reaching to the deeper strata
of thought and here was revealed
the real artist who has progressed
from wunderkind to a matured out
look on his calling. The Bach, with
its intriguing Fuga was nobly played,
with sculptural beauty of phrase
and with every mark of the specialist
in style. There was interpretive
conviction dominating the whole so
that real eloQuence was achieved
in Menuhin's presentation.
The same personal conviction was
discovered in the Franck sonata al
though one might take exception
to it for its extreme lyricism. The
mood which Menuhin established
was a contemplative one which
rarely broke it's bonds. The tempo
throughout was slower than is Gus
tomary and little emotional ardor
was allowed to appear. Although it
would seem that an intensity of
feeling permeates every measure,
that the poetic expression should
glow with hidden fire, one felt the
sincerity of purpose and idea under
lying Mr.. Menuhin's Interpretation.
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Hollywood Caste System
Is Not to AIMS Liking
Miss Rutherford Would Like
To Have Dates With People,
Not Just Film Stars
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Polly Benedict has had
words Ann Rutherford who plays the
Hardy SERIES has yet have the pleasure
beau Mickey Rooney PolyI
why" of this lunch in the Metro
said gravely. "The usually*
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