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In Local Music Circles

The program at the Y. W. c. A.,
Seventeenth and K, today at S
o'clock, will be given by Phyllis
Schwartz, 13-year-old pianist. as
sisted by her brother, Milton
Schwartz. violinist in the National
Symphony. They will open the pro-
gram with a Schubert violin sonata.
Miss Schwartz will also play group
of solos and will close her recital by
playing the first movement of Mo-
zart's ID Minor Piano Concerto" !"
Betty Baum will be at the second
piano.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will present Dr. Glenn billiard Gum,
pianist and lecturer, on Friday
morning, 11:30 am, Barker Hall.
DR.. Gum has formerly been asso-
ciated with the Royal Conservatory
of Berlin and with the Universities
Of Chicago. Notre Dame and Wis
consin. He will speak on Some
Unexplored Possibilities in Playing
the Piano"
The Silver Spring Singers under
the direction of Elizabeth Clayton
Bacon will present The Bridge of
Melody" musical drama written by
Mary Lehman, Tuesday, at $3.50 pm,
in the parish hall of the Church of
Our Saviour, Sixteenth and Irving
streets NV. The group of 40 mixed
voices was invited to give the per-
formance after it's Offering in Silver
Spring two weeks ago. Valerie Leh-
man is stage director. Soloists in
clude Mrs. Bacon, Abbie Ridgeway,
Carol Barnsley, Blanche Yorkdale,
Betty Ruth McDevitt, Albert Nc
Clure and William Shumaker. Miss
Lehman is the accompanist.
The music section of the Takoma
Park Women's Club will meet on
Thursday, at 10 am, in the home of
Mrs. F. A. Shumaker, 112 Philadel-
phia avenue. Mrs. George Francis
Williams, who is in charge of the
program, will be assisted by Helen
Campbell Williams, pianist. Guest
artists will be Elizabeth Everett of
the Florence Howard Studios and
Arthur Hagesteary, violinist.
The recently organized women's
quartet composed of Helen L. Wolfe,
Fannie Shreve Heartsill, Rose S.
Mack and Helen Marie Koontz, with
Richard Taber at the piano, has
been engaged to sing at the Wash
ington birthday celebration of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
next Wednesday and at the similar
celebration of the Virginia Society
Thursday evening.
Edith B. Athey announces her
resignation as organist of Francis
Asbury M. E. Church South, Six
teenth and Lamont streets NV.
The Rubinstein Club is making
final plans to hold a card party on
Thursday at the home of Mrs. Ruth
B. Roberts, 1880 Jefferson street
N. w., to which the public is cor
daily invited. The next rehearsal Of
the club will be held Tuesday eve
ming at 7:45 pm. at the Willard
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Memorial Program

Dorothy Tyler directed the mu-
sical program for the Susan B. An
thony memorial exercises at the
Capitol Crypt Wednesday evening.
Mary Angeline Cooke contributed a
sacred solo, accompanied by the
Marine Band Orchestra with Henry
Weber conducting. Later came a
duet by Mildred Cooper and May
belle Shoemaker. Immediately fol-
lowing the overture Mrs. Tyler's
pupils sang a hymn, words for which
were written especially for the oc-
casion, and at the close of the pro-
gram they led the group singing Of
the hymn of the National Woman's
party.
Later in the month Miss Cooke,
Miss Cooper and Miss Shoemaker
will be presented by Mrs. Tyler in
studio recital with other Of her
pupils.
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Anniversary Music

The anniversaries of Mandel and
Chopin will be noted in the public
organ recitals announced for to-
morrow, Wednesday and Friday, 8
pm, at the Washington Chapel,
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
NV. American composers who are
featured on the first program in
clude A. Walter Kramer and Pietro
Yon of New York City, H. A.
Matthews of Rhode Island and John
j. Mcclellan, former organist of the
Salt Lake Tabernacle. Franck' S
piece Heroic" Is the major offering
on. Monday.
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Sole Heifetz Recital

Jascha Heifetz, celebrated
virtuoso of the violin, will make
his only recital appearance of
the current season in Washing
ton at Constitution Hall this
afternoon at 4 o'clock, under
the management of Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey.
He will play the following
program:
tb) Sonata" ID minor) Brahms
H.
Concerto" ID minor) -Bruch
American group:
'(D Deep River"
eD .1evee pana:.' m5saiti0n'l Negro
Clarence cameron White
e, Giant Hills, Cecil BurleiRh
"a, "a, a dn, IA vaise" tsi Victor Herbert
% Perpetual Motion"
Louis Krou
"Ballade ct Polonaise,"
. Vieuxtemps
Transcribed by Mr.. Heifetz.
Seats for the Heifetz recital
may be obtained at the box
office at Constitution Hall after
10 o'clock this morning. Eman-
uel Bay will be Mr.. Heifetz's
accompanist at the piano.
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SAASoeAo a., NAAC. 0OuldIlSCI WILL UlTeCt
the second half of the program. The
compositions she will present include
the "E-Flat Major Symphony" of
Mozart and an overture by Antoni
Szalowski, young Polish composer.
A third work will be announced
later. The first half of the concert
Will be under DR.. Kindler's direction
and will consist of the presentation
OF Beethoven's Third (Eroica)
Symphony"
In Several Cities.
The appearance of the distin-
gu1shed French woman as guest
conductor of the National Symphony
is one of several she is making this
season in the United States. A
week ago she conducted a special
gala concert of the New York Phil
harmonic-Symphony Orchestra in
Carnegie Hall. Later in the season
she will conduct the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in a memorial
concert for her sister, Lii Boulanger,
well known French composer, who
died in 1918 at the age of Is.
Nadia Boulanger comes of a mu-
sical family. Her father and grand
father had been teachers at the
Paris Conservatoire. Her mother,
Russian princess, was an accom-
plished singer. AS student at the
conservatory, Nadia was a class
mate Of such famous composers as
Georges Enesco, Maurice Ravel,
Roger-Ducasse, Florent Schmitt and
Louis Aubert. She won prizes from
this distinguished group in solfeggio,
harmony, counterpart, fugue, COM
position and organ. Her teachers in
cluded Gabriel Faure, Guilmant and
Chapuis. In 1908, as the pupil of
Widor, she won the second Grand
Prix de Rome with cantata, La
Sirene."
Upset Tradition.
When her sister Lii appeared on
the scene and in 1918 upset tradition
by winning the first Prix de Rome,
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Hotel. Applications for trained
singers wishing to sing with the
club at their next concert in May,
will be taken care of by Edith M.
White, chairman of additions.
The February meeting of the
Washington Alumnae Chapter of Mu
Phi Epsilon was held at the home of
Thelma McAdoo. Announcement
was made that Bertha M. King, ma
tional president of the sorority, will
pay the local chapter a visit of in
spection on February % at which
time formal musical program will
be presented.
H. Jerome Graham, organist at
the Universalist National Memorial
Church, Sixteenth and S streets
NV. will give a 20-minute organ
recital each Wednesday evening at
7:45 during Lent. The public is
invited.
Frank Mervine, tenor, and Flor
ence May Evans, accompanist, will
present the musical program at
Friendship House. GIG D street Sc,
today at 5 o'clock. Mrs. w. A. Har-
mon and Willamy King, members of
the Washington Story League, will
give a number of readings. The
public is cordially invited.
Elizabeth Rankin King. pianist,
played Schumann's "Faschings-
schwank," and two compositions by
Debussy, La Cathedrale Egloutie'
and "Minstrals, at meeting of the
German Literary Society held last
night at the home of the founder
president, Anita Schade.
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ranks with symphonic music, for
example, in its appeal to the general
music lover. The reason for this
has been assigned largely to the
fact that in America we hear opera
mostly in foreign languages, which
makes it impossible for those not
acquainted with the language or the
story of the opera to follow the
action on the stage.
But there is another point to be
considered. which is given little
thought, either by artists themselves
or by producers, and that IS the
question of acting in opera. Since
all time practically, singers went
into opera because they had large
and dramatic voices. Very seldom
was their acting ability investigated.
Opera has always been a question
of vocal fitness and acting was put
as a secondary need For that rea-
son we have had evenings when
automatons walked about the stage,
occasionally enlivenlng a perform
ance with superb vocal delivery
of an aria or a concerted number
Many were utterly incapable from
nature of dramatic action. and 9TH
ers had given it very little thought,
being engrossed with presenting the
music in an artistic manner.
Theatrical Angle.
Opera is essentially a musical
drama, and only when these two
component parts are equally devel-
oped will opera have a universal
appeal. All the world, it might be
said, loves drama or comedy, as
the case may be, all that which
represents life seen from a theL
atrical angle. In moving pictures
1t Is the great actor who receives
the annual award for outstanding
work. not the one who is best look
Ing or more interesting. On tine
dramatic stage the favorites are
those whose acting is superior, not
the actor or actress whose voice is
the most beautiful, although no one
will dispute the charm of a we'll
trained speaking voice nor its help
toward public success. What makes
Tor success in the theater or in the
movies is the talent to interpret life
IN the most realistic and natural
way, which includes the manner of
reading lines and modulating the
voice.
In opera, however, it still remains
a question of voice. Within the last
lew years some operatic artists, such
as Lawrence Tibbett, Rosa Pom
selle. Geraldine Farrar and Mary
Garden, have tried to give the
action of opera as complete atten-
ton as the singing, and their
names and their work will ever be
associated with the most compelling
performances of grand opera. 9th
ers have attempted feebly to fol-
low in their footsteps, but the great
artist, who is equally great as singer
and actor, is to be found about
once in lifetime.
Known in Every Age.
There is hardly an opera, espe-
cially those of the present reper-
tolre. which has not an intensely
dramatic story, and although it usu-
ally concerns events of a past period,
1t is, nevertheless, the same type
OF story to be found in any age. 1t
has to do with the good and bad of
human nature, whether in medic.
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val times or even mythology, its
gods and goddesses with human
frailties. Why should not the dra-
matte action of these stories be
given equal if not greater impor-
tance than the music. Were this
the case, opera would have as many
devotees as the cinema.
1t is hard to expect that stolid
figures, standing for long minutes
without any movement except that
caused by a deep intake of breath
and the production of high tone,
could hold the attention of audi
enceS that are not familiar with
grand opera. But give them plenty
OF action like that to which audi
ences are accustomed in the thea
ter. and the attention will not wan
der, and the story will be made
more understandable. This will be
the new art of opera presentation
when artists and opera producers
realize its Importance.
There was no greater dramatic
genius than Wagner, who had made
a deep study of the stage and its
possibilities in relation to musical
performances. Another was Verdi
and a third Puccini. All of these
men wrote for dramatic action as
well as for the musical side and
visualized their operas as drama.
Elaborate thought has been given
to the staging of the many operas
which each has contributed to the
repertoire, and every device that
artistic or mechanical minds con-
nected with the stage could think
of has been used to make the pres
entation effective. Yet in the midst
OF carefully planned scenic details
you will find singers who are stiff
and unnatural in their movements
and apparently unaware of the dra-
matte significance of what they are
singing about.
Schools of Opera.
Three schools of opera are best
known to American audiences, the
German, Italian and the French.
None of these has succeeded in
finding the ideal Interpretation of
opera from the acting standpoint,
and all three stress the singing more
than the action. It remains for
artists of this country, who have
already assimilated the best tradi-
tions of these mother countries of
opera, to develop the dramatic angle
OF it as the composers certainly in
tended. No producer would think
OF putting On play where long
scenes were left without action or,
If more impressive because of lack
OF action, see to it that the in
describable power of personality
which actors cultivate was also used
to fill these scenes with the tension
that makes for drama.
When opera is studied from the
dramatic standpoint as fully as from
the musical. then the demand for
grand opera will increase. When
singers use the vocal score in the
same manner as actors do the text,
and work out the action accordingly,
then will be seen the greatest art
that the world has known. This
will call for super-artists undoubted-
ly, for the mere singing OF opera is
a task in itself, but it will be worth
trying for. There is no predicting
what may come about if the opera
field could be revolutionized in this
manner by a far-seeing producer,
who would organize a company
and train principals and chorus
thoroughly in the dramatic action.
1t could be possible that demand
for opera would spring up that
would solve, once and for all time,
the problems connected with this
fascinating and little explored field
of music.
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SOloists to Assist
Center Orchestra

The Center Community Crches-
ira will give a concert under the
direction of DR.. Henry Goldstein
at the Jewish Community Center
tomorrow. The organization will be
assisted by Sylvia Rosner, soprano,
and Louis Dreeben, baritone. A
program, arranged with the CO.
operation of Mrs. S. Wolloch, will in
clude two Dances from Henry
VIII" by German; Mozart's Sym
phony No. 40 in G Minor" Suite
No. y from Bizet's Carmen" and
songs by Tschaikowski, Rogers, Ar
diti and Valentines aria from
Faust" by Gounod.
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Historical Series
At Arts Club

Norman Frauenheim will give the
third recital of his historical series
on Friday morning at II o'clock
at the Arts Club. The program will
be devoted to the masters of the
classic sonata and their forerun-
ners and Beethoven. The list in
cludes Carl Phillip E. Bach's Ron
deau in B Minor" Scarlatti's "Son-
alta in E Minor" Haydn's "Varia-
tions in F Minor" Mozart's "Rondo
in A Minor" Beethovens Sonata,
OPP. 2, No. (allegro)" and the
latter's Sonata, Op. 81, No. 2"
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Mile. Boulanger Is Joint
Symphony Conductor
French Woman Has Record
OF Extraordinary Gifts
In Music Branches
In Music Branches

Coming to WASHINGTON following triumphant
tne New YORK Philharmonic Symphony at Carnegie
Bouanger wodamous
National Symphony Orchestra
next Sunday afternoon, February at '
Sharing the or
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Dramatic Action Should
Be Great Goal in Opera
Names of Artists Who Have
Achieved That Become
Symbols of Success
By Alice Eversman.

The changes which have caused grand become
pated art during the century of the
history
this branch musical writing and left immortal
unchanged operate field
country favor that 1t
Evening star., 1939-05-21
low-Cost HOUSING
To Be Discussed

How to provide adequate housing
for self-supporting families with in
come between ST 100 and $4,000 will
be discussed at second conference
called by the Washington Housing
Association for pm. Tuesday at
Barker Hall. The conference will
be conducted by DR.. Arson Phelps
Stokes, president of the association.
Members of a panel who will lead
the discussion include Miles Colean,
assistant administrator of the Fed
eral Housing Administration: Mer-
Ger Evans, director of labor relations
of the Farm Security Administra-
ton; John Ihlder, executive officer
of the Alley Dwelling Authority, and
Louis Justement, president of the
District Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects.
Estimating that between 5000 and
1000 Social Security Board workers
will be moving from Baltimore to
Washington within the next year or
so, the association believes the prob
lem will become even more acute.
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Wheat Loans 10 Average
About 81 Gents a BusheI
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
announced yesterday the Govern
ment would offer farmers loans on
1889 grown wheat at rates designed
to assure them harvest time re-
turns about equal to prices now
being quoted on the cash grain
markets.
The loans will be made by the
Commodity Credit Corp, under au-
thority of the 1888 Crop Control
Act. Eligible for loans will be pro-
ducers who co-operated with this
years Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration program by planting
within their wheat acreage allot-
ments.
Department officials said the loan
rates would average about 81 cents
a bushel for the country as a whole
compared with So cents on similar
program last year under which loans
amounting to $49,375 ,297 were made
on 85,742, ,449 bushels. These rates
were said to be between IS and 80
per cent of the average price re-
ceived by farmers for their wheat
during the past 10 years.
The program set up a schedule of
basic rates for wheat stored in eie-
vators at principal grain terminal
markets.
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Goodwill Industries
To Hear Two Pastors

Two prominent Washington
clergymen-the Rev. J. M. Gillum
and the Rev. Charles F. Phillips
will address the Goodwill Industries
workers at chapel services this week,
it was announced yesterday.
Mr.. Gillum, pastor of the Brook
land Methodist Episcopal Church,
will talk at Wednesdays meeting
and Mr.. Phillips of st. Paul's M. E..
Church, South, will speak on Friday.
The services, to be held daily from
Monday to Friday, inclusive, will be
conducted at the Goodwill audito-
rum, 1918 New Hampshire avenue,
at BIS am. Guests are welcome
to attend.
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Presbyterian Poll Rejects
Conscientious 0bjector'
BY the Associated Press,

6y the ASSOCIATED PTeSS.
CLEVELAND, May 90 The
conscientious objector" to war serv-
Ice will be denied recognition by the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America. A proposal to
amend the church's confession of
faith so as not to impair a man s
standing in church because of con-
scientious scruples to war service
lacks 36 votes of a required two
thirds necessary for passage, church
officials said.
During the past year 1853 of 276
presbyteries have approved the pro-
posal, while IS voted against 1t and
IL took no action. Thirty-six pres
byteries have not voted.
The General Assembly, meeting
here May 1881, will consider fur
ther proposed union of the Presby-
terian Church in the U. S. A., the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States and the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
The Rev. Albert Joseph McCart-
ney, pastor of the Covenant First
Church, Washington, has been men
toned among those likely to be
nominated moderator.
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Vote on Townsend
Pension Plan Likely
In House Thursday
Action Planned Before
Tokine Up Revision
Of Security Program
By the Associated praxs.

By the Associated Press.
An informed source said Yesterday
the House Democratic Leadership
would bring to the floor this week,
probably Thursday, the Townsend
old-age pension bill.
The Democratic leaders recently
conducted a poll to determine how
their majority stands on the pro-
posal and they are known to be-
ieve they can easily defeat 1t.
Their plan was interpreted in in
formed quarters as an effort to en-
barrass Republicans who have ad-
vocated the Townsend plan.
1t was regarded, too, as yielding
to pressure from the Townsend
forces for a vote on their proposal
for pensions Of up to 5000 a month,
financed by a per cent gross in
come tax, for all persons over 80.
DR.. Francis E. Townsend, author
OF the plan, had said earlier yes
terday that his supporters in Con-
gress would file petition this week
to force consideration of his pro-
posal
The Democratic leaders also want
to get the Townsend plan out of
the way before House consideration
OF general bill to revise the social
security program. Should the lat
ter be brought to the floor first,
they fear the Townsend measure
might be used as a spearhead for
an attack to further liberalize So
cial security.
One Democratic leader said the
present plan calls for the Ways and
Means Committee to report the
Townsend measure without recon-
mendation.
He said it then would be brought
to the floor under procedure pro-
hibiting amendments. This wou>4
permit clear-cut yes and no vote
on the unadulterated Townsend pro-
posal.
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In this event will be Curtiss Cordell,
Nor Mccarthy, William Shields,
Russell Stribling, Kevin Maroney,
Raymond Agricola, John Cain, John
Adinolfi, and James Moulton. Cor
dell, Stribling and Agricola are pri-
Yates and the rest corporals.
The captain Of the winning COM
pany will receive a gold medal and
each member Of the winning unit
will get a ribbon donated by the
Mothers Club of the college. Judges
will be regular Army officers from
Fort Myer.
The regiments will form at Ver-
mont avenue and Thomas Circle at
8:45 am. and march to the Ellipse,
preceded by a police escort. After
the competition is over. the cere-
mony will conclude with a dress
parade and review before marching
Evening star., 1939-05-21
9. W. Medical Society
Elects New Officers

DR.. Arnold McNitt was elected
president of the George Washing
ton University Medical Society at its
annual meeting last night at the
medical school, succeeding DR.. Oscar
B. Hunter.
Other officers elected were DR.
William B. King, vice president: DR..
Leslie French, secretary; DR.. ]. Bur-
ton Glenn, treasurer; council men,
ber, DR.. Hunter.
DR.. Hunter delivered his annual
address to the society, stressing the
possibilities for future growth of the
medical school.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
St. John S Cadets Hold
Prize Drill Tomorrow

The twenty-fourth annual COM
petitive drill Of the R. o. T. c.
regiment at st. Johns College, 1925
Vermont avenue NV. will be held
tomorrow at 9:15 am. on the Ellipse,
south of the White House.
Eight companies Of cadets will
compete for the silver cup presented
by Maj. Ernest w. Brown, Super
intendent of Police, and the win
ming unit will retain control of the
trophy for a year.
A gold medal will also be pre-
sented to the winner of the indi-
vidual competitive drill for corporals
and privates. Those to participate
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Ickes 10 Give Address
Al Howard u. Dedication

Secretary Ickes will deliver the
address Thursday at 4:45 pm. at
the dedication of Howard Univer-
sity's new Founders Library on the
university campus.
After the dedication the building
will be open for inspection by the
public. 1t was erected by p. w. A.
grant at cost of $1,106, 600 and is
said to be one Of the most modern
plants of its kind in the country.
Music for the dedication exercises
will be by the Mems Glee Club. Mr..
Ickes' speech will be broadcast by the
Mutual Broadcastiug System. j.
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6. J. Muck's Candidacy
Will Be Unopposed

C. j. Mack, executive assistant
manager of the Mayflower Hotel,
will be unopposed for election as
governor of the Capital District Fed
Grafton of Cosmopolitan Clubs at
the convention in Newport News,
Va, June 1913, it was said here
yesterday.
William Edelblut, vice chairman
of the local Cosmopolitan Club, has
been made chairman of a special
committee to arrange for the WASH
ington delegation. Social features
of the convention will include a golf
tourney, general field day and a
banquet and ball the night of June
II.