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the same way that other studies
have been regulated. Learned writer's
on music have gone into the subject
deeply and, as stated before, many
of the foremost universities have re-
nowned men at the head of q de-
partment of musicology, while pub
fishers are more and more willing to
put out translations of works on this
subject by European authors or by
the newer American ones.
Yet the youth of this branch of
music in this country. which has
long held the name of "Musikwis-
senschaft" in Germany, is proven by
the fact that only, the New Century
and Webster's Dictionaries carry
definition of musicology. In Webster
it is defined as music as a branch
of knowledge or field of investiga-
tion, especially historical study Of
musical documents, investigation of
sources, gathering and organization
of neglected data, ETC." The New
Century calls it systematic study or
knowledge of the subject of music,
its history, forms. methods, princi-
pies, ETC." The latter is the more
comprehensive in that it covers both
the history of music and the tech
nicalities of musical composition.
We need musicology to understand
both what has gone before in the
line of musical creation and toward
what end we are working. At no
time in the history of music has it
been so necessary to see clearly, or
at least know intelligently, just why
the modern idiom is being used and
toward what it is leading. Musical
composition is in the process of
change. which is neither erratic nor
willful in spite of an inclination so
to name it sometimes. Those who
have impartially studied the styles
in composition and how one was
the outgrowth of another can keep
us impartial in turn when bewil-
dered by what we hear.
More important still is the duty
toward musicians and laymen which
musicologists can discharge by un-
earthing more and more details from
the past that will help in the
spiritual appreciation of music. The
biographies of recent years have
made the composers living human
beings for us and thereby help the
approach to their works by deeper
and keener sympathy with their
joys and sorrows. There remain still
data to be discovered and many
points to be cleared up, all of which
belongs primarily to the domain of
musicology. In clarifying these dis
puted points and in stressing the
absorbing and romantic story of the
growth of music from it's primitive
impulses to the highly trained ideas
of the master composers, the emo
tional side of music will be intensi-
fled. This, after all, is what must
constantly be cultivated, and the
musicologist has the human interest
details at his command which tie
up with our own natures and their
functioning.
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Concert Schedule
TODAY.

Gladys Swarthout. song recital,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
Y. w. c. A., Armenian musical
program, arranged by Mrs.
Lawrence K. Cone, Armine
Manoukian, Shake Babasha-
nian, Doris Cone, soloists,
Barker Hall, 5 pm.
Leah Deganith, Sidor Belarsky,
basso. joint recital, Jewish
Community Center, 8 pm.
A Cappella Choir, Ruby Smith
Stahl, director; Margaret
Richardson, violinist, assist
ing; First Congregational
Church, 7:45.
MONDAY.
Guila Bustabo, violinist; Ernest
Schelling, pianist: Mrs. Town
sends musicale, Mayfower
Hotel, II am.
TUESDAY.
Marcel Mas. pianist; Alfred
Dubois, violinist; Beethoven
Sonata recital, Sulgrave Club,
4:30 pm.
Catherine Van Buren,, song re-
cital, Rankin Memorial Chap
el, Howard University, eve
ming.
Navy Band Symphony Orches-
ira, Jean Kajaloff, cellist,
soloist, Navy Yard, $3.50 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra,
Ernest Schelling. conductor
and soloist, Constitution Hall,
$50 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
2:30 pm, and Marine Sym
phony Orchestra, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
Marcel Mas. pianist; Alfred
Dubois, violinist, Beethoven
Sonata recital, Sulgrave Club,
4:30 pm.
Coolidge Quartet, Library of
Congress, $3.50 pm.
Layman's Music Course, Har-
riett johnson, director; Barker
Hall, $3.50 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
SPIN.
SATURDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra
students concert, DR.. Hans
Kinder, conductor, Constitu-
ton Hall, IL am.
Coolidge Quartet, Library of
Congress, 3:45 pm.
"Tour of the World" District of
Columbia, Federation of Music
Clubs. Barker Hall, 8 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Audi
torium, 1880 am.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
$50 pm.
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Singer Opens Series
By Young America

The Art of Young America pre-
sents Francis Barnard, bass-bari-
tone, on Monday evening, January
16, at the Chevy Chase Woman's
Club and on Wednesday evening,
January 18, at the Phillips Memoir
ial Gallery.
Mr.. Barnard, a native of Idaho,
graduated from the Cincinnati Con-
servatory of Music, where he so
distinguished himself as to win the
attention of Eugene Goossens, di-
rector of the Cincinnati Symphony,
who engaged him as a soloist sew.
eral times. ,..
Series tickets are available at
Kits, 1880 G street, and the Chevy
Chase Womans Clubhouse.
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STAR DENIES OPERA FILMS FAIL

fire" operas, and these operas draw,
even with what is critically known
as an only acceptable cast, but
there are certain operas which could
be performed with all-star casts
and the public would still stay away
in droves.
In the operate world that
doesn't mean that these stars have
lost their box Office magnetism any
more than they have lost their
voices, but it does mean that the
performer is only as popular as
the vehicle in which he is pre-
sented. SO that when the cry goes
up that the movie public iS fed up
with opera stars it simply means
that they are very justly sick and
tired OF the inept vehicles which
have brought these faces and voices
to the screen.
There is, however. bright side
to this otherwise gloomy picture.
Good music has been brought to
motion picture audiences and they
have liked it. This liking is evi-
denced in one very concrete way,
and that is in the new faces which
are being drawn to the concert halls
because of the fact that having
heard, possibly for the first time,
flrst-rate music sung by first=rate
voices. they want to hear more of it.
It's quite possible that q part of
this picture audience comes into
the concert hall to see rather than
to hear, but others come back only
to hear. This is not only true for
the audiences of the singers who
have appeared in pictures but Is
equally true in orchestral concerts.
StokoWski did most important
piece of music pioneering when he
appeared in THE Big Broadcast" :"
1t was very heartening experience
for a musician to hear an audience
in a great motion picture theater
applauding a Bach fugue. Even
the most sanguine music lover
would have declared it an impossi-
bility. New orchestras are being
formed all over America, and GER
tainly Stokowski's appearances in
pictures have had no little to do
with this increasing interest in
orchestral music.
Now I must write personally for
a moment, for I can't swear that
my colleagues completely share my
belief in the tremendous impor-
tance of motion pictures as a me-
dium for fine music-I know most
of them do. It is my firm convic-
ton that the motion picture me-
dium is the most important for
music in the world today. One
picture reaches an audience, in an
average week, greater than any
artist could hope to reach in opera
houses or concert halls in a life
time.
This does not mean that I think
Evening star., 1939-01-08

A group of students from the
Papas Studios, assisted by Hazel
Helsper, soprano, gave a program
last Tuesday evening for the men,
bers of the Cleveland Park Club.
Those participating were Jane
Simon, mandolin: Pauline Blundon,
guitar; Kenneth White, Hawaiian
guitar, and Lloyd Parks, who sang
Western songs to his own accom-
paniment on the guitar. Mr.. Papas
gave group of Spanish guitar
solos. Ruth Gardiner was the &C
companist for Mrs. Helsper The
program was in charge of w. E.
Yocum.
Mary Apple, well-known con-
tralto of New York and Washing
ton, appeared on the program of the
Friday Morning Club last Friday.
Frances Gutelius Smith has re-
turned to her studio home, 1886
North Upland street, Arlington, Va,
from Caribbean cruise during
which she attended concerts of
native music in Cuba, Guatemala
and Honduras.
Mary Van Allen, Chevy Chase,
(Md) pianist, presented two of her
pupils in piano recital at her
home, 4402 Stanford street, last
Friday. Marilyn Magee, II, and
Gloria Manter, 10, played several
solo numbers and Christmas carol
duet. Miss Van Allen played q
number Of selections.
Christine Charnstrom, pupil Of
Nine. Louise Coutinho, will give an
invitation piano recital at the Hotel
Washington, Friday evening. Feb
ruary 3.
Verne Bonesteel, pianist and
trombonist, and his son, Martin
Bonesteel, trombonist. will present.
the program at the o'clock hour Of
music at Friendship House, 6l9 D
street Sc, today. Stories will be
told by q member Of the Washington
Story League. The public Is cordially
invited.
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Symphony Has Schelling
AS Guest Conductor
Orchestra to Give First
Washington Presentation -
OF Work by Critics

With its first concert of the new
year scheduled for Wednesday at
$50 pm. in Constitution Hall, the
National Symphony Orchestra will
play under its first guest conductor
of the eighth season, Ernest Schell-
ing, eminent American pianist,
composer and conductor. Two Of
Mr.. Schelling's compositions are in
cluded on the program for their
first performance in Washington
"A Victory Ball" and the Fantastic
Suite" for piano and orchestra. In
the latter Mr.. Schelling will appear
Evening star., 1939-01-08
NAVY Band Features

The Navy Band Symphony Orch
estra, under the leadership of Lieut..
Charles Benter, will give the follow
ing program on Tuesday, at the
Sail Loft, Navy Yard, at $50 p.m.:
"carnevaL" Opus 81. overture for grand
orchestra Anton Dvorak
music drama "Gotterdamerung,"
Richard Wagner
FIRST Concerto" Opus 33, solo for cello.
C.. Saint-Saens
Musician Jean Kayalof.
Second Hungarian Rhapsody"
symphony No. 2. in d Major" OPUS IS.
'"The National Anthem"
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Library Concerts

The programs to be given by the
Coolidge String Quartet at the Liz
brary of Congress this week under
the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation will be as follows.
On Thursday evening at $50
o'clock the posthumous quartets of
Cherubini, mo. S in F Major" and
of Schubert in G minor will be
played, together with Alexandra
Tansman's "Triptyque."
Saturday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock
the program will consist of Haydn's
Quartet in D Major, Opus ga, No.
81; Bridges Quartet in G Minor"
and Brahms Quartet in B Flat
Major, Opus g."
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1t provides means for those who
are not gifted enough to become
performers to enlarge their knowl-
edge and appreciation of music and
SO. in this manner, become an in
tellectual force in every community
where music is cultivated
While every one will agree that the
study of music from an interpretive
standpoint and the cultivation and
sponse to it must ever take first
place, the study of musicology will
assist immeasurably in perfecting
the understanding of music. 1t will
provide the means of gathering all
the data surrounding the era in
which work was composed as well
as the intimate facts of the COM
poser's life or the many influences
of his time BY knowing all these
things a music lover can enter into
the spirit of the music, can visualize
the circumstances or moods which
inspired it and can realize more
fully the reasons for its form.
AS DR.. CAM remarked in OPEN
ing the piano forum of the Music
Teachers National Convention,
there are cycles in musical compost
ton and musical ideas, some Of
which are of enduring quality, and
others of but passing interest, yet
all of Importance in the working
out of the history of music. The
world has always been overcrowded
with performing musicians, many
of whom had no real background
for their claim as artists, but few
of those who could analyze and
therefore be authoritative in point
ing the way in which music was de-
veloping.
For many years it has been con-
sidered more necessary to produce
fine musicians than to devote time
to the study of music from scien-
tific or historical angle. Some of
these performers were sincere
enough in desiring constantly to
improve themselves, and they
naturally sought out extra informa-
ton to deepen their understanding
of their art. But for the majority,
it was sufficient to be dextrouS in
performance and emotionally re-
sponsive without caring whether
there were styles in thought or
periods in civilized progress that
might have bearing on what they
would interpret.
Most European countries, especial
ly Germany, have long been in
terested in research concerning the
origin and development of music
and the history of it's life and of the
men who left lasting impression on
1t. In this new country, until few
years ago, musicians were satisfied
with the joy of learning and per-
forming, and rather Indifferent to
the scientific facts of the profession
they espoused. But gradually it has
been borne in upon them that
there is much to think about be-
sides the technical and interpretive
part. and once started on voyage
of discovery, the treasures found
and their important relation to the
art Of music impressed them with
the vastness of a subject with whose
visual aspects they were alone oc-
cupied.
Thinking about music, the why's
and wherefores of its trends, led to
finding logic in its growth that
tied up with many factors. At the
same time, the far-reaching scope of
this study became apparent, and
the necessity Of planning it out in
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Choral Program

Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
will head the list of patrons for the
Rubinstein Club concert which is
to be given at the Willard Hotel on
Monday evening. January 16. A
number of choral selections will be
sung by the club, assisted by Doro-
thy Baker, sporano, from New York.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Recital Brings
Here Today
Other Events for
January Take
High Rank

Gladys Swarthout, glamourous
young prima donna soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Association and
an international favorite of the con-
cert stage, radio and screen, will be
heard in full-length song recital at
Constitution Hall this afternoon at
4 o'clock under the auspices of Doro-
thy Hodgkin Dorsey.
Miss Swarthout will sing the fol-
lowing program:
Gentle Shepherd" Anonymous
The Parting Of Friends" - Old Irish o.
f1ms .Ganspafiins afain; Soy syses D2ysnd
"Recitative and Rondo."
"sonnez ,es M.tine:Jo Johann Christian Bach sasa
"I ""IyiianelIe dss Petits canards'---c chspfler
""eeomanss "eon Dc solisa"---------e,ttalass
"El Majo Discreto" Granados
"n,s,,. dntermission.
"Monoiosue de Didons Bid nSHAe' hehf' fuf'en
Hail Pountsors hts Troyans Max carthsgs BfEloz
.Helvst My passn shoe. Love" asmit9n Ham Aarty
Miss SWartnout) - Charles Kingsford
The "Ai Nostri Monti" duet from
Verdis III Trovatore," sung by Rich
ard Crooks, tenor, and Kathryn
Melsle, contralto, both of the Met
ropolitan Opera Association. will
bring to a close the joint recital
those two artists will give at Con-
stitution Hall on Tuesday evening.
January IT, at $3.50 o'clock. under
the local management of Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey.
Mr.. Crooks will also sing the La
mento di Federico" from Cilea's
L'Arlesiana," and Miss Meisle will
follow on the program with the =.
""Ah, Mon Fills" aria from Meyer
beers lie Prophete." Mr.. Crooks
will contribute songs by Handel,
Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Tours, /,
while Miss Meisle's program of songs
Will include selections by Tschai-
kowsky, Gretchaninoff, Hugo Wolf,
Ferrata. Paxson, Bachelete, Chaus-
son and Bizet.
A program of violin music will be
offered at Constitution Hall the fol-
lowing Sunday when Yehudi Menu
hin, world-famous violinist, makes
his only recital appearance of the
current season in Washington at
that auditorium on Sunday AFTER
noon, January %, at pm, under
Mrs. Dorsey's management Two
sonatas and the Mendelssohn con-
certo are included.
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Added
at
Musicale
Violin and Piano in
Program Offered
Tomorrow

Two Of Americas most charming
artists will share the program Of
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's third
program this season tomorrow
morning at II o'clock in the ball
room of the Mayflower Hotel. They
are the gifted young violinist, Guila
Bustabo, and the brilliant pianist
composer, Ernest Schelling.
Miss Bustabo, who first played in
Washington before an invited audi
ence at the home of Mrs. Robert
Low Bacon in 1886, and had her
public debut here under Mrs. Town
sends auspices last year, has just
returned from a highly successful
first tour of Australia. Among the
many and varied honors bestowed
upon her while in the land of the
kangaroo was the naming of the
Adelaide Zoos new lion cub after
her. Guila wanted to bring the
cuddly, freckled baby lion home with
her, but her mother drew the line
at any live souvenirs, having sew
eral stuffed animals already in the
large collection of gifts to Guila in
that hospitable land. She has been
given crosses of precious stones by
two queens and a lovely cross Of
opals was presented to her while in
Australia.
Mr.. Schelling is also a great fav-
orite here. He it was who first put
children's orchestral programs on
the map and his compositions, as
we'll as his playing, are truly
inspiring.
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In 7. w. A. Hour

Today. at o'clock, the Sunday
Music Hours will be resumed at
the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION, Seventeenth and K streets.
The program will be the fourth of
the nationality series. and will be
presented by an Armenian group
under the direction of Mrs. Law
renee K. Cone.
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Musicology Finds Source
Of Spirit in Composition
Intellectual Gains Made
Win Recognition of
Educational World
Ry ALICE EYERSMAN.

Among the signs OF which are to be found In the
attitude within
musicoogy and attention paid this enhtening
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w.
Sonata" Cesar Franck
Miss Bustabo and Mr. Schelling
William Tarrish at the piano for Miss
Bustabo.
Reservations can be made with
Mrs. Townsend at 1909 Twenty first
street NV. or at the door of the
ballroom the morning of the concert.
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The program will be:
l..
Concerto in G Minor Vivald
1675-1143
Variations on Theme by Corelli'
Tartini-Kreisler
Miss Bustabo.
"Fueue in c Minor" Bach-Blanchet
"Barcarolle" ----- Chopin
'Triana' AlbeniZ
Mr.. Scheling.
III
Romance Prom D Minor Concerto"
Wieniawski
"Lento' from concerto) Ernest Schelline
"Rondo Capricoso'' Saint Saens
Miss Bustabo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30
AL CORETTO GETS
 PURSE AT DINNER
Groom of Next Tuesday Rendered Testimonial
 Banquet

Al Coretto was presented purse last night at bachelor dinner in his honor at Bosco's Flower grill. MT. Coretto will be married Tuesday morning at St. Lucy,s church to Miss Mary Brevetti.
 The arrangements committee in- cluded Pasquale Mazzamaro, Joseph Brevetti and John Misunas. Joseph Doherty was toastmaster.
 Besides the above mentioned, those present were Louis Amatruda, John Brevetti, John Buonanno, Louis and Salvatore Brevetti, Henry Brodeur, Lous Beausoleil. Samuel Coretto, Salvatore Cannizzaro, Will liam Colello. Joseph Ciarlo, Dome nic Ciervo. John Cipriano, Gus De- Cicco, Nicholas DeMatteo, Edward Dunphy, Constantine DelRosso, John DiSisto, Nicholas Ella, Rocco For gione. Al Izzo, Robert Irwin, Rocco Jacovino, Armand Levaseur. Joseph LaPorta, Michael Lombardi, An- thony Mazzamaro, Thomas Margiot- ti, George Mazzarelli, Anthony Mar marc, Biagio Manganaro, Harry and Nicholas Paul, Edward Pekrul, Mich ael Pallagge, Domenic Recucci, Peter Rosato, Paul Sapinsky, Frank Stem n1er. William Staisitis, Florenzo Silva, Martin Valenti, Frank zinno. William Patrick, David Bartolini, Byron Kin nan, Thomas Calo, Ernest and Arthur Mazzamaro, Frank Cuba, James Del- Orfano, Anthony Scacco, Philip Cievro. David Filippello, Patsy De- Eco, Patsy orapallo. Pasquale De- Cicco, ?. DePaolo, R. Cimaglio, H. 5ilnnon, William santaLupo, Daniel Ferraro Rocco Margiotti.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30
SERiALSIORY
 PAR IS. LOVE r s ss='4:sgr '=!.sE
BY EDWIN. RyTT
COPYRIGHT. t83Bs NgA SERvIce.- tNc

go bloom elsewhere.
 "I'm glad you're tall" he said.
 Like 'em teH?'
 "Uh-huhl And dark-haired."
 Not a blond hound?"
 'Nope. Can't see 'em with tele- scope. But I like violet eyes"
 "oh, you know someone with violet eyes,"
 "That's right. Iris eyes, with lashes a foot long,"
 "Iiow thrillingI Tell me about her."
 He told her. He was still telling her an hour later when they re- turned to the veranda and found a darkened corner. He would prob ably have continued his theme until the leering moon slunk out of the sky had she not injected a ques- tion.
 How are you getting on with your-er-destructive operations?' she asked.
 Pretty we'll" Roy said. "But I'm fighting a tough enemy. Time, I've only got tomorrow and tomorrow night" "You'd better think fast, cap- tain Flagg." 'IIl break it up," said Roy sav- agely, eff I have to knock those two chumps on the head" "Desperado.' And how! Look here, Babs, this match mustn't be-"
 well, it's up to you. You've got a whole day and a night. Why, the battle of Waterloo took less than eight hours
 "Who do you think I am, the Duke of Wellington?" "Well, of course, you may turn out to be Napoleon. It remains to be seen."
 Haven't I done pretty well al- ready? "Passably. But I'm expecting greater things"
 But I ought to get reward for what I've done to date. Think of 1t! I put the twins to bed"
 Quite an accomplishment. So you want-something on account?" Her lips were dangerously close.
 T not only want 1t. I've got to have it." He kissed her two seconds sooner than she expected.
 (To Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30
. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
Atlantic Flying Begins After 2OYeors' TriolS

NASb A.S SS' -
 CYMBOL of gallant, daring era O is the new U. s. special Trans Atlantic airmail stamp shown above, blue, slightly reduced. Twenty years after the first heavier-than-air flights across the Atlantic it is being used for offi- cial postage to inaugurate regular crossings between America and the old world. Thereby tags an epic story.
 It is a story that begins in the twilight of a May evening in 1919. May 16 to be exact, when three powerful ships of the U. s. Navy rose from American waters to be- gin the first heavier-than-air fly ing of the Atlantic. They were headed for the Azores, 1900 miles distant, the same route followed by the pilots of Pan American Air ways today. But fog and storm and disaster set in soon after the takeoff and only one ship, the NC-4, successfully completed the first leg. The others were forced down without loss of lives.
 From the Azores the NC-4 took off again after a weeks layover and flew successfully to Lisbon, and from there later on to Ply mouth, where the first flight off, cially ended amid high celebration May 31, 1919.
 So began Transatlantic avia- tion, in an open cockpit, with com- paratively crude instruments. but with great daring. And eight years later came unknown Charles Lind bergh to dramatize the possibili- ties of oceanic flying for all time. And after him came others. equal ly intrepid. Meantime, the great research laboratories of the nation were trained on the problem of aircraft development, safer flying. commercial operation. Now, 20 years after the first flight, regu- larly scheduled crossings from New York to Marseille, by way of the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal and return are underway. Avia- ton has scared to another con. queStl