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enod arrived for the first time in
the United States. Both concert
artists in their own right, as q team
they gave decided promise of sur
passing their individual achieve
ments.
One Of the two works which they
will play on Wednesdays concert is
of particular interest to Washing
tonians-that is the "Castellana'
concerto for two pianos and orches-
ira by the distinguished Washing
ton composer, Mary Howe. Her or
chestral works have been performed
by such major orchestras as the
Philadelphia under Stokowski, the
New York Symphony under Albert
Stoessel, the New York Philhar-
monic under Ernest Schelling, the
indianapolis Symphony under Sa-
vitsky and the Rochester Symphony
under Howard Hansen.
"Castellana," which Is built on
four Spanish folk songs. was given
its first performance January l3,
1885, by DR.. Kinder and the Ma
tional Symphony, with Bartlett and
Robertson taking the solo parts. It
has since been played by those pi-
anists in Chicago and in London on
q broadcast with John Barbirolli
conducting.
From Mozart Work.
For their second number, Lubo-
shutz and Nemenon will play the
solo parts in the great Mozart Con
certo in E Flat" In addition, the
orchestra, under DR.. Kinder, will
play three Bach items grave and
allegro from the Organ Concerto in
G Major" Komm, SUSSEX Tod" and
sinfonia to "Cantata No. 29." ('sWir
danken dir, Gott")-the Adajietto
Of "Mahler's Symphony No. S" and
the overture to Wagner's ''Tann-
hauser."
Tickets for this afternoons con.
cert will be on sale at the box ONCE
In Constitution Hall today after II
am. Season tickets for the mid.
week series, as well as single tickets
for Wednesdays concert, are still
available at the symphony box ONCE
In the Homer L. Kilt music store,
1890 g street NV.
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Scandinavian Music

This afternoon the music hour at
5 O'Clock at the Young Women's
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, will be the first of a
series Of monthly nationality pro-
grams, planned by members Of the
nationality department. This will
be a Scandinavian program, spon-
sored by the Danish-American Club
OF the Y. w. c. A. Among those
taking part will be Ravella Larson
and Anna Quist, Swedish singers;
Philip and Albert Burton Crosswait,
5r., clarinet and cornet; Muriel Alb
bott Marshall, yiolinist; Elsa Munk-
Pedersen, pianist and accompanist.
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Russian Star
Plays Here
Next Sunday
Rachrnaninof to
Emphasize Chopin
On Program

6ergei Rachmaninod, world famous
Russian pianist and composer, viii
play the first Sunday afternoon reci-
tai Of his career in Washington at
Constitution Hall next Sunday aft
ernoon, November II, at 4 O'Clock,
under the local management of
Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey. This will
be the first attraction Of Mrs.
Dorsey's second series of Sunday
afternoon music events at that audi
torium.
Chopin, Of whose works Rach-
maninoff is an acknowledged master,
will be well represented on the great
Russians program. He will play
Chopin's Sonata, Opus 58," as well
as four Chopin etudes, Opus Is.
The program will open with Bach's
French Suite" followed by the
Chopin sonata and two shorter
pieces, the Schubert-Iiszt "The
Trout" and Schubert's "A Flat Mi
nor Impromptu."
After intermission, Mr.. Rachmani-
noff will play his own "A Minor
Etude-Tableau," the four Chopin
etudes, and two List etudes: The
ID Flat Major" and the Dance Of
the Gnomes"
Next Sundays recital will mark
Rachmaninoff's only recital appear
ance OF the season in the Capital
and seats may be obtained at Mrs.
Dorseys concert bureau, in Droop's,
1900 G street NV, until next Satur-
day evening, when the sale will be
transferred to Constitution Hall,
where the box Office will open at 10
o'clock next Sunday morning and
remain open until after the start
of the recital.
Rachmaninoff recital will be one
Of two outstanding music events to
be presented at Constitution Hall
this month under Mrs. Dorsey's
management. The other will be the
only Washington recital this season
Of Yehudi Menuhin, who appears
at the D. A. r. auditorium three
weeks from today, on Sunday aft.
ernoon, November 26, at 4 o'clock.
This will be Mr.. Menuhin's last reci-
tai appearance in the Capital until
the season Of 1941-42. Seats will be
placed on sale at Mrs. Dorsey's
concert bureau on Thursday, NO
vember 16.
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as 1t was, with the notables who
frequented 1t. Haydn himself once
summed up the conditions that in
f1uenced his work when he wrote ,,
Il was cut OIL from the world, there
was no one to confine or torment
me and was forced to become
original"
His Average Day.
How great that originality was
under these circumstances can be
estimated If we try to picture . day
in his life. Some big event, q we'd
ding or reception calls for q new
work, and the time is short. The
master may not be in the mood
for writing today, but it must be
started. His great skill operates al
most independently Of any glowing
urge toward the work and he begins
to write. Becoming immersed In the
fascination of creation, he Is in
terrupted by one Of the musicians
whose violin or cello has opened"
Composing must be put aside until
that IS attended to, for the time is
short. Or word comes that another
has been misbehaving or is ill-all
things that must be Strengthened
out by the man in charge.
BY the time he can return to his
composing, the Joy of developing his
ideas has departed. Yet he must
go on and finish the work in some
way.
Another time the beauty that he
sees around him. or q charming
moment spent with some great lady
may lift his spirits and then the
music sings within him and takes
form on paper with all the de-
lightful fantasy or humour with
which we are acquainted In his
best beloved works.
Other composers could, more or
less, determine their own existence,
write when they felt like it and
gain inspiration from the stimu-
lating association of kindred spirits.
Not until he was over so did Haydn
know what it meant to receive the
adulation and respect, on equal
terms. Of the great of the world.
Until then his position was that of
a high-class servant, greatly tai
ented, and admired for it, but still
a member Of household doing the
bidding of his master.
Genius Shown.
In view Of these facts, how great
is his genius that left the world
his 104 symphonies, his many quar-
tets, his oratorios and his other
works. What might he have accom-
plished on q still greater scale had
he at his command the large or
chestras of today with their rich
variety Of tonal color and the free
dom Of association with those who
would delight in bringing him into
prominence. His work, however,
was to be accomplished for poster
ity and for the inspiration Of other
great musical minds that were to
come after him.
The public honoring of Haydn has
lapsed since the day when all Lon.
don sat at his feet, but with the re-
newal of research into the legacy
that he left the appreciation Of his
genius will receive a new impetus.
The miracle of this man who could
write in fluent and perfect style
when the order was given. who was
able to infuse the rather stilted form
OF his period with freshness, vital
ity and poetry, has never been
euualed,
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Concert Schedule

10Qoy.
National Symphony Orches-
ira, DR.. Hans Kinder, con-
ductor, Beloved Symphonic
Masterpieces" series, Constitu-
ton Hall, 4 pm.
Henriette Bagger Plum, con-
tralto, song recital, Roosevelt
Hotel, $50 pm.
Y. w. c. A. Scandinavian
program, S pm.
Hymn-tune service, Western
Presbyterian Church, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Washington Civic Orchestra,
DR.. Kurt Hetzel, conductor;
Evelyn Ann Foster, piano solo,
ist, Central High School, 8:15
pm.
Nightmare After the Opera,
Freund Singers, Pierce Hall,
$3.50 pm.
operate progr q m, CIVIC
Grand Opera Association, Ia
koma Park Town Hall, evening.
Wednesday.
National Symphony Orches-
ira, DR.. Hans Kinder, con-
ductor: Luboshutz Nemenoh.
duo-pianists, soloists, Consti-
tuition Hall, $3.50 pm.
nightmare After the Opera.
Freund Singers, Pierce Hall,
$50 pm.
Gatty Sellars, organ recital,
Francis Asbury Church, 8 pm.
Thursday.
nightmare After the Opera, ;"
Freund Singers, Pierce Hall,
$50 pm.
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Miss Foster, Soloist
With Orchestra

At the initial concert Of the season
Of the Washington Civic Orchestra,
DR.. Kurt Hetzel, conductor, the
soloist will be the young pianist,
Evelyn Ann Foster. A pupil of Nine
Marie Won Unschuld and graduate of
the Won Unschuld University of
Music, she is well known in this city,
having appeared many times in re-
citals.
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Mrs. Plum to Sing

Henrietta Bagger Plum, Danish
mezzo-contralto, who last year re-
turned from nve years Of study and
concert tours in Europe, viii give the
program for the Sunday night musi-
Gale at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mildred
Kolb schulze will be at the piano.
Mrs. Plum's program includes an
aria from Samson and Delilah," .
group Of Danish songs, and IN Eng
lish group by Carpenter, Hughes,
Ronald Bransconbe and spross.
Last season Mrs. Plum gave Z con-
cert on the Roosevelt Hotel series, 4
recital at the Sulsrave Club and had
an appearance 1T the White House.
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Season

Friendship House, 619 D street Sc,
Is to have its first Sunday program
of the season this afternoon at S
O'Clock.
The musical program will be pre-
sented by c. C. Cornwall, who has
for many years been in charge of
recreational work on the liner Le-
viathan. Stories will be told by
Ellen Dashielle, president of the
Washington Story League, and Mrs.
Clyde Bennion, chairman of the
Music Committee of the league. The
public Is invited.
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Song Series to Open

There will be q "Hymn-tune Serv-
ice" at the Western Presbyterian
Church this evening at 8 o'clock,
given by the choir and Jean Slater
Appel, organist and director. This
will be the first of a series of services
illustrating the sources Of hymns
from the Latin plain song, German
chorale and Scotch English psalters.
This f1rst service will include
Thanksgiving hymns, Christmas
hymns, passion and Easter hymns,
. fellowship and . reformation hymn
based on hymns or taken from Ger
man chofale tunes.
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original revue featuring all Victor
Herbert music, which will include
the dance group and the orchestra.
Chorus rehearsals are held every
Wednesday in the Central High
School. Interested persons should
attend these rehearsals, where they
will be interviewed. The group is
under the direction Of Lynn L. Gill;
chrest, assistant director Of the
Chevy Chase Chanters. Blanche
Hutchinson is the accompanist.
Felicia Rybier, pianist, formerly of
Washington and now of Baltimore,
will appear in a benefit recital FRI
day, November II, at Stien Hall,
Baltimore; for the Alumnae of Grad
uate Nurses of the Maryland Wom-
ems Hospital. Ell Gary, popular ra-
dio star, will be assisting artist. Miss
Rybier has resumed her work in
Washington, where she has q studio.
Thelma Stein Bickweat, local solo,
list and teacher, presented . number
of her students in q recital last
Saturday night at her studios at 1858
Park road NV. The following stu
dents participated: Elmer Arronthal,
John Fitzhugh, Mary Gallagher,
Elsie Groom, Helen Harrison, Joseph
Hover, Mary Jacobs, Bertha Kneesy,
Forrest Lewis, Ruth Major, Edna
Noonan, John Opus, Katheryn Prus
sof, Jean Richardson, Herbert Shug-
gart, Gertrude Tomlinson and Rich
ard Wagner.
Edward ]. Henneberry presented
the following piano pupils in an
informal Halloween recital at his
studio, 1877 Connecticut avenue, on
Saturday afternoon: Betty Hyer,
Paul Altman, James Copeland, Allan.
Mimi and Stephen Brown. Harris
and Molly Kramer, Mary Alice Ba-
den, Opal Robinson and Patsy
Smith.
The Gertrude Lyons Studios, q
music center for several leading
teachers, begins its 5th season this
year. Instructors whose studios are
at the center are Glen billiard Gum,
Lucy Boyer, Elsie johnson, ]. r.
McKeever, pianists; Frank Gittelson,
Henri Sokolov and Jeno Sevely, Wo-
linists; Frank Dressed and Mr.. Dar-
byshire, vocal teachers. Gertrude
Lyons, besides coaching in oratorio,
opera and radio technique, special
ICES in vocal instruction for children.
Jesse LIE Roy Stimson will present
the senior choir and soloists in IAN
evening of music" at the Clarendon
Methodist Church, Tenth and Irving
streets, Clarendon, Va, at 8 o'clock
tonight.
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dIlQ NcIlcIlOl1, QuO-pldIl1SIS, dp.
pearing on this program.
Like each of the concerts on the
Beloved Symphonic Masterpieces"
series, this afternoons concert will
feature one of the famous sympho-
nies-Tchaikovskys Fifth in E
Minor" Like each of this series
concerts, too, today's program will
be composed entirely of works which
the Washington music public has
indicated, directly or indirectly, that
it likes and wants to hear. For this
occasion, DR.. Kinder has pro-
grammed-in addition to Tchaik-
ovsky Fifth-the Overture to Weber's
"Oberon," excerpts from Bizet's
'L'Arlesienne" Suite, and 'Wo die
Citronen Bluh'n" Gland Of Citron
Blossoms") by Johann Strauss.
His Best Product.
Since Tchaikovsky's Fifth Sym
phony is considered by many critics
to be his best product, it is per-
haps sacrilege to identify it for the
swing enthusiast as that symphony
which provided the theme for the
currently popular song Moon Love "
Tchaikovsky wrote the E Minor
Symphony in 1888; its initial per-
formance took place on November
II of the same year in st. Peters,
burg. Both the Overture to "Ober-
on" and the first "L'Arlesienne"
Suite are deservedly popular with
Washington audiences, and the final
number on this afternoons pro-
gram, the Strauss Waltz, "Wo die
Citronen Bluhn," is played in re-
sponse to many requests from those
who heard 1t when DR.. Kinder in
troduced it on the last Sunset
Symphonies" concert of the sum-
mer. It Is from the Paul Loewen-
berg's collection Of Viennese dance
music which the Library of Con-
gress acquired just in time to save
it from being appropriated by the
NaN government. Land of Citron
Blossoms is q suite composed Of
three waltzes, introduction and
coda.
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Mem
enoh, soloists on Wednesdays con-
cert, have risen in the duo-pianism
field in the short space Of three
years. Last year, Mr.. Luboshutz and
Miss Nemenon (who in private life
is Nine. Luboshutz) made their
Washington debut on Mrs. Lawrence
Townsend's series Of concerts. It
was so successful that the officials
Of the National Symphony lost no
/, time in engaging them for this
season.
Assisted Kreisler.
Loboshutz made his first public
appearance when, at the age Of II
and = student at the Moscow Con-
servatory, Fritz Kreisler arrived in
Moscow without. an accompanist
and with q concert scheduled. Lubo-
shutz was chosen to assist him. His
solo debut was made in 1912 in the
same city with the Koussevitsky Or
chestra, Koussevitsky conducting.
Ten years ago Luboshutz was con-
Quoting . master. class In Paris, and
Miss Nemenon, who had some time
before made her debut In joint re-
cital with the cellist, Pablo Casals,
and had subsequently made . name
for herself through European con-
cert appearances-enrolled Is hia
pupil. Seven years ago they were
married dAyD aftor Aiss Mem
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In Local Music Circles

OF novelties are in preparation.
Those interested in operate music
are invited to join.
The Washington Opera Guild pre-
sented its first monthly recital at
the Grafton Hotel on Friday evening,
November 3, under the direction Of
Nine. Gurle Luise Correa, when the
following members gave q program
of solos, duets and trios: Mabel
Shenley, Melva Petefish, Luly Ware,
Mary Jean Wehmhon, Leila Huddle-
son, Virginia Howard, Ysabel Koe-
mig, Helene Gilliaert, Grace Sum-
merville, Mary Sullivan and Monsita
Correa.,
The first junior recital of the Dis
trict of Columbia Federation of Mu-
sic Clubs of the 18th season will be
held on Saturday at pm. in the
Sale de Recital. The music will be
by composers of all countries. The
public is cordially invited.
Lillian Harmon Burke presented q
group of her piano pupils in an
informal recital followed by a Hal
loween tea at her studio, 5004 Fifth
street NV, on Monday afternoon.
The children were in costume and
carried out an original Halloween
story with descriptive music. Those
present were Nancy Jenscher, Peggy
Donnell, Elizabeth Graed, Marie Be-
velle, Charles Sheetz, James Green,
Jeanne Jonscher, Rodney Hanson,
Evelyn Jean Thomson, Anne Sheetz,
Frances Farley, Elsie Mae Ernst,
June Hanson, Joan Sheetz, Tommy
Farley, William Glew, Betty Ruth
Ernst, Ruby Lee Williams, william
Ernst and Peggy Ann Ernst.
Leah Edenbach, Washington pian-
ist and teacher, is assisting Nine.
Olga Samarod -Stokowski In her lay
mans music course lectures which
are given in Town Hall, New York
City. This week, to illustrate the
lecture, Miss Ehenbach played sew
eral Bach fugues.
Betty Baum, pianist, presented Z
group Of her students In q recital
on November at her residence
studio. Those participating were
Anita Dornblatt, Mary Duggan, Fred
Ehrlick, Arlene Gordon, Teddy Haas,
Marlene jacobson, June Kuldell, So
mia Katz, Kathleen Kuldell, Tommy
and Victor Ottenstein, Sue Palkin,
Louise Ruben, Caroline Small, Ana
belle Tender and Phyllis Schwartz.
Miss Baum concluded the recital
with the recording of Peter and the
Wolf," by Prokofien, which she
heard the Boston Symphony perform
this past summer at the Berkshire
festival.
Violet Breeding Of the Warrington
Opera Guild has been engaged %
soprano soloist for the Metropolitan
Baptist Church. .-.-
There are several openings for bass
voices, also. altos, in the Playhouse
Chorus, . unit Of the Federal En-.
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Program Postponed

The program Of music BY the choir
Of Calvary Methodist Church, Louis
Potter conductor, which was an
nounced for tonight, has been post
poned until next Sunday, November
II, at 8 O'Clock. A detailed program
Of this service viii appear next Sun.
day.
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&sAOoV oSSAVS A44 CAAV o~oA SAA 0V VAC
present time is DR.. Alfred Einstein,
who has been an ardent Haydnite
for many years.
As regards the works of Haydn,
their number and authenticity, there
has been much dissension ever since
the day when the master breathed
his last earthly breath. During his
busy lifetime, he was careless of his
compositions and into whose hands
they fell or who took it into his
head to add bit here or change
something there. These difficulties.
complicated further by the tight
hold that the two chief sources of
information maintain, the Viennese
Society of the Friends of Music and
the Esterhazy collection, and the
amount of material yet untouched
in the Reale Academia Luigi Cheru-
bini in Florence and the Salzburg
Mozarteum, make the search after
Haydn musical creations a hercu-
leum task
With this new awakening toward
the genius of Haydn, there is every
evidence that he will assume again
the important place in the public
eye that he occupied during the
latter part of his lifetime. Known
as the father of the symphonic as
well as the quartet form, although
he was In no way discoverer in
these fields, he deserves the honor
of making them distinctive, one
from the other, and of influencing
those other great composers who
followed him and to whom we are
indebted for the marvellous SYM
phonic music that astounds at each
hearing with its inexhaustable
beauty.
Continuous Work.
The circumstances under which
Haydn created his music were un-
known to those who came later,
He might almost be called a day
laborer, for he worked by order and
continuously. It was not for him
to wait until an inspiration seized
him nor to hold back a compost
ton until he had polished it to his
liking. A work had to be ready for
certain occasion, numerous enough
In the active social life Of his pat
ron. and he had to find time to do
It and do it well.
The question of time must have
worried Haydn considerably, al
though his easy-going disposition
and pleasant mode of living may
have made him capable of COM
batting that worry. He was not
merely composer, but a man with
many other duties besides. He had
his small orchestra under the re-
glme OF Prince Miklos at Esterhazy
and was responsible for the conduct
OF these musicians and their atten-
ton to their musical duties. It was
Haydn's fault if the instruments
were not in perfect repair or if the
musical library was not kept in
order. These were sideline occu-
pations to his main duty of pro-
viding new music for the many
entertainments, when the Prince
was at home, or the two weekly
concerts required in his contract
when the Prince was absent.
For 80 years this was the pat
tern Of his life, with none of the
wide public acclaim that Beetho-
ven knew. The inspiration that
came to him was not from the
pulsing life of a great city and its
brilliant personalities, but from the
quiet of the lovely estate where
he lived and the intercourse slch
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The "Freund Singers" will present
for the 18th time nightmare After
the Opera" at Pierce Hall, Fiji
teenth and Harvard streets NV,
at $3.50 pm. on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
The performance Of this bur-
1esque on OPERA" presented at the
Dodge Hotel on Halloween night
proved itself to be hit show. Tick
cts may be secured from the Willard
Hotel and the A. A. A. Robert
Frederick Freund is the director.
The second in the series of Sum-
day evening musical services at
Hamline Methodist Church, Six
teenth street at Allison, will be
given tonight at 8 o'clock. John
Marville, director of music. has ar
ranged a program, the feature of
which is the singing of the entire
cycle of "Biblische Lieder" (Bible
songs of Anton Dvorak. These
compositions are comparatively un-
known and are being presented in
this form for the first time in
Washington. They will be sung by
the Hamline Quartet, Ethel Stickles,
soprano; Mabel Flehr, contralto,
John Murphy, tenor, and John Mar
vile, bass.
]. Russell McKeever, organist,
will play compositions by Schu-
mann. Kart-Elert, Clokey and
Widor.
Gertrude Lyons will sing for the
Armistice Day service to be held in
the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
Sixth and A NE, this evening at
745 o'clock. She will be assisted
in the selections, "Out of Night
the Bugle Blows" b. Joe Hum
pherson and Mr.. Moran, trumpeters,
and Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee,
organist. Mrs. Lyons recently sang
this same selection for the tenth
biennial session Of the Supreme
Council of the 33rd-Degree Masons,
Southern jurisdiction, for q me-
mortal service held at the first ses-
sion of the council.
At the Arts Club Tuesday evening
at 8 O'Clock Charles Edward Russell
will give q talk on the life Of Theo-
dore Thomas in relation to the mu-
sic he introduced to America as
pioneer symphony orchestra leader.
Margaret Tolson will illustrate at
the piano.
The Rubinstein Club, Claude
Robeson, director, will hold its regu-
lar monthly business meeting fol-
lowing rehearsal Tuesday evening
1T the Willard Hotel. AL officers
and members are requested to be
present. Additions may be arranged
by calling Edith M. White, South
brook Court.
An operate chorus is now form
ing Is an auxiliary to the Washing
ton Opera Guild, directed by Nine.
Correa, and viii rehearse weekly ut
the new guild headquarters, 172s
Connecticut avenue. Only women's
voices viii be used, and . number
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New Awakening Exalts
Compositions Of Haydn
Evidence Appears That He
Will Resume Great Place
In Eyes of Music World.
By Alice Eversn,an.

The last year seen decided revival Of interest the works
Joseph Haydn This is due partly
his symphonies previously heard
lifetime
New York partly the
output composer is famous
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Symphony to Give First
OF Masterpieces Today
Midweek Concert to Have
Duo.pianists Featured as
Assisting Artists

Two series OF concerts will be this week by National
Symphony Orchestra which opened its ninth
last Sunday This afternoon O'Clock
chestra under Hans Kinder will
series OF Beloved Symphonic Masterpieces
at $50 will eight
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There are several openings for bass
voices, also. altos, In the Playhouse
Chorus, . unit Of the Federal En-.
ployes Playhouss, 10 take part IA "a
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Violet Breeding Of the Warrington
Opera Guild has been engaged %
soprano soloist for the Metropolitan
Baptist Church.