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Evening star., 1939-11-26

Inc Ccan-OI-Iour championship
in two sessions for the Ledger
Dispatch Trophy is in play this
afternoon and evening. If the
Washington players can bring home
that cup they will feel they are, in
some measure, compensated for the
loss they sustained in the events
held here.
For the second consecutive time
Col. Edward Clifford has been able
to win the Clifford Challenge Cup,
being played for by the Washington
Bridge League, which he donated.
His teammates were P. w. Shep-
pard, o. L. Veerhoff and c. w.
Stark. In game at the Shoreham
Hotel they defeated the foursome
composed of Mrs. Tom Hamlin, Mrs.
Irene Surguy, Mrs. M. r. Reddy and
Mrs. Rose Robins. This success
gives the donor two legs in the
contest for the trophy, which must
be won Is times before it passes
into permanent possession. Only
one other team has won it twice
thus far.
In the first priority contest Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Gardner, Rush
Buckley and Rudolf Aukshun de-
feated Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Hall,
Saam Groves and Paul Kibler,
while C. M. Lake, D. C. Elliott,
DR.. c. c. Mcdonnell and 1t. Comdr.
w. A. Corley beat A. M. Sheppard,
Mrs. F. NJ Barry and Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Campbell The second pri-
ority contest went to the team of
Lewis r. Watson, Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. Lemon and Mrs. w. Van
Devanter, with Mrs. A. P. Stockvis
alternate, over the foursome of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Payne, C. F.
McDonough and c. A. Lyons.
In the regular team contest of
the league the victors were:
Section Mrs. Pat Mccarren; Mrs.
Scott. first: Mrs. p. H. sommerall: Miss
Ksndail ne second haq Ms z Eva anH Millisan. Mn
s. Klein. Mrs. Alma Byrne and Mrs. D.
e. Stephan, third,
ch9rehilI. J, W. Hussey and F: H Tillitson.
tied with Mrs Katherine Fenton. Mrs
Mary Goodstein. MI. M. Mayer and Miss
Thelma Goodstein for first place; Mrs.
Vann A. Clarke, Clarence Edelson, Mrs.
Sue White and E. A. Perkins. third.
Section 3-Mrs. N. r. n. Robinson, John
.. Mothershed, Louis Newman and AL
Roth. first: Tom Hamlin. Gene Herman,
James c. Stone and DR. A. J Steinbers,
second John Donnelly w. M. Evans, For;
rest e. Byrns and v. De Sveshnikofi. tied
with Mr.. and Mrs w De st Aubin, Lewis
Tubbs and Mrs. Evelyn Woodsde for third
place.
For the first time, the Termites
team led their section in the Federal
Pridoe T,aaO,,e oane 1oct Tuesday
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In Local Bridge Circles
Washingtonians Play in Norfolk Tourney
Bv Frank B. Lord.

an effort to win CHAMPIONSHIPS balance in with
the Virginia groups who captured
recent local bridge tournament delegation Washington
today in the 7h annual tournament
which held the
city The tourney sponsored by the
Evening star., 1939-11-26

There were two or three variations
of this bidding. but 1t was agreed by
the experts that the logical bidding
from the distribution should have
been:
Evening star., 1939-11-26

For the first time, the Termites
team led their section in the Federal
Bridge League game last Tuesday
night at the Wardman Park Hotel.
They won l4a boards out of "a. In
Section B the I. D. r. A. men won
Is out of 81 boards and In Section
c the Treys won Is out of "a boards.
The team standing is as follows:
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Ernest w. Merrill, Gardner, Mass.
seeks cooperation in an effort to
bring the United States Envelope
Societys check list of envelopes up
to date,
Evening star., 1939-11-26

rate the centenary of the first ad-
heslve postal issue, the Penny Black
of Great Britain, next May.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

The San Diego (Cahf.) Stamp
Club has proposed a recess" of one
year, during which no new stamps
would be issued by the postal au-
thorities of the United States.
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several such deals. The one, how
ever, which offered greater tempta-
ton for incorrect bids, incorrect dou-
bling and incorrect leads was the
following:
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Belgium may bring out a mourn
ing stamp in homage to the late
Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brus-
sells, a civilian hero of the first World
War.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

A radio critic wants to know why
Robert Louis Stevenson was not in
cluded in the Heroes of Peace"
series. He might have complained
with equal justice against neglect Of
Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Byron
and hundred other British men
of letters who do not qualify for
honors as Americans.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Evans Brock, writing in the Inter-
national Stamp Review for October
%, says: THE miniature sheet racket
continues to flourish =. Congo being
the latest offender, a set of not less
than seven being offered, five for
regular postage and two for airmail.
1t won't be long at that rate before
the goose that lays the golden
philatelic eggs will be killed"
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Haughton Sanguinetti, former
stamp editor of the Boston Evening
Transcript, has returned to the
United States from Jamaica, where
during the last year he served as
correspondent for Reuters new serv-
ice and for several American syndi-
Gates.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

The National Federation of Stamp
Clubs is polling constituent phila-
telic societies to ascertain sentiment
for or against stamp to commemo-
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Muriel Nissen, writing for the Bell
Syndicate, says: ANY national or
international crisis soon leaves its
mark on the postal paper of the
world. In fact, no commodity, no
institution, reflects such changes
more surely than does the postage
stamp. 1t is inevitable that the
European war will have reverbera-
tions in stampdom, and no one can
hazard even a guess as to how far
reaching they will be. Although 1t
is IS years since the first guns Of
the World War were heard, postage
Evening star., 1939-11-26

The bidding ranged In several diff
ferent courses as is shown below:
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Concert at School
By Civic Orchestra

On Tuesday evening, March 7, at
8:l5. in the Central High School
Auditorium, the Washington Civic
Orchestra. conducted by DR.. Kurt
Hetzel, will give its first concert in
1899. The program will consist of
the works of Beethoven, Mozart and
Schubert.
All amateur musicians who plav
orchestral instruments and wish to
take advantage of the opportunity
to gain experience in orchestral
playing are invited to join the or
ganization. They will not be called
upon to pay dues or fees of any
kind. Rehearsals are held every
Tuesday evening at o'clock in Gen.
trail High School Auditorium. The
orchestra, professional in char
acter. is sponsored by the Com
munity Center Department and was
organized in February. 1884, by Bal
ley F. Alart. Additional good play
ers OF the violin, the cello and the
viola, and tuba player, are needed.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Nightmare Work
With Mems Ballet

/ The next presentation of "A
Nightmare After the Opera" featur-
ing the mems ballet, will be given,
under the sponsorship of their di-
rector. Robert Frederick F'reund, in
the Willard ball room Saturday at
8pm.
Tickets may be obtained from the
Willard Hotel lobby: information
desk. Room 104, Agriculture Admin
! istration Building; information desk,
f, F.. C. A. Building, 1900 E street NV,
or by calling Adams 8345 or Decatur
64OO.
| Soloists will include Prudence
Jackson, Hilda Nelson, May Dele
Sandstrom and Katharine Warren,
sopranos; Theresa Hammelman,
| Alpha Knight and Doris Menter, al
tos; Fred Fetter, jr, Ralph Marston,
Walter Redit and Allan Robey, ten
ors. and Vincent Carols, Roy Gray,
Saul Hearn and John Wilson, bassos
Among the featured artists will be
Vincent Carols, Rolla Currie, Fred
Fetter, jr.; Robert Freund, jr.: Saul
Hearn, Ralph Marston, Walter Redit,
Allan Robey and John Wilson, COM
prising the mems ballet; Saul Hearn
and Joel Winkjer, blacksmiths, and
the "Heine Sisters" Vickey and
Freddie, in the Skaters Waltz"
Robert Frederick Freund will direct,
and Victor HI Neal and Grace
Gaumnitz will accompany the
! chorus.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Washington
Waits Visit
OF TOscanini
n. B. c.. Orchestra
Give Concert for
First Time Here

Washington music-lovers are ex-
pected to throng Constitution Hall
to capacity on the evening OF Tues
day, March IA, when Arturo Tos-
canini, famous Italian conductor
and his almost equally famous N.
B. C. Symphony Orchestra. make
their first appearance in the Capital
for a concert at the D. A. R. audi
torium, under the local management
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey.
Immediately following the first
announcements of Tocsanini's COM
ing. a week ago, deluge of mail
orders poured into Mrs. Dorsey S
concert bureau to reserve seats for
this outstanding concert, which will
give local concert-goers their first
opportunity to see the great N. B.
C. Symphony that Toscanini has
built and which has already en-
thralled America with its weekly
coast-to-coast broadcasts.
The entire personnel of the
orchestra, numbering approximately
100 men, will be brought to Wash
ington for this concert, via special
train that will include two baggage
cars for the orchestras instruments
which are valued in excess of $780,
900.
Seats for the concert of Tos-
canini and the N. B. c. Symphony
Orchestra are available at Mrs. Dor
sey's Concert Bureau, in Droop's,
1900 G street NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

Rose S. Mack and Helen Marie
Koontz. accompanied by Richard M.
Taber at the piano. will sing this
morning at the services of the adult
department of the Mount Vernon
Place Sunday school, Ninth street
and Massachusetts avenue NV.
The choir of the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church. under the di-
rection of Mrs Albert w. Volkmer.
with Mrs. Dudley C. Jackson at the
console, will present excerpts from
the second and third parts of Han
del's Messiah this evening at 8
o'clock.
Leila Mead Burt, Washington vio-
linist and teacher at the Washington
College of Music, with Alcie Thrall
Brooks, concert pianist, gave group
of numbers. including the Mozart
Sonata in F. Major at a concert
yesterday for the sustaining fund of
the National Symphony Orchestra
sponsored by the music section of
the Takoma Park Womans Club.
The National Capital In-and-
About Club held its second meeting
of the year at the Mayf1oWer Hotel
yesterday. A program was given by
the Inter-Grade Orchestra. Laura
Ward, director of grade orchestras,
conducting: the Powell Junior High
Boys Glee Club under the direction
Of Thelma McAdoo and the choral
group from Western High School,
Gladys Sanders conducting. A fea-
ture of the concert was the singing
of Inter- High School Chorus. under
the baton of DR.. E. N. c. Barnes. di-
rector of music, Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Session at College
By Nadia Boulanaer

Nadia Boulanger, who is TODAY
conducting the National Symphony
Orchestra, is this week teaching her
second session of her third season
at the Washington College of Mu-
sic. AS in former seasons. these ses-
Sions include class and private hours
In theory. pedagogy and repertoire.
= An assignment of last year was the
"StravlnSky Concerto" for two solo
pianos, written in 1885. which will
be given its first Washington per-
formance by Fanny Amstutz Roberts
and William Holden on March "a at
the Friday Morning Club. Mile. Bou-
LANCER will discuss at this time the
work and its composer.
On Saturday at $3.50 o'clock John
Crouch of the Vassar College fac
ulty will play the final program in
his series of four sonata recitals
which he has presented at the COL
lege this season. Listed are the
Scriabine Sonata in F. Sharp Minor.
Opus 30"; MacDowells 'Keltic So
nata, Opus So; RaveIs "Sonatine"
and the Schostakowitsch Sonata,
Opus IL, in one movement. Edwin
Hughes, guest teacher of piano, will
come from New York for this pro-
gram, as Mr.. Crouch has for many
years been his pupil, and will con-
duct his regular monthly teaching
session.
The Wednesday evening class in
esthetics is closing each class with
time given to the singing of Bach
cantatas, and has in preparation No.
$50, which will be sung for Mile.
Boulanger's criticism. Repertoire
hour this week will include the play
ing of the Schumann Concerto in
A Minor" by Anthony Chanaka, and
the Franck Variations Symptom
ique," by Elsa KaeSer.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Alunnae Music Event

Bertha M. King. national presi-
dent of the Washington Alumnae
Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon. will
spend Tuesday in the city on an
inspection visit to the chapter.
After examining the chapter records
she will be the guests of the officers,
headed by Vera Neeley Ross. presi-
dent, at luncheon, followed by a
sightseeing tour and tea at the
Washington Musical Institute as
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon
Carter.
In the evening, following dinner
at the Columbia Country Club, the
chapter will hold a special busi-
ness meeting, after which a program
planned by Olive Writer'S, program
chairman, will be presented. Fan
ME Mae Henbest and Ann Smith,
pianists. will be heard in groups of
solos, Elizabeth Newman, one of
three members affiliated at the
last meeting, will sing a group of
mezzo- soprano solos. Others afflli-
ated at the last meeting were Olive
Mellinger, formerly of Oregon, and
Frances Harper, formerly a member
in Missouri
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Glee Club Meeting

The newly organized glee club of
mixed voices, under the direction of
Yvan Servais. will have it's second
meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at the
studio of Sophocles Papas, 1000 N
street NV.
IVAN Servais. director is musi-
clan of note and is now the director
of the famous Baltimore & Ohio
Glee Club, composed of 100 male
voices.
Mr.. Servais was brought to this
country several years ago from Lon
don by David Belasco with Mr.. Ser
vais' entire cast and production Of
IN. Beaucaire." He also sang in
Blossom Time" AS a prize pupil of
Coquelin, Frances most famous
comedian, his interpretations of
"Cyrano de Bergerac" were unique
and outstanding. A great actor and
singer, he played with Sarah Barn.
hardt, Gaby Deslys and Rejane.
Both men and women singers who
desire to join this glee club are
invited to correspond with the presi-
dent, Rene Pinto, 1912 Forty-sixth
street NV, or Nine. Germaine
johnson, 1928 Wisconsin avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Whittal Concerts
On Three NIGHTS

The following programs will be
played by Adolph Busch, violinist,
and Rudolf Serkin, pianist, under the
sponsorship of the Gertrude Clarke
Whlttal Foundation, at the Library
OF Congress on Thursday evening of
this week and on Monday and
Thursday, March and 9, at $50
pm.
Thursday evening-Bach. Sonata
in F Minor: Brahms. Sonata in
G Major. Opus 78"; Schubert,
"Phantasie, Opus 159"
Monday evening, March 6-Bee-
thoven, Sonata in C Minor, Opus
30, No. q; Brahms. Sonata in A
Major, Opus 100"; Schubert, "Rondo,
Opus TO-"
Thursday evening, March g
Brahms, Sonata in D Minor. Opus
lO8';; Mozart, Sonata in D Major,
K. V. 306"; Beethoven, Sonata in A
Major, Opus Al
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Bidu Sayao
In Program
Next Sunday
Brazilian Soprano
Has Won Fame in
: Metropolitan

Bidu Sayao-pronounced Bee-doo
Sah-yoW-the glamorous ,and allur-
ing prima donna soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Association,
who was scheduled to be heard in
yesterdays coast-to-coast broadcast
of the Metropolitan's production of
"Manon," will make her only re-
cital appearance of the season at
Constitution Hall next Sunday aft
ernoon. March 5. at 4 o'clock under
the local management of Dorothy
Hodgkin Dorsey.
Next Sundays recital will not, of
course, be Miss Sayao's first intro
duction to Constitution Hall as a re-
cital auditorium for it was this same
captivating little Brazilian soprano,
still in her 20s, who was suddenly
summoned last season to fill the
place of Gina Cigna, Italian soprano
of the Metropolitan. when the lat
ter's sudden illness made impossible
her recital appearance here. Sayao's
outstanding success on that occasion
led to her immediate re-engagement
by Mrs. Dorsey for the recital now
in prospect.
Miss Sayao's appearance in the
United States as a member of the
Metropolitan Opera Association was
due to meeting. three years ago.
with Arturo Toscanini, the eminent
Italian conductor. during visit
Miss Sayao was paying to the United
Miss Sayao was paying to the
United States, She appeared three
times with the New York Philhar-
monic- Symphony Orchestra, then
under Toscanini. and the resulting
success opened the way for a Met
ropolitan addition. contract and a
debut the following February in
"Manon,' the same opera in which
Sayao was announced to sing the
title role yesterday afternoon at
the Met"
Seats for Miss Sayao's recital are
available at Mrs Dorsey's Concert
Bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G street
NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Roosevelt Concert
Bv Choral Group

AS a sequel to their performance
in the Roosevelt Hotels musical Sc
ries earlier in the winter, the Chevy
Chase Chanters. under the direction
of J. Horace Smithey. will present a
return concert at that hotel tonight
at $50. This popular mems choral
group, composed largely of soloists
in choirs about the city, will give
a varied program including several
request numbers.
Assisting the chanters will be
Henrietta Bagger Plum, Danish
mezzo-soprano, who has also pre-
sented an earlier program in this
series and who recently was guest
soloist at a musical tea at the White
House. At the plane will be Hester
Smithey for Mrs. Plum. and Earl
Ferguson for the chanters.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Operas Are Offered
By Guild Members

The Remington Webster Grand
Opera Guild of New York and
Washington, D. c., will present
Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"
and Leoncavallos "Pagliacci," :"
Tuesday at $3.50 pm. at the I'M
maculate Conception Auditorium.
The casts of these two operas in
clude group of excellently trained
voices in the leading roles, support
ed by we'll finished ensemble of
80 voices.
Lucille Lewis will sing the role of
Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana. y
She is native of Arkansas
and is of Cherokee Indian descent
on one side of her family. Her
great-grandfather came to this
country from Ireland and married
his little Indian princess" Miss
Lewis has sung extensively in the
South as a concert singer, but this
is her initial performance of grand
opera. She will make her profess
sional debut in the role of Leonora
in III Trovatore' with a leading
opera company later in the season.
John Seate. dramatic tenor. will
sing the leading tenor roles in both
"Cavalleria Rusticana" and II Pag-
liacci." Mr.. Seate made his WASH
ington debut last spring as the Duca
di Mantua in Verdi's "Rigoletto."
He is native of Texas. where he
was popular member of the Fort
Worth Civic Opera and radio artist.
He is president of the Remington
Webster Opera Guild and a protege
of William Webster.
Alvin Laidley, lyric baritone, who
will sing the roles of Alto in "Caval-
leria Rusticana' and Peppe in
"Pagliacci," started his career as
pianist, possessing a conservatory
degree for accomplishment on that
instrument. An employe of the War
Department., he has been a student
of voice with Dorothy Remington
Webster for the last year.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Arts Club Recital

Norman Frauenheim will give the
fourth piano recital of his historical
lecture series at the Arts Club Fri
day morning at IL o'clock.
The study of Beethoven will be
continued and an introduction made
to the classical romantic composers,
Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
The list includes Beethovens Var
iations in c Minor" Schubert's I'm
promptu in A Flat" the Liszt tran
scriptions of Schubert's songs, "Hark
Hark, the Lark and the "Erlking." :"
Mendelsohn' Variations Serieuses'
and two intermezzi of Brahms in
B Flat Minor" and "E Flat Major"
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Offer Choral Works

Choral works of American COM
posers will be featured in the forth
coming eighth annual Lenten concert
by the A Cappella Choir of First
Congregational Church on Monday
evening, March 13, at $3.50 o'clock,
in Constitution Hail. For this
event, which each season is one of
the musical high points of the pre-
Easter period in the Capital City,
Ruby Smith Stahl, director of the
choir. will present her so singers
in three groups of numbers, the ma
jority of which are entirely new in
the groups repertoire.
One of the compositions to be
featured in the program will be
Harvey Gaul's recently published
Christ of the Fields and Flowers" :"
and included among the numbers
by our native composers will be
Monson's polyphonic arrangement
of Martin Luther's "A Mighty For
tress Is Our God" also works by
Noble Cain, Mabel Daniels, Chris
tiansen, TroWbridge, Wetzel and
Willy Richter.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

be heard are from the operas. The
first Is "Illustratevi Cien," the
great air of Penelope from act 3
Of "Ritorno d'Ulisse,' as she recog-
nizes Ulysses and calls upon all
nature to share> her happiness.
Nathalie Kedroh will be the soloist.
The 'Lasciateme Morire" or La
mento dAriadne" is the sole excerpt
that survives from the opera
"Ariadne" The solo composition,
arranged as a madrigal for several
voices by Monteverdi. tells Of
Ariadne, forsaken by Theseus, la
menting her fate. The other madri-
gals are "T'amo Mia Vita" "Mala-
detto Sia rAspetto" and "Lamento
Della Ninfa." The latter, in pas
sacaglia form, foreshadows the more
famous Lament of Dido" by Purcell,
written half a century later.
The Mozart symphony is one of
the last and greatest works of this
composer, who wrote his E-f1at
major, G-minor and C-major ("Ju-
plterD symphonies in just over six
weeks. The E-f1at major, which
Mile. Boulanger will conduct. al
though written during a period in
which Mozart was in deepest de-
spalr, when his position was insecure
and creditors were haunting his
footsteps, is music unexampled for
It's feeling OF serenity and happiness.
Contrast in Works.
In contrast to these works IS the
Beethoven symphony, familiarly
known as the "Eroica,' which DR..
Kinder will conduct. The work
has been regarded as the great
est IN many respects of the
Beethoven symphonies. With its
famous Funeral March in place
OF the usual second movement,
1t transcends all previous sym-
phonic expression and it is not
strange to read in contemporary ac-
counts of the premiere how members
OF the audience were shocked and
outraged by the novelty of the mas
terpiece, claiming that it failed to
achieve beauty. sublimity or power
IN its attempt to be different.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Gunton Music Plans

The session of Gunton Temple
Memorial Presbyterian Church an
nounces the appointment of Mildred
Moore as soprano soloist and music
director. and Kenneth w. Frisbie
as regular organist.
Mrs. Moore comes to Clinton
Temple from one of the largest
Methodist churches in the South,
where she was soprano soloist and
director of chorus choirs of chill
dren and young people. Mr.. Frisbie
is an accomplished organist and we'll
as the regular organist today.
Three new choirs have recently
been organized-a trained quartet,
young peoples chorus and q Junior
choir, under the direction Of Mrs.
Moore.