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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31

Edward j. NORM celebrates 20 years Of faithful
service as an cmployc Of the Connecticut Light and
Power Company this week After lS months war
service In France, Ed a former taxpayer In Taunton,
Mass Joined the staff Of the Connecticut Company
here in 1920 he went TO work for the Light Company
in the gas distribution department and Is now IN apP
ance service His hobby Is the maintenance Of his
Prospect home where he Mrs NORM and their two sons
reside Congratulations Ed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31
sCOTTY CHOICE

One Of the most important child
roles OF the current season, that OF
little Rudi Roth In 1.-THE Mortal
Storm" has been assigned TO small
Scotty Beckett,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31

South American Republics
Military Forces Wholly
Unfit For Modern Warfare
BY BRUCE CATION
NEA Service staff Correspondent

Washington May 3in combined operation defend the
world against INVASION the bulk OF The work would have to be borne by
the military OF the United States.
the republics OF South fairly inn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31

navy air forces have approximately
go planes.
The Argentine army has about
$4,000 officers and men. In the navy
there are two battleships, nine cruis-
ers, four coast defense vessels, 10
destroyers, three submarines and 30
minor craft.
Chile has l6,400 soldiers, organ
lied In three infantry divisions and
one cavalry division. Her air force
includes one bomber group and two
flights Of amphlbians totaling per-
haps 30 planes In her navy there
are one battleShip three cruisers,
eight destroyers and nine sub
marines, plus 10 miscellaneous yes
sells.
MANY VESSELS
OBSOLETE
Those naval strengths are not ~
impressive aS they look The two
Brazilian battleShipS we're built IN
1910; those OF Chile and the Argen-
tine date back TO 1915. Argentina's
cruisers and most OF her destroyers
are modern so are her submarines,
three OF Braai's and three OF
Chilcs. The rest of the vessels are
practically obsolete
Peru owns two obsolete cruisers,
two old destroyerS and four up-to-
date submarines. Colombia has
two modern destroycrs, plus q hand
ful of gunboats useless for fight
with u major power, Vcnezuela's
fleet OF five gunboatS include one
prc-SpaniSh war vessel and one eX-
American yacht built In 1900 Uru-
guay's navy consists OF light patrol
craft; Paraguay's Of four river gum
boats.
u. y. MISSIONS
AT WORK NOW
Steps TO remedy the situation are
being taken. U. s.. naval missions
are currently working with the gov
crnments OF Brazil, Colombia, the
Argentine and Peru; the u. 8.
army air corps has a mission In the
Argentine, and Brazil Is pushing an
army mechanization program with
tho advice of a mission OF I'VE u. s.
army officers
II rs likely that before long U. S.
military missions will be In most
n not all Of the Latin-America
nations, advising on organization,
equipment and training,
But II the United States itself was
recently revealed as unprepared for
q major war, II Is q shining exam
pie OF readiness by comparison with
It's sister republics TO The south.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

fallen on prime favorites-Beetho-
ven's Fifth Symphony" Schu-
bert's Unfinished" Tschaikowsky's
Fourth" and Fifth" Symphonies,
Dvorak's New World" Brahms
Symphony No. l." the Cesar Franck
Symphony and Rimsky-Korsakoff's
"Scheherezade." of which The Fes-
tival at Bagdad" is recorded.
Melody Emphasized.
This latest effort of the Victor
company will surely be received with
gratitude. 1t takes away the idea
that symphonic music has nothing
to appeal to the average music lover
and shows him that the heart" of
this music is the melody the ma
jority enjoys. 1t states in the FORE
word:
The fundamental appeal of music
lies in its melody. Melody is the
substance, and fundamentally all of
us prefer substance to form. =
The vast majority of us who have
had not the time, the inclination or
the talent for the serious study of
music want it for its most direct,
straightforward and simplest quail
tiles. Each movement is here con-
densed to five minutes or less and
the melody content is concentrated.
With the symphonic movements so
condensed, those whose interest lies
primarily or exclusively in the melo-
dious qualities of the music do not
wait from 10 to 40 minutes to hear
what they most desire; they hear
the music they want when they
want it,"
An explanation of what parts of
the various movements have been
chosen. and why, accompanies each
excerpt. The whole makes a valu-
able asset in furthering music, and
especially symphonic music appreci-
alton, and will undoubtedly fulfill
the hope of Mr.. O'Connell that this
idea will offer an opportunity for
a certain cultural expansion"
ALICE EVERSMAN.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

Stretch the imagination to the
point where you hear the discreet
tinkling of chinaware and the rustic
of potted palms, place on your turn
table any disk from either Colum-
bias Eddie South album, Victor's
dinner music set or American waltz
collection, and for all you know you
may be in the Ritz-Warfield taking
tea with the elite. If your imagina-
ton is as creditable as each of these
three recent issues you are to be
commended.
Eddie South, known in most circles
as the Dark Angel Of the Violin"
and hailed as one of the foremost
purveyors of swing, performs with
his orchestra a nice variety of mel
odies on eight surfaces. Perhaps
Violinist South justifies the praise
for his propensities to swing. II
that is the case, it will not be proved
by these records. For when he plays
waltz such as "Zigeuner." it's a
straight waltz; when the rhumba
Para Vigo Me Voy" whirls out, it is
a rhumba, nothing else. This isn't
by way of belittling Mr. South's vio-
linistic gifts, which are undeniable;
merely a suggestion that Dark
Angels talents extend less toward
the low-down than to the long-hair
categories He proves f1ashiest in
his cadenza in Kreisler's "Introduc-
ton and Praeludium." for example.
although his fancy bowling is out
standing too in the less ambitious
La Cumparsita" and Pretty Girl
Is Like Melody"
The Victor Co.'S second INSTALL
ment Ohree disks of dinner music
boasts a likelier selection than its
first group of tunes the world has
hummed since the year !. Items
like Godard's "Berceuse," from
"Jocelyn"; Schumann's "Traumerei,"
Paderewski's "Minuet" and the
SCARED and tattered "Narcissus"
cannot fail to win approval. And
Alberto Rizzi's orchestra leaves moth
ing to be desired in their perform
ance. Let's Dance is the title of
the other R. c. A. releace, and the
urge to do so is great from the very
first measure of the opening waltz
"SweetheartS" All five of the en-
suing melodies also prove to be
native products in the best tradition
of our American composers of the
breezy and tuneful. Nathaniel Schil-
kret. one of the best in this line,
leading the Troubadours here, draws
the utmost from Moonlight Ma
DONNA" Missouri Waltz" and Three
O'Clock in the Morning"
The Art Hinett Threesome scales
the heights of something or other
with their clever swing version of
Tschaikowsky's "Marche Slave one
of the melancholy Russians more
somber works. We can hardly wait
Evening star., 1940-10-06

the stories and it was unthinkable
to do so with the drama of the lower
classes. Hence resource was had to
mythology or fairy-tale characters
which, besides allowing for drama
tic story, could be presented with
colorful effect.
Gradually, the power Of the mid
die and lower classes began to make
itself felt in political matters, and
before long, in the theater. Dur
ing all the long years from the first
meager attempts at what might be
called opera to the time of Mozart,
no composer had had the audacity
to think of the common people and
turn to their life stories for inspira-
ton. They were left to their own
simple amusements, and a combi-
nation of music and drama in crud-
est form.
While the courtly circles were
still holding to the opera drama
wherein their own personalities were
often glorified under the mythology
cal characters, Mozart thought of
the forgotten man and with great
skill Wove his stage works around
stories taken from his milieu. To
the courage and farsightedness of
this great genius we owe the ap-
pealing character of opera as we
know it today.
Affected BY Language.
Tho hovrior q n 80
in this country has always been
the use of a foreign language in
its presentation. Only the high
points of the plot could be grasped,
principally through the action,
while most of the poetic meaning
of what was being sung could not
be followed. AS yet the opera form
has not taken hold of American
composers as it should or offered
them the inspiration that makes for
free flowing and powerful musical
drama. This is indeed strange when
one considers the great love of the
theater in this country and the
natural romantic tendency of the
people
writing an opera requires a spe-
clal skill. The dramatic action
must not be too long delayed and
it must follow logically. A musical
idea can go so far and no farther.
1t must be complete in itself within
a short space of time. A public
appeal must be made almost in
simultaneously, for seldom does it
happen that a work, achieving only
moderate success at its premiere,
will be given again and again until
the public discovers its worth.
But when we consider the great
latitude of subjects for an opera
plot, the instructive and at the
same time eye satisfying opportunity
which an historical background, for
instance, can give, the power of
artistic personalities in the dra-
matte Interpretation, the mingling
of varied vocal tone with the or
cheStra ensemble. the wonderful
combination of atmosphere, artis-
try. drama and music which grand
opera provides, it seems a pity that
the American public has not taken
it to its heart sooner. When it
does, the new blood that will be
infused into it will prolong the life
of this great and oldest of musical
forms.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Woman to Direct
Opera Program
In Church School

For probably the f1rSt time IN
musical history. an operate per-
formance will be conducted by an
Italian woman-Amelia Conu-for-
mer harpist of the Metropolitan
Opera Association, who for many
years has nursed the secret ambi-
ton to direct opera. Such activity
for a lifetime devoted to opera
was prohibited by an active ca
reer as a harpist and has now
only materialized as the result of
an accident, suffered during the
past summer, which will make 1t
impossible for Nine. Cont to per-
form as a harpist for many months
to come.
Nine. Cont will direct "Caval-
leria Rusticana" and excerpts from
Lucia" notably the Mad Scene"
and the "Sextette" which are an
nounced to take place on Saturday
evening at the Immaculate Con-
ception School auditorium at Eighth
and N streets NV, and which fea-
ture in all the leading roles promi-
nent young singers of Washington
and Baltimore.
Nine. Cont chose for her debut
as a director "Cavalleria Rusti-
canaan opera which she had the
privilege of playing under the di-
rection of its famous composer,
Pietro MaScagni. She consequently
is familiar with the composers own
interpretations and in coaching the
soloists and chorus for this pro-
duction has endeavored to develop
in the young singers an apprecia-
ton and understanding of his ideas.
The cast for "Cavalleria" will in
clude Joseph Florestano, Alma Har-
ris, Martha Flynn. Frances Mohan
and Francis Barnard. The Lucia"
excerpts present Dolores Di Puglia,
Thomas Costaggini, Helen Robi-
chaux, Clarke Paulsen, Jesse Nussear
and Agustin Ribal.
A ballet advertisement will be
presented by the Marian Chace
Dancers. Tickets for the perform
ance may be secured at the Willard
Hotel and the Star Radio Co., at
1850 F street.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Serkin to PLAY

DR.. Harl Mcdonald. manager
of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
announces that Rudolf Serkin,
brilliant young pianist, will ap-
pear with the orchestra and
plans to play Beethoven's
Fourth Concerto in G major"
Tuesday, October %, at 8:45
pm. in Constitution Hall.
Although Mr.. Serkin has been
listed since last spring to be
soloist on this occasion-the
opening concert of the series in
the National Capital-a serious
infection in finger that
threatened to spread, has cur
tailed the young pianists sum-
mer engagements and had
threatened to postpone his ap-
pearance here. His physician
had issued an edict that he was
not to play recital this fall be-
fore November /. However, the
injury seems to have been suf-
f1ciently allayed so that it has
been announced that Mr.. Serkin
will appear, as scheduled, when
the orchestra makes it's bow
locally for the 1940- -1941 season.
This coming Tuesday is the
final limit for season reserva-
tions and marks the opening of
the sale of seats for the first
concert, only. All reservations
can be made at Jordan's Box
Office, 1899 G street NV.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
FanedG Group
Presented
This Week
Budapest Quartet
To Play in Two
Concerts Here

The Budapest String Quartet will
be heard in two concerts this week
in the Coolidge Auditorium of the
Library of Congress, under the au-
spices of the Gertrude Clarke Whit
tall Foundation.
On Thursday evening at BIS
O'Clock the popular group, which
has made its home in Washington
for several months past. will play
Mozart's Quartet in E Flat Major,
K. v. 428";; Schubert's Quartet in
A Minor. Op. 80" and Beethoven's S
Quartet in c Minor, Op. 18. No. A.
The Saturday afternoon program
will begin at 2:30 pm, when the
following numbers will be played:
Haydn's Quartet in E Flat Major,
Op. rs, No. g.; Schumann's Quartet
in A Minor, Op. Al, No. L." and
Beethovens Quartet in F Major,
Op. SO. No. l."
The October concerts will resemble
those held in the summer, when so
many Washington music enthusiasts
enjoyed the playing of the world
famous ensemble. AS in their pre-
vious appearances at the Library, the
artists of the Budapest Quartet will
use the magnificent Stradivari
stringed instruments and Tourte
bows which Gertrude Clarke Whittall
presented to the Library In 1886
The Budapest Quartet consists of
Josef Roismann. first violin; Alex
ander Schneider, second violin;
Boris Kroyt, viola. and Mlscha
Schneider, violoncello.
Tickets will be available at the
Homer L. Kilt store, 1880 G street
NV, tomorrow. A service charge
of Is cents is placed on each ticket.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
French Composer
In ORGAN Recital

The District of Columbia Chapter
of the American Guild of Organists
has engaged the celebrated COM
poser and organist of st. Eustace in
Paris, Joseph Bonnet, for an organ
recital on october II at the Wash
ington Cathedral. This will be the
only appearance of M. Bonnet in
Washington this season. The recital
will be open to the public.
The chapter will hold its monthly
meeting in the Church of the Refor-
nation, 212 East Capitol street, at
8 O'Clock tomorrow evening. A double
quartet from St. Margaret's Epis-
copal Church. under the direction
of DR.. Charlotte Klein, F. A. G. O.,
organist and choirmaster of that
church. will give group of new and
seldom-heard anthems. Following
the program there will be a social
period.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

country at least, are still growing.
Joseph Szigeti, the rrst of three
distinguished violinists to play
with the National Symphony dur
ing its 10th season, holds unique
place in his own field. Szigeti is
pre-eminently musicians musician,
and to his colleagues, to composers,
and to connoisseurs Of music, he has
long been considered the finest of
present-day violinists. He is far
from lacking in popular appeal, as
witness Benny Goodman, the great
swing clarinetist and band leader,
who called Sziget his musical idol"
Szigeti has been engaged for the
concert on December IS.
stravinsky to Conduct.
Igor Stravinsky, who will appear
as guest conductor Of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra in
program of his own works on jan
uary 8, stands head and shoulders
above the field of contemporary
composers. Since the first presenta-
ton of Diaghilev's production of
THE Fire Bird" for which Stra-
whisky wrote the score, almost
80 years ago, there have been
few to challenge his supremacy
which was further established by
his music for another Diaghilev
ballet few years later, lie Sacre
du Printemps" Although Stravin-
sky declined the conductorship of
the Boston Symphony when it was
offered to him. he has made several
appearances as guest conductor with
the leading symphony orchestras of
this country.
The press has made familiar the
sensational career of Robert Virovai.
But it took more than skillful press
agentry to establish Virovai, not yet
out of his teens, as one of the FORE
most violinists of our day. 1t took a
virtuoso technique, an emotional
maturity and a lyric tone. Virovai
made his triumphal debut in this
Evening star., 1940-10-06

country with the New York Phil.
harmonic Symphony. but his appear
ance with the National. Symphony
on January % is his first in WASH
ington with symphonic organiza.
ton.
Two SoIoists.
On March II Gustav Mahler's
Lied Won der Erde," for mezzo-
soprano. tenor, and full orchestra,
will be presented with Suzanne Stem
and Hardesty johnson in the solo
parts. Although Miss Steh has been
singing in this country little more
than season, her American ap-
pearances have confirmed her repu-
tation in Europe, where, until her
lack of sympathy for the Nazi re-
gime forced her to leave Germany,
she was highly acclaimed. Mr.. john
son is a young American tenor with
a voice of power and artistry that
is rapidly carrying him to the top.
Last spring Mr.. johnson appeared
at the Coolidge Festival as soloist
with chamber orchestra under the
direction of Hans Kinder.
Antonio Brosa, who will appear as
soloist during the Beethoven
Brahms-Sibelius Festival on March
30, 81 and April 2. is a native Of
Spain, but achieved his reputation
both as violinist and as chamber
music player in England. Founder
of the World-famouS Brosa Quartet,
he has recently been forced to dis
band that organization because of
the increasing demands for him as
soloist.
With the exception of Brosa. who
will be heard on the special series,
all the assisting artists will appear
on the midweek series. Season ticket
reservations for all series-the spe-
cial, the midweek and the Beloved
Masterpieces may now be made
at the symphony box Office in Kits
Music Store, 1880 G street NV.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Miss Moore
TOBe Heard
On Visit Here
Concert Series in
Washington Has
Leading Stars

Grace Moore, the distinguished
American soprano who will appear
in recital at Constitution Hall this
coming season as one of the attrac-
tions of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's
first series of Sunday afternoon
concerts, will sing the role of Flora
in Italo Montemezzi's opera. The
Love of Three Kings" with the
Chicago City Opera Co. next month,
with the composer conducting. This
will be the first time Miss Moore has
ever sung the role.
The noted American singer will
open an autumn recital and concert
tour during the coming week, fol-
lowing her return from Havana,
where she made two special ap-
pearances in grand opera under the
direction of Laszlo Halasz, impress
ario of the st. Louis Opera Co. Miss
Moore appeared in "Manon" on
September % and in La Boheme"
last Monday evening.
Miss Moore, who will be heard as
soloist on the Ford Sunday evening
hour October 20. will be one of II
events Mrs. Dorsey will present at
Constitution Hall, II of which will
be given on Sunday afternoons and
six at evening performances. The
evening performances, grouped into
one series of music events. opens
on Monday evening, October %.
Series tickets for these perfor-
mances will continue available until
October Is, after which seats for
attractions will be placed
on sale.
The Sunday afternoon music
events are divided into two series
of five events each and one special
performance, the debut recital in
Constitution Hall of Allan Jones,
scheen, radio and concert tenor.
The first Sunday afternoon series
opens on November 3 with a con-
cert by the Metropolitan Opera
Quartet, including Rose hampton,
soprano; Charles Kullman, tenor;
Helen Oelheim, contralto, and
Julius Huehn. baritone, all of the
Metropolitan Opera. This same
series will offer solo recitals by
Yehudi Menuhin. violinist; Grace
Moore, soprano; Vladimir Horowitz,
pianist, and Nelson Eddy. baritone.
The sale of series tickets for this
group of attractions closes Octo-
her q
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Concert Schedule

Today.
Felian Garzia, piano recital,
Chevy Chase Junior College,
8 pm.
Tomorrow.
Department of Agriculture
Orchestra, DR.. Walter Bauer,
conductor; Grace Powell, violin;
Lydia Farquhar, viola, soloists,
Department Auditorium, $50
pm.
Evening with the Victrola,
Public Library, Eighth and K
streets, 7:30 pm.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital, L. D. S. Chapel, 8
pm.
Tuesday.
Department of Agriculture
Orchestra, DR.. Walter Bauer,
conductor; Grace Powell, vio-
lin; Lydia Farquhar, viola, So
loists, Department Auditorium,
8 pm.
Wednesday.
Theodore Schaefer, organ re-
cital; Gordon Barnes. baritone,
assisting, Covenant-First Pres
byterian Church, $3.50 pm.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital, L. D. S. Chapel, 8
pm.
Thursday.
Budapest String Quartet,
Library of Congress. 8:l5 pm.
Kay Rickert. violinist; Helen
McGraw. pianist, joint recital,
Arts Club, evening.
Friday.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, Or
gan recital; Edna c. Wheel
wright, soprano, assisting, L. D.
s. Chapel, 8 pm.
Saturday.
Budapest String Quartet, Ii
brary of Congress, 2::30 pm.
"Cavalleria Rusticana," sex
tette and mad scene, Lucia di
Lammermoor";; Nine. Amelia
Cont, director, Immaculate
Conception School, 8:15 pm.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Two Are Featured
With Agriculture
Orchestra Music

Grace Powell. violinist. and Lydia
Farquhar, violist. will be featured
as soloists with the Department of
Agriculture Orchestra in Mozart's
"Sinfonia Concertante" tomorrow
and Tuesday at $50 pm. in the
Agriculture Auditorium, Sout h
Building. Fourteenth street and
Independence avenue S.W. The
program. which will be conducted
by DR.. Walter Bauer, includes also
the overture to the opera, Three
Brothers" by Cimarosa; the tone
poem Clouds" by Debussy; the
symphonic suite "Scheherezade," by
Rimsky -Korsakov, and "Natchez-
on the Hill" by John Powell OF
Richmond. Va.
AS usual the public is invited;
there is no admission charge. nor
are tickets required.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Debussy Evening at
Collee of Music

A commentary on the life and
works of Claude Debussy will be
given by Zoe McCombs preceding a
program of the French impress
sionist's music at the Washington
College of Music, 174l K street, this
evening at 8:45 o'clock. THE Dancers
of Delphi" from the first book of
preludes, will be played by Miss
McCombs; the "Nocturne," by Elsa
Kaeser; the Submerged Cathedral, u
by Marie de Porry; Homage to
Rameau," by Martha Ristine; Fire
works." by Alice Ingersoll, and
''Pagodas." by the young Chinese
pianist, Yang Hwei-ru WI.
Juanita Claxon, who has just re-
turned from a summers study with
Oscar Seagle at Schroon Lake, will
sing the "Chansons de Militis" and
"Mandoline."