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All persons havinc merchandise stored on the City Wharf, please remove same by April 21st, or ar- range with the Northland Trans portation Company for further storage, as Citys responsibility ceases on above date.
 H. J. TURNER, adv. City Clerk. Empire claSsifieoS bring results.
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ID under Nil; that the gas cham per has to be fabricated with graphite grease to keep it from jamming up; that the sights are bad; and that when you've fired some of your eight shots, you can't reload without firing the rest and smptying the clip. .a,-~,
 Army ordnance, the boys who developed the Garand (the gun takes it's name from Johnny Gar md, an expert at the Springfield armory in Massachusetts), say phooey to all that. Tests prove it isn't so, they say. And, further more, they add, men don't need to shoot deadeye more than 600 yards. There is a lot more, but it's all technical stuff.
 One of the leaders of the antis is Mai. Gen. M. A. Reckord of he National Guard and Executive President of the National Ri- file Association. Just about head man of the pros is Maj. Gen. C.. M. Wesson, chief of ordnance of he United States Army.
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Empire classifieos bring results.
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Weather Highest 45; lowest, 39; cloudy
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If the Germans keep turning up sensational documents, we'll begin to suspect they to pa! for the war by selling syndicate rights
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Club to Present
Opera, 'Mireille'

The Tuesday Evening Music
Club, under the direction of Florence
Howard, will present Gounod's opera
"Mireille" in miniature form, on
Tuesday evening at $50 in the
garden of the Arts Club.
Members of the cast include Helen
Perry, Ida Kaufman, Eleanor Ca
tron, Grace Holmes, Elma Dotter,
Ina Holtzscheiter, Gladys Wilcox,
Selma Last, Margaret Worthen,
Myrtle Barnes. Eleanor Brazil, Mary
Elizabeth Buckhardt, Dolores Re
maud, Bette Rider, Ruth Westergren,
Elaine Wilkinson, Marian Whitaker
and Grace Brown. The corps de
ballet is from Tatiana Gnoocheff' S
studio. Marjory Davis, Starr Pres
ton Tew and Dorothy Radde Emery
are accompanies.
"Mireille' will occupy the second
half of the program. In the first
half, the ensemble will be heard in
the opening chorus of "The Bartered
Bride by Setmana, and THE Chor-
us of Priestesses" from "Iphigenia
in Tauris" by Gluck. Tatiana
Gnoochef will present several Gypsy
dances, Alden Emery, jr., will give a
group of faut soil and in the scene
from Donizetti's La Favorita,' y
Frances Tucker will interpret the
role of Leonora.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Emery, Jean Dinwoodey. Beverly
Spencer, Carmalita Woods, Camilla
Goldsborough, Eleanor Stewart,
Dorothy Solnitzky, Sarah 10 Sax
elby, Suzanne Parker and Patricia
Thompson.
The recital of advanced students
took place Friday, and those playing
were: Alice Nix, Milicent Vogel,
Kitty Creech, Allen Lurie, Betty
Jane Cleaton, Barbara Cooke, Ed
ward Van Welt, John Saunders,
Herbert Hodge, Suzanne Offutt,
Phylliss Amirol, Madeline Lurba
The following pupils from the
Leona Swallen Studio of Voice,
Violin and Piano, 524 Van Buren,
street NV, appeared in recital
Saturday: Barbara Streeter, Jo-
anne Walker, Richard Douse, Betty
Bogardus, Gloria Jean Hazard, John
Irish and Betty Weimer. Edith
Peterson was the accompanist.
A group of piano students of Lii
liam Harmon Burke were heard in
recital Tuesday evening in the as
sembly hall of the Y. w. c. A., when
the following students played: June
and Rodney Hanson, Joan, Anne
and Charles Sheetz; Billy, Elsie
May, Betty Ruth and Peggy Ann
Ernst; Frances, Tommy and Bel
mont Farley, jr; Nancy and jeanne
Jonscher, Elizabeth May Graeff,
Kitty Cantwell, Peggy Deanell,
Evelyn Jean Thomson, Jimmy
Green, William Glew, Betty Jeanne
Gimmer and Ruby Lee Williams.
Mary Ferris Van Allen is pre-
senting a group of nine pupils in
their annual piano recital on Thurs
day evening at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Recreation Center. Those
participating are Jean and Donald
Rehlaender, Lois Brassor, Betty
and Suzanne Magee, Ruth Lofts,
Marilyn Magee, Florence Swain and
Gloria Manter.
A recital of two-piano and piano
solo numbers was given by pupils
of Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee
last Friday evening in the Sun
day School House Of the Gunton-
Temple Presbyterian Church. Those
participating were Ann Frost, Jean
and Jane Strauss. Jean Rawley,
Betty Hoover, Peggy Patrick, Ruth
Nylan, Ellen Fredeking, Marjorie
Wine, Walter Stroud and Prentiss
Clark.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Pupils Recitals

Madeleine Aughinbaugh presented
her students in piano recitals on
June IL and 13 at Pierce Hall with
the assistance of Mrs. Conrad Nix,
soprano. Those taking part were:
Jeanne April, Madeline Amato,
Athena. Demetra and Helen Bacas:
Katherine Bartram, Ann Baldwin,
James John Cerda. Betty Cooper,
James and Barbara Corridor,
Louise and Edward Lee Catterton,
Barbara Clancy, Charlotte Mataja
Campbell, Caryl Davis, Katherine
Deoudes, Arelene and Shirley Ed
monston, Gerald and Patricia Ann
Flood. Doris Fortney, Audrey Fried
lander, Jeanne Fisher, Arden Green,
Judith and Robert Gluck, Helen
Glasco, Normen Cenaro, Susie Glib
bons, Mary Sue King, Helene Ken
nedy, Betty Ann and Mary Cath
crime Lohr, Natalie Lenkin, Mary
Mataja, Edward Mora, Mildred
Mincosky, Mary Louise McHugh,
Florence McNally, Ruth Marion Nc
Dougald, Anetta Mae Mcpherson,
Paulette Norris. Conrad Nix, Kath-
leen Nolan, Joseph and Jeanne
Powers, Julius Piver, Bernice and
Charlotte Payser, Phyllis Rosen-
berg, Anita and Leon Reiskin, Paul
Reubln, Karma Jane Robinson,
Estelle and Blanche Skolnick, Lois
and Joan Schatzman, Evelyn Ruth
Strout, Betty Sewers, Doris Tai
bert, Bettye Thomas, Louie and
Anastasia Wallis, William Weber,
Ann and Joseph Walsmith, Doris
Jean Ways, Lenore Wolf, Ruth Wit
Eel and Edna Earl Webb.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Work Invited
For Festival
World Society for
Music Prepares
Programs

An invitation is extended by Roger
Sessions, president of the Interna-
tional Society for Contemporary
Music, to composers to submit works
for performance in the festival spon-
sored by the society which will take
place in New York City the week
OF November II. Orchestral, choral
or chamber music compositions may
be submitted and must be received
not later than July /. Only one
score, in either manuscript or pub.
liShed form, should be sent, pro-
vided parts are available if needed.
The compositions must have already
been performed in public and have
been written not more than five
years ago.
This is the first time the festival
has been held in America.
"The United States section of the
International Society for Contem-
porary Music feels that it is more
than ever important that the society
should go on" said Mr.. Sessions.
THE present world situation is fun
damentally struggle which reaches
far beyond the confines of the bat
tlefield, to determine whether the
forces of culture, freedom and hu-
man solidarity have within them
selves enough inner strength to
achieve self-renewal. We plan our
coming festival as an affirmation
OF these ideals"
Compositions should be sent to
the secretary of the International
Society for Contemporary Music,
Miss Dorothy Lawton, 121 East 58th
street, New York City.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Students Appear
In Studio 'Recita1s

Students of Eta Schmid Wells
were presented last week at the
Cleveland Park Studios of the Esmu
Club in a series of individual
recitals. Monday evening programs
were given by Betty bort, Priscilla
Wisch, assisted by Lois Hechinger
in her two piano numbers, Elaine
Torbert, Sally ONeill and Joseph
Wells. son of Mrs. Wells, who played
with his mother accompanying him
at the second piano.
On Tuesday Mrs. Wells present.
ed Mary Ellen and Anna Ferry,
Mary Jane and Margaret Briggs,
Dorothy Gauss and Sylvia Wells.
Wednesday evening the following
students were heard: Marian and
Donald Greene, Janet Ritter, Joan
Freed, Mary Woodward and Eunice
Wilson Greene, one of the assist
ant teachers.
Thursday evening programs were
given by Patricia and Bettigene Jer-
man, jeanne Trunk, Ann Distler
and Cornelia Claiborne. Friday,
the last recital of the series was
given by Barbara Bachman, Jeanne
DePrez, Barbara Ann Baer, Jane
Elsie Miller and Emelie Wisch. Jane
Elsie Miller played Seuel-Holst's
Concerto in F Major with Mrs.
Wells at the second piano.
On Tuesday afternoon Marjory
Morrison-Smith, assistant to Mrs.
Wells, presented her pupils from
the Maret School, where Mrs. Wells
is head of the music department.
Eunlce Wilson Greene, assistant In
charge of the Michigan Park Stu
dio. presented her pupils on
Wednesday afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Popular Music

One of General Records newest
contributions to hot jazz, From
Bach to Boogie-Woogie," demon
strates two heretofore inconclusive
points: That the resources of the
harpsichord lend nicely to the ag-
grandizement of jazz; that i'm
provised jazz, within reasonable
limits, can be scored and replayed
with as much of its original fire
as the performer is technically
equipped tc give. In this edifying
set of three disks Sylvia Marlowe
is the instrumentalist who takes
creations of such peers as LUX
Lewis and Pine Top Smith and con-
verts them into dainty, charming
things which retain very definitely
the rocking beat, fancy-free spirit
essential to the nature OF their
origin.
Being mainly familiar with boogie-
woogie as articulated by the pianos
robust tone, the flrst-time listener
to hot harpsichord should allow him.
self several additions to appreciate
more fully that Instruments rela-
lively thin voice in the naturally
booming b.-w. meter. Once &C
climated, however, and especially
through such standard pieces as
"Honky-T -Tonk Train," "Yancy Spe-
cial" and pine Tops Boogie-
Woogie," the initiate could ask no
more delightful treat. Also avail
able in this album, partially to suit
those who regard the harpsichord
as Mozart's inviolate property, are
Alec Templeton's Bach Goes to
Town and Raymond SCOTS 18th
Century Drawing Room," both prop
erly cute.
Art Tatum, whose "prodigious
technique" has been hailed for years,
commands the spotlight on three
Evening star., 1940-06-23
College of Music
To Make Awards

The class of 1910 of the Washing
ton College of Music will receive
awards at the 34th annual COM
mencement to be held this evening
at $3.50 o'clock at 1741 K street.
Fanny Amstutz Roberts, president
of the college. will confer the de-
gree of bachelor of music in piano
on HWei-ru Yang WI and in mu-
sic education on Sylvia Rosner. Leila
Mead Burt will receive a teachers
diploma in violin. College certifi-
Gates will be given Jeanne David
son, flutist; Thelma Cox, Martha
Hoffman and Violet Mcqueen, pian-
lists.
Mrs. WI was a student at Jiniing
College in Marking. China. before
coming to Washington to study. She
has been pupil of Mrs. Roberts
for the past two years. Last Thurs
day she played program which
included the Handel variations on
the Harmonious Blacksmith, the
Beethoven Les Adieux" sonata, the
Mozart Concerto in E Flat" and
group containing the Chopin &C
Sharp Minor Etude," the MacDow-
ell ITO the Sea-" the Ravel Pa
vane" and the Debussy "Pagode"
The preparatory school of the
college will hold graduation exer-
cises tomorrow evening at o'clock.
The summer session opens to-
morrow. A series of faculty and
student programs will be heard
during the summer. William Hold
en- will play program in the sum-
mer series of concerts at the Catho-
lie University on July 8, and on
August will broadcast the Mac
Dowell concerto with orchestra from
WNYC in New York City. Special
classes in pedagogy are being con-
Quoted by Fanny Amstutz Roberts,
who has for several years prepared
students for the classes of Nadie
Boulanger and Edwin Hughes of
New York. guest teachers of piano.
Recent programs of the prepara-
tory department have included those
given by students of Mildred Coe
Gavin, Anthony Chanaka and
Marybeth Garvey.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

in City Hall Park, New York, he
said he wanted to do something that
would "set the bootblacks and little
clerks around there thinking-some-
thing which would make them want
to be somebody and find life worth
living" And he did. 1t Is some of
this spirit which is wanted in THE
Singing of the Constitution" to give
it life and lasting worth. Perhaps
to meet the requirements of size, it
has been stretched out of it. If so,
more is the pity.
Suffers by Comparison.
Also. it must be confessed that this
historical painting stands up poorly
in comparison to those which have
long graced the walls of the rotunda.
Just why this should be, it is
difficult to understand Certainly, we
have increased in wisdom and ex-
perience, but with all their shortage
of such, it must be admitted that
our early American portrait painters
outstrip us all today. Who have we
among us who can compare with
Copley, Stuart. Peale, Allston, NAL
bone, Vanderlyn, Neagle, Harding,
Sully and score of others? Actually
none.
Standing before a work by one
OF these early masters, Carl
Melchers once exclaimed: How do
they do it? How do they do it? We
don't any of us know!" And yet he,
himself. was one of the most skillful
of our contemporary American
school!
Take the four paintings by Trum-
bull on the walls of the rotunda,
Signing the Declaration of In
dependence" Surrender of Gen.
Burgoyne," Surrender of Corn
wallis" washington Resigning His
Commission"-they are all well or
ganized, sincere, and directly paint
ed. They are we'll held within their
boundaries, and carry conviction.
The guides at the Capitol refer to
them as authentic" meaning that
the painter was present at these
events and reported them pictorially
with accuracy. Perhaps he did and
perhaps he did not; but, in any
event, he gave the works veracious
standing. There is no art for art IS
sake here, but art as an instrument
for reporting-and reporting at it's
best. Trumbull like all his COL
leagues, gave first thought to doing
a good piece of work, telling the
truth and in such a way that it
would register. He was, from this
standpoint, just as much an Illus
traitor as Howard Chandler Christy,
but it did not prevent him from also
being a good painter.
! It is, of course, folly to say that
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Decca personality" labels which he
graces with straight, branching into
outright jazz, improvisations of two
classics and four popular ditties.
The Tatum displays once again his
almost phenomenal speed on the
keyboard-a pace emphasized the
greater by clean lingering; one that
interferes not with the development
Of clear musical ideas. Best of this
crop are Sweet Lorraine" Masse-
nets "Elegie"; most disappointing,
Tiger Rag"
Hot Bands.
Harry James tootles to the verge
Of apoplexy in that new tune,
Flight of the Bundle Bee," which
is followed rather according to
score and then swung. The Hot Club
of France quintet shifts to Decca
and continues its string of excel
lent recordings with II Wonder
Where My Baby Is Tonight" Duke
Ellington has two more classics for
the files, "Cotton-Tail," Never No
Lament" Jimmie Lunceford offers
a juggling conception of oldie Easter
Parade" while Zig Elman drags
Love Is the Sweetest Thing" from
cold storage. Showing that he's not
all peaches and cream, Glenn Miller
assays "Bugle Call Rag" in not-so-
varied arrangement featuring an
outstanding tantrum on the drums.
Something less than Glen Gray's
topnotcher, Charlie Barnet's mo
Name 1--WE" at least has Charles
sax to keep it warm. Perhaps out
of place in this company, but hot
in its own right, the Milt Herth
trio does Girl With the Light Blue
Hair" and SLOW Freight" for Decca
and the customers.-J. w. STEPP.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
By Alice Eversman.

An interesting contrast in mu.
sical writing and musical thought is
offered by Dvorak's Symphony No.
2 in D Minor, Op. TO-" on Victor's
Red Seal discs and Strauss Death
and TRANSPORTATION an album in
the new Black Seal recordings. Nat
urally the symphonic form brings
restrictions that a tone poem does
not, yet the study of different men
talities as applied to musical COM
position could not be better fur
thered than in these two works re-
leased this month. Here are two
composers, both of pronounced
originality, who find their inspira-
ton in opposite emotional sources
and who have each contributed his
important share to the develop
ment of symphonic literature.
In his second symphony, which
by order of composition is in real
ity the seventh, Dvorak has no re-
course to the sweet simplicity that
made his New World Symphony"
so popular. At the same time he is
a master of melody and a fine
craftsman in fashioning it in every
conceivable form. The symphony
has strength, beauty, grace and in
dividuaGty even though the COM
poser yields frequently to Brahms
influence in some very telling mo-
ments. While the music is not lift
ed to any great height by an ire
sistible urge, his ingenuity in gain
ing rich orchestral effects makes
up for it. The composer has par
ticularly favored WoodWinds and
brass in this symphony, and some
poignant passages are given the
clarinet and flute, while the inter-
play of the brass voices in the first
section is interesting. The combina-
ton of strings and woodwinds in
The third movement is also effective
Dvorak, who advanced the cause
of Czech music by the compost
ton of major works in which the
folk music germ grows and flowers
to unexpected eXpressiveness, nev-
ertheless revolves in that atmos-
phere of national color which he sc
Evening star., 1940-06-23

stitution" one must view it from
across the rotunda and turn ones
eye to right and left, for it is like a
great stage set, the players, slightly
over life size, being approximately
40 in number.
Washington Was Chairman.
The scene pictured is of the dele
gates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton in the room in the State House
in Philadelphia where its secret ses-
sions were held from early in May,
1887, to September II of that year,
when the instrument purposed to
bind together the 13 original and
sovereign States in a mutually work
able and satisfactory union was de-
clared complete and ready for sub
mission. To this convention, all the
States except Rhode Island sent &C
credited delegates-in some in
stances. more than two Washing
ton, who, having retired to private
life, attended with reluctance, served
through the four months of daily
discussions as chairman, Mr.. Christy,
in his painting, shows him standing
by the speakers table with quiet
dignity In the center of the room,
Franklin is seated with a cynical
smile on his face, listening casually
to whispered comment from Alex
ander Hamilton, seated behind him
and leaning forward To the left
and at the rear of the room, stand
a group of men with arms appraised
to shoulder height, presumably
signally for a hearing.
Mr.. Christy, is is said, has made
most careful study of individuals
and done what he could to render
likeness. Also, for the purpose of
correctness, he has employed many
models. The actual painting was
done in the sail loft of the Navy
Yard. AS very popular and en-
inent illustrator, Mr. Christy is ex-
pert with his pencil, an excellent
craftsman. He is also good at COM
position. But in this painting, he
seems to have missed the dramatic
implication of the scene portrayed.
Here was not only history in the
making, but great event affecting
the life, liberty and hope of happi-
ness of every citizen of this country,
and how does he present it? AS any
meeting which had worn itself out
and was ending in mild weariment
and confusion. Not once does the
onlooker catch his breath or sense
the enormous significance of the
occasion. There is animation, move
ment, but no emotion. The visitor S
eye ranges over the great canvas,
he wonders what it is all about, and
moves on.
When MacMonnies modelled the
statue of Nathan Hale which stands
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Felian Garzia announces a piano
recital by Ruth Yanovsky this eve
ming at 9 o'clock at 1881 Jefferson
place NV.
Gertrude and Leah Effenbach will
give the third of series of musi-
Gales in their home this afternoon.
On Friday evening they will pre-
sent a group of students in a con-
certo program.
On Tuesday evening at 8:15 the
following pupils of Clara Moran
Bernheimer will give song recital
at the Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and
K streets NV; Sonia Berman,
Mamie Rouse, Joan McKenna, Anita
Herndon, Molly Mendick, Harriet
Griffith. Eva Owen, Margaret Grim,
Edwin Singer, Joseph Zies and Eber
Riley.
Artist and student voice pupils
of Eva Whitford Lovette will be
heard in recital on Thursday eve
ming at $3.50 in the auditorium of
the Dmitrieff- -Gnoocheff Studio,
5612 Connecticut avenue. Those
who will be heard are: Ester Smith
Bond, Nellie Barber Brooks, Hazel
Bergstrom Cake, Eula Crisp, Jean
Doyle, Sally Dudley, Helen Dunbar,
Elise Free, Ruth French, Kathryn
FURNACE, Violet Hubbs Hahn, Charles
Hipsley, Gloria Masgoret, Ruth Rea,
Dorothy Sapp, Carolyn Schultz,
Jean Smith and Helen Vrooman.
Florence Nielsen and Gwendolyn
Smith will be the assisting &C
companists.
The Dmitrieff Piano Studio has
conducted a series of recitals this
month beginning on June 8, when
Tamara Dmitrief presented Carol
Hollingsworth and Barbara Chap
line, and June 8, when Starr Pres
ton Tew played.
The intermediate group played
June IA, and those participating
were: Eleanor Solnitzky, Sarah Lou
Murgia, Sally Pierson, Barbara
Neidig, jeanne Cooke, Patricia
Evening star., 1940-06-23
In Local Music Circles

Felian Garzia announces a piano
recital by Ruth Yanovsky this eve
ming at 9 o'clock at 1881 jefferson
place NV.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Philadelphia
Orchestra
Brings Stars
Seats Are Offered
This Week for
Next Season

New subscribers wishing to secure
exact locations for seats for next
winters series of five concerts by
the Philadelphia Orchestra in Wash
ington can do so beginning this
week at the local box Office in Jor-
dams piano store, 1899 G street NV.
Regular subscribers were given op-
portunity for renewing their seats
through the month of May.
Next winters series will bring
some of the new stars of concert
and opera to Washington as soloists.
Rudolf Serkin, heard here previously
only in chamber music programs at
the Library of Congress and in Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend's morning musi-
Gales, will appear on the first pro-
gram of the Philadelphia Orchestra
at Constitution Hall Tuesday eve
ming, October %, at 8:45 o'clock.
Leopold Stokowski will conduct
the orchestra in its second Washing
ton concert, December 10.
Eugene Ormandy, musical director
of the orchestra, conducts the four
other events and presents Helen
Jepson of the Metropolitan Opera in
the program January IA; Enid
Szantho, Viennese contralto, now
also of the Metropolitan, February
18. together with Frances Nash Wat
son, American pianist, whose ap-
pearance scheduled for this season
had to be postponed due to illness;
and March 18, in response to many
requests, Mr.. Ormandy will conduct
an all-Wagner purely orchestral
program. Several compositions by
leading American composers are on
Mr.. Ormandy's list for local pres
entation.