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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07
Your Weekend Lesson

With each of the numbered
hands as dummy. how should
South plan his play for 4-Spades
after West leads the heart king?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07

cumulative despair that has over
taken all my friends.
"You know / view this present
world situation quite phiIosophi-
cally-it's a biological viewpoint.
! suppose it's because am a path
ologist and also an historian and
something Of a farmer.
Bound to the Past
''Now as pathologist l regard
this dislocation of society as |
would an injury to the skin. The
people involved are like the cells
of the body They rush out from
their norman locations and scurry
hither and yon over the injured
area. A good many of them get
killed. But in pathology they tell
rs that when the cells that are
poured out into a wound die they
liberate a substance called ire
phone, that has the ability to call
out the powers of healing. The
same thing, l judge, happens to a
sick country like Europe. From
the spirit of the dead arises a new
kind of life perhaps better than
the old. There is a great deal in
the life of the peoples of this earth
that should be destroyed and for
gotten. ! am not so sure but what
if all the old architecture and all
the art galleries and laintings
were to be destroyed it wouldn't
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07

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Reducing aud Gaining. Infant Feed.
ing. instructions for the Treatment of
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07
Farmer and the Calf
DR.. Gibbs Sees Dictator in Same PLIGHT
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. d.

BY LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. d.
o"MY VACATION was long
enough this time" said my friend,
DR.. Adrian Gibbs, who has just
returned, SO l am nearly as re-
freshed as when | started out on
It. | didn't get any war news
while | was up in the woods, and
that seems to be an advantage; at
least ! haven't suffered from the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07

DR.. Clcndcning will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07

South was enc of those No
Trump fieuds. who conGiderS HIM
self a good bridge player because
once in :, while he steals game
to make up for the tremendous
number Of undue defeats he takes
by his queer bidding This the lie
took advantage Of the fact tnat he
was up against . pair he consid-
cred far below him in ability. and
wanted to top everybody elsa IN
NO. - - ,-'-,.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-07
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
1.-THE Authority on Authorities"

the duplicate tournament in which
he was playing.
East and West certainly made
coed his estimate Of them. After
the scores were posted. everybody
seeing he was credited with a No
Trump game on the hand said 1t
was impossible. Surely it seems
so when you notice that great
heart suit. But what actually
happened?
West. who had cannily passed
his big suit during the bidding,
led the heart K. East wouldn't
think of taking a trick that was
already his partners, so played
the 10. and then won the second
heart trick with his A, blocking
the suit. West never got into the
lead again. and East took nothing
further except two diamond
tricks. The declarer scored four
tricks in diamonds. three in clubs
and two III spades. for game in a
hand which did not truly contain
q game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Reserves to Have
Christmas Plav

why the Chimes Rang" a Christ
mas play adapted by Elizabeth Nc
Fadden from the story by Raymond
Mcdonald Alden, will be given by
the Girl Reserves of the Y. w. C.
A. at 4 o'clock today at the Young
Women's Christian Association, Sew
enteenth and K streets N. w. Alice
Sigworth Morse is director of dra-
MATES, Mary M. Burnett, director
of music for the performance. There
will be 80 Junior high school Girl
Reserves in the choir, assisted by
the Senior High School Girl Re-
serve Glee Club, Karna Lee Braden,
flutist; Jean Kelly, organist; Grace
Burlew and Mildred Chaplin, pianos.
The Junior high school choir will
be heard in "The Virgins Slumber
Song" by Roger; shepherds
Christmas Song" arranged by Dick
inson; "Noel! Allelulia!" by Father
Finn; 1.-THE Westminster Carol"
English), and THE Bagpipers'
Carol" Gtalian). The Girl Reserves
Club will sing, March of the
Kings" ProvencaD, 10 How a Rose
Fer Blooming" by Praetorius, and
Hymn for Christmas Day." by
Goss, during the performance.
In the lobby, after the play, they
will give two Appalachian Mountain
Carols: II Wonder as I Wander"
from North Carolina), and Jesus,
Jesus, Rest Your Head" from Ken
tucky); Christian Folk Song" by
Sheehan, and Softly the Stars
Were Shining" by Torovsky. The
public is invited to attend.
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Sensational
Singer toBe
Heard Here
Nine. NOvotna Has
Place on Group
At Musicales

The new soprano sensation of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, JAR
mila Novotna, who is noted as
fine actress, is making her first
American tour in concert, and in
cludes Washington in her itinerary.
Her debut here will be as co-artist
with the famous American tenor,
Richard Crooks, on the first of Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend's Monday morn
ing musicales, to be given January 6
at Ills in the ballroom of the Hotel
Mayf1ower.
1t was ToscaninI who recon-
mended to the Metropolitan that it
try to secure this continental star.
The enthusiasm with which New
York operagoers received Nine. No.
votna in her first season last VIM
ter, verified the Italian maestros
faith in her. New York critics have
acclaimed her as the finest "Vio-
ietta" in two decades.
Nine. Novotna was born in Prague,
daughter of Czech banker. 1t so
happens that "Violetta" was the first
| opera role she ever sang-when she
was lat the Prague National
Opera. Later she was to be prima
donna at the Paris Grand opera,
Vienna State Opera, Warsaw Opera
and in Salzburg under the guidance
of Toscanini. She has been starred
in European motion pictures and had
leading roles in Max Reinhardts
die Schoene Helene" Die Fielder
maus" and Tales of Hoffman,"
Before her debut at the Metropoli-
tan last season she sang in opera
in San Francisco and st. Louis.
Her New York debut, oddly enough,
took place exactly a year previous
to her Washington appearance
January 6, 1910. She sang Mimi
in La Boheme." Later in the sea-
son she appeared in La Taviata,"
"Orfeo ct Eurydice' and Marriage
of Figaro"
She has been soloist with Tos-
canini and the N. B. c. Orchestra
at Carnegie Hall for two special
performances in Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony" and a special broadcast
of Debussy's Blessed Damozel"
In addition to the opening pro-
gram by these two Metropolitan
stars, Mrs. Townsend's series this
season will include: January 49,,
Artur Rubinstein and Zlatko Balo-
kovic, in a program of piano and
violin music; January 81, Rose
hampton, American soprano at the
Metropolitan, and Leonard Stokes,
young American baritone and radio
star; February 3, Robert Feuermann,
'cellist, and Rudolf Serkin, pianist;
February 10, an encore" recital (by
request of Mrs. Townsend's regular
subscribers of the Two great heder
singers of the Metropolitan-Lotte
Lehman and Lauritz Melchior-in
a joint recital program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Opera Series
TOBeGiven
Next Month
San Carlo Company
Is Coming Here
For Week

Fortune Gallo, manager of the
San Carlo Opera Company, an
nounces a week of grand opera at
the National Theater beginning
January 20. Now on q transconti-
mental tour, the company will include
this city among those to be visited.
Being part of Inaugural week
celebrations the performances will
be in the nature of gala events.
The San Carlo Opera Company
played at the same theater last
season after an absence of several
years and scored triumph. At
the Water Gate last summer, Mr..
Gallo staged performances of Faust"
and Carmen" with pronounced
success. The operas to be presented,
while not definitely announced as
yet, will be selected from the favorite
repertoire including aida" Gar
men," I'll Trovatore," La Boheme,"
LA Traviata," Mime. Butterfly"
"Rigoletto," Faust" and some from
the German repertoire. There will
be performances each evening with
two matinees.
This company, whose cast is made
up mostly of American singers, has
a record of playing to more patrons
each year throughout the United
States than visited the Metropolitan
Opera of New York. The organiza-
ton has toured the country for the
past 80 years during which it has
played to an aggregate audience
of 10000 900 people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Steel Symphonette

The church-wide chorus Of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church pre-
sented the Steel Symphonette in a
Washington debut Friday, directed
by John Farnsworth, with Her
bert st. John assisting. During Oc-
tober this unique orchestra of IA
players made it's Sf1rst public ap-
pearance in Baltimore. Electric
steel guitars, bar-o-lins and bass
steel, invented by Dr. Earl Schilling,
were used This orchestra is a
product of Hawaiian Teachers, Ltd,
who have had their headquarters in
Baltimore since 1912. The roper
toire of the unit consists of works
by Bach, Brahms, spirituals and
classic composers. The steel in
strument Is not fretted; its ma
nipulation requires musical sense,
q keen ear and q natural feeling for
it, which its colored members pos
SeSs.
In January the Junior Group Of
Steel Symphonette viii be present.
ed locally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

the world that music is not of mans
making but divine gift, the fact
that the Lord chose it from the
treasure house of His beautiful pos
sessions to announce the coming of
His Son would clarity its origin for
all time. There was a reason for this
choice and the reason lay in the
power inherent In music. It was
taken that night from its heavenly
duties to minister to humanity and
to give to the benighted peoples
of the world what they most needed
hope and the memory of the Divine
promise. Not in oratorical speech
nor in the fowery written word was
the inspiration given, but through
melody and the sweet voices of
angels
Continued to Fulfill Mission
Through Long Periods.
Through all the many years it
has continued to fulfill its mission.
Time and again some specially a.
nointed one has risen and by his
gifts once more recall the hapless
to the practice of hope. There is
no record of any one who misused
his talent to spread encouragement
and unhappiness through music. No
matter whether the emergency was
of great import or simply that
which every heart must know, music
has worked its magic in sustaining
and intensifying the belief that good
will triumph and that there will be
an end to suffering. Could the
instance be revealed when music
has been the influence which
changed the course of events in
many a life. the record would be
long and shining one.
In these days when most that we
cherish counts for naught. there
is consolation in the thought that
the changing times cannot affect
the mysterious comfort that music
brings. Its powers were ennobled
when that heavenly choir sang to
the shepherds of mans redemption,
and as it filled the skies on that
first Christmas night, it poured its
blessings into the hearts of all who
heard it. The fame of that angelic
song has spread through the world,
to remain forever inseperable from
the great truths that were revealed
in the simple manager.
The message that came to earth
on "the wings of song" was a glad
one, full of hope, and deified by a
divine promise. The message of
music has not changed. it still holds
the same ideals of which the human
heart dreams. For many, I'M
fortunately, it has become a memory
that is buried so deeply in their
nature as to be almost forgotten.
But it is there waiting to be called
forth and waiting to perform its
mission. 1t is for times of stress
such as confront us today that this
beautiful art was given to man for
his strengthening. 1t was meant
to be symbol of the spirituality
that cannot be banished from the
earth, and it was given as glorious
weapon, shining sword with which
to fight for the preservation of the
beauty which the Lord intended us
to enjoy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

give here, although it will I'M
doubtedly feature his own works.
On January u the National SYM
phony will play another Beloved
Masterpieces" which DR.. Kinder
has subtitled a Program of the
Dance" 1t will be composed of
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony"
(the symphony of the dance),
Weber's Invitation to the Dance,
Mozart's wedding March," fronp
Figaro; ballet and entr'acte mus'
sic from Schubert's "Rosamunde,
the polka from Shostakovich's Col
den Age; Lecuona's Tango" and
Strauss Blue Danube"
The final January concert on
Wednesday evening, January %,
will introduce to National Sym
phony Orchestra patrons the bril-
liant young violinist, Robert Virovat,
although not yet out of his teens,
has been called a genius of the
violin by the foremost critics of
this country and Europe. With
the National Symphony under DR..
Kinder Virovai will play the Men,
delssohn violin Concerto"
=. The second of the National SYM
phony's recording sessions the end
of the month probably will imme-
diately precede the second of this
seasons tours. This tour will open
in Morgantown. w. Va, on Jan.
uary %, and will carry the orches.
ira north as far as Portland, Me.
Most important date on the timer.
airy is February 4, when the Ma
tional Symphony gives its first New
York recital at Carnegie Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Popular Music

Duke Ellington's band, in one
form or another, gets most promi-
nent play of the latest releases
through assignments both in the
Columia Jazz Classics series and on
the Bluebird label. AS an addition
to the jazz repressings issued by
Columbia, the Dukes four-disc set
takes top position for the simple
reason that his orchestra is to date
best on Columbia lists-in fact, the
best jazz band that could be offered
in any series. This collection en-
braces recordings made during the
golden age of Ellington"-the early
'30s-and truly represents the Ell
lington that has since acquired
world fame. OF course, on these
records the band doesn't display the
superb polish and sophistication
which marks the present outfit, but,
just the same, that different" touch
the Duke has always given his jazz is
quite apparent, and the same applies
to the quality of musicanship evil
denced among his bandmen. A few
titles, all Ellington: Bundle of
Blues" "Lightnin'," BEST Wishes"
and Lazy Rhapsody"
Bluebird deviates from the norm,
presenting specialized segments of
the main Ellington unit: A disc of
without a Song" by Rex Stewards
band, and one combining Dukes
piano with Jim Blanton's string bass
on Sophisticated Lady" and "Pitter
Panther Patter." The latter record is
indeed a curio, due to Blanton's sor-
ry, off-key bowling in Lady; PAN
ther," however, finds Jim plucking
up a storm with Duke in close
collaboration.
The remainder of the music scene,
as we see it this week, is generally
associated with the sweet mode.
Tommy Dorsey takes the Pied Pipers
and Frank Sinatra, blends them
gently with subdued orchestra on
"Stardust," and To-! there you have
the successor, if not surpasser, of
"I'll Never Smile Again." This is the
"Stardust" recording we have been
waiting for. Artie Shaw, too, treats
the same masterpiece, but with more
jazz virtuosity in his successful disc
ing; Temptation" is equally good on
the reverse. While we're at it, let's
toss an orchid to Oscar Hammer
stein, I'd, for his poetic, moving
lyrics to 1.-THE Last Time I Saw
Paris" and to Jerome Kern for a
swell tune. Leo Reisman's band
makes an excellent recording of the
piece, Phil Duey on the vocal. Hor-
ace Heidi rearranges to quick fox
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Cornell Cast
ToAppearin
Musical Clubs to
Be Presented at
Shoreham Hotel

The Cornell University musical
clubs, with cast of 10 male stu
dents, directed by Eric Dudley, A..
r. A. NJ, is presenting an original
operetta, "Co-ediquette," and sew
eral string and choral numbers at
the Shoreham Hotel on Saturday
evening.
The setting of "Co-ediquette,"
written and composed by Richard
H. Lee, Cornell senior and Wash
ingtonian, is the meeting room of
the schools faculty. In the tradi-
ton of Gilbert and Sullivan, the
operetta makes merry at the ex-
pense of the university's co-eds.
The student chorus, blaming their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Music Drama
Is Repeated
At Services
Other Wise Man
To Be Played at
Luther Church

The Capital City's Christmas
music drama, THE Other Wise
Man." which has attracted hundreds
Of persons to its annual presenta-
lions in Luther Place Memorial
Church at 14th and N streets NV,
since its first production there in
1925, will be given at three evening
performances this week, on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, at 8
o'clock, preceded by Christmas
choral service beginning at 7:30.
This preliminary musical service
on the opening night will be given
by the Schubert Singers under the
direction of Mrs. Chester Adair, Or
ganist. Their numbers including the
18th century carol, while Shep-
herds Watch Their Sheep" ar
ranged by Jungst; To-day in Beth
lehem" by Samuel Richard Gaines;
"Jesu Bambino" by Pietro Yon;
March of the Wise Men" by Har-
vey Gaul; carol of the Russian
Children; and Arise. Shine" by
Necker. The singers in this group
are j. Edmond Veitch, John Wander
Sys, Mark Odell, Hugh Miller, Lau-
renee Troth, Ben Roberts and Oscar
,Kuldell.
The choir of Luther Place Mem
orial Church directed by Cornelia
Long Kinsella will give the pre-
liminary choral service on Friday
night, at 1870 o'clock. Their pro-
gram will comprise Comfort Ye, My
People" to be sung by Everett Pal
mer, tenor; And the Glory of the
Lord" from THE Messiah; Eye
Shepherds Rise" by Maggie; while
Shepherds Watch Their Flocks,'' by
Dickinson; and The Angels Sang a
Gloria" by Curry, to be sung by the
quartet. The music of the prelimi-
nary service on Saturday night will
be under the direction of Marie
Little, organist, with Doris Little as
soprano soloist. Mrs. Little is direc-
tor and organist of Wesley Methodist
Church.
During the presentation of 1.-THE
Other Wise Man." only the harp is
used for a background and interlude
music. Katherine Riggs, harpist,
will likewise accompany the singers
In the six episodes of the story
Singers in the episode of 1.-THE Three
Wise Men" at the Temple of the
Seven Spheres will be j. Edmond
Veitch, as Caspar; Charles Whittier
as Melchior; and Eugene Kressin, as
Balthasar. Nina Norman will be the
singer in the Episode of the Home il
Bethlehem" sub-titled For the Sake
of a Little Child; Christine Irish
will appear as the beggar at thu
temple gates in the final episode
entitled, "A Pearl of Great Price,
and in this same episode, Mr.. Veitch
and Mr.. Kressin will appear az
cantorS in the temple.
The prologue singer on the open.
ing night will be Mary Apple, con.
tralto of New York and Washing.
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

poor academic showing on the pres
ence of co-eds at the school, de-
mand the abolition of co-education
at Cornell. The faculty, after
weighty debate, solves the problem
by retaining the co-eds and abol-
ishing marks.
Eric Dudley. director of the Glee
Club, is eliminating a successful
career at Cornell. Starting as a
boy chorister in a church. in Eng
land, he continued his studies under
Alberto Randegger, Italian-British
teacher-composer Winner in 1899 of
the Parapa- Rosa Gold Medal at
the Royal Academy of Music under
the patronage of Queen Victoria, Mr..
Dudley was called to America to di-
rect the music in Message From
Mars" During the first World War
he was in charge of musical activi-
ties at Camp Upton and was as
ISOLATED with such well-known COM
posers as Irving Berlin, Walter
Donaldson and Harry Won Tilzer.
He has been at Cornell since the
early 20s.
The performance will be followed
by dance, with music under the
supervision of Barnee. Proceeds of
the affair will be used by the Cor
mel Club of Washington in its schol-
arship fund to aid needy Wash
ingtonians at Cornell.
In addition to the operetta, the
following numbers will be presented
by the Glee Club: "Finlandia," Jean
Sibelius; "In the Red and White"
Lee; Cornell" Birge; Alumni
Song" Wood and Eale. String Sc
lections given by the instrumental
club will be as follows: Short min
Bread" Wolf; "OP Man River"
Kern; Pop Goes the Weasel" Call
uet.
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BrdnmS lnlTQ symphony III F.
Major" which is also scheduled to
be recorded for Victor later in the
month. Also to be heard on this
concert are Smetana's overture to
1.-The Battered Bride" st. Saens'
"Rouet d'Omphale," Ravels PA
vane," and, by request, DR.. Kind
ler's arrangement of excerpts from
Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov."
On Wednesday evening, January
8, Igor Stravinsky will make his first
appearance as guest conductor OF
the National Symphony Orchestra
and his first appearance as con-
ductor of symphony orchestra in
Washington. The greatest of mod
ern composers has selected the
young American pianist, Adele Mar
Gus, for the soloist on his concert.
Miss Marcus, whose New York debut
was called the most suspicious OF
the season, was first heard by
Stravinsky at Town Hall recital
last winter. He was so impressed
with her sound musicianship and
extraordinary technique that the
next day he engaged her to play
with him series of six perform
ances of his two-piano concerto.
These concerts were such brilliant
successes that Stravinsky asked her
to learn his "Capriccioso" for piano
and orchestra so that she might
play 1t with him on his guest-con-
Quoting assignments this season,
and 1t is that work which she will
perform with the National SYM
phony under Stravinsky. Aside
from "Capriccioso," Stravinsky has
not announced the program he will