davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-01-14

lngtOn elght OF the most popular
works. The singers are experienced
artists formerly affiliated with some
Of the worlds most important opera
houses. The conductor is Carlo
Peroni, one of the most skillful of
operate musical directors and the
stage direction is in the capable
hands of Louis Raybaut The bal
let is headed by Lydia Arlova and
Lucien Prideaux.
The San Carlo Opera Co. comes
to Washington following very sue
cessful season in the huge Center
Theater in Rockefeller Center New
York. The casts and productions
to be seen here are identical with
those presented in New York. After
the Washington engagement, which
will consist of six evening perform
ances with matinees on Wednesday
and Saturday, the company will
proceed on its annual coast-to- coast
tour which wilf include New Or
leans. the large Texas cities, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and the
Northwest. Mr.. Gallo brings to
Washington a company of 1875, in
Guiding the ballet, orchestra and
chorus.
Casts for Operas.
Casts for the eight operas at the
National Theater during the week
commencing tomorrow are an
nounced.
Tomorrow evening, Verdi's aida"
Gin Italian),. ;. with: Norma Greco
(Aida), Lyuba Senderowna (Am-
neris), Charlotte Bruno Priestess),
Aroldo Lindi CRhadames), Mostyn
Thomas (Amonasro), Harold
Kravitt Ramfis), Richard Went
worth (KiRg of Egypt. Francesca
Curci (Messenger). Ballet spectacle
in dances Of the opera, by San Carlo
Ballet, Lydia Arlova, premiere
danseuse and Lucien Prideaux,
premier danseur.
Tuesday evening, Verdi's "Rigo-
letto" dtalian), with: Lucille Meusel
(Gilda), Charlotte Bruno mad
dalena), Myra Manning Countess
Ceprano), Frances Perulli Duke of
Mantua), Ivan Petrof1 (Rigoletto),
Harold Kravitt (Sparafucile), (,
Richard Wentworth CMonterone) :,
Fausto Bozza Count Ceprano), i,
Francesca Curci (Borsa).
Wednesday matinee, Gounod's
Faust" Gn French), with: Leola
Turner CMarguerite), Charlotte
Bruno (SiebeD, Myra Manning
(Martha), Dimitri Onofrei (Faust), i,
Ivan Petrof (Valentin), Harold
Kravitt Mephistopheles), Fausto
Bozza (Wagner).
Wednesday evening, Bizet's Car
men" Gn French), with: Coe Glade
(Carmen), Leola Turner (Micaela),
Charlotte Browning (Mercedes), h,
Myra Manning CFrasquita), Sydney
Rayner don JOSEF, Mario Vale
Escamillo, Harold Kravitt
(Zuniga), francesca Curci Remen-
dado), Richard Wentworth Oan-
CAIRO, Francis Scott Morales).
Dapces by San Carlo Ballet, Lyria
Arleva and Lucien Prideaux, solo
dancers.
Thursday evening, verdi's "La
Evening star., 1940-01-14

route to find the first ignorant au-
dlence prepared for his coming by
weeks Of study and research. From
a bewildered public, to whom the
opera form was incomprehensible,
he saw develop one that was versed,
by its own efforts in the music, the
story and the history of the operas
he gave. He found a public, at
first tolerant of the old, simple
operas, eagerly ready to increase
their knowledge of the operate
repertoire.
People Educated.
This tremendous advance could
never have taken place had Mr..
Gallo been content with a few
country wide tours. Year after year,
through war and depression, ne has
held to his belief in what opera
can give to the world, and steadily
he has cultivated the seeds that he
planted. He has educated the peo-
pie who have never seen and never
will see the Metropolitan to love
grand opera. More than that, he
has in his company given the need
ed chance for American artists to
learn the operatic art. From his
rostrum several have stepped to
the Metropolitan.
Many, to whom grand opera is
only involved singing and acting,
will ask what special education
opera can give that other music
does not. In grand opera history
lives again. It lives in its char
acters, in its authentic costumes of
different eras and nationalities, in
the architecture of its settings, in
the thought and action represented
in the customs and usages it de-
picts, in the literature which often
forms the basis of its nbrettos.
Helps Civic Opera.
We have had sporadic attempts
to give opera here and movement
is now under way to gain city-wide
support for the Civic Opera Asso-
citation. If successful, the path
HnQlng winch the San Carlo has
accomplished will indirectly be re-
sponsible. Fortune Gallo has proven
that good opera can be given with
choice singers, fine scenery and
costuming, competent orchestra and
ballet, without a deficit. He has
proven also that great operatic ira
dltion with its fulfllment does not
need high-priced stars, rich patrons
or sky-high admission prices. He
has shown, in his long and pros
porous career, that opera can be
made accessible to every one, de-
bunking it of its stigma of cost
illness and exclusiveness. Greater
than all, he has created a public
that never again will be satisfied
without grand opera in its musical
schedule.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Concert Schedule
TODAY

The Gen. Platoff Don Co.'S
sack Choir, Constitution Hall,
4 pm.
Dorothy Seegar, soprano;
Henry Field, pianist; Roosevelt
Hotel, $50 pm.
Lyman McCrary, organist;
John Murphy, tenor; Hamline
Church, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Marguerite Namara, soprano;
Robert Casadesus, pianist; May
flower Hotel, Ills am.
Aida" San Carlo Opera Co.,
National Theater, $3.50 pm.
Washington Chamber Music
Society, Pro-Musica Quartet,
Harriet Nash, pianist, assisting;
Phillips Memorial Gallery, S
pm.
Navy Band, sail loft, Navy
Yard, 2::30 pm; Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra, Marine
Barracks, BIS pm.
TUESDAY.
"Rigoletto," San Carlo Opera
Co., National Theater, $50 pm.
D. c. Federation of Music
Clubs. midwinter rally, Wood
ward Hall, Calvary Baptist
Church, $3.50 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 2:30 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Faust" San Carlo Opera Co.,
National Theater, 2:30 pm;
Carmen" $3.50 pm.
National Symphony Orchestra,
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor;
Guiomar Novaes. pianist, solo,
ist; Constitution Hall, $3.50 pm.
THURSDAY.
ia Traviata," San Carlo
Opera Co., National Theater,
$50 pm.
Henrietta Bagger Plum, mez-
zo-soprano; RENO Luoma, pian-
ist; Finnish benefit, Sulgrave
Club, 4:30 pm.
DR.. Charles Edward Russell,
symphonologue; Margaret Toll
son, pianist, assisting; Arts
Club, evening.
Navy Band, sail loft, Navy
Yard, 1890 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks, 2:30 pm.
FRIDAY.
"Cavalleria Rusticana, "Pag-
liacci," San Carlo Opera Co.,
National Theater, $3.50 pm.
Adolf Busch, violinist; Ru-
dolf Serkin, pianist; Library
of Congress, BIS pm.
Friday Morning Music Club,
Charles Trowbridge Tittmann,
bass; Alcie Brooks, pianist; Ed
win Steffe, baritone; Barker
Hall, 11:30 am.
SATURDAY.
"Mme. Butterfly" 2::30 pm;
I'll Trovatore," $50 pm; San
Carlo Opera Co., National The
ater.
Adolf Busch, violinist; Ru-
.dolf Serkin, pianist; Library
of Congress, 8 pm.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 11:30 am.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
In Local Music Circles

The monthly Sunday Evening
Musicale at Hamline Methodist
Church, Sixteenth street at Allison
NV, will be given tonight at 8
O'Clock by Lyman McCrary, organist,
and John Murphy, tenor. The pro-
gram is: piece Heroique," Franck;
BE Thou Faithful Unto Death (St.
Paul." Mendelssohn; "Fantasie and
Fugue in A Minor" Bach; Christ
Went Up Into the Hills" Hage-
mann; "Intermezzo," Jepson;
"Ingemisco (Requiem Verdi:
Westminster Carlton" Vierne.
HARLAN and Charlton Meyer
pianists, assisted by Cabot Meyer,
soprano, will present the program
at the o'clock hour of music at
Friendship House, 619 D street Sc,
today. The public is cordially in
vited.
This afternoon the program for
the Sunday music hour at the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, Seventeenth and K streets, will
be given by Frances E: Thatch, con-
tralto, assisted and accompanied by
Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, pian-
list. The program will begin at
o'clock and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
Marye Frances burst, soprano,
and George Mattingly, baritone,
both members of the Federal En-
ployes Playhouse Chorus, a unit of
the Federal Employees Playhouse,
sponsored by the agriculture branch
of the N. F. F. E., will sing tomor-
row in the Willard Hotel at a cele-
bration of the enactment of the
civil service law. Mr.. Mattingly
and Miss burst also appeared in a
program presented Friday in the
Willard Hotel. They will be &C
companied by the playhouse staff
accompanist, Daisy Rees.
The first symphonologue of the
season will be given at the Arts
Club Thursday evening by DR..
Charles Edward Russell, assisted by
Margaret G. Tolson at the piano.
These evenings are devoted to the
outstanding numbers given during
the current month by the National
Symphony Orchestra. The general
thought Of the work IL discussed,
each movement aualyzed, and the
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Is
Soloist for
Symphony
Stravinsky.Handel
Program Chosen
For Orchestra

This week the National Symphony
Orchestra continues its midweek
series with concert in which the
celebrated Brazilian pianist, Guio-
mar Novaes, will be soloist. The
concert takes place at $3.50 pm.
Wednesday in Constitution Hall.
Miss Novaes, who has appeared with
the symphony several times, is well
remembered here for her brilliant
interpretations.
DR.. Hans Kinder, the orchestras
conductor, plans to present the dis
tinguished pianist in two compo-
sitions: The Concerto in E fiat" of
Mozart, and Mono Precoce," new
work by the best known Of living
Brazilian composers, Hector Villa
Lobos, which will be performed for
the first time in North America on
this occasion.
OF the two orchestral works DR..
Kinder has selected for the pro-
gram Stravinsky's 'Fire Bird" suite.
1t is as exotically dramatic and SYM
phonically colorful as any music in
the modern orchestral lists. The
suite" by Handel -Harty, with
which the program opens, is one of
many created by one of the most
famous of suite writer's. Handel did
not have at his disposal instru-
mental ensembles of the size and
caliber of the modern symphony
orchestra. To bring Handels music
before Goth century public Sir
Hamilton Harty, the eminent Eng
lish conductor, has arranged many
of HandeIs works. His arrange
ments are noted for their faithful
ness to the spirit of the original
composer, and yet he has expanded
them to real symphonic stature.
The new work on the program,
Mono Precoce," for piano and Or
chestra. introduces to Washington
another composition by the South
American composer who has been
frequently represented here. Villa
Lobos, while his music is richly f1av-
ored with the melodies and rhythms
Of Latin America, is universal In his
appeal, and his compositions rank
with the best being written today.
Miss Novaes is as well known
in Europe and the United States
as she is in her own country, Bra
zil, where she first achieved renown.
She was born in the state Of Sac
Paulo in Brazil. At the age of 4
she was playing marches for her
little friends in the kindergarten. A
year later she began serious studies,
and at she made her first pub
lie appearance. A tour of Brazil
followed soon afterward, and her
fame spread rapidly. The Brazilian
government became so much inter-
ested in her career that it sent the
young girl to Paris, where she was
admitted to the famous Conserva-
toire after winning first honors from
among 388 contestants. She studied
there two years. Later she studied
in New York with Sigismond Sto-
jowski. At l6 she made her debut
as mature artist. Engaged by
the leading orchestras of Europe,
she was an immediate success. Re-
citals followed in all the countries.
And then she made a sensational
debut in this country. Her first New
York appearance occasioned such
enthusiasm that critic described
her as the "Paderewski of the PAM
pas"
Miss Novaes is soloist with the Ma
tional Symphony Wednesday night
IN the place of Myra Hess, who is
unable to fill the engagement be-
cause Of war duties in England
Evening star., 1940-01-14

composers development of the
theme material in the exposition
passages illustrated by Miss Tolson's
playing of excerpts from the SYM
phony.
The monthly meeting of the "Pi-
ano Teachers Forum" will take
place on Thursday evening at 8
at the Washington College of Mu-
sic, 1741 K street NV. Herbert
Herzfeld, guest, will speak on Piano
Teaching and Music" The public is
invited.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will present Charles Trowbridge
Tttmann, bass; Alcie Brooks, pianist,
and Edwin Charles Steffe, baritone,
at its regular meeting at 11:30 am.
Friday in Barker Hall. Hr. Tit
mann will sing the Bach solo can
tata, ut Is Enough" and will also
sing, with Mr.. Steffe, excerpts from
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
Henry James of Mount Rainier.
Md, In collaboration with George
A. Gibbs, jr., of New York City, has
written a song, Darling, It Must
Be With YOU" which has been &C.
cepted for publication by the United
Music Publishers. Mr.. Gibbs is a
composer of distinction who has
published several books on har-
mony, Instrumentation, counter
point and other musical subjects.
Everett Stevens will give his an
nual piano recital on Thursday eve
ming, February l, at Pierce Hall.
On Wednesday Mr.. Stevens plays in
Baltimore, an appearance to be fol-
lowed by five recitals in the State
of North Carolina.
The Women's Opera Choral Club,
under the direction of Nine. Gurle
Luise Correa, has resumed rehear-
sails at Guild Headquarters, 1923
Connecticut avenue. The first con-
cert will be given in February.
Meetings are held weekly on Tues
day evenings at 8 o'clock and all
women interested In operate music
are invited to join.
Nine. Marie zalipsky, now of New
York City, will resume her teaching
In Washington tomorrow at her
new address, 1926 Sixteenth street,
studio Of Basil Toutorsky.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
In Concert Debut

Edbert Ruhl, young American
tenor, who halls from the Chevy
Chase section of Washington, and is
a voice student of Emilio Roxas of
New York, will make his concert de-
but here Thursday, January Is, in
Constitution Hall, with the young
and popular Greek basso, Nicola
Moscona, of the Metropolitan Opera
Co.
The young tenor is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander H. Ruhl,
6701 Western avenue, and a former
student of Western High School
and the E. v. Brown School. Chevy
Chase,
Evening star., 1940-01-14

company lnat Should rank nigh IN
It's esteem for the integrity, the
courage and the vision that has,
against all obstacles and counter to
all beliefs, spread a knowledge of
grand opera through the length and
breadth of the land over a period
OF many years.
Americans are proud of the Metro
politan Opera and the other fine
companies that have lately sprung
up over the country, yet none of
these has so thoroughly thought in
terms of the peoples. pleasure and
education as has the San Carlo. For
the most part, American singers
have had hard time gaining en-
trance to these larger companies
and the American public has had to
consult its budget when desiring to
patronize them. For the greater
part of their seasons the companies
must stay in their own cities and,
from outlaying districts, only those
who could afford it were able to
make an occasional trip to patronize
them.
The San Carlo has gone out to
the people. Year after year it has
appeared in every State and in
every large or mediums sized city with
its varied programs and authentic
presentation. It's coming has been
looked forward to, children in
schools have been taught the stories
and music of the operas, and clubs
have had lectures and analyses to
prepare their members for a thor
ough appreciation of what they
were to hear.
1t has carried on this educa-
tional work with fidelity, supple
menting it with admission fees with
in the possibilities of every one. The
record of the San Carlo Opera Co.
for perseverance in one line and
the folio wing of an ideal can hardly
be matched in the history of music
In this country.
Opportunities for Public.
In musical circles, when there is
talk of what has not been done
and should be done, the lamentable
lack of opportunity to hear grand
opera stands foremost. The work
of the San Carlo company has con-
tributed considerably to that dissat-
tsfaction with the small role opera
plays in our midst. Outside of the
few cities blessed with opera COM
panies how would the rest of the
country know that they were suf-
fering a real deprivation were it
not for the visits of the San Carlo
singers? The Metropolitan broad
casts have added to the desire to
hear more opera in the last years,
it is true, but they must remain
forever. or at least until television
is perfected, half an enjoyment to
most people, as there is no way
to visualize the scenes, the action
and the costuming.
The effect of the long pioneering
that is to Fortune Gallos credit as
director of the company is shown in
the awakening of an opera con-
sciousness all over the country.
He has seen growth from the first
tolerance of strange art to an in
terest in its beauty and many
sidedness and finally to an eager
desire to understand it thoroughly.
He has returned over the same
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Program at Hotel

Dorothy Seegar, soprano, assisted
by Henry Field, concert pianist, will
give the program for the Roosevelt
Hotel Sunday night musical tonight
at $50. Miss Seegar has appeared
each season in the hotel series. She
will sing French, Italian and Eng
lish songs. She will conclude her
program with her Interpretation Of
songs of the gay COS in costume.
Henry Field, who has appeared this
season in his own concert. viii play
group Of piano solos.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
San Carlo to Open Week
OF Opera Here Tomorrow
Company Comes for First
Time in Six Years With
Eight Works of Repertorv

Coming Washington for the first time in six the
Opera Co. Fortune Gallo
priced grand tomorrow night National
Both Of active operate work the San
travelling permanent
From repeoy Of Is Fortune Gallo has selected
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Candlelight Concert

The candlelight concert of the
Washington Chamber Music Society
will take place tomorrow afternoon
at 5 o'clock at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, 1900 Twenty-first street
NV,
The program will be given by the
Pro-Music String Quartet, assisted
by Harriet Nash, pianist. The group
will be heard in Haydn's Quartet
op 76. No. l." Joaquin Turina's La
Aracion del Torero" and Harriet
Nash's Quintet for Piano and
Strings in E Minor"
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Visiting Opera Company
Has Notable Record
Service Given Without Great
Cost Has Won Appreciation
OF People Everywhere
By Alice Eversman.

THIS week viii be the first time Washington has had
operate performances OF length in
the San Carlo Opera opportunity
often bemoand
be superseded output that the
present day bring The performances by
Evening star., 1940-01-14

Betty Baum, pianist and teacher,
will present Louise Rubin and Phyl-
lis Schwartz in a recital tea $3.50
this afternoon at her residence
studio on Edmonds street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05

Cleveland Indian infielder, is short stop of the Saginaw club. Di k Sisler, son of George Sisler, great first baseman of the St. Louis Browns, is with Lansing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05

Moose l, Douglas 5; struck out: Kimball 2, Guy 3, Snow 2, Jensen 4; passed balls: Blake 2; double plays: Jensen, Roller and Andrews; losing pitcher: Kimball winning pitcher; Jensen; time of game: 1 hour, 50 minutes; scorer: Evan Hill; umpireS Al Ellenberg and Harv Iffert.
 Game Tomorrow Weather permitting, one of the ,wo remaining postponed games will be played at Firemens Ball Park at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow.
 The Moose will play again, this time paired against the Elks in a fray which was been postponed from May 24
 Following is the re-arranged sched- lie including postponed games to late. The list includes Sundays game.
 June 6-Moose vs. Elks, postponed
 game.
 June 7-Douglas vs. Elks, regular
 game.
 June 8-Saturday night, no game. June 9-Moose vs. Elks, regular
 game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05
Giants Nose
 Out Redsin
 Closet Game
Browns Finally Break Los- inq Streak Yankees
 Stopped Again
(By Associated Press)

The New York Giants chopped a game off the margin separating the first and third places in the Ma tional League by nosing out the Cin- cinnati Reds yesterday, to 4, for Carl Hubbel's fifth consecutive vic- tory of the season. New York drove Lloyd Moore to the showers in the first inning with three runs.
 Fifteen Hit Attack
 The Chicago Cubs opened 15-hit attack yesterday to defeat the Phil lies 12 to in the series opener.
 Browns Break Streak
 The last place American League St. Louis Browns broke seven game losing streak yesterday by top bling the leagues leading Boston Red Sox by a score of 5 to 3 when their lefthanded tossing Elden Auker kept the Soxs' 10 hits scattered.
 Yankees Stopped
 The New York Yankees were stop ped yesterday by another southpaw, Ed Smith, who gave up only seven
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05

chalked up five hits and four runs from Kimball before he was knocked out of the box and replaced by Guy Roller continued in his campaign to push up his average by smashing out a double into the difficult outfield and was followed by Manning and Claude Erskine. All three waited or bases for Rusty's homer, but when Rusty surprised fans by striking out they were content to run the route on Jeltsen's single.
 The fifth hit was taken by Big Andy Andrews when he poured out a double and tried only too hard to turn it into a triple. He was put out on third in a furry of dust, Andrews, ball and third baseman.
 Moose Score
 But the fourth appeared to be q rallying point to the Douglas-sym- pathetic crowd when Sharck con nected with double and went home on Grummett's single. A possible score by Stan was showed back into the box when a double play by Jen- sen, Roller and Andrews made the third out and it was Douglas turn to play again.
 And they did Bunting Jimmy Manning clipped out vicious, elus i've homer that burned up the main street of the town and allowed the chattering third baseman to make his run by the skin of his teeth.
 But even before that, the Moose men had seen the ball game sewed ,lp when three costly errors allowed Andrews. Odell and Neimi tc make the tour
 Snow Falls" Onto Mound
 Ii was then. but too late. that 5hc Moose started Showing, by re- placing Guy with Joe Snow. first baseman. Snow new to the mound this season, really started to cook with gas, by striking out Andrews and Odell, 1-2 And then it was the Moosemen at bat.
 But Jensen himself wasn't over camp fire with his stew, and struck out Guy and Fred Schmitz in that order Two away, Werner up and Joe Snow on deck. Thanks to a run ming catch by Bill Harrington that allowed the fans to see a fine ex-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 194o.

hibition of broken field running over gravel roads, stumps and wrecked buildings, Werner was put out and the ball game was over.
 Highlights of the Game
 Eddy Rollers comeback after last game - Big Andy's foul into the fans. It cut row like man with a scythe = OdeL's switching to the port side when Lefty Snow was put on the mound Jimmy Manning's spirited but monotonous and con- tinual chatter from third = Base Umpire Gums" Iffert mumbline that he likes his teeth out because his tobacco lasts longer = Niemi's casual catch of a fly while standing under the marquee of the Coliseum Theatre and Harringtons fawn- like leap after the last fly of the game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-05

Mrs. J. Borden Hartman Ameri- ca's second woman diplomat, was the organizer of New York's fash ionable Colony Club"