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Evening star., 1942-05-10
New Outdoor
Music Plans
Announced
Starlight Chamber
Series Under New
Sponsorship

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. dis
tinguished patroness Of many no.
table Library Of Congress chamber
music festivals and the worlds
best-known benefactor of chamber
music, has this year, for the first
time. given her sponsorship to
Washington's festival OF chamber
music under the stars"-officially
titled The Starlight Chamber Mu-
sic Concerts" This series, it is an
nounced today by C. c. Cappel, the
founder, is scheduled to begin
Thursday night, June 10, In the
sylvan setting of Meridian Hill Park.
Sixteen programs of the great treas
ures from chamber music literature
Will be interpreted by information
ally famous exponents-all to be
given with the cooperation of the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Found
alton in the Library of Congress.
Mrs. Coolidge. through years of
sympathetic encouragement and un-
remitting support. has enormously
advanced the standards of this art
form in America, besides bringing
about tremendous increase in pub
lie interest. The concerts at the
Library of Congress and in univer-
stiles and other music centers
throughout America-made possible
by funds supplied by the Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Foundation
have created vast new public for
chamber music. In Washington par
tlcularly, the Library of Congress
concerts have been responsible for
increased interest in this field.
Because of the foundations spon-
sorship, 1t will be possible to give
all concerts at the same low ad-
mission prices which prevailed last
summer-the inaugural season for
the first series of this kind ever to
be presented in the United States.
Attendances well in excess of 5000
persons were reported on a number
of occasions last year.
A further consequence of the sup
port accorded to the Starlight
Chamber Music Concerts by Mrs,
Coolidge is the announcement by
Mr.. Cappel that this series will ex-
tend over period of two months
instead Of six weeks, as last year,
and will comprise Is concerts-as
compared with the total of IL that
were presented last year.
The Starlight Chamber Music
Concerts will be presented on Mon
day and Thursday nights, beginning
with the opening program of June
18, and 1t Is expected that tickets
will go on sale on May 20. Ticket
prices are again set at a low figure,
with special season prices on the
reserved tickets, and reservations
may be made at the Cappel Concert
Bureau, in Ballard's, 1910 G street
NV.
The systems Of lighting and am
pliflcation that were in effect last
summer, and which enabled those
seated in the last rows to hear and
see without strain, will be continued.
Minor improvements have been de-
vlsed for each, and are now being
prepared. In addition, the shell "a
much-diScuSsed and admired fea-
ture OF last season. is being painted
and placed in readiness.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Trapp Singers in
Benefit Recital
For Hospital

The Trapp Family Singers will be
heard in a benefit concert for the
Georgetown University Hospital on
Saturday at 4 pm. at the Mayflower
Hotel. The concert will be under the
auspices of the Ladies Board. The
Trapp family, consisting of Baroness
Won Trapp, her five daughters and
two sons, are directed by the young
composer, DR.. Franz Washer. The
singers dress in native costumes and
have patterned their concert pres
entations after the family music
making in their Tyrolean homeland.
The program will consist of four
part chorals, madrigals and the we'll
beloved classics, sung in four Ian
guages, interspersed with rollicking
folk songs, yodels and mountain
calls. One portion of the program
is instrumental, with the artists
playing the picturesque block flutes,
ancient woodwind and string instru-
ments. Comments on the music to
be given made by Baroness Won
Trapp create spirit of informality.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Chamber Concert

The fourth concert in the current
series of chamber music programs
sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke
Whittall Foundation in the Library
Of Congress will take place in the
Coolidge Auditorium Of the Library
on Saturday afternoon. Again the
Budapest String Quartet will be
featured, assisted by Milton Katims,
violist. The complete program will
consist Of Mozart's String Quartet
in G Minor. K. v. 516," Schubert's S
Quartet Movement in c Minor. "
D. G.. Mason's String Quartet on
Negro Themes" Brahms String
Quintet in G Minor, Op. Ill"
The concert will begin at Ais pm.
From to 6 pm. the program will
be broadcast over the Nation wide
network Of the Columbia Broad
casting System and to Latin Amer
lea via short wave.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

social figures, as well as of leading
personalities of the Government
will be included in the exhibit OF
works by Bolivia's outstanding sculp-
tress, Senorita Marina del Prado
The exhibit will open at the Ma
tional Museum on Tuesday, May II
at 3, and will continue through
June /.
Senorita del Prado has achieved
great popularity among the leading
set of Washington. Vice President
Wallace was among the first to sit fol
the talented South American artist
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt fol-
lowed shortly and the number OF
subjects rapidly multiplied. Other
than the above mentioned, the like
nesses of the following will be among
those on exhibition at the National
Museum: Mrs. Thomas Burke, Mrs
Claude Pepper. Miss Mary Winslow
John Culbertson, son of the former
United States Ambassador to Chile,
Mrs. Theodore Hellvin, Giro Algeria
noted young Peruvian author, and
Miss Mary Higgins. Finishing
touches are now being applied to
the bust OF Justice of the Supreme
Court, Harlan Stone. and it will
be finished in time for the opening
Senorita del Prado studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in La Paz
Bolivia. Following this she re-
manned in her country, to capture
the spirit of the Indian races there
their customs. dances and music
Many of her works are inspired by
this ancient civilization, transformed
by her modern technique.
A collection of the artists works
Of native theme, has been on tour
in this country since May of last
year. when it was formally inaugu-
rated at the Pan-American Union
Senorita del Prado points out that
she had to work at odd moments
in completing the Washington SUBJ
jects, whenever these ever-active
personalities had a spare moment
In this manner, though, the gifted
young South American says, she had
an excellent opportunity to see de-
mocracy in action and was greatly
impressed with these representatives
Of the spirit of the United States.
Invitations have been issued to
members OF the diplomatic corps
Government officials and to ranking
members of society, by the Am
bassador Of Bolivia, DR.. Luis Fer
nando Guachalla. F. JIM.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Br FIerence s. Berrvman.


The Section of Fine Arts of the
Public Buildings Administration has
lent to Howard University Gallery of
Art an exhibition of preliminary
studies for murals installed in Fed
eral buildings. These small scale
designs in full color are finished as
carefully, IN most instances, as
though they were paintings COM
plete in themselves. But all of
them have been enlarged to several
times their size and installed or
painted directly upon the walls of
post Offices and other Government
buildings in many parts of the
country. Persons interested in. see
ing some of these sketches in their
final form, need only visit the build
ings Of the Departments of the In
terror and Post Office here, which
have five of them; one each by Ed
gar Britton, William Palmer and
William Gropper, and two by Nicolai
| Cikovsky
The remaining 25 studies represent
completed murals in l8 cities of 13
States and the Virgin Islands, rang
ing from Washington to New York
from Florida to New England, and
from Michigan to Texas. Such ex =
hihttions a. thia are the puhltc's on
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Record Review
By Alice Eversman.

In the department of vocal music
the recordings companies have re-
leased some exceptionally fine discs
particularly valuable now. Heading
the list are albums by those two
noted Negro artists. Marian Ander-
son and Dorothy Maynor. Miss An
derson records two rare songs by
Brahms. with viola and piano ac-
compartment, "Gestillte Sehnsucht"
and "Geistliches Wiegenlied. her
beautiful voice and William Prim-
roses rich viola tone blend with
unusual finesse and the fine artistry
of both make this album a choice
one.
Miss Maynor, with no other ac-
compartment than a male choir,
sings eight of the most familiar
spirituals. including Were You
There When They Crucif1ed My
Lord?" and Nobody Knows De
Trouble I've Seen" The extraordi-
nary sweetness of her voice, its emo
tional appeal and the religious
ardor with which she sings repro
duce with such fidelity and make
the singer appear to be present as
on concert stage.
Among the single discs, interest
ing for their variety and the indi-
viduality of the singers are: So
pranos. Bidu Sayao singing "Je
Veux Vivre," from Romeo and
Juliet" and "Obeissons Quand Leur
Voix Appellee" from Massenet's
"Manon":: Lucrezia Bori in de La
serna's eel Jilguerito Con Pico de
Orc" and the aria from "Acis y
Galatea"; Miliza Korjus in "Vari-
ations on a Mozart Theme" and
Donizettfs die Zigeunerin" Tenors,
Jussi Bjoerling in a fine perform
ance Of Beethovens Adelaide" +"
James Melton in the "Siciliana,"
from "Cavalleria Rusticana," and
the "Serenade," from "Pagliacci";;
Benjamin Gigli in two duets from
La Traviata," with Maria Caniglia,
soprano; a repressing of Carusos
old recording of "Musica Probita"
and "Addio a Napoli" and arias
from Halevy's La Juive," by Jan
Peerce.
Among the baritones are Leonard
Warren on two single discs singing
arias from Faust" Tales of Hoff-
man" La Gioconda" and "Falstaff";;
Donald Dickson in "Ballade of the
Duel" and the aria from the fourth
act Of Don Carlos" and Igor Gorin's
presentation of the aria from Verdi's
"Attila" and Goldmark's Queen
Of Sheba."
Evening star., 1942-05-10

guitar. Saun Terry. blind
Negro harmonica virtuoso, will
also play traditional harmonica
numbers from the tobacco
country of North Carolina.
The complete program to be
sung by the noted baritone
who has directed that all pro-
ceeds are to 60 for the benefit
of Highlander Folk School at
Monteagle, Tenn.-will be as
follows:
LORD God of Abraham" from
Jerusalem Hubert Parry
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
oh, No. John, Mo-! 0tFe FOLK eVseSs sonr
(Arranged by Cecil Sharpe).
The Prayer and Death Of Boris"
from Boris GodounowD
Moussorgsky
from The Fair Sorochinsk"
MouSSorgsky
I'm Coin to Tell God All Of Ny
Troubles"
Ezekiel Saw the wheel
SHs.ilsnffa Ss.lm in diie.d IL lawrence sro~n'.
"yahHisa "yoshua III SSs s.tti. eW5slasS- 81 y.laseho-
lAfrsnsed - Lawrence Brown.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

birth, most of which are included in
the permanent collection of the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, have
been segregated in special group
exhibit now on display in galleries
A and B as well as the intervening
hallway in the upper floor of the
gallery proper. Included are char
acteristic paintings by Maurice
Sterne, William Zorach, Max Weber
David Buick. John Graham. Will
liam Meyerowitz and others, almost
all of whom were brought to this
country in childhood and obtained
their education here.
There is no doubt that many
artists who have become citizens of
the United States by naturalization
have brought to this country from
the Old World great gifts which
have enriched our Nation. Only one
example may be noted-the child of
French parentage-Augustus Saint
Gaudens. But it must be confessed
that in studying the works of these
painters of Russian birth and
parentage the dominant influence
seems to be American-and, with
one or two exceptions, that OF
a particular locality, New York's
East Side" This being the case,
it is not our ally Russia which must
shoulder the responsibility for what
they have to offer, its merits or
demerits, but we ourselves. If it is
demerits, then must we ask our
selves on what we have nourished
the flower of genius which first
sprung perhaps in Russian soil?
1t is true that Russia has not
excelled in producing great painters
or sculptors as have other European
nations, but in other sections of the
field of art it has made tremendous
contribution. Names such as those
of Tolstoy and Dostoievsky: Bakst
and Diaghileff in the theater;
Dvorak and Rimsky-Korsakov, Chal-
iapin and Rachmaninoff in music
all summon to the mind visions of
giants. And from the works of all
these-works which are immortal
we as a nation have been enor-
mously enriched. 1t is good to have
them brought to remembrance at
this time, when the world is so
greatly in need of consolation which
only the great masters can offer.
Bolivian ScnIbfress Exhibits
Portraits Of Washingtonians.
Portrait busts of many prominent
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Noted Baritone in Benefit Concert

Paul Robson, distinguished
Negro baritone, who Is peren-
nially a source of wonder to
musical connoisseurs because of
his ability to converse and sing
in all the important languages
of the world (Chinese, Rus
sian, French. Italian, German,
Spanish and many another
tongue have no terrors for
himD-will sing some of the
songs that have brought him
fame when he appears in
Washington's Riverside Sta
dium tonight at $50 o'clock.
Additional attractions to be
included in this program, it is
announced by C. c. Cappel,
local manager of the concert,
will comprise a group of Negro
work songs and Negro bal
lads, played and sung by Hud-
die Ledbetter tbetter known
through his phonograph re-
cordings as Lead Belly"D, the
only recognized exponent in
this country a the l2-strtng
Evening star., 1942-05-10
| In Local
| Music Circles

The Rubinstein Club, group OF
women singers directed by Claude
Robson, will close its 34th consecu-
tive season with a banquet tomor-
row evening at 8 o'clock at the
Kennedy-Warren on Connectlcut
avenue. A musical program will be
given by club members, assisted by
Gene Archer, baritone, as guest
artist. Adele Robinson Bush is club
accompanist.
Winifred Chamberlain. who gave
a program Of piano music last Mon
day night at the Washington Mu-
sical Institute, was awarded the
first artist diploma in the history
of the institutes IA years. The
Board Of Examiners were Louis A..
Potter. DR.. Edwin N. G. Barnes,
Charles I. Davis, Karl Holer and
Weldon Carter, teacher OF Miss
Chamberlain. Miss Chamberlain Is
also q bachelor of music, having
taken her degree several years ago.
She is a faculty member OF the
institute and also on the faculty OF
public school music teaching.
The third workshop recital OF the
season will be held in the Florence
Howard Studios of Singing tomor-
row at $50 pm. Lois Abernetny
will talk on The Art Of the Ac-
companist" The following singers
will be heard: Frances Tucker,
Alice Sazama, Bette Ryder, Marion
Strollo. Mildred King, Ruth Mar
jorie Prentice, Eleanor Davis, Irene
Morgan and Helen Hunt Laise. Lois
Abernethy and Dorothy Radde
Emery are the accompanies.
The May meeting Of the Wash
ington Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi
Epsilon will be held tomorrow eve
ming at the home Of Mrs. John w.
Frey, 1896 Forty-seventh street NV.
The program will be given by the
following daughters of members:
Shirley Bellman, Nancy Fisher,
Doris Jean Wagner, Joanna Mar
low. Leah Ross. Betty Jean and
Doris Pauline Mellinger.
The Southwestern Branch OF the
Public Library, Seventh and H
streets S.W., will present a program
of recorded music tomorrow at 8
pm. The following program will
be heard: Beethoven's "Cariolanus
Overture" Beethovens "Ah, Per-
fidio" and Brahms Symphony No.
/ in C Minor"
Frances Gutelius Smith, pianist
a native Washingtonian, who taught
here and in her recent Arlington.
Va, studio-home for % years, has
gone with her husband to st. Pc
tersburg, Fla, to establish there
residence.
Members Of the Chamber Music
Club, under the direction of Anne
Farquhar Hamer, presented an eve
ming musicale at the Lisner Home
on Western avenue. Violinists were
Florence Frank, Helen Hunt Laise
and Jean Perry; viola, William Pet
terson; piano, Mrs. Hamer; So
prano, Mrs. Laise.
Roberta Bitgood, director of the
Junior Choir Festival, will give
talk on Junior Choirs' before the
local chapter of the American Guild
of Organists tomorrow at pm. in
Epiphany Parish Hall.
In celebration of its Tooth ami
versary, the Stieff Piano Co. of Bal
timore recently presented Beatrice
Pinkney Jones, Washington piano
dseuse, In . program for children,
parents and pedAgogues.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Art Exhibitions
The National Gallery of Art.

Permanent exhibits-world mas
terpieces of painting and sculpture.
French paintings OF the 10th century
special exhibition. loans from
can collectors. Temporary exhibition
Activities of the National Red
Cross" secured through competition,
through May.
The National Museum.
National collection OF nne arts
Section of Graphic Arts. Permanent
collection. gifts by art patrons, paint
mss sculpture and 0D,ets ,dsht DAT
etchings by Bertha H. Dougherty of
Old Lyme, Conn. during May. Arts
and Industries Building. National
Museum. south OF Mall, section of
photosraphy Exhibition Of salem lion
during Nav. Exhibition of portrait
busts by Marina del Prado of Bo-
livia, May IL to June /.
COrcoran Gallery of Art.
American paintings and sculpture;
Clark collection - permanently on
view. Special exhibition OF paintings
by Andrea Pietro Zerega Of this city
to May 81.
Phillips Memorial Gallery.
Paintings from permanent collec-
ton. Special group Of paintings by
RUSSIAN American artlSIS. TTlnt
rooms. special exhibition of paintings
by Charles Demuth to May 25.
Arts Club Of Washington.
Water colors by Nancy Dyer of
Providence. r. /. Also water colors
and designs by Susan B. Chase, Alex
andra Darrow and Lyn Egbert through
May.
Public Library and Branches.
Main building, water colors by John
Greer to May 81. Northeast branch,
paintings by Washington artists to
May 10 Southeastern branch. water
colors loaned by section OF fine arts
to May 30.
Art Gallery, Howard University.
Special exhibition. sketches for
mural paintings lent by. the Section
OF Fine Arts. Public Buildings Admin
istration, Federal Works Agency. to
May II. Also Autographs represent
ing 10 years work in this medium
by Prentiss Taylor, through May.
The Whyte Gallery.
Paintings by Robert F. Gates, May
10 to 81.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Concert Schedule

Today.
etai; assistin9 sasese artisss: sRsrsIs. EHRs fs
Stadium. $40 pm
Tomorrow.
Recorded concert, Southwestern
| Branch, Public Library, Seventh and
H steets NV, 8 pm.
Rubinstein Club. banquet and mu-
tone. guest artist; Kennedy-warfen.
5, Sterling wheelvright. organ re-
cital' L. D. S. Chapel. pm.
Tuesday.
Marine Band. Marine Barracks,
Army Band, War College. 1884
pm; Army Medical Center, $50 pm
Wednesday.
verdfs REQUIEM, Cathedral
rector; Washington Cathedral, $50
D. Sterling wheelwrirht. organ re-
cital; L. D. 8. Chapel, pm.
Thursday.
Lovette Choral Club. Eva Whit
Schultz, soprano; Helen Pinnacoun.
pianist; soloists; Chevy Chase Wom-
ems Club. $40 pm.
Betty ROGERS, pianist; John Martin,
eellist; Joint recital. Barker Hall,
$50 pm.
Saturday.
Budapest String Quartet Library
Of Congress, AIS pm.
Trspp Family Singers. beneft con-
cert. Maynower Hotel. 4 pm.
pm
D. Sterling Wheelwrisht. organ re-
cttal: Edna Wheelwright, soprano. as
sisting: l.. D. S. Chapel, pm.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Portrait Of Rev. A. r. Bird
By Hattie z. Rurdeffe.

Miss Hattle E. Burdette, who has
q studio in the historic old Ban
croft Davis house on H street be-
tween Seventeenth street and
Connecticut avenue, has lately
completed a portrait of the Rev.
Andrew R. Bird, pastor Of the
Church Of the Pilgrims. which. with
Its charming tower. has become an
outstanding landmark on the edge
OF Rock Creek Valley between the
P and @ street bridges which join
the city proper and old Georgetown.
1t Is a most excellent likeness, full
OF character, pleasing in expression.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whifney.
Sculptor, Passes.

:
Although the year 1912 is not yet
half run, numerous gaps have been
noted In the ranks of American
artists of note through achievement.
One of the latest is that occasioned
by the death in New York of Ger
trude Vanderbilt Whitney CMrs.
Harry Payne Whitney,, founder of
the Whitney Museum Of American
Art, and in her own right a sculptor
Of originality and gift. After sew
! eral years of i'll health Mrs. Whitney
died on April IT. She Is especially
well represented in this city by her
/ fascinating Aztec Fountain in the
patio Of the American Union
Building and by her Titanic Me-
mortal on the river drive. Potomac
Park.
+ San Francisco has her Eldorado
Fountain; Palos, Spain, her Colum-
bus Memorial. She did an eques
trian statue of Buffalo Bill Col
William F. Cody and memorial of
/ Peter Stuyvesant. the latter for New
York City. To her credit also stands
our American War Memorial at St.
Nazaire, France. She had two ex-
cellent masters, James Earle Fraser
and Andrew OConnor, and with the
latter worked for some years in close
cooperation.
Mrs Whitney's great desire was to
promote American art by encourage
ment of young American artists.
For this purpose her museum on
Tenth street, near Fifth avenue. on
the verge of, If not in, Greenwich
Village was established, and to its
support she gave literally. Exhibi-
tions were held. prizes given and
purchases made to an extent under
taken by none other Whether the
ends desired were achieved or not
time alone will tell There are those
who believe that in this field the
best works are those produced to
the drip of tears but, having the
means, 1t must always be, to those
who tread the way as did Mrs
Whitney, a great temptation to ease
the going and tighten the task.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Whyfe Gallery Announces
Sbecial Exhibition.

The Whyte Gallery, 1907 H street
NV, where an exhibition of paint
ings by Robert F. Gates opens today
with a private view, has issued an
invitation to artists in and around
Washington to contribute to an ex-
hibition to be entitled The Con-
temporary Scene" to be held in
this gallery during the month of
June. No work may exceed "a by
30 inches in dimensions or be priced
at more than $75. No work is ELI
gible which has been previously ex-
hibited in Washington. Etchings
and Autographs should be mounted
and all other works framed. This
will be a non-jury show. Works
submitted must be taken to the
gallery between May 10 and 16. The
opening date will be June 8.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Edith How Exhibits
In Canada.

Edith Hoyt. who usually goes to
Canada for the summer, has win
tered there this year, making ac-
quaintance with and painting our
neighbor to the north in winter
dress. In March she held an ex-
hibition in the Morency Gallery, the
catalogue of which comprised "a oil
paintings and group of pastels, at
which the attendance was good and
appreciation expressed by press and
public Miss Hoyt was represented
in the exhibition recently held at
the Grand Central Galleries, New
York, under the auspices Of the
Maple Leaf Fund-the United Ma
tons war relief-which consisted
Of loans from the well-known Cover
dale collection. At the same time
to give publicity to this show, sew
eral of Miss Hoyt's paintings Of
Canada were borrowed and dis
played in New York shop windows,
such as Canadian National Rail-
ways etc Miss Hoyt expects to re-
turn to Washington this month.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Extension of Cultural
Relations Through the Arts.

Miss Mabel Isabel MacCrimmon,
who. late this season, brought to
Washington and displayed in the
American Union by invitation,
a most comprehensive and beautiful
exhibition Of the arts and crafts OF
Chile, her native country, although
the child of a Scottish father of dis
tinguished descent, has been COM
missioned by the nter-American
Branch of the United States ONCE
of Education to visit universities in
this country and ascertain what
contacts can best be made through
them and their student bodies with
the art and cultural development
of South American nations. With
her exceptional knowledge of Latin
American art and her excellent
manner of presentation she should
prove a very welcome and valuable
envoy in this particular field.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

vital and convincing. The whole
interest Is centered in the face; the
treatment Is simple and direct but
the personality of the painter has
not been permitted to intervene.
1t is her sitter that the artist has
striven to present. not her own
personality, and she has succeeded
admirably. This is portrait painting
at its best.