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Music
National Symphony
Continues Student
Concert Series

With programs in Woodrow Will
son and Mckinley High Schools
the National Symphony Orchestra
continues this week its 18th season
of students concerts which V in
augurated at Armstrong High
School last Thursday.
The orchestra will be heard at
Woodrow Wilson on Wednesday
and at Mckinley the following aft
ernoon. At both concerts, which
begin at 3 pm. the program will be
the same: Weber's "Oberon Over
ture," Andante from Beethovens
symphony No. T." Animal Pic
tures," by Saint-Saens, White and
Rimsky- -Korsakov," and excerpts
from Peer Gynt," by Grieg.
Five more students concerts will
be played before the end OF the
season. Next Monday, February IS.
concert will be given at Central
High School: on Thursday, Febru-
airy 18, at Anacostia Junior-Senior
High School; on Wednesday, Feb
ruary "a, at Western High School;
on Friday, March 5, at Roosevelt
High School, and, according to GUS
tom, the gala final students con-
cert, to which all school children
in Washington and vicinity are in
vited, will be held in Constitution
Hall on Saturday morning, March
I3.
The Brazilian pianist, Arnaldo
Estrella, the first winner of the
Columbia Concerts Award, will
make his second orchestral appear
ance in this country next Sunday
February 14) afternoon with the
National Symphony Orchestra, un-
der Hans Kindler's direction, in
Constitution Hall.
Estrella. who recently arrived in
this country by clipper from his
native Rio de Janeiro for a tour
sponsored and financed by Colum-
bia Concerts, will make his North
American debut this afternoon in
Carnegie Hall with the New York
Philharmonic Symphony, Bruno
Walter conducting. On Tuesday he
will be heard over the stations of
the Columbia Broadcasting System,
and on Sunday he will make his
Washington debut, playing with the
National Symphony, for the first
time in this country, the Second
Piano Concerto of his fellow coun-
tryman, Radames Gnattai.
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Blood.Chilling Posters.

These two groups have also called
forth the most blood-chilling posters.
Many of them represent the victims;
figures swinging from gibbets, corpses
lying In their own blood, ravaged
women, crying children clinging to
their dead parents and other results
Of the enemy's evil acts. In some of
them, a Nazi or Jap appears in as
frightful a form as the artists could
devise. just how effective these may
be in making the public's blood boil,
remains to be seen. But from the
standpoint of art, many OF these
horror posters leave much to be de-
sired.
In these groups are works by sew
eral noted painters, among them
Yasuo Kuniyoslli, a Japanese-b born
American who has been devoting his
talent to China Relief and other
anti-Japanese causes. His interpre-
tation of This Is the Enemy" is an
admirable crayon drawing of me-
diaeval japanese warrior in armor,
standing over his victim; but it falls
short of effectiveness as a poster.
Presumably the artist is endeavor-
ing to "how Japan's essential bar
barity, centuries behind her up-to-
date material equipment, but one
cannot be sure
An outstanding poster is Otto
Keisker's Victory Starts Here"
with V-line of snow-white air.
planes, issuing from worker and
factory on a map of the United
States of America. Another on the
same theme, by A. Kronengold,
stands out-lighted factories yellow
and dark blue from which a dull,
red smoke issues to form a symbol
Of the flag in the night sky.
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Art World Active Despite
Wars Cultural Blackout
Though Art Has Suffered Under Mass
olaushter, Light Has Not Yet Gone Out
And Effect Is Only Temporary
BY Leila MechHn.

+rorH ana 10 more as time rolls taking toll of
uageuy OF Pearl Habor practically all
seaooard have removed to places of greater
eNlol art directors
armed forces
Gown his life their filled
py women laid
ana the market for
a
Yet the other hand increase
In well
Metropolitan
hbltlon which $4,000
National War Poster Competition
Art however be Judged
only, that signifies The bad have
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Guide to Art

!. NATIONAL GALLERY, constitu-
ton avenue at Sixth street NV
Paintings and sculptures by great
mtfTs as repTesented I bn u the MeIIen ceIec
tions, the Chester Dale collection OF
18Th century French paintings, a COL
lection of paintings by 10Th century
Egench ar.sS ba Lent by casnnn Frsnch mo
decorative arts, Chinese porcelains;
ceramics and Italian Renaissance and
French 18th century. furniture. Ma
tom. tionai War Posters to February ~.
days, to 10 pm.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, Constitution
tional collection Of fine arts compris-
ing various collections; NINA lures.
Pys0n Fsser Hdrd IF qFaDhf hsoas AFrnis BY
Natural History Building, water colors
by Leonora Quarterman. February
IS. Division of Photograph, Arts and
Indqstries INDY ri ,s Ruildins' n,s america An
days and weekdays (except Mon
days, 80 to 4 80 pm
FREER GALLERY. Independence
avenue and Twelfth street ,S.W--
ShIneSe Shdn Sc bronzes: sculptsre H paintngs. pn
cock Room" paintings, etchings, lith-
otints by American artists. Daily
Except Mondays, 3 I'm. to 4:30 pm.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Depart
ment OF Fine Arts, First and East
lection: cabinet of American illustra-
tions. Special exhibition. 20 Pi-
oneers," through February. Etchings
by Elrst Millhollen.
CORCORAN GALLERY. Seventeenth
street and New York avenue NV
Dy 9th rpnt1Jrv forpiCn artists cactS
from antique Barye bronzes, works
Of contemporary sculpture. Clark col
lection, old masters and modern
sd ANNUAL fps socety fss Of deFSmai Washnston so
Sculptors and Gravers' Society.
through February IA
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1901 Twenty-f1rst street .W.-Paint-
ings by contemporary artists, chiefly
prints contemporary Canadian paint
ing, Magnasco and four other loan
exhibitions. to February Is. Week.
days. ] am. to 6 pm; Sundays, 2
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
TRlCT OF COLUMBIA, 1880 S street
N,W.-Containing rugs. tapestries and
East Open Monday, Wednesday and
sion hy card, obtain able at the office
Of George Hewitt Myers. 730 Fiji
teenth street NV.
ARTS CLUB. 20I7 I street NV
Water coiors by L. Gerard Paine:
Autographs By Mabel Greer. through
February 90.
PUBLIC. LIBRARY. Eiehth and K
streets N.W.--Art of CamouflaEe. ex-
tended to February Is.
D. A. r MUSEUM, Seventeenth
and D streets NW,-"Childhood in
Early America"
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL
LERY, 2401 Sixth street NV
Prints BIZ contemporary Americans:
portraits by Alice Barney. through
February.
tFree Admission to All the Above)
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Alec Templeton
To Offer Program
OF Wide Variety

Alec Templeton, one OF our most
distinguished pianists, whose genius
permits him to roam from symphony
to swing, with remarkable virtuosity
throughout, will be presented at
Constitution Hall. Tuesday, Febru-
ary 16. by C. c. Cappel. In addition
to being a loted pianist Templeton
is established as a composer and
is in a class by himself as an i'm
proviser. A child prodigy. his ca
reer up to point followed that of
most great artists.
He composed his first piece at the
age of four, won the British Broad
casting Corporation prize for COM
position at 13, and acquired the de-
grees of Licentiate of the Royal
Academy Of Music and Associate of
the Royal College of Music shortly
afterWard
He toured England, France. Hol-
land and Germany like a medieval
minstrel, playing the masters both
seriously and satirically and vocally
mimicking famous figures and fads.
GFCly WilClC llS Clcdicu d SeIlSd llOil
with his great interpretative tai
ent. both classical and comical. In
1886 he came to the United States,
Of which he is now a citizen.
In a six-Week period, Templeton
appeared with the symphony or
chestras Of New York, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego and Los
Angeles, breaking several attend
ance records. Templeton assimi-
lates his large repertoire of standard
and popular music mostly by ear.
He listens to photograph records
and has regular schedule OF radio
listening.
His program will consist of four
groups of numbers. The first two
will embrace the classics, including
representative works by Bach,
Beethoven, Brahms and Ravel. The
third part of the program will con-
sist of some of Templeton's own
compositions and the closing sec
tion will be devoted to Templeton's s
inimitable and highly entertaining
improvisions.
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few piano sonatas written since the
turn OF the present century In the
grand manner. There are two ver-
sions Of this sonata. The first and
the more elaborate, which. in some
details, is the more daringly har-
monic, was presented by the COM
poser in his American recital Of
1921. The second. published by
Gutheil In 1881. was also played
by Rachmaninoff in the United
States the following season.
The composers intention In the
second version was simpliflcation,
condensation and, in one or two
places, alterations Of harmonic sue
cessions OF the first. Possibly he
had the thought also Of making the
sonata more accessible to the av-
erage pianist. Mr.. Horowitz, with
Rachmaninoff' sanction. has COM
bined features OF the first and sec
ond editions, leaning heavily, how
ever, upon the original and thereby
restoring what could be called It's
wealth of imagery while OCCASION
ally utilizing a passage from the
revised edition.
After the intermission he will
play five Chopin compositions: AN
dante Spianato" and "Grande Pol
onaise Brillante," Opus % (the first
of the eight important polonaises);
the &C Sharp Minor Mazurka, Opus
l, No. T.; the IF Minor Mazurka,
Opus 7. No. T.; the "a Minor
Waltz" and the "a Flat Major Pol
onaise." None OF the Chopin poll
onaises excels the A Flat in bril-
liancy, drama, thematic feeling OF
the national feeling so implicit in all
the compositions OF this form.
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The Oakley Wafer CoIors.

Among the finest examples OF art
OF today which have come out of the
present war are the series of water
coiors by Thornton Oakley OF Amer
ican Industries Geared for War
recently exhibited in Explorers Hall
National Geographic Society, after
having been reproduced in full color
in the Geographic Magazine. These
paintings have power and move
ment, they live and will continue tc
live, at the same time they bear
witness and are emotional
Happily another competent artist
OF fine attainment, John Taylor
Arms, is making a series OF etchings
OF shipyards, etc, which will un-
douotedly serve their purpose and
find beauty in expression.
The light has not yet gone out
There may be, SIS there has been be-
lore, a temporary blackout Of cul-
ture, due to war and that which has
given rise to war. but It cannot last
for the things of the spirit are eter-
nal, they will endure.
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Horowitz Offers
Fine Program in
Recital Today
Noted Russian
Pianist Pays
Annual Visit

Vladimir Horowitz. the sensa-
tional Russian pianist who has been
An annual attraction Of the concert
and recital series sponsored by Dor
othy Hodgkin Dorsey in Washington
for the past three seasons. comes
to Constitution Hall this afternoon
at 4 o'clock as the seventh OF Mrs.
Dorsey's musical offerings OF the
current season.
HoroWitz will open his program
with the Variations Serieuses (Qp.
54" Of Felix Mendelssohn, a set Ot
II piano pieces that Mendelssohn
wrote in Leipzig in 1S4l. He then
will play four sonatas OF Scarlatti:
"No. 400. B Flat Major" mo. 433. F
Major" mo. 239, A Minor" and mo.
2O9. G Major" all OF the Longo
edition.
A third interesting feature OF
the Horowitz program will be his
playing, as tribute to the composer
in his 10th year, OF Rachmaninon s
Second Sonata, Op. 36. in B Flat
Minor" described as one of the
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French Drascinss Here.

During World War l France sent
TO this country in appreciation of aid
rendered her artists a collection of
war drawings by some of her most
distinguished sons. Among these
was one by Hubert Denis Etcheverrv
OF an old woman seated in the midst
OF Observation-Disclosures Victim Of
war, which once seen could never
be forgotten. 1t and other drawings
In this collection. now in the Ma
tlonal Museum, are beautifully rem
dered and appeal not through shock
but strength Of emotion to the higher
nature. The Dutch artist, Louis
Raemakers, did a great service to
popular understanding through his
clever cartoons, and a better appre-
citation Of what war means was given
with spirit both stern and tender bv
Luclen Jonas in his series of draw
ings entitled The Soul of France -
England made at the same time no.
table contribution through her ar
fists at the front. In this brief sum-
mary mention also should be made
Of George Bellows dramatic paint
ng-"Edith Cavel," a masterpiece
which takes its place with out
standing works of art.
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Art
Notes
Large Exhibition
OF War Posters at
National Gallery
BY Florence s. Beyyp,uan.

Inc exhibition of original posters.
selected from the National War Pos
ter Competition held under auspices
OF Artists for Victory, Inc, now on
view at the National Gallery of Art.
IS disappointing display, in view
OF the high hopes entertained last
autumn. The competition was well
Planned, the themes were specific
and the scope was broad; hence one
was justified in anticipating a large
proportion of outstanding work.
The several hundred posters at the
gallery are presumably the cream
OF 2.224 entries submitted by artists
IN 43 States and the District of Co.
lumbla, which was tenth on the list
IN number of entries. There were
nine prize winners. each receiving a
$500 War bond, and additional post
ers given honorable mention. Not all
OF these are included in the current
show.
A good poster should be forceful
and direct. sufficiently simple to re-
veal Its message to a glance, and, of
course. we'll designed and executed.
Considering the posters according
to the various theme groups, one
finds good things in each. This is
the Enemy and Deliver Us From
Evll' overlap to some extent for
there are similar subjects in each.
George Pickens' slaves in a stockade
digging trenches under the watchful
eye of a Nazi overlord, Lionel Reiss'
unhappy people in prison, seen
through swastika-s shaped window,
and Jaro Fabry's figure of woman
victim are noteworthy posters in
these two groups. Mr. Reiss is also
responsible for the only item sug-
gesting the Nazi destruction of Eu-
ropes heritage Of art, in his poster
depicting a brutal arm and dagger
crashing through a stained glass
window.
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The annual musicale OF the Wom-
ems Alliance of All Souls Church
will take place this year on Friday,
Lincolns birthday, with special
features appropriate to this occa-
sion. The theme of the musicale
is Religion Through Music" and
will be combined with the patriotic
motif centering around the United
Nations. George Irving Chandler
tenor, representing the United
States, will sing a group Of songs
He will be followed by soloists, who
in costume and in front of a group
ing OF Allied flags, will give religious
and patriotic selections appropriate
to the Allied countries.
Members are permitted to bring
guests to this meeting at Pierce
Hall at IL O'Clock and may remain
for luncheon and bridge afterward
Reservations for tables, if desired,
may be made by telephoning Mrs.
Stanley Smith.
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Concert Schedule

TODAY.
Vladimir Horowitz. piano recital.
Constitution Hall, pm
Milton Hodeson, organ recital.
washington Cathedral, pm.
ssmble. Mary Park Clements. director:
YWCA. s pm.
TOMORROW.
D; Sterling Wheelwright. orssn re-
cital. l.. D. S. Chapel. & pm
Evening With tho victrols," Public
Library, Eighth and X streets NV.
TUESDAY.
Philadelphia Orchestra. Ensens
yiolinist: .oloist constitution mf'iish Hail.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra.
Stanley Hall. $50 pm.
Marine Band. Marine Barracks.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Barracks. SIS pm: Marine
Band. Marine Barracks. I:45 pm.
National symphony Orchestra,
concert, woodrow Wilson Hirh
Victrola hour. YwcA. pm.
D; Sterling Wheelwrisht. organ re-
THURSDAY.
Margaret Tolson. Fannie Ross
Henbest, dou-piano recital. Arts
o'9R, National sisI s:mi ymDhony orchestr.. DR..
Hans Kinder conductor; student
concert. Mckinley High School, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
Stanley Hall. $50 D m.
FRIDAY
Friday Morning Club, composers
program, Barker Hall. YWcA, 30
am.
SATURDAY
Soldiers Hone Band Orchestra.
Stanley Hall, $50 pm
D. Sterling Wheelwrirht- organ re-
cital, l.. D. s. Chapel pm.
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Current Events
In ashington
Music Circles

On Thursday evening at $3.50 the
Arts Club Of Washington will pre-
sent Margaret Tolson and Fannie
Ross Henbest in a program Of music
for two pianos. These two artists
are we'll known in Washington for
their presentation of new and un-
usual music. Their program on
Thursday evening will open with
Parker Bailey's transcription OF the
Bach "Wachet auf" and will in
clude Hindemith sonata and COM
positions Of Casadesus and Milhaud.
The program for the Sunday mu-
sic hour at the YWCA. Seventeenth
and K streets, will be given by q
string ensemble directed by Mary
Park Clements. The group will play
some early dance forms Of the 18th
and 18th centuries by Leclair, Hot
terre, Bach. Sammatini and Gluck,
and some modern descriptive music.
The public Is cordially invited to
the program, which begins at S
o'clock.
On Wednesday the music division
OF the YWCA will start a new series
OF Victrola hours, to be held every
Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock. The
program for the first one will be the
preludes to acts one and three from
Wagner's "Lohengrin," Smetana' S
''The Moldeau" and Death and
TRANSPORTATION" by Richard Strauss.
The public is invited.
Milton Hodgson, organist and
choirmaster Of the First Methodist
Church, Baltimore, will be present.
ed IN an organ recital at 5 o'clock
this afternoon in Washington Cathe-
dral Immediately following the 4
o'clock evensong service.
For his program Mr.. Hodgson has
chosen the Bach Prelude and
Fugue in F Minor" Handers "Ari-
oso,' "Fugue on the 'Kyrie,'" by
Couperin; Saint Saens' prelude to
The Deluge.'" Won Himmel Hoch.' =
by Pachelbel. Piechler's Fantasy in
A Minor" and "Soliloquy" Of his
own composition.
In order to comply with fuel oil
rationing the Southwestern Branch
OF the Public Library. Seventh and
H streets S.W, will hold no victrola
concerts until further notice. Clara
w. Herbert, chief librarian, an
nounced.
On Friday morning at II: 80 o'clock
in Barker Hall. Seventeenth and K
streets NV, the Friday Morning
Music Club will present a COM
posers' program. Contemporary
composers who will participate are
Elizabeth MARI Butterfield, Sus-
sanah A. Coleman, Dorothy Radde
Emery, Mary Howe and Maude
Sewall
La Vergne Fairchild Jeffries, di-
rector OF the Sligo Music Club and
Of the Evangeline Choral Club, will
present the two clubs In a program
on Wednesday at $50 pm. at the
Evangelire Hotel. Friends of both
clubs are invited.
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Corcoran's Saturday
Glasses Exhibit.

Saturday classes Of the Corcoran
School of Art have been exhibiting
students work for a fortnight. This
afternoon will be the last oppor-
tunity to view 1t. These classes
are conducted for the benefit of
students Of high and private schools
Of the city. Teachers are advanced
students of the Corcoran school
and the instruction Is supervised
by the faculty.
The best work. from adult stand
ards, is that of Mrs. Sickman's class
Of children Is to IT. 1t includes
an outstanding little oil painting
Of girl practicing piano, by Ruth
White. The subjects stiff armed
pose and the painting Of the in
terror are exceptionally we'll done.
So, too, is Ann Mears' charcoal
drawing of a line of trucks rolling
along highway.
A small group of terra Gotta
figures represents Mrs. Silverman's S
class in sculpture. A number of
these display unusual promise-a
bear, a doughboy, a seated Indian,
a woman in the costume OF 1900.
There was no identification OF the
students on these.
The youngest children represented
are those from 10 to II, taught by
Mrs. Winston, Mrs. Oboler and Miss
Brant. One can judge from the
pictures that these young people
derive pleasure from their work.
Lou Ann H. and Margaret Price
are realists, whose transcriptions of
ice-skating include several children
sprawling.
Patsy, Dorothy Louise Chamber
lain and Sylvia A. Willets reveal
themselves AS budding modernists
in their still life work. Pat Court
wright's perspective is more accu-
rate than that of many of his
elders. Betty Bonnet's sketch of a
lad posing effectively portrays his
weariness and boredom.
Very few OF the young people
have depicted war subjects, but
those who have are in this youngest
age group. Milton Blum has a
group OF caricatures Enthusiastically
Hitler, Mussolini and Jap. E. Bur
rows shows refugees in a deserted
landscape
Mrs. Ellinger and Paul Bond in
struct students Of 13 to Is. There
are very creditable portrait sketches
and figure studies in charcoal by
Marlowe Anderson, and mature
work in still life by Pat Glenn and
H. Bennett. Jane Stouffer is re-
sponslble for romantic genre
painting, showing a golden-haired
girl looking off to the highway,
where prince rides by on a white
charger.
Evening star., 1943-02-07

Twenty-Five years ago we, with
our Allies overseas, were waging a
World War to establish peace and
justice and better living-then, as
now, the artists of America came
forward to lend their aid. It is
interesting to glance back over their
contribution and compare it with
that Of today when history repeats
itself. Certain artists were then
sent to the front in France to re-
cord things seen.
Of all of these perhaps most sue
ceSsful was Kerr Eby. whose etch-
lngs, such as Scout Planes At
Dawn" and Shadows company
of soldiers on the march at night
fall-while retaining their grim
reality have won high place as
works of art. Joseph Pennell, it
will be recalled, did at the same
time his Autographs of war work
setting forth its marvel with pa
triotic ardor and artistic skill
works which likewise live because
they were not merely factual but
fine. The same may be said of the
Autographs of shipyards by Thorn
ton Oakley and paintings of the
same stirring activities by John
G. Johansen.
To arouse the loyalty of indus
trial workers and let the world know
of the Importance of their contri-
button, Gerrit Beneker was en-
ployed by the Navy Department, on
the recommendation of its then
Assistant Secretary, Franklin Del
ano Roosevelt. to make paintings
OF workmen which could be repro
duced as paintings full of
spirit and good art, which func-
toned perfectly.
This was robust work and has
stood the test of time. These men
were chosen for their known abil-
ity. not drawn by chance as num-
bers from a hat.
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paper decorated with ears and
swastikas.
This exhibition will remain until
February IT.
Chain Soufine
At Phillips Gallery.

The Phillips Gallery, as mentioned
here the past two Sundays, has six
exhibitions on view (until February
15) and all of them are "life-size.' -
They are most emphatically not a
series of small groups.
Visitors probably will derive more
interest by making several trips to
the gallery instead of trying to see
all the shows at one time.
More than 20 paintings by Chain
Soutine occupy the main gallery.
This Russian Jewish artist, who
studied in wilma, Lithuania, and
went to Paris at 10, is leader of
the goth century expressionists.
His paintings are violently distort-
ed in most instances, passionate and
agitated. There is an alarming emo
tional quality in landscapes as well
as in figures. The majority of peo-
pie doubtless find them thoroughly
repellant and would probably agree
with the author of one book on
modern painting, who classes Sou
tine with the "repulsive" painters.
Duncan Phillips, in his sympa-
thetic essay in the admirable cata-
logue issued In connection with
these exhibitions, notes Soutine's S
resemblance to Van Gogh and Ell
Greco. Soutine himself disclaims
Van Gogh and acknowledges his
debt to Tintoretto. Nevertheless
there does not appear to be vestige
| Of the Renaissance master in these
savage, swirling paintings. One
wonders how they will be judged
in the light of time.