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Record Reviews
By alice EperSm0n

Columbia features Sir Thomas
Beecham in two recordings this
month, that of Sibelius' Seventh
Symphony and Schubert's Fifth
Symphony" The former played by
the New York Philharmonic does not
equal in coloring or emotional in
tensity that released by the Victor
Co. last month. The Schubert SYM
phony performed by the London
Philharmonic is finely treated, al
though the work itself, which leaves
out clarinets, trumpets, trombones
and drums, is one of the weakest
from Schubert's pen.
Two concert waltzes by Glazounov,
that in F major, opus 81, and in D
ma jor, opus At. bring another record
ing by the late Frederick Stock and
the Chicago Symphony. The waltzes
are pleasant music, but no improve
ment on those of the famous
Strausses. However, the album is
valuable as another instance of Mr..
Stocks mastery directing.
The prize album of the Columbia
list this month is the recording of
the Schumann piano Quintet in
E Flat. Opus A." played by the
Busch Quartet and Rudolf Serkin,
pianist. This glowing work, Schu-
mann's masterpieces in the chamber
music field, is superbly presented by
this outstanding group of artists. 1t
is true that Serkin is the guiding
spirit in the performance which he
imbues with fire and manifold color
ing, but the quartet follows his in
spiration and in every respect the
recording is admirable.
From the Victor Company comes
one of Stokowskis finest feats as
conductor. With the wealth of ma
terial which Stravinsky's Fire Bird
Suite" gives him he leads the NBC
Symphony in a brilliant interpre-
tation. The Suite has been recorded
three times by Stokowski in the
earlier days when the recording IA
cilities were not what they are to-
day but this fourth effort naturally
outstripes them all. Many effects
are thrilling and on the whole he
balances the orchestral tone better
than In other recent recordings.
Two prominent singers release al
buns completely opposite in char
acter. Richard Crooks sings the
principal tenor arias from five great
oratorios: The Messiah" Samson"
Judas Maccabeus,' "St. Paul." and
elijah" He presents them with
excellent taste and vocal beauty.
Gladys Swarthout selects eight pop
ular songs from Begin the Beguine"
to my Heart Stood Still" for an al
bum that will rank with any of her
operatic efforts. Most of these songs
have been included in her radio
broadcaSts.
Single records: lovely singing by
Marian Anderson Of Let Us Break
Bread Together" and "Oh, What a
Beautiful City" and a fine presenta-
ton of Max Steiner's Symphonic
Moderne," which was the feature
number Of Warner Brothers film
-Four Wives" by the Jansen SYM
phony, Werner Jansen, conductor.
Both by Victor. The Cleveland Or
chestra's playing of Ravel's "Albor-
ada del gracioso" with Rozinski con-
Quoting is columbias principal sin
gle disc. sS
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Music
Ormandy Dedicates
Orchestra Program
To Honor Moderns

After season somewhat weighted
with classicism, the Philadelphia
Orchestra will do honor to the
moderns in its concert Tuesday eve
ming at Constitution Hall.
Especially interesting to Wash
ingtonians will be the Plain Chant
for America" because the poem for
which its music was composed was
written by Katherine Garrison
Chapin, In private life the wife of
Attorney General Francis Biddle.
She wrote the poem in 1899, in an
sWer to those who complained Of
America and its faults, stressing our
love of freedom and our willingness
to die for it. 1t is dedicated to
President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
William Grant Still, Los Angeles
Negro composer, found Mrs. Bid
dies poem an inspiring subject on
which to write a work commence
rating the Tooth anniversary of the
New York Philharmonic Society in
1912. So he wrote an orchestral
accompaniment, with a baritone
lead for the vocal narration. Tues
day evening James Pease, bass
baritone, recent prize winner in the
Metropolitan additions, will sing
Plain Chant for America" Gregor
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Romberg Concert

Sigmund Romberg, the famous
composer of Blossom Time" STU
dent Price" 'Maytime," New
Moon" and a dozen other popular
operettas, is devoting his energies
this season to a concert tour which
brings him to Constitution Hall on
Tuesday evening, April 6.
Romberg will present, on that oc-
caslon, an orchestra of his own. with
himself as conductor, and with three
soloists to aid in the presentation
OF program devoted to the lighted
classics and to those songs which
have made his name synonymous
with the romantic music Of our gen.
Grafton. The soloists are Marie
Nash, well-knoWn light opera star.
who was last heard here with the
late George M. Cohan in I'D Rather
Be Right" Grace Panvini, gifted
coloratura singer, and Gene Mar
vey, popular radio and light opera
tenor.
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Washington Teachers
,COncert Is Planned

A program of interest to all men,
bers of the Washington Music
Teachers Association, Inc, will be
given tomorrow evening at the Arts
Club through the courtesy of the
music editors of three leading
Washington newspapers.
Ray Brown of the Washington
Post presents Margaret Tolson in a
piano sonata by Roy Paris, COM
posed in 1929, and three preludes
by Kent Kennan. Charlotte Wat
klns, soprano, accompanied by Dor
othy Radde Emery and presented
by Alice Eversman of The Evening
Star will sing the final scene and
aria OF Natoma from the opera
"Natoma," by Victor Herbert; THE
Cloth of Heaven" Dunhill; "Thv
Sweet Singing" Clarence Olmstead;
JEAN" Walter Nash, and "The Song
in My Soul" Dorothy Radde Emery.
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Muriel Rain to Give
Church Recital Here

Muriel Rain, Negro dramatic so.
prano, will give recital Friday, $50
pm, at the Asbury Methodist
Church, Eleventh and K streets
NV, under the auspices of Sigma
Gamma Rho Sorority. The young
singer is a member of the Alfred
Lunt-Lynn Fontanne cast THE
Pirate" which appeared at the Ma
tional Theater last fall and is play
ing at present on Broadway.
Born in Boston and educated in
New York City and at Tuskegee
Institute. Alabama, she is a gradu-
ate OF the conservatory of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, She has been
a teacher of music in various Negro
schools and colleges and has ap-
peared successfully in concert, stage,
radio and screen both here and
Europe.
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giving the orchestral accompani-
ment which he has Transcribed for
the pipe organ. There will be a
group OF organ solos and the con-
cert will close with the presentation
of Debussy's "L'Enfant Prologue"
for trio of voices, Mrs. Potter as
Liza. Mr.. Chandler as Azael and Mr..
Smithey as Simeon. Mr.. Potter has
arranged the accompaniment for
organ and piano, played by himself
and Miss West.
The Sanctuary Choir of Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist Church will
present the local premiere of R.
Deane Shure's new work, "Anchored
by the Grace of God" at the II
o'clock service Sunday, April 4. The
subject matter is an episode in the
war told to Mr. Shure by Chaplain
William Thomas of the Naval Acad-
emy which relates how a Naval
Academy officer, commanding a
destroyer during the battle of the
Solomons and reaching port after
inflicting heavy damage on the
enemy, entered in his log Anchored
oy the grace of God"
Mary Lee Read, NJ NJ, concert
organist, pianist and harpist, was
honored by reception and mu-
sicale at the University of Mary
land at College Park last week,
where she was visiting Gamma
Psi Chapter of her fraternity, Kap-
pa Gamma.
The New York pianist and teach
er, Alexander Lipsky, recently has
opened studio in Washington at
7l6 Thirteenth street NV. Born
in Poland, he came to this coun-
try at the age of 8 and is a gradu-
ate OF Columbia University. While
there he studied composition and
theory under Ward and Mason and
was awarded the Clarence Barker
fellowship for study abroad He
spent two years in Berlin studying
piano with Leonid Kreutzer and
composition with Franz Schreker.
Since 1925 Mr. Lipsky has been
active in New York in the triple
capacity of concert pianist, COM
poser and teacher.
Jennie Glennan has resigned the
position of organist and choir de-
rector of st. Patricks Catholic
Church. which she held for many
years. While abroad Miss Glennan
studied Gregorian chant in England,
polyphonic music in RegenSburg,
Bavaria, and organ with Josef Rem
ner. She is considered an authority
on Catholic church music. Her first
important position was at st. Mat
theWs Church as organist and choir
director.
Miss Glennan was the first to in
augurate the singing of Gregorian
chant and polyphonic music follow
ing the issuance of the Moto Pro-
prlo and introduced to Washington
some OF the classics of the Middle
Ages. In cooperation with the
Gaelic Society, of which she was di-
rector of music, Miss Glennan made
researches in the field of folk music,
which she produced under the aus
plceS of that society.
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Nine. Victor, composer, violinist
and teacher, and Nine. Vogel,
pianist and teacher, gave q stu
dents recital Saturday, March 20,
at the YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
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In Local Music Circles

The Washington College of Music
is presenting Nadia Boulanger in
teaching session on Friday and Sat-
urday of this week as she passes
through Washington from a three
day schedule at Duke University. At
the Phillips Memorial Gallery on
Friday evening Mile. Boulanger will
have the assistance in her lecture of
several soloists.
Saturday afternoon at the college
the fifth in series of discussions
of the Beethoven quartets will oc-
cur at S o'clock. Reserva tions for
both events should be made at the
college Office.
This evening at o'clock a con-
cert will be given in the east garden
court of the National Gallery of
Art by an orchestral ensemble, with
Francis Garzia conducting. Pvt.
Erno Valasek, United States Army,
will be the violin soloist, accom-
panied by Corpl. Josef Privette,
United States Army, at the piano.
Elsa Koppel presents a group of
her voice pupils in recital to be
given at the Women's City Club,
1856 Jackson place NV, this eve
ming at 7:30 o'clock. Participating
are: Vivian Barrett, Patricia Nc
Carthy, Anne Cherkassky, Louis
Dreeben, Sonia Katz, Harol Lee,
Eleanor Morrison Moore, Julia
Shonk, Phyllis Schwartz, Irma Tai
shoff, Catherine Tompson.
On Tuesday evening Thomas H.
Weber, jr., A. A. G. O.. will appear
IN recital on the George Whitney
White memorial organ at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Webber has wide experience in
concert, having appeared in Pitts
burgh, Birmingham, Rochester. at
Radio City in New York City and
many other important cities.
The Howard University Choir and
Mems Glee Club, directed by Warner
Lawson, dean of the school of music.
will present a concert of choral
music in Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel on Friday, April 9. at $50
pm. Proceeds from the concert will
be used as the beginning of a music
scholarship fund. The initial goal
for this fund is $1,000 and individual
contributions will be welcomed.
The next program in the current
recorded music series at the Ma
tional Archives will be sponsored by
the office of the chief signal officer,
Services of Supply. War Depart
ment. 1t will be held on Tuesday
evening at 7:45 o'clock.
The Friday Morning Music Club
program will be given Friday at
11:30 at the residence of Mrs. Will
liam S. Corby, Chevy Chase Circle.
Artists who present this program
are Louis Potter. organist and di-
rector; Sally West, pianist; Ruby
Potter, soprano; George Irving
Chandler, tenor, and J. Horace
Smithey, baritone. Miss West will
play the Rimsky-Korsakoff Con-
certo for piano with Mr.. Potter
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Guide to Art

.. NATIONAL GALLERY Constitu-
ton avenue at Sixth street NV
Paintings and SCULPTURES by great
masters as represented in the Mellon,
tions. the Chester Dale collection of
l9th century French paintings. COL
lection OF paintings and drawings by
18th century French artists loaned by
french museums, the Widener COL
lection of decorative arts. Chinese
porcelains, ceramics and Italian Re
naiSsance and French 18th century
furniture. Paintings loaned by Bel
gan government Weekdays, 10 am.
to pm; Sundays, > to 10 pm.
SMITHSONIAN INsTITUTioN, Ma,
tional collection of fine arts. Natural
History Building, Tenth street and
Constitution avenue-PaintingS and
FRFER IA Xs52uS
avenue and Twelfth street S.W.-
Chinese bronzes. sculpture, paintings,
Near East potteries WHISPERS Pea
cock Room paintings, etchlngs, lith-
9a's 2execo 0y MoAds9s A%SE''" 15''s5s m 81 30 P'y ny
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MU-
scum, Smithsonian Bulldine, the
Mall south side at Tenth street,
Division of GRAPHIC Arts; Natural
by the Potomac Appalachian Trail
Cub. Etchings and pen dra wings by
Helen Miller. Arts. and industries
pudding. SECTION Of Photosrapph,yy1--
Sundays and weekdays except Mon
days., m. to 80 pm. Mondays,
l 80 to 4 30 pm.
UNITED STATES LIBRARY OF
First and East Capitol streetS-Na,
tional print collection; cabinet OF
hibition. % Pioneers Etchings by
go coRcoRAN t!5,I7qlS GALLERY, Seventeenth
street and New York avenue NV
Paintings by American artists, also
by 10th century foreign artists, casts
from antique Barge bronzes. works
lection, old masters and modern
paintings, rugs, laces, ceramics. etc:
EIGHTEENTH Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Paintings.
PHILIPS MEMORIAL, GALL ERY'
ings Of contemporary artists, chiefly
of French end American schools: also
prints Work by pupils of Karl
Knaths through March IS; Week
days. II am. to 6 pm; Sundays
TEX1iLE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA, .o53o S street
NW-Conta!ning RUGS, tapestries ard
other textiles of the Mear and Fa;
East Open Monday, Wedn eSday and
Friday. Hours, > to pm Admis.
of C~orge Hewitt Myers, 130 Fiji
teen-h street NV
ARTS CLUB. @ol I street NV
PAINTINGS and photographs by Eleanor
Parke GUSTS.
PUBLIC library, Eighth and K
streets NW-Posters and original
paintings from owl through March;
D A. R. MUSEUM, Seventeenth and
D streets N W-"Childhood in Early
America.
WHYTE GALLERY. 1920 C>nnecti-
cut avenue NW.-19th century
m2sters
CHIDRFNs MUSEUM OF WASH
INGTON 4215 ssachusettS avenue
Indian arts and crafts.
DAVID PORTER GALLERY. 1910
Thirty-first street N.W.-Miowestern
painters. >
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turned them from wretched. half
starved slum dwellers into strong,
bronzed farmers.
In 1928 Frank Horowitz. q young
Russian Jew who had long lived
in the United States 'and had be-
come a citizen, won a scholarship
which took him to the Soviet Union
for three months to paint some
Of these Jewish colonists in the
Ukraine and the Crimea, who cul-
tivated more than a million acres
before the German invasion. He
was fired with enthusiasm for the
saga of his race.
He shows us earnest people, with
intense, burning eyes, and serious
expressions. They were too pre-
occupied with their laborS to eX-
press gayety or other light moods.
They made heroic efforts to readJust
their lives to a constructive agrlcul-
tural program and their Krlvoy
Rog Colony was notably prosperous.
The brutal Nazi hordes have OBJ
liberated all these splendid gains,
but those who accomplished them
are safe in the interior of Russia.
The Soviet government foresaW that
the Germans would destroy every
thing in their path and moved the
colonists, their livestock and ma
chinery out of the. Nazl reach.
Behind the Scenes
OF the Biennial.
The Corcoran Biennial jury's
painstaking efforts to admit work
entirely on the basis of merit and
their complete disregard OF time
and labor involved are graphically
illustrated by an incident which
occurred during the examination of
work submitted by artists of Wash
ington and vicinity.
About $50 paintings were placed
singly before the five jurors. Three
affirmative votes were necessary to
put a work in the biennial. But
each painting which received one
vote was set aside and brought
up later for reconsideration.
One painting with a single vote
which returned for the jurors con-
scientious scrutiny gained a second
affirmative vote and was set aside
for another return, at which time
one of the jurors said:
Il would change my mo- to yes
for this painting if it were possible
to change the color of the frame" )"
Richard Lahey, chairman of the
jury, remarked:
That would be a simple matter,
for the artist of this painting is
in this room"
Mr.. Minnigerode, director of the
Corcoran and member eX officio
of the jury, was amazed. Il know
the work of you men too we'll" he
exclaimed, ito believe that this
painting was done by Richard Lahey
or by Jerry Farnsworth or Edward
Hopper or Jon Corbino or Bernard
Karf1ol. 1t is entirely different in
style from the work of any of you"
You are right" Mr.. Lahey re-
piled, there is the artist" and he
pointed to one of the men in overalls
who were handling pictures at the
other end of the gallery. Mr.. Lahey
had recognized the painting. for the
artist had been one of his pupils
in the Corcoran School of Art.
The artist was delighted to change
the frame on his work. An in
voluntary listener to the jury's de-
liberations, he had pursued his la
bors with no little agitation while
the fate of his painting hung in the
balance.
The painting is hanging in Gal
lery G. It IS No. l54, "Farragut
Square," by Arvid Hedin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-01
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
MA staff Correspondent

Take it from Jinx Falken-
kcnbcrg, an Army camp tour is
rigorous but. Back in Holly
wood after another swing
around the country for the Vic
tory Committee. Jinx is finding
a hard days work at the studio
in Cover Girls relaxing in
deed, compared 10 a camp jun
ket. At Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
her tennis playing ability pre-
coded her She played four sets
OF doubles with Is Of the camps
best players. In Frederick, Ok
lahOma, 500 school kids storm
cd 'he lobby Of her hotel at $50
IN the morning and refused to
90 La school until she get out Of
bed and made an appearance. At
Pueblo, Colo, one DO pleaded
with her TO wear his ring. She
did for about 90 minutes and he
told her he was going 10 write
home that they.W re engaged. A
Jcop loadcd with soldiers passed
her al Camp Hale in Colorado.
'Yoo, hoo, Handsome shouted
JinX A hush fell over the SOL
d RS accompanying her.
What's wrong asked Jiux
Nothing, ' replied a sergeant,
only that was the Old Man
Brlgadicr General Rolfe.' Later
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YOUR llFE'S BLOOD

St. Clair Shores residents who on Feb. 3 set
record OF l54 blood donotons in single doy will
oeoin swell the notions bonk OF life giving p'osmo on
July 9 with quote Of so pints TO be ottoned
The response Of oil Moeomb county residents TO
the dire need for adequate supplies OF plosmd hos
been, generally speaking, highly srotifyins Mount
Clemens. Sefridee Field East Detroit, Romeo, Rose
Vile New Baltimore. Richmond, Center Line, Utico
and ST. Clair Shores have repeatedly answered the coll
and their residents have submitted TO the blood
dronose with true feeling OF happiness thot they
could TO thot extent, succor the notions wounded.
The pressing need for additional blood donors,
however hordIy be stressed too greatly ond when
il reoIred how nony soldiers, soIors, marines ond
eoost euordsmen their lives TO injections OF blood
posmo, hundreds OF Moeomb county residents who
have not yet token time TO donate their blood will
we ore sure, respond TO the coll for donors.
II is TINY end poiness-but utterly necessary
contribution upon the port of those who serve the
"home front"
In oil Moeomb county residents have, thus far,
donated 1853 pnts Of blood TO the Red Cross plusmo
prosrom.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-01
BY PETER EDISON

Most unpredictable critter in
all the vast organization of your
far flung federal government is
the honorable, the august, the
distinguished House of Repre-
sentatives. The remark may be
trite, but a truism.
You can always predict what
the weather in Washington will
be terrible. But predicting
how the House will behave is
impossible, unless, Of course,
you want TO be stubborn about it
and condemn that behavior with
the adjective terrible" too.
In the past week, the House
has been in one Of its worst run
away tantrum moods. On the
same day that approval was
whammed through for S27 bill
lion for the Navy and S72 bill
lion for the Army. almost with
out opposition, the House took
vicious socks at comparatively
minor appropriations for the Of
flee of Price Administration, Of
flee of War Information and the
Presidents pet National Re-
sources Planning Board A few
~ cut funds for the War Man.
days before a House Committee
power Commission, and a week
before had put curbs on the
Presidents use of his emergency
funds.
BUTTONHOLING AHEAD
No matter how lousily these
agencies may be administered, ii
must be admitted by even their
most vociferous critics that they
have a job TO do and they de-
serve better than 10 be cut off
with few more millions. Stop
ping their work isn't going 10
get il done, either. And so. fol-
lowing the usual procedure, a
lot of telephoning and button
holing in the cloakrooms and
corridors will be done to get
some of the cut appropriations
put back in, and a lot of fixing
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into his head. Many of them do
just that. A typical session of the
House is like an average Sunday
in the park. Ii will develop a few
fights, number of squalling
babies, maybe a riot call, and a
lot of indifferent snoozing under
spread newspapers.
But the men who mount the
soapboX are the people speak
ing. This is democracy at work.
Yes, it's confusion. But these
congressman have their ears
close to the ground back home
in their beloved districts, and
they hear and they echo the
protests of their noble con-
stituents. And when the con-
gresSmen start slapping OPA
and Owl and WMPC and
NRPB and FSA around, it is a
yell from the angry mob which
an alert administration and bu-
reaucracy should do we'll to heed
as danger signal. II is a symp-
tom that there is something
wrong with governmental ma
chinery that needs overhauling
1t is an ache in the belly of
America that gripes for a cure.
The House has gone on ram
pages before. and many times il
has come contritely back next
session 10 modify its excuses.
The House may have gone too
far in its most recent outbreak of
zoot suffer muggings on appro-
priation bills. Behind il all, how
ever. is fundamental protest
against muddling. inefficiency,
confusion and waste in the war
agencies and it can't be ignored.
But you have TO put the House
in its proper perspective 10 APP
praise correctly its part in an
otherwise silly performance.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

will have TO be done in the Sen
ate TO right the mistakes of the
House.
An example of this fixing was
the recent action of the Senate in
restoring funds to the Farm Sc
curity Administration after the
House had previously wrecked
its appropriation.
The question is, why all this
lost motion? Why all this UNI
necessary confusion from the
House in cumming things up in
general, requiring lot of repair
work TO get things back under
control? Why don't these crazy
congressman settle down and
conduct their business in an or
derby fashion anyway?
Attend a normal session OF the
House and its usually utter bed
lam. Nobody pays any attention,
only half of them are there, and
the whole affair seems run with
the utter nonchalance of COM
bination kindergarten class and
cocktail party. Don't these guys
know there's a war on We're
these buns elected just TO upset
the applicant in this unorthodox,
back alley hoodlum way?
It's easy 10 condemn the
House on these charges, but the
answers aren't as simple as
that, by a long shot. It's cinch
10 say this is the worst Congress
the country ever had, as some
men in the administration are
wont 10 do, and let it go at that.
Any such blanket indictment.
however, misses the truth by a
mile.
SUNDAY IN THE PARK
The fact is that the runaway,
wild man House is one of the
healthiest manifestations IN the
American system of democratic
government. The we'll of the
House floor is like soapbox in
a public park. Any congressman
can get up there and say what he
pleases, the first thing that pops