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Evening star., 1947-10-19
Ormandy to Direct
Philadelphians in
Concert Tuesday

An all-orchestral program will
open the Philadelphia Orchestra S
subscription series in Constitution
Hall Tuesday night at $50 o'clock
with Eugene Ormandy conducting
His revised transcription of Bach S
"Toccata and Fugue in D minor,
which he made this summer, and
Richard Strauss famous tone-poem
Don Quixote" will be features of
the program. Incidental soil will be
played by Samuel Mayes, cellist, and
Samuel Lifshey, violist. flrst-chair
men in their respective sections.
The inclusion of don Quixote'
into the program comedies with the
commemoration of the 400th birth
anniversary of Cervantes, author of
the first modern novel, still appeal
ing for its fantastic and amusing
elements. The tone-poem was given
it's first performance in Cologne in
1898, a year after its completion
Regarded as one of the greatest
musicians of our time, Strauss en-
joyed financial independence all his
life, while Cervantes died in poverty
1Q'years after the publication of his
novel in 1904, in spite of the fact
that his book had the greatest sale
at the time and was widely read
throughout the entire Spanish
world.
Strauss assigned the theme of the
knightly character to the cello. Mr.
Mayes will be heard alone in a
cadenza- like passage at a point
where the orchestral ensemble
reaches greatest intensity. Although
young in years, he has led the cello
section of the Philadelphians for
the past five years, having Joined
the symphony at the age of 18.
He is grandson of full -blooded
Cherokee chieftain, second cousin of
Will Rogers. When Mayes, senior,
predestined his son for a medical
career, Rogers, believing in the boys
talent, advised that he be allowed to
specialize in music. At the age of 8,
young Mayes appeared as soloist
with the st. Louis orchestra under
Rudolph CAM.
Mr.. Lifshey, noted for the beauty
of his viola tone, will have also a
prominent part. Before his gradu-
alton from the Cooper Institute in
dentistry and civil engineering, the
viola had been his avocation. After
having been offered a post of solo
violist with the New York Symphony
under Walter Damrosch he decided
to make music hts profession and
joined the Philadelphia Orchestra
in 1928.
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Sorin at Gallery

Samuel Sorin. pianist, will make
his local debut in the National Gal
lery of Art tonight at o'clock.
Among others he will give a pre-
miere to Albert Spalding's PAS
torale and Clique" and a first local
performance to Robert Wards
"Lamentation" and Richard Franko
Goldman's "Etude on White Keys
A native of Detroit, Mr.. Sorin is
winner of the Schubert Memorial
Award (now taken over by the
Rachmaninoff Memorial Associa-
tom and of the National Fedora
tion of Music Clubs Contest. Prior
to his enlisting in the Army during
the war, the young pianist made
two extensive tours of the United
States and played as soloist with
several orchestras, among these
with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Here Thursday

Miklos Gafni, Hungarian tenor,
who made sensation in his New
York debut in Town Hall, will give
a song recital in Constitution Hall
Thursday at $3.50 pm. Otto Herr
will be the accompanist. The sing
er's program will include several
Hungarian folksongs, and a famous
aria from Tschaikowsky's "Eugen
Onegin,' taught to him in Russian
by fellow. prisoner, while both
were in Nazi concentration camp
in Silesia.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Art
and
Artists
BY Florence S. Berrymon

OF all the spatial arts, the archi-
lecture of any given period and place
tells us most about the people who
created 1t. We learn from the early
architecture of our Southern States,
for instance, that those who occupied
it knew how to live graciously and
grandly, and had an instructive
sense of beauty.
This impression is only one facet
of the superb exhibition of Frances
Benjamin Johnstons photographs
of early architecture of the South,
which opened at the Library of
Congress the first of this month, to
remain through November. This
Washington artist has had a career
in photography extending over half
century; but it is only in the last
two decades that she has devoted
herself to making a record of the
early architecture of the middle and
deep South.
Yet in this comparatively short
time she has probably contributed
more than any other single person to
making such record. 1t now in
cludes nany thousands of negatives,
which are on deposit in the Library
of Congress, and will eventually be-
come part of its collections. The
fact that scores of fine buildings
have been destroyed since she re-
corded them demonstrates how nee
essary and valuable her work has
beenS and how timely.
Administrations in Review
She obtained her training in art
studios in Paris and at the Art
Students League of Washington,
which later merged with the Cor
coran Gallery of Art She was
pioneer in photographing personages
and events during five administra-
tions (Harrison to Taft. These rec
ords are part of the Americana COL
lections in the Huntington Library,
San Marino, Calf.
Miss Johnston's career was chan
neled into architectural photog-
raphy by a commission from John
M. Carrere, the architect, in 1909.
The distinction with which she car
ried 1t out brought her as clients
such eminent architects as Bertram
G. Go5dhue, Charles F. McKim, Paul
Cret, Charles A. Platt, John Russell
Pope and Grant La Fargo, names
which ought to be familiar to Wash
ingtonians since most of them are
represented by outstanding public
hIIi1Iip0c hnrn T,, &ho
she photographed the fabulous
homes of several American million
aires.
A commission in 1926 from Mrs.
Daniel Davore, to photograph Chat
ham near Fredericksburg, brought
Miss Johnston face to face with what
she recognized as worthy of being
her life work. A further assign
ment to survey the early buildings
of Fredericksburg and Falmouth
(many of which have since been de-
stroyed resulted in work of such in
terest that an exhibition of it was
held at the Library of Congress. 1t at
tracted the attention of the Car
negie Corp. of New York, with
whose support Miss Johnston was
enabled to extend her survey into
several Southern States. Under these
grants she worked from 1888 to 1941
in Maryland, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana
Full Range of Career
The present exhibition is largely
devoted to the fruits of these later
surveys but it also extends over the
full range of her record of early
architecture. There are several hun
dred prints on view in the large
south exhibition gallery of the Lii
Evening star., 1947-10-19
TODAY.

TO-DAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Or. Hans Kinder. conductQr: Astrid
poonase oR Hs Letter fno@ Tsshal
kowsky's Eugene onesin"; Tschai;3.
'.song Of the Rhine Daughters"
"Goetterdaemerung"; Forest MUIR
murs," from Wagner's ''Siegfried.
SAMUEL sORIN. piano recital, Ma
an tiona GALLERY hne.y fsds of Art Pm Ga Bach isnnn
Maicr. Maze lsf0 < 57e"; 01se chopins % Sonata.
,rs Minor 4 nd op 5s" sPnsldnsSS ag "PaS PaS
sarian Rhythm Merry Andrew"
Fly. estimate from Bartok's
.Mikrokosmos": Wards "Lamsnta-
Keys," Key. Sis" Griffes' The D Fountain mi f Of
the Acaua Paola,' strauss-Tausins
Man Lives But Once waltz.
TOMORROW.
ABBA BoGTN, GTap,i piano n recital. Phillips
PW assry Choral sa9 preuge g% Rsea seethonen
Schubert's Sonata, A Minor, Op.
l43": Chopin's "Impromptu, : Sharp
Minor, Op 36'; two ,Mazurkas
"Ballade, F Minor. Op. 52"; Brahms
"IntermeZzo. E Major, Op. 116, No.
e.; Debussy's Pour lie Piano"
TUESDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME SYMPHONETTE.
Franklin B. Charles. leader: stan
ley Hall. $50 pm. Losey.s
Far West" Herbert's Air de
Ballet" selection from Rodgers
"Carousel." Fain's Let Smile Be
Your Umbrella" .Arnhein,s Man
dalay," 'Waltzes." from Romberg's
Blossom Time: Morse's up the
Street"
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Eugene
Ormandy, conductor; Constitution
Hall, $40 pm. Bach's Toccata-
and Fugue in D Minor" Brahms
t'Symphony No. 81 Strauss Don
Quixote.'
WEDNESDAY.
WADE N. STEPHENS, organ recital,
LID. S. Chapel, pm.
THURSDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME SYMPHoNETTE,
Franklin B. Charles. leader; Stanley
Hall, $50 pm. Sousa's ~. s. Field
Artillery March, overture from
Auber's THE Bronze Horse" Donald
son's The Dark Madonna" ''Kinky
Evening star., 1947-10-19
News About STAMPS
BY james Waldo Fowcett

course at the University of Toronto
for Jack Wright, a war veteran.
Hill F. Best, writing in the Society
OF Philatelic Americans Journal for
October, says that the oldest United
States letter box Of which he knows
is on exhibition in thes Smithsonian
Institution.
A. August Tiger, David Lidman,
Franklin r. Bruins, jr., and Dexter
Lee are starting new philatelic
magazine for dealers in stamps.
Philatelic visitors in Washington
last week included Mr.. and Mrs
Maurice Moore of Lynchburg, Va,
and William G. Ehrmann of Ridge
field Park, N. J.
Stamps Magazine, edited and
published by Harry l.. Linduuist.
has passed its 18th birthday.
Mrs. H. L. Abend of Wimborme
Alberta, Canada. has suggested a
world philatelic congress in the in
terest of international friendship
between stamp collectors, especially
students devoted to scholarly re-
search concerning stamps.
The Society of Philatelic Ameri-
cans has published an authoritative
pamphlet on United States telegraph
issues by Joseph S. and Stephen G,
Rich.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV, Tuesday evening at 8.
Charles H. Vaughan will display
his collection of British official
stamps at a meeting of the Wash
ington Philatelic Society, Sheraton
Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets NV,
Wednesday evening at 8. Public in
vited.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Programs Of the Week

gddisr Kids Parsds @ sor,ssl selection from cole
6Yasas eDssas r5ssienstte Pansins WIfsH
Kieffer, xylophonee, soloist; Ziehrer's
Winning Fight"
MIKLOS GAFNI, tenor, song recital:
Constitution Hall. $50, pm. stra-
Ndel milo dolce ardor," Una furtiva
las1ims asn1s from anxPE Ppnizetts It's LEIisir nad
fosstys k@aa 9eel,s sF1m Mssds Tssaal
LsmsntS Isn}sI,s,. q Fsderice; r irom !cilsa.s
"Elindultam, Aitai Mennek": Hu-
bays "Rozsabokor a Domboldalon.
MasGnseyS asrsehs unt TS Ny Gios MGthsF serfa san
Leoncavallo's "Mattinata."
JOHN YARD. baritone, song recital
Arts clpb. $50 p;ms Beethoyen,s
Asber Aa az Nsch hffne Gslssee Brssms ME
..Wir Wandelten." Erich Woif's
ssshoeneT sS, Her! Jesun Il Kaun,s aaI Per BE,
papiiions." BARRIERS with Rue nv
HsaFt ssa / R. LfMden" Men. NoraoS Nas,1sf hers
Look Down. Fair Noon; Saccos
Brother VIII. Brother John"
FRIDAY.
CAMBRIDGE .COLLEGIUM MUsICUM,
Howard University. $50 pm. ,Tele-
violin cello. harpsichord: gacf1's
sichord: Handeps "Sonata, A Major"
for yiclin and continue "Preiudium.
Sarabanda. Bourree Nos and 2.
Gigue,' from Bachs Suite. Ma
jor." for cello: Rameau's Concerto.
A Major" for violin. cello. harp
d. G; CHAPTER. SOCIETY FOR THE
PRESERVATION AND ENCOURAGE
MENT OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET
SINGING IN AMERICA, Constitu-
ton Hall. $50
SATURDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHONETTE.
Franklin B. Charles, leader: Stanley
Hall, $40 pm. Losey's Gloria
overture. offenbach's "orpheus":
Alhis Ballroom Chatter" selection
from Kern's Sally" Stults' The
Sweetest Story Ever Told" Robert
T. Clark. trombone soloist: Strauss
Emperor Waltz" Klohrs Heads
WADE N. STEPHENS. organ recital.
LID. 8. Chapel, pm.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
|@&600EES

Abba Begin, winner of the Walter
w. Naumburg Musical Foundation
prize, will give a piano recital in
the Phillips Gallery tomorrow night
at $3.50 pm.
The Washington Choral Society,
Louis A. Potter, director, will pre-
sent Mendelssohn's Elijah" in Con-
stitution Hall November 4. The
soloists will be Ruth Brazil. Phila-
delphia contralto; Anne Mcknight,
New York soprano; Norman Carey,
New York tenor, and Robert Nichol-
son, baritone.
The Chamber Music Guild will
present Harriet Serr, pianist; STAN
ley Weiner, violinist, and Phyllis
Hoyland, soprano, in concert with a
50-piece orchestra directed by
Mishel Piastro in Constitution Hall
November 5. The young musicians
are winners of the 1947 additions
sponsored by the guild. A donation
from the Record and Transcription
Royalty Fund of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians makes possible
the organization of an orchestra.
The Felicia Rybief Music Club,
which has introduced young artists
to this city, announces that concerts
will be given this season in the Arts
Club on November IT, January "a,
February 20, March % and April 26.
The first program will present
Aurora Mauro- -Cottone. New York
pianist. Other artists will be heard
in the clubs headquarters, Dupont
Circle, during the winter.
Leo Podolsky, pianist, of Chicago
played an extensive program for the
Sherwood students OF Ruth Peters
in her residence October 8.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Cambridge Musicum

The Cambridge Collegium Mu-
sicum, an organization consisting
OF violin, cello and harpsichord,
will make its local debut at the
Howard University Friday night at
8:30> o'clock. The ensemble, which
was heard at the Boston Museum
OF Fine Arts, Boston University and
Harvard University, specializes in
programs of compositions by Bach,
Handel and their predecessors.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
in Debut

Giorgio Ciampi. recently of Italy
but now a resident of this city,
made his American debut in a vio-
lin recital in Carnegie Hall. New
York. Tuesday, to be followed by
several appearances in this countrys
Evening star., 1947-10-19

least begun, in Mexico, whence she
recently returned.
Omar CaIrin2lon's six paintings
are in his familiar style, most OF
them nocturnes in oil, with dark
blue tonality, which he has carried
over to his vigorous water color of
a daytime landscape, February
Snow"
The majority of Henry Olson's six
paintings, too, are typical" to those
acquainted with his work. but he
has one new departure tat least,
new to me- in his large oil, white
Peonies.' Good examples of his
fortnight water color painting are
Central Park, New York." and
"Oyster Boats"
Some of the paintings in this
group have been seen before, but
are worth seeing again.
X X X x
United Nations Club
. Paintings Of Mexico by Theodore
Kane are on view at United Nations
Club, in collaboration with tho
Whyte Gallery, through November
i. The majority, oils and water COL
ors, depict landscapes and village
scenes from very personal view
point, with incidental figures. There
are also two paintings in duco o..
board, a medium favored by Sique-
iros. 1t looks heavier chan oil and
it is difficult for the layman to dis
Germ its advantages.
Mrs. Kane was born in Boston.
studied at the New York School of
Fine and Applied Arts, at the Cor
coran School under Richard Lahey
and abroad. She is member of the
Society of Washington Artists and
the Arts Club, with which organiza-
tions she regularly exhibits; also the
Virginia Academy. She has also had
a solo exhibition in New York City.
She devotees some of her time to
teaching and goes to the homes of
"shut-iHs" and others who wish to
study painting but are unable to at
tend studio classes.
X X X \
'Ultramodern' at Library
The Central Public Library is
showing paintings by Beryl Carrot,
newcomer to- Washington since
the war. Her husband, a former
New York neWspaperman, is with
the State Department.
Mrs. CARROT studied art as
schoolgirl in Cleveland, and con-
tinued to attend art classes while
majoring in journalism at North
western University. Moving to New
York, sheepursued career in writ
ing and advertising; but decade
ago, returned to her interest in
art. Since coming to Washington,
she has studied at the Corcoran
School, and is member of the
Artists Cooperative, with which
group she exhibits.
She has about II paintings on
view, in oil, water color and mixed
media. Subjects are varied, includ-
ing landscapes, urban scenes, boats,
flowers and portraits and animal
studies. She is reported to feel
that mass and color are more i'm
portant in modern art than draw
ing, which report appears to be
confirmed by the current exhibi-
ton. ALI the works look as if they
had been executed with great ra-
pidity, in strong colors. The show
will remain through October 81.
X X
New Gallery Bulletin
The Corcoran Gallery Of Art has
inaugurated this month, its Bulle-
tin, the first issue of which has
been mailed free to all members
of the gallery's association, and
70
Evening star., 1947-10-19
New Gallery Bulletin

The Corcoran Gallery Of Art has
inaugurated this month, its Bulle-
tin, the first issue of which has
been mailed free to all members
of the gallery's association, and
is on sale to nonmembers for a
nominal sum.
The leading article, by Eleanor
B. Swenson, associate curator, deals
with two early American portraits
recently acquired by the gallery:
Mrs. Sidney Breese," by John VOL
laston, through the w. A. Clark
Fund, and Woman With a Fan" :"
by j. William Jenneys, through the
Anna E. Clark Fund. Both paint
ings are now on view in the MEM
bers' room. Done in the mid
18th and opening 18th centuries, re-
spectively, these are important
acquisitions.
Evening star., 1947-10-19

brary's Division of Fine Arts. Sup
plementing them are books devoted
to early Southern architecture by
Brooks, Waterman and others
which volumes have been greatly
enriched by her: Photographic illus
trations.
To visit this exhibition is truly 8
treat. There is nothing self-con-
scious in Miss Johnston's photo
graphs There are no worm's-eye
views, no trick angles, no frightening
magnifications. One derives the i'm
preston that this artist was COM
pletely immersed in each subject
and endeavored to make the most
factual and revealing record possible
She succeeded with consummate
artistic ability. Beauty was inherent
in most of her subjects, and she
has made many fine compositions
Connoisseurs of photography will
admire her feeling for textures
Crumbling old bricks, taking plaster
peeling paint, adding variety to
fresher, stronger materials, and to
luxuriant foliage, picturesque gray
moss and other features of Southern
town and country.
She is also applauded by ex-
perts for her unusual understand
ing of the fine and valuable in
early architecture Because of her
indefatigable coverage of large areas
in search of early buildings, she
discovered many previously unre-
corded. In North Carolina, for in
stance, where scarcely a dozen his
toric houses had been recognized
she compiled lists of more than
200 early buildings. Elsewhere she
found hundreds of fine small build
ings which had been long ignored.
In every respect, the exhibition is
of permanent interest and value.
Sextet of Members
Six members of the Arts Club
have lent about 40 works which
make a varied and pleasing group
show in all the clubs exhibition
galleries, to remain through Octo-
ber 81.
Capt. Charles Bittinger is. repre-
Sented with his atomic bomb paint
ing of the mushroom cloud, which
depicts the scene as more vividly
colored than most of us would have
imagined. Two earlier paintings by
him, an interior at Arlington, and
his beautiful 18th century house in
Duxbury, are examples of the sound
conservative painting with which he
made his reputation.
Clara Saunders has the best group
I have seen by her in some time
Her eight works include a number
of portraits zone of couple done
in colored chalks, broad and i'm
pressionistic, yet distinctively indi-
vidual. She also shsws several still
life and flower arrangements in oil
fresh and colorful.
Gladys Milligan likewise shows
eight works, divided between por-
traits in oil and water colors of New
England harbor scenes, of which ]
like best Fishing Boat, Nantucket"
and one pleasing still life in quiet,
grayed colors.
Theodore Kane has been partieu-
larly industrious, to judge from the
fact that she has loaned eight recent
oils to the Arts Club, while her solo
exhibition at United Nations Club
comprises 20, all painted, or at
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Concealed in the back of an old
picture that had been rescued from
an ashpile, an imperforate sheet
of Canadian imperial jubilee stamps
of 1898 is being divided and sold
to help pay for a civil engineering
Evening star., 1947-10-19

uary 5. A photograph of the model
was distributed to the press on
Tuesday. AS reproduced herewith.
it shows a portrait of DR.. Carver
with chemical symbols and a rib
bon bearing his name.
Evening star., 1947-10-19

Postmaster General Robert E.
Hannegan has approved Sc stamp
"honoring the Everglades National
Park" in Florida. The new issue
probably will be released December
d
Evening star., 1947-10-19

Leo Podolsky, pianist, of Chicago
played an extensive program for the
Sherwood students of Ruth Peters
in her residence October 8.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Dec. 6-George Ber-
nard Shaw j. c"mpaig:: ng for "ltd-
uidation" CT every criminal who
cannot tc / ormtu into a useful,
law-abiding citizen.
The 91-year-old playwright. en-
tering nationwide debate on
whether Britain should quit hang
ing murderers. said in letter to the
London Times:
The public right and power of
civilized states to kill the unprofit-
able or incorrigibly mischievous in
self defense can never be abrogated
"A vitriol thrower should be got
rid of as ruthlessly as cobra or a
mad dog.
Man who lives by promising to
marry women and deserting them
as soon as he has spent all their
money is a social weed to be up
rooted no less than If he drowned
them in their baths.
Dangerous insanity, instead of
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Regional Trade B|ocs
Considered at Havana
Economic Session
BY the Associated Press

( HAVANA. Dec. 6.--Moves to divide
the world into tight regional eco
nomic blocks which could govern
business and commerce we're out
lined today at the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Employ
ment.
Blocs taking shape or considered
included:
The Middle East-To include
everything from Pakistan to Greece
except the newly partitioned Jewish
state.
Eastern Possibly embrac-
ing Russia as we'll AS her neighbors
I Scandinavia-Along lines already
| formed.
/ France and Italy.
1 Argentina, Chile and nearby ma.
tions.
Central America.
And the northern tier of nations
in South America.
Preferential Trading.
Nine nations proposed that the
Middle East be allowed to set up a
proposed preferential trading system
exempted from regulation by the
projected International Trade
Organization. They were: Afghan
istan, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq,
Lebanon, Syria, Trans-Jordan and
Turkey. Pakistan reserved the
right to join later.
Czechoslovakia asked that ANY
economically similar region" be
permitted to do the same.
Her delegate. DR.. Zdenek Augen-
thaler, said she had once favored
the proposal backed strongly by the
United States, that the ITO enforce
a universal mostfavored nation
system of trading. But now that 35
nations are on record as wanting
exceptions for Observation-Disclosures
the United States in It's preferential
trading with Cuba-the Czechs felt
that the privilege should be extended
to all
Observers noted that such prop
ositlon would open the way for the
Eastern European nations, not in
the Marshall plan, to set up close
economic ties with Russia and each
other and still stay in the ITO.
Cuba Defends Rights.
Chine and Argentina favor the
latters proposal permitting ANY
group of complementary economies"
setting up preferential systems to
the exclusion of nations outside their
region.
The debate arose during discus
sion of Peru's attempt to strike from
the charter draft a provision sane
tioning the preferential treaties be-
tween Cuba and the United States.
Cuba stoutly defended her rights to
special treatment from the United
States, in reply to attacks by Haiti,
Dominican Republic, Peru, Costa
Rica and Chile.
The Philippines entered the de-
bate to say that Philippine sugar in
dutry had been sabotage in the 30s
by the United States sugar quota
laws.
Mai Abdon Lorrente Philippine
delegate, said the islands had
planned a 5,OOoOOO-ton sugar pro-
duction in 1888 but had been re-
stricted to $4,000 tons by United
States quota laws. He said the ITO
charter should start with the present
status of trade and build from there.
The annual United States death
rate from tuberculosis has been re-
duced from 100 to IS per 100000 in
the past 20 years.