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Evening star., 1948-10-03
Helen Traubel Sings
At Opening Concert
Here October "a

Helen Traubel will sing at the
opening concert of the Sunday
series of the National Symphony
Orchestra as guest soloist, october
"a. The Americana born and entire
ly American-trained soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera will present an
aria from Gluck's "Alceste" and
"Liebestod" from Wagner's Tristan
and Isolde" She was the first
American singer to do the roles OF
Isolde and Brunnhilde. at the Met. "
The concert will be conducted by
DR.. Hans Kinder and will take
place in Constitution Hall at 4 pm.
In addition to Miss Traubel, two
pianists have been engaged for this
series; Eugene Istomin, winner Of
the Leventritt award, and Marjorie
Mitchell of Charlottesville, Va. The
23-year-old Istomin will play Cho-
pins "F Minor Concerto" and Miss
Mitchell Busoni's Indian Fantasy"
A graduate of the Juilliard School
of Music on a Fellowship, Miss
Mitchell toured many foreign coun-
tries and the United. States during
the war under the auspices of the
USO Concert Division.
Among orchestral novelties sched-
uled is Harold in Italy" by Ber-
lioz. The work calls for viola
soloist and the part has been en-
trusted to Norman Lamb first vio-
list of the orchestra Mr.. Lamb was
with the organization last year.
During the summer he acted as as
sistant conductor at the Brevard
Festival, North Carolina.
In preparation for the opening
concert of the Wednesday series
Dr.. Kinder conducting with Fritz
Kreisler as soloist, the musicians will
get together for the first time to-
morrow, after a recess of several
months. The rehearsal, ten days
prior to the gala program Thursday,
October IA, will be at 3 pm. in
Cledenin Gymnasium OF the Ameri-
can University.
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Teachers to Hold
Business Meeting

The washington Music Teachers
Association will hold its first ouSl-
ness meeting of the season Sunday
october 10. at the Women's City
Club at $3.50 pm. The officers 1or
1859 are DR.. E0Win N. c. Barnes
president: Eta Scl2mid Wells, first
vice president; Anne Ye9o Nc
Guffey, second vice president; Flora
At!,in, recordiil" secretary: MRS
Leon F. Truesdell, corresponding
secretary; Pauline Holer, acting
treasurer. Tea will be served aitei
the business meeting in honor OF
new members of the association.
New active members are: Cecilia
Mahoney, Mrs. Franklin Dressed
Mne. Julia Elbogen, Zita McBrlde
and George Steiner Susan Oliver
and Mrs. L. w. Peterson are new
associate members.
On October 25, the association will
he'd a luncheon. Richard Bales
conductor of the National Gallery
Orchestra, and Charles Dana Bea-
schler, minister of mu5ic, New YoTh
Avenue Presbyterian Church, will be
the speakers.
The calendar for the season is as
follows: November %, vocal program
Genevieve Rystrom, contralto, Dor
othy Radde Emery. pianist; January
81, DR.. Leonard Elstad, president
Columbia Institution for the Deaf
speaker; February %. sonata reciJa
by George Wargo, violist; Emerson
Meyers, pianist; March %, Lewis
Lane, music consultant, NBC, New
York, speaker; April 25, dinner
forum DR.. E. N. c. Barnes, mod
orator.
All program meetings will take
place at the Willard Hotel at l.
noon. The dinner forum will bt
held at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1948-10-03

MISSION 1Or nlmSelI ana MS assist
ants to accompany the armies. Zeal
Gus in their work, often regardless OF
danger and at all times handicapped
by the vexing difficulties Of the pho
tographic processes Of that day,
these men carried their cameras to
every scene that promised an in
teresting picture. More than $500
photographs are said to have been
taken-many of them scenes of
actual conflict, others of places
devastated by gunf1re, of troops on
the march or in bivouac and Of
individual officers and men.
He continued as photographer
in Washington until he was ad-
vanced in age, but never regained
the prestige of his earlier days.
He spent his declining years, af-
flicted with rheumatism and failing
eyesight, in comparative poverty.
In 1895 in Washington he was run
| ever by a vehicle, and for months
thereafter was confined to his bed
Brady was married about 1860
to Julia Handy of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, who died May
%, 1887. He was of slight build with
trim and square -shouldered figure,
ABOUT feet S in height, with a face
expressive of refinement and intelli-
gence. All pictures of him present
him with a mustache and pointed
beard. and those of Civil War times
show him wearing a -brimmed
t fat nat like that of a Paris art
student" and linen duster.
In the files of The Star the death
of Mr.. Brady. which occurred in
New York on January Is, 1896 was
reported in the following article,
found under date of January 18:
| IN. B. Brady, the well-known
photographer, is dead. For many
years he was a fimiliar figure about
Washington, and the news of his
passing away will be received with
sincere sorrow by hundreds who
have known him during his long
and evertful career.
| Mr.. Brady was native of New
York, where he died Thursday. hav-
Ing gone there to live few months
ago. A little over year ago he was
run over one day while crossing
the street and for months he
lav in the hospital lowering between
life and death. When finally he
recovered he was only able to go
ABOUT on crutches and existence
as about burden to him.
"He began life as a photographer
in New YORK. far back is the days
T'fan da9uerreotypes were in vogue,
and soon became known as an ex-
cellent workman He saw the value
of his occupation as an adjunct to
the historic description of contem-
porary times and characters. To
Brady is due the accurate por-
traiture of scores of men of great
historic prominence in the first
half of the century, as we'll as of
hundreds who have been active in
the affairs of the war period and
sjrce He made daguerreotypes Of
Webster, Calhoun, Clay, John
Quincy Adams, Sam Houston and
many other men famous in their
day. Coming to Washington in the
early SOS, Mr.. Brady soon became
leading photographer, and in a
few years his name was a house
hold word all over the United
States. ="
The monument to Louis Jacques
Mande Daguerre, discoverer of
daguerreotype photography, is now
in the Smithsonian grounds. 1t was
unveiled in the National Museum
| August IS. 1890
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Public Library
EASTERN SHORE.
By Soroh L. Wilson

Reference Librarian, Southeast Branch.
Wide blue waters and placid estu-
aries, sudden thunderstorms, crabs
and croakers, historic houses dating
from the early settlements in Mary
land, and quaint hidden cottages
give to the Eastern Shore a quiet
charm that attracts the historian.
the yachtsman and the fisherman.
Paul Wilstach's "Tidewater Mary
land" is an old favorite, which still
is basic for those interested in the
old houses of this region. 1t is
illustrated with many fine photo
graphs. Hulburt Footner has pub.
lished two readable books on the
Eastern Shore, Rivers of the East
ern Shore" Rivers of America
series and Maryland Main and
the Eastern Shore" They are casual
and charming and include many
anecdotes about the early history
and families of the region. "Chesa-
peake Cruise" edited by Norman
Hill, should appeal to the boat own
er. There is an interesting study OF
the geology of the region published
by the Geological Survey, "Chesa-
peake Bay Region by L. w. Steph.
enSOn
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Tour Concluded

Lillian Evanti. resident operate
soprano, who earned her reputation
abroad and in Latin American coun-
tries. has returned from an extensive
concert tour which included colleges
in North Carolina. Texas and ap-
pearances in Mexico.
While en- tour. Nine Evanti was
guest of honor at the Pan-Amcrican
Round Table Club. the Union Fein-
ina Ibero-Americana, and at the
Pro- -Musica Club in Lomas Chapul-
tepec. also she witnessed bullA
fight held in memory of the famous
Manolete Six years ago Nine.
Evanti's "Himno Pan-Americano"
was sung at the Palacio de Bellas
Artes in Mexico by 1000 voices. This
song has been published and trans
lated into Spanish and Portuguese.
France gave Nine. Evanti her first
opportunity to realize her ambition
to sing opera She made her debut
in "Lakme" in Nice, and sang in
Monte Carlo, Mention, Montpelier,
Mines, Toulon and Paris during her
three years sojourn in that country.
Later the singer appeared innumer-
able times in many opera houses Of
Italy. A graduate Of the Howard
University, Nine Evanti studied
vocal in Paris, Milan and Munich.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Schaefer Soloist
At Mozart Festival

Peter Schaeffer, pianist, will be
the soloist at the second orchestral
concert of the current Mozart Festi-
val in the Gallery of Art tonight
at s o'clock. He is a pupil OF Victor
Wittgenstein, the famous artist who
lost his right arm in World War I.
The young virtuoso is a native
of Breslau and still in his teens.
With the rise of Nazii-m his family
moved to Sweden and then came to
this country after the outbreak CT
ths recent world condiG ? Nh
Schaeffer will play Mozart's Con;
certo No. g." still unfamiliar ana
one which, as far as it Is known,
had been heard in the United States
only once over the radio some seven
years ago, performed by Clarence
Adler,
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Reading and Writing
|Woshington's International Best Seller
Still Cannot Meet Worldwide Demand

Americas favorite cribside read
ing is Infant Care" handy little
booklet issued by the Childrens Bu-
reau Of the Federal Security Agency,
which has gone into the trembling
hands of some 22,500, 900 new moth
ers since its first appearance in 1914
with q modest printing of 10000
copies.
This "Gone With the Wind" of
Government publications, which has
seen 1T printings and eight COM
plete revisions, has had an interest
ing history among best sellers. Not
only has 1t drawn fan mail from
the four corners Of the globe, in
cluding q heartfelt thank-you in
dited in a Chinese dialect unintel-
ligible to the State Department, but
it has reflected a full circle In the
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Brailowsky Fills
Cancelled Date

Word has been received from
South America that the famous
pianist, Guiomar Novaes, who was
to appear on Patrick Hayes piano
series of concerts on February IA
has Cancelled her American tour
because of Ill health. The artist
suffered a nervous breakdown this
summer and was ordered by her
physician to take complete rest
for a year Alexander Brailowsky
has been engaged to take her place
and will appear on January IT.
Tickets sold for Nine Novaes' re-
Ecitaf will be honorcd nn that date
Mr.. Hayes piafo stries VIII cpe4l
MONDAY night, Novsnber ~ vftl'
Ia recital by Rudolf Serkin. The
third artist on this series is Artur
Schnabel, appearing on March IA.
First of the two orchestral con-
certs under the same management
will take place Wednesday, Decem-
Der /. when the Orchestre National
of France will make its first ap-
pearance in Washington. The con-
cert by the Philharmonic Orchestra
of New York, with Bruno Walter
conducting, will take place on
May l.
Three more attractions have been
scheduled: February 7. RCA-Victor
Radio Show with Robert Merrill
baritone. March l, Bu-l Ives in an
evening Of folk songs. and the Rob
ert Shaw Chorale Of 80 voices on
April 10.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D. C..
SUNDAY, OCTOBER ), 194s
Professors Brochure on Music
Issued by Library of Congress
By Alice Eversmon

pal criteria of musical value; and
that, extrinsic. heteronomous mean
ings are indirect and secondary
and can afford only subordinate
criteria OF musical value. In
trinsic musical meanings tend to
be the center of attention in the
highest type of composition, per-
formance and listening. Extrinsic
musical meanings tend to be in the
background of attention in the
highest type Of composition, per-
formance and listening"
Both of these sides of the COM
munication of the meaning of music
should be understood by the inter-
prefer as part Of the foundation OF
his art. Yet, in the final analysis,
it will be his own personal approach
that will convey something con-
crete to the listener. While for the
student of music as an art form and
for composers as a medium of per-
sonal expression, these angles are
of absorbing interest. the laymar
demands nothing more than that
music shall radiate spiritual force
that he can comprehend and assim-
ilate.
Depends on Mentality.
1t is much easier to grasp the
theories of the musical art from its
scientific relationship than to un-
derstand the intangible. evahescent
qualities that make 1t line Of COM
munication between performer and
listener These are so dependent on
the mentality and the inner devel-
opment of the interpreter that no
rules and regulations can be set
down. They are a growth of deep
living and of spiritual vision. AL
though the individual listeners re-
sponse will be in proportion to a
like development within himself,
nevertheless so great is that rare
power of music that often an emo
tional reaction will grip one who
has hardened himself to such a
possibility.
That the full meaning of music
Sdll CFCl NC SAdoEN0 10 oo0oeA ui
Whether from its emotional or SCI
entiflc side, the explanations will be
divergent and almost always directed
from the personal viewpoint. The
very essence of music makes cold
blooded appraisal of it impossible.
In whatever phase and of whatever
value, it will assume a particular
Importance to somebody. 1t will be
dissected from the intellectual stand
point and be given expression from
the purely emotional angle. The
acid test Of any rational explana-
ton of musical meaning" says Mr..
Havdon, lis to play the passage in
question and see if the intellectual
analysis checks with the felt quality -
Evening star., 1948-10-03
English Opening.
Budapest Quartet

The Gertrude Clarke WhittalI
Foundation in the Library of Con-
gress will open the current season
with a concert by the Budapes,
String Quartet on Friday at 8:3t
pm. The group will be assisted by
Carlton Cooley, viola, and Benal
Heifetz, cello. The ensemble will
present one string quintet and two
sextets. During the summer the
Budapest players gave long series
of concerts at the University OF
Minnesota.
Tickets for the concert will be
distributed by the Snow Concert
Bureau. at 1l00 G street NV. be-
gining tomorrow at $50 am. Tele-
phone reservations will be accepted
Shows Concert Bureau is taking
over the service which was offered
heretofore by the Cappel Concert
Bureau for eleven years.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
DAV Activities
Meetings of the week are:

Meetings of the week are:
Federal Chapter, Monday.
National Capital Chapter, Friday
National Service No. 9 Auxiliary
Wednesday.
All of these meetings will be held
at 1701 Eighteenth street NV at
8 pm.
Department Comdr. William T
Slattery announced that all DAV
chapters and their auxiliaries in the
District will participate in National
Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week. october 3-8. All unemployed
disabled veterans In the District of
Columbia are urged to contact
Oscar G. Jones. department en-
ployment chairman, or his CO.
chairman, John ST. Petrie.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Recitals to be Based
On Very Old Works

The Institute of Contemporary
Arts. 1922 New York Avenue NV.
announces a series of recitals and
chamber concerts in which the
selections will be drawn almost ex-
sclusiyely from seldom performed
tw0tls. To ~ Esssf,
IA HMQ concerts will be devoted to
music of the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance and four piano recitals
will be built around Bachs WELL
tempered Clavier" which will be
played in its entirety. The violin
will be featured in sonatas Of the
baroque and roccoco periods and In
modern works by Ives, COPELAND,
Milhaud, Debussy and Bartok. Vo-
cal programs will include cycles Of
modern songs, secular and religious
music OF the 18th and 18th cen
tulies.
The artists, all members of the
teaching staff of the Institute. will
be Harry Mcclure, pianist, Herbert
Sokclove, violinlst and Mary Alyce
Bennett, contralto. The programs
will be given on alternate Tuesday
evenings and are exJra-curricular
functions Of the school Admission
to the series is by subscription but
separate concerts are available to
members of the Institute
The vocal recitals by Miss Ben
nett are scheduled for October 12.
December Z, February 8 and April
5; the sonata programs by Mr..
Sokolove on October 26, January 18,
February %, and May g. Mr.. Nc
Clure will present his piano recitals
on November %, January 4, March
% and April 10 while medieval and
renaissance music for voice and in
struments will be given on Novem-
her and March 8. The series will
conclude by chamber music pro-
gram featuring trios by Haydn,
Harris and Bartok.
Evening star., 1948-10-03

here has been a growing tend
efiey the past years to penetrate and
tesput on a clear. comprehensive
basis the meaning of music. The
search is not new, for 1t has in
tr1gued musicians for ages, but
under the influence of the practical
attitude toward everything of the
present day, the desire Is to have
the Elusive subject captured fully
and set down in what is hoped a
final analysis. The lecture "On the
Meaning of Music" given by Glen
Hayden, professor of music, Univer-
sity of North Carolina, in the Lii
b.ary of Congress last November,
has been issued recently in brochure
form by the Library and copies may
be obtained free by application to
of5ce of the Library.
,kr. Eaydon's lecture was given
under the auspices of the Louis
Charles Elson Memorial Fund. Es-
tablished in 1945 through bequest
from the late Bertha L. Elson, with
the purpose of providing lectures on
music and musical literature in
memory of her husband, it has taken
Its place as one of the important
activities of the Library's Music Di-
vision. Mr.. Elson's influence on
American musical life was profound
In the various fields of teaching,
lecturing, newspaper work and as a
foreign musical correspondent and
author of many books on music.
Since its inception, the Elson Memo
rial Fund has brought several out
standing musical authorities for
talks, off the beaten track. Their
views and ideas will now be made
available to the general public
through the pamphlets to be pub
lishe6 by the fund.
4 Haydon's Theory.
sIn a brief summary of Mr. Hay
6n's idea he states that, in music,
Informative communication is
almost entirely precluded by the ab-
ssnce of convential meanings" if
in all art, the question is posed
What is it that is communicated"
then What is the meaning of mu-
sic?" is synonymous with What is
communicated in music?" That
music has a meaning in this sense.
he says, lis generally agreed; but
opinions differ greatly as to just
what this meaning is" He there
fore goes on to explain the "Autono-
NOUS versus the "Heteronomcus''
viewpoint. concluding with partial
reconciliation of the two.
The truth of the situation is to
be found in a partial reconciliation
Of the two extreme viewpoints on
the basis that intrinsic. autono-
nous musical meanings are direct
and primary and afford the princl-
Evening star., 1948-10-03
I8Bzz22Hz@&z@ {

Lyman McCrary. organist at First
Church of Christ, Scientist, will
give an organ recital this afternoon
at Sis at the Washington Cathe-
dral. This will be the regular
monthly event of the fathedral's
program.
The Phillips Gallery will resume
It's concerts for the season today at
5 pm. with a recital by Rohini
Ccon2era, cellist, and Lionel Nowak,
pianist.
Rognvaldur Sigurjonsson, Ice
landic pianist. will be heard in re-
cital tomorrow night at ESQ.
The Friday Morning Music Club
will hold additions for active nm
bership on October IS at l0:30 am.
in Barker Hall. Vera Ross is in
charge The Board of Governors
meeting and luncheon are sched-
uled for Friday, October II. at noon,
at the Brook Farm Tea House; the
fall business meeting and active
members luncheon for October 20,
II am, at the YWCA. Details are
available from Kathryn Rawls,
president.
The October meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of the
American Guild of Organists will be
held tomorrow at 8 pm. in the CAL
vary Methodist Church, 1853 Colum-
bia road NV. Robert Shone will
give a short program following the
meeting which will include compo-
sitions by Bach, Walton, Messiaen,
Wagenaar and Sowerby.
The Lovette Choral Club will begin
its 22nd season tomorrow with re-
hearsals at the Thomson School,
18th and L streets NV, at 7:45
pm. Additions for women's voices,
to fill present vacancies, will take
place at 7:30 pm. Eva Whitford
Lovette is director of the club,
Francis Bass Wilson, assistant di-
rector, and Jessie r. Blaine, presi-
dent.
Lillian Harmon Burke has re-
opened her piano studio at 5004
Fifth street NV. Special atten-
ton is given to teen-agers. Mrs
Burke has studied privately for the
past four summers with Ernest
Hutcheson and James Friskin.
! Joyce Elaine Anes will be pre-
sented in a piano recital by Francis
Garzia in the Arts Club on Friday
at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Matthew Brady, Photographer
By John CIoqett Proctor

One of the early residents whom
the writer once contacted for in
formation about the island" was
Levin c. Handy, an early Washing
ton photographer, who was born
in Southwest Washington August
10. 1845, at No. 494 Maryland ave-
nhe, where he also conducted his
business until his death a decade
or more ago.
This neighborhood, according to
Mr.. Handy, was one of the most
picturesque and select parts OF
Washington. When the write,
asked him who were his early
neighbors in the block on the south
side Of Maryland avenue, between
Fourth and Sixth streets, starting
from Fourth street, he mentioned
the following families: John G
Thompson, father of Millard F
Thompson; Peter Pearson, father
Of the well-known printer, Joseph
L. Pearson; jackson Yates, John
Knox Of the express business, whose
house was later occupied by Strauss
the clothier, and at 492, the Ergood
family, and at 494 the Handys. In
the next house west lived family
named Cox; at 498, Henry Lee
pioneer undertaken, established in
1886, and who, 1t is said, invented
the old ice box used by undertakers.
The firm is now the j. William
Lees Sons Co.
At what is now house 500 lived
George E. Noyes Of Gray & Noyes,
founders and machinists, who erect
ed the old standpipe on Meridian
Hill in 1878; next lived Henry Butts,
druggist. The southeast corner of
Sixth and Maryland avenue was
occupied as residence by John r.
Elvans Of the firm of John r. FL
vans & Co.. hardware and carriage
findings. The Elvans house was
later occupied by H. I. Gregory.
On the north side of the block,
also from Fourth to Sixth streets,
lived Charles w. Langley, Charles
and John Davis, painters, and VIII
liam H.. an engraver in the United
States Coast Survey. Then came
the residences of Edwin N. Gray
of Gray & Noyes. and then the
home Of Mr.. McGinnis.
Lincoln's Bodysuard
Close by McGinnis lived Henry
Cook, then came the home of De-
tective William P. Wood, who served
as President Lincoln's personal
bodyguard. The old numbering of
the Wood house was 507 Maryland
avenue, and near neighbors included
a Mr.. Cramer, a painter, and the
druggist, Fenelon D. Bowling. The
Bowling house was earlier the Dor
sey home, DR.. Bowling having mar
ried Miss Dorsey and in this way
became possessed of the property.
The city directory shows that in
1866 Edwin j., Joseph G.. and Will
liam H. Dorsey lived there Capt.
George Wright, connected with the
United States Arsenal at the time of
the execution of the Lincoln con-
spirators, lived in the adjoining
house.
Nearby also resided the Spring.
man family, one of the earliest resi-
dents, and here also lived Fred
erick Luff. as well as the descend
ants of John Imirie, and somewhere
along here also lived William J.
Murtagh, who at one time, with S.
P. Hanscom, published the National
Republican.
AS an aside, the writer asked Mr..
Handy in what way. he was related
to Mr. Brady, the Civil War pho
.tographer, and he said Brady was
his uncle by marriage, having mar
ried Julia. the only sister by the
full blood Of his father, for his
grandfather, Samuel Handy. it
seems. was married four times and
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Mercer of Firms Approved

RICHMOND, Va. Oct. (P).-A
rerger of the Colonial Furniture
Corp. with the Beck Furniture Corp.
both of Fredericksburg, has been
roved by the State Corporation
commission.