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Evening star., 1960-09-11

covered, and its use had be-
come widespread, we would
not have known the look or
the "feel" of the battlefield
had not Raffet followed Ma
poleon's legionS, had not
Winslow Homer sharply de-
fined the men before York
town for Harper'S Magazine
The charms of drawing,
however, are elsewhere. Its
usefulness as a means Of say
ing things which words will
not compass need not be
questioned. But the perma-
nence of the drawn state
ment, its ability to be memo
rable, its compelling charm
or seductive vigor, are else
where.
These gifts of the pen, the
pencil, this eloquence of
charcoal and chalk, this
delicacy of the silverpoint
and this fascination which a
master can inspire by an
expressive line set down with
the caSualness of genius or
the bravado Of sheer skill,
these all have an immediacy
Evening star., 1960-09-11
NEWS OF MUSIC
Light OperoC Company
To Offer Twin Bills

cludes physicians. dentists.
pharmacists, nurses. members
Of allied professions. their
families, and others.
RAA
william Montgomery, nut
list with the United States
Marine Band, is presently
participating In the ninth
International music competi-
ton sponsored by the broad
casting corporations of the
German federal republic.
Mr.. Montgomery. who is in
Munich under orders from
the commandant Of the Ma
rine Corps. is a Curtis gradu-
ate and a Texan. When the
competition closes with musi-
clans of many nations judged
by leading European artists,
he will return to the band.
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Few Washingtonians knew
anything about it, but Con-
stitution Hall has already
had its musical baptism Of
fire this year.
On September 2 the SYM
phony of the Air with Aaron
COPELAND conducting was
heard In an unusually inter-
esting program, highlighted
by a performance of that
extraordinary brief work by
Charles Ives, THE IMAM
swered Question" and a
reading of an orchestral
suite from Mr.. Copland's
opera, "The Tender Land"
Delegates to the Fifth In
ternational Congress on Nu-
triton, then in session, were
on hand for the event.
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Next Sunday. the National
Gallery of Art concerts get
under way, and the 18th year
Of Richard Bales director
ship will be marked by a sup
porting grant from the Ca
louste Gulbenkian Founda-
tion.
This is sort Of q backward
lend-lease affair. as the Gull
benkian Foundation is Euro
pean. I doubt If this state of
things can be matched in
many other American cul-
tural centerS.
SoloiSt will be vioIinist
Carroll Glenn. who did a SEN
sational job with the Strauss
fiddle concerto a few seasons
back. This year. she will be
heard in the Mendelssohn.
with the assistance of Mr..
Bales and the National Gal
lery Orchestra.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
OAS Unit to Study
Hotels, Tourist Trade

The hotel and tourist indus
tries Of the American countries
will be discussed this week at
the third meeting Of the Tech
nical Committee on Travel
Plant of the Inter-American
Trarvel Congresses.
The first session Of this
agency Of the Organization Of
American States will be held at
$50 am. tomorrow at 1776
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Speakers there will include Will
liam Sanders, Assistant Secre-
tary General of OAS; Francis
CO Granizo of Ecuador, and
Bradley Fisk, Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce Of Interna-
tional Affairs.
Representatives from II
American republics will attend
the five-day meeting. These
countries are Argentina, Brazil,
d., Columbia, Cuba, Guatemala,
Honduras. Mexico, Peru. Uru-
quay, Haiti and the United
States.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Luzzutto's First

Francis Luzzatto'S first one
man show at Franz Bader
Gallery, 1705 G street NV.
gives evidence Of his extern
sive art training in Europe
and the United States. Now
only IS, this Washington
artist by adoption began to
study art at the age of IL, in
Italy. his native land. Now,
some IL schools and private
art instructors later, he re-
veals a confident technique
and experimental variety in
abstract composition, in IL
oils and 5 large cray-pas
drawings. He has participated
in group shows here for three
years and has won awards.
Paul Mocsanyi wrote an
appreciation full of breath
less rapture, for the an
nouncement of Luzzatto's
paintings; it is available at
Bader Gallery. Among other
things. MIR. Mocsanyi says
that Luzzatto is (esthetically)
mot concerned about people
and places, objects and events
or any :. variations on such
themes. "The tensions and
relaxations, balances and inn
balances in his paintings have
no other meaning than that
which they perform before
the observers unprejudiced
eyes,"
i. The meaning Mr.. Luzzato's
paintings performed" for this
writer's eyes, is mechanistic.
They look like corners of
boiler rooms, bits Of ma
chinery, the cluttered deck Of
a sailing vessel, an obstacle
race: and two suggested
glimpses of Pullman car in
teriors. The fat color areas
and heavy dark compositional
lines can convey many diff
ferent meanings, even If the
artist himself is a thousand
light years away from any
significance.
Through September "a;
open weekdays, 9 to 6.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Burkert Survey

Robert Burkert, now only
80, who is on the art faculty
of his alma mater, the Univ
ersity of Wisconsin, his native
state, has a one-man show
at the I.F.A. Galleries, 1928
Connecticut avenue NV.
through September "a, which
illustrates his versatility.
More than 80 oil paintings.
drawings in several media,
and serigraphs, range from
naturalism to abstraction.
Among them are some of the
prints which fetched pur-
chase prizes from three
Library of Congress Pennell
shows, and other awards.
His large detailed studies
OF tree stumps are extra
ordinarily convincing: he
finds one of them like a
Gothic cathedral column. OF
outstanding beauty are his
large landscape serigraphs.
partic ularly "FIill" and
"Thicket";; and his little
silverpoint figure drawings
have much delicacy.
Raising of Lazarus" is
most noteworthy among his
oils, although his lively like
ness of the French panto-
mimist Marceau, well known
to Washingtonians, will prob
ably have more appeal. Mr..
Burkert'S "Wall Of Doors"
makes an interesting pattern
out of odds and ends used by
construction workers. His
modern figurative Banjo
Player" appears to be swathed
in bandages; and his Lake
Bather" entangled in threads.
Or1eY1 uveekdavS Q.3C Tn e
Evening star., 1960-09-11
NEWS or MUSIC
BY IRVING LOWENS
Ccntributing Writer

ContributinB writer
Music on the local scene is
still In the lull- -before-the-
storm stage, but there are
plenty of signs that the
coming season win be q big
and beautiful one.
The event Of the forth
coming week is the American
Light Opera Company's pres
entation Wednesday through
Saturday night. with a ma
tinee next Sunday. of q twin
bill in operas, Clan Carlo
Menotti's "Old Maid and
the Thief" and the Burnand
and Sullivan (no. not Gil
bert and Sullivan) "Cox and
Box" pretty close to a gen.
uine novelty.
The operas will be pre-
sented in the TeamSterS
Union Auditorium with the
opening night show q special
benefit for the Bureau Of Re
Mobilization, q Washington
organization which provides
a caSework program for re-
leased prisoners, recruitment
of volunteer sponsors for con-
fined persons. and commu-
nifty education. Note the 8
pm. curtain Wednesday; $3.50
pm. as usual on other nights.
Last years productions Of
the company were very well
received by both public and
critical fraternity.
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Paul Galloway, choirmaster
and organist Of the Washing
ton Cathedral and conductor
Of the Opera Society Of WASH
ington productions will be
soloist with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in Samuel Barber's
new "Toccata Festiva" which
will open the season the
afternoon Of September 80 in
the Philadelphia Academy OF
Music.
The local chapter Of the
American Guild Of OrganistS
has chartered an air-condi-
toned bus to take 81 people
to the concert, with a round
trip fare Of $3.50 per person
and with discounts on seats.
The excursion is not lin
tied to chapter members.
The bus leaves Washington
at 8 am. and returns at IL
pm. Anyone interested may
contact j. r. Rancou1t, 400
Graham court, Falls Church,
Va. No reservations will be
accepted after next Saturday.
To hear what the Phila-
delphia Orchestra under Eu-
gene Ormandy sounds like
before you sign with Mr.. Ran
court, you can hear a full
length concert in stereo, taped
in the Academy of Music,
this afternoon at 2:05 pm.
on radio station WGMS.
SoloiSt will be William Kin
caid, longtime first flutist of
the Philadelphia, in the Mo-
zart G major Flute Concerto,
Also featured is the Men
de1sso hn Reformation"
Symphony.
The Doctors Symphony Or
cheStra, now entering its
seventh year. begins rehears-
ais this Thursday evening at
S:15 pm. in the Perpetual
Building in Bethesda. -.
Musicians interested in
joining the orchestra may
either show up at rehearsals
or contact DR.. James A.
Cannon. jr.. the conductor.
You don't have to be a doc
tor to play-the roster in
Evening star., 1960-09-11
By RICHARD HIRsCH

OlESCbOE hliCuboWh AAb ANA0cC0AA
All over this country Of
ours museums and galleries
are featuring exhibitions Of
drawings Of major artists,
past and present.
The emphasis is a new one.
It represents a progressive
sophistication of the public's
eye, q new curiosity about the
creative process. AS a result
it has encouraged people
with average incomes to buy
original works by artists
whose paintings or sculptures
they could never expect to
own.
The trend is an encourag-
ing one, bringing original art
into the homes, where it will
be lived, with, where it be-
longs. Something of the
sort also happened in the
18th century.
Prior to that, drawings had
not been considered as inde-
pendent works of art to be
appreciated, studied and en-
joyed for themselves alone.
Rage Of Collectors
Suddenly, the drawings of
the great masters became
the rage Of collectors. It all
came from the mood Of the
times. A century earlier the
rigors of the classical, seri-
Gus and noble" style had
followed the excitement of
the Renaissance Age of Dis
covery. Improvising had been
frowned upon.
The 18th century painters
and the tastemakers of the
period changed all that.
Suddenly a new humaneness
"a lively spontaneity-were
discovered" in the drawings
of the masters of the noble"
styles Of a century and more
before.
The drawings gave the on
lockers, they said, the feel of
the FIRST fire of inspiration"
of the master who created
them when he had some
great (and possibly boring)
painting in mind. This sud-
den appreciation of the
spontaneous line. the half
finished study, the jottings
of inspection, is reflected
everywhere in the paintings
which these same connois-
seurs of the 18th century
commissioned from their
painters.
Evening star., 1960-09-11

may enter paintings and
graphics for small fees, to be
taken to Fleisher'S Jewellers
in the Plaza on the Rockville
Pike at $3.50, Saturday. There
will be cash prizes in profess
sional, amateur and chill
dren's classes. Entry tabs
and information can be OBJ
tanned from Mr.. Elliott,
Potomac 2-9564.
The Alexandria branch,
National League Of American
Pen Women, Woodward g.
Lothrop, and the City of
Alexandria, will sponsor the
7th annual harvest are mart
Saturday, September 24,'9 to
4 Tin case Of rain, October u.
Adults and children of the
Metropolitan area are invited
to enter original works at
Woodward & Lothrop, 615
North Washington street. Ad-
ditional information can be
had from Mrs. Juanita Howl
son, 4314 Hardwood lane.
Mclean, Va.
The Montgomery County
Art Association will have its
final fall open art exhibition
Sunday. September Is. 10
to 6 at the Cooperative
Farm Women's Market, 7155
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda.
Paintings may be entered
that day by adults and chill
dren residing with a 50-mile
radius of Montgomery County.
Entry blanks with detailed
information can be had from
public libraries and the Art
Shop in Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Daniel Bell to Speak

Daniel w. Bell, chairman Of
the board of the American Sc
curity & Trust Co. and presi-
dent of the Terminal Commit
tee, Inc, will speak on "The
Proposed Federal City Center"
at q luncheon meeting of the
Washington Building Congress
at 1915 pm. tomorrow in the
Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Record Critic

Star Record Critic
To those who, like Sir
Winston Churchill, subscribe
to the belief that history to
q large extent is determined
by decisive personalities, his
tory books must spell dis
satisfaction. Books can only
go so far: they cannot re-
create the living, breathing,
speaking presence Of men and
women.
It should therefore be with
the greatest gratitude that
the lover of history. even a
most casual one, greetS a
collection of six long -playing
discs, issued by Washington
Records, on which this book
ish handicap is happily over
come. Entitled "F. D. r.
Speaks" the records assemble
33 speeches, full-length or
slightly abridged, delivered
from 1888 to 1945 by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and heard originally through
American radio receivers.
Those who revered RooSe-
velt and those who felt other
wise. must agree on his mas
terry, Singularly impressive,
of the art of communication.
No other American President,
except perhaps Lincoln of
whom we have. of course, only
written records, has so ef-
fectively recruited language
to public use, political and
otherwise. Only Churchill
in our own time has made
his words so much a part of
public consciousness.
Potent UtteranceS
In q sense, this is a re-
Election of inadequacy. That
so few words, and so few of
those speaking them, should
rise above the masses speaks
none too well for either the
powers of human utterance
or those of hearing. But this
does not diminish the Roose-
veltian achievement.
Washington's album, with
the day of infamy" decla-
ration after Pearl Harbor.
the "hand that held the dag
ger" speech Of 1910 against
Mussolini, the 1941 -four
freedoms" address, the "ren-
devious with destiny" call of
1896 and many others. will
sound familiar chords with
veteran listeners and open a
fresh door into history for
others.
The 1umberjacks Of Wis
consin and Michigan, APP
palachian country people and
other sturdy but somewhat
less sophisticated folk have
made their own contributions
to aural Americana and the
Nations spoken history.
The Archive Of Folk Song
of the Library of Congress,
which houses a great hoard
Of priceless folk music and
every now and then-when
funds are in hand-makes
some of it available to the
public, has issued four new
red-plastic discs.
Logging Songs
One is devoted to II songs
of Michigan logging camps, a
splendid, lusty assortment.
Another offers a score OF
songs and dance tunes col
lected in Wisconsin, includ-
ing some played on instru-
Evening star., 1960-09-11
TURNTABLE TALK
Records Revivih
Voice of F. D. R.

ments fashioned from cracker
and cigar boxes and a de-
lightful initiative novelty
called the Pig Schottische."
The other two contain an
other score of traditional bal
lads known to folk-song eX-
perts as Child Ballads"
after the late Francis James
Child, Harvard collector and
editor, and collected in var
ious places ranging from Vir-
ginia to California.
Fred Waring and other
commercial purveyors may
have conditioned many lis
teners to like their folk songs
in different trappings, but
the direct, unaffected ap-
proach in these authentic
recordings increases its lis
tening appeal with rehearing.
AS for singers and scholars,
they should be delighted.
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STEREONWARD
The claims of stereo con-
tinue to press for attention
in forms mostly familiar. A
lavish new Turandot with
Nilsson, Bjoerling, Tozzi and
Tebaldi is at hand from Vic
tor; everything except TIE :
baldi. a rather unsuitable Liu,
is in keeping. Orchestrally
Reiner continues a Victor
Spectacular" series with
Strauss Don Quixote Cin a
handsome Soria package) and
Thus Spake Zarathustra,
less bombastic than 1t used to
sound, as well as Schehera-
zade and parts of Tchaikov-
sky's Nutcracker.
Bruno Walter, on Columbia,
devotes a Wagner disc to mel
low renditions of the prel-
ude and Good Friday SPELL.
Meistersinger and Flying
Dutchman overtures, and a
half disc to the Schumann
piano concerto with Istomin
(Chopin's F minor with Or
mandy is on the back). More
enticing is a Francescatti-
Fournier- Walter rendering Of
the Brahms double concerto,
an admirable work when
played thus. Still more ex-
citing is a new Serkin-Or
mandy reading Of the Brahms
B fiat concerto, galvanized by
Serkin into a magical tor
rent except in the lovely,
lyrical slow movement. And
Isaac Stern collaborateS with
Ormandy in the Brahms vio-
lin concerto in fitting celebra-
tion of his 25th conert sea-
son.
Columbia was on hand
when Stokowski returned to
his old Philadelphia stand.
with glowing versions of
Falla's Ell Amor Brujo and
the conductors own Syn
thesis" of the Tristan love
music as the results. No one
would know 19 years had
gone by.
G6zS fans should be en-
thralled with new London
D'Oyly Carte edition of Pima
fore, complete with spoken
dialogue. Stereo also does
enticing things to a D'Oyly
Carte Pirates eLondon) and
a Sargent-led Gondoliers. +.
Yeomen of the Guard and
Mikado (AngeD, each with a
musically outstanding cast.
Finally, mention should be
made of sparkling Rubinstein
performances Of Chopin
scherzos and ballades on two
Victor discs and a poised
rendering of the B minor
sonata by Rudolph Firkusny
on Capitol with a fluent
Kinderscenen Of Schumann
on the overside). Stereo bene-
Evening star., 1960-09-11
NEW OPENINGS

EXHIBITION BY NEW PAINTER
street NV. This afternoon through
September.
SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS BY
DEAN CARTER The Artists Mart
1861 Wisconsin avenue NV. To-
morrow through October 8.
PAINTINGS BY LOWELL OwsLEY.
Henri Gallery. 113 South Royal
through october z.
WATERCOLORS AND SKETCHES BY
JOSEPH BANNER AND DAVID
MOORE. Dyer Brothers, 1712 N.
Fort Myer drive, Arlington, Va.
Current through September.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Sculpture First

Nancy Dryfoos was rep
resented in the impressive
Jewish Tercentenary exhibi-
ton. at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art five years ago, and her
admirable figure of a woman
was reproduced in these COL
unnS on May 90, 1855. Now
she is having her first solo
exhibition In Washington at
Evening star., 1960-09-11
PROGRAMS
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN LIGHT OPERA COMPANY.
Teamsters Union Auditorium, 8 p IN.
Program: The Old Maid and the
Thief, Menotti; Cox and Box, Sulli-
van. Casts include Alice Dutcher'
MariIyn Taylor Savage, Ards Gavin,
Leslie Quinn. Anthony Thompson
Robert Branded and James Ueber-
horst.
THURSDAY
AMERICAN LIGHT OPERA COMPANY.
Teamsters Union Auditorium, $50
pm. Program: as wednesday night.
FRIDAY
AMERICAN LIGHT OPERA COMPANY;
Teamsters Union Auditorium, $3.50
pm. Program. as Wednesday night
SATURDAY
AMERICAN LIGHT OPERA COMPANY.
Teamsters Union Auditorium, 500
p.m. Program: as Wednesday night.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Area Outdoor Shows

The Rockville Art League
and the Congressional Plaza
Shopping Center Merchants
Association will sponsor an
art show next Saturday the
17th from $3.50 to 9. Resi-
dents within a 50-mile radius
Evening star., 1960-09-11
9th Annual

The Society of Washington
Artists, the Oldest profess
sional artists organization
in the District Of Columbia,
will celebrate its 10th ami
versary with its 67th annual
exhibition, to be inaugurated
next Saturday evening with a
reception for artists and their
guests, in the foyer of the
Natural History Museum,
Tenth street and Constitution
avenue N. w. The show is
open to all artists within q
25-mile radius of Washing
ton.
The Evening Star Award Of
500 for the shows best
painting, Is the annual's ma
jor prize, first given in 1889.
Eight other awards, totaling
$3.50, will be given, as well
as honorable mentions. They
are the Frank r. Jelleff
Award of $50 for the best
sculpture; the society's
awards of $50 and $35 for
second prizes in painting and
sculpture. respectively; and
$25 credit certificates Of
Franz Bader Bookshop and
Gallery, Jules Eboli, George
E. Muth, Urselps Contem-
porary Home Furnishings,
and The Artists Mart.
Jurors for the selection Of
paintings and sculpture and
awards will be Denys P. My
ers, assistant director of the
Baltimore Muse cum, and
Louise Nevelson, well known
New York sculptor, who will
have one man shows at the
Daniel Cardier Gallery,
Paris-Frankfurt, In October.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Sister hood to Meet

The Sisterhood Of the Beth
Torah Congregation, 4601 East
ern avenue, Mount Rainier.
Md, will meet at $3.50 pm.
Tuesday in the Congregation
Social Hall.
Evening star., 1960-09-11
Art Lectures

The National Gallery Of
Art will begin its autumn
lecture program this after
noon at 4. A series on Draw
ings of the Masters" will be
inaugurated with a lecture
on Leonardo by Raymond S.
Sites, the Galleryss curator
of education. Next Sunday,
Evening star., 1960-09-11
ART NEWS or THE D. c. AREA
American Art Of 'oOs
On View at Library
BY FLORENCE s. BERGMAN
star Art Critic

american Art Nouveau of 1S90s" exhibition Of
posters books and periodicals at the Library Of Congress-
(main building second floor south gallery until October
illustrates phase Of movement which. beginning in
Europe had far-reachng results in the decorative arts
including architecture.
Evening star., 1960-09-11


Only people in their miC
sonally recall this American
phase. Nevertheless, there is
q gayety. exuberance and a
sort Of innocence about the
collection which will surely
stir nostalgia in many visitors
whose parents and grand
parents lived in that golden
age" And not a few of the
posters and illustrations de-
pict those gay people, ladies
in precariously perched hats.
leg-o'-mutton sleeves, long
voluminous skirts, and their
escorts in equally unfamiliar
attire: also the horse-drawn
hanson cabs, once as ubiqui-
tous as taxis. now merely
museum pieces around New
York's Central Park; gas
lamps and curling mist; and
lazy summer afternoons in
canoes.
Probably the '90s were
not nearly so gay as they
seem, viewed across q chasnn
Of six to seven decades. But
some Of the happenings of
that time, continue to have
repercusSions today. The
artistic advertising poster
was the major expression Of
graphic art nouveau, pio-
neered in France before 1890.
Consequently, the first ex-
hibits one sees at the Library
are "ties with Europe" illus
trated by Alfons Mucha's
stunning poster Of Sarah
Bernhardt as "Gismonda" for
an American tour; Toulouse
Lautrec'S famous "Irish-Am-
erican Bar; several poster
portraits of Napoleon. and a
number by Aubrey Beardsley
for the yellow Book"
The new style in posters
was established in the United
States after 1890, and in a
few years swept the country,
bringing fame to many young
artists, whose posters were
widely exhibited, praised and
purchased. Although this
"poster craze" burned itself
out before the end of the
century, it had already "laid
the foundations Of modern
pictorial advertising art" as
the Library points out.
Outstanding American art
lists, among them Edward
Penf1eld, Will H. Bradley,
Ethel Reed foremost woman
poster artist) and Elisha
Bird, are introduced by
groups of 8 to IL or more
posters, illustrations and kim
dred items. One Of the most
impressive posters is by Louis
j. Rhead, advertising Mrs.
Burton Harrison's story ellis
Lordship," which appeared in
The Evening Star for Febru-
ary 20, 1896. Native WASH
ingtonian Mills Thompson,
born in 1875, who studied at
the Corcoran School, is rep
resented with a poster for
Frances Benjamin Johnston.
distinguished Was h in gton
photographer. mpson
went on to paint murals for
the Library Of Congress, be-
came art editor of the Satur-
day Evening Post, and a
magazine illustrator.
Some posters and illustra-
tions are by artists much bet
ter known to us as painters
and architects; John Sloan,
Charles H. Woodbury., Ernest
Peixotto, and Bertram Good
hue (architect Of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences.)
And many will remember the
vivid blue dream landscapes
and their pretty inhabitants
by Maxfleld Parrish, who is
still living, at 80, in Vermont.
The exhibition in c1udes
more than 80 posters, the
majority announcing publica-
tions, and about so books
and periodicals. The poster
section will be circulated by
the Smithsonian Institution
Travelling Exhibition Service.
Evening star., 1960-09-11

September 1S, Picasso viii
be discussed by Prof. J. Car
son Webster Of Northwestern
University's art faculty,
Evanston, Ill. On Septem-
ber 18, Winslow Ames, au-
thor, will speak on Durer.