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professional associates in It
ally and deal with his per-
sonal life money matters
and private affairs-as well
as his tremendously success
full European tour.
Others are directed to such
renowned figures in the world
of music as Meyerbeer, Mos
cheles, Spontini, and RosSini.
To RoSsini
A typical letter draft is that
of September 6, 1929 to Clio
acchino Rossini. Just one
month earlier Rossini had
abruptly put an end to his
career as a successful COM
poser Of operas. The premier
of "Guillaume Tell" his last
work, had taken place in Paris
on August 3.
Rossini never did make
clear the reasons for his de-
cision to stop writing operas
even though he was other
wise outspoken and articulate
about his work and even
about his personal habits. His
unexplained retirement at the
age of 81 remains one OF
music's most curious enigmas.
Paganini's letter-pre-
viously unpublished, 1t seems.
and unknown to scholars
refers to Rossini's "nuovo tri-
onfo" apparently the Gull
laume Tell"), to a perform
ance in Berlin of lie Comte
Dry" and is written In the
second person singular, which
presupposes a close friend
ship between the two men.
The warmth and informality
of his words bears this out.
One of the most intriguing
of the letter-draftS is the
shortest in the "Registro."
Paganini wrote it in Warsaw
between June 8 and June IL,
1929, to somebody by the
name of Consigliere Zechial
in Berlin. The entry, plainly
Just a record Of a letter
sent, reads in its entirety:
per recommandare un
giovane Pianista."
Who was the young
pianist" Paganini was rec
ommending?
1t is tempting to speculate
that this may have been the
19-year-old Frederic Chopin,
who was slated to take his
final examinations at the
Warsaw c observatory a
month later. He might wen
have been seeking introduce
tons from prominent musi-
clans to help him in a career
abroad.
Kindness to Chopin
Elsewhere in the Paganini
papers at the Library Of Con-
gress is. a reference to the
fact that at just this time
the violinist had given to
one Mr.. Chopin giovine
pianista" a free ticket to a
concert.
Is not the use Of the same
young pianist" phrase in
both places a striking coinci-
dence?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-05
SATURDAY
SUNDAY, NOV. IL

THE WEAVERS Folk Songs Around
the World" Lisner Auditorium, $3.50
pm -H.. .'. f'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-05
WEDNESDAY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Howard Mitchell and Warner Law.
Versity Choir, Adele Addison- Rus.
sell Oberlin and Lawrence Winters
Constitution Hall, $50 pm. Re.
peating Tuesday nights program
CANTOR RAPHAEL EDGAR presenting
""synasogue, Music Outside thu
Center. 10 and @ SITS. NV. 500
pm.
VIRGIL FOX, organ. Metropolitan Me.
mortal Methodist Church. Nebrasks
and New Mexico ayes. NV, 8 pm
sinfonia from We Thank Thee God
Bach; Haze Mercy upon Us Eterna
Father, Bach; Fantasy on Come
Holy Ghost, Bach; Come Nov
Saviour, Bach; Fantasy and FuguC
in @ minor Bach; Symphonic con.
certante, Jongen; La Fileuse. Dupre
Clair de lune. Vierne; Fantasy anc
Fugue on VIE schoen leuchtet del
MOrRenStPrn RRRpF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-05
TODAY

JEROME HINES, bass; Alexander
Alexay, plano. Constitution Hall,
2 p. m, Largo from Xerxes, Handel;
What Land Is This Prom Hercules,
Vittoria, vittoria, Carissimi: Las
ciate. mi moIire, Monteverdi; Flu Do
che desc from L'Ebreo, Apollini;
Der Floh, Beethoven; Der Doppel-
Eaenger. Schubert; Am schwager
Rosamonde, Duparc; .L'Invitstion au
voyage, Duparc; lie tambour-majeur
from lie Caid, Thomas; / Am a
Black Pierrot, Still; If You Should
Go, ,still; ,crucifixion,, Traditional;
Il monde from Mefistofeie, Boito.
RHETA -NAYLoR, oboe: Constance
RuseH, piano; Dorothy Erler, bas-
soon. Barker Hall YWCA, 18th and
K SITS. NV, 4 pm. Sonata in O
minor, Bach; Three. Concert Pieces,
Reizenstein; selections from Six
Andante from Sinfonia in B flat,
johann Christian Bach-Naylor; Ro-
nance and Humoresque, Op. 2,
Nielsen; Trio for piano, oboe and
bassoon, Poulenc.
GERALD WILDE. boy soprano. Foundry
Methodist Church, 18th and SITS.
bert; Purcell; Gershwin; Franck;
Handel; Vaughan Williams.
WASHINGTON CANTATA GROUP,
Richard Weilenmann, conductor.
Corcorar Gallery Of Art, 5 pm.
Program unavailable.
GERRE HANCOCK, organ. Washington
Cathedral, following 4 pm. Even
song (about 5 p.mO. Fantasia and
Fugue in @ minor. Bach; Improvisa-
ton for a REQUIEM, Ossewarde;
scherzo, Powers; Air for organ,
Hancock; Prelude and Fugue on
Bach, Liszt.
EVELYN MCCARTHY, soprano;
Gallery Of Art, s pm PM All, N que je
fus bien inspiree from Didon, Pic
cinni; Ais Luise die Briefe- YER
brannte, Mozart; AbendempfindunE
Mozart; Non piu di tiori. from
104, Schumann; Und OBJ die Woke
sic verhuelle from Freischuetz,
Weber; Ritorna vincitor from Aida,
Verdi; De Greve and De Soir from
Proses lyriques, Debussy; Serenade
italienne, Chausson; lie Temps des
HAS, Chausson; Before Dawn, Ben
Jamin; The Crucifixion. Barber;
The Monk and His Cat. Barber;
With Rue My Heart Is Laden,
Barber; Bessie Bobtail, Barber;
Ikmenau, Ives; Autumn, Ives.
FERRANTE AND TEICHER. duo
pianists. Constitution Hall, $50
pm; "Ferrante and Teicher Flip
Their LIDS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-05
TOMORROW

JOYCE ROBBINS, violin: Mitchell
Andrews, piano. Phillips Collection,
$50 pm, Sonata in F. Mendelssohn
Sonata. Shapero; Senate in E flat,
OPP. Is. r. Strauss.
MARIST SEMINARY CHOIR, Father
Ellis de Priest, conductor; Rev. Rus
sell WOOlleu and Andre Albert
%srtgr, Sbth st. a and Penn sSfRa4hf
ave. NV, $50 pm. Adore tie devote
plain chant: Prelude on Adore te
devote, Woolen; Salve Regina. Plain
chant: Puer natus est. Plain chant;
Verbum caro-, Lassus; Ssnctus from
Missa Aeterna Christa mundera
Perluigi da Palestrinna: Toccata or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-23
AREA CONSTRUCTION
18th St. BottIeneck
To End Tomorrow

AnacOStia Freeway inter
change-Work has started on
an interchange at Pennsylva-
mia avenue Sc; will take
about 18 months to build; sec
tions of the freeway are under
construction; no immediate
traffic restrictions.
Fourth street Sc. - Work
has started on this new road
way, which will connect At
lantic street and Mississippi
avenue.
Michigan avenue N.E.-Perry
street to Bunker Hill road
Resurfacing work on this seven
block stretch will start next
month; traffic will be slowed
but not detoured.
Inner Loop links - Virginia
avenue between First and Sec
ond streets S.W. - Closed tc
traffic for construction Of
ramps to tie in Southwest free
way with Inner Loops center
leg. Until center leg is built
temporary connections will be
constructed leading to existing
streets; this job includes re-
building the elevated railroad
structure at Virginia avenue;
the entire project is to take
about two years to complete.
Highway Bridge connections
Road links under construc-
ton between the Washington
Channel crossing and the new
George Mason Memoria
Bridge; the entire project il
scheduled for completion II
mid-1962.
X street expreSSway-A tun
mel is being built under Wash
ington Circle; utility lines al,
being relocated on K stree
between the circle and Twenty
fifth street; from TWenty-firs
to Twenty-fifth streets the ex
presSway will be lowered will
overpaSseS at Twenty-secont
and Twenty-fourth streets; thu
tunnel is to take six months t,
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District

East Capitol street - This
street between Nineteenth and
Twenty-Second streets is now
being repaved and widened to
permit improved traffic flow
to the District Stadium now
under construction. Work
scheduled to be completed by
October /.
Georgia avenue-Elimination
of the open streetcar track from
the District line to w street
NV. has started. Ripping out
the track at four spots-East-
ern avenue, Butternut street,
Upshur street and the pillow pit
at w street has been completed
The remainder of the track,
along with these points, will be
paved over at a later date.
North Capitol street inter-
changeS-Work is under way
on two traffic underpass prof.
ectS that will carry Rhode
Island avenue and New York
avenue over North Capitol;
about two years to complete; a
new one-way traffic routing
system in the area is in effect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-23

A major downtown traffic
bottleneck will be eliminated
when all six lanes of Sixteenth
street between L and M streets
NV. open to traffic tomorrow
afternoon, the District Highway
Department reported yesterday.
Parts of Sixteenth between L
and M have been closed to
traffic for up to four months
for extensive sewer work, re-
paving and widening.
Sixteenth between K and M
has been widened II feet. The
section of Sixteenth between K
and L has been open to traffic
since June.
This project is one of many
highway jobs which are under
way, or will start soon, in the
Washington area. Others in
clude:
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build and the entire express
way is to be finished late next
year; motorists are using new
roads parallel to K street from
Twenty-fifth street to the
circle as excavation work starts
on the west side of the circle.
Twelfth street N.E.-Rhode
Island avenue to Randolph
Utility work completed Repay
ing to be completed within 200
days.
South Capitol and M streets
"A traffic interchange under
construction to carry South
Capitol street below M street
is expected to be completed by
October. M street has been
reopened to traffic.
L street N.W.-Twenty-sec-
ond street to Connecticut ave-
nue-Storm water sewer install
lation underway; traffic de-
toured; job expected to be fin
iShed next month; temporary
reSurfacing work underway on
L street between Twentieth and
Twenty-Second streets; perma-
nent paving work between Con-
necticut avenue and Twentieth
street to begin next month.
Benning road railway under
paSS-A new south viaduct, re-
placing the old structure, has
been completed; the new via
duct is carrying two-day traffic
while a new deck is being put
on the north viaduct; 80 days
to complete.
Twelfth street freeway - A
tunnel beneath the Mall is ex-
pected to be completed in about
two month; traffic detoured.
AnacOstia freeway construc-
ton - Paving work on two
stretches of the freeway is to
get started by the end of this
month; the work will be be-
tween Chesapeake street Sc.
and the District line, and from
East Capitol street to Pennsyl-
vania avenue; both strips are
to be opened to traffic this
| fall.
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Montgomery County

Arlington rOad-Wilson lane
to Bethesda avenue - Widen
ing, with traffic slowups; COM
pletion this fall.
Connecticut avenue-Chevy
See CONSTRUCTION, Pc. D-2S
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. AIexondrio, Va, Richmond Hwy.
U. S. Route !
. londovsr Hills, Nd, 1851 Annapolis
Hwy, Route 50
. HyottsviIle. Nd, University Lane
OF Riggs Rd.
Q SuifIand, Nd, Silver Hill Rd.
. Rockville, Nd, 1880 Rockville Pike
Hwy. 240
FaIIs Church, w., Arlington Blvd.
Route so
Evening star., 1961-06-21

pense. The, Internal Revenue
examiner told him: "Mr. Burns,
the government would like you
to have your old teeth back.
You earned more with the
whistle than without it."
DANCE NOTE: A lady at the
Harwyn Club asked Burns il
he could dance. Dancer" re-
piled the ex-vaudeville star.
You're talking to Davis, of
Davis & Donovan, Dancers Ex-
traordinaire." Then he added:
You're also talking to Burns,
of Bernstein & Burns, dance
teachers" They had a dance
school for immigrants on the
lower East Side. Bernstein
rated the partnership because
he could speak 8 languages and
sign up the immigrants.
"One day." said Burns, "the
dance studio was empty, ex-
cept for our double brass
band" He suggested to his
partner that the band play in
the direction of the open win
dows, so that people would
know it's a dance studio. What
happened? We were still emp
ty, but the people in the street
were dancing. So we Joined 'em
and closed the studio"
Evening star., 1961-06-21
TIL (
LYONS
DEL N
Love the Art
By LEONARD LYONS

NEW YORK-JOshua Logan,
the director whose newest film
is Fanny" is the only living
American who ever studied un-
der Stanislavsky at the Moscow
Art Theater. Logan's theory
about theater-hopefulS is that
their approach should be as if
to a calling: IF anything can
stop you, let it" Stanis-
lavSky gave Logan a photo
with the inscription Love the
Art in yourself. rather than
yourself in the Art"
4 -
TAX DEPT: George Burns,
of Burns and Allen, discovered
that the space between his two
front teeth produced whistle
sound when he recited his lines.
He had the teeth capped, and
deducted it as a business ex-
Evening star., 1961-06-21
HOLLYWOOD
By SHEILAH GRAHAM
The Happy Married Bachelor

eason she and husband Tony
Owen have contrived to be
happy, though partners in TV,
is because I'VE believe in di-
vorce - of career from our
homelife. We don't mention
work at home"
- So
Israeli actress Ziva ROdann
returns to Rome for the lead
with VittOriO GaSsman in mi
nevah and the Babylonians," a
SO million color spectacle.
Elaine May and Mike Nichols,
who have been such a big hit
on Broadway this past season,
tell me they would love to CO.
star in a movie but the problem
would be to write a script and
then learn it. Most of their
stuff is ad lib within a precon-
ceived framework.
Ann Harding is selling her
lovely home in WeStport. Conn.
And husband maestro Werner
JannSen will conduct the Vienna
Symphony Orchestra in Europe
for six months.
4 i
Dining with Renee and Lou
SchOnceit-he's the theater-
ticket king of New York; she's
the former famed hatcheck girl
at Sardi'S Forty-fourth street
restaurant. Rene was telling
me of the day she woke up and
decided that, for a change, she
would pay her customers a
quarter when they deposited
their hats with her at the ia
nous theatrical belt restaurant.
1t happened to be Sir John
Gielgud's first day in New York
and. when Renee gave him two
bits, he exclaimed, IF I'd
known about this, I'd have
come here earlier!"
Schonceit and l discussed
New York plays and the Holly
wood stars who sometimes go
East to appear in them. "A
Hollywood name" he assured
me, sis not enough to carry
a play that gets bad reviews.
Lucille Ball was the sole ex-
ception."
Evening star., 1961-06-21
HOLLYWOOD (NANh :

HOLLYWOOD CNANA) j
: Cary Grant, the happy bach
elor- -with-a-wife the is sepa-
rated, not divorced. from Betsy
! Drake) was a joyful twosome
! with Oriental Nancy Kwan, at
Italian Romeo Salta's in New
: York. Now I'm wondering if it
! will be Cary instead of Maxi
amilIian SchelI who will be 60
ing to Hong Kong to meet
Nancy's parents? Max and
Nancy discovered each other
when she was filming Flower
Drum Song" and he was on the
next sound stage at Universal
in Judgment at Nuremberg"
George Hamilton, one-time
Westhampton DID Bath and
Tennis Club desk clerk. wants
! to be another Douglas Fair
banks-senior or junior makes
no difference. With two days
off from making love to Olivia
De Havilland'S daughter in "A
Light in the Piazza" in Flor
ence, George flew to Rome to
sign a deal to star in the old
Fairbanks junior thriller, The
Corsican Brothers" I remem-
ber young Doug's haircut for
this one - long, curly and
funny.
"Lana'S Theme" the back
ground music for the dance
performed by Lana Turner and
Bob Hope in Bachelor in Par
adise" was composed by record
ing star Sam Cooke. Because Of
daughter Cheryl Cranes latest
brush with the police, Lana
may cancel her planned honey
moon trip to Europe with hus-
band Fred May.
Did you know that: The Queen
Of England will not attend any
movie that lasts longer than
two hours. except in the rarest
of circumstances? Or that:
Tito of YugoSlavia is mad about
Westerns. and whenever the
international situation gets too
tense he relaXeS by seeing Gary
Cooper's High Noon? =. And
that: When Dino de Laurentiis
filmed THE Tempest" he had
1000 Yugoslavian soldiers
crossing the river, wearing only
their birthday suits.
And, while mentioning De
Laurentiis, love the audacity
Of his plan to film The Bible"
at the all-time high cost Of
S2S million, to take three years
in the making and to use every
top actor, director and script
writer in the world. Wow! This
had better be good!
Donna Reed explains that the
Evening star., 1961-06-21
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Just see your Travel Agent or call American
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the telephone number to call in Washington is
Executive 3-2345.
Evening star., 1961-06-21

American Airlnes gives you choice of flights
to New York every hour on the half-hour be-
tween 7:3O am. and 1920 pm. Plus other
daily flights and the same convenient service
returning to Washington,
Captains Deluxe Service Special menus
Enjoy the same service as on the famous Cap
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-03-23
Holmes HID Leaders
Attend Council In
Greenwood Friday

Thirty-five Holmes County
Home Demonstration club mem
bers attended the Northwest Dis
trict Council meeting on FRAY
March 18th, at the new High
School Auditorium in Green
wood.
The theme for the program
this year was. with Freedom AS
Our Heritage, We Face A New
Day A New Way. Highlights
of the program was the state
All public speaking winners
Miss Dolores Provost, Bolivar
County and Nh. Esaias Richard
son, Sunflower County.
DR.. L. N. Wise, Dean of School
of Agriculture, State College,
described with pictures his re-
cent trip around the world. There
was also a parade of flags of the
countries of the United Nations.
with each flag bearer dressed in
native costume.
Mrs. Jack CASTOR of Pickens
rodeled the Ethiopian costume
cor tributed by Holmes County.
Mrs. Homer Green, national
president of the Home Dem
%onstration Clubs, was a special
guest.
Tommy Pierce, All club mem
Der of Coxburg, gave a most in
formative demonstration on civil
defense.
The meeting was closed with
the group singing the state home
demonstration sang, Onward
Ex,1r O,r,orl
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-03-23

hour, nearly SIG, O0G, 900 per day
and some S5.7 billion per year.
1t is the sad history of auto
motive taxes that temporary
taxes almost invariably become
permanent. Motorists are now
burdened with special automo-
tive taxes, in addition to in
creased taxes in many states,
which are making driving pro-
hibitively costly.
Since the mo'orist pays all
other taxes paid by citizens gan-
orally, it is obvious that he di-
version by states and the Federal
government of the special high
way users taxes he pays is MAX
ing him contribute more than his
just share of taxes that should
properly be the concern of all
citizens.
Accordingly, AAA calls for the
normal expiration of the one-cent
gas tax increase on schedule and
urges all members of Congress
to reject any efforts to extend
this temporary levy.
The AAA reminds motorists
that if they want to see this
temporary" Federal tax expire
next June = instead of being
continued and perhaps increased
you can do no better than
write to your Congressman to-
dav
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-03-23
EImore Powell Graduates
From u. S. Naval OCS

NEWPORT (FHTNC)-N NV
Ems. Roy Elmore Povall, son of
Mrs. George Poval1 of 214 Spring
ST., Lexington, Miss, was Grad
uated, March 8, from the Naval
Officer Candidate School at the
Naval Base, Newport. r. I.
The officer candidates, college
graduates and outstanding per-
sonnet from the fleet, become
proficient in the naval sciences
IN Is weeks of intensive train
ing.
In addition to shipboard duty,
many of the graduate officers
will receive specialized training
N aviation. underwater demoli-
ton, salvage, naval intelligence
md explosive ordnance disposal.
Others will go to engineering
and staff corps duties.
r. Completion of the school quail
flies the graduates to meet the
technical problems facing a jun
ior officer in today's modern
navy, and to confront the srecial
leadership problems posed by the
fleets worldwide commitments.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-03-23
'AAA Calls For Action
Oh GdsaIine Tax Issue

The years 1861 and 1862 are
destined to be a time of major
battles over the gasoline tax
issue both in Congress and
the Mississippi Legislature.
The looming controversy in Con-
eress has its real roots back IN
1853 when the national solons
ordered an increase in Federal
aid for highways without max
ing provision for financing. The
Federal road program, it will be
recalled, is financed from a spe-
cial Highway Trust Fund into
which go the Lr, ceeds of some.
hut not all. of special Federal
automotive taxes.
AS a result, in 1859 the vast
program for the National Sys-
tenn of Interstate and Defense
Highways, launched with sucn
high hopes and enthusiasm in
the summer of 1856, was threat
ened with complete breakdown.
Early in 1859, President Eisen-
hover recommended that the 3
cents Federal gasoline tax be in
creased to Az cents.
Eventually a compromise was
worked out. The Federal gas tax
was increased from 3 to 4 cents
in October, 1859, on a tempo
rary basis. 1t was to expire at
the close of June, 1861. The re.
sultant revenue loss was to be
more than made up by trans
fers from the general fund to
the Highway Trust Fund of half
the excise taxes on new pas
senger automobiles and two
thirds of the excuses on parts
and accessories = all of which
now go into the general fund.
But transfers from the general
fund to the Highway Trust Fund
would add to what now appears
to be an inevitable deficit for
the current fiscal year. Also. both
President Kennedy and Secre-
tary of Commerce Hodges seem
determined either to speed up
the national highway program,
or at least keep it on schedule
= which means completion of
the Al. 000-mile Interstate system
by 1872.
Meanwhile, many states faced
with the need for matching Fed
eral funds and meeting other
growing demands, are planning
to seek an increase in gasoline
taxes. 1t has been recommended
W one of the Highway Com
missioners in Mississippi that an
additional l cent be added 70
our present tax of 7 cents per
gallon.
The Gasoline Pump has proved
to be a veritable Golconda to the
tax gatherers. Right now, motor
vehicle operators of America pay
in the form of gasoline taxes
some $182 per second, $1,000
per minute, over 1851 600 per
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-03-23
Mrs. Fronk Branch
Hostess At Goodman
To Reading Club

Billie Montapre was oues'
-reoLe~ ~ the Woman's Read
inc Club in Goodman on Tuesday
afternoon, March 14th. The pro-
ornn was 2 continuation of tho
study of Mississippi History. one
Of the projects for the wear. The
~rhiaot for tho aftornonn wae
"Far1v Years Of Statehood 0817-
1901" Mr.. Montaorre handled
it IN a most interesting and fact
nal manner. Mrs. S. l.. Bobo
wos program leader.
During the business session thu
members voted to srare IN the
--rrnr+ IF tho Goodman Library
Mrs. Frank Branch was chosen
delegate to the District Conven-
ton meeting in Kosciusko, March
2.2~5.
The hostess served chocolate
rie,. nuts and coffee.