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HE next few weeks will bring several famous artists to Washing- I ton, but the February music calendar apparently is not to be , JL overcrowded with concerts and recitals. During the coming week two famous sopranos will give what j promise to be unusually interesting programs. Mme. Nina Koshetz. Rus- ! -ian soprano, will be assisting artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Tues- day. She is the daughter of Paul Koshetz, noted tenor of the Moscow- Imperial Theater in the days of the czar, and she lias a fine foundation of musicianly knowledge, having studied under SaronofT at the Moscow Conservatory, and in composition with Taneiev. She also received dra- matic training under Stanislavsky. In Paris she was coached by the famous Fclia Litvinne, Frieda Hempel has long been popular in Washington, and her suc- cess in her first Jenny Lind concert last season is well known. Mme. Hempel has . given these concerts all over the world since she was first chosen to impersonate the great Swedish singer at the historical concert in 19JO. T*HE educational department of the District is developing interesting * musical plans. The latest step is the inauguration of a series of organ recitals for children under the auspices of Edwin N. G. Barnes, director of the department." The recitals will bo held in church auditoriums in different sections of the city. The programs are planned by Edith B. Athey, teacher qf music appreciation in the schools and well known as an organist. She served for three years as civic organist in Central High School. Community singing will be a feature of these recitals, and special numbers by the children will be presented. Parents and friends are to be invited. The first concert will be given tomorrow- afternoon from 3x50 to 4:15 at Petworth M. E. Church, New Hampshire avenue and Grant Circle. JTwo others will be given at the same hour on Tuesday at Fifth Baptist Church, O'/j and E streets southwest, and Wednesday at Vermont Avenue Christian Church. Vermont avenue above N street northwest. This co-operation between the schools and churches for the develop- ment of children’s interest in music"and encouraging those with talent to participate seems worthy of high commendation. +*? * ' t R DEANE SHUKE. Washington composer, organist and choir director. has just completed a suite for the piano called “Lyric Washington.” Ir has .as themes points of prime interest in the city, from an artistic point of vijnv. These tone poems are w ithout a single note reminiscent of rational airs. This seems so be the first group of piano compositions devoted exclusively to Washington. There is a delicate oriental com- position, "Japanese Cherry Blossoms”; a reverie. “The Lincoln Reflecting : a merry humoresque. “Gnomes in Rock Creek Park,” “The Potomac Park Love Song,’’ "Mount Vernon”; a piquant. “Topsy on Tenth Ftrect.” and a dirge, “Arlington.” This work will be presented at several recitals during the month —at St. Stephen’s Church Friday, at a church benefit in Chevy Chase on the 19th, at the Powhatan Hotel the JOlh and the Mount Vernon M. E. Church South February J7. Mr. Shurr’s Washington suite -brings to mind the tact that Nevin immortalized Venice musically; Charles Wakefield Cadman has interested Music lovers all over the country with hfa "FloUywtiod Suite,” and John Aldcn Carpenter has interpreted Chicago uiusit*ll>. , *** .f LAST week an event in the musical aauAb of Washington waJ the series of three concerts of chamber music offered by Mrs. Frederic ShurtlefT Coolidge in the Freer Art Gallery. The programs were chiefly of prize- winning compositions from international competitions preceding the fa- mous Berkshire festivals. Mrs. Coolidge has presented to the Library of Congress the composers’ autograph scores of these compositions, as well as those of all works dedicated to.her or commissioned by her. The Festival Quartet of South Mountain, the Elshuco Trio, founded and maintained by Mrs. Coolidge, and the Lenox Quartet shared honors with solo artists such as Harold Bauer. Lionel Tertis and G. Barrcre. The modern composers represented included Francesco Malipiero, Italian; *4l. Waldo Warner. English; Leo Weiner. Hungarian; Julius Roentgen. Dutch; Henry Eichheim. American; Ernest Bloch, Swiss, and Eugene Goossens. English. Particularly interesting was Mr. Eichheim’s own conducting of his “Oriental Impressions.” Part of this suite was given by Stokowski at a Philadelphia symphony concert last spring and created much'interest at that time. Mr. Eichheim was a member of the Boston Symphony Orches- tra for twenty-two years. HELEN FETT ER. CONCERTS The Flonzaley Quartet, at Central High School, 8:15 tomorrow night. -i United States Marine Band, Marine barracks, 3 p.m. tomorrow. Chickering memorial concert, the Playhouse. 8 o’clock tomorrow night. Tlte Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, at the National Theater, Tuesday at 4:30. Spanish war veteran concert. Masonic Auditorium, Tuesday night at 8:15 o’clock. United States Army. Band. Washington barracks, 8 o'clock Thurs- day night. Frieda Hempel. Jenny Lind concert. Poll’s Theater, Friday afternoon at 4:30. i ..... ... ¦ ... Flonzaley Quartet Tomorrow The Flonzaley Quartet will give a . oncerl under the auspices of the | Washington Society of the Fine Arts at Central High School tomorrow night at 8:30 o’clock. They will play the following pro- gram: Mozart’s "QuartM in A -Major” (K464). allegro, menuetto, andante con - variazioni and allegro; R. Vaughan Williams’ “Romanze” and "Rondo capriccioso,” allegro molto, trom “Quarct In G Minor*'; Bee- thoven’s “Quaret in C Major, Op- 59, Vo. 3,” introduzione, allegro vivace, andante con moto quasi, allegretto, Hionuctto. allegro molto. Marine Band Tomorrow. At the United States Marine bar- j racks at 3 p.ra. tomorrow afternoon ¦ s concert by the United States Marino , Rand Orchestra will be given under ; William H. Santelmann, leader, and j Taylor Branson, second leader. The program will include: March, * "Universal Freedom” (Blankenburg); I overture, ’’Mignon” (Thomas); rev-j ?trie, "Extase” (Ganne); grand! ecenes from “La Oioconda” (Ponchl- i tjli V; ¦ intermezzo, "A Ball Scene” (.Vicode); "Adoration” (Borowskl); suite de ballet, “Oltanilla” (Lacome); Marines’ hymn. "The Halls of Monte- zuma,” and “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” There will be no concert at the marine barracks Wednesday night on amount of the band being detailed for other official engagements. Quckering Memorial Con- cert Tomorrow. A Washington concert to commem- orate the great Jonas Chickening will ho given at the Playhouse tomorrow evening. Miss Gertrude Henneman, American pianist, will give the recital. This young artist has just com- MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. WOODRIDGESCHOOL Mrs. Grace Hazard-Wormelle. Director V olee—Piano—Expression 3106 Sooth Dakota Are. II.E. A Phono North 6633 BESSIE N.-WILD Toice Culture, Plano and Harmony . Studio, 73 B. 1. Ave. N. W. . PtoSe North aril. Walter Holt Studios TENOR BANJO. MANDOLIiy, GUITAR, BANJO. HAWAIIAN GUITAR AND UKULELE. Ensemble Practice with the Nord ,*a Clubs. Established 1894. PHONE COL. 946 1801 COLUMBIA R». *IBB AMT CLKHEftT T-EAVIf f PIANO. TOICE AND BAEHONT Coaching and Aeoosipanyinc 706 Elsrenth Street N.W. Apartmsnt 63. .SAXOPHONE^ Plans, Tenor Banjo, Guitar. Drams, eta In 10 to 20 Lessons Sag, Jsz: and Popular Musis a specialty. Ceme. In. write or phone for booklet. Fine lesions if you hu- instrument from ns. . . CHRISTENSEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC 1388.0 Bt. N.W. ¦ - Main MB. School of Singing. Taira ißuilding. Plano, Dramatic Art. Bludests Prepared for Opera and Drama. Opera and dramatic class now forming. For t ppblstment address GEO. LAWRESCE. Di- xector oC Opera, £cksai» aZL XiiU Uk HJW, S [ pleted what is said to boa successful ’tour of the middle west and south. I Her Washington appearance is of special interest to local music lovers because of this being her home city. ! Cbickering & Sons has extended ( invitations to a limited number of guests to be present at this concert and have provided a delightful pro- gram for the occasion. Philadelphia Symphony Tuesday. Leopold Stokowski will direct the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Na- tional Theater Tuesday afternoon In all-RussjiCn program, with Mine. Vina Koshetz, Russian soprano, as soloist. The symphony Is the fourth I °f Tschaikowsky, known as the sym- phony with the pizzicato movement. I The overture will bo “Rouslane et ; Ludmila,” by Glinka! The ’dance j from "Snegourotchka” will be the tinale. Mme. Koshetz will *ing a ; group of songs by Moussorgsky and i three by liimsky-Korsakow. j At the concert in Philadelphia last .) season Mme. Koshetz sang the num- i bers which she will offer in Washing- ton. The concert will under the local management of the T. Arthur Smith, Inc., Concert Bureau, at 1306 G street. - Spanish War Veterans’ Con- cert Tuesday. The United States Spanish War Veterans have announced an Inter- esting program to be held at the Masonic Auditorium Tuesday evening at An overture will be played by the United States Marine Battd, followed by a piano recital by the young American concert pianist. Mies Ger- trude Henneman, assisted by Miss Frances Scherger, soprano. and Frank Kimmel, lecturer. , Miss Henneman has done concert ;work throughout the country. She (seems to possess a gift of interpre- tation and tone quality. Mr. Kimmel Will give a short talk on the relation of classic music to popular or jazz tunes. Miss Prances Scherger is well known in Washington music circles. The committee In charge of this recital has as chairman Francis Hubn. ' Army Band Thursday. A concert will be given by the i Army Band Concert Orchestra, Wil- |ljam J. Stannard leader, at the Offi- ) cers’ (Jlub, Washington barracks, D. C i S p.m. Thursday. 1 The program will include: March, ! “NMebelungen” (Wagner); selection, .‘‘You’re in Love” (Prim!): suite, "Balled Kgyptlen” (Lulginl); valse, j “Les Roses” (Metra); ballet from (“Naila” (Delibes); "Humoresque” (DvoraOO: selection. “The Fortune (Teller” (Herbert), "The Star Spangled ’Banner.” ~ v Frieda Hempel in Jenny Lind Concert Friday I Iv, ' i Frieda Hempel will give one of her 1 famous Jenny Lind concerts at Poll’s Theater next Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, under the management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. In the first of , these concerts given last season hun- . dreds were turned away. It is in re- ‘m.msm TOE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. FEBRUARY 10; 1924-PART 3. ¦ Stannard Composes Star March. W. J. Stannard. loader of the ninety-piece United States Army Band, one of the finest musical or- ganizations in Washington, has just given the first performance of his newest march. **Thc Washington Elvenlng Star March." The composi- tion was given its formal debut at the meeting of The Kvening Star Club last Wednesday evening for tho an- nual election of officers. This march is entirely original in its melodies, which are very tive. and has been carefully written Iso as to conform perfectly with tho laws of musical composition. The opening chords are arresting in their brilliance and the finale is clean-cut. The whole composition is excellently i unified. Mr. Stannard is a thorough musi- cian. Born in a musical family, he first studied the clarinet with his brother and later with C. 1U Staats of the Boston Svmphony Orchestra, who was generally considered the best clarinet player in this country. Mr. Stannard attended the Institute of Musical Art on a scholarship which he won in 1911. and studied under Frank Oamrosch. He com- pleted the four-year bandmaster course in two years of intensive work. lie has written three other marches that have proven popular with the United States Marine Band as well as the Army Band. They are ‘‘the Oapt. It. W, I.ewis March." "Brig. On. Tl. 11. Handholtz March” and “The. Army Band.” _ I | IN THE CHURCHES ] j ——l , t l>y (he choir. "The Son of God Goes I [ Forth to War” (Gelbe!). ¦ Frank C. Bceming, organist of St. 1 ! Paul's Church, in Steubenville, Ohio, i i will give an organ recital at the l | Church of the Incarnation this eve-1 nine. Mr. Becming has recently accepted j i the position of organist at Mount I j Calvary episcopal Church, in Haiti-1 j more. Aid. ] Miss Hulk Mao Hansford tv ill be I the soprano soloist at the Cleveland ! j I’afk Congregational Church today, i i and will sing "Consider the Bilies." j Mrs. Page McK. Etchison. musical i , director and pianist, will play as a ; i prelude “Impromptu-Elegy” "(Sctru- [ bert);’ ss an offertory. "Romance,” in | jA. and for posllude, “Triumphal j i March.” I At Immanuel Baptist Church todav 1 the choir, under the direction of Mrs. j ; Emily G. Dickinson, will sing "Hark, | , Hark, My Soul,” Mrs. Trios Crater and i Mrs. Marion Walker taking the inci-I | dental solos. .Mr. Udford will sing! I ‘‘O . Dry Those Tears,” with violin j obligato by Mr. Sturtevant. At the j evening seevico the male chorus will ! j sing several numbi rs. I At the Metropolitan Presbyterian ! Church this morning the music, un- 1 1 der the direction of Uucy H. Paul, or- ) j ganist and direct.>r. will be as fol- I. lower: Prelude, * A Song of Sorrow”;! j anthem, "And God Shall Wipe A wav 1 .All Tears"; tenor solo. "Ho. k of I i Apes." Raymond Fillius; po,stiade. march ('Merkel*. The evenings pro-! pram win include -: Prelude, ’*A n - n (Uniare); anthem, i ttod Is bovo”; contralto solo. "Out or the Depths." Miss Gauges; anthem, 1 vVl riLn L ..y* T h -’ .Peace";, postlude. 1 March F ontlficale. Raymond Filllust I 1 : ttSßieting in the tenor place; Evelyn , Gnbbtn is soprano; Anita. U. Gauges, i con.ralto. and A. O. Kteams, jr.. bass. I i Tlv musical program at the First i .••‘Wist Church today will b. ; Morn-j Ing—Organ prelude. "Pastorella”: of-' llertory solo. ‘How lively Are The* I : .or « :*n postin.le. "Fan- > . tasie. Evening, at 7;45 o'clock or- ' I n x.. rf "’ ll - 1, **l«rgo” (Jeff, rson >; ! ! Med.talion (Sfurgessi; anthem by* j chorus. ‘The Holy Cl tv” I Adams i 1 7rt2?.*.J n " nt,ry - " rn ' : Fountain - * j I (>Vrrjo ° r an J’ ost,ud -.- in G ! J Washingtonian Opera | School. < pHE Opera School of the Wash-' ingtonian.s, under the direction I o. Roilin Bond, has been concentrat- i ing on the training of principals and I ensemble artists in a new comic opera to bo given a premiere in Washington l prior to its New York bearings. | “Cherry Blossom Time.” a lipfiu i (opera in two acts, libretto and I vries 1 b\ Genevieve Farnell. and musical! score by 2>lr. Hond, is a storv with I I scenes laid in Washington, with char- acters typical of figures in official and social circles. The Washingtonians have made I thirty-nine presentations of light i oporr. in the past four years. Both 1 prnicipals and ensemble artists have i been local people, and have been pro- ! pared for the stage work in the opera' training school of the Washing- j tonians, under Air. Bond's supervision. I Lavender and Old Lace j Music. A concert that is built upon his- torical research is likely to be a pedantic affair—if the research is evident. There can be no doubt that much research, musical and -sartorial, has been expended upon the Mozart recital in costume which Buoy Gates, soprano, and Botta Van Buren. who plays “ye olde harpsichords, splnnets and clavichords," give together. They seem, however, to have been able to l keep the research from obtruding, itself, because they arc said to have "the eighteenth century flavor" and! "the atmosphere of lavender and old 1 lace” in their recitals. "Mozart should not be sung w ith a piano.” says Bucy Gates. ‘TJach wrote for the clavichord.” says Botta Van Buren. "I will sing Mozart, Pergolesi, Handel, Purcell as they should be sung, with the clavichord and spin- net,” continues Bucy Gates. “I will play Bach, Scarlatti and all the an- cient company of immortals upon the instruments for which they wrote,” explains Botta Van Buren. So dressed in the mode of the day of their program, these two American musicians have set an artistic stand- ard. On Thursday afternoon, February 28, Miss Gates and Miss Van Buren will be heard in the National Theater under the local management of the T. Arthur Smith, Inc., concert bureau. Musical for Greek Relief. John A. P.ogers, who will come to Washington from New York to sing at the evening soiree given by the Relief for Fatherless Children of Greece tomorrow at the residence of Mrs. Charles M. Ffoulke, 211 Massachu- setts avenue, is a young baritone. He has been soloist with the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. Emanuel Wad, no- ted Danish pianist, will also ploy at this evening of music. Mr. Wad was a ootemporary of Paderewski under Beschetitzky, and is said to be the favorite pianist of Queen Alexandra of England. Rachmaninoff Recital. Rachmaninoff, one of the most famous pianists, will be heard tho only time this season in Washington at Poll’s Theater, February 20, at 4:30, under the management of Mrs. WUson-Greene. j I Mr. Rachmaninoff has been soloist with the foremost orchestras in the world and was noted as a conductor. ' This famous Russian is not only a. great pianist, but is also an illustrious composer. Heats are on sale at Airs. Wilson- Greene’s concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Six years ago a newspaper man told Jacqueline Bogan she , was a silly child to even think about trying to get into the movies. Imagine that man's surprise when he recently ln-< lervlewed her for an eastern maga- zine. Neither of them mentioned the episode during the Interview, but Miss Bogan assured fellow players that the bromide about timid hearts never < .winning tair Mien or success is txu^ » A T the Mount Pleasant Cougrtga- - tioqal Church this afternoon, be- [ ginning at I:K> o'clock, the second! musical service for February will be ! given. The special attraction today | will bo the National .String Quartet Jlenrl Sokolove, first violin; Max Pu- gatsky, second violin; Samuel Feld- man. viola, and Richard Lorleberg. 'cellist, Herman Fakler, baas, will assist. Tho Mount Pleasant Quartet, composed of Miss Frances tk'hcrger, soprano: Mrs. Ilazen I*. Buohlcr, con- j teal to; William P. Shanahan, tenor, t and Herman Fakler, bass, w ith Claude i Robeson, organist and director, will ( sing. The public la cordially invited, j The quartet will play "Allegro Vivace i Assai” < Mozart) and also hie “Andante j Cantabile”: the nnterludium in Modo Antlco” (Glaaounow) and | "Minuet” (Beethoven). Mr. Soko- i love will play a violin solo, "Arioso" . (Bach), and Mr. Fakler will sing •The Great Awakening" (Kramer). ( For the morning service at 11; o’clock the. music will be furnished hy the Mount Pleasant chorus and I the solo quartet, under tin direction , of Norton M, Uttle. with Claude Robeson at tho organ. The* program , follows: Organ prelude. "Offertoin tßocllmann); tenor solo, “Evening [ and Morning” (Speaks), Mr. Shana- . ban; offertory chorus; organ post-j ludo, "Sortio" (Eoellmann). A feature of the musical vesper j program today at the First Congre- gational Church will be Harry Ed- ward Mueller's use of tho Ampico re- producing piano for some selections. In several numbers Mr. Mueller will play the organ with the piano. Miss- Elsa Raner. violinist, will also play with the Ampico. Following is the j program: Organ. '‘Allegro from First Svmphonie" (Macqualre); violin solo. | "Les Parfedets" (Pente), Miss Ram r. I violinist: Ampico piano and organ, j "Liebestraum” f Liszt); bass solo, by i Charles Trow bridge TUI man n. "The . Eord is My Shepherd" (Dvorak); concerto in G minor, for piano and. organ, flrsft movement (Saint-Saens); j bass solo. “No Night There" (banks): Ampico piano and organ. “Rustle of j Spring”’ (Slnding); violin solo. “Ave | Maria” (Schubert); bass solo. "One j Sweetly Solemn Thought” (Ambrose). At the evening service at 8 o’clock the vested chorus choir, assisted by | the quartet and under the direction of Harry Edward Mueller, will give the second part of Mendelssohn's! ‘.•Elijah,” The first part was given ( two weeks ago at the evening | service. At tho Luther Place Memorial Church the music today will be: Morning service. 11 o’clock—Prelude. "Allegro Maestoso," from the third sonata (Guilmant): anthem. "Magnifi- cat and Nunc Dlmittis" (Williams); offertory. “Elegle” (Salome); an- them, "Praise. Ye, the Lord”_ (Bor- dese), and posthide, “March.” in A major (West). Evening service, S | p.m.—Prelßde, "Caprice” (Sturges); j anthem, "Twilight and I>awn” (Speaks): offertory fLemaigre); hari-j tone solo, “Come. Y*e Disconsolate” (Bogart), E. J. Stenson. and post- lude tVlerne). This evening at the Church of the Covenant at 8 o’clock a musical serv- ice in memory of former President Woodrow Wilson will be given. The evening choir of 100 voices, Claude Robeson, director: Harvey Murray, organist, and Mrs. Howard Blandy. pianist, will sing “The Souls of the Righteous’’ and "And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears.” Miss McLean and Mr. Farrar will sing "Crossing the Bar.” and Mr. Fakler will sing, by request. "Goin’ Home,” an arrange- ment of the largo from the "New World Symphony,” by Dvorak. The church doors will be open at 7 o’clock, and the public is cordially invited. At the Church of the Ascension this morning the choir will sing “Te Deum,” In E flat (Woodward); rjubi- latc” (Ncvln); anthem. “How Lovely Are the Messengers" (Mendelssohn). For tho prelude Mr. Wilson will play “Tjegcnde. Romantlque” (Roland Hig- gle) and for posQudo he will play “Phantasie,” from Sonata XVIII, in A (Joseph Rheinbergor). At the eve- ning service the prelude will be: An- dante. "Peace," and the postlude "Kantasie,” in G minor (J. S. Bach). w»hile tho choir will sing “Nunc Di- mittis” fMarksl: hymn, “Abide With Me” (Monk), arid for the offertory the anthem. "Tarry With Me. O My Saviour" (Samuel A. Baldwin). The incidental solos will be sung by Law- rence E. Murray, basso. Washington Heights Presbyterian Church will give the following musi- cal program this morning; Organ prelude. "Berceuse” (Tlll»); ’cello solos, “Andacht” (Popper) and ‘'Ari- oso” (Bach), Miss Mabel H. Duncan: offertory solo. “O Divine Redeemer,” Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, soprano; violin obligato, Mrs. Raymond Dickey: 'cello obligato. Miss Duncan- recessional, “Thanhauser March” (Wagner). Mrs. Frank Boa! will be at the organ. At Christ Church music today will be; Morning service. 11 o’clock—Or- gan prelude. "Madrigal” (Guilmant); ••’/> Deum” (Suhnecker); offertory anthem. “O Lamb of God” (Blschoff). and organ postlude. ‘Fantasia,” in F (Polleri). Evening service, 8 o’clock —Organ prelude, "Slumber Song” (Nevln): contralto solo. ”1 Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” (Harries): of- fertory quartet, “Bow Down Thine Ear" (Steane), and organ postlude. "Postlude.” In A flat (Frost). Estelle Wentworth Is choir director; Katha- rine Scelye Wallace, organist, and the quartet, Janet Pickett, soprano; Madge Kanode, contralto: Ellsworth Con- dron, tenor, and Wilfrod Gilbert, bass. The following musical program will be given at the Ninth Street Christian Church today: Morning— Anthem by the choir, “Bless Thou the Lord (Martin), and evening—anthem » concert is being now repeated. The leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Mlse Hcmpel was * chosen from all the world’s living singers to Impersonate the immortal Jenny Lind at tho historic concert given in 1920 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Swedish nightingale. The' program will include: “Dedi- cation” ¦ (Schumann-Liszt), “Sceno and Cavatina” (Bellini), “Llebes- Botachaft” (Schubert), “Du bist die Rub” (Schubert), “Frulingsnacht” (Schumann), “The Herdsman’s Song” (Old Norwegian melody). “Grand Aria Di Bravura"-(Meyerbeer), "Should He Upbraid" (Bishop),' "The Evening Bell’ (Taabert), “Bird Song” (Tau- bert), “Home, Sweet Home” (Bishop). Seats on 'sale, at Mrs. -Wilsorr- Grevnc’s Concert, Bureau 13th and G tttreete, ...„ ... j TWO SOPRANOS SING HERE THIS WEEK 1 •• --I Nina KosHLTZ-NaHoital Frilda Hempel - poll* i » - I THE regular monthly meeting of r the District of Columbia Board i of the Federation of Music Clubs will j ho held Saturday afternoon, February i 16. at 4:30 o'clock, in L. ! Kitt building, 13S0 G street northwest. A largo attendance is requested at j this meeting, as important matters tare to be discussed. Tho Maret Club of the Maret j School, which was the first juvenile ielub to come into the federation, is at j work on a concert to be given shortly. | This club has been In the federration I for tome time. Its president is Miss | Margaret Ben ham. A new club recently federated is ¦ tho Vipivoce Club. Mins Frances I Gutellus le the leader and Miss Clara ; | Bogorad is president. All club notices for the Official ! Bulletin should be smt to Miss Mar- garet McCormick, 1124 Lament street! : northwest, by the 20th of the month, j . Gertrude Lyons, vice chairman of ; j the entertainment committee of the ' ! " omen’s Oily Club, has planned a j j varied program for tomorrow evc- j ning. Audrey Zerbce, soprano, will ( j sing the aria from "Madame Butter-j 1 and "A Birthday" (Woodman). I I \ iolin solos will be given by Dorothy ! j Beamans, "Adoration” (Borowskil, j 1 "Swing Song" (barnsi, "Kulwlak" ,(W i.sniawshi); accompaniment by . Muriel Ifoage. Hazel Arts, contralto, (will ting "At We Part" (Ilgenfritzß "All for You” (Martin). "Bird of j Bove” i Wood), accompanied by Ma- j rie Bouise Sullivan. Mabel Linton win give piano solo?.. ' Th. - Vipivoce Music Study Club I tnef at the studio of Frances GUtellus | Tuesday night. The Vipivoce Trio 1 ! j play, d "The Sweetest Story Ever j j Told and Massenet's "Elegy,’’ with i i Garth Heav. r playing violin; William 1 : Test, ciiio, and Thomas Elf man. piano, i j Thelma Callahan played variations ' I on "Turkey in the Stra w." and Wil- j I lian> Glide gave a Spanish dance. [ ! Miss Mary Isabel Kelly will present [ :a program of 1 v. o-;iiano music at the j ! College Women's Club next Saturday i I evening at .S o’clock. This is the ' | third in a series of four concerts ar- , i ranged for the benefit of the club’s ! piano fund. An interesting feature j of the concert is the fact that Miss ! 1 Kelly studied the Scharwenka con- j ¦ certs under the composer himself in ’. Berlin. The selections to be given will in- j (elude; "Serenade. Op. 489” (Low). I ! “Waltz, Op. 72” (Von Wilm), Virginia j i Bestor and Alary Isabel Kelly; “A I j Wondrous Rapture Must It Be” I (Scharwenka), ’TEsclavc” (Balo). j | “Over the Steppe" (Gretchaninoff', ”11 j I est Doux” (Massenet), Helen Macßeod I Clift; "Lento, Mcsto. Op 83” (Sehar- wenka) (from concerto for piano and ! orchestra). "Rondo. Op. 73” (Chopin), | Mary Isabel Kelly and Virginia | Bvstor: "Song Without Words” ! (Mendelssohn - Kreisler), "Legende. j OP. 314, No. 7” (Rohm), Tracy pjeh- j ards Plant; melodrama for declama- j tion with piano, "How Beautiful Were | Or.ce the Hoses,” prose poem by Tur- i gtnev, English version by Nicholas Doufy (Arensky), "The Castle by the I Sea.”, poem by X'hland, English ver- ' sion by Longfellow (Strauss); spoken j songs, "O Mother, the Young Prince ! J Is to Pass By Our Door,” poem by j (Sir Rabindranath Tagore. "The Hand- ! Organ Alan,” text by Dana Burnet j j (Kotrner), Anita Schade and Alary I f ETTERS from Paris have recently been received from William Engel, pianist, who as a native of Washington from boyhood has many friends in this city. Air. Engel’s early piano studies were made under teaeh- -1 ers in Washington. In 1911 he went j to Berlin and continued his musical I work with well known teachers, j When Germany declared war he re- turned to this country and became as- sistant librarian in the music depart- ment of the Congressional Library. He enlisted later with the American forces and was sent to France. After the armistice he remained in Prance and continued his pianlstic work with the French musician and pedagogue Philipp. He has had success as teacher and artist, and is now on the musical staff of the College Montmorency, Paris. Jacques Thibaud wilt give his first American classes on the evenings of February IS and 25, at tho David Mannes Music School In New York, prior to his sailing for France at the end of the month. For his class of violinists, divided into players and listeners, M. Thibaud will discuss points of technique and interpretation. M. Thibaud played in Washington last month at the first of Airs. Townsend’s Monday morning musicals. With Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, so- prano, will be assisting artist with the Army Band Concert Orchestra, William J. Stannard. leader, in the second of a series of concerts arranged by Bieut. Parry W. Bewis, commanding officer of the Army Band, at the Officers’ Club, Washington barracks, Thursday evening. The concert orchestra of the Army Band, composed of fifty instrumental- ists, is vicing in popularity with the parent organization, and the premier A Dixie tour has been arranged for Lueut. Commander John Phillip Sousa I as the last lap of his thirty-first an- nual journey at the head of the band ¦which bears his name. Beginning at Tulsa, Okla.. on February 1, Sousa will visit-thirty-eight cities in Okla- homa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tenqe- see. Louisiana, Alabama. Florida, Georgia. South Carolina, North Car- olina. Virginia, the District of Col- umbia and Maryland, before endlAg this season in Baltimore on March 8. Sousa’s Dixie tour conies at the end , ’of what has been his most successful season. Starting from New York •in July, Sousa and his organization of 160 bandsmen and soloists. has played its way through New England and from' Portland, Me., to Portland, Dm, the bugtii-oC the Pactflo coast, across Teg- ( . ? , Bruno Walter Here Next Week. Bruno Walter, distinguished guest conductor of the New York Symphony . Orchestra, who will make his first ap- j pearanco in Washington at the final | concert- In this derlea in Poll’s Theater, February 19, arrived In New York last week on the Holland-Amerlcan liner New Amsterdam. Mr. Walter has had an active season in Europe conducting orchestras, operas and festivals in many continental cities. He directed hia first concert in New York this season yesterday. He will be the guest of the Now York. Sypiphany Orchestra for one month and besides his appearance in Washington' and New York ho will also be heard In Baltimore and Philadelphia. Mr. Walter will have as assisting ar- tist for hia local program the eminent cellist, Pablo Casals. The program mill Include the "Schubert Symphony, No. 9. in C,” and "Till Bulonsplegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss. Mr. Casals will be heard in the "Concerto In B ilat for Violoncello with Orchestra,” by Boccherini. The Washington-New York symphony series is under the local management of Mrs. Wllson-Greene, and tickets are on sale at her office, 13th and G streets. il 1 ! Club and School Notes I t Isabel Kelly; “Valsc, Op. 15” (Aren- sky); "Espana” (raptsodle pour orches- tra) (Chabrierk Virginia Bestor and Mary Isabel Kelly. Paul Bleydon will present Helen Harper, soprano; Alberta Gilbert, so- prano, and Martha K. Woolley, con- tralto, at the.second In this series of musical teas 'this afternoon at 2919 Columbia road, at.s o’cl6ck. The program will be “What Is Bove?” (Owst). "Pirate Dreams” (Hu- erta). Dawn (D’Ha'rd^lOt), Martha K. Woolley, contralto; "O Sonnen- schoin” (Schumank). “Marning” (Speaks), "Bargerette.” (Barlow). Alberta Gilbert. soprano: “Se Tu M’anil” (pergoteee). "The Open Hoad” (Ba Forge), "Lullaby" (Cyril Scott), j "Tea Veux" (Rabeyl, “April Ecstasy” (Speaks l , Helen Hafper, .soprano. The Rebew Orchestra, under the di- rection of H. W. Weber, gave the I fourth of a series of public rehearsals : Monday night in the lecture room of i Keller Alemorlal Church. The sold- j lets wen Miss Georgic R. -French, so- ; prano, and Lawrence K Elliott, ten- | or. Mrs. Edward L. Weber was the i accompanist. The orchestra-numbers ! included selections by Bisohoff. Suppc. : Flotow. Santelmann,- Khcich, Lam pc. ; | Puerncr and H.otzmann. The service department. Young ; Men’s Christian Association, lobby I concert la.-!t Monday night was prC- ) sent* d by Miss Alice Hill, guitar; Mrs, I Edith Tschlffely, Hawaiian guitar; A. j L. Williams, tiple; Miss Emily Ells- ; worth, contralto; Gilmer Randolph. ¦ : reader: Mits Lucy Dunwoody Higgins, soprano; Frineis Thome, baritone; Miss Emily Mann, Miss Emily Alar- , garet White and Mies Inez Sexton, ac- I companists. j AJiss Beatrice Wainwright, soprano, I gave a musical at her studio IXday i afternoon. She sang several num- bers. and Joseph D. Becker, baritone, * sang a: group of songs in English. t John Victor Walsh was the accom- ' pauist. i The Rubinstein Club will hold, the second of Its series of concerts Alarch j 11 in the ballroom of the New Wil- ; lard Hotel, with Frederick Ounster 1 as- the aasistieg artist. Tho aftcr- noon card partj, given a2»o by the 1 club, will be held March 17 in the I Willard, Rehearsal will be Tuesday i morning at the regular hour. Miss Helen Belt. Miss Hoover and ; Mr. Casky gave a trio for piano, vio- lin and cello a-s the opening number j of the Friday Morning Music Club’s program last w‘eek. Airs. Joseph Bar- nard sang several selections and Miss Emma Bestor gave some piano solos. Next Friday the program which has ¦ been arranged by Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe is to be presented by the “Soko- lov String Quartet and a vocal quar- tet of mixed voices." Rosemary Fincttel, pianist, and Warren Terry, tenor, will bt pre- sented in a recital at the Hotel Roosevelt next Tuesday evening. Alias Finckel is only twelve years old. yet has appeared in recitals in New York and will make her formal debut there at Carnegie Hall later this month. Fctian Garzia wilt play the second piano in the Alendelssohn concerto Tuesday. Mr. Terry’s numbers will include songs in German, French, Italian and | English. This is second in a series of recit- als sponsored by the choir of St. An- -1 drew’s Episcopal Church this season. | MUSIGRAPHS | public appearance of the orchestra on tho occasion of the second anni- , versary of. tho organization of the Array vis ex* tremcly successful. Katherine Higgs, concert harpist xrUl play a recital tonight at 9 o’clock m the blue room of tho Burlington I Hotel. This is one of the series of . bujiday evening concerts being given at tho Burlington , this season. Miss Higgs numbers will Include Russian ¦ French German and English selec- tions, given in four groups. J Mrs Florence Howard, soprano : spent last wwk in New York at tT; I guest of Beulah Harper Dunwoodv in ; ’homo in Bhilipse Manor, on the . Hudsno. Mrs. Dunwoody Is well [ in " ashlngton as a contralto t ?i rs c .V ouar !i S ner befor e members of f ‘Harvey Townsend sang at a commn. 1 nity meeting held In the Sunday , roorn o( the Sherwood ; Church last Tuesday evening. Carl Mil- r lard was the accompanist. 1 R. Deane Shure has Just received word from two publishing Arms of the ; purchase of his French daice “Min uetto Artstocratique,” and ah anthem "Blessed Ones Come Unto Me/’ em Netta Craig win he guest soloist at , I the luncheon given at the Hotel Roose- ' velt by the administration caucas Dis- -1 trict of Columbia D. A. R., next Tues- -1 day. She will be accompanied by Mrs 1 Bertrand Trenis, regent of the Abigail , Hartman .Rice Chapter. Miss Craig holds the position of vice chairman of the music division of the local society Miss Craig has announced she will ¦ shortly begin a series of her costume recitals in New York city and vlqinity, i and will give similar recitals in various places in Virginia. Washington's Band Leader on Dixie Toiir. 1 ns a«d the old eoutli and up the At- Itantic seaboard to Baltimore, where the journey ends. Souaa has hia largest band and his programs tills year are more varied and wide in their appeal . than ever before, ranging from Schell- ing’s “The Victory Ball.” .and Graing- ' era “Country Garden,” to the Sousa humoresque (an annual 'affair and this year based upon “Mr. Oallagher-Mr. Shean") and new Sousa marches, “The Dauntleffe Battalion” ¦ and ' "Nobles of . the Mystic Shrine.” i t One of the. events of Sousa’s year oc- curs on the day before he finishes hie season, when her will visit Washington, where he wan bom, and Where he gained his first fame as director of the i United States Marine Band. There he - spends a day each year, among the scene* of his eMtdhood saw of bis first 1 triumphs saa mufidm <• «• Behind the Screen Intimate, Personal Pictures of the Stars of the Silver Sheet BY SAMUEL. GOLDWTK. * Copyright, 1923. by George H. Darto Company, . ffiontal divergences. Whereas, Mary PlckfonTa manner and voice are al- by the feminine, almost childlike, appeal, to which I have re- ferred, the prima donna*t> speech ha.i , a man« directness of import. Sh>. picks her words for strength, as might a Jack London sea captain or an Elizabethan soldier. And her ut- terance of these words reveals the same strange compound of qualities I have noted elsewhere. It is an enunciation both flowering and in- cisive. The cantatrice’s entrance into Hol- lywood was an unprecedented one. The mayor of Los Angeles was there to welcome her to California. So tvere 5.000 school children. Cowboys I'L their chaps and sombreros added their customary picturesqueness to the scene. Flowers were everywhere i All Los Angelos reminded you of a festa day in some Italian city. Now- adays wo are so accustomed to spec- tacular personages in tho motion pic- tures that it is hard to recapture for you the thrill that shook the entire country when Geraldine Farrar, the queen of the Metropolitan Opera House, came to California. The night following Miss Farrar.- arrival we gave her a dinner at tr.. Hollywood Hotel. This dinner in i eluded among its L'oo guests not only ¦ i the leading representatives of tin : j screen colony, hut a number of di I tinguished sojourners. Among the i | latter may he mentioned Mr. John : Drew and Miss Blanche Ring. > *At this dinner party Miss Farrar . i (Continued from Yesterday’s Star.) CHAPTER VII. Geraldine the Great. IN tho early winter of 1910 I went to tho stage production of "Maria Rosa.” Who that witnessed the same performance can ever for- get- the creation of Mr. Lou Tel- tegen? That Latin lover whose ferocity showed in every silken ac- cent, in every gesture of panther- like, slim body—today this lingers with me as among the most telling of dramatic brush strokes. How distinctly I remember the first day that the young foreign actor, who, previous to his triumph in ' ’’Maria Rosa" had been hailed as "licrnhardt’s beautiful leading man,” came to my office! We were talking about salary when suddenly Telb-gen jumped up from his chair and -walked over to look at a photograph on the wall. "Who is that!” ho asked, peering at the face in the frame. "Oh," answered I, "don’t you.know her? That’s Geraldine Farran” "Oh, yes. the famous singer," he responded, never taking his eyes from the dazzling victorious face. "H’m—- very, very beautiful, is she not?" lie mused. I had hoped that he was perhaps permanently swept away from the theme which he had relinquished so I.’> m- : ju* GERALDINE FARRAR IN ONE OF HER SCREEN SUCCESSES. abruptly.’ I bad. however, underrated Mr. Teilegen's powers 4>f recupora- f tion. A moment more and. he was j standing before mo with a light in | his eyes very different from that! evoked by the abstract consideration ; of beauty. ‘.‘Let ns say a thousand dollars a week.” said he. “Certainly after» alt my experience I ought to be worth | that.” Mention of Mr. Telltgen brings me | logically to one achievement of nty | lire which 1 always survey with pride j The year and a half that had elapsed ! since the production of "The Squaw j Man” had brought almost incredible - improvements in both the manuiac- : ture and presentation of photoplays, j The modern system of lighting had j replaced our former reliance upon the j ravs of the sun. More and more we j had substituted the carpenter for the | scene painter. As to the motion pic- i tyre theater itself, this, of course, presented an aspect very different j from the peanut-strewn area* which in 1913 had suggested my great en- j terprise. i However, in spite of orchestral ac- companiments and high-priced scats, in spite of the grow in g ascendancy of such screen stars as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the motion pic- tures were merely popular. They i were not fashionable. How to make them so. how to intrigue that shy marginal group known as “the car- riage trade”- —here was the challenge offered to the producer of 1915. It was about this lime that Morris Gest came to me and said; ”1 think I've about got Geraldine Farrar tc the point where she's willing to go into motion pictures. What’s more. 1 believe she’ll come v with you instead of with Zukor, for tho idea of Cali- fornia is attractive to her. especially if she can go.and come in a private car.” . : After a smile at this approach to the situation on the part of Miss Farrar, I asked him. "But how docs the famous prima donna look these days?" . , "Wonderful;” More bcautitul than ever,” retorted Gest. On the first evening when Lasky and I called at Miss Farrar's home we found that Gest’s enthusiasm was not 1 misplaced. As she swept into the drawing room to greet ns we both j thought we had never in our lives seen anv one so' beautiful. ft did not .take long to arrange mat- ters bet vveen us. Miss Farrar agreed to go to Caiifomio for eight weeks to make three pictures—" Maria Kosa,” ’’Carmen” and "Temptation.’’ For these services she was to rtccive $2£,000. and. in consideration of the modesty of the sum—she would have realizod more for a- concert tour of the same length—we agreed to sup- ply her with a special car to and from Bos Angeles, together with a furnished house, servants and food during the p-riod of her stay. | -On all such minor points Miss- V ar- ror was immediately reasonable. Only in one subject did she display any vital curiosity ‘"Whom are you going to engage for my leading man,” she asked. “Never mind. It will be somebody that you’ll like,” we assured her. "But,” she urged, “you know it’s very important that my Don Jose should bo right. Otherwise the per- formance wpuld be ruined.” Again* we assured her that she was sure to be satisfied with our provision for this part. "But who is he?” she Insisted, want to know his name.” WIT evaded this request. And we kept on evading it throughout our subsequent Interviews. This was not easy, for in every spare moment the prima donna would plead with me “Why won't vou teil me his name?” It was almost the first question she asked after she stepped from the. spe clal train bearing her to California. So mony people have asked me for my first impression of Geral- dine Farrar that I should like to interpolate here my response to that frequent inquiry. If you can picture a flowering arbor and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding in- side of It a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived tho full force of Miss Farrar’s personality. At the time when I met her she was in her early thirties and that beauty of lucent gray eyes and curving lips—- the flowering vigour of look which she doubtless inherited from some ancestress of the Irish seas—was then at its height. Under this screen of physical allure I felt from the very first moment the pulse of a mind restless, eager, alert to every pos- sibility of learning. Indeed, the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect of Miss Farrar’s presence. Not only does she charge tho atmos- ph'ere with that mental vitality of hers, she creates the impression al- ways of cutting—cutting straight through, any given subject. If 1 had said, therefore, that the arbor con- cealed one of those marvelous imple- ment® that cut, thrash and sack the grain, all in a single operation, I should have come nearer the ideal of description. ' ... Miss Farrar is, dike Mary Pickford, a captain of industry. She has the same masculine grasp of business, the* same piasculine approach to work. The difference between them is con- strued tiot alone by the immeasur- ably greater-cultural equipment of Misa Farrar, but by many tempera- ..’ ;¦' .. . ~. I ' ' . I turned to me almost at once with her habitual question. “And now surely.' j She pleaded, "you're going to tell me who is to be my Don Jose?” j Do Mille and I exchanged a. hag- i gard glance. Many, many times hod ;we shuddered together over the thought, “What if she dosen't ilk- ihim?” Our previous experience wit > stars 'had taught us not to minimiz-* that possible calamity, j "Ten toe.” repeated our gre.i' i planet. “Not another minute will t | wait!” I t was just about to replv when I ; looked up. A tall young ‘man had entered the door ami vva** now walk- i ing toward jis. He was only twenty - I three. His even jag e lofiies were 1 ( no means faultless, but the face al>o' ! . ,Vils flushed witli excitement. | Th. blue eyes shorn-. I had neve j seen Wallace Held look inert 1 iK¦ th* beautiful and romantic young I man of the collection j "There.” I whispered, watching j her tensley, “there is your leading I man.” j She had already* noticed him and as he moved slowly toward us she never took her eyes from his sac- At last, just before he reached us, she began slowly nodding her hcad. "Very good,” she whispered, and tic- ' smile with which she said it linger* d as she repeated the encomium. “Vc-rv. very good.” I do not need to dwell upon the relief afforded to us by that smile. I venture to suggest, however, that ii may have brought corn spending heart’s ease wo Wallace himself. For he vya? then young and inexperienced and 1 have no doubt that for man* days previous lie, too, had ho* quailing before that grim possibility, "What if she dosen't like me:” A number of the screen people were inspired with awe of Mb.- ; Farrar’s reputation. "I bet anything she’s up-stage,” several of them pre- dicted before meeting her. That eve- ning disarmed all such fears. go simple and friendly, so gay and un- affected. was the Metropolitan star that everybody went away singing her praises. I 'soon found, indeed, that the ancestry of the Irish scan j had dowered her with more than that j floweripg vigor of look and rnan- | nor. She has the warmth of person- ( al approach, the ability to get along I with folks of ail descriptions, that j -haracterizc tho Irish race, i This element in her character wa.- brought out particularly in the studio. It was: not long before every- body there, . including "Grips” and "Props"—the local terms by which are designated respectively the elec- tricians and the property men—were I calling her ‘-Jerry.” Tins intimacy of reference was a | token of real affection and it was tie- I served, for she seldom passed tin ; most humble worker in the studio i without a smile or a friendly word When she arrived in Hollywood si.- didn’t know, of course, a single thing about making a film. “What.” sh. exclaimed on her first day, “why 1 didn't realize you had to make a sin- gle scene over four times." This freshness of viewpoint placed her in a situation ideal for observation of the mental eagerness of w hich I hav spoken. She asked questions of ev- erybody in the studio from Do Mill*- to “Grips.” It was wonderful to see the zest of her application to this new task, to watch that perfect im- plement of a brain cut and thrash and assort its selected subject. There is no doubt about it. Geral- dine Farrar enjoyed every mhiute of those first eight weeks spent in th* movies. She loved the atmosphere of the motion pictures. She liked the people in the cast. She told mo sh‘ thought De Mille was great. I can hardly express what this widd: area of satisfaction meant to me after eighteen months that had been in- structive chiefly* in the hardship <•; pleasing any star, at any given point So eager was Miss Farrar for her film day to begin that she used to ar- rive at the studio every morning u< 8 o’clock. She was then all made up for the set, and as this process is so much more exacting than the aver- age woman’s dab of powder and rouge, one knew she had risen not later than d. “H’m, where’s Mr. Dc Mille? Where’s everybody?” she used to ask. Her manner w-as exactly that of a war-horse sniffing, “Hero am 1. Where’s the war?” And when she began to work noth- ing seemed to tire her. At 4 o’clock in the' afternoon that hour when the average screen performer begins to wonder if she’ll molt before she takes root or take root before she melts, the great prima donna was as radian with energy as she was at 8 o’clock- in the morning. The explanation ol this sustained vitality lay deeper than her undoubted physical strength, bin- herself voiced it one day during her second engagement with the Lasky Company. She - was then making “Joan tin Woman.” It was during the most in- tense heat of tlie. California summer. During this particular set she won- a suit of armor which must have been about as soothing to her feelings as wrist-warmers to a resident of Bom- bay. Tho set, which had been called for one hour, was not actually tiken until more than four hours later. This wait, so characteristic of a stu- dio day*, was rendered more oppres- sive, by the Jhud of adjacent carpus- i r AConUn’aed on XweifUTFageO 5

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HE next few weeks will bring several famous artists to Washing-

I ton, but the February music calendar apparently is not to be ,JL overcrowded with concerts and recitals.

During the coming week two famous sopranos will give what jpromise to be unusually interesting programs. Mme. Nina Koshetz. Rus- !-ian soprano, will be assisting artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Tues-day. She is the daughter of Paul Koshetz, noted tenor of the Moscow-

Imperial Theater in the days of the czar, and she lias a fine foundation ofmusicianly knowledge, having studied under SaronofT at the MoscowConservatory, and in composition with Taneiev. She also received dra-

matic training under Stanislavsky. In Paris she was coached by the

famous Fclia Litvinne,Frieda Hempel has long been popular in Washington, and her suc-

cess in her first Jenny Lind concert last season is well known. Mme.Hempel has . given these concerts all over the world since she was first

chosen to impersonate the great Swedish singer at the historical concert

in 19JO. • •

T*HE educational department of the District is developing interesting*

musical plans. The latest step is the inauguration of a series of organ

recitals for children under the auspices of Edwin N. G. Barnes, directorof the department." The recitals will bo held in church auditoriums in

different sections of the city. The programs are planned by Edith B.Athey, teacher qf music appreciation in the schools and well known as an

organist. She served for three years as civic organist in Central HighSchool.

Community singing will be a feature of these recitals, and specialnumbers by the children will be presented. Parents and friends are to beinvited. The first concert will be given tomorrow- afternoon from 3x50 to

4:15 at Petworth M. E. Church, New Hampshire avenue and Grant Circle.JTwo others will be given at the same hour on Tuesday at Fifth BaptistChurch, O'/j and E streets southwest, and Wednesday at Vermont Avenue

Christian Church. Vermont avenue above N street northwest.

This co-operation between the schools and churches for the develop-ment of children’s interest in music"and encouraging those with talent to

participate seems worthy of high commendation.+*? * '

t

R DEANE SHUKE. Washington composer, organist and choir director.• has just completed a suite for the piano called “Lyric Washington.”

Ir has .as themes points of prime interest in the city, from an artisticpoint of vijnv. These tone poems are w ithout a single note reminiscent ofrational airs. This seems so be the first group of piano compositionsdevoted exclusively to Washington. There is a delicate oriental com-position, "Japanese Cherry Blossoms”; a reverie. “The Lincoln Reflecting

: a merry humoresque. “Gnomes in Rock Creek Park,” “The PotomacPark Love Song,’’ "Mount Vernon”; a piquant. “Topsy on Tenth Ftrect.”and a dirge, “Arlington.” This work will be presented at several recitalsduring the month —at St. Stephen’s Church Friday, at a church benefit inChevy Chase on the 19th, at the Powhatan Hotel the JOlh and the MountVernon M. E. Church South February J7.

Mr. Shurr’s Washington suite -brings to mind the tact that Nevinimmortalized Venice musically; Charles Wakefield Cadman has interested

’ Music lovers all over the country with hfa "FloUywtiod Suite,” and JohnAldcn Carpenter has interpreted Chicago uiusit*ll>.

, * * * .f

LAST week an event in the musical aauAb of Washington waJ the seriesof three concerts of chamber music offered by Mrs. Frederic ShurtlefT

Coolidge in the Freer Art Gallery. The programs were chiefly of prize-winning compositions from international competitions preceding the fa-mous Berkshire festivals. Mrs. Coolidge has presented to the Library ofCongress the composers’ autograph scores of these compositions, as wellas those of all works dedicated to.her or commissioned by her.

The Festival Quartet of South Mountain, the Elshuco Trio, foundedand maintained by Mrs. Coolidge, and the Lenox Quartet shared honorswith solo artists such as Harold Bauer. Lionel Tertis and G. Barrcre. Themodern composers represented included Francesco Malipiero, Italian;

*4l. Waldo Warner. English; Leo Weiner. Hungarian; Julius Roentgen.Dutch; Henry Eichheim. American; Ernest Bloch, Swiss, and EugeneGoossens. English.

Particularly interesting was Mr. Eichheim’s own conducting of his“Oriental Impressions.” Part of this suite was given by Stokowski at aPhiladelphia symphony concert last spring and created much'interest atthat time. Mr. Eichheim was a member of the Boston Symphony Orches-tra for twenty-two years. HELEN FETT ER.

CONCERTSThe Flonzaley Quartet, at Central High School, 8:15 tomorrow night.

-i United States Marine Band, Marine barracks, 3 p.m. tomorrow.• Chickering memorial concert, the Playhouse. 8 o’clock tomorrow

night.Tlte Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, at the National Theater,

Tuesday at 4:30.Spanish war veteran concert. Masonic Auditorium, Tuesday night at

8:15 o’clock.United States Army. Band. Washington barracks, 8 o'clock Thurs-

day night.Frieda Hempel. Jenny Lind concert. Poll’s Theater, Friday afternoon

at 4:30.i ..... ... ¦ ...

Flonzaley Quartet TomorrowThe Flonzaley Quartet will give a

. oncerl under the auspices of the |Washington Society of the Fine Artsat Central High School tomorrownight at 8:30 o’clock.

They will play the following pro-gram: Mozart’s "QuartM in A -Major”(K464). allegro, menuetto, andantecon - variazioni and allegro; R.Vaughan Williams’ “Romanze” and"Rondo capriccioso,” allegro molto,trom “Quarct In G Minor*'; Bee-thoven’s “Quaret in C Major, Op- 59,Vo. 3,” introduzione, allegro vivace,andante con moto quasi, allegretto,

Hionuctto. allegro molto.

Marine Band Tomorrow.At the United States Marine bar- j

racks at 3 p.ra. tomorrow afternoon ¦s concert by the United States Marino ,Rand Orchestra will be given under ;William H. Santelmann, leader, and jTaylor Branson, second leader.

The program will include: March, *"Universal Freedom” (Blankenburg); Ioverture, ’’Mignon” (Thomas); rev-j?trie, "Extase” (Ganne); grand!ecenes from “La Oioconda” (Ponchl- itjliV; ¦ intermezzo, "A Ball Scene”(.Vicode); "Adoration” (Borowskl);suite de ballet, “Oltanilla” (Lacome);Marines’ hymn. "The Halls of Monte-zuma,” and “The Star Spangled Ban-

ner.”There will be no concert at the

marine barracks Wednesday night onamount of the band being detailedfor other official engagements.

Quckering Memorial Con-cert Tomorrow.

A Washington concert to commem-orate the great Jonas Chickening willho given at the Playhouse tomorrowevening. Miss Gertrude Henneman,American pianist, will give the recital.

This young artist has just com-

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[pleted what is said to boa successful’tour of the middle west and south.I Her Washington appearance is ofspecial interest to local music loversbecause of this being her home city.

! Cbickering & Sons has extended( invitations to a limited number ofguests to be present at this concertand have provided a delightful pro-gram for the occasion.

Philadelphia SymphonyTuesday.

Leopold Stokowski will direct thePhiladelphia Orchestra at the Na-tional Theater Tuesday afternoon Inall-RussjiCn program, with Mine.

Vina Koshetz, Russian soprano, assoloist. The symphony Is the fourth

I °f Tschaikowsky, known as the sym-

phony with the pizzicato movement.I The overture will bo “Rouslane et; Ludmila,” by Glinka! The ’dancej from "Snegourotchka” will be thetinale. Mme. Koshetz will *ing a

; group of songs by Moussorgsky andi three by liimsky-Korsakow.j At the concert in Philadelphia last

.) season Mme. Koshetz sang the num-i bers which she will offer in Washing-

ton.The concert will b» under the local

management of the T. Arthur Smith,Inc., Concert Bureau, at 1306 Gstreet. -

Spanish War Veterans’ Con-cert Tuesday.

The United States Spanish WarVeterans have announced an Inter-esting program to be held at theMasonic Auditorium Tuesday evening at

An overture will be played by theUnited States Marine Battd, followedby a piano recital by the youngAmerican concert pianist. Mies Ger-trude Henneman, assisted by MissFrances Scherger, soprano. andFrank Kimmel, lecturer.

, Miss Henneman has done concert;work throughout the country. She(seems to possess a gift of interpre-tation and tone quality.

Mr. Kimmel Will give a short talkon the relation of classic music topopular or jazz tunes.

Miss Prances Scherger is wellknown in Washington music circles.The committee In charge of this

recital has as chairman FrancisHubn.

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Army Band Thursday.A concert will be given by the

i Army Band Concert Orchestra, Wil-|ljam J. Stannard leader, at the Offi-) cers’ (Jlub, Washington barracks, D. Ci S p.m. Thursday.

1 The program will include: March,! “NMebelungen” (Wagner); selection,.‘‘You’re in Love” (Prim!): suite,"Balled Kgyptlen” (Lulginl); valse,

j“Les Roses” (Metra); ballet from(“Naila” (Delibes); "Humoresque”

(DvoraOO: selection. “The Fortune(Teller” (Herbert), "The Star Spangled’Banner.” ~ v

Frieda Hempel in JennyLind Concert Friday

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i Frieda Hempel will give one of her1 famous Jenny Lind concerts at Poll’sTheater next Friday afternoon at 4:30o'clock, under the management ofMrs. Wilson-Greene. In the first of

, these concerts given last season hun-. dreds were turned away. It is in re-

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TOE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. FEBRUARY 10; 1924-PART 3. ¦Stannard Composes Star

March.W. J. Stannard. loader of the

ninety-piece United States ArmyBand, one of the finest musical or-ganizations in Washington, has justgiven the first performance of hisnewest march. **Thc WashingtonElvenlng Star March." The composi-tion was given its formal debut at themeeting of The Kvening Star Clublast Wednesday evening for tho an-nual election of officers.

This march is entirely original inits melodies, which are verytive. and has been carefully written

Isoas to conform perfectly with tho

laws of musical composition. Theopening chords are arresting in theirbrilliance and the finale is clean-cut.The whole composition is excellently i

• unified.Mr. Stannard is a thorough musi-

cian. Born in a musical family, hefirst studied the clarinet with hisbrother and later with C. 1U Staatsof the Boston Svmphony Orchestra,who was generally considered thebest clarinet player in this country.Mr. Stannard attended the Instituteof Musical Art on a scholarshipwhich he won in 1911. and studiedunder Frank Oamrosch. He com-pleted the four-year bandmastercourse in two years of intensivework. lie has written three othermarches that have proven popularwith the United States Marine Bandas well as the Army Band. They are‘‘the Oapt. It. W, I.ewis March.""Brig. On. Tl. 11. Handholtz March”and “The. Army Band.”

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| IN THE CHURCHES ]j— ——l ,

t l>y (he choir. "The Son of God Goes I[ Forth to War” (Gelbe!).

¦ Frank C. Bceming, organist of St. 1! Paul's Church, in Steubenville, Ohio, ii will give an organ recital at the l| Church of the Incarnation this eve-1nine.

Mr. Becming has recently accepted ji the position of organist at Mount I

j Calvary episcopal Church, in Haiti-1j more. Aid.

] Miss Hulk Mao Hansford tv ill be Ithe soprano soloist at the Cleveland !

j I’afk Congregational Church today, ii and will sing "Consider the Bilies."

j Mrs. Page McK. Etchison. musical i, director and pianist, will play as a ;i prelude “Impromptu-Elegy” "(Sctru- •[ bert);’ ss an offertory. "Romance,” in |jA. and for posllude, “Triumphal j

i March.”

I At Immanuel Baptist Church todav 1the choir, under the direction of Mrs. j

; Emily G. Dickinson, will sing "Hark, |, Hark, My Soul,” Mrs. Trios Crater and iMrs. Marion Walker taking the inci-I

| dental solos. .Mr. Udford will sing!I ‘‘O . Dry Those Tears,” with violin

j obligato by Mr. Sturtevant. At the j• evening seevico the male chorus will !

j sing several numbi rs.

I At the Metropolitan Presbyterian !Church this morning the music, un- 1

1 der the direction of Uucy H. Paul, or- )j ganist and direct.>r. will be as fol-

I. lower: Prelude, *

A Song of Sorrow”;!j anthem, "And God Shall Wipe A wav 1.All Tears"; tenor solo. "Ho. k of I

i Apes." Raymond Fillius; po,stiade.march ('Merkel*. The evenings pro-!pram win include -: Prelude, ’*An -

’n (Uniare); anthem, ittod Is bovo”; contralto solo. "Outor the Depths." Miss Gauges; anthem, 1vVlriLnL ..y* Th -’ .Peace";, postlude. 1March F ontlficale. Raymond Filllust

• I1 : ttSßieting in the tenor place; Evelyn, Gnbbtn is soprano; Anita. U. Gauges,i con.ralto. and A. O. Kteams, jr.. bass. Ii Tlv musical program at the Firsti .••‘Wist Church today will b. ; Morn-jIng—Organ prelude. "Pastorella”: of-'llertory solo. ‘How lively Are The*

I : .or« :*n postin.le. "Fan- >. tasie. Evening, at 7;45 o'clock or- '

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-1, **l«rgo” (Jeff, rson >; !

! Med.talion (Sfurgessi; anthem by*j chorus. ‘The Holy Cl tv” I Adams i1 7rt2?.*.J n "nt,ry - "rn ': Fountain -* j

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Washingtonian Opera |School.

<pHE Opera School of the Wash-'ingtonian.s, under the direction Io. Roilin Bond, has been concentrat- iing on the training of principals and I

ensemble artists in a new comic operato bo given a premiere in Washington lprior to its New York bearings. |

“Cherry Blossom Time.” a lipfiu i(opera in two acts, libretto and I vries 1b\ Genevieve Farnell. and musical!score by 2>lr. Hond, is a storv with II scenes laid in Washington, with char-acters typical of figures in official andsocial circles.

The Washingtonians have made Ithirty-nine presentations of light ioporr. in the past four years. Both 1prnicipals and ensemble artists have ibeen local people, and have been pro- !pared for the stage work in the opera'training school of the Washing- jtonians, under Air. Bond's supervision. I

Lavender and Old Lace jMusic.

A concert that is built upon his-torical research is likely to be apedantic affair—if the research isevident. There can be no doubt thatmuch research, musical and -sartorial,has been expended upon the Mozartrecital in costume which Buoy Gates,soprano, and Botta Van Buren. whoplays “ye olde harpsichords, splnnetsand clavichords," give together. Theyseem, however, to have been able to lkeep the research from obtruding,itself, because they arc said to have"the eighteenth century flavor" and!"the atmosphere of lavender and old 1lace” in their recitals.

"Mozart should not be sung w ith apiano.” says Bucy Gates. ‘TJach wrotefor the clavichord.” says Botta VanBuren. "I will sing Mozart, Pergolesi,Handel, Purcell as they should besung, with the clavichord and spin-net,” continues Bucy Gates. “I willplay Bach, Scarlatti and all the an-cient company of immortals upon theinstruments for which they wrote,”explains Botta Van Buren.

So dressed in the mode of the dayof their program, these two Americanmusicians have set an artistic stand-ard.

On Thursday afternoon, February28, Miss Gates and Miss Van Burenwill be heard in the National Theaterunder the local management of theT. Arthur Smith, Inc., concert bureau.

Musical for Greek Relief.John A. P.ogers, who will come to

Washington from New York to sing

at the evening soiree given by the

Relief for Fatherless Children of Greecetomorrow at the residence of Mrs.Charles M. Ffoulke, 211 Massachu-setts avenue, is a young baritone. Hehas been soloist with the Boston Sym-phony Orchestra. Emanuel Wad, no-ted Danish pianist, will also ploy atthis evening of music. Mr. Wad wasa ootemporary of Paderewski underBeschetitzky, and is said to be thefavorite pianist of Queen Alexandraof England.

Rachmaninoff Recital.Rachmaninoff, one of the most famous

pianists, will be heard tho only timethis season in Washington at Poll’sTheater, February 20, at 4:30, under themanagement of Mrs. WUson-Greene. j

I Mr. Rachmaninoff has been soloistwith the foremost orchestras in theworld and was noted as a conductor. '

This famous Russian is not only a.great pianist, but is also an illustriouscomposer.

Heats are on sale at Airs. Wilson-Greene’s concert bureau, 13th and Gstreets.

Six years ago a newspaper man toldJacqueline Bogan she , was a sillychild to even think about trying toget into the movies. Imagine thatman's surprise when he recently ln-<lervlewed her for an eastern maga-zine. Neither of them mentioned theepisode during the Interview, but MissBogan assured fellow players that thebromide about timid hearts never

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A T the Mount Pleasant Cougrtga- -

tioqal Church this afternoon, be- [ginning at I:K> o'clock, the second!musical service for February will be !

given. The special attraction today |will bo the National .String Quartet —

Jlenrl Sokolove, first violin; Max Pu-

gatsky, second violin; Samuel Feld-man. viola, and Richard Lorleberg.

'cellist, Herman Fakler, baas, will

assist. Tho Mount Pleasant Quartet,composed of Miss Frances tk'hcrger,

soprano: Mrs. Ilazen I*. Buohlcr, con- jteal to; William P. Shanahan, tenor, tand Herman Fakler, bass, w ith Claude iRobeson, organist and director, will (sing. The public la cordially invited, jThe quartet will play "Allegro Vivace iAssai” < Mozart) and also hie “Andante jCantabile”: the nnterludium in •

Modo Antlco” (Glaaounow) and |"Minuet” (Beethoven). Mr. Soko- ilove will play a violin solo, "Arioso" .(Bach), and Mr. Fakler will sing•The Great Awakening" (Kramer). (

For the morning service at 11;o’clock the. music will be furnishedhy the Mount Pleasant chorus and Ithe solo quartet, under tin direction ,of Norton M, Uttle. with ClaudeRobeson at tho organ. The* program ,follows: Organ prelude. "Offertointßocllmann); tenor solo, “Evening [and Morning” (Speaks), Mr. Shana- .ban; offertory chorus; organ post-jludo, "Sortio" (Eoellmann).

A feature of the musical vesper jprogram today at the First Congre-

gational Church will be Harry Ed-ward Mueller's use of tho Ampico re-producing piano for some selections.In several numbers Mr. Mueller willplay the organ with the piano. Miss-

Elsa Raner. violinist, will also playwith the Ampico. Following is the jprogram: Organ. '‘Allegro from FirstSvmphonie" (Macqualre); violin solo. |"Les Parfedets" (Pente), Miss Ram r. Iviolinist: Ampico piano and organ, j"Liebestraum” f Liszt); bass solo, by iCharles Trow bridge TUI man n. "The .Eord is My Shepherd" (Dvorak);

concerto in G minor, for piano and.organ, flrsft movement (Saint-Saens); jbass solo. “No Night There" (banks):Ampico piano and organ. “Rustle of jSpring”’ (Slnding); violin solo. “Ave |Maria” (Schubert); bass solo. "One jSweetly Solemn Thought” (Ambrose).

At the evening service at 8 o’clockthe vested chorus choir, assisted by |the quartet and under the directionof Harry Edward Mueller, will givethe second part of Mendelssohn's!‘.•Elijah,” The first part was given (two weeks ago at the evening |service.

At tho Luther Place MemorialChurch the music today will be:Morning service. 11 o’clock—Prelude."Allegro Maestoso," from the thirdsonata (Guilmant): anthem. "Magnifi-

cat and Nunc Dlmittis" (Williams);offertory. “Elegle” (Salome); an-

them, "Praise. Ye, the Lord”_ (Bor-dese), and posthide, “March.” in Amajor (West). Evening service, S |p.m.—Prelßde, "Caprice” (Sturges); janthem, "Twilight and I>awn”(Speaks): offertory fLemaigre); hari-jtone solo, “Come. Y*e Disconsolate”(Bogart), E. J. Stenson. and post-lude tVlerne).

This evening at the Church of the

Covenant at 8 o’clock a musical serv-ice in memory of former President

Woodrow Wilson will be given. Theevening choir of 100 voices, ClaudeRobeson, director: Harvey Murray,organist, and Mrs. Howard Blandy.pianist, will sing “The Souls of the

Righteous’’ and "And God Shall WipeAway All Tears.” Miss McLean and

Mr. Farrar will sing "Crossing the

Bar.” and Mr. Fakler will sing, byrequest. "Goin’ Home,” an arrange-ment of the largo from the "NewWorld Symphony,” by Dvorak. The

church doors will be open at 7 o’clock,

and the public is cordially invited.

At the Church of the Ascension thismorning the choir will sing “TeDeum,” In E flat (Woodward); rjubi-

latc” (Ncvln); anthem. “How LovelyAre the Messengers" (Mendelssohn).For tho prelude Mr. Wilson will play“Tjegcnde. Romantlque” (Roland Hig-gle) and for posQudo he will play“Phantasie,” from Sonata XVIII, inA (Joseph Rheinbergor). At the eve-ning service the prelude will be: An-dante. "Peace," and the postlude"Kantasie,” in G minor (J. S. Bach).w»hile tho choir will sing “Nunc Di-

mittis” fMarksl: hymn, “Abide With

Me” (Monk), arid for the offertory

the anthem. "Tarry With Me. O MySaviour" (Samuel A. Baldwin). Theincidental solos will be sung by Law-rence E. Murray, basso.

Washington Heights Presbyterian

Church will give the following musi-cal program this morning; Organ

prelude. "Berceuse” (Tlll»); ’cellosolos, “Andacht” (Popper) and ‘'Ari-oso” (Bach), Miss Mabel H. Duncan:offertory solo. “O Divine Redeemer,”Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, soprano;

violin obligato, Mrs. RaymondDickey: 'cello obligato. Miss Duncan-recessional, “Thanhauser March”(Wagner). Mrs. Frank Boa! will beat the organ.

At Christ Church music today willbe; Morning service. 11 o’clock—Or-gan prelude. "Madrigal” (Guilmant);••’/> Deum” (Suhnecker); offertory

anthem. “O Lamb of God” (Blschoff).and organ postlude. ‘Fantasia,” in F(Polleri). Evening service, 8 o’clock—Organ prelude, "Slumber Song”(Nevln): contralto solo. ”1 Heard theVoice of Jesus Say” (Harries): of-fertory quartet, “Bow Down ThineEar" (Steane), and organ postlude."Postlude.” In A flat (Frost). EstelleWentworth Is choir director; Katha-rine Scelye Wallace, organist, and thequartet, Janet Pickett, soprano; MadgeKanode, contralto: Ellsworth Con-dron, tenor, and Wilfrod Gilbert, bass.

The following musical programwill be given at the Ninth StreetChristian Church today: Morning—Anthem by the choir, “Bless Thou theLord (Martin), and evening—anthem

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concert is being now repeated. Theleading soprano of the MetropolitanOpera Company, Mlse Hcmpel was *chosen from all the world’s livingsingers to Impersonate the immortalJenny Lind at tho historic concertgiven in 1920 to commemorate theone hundredth anniversary of thebirth of the Swedish nightingale.

The' program will include: “Dedi-cation” ¦ (Schumann-Liszt), “Scenoand Cavatina” (Bellini), “Llebes-Botachaft” (Schubert), “Du bist dieRub” (Schubert), “Frulingsnacht”(Schumann), “The Herdsman’s Song”(Old Norwegian melody). “Grand AriaDi Bravura"-(Meyerbeer), "Should HeUpbraid" (Bishop),' "The EveningBell’ (Taabert), “Bird Song” (Tau-bert), “Home, Sweet Home” (Bishop).

Seats on 'sale, at Mrs. -Wilsorr-Grevnc’s Concert, Bureau 13th and Gtttreete,

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TWO SOPRANOS SING HERE THIS WEEK1 • •• --I

Nina KosHLTZ-NaHoital Frilda Hempel - poll*

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THE regular monthly meeting of rthe District of Columbia Boardi of the Federation of Music Clubs will

j ho held Saturday afternoon, February

i 16. at 4:30 o'clock, in L.

! Kitt building, 13S0 G street northwest.A largo attendance is requested at

j this meeting, as important matterstare to be discussed.

Tho Maret Club of the Maretj School, which was the first juvenileielub to come into the federation, is at

j work on a concert to be given shortly.| This club has been In the federrationI for tome time. Its president is Miss

| Margaret Ben ham.A new club recently federated is

¦ tho Vipivoce Club. Mins FrancesI Gutellus le the leader and Miss Clara ;| Bogorad is president.

All club notices for the Official! Bulletin should be smt to Miss Mar-garet McCormick, 1124 Lament street!

: northwest, by the 20th of the month, j. Gertrude Lyons, vice chairman of ;j the entertainment committee of the '! " omen’s Oily Club, has planned a j

j varied program for tomorrow evc-j ning. Audrey Zerbce, soprano, will (j sing the aria from "Madame Butter-j

1 and "A Birthday" (Woodman). II \ iolin solos will be given by Dorothy !j Beamans, "Adoration” (Borowskil, j1 "Swing Song" (barnsi, "Kulwlak",(W i.sniawshi); accompaniment by

. Muriel Ifoage. Hazel Arts, contralto,(will ting "At We Part" (Ilgenfritzß"All for You” (Martin). "Bird of jBove” i Wood), accompanied by Ma- jrie Bouise Sullivan. Mabel Lintonwin give piano solo?..

' Th. - Vipivoce Music Study ClubI tnef at the studio of Frances GUtellus| Tuesday night. The Vipivoce Trio 1!j play, d "The Sweetest Story Ever j

j Told • and Massenet's "Elegy,’’ with ii Garth Heav. r playing violin; William 1

: Test, ciiio, and Thomas Elfman. piano, ij Thelma Callahan played variations '

I on "Turkey in the Stra w." and Wil- jI lian> Glide gave a Spanish dance. [! Miss Mary Isabel Kelly will present [:a program of 1 v. o-;iiano music at the j

! College Women's Club next Saturday iI evening at .S o’clock. This is the '| third in a series of four concerts ar- ,i ranged for the benefit of the club’s! piano fund. An interesting feature jof the concert is the fact that Miss !

1 Kelly studied the Scharwenka con- j¦ certs under the composer himself in’. Berlin.

The selections to be given will in- j(elude; "Serenade. Op. 489” (Low). I

! “Waltz, Op. 72” (Von Wilm), Virginia ji Bestor and Alary Isabel Kelly; “A I

j Wondrous Rapture Must It Be”I (Scharwenka), ’TEsclavc” (Balo). j| “Over the Steppe" (Gretchaninoff', ”11 jI est Doux” (Massenet), Helen Macßeod IClift; "Lento, Mcsto. Op 83” (Sehar-wenka) (from concerto for piano and

! orchestra). "Rondo. Op. 73” (Chopin),| Mary Isabel Kelly and Virginia| Bvstor: "Song Without Words”! (Mendelssohn - Kreisler), "Legende.j OP. 314, No. 7” (Rohm), Tracy pjeh-

j ards Plant; melodrama for declama-j tion with piano, "How Beautiful Were| Or.ce the Hoses,” prose poem by Tur-i gtnev, English version by NicholasDoufy (Arensky), "The Castle by theI Sea.”, poem by X'hland, English ver-' sion by Longfellow (Strauss); spokenj songs, "O Mother, the Young Prince !J Is to Pass By Our Door,” poem by j(Sir Rabindranath Tagore. "The Hand-! Organ Alan,” text by Dana Burnet jj (Kotrner), Anita Schade and Alary I

f ETTERS from Paris have recently

been received from WilliamEngel, pianist, who as a native ofWashington from boyhood has many

friends in this city. Air. Engel’s early

piano studies were made under teaeh--1 ers in Washington. In 1911 he wentj to Berlin and continued his musicalI work with well known teachers,

j When Germany declared war he re-turned to this country and became as-sistant librarian in the music depart-ment of the Congressional Library. Heenlisted later with the American forcesand was sent to France. After thearmistice he remained in Prance andcontinued his pianlstic work with theFrench musician and pedagogue Philipp.He has had success as teacher andartist, and is now on the musical staffof the College Montmorency, Paris.

Jacques Thibaud wilt give his firstAmerican classes on the evenings ofFebruary IS and 25, at tho DavidMannes Music School In New York,prior to his sailing for France at theend of the month. For his class ofviolinists, divided into players andlisteners, M. Thibaud will discuss pointsof technique and interpretation. M.Thibaud played in Washington lastmonth at the first of Airs. Townsend’sMonday morning musicals.

With Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, so-prano, will be assisting artist with theArmy Band Concert Orchestra, WilliamJ. Stannard. leader, in the second of aseries of concerts arranged by Bieut.Parry W. Bewis, commanding officerof the Army Band, at the Officers’Club, Washington barracks, Thursdayevening.

The concert orchestra of the ArmyBand, composed of fifty instrumental-ists, is vicing in popularity with theparent organization, and the premier

A Dixie tour has been arranged forLueut. Commander John Phillip SousaI as the last lap of his thirty-first an-

nual journey at the head of the band¦which bears his name. Beginning atTulsa, Okla.. on February 1, Sousawill visit-thirty-eight cities in Okla-homa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tenqe-see. Louisiana, Alabama. Florida,Georgia. South Carolina, North Car-olina. Virginia, the District of Col-umbia and Maryland, before endlAgthis season in Baltimore on March 8.

Sousa’s Dixie tour conies at the end, ’of what has been his most successful

season. Starting from New York •inJuly, Sousa and his organization of 160bandsmen and soloists. has played itsway through New England and from'Portland, Me., to Portland, Dm, thebugtii-oC the Pactflo coast, across Teg- (’

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Bruno Walter Here NextWeek.

Bruno Walter, distinguished guest

conductor of the New York Symphony .

Orchestra, who will make his first ap- jpearanco in Washington at the final |concert- In this derlea in Poll’s Theater,February 19, arrived In New York last

week on the Holland-Amerlcan linerNew Amsterdam.

Mr. Walter has had an active seasonin Europe conducting orchestras, operas

and festivals in many continental cities.He directed hia first concert in New

York this season yesterday.

He will be the guest of the Now York.

Sypiphany Orchestra for one month andbesides his appearance in Washington'

and New York ho will also be heard

In Baltimore and Philadelphia.

Mr. Walter will have as assisting ar-

tist for hia local program the eminentcellist, Pablo Casals. The program millInclude the "Schubert Symphony, No.

9. in C,” and "Till Bulonsplegel's Merry

Pranks," by Richard Strauss. Mr. Casalswill be heard in the "Concerto In Bilat for Violoncello with Orchestra,” by

Boccherini.

The Washington-New York symphonyseries is under the local managementof Mrs. Wllson-Greene, and tickets areon sale at her office, 13th and G streets.

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t Isabel Kelly; “Valsc, Op. 15” (Aren-sky); "Espana” (raptsodle pour orches-tra) (Chabrierk Virginia Bestor andMary Isabel Kelly.

Paul Bleydon will present HelenHarper, soprano; Alberta Gilbert, so-prano, and Martha K. Woolley, con-tralto, at the.second In this series ofmusical teas 'this afternoon at 2919Columbia road, at.s o’cl6ck.

The program will be “What IsBove?” (Owst). "Pirate Dreams” (Hu-erta). Dawn (D’Ha'rd^lOt), Martha K.Woolley, contralto; "O Sonnen-schoin” (Schumank). “Marning”(Speaks), "Bargerette.” (Barlow).Alberta Gilbert. soprano: “Se TuM’anil” (pergoteee). "The Open Hoad”(Ba Forge), "Lullaby" (Cyril Scott), j"Tea Veux" (Rabeyl, “April Ecstasy”(Speaks l, Helen Hafper, .soprano.

The Rebew Orchestra, under the di-rection of H. W. Weber, gave the

I fourth of a series of public rehearsals: Monday night in the lecture room of

i Keller Alemorlal Church. The sold-j lets wen Miss Georgic R. -French, so-

; prano, and Lawrence K Elliott, ten-| or. Mrs. Edward L. Weber was thei accompanist. The orchestra-numbers! included selections by Bisohoff. Suppc.

: Flotow. Santelmann,- Khcich, Lam pc. ;| Puerncr and H.otzmann.

The service department. Young; Men’s Christian Association, lobbyI concert la.-!t Monday night was prC-) sent* d by Miss Alice Hill,guitar; Mrs,

I Edith Tschlffely, Hawaiian guitar; A.j L. Williams, tiple; Miss Emily Ells-

; worth, contralto; Gilmer Randolph. ¦: reader: Mits Lucy Dunwoody Higgins,’ soprano; Frineis Thome, baritone;Miss Emily Mann, Miss Emily Alar-

, garet White and Mies Inez Sexton, ac-

I companists.

j AJiss Beatrice Wainwright, soprano,I gave a musical at her studio IXdayi afternoon. She sang several num-bers. and Joseph D. Becker, baritone,

* sang a: group of songs in English.t John Victor Walsh was the accom-' pauist.

i The Rubinstein Club will hold, the• second of Its series of concerts Alarch

j 11 in the ballroom of the New Wil-; lard Hotel, with Frederick Ounster

1 as- the aasistieg artist. Tho aftcr-noon card partj, given a2»o by the1 club, will be held March 17 in the

I Willard, Rehearsal will be Tuesdayi morning at the regular hour.

Miss Helen Belt. Miss Hoover and; Mr. Casky gave a trio for piano, vio-lin and cello a-s the opening number

j of the Friday Morning Music Club’s’ program last w‘eek. Airs. Joseph Bar-nard sang several selections and MissEmma Bestor gave some piano solos.

Next Friday the program which has¦ been arranged by Mrs. Walter BruceHowe is to be presented by the “Soko-lov String Quartet and a vocal quar-tet of mixed voices."

Rosemary Fincttel, pianist, andWarren Terry, tenor, will bt pre-sented in a recital at the HotelRoosevelt next Tuesday evening. AliasFinckel is only twelve years old. yethas appeared in recitals in New Yorkand will make her formal debut thereat Carnegie Hall later this month.Fctian Garzia wilt play the secondpiano in the Alendelssohn concertoTuesday.

Mr. Terry’s numbers will includesongs in German, French, Italian and| English.

This is second in a series of recit-als sponsored by the choir of St. An-

-1 drew’s Episcopal Church this season.

| MUSIGRAPHS |’ public appearance of the orchestra on

tho occasion of the second anni-, versary of. tho organization of theArray vis ex*tremcly successful.

Katherine Higgs, concert harpistxrUl play a recital tonight at 9 o’clockm the blue room of tho Burlington

I Hotel. This is one of the series of. bujiday evening concerts being given

• at tho Burlington , this season. Miss• Higgs numbers will Include Russian¦ French German and English selec-

tions, given in four groups.

J Mrs Florence Howard, soprano: spent last wwk in New York at tT;

I guest of Beulah Harper Dunwoodv in; ’homo in Bhilipse Manor, on the

. Hudsno. Mrs. Dunwoody Is well[ in " ashlngton as a contraltot ?irs c .Vouar ?» !iSner befor e members of

f ‘Harvey Townsend sang at a commn.1 nity meeting held In the Sunday, roorn o( the Sherwood; Church last Tuesday evening. Carl Mil-r lard was the accompanist.

1 R. Deane Shure has Just receivedword from two publishing Arms of the; purchase of his French daice “Minuetto Artstocratique,” and ah anthem‘ "Blessed Ones Come Unto Me/’

em ’

Netta Craig win he guest soloist at, I the luncheon given at the Hotel Roose-' velt by the administration caucas Dis--1 trict of Columbia D. A. R., next Tues--1 day. She will be accompanied by Mrs

1 Bertrand Trenis, regent of the Abigail, Hartman .Rice Chapter. Miss Craig

holds the position of vice chairman of’ the music division of the local society

Miss Craig has announced she will¦ shortly begin a series of her costume• recitals in New York city and vlqinity,

i and will give similar recitals in various• places in Virginia.

Washington's Band Leaderon Dixie Toiir.

1 ns a«d the old eoutli and up the At-Itantic seaboard to Baltimore, wherethe journey ends. Souaa has hia largestband and his programs tills year aremore varied and wide in their appeal

. than ever before, ranging from Schell-ing’s “The Victory Ball.” .and Graing-

' era “Country Garden,” to the Sousahumoresque (an annual 'affair and thisyear based upon “Mr. Oallagher-Mr.Shean") and new Sousa marches, “TheDauntleffe Battalion” ¦ and

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"Nobles of. the Mystic Shrine.” i t

One of the. events of Sousa’s year oc-curs on the day before he finishes hieseason, when her will visit Washington,where he wan bom, and Where hegained his first fame as director of the

i United States Marine Band. There he- spends a day each year, among the

scene* of his eMtdhood saw of bis first1 triumphs saa mufidm

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Behind the ScreenIntimate, Personal Pictures of the Stars of the Silver Sheet

BY SAMUEL. GOLDWTK. *

Copyright, 1923. by George H. Darto Company,

. ffiontal divergences. Whereas, MaryPlckfonTa manner and voice are al-

by the feminine, almostchildlike, appeal, to which I have re-ferred, the prima donna*t> speech ha.i

, a man« directness of import. Sh>.picks her words for strength, asmight a Jack London sea captain oran Elizabethan soldier. And her ut-terance of these words reveals thesame strange compound of qualitiesI have noted elsewhere. It is anenunciation both flowering and in-cisive.

The cantatrice’s entrance into Hol-lywood was an unprecedented one.The mayor of Los Angeles was thereto welcome her to California. Sotvere 5.000 school children. CowboysI'L their chaps and sombreros addedtheir customary picturesqueness tothe scene. Flowers were everywhere

i All Los Angelos reminded you of afesta day in some Italian city. Now-adays wo are so accustomed to spec-tacular personages in tho motion pic-tures that it is hard to recapture foryou the thrill that shook the entirecountry when Geraldine Farrar, the

• queen of the Metropolitan OperaHouse, came to California.

The night following Miss Farrar.-arrival we gave her a dinner at tr..Hollywood Hotel. This dinner in

i eluded among its L'oo guests not only¦ i the leading representatives of tin: j screen colony, hut a number of diI tinguished sojourners. Among the

i | latter may he mentioned Mr. John: ’ Drew and Miss Blanche Ring.

> *At this dinner party Miss Farrar

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(Continued from Yesterday’s Star.)

CHAPTER VII.Geraldine the Great.

IN tho early winter of 1910 I went

to tho stage production of "Maria

Rosa.” Who that witnessed thesame performance can ever for-

get- the creation of Mr. Lou Tel-tegen? That Latin lover whoseferocity showed in every silken ac-

cent, in every gesture of panther-like, slim body—today this lingers

with me as among the most tellingof dramatic brush strokes.

How distinctly I remember the firstday that the young foreign actor,

who, previous to his triumph in' ’’Maria Rosa" had been hailed as"licrnhardt’s beautiful leading man,”came to my office! We were talkingabout salary when suddenly Telb-genjumped up from his chair and -walkedover to look at a photograph on thewall.

"Who is that!” ho asked, peeringat the face in the frame.

"Oh," answered I, "don’t you.knowher? That’s Geraldine Farran”

"Oh, yes. the famous singer," heresponded, never taking his eyes fromthe dazzling victorious face. "H’m—-very, very beautiful, is she not?" liemused.

I had hoped that he was perhapspermanently swept away from thetheme which he had relinquished so

I.’> m- : ju*

GERALDINE FARRAR IN ONE OF HER SCREEN SUCCESSES.

abruptly.’ I bad. however, underratedMr. Teilegen's powers 4>f recupora- ftion. A moment more and. he was jstanding before mo with a light in |his eyes very different from that!evoked by the abstract consideration ;of beauty.

‘.‘Let ns say a thousand dollarsa week.” said he. “Certainly after»

alt my experience I ought to be worth |that.”

Mention of Mr. Telltgen brings me |logically to one achievement of nty |lire which 1 always survey with pride jThe year and a half that had elapsed !since the production of "The Squaw jMan” had brought almost incredible -improvements in both the manuiac- :ture and presentation of photoplays, jThe modern system of lighting had jreplaced our former reliance upon the jravs of the sun. More and more we jhad substituted the carpenter for the |scene painter. As to the motion pic- ityre theater itself, this, of course,presented an aspect very different jfrom the peanut-strewn area* whichin 1913 had suggested my great en- jterprise. i

However, in spite of orchestral ac-companiments and high-priced scats,

in spite of the grow in g ascendancy ofsuch screen stars as Mary Pickfordand Charlie Chaplin, the motion pic-tures were merely popular. They iwere not fashionable. How to makethem so. how to intrigue that shymarginal group known as “the car-riage trade”- —here was the challenge

offered to the producer of 1915.It was about this lime that Morris

Gest came to me and said; ”1 thinkI've about got Geraldine Farrar tcthe point where she's willing to gointo motion pictures. What’s more. 1

believe she’ll come v with you insteadof with Zukor, for tho idea of Cali-fornia is attractive to her. especiallyif she can go.and come in a private

car.” . :

After a smile at this approach to

the situation on the part of MissFarrar, I asked him. "But how docsthe famous prima donna look thesedays?" .

,

"Wonderful;” More bcautitul thanever,” retorted Gest.

On the first evening when Laskyand I called at Miss Farrar's home wefound that Gest’s enthusiasm was not 1misplaced. As she swept into thedrawing room to greet ns we both jthought we had never in our livesseen anv one so' beautiful.ft did not .take long to arrange mat-

ters bet vveen us. Miss Farrar agreed

to go to Caiifomio for eight weeks tomake three pictures—" Maria Kosa,”’’Carmen” and "Temptation.’’ Forthese services she was to rtccive$2£,000. and. in consideration of themodesty of the sum—she would have

realizod more for a- concert tour ofthe same length—we agreed to sup-ply her with a special car to andfrom Bos Angeles, together with afurnished house, servants and foodduring the p-riod of her stay.

| -On all such minor points Miss- V ar-ror was immediately reasonable. Onlyin one subject did she display any

vital curiosity‘"Whom are you going to engage

for my leading man,” she asked.“Never mind. It will be somebody

that you’ll like,” we assured her."But,” she urged, “you know it’s

very important that my Don Jose

should bo right. Otherwise the per-formance wpuld be ruined.”

Again* we assured her that she wassure to be satisfied with our provision

for this part."But who is he?” she Insisted,

want to know his name.”WIT evaded this request. And we

kept on evading it throughout oursubsequent Interviews. This was noteasy, for in every spare moment the

prima donna would plead with me“Why won't vou teil me his name?”It was almost the first question she

asked after she stepped from the. speclal train bearing her to California.

So mony people have asked me

for my first impression of Geral-dine Farrar that I should like tointerpolate here my response to that

frequent inquiry. If you can picturea flowering arbor and then picture

the subsequent surprise of finding in-

side of It a perfectly good dynamoyou will have conceived tho full forceof Miss Farrar’s personality. At thetime when I met her she was in herearly thirties and that beauty of

lucent gray eyes and curving lips—-

the flowering vigour of look whichshe doubtless inherited from someancestress of the Irish seas—was thenat its height. Under this screen of

physical allure I felt from the very

first moment the pulse of a mindrestless, eager, alert to every pos-sibility of learning.

Indeed, the figure with which I

started falls short of conveying thefull effect of Miss Farrar’s presence.Not only does she charge tho atmos-ph'ere with that mental vitality ofhers, she creates the impression al-ways of cutting—cutting straight

through, any given subject. If 1 hadsaid, therefore, that the arbor con-

cealed one of those marvelous imple-

ment® that cut, thrash and sack thegrain, all in a single operation, I

should have come nearer the ideal ofdescription. '

...

Miss Farrar is, dike Mary Pickford,a captain of industry. She has thesame masculine grasp of business,

the* same piasculine approach to work.The difference between them is con-strued tiot alone by the immeasur-ably greater-cultural equipment ofMisa Farrar, but by many tempera-

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I turned to me almost at once with herhabitual question. “And now surely.'

j She pleaded, "you're going to tell mewho is to be my Don Jose?”

j Do Mille and I exchanged a. hag-i gard glance. Many, many times hod;we shuddered together over the

thought, “What if she dosen't ilk-

ihim?” Our previous experience wit >stars 'had taught us not to minimiz-*that possible calamity,j "Ten toe.” repeated our gre.i'i planet. “Not another minute will t| wait!”I t was just about to replv when I; looked up. A tall young ‘man had

entered the door ami vva** now walk-i ing toward jis. He was only twenty -

I three. His even jag e lofiies were 1 •( no means faultless, but the face al>o'!

.

,Vils flushed witli excitement.| Th. blue eyes shorn-. I had nevej seen Wallace Held look inert 1 iK¦th* beautiful and romantic young

I man of the collectionj "There.” I whispered, watchingj her tensley, “there is your leadingI man.”j She had already* noticed him andas he moved slowly toward us shenever took her eyes from his sac-

At last, just before he reached us,she began slowly nodding her hcad."Very good,” she whispered, and tic-

' smile with which she said it linger* das she repeated the encomium. “Vc-rv.very good.”

I do not need to dwell upon therelief afforded to us by that smile. Iventure to suggest, however, that iimay have brought corn spendingheart’s ease wo Wallace himself. Forhe vya? then young and inexperiencedand 1 have no doubt that for man*days previous lie, too, had ho*quailing before that grim possibility,"What if she dosen't like me:”

A number of the screen peoplewere inspired with awe of Mb.-

; Farrar’s reputation. "I bet anythingshe’s up-stage,” several of them pre-dicted before meeting her. That eve-ning disarmed all such fears. gosimple and friendly, so gay and un-affected. was the Metropolitan starthat everybody went away singingher praises. I 'soon found, indeed,that the ancestry of the Irish scan

j had dowered her with more than thatj floweripg vigor of look and rnan-| nor. She has the warmth of person-( al approach, the ability to get along

I with folks of ail descriptions, thatj -haracterizc tho Irish race,i This element in her character wa.-

brought out particularly in thestudio. It was: not long before every-body there, . including "Grips” and"Props"—the local terms by whichare designated respectively the elec-tricians and the property men—were

I calling her ‘-Jerry.”Tins intimacy of reference was a

| token of real affection and it was tie-I served, for she seldom passed tin; most humble worker in the studioi without a smile or a friendly word

When she arrived in Hollywood si.-didn’t know, of course, a single thingabout making a film. “What.” sh.exclaimed on her first day, “why 1didn't realize you had to make a sin-gle scene over four times." Thisfreshness of viewpoint placed her ina situation ideal for observation ofthe mental eagerness of w hich I havspoken. She asked questions of ev-erybody in the studio from Do Mill*-to “Grips.” It was wonderful to seethe zest of her application to thisnew task, to watch that perfect im-plement of a brain cut and thrash andassort its selected subject.

There is no doubt about it. Geral-dine Farrar enjoyed every mhiute ofthose first eight weeks spent in th*movies. She loved the atmosphere ofthe motion pictures. She liked thepeople in the cast. She told mo sh‘thought De Mille was great. I canhardly express what this widd: areaof satisfaction meant to me aftereighteen months that had been in-structive chiefly* in the hardship <•;

pleasing any star, at any given pointSo eager was Miss Farrar for her

film day to begin that she used to ar-rive at the studio every morning u<8 o’clock. She was then all made upfor the set, and as this process is somuch more exacting than the aver-age woman’s dab of powder androuge, one knew she had risen notlater than d.

“H’m, where’s Mr. Dc Mille?Where’s everybody?” she used to ask.

Her manner w-as exactly that of awar-horse sniffing, “Hero am 1.Where’s the war?”

And when she began to work noth-ing seemed to tire her. At 4 o’clockin the' afternoon that hour when theaverage screen performer begins towonder if she’ll molt before she takesroot or take root before she melts,the great prima donna was as radianwith energy as she was at 8 o’clock-in the morning. The explanation olthis sustained vitality lay deeper thanher undoubted physical strength, bin-herself voiced it one day during hersecond engagement with the LaskyCompany.

She - was then making “Joan tinWoman.” It was during the most in-tense heat of tlie. California summer.During this particular set she won- asuit of armor which must have beenabout as soothing to her feelings aswrist-warmers to a resident of Bom-bay. Tho set, which had been calledfor one hour, was not actually tikenuntil more than four hours later.This wait, so characteristic of a stu-dio day*, was rendered more oppres-sive, by the Jhud of adjacent carpus-

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