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.'MILLIONS IN VALUES SHOWN AT SPIRITED ART AUCTIONS
AMERICANS SHARE
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Corcoran Gallery Has an Illuminating Pic
ture of Typical Struggle for Possession
of Treasures.
By Leila Mechlin.
HE monetary value of a work of
art is the amount for which it
can be sdd, which, in the long
run, is determined by the
eagerness of a buyer for possession
and his or her spending capacity. As
a rule, paintings and prints bring
higher prices at, private sale than at
auction, but it is the amounts brought
at these public sales which actually
serve as an index of value and sala
bility.
The greatest three art auction
houses are Christie's in London, the
Hotel Drouot in Paris, and the Amer
ican-Anderson Galleries in New York.
In these salesrooms, millions of dol
lars worth of works of art change
hands annually. The sales conducted
therein are widely advertised and
leading events of the season. In some
instances, attendance is only by invi
tation and catalogues sell at a high
price.
To attend one of these great auc
tions is an interesting and exciting
experience. Attention at times is
breathless, bidding spirited, feeling
tense. When a work brings a record
price, the audience has been known
spontaneously to burst into cheers.
The appointments of the salesrooms
lire sumptuous, the works offered are
effectively and sometimes dramatically
shown, the auctioneer is trained and
gifted. He it is that feels the temper
of the bidders and "runs the show.”
In the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Clark collection, is a small painting by
Daumier showing a painting being
auctioned in the Hotel Drouot, Paris.
The auctioneer is seen to be keenly
alert, the would-be buyers all eager
ness and attention.
In recent years some very notable
Kales have been held at Christie’s In
London, among which have been those
at collections—such as that of the
Morgan miniatures—which have been
assembled and owned by Americans.
But also some British collections have
been brought to this country for dis
persal in our great salesrooms in New
York.
‘‘J'HE American Art Association
Anderson Galleries has just an
nounced that from 79 public sales
during the past season, the first held
October 3, 1935, and the last June 4,
1936, works of art and literary prop
erty brought a total of $3,218,283.50.
Of this amount, which is 14 plr cent
greater than that realized the pre
vious season. $370,630 was for paint
ings and $280,517 for mints. Furniture,
tapestries, rugs, sculp'ture, porcelains,
jewelry and other art objects brought a
total of $1,746,671. /The amount real
ized for books and prints was higher
than in any season since 1929.
The highest price paid for a painting
In these auction rooms last season was
$15.0^0 for the painting, ‘‘Printemps;
Pres d'Arles,” by Vincent Van Gogh,
which for a work by this great post
impressionist was lov. Incidentally, a
30-carat emerald-cut diamond, set in
a platinum mounting, brought an equal
amount. An important Brussels
Gothic tapestry, ‘‘The Court of King
David,” after Maitre Philippe, woven
about the year 1510, fetched $13,000,
while "Nocturne; the Bolent,” a paint
ing by James McNeill Whistler,
brought $12,000, and a proof of Albert
Durer’s engraving, "Adam and Eve,”
$10,000.
At the Cortlandt F. Bishop sale, in
November last, an etching by Whistler,
•’Weary”—a superb proof—brought
$3,000. This collection, especially rich
in prints, netted the highest sum of
any during the season, totaling $276,
345. The French eighteenth century
color prints included in its catalogue
were said to be the finest ever offered
at public sale in this country. In
cluded were the lovely "La Joueuse de
Guitare,” by Francois Janinet, which
brought $3,800, and the famous "La
Promenade Publique: 1792,” by Phili
bert Louis Debucourt, which brought
$5,100. At this same sale two por
traits by Hoppner, "Miss Rich,” and
"Thomas, Lord Pelham, 2d, Earl of
Chichester," realized $4,300 and $3,600,
respectively, and $2,500 was given for
a portrait of "Lady Cholmondeley,”
by sir Joshua Reynolds. It is inter
esting to note that at the same time
a silver tankard with cover, early
American, by Tobias Stoutenburgh,
silversmith, of New York brought
*4,100 <more than the Reynolds por
trait or one of those by Hoppnen and
that $3,200 was paid for a pair of
K'ang-hsi blue and white "Hawthorne”
ginger jars with covers.
The Van Gogh painting, which
fetched top price, came from the New
man collection, included in which
were other important canvases such
as Monet's "Femme a l'Ombrelle:
Jardm de Moret. Argenteuil,” which
•old for $7,800; Renoir's "La Jeune
Mere.'’ which brought *4,100, and a
portrait by Sargent of "Madam Erra
eurii (the Lady in Black),' which sold
for *4,300.
In the James G. Shepherd sale,
which incidentally included 35 Barye
bronzes, $7,900 was paid for "Un
Pecheur a ia Ligne: Souvenir du Pont
de Mantes," by Corot; *7.600 for
"L'Enfant Cojrhec,” by Matthys
Maris: $4,000 for "La Loire a Nantes,”
by Daubingy, and *4 100 for Environs
de Chatillon-sur-'Seine,” by Corot.
In the sale of the William H Sage
Collection, a portrait by Gainsborough
of "Phillip Dupont. Esq.,” sold for
$6,000, and portraits by Hoppner for
$3,800 and $4,000 each. On the other
hand an Ispahan carpet m the Tab
bach sale brought $15,200 and for a
unique Persian carpet *12,000 was
paid.
fTHE remarkable record for print
sales this season may be credited
to the Bishop and Graves collections,
both of which were extremely fine.
The latter, which was sold In April,
Included not only the *10.000 Duhrer,
but a brilliant proof of Rembrandt's i
"Hundred Gilder Print,” "Christf
Among the Sick. Receiving Little
Children,” which sold for *7.300. For (
this master's portrait of “Jan Lutma. j
the Elder." $3,500 was paid and for
his ‘Three Trees.” *2,800. while one
of his landscapes. "Three Gabled Cot- j
tages Beside a Road.” fetched *2,700.
There were two Whistler etchings in
this collection. 'The Dyer," which
sold for *3,500. and “Annie Haden,” ,
third state, which brought $2,600
For a colored lithograph. "Wall
Street, 1830,” by Peter Maverick, $3,600
was paid In ail probability, this print
sold originally for next to nothing.
None of these prices ia sensational
or record breaking, but they Indicate
a reasonably good market for works
ART IN WASHINGTON.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Seventeenth street and New York
avenue northwest—Open week
days from 9 to 4:30 o'clock, Sun
days 2 to 5 p.m. and Mondays
12 noon to 4:30 p.m.
Permanent Collections—Paint
ings by American artists, paint
ings by European artists of the
nineteenth century. The Clark
collection, French period rooms,
tapestries, lace paintings and
drawings. Sculpture by Amer
ican sculptors, Barye bronzes, St.
Memin portrait collection. Prints
and miniatures.
The National Gallery of Art,
United States National Museum,
Constitution avenue at Tenth
street northwest—Open daily 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sundays 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. The Gellatly col
lection of paintings by American
artists and objets d'art. The
Harriet Land Johnston and the
Ralph Cross Johnson collection
of paintings by old masters, the
William T. Evans collection and
ranger bequest paintings by
American artists. Also nucleus
National Portrait Gallery — war
portraits. Herbert Ward sculp
tures of African Negroes. Works
in plaster by American sculptors.
The Freer Gallery of Art, on
the Mall opposite National Gal
lery of Art—Open daily except
Monday from 9 a.m. to 430 p.m.
Collections bequeathed by Charles
L. Freer. Oriental art and art
of the Near East—sculpture
paintings, bronzes, potteries, min
iatures, etc. Paintings, prints and
the peacock room by James Mc
Neil Whistler, paintings by group
of American artists.
The Library of Congress. Divi
sion of Fine Arts—Open daily 9
a.m. to 10 p.m.. Saturdays 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m., Sundays 2 to 10 p.m.
On exhibition—Lithographs by
Joseph Pennell, prints by con
temporary Europeans and Amer
ican print-makers, original illus
trations from Cabinet of Ameri
can Illustrations. Others on re
quest. Photographs of early
Colonial architecture. Art reading
rooms.
of real me jit which have stood the
test of time. They are perhaps much
more normal than the prices brought
a few pears ago when it seemed as
though the flow of money was inex
haustible.
It is Interesting to observe how
steadily certain works nave advanced
In price as they have successively ap
peared In auction sales rooms. Take,
for example, a painting by Rembrandt,
"Bathsheba at Her Toilet,” in the Alt
man collection. Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York. It was painted in
1643. When the Baron Six collection
was dispersed in 1734 it brought *100.
In the Henrich Ale in 1740 it ad
vanced to *145. It was purchased
years later by Bir Thomas Lawrence
and when his collection was sold
brought $795. In 1841 it was back in
Paris and sold for (1,576. It did not
come up again at an auction sale until
1913, when it brought, also in Paris,
the sum of *220,000. Millet’s “An
gelus” advanced in the same manner,
but in less time and greater bounds,
from *200 in 1859 to *180.000 in 1890.
During Degas’ lifetime his painting.
‘ The Dancers at the Bar,” brought at
a public sale *95.700. Mr. Mellon Is
reported to have paid a fabulous price
in seven figures for one or more of
the paintings in his collection pur
chased from the Hermitage Museum,
Russia. The prices paid by Mr. Hunt
ington for Gainsborough's "Blue Boy”
and by Mr. Frick for a portrait of
Washington by Gilbert Stuart were
less, but stupendous, but these were
all at private sale.
It is interesting to know that the
market for paintings by American ar
tists was established and prices ap
proximately fixed by the Evans and
Clark sales conducted In the 90s in
New York by the American Art Asso
ciation. It was this same firm which
dispersed the Waggaman collection of
this city, upon which memorable oc
casion the record price of *18,500 was
obtained for a painting by Joseph
Israels entitled "Grandfather's Con
solation.”
The advance in the price of prints
is phenomenal Rembrandt's etching.
"The Burgomaster Six," which orig
inally sold for $10, has been knowm
to bring $13 420. A "Nocturne" by
Whistler, which was issued as one of
a set of 12 published in 1880 for $250,
sold in 1917 for $3,900. These are
merely typical examples among works
by the outstanding masters. Witness
the advance in recent years of the
price of Currier and Ives prints.
of the first art auctions to be
held in this country was that of
the collection of Joseph Bonaparte,
which took place at his residence in
Bordentown, N. J . in 1845. Christie's
in London was established in 1766.
One of the most famous sales held
in England was that of Fonthill Abbey
in 1620, when, including the abbey
itself, the total amount netted was
approximately $5.000 000. This sale
continued for 33 days and catalogues
sold to the number of 8,000 at a
guinea apiece.
For a good many years the American
Art Annual has published lists of
paintings and prints sold at auction
in this country, with the prices
brought; similar lists have been pub
lished separately in Great Britain.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York has upward of 5,000 priced
catalogues, as well as card indexes, of
sales, so that the history of important
works can be traced and prioes rea
sonably established.
Sale by auction is by no means an
mvention of modern times—there are
records of auctions of war spoils in
Rome in ancient times—and that the
methods now in vogue are practically
the same now as then seems very re
markable. Seneca describes such an
auction as follows: “The courts in the
Forum were set apart for the purpose
and a spear was erected at the en
trance as a signal. A placard describ
ing the property to be sold was affixed
to a pillar in some public place. A
public crier acted as mouthpiece to
bidders, who. if they accepted the
price, held up their fingers. He then
advanced the price and kept on ad
vancing it until only one finger was
visible. The lot was at last adjudged
to the persevering finger. A licensed
broker noted the price, collected the
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“A L’Hotel Drouotby Honore Daumier, included in the Clark collection at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art.
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Latin Music
To Be Given
At Concert
Pan-American Union
to Offer Program
Next Thursday.
rJ'HE second outdoor concert of
Latin American music, under the
auspices of the Pan-American Union,
with pi. L. S. Rowe, director general,
as host, will be presented in the Aztec
gardens of the union on Thursday
evening from 9 to 10:30 o’clock. The
instrumental portion of the program
will be played by the United States
Army Band, under the leadership of
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, and the
assisting artist will be Rosalmira Co
lomo, Mexican contralto, well known
to Washington audiences. The con
cert will also be featured by several
Latin American dances, which will be
Interpreted by Christine Stewart.
Capt. Darcy of the Army Band
has selected a program containing a
variety of selections by composers
from the Latin-American republics,
and will feature several Instrumental
solos by members of the band.
The guest artist. Senorita Rosalmira
Colomo, was born In Mexico City.
She come* from a family of musicians
and is a descendant of the famous
Mexican singer. Angela Peralta. Miss
Colomo has appeared in numerous
concert recitals and has also been
guest soloist with the United States
Army Band on a series of radio pro
grams. She has been living in the
United States for some years and
received most of her musical training
in this country. She is now a res
j ident of Washington. Miss Colomo
; will sir.g compositions from her native
land, as well as from several other
Latin American countries.
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Program by Gas Co. Band.
'J'HE third Summer festival program
on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock
in the National Sylvan Theater at the
Washington Monument will be the
I rollicking old French farce, •'Pierre
Patelin," embellished with a goodly
! assortment of singers and dancers, who
will provide appropriate Interludes
ana entr’actes throughout the play,
under the direction of Clarence Moore,
i Preceding the dran.a, at 8 o’clock,
there will be a concert by the Wash
| ington Gas Light Co. Band, which
created a fine impression when it was
heard on the Summer Festivals pro
gram last season.
The occasion will mark the last of
the June Summer festivals, and the
fourth festival will occur on Friday,
July 10, when the Arts Club, assisted
by notable choral groups and the
Marian Chace Dancers, will offer a
Greek pageant-drama entitled "Phae
ton." arranged by Miriam Hilton, and
presented by the Drama Committee of
the Arts Club, in co-operation with
the Community Center Department of
the office of National Capital Parks.
Reserved and unreserved section
seats are available now for the pres
entation of "Pierre Patelin" on Tues
day night, and tickets for chair sec
tions are also to be had at the Sylvan
Theater on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
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money, and gave the-purchaser writ
ten authority to receive the goods.’'
After all, times do not change as much
as we sometimes think.
For a good many years the auctions
of notable art collections in London
and Paris have battles royal between
dealers, in some instances representing
wealthy patrons, but also venturing
large sums personally on speculative
purchases. These bidders are well in
formed, keenly alert. They have al
most completely eliminated the pri
vate bidder and chance bargains In
recent years, this has become custom
ary at auction sales In this country,
though in less degree. Accidents of
circumstance occasionally provide the
private buyer low-price opportunities—
but not often—and for this reason the
record of auction sales may be taken
as a fair Index ut value.
Mexican Singer at Pan American
SENORITA ROSALMIRA COLOMA,
Mexican contralto, who will be the assisting artiste at the con
cert of Latin American music to be presented at the Pan-Ameri
can Union on Thursday evening. The instrumental portion of
the program will be played by the United States Army Band,
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader. The program will be broadcast
from 9 to 10 p.m.
Dr. Kindler
To Conduct
At Cleveland
Has Engagement at
Exposition Before
His Return Here.
j_ J ANS KINDLER, conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra. !
who has spent the last two months in
Europe, will arrive in New York aboard
the steamship President Roosevelt Fri
day. Dr. Kindler will go direct to
Cleveland, where, beginning Monday,
July 6, he will conduct a week of Sum
mer concerts for the symphony or
chestra at the Great Lakes Exposition.
Sailing soon after the close of the
National Symphony’s Winter season in
April. Dr. Kindler visited and filled
musical engagements in England.
France and Holland. In Paris and
other music centers in France and the
Netherlands he was seeking new
scores to introduce to National Sym
phony audiences next Winter.
The Cleveland Orchestra, inaugurat
ing Summer concerts, recalled Dr.
Kindler’s singular success as general
musical director of the National Sym
phony "Sunset Melodies" when they
were launched last Summer at the
Watergate and invited him to be a
guest conductor. He accepted before
sailing lor Europe.
Offer Young
Composers
Opportunity
Symphony Officials at.
San Diego to Use
New Works.
NEW and unpublished works of
young American composers will
be featured this Summer by the San
Diego Symphony Orchestra during its
32-concert engagement at Fori Bowl,
California Pacific International Expo
sition. San Diego, Nino Marcelli. con
ductor. announced today. The orches
tra engagement opens July 10.
"With the co-operation of the Ford
Motor Co., we propose to give young
American composers their first real
opportunity for presentation by a
symphony orchestra of their newest
unpublished works.” Mr. Marcelli said.
"We are inviting these composers to
send us their compositions for exam
ination. Those which prove merito
rious and which conform to the re
quirements of symphony performance
will be presented by the orchestra in
Ford Bowl at San Diego, in the course i
of our engagement. The time of per
formance should not exceed eight min
utes and cannot exceed 10 minutes.
In order to permit us to make careful
selection of the works, all composi- ■
tions submitted for examination must
be In our hands on or before July 10.
Those received earlier will naturally '
receive first consideration."‘
OPERA PROMOTION NEW GOAL
Metropolitan Guild Is Devoted to Creation of New and Greater
. Field for Music Leaders Through Wider Popular Un
derstanding of Finest Works of Art.
By Alice Eversman. 1
AMONG the many new policies
adopted by the Metropolitan
Opera Co. since its change of
management and the flnan1
cial difficulties of the last years which
threatened its existence, is the effort
being made to bring about a better
understanding of opera throughout
the United States. The first depar
tures from the exclusive attitude which
has so long surrounded the perform
ances at that famous opera shrine
were the weekly broadcasts which per
mitted the entire country to listen in
from their homes and follow the pres
entation with the additional education
of explanatory remarks preceding the
scenes by an authority on the subject.
Opera received an enormous stimula
tion through this means and people
made the interesting discovery that
opera was not difficult to understand
and learned to rejoice in the beautiful
music.
Another progressive undertaking
has been brought to the notice of this
department by Mme. Amelia Conti,
harpist of the Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra and artistic advisor of
Beren-Brooks Artists' Bureau of this
city. Mme. Conti is en route to Mex- j
ico City for a vacation, and while on
the way, will spread the news of the
Metropolitan Opera Guild and the
benefits to be derived therefrom.
Through the Beren-Brooks Artists’
Bureau she has established a local
point where membership in the guild
can be obtained.
CO WIDESPREAD ha» been the
newly awakened interest in the
delightful branch of music which is
opera that a Metropolitan Opera
Guild has been formed through the
efforts of Mrs. August Belmont with
an Executive Committee that num
bers many prominent names on its
list. A bulletin issued by the guild
announces that “the prime function of
the guild is that of liaison between ,
opera and opera-goer, a liaison which
extends beyond supplying ticket-pur
chasing facilities by coupon or tele
phone.” While, at the outset, the
guild operated principally among the
musicians and music lovers of New
York City, It has found that its use
fulness could be extended to the en
tire country.
Consequently, the guild has estab
lished a membership entitled "Long
Distant Member" where, upon the
payment of a 15 fee, the subscriber is
entitled to the weekly bulletin which
furnishes news of the guild, the opera
and the singers; a weekly opera
schedule issued before the announce
ments of the operas and cast have
been given to the newspapers, and a
copy of the Metropolitan Opera Guild
Primer which gives an historical sum
mary of the Metropolitan, notes on the
repertoire, a list of recordings avail- |
able and a bibliography of books about!
composers and opera. In addition the
member is admitted to the Guild Bal
lot which allows members the privi
lege of expressing preferences in the
matter of repertoire.
These ballots have revealed the
public’s taste In the type of opera
to be presented, and Incidentally the
progress in appreciation that has been
made. The guild placed 23,000 copies
of the ballot in the programs at I
the opera and sent out many more to
its members and others who asked for
it. Quite a number signified their
satisfaction with the repertoire
selected by the management, but
others took the trouble to express
their likes and dislikes.
'T'HE opera which ‘‘received the
greatest number of black balls”
was Verdi’s "II Trovatore" with “Rigo
letto” running a close second. The
next most unpopular operas proved
to be “Mme. Butterfly.” “La Traviata,”
“Faust” and “Aida.’ Among the most
popular Wagnerian operas in the
order of their preference were “Lohen
grin,” “Tristan and Isolde,” “Tann
hauser,” “Die Melstersinger" and “Die
Walkuere.”
In the occasional repertory of the
Metropolitan, the operas receiving
the largest number of votes were:
"Fidelio,” "Mignon,” “Don Giovanni,”
"Norma” and “II Barbiere di Seviglia."
Most of the members of the guild
chose "Pelleas et Melisande," "Der
Rosenkavalier." "Fidelio" and "Romeo
et Juliette." The questionnaire also
asked for a choice of "possible revi
vals" and heading the list was "Boris
Godounoff." followed by "Louise," "Le
Coq d'Or,” "Thais" and “Samson et
Delila." One hundred and six individ- !
uals requested the staging of Wag
ner’s "Rienzl.” 103 of Taylor's "Peter
Ibbetson" and 62 of "Simon Boc
canegra."
Another unique feature of the j
guilds activities has been the estab
lishment of “The Artists’ Memory
Fund for Students." Thd fund grew
out of "the desire of certain guild
members to commemorate the names
of great artists, past and present,
and the suggestion of other generous
minded individuals to establish a
fund for the purchase of opera tickets
for the benefit of deserving music
students.”
With the co-operation of 16 music
schools and colleges. $1,000 was used
to buy tickets for the performances,
which were resold at a greatly re
duced price to young people who
otherwise could not afford to attend
the opera.
The students were prepared by ad
vanced reading and other means, and
required to write their opinions after
they had heard the operas. Some
of these have shown unusual discri
mination. and have proved helpful in
determining what operatic offerings
are most acceptable and Interesting
to the public.
^jOMMITTEES have been formed to
solicit membership in every de
partment of business and musical
life, and to extend this membership
over the country. To assist in the
appreciation of the operas that are
broadcast, the Guild Primer contains
a short synopsis of the composers and
the operas with a list of records of
the principal excerpts by which a
more thorough knowledge of the
music can be had than the one broad
cast could give.
To guide the seeker after knowledge
still further, a very complete list of
books on the composers, the operas
and other relative material is ap
pended. The weekly bulletin Is a
small newsy sheet which advertises
Its purpose "to be useful In that it
will give advanced information not
readily obtainable It is to be interest
ing In tha: it will furnish background
and facts that will add to appre
ciation. It will not be concerned
with critism, but neither will It be
a puff-sheet It will attempt to be. in
word and picture, the useful, in
structive and factual weekly news
paper of opera in New York.”
It is by such means alone that
this country can build up an under
standing and appreciation of opera.
The costliness of transportation and
maintenance is too great to permit
of good opera visiting all sections
of the United States, but what cannot
be accomplished in actuality has been
done by means of the raido. The
Metropolitan has recognized the edu
cational value of the broadcasts and
heartily indorsed the work of the
guild in bringing all helpful data to
the unseen audience. When the
country has become more opera
minded the next step will be to de
mand and give support to more opera
companies with the resulting op
portunities for native singers to coma
into their own.
Pupils Give Recital
'T'HE Lucker-Huff Studio of Piano
Study and Speech Arts, located
in Takoma Park, and under the direc
tion of Marguerite McDonald Lucker !
and Phyllis Wilson Huff, presented
their pupils in a recital Saturday
evening in the Takoma Park Presby
terian Church auditorium.
The program consisted of a three
act play. “The Three Spinners,”
taken from the fairy tale by the same
name. In the third act the queen
of the play acted as mistress of cere
monies for the students of piano, who. j
i representing various countries, had
come to entertain at court. Those
participating in the recital were Jean
Rowley, Betty Strunk. Jaquelin Ske- j
han. Lucy Anna Zundel. Patsy Smith,
Katherine Hopper. Patricia and Annie
Laurie Barnard, Dorothy Jean Cor
nell, Ruth Payne, Gloria Bailey, Mari
jane Snyder, Iva Jean, Ruth Jane,
June Ann Dollarhlde, Esther Rose,
Carol Cornell, Joan Lucker, Lynn 1
Waters and Harriet Krakow.
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Opera Course
ARTURO PAPALARDO director of
the Washington School Cantorum,
will give under the auspices of the
Private Teachers' Association of the
j District of Columbia a series of opera
iecture recitals to be called the par
ticipants' course in grand opera, to fol
low a similar series to be given by him
for the Brooklyn Teachers’ Association
in New York, beginning September 30.
Available soloists in Washington will
be invited to make auditions for en
gagements to sing the most important
solos, duets and other ensemble parts
in a number of operas from the Ger- ;
man, Italian. French and Russian
schools on which Maestro Papalardo
will lecture, with himself at the
piano.
Maryland U. Event.
AN INTERESTING event of the
Summer session at the University
of Maryland will take place on
Wednesday at 8:15 pm, in the Agri
culture Auditorium on the campus, j
when Jessie Blaisdell, pianist: Helen
Brockway, soprano, and Harlan Ran
dall. baritone, will appear in joint
recital. Mr. Randall is head of tfee
music department of the university.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
In Local Music Circles I
Leah and Gertrude effen
BACH present their junior stu
dents in a second piano recital
tomorrow afternoon, at 1510
Nineteenth street, at 4 o’clock. Shir
ley Effenbach, 11 years old. will be
guest pianist. Others on the program
are Lorraine Higger. Ruth Milestone.
Jean Dolfus, Elaine Gewirz. Jack
Alexander. Mildred Stolar. Dorothea
and Catherine Shah. Helen Pettit.
Lucille Peck, Frieda Sherman, Frieda
Bass and Rosalie Fonoroff.
A piano recital by Jacqueline Mes
tekin, Christine Kelley and Margaret
Lyon, pupils of Mrs. C. V. Byram. was
recently given at the studio, 3413
Holmead place. The students were
assisted by Margery League, soprano,
and Max Kohre, violinist.
LeRoy Lewis left Saturday for Con
way, N. H., where he will spend July
and August. Mr. Lewis will return
to Washington to begin teaching on
Tuesday, September 8.
Helen Miller presented two groups
of students in piano recital this week.
Juniors playing on Thursday after
noon were Caroline Koswio. Barbara
Beij, Elizabeth Ford, Dorothy Staples
and Olga Mishel Gasda. guest com
poser-pianist. Students playing on
Friday evening were Laura Gibbs,
Wiler Ford. Betty Falconet, Jean
Stephens, Helen Baylies and Mrs.
Howard Florea.
Mildred Firklin Echols presented a
group of her, Arlington pupils in a
recital on Thursday evening at the
Community House, Columbia pike,
Arlington, Va. Those taking part in
piano, mandolin and violin numbers
were Mary Christerson, Eleanor Proc
tor. Ruth Harney, Louvenia and
Miriam Franklin. Ruby and Earl
Barley. George and Frank Garber,
Frances. Elaine. June and Josephine
Smith, Betty Coe. Betty Klees, Frances
Isaacs. Marie Main, Mary Maureen
McCann and Jacqueline Dindlebeck.
A gold music pin for the most marked
improvement during the year was
awarded to Marie Main
Warren F. Johnson, organist, will
play the following music by Johann
Nep. David before the evening services
at the Church of th? Pilgrims tomor
row: Toccata and chorale, "In Thee,
O Lord, I Put My Trust"; choral
prelude, "Come, Holy Spirit, God and
Lord"; partita, "In Peace and Joy I
Now Depart."
The pupils of the Preparatory.School
of the Von Unschuld University of
Music will give their first annual re
cital Monday at 8 p m. in the Pen
woman room of the Burlington Hotel.
Vermont avenue. Participants of the
recital are Master Humphrey Kern,
Robert Brown, Nelson Hart, Romald
Bowles and Clark Hart: the Misses
Virginia Blesi Betty Lee Dent, Elinor
Wagner, Leonore Aronson, Marie
Miller, Joetta Johnson, Marjorie Hart.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Dudley C.
Jackson presented a group of piano
pupils in recital, at her residence
studio in Takoma Park. Those taking
part were: 'Dorothy Ann, Ruth and
Katherine Cleveland, Grace and Mary
Hatcher, Don Garriss. Anna Mar- j
garet, Evelyn, Annabelle and Doris
Park. Jack and Bob Davis. Sara Jane
Cousins, Anne and Bob Derrick. Elaine
Harrison, Dorothy Hurd, Lenore Welsh,
Eleanor Acher, Isabelle Mauger. Agnes
Culleen, Betty Jackson, Eva Smythe.
Pupils of Mary Apple were heard in
recital Friday evening, at her home on
Harvard street. The program con
sisted of groups of songs and operatic
scenes in costume. Claude Robeson
played the accompaniments and Ron
ald Eicher. pianist, assisted with a
jroup of numbers. The following ap
peared on the program: Myrtle Col
lins, Jean Munn. Marjorie Wilson, i
Svalina Clinchy, Jimmy Waldo. Har
•iette Alexander.
Thelma Hild-La Dow. member of
;he Washington Opera Guild, has been
engaged as soprano soloist of St. An
irews Episcopal Church, College Park,
rwo members of the Washington
Dpera Guild are spending their vaca
ions in Massachusetts. Evangeline
Tullv is summering in Dalton and
Margaret Simrall is in West Bridge
vater. Both are active in musical
sireles and^in demand as church
Piano pupils o^jrace W. Beelman
will give a recital %t the Wisconsin
* venue Baptist Churah -Tuesday eve
i
ning The following will participate:
Mary Augusta Gore. Lois Henderson,
Louise and Mary Ann Law, Janet
Finger, Ruth Pruitt, Edna Trumbo,
Marion Zoref.
Pupils of the Hazel Richards 8tudio
| of Dance were presented in the eighth
annual Spring recital of the school at
| Pierce Hall. Sixteenth and Harvard
streets, on Wednesday evening. Those
on the program were Carlien 8coit.
Helen Lebowitz, Clair Ann MacManus
Mary Ellen Reynolds, Bobby Reynold'..
Ann O Hair,. Jo-Anne Richards, Mary
Kuster, Mary Baldwin. Sally Hammett,
j Joseph Henry Abel, jr.; Patty Thomp
son, Patricia Dredge. Adrienne Stern,
Helen Strong, Helen Smith, Vivian
; Pering, Elizabeth Mullen. Lawrence
j Alsoph and Morgan Stern were the
j guests on the program. Edna Cecilia
Morgan, who has been coaching the
children in their singing and expres
sion, also appeared with the group.
The younger piano and organ pupils
of Claude Robeson were presented 1;
recital Wednesday, June 17, at the
Mount Pleasant Congregation :i
Church. They were assisted by Wi!
liam P Shanahan, tenor, who renders'
two groups of songs accompanied b;
: Mr. Robeson.
The following gave piano numbers:
Jeanne Eileen Murphy, Florence
Henry, Norton Marshall, Pauline
Birch, Robert Verneer, Claire Little.
Jack Page. Joe Crozier, Richard L.
Gorbach. Ruth Finch and Jean Gor
bach. Organ numbers were given by
Richard L. Gorbach. Douglas Stewart,
William E. Newgent and Barbara
Staples,
The third recital by pupils of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Potter will take place
Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Cal-1!
vary M. E. Church. Two pupils of
Sally West, assistant to Mr Potter,
William Moyer and Fern Gilroy, will
also be presented on the program.
Others to be heard are: Katherine
Hubbard, accompanied by Irwin Steele;
F. w. Stump. Catherine Stewart,
Thomas Phillips, jr.; Margaret Pope,
J. L. Stinson. Helen Moyer, Lenore
Mueller, Mary Willis. Gladys Fielding,
Aubrey Goodrich, Sally West and Har
riet Frush.
At the recent violin recital by pupils
of Evgenia Botkin, the following
students played: Susan Guzman Bar
bee, Assa, Liza and Dorothea Inazawa;
George Sauer, Kathryn Dengler,
Howard Sites and Irven Errera. Ac
companiments were played by John
S. M. Zimmermann.
Kathryn Harrison Arthur presented
the following pupils in a piano re
cital on Friday at the Arts Club: Nor
man Day. Lawrence. Mark and Hope
Walker Audrey Vogelsang. Louise Cul
lins. Alice Brake. Lois Quick. Adelaide
Ratcliffe, Betty Lou Mann. Betty Jane
Morales. Shirley Ann Young. Betty
Lou Kostakos. Doris Buck. Carolyn
Graham. Wayne. Winifred and Muriel
Combs: Louise Morse. Lillian Hardy,
Doris Meade. Patricia Henry. Gene
Harvey, Dorothy McCann. Elvira Lit
tle. Noema Kautz, Katherine O'Toole,
Betty Thompson. Mary Ann Fer
randou and Helen Mattson.
The following pupils of Mrs. D. S.
Lord were heard in recitals on Mon
day and Tuesday evenings at Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church:
Dorothy Lamb. Barbara Wetzler,
Donald Schertz. Jacqueline Bullock,
Helen Ballinger. Doris Amis. William
Whelan. Alan Hagan, Lorianne Wells,
Mildred Barry. Jean Farmer. Frftnk
Freed. Norine Dodd. Loya Lynn.
Celeste and Mary Lou Pigg; Dorothy
Jean Schramm. Janet Smith, Patricia
Morales, David Lord, John Preston.
Mildred Carter, Dorothy Bridges,
Patricia Sulis, Elinor Salb. Peggy
Finnell. Miss Irene Truck. Mrs. F. M.
Schertz. Estelle Kean. Jane Horne,
Bernard Dodd. Amy Calbeck, Norman
Cansler, Lois Lyle, Louise Farmer,
Betty Lee Smith. Virginia Noell. Sibyl
Jones. William Pigg. Mary Grace Ryan.
Kathleen Sheriff, Peggy Finnell. Mary
Ellen Yenny and Keith Pigg.
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