Evening star. [volume], February 20, 1938, Page A-11, Image 11

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Numerical Status Vital to
Group, He Tells Group
Launching Drive.
The National Symphony Orchestra
cannot continue unless it can become
a first-class orchestra numerically as
well as artistically.
This was the ultimatum laid down
by Conductor Hans Kindler yester
day to the volunteer workers who will
carry the burden of the National
Symphony Orchestra Association's
campaign for a $103,000 sustaining
fund for the 1938-9 season.
Dr. Kindler had just ended a spe
cial rehearsal of the orchestra. The
workers who had been invited to step
behind the scene to witness the per
formance in Constitution Hall waited
quietly while the musicians left the
stage. Brushing a handkerchief across
his forehead, the conductor turned to
the audience.
‘‘I have been asked to say a few
words to you abbut the campaign,"
he began. “I don't know what 1 can
tell you that you don’t already know.
Asks Eight More Musicians.
"When the orchestra gives concerts
In other cities it represents the Cap
ital of the Nation. We cannot go on
representing Washington unless we be
come first class numerically and ar
tistically. That mean: we must have
a sustaining fund large enough to
provide more players. We now have
some musicians who are second to
none in the world.
"There are some who say Washing
ton is not civic-minded. I don't be
lieve that is, true. It certainly cannot
be true of a city that has stood be
nilnd the National Symphony Or
chestra as Washington, has during the
last six and a half years.”
Dr. Kindler paused, then said: “I
can only say I’m terribly grateful to
all of you for your work.”
Drive Runs to March 6.
The campaign will get under way
Wednesday, and continue through
March 6. The orchestra association.
In anonuncing plans for the drive, ex
plained that unless the full amount is
raised, the orchestra cannot be con
tinued under sponsorship of the asso
ciation.
Team and committee personnel has
been completed by the chairman of
the 11 divisions of the campaign, with
the number of workers totaling more
than 800.
Large business firms will be con
tacted by a committee under the chair
manship of Ool. Edward G. Bliss.
Leaders of the unit include Charles
Carr, Herbert Gill, Bruce Allen, Arthur
Sundland, George Minnigerode, Harold
Fits, Oliver Gash and Harry Somer
ville.
A woman’s business committee of
85 workers under Mrs. Poster Adams,
chairman, and Mrs. David Craig and
Mrs. C. 8tanley Thompson, co-chair
men, will solicit the smaller business
firms. Captains in the group include
Mrs. Benjamin Jones, Mrs. Cillord
James. Mrs. Harold Master, Mrs. Jo
seph L. Miller, Mrs. Fanny Amstutz
Roberts, Mrs. Ralph Rogers and Mrs.
Otto Simon.
A publicity committee has been
organized under the chairmanship of
L. E. RubeL " *
DIRECTORS NAMED
OF FARM AID UNIT
♦>
M. L. Wilson, J. W. Tapp and R.
M. Evans to Head Crop In
surance Agency.
M. L. Wilson, Undersecretary of
Agriculture; Jesse W. Tapp, assistant
A. A. A. administrator, and R. M.
Evans, Assistant to the Secretary of
Agriculture, yesterday were named
the directors of the new $100,000,000
Federal Crop Insurance Corp., set up
by the 1938 Farm Act.
“The crop insurance for which this
legislation provides fits Into the gen
eral policy of the administration,”
Secretary Wallace aald in appointing
the board members. “It. alms at
security for wheat farmers against
the natural forces over which they
have no control.”
The act provides for Insuring wheat
yields, not prices, against such nat
ural hazards as droughts, flood, hall,
winterkill, lightning, Insect Infesta
tion and plant diseases. It provides
payment in kind of losses to wheat
farmers to the extent that their
yield falls below 50 or 75 per cent of
their past average yield. Loeaes to
producers are to be paid from re
serves built up by the premiums that
farmers pay.
The crop Insurance legislation pro
vides $6,000,000 for annual admin
istration. It provide! also that for
local administration, committees or
associations of producers may be es
tablished, or those already existing
may be utilised. Although the In
surance Corp. Is provided with a capi
tal stock of $100,000,000. only $20,
000,000 of it will be available for the
first year’* operation.
Library to Re Presented.
An international dictionary and a
eet of Encyclopedia Brltannlea will
be included in a library presented to
the International student House at
a tea this afternoon. The presenta
tion will be made In honor of the late
Martha N. Hooper, world traveler and
•octal worker, by her slater, Mra.
Jerome D. Davis, and several other
relatives.
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Symphony Leader in Action
Dr. Hans Kindler in action yesterday during the rehearsal
of the :National Symphony Orchestra. —Star Staff Photo.
Atlanta Group Sings Negro
Spirituals to Capacity'
Audiehce.
Washingtonians attending the Em
ory Glee Club concert at the Shore
ham Hotel Friday night heard Negro
spirituals sung in true Southern style.
An audience which parked the ball
room enthusiastically applauded the
work of the Atlanta singers who in
past seasons have displayed their tal
ent throughout the Eastern section of
the country and in Europe.
Although emphasis during the two
hour program was on group effect. !
spiritual interpretation was displayed
in solo work done by John Bumstead,
first tenor and club president.
The Negro spirituals, on which the
clubs reputation has largely been
built, were rendered in a manner to
bring out the inherent musical quality
present in these songs of the'South.
Particularly effective were the ren
ditions of “8teal Away” and Skitters’
"Daniel,” which, in addition to Mr.
Bumstead's solo work, featured the
voice of Paul Bankston, baritone.
Difficult harmony was accomplished
in several numbers in the second
group. Selections worthy of special
mention were Brahm'i "Lullaby” and
Leoncavello's "Gentle Friend Pierrot.”
The gingers, who are directed by
Dr. Malcolm H. Dewey, left yesterday j
for a swing through North Carolina
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"America's appreclaion of opera
has Increased steadily in recent years,
but appreciation of native artists has
not kept pace with that advance."
So declared J. Franklyn Viola yes
terday. Mr. Viola was in the city
to supervise arrangements for Wash
ington's second week of opera this sea
son, to be presented at the' Rialto
Theater beginning March 5. Behind
this engagement is the story of a
dream—a dream of a national opera
featuring American singers which smil
ing, cigar-chewing Joe Viola has cher
ished for some time and in further
ance of which be has gone about the
country promoting the art through
popular-priced non-profit making per
formances.
"We don’t have opera sung in our
native tongue as has almost every
other culturally-advanced nation,"
says Mr. Viola, "and we don't hav/
any definite plan for fostering the
development of young voices along
operatic lines. This is because the
large opera companies are not suf
ficiently bulwarked financially to en
gage in experimentation- by featuring
our own singers; they are forced to
use foreign talent.”
Wants Chance for "Youngsters."
"Any one who attempts to tread
the path to true American opera finds
it is not a money-making proposl
tion. Some day It will be, however,
and that time la not too far away.
The country la opera-conscious, and
opera will be ‘box office' In a big way
when we evolve a system of national
opera dedicated to the training of
llkley volcgs in company with tried
veterans. Give these youngsters a
chance to sing with experienced stars,
and, within a few years, names such
as ‘Smith' and ‘Jones' will get the
large type on the fronts of opera
houses.”
Mr. Viola considers Washington an
excellent opera city, pointing to the
impressive attendance at the produc
tions of the Columbia Grand Opera
Co. last fall.
"That’s why we decided to bring
down some ‘names’,” he Stated.
"We," to Mr. Viola, la the Chicago
Opera Co., which la to offer "Alda,"
"Boheme,” "Travlata,” “Carmen,”
"Samson and Delilah." /‘Faust” and
“Rlgoletto” during Its stay here.
Texas Girl to Sing.
Mr. Viola demonstrates that his talk
of favoring native talent Is not ^Ue
chatter, for the company Includes
Leonora Corona, a young lady lrom
Texas who received Considerable fa
vorable comment from critics on her
efforts with the Metropolitan. Also
to be heard are Mario Court, also of
the Metropolitan and well known to
radio audiences; Lodovlco Oliviero,
tenor singer of second parts with the
"Met"; Nino Carbone, formerly of la
Seals in Milan; Ivan Varluk. once
with the Moscow Opera; Rocco Para
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Currier, another American artist. .
Elda Sr cole, who scored something
of a personal triumph here with the
Columbia Opera Co., has been engaged
for the week, and youthful Martha
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in the Capital, returns with her
father, Ralph Srrolle, leading tenor.
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