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'Butterfly' Success
Forecasts More Opera
Here Next Year
25,000 Hear Symphony
Program at Water Gate,
Police Estimate
(Story by Alice Eversman, Music
Critic, on Page C-3.J
The overwhelming reception given
the performance of "Madame But
terfly,” presented against a back
drop of serene beauty at the Water
Gate last night, assures Washing
ton of more outdoor opera next year,
it was announced today.
C. C, Cappel, manager of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra, said
success of last night’s performance
undoubtedly would move the Sym
phony Association to present a fuller
operatic program next season. At
the same time, he said that diffi
culties in seating arrangements
which were discovered last night,
would be worked out.
There seems little likelihood that
any more opera will be presented
this season, Mr. Cappel said.
"The committee is not contem
plating any further performances
this summer," he said. “We would
like to, but they cost money and I
don’t think our budget will stand
it. We don’t know yet how we made
out financially on this performance,
although I suspect that we were
lucky enough to break even.”
25,000 See Performance.
Capt. Patrick J. Carroll of the
United States Park Police estimated
that 25,000 persons saw the perform
ance last night. Mr. Cappel said
0.000 paid admissions.
“Our prices were lowi’ he said
“and we were presenting a notable
cast, including Metropolitan Opera
aim an outsuaiming director.
We didn't hope to make any money
on the performance.”
Some complaints, Mr. Cappel said,
had been received from those who
bought $1 seats. These seats were
on level ground and those who held
them said they were unable to see
the stage. These complaints were
justified, he said, and pointed out
that holders of the 50 cent seats—
which were on the steps—got a
better view. This is one difficulty
he seeks to obviate at the next
performance.
The great crowd that stood outside
the paid seat area made it difficult
to get to seats: some ticket holders
complained. Mr. Cappel said he
thought there were “only a few iso
lated cases" where those who bought
tickets were prevented by the crowd
from getting to their seats.
Lanterns Light Stage.
The audience, banked on the steps
and the grass at the water's edge,
was held breathless by the brilliant
sight. A full moon cast a silver
sheen on the water on which the
barge-stage floated. The planet
Mars,-brighter than it has been for
years, shown rust-red in the sum
mer sky.
Japanese lanterns lighted the
stage on which Puccini’s tragedy
was sung and similar lights were
used on the barge from which the
orchestra, under direction of Alex
ander Smaliens, played.
The audience exclaimed with
wonder when the brilliant stage
setting for the first act was un
folded. Scene changes were made
before their eyes during intermis
sions. The barge from which the
orchestra played was sunk below
the level of vision—a last-minute
maneuver accomplished by taking
on a large amount of water ballast.
It was the largest crowd ever to
see opera in Washington and the
largest paying audience to attend a
Water Gate performance, Mr. Cap
pel said. The crowd, he said, was
ii'fi ci o ci o inc unc ai
President Roosevelt appeared for a
symphony concert last month.
Mr. Cappel gave great credit to the
Park Service for its work in making
the performance possible.
“Those fellows worked like dogs
getting ready for this,” he said.
“Without their help we couldn't
have done it.”
Social Security Board Head
Named for New Term
»
President Roosevelt today nomi
nated Arthur J. Altmeyer of Wis
consin for another term on the So
cial Security Board, of which he is
now chairman. The new term will
expire in 1945.
The President also nominated Ray
Atherton of Illinois to be Minister
to Denmark, succeeding Alvin M.
Owsley, who has resigned. Ntr.
Atherton is at present Minister to
Bulgaria.
Listerine Makers Agree
To Drop Dandruff Claims
B) the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission
said today the Lambert Pharmacal
Co.. St. Louis, had agreed, under
stipulation, to cease representing
that Listerine antiseptic cures or
permanently relieves dandruff,
"kills the danruff germ,” or “at
tacks the cause of dandruff.”
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3 W.—John L.
Johnston, president of the Lambert
Pharmacal Co., in a statement to
day referring to the agreement with
the Federal Trade Commission on
Listerine advertising, said:
"It is now recognized that, as
pointed out in the stipulation, dan
druff is sometimes caused by a germ,
and Is. in fact, the most frequent
scaly disease of the scalp, but the
view that dandruff is always a dis
ease, although held by some eminent
medical authorities, has not been
wholly accepted by the medical pro
fession. • » • Listerine antiseptic
gives relief from infectious dandruff
by killing the germs.”
McGrath Heads R. F. C.
Examining Division
Appointment of Matthew J. Mc
Grath of St. Charles, Minn., as
chief of the Examining Division of
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
was announced yesterday by Chair
man Emii Schram.
Mr. McGrath succeeds Sam H.
Husbands, who has become a di
rector of the corporation. The new
chief examiner entered the service
of the R. F. C. in March, 1932, and
was made assistant chief of the Ex
amining Division in October, 1934.
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AND THE NIGHT WAS FILLED WITH MUSIC—This Is a general view of part of the Water Gate audience last night where the largest crowd ever to hear opera in
Washington gathered for the performance of “Madame Butterfly.” _gtar staff photo.
Taft
(Continued From First Page !
this consent would interfere with
the right of the people of the State
to select national candidates of their
own choosing.
“As an Ohio matter, therefore, I
shall be willing when the time comes
to give my consent to have my
name designated as the first choice
by candidates for delegates through
out the State. I cannot say how
greatly complimented I am by your
action, and I hope you will express
my sincere gratitude and apprecia
tion to the other members of the
committee.”
The county committee’s resolution,
adopted late yesterday, urged Sen
ator Taft to let his name be used as
the first choice of the Ohio delegates
to the 1940 Republican convention.
It said his political record “and
the frank way in which he states his
opinions on the great public ques
tions of the day all combine to make
him a national figure of the first
rank.”
Friends of Senator Taft have been
anticipating a statement from him
all week, so that his supporters in
Ohio could begin a formal campaign
for delegates. An Ohio law requires
that a person running for conven
tion delegate must list his first and
second choices for the presidential
nomination and submit written au
thorization from the designated
men.
Republican House members from
Ohio met at luncheon yesterday,
and afterward Representative Sec
combe, one of the group, issued a
statemeftt saying Senator Taft "has
the confidence of people of all classes
as well as business and industry.”
The Senator is serving his first year
in Congress. He was Ohio's “favo
rite son” candidate for the presi
dential nomination at the 1936 Re
publican convention, but allowed the
delegation to support Alfred M. Lan
don, the subsequent nominee.
Favored by Bricker.
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio,
who also has received mention as a
possible presidential aspirant, said
recently that "any presumption that
I am a candidate is not so.” He ex
pressed the opinion that Senator
Taft would make a good President.
Presidential booms have been un
der way for some of Senator Taft’s
Republican colleagues in the Senate.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
has indicated a willingness to accept
the nomination, and a publicity
campaign nas oeen starred in Denail
of Senator Bridges of New Hamp
shire.
The name of Thomas E. Dewey,
New York district attorney, also
has figured in Republican presiden
tial talk, along with various Re
publican Governors and a few House
members.
Taft's Friends Lay Plans
To Line Up Delegates
B\ the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 3.—While they
awaited his expected formal accept
ance of an invitation to seek the
Republican presidential candidacy,
friends of Senator Taft laid plans to
day to line up delegates for him in
the party's national convention.
Soon after the Hamilton County
Republican Executive Committee
had urged Ohio’s junior Senator “to
allow his name to be used as first
choice of Ohio's delegates,” his po
litical associates indicated they
would campaign intensively for
pledges in the Central States and
Far West. They said Republicans in
Indiana, West Virginia and Ken
tucky, as well as Ohio, could be
counted on for support.
Members of the committee even
discussed preliminary plans for a
Nation-wide campaign. *
Should Senator Taft be nominated
and elected, he would be the third
Cincinnatian to become President.
William Henry Harrison was the
first, and the Senator’s father, the
late William Howard Taft, the
second.
Fishing Law Passed
The Senate passed and sent to the
House yesterday legislation which
would give the consent of Congress
to interstate compacts to establish
uniform fishing regulations along
the Atlantic seaboard.
A
Congress
(Continued From First Page.)
and that social security tax revision
could not be effected this year.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, one of those who listened
to Secretary Wallace's plea, said
there was a good possibility the
committee would put the commodity
credit funds back into the deficiency
bill.
Mr. Wallace argued that if the
price-supporting loans of the Com
modity Corp. were not continued
the price of com might "drop to
25 cents a bushel or less" and other
commodity prices might sag.
Representative Rogers, another
who appeared before the committee,
said she did so at the request of
Secretary Perkins, who wants
$2,000,000 instead of half that
amount appropriated for the wage
hour administration to build up its
enforcement staff. The House ap
proved $1,000,000.
Frank Seeks $102,000.
Jerome Frank, chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion, sought restoration of $102,000
to finance regulation of the over-the
counter markets, complete an in
vestigation of the investment trusts
and maintain regresentatives of the
S. E. C. in London.
Spokesmen for the Federal Hous
ing Administration protested that
the House had denied authority to
spend $500,000 of the F. H. A. income
for administrative expenses, result
ing from additional actiivties ordered
by Congress. They asked that this
be remedied.
Altogether, the House cut the de
ficiency bill $161,700,000, below the
rauinaies 01 me wiuie xiouse Buagei
Bureau.
Wallace Fears Price Drop.
Around the $119,000,000 farm item
centered the possibility that Con
gress would be carried over into
another week. Senate approval of
the fund, when the deficiency bill is
taken up tomorrow, would bring on
another battle with anti-New Deal
ers in the House.
Secretary Wallace told reporters
yesterday that unless the money is
provided, corn prices would drop to
1932 levels, wheat would go down,
and prices of cotton, dairy products,
wool and rye would be affected seri
ously.
Another row simmered in the
House. Amendments to revise the
wage-hour l&w can be called up for
debate, but leaders said no decision*
had been reached on whether to in
clude them in the pre-adjournment
schedule. One set of the proposed
changes, the President has said,
would doom 2,000,000 of the country's
lowest paid workers to unconscion
ably low wages.
The decision to give the housing
bill a test was announced by Rep
resentative Rayburn of Texas, the
Democratic leader, just as the House
quit last night. He told reporters
later that despite the 193-to-166 de
feat of the big lending measure, “the
city fellows” wanted the housing
vote.
Other sources added that the •pur
pose of the housing advocates was to
fix responsibility for the legislation’s
defeat, just as Mr. Roosevelt said
was done when the House voted
against considering t’/.e lending bill.
After the House rejected the farm
fund the administration put oppo
nents of the commodity credit loans
on notice that the farm program
was in their hands. The loans are
made to farmers at levels above
commodity market prices, in order
to prevent surpluses from lowering
prices
Mr. Wallace said at his press con
ference :
“If it is the intent of Congress to
do away with the commodity loan
program, the farmers should know.
It is conceivable that action of this
sort would bring us back to a price
situation as serious as in 1932.”
The agriculture head also spoke
his mind about the defeat of the
lending bill, which he blamed on the
Republicans. He called the minorit}
“the best organized and most irre
sponsible opposition seen here foi
many years.”
“What do they have to offer?” he
asked. “They have nothing but op
position.”
The House vote rejecting the farrr
loan money was by a narrow mar
gin. 116 to 110.
Debate brought out that the Com
moditv Credit Corp. has but $9,000,
000 left uncommitted with which to
continue its program.
Halifax Relief Drops
HALIFAX (A3).—Direct relief cost
the city of Halifax, exclusive of
grants to the Red Cross. $240,520
during 1938, a decrease of $36,272 as
compared with the previous year.
Convention of Pi Phi
To Open August 16
Members of 32 chapters of Pi Phi
National Scholastic Fraternity rep
resenting eight States will meet for
a three-day session at the Willard
Hotel beginning August 18.
More than 100 members are ex
pected to be on hand for the event
which is being sponsored by the
Washington Omicron Chapter for
the first time since 1917.
The convention program will in
elude a stag smoker, tea dance, for*
mal dinner dance, sightseeing trlpa -
and the usual business sessions*
Richard V. W. /dams of Washing
ton, grand president of the fra
ternity, will preside at the opening
meeting.
A special Convention Committee
has been meeting at the hotel weekly
and will continue the preparatory
sessions until the main convention
opens.
Sweden used more American cot
ton last year than in 1937.
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