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n - y' "-", rt frj;rf ?Ff?, V&. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11; 1919. J 1 S5jG2Sj1"M-mF jK Kfttl 1 4 UsSt In the Home n H ajhJv1' I Among the Musicians who made her professional debut hero last winter as assisting artist with the famous opera tenor Martinelli, has Just signed a three years' contract with Fred Whitney, the well-known light opera producer, as prima donna with the "Sweet Sixteen" company. Miss Moore is a pupil of Thomas Ei-ans Greene. She is now rehearsing for her first theatrical season. It was Mr. Whitney who produced "The Chocolaate Soldier" in this country. The Friday Morning Music has a most interesting season prospect. This women's club has se cured the assembly hall of the Cos mos Club for its weekly morning meetings this year and many of the programs have already been outlined. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, president of the Club, says it is to be their policy x make one program each month a constructively educational one. In. the furtherance of this plan, the field of music Is to be taken chronolog ically. ODenin? with a Bach recital to be given by Charles Trowbridge fcnttmann, bass, and Miss Lucy Brlck enstein, soprano. Both of these singers have been soloists in the great Bach Festival held each year at Betllehem, Pa, they are planning to give the Bach cantata that is written lor soprano and bass on this program. The Friday Morning Music Club is an unique institution in Washington. Its activities cover a weekly miscel laneous program, given by artist members of the club, with several recitals each season by visiting art- The best bak ing powder at the price no m better powder at any price. DUMFORD I I THE WHOLESOME BAKING POWDER Go buy it today ! Club " ists. and a chorus that is featured on n In j several programs during the year. -ine active membership of the Club numbers about 50, while the mem bership of the Club Js In all about 200. Among the soloists for the first month's programs are Mrs. Heinl, pianist, a very gifted pupil of the late Edward MacDowell. Paul Veasey, baritone, is to sing some English songs oL particular musical value. The public makes the ac quaintance of a larger number of musicians in Washington through the programs of the Friday Morning Music Club than In any other circle of the city. The officers of the Club this year are: President, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes; vice president. Mrs. Samuel Wlnslow; treasurer. Mrs. Henry Bobbins; cor responding secretary. Mrs. J. B. Kendall: ' recording secretary, Miss Catherine Riggs; musical director. Miss Mabel Linton: assistant musical director. Miss Lucy Brickenstein; chorus director. Mrs. F. W. True; governors and officers. Miss Sewall, Mrs. Hilton, Mrs. Howard. Mrs. Wal ter Bruce Howe. Miss Bestor. Mrs. Von Beyer. Mrs. Richard Dean. A Clean Cool Scalp Parisian Sage Stops Itching, Keeps the Scalp Cool Erevents Dandruff Almost everybody nowadays knows that Parisian sage, the invig orating hair restorer, is guaranteed to remove every trace of dandruff. stop falling hair and itching scalp. The Motet Choral Society, under the direction of Otto Torney Sinlon, will reorganize .this season under the auspices of the War Camp Community Service. The last concert of the Motet Society was given In December, 1917. at the Belasco Theater, at which time they had the honor of singing before the President. The Motet was disbanded because of the Music for. the War Risk Bureau pic nic last Saturday, held on the ground of the Sixteenth street reservoir, was n-Iven bv the Department of the In- f terlor Band, under the direction of the nexistnnt director. W. G. Wllmarth. Community singing was led by A. W. Harned, and several War Risk songs j were sunjr by the bureau "bard." ! The school for song leaders and ac companists of the War Camp Commun ity Service, under the direction of Hol lis Edison Davenny, will hold Its or ganization meeting on the evening of September 16th. This school is conducted without a fee from the members, the only re quisite being a willingness to serve as song leader or accompanist in the many civic events that the W. C. C. S. sustains in its community service. Lieutenant Dnvenny says that the demand for such service is increasing steadily. He therefore desires to en list the co-operation of experienced musicians of the city who may be willing to devote, perhaps, but one evening a week to this community work; as well as the musically inter ested who will need the tuition of .he class for future song leaders?S He would like to "have possible ap plicants register at the Community Music Headquarters at 1408 Penna. avenue northwest so that permanent assignments may be made. Community Opera Plans To Open Second Season In Autumn With "'Faust" Through an error In our typesetting department the address of the Wash ington Conservatory of Music was In advertently given as at T108 New Hampshire avenue. The correct ad dress is 1408 Kcw Hampshire avenue. adjoining Dupont Circle, where the summer rchool of the conservatory has just finished a very successful season. Many music students of Washington bave taken advantage of this summer term:- the Washington Conservatory of Music being the only large school of music which lias kept open during the heated period, thus enabling many to get a 3tart In music before tho utq t nrt tK a 9ATlA$tr-n l 1 cr nmAD n.,'t, t,o. .nt into t, n.i encroachment of school duties. of many .of the men members of this' n has been decided to make the choral choir i summer term a .special feature each Mr. Simon intends uniting the year at the Washington Conservatory forces of the Motet, and those of the f Music. The conservatory Is now newly organized choral clubs who J open for the Fajl and "V inter season, gave the impressive Memorial Con- advertised e.sewhere in our coT cert at Central High School last urans' , . ., , . SDrinir. These were the Polvmnla.l "e personnel oi me siuucnu or chestra will be largely increased , by many new advanced violin students' and the addition of other orchestral instruments. The orchestra Is under the personal direction of the head of the Apollo, and the Euterpe Choral Clubs. The Motet will begin its rehearsals about the end of this month, the dato to b annonnrwl Intnrv An l tl-ii- custonv tncv "K'i,l Slve two concerts i the violJn apartment. during tne season. The programs of the Motet have always filled an in dividual place in the musical life of the community, both as to novelty and as to the color in tone and blend of voices that is a part of the ideal in music that Mr. Simon tries to in nill into his choral work. This will be the eighth season of this choral joclety. Seven hundred voices, at the small est estimate, will form the National Community Chorus In the "Welcome Home" to General Pershing extended through the War Camp Community Service. The chorus will be massed on seats 'field affords. By J. SlaeB. The Community Opera-of Washing ton will open its second season with a presentation of Gounod's beautiful opera of "Faust." to be given early in the uutumn. As originally organized, the development of this opera, "move ment for Washington will be sponsor- ea Dy me War Camp Community Ser vice. Edouard Albion, director of the Community Opera of Washington, has Just returned from his summer In Canada with full plans for the com ing season, when it Is Intended to present six of the standard grand operas. The design of this enterprise Is to put the best In music into the actual music experience of the people, and to develop on home soil the talent for opera, that would otherwise be lost for lack of opportunity. It is the same principle upon which the smaller opera houses of Europe have been run. . Tho Community Opera of Washington is "out of the community" u is true, but, as Mr. Albion points out. Its development Is In the hands of the musicians who are at hand, and these musicians are pro fessionals, albeit without experience inopera. They have.too, been gather ed here from all over the country, so in that way are representative of music in America. "The value of the best In music, music as high art in the broad field of the opera, is the only foundation upon which this endeavor can be nrmlv built into the music life of the nation," says Edouard Albion. "Formerly, an American student has had to spend a long apprenticeship In Europe before he was fitted to enter the professional opera world In competition with for eign artists. "I found that outside of Washing ton much emphasis has been placed upon the fact that 'Opera had become a community expression, and a suc cessful enterprise as well. It will serve, not alone for the development of opera and a taste for opera in the National Capital, but it is a model to which other communities are looking. 'The success of Washington's first season of Community Opera has made a place for it in the music life of the entire United States. It Is not a mere amateur venture. It Is to the estab lishment of that broad art of the opera in the experience, and in the hearts of the American people, that the enterprise is directed. "Opera as a cosmopolitan art, opera as it should be' studied and under stood, is what the Community Opera of Washington alms to cultivate." With the autumn season comes the announcement of the organization of another opera company the People's National Opera Sbciety for the pro duction of lighter operas, including a numbqr of the most succcessful and popular productions the comic opera S- Shaw's celebrated comedy, "Arms and" the Man." These operas are to be produced on a business basis, and presented for one week each, at one of the regular theaters. A gala production, of "Pinafore" is scheduled for the week of the visit oi the Prince of Wales in the National Capital. And It is designed to ter minate the series with a great open- air production of Verdi's grand opera. "Aida," taxing the resources of both' Washington and Baltimr-ro for its orchestra and band, and having the most celebrated grand opera sing ers tht can be secured for the solo ists. A people's auditorium in Washing ton that long desired need of the city--ls among the aims of this new enterprise. especially attractive by a most win- j PUllJUIiBlBliaU3KiaiV3BSafJU9iiRV! ning manner. One could not imag-i ine M. Rabaud making enemies; one m coujd not rancy zi. Monteux as mak ing any but friends. The warmth and grace of the South of France, from which he derives his descent (his parents are Marseillaise) inform;" M. Monleux's ready smiling speech g with a spontaneity all their own. fe 1 A Music Store of Service ss The music season in Washington opens with the first concert of the newly organized Washington Phil harmonic Orchestra, under Helnrlch Hammer. This will take place at Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater on the afternoon of October 2. It will be Washington's first effort at "uptown" concerts. But not until November will the concerts be in full swing. The end of October, Tuesday , October 28 brings Geraldine Jarrar as the first artist of the Philharmoic course pre sented by Mrs. Wilson-Greene. A new course of concerts, to be given in the evening, Is announced by Miss Laura Harlan. These will be six "Thursday Evening Musicals," presenting twelve artists, with two at each concert. It will prove among other things whether Washington really wants evening concerts. Particular interest will center, both socially and musically. In the appear ance of Ralph Leopold, pianist. For Mr. Leopold is the brother of the wifo of the, Secretary of War, Mrs. Newton D. Baker. This young artist Is little known in this country. He has been assistant to the celebrated Russian teacher, lime. Stepanoff, and has spent most of his professional life abroad. Another novelty in Miss Harlan's list of artists in Nina Tarasova. con tralto, who Is called the Russian xvette Gullbert. Mme. Tarasova gU-es Russian folk songs. RAAnrrt iiprnn ! 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You ought to know that ItHmmediatelr destroys all odors -tthat. are bound to. come from the excretions of the scalp, and in five minutes after an application, no matter how hot the weather,, your head will feel cool and comfortable. ft Jreryone should nave a bottle of rParlsian sage handy because it is such a pleasant and exhilarating hair treatment. Ladies use it be cause they know it Is delicately per fumed, not sticky or greasy, and surely does make the hair beautiful, silky and abundant. Here's what a New York woman writes: "I have used Parisian sage two weeks only, yet in that time find my hair has wonderfully increased in beauty, thickness and luxuriance, but what surprised me most was the disap pearance of all dandruff." A large bottle of Parisian sage can be obtained from People's Drug Stores or at any good drug or toilet counter It's not expensive. Willi Airs. Otto Tornev Simon, who .was so vital abactor in the music life I" of ashington, and later as the regu lar accompanist of the society. The secretaries. of the Motet will be Drl C. P. Fralley and Mrs. Joseph Dunn. Trinity Community Choir held its first rehearsal of the season last even ing at the church. Third and C streets northwest. It Is the purpose of the director. Hollis Edison Davenny. to limit the membership of this commu nity chorus choir to sixty members, ' Church S. headquar avenue and Fourteenth street northwest. The Camp Humphreys Engineers' Band, led by Lieutant Weber, will accom pany them. Lieutenant Davenny will direct the large chorus. He has been called to New Jork In connection with the Pershing celebration there, leaving on last Tuesday evening. The National Quartet, under the di rection of Mrs. Ethel Garrett Parrish. organist and accompanist .for this quartet, has arranged an attractive program for next Sunday at the In- j gram Memorial Congregational xniB win De ine nrsi serv- Rollin .Bond sends the announce ment to The Times. Mr. Bond has just returned to Washington with the producing rights, among other operas, of "Tho Chocolate Soldier," with -which he intends to inaugurate his new enterprise.' TBIb tuneful opera is based upon George Bernard To the stranger within our gates the season will offer much of variety and will bring the foremost artists of the world to Washington in recital. What opera we have usually comes In small quantities toward the end of tho season, when the companies have closed their seasons in New York, in Chicago, or in Philadelphia. Still the prospectus presents a greater activity than Washington has eve,r known.) Washington music clubs, some of which lessened their activities during the war, will again return to their former schedules. Thus, with opera at home, with our own symphony orchestra, with club programs galore, with the ever en larging circle of community endeavor in music, ano with tnc vast number of professional concerts and an almost certain promise of others not yet an nojiced we may say .that the National Capital is steadily growing into a mu sical city. mereoy insuring a standard excel-1 ice sung by this, quartet In its new lence in the development of the choral .field of church music. The program music. John Wilson, organist of the includes: church, is the accompanist. Festival "Te Deum" in E fiat (Dud- ley Buck); "Christian, the Morn The Rubinstein Club will have as ' Breaks Sweetly O'er Thee" (Shelley); solo artist for its opening concert of! "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" the reason Thco Karle. the celebrated' (Garrett); "Sing Alleluia Forth" tenor- j (Buck), and "Fear Not Ye, O Israel" (Spicker). Grace Moore, the attractive soprano' The large chorus choir maintained m: i j fZ'lA IV t I --g-- Fresh Crispy Bread Spread With Sweet Honey Doesn't just the mention of this make your "mouth water?" Honey has long been the universal favorite of all lovers of sweets, and there is no better way to serve, it than spread thickly over slices of DORSCH'S Old Mammy's Rice Brad That Old Southern Mammy certainly knew how to make bread for we are still using her recipe. by Ingram Church for many years will be retained to supplement the work of the quartet. but many of Its members being out of the city it will not be heard until tho first Sunday in October. The National Quartet is composed of Elizabeth S. Maxwell, soprano; Lil lian Chenoweth, contralto; William E. Braithwaite, tenor, and Harry M. Forker, bass, with Ethel Garrett Par rish, accompanist. Mrs. Flora McGIll JCeefer. soprano, has resumed her position as soloist at the Christian Science First Church, Columbia road, singing at the ser vices on last Sunday. Henry H. FVceman, formerly or ganist and choirmaster of St. John's Church, Lafayette square, and hi? bride are spending some time visiting friends in New York State. (Wagner); tenor solo. "Come Unto Me" (Cowen), Richard Backing; offertory anthem, "My Song Shall Be of Mercy" (Wilkinson); postlude, "Marche Solennelle (Borowski). Evening service, organ prelude, "To Spring" (Matthews): anthem, "Rejoice Greatly " (Woodward); of fertory anthem, "More Love, Qh, Christ, to Thee" (Speakes); postlude, "March Pontificale" (Lcmmons). "Only twenty-two weeks remain in which to buy tickets for the greatest i benefit performance ever staged. In the world, a benefit that will Include every legitimate theater in the United States, with the proceeds Intended exclusively for the Actors Fund of America," is the announcement to day from the office of Jack Edwards, resident manager of the Shubert-Gar-rlck Theater, who is one of the hun dreds of theater managers of the country .who already have started ac tivities towards this monster affair. The movement, started by Daniel Frohman, president of the Actors Fund, is being backed by business and professional men of New York and other large cities, .the purpose being the commemoration of the wonderful work which the theatrical profession accomplished during the .war, in aid ing the Government and in obtain ing for war activities moro than "J250.000.000. December 5 is the date decided upon and It will be known as "Ac tors' Memorial Day." Every theater manazer In the country has been called upon to put his shoulders to the wheel, and. all of the Washington theater managers, Including L. Stod dard Taylor of the Shubert-Belasco; Harry Rapley, of the National; C. J. Harris, of Poll's, and Mr. Edwards, of the Shubert-Garrick, are among those who have already sent in their ac- The festivities planned for Actors' Memerial Day will include the com memoration of the work done by ac tors as soldiers in the -war, as a com memoration of those who have fallen In the defense of their country, and all to be a tribute and of service to the Actors Fund of America, a char ity In. which the entire profession Is interested. ' SLAKE KNOWN YOUH PARTlCBIAIt NEEDS SO WG CAN COMPLETELY SATISFY THEM. MR. WALTElt H. NASH. SALES MANAGER MUSIC DEM. I A OUR GRAPHOPHOXE DEPARTMENT x UNDER PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF MR. BACHRACH - COMPRISES A COMPLETE STOCK OF COLUMBIA GRAFONOLAS AND RECORDS UP-TO-THE-MINUTE Q. R. S. 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Ralph Winchester HHI3 leaves this week for a two weeks' outing in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York city. Harry Edward Mueller, organist and choirmaster of the First Congre gational Church, announces the fol lowing programs for the Sunday ser vices: Morning service, organ prelude. "Canzona" (Hall); anthem. "Blessed be the Name of the Lord" (Heyde); Offertory solo, "Fear Not Ye. O. Israel" (Buck). Fred East, bass; organ post lude, March of the Priests, from "Athalic (Mendelssohn). The organ recital that precedes the evening service will be given by Mr. Mueller, who will play "Paean" (Mat thews): "Minuet" from Suite L'Ar lcsienne (Rir.et); "Prize Song" from Die Meistcrsinger (Wagner). For the evening service the choir will give the anthem "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled" (Foster), and fori Offertory "Send Out Thy Light" (Lynes;) organ postlude, "Dead March" from "Saul" (Handel). RABAUD AND NrONTEUX ARE DIFFERENT TYPES The longevity of phonograph rec ords may be doubled if proper care be exercised In their use. When we have the privilege of listening to the great artists through the medium of the record, we should see to it that the reproduction is perfect, as far aa our care of the machine and record may make .it. Nothing can be so ir ritating as to liqten to an otherwise artistic performance on a rccord- whlch produces a grating, grinding sound. Too many people blatrfe th machine in an . instance like this, when the fault lies. In lack of care for their records, assuming, of course, that their machine is cared for and in order. Before using a record Jt is well to ex3h.ine it carefully. Iff there be any fault, it may be that the record is badly worn, the; deep grooving usually being the cause of the gritty sound produced. If the following advice Is applied, it should have the effect of making your ma chine a real musical' Instrument. First, see to it that tho turn-table of your phonograph is revolving at the correct number of revolutions per minute, so as to secure the proper tempo at which certain compositions should be placed. Second, always clean off your rec ord before playing. Use clean, soft cheese-cloth for this purpose with a very little oil on it not enough to grease the record, but just enough to lift the dust and lint. Third, when using steel needles, change each time after playing. When Using jeweled needles, wipe the dust off each needle every time. Fourth, never let a record rub against a hard surface. When it is not resting on the baize surface of the turn-table, it should be replaced in a stiff cardboard envelope or rec ord album. Strict observation of the foregoing rules will double the life of all rec ords while securing 100 per cent of pleasure to their happy possessor. It has been estimated that a child's musical education consists of 20 per j cent teacher, 60 per cent mother and 20 per cent just plain child. The mother holds the controlling major it'. Lucky the child where the mother exercises he majority to the best advantage. Harry Edward Mueller has return ed from his vacation and will again be in charge of the music of the serv ices of the First Congregational Church. The selections for this week are as follows: Morning service, organ "Prelude" ff hTSl Ne ; - - . VR fr.S V-' fcvift . ?iiSi' r-L-C m J.M' MUSIC Popular Hits From All the Leading Musical Shows . THIS WEEK 'LISTEN LESTER' "Waiting." "When the Shadows Fall." "I'd Love To." "r Was a Very Good Baby." and all other numbers. POPULAR in HITS I UC "Broken Blossoms." "Taxi," "Breeze." 'In Cleopatra's Land." Girl of Mine." "it's Nobody's Business But My Own," "Mam tnv o' Mine." "I've Got Mv Cap lain Working for Me " "Hima laya." "Thr Alcoholic Blue." Honeymoon." 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The one suggests the scholar by his stoop, his dreamy gravity, the care with which he brings out hi3 few words: the other is the man of affairs crossed with the musician, the man of family, the man who knows and loves his fellows; the man Of enthusiasms that are yet balanced by good sense and that arc rendered of at least 3.000 persons, according to reports from Fu Chow. The typhoon was accompanied by a tidal wave twenty-eight feet high. APlayerPiaB Iii Your Moiile Opens Up the Realm of Music For the Family The splendid compositions that have made Musical History and the beautiful dances and popular music of the day are played with all the effect of the master by any-one in the family. - . ... It is a special delight to practice the dif ferent selections and express one's own feel ings Musically, so to. spealc. .. The Rojls ae played by Artists whose . Sft:Kr Conceded ;and they are chosen for their .. particularly; fine renditions of the various 'selections. . . 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