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Menuhin, Damrosch
Will Display Genius
For D. C. Audiences
Violinist at Constitution Hall Tomorrow;
Famed Conductor Here Feb. 6
By WILLIAM NEWMAN
Walter Damrosch, dean of conductors, conies to Wash
ington on Sunday, February 6, to present his setting of “A
Mighty Fortress. - ’ his “Abraham Lincoln Song” and ex
cerpts from his latest opera “The Man Without a Country.”
The National Symphony and
the same fine chorus of 200
voices that served Dr. Kindler
in the recent performance of
the ninth Beethoven symphony
will answer to his baton, as will
Glenn Darwin, baritone soloist.
The verterable Dr. Damrosch
Is indefatigable. Years mean
nothing to him. A new musical
project attracts his interest the
moment the one in which he is
then engaged has been com
pleted. His beat is as vigorous,
his mind as keen, his ear as
infallible as when he took the
baton his father’s hand re
linquished in death in 1885 to
cairy on the Wagnerian season
of the German Opera Company.
Dr. Damrosch has introduced
more young American artists to
their fellow countrymen than
any other conductor of a major
symphony orchestra, Theodore
Thomas and Frederick Stock,
excepted. His work in the
schools, not only through his
broadcasts but by actual con
tract with the various State and
national high school orchestras,
is a monument to his unselflish
interest in the art. Long may
he prosper and find new things
to do!
Yehudi Menuhin comes to
Constitution Hall tomorrow.
The amazing popularity of this
young man seems to have been
predestined and foreordained.
He sold out some of the largest
concert auditoriums in the
country for his Midwestern and
Eastern debuts, though he had
no European prestige; in fact,
never had traveled outside his
native California. No one can
explain this instinct of the pub
lic so: genius. Os course, after
he had played, there was no
mystery in his popularity. He
has the divine spark.
Interest centers this season
In the first performance of the
Schumann violin concerto. This
is the work willed by Schumann
to Joachim. That eminent mas
ter refused to play it. Evidently
he did not regard it as repre
sentative of the composer, for
he inserted in his last testa
ment a clause forbidding the
performance of the work until a
century after Schumann’s death.
Menuhin was able to per
suade Joachim's heirs, the di
rectors of the Staatsbibliotek in
Berlin, where the manuscript re
posed under glass, and finally
the authorities of the Reich
smusikkammera, awessome ram
ification of interlocking bu
reaus, that the world should
hear it; and that he, among
al the great violinists, was the
artist to reveal it.
His program also will contain
the Chaconne of Bach, a move
ment from that master’s fifth
Partita, the forgotten Paganini
fantasy on themes from Ros
sini’s “Moses in Egypt”—this
for the G string, and smaller
pieces by Sarasaet and Brahms.
* * *
The Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra, under Eugene Or
mandy, comes to Constitution
Hall Tuesday evening. The con
ductor shares the interest of a
serious program with Joseph
Szigetti, eminent Hungarian vio
linist. Szigetti is to play the
Beethoven concerto so Ormandy
prefaces his place on the first
half of the program with the
“Fidelio” overture. In the sec
ond half he yields again to the
plaints of the critics and an
nounces a symphony — the
Brahms first. It is a great pro
gram for lovers of noble music
and should sell out.
* * *
The Blackfriars Institute of
Dramatic Art presents James
Mannix, youthful and gifted
American pianist, in recital in
the music hall of the Catholic
University tomorrow at 3 p. m.
♦ * *
Beveridge Webster, a sensa
tion among the younger Ameri
can pianists, and Benno Rab
inof. last of the Leopold Auer
pupils to be presented by that
great virtuoso and pedogague,
will offer the program in Mrs.
Townsend’s Monday morning
musicale at the Mayflower Hotel.
lone Hoffman, mezzo-soprano,
and Herman Hoffman, violinist,
play Sunday afternoon, at 5, in
Barker Ha’l, Y. M. C. A.
* * *
The Washington Music Teach
ers’ Association presents Angela
Diller in a lecture on “Modern
Music Educational Trends” in
Wesley Hail. Monday evening.
* * *
Doris Hunphries and Charles
Weidman, modem American
dancers, bring their Interesting
group to Roosevelt High School
Tuesday evening under auspices
of the Washington Dance Asso
ciation.
• * «
Robert Weede, baritone of the
Metropolitan Opera and Radio
City, and Clelia Floravanti. resi
dent mezzo, will be heard in re
cital in the Raleigh Hotel,
Wednesday evening.
• * *
The Roth Quartet plays under
the auspices of the Coolidge
Telephone RE public 1234
Mrs. Keefer
Pleases In
Recital
By WILLIAM NEWMAN
To the growing list of Amer
ican song writers whose com
bined efforts are creating one
of the most interesting schools
of composition in the history
of the art must be added the
name of Mary Howe.
From her group of five songs
presented for the first time for
the Friday Morning Music Club
by Flora McGill Keefer, with
the composer at the piano, it is
necessary to choose but one to
prove the assertion.
.It is a setting of Rainer
Maria Rilke’s poem, “Herbsttag”
<Autumn Day), an exciting and
colorful study in the use of dis
sonance to stress the expressive
purpose.
SONG SET APART
The musician will examine it
with interest because of its free
dom. An undiatonic melody
that still is lyric, a harmonic
scheme that places idea above
system, a feeling for the cumu
lative and reiterative . climax,
set this song apart. Others in
the group displayed the same
fine talent in quite different as
pects.
This composer has an unmis
table personality; yet a French
text is set by her with such
sensitive regard for the nuances
of the language that it becomes
a chanson. Os a German text
she makes a lied. These neces
sary echoes of established style
are accomplished without any
sacrifice of individuality, an
achievement amounting almost
to a technical tour de force.
SINGS ADMIRABLY
Mrs. Keefer sang these songs
and others by Grieg, Rach
maninoff and Chopin admira
bly. Her somber voice is beauti
fully smooth throughout its un
usual range. She practices the
fine art of diction with care and
taste.
Willa Semple contributed two
preludes and fugues from the
first volume of Bach’s “Well
Tempered Clavichord,” with ex
cellent definition of their con
trapuntal texture and read the
exacting E minor sonata, opus
90, of Beethoven with fine un
derstanding of its poetry and
without sentimental exaggera
tion.
Foundation in the children’s
room of the Georgetown branch
of the Public Library, Thursday
evening, offering works of
Brahms, Dvorak and Debussy.
* ♦ ♦
John Seagle, baritone, whose
father was one of the most cele
brated of recitalists, comes to
Washington, Thursday evening,
for a program in the King-Smith
Playhouse.
* * *
Miriam Winslow, another dis
tinguished representatives of the
active and interesting American
school of the dance, brings her
group from Boston to the Na
tional Theater Friday afternoon
at 4:30.
♦ * *
Maude Sewall, musicologist,
will address the Friday Morning
Music Club, assisted by Helen
Turley, contralto, and Clelia
Mahoney, violinist, at 11:30 in
Barker Hall.
♦ * *
The U. s. Marine Band and
Symphony Orchestra, Capt. Tay
lor Branson leader, announce
concerts at the Marine Barracks
as follows: By the band. Tues
day and Friday at 3; by the
orchestra, Wednesday, at 8.
* ★ ♦
The schedule for the concerts
in the Army Band Auditorium
by the T.. s. Army Band an
nounces programs on Monday
at 6 p. m.; Thursday, at 3:30 p
m.; Saturday, at 11:30 p. m.
The U. S. Navy Band Sym
phony Orchestra will play in
Sail Loft. Navy Yard, on Tues
day at 7:30 p m. Lieut. Charles
Benter announces a program of
brief number.- by Ceron. Svend
son, Del Rigo, Tschaikowsky,
Barnard, Dvorak and Benter.
Physician Writes
Study of Alcoholism
“Alcohol: One Man’s Meat,”
is a discussion by Dr. Edward A.
Strecker, of the University of
Pennsylvania Medical School,
and Francis T. Chambers, Jr.,
of the Institute of the Pennsyl
vania Hospital. The authors
summarize the social, psychic
and physical factors of the prob
lem of alcoholism as seen by a
physician in the course of prac
tice. with examples drawn from
their own experiences with al
coholics. It is published by
MacMillan.
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IN “CONQUEROR OF THE SEAS,”
Stefan Zweig has written an outstanding
narrative of the Portuguese sailor who
'Uncommon Scold"
Story of the First
Woman Editor
It’s gotten so that nobody
would think seriously of writing
a book about a famous person
without first giving him or her
a title. If, by happy chance, he
or she happened to be infamous
as well, so much the better. We
have had, therefore, a succession
of “glorious Apollos,” “gorgeous
hussies” and “exquisite sirens.”
It remained for George Stuyve
sant Jackson to strive for a new
note and call his biography of
Anne Royall “Uncommon
Scold.”
Mr. Jackson didn’t seem to be
troubled whether or not his title
sounded tempting. He was bent
on a complete biography, and if
the Federal court of the District
of Columbia called Anne Royall
“a common scold,” a scold she
had to be, although Mr. Jack
son found her a little different
from the garden variety.
She was, as only a small
minority is aware, the first
woman newspaper editor in the
United States. She was also the
first woman lobbyist and prob
ably the most determined soul
ever to wage a private war for
what she considered to be re
ligious liberty and political
honesty.
Mr. Jackson tells all about her
turbulent career in this slim
little brochure numbering less
than 150 pages. It doesn’t take
long to read it, but once read
it will be well remembered.
("Uncommon Scold," the
biography of Anne Royall as
told by George Stuyvesant
Jackson. Published by Bruce
Humphries.)
Fantasy and Fugue
New Book of Verse
Marina Wister, who attracted
widespread notice with “Night
in the Valley, depicts the Mexico
of song and story in “Fantasy
and Fugue,” her latest book of
verse. *
Hers is a vivid gift of imagi
nary, finding poems in a “piece
of string, a bunch of grass, a
gourd, a bean, a twist of glass.”
Her humor lightens a scene too
often steeped in tragedy. Her
irony invites immediate laugh
ter. Her mood changes, the
scene shifts, and the reader goes
onward to a variety of sonnets,
concluding at last with her
“postscript,” which winds up in
this fashion:
“O book be mine indeed and do
not falter,
Daily absorb my sinew and my
blood,
Be to me my love and vision,
home and altar,
Symbol of doubt and weariness
withstood .. .
And then go forth so any who
cares may see
No great thing, but a living part
of me.”
("Fantasy and Fugue," a
book of verse by Marian Wister.
Published by Macmillan.)
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 29, 1938
A Collection of Poems
Unusually Bound
Not long ago there was a
movement to have books bound
in fabrics symbolic of their con
tents.
“Gone With the Wind," for
example, was to have been done
up in threadbare red velvet
with two sputtering candles em
bossed on the cover. The
weighty “Anthony Adverse” was
to have been rebound in the
stuff maps are made of. Oil
cloth, calico and chiffon were
mentioned for other best sellers.
Nothing much came of it,
however, until Paul Southworth
Bliss finished “The Rye Is the
Sea.” Then the Cirrus Com
pany thought of something
special.
The result is a thin, square
shaped book bound in sackcloth
with pages like wrapping paper.
The block type stands out most
effectively and the old sailing
ship on the cover lends a deco
rative note.
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I—loo,ooo
rupees
4—cut the
outer part
from
B—slant
12— the yellow
bugle
13— bo be it
14— island
(poet.)
15— take
exception
17—restrain
19— preposition
20— kind of
cloth
21— violent
wind of the
Adriatic
22— thing; in
law
23— -companion
24— part of the
skeleton
25— weather
cock
26— king of
Basnan
27— Irish tax
28— put on
29— making
evident
34 — help
35— -sound ac
companying
breathing
36— printer’s
measure
37— fleshy part
of the leg
was first to circumnavigate the globe.
Magellan emerges from this book as a
heroic, simple man
Crossword Puzzle
39— certain
40— beast of
burden
41— carpenter’s
tool
42— at one time
43— insect
44— the soul in
Egyptian
religion
45— two-winged
fly
46— chilly
48—large con
stellati(Hi
50—military
eap
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The contents gain further
interest from a handsome set of
illustrations from the original
rubber blocks by Harold J.
Matthews, and in addition to
the “poem-pictures,” as pre
sented by Mr. Bliss, there is a
prose account of the author’s
experiences as a novice hunter
and angler entitled “Hunting
Begins at Forty and Fishing
Begins at Forty.’’
Mr. Bliss needs no introduc
tion to lovers of poesy. He has
written nine books of verse. He
has the rare trick of making a
handful of words work over
time. His poems may be ab
sorbed at a glance. The print
ing, therefore, is particularly im
portant and “The Rye Is the
Sea” is easily his most beauti
ful book to date.
("The Rye Is the Sea,” a col
lection of poems by Paul South
worth Bliss. Published by the
Cirrus Company.)
8— child’s
protective
cloth
9— exists
10— foreigner
11— meaning
16—above
18—Egyptian
sun god
21— protuberant
part
22— Hindu
dueen
23— few ani
mals in a
group
24— curve
25— cast a
ballot
■27—defensive
skullcap
28—valley
30— public walk
31— unusual
32— trace
33— being
37— basket for
figs
38— cognizant
39— limbless
reptile
40— wrath
42— upon
43— Indian
madder
45— deity
46— river island
47— female deer
49—earth
goddess
51—jumbled
type
52— the self
53— source of
being
54— prepare for
publication
55— female of
• the ruff
VERTICAL
1— cover
2— mean
B—large
ruminant
4— established
value
5— part of
“to be”
6— rebuilt
7— habituate
Speaking of
Government Workers
By J. EARLE MOSER
Despite the Saturday half
day law, Public Health Service
steadily overtimes the handful
of laboratory attendants (do
ing night watchman’s work)
at National Institute of Health,
Twenty-fifth and E Streets
Northwest... They work eight
hours a day, six days a week
and get nothing for working
all day Saturday . . . Section
chief in FHA has resolved to
quit bragging over his con
quests : He found a young
lady’s photo in the hall, de
clared she was his, latest
“heart”—but one of fne men
he showed the snapshot to was
the lady’s husband!
* * *
Lack of nurses is so acute, Civil
Service is circularizing all regis
tered nurses in and around the
District, urging them to take
forthcoming quiz. . . . Salary to
start, $1,620.
* * *
Just before PWA’s last firing
wave, employe.'; in Tabulation
Section worked several hours over
time daily, but were nevertheless
compelled to sign out as of their
regular hour until the day the
fatal slips arrived. . . . Same con
dition is reported from other
sections.
New, Tip Prize: F. P. (PAL).
Ann Michlun Weds
Flash: A bewildered Interstate
Commerce has learned of the wed
ding of Ann Michlun, one of its
more person
ab 1 e workers,
to Harry Thom
as Math ews
January 15 at
at Ellicott City
. . . The couple
are now “at
horn e,” 1925
S i x t e enth St.
N. W. . . . New
York is forcing
retirement of
policemen over
62, joining Chi
ca g 0 in the
move toward
10 wer average
r
Ann Michlun
ages for police officers with con
sequent freer promotion.
Notice, Students
American University’s “in-serv
ice” training course, which al
ready includes 960 Government
worker-students and is now begin
ning its third year second semes
ter, again presents such interest
ing subjects of study as account
ing, administrative law, counsel
ling Government employes, Gov
ernment correspondence, labor re
lations, office management, per
sonnel management, public ad
ministration, public relations and
statistics.. .Arthur S. Flemming,
director, will provide full informa
tion. appointment by calling Me.
0258.
News Tip Prize: B. K. (PAL).
Hits Group Medicine
Opposing socialized medicine,
Representative Fred J. Douglas of
New York points out that although
430 doctors have revolted against
the American Medical Association
in favor of Federal medicine, “a
splitting off of 430 men from an
organization of 160,000 cannot be
called much of revolt." Most of
the revolters, he declares, “are
practicing on salaries in institu
tions and do not come in very per
sonal contact with their patients;
therefore they are not representa
tive of the American family
doctor.”
A Dangerous Man
A slightly timid employe of
Bookkeeping and Warrants Divi
sion, Treasury, went on a little
tear last payday and after four
or five was feeling really demo
cratic... So he went down to Sev
enth and the Avenue and sat on
the wall talking to the men who
neither row nor reap... Along came
a squad car and he was picked up.
At the First Precinct he was ex
amined by experts for an hour and
finally gave up in desperation and
confessed to his criminal record...
He was, it seems, arrested in New
Jersey in 1903 for speeding on a
bicycle.
News Tip Prize: W. W. g. (CAP).
That Amendment
Following the lead of Civil Serv
ice Commission, National League
of Women Voters has cracked
down on the proposed McKellar
amendment to the Independent
Offices Appropriation Bill (requir
ing Senate confirmation of all
new employes making $4,000 or
more) by writing the entire Sen-
Influence
“It is a fact that a person
with influence or friends in
any of the Departments can
enter the Civil Service with
the lowest possible classifica
tion and once they have that
classification can be stepped
up without any regard to
older employes in the service.
Such things happen, and
everyone knows it, and I am
interested in wiping it out.
Having spent all of my life in
some sort of an industrial or
ganization, I know what it
means to see some outsider,
and favorite son, come in and
take a job which rightfully
belongs to some faithful ano
older employe.”
—REP. JOHN LUECKE.
Telephone RE public 1234
Five Good Arguments
I would pay my bills, that are overdue,
And square my credit the whole year 'thro’,
< With a weekly wage.
• • •
What I desire much, I would blithely buy,
And not pass shop windows with a sigh,
With a weekly wage.
• • *
I would not say “Lend me fifteen or ten,
Till the old payday comes ’round again,"
With a weekly wage.
• • •
At the end of each fortnight, I’d have enough
To make no request for a lunch "on the cuff,”
With a weekly wage.
• • •
I’d pay as I go, wouldn’t hesitate.
Had I fifty-two pay checks to circulate,
With a weekly wage.
M. E. H. (CAP).
Arkansas
L "
YES. Mrs. Mildred Taylor of
the baby-blue eyes and unruly
brown tresses is a product of
the State that originated the
famous song, “Arkansas Trav
eler” , , . She traveled to the
Capital four years ago, joined
General Accounting’s Staff,
and during ’37 became the
mother of Carole Ann Taylor,
aged 5 months, Mrs. Taylor’s
pride and joy.
ate with a plea for its defeat
This amendment, the most perni
cious since the Gore similarity
several sessions ago, will com
pletely nullify 55 years of con
structive effort for a merit sys
tem if ever successful. Monday
National Civil Service Reform
League will have something to say
on !he subject, with the four
major unions yet to be heard
from.
“AsA” Potatoes!
In Agriculture’s South Building
is a new messenger, colored, from
South C’lina.. .Several times he
spoke of “ash”
potatoes, which
aroused the
curiosity of
c o lleagues
who asked him
to spell the
word out...He
spelled it, a-s-h
.. .They’ve fin
ally decided he
means Irish po
tatoes... .Don’t
forget Harold
Thomas (Col.)
in counting up
Interior’s popu
lar sports and
Harold Thomas
steady bowling enthusiasts...
Johnny Federal says: “My chief
likes to brag, so when he smokes
an expensive cigar he always
leaves the band on."
Newz Tip Prize: F. C. M. (CAP).
Wae the Type
One Government man Was bit
terly opposed to the socalled “mar
ried persons clause” and worked
incessantly to obtain its repeal..
Came the time when he thought
he had a hot bit of argument to
send to the newspapers over his
name . . . His wife, also opposed
to the bill, thought so little of the
idea that she prevailed upon him
to sign his initials instead of his
name . . . Soon after the letter
was published it was republished
on the front page of Equal Rights,
national organ- of the National
Woman’s Party, to which the wife
belonged, but the payoff came the
other day when it was described
in a meeting of that same body
as the type of publicity that really
killed Section 213.
Newz Tip Prize: “Buzter” (COL).
Perhaps
Silly Sign: In a restaurant on
lower Pennsylvania Avenue, “If
you stagger in, stagger right out.”
Capitol Echo
Gregor Macpherson, recently ap-
I pointed Senate shorthand reporter,
was at one time personal stenogra
pher to Secretary of Agriculture
Houston and acompanied the lat
ter on a circuit tour in connection
with a Liberty Loan campaign.
Workers’ School
Federal Workers’ School classes
(days and hours): Monday—How
to Run a Union, 5; Consumer
Problems, 5; Graphic Representa
tion, 8; Poetry and Modern Life,
8; Drama, 9. Tuesday—History of
American Labor, 5; Trade Union
ism in Action, 5; Public Speak
ing, 5; Statistics, 7; Behind the
News, 8; Journalism, 9. Wednes
day—Social Legislation, 5; Ele
mentary Statistics, 5: Some Eco
nomic Problems, 7; Creative Writ
ing, 8; Civil Service Regulations
and Problems, 8; American Eco
nomic History, 8; American Folk
song, 9. Thursday—Languages, 5;
Economic and Political Role of the
Government Workers, 7. Friday-
Trade Union Publicity, 5; World
Politics, 5; Free Hand Drawing,
5; Photography, 7; Tap Dancing,
7. Saturday—Ballroom dancing, 5.
Classes each week at time listed,
532 Seventeenth N. W.
News Tip Prize: G. K. (COL).
Waterloo
AAA employe was recently
ordered to make a trip to the
field on official business ... As
he had no money at hand he was
advanced $l5O ... On arriving at
his destination he proceeded to get
drunk and stay that way as long
as his advance lasted . . . Then
he wired back to Washington for
more money but no dice ... He
finally got back but he does not
work there any more.
Union Playhouse
Lee H. Shugar, director, an
nounces the first performance of
NFFE’s “Union Playhouse” will
occur Thursday, February 17, 18,
A g r i c ulture’s
Auditorium . . .
Auspiced by
Agri cu 11 ure
branch of Local
2 . . . Program
of pictures,
three acts of
e n tertainment,
all f r e e to
NFFE’s and
their guests...
Recent supper
sponsored by
Maryland
Voters League
of Washington
proved a big
Qj
Lee Shugar
success with Maryland members
of House District Committee as
guests . . . Senator George L. Rad
cliffe, kissed by Eleanor Powell
Thursday, has accepted an hon
orary vice prexyship in the new
organization.
— I
Newt Tip Prize: "Sally" (CAP).
Vets on the Hill
Among war veterans, by States,
in the present Congress are the
following:
Arkansas: Representatives Da
vid D. Terry, John L. McClellan
and Wade H. Kitchens.
California: Representatives B.
W. Gearhart and Ed. V. Izac.
24,000 Under Merit
With Michigan launching Its
new merit system program tomor
row a total of approximately 24,-
000 employes in various State gov
ernments will have been placed
under civil service as a result of
1937 legislation, Civil Service As
sembly announces. The five States
acting this year, and total em
ployes affected are: Michigan, 10-
000; Arkansas, Maine, and Tennes
see, 3,000 each, and Connecticut,
5,000.
Newt Tip Prize: J. W. S. (PAL).
In Strict Secrecy
Those who mail or phone
"news tips" about Govern
ment affairs or conditions
are frequently awarded free
theater tickets. Their names,
of course, are kept strictly
confidential, and thus it is
advisable for those with
juicy information to adopt
a "pen name” for identifica
tion in case they win. Gen
eral items about "folks in
the office” may also win,
and often awards are made
merely as a good-will gesture
from The Times.
(CAP) beside your name
or "pen name” entitles you
to call at this desk for two
passes to Loew’s Capitol,
now showing "PARADISE
FOR THREE.” Those with
(PAL) can head for the Pal
ace, which presents Joan
Crawford and Spencer Tracy
in "MANNEQUIN." while
(COL) means two passes to
see "THE HURRICANE’* at
the Columbia.