The Billboard 1924-03-22: Vol 36 Iss 12 (1924-03-22)

re) ‘> sn ee Os en MARCH 22, 1924 The Bil Iboard 53 Theater, New York, will remain with the George Choos production next season when it goes on tour, Miss Eley previously appeared under the direction of Choos when he was producing acts for the vaudeville stage. The manager plans to sail shortly for Budapest, where he hopes to find a suitable vehicle for next season, BRADY TO PRESENT G. & S. March his season 14.—William A. Brady of Gilbert and Sullivan operas in New York on or about May 15 at the Jolson Theater. Thus far the cast of principals includes De Wolf Hopper, Henry E. Dixey, Marie Dressler and George McFarlane. RETURNS TO CAST —_—_— New York, will commence New York, March 14.—Emma Janvier, who bas been out of the cast of “‘Poppy’’, now current at the Apollo Theater, for a fortnight on account of illness, has recovered. Miss Janvier resume@ playing her part last night. During her absence Flora Finch substituted for her. SAILING FOR EUROPE New York, March 14.—Vinton Freedley and Alex A. Aarons, who produced ‘The New Poor” this will siil for Europe next week. They intend to produce a musical comedy when they return, which will be in the of a few months. It is understood that this show is of a somewhat unusual nature, ADDITIONAL CONCERT AND OPERA NEWS COMMUNITY MUSICAL ACTIVITIES (Continued from page 51) the two performances, which were enjoyed by large audiences. Thru the initiative of Wayne County Com season, course munity Service a Community Chorus has been formed in Goldsboro, North Carolina, with David Sheldon, supervisor of music, 3&9 irector. Judge D. H. Bland is the business manager of the chorus and the program committee consists of Mrs. Vance Weill, Guy Winstead and John Arment. Each rehearsal 4s to be preceded by a brief sight-singing sesgion. California cities are exchanging musical courtesies thru visits of their respective bands. Recentiy the Southern California Edison Band, of Los Angeles, went to Oxnard for a concert ander the auspices of Community Service of Oxnard. Under the direction of Geo. A, Isbell the band presented a program of much interest and had as soloist Mrs. J. H. Traber, who was accompanied by Mrs. W. J. Booth, and J. O. Westervelt, whose accompanist was Mrs. Chas. Weaver. Community Service of Oxnard, Calif., will put on an Lis teddfod March 31 to Apr'l 6 and it is planned to have every town and community in Ventura County participate in this, the first annual competition in music, drama and art. Henry C. Downes, chairman of the board of directors of Community Service, and J. O. Westervelt, chairman of the executive committee, report excellent assistance from the Civic Music and Art Association of Los Angeles, the Southern California College of Music, the University of California and many other organizations, There will be competitions in music and prizes are to be awarded for piano, voice, violin and there will also be band contests which will be open to all bands in the county. In the drama department prizes have been offered for the best presented play both by adults and by children. The large auditorium in Santa Barbara, Calif., was taxed to its utmost capacity and a large number of people were turned away when the community choruses of the city made their ~~ public appearance recently under the spices of the Community Arts Association. Aithe organized but a few months, the work of the chorus has resulted in developing much local talent. presente d part A junior orchestra of forty pieces of the program in a most efficient manner. Edward F. Brown is executive director of the Community Arts Assoctation and the music division is headed by Mrs. F. 8S. Gould, Clerbois, orchestra director, and chorus director. The City of Fort man; Roger Lyle R. King, Recreation Department chair Worth, Tex , has organized a juvenile symphony orchestra which is composed of boys and g'ris under twenty who are studying with a Fort Worth instructor. W. C. Batchelor is director of the new orchestra and a music festival, to be given in Forest Park the first week of May, will be the first publie performance MOVING PICTURE MUSIC NOTES (Continved from page 51) presented an excellent program under the direction of Vincent Gauthier. During the week Enrico Leide conducted his orchestra In selections from ‘‘The Bobemian Girl’ as the overture. 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Theater, Dallas, Herman Ph was arranged phony Orchestra ac Tex., staged and directed by and the musical setting Don Albert with the Symompanying, Mr. Albert directed his players for the 112th symph concert on March 9 in compositions by RimskyKorsakoff and Rac! noff. J. Otto Hinze, organist, recently demonstrated lipson, by my man his ability for theater playing at Kimball Hall, , Prof. Mr. Chicago, before noted organist. William Middleshulte, Hinze, who is a pupil of Dr. J. Lewis Browne, ef Chicago, well known as a composer and organist, has given serious study to the organ for church concert work and has also devoted considerable time to the art of playing for motion pictures. In an artistic number, “‘An Arabian Night”’ given recently at the Tivoli Theater, Chicago, the Tivoli Quartet sang tbe agave Love Song”. Muccepts from Victor Herbert's “Red Mill’’ were used to open the program and Roy Diterich, tenor, was soloist for the week, singing ‘‘I'm Going South’’. As a “‘request’’ number, Lemares ‘‘Andantino’’ was played as an orga. solo, “Sweethearts”, the waltz song from Victor Herbert’s opera by the same name, was sung by Edna Morn, soprano, on last week's progTam presented by Eric Thacher Clarke at the Eastman Theater, Rochester, N. Y. The orchestra, directed by V. Shavitch and Waguer, opened the rogram with the overture ‘‘The Carnival at (Svendsen), and the daily program of numbers by John Hammond consisted of ositions by Yon, Nevin and Goldmark. Duri tl irrent v k, commencing Sunday, March 16, sually interesting program is heing pres yy Manager Director Cdwin T. Emery at Sheridan Theater, Greenwich Village, in = York Eileen Van Biene, late prima 4d 1a of **Mayt a in a special pr s to “Little Old Leon A, Dashoff and his ’ th D M s Theater, Des Moines, Ia., are addng weekly to the musical programs given at this 1 se. For the week of March 8, David Rubinoff and His Calhou rrace Orchestra were featured ut the Ca Theater, St. Paul. Included in the num bers played were ‘March of the Siamese"’, “Somebody's Wrong ‘*Havana”™, “Say It With a Ukulele’, ‘‘Humoresque™’ and “Covered Wagon Days”. Messrs, Balaban and Katz presented at the Chicago Theater, Chicago, the week mencing March 10, a number entitled ‘On a Butterfly’, wl was sung by Virginia Johnon, soprano; C. Cash, tenor, assisted by Hazelton and Easter, dancers. Buealossi’s ‘‘Hunting Scene’ was used as the overture for the week. THREE CONCERTS By Distinguished Artists To Be Given in New York Shortly Muste opportunity lovers in to have artists New York City are to hear three distinguished during the last week of March. On Saturday afternoon, March 22, in Aeolian Hall, Ernest Hutcheson, famous pianist, will give a recital of piapo music, and will include in his pro gram @ group of Brahm's numbers, Another recital, which is arousing much interest, is that of Cesar Thomson, world-famous violinist, who will appear in Aeolian Hall, Monday evening, March 24 The eve of March 26, Sigismond yee anoter ted pianist, will give a ano cital in Aeollan Hall and his program will consist of compositions by Bee thoven, Schubert, own works, Chopin and several of his A lance at the Hote] Directory in this issue may save considerable time and inconvenience, DEBUT SONG RECITAL GIVEN. BY WINIFRED RIDGE Altho active im musical circles in New York for some time, Winifred Ridge, soprano, made her first professional appearance in Town Hail the evening of March 11. She has a soprano xeice of good quality and sang many of the numbers very well, but, like too many other artists, she included in her program songs that belong only on the program of experienced concert artists. The audience, which was of a fair size, received the artist very cordially. FIFTH CONCERT OF SEASON Given by Beethoven Association The Beethoven Association gave its fifth concert of the season in Aeolian Hall the evening of March 10, with the assistance of Julia Culp, Elly Ney, Georges Enesco, Albert Stoessel, Bruno Walter, Horace Britt, Edwin Bachmann. The Beethoven ‘Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello’, played by Messrs. Enesco, Stoessel and Britt, was given a reading which brought out its many beauties and elicited much deserved applause. Julia Culp presented Schumann's Cycle of Twelve Songs with an excellence of diction rarely heard and tho at times her voice was lacking in color the group as a whole was exceedingly well given and Mme. Culp was recalled time and time again to acknowledge the ap .» The program closed with Cesar Franck’s **Quintet for Piano, two Violins, Viola and Cello’ Occasionally Mme. Ney overemphasized the piano part, but the playing of the group was of a high standard. N. O. TO HEAR ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA New Orleans music lovers are locking forward to the pair of concerts to be given in that city by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, March 31 and April 1. In order that music students might be afforded opportunity to hear the concerts, the Philharmonic Scholarship Fund donated the proceeds of the recent concert given in New Orleans by Fritz Kreisler to buy student tickets for the Symphony concert, and hundreds of free tickets to public school musical will be students, distributed . YEATMAN GRIFFITH To Conduct Second Season’s Summer Classes on the West Coast Yeatman Griffith, eminent vocal instructor, of New York, will hold his second season of vocal master classes this summer on the West Coast. He will conduct classes in Los Angeles, Calif., June 25 to August 6, and in Portland, Ore., August 12 to September 9. His studios in New York will also be open in the summer and will be in charge of Miss Blunt, sOciate teacher. as SAMUEL GARDNER Soloist With Philharmonic Orchestra To Be The final given this season tra, in Carnegie place the evening of American violinist, and Willem Students’ Concert in the series by the Philharmonic Orc! Hall, New York, will take April 2. Samuel Gardner, is announced as the soloist Mengelberg will conduct. 1e8 Paviowa and her Ballet Russe will play an engagement im Pittsburg, Pa., evening of March 22, THREE SUNDAY CONCERTS To Be Given by George Barrere and His Little Symphony Orchestra George Barrere, well-known flutist, has announced the dates for the series of three evening concerts to be given in New York City in the Henry Miller Theater by the Ba re Little Symphony Orchestra. The first «. e eries will take place March 39, when Loraine Wyman, s0 will be the soloist. Mr IDarrere will include in the pregram ‘East and West", by Skilton; *‘The White Teacock'’, by Griffes, and Miss Wyman will sing a group of folksor including two by Deems Taylor. The econd concert will be given April 6, in which Mr. Barrere will be the soloist, and this program includes compositions by Rameau, Jehn Alden Carpenter and Prokofieff. The final program is announced for April 13 and will consist of compositions by Curtis, Albeniz, Beethoven, Debussy and Pierne. Chicago’s oldest musical organization, the Apollo Club, is to make an extended concert tour next season under the direction of Harrison Wild, who has been its conductor for many years. The club will visit several western cities, including Oklahoma City, El Paso, Houston, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland and Vancouver, Madame Novello-Davies, is organizing a choir of give a of concerts New York City late this the autumn. Many arti are aiding in forming the organization and any singers desirous of joining the choir should get noted Welsh teacher, sixty artists and will of choral works in spring and again in series sts prominent new in touch with the secretary at 15 West 67th street New York City. Washington (D. C.) is to hear a né&w Amertcan comic opera, “Cherry Blossom Time”, The opera is to be presented at the National Theater Easter week with a cast of local principals and ch« Mrs. sing the leading soprano Frank Duggan, *; Helen contralto; Elsie Jorss, Everett Joseph Cogan will also have The Detroit Symp! ond concert in Orch of March 27 The under the direction of Victor Kotar, all Americans, will be Harvard, Nevada Van der Veer, contralto; Frank bass, and Richard Crooks, tenor. rus Alexander G dramatic will J. Koontz, Hardell and important roles, ony Choir will ¢ stra Hall, Dx “Messiah” will jentley role, Marie its sete » evening be given and the ve troit soloists, Sue 80] Cuthbert, rrano; Two. recitals are announced by pupils of the Granberry Piano School of New York City. for these are the evening of March 28 and the afternoon of April 5, both events to be given in Carnegie Cha Music Hall. Paul Althouse and Fred Patton, American singers, will the appearance in id Del Hartf Other these troi, The dates mber well-known ir fifth joint lah’’ with the y on May 6. sts have sung Lowell, Mass,, DeN. C. will be New York, make “Samson a ord (Comn.) Oratorio cities in which thes parts together Minneapolis and Oliver Dent heard in a re the afternoon Haensel were Greensboro, American in Aeolian March 29. and Jones, widely known concert on, ital of pianist, Hall, managers, of New York City, are booking engagements for joint recitals by Francis Mae millen, violinist; Hans Kindler, cellist, and John Powell during the season of 1924-'25, Taul Kochanski and Felix Salmond will be soloists at the New York Symphony's pair of concerts in Carnegie Hall, New York, on Mareb 27 and 28. They will play the Brahms “Double Concerto for Violin, C and Orchestra” The Smith-Spring-Holmes Orchestral Quintet are on their way south on a tour which wild take them as far as Key West, Fla. They wil return by way of the Eastern Coast thru the Carolinas, Virginias, into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and expect ) ‘ { » about May 1. The quintet is ¢ i of Clay Smith, trombone and saxo; e; G. E. 8, saxophone and ( a May 8 reader, soprano and pianist; Lotus F. Spring, cellist, and Thelma Thrasher, v The Southland Singers, Emma A, Daml inn, presiden be ‘ 1 in a Grand Opera Concert at Hot I New York, on Tuesday evening, April 8, and they will also pres sent a program Hotel Pennsylvania, Sat. urday evening, May 3 Several pupils of Walter L. Bogert, vocal instructor of New York City, are in demand as soloists for special meetings of organizations Est r Singer was soloist for the speare Lodge at their banquet given fee cently at the Masonic Temple, New York City, and on March 25 she will sing at the Hotel siltmore for anot society. Grace Stromer was OL of the principals in the new revue ealled “So This Is Brooklyn’, which was presented a short time ago at the Brooklyy Academy of Music. Jean Welker, baritone, ame other of Mr. Bogert’s pupils, is meeting with great success, es A ENE th se = sel SS TUE renege