RAT LEV Pianist
Sunday Afternoon, January 11, 1942
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Sunday Evening, January 11, 1942
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"After the Storm," by George F. Slade
4 SERGEI RACHMAN INOFF Past and Present are Linked by a Great Musical Contemporary
p AsT, present, and future, embodied in an Although political changes deprived him of
artist contemporary to all three, come to the security1 his gifted hands earned him a liveli Institute with Sergei Rachmaninoff on Wednes hood on the concert stage. His wide-spread day evening, January 28. His recital marks reputation in America stems from these fre the sixth program of the Institute's Major Con quent appearances in halls all over the country. cert Series. As a pianist, Rachmaninoff is un The individualistic style, unmistakably Rach surpassed. His career bridges two eras, sur maninoff, cham1ed an ever-widening circle of vives the cleavage of cultures, and unites much listeners. Painstaking with the details of his of the best of both. performances, four pianos go along when Rach The old Russia, where he was born in 1873, maninoff starts a lengthy tour. This does not nurtured abundant musical talent. The figures mean that all four are sent to every city. They of Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, and Rimsky are kept in different sections of the country so Korsakov dominated the world of his youth. that when the artist has to make a long jump Rachmaninoff was at home in that world. At between cities there will be no danger of his the age of thirteen, he caught the attention of being minus the right kind of piano when it is Tchaikovsky by making a piano arrangement of time for his concert to begin. "Manfred." So much was commendable in the Rachmaninoff finds it impossible to give re· manuscript that Tchaikovsky became interested citals and to write music simultaneously. His in the young Rachmaninoff and assisted in his composing routine consists of hard, unrelenting development. His early studies at the Moscow work, beginning at nine in the morning and Conservatory culminated in the composition of permitting no respite until after eleven at night. the opera "Aleko," which received the coveted Something concrete at hand, such as a poem or gold medal in 1892. Three fields of musical a picture, helps him concentrate. Rachmanin· endeavor beckoned Rachmaninoff at the outset off has a passion for revising his own com of his career: composer, conductor, and pianist. positions and never seems completely satisfied The First Piano Concerto, published at that with them. He is occasionally amused when time, the symphonic poem "The Rock," and the newspaper critics chide him because he docs now famous Prelude in C-sharp minor evidenced not play the C-sharp minor Prelude the way his musical fecundity. His first attempts at it was written. " [ have revised it since it was conducting met with success; he was only published," he explains twenty-four when he was appointed conductor This constant striving for perfection is re of the Moscow Private Opera. Later he con flected in his piano technique. The years have ducted in London, New York, Chicago, and brought a maturity of expression and a pro Boston. He especially enjoyed his appearances fundity of knowledge that finds new shades of with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was meaning in the music he performs. The clarity
gratified when that organization offered him of tone1 brilliance of execution, and the techni a permanent engagement as conductor, succes cal perfection of his performances make his ap· i sor to Max Fiedler. Rachmaninoff's preference pearances eagerly awaited. for the piano prevented his acceptance of this During the season of 1939-1940 he returned flattering proposal. He returned to Moscow to to the podium to conduct the Philadelphia Or concentrate on his work with that instrument. chestra in a program of his own compositions. Shortly afterwards the Revolution of 1918 A recent wave of all-Rachmaninoff programs forced him out of Russia. I lis estates were con played by Rachmaninoff stamps him as pecu fiscated, and he and his family fled to the Uni liarly articulate for our time. The values which ted States. They arrived in New York just as emerge from hts music and the positive manner the Armistice was declared. This good omen of his expression are valid m the troubled pres began the association which has led to ~he iden· ent, and foreshadow a very substantial influence tification of Rachmaninoff with this country. on the future. 5 The Recital by Gladys Swarthout
M llSIC Sl Ll CTLD LOR ITS JNTHINSIC WORT II AS well as for its audience appeal comprises the program to be given by Gladys Swarthout, lead .. mg mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, on Wednesday evening, January 14. J\ 1iss Swarthout's recital marks the fifth event of the Institute's 1ajor Concert Series. Arrangements of early [nglish airs, among them Dido's Lament from "Dido and Aeneas" hy Purcell, begin the program. There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the music of I lenry Purcell, who died in London in 1695. John Barbirolli has been very active in bring ing this beautiful music to the attention of modern audiences. Two other well-known con ductors, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Albert Stoes Gladys Swarthout sel, have also made arrangements of Purcell's music for orchestra. The lament to be heard on vouched for the authenticity of Miss Swarthout's Miss Swarthout's program, "When I am Laid in accent and delivery. [arth," 1s a poignant example of Purcell's art. From the opera "Mignon," in which she was A group of French dialect songs (Songs of featured at the Metropolitan Opera, Miss the Auvergne by Jean Joseph Canteloube) in Swarthout has selected two arias, excellently cluded in this recital were added to Miss Swarth suited to her voice and beautiful in themselves. out's repertory in an odd manner. She had The final section of her program will include heard recordings of the songs and was deter works by such well-known modern composers mined to sing them at the Music Festival in as Charles Kingsford, Randall Thompson, \'(/ orcester, Mass. She sent to France for the Charles aginski, and Richard Hageman, to orchestral score and parts, but they did not name only a few. "Command," by King~ford, arrive. Two weeks before the Festival date she was written especially for Miss Swarthout. called in Paul Sterrett Together they played Richard Hageman, represented by the song the records and copied the songs; Mr. Sterrett "Miranda," is best known for his opera "Capon orchestrated the group in a week. The \'(/ orces sacchi," which was produced at the Metropoli ter performance was successful, and Miss tan in 1937. In recent years he has turned his Swarthout subsequently performed these songs genius to I lollywood, using the sound track as with twelve other symphony orchestras, includ a medium of musical expression. ing an appearance with Pierre Monteux and the Miss Swarthout's background enables her to San Francisco Orchestra. M. Monteux, a na take full advantage of divergent sources for con tive of the Auvergne in South Central France, cert music. Since 1930 she has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera in major roles of the Italian and French repertories. Her latest opera YOU CAN HELP! success was in "Carmen." Starring in five musi Give now to the War Relief Fund of the cal pictures, she has become thoroughly con American Red Cross. The quota for Greater versant with the artistic life of I Iollywood, New York is ~7,330,000. Your efforts and where some of the richest talent of our genera contributions are needed in this drive to help our own people. The Brooklyn Chap tion is now at work. She builds her programs ter's address is 57 Willoughby Street. with care, and for January 14 has selected a particularly interesting group of compositions. 6 NEW LAURELS FOR TH E ORCHESTRA
C ONTINUING TilE STANDARD OF EXCI:LLENCE set at its debut, the Brooklyn Symphony Or chestra went on to new achievements at its sec ond concert on December I 0. Gerald Warburg conducted the orchestra through a program .. played with the brilliance and precision which only a group of the first rank can attain. Raya john Garbousova, Russian 'cellist, received an ova Barndt tion for her performance in the llaydn Concerto in 0 major. The mood of the evening was set in a sanguine key, from the stirring prelude to Wagner's "Die Meistersinger," to the light hearted "Emperor Waltz" by Strauss, which closed the program. A renaissance is rapidly unfolding today in had listened to the concert, it was only fair that the musical life of America, comparable to the Mr. Hutcheson should hear him. !"his logic Elizabethan Age when talent flowered early and seemed irrefutable, so Jacques performed until masterworks were created by young men. his surprised parents recaptured him. Grouped in the program for Wednesday eve Born in Te\as, in 1915, Jacques Abram mant ning, January 21, will be found four youthful fested his musical aptitude very earl). As a yet mature talents: Jacques Abram, who ap protege of Arthur Shattuck, he overcame the pears as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto handicap of straitened circumstances b) schol No. 4 in G major; the composers Samuel Barber arships and prizes The familiar pattern of and Richard Arnell; and John Barnett, youngest musical instruction in America brought him to of the orchestra's three conductors. Barnett has the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juil been engrossed with conducting since the age of liard School of Music in New York. l lis debut fifteen, a period of almost ten years. l lis veteran as a concert pianist in 1938 was with the Phila attainments belie his youthful appearance. delphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandv: he The soloist, Jacques Abram, first played in had won the Schubert J\lemorial Award which public at the age of eight. At that time he was entitled him to three appearances with that or taken by his parents to hear a concert by Ernest gat'ization. I rom this auspicious beginning, I Iutcheson. When the program was over, the Abram has gone on to man) appearances with youngster tore to the green room, outrunning orchestras, as well as many public recitals. all other visitors. I Ie confronted the surprised The program for the third concert by the pianist with the statement that since he, Jacques, Brooklyn Symphon) Orchestra wtll consist of the "New Age" Overture, by Richan.l Arnell, young Englishman now residing in this country, Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber, contem porary American composer; Beet hoY en's Piano Concerto in G major; and the stirring Svm phony No. 2 in 0 major, by Sibelius.
jacques Ahram YOU CAN HELP! The Institute is happy to welcome men in uniform to its programs, whenever seats fJrP available. You can help us be of serv1.ce. Any reservations to Institute events whtch you cannot use may be donated through the Box Office to our men in service.
7 THE FIFTH COLU M N IN AMERICA
land. 1 Ie returned to Germany in 1923, in tending to study navigation. Embittered and disillusioned by the hunger he saw on all sides, he abandoned personal ambition to become ac tive in the Communist movement. After ten years of work for the Communist International, practicing all phases of espionage, he revolted at the inner workings and oppres sions of the Russian secret police. Captured by the German Gestapo, he feigned conversion to llitlerism. After his final escape from European terrorists in 1938, he reached the United States. The purpose of Ott! of the 'Night was to build a wall between the present and what Valtin terms his "monstrously mistaken past." A con vert to the American way of life, he maintains that democracy must be militant, carefully tended, and vigilantly defended. In explana tion of his credo, Val tin has written: ccln the land of my youth, the lowlands along the rag ing North Sea, the peasants worked together to build dikes to dam storm floods. The dikes jAN VALTJl'\ IS A JlliNTf:D J\\AN. Till.: GLSTAP.O were stronger than the destructive fury of the has a price on his head, and his only haven IS sea, but they needed tending, each day anew, the United States. In order to escape from a to preserve their strength. Today I have no German concentration camp, Valtin contrived other political aim than to be a humble member to be accepted as a member of the Gestapo for of the vast crew of dike-builders at work wher secret work against Communists abroad. He ever men prize their freedom and are alert to escaped German control and fled to America. defend it." Valtin knows both sides of surveillancei he has Our war with Hitler makes the home front trailed suspects, and has himself been spied more important than ever before. We must be upon. alert to the threat of fifth column activities. The testimony of a man experienced with Despite his background and because of his I litler's agents is of the utmost importance to background, Jan Valtin has an urgent message day, when innocent words may unwittingly aid to deliver, a message to which all of us should - the enemy. Jan Valtin's lecture, Tuesday eve pay heed. As this publication goes to press, it ning, January 20, on ''I Iitler's Secret Army in is learned that Valtin has offered his services to America" will provide the inside story of the our armed forces for counter-espionage work network of fifth columnists in this hemisphere. and that his offer may probably be accepted. The publication of Ot1! of tbe 'J\Jrgbt, auto biography of his life as an international Com munist agent, aroused a storm of controversy. YOU CAN HELP! More than four hundred thousand copies spread Wake up the stagnant books on your shelves. his story all over the country I lis real name The National Defense Book Campaign seeks is Richard ]. Krebs. He is now only thirty-six ten million books for the boys in the armed years old. Born in Germany, of a nautical fam services of your country. Any bound book, ily, he grew up in ports all over the world: preferably fiction, should be deposited at your Buenos Aires, Singapore, Yokohama, Batavia. nearest public library. I- Je experienced poverty and oppression in every 8 Accord With Two Pianos
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Store) odyssey, "The Battle for the Pacific/' shows pic· tures of these places, their fortifications, peoples resources, and weaknesses. On \1onday eve ning, January 5, Arthur Menken will present this film at the Institute, a film begun in March, The Trend is Toward 1941, and completed only a few weeks ahead of our war with Japan. HAYN ES-GRIFFIN Arthur Menken is a Paramount News and March of Time cameraman. He has photo !Vhere to 'Buy- graphed every war in the past fifteen years. To produce this picture, Mr. Menken visited every All Victor-Columbia-Musicraft-Classical Records-All Decca-Victor Columbia Popu major trouble spot in the Pacific, from Tokio in lar Records-Record Cabinets and Accessories the orth to Tasmania in the South. In Japan he saw hordes of German "tourists," Italian RADIOS- technicians, and seven azi freighters tied up C. E. Musaphonic Freed-Eiseman in Kobe harbor In Manila Bay he filmed R.C. A. Victor Hallicrafter U. 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NEW YORK at 46th Street audiences will hear a lecturer who possesses the photographer's trained eye for detail. 16 Fifty Years of Travel Burton Holmes f oR ALJ\\OST IIAU A CLNTLIRY BuHTON HOLMES traveled, recorded his journeys, and repro· duced them in pictures and comments to the de· light of his audiences The whole development of travelogues and their techniques can be traced in Mr. Holmes' career. This year he in· traduces a new illustrative device in travel lee· tures-extra-size natural color slides, almost twice as large as the standard slides generally seen. These were used to chronicle his tours of Alaska and the Canadian Rockies last summer. The lecture series starting at the Institute on January 8 contrasts our own continent with some of the foreign lands which join us in our strug· gle for survival. Arizona in the spring with the desert carpeted in flowers, Alaska and the Yukon during the nightless days of summer when scenic effects are brilliant, the Canadian Rockies at the AMERICA'S height of the fashionable season, constitute the FM- IOUS STYLE SHOP nrst three travelogues on Thursday evenings, January 8, 15, and 22 FOR The last two lectures depict the lands of other GENTLEMEN peoples, our allies and well-wishers. Moving pictures spread the Dutch East Indies before us ~ on Thursday evening, January 29. On Thurs· CLOTIIES · lfrlRERD,l.'·:HENV day evening, February 5, a review of the capi· SHOES · HATS tals of Europe under Nazi domination vividly LCGCAGE brings home to us the extent of the aggression SPORT.) AND TRAVEL we are fighting to stem and to defeat. WEAN The world that this series spans is now at war, but Burton I Iolmes will not stress catas NEw You~, Fum ·hE. Ar 46TH Sr. trophe. He continues his eager search for the Cmc \Go, 19 I.. 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Phone HEgeman 3-3400 23 Other Music News * Young Artists The Sunday afternoon recitals of the Insti (/o 7'otwatd tute's Young Artists Series offer a preview of tomorrow's concert favorites. Each of these ar tists has earned an appearance in the series by with AMERICA! virtue of a professional talent which will con tinue to unfold by exposure to music-loving audiences. On January 11, a program by Flor ence Mercur, pianist, will feature works of BUY U. S. DEFENSE* BONDS Gluck, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Rubin and stein. Miss Mercur has already made public BUILD UP A SAVINCS ACCOUNT .. appearances in Newark, where she was soloist with the New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestra, and at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. She is a pupil of Max Friedman, piano peda gogue of Brooklyn. A mezzo-soprano, June Rogers, will give the subsequent recital of the series on February 1. A pupil of Arturo Vita, Miss Rogers is becom ing increasingly active in the musical life of the city. She appeared as soloist with the New York City Symphony Orchestra in June, 1941. She has also sung operetta, her latest role being in a performance of "The Gondoliers" last month in the Academy of Music. AMERICA'S FOUR MA.RVEL THEATRES! T he Music of France llistory tV:e Making A special program of French music, classic and modern, will be given at the Institute on All the latest news from Sunday afternoon, January 18. There will be 4 CORNERS OF THE GLOBE Educational and Political Films three participating artists, who will appear both Travel and Humorous Films Fashion and Sport Films in solo and in ensemble. They are : Giorgio And once each month the famous Ricci, violoncellist; Lois Bannerman, harpist; "March of Time" and Jula Goldyne, mezzo-soprano. Tickets from 15c Enabassy Ne w sreel The a tres Only eighteen years old, Giorgio Ricci has Rockefeller Center, 33 W. 50th St. already established himself as an important New Broadway and 46th St. virtuoso. He made his debut in 1934 at Car York { Broadway and 72nd St. Park Ave. and 42nd St. negie Hall with the National Orchestral So ciety. As the highlight of his second Institute appearance, Mr. Ricci will play the celebrated DIAMOND ... Concerto in A minor by Camille Saint-Saens. DIAMOND and Precious jeweled Lois Bannerman is considered one of America's Rings, Bracelets, Clips and leading harpists. She is still young in years, Watches, priced with good old- though mature in musical experience. fashioned moderation. Mme. Goldyne made her concert reputation Send for Gift Brochure in Holland, from which nation she has come to this country. She studied at the Vienna Acad .,··.,· fl.·~:~·:.: a. ·~· w·. ~ · oV/• T z emy of Music and appeared both in recital and with orchestras in many of the music centers On Grand Street for Hilllf a Century of Western Europe. Her repertory is an exten sive one, for she is equally at home in French, 288 CRAND STREET, NEW YORK CITY Italian, German, Dutch, and English. 24 Young People's Events Beethoven to Wagner $1 ,000 FOR $2 A MONTH Like the hero of Clifford Odet's " Golden Boy," Charles Petremont, fifteen-year-old violin ist, combines athletics and fiddle-playing. On You can build up a substantial sav Saturday afternoon, January 10, Charles will be ings account for yourself and with it the soloist at the concert for young people by $1 ,000 life insurance protection for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Cham your family by depositing $2.• a ber Orchestra, under the direction of Gerald Warburg. This will be the third of five con month in any mutual Savings Bank certs in the Young People's Series held under that has a Life Insurance Department. the Institute's auspices. Unlike Clifford Odet's Go to the mutual savings bank character, who concentrated on boxing, Charles nearest your home. Petremont prefers hi s violin studies. These he pursues to the exclusion of the athletic prowess which enabled him to break records in the high T"~ asT ~Ew YoRK jump, broad-jump, and dash at the Dexter School in Boston. I Ie will play the first move -8AVI"~GS B_.ANK ment of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in a Home Omce program which is devoted to nineteenth-century ATLANTIC AVENUE AT PENNSYLVANIA P arkway Omce Browns•llle omre music from Beethoven to Wagner. The program EASTERN PARKWAY PITKIN AVENUE will open with the first movement of Beethoven's at Utica at Hopkinson stirring Symphony No. 5 in C minor, which is BROOKLYN, NEW YORK now popularly called the Victory Symphony. • ace 35; less H youncer ·more tr older The remaining compositions will be divided into three groups: Early Romanticism (Schubert, Weber, and Mendelssohn); Regional Composi tions (Chopin, Dvorak, and Liszt) ; and Later Romanticism (Verdi, Brahms, and Wagner). Daniel Boone Created for children, whose passion for tales / c about Indians is insatiable, the ballet, "Daniel -7.'et··· J Boone," takes an episode from the life of the • famous woodsman whose exploits are part of the ,_._ nation's folklore. The program by Edwin 1942 . Strawbridge and his company will be given on It's . . but you'll remember that in 191-1 Saturday afternoon, January 31, at 3 o'clock. l. Wreckers 'razed el' on Fulton street. Partly in pantomime, the ballet has a narrator 2. The Brooklyn Dodgers won the ational who speaks for the various characters and so League pennant- and then something terrible happened. tells the story. In this way children can follow 3. "Watch on the Rhine" received the the performance with ease and delight. The Drama Critic Prize. dances are the squares, reels, and jigs familiar 4.And H e nry 1\f e sh el e nte r ed his forty-fourth year in the fur business. to early Americans. "Fiddling" themes, popular • in the hills of Kentucky, weave through the mu Our JANUARY FUR ALE is now in sic. The story relates Daniel Boone's capture progress. by Indians, his initiation into their tribe, the war dances as the redmen prepare to attack Boonesborough, Daniel Boone's escape, the siege '14-~ 365-367 ATLANTIC AvE., BROOKLY"', • Y. of the town, and fi nally its rescue from the In TRiangle 5-2574 Between Hoyt and Bond St. dians. 25 Eye-Witness of Perfidy SERVICES FOR EVERY SAVINGS NEED • Savings Accounts • Christmas Club • Banking-By-Mai I U. S. Defense Bonds A.lso A. vailable Carl ]. Hambro Next to the king, Carl ]. I Iambro held the highest political office in Norway, that of Presi dent of its Parliament. As President of the League of Nations Assembly, he was intimately Main Office: Atlantic Ave. and Court Street informed on international affairs. He lived through the treacherous azi conquest, which 18th Avenue Office: 18th Ave. and 65th Street filled freighters with troops, flew French flags Brooklyn, New York. on its destroyers, sent Norwegian-speaking Ger man soldiers (who had been fed and sheltered as children in Norwegian homes during the of Distinction years when Germany and Austria were starv DRESSES ing) to infiltrate the country and lull suspicion, New Collection of Daytime and used the diplomatic immunity of German Dresses with unusual detail consuls as cover for invasion plans. He became and style. Highest quality at a determined foe of tyranny. lowest prices. I laving dodged German shells and escaped with his government, Carl ]. Hambro rallied the forces of a Free Norway. His book, 1 Saw 1t £LAIRE SHOP Happel! 111 'Norway, opened American eyes to 539 Flatbush Ave., near Lincoln Road the activities of totalitarian embassies here. Now BUcluninster 4-2180 he envisions not only a Free Norway, but a free and united world, under a modern and more workable League of Nations. I lis lecture on Friday evening, January 23, brings a man of profound thought to the Insti '- tute. With a background of statesmanship in international relations, Mr. Hambro is now busied with the practical questions of war and peace: What kind of peace will the end of the war bring? Will there be any peace at all in our generation? What practical plans are there for putting a sick world on its feet? An expert linguist, Mr. I lambro speaks a language Ameri cans readily understand and appreciate, a lan guage enhanced by a rich personality. 26 The International Scene r.===¥===:1 ONE OF BROOKLYN'S The Week in Review Peters OLDEST JEWELERS The new year, 1942, will have no exact par atlllounces a new servict allel in the memories of ourselves and of our WEe":~~~~~ DIAMONDS contemporaries. It will resemble most closely Old Gold and Outmoded Jewelry the early days of the Revolutionary War, when All transactions strictly confidential the threat of the enemy was no distant one, but • A few or the pieces we have boucht are too ftne to "break up." These we hare Just put on sale to tho ever present. This threat should succeed in public. Included are rlncs. bracelets, piDJ, watchel . keeping the American people united in their de Price• are advantaceoua. Your Inspection It Invited. PETERS, QUALITY JEWELERS SINCE 1900 termination to win; but it may also expose the 480 Fulton St. (next to Loeser's) Open Evenlnll • people all the more to the uncertainties of ru mor, fluctuating battles, and conflicting reports. 1!:::===·===~ The Institute feels, therefore, that its morning series of lectures on "The Week in Review" has taken on a new value, and it will continue to pre sent these lectures regularly. The speaker for Tuesday morning, January 13, is Edward B. I Iitchcock. Long years abroad as a foreign correspondent, backed by personal Ranch Mink $1650 acquaintance with the leaders of two continents, Trencher-fashioned and Trencher-made, in lend to Mr. Hitchcock's views the substance of the daylight workrooms of Trencher, the authority. He lived in Italy before and after largest exclusive Furrier in *Old New York. Mussolini. As European editorial manager for the Chnstian Science )Horulor, he was in Lon • 277 GRAND STREET, NEW YORK don during the Munich crisis. I lis biography of · Dr. Eduard Benes, last President of free Czecho slovakia, received attention for its searching THE HABIT OF SAVING analysis of the events leading up to the war. Another well-known correspondent follows once acquired, is easy to maintain. Mr. Hitchcock in this series on Tuesday morn Let us help you form the habit. We suggest our convenient plan for ing, January 20. It is Sonia Tomara, whose banking by mail. Ask for our de reports have frequently appeared in the New scriptive folder explaining this simple York 'Rerold 'Jnbw1e Miss Tomara has viewed plan. One dollar opens an account. the changes in Europe from a ringside seat, for her sense of news has frequently led her to the East Brooklyn Savings Bank Foaad.. 1880 right place at the right time. Fifteen years a Bedford and De Kalb Anaaea Conveni1nt to Yeach by 8th .Ave. Subw11y foreign correspondent for the American press, and many caY linu. she was not caught napping when war finally L------.-. -~...-- broke out. She was in Warsaw the day before I Iitler's legions entered Poland; she was in OLDEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTllOLYSIS IN •aOOICL\'N Paris when more of I litler's legions invaded France. Her dispatches on the war in Poland won her the 1939 award of the New York Newspaperwomen's Club for the year's best re porting. Two familiar and well liked speakers will Methods Endorsed by .All PYominent Physicians follow Miss Tomara in "The Week in Review." II OURS BY APPOI NTI4ENT James G. McDonald, President of the Institute, returns to the series on Tuesday morning, Janu MRS. J. T. SALMAN 26 COURT STREET TRlanrle 5-11560 ary 27. Dr Waldo Stephens will speak on E. N~w York Office: 51 E. 42nd St. ~tUrray Hill 2-11310 Tuesday morning, February 3. 27 Norman Alley ~ THE CURRENT THEATER II The enemy's potential strength is now an un fai ling subject for speculation. Norman Alley, ace newsreel cameraman, is in a position to give us facts. His lecture, Monday evening, Feb ruary 2, on "The Nazi War Machine" will be illustrated with motion pictures and will be sup plemented by the impressions of a newspaper man who has seen history happen and photo graphed it on spot. During the firs!. World War, Mr. Alley served with the U. S. Signal Corps in France. Since then, with the luck of a born newshound, he has managed to see and film wars, riots, floods, news events, and per sonalities. A national reputation became his exactly four years ago with the newsreel release of his motion pictures showing the Japanese bombing of the gunboat Panay, which occurred "MAGNIFICENT! . • . TRIUMPHANT!" a on December 12, 1937. Working under fire was -Broolls Alftifl.rcm, Timu nothing new for Norman Alley, but the Amer GERTRUDE LAWRENCE ican public applauded his courage in filming this important document. "LADY 'iN MTHE"' DARK" i ALVIN 52 St. W. of B'way-Mata. Wed. & Sat . ~ Mail Orders Promptly Filled * In Brief ... "A GALE OF LAUGHTER-- . • ------. AN UP A gentleman of erudition, witness his six ROARIOUS EVENING." -Atfti,..rcm, Ti~M.r. books on serious theatrical subjects, John Mason Brown uses his learning to adorn and enliven MV SISTER EILEEN the contemporary Broadway scene. Dramatic THE RIOTOUS LAUGH HIT BILTMORE, 47th Street West of Broadw~ . 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ORTHOPEDIC SHOES SHOES THAT FIT YOUR LINDSAY LABORATORIES FEET 302 ASHLAND PLACE Opposite ACADEMY OF MUSIC 28 Overtures S Undertones SCHOOL DIRECTORY "Candle In The Wind," is the new Maxwell An II II derson drama starring Helen Hayes and produced by The Theatre Guild in association with The Playwrights Company. After a brilliant road tour, it opened at MISS DUNBAR'S SCHOOL the Shubert Theatre on 44th Street where it is play 186 JORALEMON STREET ing nightly to capacity audiences. At Borough Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y. Directed by Alfred Lunt, "Candle In The Wind," SECRETARIAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS in addition to the incomparable Miss Hayes, boasts a A successful combination of individual brilliant supporting cast including Louis Borell, Evelyn coaching and carefully graded group work. 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