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B-7 NEWS AND COMMENT ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS, MUSIC AND THE DANCE EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM REVIEWS AND SCHEDULES OF ATTRACTIONS OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931 Mozart Boys Tauber to Sing Here Tuesday By JACK MASON Like father, like son. In the case of Richard Tauber tha old saw holds true. The tenor who will sing here Tuesday night couldn't help plunging into music as a boy. His father was director of the local opera house at Linz, on the Danube. With a love of the stage and music I I 1 Art Is Long And Galleries Are Large Br I DUNGAN Not In a long time will Calif ornians and visitor, to this State have an opportunity to view an exhibition of art, such as Is on display at the Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island.

All this display of rare old art brings to mind an incident that dropped on me with a thud when Qthe California Palace of the Legion of Honor was opened years ago. You remember the opening exhibition was a display of French art, including "The Man With a Hoe." I was standing before it, properly impressed, when young artist, now mature and one of San Francfsco's best, approached and said: "I think the foreground is too fussy." Millett'i famous painting, long since owned by William H. Crocker, San Francisco, Is in the current exhibition. The foreground and the Jaw are just as they were when I first saw them. It may be that some of our local artists do just as well as the Old Masters, even if differently, but it will take 500 year? to decide that, so we might as well not go into the matter.

PENCILS ABE FORBIDDEN Newspaper fellows carry lead pencils. It's the tool of their trade. I was approaching the Italian exhibit, pencil. in hand, when a large fir, 1 A Av, Van Tuyl Recital Billed in S.F. Marian Van Tuyl and group will dance Thursday night at 8:30 in Community Playhouse, San Francisco.

Van Tuyl is particularly well known throughout the Middle West. She is instructor of dance at the University of Chicago, and is at present on leave to Mills College. Miss Van Tuyl received most of her training from Martha Graham and Louis Horst. She is an annual Summer attendant at Bennington School of Dance and last year was awarded one of its three scholarships. Of special interest on her program is her Bennington Festival compo sition, "Out of One Happening." Also holding important place is her Ugo Ciolll deft) and Dr.

Antonio Morassl oi the Italian commlulon to the Golden Gate International Exposition are inspecting Raphael'! "Madonna. of the The unidentified owner of the finger pointing at $1,500,000 worth of art. The painting Is one of many Old Mastem In the Palace of Fine Arte, Treasure Island. W. i liUm mm mi Youngsters Get Encouragement Washing on Line Gets In Bohemian Club Show (6 suite, "Traffic: Seven Themes of Enterprise and Evasion." Ester Williamson, fellow at Mills College, will be the pianist, Naoum Blinder, To Be Soloist Naoum Blinder, concert master and solo violinist of the San Fran cisco Symphony Orchestra will be soloist at the orchestra's concert pair the San Francisco Opera House Friday afternoon at 2:80 and Saturday night at 8:30.

Blinder is best known to San Francisco for his ensemble playing both with the Symphony and as first violinist of the San Francisco string quartet which he organized in 1934. A native of Russia, the artist is a graduate of the Imperial Conserva' tory, Odessa- He played through' out Europe, and the Orient before coming to America in 1928. In this country he accepted a professorship In Juilliard School of Music, from which post he came to the San Fran cisco Symphony in 1933. Blinder's number with the orchestra will be Violin Concerto No. 1, Prokofleff.

For the symphony of the program, Conducotr Monteux has chosen the Symphony No. 1, "Spring," of Schumann. Also programmed are "Siegfried Idyl," Wagner, and "Pines of Rome," Resplghl. Berkeley Violinists ta Program Tonight The Berkeley Violin Club will give a program at 8:18 o'clock tonight at the home of Jessie Moore, 2315 Spauldlng Avenue, Berkeley. The program: 1 Adagio and Rondo Weber Nocturne In Sharp Habanera.

Ravel (Arranged by Platlgrorsky) Catherine Connolly, Mary Lee Bmlth 2 Prelude and Fugue In Minor, op. 35 No. 1 Snheralno, op. 77..,. MOBknwski Minuei Kavel Sarah Unna I Poem Mystique (Sonata No.

2) f. Bloch alle Blgelow, Suzanne Pasmore 4 Ensemble Bill Two Programs The Mozart Boys' Choir is not going to get rest Thursday. The choir is booked to give two concerts that day at the Oakland Auditorium matinee and evening. The concerts are under aus pices of the College of Holy Names. The matinee performance will start at 8:30 p.m., the evening at 8:30.

The boys specialize in 16th and 17th century music, operettas given in costume with English dialogue. and favorite European folk songs. Members range from 10 to 14 years of age. Taken seoarately, their zest lor me is that, of the normal, mischie vous boy in the aggregate, it amounts to nothing less than a fully charged dynamo of 20 "boy-power." Their director is Dr. Georg Gruber.

For eight months of the year, the, Doys tour in concert, wun tnem goes a tutor to see that their studies are not neglected, and a choir mother to see to the physical well-being of ner ooys. Wherever the boys have appeared in. their travels in Central Europe, England, South America and the United States, delighted audiences have applauded performances of such operettas as Mozart's "Bas tien and Bastienne," Humperdinck's "Hansel, and Gretel," and the little musical play based on Johann strauss' "Tales irom the Vienna Woods." When Arturo Toscanini heard the Mozart Boys' Choir for the first time, he exclaimed, "Excellent! A charming performance." Symphony to Play Borodin's No. 2 The Oakland Symphony OrcheS' tra program, March 15, in the Auditorium Theater, will represent music of German. Russian, Spanish, American and Finnish composers.

Orley See will conduct. The principal orchestral offering will be the Borodin No, 2, not often heard hereabouts. Of characteristic Russian treatment, It has vitality, optimism, with little of the Tschaikowsky nostalgia, ending on a joyous note. Julian Oliver, Spanish tenor, will be soloist, singing Paradiso" from the opera "L'Africaine" and the Flower Song from Although a young man, Oliver has had wide experience iri opera and concert in Europe and America, and recently came to San Francisco from extensive radio engagements in New York City. AMERICAN NUMBER The customary American number will be Paul Martin's "Sierra Nevada commemorating the struggles and tragedies of the Don-ner Party in its pioneer entrance to the California scene.

Descriptive subtitles are such as these: "Summer Day at Beautiful Donner "Forlorn Hope of the Pioneers in "The "Hymns of Praise' and "March Into the Tu-ture." Martin, a retired Oakland school principal, had for his early musical training a career as concert pianist, which was interrupted by a serious hand injury. He turned to school and composition, and has many songs and piano pieces to his credit. OTHER WORKS His "Elegy to an Unknown Hero" has been played by many orchestras, including the and San Francisco symphonies, and the Sierra Suite was presented in part by the Oakland orchestra last spring in a California Composers concert at the Oakland High School Auditorium'. Other orchestral numbers wil'. bs the ever beautiful "Leonore" Overture No.

3 by Beethoven and the stirring "Finlandia," by Sibelius, which so clearly depicts the Finnish national spirit that its playing was banned when Finland was unde; Russian rule. Music Appreciation 4 Classes Open Here The Adult Education Program of the Oakland public schools an nouhces classes in the appreciation of music, held at Technical High School. Arthur ConradI, violinist, Is In charge. The course is open to all No previous knowledge of music Is necessary. It Is non-technical and non-theoretical.

The aim of the course is to' enable the student to understand music as a language and an art, and to appreciate its cultural value in life. The classes meet each Thursday at 7:15 p.m. Art Calendar At Oakland Art Gallery-Annual oil exhibition, March 8-April 9. At California Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco Prints and drawings by John Taylor Arms, through March 3. Paintings and sculptures by San Francisco artists, closing December 31.

At the Saa Francisco Musenn ef Art- Third annual water color exhibition of tha San Francisco Art Association, through February -28. Oils and gouaches by Marc Chagall, through February 28. Guatemalan textiles through April 1. At Bay Region Art Association Gal- Oakland-Exhibition of paintings by members of association. At Gump's, San Francisco-Paintings by John Gambia, February 27-March 18.

Balinesa carvings, drawings, tex-tilts, March 6-29. The Bohemian Club annual, recently closed, was in the main a splendid show of calmly painted mihinrtf. The works of art had- the dignity and poise that become that ancient San Francisco organization when it goes in for art that is on view to guests. There was on.e exception. We suspect that Maurice Logan, Oakland and San Francisco artist, hod a mnrrv time all bv himself when he dug up a pancake spatula or an ex tra large palette knne ana wun it or them painted "Joe's Ranch" and "Mandy's Back Yard" for the exhibition.

The backyard shows a washing on the line, probably for the first time in Bohemjan Club historv. The oaintines are full of color and dash. We confess liking them immensely. Old and Modern China Represented Masterpieces of ancient Chinese art, some prehistoric material 3000 years old, have a prominent part in the Pacific Cultures Division of the Fine Arts Exhibit at the 1939 California World's Fair on Treasure Island. There are world renowned Sung and Ming glazes, from the 10th and 14th centuries, ritualistic bronzes of rare delicacy and great artistry, huge stone figures of Buddha of life size or larger, exquisitely wrought gold and silver jewelry, paintings and embroidery.

The loans give a complete history of Chinese art from prehistofic tomodern times. i Thome Collection In Fair Exhibit Mrs. Jamej Thome of Chicago arrived Wednesday and brought with her the 32 miniature rooms, valued at $130,000, for display as part of the Decorative Arts Exhibit at the Fair. Mrs. Thorne will be in personal charge of the exquisitely done miniature fooms, which have proved such a tremendous attraction wherever they have been shown.

IT'S NOT IN bred into him, Tauber learned to haunt the music hallsjearly in life. HAUNTS MUSIC HALLS Today he stands as perhaps the foremost tenor of that school which leans toward the lyric, and which has wide popularity the world over. Tauber's program here will fea ture numbers which have helped es tablfsh him, including "Once There Lived a Fair Lady" from "Blossom Time," and other works by Lehar, Greig and Schubert. The Schubert songs- will include 'Der Linderbaum" of which these words spring to mind: "Beside the well is growing a spreading linden tree. The memory ever haunts me, though far away be." OPERA ARIAS His arias will be "Adieu, Mignon" by Thomas, and Lalo's "Vainement, Ma Blen-Aime" from "La Roi d'Ys." Tauber will be accompanied by Percy Kahn, who will play two solos, Debussy's "Arabesque" ana Godowsky'i "Mazurka Russe." The Tuesday concert at the Audi torium Theater will start at 8:30 pjn.

and will ba given under Oakland Foruro auspices. Wolff Baritone, To Sing at Mills Ernst Wolff, specialist in German lieder, will give a re-citaLat 8:15 o'clock Wednesday night at the Mills College Hall for Chamber Music Formerly a conductor of opera and Symphony in Europe, Wolff began his studies in Baden-Baden, his native city, and later pursued them in Frankfurt and Berlin, where he became a finished pianist and accompanist. Convinced that a conductor should have a full understanding of voices, and himself having a good baritone voice, he studied singing. When one of the actors at a dress rehearsal was suddenly; indisposed, Wolff was given the part and sang it so well that his operatic colleagues predicted for him as great a success on the stage as In the conductor's pit Paderewskl Ready For Tour of Country NEW YORKXeb. 23.

Jan Paderewskl prepared today for another musical farewell to the United States 22 recitals which will take him from coast to coast in his 20th concert tour of this country. Ha will play April 9 in San Francisco. Tha frail pianist, 79. arrived Tuesday aboard the lie De France. White-haired, -wearing a heavy gray sweater under his coat, the first premier of modern Poland said ho waa "not in a political mood these days." He hai lived quietly in his Switzerland homa since his last visit hara in 1933, limbering aging fingers in occasional concerts, hoping passionately for peace in Europe.

Still an enemy, of ultra-modern music, still a romanticist in his interpretation, ha will open his concerts with a broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company network at 3 p.m. (E.S.T.) tomorrow (Sunday). Hll tour will begin Wednesday in Newark and and at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 25. Ha planned to be in the United States four months. 1 Igor Gorin, Baritone To Sing at Opera House Igor Gorin, baritone, will sing at tha San Francisco Opera House Friday, March 10.

Oorin Is called by some "the young He has established himself with radio and motion picture' audiences. Oorin was reared in the Ukraine and for two years sang leading barl-tona roles with the Czechoslovakia State Opera, where ha won renown as Figaro, Rigoletto and Tonio in "Pagllaccl." Pianist to Play Clifford Souze, pianist, will be heard in recital at 8:20 p.m. tomor. row at tha Century Club Building, San Francisco. HOWARD MILHOLLAND Teacher of DRAMA PUBLIC SPEAKING RADIO TECHNIQUE Special intensive courses for School Teachers, Club Officers, etc.

AND EVA GARCIA PIANO Beginners Advanced end Artist Students STUDIOS: 6139 Ocean Drive, Thcne I I San Francisco policeman hailed me and said that he doubted if I could take an exposed pencil into the Italian exhibit. I explained that I was just an Innocent art critic, trying to get along. "They are very strict in there," he said. "They have five armed guards and they don't allow fountain pens." I assured him that the last fellow who borrowed my fountain pen had kept it and that I would put the pencil in my pocket. So, carrying a concealed weapon, and feeling a bit sneaky, I entered the gallery containing the main Italian exhibit.

Beside Botticelli's "Birth of. Venus" was a large guard with a star on his chest as big as the Venus that is now rising over the Berkeley hills. Even if armed, he was all atwitter, for an old lady was asking him all ih. nUVIUl VCUUft QMU 1JVW VUJMB MIC BCP shell. From his answers I gathered that his art education had been a bit neglected.

There was another guard stand ing near Raphael's "Madonna of the Chair." Both guards were back of the railing which more or less pro tects the paintings. After all, you can't blame the Italian government from insisting on protection for paintings so precious that their value is beyond money as we know it, NOTHING TO BE SAID Everything possible has been written about the paintings, so there is nothing more to be said except that certain Old Masters are at your door. You will never see them again, unless, at the end of 1939, you start traveling. The Palace of Fine Arts is an enormous building of permanent construction, later to1 become a hangar. The outside architectural embellishments will be removed when the paintings are sent home and the fair" closes.

Then it will be a hangar where planes will be housed while, resting from flights of peace or The building has been arranged into many galleries. It takes 18 to house the Old Masters of Europe. These were assembled through the actiyity of Dr. Walter Heil, director of te De Young and Legion of nonor Museums. The arts of the Pacific cultures occupy space that is filled with interest, for they are mainly the ancient arts of the Orient and prehistoric South America.

Langdon Warner, Harvard scholar, supervised the collection of this exhibition. wRoland McKinney, who hails from the East, and Dr. Grace L. McCanh Morely, director of San Francisco Museum of Art, made arrangements for the contemporary American exhibition. You and I will have to see this display later.

We can't do this show In one day or even several. Contemporary foreign art includes Europe, Mexico, Canada and Australia. In this you will see most of the Frenchmen about whom you have heard and many you have seen already. The Canadians and the Australians may be a bit new to most of us. Then there is the decorative arts show which you will find some place near the center of the hangar, unless you are already lost beyond hope.

You'll find this exhibition refresh ing, because 10 or SO acres of Old Masters become a bit fatiguing when taken at one standing. This ex-hibition was arranged by Dorothy Wright Liebes. It's a splendid display of what's going on in the world today in the way of household deco- rauons, window displays and an Perhaps I should have said "What's going on tomorrow," for much of it is advance of today. And I hope I'll never catch up with that French fellow who stuck sea shells in a plastered wall and called it a room. Piellce Shows Skill In His Drawings Rolf Pielke draws with great kill.

His exhibition at the GUmp San Francisco, proves that. His skill as a draughtsman is combined with an artistic He knows where to place each object in his drawings, and, better still, he knows what to leave out. "Aloha Malolo," the steamship in the Bay before it became the Matsonia, has plendid dramatic Qualities, just nough, not too much, His exhibition consists mainly of landscapes, He has even presented Coit Tower so there can be no complaint about it. Memory places Pielke once in San Francisco. He now wanders between Berkeley and Carmel.

Also we have a great admiration for paintings that are as opposite to Logan's as possible he portraits by Peter A. and Glcb Ilyin, brothers and residents of San Francisco, They have full mastery of the brush. They can paint a silk skirt so you can hear the lovely lady within it make it rustle. And no one has ever painted hands more beautifully. Other exhibitors: Ferdinand Bursfdorff, Ernest J.

flwectlanri, Francis Charlea Bradford Hudon, John Jay Baumaartner, Theodore Wore, O. Llljentrom, Arthur F. Mathews, Spencer Macky, Percy Gray. Harry Heawell, Louis C. Mullgardt, Matteo Handona, Arthur Hill Gilbert, H.

B. Blatchley, L. P. Latimer, rnugias Fraser, Arthur Cahlll, William B. Favllle, Cloyde Bwelgert, Harald Wagner, C.

Bolton White, Dorman H. Bmlth, Hals- Patialan. European Art Well Represented More than 330 contemporary European paintings, representative all schools of thought, hang in the European Section in the Fine Arts Palace on Treasure Island. French, German, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Belgian, Denmark, England, Finland, Hungary and The Netherlands are represented by both paintings and sculpture ot contemporary artists. Finland's contributions are with bronze statues by Walne Aaltonen, a statuette in wood and reliefs by Hannes Antero, bronzes by Jussl Mantynen and oil paintings by Marcus Collin, Tyko Konstantin Sallinen and Lennart Segerstrale.

Keith Exhibit At Gump Gallery The Gump Galleries, San Francisco, announce that, in addition to regularly scheduled exhibits in honor of the Exposition opening a retrospective exhibit of California's "Old Master," William Keith, will be held in the main gallery. THE EXHIBIT lllllfll llililip "4 From LaGuardia Mayor LaGuardia of New York City has written to the Young People's Sym Aony in Berkeley, expressing his' keen interest In the exceptional advantages offered to young musicians In these parts. The Young People's Symphony conducted by Jessica Marcelli is one of two organizations in the country playing only the standard symphonies and having no adults in the orchestra membership. Nationwide prestige and recognition are being accorded it. Mayor LaGuardia writes: "I am in hearty accord with the work you are doing for the Young People's Symphony Orchestra in your city.

It not only encourages these young people in their' splendid desire for good music but It is also an excellent means of fostering and stimulating appreciation of good music among a large portion of our population. Good luck to you in your worthy endeavors. Sincerely yours, Fiorello H. LaGuardia," from the Office of the Mayor, New York. SECOND GREETING As second greeting from the Eastern metropolis, a letter has been received by William E.

Chamberlain, managing director of the Young People's Symphony Orchestra. This communication comes from Judge Leopold Prince, conductor of the New York Amateur Symphony Or chestra. Ht writes: "It is with much pleasure that I note the establishment of the Young People's Symphony Orchestra. Playing in unison by a large group means much in the building ot morale and character values. You are not only rendering a service to your community but your program indicates that you have given talented young musicians the opportunity of appearing as soloists.

PROVING GROUND "Orchestras like yours and mine are fast becoming a proving ground for gifted young American artists who might not otherwise have the chance of a dignified public debut. If other communities will follow along these lines, we shall soon have a far broader channel in which American artists may launch their own careers and the development of their natural art Amateur orchestras thus offer our country one of its fmest art opportunities. "You deserve the gratitude of your community, and I wish you continued success. Very sincerely yours, Leopold Prince," conductor N.Y. Amateur Symphony.

Conductor Marcelli is now preparing the" 70 musicians of the Young People's Symphony for the first concert of this season to be given on March 5 in Berkeley. Mr. and Mrs. Stacey Exhibit at Stanford An exhibition of oil paintings by two Chicago artists, Anna Let Stacey and John F. Stacey, now residents of Pasadena, are being shown through February at Stan ford Art Gallery.

Mr. and Mrs. Stacey have traveled and sketched In manjuountries In Europe, have won many prizes and awards in various eastern art exhibitions, but their, showing at Stanford Unlver. slty is their first combined exhibition in California. The exhibition Is composed of 18 paintings by Anna Lee Stacey, including portraits which i Mrs.

Stacey'i spe-olal subject, still life subjects and landscape. Stacey's ten paintings at Stanford Includes marines and landscapes. Stanford art gallery is open to the public every day from 10 till 3 o'clock, no admission charge, 1 Male Sextet to Sin? Twice Across Bay A sextet of male voices under the name of Comedian Harmonists, will sing at tha Curran in San Francisco, Friday night at 8:30 and next Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Fun. figures foremost In the sextet programs.

The singers are on their first tour of tha United States, Marian Van Tuyl and group will danco Thursday night at tho San FrancUco Community 1 a Bernard Abramowitsch, planlal will bo aololit with the Bay Region Symphony Orchestra Friday night Abramowitsch To Play Here Bernhard Abramowitsch, pianist, will make his first Metropolitan Oakland appearance Friday evening when the Bay Region Federal Synv phony Orchestra, under the direction of Nathan Abas, presents him as guest soloist in a program at the Oakland Auditorium Theater. Abramowitsch has played in Europe with outstanding orchestras. Two years ago ha visited, the Pacific Coast and was so enthralled with tha Monterey Peninsula he determined to make his home here. Abramowitsch uses masterly technique to express the composer's ideas. He makes no display of prowess to dazzle an audience, nor does he inject his personality into his music He is a thorough musician with a style of playing that emphasizes clarity.

For his Oakland concert, Abramowitsch will play Beethovan's Concerto No. 3 in minor. Abas will conduct the orchestra in Mozart's "Overture from the Marriage of Figaro" and Berlioz's symphonic "Fastastique." Chopin-Ravel Concert Clifford Souze will give a Chopin-Ravel concert tomorrow night, at the Century Club Building in San Francisco. but take the word ot Director cholt will ilna here Thursday. THEY'RE NO ANGELS! lliiiSPftiiill 1 ti vr Yig ''('' r) mmmm i 3 ft The Mozart Boyi look angelic, Gruber they're not The jGtorg But It's an amusing "self-portrait" by Rolf Pilk, whoi drawiigi art on display at Gump's, Son Francisco..