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MUSIC, BOOKS. ART NEWS OF ORCHESTRAS, CONCERTS BOOK WORLD -AKRON ARTISTS Hardy's Dramatic Novel Gives Moses' Life From Pharaoh's Court To Sinai's Mount Jiu-Jitsu Boole By Akron Man Shows How Young Musicians Invited To Win Fame, Monetary Awards In Competition By OSCAR SMITH Bcmmi Jraratl Mitto EIUr Coward, "All The Trumpets Sounded," by W. G. Hardy. McCann.

$2.75. THE 1943 BIENNIAL Young Artist awards, as in previous By MARGOT JACKSON Ituti Jsaratl IIMr MOSES WAS FOUND IN THE BULRUSHES by Pharaoh's daughter. Moses led the Jewish through the parted waters of Canaan, the "land of milk and honey." And Moses presented unto them the Ten Commandments. Everyone knows that much. years, will mean $1,000 each to successful contestants, it is announced by the Ohio and National Federation of Music Clubs, sponsors.

Mrs. R. A. Herbruck of Dayton is chairman of contests for Ohio and the Great Lakes district. Contestants between 21 and 30 years of age are eligible.

Awards will be given to the outstanding violinist, pianist, man and woman singer selected by a jury of nationally and internationally famous judges at the biennial convention of the national federation in Detroit, opening April 28, 1943. State and district contests will narrow down the number of competitors to a potential 16 in each classification. The better instrumentalist of the two final biennial winners will receive in addition to the cash award the Schubert memorial award, which Includes appearances wtn lne Boston Symphony orchestra and the Philadelphia orchestra. Student musicians, aged 18 to 23. may compete in piano, violin.

Violoncello, organ, woman's and man's voice, the winners receiving state awardg and official certificates which will he presented by Mrs. Guy Gannett, president of the national federation. Achievements of Young Artist content winners in recent years have attracted favorable attention to these biennial events. For instance, there is Carroll Glenn, 22-year-old violinist winner at the Los Angeles convention in 1941 and niece of Dr. Robert T.

Allison, Akron surgeon. Miss Glenn has 16 bookings with major orchestras as well as many recital engagements as the aftermath of her first season as a Young Artist winner. Akronltes have heard her play with the ir WANT TO LEARN Jiu. JTTSU? Want to beat the Japs at the art of attack and defense which they perfected? Right here in Akron is a nationally known teacher of the craft, Ed-ward L. Allen, 61 W.

Thornton st He's just had published a photographic book illustrating ju-jitsu tricks anyone can learn. This will provide the show-how. Practice will do the rest. Allen is a firm believer in the necessity for knowing jiu-jitsu. For 20 years he has been teach-.

ing the art to policemen, businessmen, factory and prison guards. Recently soldiers preparing for foreign duty and air raid wardens have been added to his list. Even housewives have not been omitted. "Clubs and blackjacks will soon be history," aays Allen. "A mans hands will be his tools." This flat, sports-ormat book makes plain that there's nothing uncanny about jiu-jitsu.

Charts show a number of nerve centers in the body. "Sharp pressure on any of these spots, if located accurately, will cause acute pain so sharp as to temporarily numb or paralize, and thus make entirely useless, the area involved." The step-by-step pictures show methods of misleading the adversary, acting quickly and using the proper leverage in 18 varied attacks ranging from releases for CRASH, RATTLE, BANG! And a couple of hlsnes, too. It's part of the treatment prescribed for Miss Harriet Jayne, a Timid Soul. EWARD L. ALLEN writes book on jiu-jitsu Fact And Fiction In War Adventures "IMMORTAL SERGEANT," by John Brophy, is a bit of war from the Libyan desert.

It's a sensational, well-written novel with life as the coal. When the British withdrew from Bengasi half-a-doz en or their soldiers lost an armored car and so had to fight their way back alone. To add to the trials of German bombers and German-held oases, came the unfortunate death of the patrol leader, the tough "immortal sergeant" himself. Corporal Spence seemed hardly the man to fill his boots. He was a city novice, lacklnjr the hardness of experience.

But the corporal digs in and the story of their ad ventures is rousing reading. (Harpers). "RUSSIANS DON'T SURRENDER" is the title of a book by Alexander Poliakov, war correspondent and soldier-member of a red unit which fought for a month to regain contact with the red army after being trapped behind the German lines. It's that very story which he tells, so this is fact, not fiction. But it is so filled with suspense and interest tt is better than many a made-to-order book.

Moreover, "Russians Don't Surrender" is a powerful picture of the Russian people who have made "Hold Hitler" their deadliest game. (Dutton). Piano-Playing Gabriel Banishes Fears That Afflict Timid Souls By MORROW DAVIS Wide WorH feature! Writer NEW YORK, July 25. It was a Sunday afternoon and the W. 73rd st.

studio of Mr. Bernard Gabriel, concert pianist and teacher, was bo peaceful you could hear a door alam and frequently did. For the Society of Timid Souls was in session and Mr. Gabriel, founder-leader of that group of supersensitive musicians, was inoculating his pupils with anti-stage fright serum. From 5 o'clock until 6:30, the4) Cleveland summer orchestra, and next season sne win oe soioist witn the Cleveland orchestra under Arthur Rodzinskt in Severance hall.

Eleanor Steber and Margaret Harshaw have won Metropolitan Opera 'auditions of the air" awards. Another winner, Mary Llda Eowen, will sing the starring role in the world premiere of Dr. Walter Damrosch'a new opera, 'The Opera Cloak," on Nov. 3 In New York. Among the successful American concert artists who have won In biennial contests are Robert Weede, Dalies Frantz, Phyllis Kraeuter, Genevieve Rowe, Jacques Abram, Ida Krehm, Hilda Burke and Kathryn Meisle.

Artist sponsors for the contests are Harold Bauer, Mabel Garrison, Paul Althouse, Beryl Rubinstein, Hugo Kortschalk, Hans Hess, Palmer Christian and Mme. Louise Homer. Bruno Walter, internationally famous conductor, Is the new president of the Schubert memorial. Young musicians living in Ohio and the Great Lakes district may obtain information and bulletins giving the required musical numbers, rules and regulations regarding all auditions by addressing Mrs. R.

A. Herbruck, Rkigway Dayton, O. She is receiving applications for entrance in the preliminary state contests to be held before March 1, 1843. New Symphony WHENEVER A SYMPHONIC work of enough importance to The starters won, but not until Mr. Grabriel'a blitzing eyes entered the fray.

Next was a young woman who admitted that five weeks before he would have surrendered to allght cough. "Give me noise" he challegned, "and I'll give you Chopin." They did and he did. Cure complete. Now Mr. Gabriel told how a famous pianist giving a recital at Carnegie hall had been thrown off balance by a woman fanning herself in three-four time while the artist was playing in six-eight time (apparently there is no common denominator In music).

"Let's try it with handkerchiefs" said Mr. G. "Miss Jayne A Three-Four On A Six-Eight Miss Harriet Jayne of Manhattan, slx-elghted while five handkerchiefs three-foured but not for long (Mr, G. added an audible three-four count to the confusion). Despite these strange goings-on, Mr.

Gabriel is not conducting a clinic in neo-classical comedy. His clients include Town hall recital-ists, pupils of the Mannes and the Juilliard schools and other serious and talented pianists. The career of a Mr. Gabriel himself, is otherwise noteworthy. He has given many recitals for various war benefits.

people out of slavery in Egypt, the Red sea, by offering them Few know more. And the "more" is what makes "All The Trumpets Sounded" engrossing and colorful reading. For here is a novelized biography of Moses, a feeling-see-ing-smelling picture of pagan Egypt and of the man who was a legend among his own people before he himself knew he was one of them. At least half of the book's 500 pages deals with Moses' life in the courts of the Pharaoh. As his decreed grandson, a prince of Egypt, Moses was educated in splendor, offered power and glory and sadistic cruelty which W.

G. Hardy paints magnificently from all angles. Moses could have had anything he demanded, for the Pharaoh although cynically doubting his daughter's csreful story liked him better than the bragging son, Merneptah. But Moses was blind with love. All he then wanted was Tharbis, daughter of a rebel, with a body to make men worship and a soul to make them curse.

But it was rage that blinded him later when he shouted to the stunned court, "Hebrews, too, are men. They think like men, feel like men, suffer like men. I know because too, am a Hebrew." And in the pages that follow, of Moses' wanderings with the desert tribes, his long conversations with Jethro, his attempts to know Yahweh's will and make it work for him, there Is the rebirth of a man and of a race. "All The Trumpets Sounded" is more dramatic than "The Naza rene." It is rich with the people or laoi-worsniping Egypt: the greedy and all-powerful Pharaoh the worried Princess Blnt-Anath, the scheming Merneptah and his gossip-mongering mother, the cheap Tharbis. It is lavish with court scenes, cruel with slave torture, wild with desert warfare and quiet with contemplation.

And it is hopeful, ever hopeful, ss the loyal Jochebed, the aged physician Nun, the true Zipporah and the young Joshua believe that Moses, despite his human errors snd quick impulses, must bring their people through victoriously. Here is a book to be savored to the utmost, for it transports the senses with a story that is classic. Facts Answer Wishful Thinkers "Will Germany Crack?" by Paul Hagen. Harper's. $2.75.

THE GERMAN PEOPLE may be wearied of Nazidom, ridden roughshod, penalized, "over-aged, over-tired, and undertiourlshed," but that does not necessarily mean a crack-up or Internal explosion. So writes Paul Hagen, who Is too honest to write otherwise despite the answer he would like to report. As research editor of "Inside Germany Reports" he has hin sstounding amount of material and facts at hand. His stimulating book should be widely read. Every rumor one has heard about conditions within Germany Is discussed objectively and dispassionately.

These are Hagen's conclusions: Production is shot, due to withdrawal of workmen's privileges, wsges and sufficient rations. Unskilled enemy aliens and women are replacing the 'men drawn off for war efforts with a corresponding decrease in productivity. Coal is lacking; transportation weak and muddled. Drives for materials from which new clothing may be woven are now returning ersatz fabrics. And "ersatz cannot be made from ersatz." A chapter titled "The Hell of the New Order" deals nakedly with horrors piled atbp human miseries in each of the vassal countries.

Yet these oppressed peoples within Europe have no single widespread group which the allies can contact. That they con stitute an anti-Fascist potential, Hagen shows clearly. Now we must learn how to put It to ac tive use in the democratic cause. Story Of Death door slammed, bells rang, rattles rattled, a dishpan was beaten, a flashlight flashed, handkerchiefs waved, starers stared. There was some piano playing, too, for all members of the group are pianists (but shy!) It's Sink Or Swim Gabriel Is an affable young man from Denver, Col.

Last winter he conceived the Idea of curing stage fright by conditioning sufferers with more and more of the' same. This he does, albeit somewhat merrily, until the bogey is chased. The maestro opened proceedings with a brief explanation of the causes of stage fright fear of the audience, noise (and the absence of noise), worry over loss of memory, fear of being stared at, plain all-around shyness, etc. Miss Florence Campbell, of Manhattan, was asked to lead off. "She takes a beating every week," whispered a young Timid Soul as Miss Campbell adjusted" herself at one of Gabriel's two Stelnways.

"Quiet, everybody," cautioned Gabriel. "We'll see if she can get through amid absolute silence." She did. "Now gather 'round and stare at her," suggested the host. "Stare hard now. Watch her fingers.

And you (to Miss Campbell) look us once in a while." Wars Come And HasS ame Old D' Rookie Tells Amusing Story "See Here, Private Hargrove," by Marion Hargrove. Henry Holt, $2 A PUBLISHER'S NOTE on the jacket of "See Here, Private Hargrove" says, "A last-minute dispatch from Fort Bragg brings the almost incredible announcement that Private Hargrove is no more. He is Corporal Hargrove now. We still find it hard to believe. So will you." bs given International attention has an American premiere, or a premiere anywhere, it is an occasion for appraisal, even dissection, and Innumerable words from the-crltlcs' typewriters.

Music critics, of course, differed on the merits of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh symphony, given its first American performance last Sunday by Arturo Toscaninl and the NBC Symphony orchestra, via radio. This symphony is the first work of its kind Inspired by the war, It was written by the 36-year-old Russian composer while under siege at Leningrad, where he combined composition and efforts as a fire-fighter under bombs and shells. Akron was in the midst of a storm during most of the symphony's broadcast performance, so reception was not of the best. At times the static seemed to blend with the orchestra's most violent momenta descriptive of war. I preferred Shostakovich's original battle effects, One critic described the symphony's four movements as "Surprise Attack," "Adjustment," "Uncertainty and Tragedy" and "Victory," climaxed by a triumphant finale.

Another critic said: "The Seventh symphony sprawls, like Russia, but Is tremendously impressive." He heard in parts of it "a catchy little tune like 'Ain't Misbehavin." One music editor, admitting that the symphony has its great moments, insisted it is "far from a work of sustained greatness, either of ideas, workmanship or taste." Sustained greatness is quite an order to fill. Not every measure of Beethoven's finest symphonies can transport one to that rarefied atmosphere; fortunately, there are parts in all great symphonies that are pale in comparison with the most thrilling passages. There must be hills and valleys In a symphony, there must be contrast. We don't find sustained greatness in Shakespeare, and we shouldn't find it. On a page containing some of the bard's finest, quotable passages are sentences that could be turned out by any ordinary hack writer.

Shostakovich, being human, did not achieve sustained greatness in his Seventh symphony. Those of us who heard the broadcast learned that he had something to say and he said it sincerely, from the heart, and we got the message even over the crackling of static. Shostakovich had said: "My music is my weapon." The studio audience roared its approval. Finally, it Is interesting to note that Maestro Toscaninl, who has a knsck of knowing what makes music tick, called the Seventh symphony "magnificent." Outstanding Boole On Catholicism "The Catholic by Thomas F. Woodlock.

Simon Schuster. $2. THE AVERAGE non-Catholic newspaperman steers away from Catholic assignments aa if they were poison; not because he fears them, but rather because he feels he knows he doesn't know what Catholic background and ceremonials are all about. Thomas F. Woodlock ia a Cath olic with many years of experience as a secular newspaperman.

He knows his religion and he wants to "sell" it to those who art not acquainted with it. So with the directness and logic of the writing newspaperman, Woodlock has written an outstanding layman's book on Catholicism, "The Catholic Pattern." Woodlock's first chapters are an advanced Catechism he writes of God, of man, of man's fall, God's relations with man, the sacra ments. In writing of this Woodlock says "I have had in mind a modern man or woman who has never had contact of a direct or continuous kind with the Catholic pattern, as a pattern of life, and has never thought much about it, but who in general views the Catholic church as a curious survival from the old days before 'science' came along, something foreign to the times and the country and, therefore, something to be 'watched' with suspicion at least a little for 'political' actions, but not a thing to be studied in any detail, nor a thing that one needs to take into account and study as an intellectual force in the world of today." Woodlock, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, ends his book, with a moving confession of faith. M. P.

As Fascinating As Good Gossip "A Man About The House," by Frances Brett Young. Rey-nal fe Hitchcock. $2.50. HERE'S A FASCINATING and amusing story of two spinster sisters, living first in chilly poverty in 1900 England and then, through a surprising legacy from a slightly Improper uncle, in warm emotional Italy. Despite the detail of people and places, this book is never dull.

The senior Miss Isit, Agnes, had little trouble at first living up to "what dear papa would do." She was handsome and stately, coldly withdrawn. "She ought to have married the Viceroy of the Governor of Bengal, and stood at the top of the stairs while the band played 'God Save the Instead, papa decreed that she inhabit a dank, rotting, alum-located mansion and try to make a success of it as a finishing school. The younger Miss Isit, Ellen, had a heart that might want to run away with her head. Years of living with pspa and Agnes had taught her some 'measure of curbing it. She was fair and plump with hair that inclined to curli-ness.

But Uncle Ludovic, shadowy black sheep and something of an artist, died, leaving a generous fortune and the "Castello Inglese" at Monfalcone. Here awaiting the stolid British ladies was an outwardly impeccable butler, a man about the house. He was Salva-tore Ferraro by name, unscrupulous rogue by nature, who moved among the grape-treading beauties "with the possessive pride of an antlered stag passing to and fro amid a herd of submissive hinds." Longer, meatier, than the traditional light novel, this Is a book to delight mellow msn or tongue-in-cheek woman. As environment plays havoc with heritage, the tale grows like a luscious morsel of gossip. Book Tells From the By RUSSELL' LANDSTROM Wide World Sulf Writer LONDON, July 25.Like the grief-ridden but eventually triumphant heroes of the comic operas themselves, the durable D'Oyly Carte Co.

has prevailed against dolor and adversity to continue regaling wartime British audiences with Gilbert and Sullivan. Quarter Notes THIS WEEK'S FARE for Cincinnati's 21st season of Zoo sum head locks, choking, "pushing around," to simple ejections and defenses against blows. A total of 214 attacks and counterattacks are known to Allen. "Some I wouldn't print, of course. Elven of these 214 can destroy life in 12 to 14 seconds." Policeman Howard Robinson.

"2 Jewett is perhaps Allen's biggest booster here. Robinson was one of 20 who underwent the strenuous course given local policemen. He graduated to the instructor's course and has accompanied Allen on several trips aWit the country, demonstrating or acting as subject. "Twice in my police work," says Robinson, "jiu- jitsu saved my life." "American Jlu-Jitsu," published by the Sun Dial Press, sells for 11. Week's Mysteries "The Uncas Island Murders." by F.

W. Bronson. Farrar Rinehart, $2. PRACTICALLY EVERYONE who knew Willoughby Knight had a reason for wishing him dead and from there on in you can follow the plot with the greatest of ease. Told in the first person, by Daisy Hamilton, the murdered man's niece, it follows the regulation pattern but with one saving grace.

Daisy Hamilton has a nice sense of humor and she doesn't go around saying "Had I but known Also there is a very neat surprise twist at the end. Acceptable hot weather reading. I.S.S. "A Talent or Murder." by Anna Mary Wells. Knopf, $2.

Anna Mary Wells, who has just written her first mystery, lived in Akron as a little girl some 20 years ago. Her father is the Rev. L. N. D.

Wells, who was then minister of the High St. Church of Christ. She is now a resident of Detroit. This mystery veers from the regular pattern by presenting the chief character as a woman accused but acquitted of murder. Was the jury right, is her big question when the trial had shattered her completely? With a psychiatrist as detective, the story pounds along at a tight pace, searching for the true culprit.

Roundup Of Spies A BATCH OF murders, a lovely but determined girl, a baffled FBI and a German news agency pepper the pages of "High Stakes'' with quick activities. The events could easily be factual and this perhaps is the drawback to the book as a story. For Curt Weiss knows plenty about Nazi espionage in the United States. He seems to know considerably less about how to write a thriller. Written as non-fiction, it would have been better reading but this he had already done.

Its title was "Total Espionage" and it is more worth reading and more hair-raising than this heavy-hopping bit of fictional melodrama. (Putnam's, EERIE AND unaccountable deeds in a London boarding hous make Alice Campbell's "Ringed With Fire" exceptionally chillinp, for the murders gradually tie themselves Into a net of intrigue against the whole great city. And treason in high places is unmasked. It begins quietly enough with the murder of a little-known journalist, killed perhaps for snooping in a debris-strewn attic. The attic's lessee seemed but a cracked old lady, so why shouM someone chop off the head of another old lady with whom she had recently talked? And why was there sand in the attic? Plenty of clues and red herrings, and a post-mortem that clarifies the whole.

(Rsndom House, $2). mer opera consists of "Rigoletto," today and Thursday; "Mignon," Tuesday and Friday; "Hansel and Gretel" and "Pagllsccl," Wednesday and Saturday. Edward S. Babcox of Akron sends a card from Chautauqua, N. where he and Mrs.

Babcock are fortunate enough to hear much of the six weeks of music every summer. "Ed" writes that the orchestra hss a magnificent program for the season. It opened with James Melton, tenor, as soloist, and Ernest Hutcheson. pianist, "gave a superb recital." The Chautauqua Symphony orchestra is conducted by Albert Stoessel. Dr.

Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center at Lenox, Continues its summer music festival on week-ends until Aug. 16. It replaces the annual Berkshire festival of the Boston Symphony orchestra. Beginning Aug. 1 there will be six Saturday and Sunday concerts by an orchestra of 96 advanced students from all parts of the country, directed by Dr.

Koussevitzky. On Aug. 16 Dr. Kous-sevitzky will conduct the first concert performance in the Western Hemisphere of Shostakovich's new Seventh symphony, given its premiere American performance in a broadcast last Sunday afternoon by Toscaninl and the NBC Symphony orchestra. Joseph Szigetl, violinist, has a schedule for next season which calls for 50 recitals.

He will appear as soloist with the Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Toronto symphonies, the New Friends of Music and the National Orchestral association of New York. Yes, but we weren't one bit sur prised by the still fresher news that Corporal Hargrove had been tapped for the staff of "Yank." The soldiers' newspaper would have been guilty of unforgivable waste of its potential resources if it had failed to make the most of the talents of the witty young draftee, Marion Hargrove, late of the Charlotte, N. C. News. This book Is Hargrove's story of his first year or so in the army, a period that took him past the entry of the United States into the war.

To hear him tell it, you would think that he was Snuffy Smith's only rival for yard bird honors, but obviously he couldn't have been that bad or how would he ever have earned that second stripe for his sleeve Another note from the pub' Usher says the army's censors examined Hargrove's manuscript and offered no protest. We should think not: Besides being amused by every page of Hargrove's autobiography, the censors should have realised, if they knew their busi ness, that this book was swell material for the recruiting offt cers. Hargrove apparently likes the army, and his account of army life will make many a reader decide tnat he would like the army, too. Hargrove, a boy in his 20's, writes well. He will be a humorist to watch when the war is over.

R. H. S. MODERN LIBRARY GIANT number one was Tolstoy's "War and Peace." That inaugurated the series of $1.45 books in 1930. This fall the total of "giants" will reach an even 60 with the pub lication of "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Heminrwav." and Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot." At Sea Folly" Blease finally quit the seas for his English hide, he was a hunted man.

Through every bit of the well-packed, fast-paced narrative there is a sense of vivid reality. Here are the little touches of dress and customs and code of the sea that make a book ring true. And un-forgetable will be that ill-fated lad, Clim the Cod's Heads, who met a harrowing death ordered in cold blood. Go, But England Oyly Carte Co. a London season of Gilbert and Sullivan's airy mimicries since the Nineties.

It was a step Into jeopardy made more hazardous by the circumstances that Prince's theater is unusually large and that only provincial and suburban audiences really knew the company. The response, however, was as unexpected as It was welcome. The opening was akin to a Holly-wpod dream. "Just like the fair," remarked one who saw the lines of people hopeful day after day of getting seats. The company played at Prince's until the following spring.

Schedule Nearly Intact This time the D'Oyly Carte Co. is bringing all but four of the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory "Ruddigore," "Pinafore," "Princess Ida" and "The Sorcerer" because of currently irreplaceable materials lost In air raids, and in spite of the loss of 20 to 28 persons to the armed services. Prompt to appreciate the moral value In the company's contributions, governmental agencies have lent a hand in smoothing its wartime way. Thus at least partly relieved of worry, the company has been able to prevent a lowering of artistic standards. Before official assistance was given it was not uncommon experience for the company to arrive In town and find not a scrap of food obtainable.

At Savoy Ijut Year Apart from brief vacations at summer's end the company has carried on since outbreak of the wsr. Only once. In 1940. was the London season omitted' from the schedule. Last year's two-month engagement at the Savoy theater was one of the city's foremost theatrical adventures.

By official request the Itinerary has Included all the badly blitzed areas. Visits were intended especially to counteract war nerves. The company has been In these regions when they were under heavy fire, performing amidst death and destruction in bomb-damaged theaters. The company expects to remain in London until late August, and after a short rest strike out Into the provinces again. -Beyond that Piano Team AKRON'S SMITH COLLEGE CLUB has been assured that the duo-pianists, Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti, will be at the armory the night of Oct.

2 to give a concert under club auspices for the benefit of its scholarship fund. Representatives of the artist Informed Mrs, Chester Conner, chair Neither blitzkrieg nor bad weather, the dislocation of travel facilities nor enlistment, costume rationing nor food shortage has put any real crimp in the show. And after completing another swing around the provinces the company returns to London for a long summer stay. Twaa New To London It Is no ordinary revisiting of the capital this time, for the troupe goes into Trince's theater, seat of its great glowing conquest soon after the end of the last war. Many Londoners are now calling to remembrance September of 1919, when the city witnessed what amounted to the rebirth of the D'Oyly Carte Co.

here. Except for occasional suburban performances there hRdn't been Men Players Not Being Replaced Replacement of men plavers by women has not been found necessary so far because of military service, demands, the National Music council reports after a survey of the 16 major symphony organizations of the United States. The council notes, however, that the continued calling up of men may alter the picture considerably during the coming season. Of the major orchestras. Boa-ton, New York, Cincinnati and Minneapolis have no women play ers, except an occasional second harpist when occasion demsnds.

Among the others, Pittsburgh has the most, with seven women musicians. San Francisco has five, Washington and Indianapolis four, Philadelphia three, Detroit two, and Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Rochester and St. Louis one each. In no case has any woman player been with the orchestra for less than a year, and some range up to nine, 12 or 15 years. NEW SONGS Robert Stolz, composer of "Two Hearts In Waltz Time," has completed nine new sones which will man of publicity for the concert, that there is "absolutely nothing to indicate that Fray will not fill this concert date." When Walter Shaw, winner of the Damrosch scholarship at the Juilliard school of music, was engaged to appear with Braggiotti at a recent Cleveland "pop" concert, it was reported that Frav had en tered the army.

At the time it was appear wan nis long-time partner, eluding the one in Akron. Now the Smith club has been drafted, but has been doing special government since last January. A i i Youngstown Concert ANOTHER SUMMER "pop" town Summer Symphony orchestra inursaay at a p. m. in tne Mansion.

This will be the third concert expected Fray would be able to Braggiotti, at later concerts, in Informed thst Fray has not been foreign broadcasting work for the concert will be eiven bv the Younrs- conducted by Michael Ficocelll on in a series to be eiven bv the selections from operettas and light First formed by George Campbell, orchestra this season. An added attraction on the program will be the rremier octet, vocai group well-known to the music-lovers of Youngstown and vicinity. The program will be made up of semi-classical num. Jacket drawing for "For My Great bers. including a Strauss waltz, overoui cs.

rur my urcui cutiy, uy i nomas a. cojiom, Putnam $2.75 Camp Leaders' Choir CAMP Y-NOAH, Akron district Y.M.C.A. boys' camp, has or. Piracy, death on and death in the basket, muUny, stirring sea battles and romance make "For My Great Folly," a rousing grand-scale novel. ganlzed a camp leaders' choir.

nationally Known aong icnuer, nuring nis recent visit to the camp, the trrouD is now directed by Dick Harig. Harig is head of the dining room at the camp, is one of the most eromislne singers ever developed by Miss Mabel E. Todd at Akron Roger Blease, gentry-born bute- one of the Free Rovers under the English pirate John Ward, tells the story. There are incidents from which his kinder senses revolt and a squeamish stomach may quake at some actions. But tense fascination grips, for this is mighty story based on historical truths.

John Ward's aim was to keep the seas open to the English despite a Spanish edict. The mealy-mouthed King James preferred the easier path and when be published shortly by British and the ensemble has one great hank-American companies. He has also i ering to revisit the United States llv J1 which is after the war. The last D'Oyly in Carte appearance in the States iotk next season. was in 1938.

Central high school. The choir gave ita first performance at a recent special campfire, and will sing at the brief interdenominational church services at Camp Y-Noah every Sunday morning. It will also sing at evening concerU. EIGHT AKRON BEACON JOURNAL SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1942 0.