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It seems but yesterday that 1 was, reading last year's report' te you. Se it. is when one reïaches té far side, of the bill! However, as, we cast our minds back over the. noinentous happenings of this past twelve months, thev- are far, from kaleido- scepi.c. It is, interesting te look back te October, 1929,. and see wbat cffect the grand crash bad onour business.- For this., Artist-Recital series ;is a business-we must -neyer forget that in our plans for its future. Well then! In that historical Oc- tuber,, 1929, we opened our course, wth Florence Austral. There- fol-ý lowed sucb artists as Edward John- son, the Smallman Choir of Cali- fornia, a joint recital by Claire Dux and Piatigorsk (, ~is >ew the titan of the cello). The season closcd witb the incomparable Horowitz. Quite a galaxy is it nôt?. In October, 1930, perhaps because prosperity was only hîding behind that illusive corner, the depression did not seem te binder 'Our fuil list of subscribers from paying for their tickets. Tbey knew their seats were coveted by the ."watchful waiting" Y ork, wnere i as already, passen is 200th performance.. performance of "Yoshe Kalb" at the. Yiddish Art. theatre. on April 16, Ma'urice Schwartz wilI close the. New York, run. of bis play at the very height of its. success, yielding te the pressure of nation ,-wid-e public de- mnand flot -te postpone bis trans 1con- tinental tour tili next. year. Nyrbefore in the bistor3y of the Jewisb theatre bas a play received sucb untanimous, acclaim as the Maurice. Schwartz .production of "'Yoshe Kalb" Non-jewish critics have vied with Jewish writers ini their enthusiasm ýover 1. J.. Singer's: Chas-' sidic spectacle. At ne time bas* even "The Dybbuk" created a furore coin- parable to the "Yoshe Kalb' vogue whicli has swept New York off its feet. URIG A lyric quality an, of study bistrlenic "Cavaleria land audit( fino's succ L 9 e of at tl ch 5. role of Pmit'" rich1 oundý rfor in certs will be.given, -one. at 3J15 and. the other at 4:-30. -The soloists are JEIwood Kaftý, pianist; Virginia Hol- l4ndsoano; Nesta Smith, violifiist; and .pau a llry, tenor. -Mrs. Hol- land and 'Miss Tegtrneyer were for- merly 'soprano soloist and organist respectively of First Cburch of Christ' Scientisti Glencoe. The program for* Sunday isas, follows:,- Pastorale and Capriccio............. ........Scarlattl-Taqsig Staenchen (Serena.de) ..... .......... .... trause-Godowskyr LiebeÉleld.....Kreisler-Rachroanlnoff Elwood Kraft » Invrocation, froffi.*Ra(diaesto" .... .~Handel-Bibb Pierrot............. .........Rubner Down Here.............. ....-Brahe An. Open Secret ........ ...Woodrnan Virgia la olland (Ruth Tegtirxeyer, Accompanlat) WaItz A Major ...... Schubert-Achr>n La. Ronanescg ............... Achron Zapateadlo.................. Sarasate Nesta Smlith (Alvena Reckzeh, Accompanist> The Dew le $parkling ...Rubinstein Good Nlght .... ...........Rubinstein Sailormen..................... Wolfe Possession...........Sharp Time, You Old Gypsy Man.. Warren Paul Mallory (Ruth Tegtmneyer, Accompanist) that the prices of tickets be strictly popular. He lias also announced that. he: will givýe a strictly popular' re- quest eprogram.: Hesaid,."i will in- sist on making tip the first group of, own favorites., but. my audience cati have the privileg e-of, namitt.h e other three, groups:with one excepý- tion.. That exception. is "Oh Dry Those Tears," ..an old 'time song which Mr.1 McCormack has revived andj whidîi becamne an instantaneous success when he sang it on the, radio, for the. first time. After his singing of. this number 'on, t4e night of, March ,12, immediately precedî,"g President Roosevelts famnous. mes - sage, he received. a telegram of-con-, gratulation from eone of the Pres- ident's secretaries. The words, are particularly appropriate at this time: Retquegts for favorîte songs may be addressed to MNr., McCormack at Orchestra hall or to -Mr. Voegeli. manager. Chicago lias long held a %varni spot ini Mr. McCormack's heart. Net long ago in Philadeiphia whén asked his preference of cities, he nanied hi,ý native Dublin first and Chicago sec- ond. wrina siR c ui *" *'- o i rb i so'l. RachmanlnoiT 15 physIiaII3' mnîtalIýv, ., .-- - - relaxation and a good Iaugb.;ISo wNe and inusically a giant. I nlîght add April 16, at 3:30 under the direction gave them the "Blue Bird." That that he cost's at lot of money. T1o ,ee. of Bertha Ott. Miss Block will have year some of our oldest subscribers and hear hlm in the intimate surround- the assistance of an orchestra under had e dop utbut he aitng ist s of our small auditorium was a edrcino ailSieie hadto drp utbu th wiiig istgratpriviiege, and a great experience, th ieto fDailSieig. rapidly filled their places, and. we never to be forgotten. Yet I person*al isBok' is 'ann a went on. We found it is expenisive confess that he does flot give the un- MisBo' frt rangws te aug, epecall wbn yn _ad ualified joy some of our lesýser luni- gained from.Adolph Bolm, te whe she, toluh seily hnyuadmiaries do. feels she owes ber thorough under- te, your mirtb, Richard Crooks, AI- in the audience of a thousand thero standing of the art of dance; ber bert Spalding. Supervia, and glorious. were I know some who did not care *togtcnqeadbrbcgon Hes. utwechipe ito for Escudero. There is, too. the ques- srnKtnique ad er agrousnd e Mya-ortion of the desirability of noveities on g.andre atterneon, April 10, at 1:30> o'cleck at the Drake hotel. The progranm toi- lowing will be. gîven by Blanche Ly- ons, soprano; Grace L. Seiberling, pianist; Marie Barova, contralto, and Elizabeth Harting Percy, violinist.,. Accompanists will be Alma Wallace Randal and- Esther Hirscbberg Pol-ý lak, Among its' list of officers te be voted uIln are Mrs.TerbeI~rht A1Aen oartist, ln our nine years has throxgh% unscathed' by adverse m. Rather than to go back to easons for ili tatrttmr T ýtàke,- ary of submitted, ýve'Whitmapn. * ay afternoon,,April '9, on the~ occa- m son of the opening of the annual ec- clesiastical art exhibit'.