The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-22
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upon the musical and dramatic enthusiasts
who have crowded theatres and concert halls
to speed the parting and welcome the coming
artists and to do full Justice to the unusual
musical treats provided for them.
Par and away the most interesting. artistic,
and. one may say, perfect in programme and
execution, was tho concert OF the Musical Art
Society Mt Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening.
Mr.. Frank Damrosch has written his name In
letters NJ gold by what he has done for this
association during tho last three yeara
Founded by society people. and mainly sup-
ported by them. u has educated them
up to the standard OF classical and
church music that MIR. Danrosch provided,
MS was proved at tho last concert by the pro-
found silence with which they listened to the
divine harmonics VI Palestrlna and the emotion
which some ~ tho numbers awakened. The
most touching OF nil was the "lmproperia" on
"Rcproachcs' from the cross, which, when
heard on Good Friday in the Sistine Chapel in
Rome, have called forth the nrofnundest admi-
ration from strangers. VINO in other places and
under different conditions are Indifferent TO all
religious influences. Had Carnegie Hall on
Thursday night been transformed into a like
ness OF the Roman chapel. with the extinguished
candles aud all the relics of ancient worship
that are brought to bear upon the solemn SER
vice. Palestrina's music as rendered by the
choruses of Mr.. Damrosch and the Oratorio
society wOUlu nave Dttn rs moving anu lm@
pressive IA the far.famed service In Rome.
The audience on Thursday night embraced .
majority OF the social world still left In the
stormy atmosphere of these northern latitudes.
and among them were Mrs. William ID. sloane
and Miss Emily Sloane. Mrs. Randolph, Mira
William +. Douglas. Miss Calender, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, the Misses Gerry. Mr..
and Mrs. Nicholas Fish, Mr.. aud Mrs. Leslie
Cotton. Miss Davies. Mr.. and Mrs. Schermer-
hprn md Mr. aud Mira Thpolnre lis ypnpyar
Among the other musical attractions OF the
week have been the concerts given by Mr.. Theo-
dore Thomas with his Chicago orchestra and an
amateur performance or patience" ut the
Metropolitan Opera House. which netted .
handsome sum for the athletic club OF the Uni
versity OF the City of New York.
Enjoyment mingled with regret has attended
the last performances of Slgnora Duse. and an
immense audience said good-by to Miss Lois
Fuller. whose weird transformation scenes viii
bewilder eyes and brains no longer. Mr.. Albert
Chevalier. with his half pathetic. half humor-
Gus coster songs, will make his bow tomorrow
night on the same stage, and for those familiar
with the slang, costumes. and fun of London'e
East End. will doubtless draw q big crowd.
On Thursday evening DR.. and Mrs. w.
II. Draper entertained without instructinR
the Thursday Evening Club. Negro mel.
odies, BAT music. and a comedietta, ad-
mirably acted by Mrs. Daniel Payne Griswold
and Evert Jansen W endell, afforded n pleasant
evenings amusement, and in the present rather
depressed condition of society's pulse. were
probably more acceptable than classical music
or a scientific lecture. There was q larger rep
resentation than usual of the younger members
OF the club, among them Mrs. Lloyd Bryce.
Mrs. c. Lawrence Perkins. Mrs. Frederick r.
Jones. Mrs. F.. II. Allen. and the bride OF q few
months. Mrs. J. Frederic Tams.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew gave the last Of .
series of d nner parties on the night before he
started with Mr.. Vanderbilt for the Pacific
coast, and was fortunate enough to gather some
very beautiful women around his table. Mrs.
Richard Gambrill and Mrs. Samuel Colgate both
locke extremely handsome in black and white,
respectively: Mrs. Clews, Mrs. George B.. Do
Forest. Mrs. Edmund l.. Baylies, and Mrs. Will
liam Jay opened their jewel boxes for the first
time since Shrove Tuesday. aud enhanced their
natural attractions by an advantageous selec-
ton from them, while Mr.. James Otis. Mr..
Creighton Webb. and Mr.. George w. Smalley
united with their host to make the table talk as
sparkling as it always is at Mr.. Depew's.
The doll fashion show at Sherry's on Friday
was n new departure in entertainments for
sweet charity's sake. and did credit to the ladies'
who organized it and to the millinery establish
ments who lent their taste and skill in dressing
the dolls. Tea tables dotted the big room.
which was gayly adorned with flowers. palma.
and rugs. and the waxen and bislue ladies In
their morning frocks. walking costumes, even
ing gowns. and bicycle attire were as high
toned and MISUNDERSTANDING as the most ex-
elusive members Of the smart set. Fashion
artists were sketching them from every coign
of vantage, and the talk was all of skirts.
sleeves, jackets. ribbons, laces. and artificial
flowers, among even those whose dressing
rooms at home we're piled high with French
boxes containing Worth's, Doucet's. and Virot's
last. The tea tables were presided over by Mrs.
Arthur Dodge, Mrs. j. w. Minturn. Mrs. Fish.
Mrs. Oakley Rhinelander, Mrs. Orme Wilson.
Mrs. Arthur Turnure, and Mrs. Albert Stevens.
Cards for Easter weddings are beginning to ap-
pear. Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton Rogers have
issued invitations for the marriage OF their sis
ter, Miss Elizabeth Rogers, to Mr.. Edward
Stephen Rawson of Cincinnati, on Tuesday,
April Z, at st. Bartholomew Church, and on
the same day Miss Grace Nissan will be mar
ried to Mr.. Harvey Duryee in Trinity Chapel
The wedding OF Miss Louise Robb and Good
hue Livingston at st. Georges Church on the
Sth OF April will probably be one of the ~prettiest
affairs OF the season. Miss Cornelia Van Rens-
selaer Robb will be maid OF honor. and there
will be eight bridesmaids. Miss Adams Of Bos-
ton, Miss Speyers, Miss Higginson. Miss Ruth
erford, Miss Marion McKeever. and Miss
Augusta DE Peyster. The reception will be in
the superb colonial mansion OF Mr.. j. Hamp-
den Robb on Park avenue.
Subsequent marriages will BIO Miss Helen
to Mr.. Newbold Morris, at ST. Bar
tholomew's Church, on the Thursday after
Easter; Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald's to Mt.
Ernest Adee. and several others before the 2Sth
of April, when the wedding of Miss Emily
Lorillard Morris to Mr.. Rolaz Horace Gelatin
will take place in Trinity Chapel.
Newport cottages are said to be renting rap
idly, but the season promises to be later than
ever this year, and there viii be many changes
In the cottage colony. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Sloane are going abroad for the summer, hav-
ing rented their cottage to Mrs. Goddard, and II
they come to Newport Mt all it will not be untl
the early autumn. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney
Warren will also he among the absent ones, and
Mrs. III. Mortimer Brooks, who sails very shortly