The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-24

| Dec. 2. which may be exchanged for two
reserved seats at the box office, Dyer
Bros.
The st. Paul Choral club has now a
| chorus of 155 voices, 80 sopranos, 30
tenors, So altos and So BASES.
Mrs. Russell R. Dorr, who has charge
of the dramatic and song interpretations
that are to be given in st. Paul this win
ter by Mr.. Ben Johnson and Mr.. Lewis
Shave at the Aberdeen has issued an
exceedingly artistic little announcement
that is dainty enough to keep as
souvenir. Considering the mixture of
bad English and fulsome praise that
usually characterizes announcements OF
the sort, one feels justified in quoting the
following "bit of good literature that
finds q place on this announcement.
"A dust-covered Shapespeare-it is the
greatest of literary crimesl Can you
imagine Charles Lamb ever letting that
precious first folio lie untouched through
the dust gathering of a single day, and
was not that the first object from which
Bridget Ella tenderly brushed imagined
particles every morning in those rooms
the old Temple? Alas, we are not all
Charles Lambs, either In our capacity
for approaching Shakespeare or in our
ability to purchase first folios. But we
Hudsons, or our radiant little Temples,
or-if we be so scholarly-from our pre-
tentious Funness Variorum.
The English people buy as many
Shakespeares as Bibles, SO the shopTnaa
tells US, but do they read them? Where
are the Shakespeare clubs that used to
spread as the bay tree? Gone with the
SHOWS of yesteryear. And yet Shakes,
peare has his message for this very
knowing and very modern generation as
he has had for each of the generations
stretching from the spacious times OF
Elizabeth to our cramped and crowded
age. The cry of Lear IN the night, the
shudder of Macbeth at the consequences
of sin, the eternal to be or not to be- OF
Hamlet-these are of yesterday, today
and forever"
The following are the dates and the
subjects of the Johnson Shave recital:
Wednesday, Dec. A, "Hamlet;" Wednesday,
Dec. II, Merchant Of Venice" Wednes-
day, Dec IS, "As You Like It;' Friday,
Dec. q, "Othello;" evening to be an
nounced, a melodrama; Friday, Jan. B.
Richard Strauss setting of Tennyson's
''Elnoch Adren.''
The wisdom of the Schubert club In or
ganizing a students section of the club
was exemplifled last Wednesday after
noon at the first meeting Of the section
held at the home of Mrs. w. S. Briggs
on Summit avenue. There were seventy
five young women present out of a mem,
bership of ninety-fve and most en-,
joyable programme was presented durins
the afternoon. The meeting opened With
g, roll call which was responded to by
each member giving the name Of a plu-
steal composer ofsthe Nineteenth century.
Miss Eleanor Ware read an interest
ing paper on Historical Settings" The
paper was q resume of the musical Ell
fort of the last century. Miss Mabel
Carmichael read a paper on ''Wagner's
Early Life" Miss Edythe Hackney
sang. Following the meeting tea was
served and a pleasant social hour en-
joyed. A young women's quartette has
been organized, made up of members of
the student section. The quartette which
is composed of Miss McKown, Miss Har-
ris. Miss Todd and Miss Edith Hackney,
will sing at the next meeting OF the
section.
The Park Church Choral association
has been organized at the Park Congre-
gational church. The primary object of
the association is to furnish music for
the public services of the church. Incl
dentally the association members will
study good music, both secular and
sacred. Maj Herbert M. Lord is the ulu,
steal director and Marshall De Motto is
assistant director. Among the organizers
of the club are a number of we'll known
local musicians Rehearsals have al
ready begun, Miss ID. II. Chatfeld acting
as director The following are officers of
the associations: President, William q.
White; vice president, Ernest Davidson;
secretary, Miss Frances Allen; treasurer,
DR.. George l.. Huntingdon; executive
committee, C. K. Armstrong, Charles
Jewett and Miss Marion White; librarian,
Miss Eleanor Dickinson.
Nine Bloomfield Zeisler, who appears
in concert here Dec. 5, under the auspices
of the Schubert club, was accorded the
honor of an invitation to be piano solo,
LIST at the annual Lower Rhine Music
festival, which took place at Cologne,
May 20 to 81 1888. Playing there before
the most critical audience in the world,
in the presence of the most celebrated
musicians and critics of all Europe, she
was unanimously declared to be one OF
the worlds greatest pianists. Said a
noted critic after this performance:
Mrs Bloomfield Zeisler was the first
soloist of the evening. In the field of
brilliant technique it may be said that
she has climbed the highest round in
the ladder of perfection, and Is APP
preached by few pianists, male or female.
not excepting the greatest"
Programmes.
A sacred concert Will be given at st.
Louis Catholic church, corner of Waba-
sha and Exchange streets, this evening