The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-20
GRADUATES GIVE
NICEPROGRAMME
Closing Exercises at st. Mary's
Academy Are Full OF
Interest.
BIG AUDIENCE FILLS
THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Rev. Father KieIy Presides, in
the Absence of Bishop
SCanlan.


The graduating exercises OF st,
Marys academy were held In the great
assembly-room at 10 o'clock q. m.
Tuesday and were attended by large
audience that filled the seating capa-
city. The hall was tastefully decorated
with potted plants. smilax and roses
and the colors of the school-green and
white-were In evidence all about.
In the absence of Bishop Seaman.
who was indisposed, Rev. Father Kiely
presided. and was accompanied py
Fathers Ryan, Cushnahan, Thompson.
Deneaf. Euchster, Guinan. Roeser and
Gueymard Several other visiting
priests were I'm attendance also.
The programme opened with
chorus. joyful We Greet" by the Vo-
cal class Of fifty young women. &C
companied by piano. harps and vlolins.
This excellent number gave the Key
of excellence which dominated tne
whole morning and was much enjoyed
by all. The Misses l.. BiXby h, MIR
phy, X. Stewart and r, Whately rem
dered an eight-hand piano number,
La Chasse" and did so well as 10
challenge admiration
One excellent feature was the essay
on Word Values" by Miss F. ONeil.
This young lady brought out the analy-
sis of the being as we'll as the mean
ing of a word. It's meaning when born,
the changes through usage and enNi-
ronmcGt as 1t progressed In youth and
age. In short. its genealogy, as II il
were a living thing. Then went into
its several uses by various minds, as
those Of poets rhetoricians, lawyers.
authors, etc, The paper was above
the average essay, and won merited
applause.
Songs Are Rendered.
The vocal students OF the school gave
two songs, Kentucky Babe" and The
Owl and Pussy Cat" showing the
great care used by the instructors 10
bring out the best in the pupils
An orchestral number. "The Merry
Fiddlers,' was given by the Misses
Plumhof, V Bawden. NJ. McDonough. |
NJ. Shields, l.. Brogles, E. CaplInger
and K. White with violins, Miss N |
Mahah With cello and the Misses NJ |
Mulyey and A. Cosgrove with harps |
These young ladies are known as the |
'Orpheus club" and did excellent |
work. Miss n. Fabian sang My Be- |
loved Queen" with harp accompani-
ment by Miss NJ. Mulyey. a heavy con-
tralto solo, ard won the plaudits of
effort and was a feature of the day |
~ mandolin solo, "A Polish Dance"
by Miss P. Humphrey, accompanied by |
Miss Cosgrove, was very we'll rendered |
as was also a vocal solo, "Serenade,"
by Miss F. O'Neill. with violin obl-
cato by Miss NJ: McDonough, and |
accompanied by Miss V. Bawden.
a feature was the original poem,
"The Spell of the Mountains" by Miss |
K. McDonough. The theme is the In |
spiration begotten in a pure, clean |
heart by a trip up into the mountain |
Businesses. One quatrain of the song
Incidental to the poem is as follows, |
no 1IY
II gaze on you, wondering
1f, haply, some soul
Lifts its voice In your laundering.
Voluminous roll,
And the following apostrophe gives \ |
good idea of the whole
All! here he said, tits surely good
| feel presence that I cannot see,
This earth's most fitting temple TO |
Gods praise,
BY his own hand upreared in primal |
days"
And on the lowly footstool of his
The mountaineer rejoiced with God
alone.
WAVES of the Danube"
The vocal students. Misses A. Carter.
J.. McKenna, F. ONeill, X Brennan,
G. Bonner, n. Barry. A. Goddard D. |
SStoi'' y pciNucH v. JulnTle, N Ma |
han, a. Cosgrove, f. Caplinger. I |
West, E Hamilton, E. Mcmillan and |
l.. O'Donnell, sang Waves of the |
Danube In fine form, and were fol-
lowed by Miss NJ, Plumhof In a piano |
solo from Llszt's Lucia" This was |
an artistic rendering. fully up to The |
exacting requirements OF her instruct
ors. and enthusiastically received by
the audience
The Valedlctory, by Miss NJ. Desmo-
ma, THE Mirror of Character being |
an accompanying essay rounded out
fine programme and pleased the au-
dience nightly.
Owing to Bishop Scanian's absence,
Few Father Kelly presented the gold