Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-02
SCHOOL CHILDREn'S CHORUS
THIRD ANNUAL FESTIVAL FOR
FAIRGROUNDS FUND.
Careful Training and Selection of the
Best Voices-Names Of
Those Chosen

yesterday afteronon at the regular Wednes-
day rehearsal of the public school chorus.
which is In training for the third annual
festival of song to be given May II
at the New National Theater for the
benefit of the playground fund OF
the Washington Playground Association.
Mr.. mcfarland Is one of the patrons of
the event. and after listening to the chill
dren sing several numbers he addressed
them briefly, telling or his interest in the
concert.
He also told the children that he had
heard from President Roosevelt in regard
to the reservation of a box and that the
President would very likely attend with
several members of his family
Yesterday was the last day for receiving
posters from the art students of the schools
in competition for two prizes of ten and
five dollar gold pieces. large number OF
posters have been entered and they may
be viewed by the public at Veerhof's gal
lery on F street northwest tomorrow and
Saturday. The prize-winners will be an
nounced tomorrow, after a committee of
three artists has had a chance to examine
the collection.
A poster of Buster Brown" drawn by
Ruth ODonnell of the Eastern High School,
and one depicting two small children and
entitled No Place to Play" by Clara E.
Byron of the Anacostia graded school, are
features of the exhibit. There sixty
posters in all.
OIuSTS IOr 1lCkcCS.
In response to letters calling attention to
the festival of song for the benefit of the
playground fund, many orders for tickets
have been received during the last few
days. The box office for the public sale
of tickets will open next Monday morning
at the New National Theater. So great
has the work of the committee grown in
the preparation for the song festival that
1t was found necessary to secure larger
nv the
ayers of the Ouray buildings room ad-
joining the present headquarters was
placed at the disposal of the workers for
the remaining days before the event
Supt. Chancellor of the public schools
has given instructions to the teachers to
allow all children in the chorus to remain
away from school for a half day May 1t,
when the dress rehearsal is to be given.
All pupils of the schools who have pur-
chased tickets for the performance will
also be excused early in order to attend.
The performance will begin at pm.
In making up the chorus of five hundred
school children the festival committee or
the Washington Playground Association.
through Miss Alys E. Bentley, director OF
music in the schools, selected the best sing
ers from each of the white sixth, seventh
and eighth grades in the city.
After careful training and the selection
of the best voices for the soprano and alto
parts the following roster, OF the chorus
has been prepared by Chairman James E.
West:
First Division Schools.
Sixth grade-Sepranos, DolEe Parker.
Katherine Heron Doris Moore, Gretchen
Prescott, Pauline Stone, Edith Jones. Mar
garet Bell, Leonard .Pehlman,- Joseph
Schaaff, May Whitaker. Alice Stewart. Mar
garet McCambridge Raymond Goodman,
Jack Mason, Harry Burch. Ricardo Allesan-
drf; altos, Daniel Lockwood. Maurice Lips
comb Herbert Macauley. :Tay,or Eiker.
Ralph Goldsmith. Jack Mason, Ethel CORN
Seventh grade-Sopranos, Mary Haden,
Leonora Nelson. Joe Haight. Mildred Mar
tin, Lille Winner. William Ellis, Anita
Parker. Vivian Miller. Mary Byers. Eugene
Loretta Goddard. Ella Gardner. Helen
Short, Margaret Browne, Philips GlennOn;
altos, Herbert Brandes, Frank Thompson,
Bartie Miller David Gibbon, John Eiker,
Chauncey Wimstead, Mary Lou Thomkfns,
Eighth grade-sopranos, Florence Long.
Ruth Schlosser, Hortense Hand, Bessie
Birch, Dorothy Schaaff. Frances Foobender.
Ethel Howarth, Cutler Vickery. Claudia
Rudasill; altos, Clarence Dettiners. Irene
Hardesty. Louise Beamer, Grace Ross, Rob-
ert Henderson. Violet Parker, Ethel CORN
ley. Bessie Vellines. .,s4 .4
Second Division Schools.
Sixth grade-sopranos. Emma Wahi.
Thomas o'Conaeli, Louise Young, Pearl
Spates, Edith Hartley, Mary Lineback.
Esther Lawrenceson, Olive King. Esther
Beuchert. Harper snapp. Ida sengstack.
rel; altos. Morton Steiner. Julia Rodees.
Earl Suppes. Walker Alexander. Emma Van
Horn, Fred Wells -.
Florence Steffans Marie Banks. Nellie
Grifith, Matte Wilkins, Virginia Lewis.
Louis Herbert. Regina White; altos Henry
Ho%sI Addson Broxn W y,r,e N sa;:
Milne, Paul Blackinstone. Howard Lowe.
Eighth grade-Sopranos. Katherine Cham
beers. Sadie stowen. Anna Clokey. Jane
altos. Mark De Grange. James O'Conneil,
Estelle Wolfe. Clifford Hines. Wilma Gull
Imam. Elmer Kraft, Edward White. Mar
guerite Athey.
Third Division Schools.
Sixth grade-Sopranos. Hazel Slice. Ros-
well Boothly. Alta Branson. Helen Poland.
Ursula Betz, Edna Schwartz. Annie Ryan.
Margaret Hancock Jeannetta williams:
altos. Janetta Williams, May Borland.
Arthur Shaffer. Lena Kabansky. Lewis
Martin. Elizabeth Boswell.
Fifth grade-Soprano. Blanche Hassen-
berg.
Seventh grade-Sopranos. Drury Patched,
Margaret Moore, Nellie Kunz. Ruth Arth,
Florence Lamar, Amy Brown. Hazel Wells,
dia Ockman. Irving Burgess, Gladys Mills,
Howard Sullivan, Charles Foster. Violet
Howe.
Eighth grade-Sopranos, Florence Leger,
Elizabeth Smith. Mary Hartranft Florence
Kubel. Glayds Bunting. Lottie Ball, Ruth
Ayler. Bessie Prender. Viola Chase; altos,
Dorothy Douglass, Fred Sanderson, Edith
Harr. Ellen charnstrom. Iva Downs, Mil
dred Mckee. Wescott Miller. Bessie Prem
der. 5',-.-,.s..A.
Fourth Division Schools.
Sixth grade-SOpranos. Agnes Gaskins,
George Mcdonald, Rose Levy. Carrie
Sheppard. Cecil Taylor. Margaret Rock.
Annie Thomas. Chas. Schwertnew, David
Blakelock, Florence Leonhardt; altos,
Mary Curry, Louis Benner, Nellie Sor-
rell Maurice OConnell.
Seventh grade-Sopranos. Adele Rob-
inson. Jessie Walter. Catherine Carter.