Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-20
The Musical w orId
BY Gepevrn Johnstone-Bisbop

| ~ TUDENTS of the Dobinson school are
~ entertaining past students and friends
~ with a Christmas recital tonight, FOL
which 500 invitations have been issued.
The students and many of the guests
will costume for the dancing party to
follow. There will be Dutch girls, Greek
girls, gypsies, fairies, etc. The mouse
will be decorated with huge punches OF
holly. dark red shades for the lights,
Christmas bells, streamers and drapings
of dark red India silk. The pale green
ball room will have no decoration except
pale pink shades for the lights.
Miss Beth Myers violinist, will assist
Miss Werner with music for the 'Flying
Dutchman'' and Wolff brothers will fur
nish music for dancing. Miss Helen
Werners reading of Longfellow'
Launching of the Ship will be partic-
ularly Interesting, as she is to play her
own accompaniment.
The program is as follows:
Overture.
word of welcome, Mr. Dobinson.
Fairies" Little Maurine Furnall :,
''The Cultured Daughter of a Plain Grocer
Henrietta GIL.
Knee Deep in June Cailey). Danny Deev-
err (Kipling), Frank Buttolph
Launching of the Ship with piano (Lons-
fellow. Miss Helen Werner.
.,Abner Barrows' Appeal Orchard Harding
Davis), Bert Robinson.
Dance artistique Miss May Field Brown.
stunning scene from 1.-THE Flying Dutchman"
CWarner) Miss Mae Moore. Miss Irene Wa
dey. Mrs. Lulu Hartsook, Miss Fannie Woln'
Miss Juanita Hasemeier Frank Buttoiph'
Miss Helen Werner at piano.
The minstrel show at the Gamut club
is to be immense. A large house Is an
ticipated.
Francis Macmillan, the young violinist,
is having great success through the mo
die states in concert work
So
Miss Mary l.. O'Donoughue will be the
organist at the Independent Church OF
Christ this month.
hear that Nordicas voice is falling
her, especially through the middle reg
lister How sad If true. consider Nhe'
Nordica the greatest living American
soprano and artist before the public to-
day. Such voice should never fail.
The San Carlo opera company is in
Boston playing to crowded houses. hun
dreds are turned away. Constantine is
with them and Noria is the leading prima
donna
Miss Lalla Fagge's return from Europe
is delight TO ner IrleIuS. soHc iAHS
studied two years under Cesar Thomp-
son in Brussels and also under August
Wilhelmy in London, where both masters
sneak highly of her ability as violinist.
She appeared in London during Novem-
ber in concert. think Miss Fagse is a
pupil of our leading violinist of Los An
geIes. Arnold Kraus. We hope to hear
her in concert soon.
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A picture of the magnificent villa OF
Constantine, the great tenor, who is now
with the San Carlo opera company, ap-
pears in the Courier. 1t is situated mid
way between San Sebastian and Balboa,
Spain.
It seems according to Berlin corre-
spondent, that Franz Vecsey has been a
little disappointing in concert work, but
he is yet very young and has much time
in which to broaden.
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Leopold Godowsky recently has been
giving recitals in Beethoven hall, Berlin,
to wildly enthusiastic audiences and daz-
zled them with his marvellous technique.
s.
The Royal High School of Music, in
which Joachim taught for SO many years,
has been the last Berlin art institution
to hold memorial service in honor OF
the dear old master of the violin,
| Maud Ulmer Jones, formerly a leading
soprano with the good old Bostonians
years ago died of cancer at her home
| in Minneapolis last week She was 81
years old and a great favorite at one
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