Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-25
Club News

RARE treat was offered members
" of Ebell club yesterday afternoon
"A when an excellent caste presented
"Armgart," a poetic drama in three
acts by George Eliot.
The story is that of an opera singer
whose ambition causes her to reject
the offer of a noble sutton because she
feels he is not in sympathy with her
art. The first two acts show her eX-
ultant, triumphant, absolutely indie
pendent of all save the worlds APP
plause, but the third curtain rises upon
an Armgart robbed of song by illness
and whose heart, through anguish, is
rendered patheticaIly human.
The name part was eXcellently por-
trayed by Mrs. Blanche Hardy Morgan
a member of Ebell, who lent to the
lighter scenes a witchery that was ir-
resistibe and who in the final act,
when to the sensitive nature of Arm
CART death seems preferable to a COM
monplace existence, gave a strong de-
lineation of stricken soul.
Walpurga, the crippled cousin of the
singer who devotes her life to her bril-
liant relative, was ably played by
Miss Dorothea Nath. The role of Leo
Armgart's old music master who is
the means of bringing her to a realiza-
ton of a higher life and her own self
Grass. Graf Dornburg, the titled lover
was played by Clifford r. Horne, while
c. w. Bachman was DR.. GRAIN
An appropriate musical program was
rendered between the acts by the
Thresher orchestra, Mrs. f.. w. Mar
tindale, accompanist.
Eugene Rowland spoke briefly at the
beginning of the performance on the
subject of the American Music society
making special mention of the recently
organized Los Angeles Center, of which
he is president. MIR. Rowland was re-
Gently appointed first vice president oil
the national society
The Political Equality league will
meet Friday afternoon at the Woman
clubhouse at 2:30 The program viii
consist of a symposium on Under
! lying Politics of Los Angeles Club
Life"
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which was donated by the singing So
cieties of New York city
Monday evening President Taft will
be present and will deliver an address
The soloist on that evening vii
Madame Schumann Heink. The
massed chorus Of 1000 will assist.
Tuesday, June %, the audience will
hear the singing for the Kaiser prize
which is to be the feature of the fes-
tival. This prize was donated by EN-
peror William Of Germany, who has
personally selected two representatives
to come to America to assist in adj
judging the winner
/ Wednesday, the last day of the fes-
tival, a picnic will be given at Ulmer
park, and at the close the prizes will
be awarded.
On the eve of his departure to
Europe to remain until the beginning
of September, Henry Russell, the direc-
tor of the Boston opera, announced the
repertory for the first season, COM
mencing November 8. These operas
are:
(VerdD, "Falstaff," "Otello," aida,
"Rigoletto." La Traviata,'' III Trova
| tore; PuccinD, La Boheme," "Tos
ca" MADAM Butterfly; (Roito), Me
| hstofele;" (PonchiellD, La Gioconda;
! (Rossino), I'll Barbiere di Sevigia,
civilian Tell" (DonizettD, "Lucii
di Lammermoor," Don Pasquale;'
(Beiiini), Norma" (MascagnD, Cav
alleria Rusticana;" Neoncavallo)
"Pagliacci;" (PergolesD, I'll Maestro
di Capella," La Serva Padrona;'
| (Gounod), Faust" Romeo ant
Juliet" (BizeD, Carmen" (Masseneb
"Manon;" (Meyerbeer), Les Hugue
nOtS"