The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-29

! Between two and three hundred
guests attended the musicale given
| Thursday night the Elks' club by Mr..
and Mrs. Frank P. Bradley, formally
Bradley, to the musical public. Miss
Margaret Fowler, violinist; Miss Hulda
| Chaplin, soprano, and Miss Myrtle Rad
c1iffe, accompanist, assisted Darwin
Bradley has a bass baritone voice of
| good quality, and he sings with ease
and degree of assurance that goes to
show that he feels the sympathy of his
listeners Before he made his formal
bow last night, he was already regard
ed as a popular singer in the town. His
work in the Elks' musical comedy.
THE Inside Inn," gave him substantial
prestige His audiences, made UP prin-
cipally of Topeka society people, are his
friends, and he pleases them personally
as we'll as musically, which speaks well
for his disposition. and as a factor in
his success, that is no less important
than his talents. Miss Myrtle Rad
cliffe played his accomplishments last
night for the following numbers:
''Porlogure, Pagliacci," by Leoncavallo:
Dedication" by Granz; only Where
the Longing Heart" by Tschaikowsky;
IT Love Thee by Grieg; THE Mono
tone'' with violin obligaro). Cornelius,
Requiem by Homer: "I Am Thy
Harp" Woodman; Little Boy Blue,''
Nevin; and Thy Beaming Eyes" by
Mcdowell. His encores were Mother
o. Mine,'' and Roses in June
Miss Margaret Fowler of Kansas
City. who teaches violin at Bethany
college, and who has been heard here
at a number of important musicales
and concerts since her arrival last fall
played up to her usual high standard.
the following selections: Romance"
by Svendsen; "Humoresque,' Dvorak;
1.-THE Bee" Schubert; and the violin
obligato for 1.-The Monotone one of
Mr.. Bradley's songs
Miss Hulda Chaplin, vivacious little
~
contributor to the success of the Elks'
show at the Grand few weeks ago,
had part in the program last night.
She sang: Isl ii Mammals by Luigi
Denza; "Since First I Met Thee" ana
I'm a Garden by Salter
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley and their Wis
itors, Mrs. and Mrs James Love of Ar
kansas City, received the guests. and
Porter Miss Clyde Bonebrake and
Miss Elizabeth Holiday distributed
programs. An informal dance at the
hall followed the musicale
Mrs. Willis Norton gave a reception
Thursday afternoon for over a hundred
guests. This is the second reception
she has given this month, and the plan
of dividing the list and entertaining on
two different days, has decided adj
vantage in avoiding the necessity of
crowding the rooms. The house was
beautifully decorated in white and
filled with fragrant May flowers and
pink rosebuds, bouquets of snowbalIs
and Spirea stood on the mantel and
here and there about the rooms. The
centerpiece on the dining table was a
large circular bank of white spring
flowers and pink rosebuds. Mrs. Nor
ton was assisted by her mother, Mrs.
Julia Thompson. and by Mrs. M. c.
Hammatt, Mrs. w. T. Crosby, Mrs. H
o. Carney, Mrs. Charles Spencer, Mrs.
Robert Carver Mrs. z. S. Quinton, |
Mrs. Harold t. Chase. Mrs. GuiIford
Dudley, Mrs. George Parkhurst and
Mrs. S. S. Estey. Punch was served |
upstairs by Miss Nellie Burnett, Miss
Antoinette West, Miss Mamie Zahner |
and Miss Esther Chase. The girls wore |
white dresses with pink ribbon sashes. |
Mrs. w. w. WikidaI entertained her |
bridge club this afternoon. with a |
guest table for Mrs. Chauncey Dewey.
The guests and substitutes were: Mrs.
Dewey, Mrs. Theodore Snattinger, Mrs. |
Everett Dallas, Mrs. Don Mulvane. |
Miss Mary Moore and Miss Alice Lalzin. |
Mrs. c. A. HARLAN and Mrs. William |
F. Habig of Fillmore street gave an in |
room in honor Of Mrs. e. West and |
Mrs. Spencer of St. Louis, who are |
visiting Mrs. E. S. Strachen, 1917 West |
ern avenue
A concert will be given at the Cen |
evening. May 6, by some of the local |
musicians. among them some members
of the Washburn faculty.
Miss Ruth Carpenter of Evanston. |
Ill. will arrive Sunday to visit her
aunt, Mrs. H. o. Carney. The evening |
of her arrival, Miss Mary Chase Cham /
berlain will give a tea for few Of her