Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07

Pelham, N. Y, where she will be the
guest of Miss Vida Bispham, the young
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David Bispham.
Announcements have been received here
of the marriage OF Mr. Alfred T. Eldridge,
organist and choirmaster of st. Mar
garet's Episcopal Church, to Miss Harriet
! Elson, member of his choir. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eldridge left the city Immediately
after the ceremony and are just now at
Ocean Grove, N. j., where they are en-
Joy1ng the many musical events included
in the schedule of the convention of the
National Association of OrganiSts.
Miss Ethel Tozier left during the week
for Ipswich, Mass, where she will spend
the remainder of the summer. and where
she will be heard in a number of private
musicals.
Mrs. Helen Nye McGehee a former
pupil of the late DR.. j. w. Bschoff, and
one of Washington's popular sopranos
before her marriage to DIR. McGehee of
old home On 0 street. Dr. and Mrs. Nc
| Gehee now live in Cincinnati, where they
are both prominent in musical affairs.
Friends Of Mrs. a: M. Blair. musical
director of the Rubinstein and .aonday
Morning Clubs. will be glad to know that
her son Francis, who has been seriously
i'll with typhoid fever, has passed the
danger point and is rapidly recuperating
in the bracing air of Gloucester, Mass,
where they are all spending the sum-
mer.
The first rehearsal of the newly organ
lied quartet of ST. Patrick's Church was
called by Miss Glennan Friday evening,
and she expresses herself as more than
pleased with the blending of voices of the
new members. Mrs. Katherine Rogers is
soprano; Mrs. F. B. Gilmore, contralto:
n
James Nolan, bass. Chorus rehearsals
will commence this week and applications
for membership can be made to Miss
Glennan. The reorganiZed choir will begin
its work at the church the first Sunday
morning in September, though the winter
until October. A second quartet will be
engaged for this choir and will alternate
with the first quartet in sustaining the
solos Of the common of the mass,
which is the part of the morning service
allotted to the mixed choir.
Mrs. Arthur G. Dunn will be the SOLO
ist at both services today at the Temple
Baptist Church. This morning she will
be heard in Hear Us, o Father by Mil
lard, and the evening service in 30 Tell to
Me More of Christ by Hewitt. Miss
Eta Schmidt will officiate at the organ
in place of Mrs. Grace Dufour Brown,
who is recuperating from severe ILL
ness.
Miss Regina Elizabeth Winston, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Winston of Madison
Hall Seminary, and one of the talented
young pianists of the city, has returned
from Oakland, Md, where she has been
spending d few weeks of her vacation.
Miss Nan Dougherty. one of the leading
vtolinists of the Rebew Orchestra, left
Wednesday for Niagara Falls, where she
will remain several daVS AccOp1nanie6
by her mother, she expects to make the
remainder of the trip by water. including
stops at Quebec, Montreal, Lake George,
Buffalo, Albany and New York city. She
expects to return to Washington some
time in September.
Mr. Oscar Franklin Comstock is max
ing his summer headquarters at his sub
urban home in Flatbush. \. Y, resting
from professional work, though helping
out as substitute occasionally. He will
return about the middle of September
and will then resume preparations for or
ganiZing a local chapter of the American
Guild of OrganistS.
Miss Helena DOGGY of Capitol Hill will
be one of the High School girls chap
eroned by Mrs. A Alexander Thomas IL
Atlantic City during August. Miss DOGGY,
who has contralto Voice, has been study
ing with Mrs. Thomas during the lat
ter's visit in this city. and will continue
her musical work while at the seashore.
An orchestra composed of Mr.. Edwin
Dalv. Edward Weber and Warren Self
ger yiolins: G. J. Weber, viola; j. A. ID.
Turner, cello: p Blaubeer and H. 3.
schmidt, clarinets: +. r. Bergh, flute;
w. w. DAILY, jr.. and ]. Nalley. comets,
c. ]. Beeler, eophonfum; II. w. Weber,
ha ritone and Miss Florence Little, pianist,
will render a special program at the
Keller Memorial Lutheran Sunday school
service this morning.
Mrs. J. c. Kline organist of Waugh NJ.