Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

filing some professional engagements.
During Miss McFaiTs absence, Mrs. James
Kerr is in charge of the music at the
church, with Mrs. Edmund Barry at the
organ.
Mrs. Charlotte N. Lippitt, contralto
left Wednesday for two-month stay in
Norwich. Conn, where she will be the
guest of relatives.
| Miss Mary Louise Stanley. one Of the
cellists of the Rubinstein Club. has re-
| turned from a six-week visit at the sum-
mer home of her teacher, Bart Writ, in
the Green Spring valley in Maryland.
| Mrs. Henry Hunt Mckee, director Of
music at Metropolitan Memorial Congre-
week at Calvert Hotel, North Beach, Md.
coming up to the city for Sunday services
and for rehearsals for q special musical
service to be given probably next Sun
| day evening.
| Mrs. Walter Gawler. soprano soloist Of
! Calvary Baptist Church, with her young
son, Billy Gawler. will leave tomorrow
for Atlantic City, to be absent six weeks
Miss Mabel Latimer, until recently the
| soprano soloist of the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart. will substitute for her next Sun
day, after which the choir will have its
annual vacation until September Next
Sunday will also mark the close of Rich
church, as he will leave shortly to begin
rehearsals with the Savage Opera Com
| pany. in which he has signed three
year contract. Mr.. Apple bass. of the
quartet goes, with Mrs. Apple, to the
| Catskfil mountains, and Mrs. Reed con-
tralto. is planning q trip by sea to the
north.
Herman c. Rakemann, violinist, has
! closed his studio for the summer but
will remain in the city until the month
of September. which he expects to spend
| with his family at Asbury Park.
Mrs. Annie Grant Fugitt, formerly
| soprano soloist at ST Patrick's Catholic
| Church, will substitute today for Mrs
II. Clay Browning at the Unitarian
| Church of All Souls.
| William A. Engel, jr., who sailed last
week for Berlin to complete his musical
education, was entertained before his
departure by Mr.. and Mrs. F. X. Patter-
son, who gave a musical in his honor.
| Among those present were Richard p.
Backing. Miss Mary E. Moskey, Miss
Julia Higgins. George A. Moskey, violin
Wilbur Shilling. Carl Klee Harry shil-
| ling and many others. =
| Miss Helen Dodge. violinist with Mrs.
William Hamilton Bayley assisting at
the piano, gave attractive program
at the silver wedding anniversary Of Mr..
and Mrs Edward NJ. Hall Of 18th street.
Milton j. Fillius, choirmaster of the
Esther Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Church of Congress Heights, entertained
| the members Of his choir at a reception
previous to disbanding for the remainder
of the summer. Music and Rotations
were given by the guests. and were re-
ceived with much applause Among
| those present were Misses Bertha
Bender Maude Kelley. Christina Kelley.
Sadie Flowers. Mabel. Wheelock, Lulu
Boyer, Bertha Spicer. Mrs. Maude
| Grimes, Harold Bean, Charles Eaton. r.
B Potts, Milton J. Fillius' jr'' p, Cecil
| and Mr.. and Mrs J. Fillius.
| Miss Leona Kidwell. secretary Of the
Music Study Club. is the guest Of Miss
| Vida Bispham at her summer home.
| Tokeneke Park, on Long Island sound.
Last evening Miss Kidwell and Miss
Bispham took prominent parts in cafe
chantant," given by the summer resi-
dents at the Casino. local club. Of
which David Bispham is president.
| A feature of the program was a drinking
song by Mr.. Bispham, in appropriate
costume Miss Kidwell and her mother
will leave Tokeneke Park this evening
| for Boston
Nine. Marie Won Unschuld. president Of
the Won Unschuld University OF Music,
and her little daughter, Madeline, just
| three years old. are spending the sum
mer, as usual. at Newport. They will
not return to the city until September.
| Among the many changes announced
| in local choir circles for the coming sea-
son is the return of Jack Bowie, tenor
soloist of Epiphany Church. to his former
position at the Church of the Ascension,
| which will take place when the choir re-
assemblies after the summer vacation.
Miss Gladys Strong and her mother will
| CHI t1Hy or OF of
Berryville, Va.
S. NJ Fabian. director Of the piano de-
| partment of the Washington College of
Music, expects to spend his vacation on
the ocean. taking the trip from Baltimore
| to Bremen and return on one of the
| steamships Of the North German Lloyd
| line. He will leave about August /.
| Mrs. E. P. Dickinson, accompanist of
the Rubinstein Club, who has been so
seriously i'll, Is improving and will leave
shortly. accompanied by a trained nurse.
| for some health resort.
| Mrs Edith Yoder johnson. member
| Of the Reubinstein Club, with her two
sons. left the city this week to spend the
balance of the season In Virginia, near
the Blue Ridge fnountains