Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

ton College of Music will be inaugurated
| with baccalaureate exercises at Foun-
dry NJ, E. Church this evening at ;
| O'Clock. The order of service will include
an organ prelude, Pilgrims Chorus,
| from "Tannhauser" an anthem, Send
! Out Thy Light" by Gounod sung by the
choir, under the direction of Sydney Lloyd
Wrightson; baritone solo, Allitsens The
| Lord Is Ny Light" George II. Miller;
| anthem, Zion Awake" by Sir Michael
| Costa. rendered by the choir; contralto
solo, Bartletts 20 God, Be Merciful,
Miss Fave humphrey; The Heavens Are
Telling, from Haydn's Creation, by
| the choir, baccalaureate address by DR..
Wedderspoon and organ postlude, Grand
March," by Verdi A box party for the
graduates will be given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Adds b. Browne at the National Theater
| tomorrow evening: Tuesday the college
| students will he the guests of Mr.. and
1 Mrs WrghtSon and Mr.. Fabian, on Mrs.
/ Nrightson Island, Potomac river; com
| mencement exercises will take place
| " Wednesday afternoon at the Columbia
/ Theater, and will include a musical
/ program and comforting of diplomas and
| certificates in the different departments.
| Mr.. Wrightson Will preside. and among
| those who will receive honors will be
| Faye Rowena humphrey and George IL.
/
| karla Reuter-. Majorie Hart Moulton and
| Harriet Young Hough. artists diplomas:
Eleanor kirkwood Belt. Helma Matilda
| Cheesman. Marie Carolina Searles, Mabel
| Louise Benzler and Halstead Peirce
| Hoover teachers certificates. William
| Conrad Mills, vocal certificate: for the
piano, Mary Pauline Olmstead. Lucy
| Eleanor Wright and William Alexander
| Primm Hilda Marie Beetham. William
| Scarf Gatchell Loretto Margaret Shea.
| Edith Regena Wiley, James Russell
Barr, Susannah Burrows Jennings, Ernull
Ruth Cohencious, Mary Charlotte Mat
thews, Erin Rose Morrison. Desha Shop
herd Devor and Nette Zomora Miller.
| teachers certificates. Flora Adeline
kampfe and Virginia Haslett. piano GER
| tticates. The officers of the class of 1911
are William Scarf Gatchell, chairman,
and the executive committee is Gertrude
karla Reuter-. Lucy Eleanor Wright Will
liam Conrad Mills and James Russell Barr
Wednesday evening the class of 1911 will
celebrate its graduation at a banquet at
the Shorehan. which will be followed by
reception to the friends of the students
OF the college.
Miss Katharine McNeal has concluded
a busy season and. as she will be in
Washington only for brief visits next
winter, has transferred her interests in
her Connecticut avenue studio TO Mrs.
a. p. Allen Miss McNeal will leave
~
TENDER will locate in Philadelphia. where
she will assist Nine. Grugan, who for
six years was vorbereiter to Nine The
reSa Carreno. in Berlin, with her class
of piano pupils and will also study with
her preparatory TO spending two years in
Berlin under Nine Carreno
| The musicals for the blind at the Pub
| lie Library. which have proven an un-
| usually interesting feature of Washing
ton musical life this season, will be dis
continued until fall The concluding re-
cital was given by Miss Helen +. Pyle.
a scholarship pupil of the Peabody Con
| servatory. in Baltimore. and a pianist of
much promise Miss Pyle was assisted
by Miss Bertha Hansen soprano. who
sang several selections, including one
number by her sister. Miss Marie Han
sen, who accompanied her.
Mrs. Oliver c. Bovine formerly of this
city. will be the soloist at the opening
meeting in the Ocean Grove Auditorium
| today. when she will sing the appropriate
selection open the Gates of the Tenn
ple," by Mrs. Knapp. Mrs. Bovine. who,
as Miss Lydia Hughes, was prominent
| musical work in this city. is now living
at Hamilton. y. j., suburb of Ocean
Grove. where her husband is pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
A concert and strawberry festival for
! the benefit Of the nurses alumnae fund of
Providence Hospital was held on the roof
garden of that institution Wednesday
evening. The roof garden was attrac-
lively decorated with japanese lanterns
and the colors of the hospital-blue and
| gold.
Music was the special feature. those
who kindly volunteered their services
| being Mrs. Annie Grant-Fugitt, Miss
Anne O. F. Rogers. Messrs. Melville d.
Hensey and Charles Moore. Prof Armand
Gumphrecht assisted as accompanist
| Mrs Grace Dufour Brown and Walter
| T. Holt presented a class Of pupils In
joint recital Monday evening at the Tenn
pie Baptist Church. The program was
we'll rendered, opening with piano solos
| played by Miss Nena Pryor. Master Du
| four Brown delighted the audience with
| banjo solo. followed by a mandolin solo
| by Miss Sybil Sipher piano solos by Miss
Gladys Wilkinson. Miss Sipher.. Miss
| Pryor; banjo solo. "Polonaise,' Master
| Dufour Brown: piano solos. little Martha
| Louise Lewis; mandolin solo. Miss Sipher:
piano solos. Miss Gladys Wilkinson;
mandolin duet. Tone Poem Miss Siph-
| er and Miss Hill: piano solos. Miss
| Pryor. and banjo solo. Master Dufour
| Brown. with guitar accompaniment by
Mr.. Holt.
William j. Palmer. conductor of the
| Chorus Club, will direct the choir of Nc
| kendree NJ F. Church at both services
| today In place of Herndon Morsell. the
| regular choirmaster. who will be absent
| from the city. Mr.. Morsell left yesterday
| for Middletown. Conn. to attend the ex-
| ercises of commencement week at Wes
| leyan University. where his son. Herndon
| Tudo Morsell, is student, and is prom
| inent both in the work of the glee club
and in athletic fields. Mr.. Morsell will
| return Wednesday or Thursday
! Miss Grace Adele Freely, who left the
city at the close Of the scholastic year at
| Chevy Chase College to spend the sum-
mer on the Pacific coast is just now at
| Portland Ore, enjoying the annual rose
/ carnival
Ernest kahlert will be the offertory So
1 loist this morning at Westminster Me-
/ mortal Presbyterian Church. when he
| will sing Johnson's setting OF the hymn
| Rock of Ages" This evening the must
| tet composed Of Misses Aileen Miller
| Marguerite Depue and Messrs Charles
| Stephenson and Robert Burns under the
| direction of Mrs. Frank Byram.
/ Miss Grille Louise Corey was soloist
Wednesday night at the Flag day exer-
| cises held at the Public Library by the
| Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent. No l.
| Daughters of Veterans. She sang THE
Song OF the Flag" by de koven and My
| Native Land" from Aida
| Miss Marian McFall. soprano soloist
| and director of music at the First Baptist
| Church, will leave the city during the
| week to spend the summer I'm the Blue
| Ridge mountains. Miss McFall will take
a much needed rest after her busy sea-
son, and Mrs. James Kerr contralto will
have charge of the church music during