Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05
Eddy, chairman Of the board Of SOW

The Students Club of the Washington
College Of Music will resume its meetings
the middle Of this month. and exception
ally attractive programs are being ar
ranged for the coming year.
One of the most attractive of the early
| fall musical affairs was given recently
| under the auspices Of the Ladies' Guild OF
| Iowa Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Lulu Facius Davis presided at the
| trio. 1.-THE Mariners sung by Mrs. E.
B. Fletcher and Messrs ]. Harry Davis and
| Charles Moore. Miss Matte Gibson fol-
lowed with the soprano solo. My All:
| lah" and I'm the Deeps o. the Dsisies. ;.
A. B. Switzer gave ''The Lilac Tree"
Others contributing to the entertainment
| Of the guests were Mrs. Walter e. Hill
Happy Song" and for encore When
Love Is Blind: Miss Irma Stern. calm
as the Night" Beloved. It Is Morn" and
Meo4s ea.so BY G Brsas
Break" and 1.-THE Armorer's Song; Mrs.
Fletcher. Sing On" ''The Nightingale
and the Rose" and 'Violets"; Mrs. Blanche
Muir Dalgleish contributed Mascheronfs
It'll Death" DE Sun Is Sin .in'," and
| encore. Nora" Miss Alice Sherier. Thou
Art My All" and encore. Comm Thro'
the Rye" and the program c.osed with
quartet. Good Night. Beloved" sung
Davis and Moore.
| Visitors to the Public Library, as we'll
| as the blind for whom the recitals are
| primarily given. enjoyed musical treat
! when Mrs. Annie Staunton Cox, contralto.
was heard in a program of songs. A few
| explanatory remarks by Mrs. Cox before
| each of her numbers added to the inter-
| est Of the listeners. She was in splendid
| voice and was at her best in the German
English songs. Spring when Love Is
Gone" and His Lullaby" by Carrie ia
cobs Bond. Mrs. Cox was assisted by AL
fred G. Eldridge. organist and choirmas-
| ter of St. Margarets Episcopal Church.
| who played the exacting accomplishments
with sympathy and also contributed a
piano solo. Polonaise. one of his own COM
positions. Mrs. Cox has resigned her po-
sition as contralto soloist at st. Margarets
Church and concluded her engagement
there last Sunday. She has been singing
with the choir of st. Margaret's since the
first Sunday in July, having returned ear
| ly in the spring from Europe. where she
had spent two years studying with Herr
Heinrich Scheuten of Hanover. She will
leave the city shortly for an extended
trip through the west. She will visit in
Salt Lake City and also In Idaho and Cal
| ifornia, making the trip with friends in
their private car.
! The first of the musical and literary
entertainments this season at the Home
| for Incurables was given by Miss Jes-
sic Boomer. violinist: Miss Josephine
Dill, contralto; Edwin Callow, reader.
and Dufour Brown, the talented young son
OF Mrs Grace Dufour Brown, who play
ed the banjo These affairs are in charge
of the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Church Of the Covenant, Miss Mabel Dill
being chairman Of the committee. Miss
Boomer played Dvorak's "Humoresque,
'.Traumerei'' and several encores. Miss
Dill sang a new setting of Thou Art
Like Unto a Flower "Slave Song
1.-The Sweetest Flower That Blows, .
sweet Miss Mary and 20 Heart of
Mine" Dufour Brown played several
popular selections and Mr.. Callow's reci-
| tations proved so interesting to his
audience that he responded again and
again. giving in all from twelve to If
| teen selections. Mrs. Grace Dufour
Brown and Miss Dill were the accompan-
lists.
/ The Rebew Dorchester, under the direc-
| tion of H. w. Weber, will give its first
public rehearsal of the season tomorrow
night in the lecture room of the Keller
Memorial Church. An interesting pro-
| gram Of orchestral numbers has been ar
| ranged, and Miss Mabel Louise Benzler.
| soprano, and William H. Winchcole,
| tenor, will be the vocalists Admission
i will be free and music lovers are cor
| daily invited to be present
(! THE choir of the First Congregational
C.i.rch XII, render at the morning ser---