The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

''Sonita," a musical play, the book for
which was written by Edmund Domer
Rheem, Princeton, class Of 1918 son OF
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Rheem, Of
this city. was given a brilliant per-
formance on August ., at Blodgett's
Landing, Lake Sunapee, by the college
students there. ''Sonita" was written
for the Princeton boys and given there
| last season with much success. NJ. D.
Helm. OF Georgetown, also VI the class
of 1913, wrote the lyrics and music.
They had an orchestra of sixteen, and
special boats were run from all the
| landings on the lake. One of the most
prominent soloists in the company was
Isidor Morsell, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Herndon Morsell, of this city. Mr..
Rheem was urged to go up and take
| the leading part in his play, but be-
| cause of the serious condition OF his
grandmother, Mrs. Rheem, who died
| talented in music, which he inherits
from his mother, one Of the leading
singers here. He has written a num-
Der of songs which are> not published,
| but which are much sung by his college
| associates. Mr.. Rheem Is now with his
parents in their Washington home, but
will return to Princeton about Septem-
Der Is. He is on the varsity baseball
team at Princeton.
Miss Helen ]. Williams and Mrs. John
Thomas recently returned from Aurora,
w. Va, where they filed summer en-
gagement.
st. Paul's sanctuary choir will resume
its regular rehearsals during the coming
week. This will inaugurate the seventh
consecutive season Of this talented body
OF singers, under the direction Of the
parish organist, Ernest T. Winchester.
The personnel Of the choir will remain
practically as II was last year, but In
this, as well as in all male choirs, there
are always vacancies for refined boys
between the ages Of nine and twelve.
Such boys are invited to apply for men,
bership At the rectory, 1925 V street
northwest.
The first high mass. Of the season will
be sung on Sunday, October l. The choir
boys have nearly all returned to the city
from various points where they have
been spending their vacations. Twelve
Of the lads spent four weeks camping
with their choirmaster on the lower Po-
tomac. and had a great time.
During the summer girls choir, under
the leadership of Mrs. Mary Dowling, has
rendered the music at st. Paurs Church,
Fifteenth and v streets northwest.
There are many excellent voices among
the younger parishioners OF st. Paups,
prominent among whom IS Miss Mary
Agnes Carroll, the talented daughter OF
David Williamson Carroll, Of the Pay
masters Office, War Department. Miss
Carroll has given a large part of her
summer to the work. and her beautiful
voice has been most favorably comment |
ed upon by the congregation.
Mr.. Oscar Franklin Comstock has re-
turned from his vacation, which was
spent wholly at his home in Flatbush, N. |
Y, owing to the serious illness Of his |
mother. Mr.. Comstock has already be- |
gun work with his choir at Trinity |
Church, and expects to have as fine |
music there as usual. Mr.. COmstock's |
plans have been somewhat interfered |
with by Vorkmen delaying, but he has |
moved into his new studio.
Miss Mabel Latimer substituted last
Sunday, and will again to-day, in the
Calvary Baptist Church for Mrs. Walter |
Gawler, nee HoltErlaw. soprano. Mrs. |
Gawler returned recently from Atlantic |
City with a very bad cold. Miss Latimer >
was soloist in the Shrine Of the Sacred |
Heart for many years, until they in |
stalled boy choir there last spring.
Mrs. Roma Devonne Hampstead. con- |
tralto in the quartet Of the Church Of
the Covenant last year, went TO New |
York last Thursday, expecting to remain |
permanently. She spent two months !
there in the summer, making records for |
some of the phOnograph companies. She
then went for visit to her country place |
at Charlottesville and to visit friends at |
Alberene, Va.
William A Engel, jr., who went to Eu-
rope for a five years period of study, |
has settled in Berlin with his mother and |
sister, after trip through Northern Ger |
many. Young Mr.. Engel has made an |
enviable record here as young player, |
and a brilliant success is predicted for |
him should he enter the profession, as
he is a hard worker and has much talent |
Mrs. Engel and her children have an |
apartment at Charlottenburg, a suburb |
of Berlin. |
Miss Alice E. Burbage, who spent her |
summer at the Buena Vista Hotel. Buena |
Vista Springs, Pa, returned on Thursday |
to her home in Washington. She was
kept in good practice during her absence,
as she played frequent Accomplishments
Edna Sands Dunham, who will be a So
Ioist for the Washington Symphony at
their November concert. Miss Burbage
was Joined by her parents at Buena
Vista for the month OF August.
Mrs. Clarence B. Rheem, vice president
of the Rubinstein Club, has returned
from her summers outing at Atlantic
City a little earlier than she usually
comes, because of the death of Mr.
Rheem's mother last week. The late Mrs.
Rheem made her home with her son-in-
law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexan-
der T. Hensey, and had been i'll for sew
eral years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Torney Simon sailed
for home September 2, after spending
the summer in Wales, London, and
Switzerland. They made a short visit
to Scheveningen. the fashionable seaside
resort of Holland, just before sailing.
Miss Angela F. Small. former contralto
soloist in the Church OF the Epiphany,
is now in Dundee. Scotland, visiting in
the honaa of her cousin. DR. II. A Millar, 1