The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-14
The Treble CZetf"
PensacoIa's New choral So cIety Ito Organizer

| Mrs. William H. Knowles and Mrs.
Laura DeRussy Berry are deeply in
terested in the promotion of Better
Music" in Pensacola, and a meeting
was recently held at Mrs. Berry's stu
dio, 26 East Gregory street. for the
purpose Of organizing womans' cho-
raj society.
! At this meeting Mrs. Knowles was
appointed president and Mrs. Berry
director and conductor. The name
Treble Clef." and the society will meet
this afternoon in the San Carlos au-
ditorium, from four to six
Both the president and the director
would be glad If the members OF the
different choirs would enroll them
selves as members of the society, and
1t Is earnestly desired that all mu-
sicians and music lovers take an &C
tive interest in this organization.
Mrs. Berry hopes to make her home
in Pensacola, and she will be a great
addition to the social life and to ar
tistic and musical circles. She is a
very gifted musician and artist, having
studied art under Wardesforde, Marriott
and Yelland, and in San Francisco was
much sought on account of her musi-
cal and artistic gifts. In Virginia, too,
she taught voice and painting. and
under her-Miss Janet Allen, who has
a voice of so much promise.
Mrs. Berry exhibited some Of her
paintings at the Virginia state fair
and was awarded first prize for oil
and second prize for water coIors over
all competitors. She has trained many
voices and placed pupils on the stage
and as solotsts in some Of the leading
choirs OF this country notably Old
Trinity in New York city. Mrs. Berry
herself was a pupil of Marchesi.
When I called on Mrs. Berry in her
studio the o.Lher morning, 1 found her
at worA. She was at her easel, sketch
ing a pictule of one Of the old mis-
sions, in California Her deft hand
was painting the front view, and when
l admired her sketch, she called my
attention to finished painting on the
mantle of the side view of the Mis-
sion, in oil.
When I asked Mrs. Berry if the
of Christ church did not
remind her of the California Missions,
she said that it had been suggested to
her to make some paintings of this
beautiful church, one of the most pic
turesque sacred edifices in the South.
Mrs. Berry talked to me most in
terestingly about her work, and what
she hopes to dc in Pensacola. Her
presence here this winter will not only
be a stimulus to music, but to artistic
circles, as we'll. Her studio is hung
with some of her own paintings-one
admired especiaily-''Lost on the
Prairie and another a Turkish scene.
All of the pictures in the studio,
however, are not from Mrs. Berry's
brush. There are three portraits, one
Of Mrs. Berry herself, when dear lit
lie maid of three, and another of her
Tather-General de Russy Berry, chief
engineer of the Pacific Notifications |
during the Civil war.
Mrs. Berry sang two songs for me. |
One an exquisite French song, 81 Je- |
ais Jardinier, and the other Toyland |
Her voice is wonderful in it's volume |
md tone.
Mrs. Berry and her daughter. Miss /
Natalie Berry, spent six weeks last
winter at the San Carlos. where they |
lad the pleasure of becoming even
better acquainted with many Pensa
,olians whom they had met at Fort |
3arrancas, when with Mrs. Berry's /