The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

| brated Russian violinist. will play
Tuesday afternoon, April 8, at the
| Grand under the direction of the
ParkhurSt concert series. According
who is an authority, Elman is without
| a rival. ut is no small thing" he
states, "for one just out of his teens
| to set the standard of the worlds
| greatest concertoS, but many of the
most experienced concert goers were
| unable, on Saturday, to recall to mind
a single living violinist who could
have reached simultaneously the same
genius and executive perfection in
Tschaikowsy's concerto as did Mischa
E1man on this memorable afternoon.
Nor need we lay undue stress upon
work. Any field in music yields to
such art as Elman's, irrespective OF
period or nationality" Trained musl-
clans and the public coincide in the
not only gone leagues farther, in a
musical way, than any viollnlst OF his
years, but who has surpassed the
achievements of violin masters OF
until this young man appeared to
create a new one for comparative use.
In the opinion of these folk-who are
on both sides of the ocean-it is no
longer Wienis q j, j is Elman'
Mrs A NJ. Baxter and Miss Muriel
Baxter will leave Sunday for Fort
Wayne, Ind, and Miss Baxter will be
brother, Mr.. Harold Baxter. to Miss
Mabel Hull of Fort Wayne. The we'd
ding will be an event of Importance.
Mr. Baxter and his bride will live in
Philadelphia, Pa, where Mr.. Baxter,
since his graduation from Ann Arbor,
is engaged as a chemical engineer.
Mr.. and Mrs E. $. Quinton enter
taino their evening bridge club Mon
day night at their home:
The Ladies Aid society of the First
NJ. E. church will meet Wednesday at
O'Clock in the parlors of the church
There will be a business meeting from
8 to 4, and social hour from to s.,
and the officers of the society will be
hostesses. They are: Mrs. F. G. Fos-
ter, president: Mrs. c. G. Bascom, first
vice president; Mrs. E. NJ. Cockrell
second vice president; Miss Lulu Ell
lot, third vice president: Mrs. w. A.
Powers, secretary; Mrs. Newell
Abrahams, assistant secretary, and
Mrs. Charles Elliot: treasurer.
j. 70 II
Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Marian Walp, who is a student
in St Mary's college, Knoxville. Ill, is
spending her spring holidays with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. WaIp.
Mrs. Charles Spencer and Mrs S. s.
Estey went to. Olathe today to attend
a missionary meeting. Mrs. Estey will
return home after the meeting, and
Mrs Spencer will remain for a short
visit to Mrs. John p. st. John, and
later will go to Kansas City to be the
guest of Mr.. Spencer's sister.
Miss Edith Updegraff, who is stud
ent in the agricultural college, Man
haitian. spent the Easter holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. Up
degraff.
Mr.. w. W. Mills has returned from
a trip to New Mexico and California.
His daughter, Miss Isabel Mills, who
accompanied him. will remain in Cali
fornia a month longer visiting rela-
tives.
Mrs. w. c. Nelson. of Bennington, is
the guest of Mrs. Frank Hobart.
Mrs. H. c. Mulroy and Mrs. Ralph
Skinner spent today in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stafford Chamberlain
and their baby Thomas Stafford. have
gone to Chanute to make their home.
Mr.. Cham berlain has been transferred
from ChillicOthe. Ill to Chanute and