Evening star., 1914-08-23

loist and choir director of Trinity Meth
odist Church. Mrs. Richmond will be
supported at the organ by Miss Minnie
Bailey. who has filed several similar po-
sitions acceptably. Miss Bailey will sub
stitute today at the organ of the Metro
politan Methodist Church for Mrs. Kirk
Russell, who is absent on her vacation.
The childrens chorus choir of twenty
voices. organized for summer work at
North Chesapeake Beach by Mrs. Is. H.
Smart, soprano soloist of the First Con-
gregational Church. has met with success
in furnishing the music at the union
church services. The attack. phrasing
and expression of this youthful chorus
We're exceptionally good and their work
as Il whole would be credit to organiZa-
tions more mature both in musical expe-
rience and in years. The choir will sing
again today and next Sunday. Miss Eiiz-
abeth Humphrey. daughter of j. Walter
Humphrey. the choir accompanist, has
added much to the success of the choir
and its director.
Mrs. Harry Lee Parkinson, soprano, is
expected to return to her home here to-
day after a stay of six weeks at Panama
where she was the guest of DR.. Ford. [.
:. A.. and Mrs. Ford. The latter was
formerly resident of. this city and as
Miss Edith Pickering was prominent in
choir and local concert circles. Mrs
Parkinson was member of the official
party on the steamer going through the
Panama canal at the formal opening, Au-
gust 10. Mrs. Ford entertained at several
musicals at which Mrs Parkinson was
the guest of honor and at which both
she and her hostess contributed muscally
to the entertainment of the guests.
= During the month of August Mrs
William SrantlehnTV SllnDlyiner the
organ very acceptably at Mount Vernon
NJ. +. Church for Fulton karr. the regu-
lar organist At the close of her present
engagement Mrs. Scantlebury will leave.
with Mr.. Scantlebury, for a trip through
the north.
Letters from Mrs. Josef kaspar who
has been. as usual. spending the summer
abroad, We're received early last week by
Mrs. Huron Lawson. and stated that Mrs.
kaspar and all the members of her party
expected TO sail last Thursday on the
of the White Star line and We're
due to arrive in this country Friday.
Miss Marguerite O'TooIe. organist and
director of the choir of the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church. has just con
cluded trip through the north with
a party of friends, their itinerary includ-
ing Niagara Falls. Quebec. Montreal and
the Thousand Islands. She has now join
eu the IuuSlCdl cOiOUy tL -AtldHllC lily
and will go from there to Norwood.
suburb of Philadelphia, where she will
be the guest of friends.
The musical portion of the service at
the First Congregational Church this
Mrs. Harvie Linwood Sykes. who will
sing Unanswered Yet by j. W. Bis
choff. and an anthem. God Is Love- by
Harry Rowe Shelley, will be rendered by
the quartet and chorus choir. Charles II.
kocher, who will again preside at the
organ. will play. for the opening volun-
lary, 'Andante Cantabile,'', by Tschai-
howsky, and for the postlude, "Grande
Marche." by Lemmens.
t. EInnet Moore, basso. is spending his
al Hotel Hamilton, Ocean City,
Md.
Oowing to the ELL health of her mother,
Miss Mabel c. Latimer was unable to at
tend the unveiling exercises IN memory
Of her uncle. the late Maj. Joseph W.
Latimer of Confederate fame, which were
held August 15. at Harrisonburg. Va.
Maj. Latimer was the youngest brother
Of the late Marcus B. Latimer, father of
Miss Latimer. Miss Latimer was to have
taken an active part in these exercises
and expected to sing several solos one of
which was Face to Face"
Joseph Conner tenor Soloist of Temple
Baptist Church. IS acting as precentor at
Gunton Temple presbyterian Church
during the summer months.
Dufour Brown. one of the most sllillful
young mandolinists Of the city, Is spend
ing the week end with friends at Warren
ton, Va.
Miss Nan Field. contralto Of Temple
a nt tiGf ic taad fta 1r,-e.ty
t,onal singing and contributing solo at
all the services during August while the
quartet is having It's vacation. Miss
Field will sing today MacDermid's setting
Of the 91st Psalm. with Mrs. Grace Du-
four Brown, as usual, at the organ.
Miss Helen Macleod, contralto. of this
city, assisted at the annual concert given
at Center Lowell. Ne, last week. The
program was furnished by an orchestra
of musicians among the sum
mer colony-Miss Hill. dramatic reader
Of Bridgton. Me-: Mrs. Rice. soprano, of
New York. and Miss Macleod. The lat
ter was heard in Love Me or Not" by
Secchi. "Leeza Lindsay" (old SCOTCH and
'At Dawning." by Cadman.
Marcus Eisenberg. young tenor. who
was last season a member of the chorus
of the miHed choir of st. Patrick S
Church. under Miss Glennan, is now In
New York city. He sang recently for
several prominent musicians and man
ayers of the metropolis. making such an
impression that. through their interest,
he has been taken as a pupil and pro
tege by well known voice teacher.
Mrs. B. II. Smart. soprano, and J. Wal
FER Humphrey bass sang at the lawn
carnival at North Chesapeake Beach last
Saturday, the affair being for their beach
fund. and netting a tidy little sum. Mrs.
Smart sang effectively Danodil song,
by Wood, and for encore Love iou
Truly" by Carrie Jacobs bond MT:
rich voice was we'll adapted
20 b;e selections. Somewhere Voice Is
Calling. by Tate and Absent" by Met
calf. Miss Elizabeth Humphrey was the
Miss Pearl Waugh, pianist. is spending
part of her holiday in Georgia ana was
last heard from in Atlanta. She VIII
shortly return to her home in Upton,
Ind for the remainder of her vacation.
and will come to Washington in time for
the opening of Belcourt Seminary this
fall.
Oscar Gareissen, formerly of Washing
ton. at present a resident OF Rochestef,
n. y. includes now among his musical
activities the direction of the Festival
chorus said to be one of the best choral
societies ever organized in that city. The
chorus sane last week at tthe eighth an
nual music festival, making a splendid
Ernest J. Behm, organist and choir d1-
rector Of Trinity Catholic Church. George
town. with a party of musical friends, Is
spending three weeks at the Maryland
HOTEL Atlantic City.