The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-11


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her sister and Miss Armstrong were
college friends at Goucher.
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Miss Gladys Nein entertained the
following guests Friday at her coun-
try home at Wakarusa: Miss Marjorie
Ehlers of Kansas City, Miss Ruth
Georgia Neese, Miss Isabelle Stewart,
Miss Carroll Thrall, Miss Helen Lucas,
Miss Jessie Burnett, Miss Doris Ros-
ser, Miss Katherine Dolan, Miss Paul
inc McVey, Miss Ann Weightman, Miss
Beatrice Shakeshaft, Mildred Quinton,
Helen Whitfield. Mildred Bowman and
Miss Mary Samson.
Miss Ehlers. who has been visiting
Miss Pauline McVey, returned to her
home in Kansas City today.
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Miss Ruth Rooster entertained her
club this morning at her home.
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The National P. E. o. society will
have a convention in Los Angeles.
Cal, beginning October IL. Fifteen or
twenty delegates will attend from
Kansas, and the Topeka representa-
tive will be Mrs. S. c. Petit. Mrs.
west.
The local branch of the order will
have its first meeting of the season
October 1. Mrs. H. H. Pugh and Miss
affair will be evening meeting held
at Mrs. Pugh's home. The general
subject of study for the year will be
THE American Woman in Her Broad
ening Sphere"
Dean Hayes Bible class of men at
Grace Cathedral will meet for the first
time since the summer vacation Sun
day morning at $3.50 o'clock. All
members of the class are asked to be
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the class or to the parish who wishes
instruction in Bible study will be well
coined.
The Radcliffe concert series this
season will be held, as before, in the
Grand Opera house. but this year the
concerts will be in the evenings. All
of them will be on Monday nights. ex-
cept Madame Homers recital, which
is to be one Thursday night in Janu-
airy.
The concerts will be social as we'll
as musical events, and it will be quite
the fashionable thing to attend them.
Box parties and line parties are being
planned already, and Topeka plumes
herself somewhat in having the great
artists of the day brought to her own
gates, instead of finding it necessary
to take it's good silver dollars to Kan
SaS City for the same entertainment
Frieda Hempel, who gives the first
few great artists of Europe who was
engaged to sing in this country during
her youth. When Sembrich retired
from the Metropolitan stage the gem
eral manager and directors were at
their wits end to secure a coloratura
lyric prina donna of the Sembrich
type-a singer with a beautiful voice
who could act as we'll as sing After
a few years it was announced that
there was just one singer in Europe
nv IN nhT-i0 n f1a
and that one was the Saxon Nightin-
gale" Frieda Hempel, of the Royal
Opera of Berlin.
Lambert Murphy, American tenor
is to be one of the artists. He is said
to have finished style and a tone and
diction that cannot be eQualed Anna
Case, the American prina donna of
the Metropolitan Opera company, ap-
peared in Philadelphia at a concert
last season and was encored over and
over. Her tones are pure and true of
information, and she is one of the great
singers of the country.
Katherine Goodson is the greatest
woman pianist of the day OF Louise
Homer, the contralto, nothing need
be said. She has sung in Topeka, and
the people of the town know her
Clarence Whitehall, baritone of the
cago-Philadelphia Opera company
one of the most versatile singers of
this generation, studied law, but his
rare endowmentS and musical intelli-
gence guided him in choosing the ca
reer of an artist His successes in
concert, opera and oratorio prove that
his choice was wise one
Mischa Elman, the Russian violin
genius, has made five tours of Amer
lea and has played to capacity audi
enceS. At many of the concerts hun
dreds were turned away. Elman will
close the series before the beginning
of Lent.
The music department Of the Tope-
ka Federation of Women, under the
leadership of Mrs. Carey j. Wilson.
has prepared some of its plans for the
Se3 son.
The free concerts of last year will
be continued through the coming club
year. This season the concerts will
be held in the high school auditori-
UNI, instead of the city auditorium.