Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-17
UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB
DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
Gives Up-to-the-Minute Entertain
mcnt at Jefferson Au-
ditOrium.
SOME VOICES OF UNUSUAL NOTE
Law Student Shows Real Opera
Qualities, With Beautiful Baritone
Noice-Specialties and Character
Parts Attractive.

1t isn't just plain. old Anglo Saxon
Glcc club-this organization of Young
men from the University of Viryinia
It's all of that, too: it's a supcr-gIce
club. indeed: but it's much more than
mat. It's a company Of actors: an as
sortmcnt of vaudeville acts: an aggrc-
cation of speciality performers: group
OF monoloSists: u band Of instrument
taiists: an array OF variety artists and
/, comprises within its ranks at least
one opera singer. In short. It's a glce
club extraordinary. dc luxe. up-to-thc-
minute and little way into the future
and last night, at the jefferson Audi
t"rium. it filled the atmosphere with
music and the audience with delight.
II happened that the performance
was for the benefit Of the Polish Red
cross Association, and was under the
auspices OF tho Commonwealth Chapter
of the Daughters OF the American Rcvo-
luton. but il would have spread and
shed rays OF Durcst JOY if il had been
presented by the Bomb and Erick Sis
terhood of the Militant Suffrarcttcs OF
England for the benefit of thirsty pr,is-
sian thlans In short. again. worthy
as Was the object for which The enter
'ainment was given. it needed no
charitable purpose TO AXE the whole
affair brilliant and dclcctahle sue
cess -the performance carried itself
FRESH, UNTIRED VOICES
SING IN PERFECT HARMONY
"Ehcu furaccs" Which is perfectly
good high browse for how times have
changed" And those boys proved last
night that it is a blessed thing that
they have changed. When they chose
they stood in the familiar semicircle
in the good. old way and sang ring
ing, rousing choruses. No director
stood before them. beating time and
confusing the audience. They stood
shoulder to shoulder and simply felt
the time. and their fresh. untircd young
voices scared upward and Numbered
downward in the perfect harmony that
singers attain when they work for the
whole and not for the individual.
OF course, Alfred l.. Iiall-Quest, the
member OF the faculty who drilled them,
deserves high praise for having taught
them so carefully and thoroughly, but,
after all. IT was the young men who did
the singing. And how they did sing.
They opened the concert with the we'll
loved "Estudiautina,'' and when the
audience insisted upon an encore num-
her they came back and made Dixie"
thrill again.
REAL OPERA VOICE
BELONGS TO LAW STUDENT
Later. they sang tine "Earcarolle" and
IN 1t. demonstrated what Mr.. liall-Quest
had taught them in the way of soft
singing: then the comic choruses and
the songs that will always belong Ia
the niversity"-though they call il
Virginia" now-Such as The Good Old
Song" and the others that come back
and sing themselves" as James Lindsey
Gordon put il. They sang them all
we'll. gave unalloycd pleasure with
them and through every one of the
choruses doomed the majestic voice of
sore second bass who would he SUI
hcient in himself TO rock The whole
deep, 10 say nothing of its cradle.
During the first part: that is TO say.
during the glee club portion, there was
introduced the opera singer-M w.
Gannaway. Hs isn't an opera singer,
because he Is studying law at the Uni
versity, but he could i he. For his
voice is a soft and beautiful baritone
with range and volume sufficient for al
most anything, while for quality 1t has
rarely been approached on any stage
in Richmond And he is going to waste
II reading 10 bored judge what a
lead judge once said.
There isn't any use in expatiatine
on what Mr.. Gannaway sang. or how he
sang 1t: he is studying law.
SPECIALITY PARTS AND
CFIARA C'TER ACTING:
Then came student Days>and Ways"
which proved to bc a sketch, or a skit