New Britain herald., 1915-01-23

balanced the accounts and sworn to them.
 Comparison between last years and this years expenses for the Christmas tree shows the expenditures for the latter to be in excess of a hundred dollars-last year $153.21, this year $281,12. The reason for this increase is the differ ence in the size of the tree, 20 ft., high last year, 30 ft, high this Christmas, requiring proportlonate lighting, decoration, and work.
 Yesterday morning at 10:3O o'clock the members of the music department of the Womans club had the pleasure of listening to some of the most beau tiful and favorite compositions of Mcdowell and Nevin, at the home of Mrs. William H. Booth of Forest street.
 Mrs. Howard Horton, soprano solo, ist and Alfred Cross pianist, were the principal artists of the entertainment. Their excellent interpretations of Nevin and Mcdowell works were greatly appreciated and enjoyed by all present. They generously responded with several delightful encores.
 The mornings program read as fol- lows
 A morning with Mcdowell and Nevin
 Mrs. Howard Horton, soprano
 Alfred Cross, Pianist Mazurka, (for four hands) =. Nevin
 Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Booth S1umber Song ............ Nevln
 Mrs. Horton
 Assisted by Mrs. Wryley Birch, cello {a) Will O the Wisp .... Mcdowell (b) In Autumn ........ Mcdowell
 MT. Cross (a)Thy Beaming Eyes -. Mcdowell (b) To a Wild Rose ..... Mcdowell
 Mrs. Horton Country Dance ............ Nevin
 Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Booth The Eagle ............. Mcdowell
 MT. Cross Doris Pastorale .........f NeNin
 Mrs. Horton
 assisted by
 Mrs. Wryley Birch. 'cellist }~ Rudolph Ehrler, violiDist
 If it were possible to choose one se- lection as the most charming it would be perhaps the last number, Doris Pastorade by Novin The minor strain
 
 cello produces a harmony of unusual beauty.
 The music lovers of this city will again greet the opportunity of hear their especially fine recitals of sonatas Tuesday evening, January 26, at the Grammar school hall, held under the auspices of the Teachers club MT. and Mrs. Names are recog- rized in New York as we'll as in Europe. as the most famous violin and piano sonata players of the day. Mrs. Names is a sister of Frank Damrosch, director of the Institute of Musical Arts of New York. MT. Names is concert master of the New York Symphony orchestra.
 They have previously paid two visits to New Britain under the di- rection of the Teachers club and it is with much pleasure that the club again brings their reappearance to this city, where they have won many enthusiastic friends.
 The following splendid program was today: Sonata in A Major ... Cesar Franck
 Allegretto ben moderate
 Allegro
 Recitative-fantasa ben moderate
 Allesretto poco mosso 4Abendlied .............. Schumann :........... D'Ambroso (a) Reverle
 (b) En bateau ..........
 Debussy indian Sketches ... Cecil Burleigh
 (a) From a WigWam
 (b) Over Laughing Waters
 Co Sun Dance
 (a) Dreams ..........
 (b) Prize Song from Die
 Meistersinger" ...
 The last of the series of three TEes Dansants was held this afternoon at Booths hall from 4 to o'clock. The enthusiastic dancers of New Britain's social set again appeared in large numbers and enjoyed the de- lightful strains of Beeman & Hatch's orc hestra. The halls were beautifully decorated with streamers of pale green and the tea table at which Mrs. H. Dayton Humphrey and Mrs. Ed ward N. Stanley poured, was adorned with artistic bouquets of daffodils, yellow candles and the attractive re- treatments, all making very pleas ing picture. The success of the three ventures is due to the untiring efforts and , ca pablo management of Mrs Harry M. Bates and Miss Flora Humphrey who have spared nothing in carrying out these functions.