The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-28

men of Topeka. Several new mem
bers were present at today's meeting.
Among them, Mr.. j. w. Waddell who
has recently formed a partnership
Neiswanger. The club expects to run
its membership up to twenty-five. Mr..
r. c. Grimes of the firm, +. E. & r. c.
Grimes, state managers of the Fidelity
Mutual Life Insurance Company, had
charge of today's meeting The club
decided to meet in the future on each
Wednesday. Mr.. L. c. Rain of the
Capital Shirt Factory was appointed
chairman of the next meeting.
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The first of series of faculty re-
citals of the fine arts department IF
Washburn college, was given Wednes-
day night at the First Baptist church.
The audience that listened to the pro-
building. the room in the rear of the
main hall, and a large part of the bal
cony. Neither of the performers had
been heard in public here before, and
all of musical Topeka was anxious to
attend their first concert.
The program was made up of violin
and song numbers Signor Scipione
Guidi, violinist, and Mr.. Hugh c.
Dickerson, baritone, furnished the
program. Both these men are new
members of the college faculty.
Signor Guidi opened the program
with a double number. Variations"
Tartin- Kreisler, and Dance Tzigane,
by Nachtez. He was enthusiastically
received by his audience. His second
group contained two numbers, ''Ro-
nance" by Svendsen, and "Gavotte,
illi-Burmester. He closed the enter
tainment with two Kreisler numbers,
which are special favorites with To-
peka musicians, the famous Caprice
Viennois' and "Tambourin Chinois."
All of his numbers received an encore
He came to America from London,
after the beginning of the war. He
has studied with some of the foreign
masters, has engaged in concert WORK
in Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium
and England; he was with the
Queens Hall Symphony orchestra I'M
der Sir Henry Wood. and he has
taught violin in New York.
Mr.. Dickerson sang two groups of
songs, of widely differing character,
giving an idea of his versatility in the
representative numbers from his rep
ertoire. He sang in German, italian.
French and English. His numbers
were:
(From oratorio '.sampson'1
Ella Giammai M'Amo; Verdi
| L'heure EXCUSE Observation-Disclosures Ham
J'ai Pleure en- Reve. Hue
Am Thy Harp. .Woodman
Danny Deever ...............-... Damrosch
His dramatic rendering of Danny
Deever," was heartily applauded, and
| he was encored a number of times. Mr..
Dickerson was a student in Campbell
college at Holton. Kan. Some years
age he went to Chicago to study mu-
sic, and later he taught in Michigan.
He will be a member of the voice
teaching force at Washburn.
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Mr. Frank Vanderlip, of New York,
one of the eminent men of the bank
ing business of America. will be in
Topeka tonight. and will be entertain
ed at dinner by some of the local
bankers. Mr.. Vanderlip is president
of national bank of New York City,
and he has as his private secretary Mr..
Willis Lusby, whose marriage to Miss
Margaret Vest. of Topeka, was an
event of the early fall. Mr.. Vanderlip
was the author of an article. Train
ing This Man to Do the Work" in the
September number of 1.-THE Nations
Business a magazine published in
Washington, D. c., of which Mr.
Merle Thorpe. formerly of the Kansas
University School of journalism, is
editor.
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Mrs. Lauren Sears, who is visiting
her uncle, Canon George NJ. Geise1
will return to Denver the first of Octo-
Der. Mrs. Sears spends her summers
with her mother in Dillon. Colo. and
the winter seasons in Denver. She has
been entertained at a number of din