The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-01

ciety people, and is the inspiration for
good many of the parties of the
week.
Mrs. Charles Curtis is asking guests
for a tea which she will give Friday
afternoon from to 6 o'clock, with
Mrs Thompson as honor guest.
Mrs. L. l. Kiene will have a lunch
Thompson Thursday at the federation
luncheon at the Y. w. c. A. Mrs. j.
F. FARRELL will entertain at luncheon
at 1 o'clock Friday, and Mrs. D. P.
Paxton will have a bridge party
Thursday afternoon for her She will
also be honor guest at a party which
the Topeka chapter of the d. A. R.
will give tonight at the home of Mrs.
Claude Neil.
Mrs. Anna C. Goodrich of Valley
Falls, Kan, announces the engage
Edith Lua McCammOn, to DR.. Edward
Bumgardner of Lawrence, Kan. The
wedding will take place near holiday
time.
Miss McCammonsJ was educated in
Topeka, having been graduated from
Washburn college. and she has a good
many friends in Topeka, particularly
in. college circles and among former
Valley Falls people, who will be much
interested in the news of her ap-
preaching marriage. Doctor Bum
gardner is a prominent dentist of
Lawrence, and Ehe Sand his bride will
make their home in that city. Miss
McCammon and her sisters were
guests of hon0r at a large party given
in Valley Falls last Saturday night.
Miss Josephine McCammon has gone
to Boston where she will study in the
New England Conservatory of Music.
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SiOn0r Cx11idi yin1ipiSt ard Mr. Wi.
loughby Boughton, pianist, will be
soloists at the organ recital to be given
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock in the
Auditorium by Dean Horace White
house. The three musicians will play
a number on the piano, violin and
organ.
One Of the important musical events
of this month will be the Peer Gynt
program to be given November %, by
the LADIES' Music club. The commit
tee in charge of the program is head
ed by Mrs. Warrick Updegraff The
place for the concert is not yet chosen,
but it will probably be the high school
auditorium.
The text of the play, Peer Gynt, will
be read by Mrs. Paul Walker, and
some interpretative dances are to be
given by Miss Marguerite Koontz The
piano music for the occasion is ex-
pected to be unusually good.
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Mrs. Albert Neese, of. Buchanan
street. opened her home Tuesday night
for a song recital, in which the Daniel
Muller School of Music presented Mrs.
George H Allen, who recently accept
Led the position as head of the voice
| department of the school.
Doctor and Mrs. Allen have been
living in Topeka about three years,
and during that time Mrs. Allen has
peka audiences. She is a member of
the Ladies' Music club, has been we'll
received socially in Topeka, and she
has large following in musical cir
cles. Her program began with an
aria, 80 Don Fatale," from verdi's
Don Carlos" a number particularly
suited to her voice and style of sing
| ing. Following the aria she gave two
groups of English songs, Representa-
tive of good modern composers. The
first group was of Chadwick songs (a)
| Sweetheart Thy Lips are Touched
with Flame: Oh. Said to the Wind
! of the South: (c) o Let Night Speak
| of Me; Cd The Rose Leans Over the
Pool The numbers in the third
| group were: -Ecstacy by Rummel;
My Heart is Lutte, Woodman: Inter
| Nos, COON Lassie Be Good to Me- and
Cradle Song. all by MacFadyen; The
Winds in the South, by Scott; Love
Came in at the Door, by Leibling; For
He Loved Her, by Rusk. She repeated
| the last number in response to an
encore.
Mrs. Allen before coming to Topeka
was teacher in the voice department
| of the Iowa State University, of Iowa
City, which ranks high among the
state educational institutions of the
country. She has enjoyed excellent
advantages in vocal schooling abroad
She studied in the Royal Conservatory
at Vienna, under Madame Papie1
! Paumgartner, who was at the head /
the vocal department of that school
and the successor in the position ut
the renown Marchesi. At the time
Mrs. Allen studied in Vienna, Godow-
sky, the pianist, who played in To-
peka two weeks ago, was at the head
of the conservatory.
Mrs. Aliens voice is soprano an6
distinctly dramatic in quality. Hell
best numbers, 1 thought, were the
more dramatice ones Of the program
the aria with which the concert open
cd, and Inter Nos" by MacFadyen
The program was well chosen, being
made up of classic numbers, including
the Italian aria and compositions from
English and American composers
| MacFadyen, whose writings were rep.
resented by three of the numbers, is 6
| Milwaukee man whose work is beins
enthusiastically received by musician:
all over the country and abroad.
Mrs Aliens teacher in Vienna, be
fore her marriage was Rosa Papier. {
singer in the Royal Opera. She wa.
a pupil of Marchesi, and was a fellow