The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Wear have
issued invitations for dancing party
to be given Thursday evening, Decem-
Der Il. at Kellam Hall. The affair
will be one of the large and import
ant affairs in society circles for the
winter Mr. and Mrs. Wear are not
asking assistants at the party, as the
company will be made up largely of
the dancing crowd who are accus-
toned to going to Kellam's, and 1t IS
thought that an assisting party VIII
be unnecessary.
Mrs Wear has recently returned
from a visit to a cousin in Philadel-
phia She was in the east six weeks,
and her trip included visits in New
York Pittsburgh, Washington. Cleve-
land and Chicago.
Mrs Joseph c. Wilson will have
dinner guests tonight at the Topeka
club. Covers will be laid for Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Wolff, jr. Miss Clyde
Bonebrake, Miss Altha watson, Mr.
Harlow Hurley and Mr. Wilson.
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The weekly Friday afternoon tea
for the Art Guild of Topeka will be
given from 3 to o'clock. the host
esses being Mrs. r. w. Coppedge and
Mrs w c. McDonough They have
asked as their assisting friends: Mrs
Z. Walsh. Mrs. Harry Bubb, Mrs. o.
Z. Chopper and Mrs Harry Gavitt.
The young women who will serve tea
are Mrs. Roy Shoaf, Miss Winifred
Hartley and Miss Polly Movers.
Mrs. Coppedge has lately returned
from the east, where she spent sew
eral months painting in the Katskill
and Adirondack mountains She was
also down to the sea at Gloucester,
and had her studio just off Cape Ann.
She goes to New England and New
York every year to study and paint.
he Ia ca
in New York, and she belongs to some
eastern art organizations. She has
one or two pictures hanging on the
walls of the guild room at ia West
Eighth avenue.
Mrs McDonough, before her mar
riage. had china painting studio at
her home. She studied water colors
and ceramics in Topeka and in the
east. and also at Hardin college.
where she was a regular student.
Since her marriage she has continued
her work. particularly in china paint
ing. is a member of the Ceramic Art
club, and on her frequent trips with
her husband to Chicago and New
York, she studies with the masters in
those cities. She Will have some sat
suma enamel and other decorative
pieces in the Art Guild exhibit.
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Miss Ann Marion Myers gave her
graduating recital Monday evening in
the First United Presbyterian church
before an audience that filled the audi
torium of the building. She was pre-
scented by the Daniel Muller School OF
Music. being a pupil of Mr.. Daniel
Muller, the head of the school. In
addition to her work as a student, she
teaches a class in piano music.
The program last night was made
up of group of highly classic and eX-
tremely difficult piano numbers from
Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Chami-
made and Liebling. Miss Myers's
technique is quite remarkable. The
velocity and the eVenness of the runs
she plays and the equality of muscu-
lar development of the fingers, are a
joy to the technician. The Chopin
group was given in a decidedly pleas
ing way, accurately and understand
ingly- One of the numbers. Mazurka
de Concert, Op- so, by Liebling, was
particularly well handled It is a
composition that Miss Myerss teacher
studied with the composer himself
The concert closed with Beethoven
concerto No. in flat major. The
number IS one that is seldom attempt
cd on the professional concert stage
except by such musical giants as Bu-
soni. Harold Bauer, Godowsky and
others of that rank. 1t is a gigantic
composition, some fifty pages in
length. given in three movements.
Miss Myers's best work on that num-
"eI was IN the AdaglO movement. in
which she attained an almost flawIess
rhythm. a deep. clear tone and fine
good presentation of musical meaning.
me second piano part for that num-
Der was played by Miss Esther PAYNE.
violin number Caprice Viennoise.
ny krelsler, an unrivaled favorite in
Iopeka, was given by Miss Helen
Phipps. accompanied on the piano by
Miss Payne. Miss Phipps gets a splen-
did. big tone from her violin, and her
playing last night was of a particularly
satisfying quality. She was given an
encore and came back to play THE
Bee" a charming little number hv
Schubert.
Miss Myers has studied piano music
number of years, and is completing
her course in that branch, together
with work in harmony and musical