The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-09

avenue. and their nephew, Mr.. Frank
S. Thomas. They arrived Saturday at
noon and will leave Friday, October
10. They will be glad to see any of
Kansas in the SOS.
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The Good Government club will
meet Thursday, October -, at 2:30
o'clock at the Y. w. C. A. The pro-
gram Will be on the county, state and
pairing the program are Mrs. Lee Mon
roe, chairman; Mrs. Lucy Carl, Mrs.
&c c. drummer, Mrs. ]. B. Mills Mrs
P j. Clevenger. Mrs. F. J. Lormore,
Mrs George McDuffey. The music
will be in charge of Mrs. r. Parks
Bennett.
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The Current Literature club will
have its first meeting of the season
Tuesday afternoon. There will be a
one O'Clock luncheon, followed by the
program The meeting will be held a
the home OF Mrs S. c. Petit. Mrs. +.
9. Boyd. Mrs. Otis Hungate and Mrs
Festus Foster will review books of H
G.. Wells
+ The Alta Vista club met this after
moon with Mrs. T. ]. Hankla, SIS
Western avenue.
The following musical program was
given at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday evening at 1880 O'Clock:
Sonata in f Minor (Allegro) Rogers
Mrs. Robert D. Grver
Male quartette, The Dreams of Galilee
Mr.. Harold Knapp Mr. Horace Bowman,
Ant, Mt. George 5se,r Grawford, Mr. Lyman King.
Miss stiohlke. Mr. Searle
The Shadows Of the Evening Hours
Mr.. Haywood and qnartetfe na''neW
eHarl-and organ
t Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticanna)...
Mrs. +. a. Derby, Mrs. r. D. GsfTef
Trio, Il Waited for the Lord .Mendelssohn
Miss Gohlke, Mrs. Whitehouse Miss Barnes
Male guartette; The Lord Is Ny shep
Solo. The Ballad of the Tree and Mas
- Mrs. Horace Whiteboase CHADWICK
Quartette. By the Waters of Babylon.
| -'--'-'''-'-.-; ,-----.-- -Marston
| Friends of Mr. George Handy Shell
ton will be interested in know that he
| to appear in a play now being prod
uced in Topeka, THE Confession" He
/ is to take the leading part, that CT
the priest.
/ Mr.. Shelton is the son of Mr.. and
/ Mrs. John r. Shelton, and is with
them in Topeka for some time. after
spending several seasons in New York
as an actor and i director of dramatic
productions.
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A distinguished pianist. Leopold
Godowsky, will appear in concert in
/ Topeka Thursday evening, October 10,
at the First Baptist church, under the
auspices of Mr. Daniel Muller.
! If imitation is The sincerest flattery.
then Leopold Godowsky should be
| considered as The most honored of
men; for he has been and is the
model upon which the exalted of the
notabilities in the field of piano play
| ing have nodded themselves. And this
not without reason, for Godowsky sur
passes in all divisions of his art, where
other celebrated pianists have been
acknowledged specialists each in a
! single field
Like Franz List Godowsky COM
bines within himself each and every
attribute obviously necessary for the
completion of an artistic whole; each
of whose phases is the complement IF
the other.
/ He possesses he exquisite tone. the
poetry and the digital velvet of de
/ Pachmann; the fire and lima gination
of Paderewski; the dreamy tender
ness, inwrought with the divining
| philosophy of a Rachmanninoff, and
| the thunderous energy and climax
| building ability of a Rosenthal.
A genius of the pianoforte, Godow-
sky has devoted the youth and vigor
] of his body. his soul and his spirit
to the mastery f its mechanical in
! tricacies: to the acquisition of a re-
markable technique, and to the task of
rendering this stubborn instrument OF
wood and metal, an elastic means of
superlative intellectual expression He
has indeed made it his obedient ser
want in the domain of wide giancins
and emotional Interpretation. In all
the marvels of Godowsky's tone work
it is noteworthy that from the minut-
est TO the superlative effects he never
oyerplavs His big and mighty tones
are produced legitiplately. and withou;
in the least employing his fingers as
the instruments of chastisement of the
| black and white keys
A species of ra3prechement seems