Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS
SINGER DELIGHTS
INVITED GUESTS
Mime. Hudson-AleXander Star
of Concert Given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel C.. Todd

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Claybaugh
Todd invited a large circle of friends
to the Harrisburg Club last evening
for a concert, which proved to be one
of the most delightful social events
ever given in the city.
The walls of the concert hall were
hung in southern smilaX, with baskets
Of varicolored sweet peas hanging
from the balcony, and palms and ferns
as background for the receiving
party, which included Mr.. and Mrs.
Todd, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, of st. Claire,
Mich, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Alex
ander, of New York city. A pretty
stage effect was arranged with green
cry, branches of forsythia and baskets
of pink roses. and just at the right of
the dais stood the beautiful little baby
grand piano so kindly loaned by the
Troup Music House for this occasion.
Nine. Hudson Alexander. the star
of the evening, is a cousin of Mrs.
Todds and soprano soloist of the
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
Gives Song Recital
1t is a gracious privilege indeed,
to have lin ones family" so really
great an artist as Madame Hudson
Alexander, consequently to be able to
give ones guests and friends the op-
portunity to hear, and know at close
range, one who is so unquestionably
OF tne HrSI OF our AnGrlCan-pOEn
singers. When Schumann- Heink eN-
presses such an opinion with her
characteristic outspoken sincerity one
is at loss for an original qualifying
adjective.
With limpid long range. high
soprano, deliciously pure and of un-
limited lyric and dramatic possibil-
ilies it is not astonishing that not
number of a program demanding
command of every known style -
Italian, Old English. German. French,
and the English and American ballad
but was superlatively we'll sensed
and sung.
The program-one recently given in
Boston-opened with the rarely sung
Zehirietti lu Singhieri from Mozarts
Idomeneo, sung this season by
Madame Alexander for Stransky with
the New York Philharmonic. 1t is
not possible to interpret the unusual
group of Brahms songs with such
authority without having the tradition
at first hand. George Henschel, that
composers intimate friend, surely
never succeeded in transmitting it
more conVincinsly. Indeed, Der
Schmied' was redemanded. And too,
it demands superlative artistry and
versatility to sense and sing equally
WELL the subtleties of Duparc, the
fantastic impressionism of Debussy's
"Fantoches' and the exquisite senti-
ment of Chaminade, very appealing,
as well as delightfully."- characterized
were the American Ballads of the last
group-the quite remarkable trills of
Liza Lehman's Charmer'S Song and
the suggestiVeness of Tomorrow, 4"
and Twickenham Ferry. That Mr..
Alexander played the accompaniments
sympathetically goes without saying.
They were more than that-artistic
and characteristic:
1t was an altogether delightful
evening; one, may it be hoped, that
presages in its change from the usual
form of entertaining ones friends, the
long to be desired coming American
salon.
Among the Guests
Among the guests were noticed Mr..
and Mrs. Spencer c. Gilbert DR.. and
Mrs. John Price Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs.
, William Henderson, the Misses Pear
son. William Pearson, Mr.. and Mrs,
Frederic c. Martin. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles II. Bergner, Mr.. and Mrs. Les
| ley McCreath. Mrs. John S. Killing,
Miss Ruth Killing, Mrs. VALLEY Davis,
DR.. and Mrs. George E. Kunkel, Mr..
and Mrs. Francis Jordan Hail. Mr.. and
Mrs Henderson Gilbert, Mr.. and. Mrs.
William Milton largest, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis +. johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Fox Weiss, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. Austin Brandt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +. Etter. Mr..
and Mrs. Sanford d. Coe. Miss Dora
Wickersham Coe, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy p.
NJ. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. George r.
Etter. Miss Helen Bruce Wallace, Miss
Minister. Miss Cora Lee Snyder, Miss
Nancy +. Etter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Sadler and the Misses Penrose, of Car
lisle; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r. Bent, the
Misses Brady. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Hooker, Miss Virginia King. Miss
Eleanor Neal Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam II. Ball. of Philadelphia; Mr..
and Mrs. Frank D. Carney, Miss Louise
Carney, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse f. B. Cum
ningham. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gross,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas NJ. JoneA Mr.. and Mrs. John
+. Fox, Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus f. Woods,
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip T. Meredith, Mr..
and Mrs. Carl NJ. Kaltwasser, Mrs
Robert f. Forsythe. the Rev. Rollin
Alger Sawyer. Miss Janet Sawyer. Mr..
and Mrs. Walter p. Mcguire John
Armstrong Herman, Vance C. McCor-
mick. j. Clarence Funk, George e.
Sutton, Henry a. Kelker, Jr., A. Boyd
Hamilton, Jr., Dr. John =. Culp, DIR.
George Reilly Moffitt, Jackson Herr
Boyd. Frank j. Brady, DIR. John
Moffitt, William McCreath, Robert
McCreath. II. Ward Alleman. S. Ar
thur Hazen. Casper Dull. Daniel NJ
| Dull. Mrs. Thomas NJ. Williamson, Mr.
and Mrs. Lew r. Palmer. Mr.. and Mrs.
ROV c. Cox and many others