The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-15
OPENING CONCERT THE IMPRESARIO
 BIG ATTRACTION
Will Be Held Tonight at the Casino and Large Attend
 ar1ce Is Expected

Judging from present indications the audience which will hear Mozart's comedy opera. "The Impresario," at the Casino this evening will be of as large proportions as any which has ever gathered there for similar event. This Is the opening concert in the course of the Wednesday After noon Musical club and for the first time in the history of the club the public has been allowed to purchase single tickets and the response has been large. This opera written when the famous composer was but 1b years old is said to be full of keen satire and delicious comedy and is as entertaining as any musical comedy now playing on Broadway, and much more so tl1an some.
 Sam Franko and his celebrated or- chestra are to act as. the, accompan- ists of the evening and before the opening of the opera will play Mo zart's Symphony No. 29, which has three movements, Allegro Moderate Andante, and Allegro con Spirito. Tranko and his orchestra have been heard here before as they gave a concert before the Musical club a number of years ago. Their playing Is of very hiS.a order and will add much to the Tseeasure and finish of the concert this evening.
 The artists who are to portray this comedy are David Bispham, one of the most prominent concert singers in America. He Is to >rake the role of Samuel Shikaneder,p' director of the Freihaus Theater. William D. Tucker will play Philip" baritone at the fh Iva nf Albert Reiss, of the Metropolitan Opera Company. is to be seen as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the com poser of the opera. Miss Mabel Gar rison, soprano, whom the Musical club was very lucky to secure so great is the demand for her in con- cert work, will portray Madame Hofer. prima donna at the theatre,
 and sister-fn-law of Mozart. Miss Florence Macbeth known as the
 Minnesota Nightingale,Y is to be the Demoiselle Uhlrich opera singer and Philips sweetheart.
 Great opportunity is given to the two sopranos to display their ability as they appear before the director and the composer to try for an en- gagefnent. Both sing exactly the same airs and it will be most inter esting to see just what each singer can make of the roles that are assigned to
 her. The opera is decidedly a comedy satire and is a great commentary on the whims and foibles that are sup posed to beset great singers.
 Among those who will act as ush- CTS at the Casino this evening are
 Frank V. Burton, Lucien T. Warner, Frederick B. Grannis. Clarence Hall. Thomas Fish, William Rockwell, George Brown, Frederick Wallace. William Davenport and Louis D. Gi-
 nand.
 Announcement will be made within | the week of the exact date of the opening of the new Day nursery on {, the East Side. This Nursery is to be ! run under the auspices of the Catholic | Charitable Bureau. but 1t will be
 strictly non-sectrian and. solely for the benefit of the mothers and chill dren of that district which has not l had a place of the kind before. The Catholic Charitable Bureau cooper ates with the other like organizations
 in the city and has been doing a
 splendid work. It was felt that there
 was grave need for Nursery on the l East Side as the one on Main street 1 has about all that it can accommo- date in addition to thief act that it is a long distance for the mothers living ] on the East Side and whose work is
 in that district to take their children 1 to leave them for the day before go- l ing to their work. The Nursery is to
 be at $40 Ogden street and is splen.
 didly and centrally located. Plans are now under way for a. donation day for this Nursery and 1t is a mos, worthy cause. It is expected tha
 the Nursery will be opened within g | week or two at the latest. At the I present time the bureau has mem bership campaign on and 8 part o. thief unds brought in from the sub.
 scriptions is to be devoted to tn,
 Nursery and the rest to the othel
 work which the bureau carries on.
 Lieutenant and Mrs. Horace B
 Merwin have just takenan apartnen
 in Washington. where they expected to spend the winter, as kieutenan
 Merwin was to be stationed there fo ] government duty. It Is said now tha Lieutenant Merwin is to be trans
 ferred to Rochester. N. Y.s
 On Thursday afternoon of thi
 week the Red Cross Nursing class , which has been studying under tn . able guidance of Mrs. Harold M Clarke, is to resume its work and tn
 members expect to complete thei
 course in few more lessons. Mem bers are asked to please take note Q the day of meeting, and the tim which, which is o'clock.
 Miss Marguerite Boylan, who is tn 3 chairman of the Civic Committee 0 5 the College club, has announced tha the club is planning a series of enter l tainments for the old people at Hill 3 side Home. Mrs. Frank Miller. tn l | president of the club. recently gave : photograph for use at the Home, bu 3 there are no records. Those who hay 1; records with which they have in ished are asked to give them to tn 5 Home and these may be left with tn g superintendent of public charitie l MT. Thorn, or at Steinert's.
 e The sewing class of the La dies, ( i Charity Et Vinpcpf dc PalYl will met