The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-11
FINE PROGRAM FOR MUSICALE ON WEDNESDAY Before Wednesday After noon Musical Club To- morrow Afternoon GIRLS PATRIOTIC
 LEAGUE RALLY Plans Completed for Father less Children's Tag
 Day

the Wednesday Afternoon Musical Club for the present season, will be held. An excellent program has been planned, one that should prove most enjoyable. In keeping with the war time policy adopted by. so many so- cieties this year the Musical club has decided to do without printed pro- grams.
 The program for tomorrow's musi- cale will be as follows:
 Piano Solos-(a) "Lento"" from the Pierrot Pieces; Cb) 'Handelian rhapsody. Cyril Scott.
 Contralto Solo-'The Night" Ed ward Johnson, Mrs. Grace Lake, Miss Edna Northrop, accompanist
 Sonata, No. for piano and vio- lin-Grieg, Misses Helen and Elsie Smith.
 Soprano Solos-'Low Breathing Winds" -Tayor. Cb), Song of Thanksgiving ng''-Allitsen, Mrs. Frederick Granniss; Miss Elizabeth Limont, accompanist.
 Piano Solo-(a),, Irish Tunes," from County Derry; (b) Shepherds Hey" (English Morris Dance Tune)-
 
 Miss Bessie Harlow
 gar; eb) Sink, Red Sum-" Del Rfego Mrs. Ella Harrington Donnelly, Miss Edna Northrop, accompanist.
 Trio-''The Snow," Elgar-1st so- l prano, Mrs. Charles W. .Ogren, Miss Louise Pfau; 2nd sopranos, Mrs Lew l is F. Hall, Miss Margaret Hughes; al- tos, Mrs. William J. Grip n, Miss Theresa Poke
 Violin obligato, played by Mrs Dorothy Wall and Miss Elsie Smith; accompanist and director, Miss Belle l Blackstone.
 l Soprano Solos-(a) '"The Yellow Dust." Cb) ,'The shepherdess," Hors- man-Mrs. Eleanor Lines Powell; panist.
 Piano solos-(a) "valse Inter mede"-Andor Merkler; (b) War Baby's Lullaby'-Mrs. Louie I. Sny- der"; (c) Negro Dance" Cyril Scott Mrs. Louis I. Snyder.
 Clayton Hamilton, a critic of the first rank where theatrical matters are concerned, is to come to this city on Thursday afternoon under the auspices of the Bridgeport Center of the Drama League of America and will speak in the sun parlor of The Stratdeld at 4 o'clock. This lecture is to be a benefit and the proceeds will be applied to the war relief fund for the French orphans. The public is most cordially invited to attend and tickets can be procured at the door. MT. Hamilton is one of the most important speakers that has yet ap- peareds before the members of the Bridgeport Center and there are mighty few so well versed in the mat ters of stage craft and structure as he is. Those who are readers of Vogue are familiar with the brilliant studies of the American stage of to- day that are contributed by MT. Ham ilton His books on the Theory o1 the Theatre" have found great favor with the serious minded public. Mrs. Charles F. Weeks opened he1 home on Coleman street yesterday afternoon for a meeting of the Ways and Means committee of the. Bridge port Committee of the Society of the Fatherless Children of France, Mrs W. A. Grippin as chairman of this committee opened the meeting after which Miss Dotten Gros Claude a: chairman of the Ways and Mean: committee reported arrangements 1ol the Tag Day which is to be Saturday December 15.
 This Tag Day Is to raise funds tt care for more of the French childrer
 that haven't been provided for as yet The members of the Ways and Mean' { committee are Mrs. c. E.. Weeks. Mrs Roscoe Bassick, Mrs. Dudley Morris Mrs. R. I. Neithercut, Mrs. David Day. Miss Louise Warren, Miss Flor ence Hastings, Madame F. M. Hawes } Mrs. Carl Foster and Mrs. William R wehster. There will be g. meeting O , the committee tomorrow norG1ng a Il o'clock at the home of Mrs. W. Rashop on Courtland hill and all tn 2 2 workers for Tag Day are also to b. | present.
 yi The city has been divided into th four ends and the center. In tn . West End Mrs, c. D. Weeks and Mrs IS. M. Hawley will be in charge Wltl Et JOnnS parish nOuSo c1S NeoA E ters. On the East Side Mrs. J. 5 Cenicola and Miss Marguerite Boyla1 with headquarters at the East sld' branch of the Y. W. C.. A.; at thu , railroad station, Mrs. F. W. Pyle ant
 Miss lilly Hoff: in the South End Miss Hen~ietta Bishop Mrs. Dude! Morris and the members of the Th1m . ble club; in the center of the city Miss Louise Warren and Mrs. Roscoe
 Bassick. There will be boy scout' also who will assist in the dineren { districts.
 Mrs. Clifford B. Wilson, chairman O. , the work of the Girls Patriotic league for this city, will preside tomorrow , evening at the big rally of the league that is to bs held in the auditorium O the High school at o'clock. Int
 meeting Is open to the public whtcf : is urged to attend in order to get al : linsight into this fine work for tht . young girls. The program will oper with the singing of the 'tStar Span