The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-24
LOUvAIN'S SACK
 Y.CERMAN'S BY| AN EYE WITNESS
Miss Mary O'Reilly, Associ- ate of Edith Cavell, to
 Speak Tonight
PATRONNESSES FOR
 GRUMMAN RECITAL
Potato Campaign Is Planned to Be Held Soon-Others
 to Follow

comes to this city is the Schubert Quartet of Boston, Mass. It gave splendid concert last evening at the Chautauqua in the High School Au- ditorium and greatly delighted the large audience that had gathered there. Encores were the rule rather than the exception for the evening and they were most willingly given. The program was we'll balanced Vath classical and popular selections and the voices blend exceptionally well.
 Assisting the quartet was Mrs. Cole Williamson, reader, whose work was finished and whose interpretation were sympathetic and artistic. One of Mrs. Wf1liamSon'S selections had the war as its theme, 'EThe Selfish and Unselfish Mother" It told of the sacrifices made by some mothers in giving up their sons. After Mrs. Williamson had finished, Rev. G. H. Beard arose from his place in the audience and announced that Mrs. Williamson had three sons in the service and fourth had just gone into training. The personnel of the quartet includes w. Frank Ames, first tenor; Charles W. Swaine, second tenor; William W. Walker, baritone, and George B. McGowan, bass. All of the solo numbers were delightful and the ensemble work was excep- tionally good.
 Mrs. Christobal Whitney Kidder delighted a large audience yesterday afternoon with her recital of the war time play, "In Lilac Time" Mrs. Kidder gave an excellent interpreta- ton of the various characters of the play, which tells very pretty love story of the earlier days of the great world war. She was given very hearty applause in many of the af- fecting scenes of the play.
 The Little Things of Life' was the oster sible title of a talk by Ed ward F. Bigelow, naturalist and bi- ologist, who by means of a special projection apparatus of his own de- sign threw some remarkable pictures upon the screen. MT. Bigelow gave a very interesting talk upon the won ders revealed by the microscope, and
 
 be made not only very instructive but also a very entertaining instru- ment. MT. Bigelow substituted for Reno B. Melbourne, taken suddenly ill., who was to have given a popular science talk.
 "One Thousand Days Back of the Front is the title of the lecture by Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly, Red Cross nurse and newspaper correspondent at the SChautauqua tonight at the High School auditorium. Miss O'Reilly was the first correspondent in Belgium after the declaration of war, passed through the period of frightfulness, was in Louvain the day it was sacked, was an associate ot Miss Edith Cavell, worked under the direction of Burgomaster Max, and finally was arrested and sent to Ger many, then deporSed as a danger ous person. Later she again went to Belgium, and also to Russia, Po- land and other fronts drEing the war. Her lecture will tell Bridgeporters many things about the war.
 For tomorrow Dr. Valeria H. Parker, secretary of the Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene, will give a talk, '"The Story of Life," at 2:30 o'clock, the New York Brass Choir will appear in concert at o'clock. ahd play prelud9s for Dr. Parker's lec- ture and that of G. Douglas Wardrop in the evening. MT. Wardrop will tell of the use of aeroplanes in the war, illustrated with both stereopti- con and moving pictures.
 Luncheon will be served at the High school between afternoon and evening sessions.
 Following is the list of patronnesses for the piano recital to be given on Friday evening in the ballroom of The | Stratfield by Ellsworth Grumman. MT. Gfumman is an artist of ability and his program is an excellent one. The patronnesses: Mrs. W. P. Allen, Mrs. James M. Augur, Mrs. c. A. Edwin, Mrs. John W. Banks, Miss l Alice Bartram, Mrs. Elmer Beardsley, Mrs. I. W. Birdseye, Mrs. N. w. Bishop, Mrs. Blodget, Mrs. F. A. Burr, Mrs. W. O. Burr, Mrs. w. G. Chase, Mrs. John C. Curtis, Mrs K. o. Cyrus Mrs. Charles D. Davis, Mrs. William Horace Day, Mrs. R. M. Flames, Mrs. G. H. Edwards, Mrs. E. W. Fairchild, Mrs. c. c. Godfrey, Mrs. William J. Grippin, Mrs. E. E. Grumman, Mrs May E. Hard. Miss Jennie NJ Hawley, Mrs. $. M. Hawley, Mrs. W. .. flaw ley, Mrs. Henry W. Hincks, Mrs b. R. Ives, Mrs. J A Kingman, Mrs w. lB. Iashar. Miss Helen Lewis, Mrs. w.