The sun., 1919-06-22

Carroll Frazer, Mrs. William HitZ,
Mrs. William A. Hammond, Mrs. Bates
Warren and Miss Mary Gwynne. A
few Of these. Mrs. Mcdonald, Mrs.
Clover, Mrs. Anderson, who were really
warmly interested, were out of town
But most of the others and whole
lot more were very much on deck, or
rather in the audience.
1t was q keen disappointment to
Mrs. Baker that she was not able to be
present in person at the performance
She had promised to sing at Camp
Meade. And she went over to Balti-
more with Secretary Baker for the
memorial services at Johns Hopkins
for the men from that institution who
had fallen in the war. They lunched
with the Griswolds and Secretary
Baker made an address at the meet
ing. He is back again for the Vice
Presidents dinner to DR.. Pessoa, a
matter OF official duty which prevented
] Mrs. Baker from seeing the last
OF the community opera performances,
though her house guest, Miss Kath-
crime Lowe, was there.
: To return to the Community Opera.
IL was truly wonderfully successful
performance, with a lot of young, fresh
coming singers. They brought to 1t
| tremendous enthusiasm and a great
| desire to help in the realization OF a
| splendid dream. None was paid, and
with the exception OF Gretchen Hood
| and perhaps Lieut.. Hollis Edison Da-
venny, who has some reputation as a
concert singer, they were none of them
known professionally. Lieut.. Davenny,
who has been an army song leader,
| sang Derilshoof in The Bohemian
Girl" and Tonic in "Pagliacci." But
their little Media, Mabel Coldenstroth,
a Washington find" was really a lit
tie wonder and gave a particularly
dramatic performance OF a particularly
dramatic part. One of their tenors,
Leopold Glushak, who sang Cdnio. is
the son of a Washington rabbi and in
private life promising young physi-
clan and surgeon. Their Thdddeus
was another Washington lad, and they
had rather a remarkable contralto in
Marie Culp, a war worker from Michi-
gan or Minnesota or somewhere up
there.
Hope for Lasting Results.
OF course so long as the War Camp
Community Service is maintained this
little organization is going to have its
backing. but the many influential per-
sons who are interested in It hope that
1t will survive and be the nucleus of a
national opera company which will
give young American singers a chance
and some Of the experience they need
to fit them for the Metropolitan and.
such great organizations.
June has certainly been running true
to form-matrimonial form. The chief
industry of society seems to have been
getting married. or announcing en-
gagements.' The marriage license bu-
reau asserts that its business is break
ing all records. and a great many of
the weddings have been of the sort in
which society is greatly interested.
But most OF those that were of any
real social importance have been very
quiet, in the presence OF relatives and
a small party of intimate friends.
There have been no big wedding
parties, no deliberately thought out
color scheme" with bevies of expen-
sively gowned bridesmaids. Organdie,
crisp and dainty and in lovely shades,
has been the favored material for
bridesmaids. And even the flowers
have been rather less gorgeous than
they used to be. AS one woman who
goes to a great many weddings put II,
II haven't been to a wedding where
they had the church smeared all over
with flowers in blue moon"
About the most interesting, socially,
of the weeks brides was Emily Kutz,
daughter of the engineer commissioner
of the District of Columbia, Col
Charles w. Kutz and Mrs. Kutz, who
was married on Wednesday afternoon
to Capt. Wilson G. Bingham, u. s. A. |
1t was "a travelling dress wedding, a |
very attractive blue tricolette, and |
they had Just one attendant each, the |
bride having her sister, Miss Marion |
Kutz, as her maid of honor, and Capt !
Bingham having Lieut.. Walker White !
as his best man. The group of girls !
who would probably have been brides |
maids had It been a big wedding-Ruth |
Littell. Mary Littell, Elise Owen, |
Elizabeth Davis, Dorothy Mondell, |
judith Clark, Louise Groves. Harriet