The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-28
MISS CURTIS ID APPEAR ON
 THURSDAY
Will Give Delightful Pro gram in the Stratfield
 Ballroom
FIRST RECITAL
 IN FOUR YEARS

give her annual recital. Previous to the war it was Miss Curtis custom to appear before the people of her own city at least once a year. With the entrance of America into the war she at once offered her services and did a great deal of war work. Now music lovers are to have the chance of hear ing her in one of the artistic pro- grams which have earned for her a justly enviable reputation.
 Bridgeport has good reason to be proud of Miss Curtis and her achieve ments. For a number of seasons she has been a member of the MetropoH- tan Opera Company and it takes not only ability as far as the voice is con- cerned but 1t demands merit in many other directions. Miss Curtis has worked hard and faithfully and is de- serving of the best Bridgeport has to offer her.
 In addition to her operatic work which of necessity consumes a very large portion of her time, Miss Curtis is the soprano soloist at St. Marks 1n-the-Bowerie. It speaks volumes for her that she has been singing at this church for a good number of years Apropos of her opera work, many have the erroneous opinion that when a singer becomes a member of the
 
 have arrived and that is all there Is to it. The mental picture embraces only the singers actual appearance on the stage. As a. matter of fact the person who is an opera singer often works harder than any day Iaborer.
 Within the past two years Miss Curtis has sung here several times, once at a benefit for the United church, where she was formerly so- prano soloist, at which nearly $70O was realized. The past winter she sang at Polls at a benefit for the American Legion. She has been singing at the vari- ous camps and each week has gone to the Greenhut hospital in New York to sing to the wounded soldiers and is a great favorite with them. Re gently she appeared at a big benefit in Washington, D. C., at which Secre- tary of the Navy Daniels spoke, and was most enthusiastically received.
 There are several reasons why Bridgeport should give Miss Curtis a splendid welcome on Thursday even ing. First, perhaps, because this is her home and secondly because of her fine record as a war worker. Lastly because she is an artist of no mean calibre and possesses a voice that is a delight to hear. At the Stratfield on Thursday even ing her program will open at S:30. Wyllis filling, who is the organist at St. Marks, is to be her accompanist. Her selections, while including a wide range, are exceedingly well bal anced. The program follows;
 l. Song of the Allies.
 A1sace Lorraine; ''Le Mouln,' SchindIer; 'Le Soldat" Schindler; Mar Belle Marian" Schindler.
 WeIch, The Dying Harper, Schind- Ter.
 Italian, Girometta, Sibella. 2 The Steppe, Rachmaninoff. Ave Maria, from "OteIlo," Verdi.
 Aria from "Gianni Schicchi,' Puc- "song of India" Rinsky-K -Karsak- ofs.
 3. Cest LExtase Langoureuce, De pussy. "Tes Yeu," Rabey. Les Enfants," Massenet. AUX Morte Pour La Patrie, Terrier. | A. Sonnet XXI, Browning Bliss. The SmuggIers, Stevenson-Kerno- | chan The Angels Are Stopping, Rudolph Gang. Tally-Ho, Leoni. Practically all the prominent wo- men of the city are patronesses for this concert, the list including: Mrs. Bertram Ainsworth, Mrs. Charles E. Armstrong, Mrs. Fred Atwater, Mrs. 1 James M. Augur, Mrs.s George M. Baldwin, Mrs. Chas. A. Baldwin, Mrs. Ralph Barker, Mrs. Frederick c. Bas- sick Mrs. Edgar Webb Bassick, Mrs. Roscoe Bassick, Mrs. Elmer Boards ley, Mrs. Frank D. Bell Mrs. Alfred B. Beers, Mrs. Charles F. A. Biltz, Miss Helen Biltz, Mrs. Isaac W. Birds 1
 
 Georgiana Bishop, Mrs. Nathaniel W. Bishop, Mrs Ralph Blackburn, Mrs. Henry Blodget, Mrs Charles Bradley, Mrs Alvin c. Breul, Mrs. Frank V. Burton, Mrs. A. H. Garfield, Mrs. Roy E. Clark Mrs. Richard W. Cogswen, | Mrs Frederick s. Curtis, Mrs. Lewis B. Curtis, Mrs. Frederick B. Curtis, Mrs Charles D. Davis, Mrs. David $. Day, Mrs. Harry H. De Loss, Mrs. Robert M. Flames, Mrs. E. W. Fair child, Miss Anne Fish. Miss Mary Fitch, Miss Elizabeth Fitch. 5Mrs. H. Willard Fleck, Mrs. M. H. Ford. Mrs. Carl Foster, Mrs. Alfred C. Zones, Mrs. Mary K. Fones, Mrs. Henry Sheaff Glover. Mrs. Charles c. Godfrey, Mrs. Jonathan Godfrey, Mrs. Stiles E. Goodsell, Mrs. F'reder- l ick B. Grannis, Mrs. Harry F. Green 1 man, Mrs. E. Elmer Grumman, Miss Florence Hastings, Mrs. E. w. liar 1 ral, Mrs James Havens, Mrs. Elmer H. Havens Mrs John Curtis Hawley, Mrs. William c. Hawley, Mrs. Robert S. Hincks, Mrs. Henry w. Hincks. Mrs. William T. Hincks, Mrs. Frank c. Hunt, Miss Mary c. Hurd. Mrs. John Adam Hugo, Mrs. Edward R. Ives Mrs Harry c. Ives, Mrs. Ed ward A. Jennings, Mrs. Frank Kins- ley. Mrs Albert E. Lavery, Mrs. Thomas B. Lashar Mrs Walter B. Lashar, Mrs. Henry Lee, Miss Josephine Lyon, Mrs Charles Logan, Jr., Mrs. Albert E. Macdonald, Mrs. Thomas H. Mac donald, Mrs. Egbert S. Marsh, Mrs. c. D. Mills Mrs. James Mixer, Mrs. Dud- ley M Morris, Mrs. c. F. Moves Mrs. Jerome Orcutt, Mrs. S. H. Patterson, Mrs. H. LeBaron Peters, Mrs. Brad ford D. Pierce, Miss Mary Louise Peck, Mrs. Louis B. Powe, Mrs. John 6. Pullman. Mrs. Andrew L. Riker,