Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-14

beth's this afternoon, December "a
Beatrice Ruth Koch will be the ac-
| companist for the club and Miss Belt.
Adolph Torovsky will play for Mr..
Quick.
At the request Of Mrs. Walter ].
Mccoy, who is actively interested
in Mount Alto Hospital. the club has
| promised to sing carols through the
wards at Mount Alto Christmas Eve
at pm.
Ruth L. letters. chairman of the
banquet committee of the Chaminade
Glee Club announces that the clubs
! second annual banquet will be held
Thursday, January Is, at L'Aiglon
Other club members working on the
committee with Miss LETTERS include
Lillian Anderson. Margaret McCor-
mack, Louis Felsberg, Shirley Mont
gomery, Katherine Eckloff, president,
and Esther Linkins, director. Tick cts
may be purchased from Miss Grace
Weed, 1921 Twelfth street, Franklin
1878.
Monday evening the Mcdowell
Music Club, Georgia E. Miller, presi-
dent, held its monthly meeting in
| the clubrooms. The program was
given by Charles HALEY, violinist,
| and Evelyn Gribben, soprano. guests
| of the club.
Mr.. Halley's numbers were: Min
net" and "Orphee" tGluck), 'Mazur-
ka" (Ovid Musin), "Liebesfreud"
(kreisler) and "Litany" (Schubert),
transcribed for the violin by Mr.
Haley He was accompanied on the
piano by George Cornwell, a member
of the club.
Miss Gribben sang Loves in My
Heart" tWoodman), "BIackbird's
Song" tScotD, Wandering in the
Woods" tGrieg). Louis Thompson
accompanied Miss Gribben.
In January the club will give a pro-
gram of Mcdowell numbers. Dor
| othy De Muth Watson will give a
short talk on her visit to the Peter
borough Colony last Summer.
The Burlington Hotel will inaugu-
rate this evening, under the direction
of Mrs Henry Hunt Mckee, a series
of Sunday evening concerts at $50
o'clock. The soloists will be: Vivienne
Abbott Gilmore, soprano; Hook Ken
! n edy, in costume and songs Of Scot
land. and Jack Ruenitz. baritone. of
California. Mr.. Kennedy is well
known to radio fans. Mrs. Gilmore
has been in Washington about a
year. Mr.. Ruenitz will make his first
appearance here.
A feature tonight will be Tn
fammatus' from Rossini,s "Stabat
Mater" sung by Mrs. Gilmore, and
Mrs. Goodall, sopranos; Anita Ganges
Howard, alto; Browson Howard, tenor,
and Theodore Howard, bass.
The public is invited.
Elena de Sayn String Quartet made
its first public appearance at the eve
ming service at st. Johns Church last
Sunday. A suite in FIVE parts by
Jan Brands Buys was presented. A
few weeks ago the quartet was heard
over WRC and is scheduled for an
other radio program December 81.
The quartet consists Of Elena de
Sayn, first violin; Agnes Lewis, sec
ond violin; Lydia Brewer, viola, and
Mabel Duncan, cello.
Nine. Vassilien OF the de Sayn
School for United Arts will present
group in original dances at the Cen
trail High School shortly. Nine.
Vassilieff was formerly premiere
danseuse of the Russian Imperial
Ballet of Petrograd.
Carmen Collier, singer, entertainer
and impersonator, assisted by the
Brown Trio, consisting. of Clinton J..
Brown, jr., ssxophonist; Loretta
Brown, violinist, and Ethel Brown,
pianist, and Gerry Williams, dancer.
presented program of interesting
music and dances December and last
Friday in st. David's Church, on Con-
duit road. Their entertainment in
cluded Japanese. American kiddie.
bedtime and Spanish groups, with
Mendelssohn's Spring Song and Pol
dinfs "Waltzing Doll'' as barefoot and
toe dance numbers.
Alice Eversman, soprano, and Elena
de Sayn. violinist, gave an interesting
joint recital Thursday at the Catholic
University. The vocal selections in
cluded aria from Massenet's LIE
Prophetic" Liszt's Die Loreiei,"
Brahms "staendchen," 'Lodorava
rApril" (ParellD. Rachmaninoff's
Floods Of Spring" CODY" (Wrob-
lewska). Iris" (Harriet ware), Love
Came In at the Door" Giebling), and
Curran's Life" Miss de Sayn played
Wieniawski's Faust Fantastic" with
played all the accompaniments;
"Valse Bluette," Sarasate's "Jota di
Pablo Leroux's LIE Nil'' and Fle-
gier's Stances" Miss Eversman sang
the vocal part to the last two num-
bers.
will present a lecture-recital on folk
songs and dances at the League OF
American Pen Women's headquarters,
1909 H street northwest, tomorrow
evening at s o'clock.
A. Harlan Castle, tenor, with John
Monroe as accompanist, and Charles
ed in joint recital at the Women's
City Club tomorrow evening. The
program will include: Romance"
(Sibelius), "Seguidila' (Albinez),
songs of the hour: The Birth Of
Morn Leoni), Joy of the Morning
(Harriet rWare), Goodbye, Sweet
Day (Kate vannah), The Star
(Rogers), "Ah, Moon of My Delight"
Lehman), from "A Persian Garden:
youth: ITO Sylvia" tSchuberD,
Youth (Allitsen), ''Ballade in A
Flat" Chopin; songs Of devotion:
Passing BY" (Purcel), Mary Of
Argyle (Nelson), Concert Etude'
(McDowell); songs of memory: Ben
demeer's Song" (Gatty), Songs My
Mother Taught Me" (Dvorak).
Thelma Smith, whose contralto voice
showed good tone control and inter-
esting color, was presented in debut
recital by LIE Roy Lewis at the Studio
of Allied Arts Friday night. AL
though a young singer, Miss Smith
was not daunted by a full-length pro-
gram of professional quality, and her
last number, the aria "Adieu, Forets,"
from RELATIONSHIPS Jeanne dare"
was the most brilliant of her selec-
tions, sung with big tone and good
phrasing. Miss Smiths French is
cIear-cut and accurate. Her group of
short songs in that language included
Fourdrain's "a Versailles, sur Ia
Pelouse." and "Sur la Terrasse de St.
Germain," both fascinating songs,
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