Evening star., 1926-06-13

| IRENE KOEltL. soprano, ana
Sam Desoff. violinist, will be the
Boloists In n special benefit entertain.
rncnt at the Washington Hotel at 9
o'clock Wednesday. Dancing will be
"A feature OF the evening. The pro
gram is given as a benefit for the
America nization Summer classes.
Miss koehl's songs will include
"Sunbeams, ".by Ronald; Bird of Love
Divine" by Wood. and THE Secret
Of the Stars" by Leoni. The accom-
PIANIST will be Albert w. Harmed.
Mr.. Desoff will play Romance" by
Wieniawski, and several other selec-
tions not announced as yet.
The final meeting Of the season of
the District of Columbia Chapter,
American Guild OF Organists. Will be
held tomorrow evening in the choir
room of Epiphany Episcopal Church.
The dean, Adolf Torovsky, will report
on the general convention, which he
attended at Buffalo last week. A gem
eral discussion of next years plans
also will he held.
l.. H. Phillips. who for five years
has been the band leader OF the Times
Herald Newsboys' Band and who also
| OfBdnlZeu tildl DOyS pdIu, iiotS pCCH
iappointed teacher Of brass instru-
ments at the Washington College of
Music, his term beginning this month.
| Mr.. Phillips will take charge OF the
youngest students who desire to learn
! TO play the cornet or other brass band
Instruments. He loves to interest boys
in the better things Of life. believing
that "a better boy makes a better
man.
Behind Mr.. Phillips work in Wash
ington is five years at the beginning
of the war, when he was in charge or
the bands for overseas at Quantfco.
He had a railroad band in Pittsburgh
before that, that even tourneyed TO
the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition
to play.
Howard p. Bailey, baritone soloist
of the Mount Vernon Place Meth
odist Episcopal Church South. has
resigned his position, effective the
1st of July Mr.. Bailey is the last
member of the original male quartet
formed four years ago to leave the
church. Previous to singing at the
Mount Vernon Place Church, he had
been baritone soloist at ST. John
l Church, Lafayette Square. and prior
to that precentor at the foufth
Presbyterian Church.
resigned from the quartet on June ].
after a years service in the quartet.
Successors for Mr.. Spille and MIR.
Bailey have not been chosen The
church is considering changing from
the use of male quartet TO the adop-
ton of the mixed quartet plan
Evelyn Gribbin Randall and Har-
Ian Randall will leave Washington
early in September for Chicago TO
work there with Herbert Wither-
spoon. The Randalls will probably
make their home in the Windy City
| for several years. but expect TO re-
7 turn TO Washington now and then
! during that period.
! r. Deane Shure has just completed
Y an organ number TO be played at his
| recital on the big new organ Gt the
n SesQuicentennial Exposition III Phl!-
adelphia November &c. He also has
= been honored by Harvey B. Gaul Of
! Pittsburgh. who has just issued an
J organ work dedicated TO Mr.. Shure.
I The orchestral poem which the
, Washington composer has recently
completed and which was inspired
by Saint -Gaudens' statue of Grief
8 in Rock Creek Cemetery, will be
, heard in Washington during the
season next year.
t Mrs Eugene Byrnes has recently
accepted the chairmanship of the
music committee of the Arts Club
of Washington and announces tie
following as the other members of
her committee: Mrs. Emma nraN
Knorr, vice chairman: Miss Alice j.
Clapp. Eward H. Droop. Carl Engel,
Mrs. Charles w. Fairfax. Mrs. Fred
erick E. Harrington. Felian Garzia.
| Miss Jennie Glennan. Mrs. Walter
T.. Hilton, Mrs. William Bruce King
Miss Christine Levin, Miss Minna
| Nieman and Mrs. Elizabeth North =
r | rup.
Little 5-year-old David Dodric
4 | Crandall. during the demonstration
: last Saturday at the Thomson School
of piano work as done in the public
schools, played IL little French mel
ody in it's original key and then
; | transposed it a major fifth higher
: He was reproducing by ear the les
B. son he had heard his mother teach
1 | in her class. His father is the vlo-
2 | linist, Lee Crandall, jr.
! Emily Harold, soprano. has just
been announced as the new Sololst &c
= sing at Calvary Methodist Episcopal
r Church during the Summer months
While Marie b6di, VINO has Dccu 50
. prano soloist at that church for some
time, Is out of town.
The other members of the quartet
include Julia Culbreth Gray, director
and contralto: Harlan Randall. bari
tone, and +. W. S. Evans. tenor.
5 Ernest Smith Walters of Chicago
| ILL.,, and Edgar Mills HowertOn. head
/ of the vocal department of Wesleyan
College. the Conservatory Of Macon
Ga, were professional singers who as
, sisted in the program presented by the
r Lenore Marie de Grange Children
Players in Pierce Hall Friday evening
when the two short plays Darby and
Joan" and June Magic" were pro
duced.
, Mr.. Walters sang Thank God for a
Garden" and 1.-The Little Gray Home
in the West" Mr.. Howerton sang
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" by
$ Roger Quilter; Tommy Lad" and
1.-TWO Grenadiers."
VI A group Of about 80 professional
. dancers also took part In the program.
r Mallette Roach Spengler has been
appointed State chairman of the
music committee of the District of
Columbia Daughters Of the American
r Revolution. Mrs. Spengler announces
that she is planning programs by
leading local musicians and singers