The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-04
Coolidges Celebrate Anniversary
RESUMESMUSIC
AFTER WAR
NURSING
Miss Alice Harvey Re-
enters Capitals Artistic
Life; Hostess at Tea

Friends Of Miss Alice B. Harvey,
who has opened a studio at bS27
Thirty.ninth St., Chevy Chase. az.
sembled there yesterday afternoon
for an Informal musical tea. This
Is one of a series of Sunday after.
moons at home which Miss Harvey
is arranging jointly with Miss Doris
Haskell, a brilliant young v1ol1nlsf
and graduate of the New England
Conservatory of Music, who Will
be associated with her in her school
of music.
These parties are proving very
popular for both Miss Harvey, 4
pianist, and Miss Haskell play bril-.
liantly and with a feeling for the
tastes of a small and selective
audience. Moreover, there is an al
most romantic aspect to Miss Har.
vey's sudden remittance into the
music world Of Washington. where
she was well.known figure some
years ago, and her friends are
anxious to see what a venture into
an entirely different field or en-.
deayor has done for her art.
A Washington girl and a student
SuCU AlASbOA0 S~G
John Porter Lawrence and josef
Kaspar, Miss Harvey also studied
at the Royal Conservatory OF Music,
Leipsig, Germeny. She had taught
in Washington for five years and
was becoming widely known for
her work with various churches
when suddenly she decided to give
up music and take up nursing as a
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but there must have been species
of clairvoyance back of her decision,
for when the World War broke out
an army nurse and to work in q
sector where the only music was
the sound of the guns.
The unit to which Miss Harvey
was attached-Base Hospital 81
organized under command of Major
H. r. Berry-went over on the
George Washington on the first
voyage 1t made as a troop ship, took
trexville in the Vosges, 16 miles
from the front. installed hospital
supplies and equipment and was
ready to receive patients in Janu.
airy. 1918.
months at Contrexville, then went
to Savenay, near st. NaZaire, for
two months and came home in
charge of an invaded nurse. She
then served at Walter Reed Hos
pital until her own health broke
down-and a return to her music
was prescribed as part Of her cure.
She elected the New England
Conservatory of Music and crowded
a four-year-course into two years,
proving a brilliant pupil and de.
veloping ideas along the lines of
teaching which have been tried out
successfully at the conservatory and
which will be incorporated into its
curriculum. Miss Harvey feels
that something of the theory of
music, harmonics, tone values, ETC.,
should be inculcated into the pupil
before he-or she-actually takes
up instrumental work: and expert
ments along these lines have proved
highly successful. She taught for
some time in the normal depart
ment of the conservatory.
Mrs. Fred T. Dubois was among
the guests at the tea given by Miss
Harvey and Miss Haskell yesterday
afternoon and others in the little
company were Miss Maud Gou.
verneur, Major Guy Withers, Mrs.
Frederick d. Meigs and Miss Mar.
ietta Pierson.
Mrs. Frank w. Bacon, OF New
York and Washington. has arrived
at The Mayflower and with her
little granddaughter, Miss Virginia
Penfield, will remain here until to.
morrow when she is returning to
New York. Mrs. Bacon has just
returned from Omaha, Neb., having
passed the greater portion of the
summer in Sea Bright, N. J.
\ \
Mrs. w. Harry Brown sailed last
week from England, where she has
sojourned through the summer, and
is expected to arrive in New York
tomorrow or Wednesday. Mrs. Brown
will go to Pittsburgh for a few
weeks before coming here, where
her apartment at 1855 Massachu.
sets Avenue Is being put in readi-
ness for her.
Judge o. M. Barber Of the United
States Court of Customs Appeals
has returned from his summer
home, at Bennington, Vermont, and
accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Lucia Barber, has reopened his
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel. Mrs. Barber will remain In
Remington for another month.