Evening star., 1926-04-18

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! Thompson, dramatic reader and in
structor of the Anne Tillery Renshaw
| School of Speech, will present a joint
recital at the Congressional Country
! Club tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr.. Thomp-
. son is we'll known in local music cir
! cles.
| Elizabeth Gardner Coombs will ac-
company the singer. This will be the
! last in a series OF musicals that have
proved highly successful at the club.
| John r. Monroe presented Catherine
| Carrico, soprano, and Leroy Bend
| helm, tenor in a recital that included
list of beautiful and rare songs last
| Monday evening. Pergolesi, Mozart
! Huarte. Donizetti. Boito, Tschaikow-
| sky. Carey, Cowen, Henry Purcell,
| Edward Purcell and Roger Quilter
| were represented in the list. which
also included folk songs of Italy and
! Spain.
! The Chaminade Glee Club, directed
! by Esther Linkins. sang at John Dick
/ son Home Friday night, assisted by
! Georgia Hazlett and Representative
/ Clifton a. Woodrum, accompanied by
/ Helen T. Murray, club accompanist.
| Friday evening this week the club
| will give n benefit concert at Sixth
! Presbyterian Church, when it will
be assisted by Helen Belt, violinist.
Alta Smith. soprano: Constance
| Abrams. violinist. and Edith Dawson.
accompanist. gave concert Thurs
! day night for the patients at St.
Ellzabeths Hospital
| The program included works by
/ Huerter, OHara, Strelezki, Lieu
rance, Nevin. Mcdowell, Rogers, Olds.
Dunn and Lehman.
Minnie Volkman, lyric soprano, and
| Albert w. Sommers, baritone. fur
nished n delightful program for the
Daughters of the Confederacy con-
vention recently at Leesburg, Va.
| Elizabeth Carter Davis was a fine
accompanist. The group has ar
ranged series of recitals for nearby
| Virginia towns during April and May.
Mary Helen Howe, coloratura
soprano, was soloist at a recent
I luncheon given at the Mayfower by
Il group OF local musical artists. She
was accompanied by Marie Howe
| Spur. Miss Howe was also SoloiSt
for the Palm Sunday and Easter serv.
ices at ST. Marys Church, Piscataway.
Md, with Mrs. Henry Hunt Mckee
directing and Sam Wardell, violinist.
Karl Holer, leader of the new
| junior music club, the Young Com.
| posers. wishes to announce that a few
/ additional members can be accepted.
The club is composed of students
ranging in ages from to IA. and its
object, as previously stated. IS to en-
courage boys and girls. in a systematic
! and attractive way, to put their mu-
| Sical thoughts on paper.
I Students uyiCnipn N 10 fhic
! ney Through Toneland" will address
| the leader, Mr.. Holer, at 3803 Thir-
teenth street northwest.
Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon
Musical Sorority gave a tea in honor
of the national president, Persis
/ Heaton, at the home of Mary Thomp.
son, last Sunday afternoon.
! The musicians who were guests at
this meeting were Edouard Albion.
director of the Washington Opera
Co.: Ivan Ivantzoff. Russian baritone
of the company, and Henry Smith
Gregor, pianist.
! Sorority members on the program
| included Clara Young Brown, Inez
| Miller. Wynema Mckinley, Rebecca
! Easterbrook and Tamara Dimitriff.
The accompanies were Lois Stuntz
and Marjorie Davis.
The Pianists' Club, whose 10 mem.
bers are leading pupils of local teach.
ers, has in preparation the series Of
! annual individual recitals given each
Spring. At their private biweekly
recitalS during the season. the men,
bers have played more than 100 diff
ferent standard compositions by lead
ing composers of both modern and
| classic music. From these selections
will he chosen the numbers for the
annual series. the dates for which
VIII soon be announced. Students Of
music can secure complimentary
tickets to the series by sending a
stamped. self-addressed envelope to
the Pianists' Club director, Mrs. Mar
tin A. Morrison, 3017 Thirteenth street
northwest.
Ruth Hansford Snodgrass, lyric
soprano. accompanied by Mrs. Waldo
L. Schnitt at the piano and Ivalee
Newell, violinist, sang two selections
at the Memorial Hour Thursday after
noon of the General Court of the Ma
tional Society of Founders and
Patriots of America. which met Wed
nesday and Thursday at the Raleigh
Hotel. katherine NJ. Green of Lincoln,
Nebr.. was in charge of the hours
program.
Mrs. Routt Johnson-Manning is pre-
senting a series of Spring recitals.
opening yesterday, at her studios on
California street. Among those TAX
ing part are Constance Russell g.
year-old pianist, who Will appear
twice in programs of the D. A. r.
convention this week, and Dorothy
Lowell Willard. who will soon be
heard in a concert via WRC. Both
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| heard over the radio.
Mrs. Manning also will present in
ser series Eleanor Grain, Patsy
Douglas. Loranda Prochnik. Valerie
PrOchnik, Charlotte Foster, Louise
! Woodruff. Amanda Chittum. Casson
! Crittenden, Clark Hawkins and John
! Grunwell.
| Abbie Mitchell, colored soprano, of
| New York City, and Cecil Cohen Of
Howard University. appeared in joint
recital at the First Congregational
Church Friday night for the benefit
of the Mother Child Center.
/ F'ranceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano,
| appeared in her fourth recital in
| Shrewsbury, Pa, yesterday. She gives
| her third recital for the New Century
| Club of West Chester. Pa, tomorrow
and will return to Washington Tues
| day.
Jewell Downs presented a group in
the third recital this season We'd
nesday evening at the Capitol Yacht
! Club. Those participating included
| Elizabeth +. Clagett, Sara W. Parker,
| Paul e. CARRIER, Adessa Ehrhart,
| George Milton Jones, Ethel A. Rice,
! Clement Giebel, Erna Otto, Carolyn
| Giles. Ivy Loughten Guy, Elsie Lang
and Edith Hoffman, Jones.
| At the last meeting of the District
| of Columbia Federation of Music
| Clubs the constitution was revised to