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and evening. the first being at the
Willard Hotel and the latter rehearsal
at the home of Mrs. Robert Dalgleish.
Definite Roadway was made toward
the preparation of a program. APP
plicarions for membership are again
being received by Mrs. James Dali
gleish. Several new members have
Joined the club during the season.
Lewis Atwater will play the follow
ing program of Wagner music this
afternoon at 5 o'clock in All Souls
Unitarian Church, this recital con-
Guiding the present series:
''Traume." choral prize song.
die Meistersinger
"A 1rs dee Abendster T TShhen9sen
acknowledgements" .-.........." Parsival''
katherine Riggs, Washington con-
cert harpist, has gone to Richmond,
Va, where she will appear in recital
tomorrow afternoon before the WON
ans Club. Miss Riggs will include
in her program in Richmond her de-
nghtful Romance of the Harp" which
she has given so successfully in Wash
ington this season with Florence How
ard, soprano.
Gertrude Lyons. lyric soprano, has
returned from a three weeks engage
ment in Florida, where she was soloist
for two weeks at the Winter Chau-
tauqua of the South at keystone
Heights, on Lake Geneva Among
the features were her Patti concert,
in costume, a program Of American
composers; one of arias, and songs of
Italy, France, England, Russia, Aus
tria-Hungary and Poland. She sang
solos Sundays and at several recep
lions and addresses given in the after
moons, including Governors day"
and the occasion when Mrs. Edgar
Stillman Kelly, president of the Ma
tional Federation of Music Clubs, ad-
dressed the ChautauQua on THE Edu-
cational Value of Music" Mrs. Lyons
also trained the school children and
young people for Joy night" chill
dren's afternoon with the birds, and
the closing event of the Chautauqua,
when the Tooth anniversary of the
death Of Beethoven was observed.
Several of his compositions were sung
and played. The last half Of the pro-
gram, a pageant OF flags, national an
thems were sung III native languages
and the flag of each nation carried.
The finale was a tableau, with Mrs.
Lyons as Miss Columbia" sur
rounded by the school children hold
ing American flags while she sang
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" The &C
compa nistS for Mrs. Lyons were
Nancy Hanks Smith and Claude Muir
phree, the latter a nephew of Albert
Alexander Murphree, Ii. d., presi-
dent Of the University Of Florida, at
Gainesville, Fla.
Kurt Hetzel has taken a new studio
at 924 Fifteenth street northwest,
where he plans to continue his work
in operate and piano coaching and TO
feature lecture recitals and tWo-piano
and song programs. 81
Last Wednesday night Mr.. Hetzel
entertained a number of friends in
music and other circles, who In turn
gave him a. "house warming" An
impromptu program OF piano numbers
and songs was presented.
Among the musical folk present
were Mrs. Edward Hood Watson, Jes-
sic MacBride, Mrs. Carl Chindblom,
Mildred Kolb Schulze, Helen Fetter,
Caroline Manning, Mrs. Tying Ia new
conner to Washington, who has re-
markable dramatic soprano voice and
sings R. Strauss and Hugo Wolf
songs charminglyl, Minna Niemann,
Henriette lie Menager, Frances Gutel-
Jus, MARCEL Greenhalgh and Theodore
Cannon.
Carolyn Norton Bost, contralto,
aroused much admirable comment for
her Interpretation of the part of
MARY in the Temple" when she sang
two numbers in the costume lecture
presented by Mrs. Nanette 3. Paul at
the Mayfiower Hotel last Sunday eve
ming. Wearing a lovely turquoise
blue gown, with the traditional white
Veil, Mrs. Bost sang Topliff's Con
slider the Lilies" and the Hebrew ma
tional air. "Hatikvoh."
Today Mrs Bost viii sing at Mrs.
Paul's second lecture, when her num-
Der will be THE Palms"
This singer has done much church
work prior to coming to Washington
to make her home here and is inter
ested in getting position in a local
church.
The Vipovoce Music Study Club,
Frances Gutelius, director is busy
preparing q new and stronger roper
toire for next year. Individual mem
bers, however. are busy filling ZEN
gagements" now. Marie Hudson.
pianist. played recently for the Bar
nard Parent Teacher Association;
Kathryn Latimer gave piano solos for
the Park View Parent-T Teacher Asso-
ciation;, Ted aCrum, pianist, and
Gladys CoWsill violinist, with Muriel
Cowsill as accompanies, presented a
program for the Brookland Citizens
Association, and Ted also was soloist
for the Osiris Lodge (Masonic) and
for the Christian Endeavor Society
Of the Metropolitan Methodist Epis-
copal Church.
The music history class, conducted
ut Miss Gutelius' Dupont Circle
studio by Mary Ware Goldman, met
April for an hours program in
memory Of the Beethoven cente-
nary. The study hour terminated in
n surprise party for Miss Gutelius,
whose birthday was celebrated. Mar
garet Nixon, new member Of the
club, was also welcomed at this meet.
ing.
Flora McGill Keefer presented
studio program Tuesday evening,
when solos and duets We're sung and
the f1nal group presented by Mrs.
Keefer herself. singing numbers by
Tsaichowsky, Winter. Watts and La
Forge. and an eighteenth century
'"Tambourine. The duets were the
Mozart La ci darem," and Under
the Greenwood Tree" sung by
Phyllis Price. soprano. and Robert
Davidson. baritone. Solos We're sung
by Kathleen Stiles and Gretchen
Lord, contraltos: IIilda Mclean.
mezzo-soprano; Mrs Charles Brown
and Miss Price, sopranos. and Mary
Dowd, coloratura soprano.