Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

deemed 1t quite an easy matter to ride
this talented young woman Yields a
graceful pen and she had contracted to
write a series of articles on circus
riders. So to gain first hand informa-
ton and the needed atmosphere, she
was for six weeks a drawing card for
Ringing Brothers and she has just used
all her experience not only with her
pen but also in conducting country club
horse shows. During the past Summer
Miss Chase and her sister Janet were
among the noted riders at Pau, and
they received many honors in the vari-
Gus shows held on the French Riviera
and along the Spanish coast. They
also visited several of the British
equestrian exhibits and assisted in ar
ranging several pageants of the horses.
when she used all the tricks which were
such spectacular features during her
and her sister intend to pass most of
the Winter with their sister, Mrs. Pres
ton Boyden. in Berlin. but at present
they are at home in Lake Forest.
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Mrs. Grace Elliot Gibson, member
of a prominent Boston family but for
many years resident in Los Angeles, is
considered by critics an unusually YER
satile composer of music which carries
the rhythm and pathos of the Nile.
Living for several years in Luxor. the
melodies of the workers on the cele-
brated river caught her fancy as being
something very fine and utterly I'M
known in this part of the world. Mrs.
Gibson has just won the cash prize
offered annually by Miss Katherine
Yarnell for the most original and
worthy composition presented at the
HOLLYWOOD Bowl musical contest, by her
concert overture called En- Rapport,
arranged for full orchestra. In this
spirited overture, many of the melodies
of Egypt, some of them dating back to
the days of the Pharaohs, according to
folklore, have been introduced as fan
tasias and with marvellous effect
Critics aver that the spirit OF Holly
wood is we'll interpreted by this pot
pourri Of alien songs and ballads. MISS
Yarnell, donor of this $1,000 prize
which has several times furnished the
means through which ambitious COM
posers have studied at famous music
centers, is a descendant OF one OF
CALIFORNIA; oldest Spanish families, the
Caystillos and much of Hollywood has
been built on their former ranch. She
is the daughter of the late Jesse Var
nell, founder and first publisher OF the
Los Angeles Express. and she began her
music career by writing on such themes
for her fathers music department.
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Mrs. Fay Ingalls,, whose English stock
farm near Hot Springs, Va, is SO well
known to the visitors to that celebrated
on the success of the Bath County
Horse Show, held the last week in
August and of which she was both the
manager and the inspiration. Interest
in horses had almost vanished about
Hot Springs when Mrs. ingalls, pur-
chased 1.-The Yard" glorified stock
farm near the village, and began to
breed in scientific way, hack and
harness horses. Her farm gradually
took over the name by which it is now
best known, Hobby Horse Farm" and
many owners of adjoining estates be-
gan to emulate her example by raising
stock. Finding Hobby Horse Farm toe
small for her ambitious intentions. Mrs
ingalls, now has large tract on Warm
Spring Mountain, where an English
trainer is In charge. Mrs. ingalls, Is q
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel H
Holmes of New York City and Cleve-
land, Ohio, and has been conspicuous
hostess in Hot Springs, where so many
distinct branches of the ingalls, family
are established. She had been trying
to arrange a horse show for the past
five years, but this Summer was the first
time she received any appreciable sup
port. A grandstand was erected and
So boxes were well filled, while all horse
lovers, many from Washington, who
pass the Summer in Hot Springs ex-
hibited or attended the two-day per-
Torrance. Now that she has made an
opening, Mrs. ingalls, plans to enlarge
the stalls and to place the Bath County
Horse Show in the same category with
adjacent organizations in Virginia.