Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

| Is well known as recltaliSt IN Rich
| mond and Baltimore, where she has
| given several concert programs. She
| sang in Washington at the World Con-
gress of Music and also at the recep-
| ton to DR.. Thomas Healy of George
| town University. held at the Carlton
Hotel by the International Association
of Arts and Letters.
Others on last nights program.
| which was presented before an audience
Of 100 invited guests. were Mortimer
| Davenport. tenor soloist at the cathe-
| dral; Kurt Nothnagel, another singer;
| Eleanor Colborn and Victor Neal
| pianist, and Bruce Wallace, violinist.
The principals and faculty Of Gum
ston Hall Junior School issued cards
for a particularly interesting student
demonstration Of children's symphony
| at the school last Wednesday at pm.
The school also is sponsoring a pro-
gram Of rhythmic dancing to be given
| this Wednesday afternoon at the same
hour at 1647 Thirtieth street northwest,
| Georgetown.
Catherine A. Passero, soprano. as
sisted by Elizabeth Gardner Coombs
pianist, gave a program Of songs last
Sunday afternoon at the Women's City
Club. She sang well known compo-
sftions and included the air "Knowest
| Thou That Fair Land" from Thomas
"Mignon." Mrs. PaSsero made q favor
able impression with a soprano voice
| OF pleasing quality, and indications
point to her being one of the promising
| singers OF WaShington's younger group
Pearl Hauer, organist at the Bethesda
| Theater, co-operated with Mrs. Nina
| Church Brann. chairman of the motion
| picture department of the Women's
Club of Bethesda, in presenting two Sc
| lections by composers Of classical stand
ing, in short recitals each day of
| Music week. Works presented in
! cluded numbers by Chaminade, Tschai-
kowsky Brahms, Victor Herbert, Saint
| Saens, Kreisler. Gounod. Moszkowski
Mcdowell, Mascagni, Mendelsshon and
| Schubert.
The National Music Week activities
sponsored by the Women's Improvement
Club of Silver Spring. Nd, were ar
son. A program given at the Seco
Theater had as the soloists Mrs.
| Walter H. Oliver. John c. Marsh,
Richard Reinohl. Evelyn @. Randall,
Helen Tucker and Harlan Randell, with,
as accompanies, Mrs. Hardin, Mrs
Hartman and Albert Havenner.
The Silver Spring Community Band
gave a concert, featuring American
music under the direction Of Mr.
| Browning.
The East Silver Spring School had
a special musical program on its Visit
! ing day.
The music section of the women's
| Improvement Club itself gave q pro-
gram In connection with the regular
meeting when the soloistS were Mrs.
Robert Langley: Mrs. j. w. Maddox,
Mrs. Walter Oliver, Mrs. Grace Bout
well and Mrs Roy v. Leasure. singers
and Mrs. Ralph Gault. pianist. The
chorus also participated.
Oba Jan Gibson, lyric soprano. was
guest soloist at the Park View Christian
| Church last Sunday evening, when spe-
cial services were held In honor Of all
of the chapters Of Royal Arch Masons
Of the District.
Betty Lou, or the Dream Girl" the
| operetta presented some weeks ago by
| the chorus OF the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church, and. by request.
repeated for the patients at Walter
Reed Hospital, had its third presenta-
/ ton last Tuesday in the parish hall
| Of All Souls Church, Fifteenth ana
Harvard streets. The proceeds Of this
performance will go toward the ex-
penses Of the Washington Life Adjust
ment Center, which will resume its
sessions at the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church next Autumn.
Tuesday 80 of the 50 members OF
the chorus, which is directed by Nor
ton M. Little, with Claude Robertson
and John S. DeForest, organist. Will
have character parts. The part OF
contralto, who will be supported by
other members OF the church quartet,
Herman Fakler, bass; William Shana-
han, tenor, and Elsie Schulze, soprano.
and by the chorus ensemble.
Mary Helen Howe, coloratura So
prano, has returned from Frederick,
| Md. where she was soloist for the
National Music Week exercises with
! the Baker Park Orchestra. under the
direction of Maud w. Dittmar. Miss
Howe was enthusiastically received by
a capacity audience at the opera house.
She sang "Elegie" (MasseneO, lie
Nile GerouD, Spring Song" (WeiD
and III Bacio" (ArditD.
Mrs Dittmar has made the Baker
Park Orchestra q feature Of the must
cal activities Of Frederick. Among the
numbers played on this occasion were
dances from 1.-THE Battered Bride"
| ISmetana). "Neapolitan Nights"
| (Zamecnek), Desert Song" (Rom-
berg), "Old Colonial March" (Shfkret)
and the overture from "Galathea" (Von
Suppe).
a return engagement to Frederick later
| in the season.
Helen Fisk Torrey was hostess to the
Washington Alumnae Club Of Mu Phi
Epsilon Wednesday evening. Isabel
| Baldwin, pianist. from Pi Chapter at
| Appleton, Wis, was received into the
| club as a member.
| A program was given after the bust
| ness meeting by Inez B. Miller, mezzo
soprano and Charlotte Klein, pianist.
! All inactive "Mu Phis" are cordially
| invited to attend the meetings; they
| are requested to communicate with
Charlotte Klein. secretary, 32l7 Wis
consin avenue northwest.
Wednesday, May 20, the final recital
| of the season under the guilds auspices
will be given by Charlotte Klein, A. A.
G. O., at the Church Of the Epiphany,
| 1917 G street northwest, at pm. On
| this occasion Miss Klein will play from
| memory the entire program which early
| next month she will present at the gen.
| eral convention of the guild at Mem
phis. Her convention recital will be her
! third appearance in a concert capacity,
and marks her as the only woman or
ganist in this country who has appeared
in this role more than once.
Activities Of Rho Beta Chapter Mu