Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

THE George Washington University
Mems Glee Club, winners of the
national intercollegiate glee club COM
petition, will appear in concert at the
Mayfiower Tuesday evening at $50
o'clock.
The annual concert of the club is
anticipated with especial interest this
year, as it will afford Washington the
first opportunity of hearing the singers
in q full concert program since the club
won national honors.
A pretentious and well balanced pro-
gram has been planned: DR.. Robert
Harmon, leader of the club, will direct
The George Washington University
CARNATIONS of the university, was re-
established nine years ago, after a
period Of inactivity, and since that
time has won for itself local and, more
recently, national recognition.
The clubs first year of renewed &C.
tivity was marked by concerts for vari-
Gus organizations in and around Wash
ington and by a concert given at the
university for the student body. In the
early part Of 1925 the club sang its first
theater engagement in Washington as
the weeks headliner at the Rialto The
alter. In the Spring Of 1925 the group
was engaged by Keith's Theater as Q
headline attraction, and during the
same year sang at the annual National
Vaudeville Actors Benefit midnight
show ct Keith's.
In the Spring of 1927 the club sang
for week on the program Of the Earle
Theater, and during the same week sang
again at the N. v. A. benefit. Later in
that year the club participated as one
OF the acts In the mammoth midnight
show given at Polls Theater for the
benefit of the victims of the Mississippi
flood disaster.
In 1928 and 1929 the club held joint
concerts in Washington with the Co
lumbia University Glee Club. Last year
this concert took place at the May
flower
The 1s2s-so season has been the most
successful in the history of the club.
Participating for the first time in the
national intercollegiate glee club COM
petition the club was awarded first
honors, q distinction which previously
had been won only by five universities
Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton
and Wesleyan.
AS the 1890 champions the club will
enter the nationally competition next
year without the necessity of participant
ing In the sectional contest. The singers
are eager to retain the glee club trophy,
which holds q place of honor ct the
university this year but which will re-
main In the permanent possession Of
the club only II won three times In
succession.
The program Tuesday will be:
Prayer Of THANKSGIVING. ........ .Kremser
Wanderers Night Song" ........... .Kuhlua.
The Long Day Closes" ............ Sullivan
Tenor solos (selectedl.
"ISoi How Q Rose Fer Blooming. .Praetorius
'.Hark, Jolly Shepherds. Morley
Hail; Bun and Blues. Sweeney
.. EiGnt He4s ,'..'..'''.''..'.'.b ar!noIlomew
..S,,H 40 No No. srth noiomew
Violin solos (selected).
Herman Weihe.
Nov Let Every Tongue Adore Thee" Bach
10 All You Ladies - . - = '''''D
''Benedictus VENT .Gounod
The roster Of the George Washing
ton University Mems Glee Club Is as
follows: Frank Scrivener, manager:
Jesse Stimson, student conductor; first
tenors, Hugh Buckingham, Richard
Killstein, Aubrey Minor, William Powell
John Perry and Douglas Taylor; second
tenors, Daniel Beattie, Raymond Coe,
Thomas Crigler, Robert Griest, Richard
Hill, George Roth. Hardie Seay, George
Wells; first BASES, Owen Cummings,
Samuel Detwiler. Irving Douglas, George
Jarvis, William May, Norman Nor
gan, Frank Scrivener, Jesse Slim
son and Winfield Weitzel; second
BASES, Henry Amos, Allan Croker,
Carroll Hughes, Benjamin Newton,
Firth Smith, James Smith and hewitt
Smoot.