Evening star., 1934-04-08
PROGRAM READY
FOR OAR. MEETING
5000 to 1000 Expected at
43d Annual Congress
Here Next Week.

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Continental Congress of the National
Society Of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, next week, are well
under way, with 5000 to 1000 officers,
delegates and members expected.
The Congress will open formally in
Constitution Hall Monday morning,
April 16, with Mrs. Russell William
Magma of Holyoke, Mass. president
general. presiding, and will continue
through the week to Friday night,
when there will be banquet in honor
of the president general at the May
flower Hotel.
Brilliant Program Prepared.
A brilliant program has been pre-
pared under direction of the Program
Committee of which Mrs. G. Wallace
w. Hanger, former vice president gen.
eral from the District, is chairman.
Every phase of the work of the society
is covered by features of the week. Out
standing figures in official life in
Washington and authorities on his
torical research will speak at special
sessions. There will also be exhibitions
and demonstrations of various phases
of education work of the society.
One of the special features of the
musical program will be the solos fur
nished by musicians from the three
United States service bands-the
United States Marine Band the United
States Navy Band and the United
States Army Band. From among these
musicians have been selected Arthur
S. Whitcomb cornetist, second leader OF
the United States Marine Band, and
Kenneth Douse, saxophonist, of the
same organization: William F. Gamer
on. harpist, and Bernard Rosenthal
violinist, of the United States Navy
Band; Alexander Lutkiewitz and Elmer
Wilkinson, who will play duet on the
flute and French horn, respectively, ac-
companied by Harry Wagner at the
piano, and Charles D. Hersey, marimba
soloist, with the same accompanist, all
of the United States Army Band. On
Monday evening Miss Lou McIlvaire
will be the soloist. She is a member
of the Milan Lirico Opera Co.. Milan,
Italy, and is widely known both in this
country and abroad Miss Alice Mock,
popular radio artist and member of the
Chicago Civic Opera Co., will be the
soloist on Thursday evening.
viii Honor Dead.
Special memorial services for mem
bers who have died during the past
year will be held Sunday at pm. in
Memorial Continental Hall, conducted
by the chaplain general Mrs. Raymond
G. Kimbell. The president general will
preside. After special tributes to in
dividual members candles outlining the
great cross will be lighted in remem-
brance. A choir composed of members
of the clerical force at the headquarters
of the society, under the direction OF
Mrs. Elmer Curry, will provide music
20 Love That Will Not Let Me Go"
and There Is No Death" will be sung
bv the choir. Miss Eleanor Westergrer
will sing Gounod's Ave Marie" with
violin obligato by Miss Dorothy Sea-
mans
At the conclusion of these exercises
the president general with members
of the D. A r. Memorial Committee,
of which Miss Aline Solomons is
chairman, national and State officers
and members, will join in process
sional to the D. A. R. Monument,
where the president general will place
q wreath.
Will Attend Services.
Upon the invitation of Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
ington, the delegation will attend, as
special guests, the evenSong service
to be held in the Great Choir of the
Cathedral at 4 o'clock.
On Tuesday afternoon, led by the
president general and the national
officers, the members Of the Cont
mental Congress will proceed to Ar
lington and Mount Vernon, where the
president general in the name Of the
society will place wreaths on the tomb
of the Unknown Soldier and on the
sarcophagi of George and Martha
Washington. The exercises at Airing
ton will be held at 3 80 and at Mount
Vernon at o'clock. Edith Nourse
Rogers is chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements for Arlington and
Mrs. Willoughby S. Chesley is chair
man of the Mount Vernon Committee.
Pre-Congress Activities.
Pre-congress activities include
meeting Of the Executive Committee
to be held April 10, at $50 am; a
meeting of the National Officers Club,
Friday. April 13, at 10 am, in the
auditorium of the Administration
Building, followed by luncheon at
o'clock. A meeting of the National
Board of Management is scheduled
for Saturday, April IA, at 10 am, in
the board room, Memorial Continental
Hall, and meeting of the Constitu-
ton Hall Committee will be held
Sunday, April Is, at $50 pm, in the
president generals reception room, In
Constitution Hall.
Social events during the congress
include the National Committee chair
mems breakfast Sunday at 9 am. in
the Fairfax room at the Willard Hotel,
the National Board of Management
dinner to be held at the MayfloWer
Hotel Monday, April Is, at pm.
The president generals reception. at
which two sections Of the United
States Army Band will furnish the
music, will be held Tuesday, April IT,
at 9 pm, in Constitution Hall, while
on the same evening the pages dance
will be held at 10 pm. at the May
flower Hotel. The congress will con-
clude with the president generals
banquet Friday at 1880 pm. at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.