Evening star., 1937-12-19
THE Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church Choir will present a
/ program of Christmas music at
the Roosevelt Hotel this eve

program of Christmas music at
the Roosevelt Hotel this eve
| ming at $50 o'clock John Marville
is director with j. Russell McKeever
accompanist.
Christmas carols will be sung in the
| lobby of the Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
and K streets, on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday moons, and on Tues
| day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings at 6 during the week preced-
ing Christmas. The Staff, Business
Girls Department. Strong Residence
and the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club
will be heard at different times.
Forty girls from the Elizabeth Som
ers and Girl Reserve Glee Clubs and
the Business Girls and Industrial De-
partments will sing carols at Children s
and Emergency Hospitals and at Union
Station on Christmas Eve.
Mrs J. Frank Rice, soprano, accom-
panied by Miriam Rhoads, will give a
program of Christmas music for the
Constitution Chapter, D. A. R.. Tues
day night, at the Grafton Hotel
The combined glee clubs and choral
groups of Gordon Junior High School,
at Thirty and T streets NV, will
present Christmas singing pageant at
the school on Wednesday evening, at
8. This production has been COM
| piled, arranged and written by Miss
Wilkins and is being given under her
direction. About 200 boys and girls
will participate.
There will be no admission charge
OF any kind and any one interested
Is invited to attend. Solos will be
taken by Betty Lee Miller, Virginia
Webb. Robert Brengle, Charles Byrne
Robert Ludwig and Herbert Vinson.
Cathreen Carrico Washington So
prano and pupil of Nine. Aida of New
York, was guest soloist on a program
OF Christmas music given on Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. Frank Nickols
OF Takoma Park. Helen Campbell
Williams accompanied Miss Carrico
Mrs. George Francis Williams, sponsor
for the program, spoke on the origins
and legends Of Christmas carols. The
Wednesday Morning Choral Group,
Mrs. Edmund Louis Green conducting
and Mrs Eugene Bond accompanying
sang carols. Enid w. Staley read the
Christmas Story according to Luke,
with a musical setting composed and
played by Miss Williams.
The Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, were pre-
sented in a program of Christmas
music at the home Of Mrs. William E.
Springer, l8 West Lenox street, Chevy
Chase, Md, on Tuesday evening. A
similar program will be given on
wednesday evening at the Southern
Relief Home, 2727 Adams Mill road,
the annual Christmas gift of the
Madrigal Singers to the members Of
the home and their guests.
The personnel Of the Madrigal
Singers remains: Elizabeth Waters,
Winifred Thomas Clark, Elsie Rogers
Graham, LeVere Smith, Mary Lerch
Brice, George Roth, Charles T. Hitler
and George F. Magdeburger.
The Sophocles Papas Fretted In
strument Orchestra gave a recital
last Thursday at the Cottage City
School Auditorium for the benefit OF
st. Pauls organ fund. The orchestra
was assisted by the following students
from Papas' studios: Harry Broderick,
Hawaiian guitar; Arsenic Gale Span
ish guitar; Robert Carman. Plectrum
guitar; Audrey Vaughan and Marjorie
Thiele, guitar duets; Jane Simon,
mandolin, and D. Hockmann, tenor
banjo. Ruth Marion McDougald, pi-
anist, daughter of G.. H. McDougald,
chairman of the organ fund, played,
and the program was concluded by a
medley Of Christmas carols, played
by the orchestra with the audience
singing. Helen Crocker was the piano
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