Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09
In Local Music Circles

Ida Wood, member of the Federal
Employees Playhouse Mixed Chorus,
will appear at the next performance
OF the Playhouse on Thursday at
8 p. IN. in the Agriculture Auditorium,
where she will sing several operate
selections. There will also be sew
eral films on the program, one of
which will star Bette Davis, Joan
Blondell and Warren Williams. Cor
don Hittenmark, WRC, and Lee
Everett, WMAL, will conduct a Quiz
program that evening. The public
is invited to attend and there are no
admission charges.
The Playhouse Mixed Chorus, d.
rected by Lynn l.. Gillchrest, one of
the units of the Federal Employees
Playhouse, sponsored by the Agri-
culture Branch of the N. F. F. E., has
recessed during the summer months.
and will appear again in the fall,
with an ambitious program for the
ensuing season. Victor Russell Is
president of the group, with Miriam
Brager acting as its secretary. Marie
Morris is the chorus accompanist.
Singers interested in appearing with
the group can do so by either con-
tacting the above officers or Lee H.
Shugar. Playhouse producer, to Room
604, ITO Fourteenth street NV.
Edith B. Athey, organist, is sub
shutting for three Sundays. begin
ming today, at the National Baptist
Church. Miss Athey rendered SIM
liar service at the Metropolitan Me-
mortal Church on June 18 and 25.
On July 2 she played the service for
the dedication of the new organ
Everett Orgatron), at the East
Washington Heights Baptist Church.
At MintWood House last FRIDAY
night the following pupils of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Kaspar and Irene
Lerch were heard in the regular
practice recital: Margaret Grover
Rachel Chester, Mary Margaret
Greenlaw, Etheldreda Kaspar, Car
ter Clarke, jr.: Frances Blake, Mary
Ann Voss, Donald Gish, Mary Lord
Andrews, Nancy Burdick. Elizabeth
Kline, Helen Tucker Andrews, Gloria
McCauley, Veronica McCandless
Alexander Kaspar, Jeanne Kellogg
Rena Doris Eanet, Betsy Sears.
Adrienne McArdle, Gene Ferris
Roger Sears, Francis Silsbee. Eliza
beth Sears, Patricia Ludwig, Eugenia
Schumacher, Marcella Hodge, Laura
Ann Hughes, Marian Kreiselman, O
j. Hodge, Norman Kiess, Marie
Buscher, Jean Evans. Sarah Brooks
Josephine Famiglietti. Leslie Marie
Earle and Pauline Gish.
Ethel Garrett Kaspar was heard
in the Dohnanyi "Intermezzo in F
Minor" and the program was closed
with Miss Lerch's playing of a
Chopin Valse and Beethoven
Turkish March," from the Ruins
of Athens" Throughout the sum-
mer these recitals are given fort
nightly, in preparation for the pub
lie recital playing annually in Au-
gust.
Virginia Steele Holmes presented
a small group of her piano pupils in
recital Friday evening at 42l4 Thir-
ty-eighth street NV. A reception
followed. Those taking part in the
recital were Anne Brady, Barbara
de Witt, Mary Ann Ettinger, Mary
Anne Graham, Shirley Howes, Mar
tina Lane Jones, Beverly Jordan,
Dickie Jordan, Helen Knighton,
Alma Schultz, Jean Tolbert and Joan
Tolbert.
The Emery Studios recently pre-
sented As piano students and vio-
linists in a series of eight recitals
including one by the members of
the teaching staff-Dorothy Emery
Villa Semple, lone Hoffman and
Jessamine Hartman, pianists, and
Herman Hoffman, violinist.
La Vergne Fairchild presented a
group of her pupils in a song re-
cital Thursday evening, June 20, at
the Community Hall in the Fire
Department Building, corner of Car
roll and Denwood avenues in Ia
koma Park. Those taking part were
Fiona Lou Mays, Mavis Marie Nc
Cary, Esther Alice Burgan, Jane
Bigelow, Beatrice Staughton, Ber-
nice Parish, Margaret Krauss, Anna
Mae Fry, Amelia Argoo, Esther Ar
goo, Juanita Klopfenstein, Doris