Evening star., 1939-12-17

Ill place OIL ltS USUAL CllTlStIIldS
program, Friendship House will this
year present a pageant written es-
pecially for the occasion. The
pageant, which includes also some
original music, will be given by
members and friends of Friendship
House at S pm. today in the Little
Theater of Friendship House, 6l9 u
street Sc. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
The next Evening With the Vic
trola" program in the music di-
vision of the Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV, will be devoted
to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony y
This recording is played by the
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted
by Leopold Stokowski. The program
will be given at 7:3o pm. tomorrow
A Christmas social will follow the
regular meeting of the Baltic Amer
ican Society of Washington, D. c.,
which is scheduled for o'clock
today in the Colonial room, New
Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and M
streets NV.
The society will have as its guest
artist Louise Osterwald, accordionist,
who will play folk tunes Of the
East and West Baltic region anr
will also accompany the group Ill
carol singing. Following this there
will be recitation of Christmas
poems by Ruth Henderson and talks
on the Christmas customs in the
Baltic countries.
Today at 4 o'clock the Girl Re-
serves of the Young Womens Chris
tian Association, Seventeenth and
K streets, will give their annual
Christmas program. Why the
Chimes Rang" in Barker Hall. The
play is adapted by Elizabeth R. Nc
Fadden from the story by Raymond
Mcdonald Alden. Music will be fur
nished by choir of IS Junior high
school Girl Reserves, accompanied
by Mildred Chaplin. The choir Will
be assisted by the Girl Reserves
Glee Club, accompanied by Mrs.
John BurleW. Eleanor Graves Kit
terman will be at the organ and
the choir and glee club are under
the direction of Mary M. Burnett,
music secretary. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
On Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day Christmas carols will be sung in
the lobby at the Y. w. C. A., Seven
teenth and K streets, at noon and
at o'clock. On Christmas Eve the
Y. w. C. A. Carolers will sing IN
the lobby and at Strong Residence
at quarter of and, after singing
at the hospitals, will 60 to Union
Station at o'clock, according to
their yearly custom.
The Major Choral and the Or
chestra of Eastern High School, un-
der the direction of Paul D. Gable
will present an assembly of Christ
mas music at the school tomorrow
There will be a brass quartet con-
slsting of William Drew, Earl SWope,
Donald Steele and Jack McCloskey,
solos with chorus sung by Andrew
Kirk, Jean Corkran, Charles Bright
and Ernest Mangum, and a violin
obligato by Leonard Cotturo. A
vocal quartet, consisting of Elizabeth
SchWingle, Ruth Trimmer, Richard
Grumbly and Charles Fyfe, will sing
Yon's "Jesu Bambino," to which
Daniel Wray will play an oboe
obligato.
A Christmas recital of the COM
bined studios of Mary La Verne
Greene, voice; Evelyn Ann Foster,
piano, and Helen Young, children's
voices, will be held Tuesday at the
Barr residence, 315 Peabody street.
Carol singing will form part of the
program, with special numbers by
Edith Henry, Cleo johnson, Mary
Buckingham, Mary Elisabeth Boyer,
Sarah Holman, Lille 1. Barr, Joan
Greene, Charlotte May Wilson,
Frank Barr, Barry Mulligan, Clar-
ence Rutherford, Charles Bradley,
Miss Foster and Mrs. Greene.
The Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will give
program of Christmas carols,
madrigals and folk music at the
Presbyterian Home for the Aged,
1918 Newton street NV, on Tuesday
evening. A similar program was
given or Wednesday evening, De-
cember 13, at the Southern Relief
Home, 2727 Adams Mill road. The
custom Of giving such programs at
this season for one or more of the
charitable institutions of the city
was inaugurated when the group was
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