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Evening star., 1950-10-29

commissioned by Mrs. Viola v.
Maxim of New York City in men,
ory of her late husband, Joseph
D. Maxim. The major orches-
tral number will be Rachman-
inoff's Symphony No. g."
The first of three programs for
young people. will be given in
Constitution Hall Thursday. No
vember 9. at 2 pm. Florence Fra
ser Ludgate, well-known narrator
for the Philadelphia Orchestra S
Youth Concerts. will be heard IN
that capacity. Mrs. Ludgate. who
coached with the French diseuse.
Yvette Guilbert. while studying
forS her piano diploma at the
American University at Fontaine-
bleau. France, was heard in a
piano portraits program in the
Phillips Gallery two years ago.
Soloist for the first concert for
young people will be Diana
Steiner. violinist, who won the
$1,000 National Music Contest
sponsored by the Friday Morn
ing Music Club and the Patrick
Hayes Concert Bureau. She will
play the first movement of the
TschaikoWsky concerto. In April!
Miss Stein won the Youth Con-
certs solo competition of the
Philadelphia Orchestra which
gives her an appearance with the
orchestra under Eugene Or
mandy's direction December II.
Twelve concerts for the youth
will be given this season by the
symphony. Seven free concerts
in public school auditoriums have
been sponsored by The Hecht Co.
Campbell Music Store, the Junior
League of Washington, Sears
Roebuck Co., the tenants of the
Ring Building, the American Sc
curity & Trust Co. and Jordan's
Piano Co.
The Women's Committee viii
provide recordings of the programs
to the schools to promote inter
est and understanding among the
children. Each school will bt
given also a large color char
showing the placement of each
instrument together with draw
ing of it.
Single tickets for the odd ane
even series of the regular pro,
grams are now available at tht
symphony box Office in kits, 1885,
G street NV. Season reserva-
tions for the six popular Sunday
afternoon concerts may still bt
had.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
NewscosteH Get
In News Themselves

Several news commentators are
in the news themselves this week.
One of them, Albert L. Warner,
is leaving WMAL and tomorrow
will succeed Felix Morley as for
eign editor of Three Star Extra" !"
on WRC nightly at GAS. At
WMAL, Gunnar Back is giving up
his morning newscast to move
into Mr.. Warmers old spot, Con
gress Today" nightly at Z.
From VOL, the word is that Ray
mond Gram Swing, one of the
better-known commentators, will
become a Liberty Broadcasting
System correspondent, with head
quarters in Washington, starting
November 6. Milton @. Ford.
WWDC disc jockey, will become
another Washington radio per-
sonality to invade New York. start
ing next Saturday. He has been
signed to do a one-hour record
show every Saturday afternoon
over WOR. 1t will not interfere with
his WWDC schedule; he'll either
fly up or do the WOR show by
wire from here. Bob Hope
drew such a crowd of GIs in the
National Theater in Seoul the
other night that Syngman Rhee,
President of Korea. couldn't get a
seat. Had to sit in the lighting
technician's box, to the side and
above the stage. WWDC will
broadcast all home games of the
Washington Capitals basketball
team this year. There'n be no
television.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Bach Festival
"opens Thursday

To commemorate the bicenten-
nial anniversary of the death of
Johann Sebastian Bach, Washing
ton Cathedral will hold a hve-day
festival of his music, opening
Thursday night with a harpsichord
recital by Ralph Kirkpatrick. At
$3.50 pm, the noted harpsichord-
ist will give the first of his three
programs. His second will take
place Friday at $50 pm, his third
Saturday night at the same hour.
On Saturday afternoon at 4,
Paul Galloway will give an organ
recital. He is responsible for the
planning of all the programs which
will include performances by the
Chamber Chorus of Washington,
Sunday, November 5, with Ray
mond A. Toense, jr., tenor, and
Dom Philip Crane. baritone, as
soloists.
On Monday, November 6, Mr..
Galloway will present Bachs "B
Minor Mass" sung by the 2O0-voice
Washington and Cathedral Choral
Societies and accompanied by an
orchestra. Soloists will be Phyllis
Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts,
contralto: Leslie Chabay, tenor,
and Paul Matthen. bass.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
.hittuII Programs

Adolf Busch. violinist. and Ru-
dolf Serkin. pianist. will be pre-
sented in the Library of Congress
by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Foundation on Thursday and Fri
day nights at $50. The Thursday
program will be given for invited
guests Of the Whittall Foundation
and repeated the following eve
ming for the public.
The chamber music for violin
and piano programmed by the
artists includes the Mozart so
nata in G Major, K. 379" and
Schubert's Sonata In A Minor,
Op. 1877. No. q" The composers
original manuscripts, presented to
the Library by Mrs. Whittall, will
be on display in the lobby
Tickets for the Friday concert
may be obtained from the Snow
Concert Bureau in Campbell's
Music Co. beginning tomorrow
Reservations may be made by
telephone.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
BY Florence 5. Berrymon

tic. The subjects are native tribes,
including portraits of types and
individuals. customs and activities,
as we'll as topical landscapes.
The young artist has had a
most successful career. He has
come to the United States after
an exhibition in London, which
was opened by the Minister for
Colonial Affairs. Mr.. John Dug
dale. It Is not surprising to learn
that Mr.. Enwonwu's sculptures
were particularly commended by
the London critics, as these are
the outstanding exhibits at
Howard in the collection of so or
more works.
Some of the sculptures are
naturalistic portrait heads in
varied interpretations. The bust
of Osingboivo, for instance. i'm
pressed me as an individual per-
sonality, whereas the head OF
1AAooC SO01o NC u tSPCs 4Cp1S
sentative of the race and the
brooding spirit of Africa.
Other sculptures are elongated
distorted and stylized, as authen-
tic racial expressions as the older
anonymous African sculptures
which have been so strong an in
fuence on sophisticated modern
art in this century.
Mr.. EnWonwu was born in
southern Nigeria. son of an engi-
neer who subsequently became a
sculptor. The boy was educated
at a number of schools, complet-
ing his training in 1889 at the
Government College Uni-Ahia,
which Immediately offered him
employment as an art master. He
was soon promoted to the post of
Evening star., 1950-10-29
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months, came up with a set of
% standards on which there was
virtually complete agreement.
These the FEC studied carefully
and eventually adopted.
Seems to have been a fairly
sound method of putting tele-
vision on a firm foundation. 1t
could be, of course, that no one
was urging that commission to do
anything but take its time and
start television properly instead
of Immediately. 1t could be, too,
that 1853 televiSion specialists to-
day could reach virtually complete
agreement about color standards
given time to develop color in
the laboratory and not on order.
Jimmy Duronte Bows
On TeIevision This Week
Television audiences will see
what another famous clown can
do in the new medium when Jimmy
Durante makes his TV bow
Wednesday night at 8 (WNBW)
All right is how most people are
predicting Durante will do. :. The
six-gun set is not entirely native
Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy anc
Roy Rogers films rank high among
the BBC's TV attractions.
The earliest Washington televisior
yet was sneak previewed" Friday
when the WNBW cameras were
turned on Bill Herson in a stimuli.
cast" of his $3.50 am. WRC show
May become a regular thing.
A notable cast will be singins
Verdi's Don Carlo" when thu
opening of the Metropolitan Opera
season Is televised over ABC
(WMAL-TV) on the evening o.
November 6. Among the singer!
will be Robert Merrill. Jussi Bjoer.
ling and Jerome Hines, with
Fedora Barbieri making her Me
debut.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Programs of the Week
(CIin This O,lt for Referepce
for Reference. J

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med sin Pigelil."
TUESDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME SYMPHONETTE,
Franklin B. Charles. conductor;
Stanley Hall, $50 pm.
COMPOSERS FORUM. Mark Fax mod
orator, Public Library, Seventh and
streets S.W., $40 pm.
HARRY MCCLURE. piano recital, In
stitute Of Contemporary Arts. $40
P pano PsoasTys MoasTs sonata snts P0ST Ma,o4 1s
(. 533" Bartok's. Six Dances in
Bulgarian Rhythm: Bach's Eng
lish Suite, F Major"
WEDNESDAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
WiId. pianist. soloist; Constitution
thoven's "Fidelio"; Purcelrs suite
Tor Siano s55nFs ME- crssfHds Wid RaeSmsn e8nssno
noffs Symphony No. q
THURSDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHONETTE,
Stanley Hall, $40 pm.
RALPH KIRKPATRICK. harpsichordist,
recital Washington Cathedral, $50
pm: Bach's bicentennial commem-
%inop SFaaqn Drogfsm cbroma Partita II
"Partita I. B fiat Major"
FRIDAY.
RALPH KIRKPATRICK. harpsichord-
ist recital. Washington Cathedral.
$50 pm, Bach program. "Partita
", D Major; -Four Duets for KEY
neard,; Partita v. G Major;
ADOLF BUSCH. violinist. Rudolf Ser
KIN. pianist, sonata recital, Library
Sonata. G Major. X. 37ao; Brahms
Sonata, D Minor. op. l0S": Schu-
bert's Sonata. "A Minor, op 1877,
Major. Cd 96.'
SATURDAY.
PAUL CALLAWAY, organ recital.
prosram asa'0n erelnde Ssindefa hat m Ma5or, Saeh
''Fugue. fiat Major
SOLDIERS HOME SYMPHONETTE,
stanleyl sFankln Ha5i p s:an scharleS conductor
PHYLLIS CURTIN. soprano. song re-
ssital' Jewish Community :. Center,
ferne Geliebte"; Brahms Bot
schaft," ''Immer leiser wird mein
SSch,iummer," VIE Melodien," Die
20 auand je dors,' "Enfant, 81
Ietais Roi," Comment disaient-
lis; Ravel's "Kaddish." "L Lenigme
Eternellen;, Starers "Erev," BEL
adar": Debussy's "Cest Pextase."
La Chevelure," "Cheveaux de
bois': Moussorgsky's Songs of the
Nursery; Caturla's ''Bito Manue."
RALPH KIRKPATRICK, harpsichord-
ist, recital. Washington Cathedral.
Overture: italian Concerto; Gold
berg Variations"
Evening star., 1950-10-29

in Menotti's staging. For this
alone, he should be acclaimed. His
good theater sense directs him not
only in seeing that the work is
produced and acted logically, but
also in writing the score. He is
able to create the proper musical
incubation for every phrase of
the English language and some,
in THE Consul" were extremely
difficult. I remember perform
Iance of Krenek's Johnny spielt
auf" in French in Paris. The COM
poser tried to do the same with
ludicrous results as regards its
translation into French. The un-
inhibited French audience howled
with laughter and there was no
way to grasp the trend of the
opera in the general merriment.
The ticklish business of setting an
ordinary, everyday phrase to
music has been solved by Menotti.
Opera Becomes Stuffy."
That he has discovered in the
subjects he has chosen for his
operas, the stuff that music drama
is made of, is another instance of
his genius. 1t focused attention on
him Immediately when his first
work, Amelia Goes to the Ball."
was produced. and grew popular,
at the Metropolitan. He knows
the value of suspense, of contrast,
and of letting the weight of the
story's meaning come through
without underscoring. All of this,
together with his gift for melodic
invention. he learned in the
Italian opera school. What is of
greater interest is his abandon
ment of the over-done style and
his striking out in something new.
He says himself, Opera becomes
stuffy when you use old sets and
costumes; they have no meaning
to u.s."
The consciousness Of the i'm
portance Of the present era is his
greatest asset. His operas are a
far cry from those of Verdi and
Puccini, yet they hold the same
elements both composers exploited
so successfully. Should Menotti,
with his alert, modern ideas. ever
turn his talent to a larger subject,
set 1t to music in his inimitable
way, and produce it with his usual
then the world will gain
a new operate composer of mag
nitude. Other composers will fol-
low suit with the result that the
old operate form will bloom in
new and unexpected ways and
native opera be born.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
News Of Music
Menotti Bridges the Cop Between
Old Opera and Modern Substitute
By Alice Eversmon


When Gian-Carlo Menotti grad
yates into full-sized opera writing
he will have revolutionized that
field of music, shocked the ira
ditionalists. and put new vigor
into the art. Already through his
chamber version of grand opera,
he has shown definitely that the
path to expansion in operate
composition has not been closed
with the passing of the great COM
posers. He is the first man of
this generation to carry on
where they left off. At the pres
ent moment, he stands preemi-
nent as an individualist who is
modern in his thinking and writ
ing in this much-neglected field.
Proof that he has discovered
how to make the music drama
palatable to the general public is
illustrated by his Broadway sue
cess of "The Medium" and "The
Telephone. and lately by "The
Consul" now ending it's run at
the Barrymore Theater in New
York. He has been able to COM
press into these comparatively
short works all the sense of drama
and its musical expression the
great operate composers under
stood so we'll.
Through his italian heritage
and upbringing, he came to this
country already equipped with the
fundamentals. and with the es-
sential feeling and knowledge. He
has adapted these to life of. the
present era rather than turning
to the past for plots as did his
famous predecessors. Thus he
has found at hand what native
composers have overlooked. and
closed the gap between the ancient
operate themes and today's sub
stitutes.
Stages His Own Productions.
Menotti writes the music and
libretto simultaneously. He also
stages his own production. His
genius at this is to be recognized
IN the economy Of gesture and
naturalness of his singers act
Ing. The desperate nature of the
plot OF THE Consul" becomes all
the more gripping because no eff
fort is wasted on extraneous or
overdramatized effects. In set
ting. action and costuming, there
are no exaggerations, even when
the highlights Of the opera are
reached.
At the New York City Center,
where Puccini's La Boheme" was
staged, the old deficiencies of
opera production showed how i'm
portant and necessary to operas
growth is attention to details.
There. a quartet of sartorially per-
feet artists tried to convince the
public Of their poverty stricken
existence in the first act. In the
Cafe Momus scene, lightly dressed
chorus and principals made merry
In snow-covered surroundings
such as is rarely known in Paris.
What percentage of illness would
result from the reckless exposure
did enter the mind of the listener,
but not, apparently, of the pro-
ducer. Other inconsistencies, with
which every one is familiar as
opera is given today, could be
found in following acts.
Such departures from the nat
ural for arts sake are not present
Evening star., 1950-10-29
@92@8E

Henriette Bagger Plum. mezzo-
soprano, will give a song recital
devoted to works by Scandinavian
composers, sung in the original
languages. tomorrow night in the
Phillips Gallery.
The weekly Sunday Afternoon
Music Hour series presented by the
YWCA will be resumed today at
4::30 in Barker Hall. The Gault
String Ensemble will give an all
Bach program In observance Of
Bach's death bicentennial. Willis
Gault Is director and violin SOLO
ist.
Elizabeth Gould, pianist and
composer, is giving a recital in
the National Gallery of Art to-
night at 8. She is a former stu
dent of Guy Maier, Artur Selma
bel, the Juilliard School of Music
and a graduate of the University
of Michigan with bachelor of
music degree. This year her
daughter Nancy. whom she
taught, will appear in a number
of two-piano concerts with her,
and also with orchestra.
The Music Division of the Pub
Lie, Library will hold the first of
three Composer Forums Tuesday
at $3.50 pm. at the Southwest
Branch Library, Seventh and H
streets S.W. Victor Penso. senior
student at American University,
will present in concert form a
one-act opera. "Feng." The Rev.
Russell Woollen Is the other COM
poser or the program. Mark Fax
of the Howard University will act
as moderator.
Nine. Camille Chautemps, plan
ist, will be presented in a concert
at the Shoreham Hotel on Mon
day night, November s, under the
auspices of the Washington Opera
Guild, Inc, Dorothy Remington
director.
Harry Mcclure will open the
concert series of the Institute of
Contemporary Arts Tuesday night
at $40. During the past two
years he has presented in these
concerts all piano sonatas by
Hindemith. all OF Bach partitas
and the Well-Tempered Clavier
complete. in addition to other
music. The recitals are free and
are held at 1922 New York avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1950-10-29

A large exhibition Of Canadian
painting will open this afternoon
at the National Gallery of Art, to
remain through December 10.
Nearly 80 works have been as
sembled from public and private
collections by the National Gal
lery of Canada, with the purpose
according to the Right Hon. Vim
cent Massey, chairman OF its
Board of Trustees, of showing the
main trends in Canadian art dur
ing the last so years. The exhibi-
ton also includes a small group
Of works from the 18th and 18th
centuries to serve as historical
background.
David E. Finley, director of the
National Gallery of Art. COM
mented on the large number of
able and original Canadian paint
ers who have interpreted their
own country and especially its
landscape. with the deep feeling
that comes only with q love of
ones native land"
Undoubtedly 1t is in the land
scapes and village scenes that the
feeling of Canada is strongest.
The portraits, while depicting
many individual personalities, do
not convey any impression of peo-
pie of a nationality different from
ours. as is the case with portraits
and figure paintings from Latin
America.
Canadian Landscapes.
Because of geographical differ
ences between Canada and the
United States, transcriptions of
scenery show greater divergence
of style. The development of
Canadian landscape painting is
traced by r. H. Hubbard, curator
of Canadian art at the National
Gallery OF Canada in his intro
duction to the exhibition cata-.
logue. in which more than half
the paintings are reproduced. The
reader learns that Canadian ma
tional expression, particularly in
landscape. had q picturesque and
romantic phase in the early 10Th
century. subsequently was inter-
preted realistically and POLITICALLY,
and is now revealed in a variety
of modern movements.
A. Y. Jackson, j. E. H. MacDon-
aid. Arthur Lismer, Lauren Harris,
F. H. Varley, Franklin Carmichael
and F. H. Johnston. the Group
of Seven" Mr.. Hubbard says were
initiators Of the first consciously
national movement In Canadian
painting. The group held its first
joint exhibition in 1920 and is still
active and important. Tom Thom-
son was associated with them until
his premature death by drowning
in Canoe Lake in 1917. His in
innate knowledge and love of the
wilds more than compensated for
his lack of formal training.
Paintings by these men were
circulated in the United States in
the 1920s by The American Fed
Grafton of Arts, which later sent
a larger. more comprehensive show
Of Canadian art on a national
tour. Quite number OF the
artists represented in that exhibi-
ton are included in the present
show.
This comprehensive survey of
the art of our northern neighbors
will be reviewed here later in more
detail.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Niqeriun Artist at Howard

A young African painter -sculp-
tor. Ben Enwonwu, who at 20 is
art adviser to the Nigerian gov
ernment, is having a large one
man show at Howard University'S
art gallery only through Tuesday.
The artist was here for the OPEN
ing October 18.
His paintings. both water colors
and oils, have bold color schemes,
vigorous brushWork and a sense
OF movement. While simplified,
they are comparatively naturalis-
Evening star., 1950-10-29

Hall. InlS Will
be the first pro-
G ra m Of t h e
Even series and
the second of
the season. For
his appearance.
Mr.. Wild will
play Paul Cres-
tons new piano
concerto which
will be given its
world premiere
at that time.
The Gre S t on
work, listed as
Opus 43, was
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Virginia Club Proqron1

The Fourth District Of the vir-
ginia Federation Of Music Clubs
will hold meeting Saturday in
Jorg Hall. First Baptist Church,
Alexandria. Va. The Fourth Dis
trict consists Of clubs and choirs
from Alexandria, Fairfax, Fred
ericksburg, Front Royal, Orange.
Falmouth. Strasburg and Win
chester.
The morning program will be
given by Junior talent, the one in
the afternoon will be performed
by senior clubs and choirs. Mrs
A. L. Lloyd is the vocal soloist.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
TODAY,
ip Ihis Ou.

AoDA1s
COOLIDGE FESTIVAL. Juilliard String
quartet Julius Baker, flute; Milton
Library of Congress, 2:45 pm. Mo
CARTS Quartet. D major, K. 2S5"
for flute violin, viola. cello; Palmers
Quintet for Piano and String GUAR
tet": Brahms "Sextet, B fiat Major
op. g." Jnilliard String Quartet, Mr..
katims, Mr.. Miller.
LEONARD sHURE, piano recital, Con-
Stitution Hall, 4 m. Brahms Fan
tastes, op. 116"; Beethoven's soma
dams d 0O rean aaG Fs%H PssHssy5 dAr5fes hsfls's
Chopin's "Ballade. F Minor"
CATHEDRAL CHOIR, Dom Philip
Crane, baritone; Robert Ellinwood,
thedral, hseril ioi1.'' pm. Faures Requiem" se
GAULT STRING ENSEMBLE, Willis
Gault, director and violin soloist:
Virginia Bishop. Gerald Clemence,
pjanists assisting Barker Hall
"Chorale," "Chorale Prelude:
Concerto; A Minor" for violin and
orchestra; .contrapqnctus No; /"
Norton transcription);. suite No.
pesi9ins Ms'0f esa savotte Sas Of Msna and
MuS6ILe arr. felIetZ, come. sweet
Death" Break Forth. 8 Beauteous
Light, ''Sarabande." e
ELIZABETH GOULD. piano recital. Ma
balevsky's prelude op. IS, No 21";
schuberts Sonata: B fiat Major; No.
~" Chopin's jn,! "seherzo, e sharp
HJeux eau; Sp Elizabeth Gouid's
Five Preludes."
COOLIDGE FESTIVAL, New York
Quartet, Library of Congress- $40
pm. Chamber Music for Piano and
Majof sta1oFs X Mf5sFt' co1iands SHa1if a.
es. op. co." H5sn"S FuSf'f'' = "'A0''
TOMORROW.
COOLIDGE FESTIVAL. National Sym;
Mitchell conducting. Jennie Tourel;
mezzo- soprano. soloist, Library OF
GoasFs SSnsTfSs fdomePeo fao p% Srs E4srfufs ze
rettl lusinghieri'' from ''1domeneo,
''Al desio di chi t'adore' from Mo
zart's, "Le NozZe di Figaro," mis- Miss
T9Is s5ravnskys Str Ap0M1n Maperas MHsa
""Cinaue Favoie, orchestra; Miss
Tourel;,, Coplands Appalachian
HENRIETTE BAGGER PLUM, mezzo-
lery, $40 pm. Denmark: Heise's
"Ornen lofter med starke Slag";'
Kuhlau's "Herlig en- Sommernat";
"Jeg gik mig Lunden" arr. Kuhlau;
Heises "Arme. Hjerte, er du trat?"
Finland "Finsk Folkvisa" arr. Palm
eren: Sibelius' Den Forsta Kyssen,"
/. "Svarta Rosor'' Norway: Alnas'
''Lykken mellem to Mennesker,"
.'Nu orister i allie de Klofter";
Saiegs Med en- st,srnnai ty,snd,lie;, Sweden; v;ssa
och Tradet";, stoberg's "Tonerna."
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Local Masonic News

Meetings this week:
Royal Arch Masons.
Columbia Chapter-Wednesday
pm.
Brightwood Chapter - Thurs
day, pm.
Royal and Select Masters.
Columbia Council-Thursday.
knights TempIar.
Potomac Commandery - We'd
nesday, Order of the Temple.
Columbia Commandery-Friday
Order Of the Temple.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Music Effects Checked

Experiments to measure and
record the effects of music on
plants and flowers" are being un-
dertaken at the Hindu University,
Benares, India.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
New Concerto
Is Feature on
Earl Wild Niqht

Earl Wild, popular American
pianist. will be the soloist of the
National Symptoms concert
Wednesday night in Constitution
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-11-01
NEGRO NEWS
SAMALEAN JOHNSON

A choir from Whiteville sang
at the First Baptist church Sun,
day night. The choir from the
Mount Olive Holiness church al,
so sang and so did the First
Baptist church choir.
A party was given in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Chest
nut Saturday afternoon in hon
or of their son, Wesley, who was
celebrating his birthday. Guests
were Maggie 10 Johnson, Joyce
Johnson, James Graham, Jr.,
Willie Van Mcneil, Terry Nc
Neil, Dennis Earl Chestnut
Shirley Gore, and several others
Guests were presented balloons
and horns for favors and refresh
ments were served.
A Halloween party was helt at
the school Tuesday night which
was we'll attended.