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iii mm rr sr i tf 7 WBSSwhm 4r iVfiHTprng EJ 1 JJJj 1 MMM I i 1 Ba ECr VAM I I I I I i II I I 1 I i TH I jf ttftei 7 7 7 VT ViT i rt Tr rf i wj A TJ i JE71 rK sSL ft jof jt xiivb iw i 11 a si jw ji iTSpt tl 1 fl lljh JKifs A tr ari ri sac tjiftBsjijnjrwjsi sraTiP swJ5riW tjs tl i i sMfr ril i i TT rr VLl fS2rJlLfc lxMlV 111 111 I 1 1 fll i 1 I 3 w5 ItsK KC SP icsie MllVlf I AMk 111 iiulVl Xlrl VJb a rr Manx things ar now being dona away with as nonessential but the great musicians will not come under this head Those In this country have nearly all of them assisted In some form of war work and benefit activity They have sungr for the many different foreign causes for the American Ked Cfross liberty loan drives and war savings stamps drive Enrico Caruso has devoted much of his time to the Italian war sufferers for whom he has succeeded in raising a large sum giving his services and always paying his own expenses as he did when he ang in Washington He will appear on July 27 for the first time In Ocean Grove at the mammoth auditorium there The concert will be given for the men in uniform A series of symphony concerts is being arranged by the management of the Metropolitan Opera Bureau for the soldiers sailors and marines stationed in and near New York The concerts will be given by an orchestra of 90 musicians under the direction of Mr Volte and the soloists and chorus will be from the Metropolitan Opera Company The first concert will be given this afternoon In the stadium of Columbia University In fair weather small tables will be placed under trees on the campus and nonalcoholic drinks will be served A small fee will be charged civilians for tables and reservations In order to pay expenses Brigham of Boston spent the early part of the week in Washington He gave a recital at Mount Rainier Wednesday evening During his stay here he was the guest of Frank Norris Jones at his apartment in Seventeenth street Mrs Edith Marmion Brosius is entertaining her aunt Miss Annie Marmion of Harpers Ferry Va for a fortnight in her apartment in the Stoddert Melton Boyce organist and choirmaster of St Matthews Church and the boys of the choir are at Chesapeake Beach Mr Boyce takes the boys each jear for a ten days or two weeks outing before he goes off for his summer vacation The Washington Ethical Society gave the second concert of their series under the auspices of the war camp community service yesterday afternoon In the Scottish Rite Temple The soloists were Sari Carbank barytone Elsa Raner violinist and William Stansneld organist Those who received diplomas and certificates at the commencement of the Washington College of Music yesterday afternoon were Post graduate diplomas Augusta Ellse Bergmann voice Effle Cecilia Drezlllus piano artists diploma Dorothy Estelle McCau ley Chorrellis Dixon both piano teachers diploma Emma Louise Thompson Maria Sacasa piano Kathleen Jean Long Israel Louis Cooper atein violin graduate diploma Mary Kate Bowers voice Ethel May Johnson Leland Boyd Parker piano graduate certificate Dorothy Arnold Schaaff voice Harry King Estella Wheelock Thomas Doris Louise DeGroot Harry King William Frederick Santelmann Henry Valdemar Chrlstlanl violin and Alden Finckel violoncello tr ton on their wayfromV one posfcQ another The Wayfarers always dance for an hour after the programot music rsi Colin Clarke White presenteda num per of his pupils In a concert on Wednesday evening hi StudloBalL White sang the opening number on the program and Miss Uona JelUman pianist played two solos and thenc companlments Those who appeared were Mrs Dudley Ldoyd Mrs Thomas Rees Miss Elsie Schultxa Miss May Murphy Miss Hazel EL Talbert Miss Margaret Kunkel Miss Elizabeth Berry Miss Katharine Marshall Miss Ethel Sharp Miss Gretta Wainwrlght Ludwig Miss Selma Schulzr Miss Ruth Allwne JdiBft jecma Zimmerman Miss Hilda ki ley Miss Ethel LavJnla Nugent Lieut Titchenor Mr Bernard Spllle and Mr Cari Fink Ethel Gilbert Miner soprano gave a delightful program at twilight on Monday afternoon for the A Edith Athey played the accompaniments Glenn Gorrell will present a number of his pupils in concert Tuesday evening at the Washington Club Caleb OConnor and his corps of assistants including the OConnor chorus gave a concert Thursday evening at the Walter Reed Hospital Bessie Wild presented the members of her Junior class Monday evening In the United Brethren Sunday School House assisted by EsteJJe Wild soprano and Geneva Wallace accompanist The Misses Mlnke entertained a com pany at a muslcale last week In their residence studio The program was given by a nuraber of pupils including Alice Owens Edith Norris Louise Dodge Ellen Boyer Uberta Owens Kathryn Brinley Sadie Miller Nlta Phillips Dorothy Dick Jean Brayton Eleanor Penn Alma Phillips Alva Brayton Selma Foer Margaret Guertln Dorothy Gravatte Jean Stormont Ada Wade Virginia Frye Violet Daly Margaret Lynch Ellen Ford Barbara Staples Naomi De Groot Helen Kelley Gertrude Duryee Helen Hubn Louise Lewis Mamie Douse Lillian Smith and Emilie Mann A quartet composed of Mrs Louis A Potter Jr Mrs Anna Brett Summy Paul Bleyden and Charles Trowbridge Tittmann will sing at the Arts Club carnival Tuesday evening There will be seven numbers given In the yard of the club weather permitting and this quartet will open the program with the quartet from RIgoletto and Miss Latimer Mrs Summy Mr Bleyden Mr Tittmann Mr Donaldson and Mr Ald ridge will close the program with the sextet from Lucia Mr Stoics will sing a group of Roumanian songs and Mrs Charles Fairfax will also sing a group of songs Miss Melanle Gordon will give several rythmic interpreta tions Bertram Bloch is arranging three burlesques Caleb OConnor is the stage director The program will close with a Hawaiian act given by Felix Mahoney and George OConnor The quartet at Hamline Church will give the music at both services today The quartet is composed of Marlon Greene soprano Mrs John Humphrey contralto Clarence Lewis tenor and Fred Schaeffer base Edith Athey is organist and director vMO tf KSviife K3 The Monthly jneetingofjHw womens BBCHonaioniRonjBrycDunwwuuwi defensewasheldlnBockvlli7attl1 Montgomery Country ClubTuesday tnocnlng MrT1 jFrankWilson pres Wj fngrthe feature otheproejBijiVas child welfare MrPnsWsfc of Washington spoke of the great necessity of followingthe directions issued from the United tateschildfenslbu reau for the childrens year campaign Cards for weighing and measuring ohll dren under 6 years of age havsbeen distributed through the county ana help of all lbcal doctors lias been solicited Among those making repprts were Mrs William Talbottifllberty loan and war savings stampti Miss Brlckson county demonstrator Miss Nannie Poole thrift leader from pooles vllle district Mrs Talbott Navy League worx Miss Alice Brooke Bed Cross Mrs James Loughborough BethesdBx district Miss sWjllard Waters conservation chairman Federation of Womens Clubs Mrs James Deets Clarksburg district and Mrs Jo slah Jones captain motor messenger service Spanish War Auflliary The ladles auxiliary of the idepart ment of the District ofi Columbia United Spanish War Veterans at its annunl encampment held recently elected the following officers for the ensuing year Tillie Mae Roth department president Emma Zimmerman senior vice department president Lydia McLaughlin Junior vice department president Margaret Phillips chaplain reelected Kathryn Dentler conductress Nora Albers guard Cora Campbell secretary Jennie Rudlotf treasurer A committee paid vilt to tho convention of the veterans of the District and presented the greetings Cora Campbell was apgkedmaT The officers and delegates have made plons to attend the national convention in Baltimore September 3 SHELLS MUFFLE PIANO DISCORDS Battle Scarred Instrument Uaed by Soldiers at Religious Service Mrs Robert Fralley will present her puplle in a recital at Pythian Hall Thursday She will be assisted by Mrs Allen Garland and Miss Josephine Burton The recital will be followed by dancing Miss Mabel White presented a number of her pupils in concert In the Virgil Clavier Piano School Friday evening Their playing is Interesting and Muriel Gernand Ruth Perkins and Dorothy Phillips appeared to advantage Miss White awarded medals to the Intermediate class of which Mies Phillips la a member The Wayfarers Club met Friday evening In the Thomson School The program was under the direction of MaJ and Mrs Ira Hough and was given by Capt Parish barytone and Sergt Trumpe tenor with Ethel Garrett Johnson at the piano Mrs Hough read her own poem Youth Dies Not which she has dedicated to the Mothers Congress The poem has been published In a small pamphlet and will be sold for the benefit of the service club which the Mothers Congress has established on Massachusetts avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets This new club is well equipped for enlisted men to spend the night or two that they may be in Washing London June 15 Lieut Reglnal Jones formerly organist of a Baptist church at Newport Mont writing from prance says The padre came along on Sunday evening and our battery had an open air service while the shells were whistling over and the German planes hovering We saved an old piano from a ruined cottage It had seven notes missing and three holes from shells in it but we mended the wires with telephone wire and string I played It for the service the fitter having tuned It In spite of the great discords were had fine hearty singing Twas good and very impressive In spite of the incongruity of the piano not a smile was to be seen Life Is 8erloushere and though a man may have a strong tongue and a strange notion of religion he knows out here that he is near to his Maker Sarah St Clair Chapter The Sarah St Glair Chapter A met at the home of Mrs Maude Goll June 22 The regent Mrs Francis A St Clair reported that during the year the chapter had expended for patriotic education In the District 50 and outside the District 105 to war relief and historic work 245 had been given exclusive of a great quantity of knitted garments and other donations to camps and hospitals Thirty nine valuable revolutionary relics have been presented to the museum of Memorial Continental Hall Two French war orphans have been adopted and the chapter plans to adopt more The chapter made plans to meet on Tuesday mornings to mend for the soldiers at a nearby camp It was voted to form a District A Red Cross unit to meet on Wednesdays It was also voted to adopt a real daughter an aged lady whose father had fought with Washington The chapter and a number of invited guests on the Chain Bridge road unveiled one of the original District milestones placed there by Gen Washington Janet Montgomery Chapter The June meeting of the Janet Montgomery Chapter A was held at the historic colonial home of its regent Mrs Loughborough River road Md The morning session was devoted to business matters and reports A resolution was passed indorsing the action of the Washington clergymen in their appeal to the people of our Capital city to observe the ringing of the Angelus daily at noon Miss Netta Craig sang several songs and also read an interesting ancestral paper Miss Edith Saul recited Mrs Stone read a timely article and Mrs Wingate read two letters from her son who is in France A poem written by Mrs Stones young son was read and received applause Mrs Bullard read an amusing letter by the wife of a drafted man Vb VfmXE nv7vrvv i mm jiw rM 4 1 orj WJ7 5 75 A A British Place Lewis Gun First London June 22 In the house of commons Mr I Macpherson undersecretary of the war ofHce said that the committee appointed to test the merits of various machine guns as a result of the agitation for the use of the Madsen gun by the British army had placed the various guns examined In the following order First Lewis second light Hotchkiss third Madsen The decision had been unanimous Optical Company For Better Vision If you are in need of glasses you will 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