MUSICAL COURIER
April 6, 1922
were James Baker, Luther Colbert, Valerie Campbell, Laura Baker, Harold Van Buren and J. D. Yeager. The play was under the direction of Mr. Van Buren, assisted by Sarah Elizabeth King.
Florence Milmer was heard in a song recital March 9 at Edison Hall. Those taking part were Mrs. Lindsay Forrester, Mrs. Tom Champion, Mrs. Will Sims, Mrs. Rembert Simms, Mrs. Goode Farrior, Louise Calhoun, Kathleen Watson, Estelle Barrett, Frances Camlee and Carl Calloway, with Alma Harwell, violinist, and Clara Mae Smith, accompanist.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Moore entertained at their home on West Eleventh street, on March 14, in honor of their guest, Mme. Ruano Bogislav (Mrs. Riccardo Martin), who was heard in recital under the auspices of the Atlanta Music Club a few days previous. Mme. Bogislav sang and little Jacqueline Moore played on both the Italian and the Irish harp; Frances Woodberry and Lillie Peeples assisted at entertaining, as did Rex Tilson, Mme. Bogislav’s accompanist.
Mary Margaret Duffy, niece of Mrs. and Mrs. James J. Duffy, with whom she makes her home in Atlanta, danced the “Ballet Coppelia,” that first made Pavlowa famous in this country, at the St. Patrick’s Dance Revue at the Auditorium on Friday, March 17. The young girl is a pupil of Mrs. William Clare Spiker, and a brilliant future is predicted for her.
The boys at the Government Base Hospital at Fort McPherson have been entertained royally by the various churches and organizations of Atlanta ever since the establishment of Fort McPherson as a Government hospital. On March 6 the Hospital Committee of the Woman’s Club presented a musical program, featured by the singing of W. J. Costeron, of Chicago, and the reading of Sara Hill. The playing of popular music by R. A. Anderson and a solo by Mrs. Roger A. Wilson, soprano, pleased everybody, apparently, judging by the unstinted applause.
A chorus, made up of one hundred members of the Atlanta police force played an important part in the program rendered March 12 at police headquarters. E. C. Hudson is president of the police singers and was instrumental in getting the^ services of the Smyrna and Sunny City quartets to participate in the program. The orchestra was composed of members of Wedemeyer’s Band.
The colonial play sponsored by the Parent-Teachers’ Association of Decatur, and given by members of the Junior High School, offered an entertaining spectacle. A beautiful tableau of colonial figures and a group of character songs in appropriate costumes, sung by Lois Wing and Sarah Wade, were especially good. Gertrude Handley aided immeasurably by her piano accompaniment.
On March 7 the Atlanta Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, gave a delightful musical entertainment at its chapter rooms in the Masonic Temple, in West End. Those taking part on the program were Earl Rhoades, John Pitts, Mrs. Gastin, Mr. Grant, Miss Bogart, Mrs. Earl Rhoades, Dorothy Collins, J. Withers, Carl Cunningham, George Beverly and Eloise Wilson.
The program given by the children at Faith School, under the auspices of the Parent-Teachers’ Association on March IS, was^ an unusually fine one, being given for the benefit of the “Kitchen Fund,” which supplies hot, nutritious lunches to the children every day. A neat sum was netted.
The All ’Round Girls’ Club of the Y. W. C. A. is rehearsing a bright little “play with music” to be offered in the near future for the benefit of the club’s “pet charity.” Those taking part in the play, which will be called “Marie,” are Leona Crymes, Annie Bennett, Pearl Fredericci, Myrtis Embry, Ellen Spiggle, Lura Belle Robinson, Daisy Jaillet, Flora Belle Yarbrough, Bill Dozier, Mr. Head, Harry Allen and Hubert Anderson.
In an address on “The Progress of Music” at the weekly luncheon of the Atlanta Rotary Club, Charles A. Sheldon, city organist, labelled “jazz music” as a “complete joke” and vigorously denounced it. His address was warmly applauded.
Nora Allen, soprano, formerly with the Chicago Opera but now a member of Atlanta’s resident music circles, gave a delightful concert at Cable Hall on March 10 for the benefit of the First Baptist Church Ladies’ Aid Society. Partly because of Miss Allen’s popularity and partly because her program was made up mostly of music from the operas to be given during Grand Opera Week, the attendance was large.
The Rotary Club had a real musical luncheon when Mrs. De Loos Hill played three piano selections, Margaret Nelson sang three lyrics, and Rotarian Ralph Byrnes sang two tenor solos.	p (J.
tiful program which included the aria from “Ernani” and songs by Royce, La Forge, Zerocini and Tschaikowsky, and also “Come, Love Divine,” by Leon Cazalla, written especially for Caruso. Ruby James Slaton accompanied Mrs. Johnson at the piano and offered numbers by Grieg, Mac-Dowell and Chopin.
Mrs. Edward MacDowell Gives Lecture-Recital.
Mrs. Edward MacDowell, widow of America’s famed composer, and herself a musician and promoter of the arts who_ holds a position unique in art in America, is, at this writing, a distinguished guest in Atlanta, and was presented in a lecture-recital by the Atlanta Music Club at Egleston Hall. So tremendous was the applause which greeted her playing of the several big things she offered (among them the “Sonata Tragica” and the andante from the Norse sonata, “The March Wind”) that, in response to repeated requests for extra numbers, she practically doubled her program.
“Bobby” Besler Proves Treat to Many.
Another event of real interest in the music world of Atlanta was the appearance of Miss “Bobby” Besler,' a noted and noteworthy juvenile recitalist, at Egleston Hall. Her program of folk songs which had been chosen particularly for the juvenile department of the Music Study Club proved to be a treat to the grownups as well, a number of whom were present.
Frederick Gunster Pleases.
The Atlanta Music Club presented Frederick Gunster, a tenor of rare ability, at Egleston Hall on March 14. Among
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Large Sale for “Voice Education”
The first edition of Eleanor McLellan’s book, “Voice Education,” published by Harper & Brothers, is practically sold out. By request, an enlarged edition of the book is being written by Miss McLellan, who is known as “the maker of singers.”
Mr. Gunster’s most popular numbers were the “Le Roi d’Ys” aria, “Pale Moon,” “A Dissonance” by A. Borodin, and Dvorak’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” But one number made a particularly keen appeal to the audience—“A Plantation Ditty”—partly because of its real beauty, and also because it was the work of Nan Bagby Stephens, one of Atlanta’s most talented musicians, president of the South Atlantic District of the Federation of Music Study Clubs, and an untiring worker in the cause of worth while music.
Operalogues Pave Way for Grand Opera.
The “Opera Musicals,” or “Operalogues,” as they are sometimes called, which precede Atlanta’s annual event, grand opera, always have a way of discovering some new and unexpected talent in Atlanta’s own music circles. This year, while his talent was not unexpected, or undiscovered, Atlanta has reason to be very proud of Byron Warner, who sang at the first musicale “Carmen,” and who followed his instantaneous success in this by singing in “Pagliacci” at the next musicale. Mr. Warner is a prominent member of the Emory Glee Club and of the quartet of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Charles Sheldon, city organist, is the director. During the operalogue of “Pagliacci” a record of the famous “Sob Song,” as sung by Caruso, was played by the Victrola, accompanied by the Howard Orchestra under direction of Enrico Leide.
News Items.
Clarence Eddy, American organist, assisted by Mrs. Eddy, contralto, gave a recital in Atlanta, under the auspices of the Georgia Chapter, American Guild of Organists, which was largely attended.
The Fulton High School Glee Club presented Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pinafore” at Cable Hall before a large and genuinely enthusiastic audience. Among those taking part
Song Contest Announced—Mrs. Edward MacDowell Gives
Lecture-Recital—“Bobby” Besler Proves Treat to Many —Frederick Gunster Pleases—Operalogues Pave Way for Grand Opera—News Items
Atlanta, Ga., March 16, 1922.—The Caruso Memorial Concert in Atlanta on March 6 was a beautiful tribute, almost worthy of the great singer in whose name it was given, for the benefit of the Caruso American Memorial foundation.
Col. William Lawson Peel, president of the Atlanta Music Festival Association, is a member of the national executive committee of the foundation, and is vice president for the South. C. B. Bidwell, treasurer of the Atlanta Association, is also a member. For the occasion, the orchestras from Atlanta’s largest motion picture theaters—the Howard, Criterion and Metropolitan—were combined into one symphony orchestra. Enrico Leide, music director of the Howard Theater, and David Love, director of the Criterion and Metropolitan, alternated as conductors, and the result was such that the audience went away eagerly discussing the possibility of a permanent symphony orchestra for Atlanta.
The program included an organ solo, prelude to “Lohengrin,” played by Charles A. Sheldon, city organist; prologue from “Pagliacci,” sung by J. Foster Barnes; a duet, “Barcarolle” from “Tales of Hoffman,” by Mabel and Hazel Whitney; a solo, “Vissi de Arte,” sung by Mrs. W. O. Chears; solo, “M’appari Tutt Amor,” from “Martha,” sung by Solon Drunkenmiller; chorus, “Serena i Vaghi Rai Cavatina,” “Bel Raggio Lussinghier,” from “Semiramide,” sung by Grace Lee Townsend and the Girls’ High Choral Club, of the Girls’ High School; the ever popular quartet from “Rigoletto,” sung by Mrs. W. O. Chears, Harriet Smith, Andrew Browning and J. Foster Barnes; “La Source,” suite by Delibes, “Scarf Dance,” “Love Scene,” “Variation” and “Danse Circassiene,” played by combined orchestras conducted by David Love; sextet from “Lucia,” Mrs. W. O. Chears, Hazel Whitney, Solon Drunkenmiller, Byron Warner, R. E. Dale, and J. Foster Barnes; overture from “Wagner,” by combined orchestras conducted by Enrico Leide.
Perhaps the most poignant moment during the entire concert was when the stage was darkened and a wonderfully illuminated portrait of Caruso was given the full stage, while a Victrola gave forth the voice of the great tenor himself. When this was over there was a pause, a tense and breathless moment, broken only by the thin patter of rain on the roof; there was a timorous effort at applause, but it died out with the sense of its own inappropriateness. Caruso was a very real person to Atlanta, where he made himself a favorite by his own inimitable manner when here during opera, and the tribute paid to him at this concert was not to a world-famous man, but to a well-loved and sincerely mourned friend.
Two Georgians Write Song.
A great deal of friendly interest has been shown in the beautiful song sung by the church choir in Tennille on Georgia Day, February 12, and in the statement that the song, “Work Is Our Watchword,” is the combined work of Loula Kendall Rogers, who is responsible for the words, and Francis Ridley Havergale, the composer.
Song Contest Announced.
This brings one the thought that some Georgia man or woman, boy or girl, has the opportunity now before him (or her) to have his (or her) name go down in history as the composer of a state song for Georgia. The contest has been announced by Mrs. J. E. Hays, of Montezuma, Ga., who has appointed Ella Polk chairman of the music division of the Georgia Federation of Woman’s Clubs. The rules are simple and the contest, which is for a poem only, to be set to music later, is open to all native born Georgians, or to people who have been residents of the state for ten years or more; the poem must not exceed three stanzas, each stanza to have eight lines, with a four-line chorus; no dialect, foreign phrase or word is to be used; the name, the town, the address of each contestant must be placed in a sealed envelope, accompanying the submitted poem, four copies of which must be mailed to Ella Polk, 327 South Jackson street, Americus, Ga, by April 1, 1922.
An interesting artistic and social event of the month was the joint musicale and tea given by the hospital and jails committee and the Witches Club, Circle 1, of the Atlanta Woman’s Club. Mrs. Odis Poundstone, nee Marguerite Carter, whose lovely voice (with which she is so generous) has won her many warm admirers, was in charge of the musical program. Mrs. Earl Sherwood Jackson read an allegory, “The Slave with Two Faces,” and Sudie Bowden Johnson,, soprano of the First Baptist Church, gave a beau-
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