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HAROLD VINCENT MILLIGAN.
MARCEL DUPRE,
French concert organist, whose tour in America is proving immensely successful. His recitals on the Wanamaker organ, season
1921-	1922, were so successful that it led to this tour,
1922-	1928, and everywhere the young organist has appeared he has been pronounced a genius. Organist of a church in Rouen, France, at twelve, he won prizes at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nineteen, twenty-one and twenty-three. When hut twenty-eight he won the Grand Prix de Rome, becoming organist at Notre Dame at thirty. He is well entitled to he called “Master of Masters” in the art of improvisation. His next appearance in New York will he on Wednesday afternoon, January 81, at Wanamaker's auditorium, followed by two more recitals on later dates.
(Photo by Hall)


JULIA CLAUSSEN,
photographed in her home the day following her New York recital, with some of the flowers she received. (Photo © by Underwood and Undenoood)
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ELEANOR ELDERKIN,
young soprano, just engaged for leading roles at Havana with the Cosmopolitan Grand Opera Company. Miss Elderkin has prepared for opera with Dr. Daniel Sullivan, and was engaged direct from his studio. (De Mirjian photo)
NEW YORK’S ONLY WOMAN MUSIC CRITIC.
A new portrait of Katherine Lane Spaeth, painted by Arthur R. Freedlander. She has been on the editorial staff of the Evening Mail since 1918, having charge of music for that paper. Her busy career includes writing special articles for magazines, short stories, a novel, Retaliation (almost finished and bid for by two publishers), managing an occasional symphony concert, writing interviews with Strangler Lewis or Suzanne Lenglen, and flitting off to Paris, where she is now, for a week or two of rest and change—more change than rest, perhaps.
PAUL SNYDER AND MARY WOOD CHASE.
On December 81, Mr. Snyder, a professional student from the class of the latter, played the first movement of־ the Tschaikowsky concerto in B flat minor, with the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Frederick Stock conductor. Mr. Snyder gave a splendid account of himself, reflecting much credit upon the training that has been his, and winning the favor of the large audience. (Photo by Cornish-Baker)
During the four Sundays of January, at half past four in the afternoons, the Park Avenue Baptist Church—formerly the famous Fifth Avenue Baptist Church— is to inaugurate an experimental series of musical vespers which promises to be of exceptional interest. Harold Vincent Milligan, the organist of the church and director of its musical activities, has arranged the programs for the series, which aims at emphasizing the religious element in the music of various periods and schools. Each concert will be a religious service expressed solely through the medium of music. A soloist of the first rank will be presented, in addition to the organ program. Helen Jeffrey, violinist ; Livio Manned, cellist; Cecil Arden, mezzo-soprano, and Mildred Dilling, harpist, are to appear in this capacity. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who is closely identified with the activities of this church, has signified his intention of being present at the recitals. He has done much to make the experiment possible, and if interest in the first series warrants, it is planned to make The Ministry of Music a permanent feature of the Sunday worship.
ANGELO MINGHETTI,
tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, as Rodolfo in La Boheme. Mr. Minghetti will sing with the company, beginning with the week of January 21, in Boston. (Photo by Moffett)