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32 AN OFF WEEK AT THE THEATER “The Beauty Doctor” and a Colored Company in “The Smart Set” the Only Attractions. Tuesday. Matinee and Night—“ The Smart Srt." Wednesday Mghl—“The Beauty Doctor.” Charles Felton Pidgins has present ed a most natural course of events In his story of the sojourn of Quincy Adams Sawyer among .Mason’s Corner folks, with all of the characteristics of the inhabitants of a New England village delightfully portrayed. The dramatization of such a popular story as “Quincy Adams Sawyer” is sure to be attended by successful results, and presented by a competent com pany yesterday won and merited much favorable comment. “Quincy Adams Sawyer” was never intended for and never will be other than a collection of events in the hum drum life of a droning village, with the interest largely centering in the manner in which the characters are portrayed. Mr. Pidgin's descriptions of his characters in the book have been excellently followed out in the dramat ization. Mr. James Thatcher as Quincy Adams Sawyer had little demands made on what artistic powers he might possess as an actor, but in dia logue and the portrayal of the char acter he was pleasing. Mr. Harry S. Robinson as Obadiah Strout, the village singing master, was one of the cleverest comedy character izations seen in Savannah in many days. Mr. Robinson lost no oppor tunity in getting all there was in his lines out to the best advantage. An unusually large company, excellent scenery and many fresh and diverting scenes makes “Quincy Adams Sawyer” a most delightful evening’s entertain ment. Manager Seeskind offers but two at tractions to theater-goers this week. “The Smart Set,” a colored aggregation that contains a number of clever sing ers, according to the press accounts, will be seen Tuesday, matinee and night. Wednesday night the much talked of musical comedy, “The Beauty Doctor," will be the attraction. This production will be offered Savannahi ans for the first time. “The Smart Set.” "Brilliant in color when viewed as a spectacle, funny in its comedy and with excellent musical features,” “The Smart Set” will be seen on Tuesday, matinee and night. The company num bers fifty colored people, and the pro duction this season is entirely new. Among the stars may be mentioned S. H. Dudley, John Bailey and Marion Marion Short. Seats are now on sale. The matinee prices are: Orchestra, 50 cents; balcony, reserved, 50 cents; gal lery, 25 cents. At night: Orchestra, 75 and 50 cents; balcony, 75 cents; gal lery, 50 cents. Entire balcony reserved for colored people. The matinee will begin at 3:30 o’clock; evening at 8:15. “Tin* Reuuty Doctor.” The young comedienne, Miss Henri etta Lee, who plavs the title part in “The Beauty Doctor,” which is to be seen Wednesday night, is congratulat ing herself in escaping the inevitable beautiful, chic young widow parts she has been playing for the last few sea sons. While Miss Lee says the part of the beauty specialist in “The Beauty Doctor” has most of the characteristics of the fortune-hunting Hoyt widows, still she is not a "widow” on the pro gramme and is correspondingly happy. It seems a part of the managerial idea when casting plays to preferably employ actors and actresses who have made reputations in certain lines of character, and Miss Lee, who made her original entree as a widow on the stage in Hoyt’s “A Contented Woman,” as the notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, was sub sequently engaged by Hoyt for all of his plays in which a widow, scheming and otherwise, appeared. After Mrs. Ebbsmith she was engaged to play the sporty and flirtatious Mrs. Guyer in “A Trip to Chinatown,” then she became the calculating and scheming relict of Piggot Luce in “A Milk White Flag,” following it with the less audacious, but equally knowing Hattie, in "A Stranger in New York.” Thus, willy nilly, weeds and crepe have been Miss Lee’s portion theatrically, although there has been no sorrow In her out side life, and now for the first time in some seasons escaping the inevitable widow. Miss Lee is making the most of her opportunity by imparting a sparkling breeziness to the part of “The Beauty Doctor.” Seats will be on sale to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. Orchestra, $1.50 2<-.nes at the Funeral of Mrs. Gilbert - . ** , ■ p Eighty years of work all done, Cherry as when first begun. The hearts of hundreds responded to this characlerlzatlou of Mrs, George Henry Gilbert pronounced by her pas tor In the Bloomirigdaie Reformed Church, New York city, at her funeral service. Floor and galleries of the church were crowded. The services were unostentatious and tho tribute to her was sincere. It was as u woman, not as an act ress. that the Rev. William D. Stinson spoke of Mrs. Gilbert. "We give thanks." he euld, “for the good cheer and sunshine of this woman, who glor ified her profession by her personality. Ws are here to pay tribute to one who was known throughout this broad land as 111# sweetest and sainlllest woman of fits modern stags. With sweet and gracious deference aha always dlsaent sd from all praise and congratulation. I stand hers, as hsr pastor, to say that bar ohlsf glory was not In hsr In- Imitabis art, but In hsr faith In God, th* lit his and tbs Ufa dlvlrta. I apeak of bar to-day as a Ood-fsarlng Hlblr- purs and truth-loving woman. Ths sanctify of hsr prlvsts Ilf* Is ths explanation of her lons beautiful and ■salal ear sat. wUiote Uts psopis will always vlsw with grateful re. otleetloiis* *’ u#,unrul •h* ( and $1; balcony, 75 and 50 cents; gal lery, 25 cents. “Weather Beaten Benson.** Ezra Kendall has found a genuine novelty in 'Weather Beaten Benson.” This is the first play ever written on the American stage to present the rush of settlers in the opening up of anew reservation for locations for cities and homesteads. Nothing in these days is so picturesque as this madcap chase for fortune, and the types to be seen in a rush are so strik ing that great di'amatic situations and irresistible comedy are possible. “Weather Beaten Benson” is one of the great successes of the present sea son. Liebler & Cos. have arranged for a brief tour of the leading cities and Mr. Kendall will present "Weather Bt'aten Benson” with ail the original company and effects for a single per formance in Savannah soon. “A Girl From Diiie." In Harry B. Smith's latest comedy, “A Girl From Dixie,” with interpolated if' ■% \jwr yM? : 'tV'vW. ■V’'-). W—V ■ t '2. ■ *vjv .-'Vy 2 *' ■* i I fcif w -VV.V*V v- , a. 1 c HEsfjst* MF fayanc; * n-.-.. '*H9 MISS HENRIETTA I.EE, As Jtilia Do I, Creme In “The Beauty Doctor.” musical numbers, each role Is forcibly characterized by some Individuality ‘and originality of construction. There is a village music teacher; an idle matrimonially inclined baronet, dif ferent from the type accepted as a stage nobleman; a squire "of the Tama rack Bar, legal, and otherwise,” and a host of other refreshingly new types drawn from the life of what South erners really are, not the exaggerated stage people created by librettists. Creston Clarke Coming. “Monsieur Beaucaire," which, mainly due to the perfection of Richard Mans field’s production, has proved as wide ly popular as a stage entertainment as did Booth Tarkington’s admirable book, is marked among the more im portant early local attractions and will once more renew acquaintance with frol * "$ p UVAS* rlr k'X.wr' 1 'ftJJ?* A I A w 'fj l Iff t <kt|V V 2 Vyfjl * ’’ V 'T: <g ■ jpA < 4HKI ING THE CASH F T WHOM THE Clll H< 11. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1904. Creston Clarke, son of John Sleeper Clarke, and nephew of Edwin Booth. Mr. Clarke has a host of admirers here who will gladly welcome him in a play of such quality. Vera Mtclielena I Young. Vera Michelena, the 18-year-old comedienne, last year the star of “Princess Chic,” made such a hit in the title role that Manager John P. Slocum secured “The Jewel of Asia” as a vehicle to exploit her in this sea son. It is the work of Frederic Ran ken and Ludwig Englander, who have just finished new' operas for Lulu Glaser, Fritz! Scheff, and DeWoif Hop per. Miss Michelena is one of Man ager Slocum’s discoveries. She is the third prima donna whom he has taken from the realm of the unknown and put to the front, the first being Grace Van Studdiford, now prima donna with the “Red Feather.” Her first chance in an important part was given her by Manager Slocum when he was man aging Jefferson De Angelis. Marguerita Sylva is the second young woman whom this manager promoted from an obscure part in “The For tune Teller” to the leading role in “Princess Chic.” Now comes Vera Michelena, the daughter of Fernando Michelena, who was the Jean De Reszke of opera in the South Ameri can republic of Venezuela some years ago. At an early age she was brought to this country, first living in New York and then being sent to San B*ran elseo to receive her education at the Sacred Heart convent in the Golden Gate city. The prima donna whom Mr. Slocum had for “Princess Chic” last season was taken ill on her Western tour and had to be sent home. Mr. Slocum happened to be familiar with the stories about Miss Michelena’s | wonderful voice and beauty, although j she was then only 17 years old, and after seeing her and listening to her singing he had no hesitancy about of fering her the part of “Princess Chic.” That his judgment was again right— in this third instance of a similar char acter—has been proven by the hit the young California girl made in her part. This season Miss Michelena takes a step still higher up the operatic ladder in singing the title role in “The Jewel of Asia,” which is said to be a much more pretentious undertaking than “Princess Chic,” and infinitely better adapted to her wonderful range of voice. “The Jewel of Asia” will be seen here shortly. “The Office Boy.” In these days when the very limit of sartorial splendor seems to have been reached in stage costuming it ap pears to be a little “nervy” to claim super-excellence for the dressing of a play, but. If reports are to be believed that have come from those who have seen Frank Daniels’ comic opera, “The Office Boy,” something extraordinarily fetching and bewitching in the way of stage garmentry will be displayed In the wardrobe of the piece. MADAM CALVE’S~ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT. Why She Will Not Be Heard In New York: This Year. New York, Dec. 10.—The illness of Mme. Calve, reported from Paris, Is causing some anxiety among her New York friends, who had hoped to hear her sing in the Metropolitan this win ter, but who will not be gratified. According to the Judgment of many she is not likely to be heard here in some time, unless she modifies her terms materially, and this probability has been strengthened by the un equivocal success of Olive Fremstad, the Swedish-American prima donna, in “Carmen,” a role in which Calve excels, especially according to New York's way of thinking. To date, so far as reported, none of Herr Conreid’s song birds this year have made any of the little scenes that Calve was always fond of figuring In, and, of course, Herr Conreid is hoping they won’t. Mme. Calve has one of the most artistic “temperaments” on record. Once whep Pol Plancon—good old Pol, still singing in the Metropoli tan—ventured to make a joke about a lot of bouquets waiting in the wings to be given to Calve, she walked out of the house and wouldn’t return till half the company, including Plancon, ran after and implored her to do so. Last April, at her farewell concert, after singing one of her two numbers on the programme, she had a tiff with Herr Mottl and positively refused to sing the second, alleging that she had been seized suddenly by an attack of hoarseness. Mottl himself, and near ly everybody else supposed to have any influence with the singer, went to her dressing room and implored her to appear, but all she would do was to go to the footlights, empty handed, and assure the audience that she had neither score nor accompanist—and so how could she sing? These are only two of the many instances in her American career that have helped to make life a burden to the successive chief musical purveyors in New York during the last ten or eleven years. In France she sings for about one quarter the sum she demands for the same work here. There, too, she is satisfied with twelve appearances in one engagement, while here she insists on fifty. Her pay is so low there that it barely pays for her customes, so that she is bound ultimately to seek further American engagements. Herr Conried, however, doesn’t think New York should pay for th pleasure of Paris, and, should she en gags with him, the terms of the en gagement will have to accord with his conditions, not her theories. When M'adame Calve went abroad last spring she took with her Miss Eva Palmer, the daughter of the Late Cort landt I‘aimer, who wishes to make a success on the Parisian stage and to whom Calve is personally a devoted friend. Calve's first visit to America was made eleven years ago, in 1893. She had already won great musical tri umphs abrc'ad, but they had been preceded by years of desperate strug gles. She is a native of the south of I ranee, near the Spanish border, and, as part of her childhood was spent in Spain, she has often been termed Span ish Part of her girlhood was passed in Paris, where she was employed in a lingerie shop in the daytime, tak ing her singing lessons In the even ing. She sang her first opera role in Brussels when she was eighteen, “B aust” being the opet'a chosen. Her singing teacher was in despair when she told him of the engagement, for she had not even learned the part cf “Marguerite,” which she was to as sume. But he bravely set out to teach it to her, and she learned It in a fortnight. That was years before she began to get a small fortune for each engage ment, and she has never been paid moie than h'alf as much as in America anywhere else. Duane. ILLINOIS TOWN HELD WILTON LACKAYE DOWN. No Out Was Permitted in “The Pit*’ nl Waukegan. Wilton Lackaye and the hamlet of Waukegan, 111., are on the outs. Not that such a state of affairs would or dinarily be of consequence, but In this particular instance Waukegan has ad ministered a stinging rebuke to the actor, who is always willing to do bat tle for what he considers his rights. Never having noticed Waukegan on the map, Mr. Lackaye did not take the matter seriously when his manager told him he was booked to play there. Instead of arriving in Waukegan at the usual time, he remained in Chi cago until the hour when the curtain should have gone up, and strolled leis urely up the main street of the village about 8 o’clock. All of Waukegan’s leading citizens had assembled at the theater to wit ness “The Pit,” and half of them were surrounding the box-office, demanding the return of their money, when news of Lacknye's arrive spread through the crowd. , James Wingfield, the manager of the theater, and Mr. Lackaye were mean while engaging in a bitter argument in the star's dressing room over the use and abuse of one-night stands. Wing field Insisted that the performance be given in Its entirety. “If you think you can Ignore this city with Impunity," declared the In dignant Wingfield, “you are mistaken. There must be no cuts In to-night's performance. I saw “The Pit” In Chi cago. and every time you make a cut I'll cut your share of the receipts ten dollars.” • The performance was given In full, the last act ending at exactly 1 o’clock In the morning. *‘l wouldn't have minded so much,” comments Mr. Lackaye, "If I could go back there some time and wreak an awful revenge But the blamed town is so small I probably won’t ever be able to find It again." AT OBERAMMERGAU IN 1905. peasants Will Present “The School of the I'ross’i Instead of Passion Flay. Munich, Doc. 10.—Tho Alpine peasants of Obsrsmmsrgsu srs already prepar ing for a great Indus of European and American visitors nest summer. After much anslous thought the com - mltlee of the Passion Play has decided (Continued on Opposite Page ) AMERICAN WOMEN IN GRAND OPERA MANY HAVE WON FAME AS POPULAR ABROAD AS FOREIGN SINGERS ARE IN THIS COUNTRY. Some American Girl* Who Have Won International Succe**—Neva da Honored Her State W r ith Her Name—A New Orleans Girl the Greatest Carmen the Stage Has Ever Known—Annie Louise Carey a Down-East Girl—Emma Eanies an American Born In China—Nor dica Born in Maine. Boston, Dec. 10.—Every year when the opera season opens many stories are told about the famous singers who come to this country from abroad at tremendous salaries, but scarcely a word is said of the Americans among them. This is, perhaps, because the nationality of the Americans is fre quently disguised under a nom de the ater, as they have learned in Paris to call their stage names. There is also little said about those other men and women, born and train ed on this side of the water, who are now singing in the famous companies of Europe though many of them have never appeared in their native land. Yet, taken at its full length, the list of successful and distinguished singers in opera and concert who were born in the United States and whose voices were first “discovered" by American teachers is as noteworthy as that of any other country in the world. I‘nlti, Famous of All. Probably the most famous of all the singers, certainly of those who are now living, is Adelina Patti. Though a na tive of Madrid, she spent her childhood in New York and made her debut there. Annie Louise Cary, who re tired some years ago but was in her time one of the great contraltos of both America and Europe, was born in the little town of Wayne in the Pine Tree State. A list of American girls whose na tionality was almost forgotten during their international successes, includes the names of Emma Nevada, who was a Miss Wixon till she became a noted operatic star and adopted the name of her native state; Minnie Hauck, a New Orleans ’ girl who made her de but in Vienna and in her day was the best known Carmen on the operatic stage, and Mme. Albani, a Canadian by birth who spent her girlhood in Albany, N. Y., where she became so locally famous as a singer that a fund MISS MOLLIE EGBERT, Who I.ends “The Cnlture Drill” in “The Bennty Doctor.” Those who will see Miss Mollie Eg bert In her athletic costume of red at the head of the famous “club-swinging girls,” in the production of “The Beau ty Doctor,” Wednesday night, would hardly imagine that little more than a year ago she was the sober and se date schoolma’am in a public school of a Western city. She had under her charge several hundred students and her calisthenic drills were quite a feature of the school exercises. She was particularly adept at club swing ing. When she attended the convention of the National Educational Association in Boston in July of last year, she was put upon the programme for an ex hibition at one of the entertainments given for the visiting teachers. Man ager Wright, who was at that time in Boston arranging for the production of his play of “York State Folks,” and also organizing his "The Beauty Doc tor” Company, saw Miss Egbert in her club-swinging exhibition, which she gave attired in modest, but attractive bloomer costume. In “The Beauty Doctor,” the chief character, a beauty specialist, in advertising her wares, exhibits results of her physical culture method in a club-swinging drill which is a feature of the performance. Man ager Wright waftted an expert to teach his chorus and lead it in this number. The matter was on his mind at the National Educational Association en tertainment which he attended, and when he saw Miss Egbert's exhibition he sought her out and made her an offer at once. The salary was so much more than the young woman was earning In the Western town that it tempted her. Be sides she confessed to a fancy for a stage career. She was an admirnb’e dramatic render and g good singer, qualities that made an effective com bination with her good looks, and ath letic adeptness. But when Mr. Wright mentioned that she must do the drill In tights she balked. That was % lit tle too rmieh. It happened that Miss Egbert was one of the large number of teachers who underestimated the ex pense of a trip to Boston from a great distance, and the liberal salary Mr. Wright offered her appealed strongly to her, especially as “The Beauty Doc tor” was, later In the season, to play her native city; so prospects of salary and railroad fares gone caused her to seek out Mr. Wright's representative and tell him she would accept the place |n the "Beauty Doctor” production, provided the costume could he toned down a bit. Mr. Wright was commu nicated with and a compromise effect ed. and Mlae Egbert at the head of the “club-ewinglng girls" In the “culture drill.” proved to he one of the big hits of the piece. In fact Mlee Egbert became somewhat Infatuated with her role and signed with Mr. Wright for the ensuing mum. was raised to complete her musical education abroad and who took her stage name from the city that had played so prominent a part in her career when she was still Marie Louise Emma Cecile Lajeunesse. Each of these had her first training here and in this generation would probably have received most, if not all, of her musical education without crossing the ocean. Emma Earnrs American-Born In China- In the present generation of singers there are equally notable examples. Emma Eames is an American, though she was born while her parents were in Shanghai, China, where her father svas a lawyer in the international court. She learned to sing in Boston land her first work was in the choir of the Uni tarian Church in the suburb of New ton. She, too, however, must go abroad for the opportunity to enter grand opera in which she made her debut in Paris 1889. David Bispham, now yak ing a concert tour of the country, is generally thought of as an Englishman, but he is a Philadelphian and his ca reer has been largely American, though his first appearance was in the Covent Garden Opera, London, and he has, for professional reasons, made England his place of residence for some years. Boston may almost lay claim to Su zanne Adams, for she was born in Cambridge, near the Harvard yard, 31 years ago; Sibyl Sanderson was a San Francisco girl; Winfred Goff, another Covent Garden principal and one of the leading basses in Colonel Savage’s com pany that sings grand opera in Eng lish, though he is best known abroad, graduated from the New England Con servatory of Music, as have so many distinguished singers of the day. Nordlca- American in Every Way. Perhaps the best known and the most popular of all the great sopranos of the Metropolitan Opera Company— one of those “foreign song birds,” who flit back to Europe each year as soon as the professional season closes on this side of the Atlantic—is Lillian Nordi ca, and Mme. Nordica is an American if ever there was one. She was born in Farmington, Maine, her parents of the good American name of Norton. Not only was her talent first discovered in this country but the whole foundation of her musical education was laid here. It was by the advice of her teacher, John O'Neill, who early saw the won derful possibilities in his young pupil, that after her graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1876, she went from Boston to Milan to perfect herself in the Italian style that she might find the opportunity for an engagement in grand opera that was then to be sought only on the con tinent. Very soon she had appeared at Brescia, Italy, then in London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and other European capitals, and now she is probably the best known Wagnerian singer In the world, while her repertoire includes, altogether, forty operas and all the standard oratorios. Other American Singers. Mine. Homer, or as Americans still prefer to call her, Mrs. Louise Homer, long the contralto prima donna of John Grau’s opera company in London and one of the best known European vocal ists—for she has been a prominent fig ure in opera at Vichy and Brussels — and now a principal in Herr Conreid’s Metropolitan Opera House Company, in New York, came originally from Pennsylvania and got all her training at the Conservatory of Music. Gerald ine Farrar, who has never been heard in this country but has been the sen sation of two seasons in Berlin, and promises to become one of the “stars among stars.” is the daughter of the Farrar who was once “crack” first baseman of the Philadelphia league nine, and was brought up in the town of Melrose, not five miles from the Massachusetts State House. Tennessee has given the Italian stage Miss Marguerite Norri—her plain Am erican name is Freeling—though she has never been heard by her fellow countrymen since she left the Conser vatory in Boston: and Ralph Osborne, who went from the operatic school two years ago, first to Palermo and then to Madrid, is already one of the favorites of Southern Europe, though he is yet to have his American “premiere.” Home Singers the Thing, It is only within a few years that the American vocalist felt It possible to find a complete education in this country or to appear in public under a plain American name. It is safe to say that to-day much more than ever before American audiences are looking to American singers for their concerts and operatic performances. One result has been the remarkable increase of interest that has made possible suc cessful enterprises in the field of light musical opera, and of such important WEDNESDAY NIGHT ONLY. FRED E. WRIGHT’S MARVELOUS MUSICAL MELANGE . i THE .. BEAUTY DOCTOR. 50 Comedians, Singers, Dancers 50 HEADED BY Chas. P. Morris and Henrietta Lee. ORCHESTRA $1.50 AND SI.OO-BALCONY 75 AND 50-GALLERY 25. SEATS TO-MORROW AT 9 A. M. Tuesday, Dec. 20, The Comic Opera “Jewel of Asia.” MATINEE TMCCn AV NIGHT AT 3.30 IUEOUHT AT 8.15 The Big damn nuiiyn nrm 50 Musical l(It JIKI St People Show. 50 c H DUDLEY JOHN BA,LEY and all the old n. UUULIT, Marion smart. favorites. The Hilarious Musical Comedy Company of all Colored Entertainers so different from all the Rest. More Hearty Laughs. More Original and Catchy Music. More Up to Date Comedy. More Bewitching Pretty Girls. THAN EVER SEEN WITH ANY COLORED SHOW BEFORE. The Entire Balcony Reserved for Colored People. Prices Matins# Orchestra SU, Balcony SO, Oallery 25c. Night Orchestra 7S and SO, Balcony 7. Gallery 50c. Heals oe asle now. undertakings as the Anglicising of Parsifal which are diverting the pub lic taste from the opera bouffe and op era comique that alone could expect any considerable public support a few years ago, comparatively speaking. Music in the West. In the West, particularly, there has been anew interest in matters musical. Mrs.' Genevieve Clark Wilson, a Chica go girl, is a concert soprano of no less ability than has made a continental reputation of many another singer; Gertrude Rennyson, whose wonderfully high soprano voice has made her Mar guerite a notable creation, came from Norristown, Pennsylvania; Pauline Woltmann, who was a concert contral to of high attainments and later a Con servatory teacher until she gave up professional life when she went to Chi cago to live after her marriage, was born at Rock Island; Lucille Hill; Flor ence Finlayson of the Bostonians; Maud Reese-Davies, Sousa’s soloist, and Anna Hickisch, sometime soprano of the Alice Neilson Opera Company all these were born somewhere in the forty-five states or five territories, and all of them studied in Boston. Start in Church Choirs. Not a few native singers have found their first opportunities, as Emma Eames did, in church choirs, which are raising their standards higher and hifeher, as may well be imagined in the circumstances. Some women there are, and among them some who might win fame in dramatic singing, doubt less, who prefer other sides of their profession—Mrs. Grace Bonner Wil liams, the concert and oratorio soloist, and Alice Mabel Stannaway, for exam ple, who are now teachers. THE CORNELL GLEE CLUB CONCERT JAN. 3 Will Be An Event of Interest to Sa van naliia.n s. One of the early 1905 musical events for Savannah will be the Cornell Uni versity Musical Club concert at the theater, Jan. 3. The club numbers sixty men, including the Banjo and Mandolin Club members. It will start on its winter holiday tour next week, coming as far South as Savannah. The club travels by special train. Its itin erary is as follows: Monday, Dec. 26, Waldorf-Astoria, New York city; Tues day, Dec. 27, Philadelphia; Wednes day, Dec. 28, Washington; Thursday, Dec. 29, Richmond; Friday, Dec. 30, Charlotte; Saturday, Dec. 31, Asheville; Monday, Jan. 2, Augusta; Tuesday, Jan. 3, Savannah; Wednesday, Jan. 4, Charleston; Thursday, Jan. 5, Raleigh. The members of the club are from all but four states in the Union. In it are some of the best athletes in the university. Such men as Lies, Burns and Schoelkopf of the football team; Newman of the track team, who at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving, estab lished anew world’s amateur cross country record for six miles over the Travers Island course, and Kline of the lacrosse team, recognized as one of the cleverest lacrosse players in America. Places on the clubs are awarded on the basis of competition and men are not chosen as a matter of favor. The competition begin as soon as the uni versity term opens in the fall. At that time all candidates for the Glee Club from over 4,000 students, are called upon to appear at the club rooms prepared to sing a solo. It usually takes four evenings to hear the aspirants in their first bid for col lege musical honors. From these 300 men, are chosen the ninety or one hundred most likely ones, who are worked upon by a professional in structor for a couple of months, when a second cut is made. During that time, many of the men are working with a New England Conservatory man who comes for six weeks to engage in private coaching. On the first of De cember, the last cut is made when the forty-five best men are picked. The instrumental clubs adopt the same pro cedure in choosing their men. and in this way, the best musical talent is secured. College songs always have a pecu liar charm, even to those who have never experienced the Joys of student life, while the heart of the “grad.” himself is warmed by the melodies of college airs, whether or not they be those of his own alma mater. Not only the college man, and the person interested in college songs, but all lovers of music will find something in the varied programme that will appeal to their taste, for the range of the Cornell Club extends all the way from “Faust” selections by the Mandolin Club to the rollicking rag-time ditties of the Glee Club. The visit of the Cornell Club hers (Continued on Opposite Page.)