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REBEKAHS’ ANNIVERSARY. 
Excellent Program at Celebration of 
Lodge’s 25th Birthday. 
A musical and dramatie evening 
which proved one of the best ever 
enjoyed by a Manchester audience 
marked the celebration of the 25th 
anniversary of Liberty Rebekah 
lodge, No. 78, I. O. O. F., in Odd 
Fellows hall, Manchester, last Fri- 
day evening. About 200 enjoyed 
the program presented. The enter- 
tainers, four young women proved 
themselves worthy of their name, 
and presented a program of varied 
and wide selection. 
Miss Mary Helen -Pumphrey, 
pianist, who accompanied Miss 
Ethel TIlague Rea, soprano, and 
Miss Ruth Ivy, violinist, pleased in 
two solo numbers for the piano. 
She opened the program with Liszt’s 
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12. All 
of the plunging, whole-hearted fire 
and action which is symbolic of the 
music of Hungary was interpreted 
by Miss Pumphrey in her work; the 
audience was virtually her own 
while she was playing. After a 
later number she responded with 
Dvorak’s ‘‘Humoresque’’ as an en- 
core. 
Another of the artists who pleas- 
ed was Miss Ruth Ivy, a young lady 
of pleasing personality and rare ac- 
complishment on the violin. She 
played as if she lked her work; 
there was no doubt in her mind as 
to whether her audience agreed 
with her—their applause was suf- 
ficient. In one of the opening num- 
bers of the program she played a 
charming little couplet which pleas- 
ed immensely. The pieces were 
‘‘Nocturne’’ by  Chopin-Sarasate 
and ‘‘Romance Andalusa’’ by Sar- 
When she appeared later in 
the program, playing “‘Ave Maria’’ 
by Sehubert-Wilhelmj and ‘‘Ca- 
price Viennos’’ by Kreisler, she was 
obliged to respond to an encore and 
favored her audience with a selec- 
asate. 
tion from ‘‘Tales of Hoffmann,’’ 
whieh was charmingly done. 
There are readers and _ readers 
who seek to amuse and entertain 
the public, but there are compara- 
tively few who are worthy of be- 
ing considered as artists in their 
profession. The Rebekahs were for- 
tunate in their selection of Nina 
Bearse-Wilbur as a reader for their 
entertainment, however, for she ad- 
ded just the correct tone and bal- 
ance to an otherwise pleasing pro- 
gram. 
Miss Wilbur’s ‘‘A Short Story,’’ 
by Mary E. Wilkins, was a clever 
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lodge, through its noble grand, Mrs. 
Mabel M. Crombie, of a beautiful 
black ebony gavel. The gift was 
bit of reading, while she pleased 
equally well in her selection by J. 
L. Harbour, ‘‘The Boy at 3 a. m.”’ 
Miss Wilbur was seen at her best in 
her studies in dialect, in which she 
gave her own original interpreta- 
tions of the varying types of Ital- 
ian, Irish and German characters. 
‘‘How to get rich,’’ a little charac- 
ter study, illustrated the type of 
sunny Italy; ‘‘Tim’s downfall’’ was 
the theme on which Miss Wilbur 
worked with much success in show- 
ing the characteristics of old Erin’s 
clime; the German type was illus- 
trated by a dialect study, ‘‘Pointer, 
the dyspeptie goat.’’ 
Miss Ethel Hauge Rea, 
was in excellent voice and found 
favor with the audience. On her 
first appearance she sang _ three 
songs of varying theme. ‘‘Songs 
my mother taught me,’’ Dvorak; 
‘““Come back to Erin,’’ old Irish; 
and ‘‘Drink to me only with thine 
eyes,’’ old English, composed the 
titles of these three and they were 
soprano, 
executed with consummate — skill. 
Miss Rea’s four numbers at the 
close of the evening’s program 
made her voice linger in the minds 
of her audience long after she had 
completed her last note. These were 
Ronald’s ‘‘Down in the forest’’; 
‘*Child’s prayer,’’ “by Harold; 
Woodman’s ‘‘A_ Birthday;’’ and 
Weil’s ‘‘T wo Rose,’’ with violin ob- 
ligato by Miss Ivy. 
A very pleasant feature ofthe 
evening was the presentation to the 
from the Circle, which has been so 
active in years past in the life of 
the lodge.’ The presentation was 
made by Mrs. Franklin B. Rust, 
whose words were well chosen and — 
very nicely given. The Cirele had 
done much for the lodge, such as 
buying the paraphernalia, silver, 
dishes, ete., and it felt that it would 
like to give a silver cup or some- _ 
thing of that sort on the occasion of 
the 25th anniversary, but it was de- 
cided that a gavel would be more 
lasting and useful. Mrs. Crombie 
accepted the gift for the lodge. 
A representative from the grand 
lodge, I. O. O. F., was called upon 
for remarks, and he expressed the 
felicitations of the grand master on 
this occasion and. spoke briefly of 
the great work of Odd Fellowship. 
On his invitation those present who 
were charter members of Liberty 
lodge, arose; there were nine such 
present including Mr. and Mrs. 
John Rogers Allen, Henry T. Bing- 
ham, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stanley, 
Granville Crombie and three others. 
Refreshments of ice cream and eake 
were served at the conclusion of the 
entertainment. 
A Pennsylvania gun company is 
using the waste pieces of black and 
Circassian walnut, left after veneer 
eutting, for gun stocks. 
