Noy. 5, 1915. 
MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
ProcRAM oF Music AND READINGS 
EnjoyeD By MEMBERS. 
THs week’s meeting of the Man- 
chester Woman’s club was in 
charge of the music committee, of 
which Mrs. Bertha G. Knoerr is the 
chairman. The program, which wes 
selected for the afternoon’s entertain- 
ment, contained music and readings 
of the highest order, and the music 
committee is to be congratulated up- 
on the character of the entertainment, 
and upon the success of the artists. 
Miss Ethel A. Hunt of Boston was 
the pianist, and she opened the pro- 
gram with a splendid solo, “Sun- 
down,” by Helen Hopekirk, and 
“Mazurka” by Benjamin Godard. 
Miss Hunt was also the accompanist 
for the vocalist, Miss Alice H. Deca- 
tur, who sang for her first piece, 
Tosti’s “Good-by.” Miss Decatur’s 
voice was rich and very expressive in 
her emotional interpretation. 
The disappointment which every- 
one felt in the enforced, though un- 
expected absence of Mrs. Velma 
Baily-Hicks, the reader, was compen- 
sated by the pleasure everyone felt 
in the work of Paul Barnaby, who 
was sent out from Boston to take her 
place. Mr. Barnaby is young and 
comparatively new at the work, but 
his reading has a promise of a most 
successful future. His first reading 
was an emotional prose selection, 
“Dan’s Prayer.” In response to the 
ready applause he received, he gave 
a pianologue, “Foolish Questions,” a 
clever, though rather light, bit of 
sarcasm. Miss Decatur followed this 
number with “Sing Me a Song of a 
Lad That Is Gone” supplemented by 
“Requiem,” both by Homer. Mr. 
Barnaby’s next reading was one of 
the best known of the poems of A!- 
fred Noyes, “The Highwayman,” 
which has become such a favorite 
with the younger readers. The poem 
is one with a stirring plot, to which 
the English poet has lent a rhythm ot- 
fering to the interpreter an oppor- 
tunity for more than a little dramatic 
intensity. So well did Mr. Barnaby 
take advantage of this opportunity 
that he held his audience spellbound 
while he told them the tale of black- 
eyed Bess and the highwayman. 
Miss Decatur sang “Arioso,” Joan 
of Arc, so well that she was recalled. 
For her second song, she gave “The 
Kingdom of Dreams” by Gilmore. 
Mr. Barnaby’s closing number was 
a group of three, “Mother o’ Mine” 
by Kipling, “How Did You Die?” by 
dward Vance Cook, and “The Wild 
White Rose.” Mr. Barnaby gave the 
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last-named poem in an original ar- 
rangement with the piano, which was 
very charming, and, perhaps, the fin- 
est in its portrayal of an unspoiled 
philosophy of life of all his readings 
of the afternoon. Miss Hunt’s piano 
solo, which was the finale of one of 
the most successful afternoons of the 
season, was beautifully done, and 
aroused the warmest enthusiasm in 
her audience. It was Chopin’s 
“Scherzo,” and Miss Hunt played it 
with a very genuine sympathy as well 
as a faultless technique. 
The business of the meeting was 
transacted at the close of the pro- 
gram. ‘The secretary’s reports of the 
first and second meetings of the club 
were accepted and the delegates, Mrs. 
Knight, the President, and Mrs, Em- 
ma Stanley, to the Federation meet- 
ing to be held Friday, November 5, 
at the Dane Street Congregational 
church, were instructed as to the 
stand of the Club with regard to cer- 
tain amendments to the constitution. 
Mrs. Knight also read an invitation 
to the Club for the address, which 
Mrs. L. A. Mead of the Women’s 
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and announced that calendars are to 
be sold to members at $1.00 each for 
the benefit of the District Nursing 
association. It was decided to appro- 
priate $5.00 for the purchase of Red 
Cross seals, and it is hoped that the 
club members will buy them gener- 
ously. Mrs. Marianna Cheever made 
am announcement of the series of 
Arbella concerts at the ‘Town hall this 
winter. 
The next meeting of the club wiil 
be an open, evening meeting on Novy. 
16, at Town hall with a distinguished 
speaker, Albert L. Squiers, on “The 
South America of Today.” Mr. 
Squiers is quite well known, and his 
stereopticon pictures, which he uses 
to illustrate his lecture are excep- 
tional, There are nearly 200 of therm 
for “The South America of ‘Today.” 
Club members will be admitted upon 
presentation of their membership 
tickets, the admission for adults is 25 
cents, and for children over 12 years 
of age, 15 cents. 
At the close of the business meet- 
ing tea was served by Mrs. Emma 
Swett, hostess for the afternoon. 
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