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Show German Opera Sets Club Meeting Theme The German opera, "Tanhauser", by Richard Wagner furnished the theme for' the meeting of the Springville Federated Music Club last Friday evening, at the home of Mrs. Lucille Bird. Miss Alzada Wilmott was co-hostess. Mrs. Lu-cile Lu-cile Erickson, president, was in charge. The opera was reviewed Dy Mrs. Catherine D. Wills and in connection connec-tion with the review, she played a number of recordings from the opera, loaned for the occasion by Don Curtis. Mrs. Bird reviewed the life of the composer. A special guest of the evening was Mrs. Edwin Qlsen, a native of Germany, who recently came to this country to live and she described des-cribed a typical German garden and other scenes in Germany, to give the group a background and to add atmosphere to the program. The hostesses arranged a German Ger-man lunch served buffet style and the guests were seated at small tables with red and white checked cloths. The room was decorated to represents a German garden and other details of the party were in keeping with the spirit, the time and the place in which the opera was written. |