Show I Just Gossip I Of Music By D. D J. J G. G LONG with Los Angeles and other I A cities Seattle is organizing a Flute I club made up of flute players and lovers of flute music All of which I i Is a reminder that nobody seems to be bemore bemore more enthusiastic about a musical In Instrument instrument in- in strument than the flutist Once a flutist always a flute bug seems to be the tho rule Many a fiddle cornet clarinet or other Instrument has been thrown aside to be played no more but it seems the flutist always finds time to breathe affectionately affectionately affection affection- Into the embouchure and tickle the ke keys s 's a little while e each ch day Whether bether a a. man makes his living by playing the flute or whether he toots merely for his own pleasure seems to tomake tomake make no difference One is as enthusiastic tie tic as the other Flute players are not jealous ot of one another and none seems to get tired ot of flute music and flute playIng play play- I lug Ing The flute player usually Insists upon having his theatre seat situated near the flute player In the orchestra He can never pass a music store where flutes are displayed without going in and trying out the Instruments The flutist craves the companionship of flute players and that Is why flute clubs are organized When the Flute club was organized in Los Angeles the constitution and bylaws set forth that any flute pla player er was eligible eligible eligi- eligi ble for membership Somebody ventured the remark that perhaps some character I requirements should be added but after atter considerable discussion It was agreed that the rule should remain One member member mem- mem ber asked Does anybody know of a flute player who Isn't a gentleman Nobody did ITom the time the flute was invented some of the most noted men of each epoch have been flute players George Washington was a flute player So was Sidney Lanier known as the Sir Galahad Galahad Gala Gala- had of American literature It Is perhaps the most rom romantic ot of in- in Many rany stories are told about the flute It was the belief that the flute player was never a faIlure at the game of love Legend had It that no damsel could withstand withstand with with- stand the entreaties of the player of his music But from personal experience the writer can testify as to the falsity ot of this be- be lief One of the delightful events of the week was the Sunday evening musicale given at the Hotel Fifth East by guests of the hotel for the entertainment ot of guests and their friends The program I Iwas was made up ot of readings vocal and piano numbers Max gave two tenor solos For You Alone Geehi and God Be With Our Boys Tonight Sanderson Sari San derson Miss Frances Jensen soprano sang lIang When My Ships Come Sailing Home and Swallows Miss Ella Neilson Neilson Neil Neil- son pianist played Etude Mollen- Mollen haupt and Schumann's Loiseau Besides giving givin a reading of The Revolt of Mother Iother Miss liss Ruby Chadwick sang two soprano songs Bonnie Sweet Bessie Ilessie and When Cupid Conies Comes A contralto solo by Mrs Stedman Stedman Sted- Sted man completed the program With the view to organizing a Boy Scouts couts band at Mount Pleasant John A. A has purchased forty Conn band from Stone Co Conductor Guy Eerie of the saxophone band now being organized for the benefit bene- bene fit of amateur performers on t the saxo- saxo phone expects to can call t the he first rehearsal In the next few days The following numbers are Included In inthe the music program of the First Methodist E Episcopal Organ Morning church n ntO tO tomorrow prelude J Hymn ot of anthem Calvary Shepherd Step Step- Nuns rely herd Miss RUby Chadwick Mrs Scott ScottI A. A Jones Harry Lewis Harry Jellison and choir postlude Alleluia in E B Flat Clement Evening Evening- Organ Evening prelude The Pilgrims Pilgrims Pilgrim's Pil- Pil grims grim's Song of Ho Hope Batiste processional processional hymn anthem Up Your Heads Peace Miss Silas Chadwick and choir contralto solo Fear Ye Not ot o 0 Israel Buck Ruth Patterson organ postlude Postlude In B Flat West Vest Mrs Ella Cummings Wetzell chorister Stra 1 Genevieve Gleason organist The second Lenten vesper service In Inthe inthe the series presented by the women's board Ioard of Westminster college which was waR to have been held Sunday afternoon March 16 16 at 5 o'clock at the Phillips Congregational Congregational Congre- Congre church has been postponed for tor tora fora a week Mrs 1 Norman Atkinson will direct the following program Quarter The J Eing of Love My Shepherd Shepherd Shep- Shep herd Is Buck Mrs Norman Atkinson Miss Edna Dwyer Fred C. C Graham P. P Melvin Peterson quartet Fear Ye Not o 0 Israel Spieker Mrs Miss 1 Dwyer Mr l Graham Mr MI Peterson solo As 11 the Heart I Spencer P Mrs f frI Norman m Atkinson ki n reading g part 1 from Stories by Miss 1 RUby Chadwick chorus choir First Christian church Oh Lord How Maui Maui- fold Hamby Bamby quartet Ring Out Sweet Bells ot of Peace Gardner Mrs 1 Atkinson Miss Dwyer Mr Graham Mr Peterson A sliver silver offering The public cordially cordial cordial- ly Invited In a concerted effort to combat the efforts ef- ef forts of German musicians and composers to dominate the American musical pub pub- lie New York musicians have organized the New Symphony Orchestra of New NewYork NewYork York under the direction of Edgar Varese French composer and tor The orchestra wm will be made up ot of ninety musicians all Americans French Italian tI a or English and its s programs will willbe I l Jr 1 i sc I be devoted o to the music of allied composers com com- posers and the encouragement ot of American Amerlean Amer- Amer lean ican music Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs Ralph Pulitzer are patronesses ot of the new musical venture Many have suggested the pUblication of ofa ofa a book recounting the numerous adventures adventures ad- ad ventures of the brave brav Captain Ferdinand of the Sixty ninth French infantry in- in fantry who conducts the French army I band at the Tabernacle here Monday 1 I March 24 He joined his regiment as a minute man at the time of mobilization and from the Marne to Verdun and later fought In the notable battles of the war until the day when he received the Croix J de Guerre The official citation reads as se sef f follows f I Fernand officer exceedingly I brave The first of September led his section In an assault on the farm St. St Ever which he captured lIe was seriously seri seri- I wounded by the bursting of a shell I In gOing out to reconnoiter the ground i In advance of his men He remained I wounded on the ground for eighteen hauls haul's during the bombardment of two artilleries On the same day Captain received re re- two other minor wounds and was carried to safety by his son an under officer of- of icer In the same regiment who went out In the night to find him carrying him to the ambulance of the first line under fire Captain of course has won distinction in music and medals from kings and republics but few it if any leaders leaders lead lead- ers of bands or orchestras can pOint to military achievements surpassing In degree degree de- de gree the highest artistic honors I |