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Show Will Join the Church. Though a descendant on both sides of her family of the original Trinity church property owner, Annkee Jans, and brought up In the belief of the Dutch Reformed church, Madame Lillian Blau-velt, Blau-velt, known to musical Montreal, who left New York last week for Russia via Japan, is intensely interested in the Catholic religion and for some time has been instructed in church doctrine by Father Herbert Vaughan, the celebrated London preacher and Jesuit. Madame Blauvelt's friends say she will be received re-ceived into the Church at Westminster Cathedral, London, this winter. Nearly all of her London friends, including Miss Kate Vannah, the well known poet and musician, are members of that congregation. Madame Blauvelt admits there are many reasons why she should join the Catholic Church. She is the only woman in the world who has ever been accorded the coveted order of St Cecilia, bestowed upon her in 1900 by the thousand-year-old Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome after she sang the requiem re-quiem at Verdi's funeral, and as a further fur-ther honor her name was inscribed on the bronze tablet beneath the St. Cecilia Ceci-lia window In the "Vatican. |