Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 15

ROMEQ AND JULIET | 10 MARK 2 DEBUTS, Marguerite Moore and Sigurd Nilssen to Make First Ap- pearances Tuesday. an2 Juliet, second of the| tome: | | . of five operas to be given by the Washington Oper: der the of louard .-\l-k bion, will be sung Tues fl\'vnhn{l Lt the Washington Auditorium at-8:15 ¢ ock. Chis performance will mark the operatic debut of two singers, one of | whom, Miss Marguerite Moore, now | of the M n Opera Compan received part of her| Washington, Company un-| supervision musical tr: Miss Moore, ative «f Florida, came to Washington to study in a versity, and while taking up her scholastic work, began to study voice. | Engaged by Metropolitan. Her study continued throu it her scholastic after com- pletion of the returned to | Florida whers a member | T ny. While her that of Stgurd »k the place of Char an o role Nilssen, who t Trowbridge Titty ac Laurence. of | member | e quartet, | ‘ origina b an exce ston when | here in concert year. He with- drew from the quartet to take up| aneratic and 1 e heard in vork fl ne in Romeo atyan to Sing Romeo. Tokatvan, a leading tenor Metropolitan. who s well | who have journeved | v to the Metropolitan, | ke his bow to & Washingto r the first n the role the con- | Opera | Sabani the Compar prin of thel etropolitan, will ing the role of | Juliet, and Ivan Ivantzoff, leading} writone of the Washington Opera Company, will take the role of Mer ! cutio. i A di guished ' patronesses | has give support v o ope Ma \L:rmllvxxs 1(’ socia officlal and diplomatic o are ided in (hfl1 lows List of Patronesses. Mrs. Harry S. New, Mrs. C'urtis D. Wilb M Herbert C. Hoover, Mrs. James J. Davis, Senora de Riano, Lady | Isabella Howard, Frau Wallenberg. | Nenora de Alfaro, Frau Prochnik, | Tme. Seva, Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard. trs. Wil M. Butler, Mrs. Wil liam H. King. Mrs. Charles L. Me- | Nar s. Lawrence C. Phipps, Mrs. | David A. Reed, Mrs. Robert Nelson Mrs. James E. Watson, | s A. Frothingham, Mrs.| Grew, Mrs. Willlam D. A Leland Harrison, Mrs. Everett Sanders, Mrs. L. Lemmot elin, Mrs. Copley Amory, Mrs. Min- Andrews, Mrs. Clarence A all, Mrs. W Board- an. Miss Mabel Mrs Mark Brooke, Mrs. J. Bell, Mirs. Stephen Bon s. James M. Richard P.| Mrs. James F. Curtis, Mrs. | James W. Carmalt, Mrs. Wade H.| Cooper. Mrs. Tra Dows, Mrs. R. Golden Donaldson, Mrs. D. J. Dunigan, Mrs. | Frederic A. Delano. Mrs. George Ehle, | Ars. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Hayne | Mrs. William Cororan Eustice, | 108 A. Fries, Mrs. Charles M. | , Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, | Luther E. Gregory, Mrs. W. T.| iher. Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham, | iruver, Mrs. Beale R. How: | Robert ' E. Henderson, Mrs. iman, Mrs. Christian Heu-| . Francis S. Hight, Mrs. Robert Harper, Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt, Mrs. William F. Ham, Mrs. James E. Ives, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, J. Kaufman, Mrs. Robert . William Mather Lewis, | W J. Mathers, Mrs. Gerrit | filler, i Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.; Mrs. Edward B. Meigs. Mrs. James R. AMann, Mrs. A. M. D. McCormick, Mrs. Frederick D. McKenney, Mrs. Keith Merrfll, Mrs. (. S. Mitchell, Mrs. enr; May, Mrs. Francois Berger Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes, Mrs. Mrs. Arthur C. Phillips, Mrs. G James Parmelee Palmer, Mre. J. Powell Bryan Pitts, Mrs. Ed- | win B Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph, | Mrs. W. L. Radcliffe, Mrs. H. L. Rust, { Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry | C. Sheridan, Mra. Sylvanus Stokes, ir.; Mre. Sophie Siebert. Mrs. Frank H. Simonds. Mrs. StokesHalkett. Mre. Walter R. 1. Tuckerman, Mrs. Joseph P. Tumulty, Mrs. Corcoran Thom, Mrs Thompson, Mrs. Georga Oakley n, Mrs. J. A. L. Vanden Boc, Henry W. Watson, Mrs.| Walker, Mrs. Tom Wil | . Wilkins, Edward Doug! Mrs nnala W, v Toseph 1. Weller, ! M Walter A Wells, Mrs. Bates! Warren, Mrs. Wilkes, M Charles R. | Willian t Woor Il Wilson anc 3 < Reid Yates. , : Marriage Licenses. [ Marriage 8 have been issued to the toiliar and Viola F F both Sadie M. Dutrow. Ruth E. Ordway. ey and B son of Jacksonville, | of New York. i Pa. and | Tarboro, N. C. and Lillian Mintie. | Baber and Emms L. Brown, both of | of thix Two Undertakers —That's what it ordinarily means when the deceased is moved to the home town for interment By Engaging Chambers vou save enough to pay the home-town undertaker. Chambers Prices Are Half FOR $100 CHAMBERS furnishes a funeral the completeness and elegance of which will pleasantly sur prise you. W. W. Chambers Co. The Brown Stone Funeral Home r. 14th and Chapin St. N.W.| Call Columbia 432 | Third Miner in Serious Condition { co Charles Butler, olph Behrend, Mrs. A. E.|f Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Mrs. | rpenter, Mrs. BLAST KILLS BROTHER. After Explosion. FORT SMITH, Ark., December 5 P).—-Willlam Tortner, 18, and Leon- ard Fortner, 21, brothers, dled here tonight from Injuries received in an | explosion late yesterday in the Ka-| nima Mine at Kanima, Okla., near here. Floyd Hayes, 29, another vic- tim of the explosion, is in a serious condition tonight. The explosion occurred when a torch was accidentally applied to pow- der poured from a “jack” to farm a shot. Sixteen other employes in the mine at the time of the explosion escaped uninjured. S STEALS $12, GETS TOYEAR SENTENCE “Confirmed Criminal” Given Long Term—Others Are Sent to Prison. | | Calling attention to the practice in | some States of locking up confirmed | ils for life. Justice Stafford in | Criminal Division 2 yesterday sent P. Dalkelos, white, to the pent. | :“nlfn«‘,\ for 10 yvears. The prisoner broke into the home of Fugene F. | Pressler October 30 last and stole $12 Dalkelos admitted that he had served a number of criminal sentences and i used many alfases | Raymond §. Thomas, colored, was Eiven a term of 10 years in the peni. | erimt tentlary for highway robbery. Ac.| cording to the evidence, he met | Thomas A. Bailey, a white man, | August 25, who Inquired where he could get fome whisky. Thomas led + 1 into Acker's Court in southwest | Washington.and after knocking him | down proceeded to rob him. Glven Five-Year Sentence. Robert Jones, colored, was sentenced to tive years in the penitentiary on two charges of housebreaking. The | rt fixed the penalty at flve years | on each count, but permitted the | terms to run concurrently. Jones stole kodaks, fountaln pens and other | chandise from the Peoples Drug Store August 7. Justice Stafford sent Pete Baliley, ! colored, to the penitentiary for three vears. Pete put up at a Salvation Army hotel on Seventh street May 12, where Arthur G. Fitzhugh was | #180 a roomer. He took $105 from his roommate, the court was told. Two vears in the penitentlary was the sentence imposed on Fleming J. Bell. colored, following his conviction f housebreaking. He entered the dwelling of Agnes Hudgins, where he took wearing apparel. | | P. O. Worker Sentenced. Characterizing as “contemptible thieves” persons intrusted with hand- ling of the mails -who - violate their trust, Justice Stafford sent James R. Harmon, a white man, married, with three children, to Occoquan for one vear. Harmon was caught taking i letters from the post office where he | Occoquan were given John A. Robin son, colored, for larceny, and Thomas | Deane, colored, for an assault. Probation for three years was ex- | tended to Alfred Helmar, assault with | & dungerous weapon, and for two| years to Henry W. Brown on a rgery charge. | was employed. Similar sentences at | | only. | the court, Piano, Player-Pian Again we emphasizce the fact that we sell merchandise of standard name and quality WE GUARANTEE EVERYTHING that leaves our store to be absolutely as represented. GORDON PRASES WOIAN LANYERS Recounts at Bar Banquet Fight to Practice Before Supreme Court. of women In the legal profession since they turned to the law as a means of livelihood, more than half a century ago. and went to Congri to support their plea for ap- pearance hefore the har of the United States Supreme Court was traced by Maj. Peyton Gordon, United States| attorney for the District of Columbta | at the annual dinner of the Women's | Bar Association of the District last| night at Rauscher's. The determination and move on the part of women engaged in law pur- suits came only after the Supreme Court in 1872 had forbade women ap- | pearing to practice before it and after | the court had shown it did not ap- prove of women lawyers, he said. Miss Lockwood the Ploneer. rs passed, however, lawyer se- Progress Only seven ves before the first woman cured the right to argue be-| fore the highest law tribunal of the| Nation. A Miss Belva Lockwood was the first woman to be admitted to! prac before the Supreme Court. | Maj. Gordon traced the history of the Supreme m its first sit- | ting in N e it remain for two yes movement handled final where whe i o where it with little business, Philadelphfa few cases, nd | in Washington business grew immeasur- | ably. Recounting the history of some | of the early important cases hefore Maj. Gordan quoted re- prints of descriptions of the public to but settlement interest in u few of the decisions of the court, which said hundreds of persons lined Pennsylvania avenue on cne occasion. He paid a tripute to woman lawyers, to their efficfency and depth of knowledge, and to the| places they have carved for them-| selves in the legal branches of the| Government. He alluded to Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrant, Assistant Attorney General, as an example of a typically able woman lawyer, who has argued many cases in court. Speaks on Irish Free State. The history of the legal machinery of the Irish Free State since its es- t Ag0 was re- feat, secre- tary of the Irish Free State Legation in Washington. Mrs. Macfeat said the legal machinery in the Free State is modeled largely on observance of the | commion laws of England and is really patterned much after the Iinglish sys tem. She traced the conditions in | Ireland, which she said had caused | | the Irish to rebel against England for | more than 0 vears, finally resulting | in establishment of the Free State. Attorney General John G. Sargent and Mrs. Sargent attended the dinner. | Mr. Sargent did not speak. Other speakers included Mrs. Jessie M. Dell Civil Service Commissioner, who suc- | ceeded Mrs. Ilelen H. Gardener in| that post; Mrs. Florence P. Kahn of | California, who succeeded her husband as a member of Congress from that 3 “rancis H. Stephens, corpora t ansel for the District of Colum bi nd Miss May Bigelow, who intro- | duced the speakers. Mrs. Burnita! 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