Mr. and Mrs. Georg Henschel, at Mendelssohn Hall in January, gave two song recitals, making their selections from Cimarosa, Handel, Arthur Foote, Schumann, Liszt, Mendelssohn, and other high-class composers.

Miss L. May Haughwout presented her pupils in recital, Dec. 21. Among the selections were "Aunt Peggy and High Art,". "Mis' Randolph's Misery," "The Lady or the Tiger," and "Penelope's Christmas Dance."

Miss Maude Willis has recently added to her repertoire an arrangement of "The Prisoner of Zenda," and of Rupert of Hentzau.' She is now instructor of elocution and physical culture in Liberty Ladies' College.

Miss Virginia M. Harrington, who has been teaching successfully the last three years in the Red Wing Seminary and St. Paul Park College, of Minnesota, has changed her plan of work for the winter and is giving and arranging entertainments through Minnesota.

Miss Minnie Swayze, of New York, gave two lecture recitals in December before the Hemstead Woman's Club. Selections from Eugene Field, T. B. Aldrich, Emerson, and Longfellow were inIcluded. This is the second season Miss Swayze has been called upon by the club.

In Melbourne, Victoria, Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal A. Williams, of New York, are being presented by Messrs. Giesen & Clarke in a series of subscription Shakespearian recitals. Dec. 14 Mr. Williams read King Henry IV," and Mrs. Williams, Dec. 18, read "As You Like It."

Mr. J. C. Stephenson, of New York city, and Mr. J. E. Ryan, assisted by Miss May Perin and Miss Margaret E. Walton, lately presented in Covington, Ky., a dramatic program including "A Morning Call,' "Two Old Cronies," and a scene from The School for Scandal."

Mrs. Louise Preece has lately returned in good health from her trip abroad. During her stay she visited the schools of London and Berlin, investigating especially the physical culture work done there. "The Preece Method of Physical Culture" is in use in many American schools.

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Mr. G. A. Dobinson is pushing the development of the Los Angeles School of Dramatic Art. Mrs. Florence Amy Young and Mrs. Isabel Wyatt presented the pupils of the junior grade, Dec. 17The a program including among the selections: Boot-Black," 66 "Marriage of the Flowers," The Love Knot," scene from "Merchant of Venice," quarrel scene from "School for Scandal." Lately pupils from the school entertained the Friday Morning Club with a comedietta, "Men Were Deceivers Ever."

Mrs. S. Etta Young assisted lately the program of the Winnebago Hive by recitation of The Slave's Lullaby," and "Behind the Curtain." The regular program of the Algoma Horticultural Convention was in her charge and she presented her pupils to their credit. Molly," "The New South," My First School," The Unknown Speaker," "Hanging a Picture," and "Jimmie Brown's Steam Chair were all received with applause. Mrs. Young herself recited a scene from "Oliver Twist." WERNER'S MAGAZINE is promised a program of a Longfellow's Birthday Cele bration which Mrs. Young has in preparation.

Miss Julia F. Ayer and Miss Grace Wells Heagle presented a musicale and reading in Brooklyn, Jan. 24, for the benefit of the Rainbow Cot, St. John's Hospital, Miss Laura Wheeler, violinist; Miss Helen Marie Burr, harpist; and Miss May Colson, pianist, assiting. Miss Ayer gave, Jan. 14, an evening of Scotch authors at the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. Through the Ford (Ian Maclaren); "A Race for a Wife" (Barrie); and "She Likes Him Rale Well were among her selections.

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Miss Emma Field was included by the Oriole Mandolin Club, Philadelphia, in their program, Jan. 24, reciting the Christmas story from" David Harum," and Our Wedding Day." Miss_Field includes in her repertoire" The Triumph of Fate," "The Bishop and the Caterpillar," Samantha Sees a Banshee," "The Swan Song," and De Cake Walk 'fo de Wah." She reports the success of a little pupil whom she instructed in " My Faith Looks up to Thee," from poses given in November WERNER'S MAGAZINE.

Dr. Charles Wesley Emerson has signed a contract under the terms of which he continues his work in the Emerson College of Oratory as long as he is able and willing. He has determined to devote his life to this interest in the future as he has for the last twenty years. The college is to have a new and finely appointed college home, at Huntington and Mass. Aves., Boston, in the new Chickering Hall building, thus completing gloriously the wanderings which first took it from the little rooms in Pemberton Square to Wesleyan Hall.

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Miss Louise M. Graff has been giving a series of Thursday afternoons in Brooklyn, reading from various authors. "The Revolt of Mother," ventor's Ghost," "One Good Time," and An Object of Love were chosen from Mary E. Wilkins. Other numbers of her repertoire are: "Lockerbie Street,' "Old Fashioned Roses," Brook," "The Clover," "A Life's Lesson,' "Over the River and Through the Wood," "A Christmas Memory," "Bud's Fairy Tale," "The Boss Girl: A Christmas Story," and "God Bless Us Every One."

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Miss Jennie Mannheimer's C. S. E. Dramatic Club of Cincinnati, has been presenting dramatized cuttings from popular novels. The club offers two entertainments each month and has appeared in many Western and Southern cities. Miss Mannheimer is planning a visit to New York in Febru ary or March. Her fifth recital is dated Feb. 14. Feb. 26 her Dramatic Club appears at the Odeon. At the Young Women's Club Miss Mannheimer, beginning Feb. 16, gives three recitals. One of her programs includes Kipling's "Light That Failed," arranged in monologue.

Prof. Henry Lawrence Southwick's acquaintance with the Emerson College of Oratory began when the Institution was five years old, being graduated from the College course in 1887. He was invited by Dr. Emerson to join the faculty. This, however, he declined that he might test himself by efforts not under the wing of his alma mater; but in 1889 he accepted the offer of a life-interest in the business of the college, gave up his position in the Penn Charter School of Philadelphia and a salary of $3,000 and became again associated with the Emerson College. From that time his business connection with the college has never ceased, though he has tried some professional experiments, and done some teaching outside. This year Mr. Southwick has purchased the control and assumed the responsibility of the business management of the institution. Dr. Emerson will be freed from business details and will devote himself entirely to lectures and class-work.

The American Academy of the Dramatic Arts presented its fourth matinee season 1900-1901, at the Empire Theater, New York city, Jan. 29. During the Ball," a one-act comedy translated by Joakim Reinhard from the French, was cast with Charlotte Huntington and Rachel Crown. "The Tragedy of Death," produced for the first time on any stage, was rendered from the French by Edwin Star Belknap. Music by Harvey Worth. ington Loomis. Principal parts were taken by Teresa Toube, Harry M. Goldberg, and Julia Marie Taylor. An adaptation in English from Feuillet, made by Mrs. Burton Harrison. "The Portrait of the Marquise," was produced with Robert Sanford, John Le Roy Atwell, and Virginia Loring in the cast. A farce from Molière, "The Jealousy of Le Barbouille," translated by Charles Heron Wall, was played by Eleanor Lawson, Wallace Worsley, and others. Mr. Charks Jehlinger was general stage manager and Mr. Wilfred Buckland was art director.

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Miss Charlotte Sulley ('95) has done very valuable work in our department of recitation, holding two classes weekly during the fall and December. Miss Sulley has charge of the Physical Culture and Elocution in Miss Moses's school in this city, and holds classes in Montclair and Orange, beside a number of private pupils. She has made a specialty this year of half-hour programs for small clubs and societies, averaging one engagement each week. Besides these, her two appearances at the National Suffrage Bazaar were very successful, the consensus of opinion of the committee being that her work was the most attractive of the week. Beside appearing at the Alumnæ entertainment on Dec. 8, Miss Sulley directed and read at a recital in Harlem, Dec. 11. Of her immediate engagements she writes:

Dec. 13 I gave an evening at Unity Hall, Montclair, N. J., with a program of statue impersonations, pantomime and miscellaneous readings. On Dec. 2 I gave readings at Christodoro Home, to boys. My selections were The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer,' The Ruggleses' Dinner Party,' and selections from James Whitcomb Riley. To-morrow afternoon, Jan. 3, I have another of those half-hour engagements; the following Thursday evening, the 10th, another; and Feb. 1, a large entertainment in Jersey City."

The Virginia City (Montana) Times says, of a recital by Miss Mabel M. Gormley ('97): "The entertainment was an intellectual treat, far surpassing anything of the kind ever given in this city."

A recital was given by the New York School of Expression, assisted by Miss Lucille Presby and Miss Margaret De Forest Anderson, under the direction of Miss Charlotte Sulley, for the benefit of the Young People's Asociation of the New York Presbyterian Church, 128th Street and Seventh Avenue, at Y. M. C. A. hall, Harlem, on Tuesday evning, Dec. II, 1900.

The performance netted a considerable sum. The school is prepared to furnish entertainers, or a whole evening's program similar to the above, on very reasonable

year, according to the degree of advance

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Dr. George F. Laidlaw is giving a series of lectures on vocal anatomy, with demonstrations of the larynx, Fridays, at 2.30. We cordially invite all who are interested to attend these lectures free of charge.

A condensed arrangement of Longfellow's Spanish Student" is in preparation for the commencement exercises. THE WORK.

terms, and we are booking several dates for the near future.

Miss Margaret Dills ('97) has an engagement with Richard Mansfield's Company. Miss Dills has been cast for important parts in several plays and is understudying one of the leading rôles. It is a pleasure to state that her very rapid progress is largely due to the fact that she was trained in expression rather than coached in plays. Her present engagement, secured after scarcely two months on the stage, was due to her exceptional elocution. This fact is gratifying to us, not merely because of her connection with our school, but as once more illustrating the value of elocution to the actor as well as to the orator and reader.

The Daily Argus, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., says, of one of our Saturday morning classes:

"Miss Johnston then responded to the call for another recitation with a very effective one which won a hearty encore. It was beautifully rendered, and delighted the audience."

The Wheeling (W. Va.) Press speaks in complimentary terms of Miss Louise Hubbard ('99), whose beautiful reading is attracting great attention."

The North Tarrytown Daily News says:

"Miss Martha Rockefeller ('99) appeared as elocutionist at the member's monthly reunion at the Railroad Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York City last Monday night and achieved a marked success. Miss Rockefeller is now fairly launched on her professional career, and her many friends in this neighborhood will wish her the prosperity which her talents should secure."

A dramatic performance was given in Berkeley Lyceum, Dec. 20, 1900, under the management of Miss Katherine Johnson, of the class of 1901, in association with Miss Alice Howland and Mrs. Edward S. Beadle. The following plays were presented, staged by Miss Johnson: "Cups and Saucers," by George Grossmith, Jr.; "Gentleman Jim, by W. K. Walker. The Three Miss Biddles," by Alice Grant Yates and Edwin Star Belknap, was also given, staged by Mr. Belknap.

It received several favorable press notices, among them the following from the New York Tribune: "All the plays went off with great éclat and the acting was admirable."