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Vf RS. JESSIE EMERSON MOFFAT acted as chairman for a tea and card party which the California Club gave at the Barbizon-Plaza Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, December 4th, for the benefit of the General Emergency Fund. Mrs. Thomas Vivians-president of the dub; Mrs. Charles A.

Beck of Brooklyn, Mrs. Robert S. Maffitt, Mrs. William R. Stewart and Mrs.

Upton Hallett were hostesses. Our Juvenile Friends NEGRO SPIRITUALS IN AMERICA AND EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN -v MUSIC This ts the third of a series of stories on how music began and the form it took, in 4 ancient countries) 1' tt WrwniBTT A Piuitlrvrn jyiR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. KILEY of the Hotel St George returned recently from a two weeks' trip to Florida.

Mr. and Mrsi Kiley made the trip down by, boat to Miami, also visiting Orlando and other cities. 1 ui tne urooKiyn music acnooi settlement 1 In preparing these talks about the history of music, Miss Cammeyerhas referred, to How Music Grew, by Marion Bauer and Ethel reyser) -When the. English first came to Virginia they began to grow tobacco, and they brought negroslaves over from Africa to work in the They were not all of one it me. iici wci maiays irym iviauagascar, moros irom nurinern reu skhis aim yellow skins, as well as black.

iiiese pnmuiye peoples usea song ana aance in tneir rengion, tneir wortc anu tneir They brought a great love of music from Africa. The Spanish Habanera, which; we know as the tango; came from Africa even the name African, "Tangara" The SEVEN SKETCHES IN COLOR BY ANTOON VAN WELIE, who is recognized as one of the prominent members of the contemporary Dutch conservative school, comprise a notable feature of the exhibition of costume and stage designs for the 1930-31 season of the Little Theatre Opera Company which opens to the public at the Brooklyn Museum on December 6th to continue for a month. Three sketches, which serve in part to announce a project which the Board of Directors of the Little Theatre Opera Company proposes to carry out within the next few years, are for the mural and foyer decorations of an opera house, devoted to Opera Co-mique. Architects drawings for this opera house were completed last spring by Morris and O'Connell of New York City, and also will be on exhibition. They include exterior and interior drawings and five floor plans.

In the foyer of the proposed opera house Mr. van Welie plans to have a portrait gallery of American musicians and artists who have achieved fame. rnytnm ot tnis aance tne same as our tango, ine Atrican loved rnytnnt oetter tnan melody. They used the Pentatonic scale of five tones, the same as the These The record of the music of these people is only handed down to us in song. The religious song' has developed'ihto the wonderful negro spirituals, and the dance music hasgrown into our popular ragtime and jazz music.

i r. EavMian 'and Assvrian Music Thrp thoiisanrl vears hfrtr th Phri'sttan irn thri MveA in rtnrtheastern Afrirft and' southwestern Asia a race of interesting people. They were the first to pass the primitive stage, and. to build cities with fine buildings and monuments and to make more beautiful TUDY VALLEE will appear in person Friday at the School Settlement Association's Christmas Carnival, which is being held at the Pouch Mansion, Clinton and Lafayette Avenues, on Friday and Saturday, December 12th and 13th, both afternoon and evening. music.

i The Egyptians had great influence' on Assyrian and Hebrew music and on the Greeks who went to Egypt. Their principal musical instruments the harp, the lyre, the1 flute, cymbals, pipes, trumpets, and drums. There were large and small harps, some of them taller than a The large harps stood upon the ground as the harps that are used in our modern orchestras do. Srjiall ones were often placed upon a table and others were balanced from the shoulder by a strap and carried from place to place. They had jyf AXWELL TRAINING SCHOOL is to have a cake and candy booth, where they will also serve doughnuts and cider.

Miss Ruth Clarke is chairman and her, committee consists of Miss Letha M. Jones, Miss Katherine Lamy, Miss Virginia Miss Grace Montgomery, Miss Virginia Peterson, Miss Lillian Blomberg and Miss Rita McCartin. irom to iwenty-twa strings mat were maue 01 caigui, iasicucu, pegs hi iu wnicn enaoiea tne strings to De tigntenea ana tuncu, In Egyptian tombs pipes or flutes have been found and from the decorations on the rPHE ADELPHI CHAPTER, of which Miss Betty Jane Keen and Miss Harriet Hopke are chairmen, has secured the Poly Prep Orchestra for the dance to be given both Friday and Saturday evenings. wails ot tempies ana tomDs are picturea an enaiess variety 01 lyres, pipes ur uuics aim harps of every size. Music was used to accompany the dance, the.

banquet and all re-; Like the American thje profession of music was handed down from father A DDITIONAL NEWS FROM BERKELEY announces that they are to have a bath shop. Mrs. Percy Magnus is chairman and her committee consists of Mrs, Francis L. Deerk, Mrs. Arthur Horton, Mrs.

Donald J. Hardenbrook, Mrs. Robert Baird, Mrs. Robert Magnus, Miss Merle Munn and Miss Elisabeth Magnus. to son, and only the children ot singers could sing in tne tempies.

un tne monuments we see the singers followed by the players of The temples of Egypt were so" large that there were orchestras of six hundred "players of harpsf lyres and flutes. The trumpets of the Egyptians wem only used in war and triumphal marches, jbgyptian music was greatest about 3,000 years before the Christian era, about 5,000 years ago. Mvf uroplr will Iparn tnnr ahnut the Rpvotians andsomethinc about the Assyri-" IRLS HIGH has undertaken to run the entire catering department for the School Settlement Association's Christmas Carnival, which is being held at the Pouch Mansion, Ointon and Lafayette Avenues, on Friday and Saturday, December 12th arid 13th, both afternoon and evening. They will serve afternoon a delicious table d'hote dinner from 6 until 8 P. M.

and in the evening, ice cream, coffee and sandwiches. Mrs. Thomas E. Haines is chairman. The afternoon tea committee consists of Mrs.

Marius Carpentier, Mrs. Edward H. Wilson, Miss Mathilda Hull and Miss Jennie Jenness. The dinner committee includes Mrs. Marius Carpentier, Mrs.

William Bergen and Miss Mathilda Hull. Serving on the general committee are Mrs Charles Brooks, Miss Alice Matthey, Miss Agnes Burns, Miss Ernestine Miller, Miss Mae Belle Peck and Miss Helen Daly. The Settlement Club girls are to have charge of the coat room. CREMATION METHOD OF THE FUTURE -Cremation was widely used in the ancient world because it appealed to most peoples' as an impressive way to dispose of the dead. Cremation will find increasing favor the cities, of, the future.

The metropolis cannot afford to turn land aside for burial grounds. While ancestral respect endures, we shall have some sort of mausoleums with many floors, but the bones interred there will be the ashes of cremation. The United States Cremation Company of Middle Village, Long Island, already uses metnoas wnn-n will come into wide currency some years from now They invite your inspection. The committee in charge of the School Settlement Association's Christmas Carnival. Top row Miss Betty Jane Keen, Miss Harriet Hopke; Mrs.

B. Pitcher, Everitt P. Birch and Miss Isabelle King. Front row Miss Dorothy Betts, Mrs. Norman Carpenter, Mrs.

Walter S. -Robinson, Mrss ohn.