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BROOKLYN LIFE Brooklyn Heights Seminary Entertainment The Brooklyn Heights Seminary held a Washington's Birthday entertainment on Monday of this week in the gymnasium of the school. Miss Elizabeth Tyler gave a brief summary of Washington's life, Miss Roberta Swartz read an impression of Washington's Inauguration, Miss Adelaide Robertson and Miss Ruth Rebhann also contributed to the program and Miss Esther Baldwin sang "Land of Hope and Glory." Prospect Club Meets Prospect Club held its regular study meeting on Tuesday, February fifteenth, at the residence of Mrs. G. A. Preuss, 496 First Street, with the president, Mrs.

Eugene W. Sutton, presiding. Mrs. James A. Dingwall was chairman of the day and presented the following program.

Mrs. Harold Bretz, accompanied by Mrs. Harold Pearson, sang "Salutation of Dawn," "Wind Song" and "A June Morning, and Mrs. A. B.

Ritch played several piano solos. The Rev. C. S. Kimble, who was the speaker of the afternoon, made an address on Eugene Field, reciting many of his poems.

Junior League of Brooklyn Hold Meeting Mr. James G. McDonald spoke on "What I Saw in Central Asia" at the second general meeting of the Junior League of Brooklyn, held on Wednesday at the Junior League Office, 93 Court Street. The hostesses for the afternoon were, Miss Lillian Hadden, Miss Helen C. Kene, Miss Clara Murdock and Mrs.

Howard Smith. Music Notes The Sixteenth Week of the Metropolitan's Season By the early part of the coming week the season at the Metropolitan will have run two thirds of its course. To be exact, there are only eight weeks left. This period will bring another novelty, "The Polish Jew," and one more revival of a favorite opera is a possibility, As for next week, it will be one of repetitions. "Manon" will be sung on Monday, with Farrar, Hackett, Chalmers, Rothier and the beautiful Cour la Reine ballet, headed by Galli and Bonfiglio.

Remainder of the schedule is "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," on Wednesday with Chase, Hackett, De Luca and Didur; "Madama Butterfly," on Thursday afternoon, with Farrar, Crimi and Scotti; "Lohengrin," on Thursday evening, with Easton, Claussen, Sembach, Whitehill and Gustafson; "L'Amore dei tre Re," on Friday, with Muzio, Gigli, Danise and Didur, and "La Boheme," on Saturday afternoon, with Bori, Sundelius, Crimi, Amato and Rothier. Last Week of Chicago Opera The only performance of "Hamlet" this year by the Chicago Opera Association will be given at the Manhattan Opera House next Saturday afternoon, with Florence Macbeth and Titta Ruffo in the leading roles. This, the appearance of Miss Macbeth in "The Barber of Seville" on Tuesday evening, three appearances by Mary Garden and an unscheduled repetition of "Othello," with Charles Marshall, are the features of the clos. ing week of the Chicago company's season in New York this year. Miss Garden will open the final week of this unprecedented engagement, both from a financial and artistic viewpoint, with Lucien Muratore in a demand repetition of "Monna Vanna." She will be heard once more in "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" on Thursday, and she will close the week and the season on Saturday night with her third performance here of "Carmen," also with Mr.

Muratore. Mme. Galli-Curci will be heard only once in the final week, on Wednesday, in "Traviata," when Tito Schipa also will appear for the last time this season. He will sing on one other occasion, with Miss Macbeth in "The Barber of Seville" on Tuesday evening, Supporting Miss Garden and Mr. Muratore on Monday evening in "Monna Vanna" will be Georges Baklanoff and Edouard Cotreuil.

The conductor will be Giorgio Polacco. On Tuesday evening, Titta Ruffo will make the first of his last two appearances, the other being at the Saturday matinee. He will sing his famous role in "The Barber of Seville," making with Miss Macbeth and Mr. Schipa an all-star cast for this performance. The other principal parts will be taken by Virgilio Lazzari and Vittorio Trevisan.

Gino Marinuzzi will conduct, also for the last time this season here. Other Operas of the Week Wednesday evening brings forward another strong cast, with Mme. Galli-Curci and Mr. Schipa in "Traviata." Supporting these two stars will be Carlo Galeffi, Constantin Nicolay, Desire Defrere, Sallustio Civai, Jose Mojica and Philine Falsa. The conductor will be Mr.

Polacco. Hector Dufranne, Desire Defrere, Edouard Cotreuil, Albert Paillard, Virgilio Lazzari and Constantin Nicolay will support Miss Garden in "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" on Thursday, the conductor being Mr. Polacco. This will be followed by "A Dance Poem," Miss Louise Phillips Freeman in London several weeks a Ballet in One Act from the unfinished symphony of ago, returned with her by the Aquitania, which arrived Schubert, with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, as- this week. Miss Freeman has been visiting friends in sisted by Miles.

Ledowa, Nemeroff, Shermont, Dagmara, London and Paris. They will return to Cincinnati until Elisius, Milar, Randolph, Darrow and Corps de Ballet, time to open Listowell Farm, their new house at Westwith Pietro Cimini conducting. On Friday evening, hampton Beach. Mr. Marshall will appear for the fourth time, as stated, Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Van Wyck of 107 Joralemon in "Othello" in the role his robust tenor and physique Street and Quogue, L. are sailing for Italy on March have made possible in New York for the first season second on the Canada of the Fabre line. They expect in some years. As before, he will be surrounded by to be gone about eight months, visiting France and Switartists of the first magnitude, Rosa Raisa (for the last zerland as well as Italy.

time this year), Maria Claessens, Giacomo Rimini and Mr. Francis L. Steenken of Setauket, L. and his Virgilio Lazzari taking the chief roles. Mr.

Cimini will sister, Miss Anne Steenken, are spending the winter conduct. "Hamlet" at the Saturday matinee will be in Florida and are at present in Ormond. the occasion of several events. It will be the third time Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas L. Leeming sailed on Monday that Miss Macbeth has appeared, the others being in on the Megantic for a four weeks' cruise to the West "Rigoletto" in the first week of the engagement and in Indies. "The Barber of Seville" on the preceding Tuesday; Mr. and Mrs. Louis De Witt Compson of 981 Park Cyrena Van Gordon, American contralto, will be heard Avenue, Manhattan, who are sojourning in the South, here for the first time this season, and Titta Ruffo for are at present stopping at the Hotel Colonial in Nasthe last time.

With them will be associated Jose Mojica, sau. On their return trip they will stop at Palm Beach Teofile Dentale and Virgilio Lazzari. Mr. Cimini will and Seabreeze. conduct.

Miss Garden's final "Carmen," and the Chicago Opera Association's adieu to New York for this year, will come on Saturday night. Then also Lucien Muratore will be heard for the last time. The other important roles will be taken by Margery Maxwell and Georges Baklanoff, with Mr. Polacco conducting. Joseph Bonnet's Organ Recital Under the auspices of the American Committee for Devastated France, Joseph Bonnet, the celebrated French organist, will give a recital on Saturday evening, March fifth, in Aeolian Hall, the proceeds to benefit the district nursing service in the city of Rheims.

Monsieur Bonnet, who is organist of the Church of Saint Eustache, Paris, is conceded by many to be the greatest in the world. This will be his only appearance in New York this season and the American Committee for Devastated France considers itself fortunate to have this great artist offer his services for the benefit of its work. With Miss Anne Morgan as chairman and Miss Mary L. Aldrich as vice-chairman, the committee in charge comprises Mr. Edward Dean Adams, Mrs.

Elihu Chauncey, Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, Miss May Taylor Moulton, Miss Elizabeth Perkins, Miss Elizabeth Scarborough and Miss Maude Wetmore. Tickets for the recital may be obtained at the committee headquarters, 16 East Thirty-ninth Street, Manhattan, or at Aeolian Hall. Mons.

Bonnet's program, which is an unusual one, follows: I. (a Canzona, Gabrieli, organist at St. Mark's, Venice; (b) Ricercare, Palestrina, (c) Grand Jeu, Du Mage, organist of St. Quentin Cathedral; (d) Sour Monique, Francois Couperin, organist of St. Gervais Church, Paris; (e) de tierce en taille, N.

de Grigny, organist of Rheims Cathedral. II- Toccata and Fugue in Minor (by special request), J. Seb. Bach. 11I-(a) and Fugue in Major, C.

(b) Gustave Samazeuilh Joseph Bonnet, pour emporter au dela des mers), (first public hearing); (c). Franck. IV-(a) languedocien, Alexandre Guilmant; (b) Alleluia, Joseph-Marie Erb; inspired by the entry of victorious French troops into Alsace (first public hearing). V--(a) Scherzetto, Charles Tournemire; (b) du Soir, Joseph Bonnet; (c) Variations de concert, Joseph Bonnet (with pedal cadenza). Peripatetic Personale Catherine Castle of London, England, mother of Mrs.

Everett C. Jessup, who recently arrived in this country with her brother, Sir John Wimbel, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. Everett C. Jessup at their home in Roslyn, L.

I. Sir John is staying at the Biltmore in New York, but expects to return soon to England, while Mrs. Castle will remain in this country about two months longer. Mr. William Hamlin Childs of Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, who has chartered the houseboat, Dorinda, arrived at Palm Beach, Florida, last week from Miami, after a week's cruise around the Keys.

He is accompanied by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Draper. After the Old Guard dinner on Friday night they left for Daytona, Florida.

Recent arrivals at the Belleview, Belleair Heights, are Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Wells of Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn. Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Meurer and Miss Mae Meurer of 266 Lincoln Place, sailed on Monday, February twenty-first, on the Megantic of the White 'Star line on a tour to the West Indies and Panama. They expect to be away about six weeks. Dr. and Mrs.

Glentworth R. Butler of 226 Gates Avenue and Mrs. Seth Thayer Stewart are registered for a week at the Hotel Belvedere, Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. W.

Winans Freeman, who joined her daughter, Announcements Births (Continued from page 3) BARRON-Mr. and Mrs. James S. (Edna Anna Burr), a daughter, Kathleen Burr Barron, January seventeenth, Scarsdale, N. Y.

ENEQUIST-Mr. and Mrs. William L. (Dorothy Kirkman), a daughter, Mary Enequist, February twentieth, 500 Washington Avenue. ReILLY--Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Gibbons (Marjorie D. Scholl), a second son, Francis Whitlock Reilly, 246 Eighty-fourth Street, February twelfth. SOUTH Mr. and Mrs.

Augustus R. (Florence Lyman), a son, Robert Lyman Southworth, February eleventh, 29 Warren Place, Montclair, N. J. SNYDER- Mr. and Mrs.

Howard H. (Catherine E. Stafford), a daughter, Sherley Snyder, February nineteenth, 393 Parkside Avenue. Death NORTON- Col. Frank 262 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, February nineteenth.

No history of the Brooklyn National Guard containing its exemplary and inspiring record in peace times and the bravery and resourcefulness of the men when put to the test of war, would be complete without a chapter devoted to Col. Frank H. Norton. For three decades he was a military officer who added much character to the organization and helped to build it up to the point of efficiency that was a source of pride to all citizens. As head of the 23rd Regiment, he had the devoted support of his men and in consequence that regiment assumed a high place in military affairs of the State.

Col. Norton had the quality of leadership which enabled him to get the very best out of those under him. Enlisted as private, Company 23rd, September 28, 1885, warranted corporal February 7, 1888, sergeant December 1, 1891, first sergeant November 25, 1895, full and honorable discharge June 6, 1898. Commissioned first lieutenant from civil life May 20, 1899, promoted to captain June 16, 1902, major December 24, 1904, lieutenant-colonel May 1, 1907, succeeding Col. William A.

Stokes as commanding officer of the regiment, June 26, 1909. Served as colonel during Mexican Border service from July 4, 1916, to January 19, 1917, commanded 23rd Regiment together with a battalion of the 47th Regiment and a squadron of the First Cavalry on Aqueduct Service from March 31, 1917, to August 10, 1917. This call came direct from the War Department because of the splendid record of the regiment under his command in its previous service; commanded regiment during the reorganization of the 27th Division and was the first colonel of the 106th Infantry, commanding from October 1, 1917, to April, 1918. He remained head of the regiment until it went overseas, when he was relieved of his command because of physical disability. For several years Col.

Norton has been up to the time of his death a deputy receiver of taxes in Brooklyn. The funeral was held in the Central Congregational Church on Tuesday afternoon the twenty-second. The Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, who was chaplain of the 23d Regiment on the Mexican border, and the Rev.

Frank I. Hanscom, who was overseas with the 106th Regiment, officiated at the funeral. The honorary pallbearers were Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan, Brig.

Gen. Charles I. Debevoise, Brig. Gen. George A.

Wingate, Gen. James Robb, Col. William A. Taylor, Col. William A.

Stokes, Borough President Riegelmann, Col. Ardolph L. Kline, F. J. H.

Kracke, Col. Walter J. Carlin and Capt. Edgar F. Haviland.

The 23rd Regiment under Col. Thomas Fairservis and the 23rd Regiment Veterans' Association escorted the body to the church. After the service the body was taken to the Council Room of the Armory where it remained until Wednesday morning, a guard of honor being posted at the casket all night. The interment took place privately at Greenwood Cemetery on the twenty-third, a firing squad and a delegation of officers of the 23rd Regiment being present with members of his family. Col.

Norton was a member of the Union League, Invincible, Lincoln and Army and Navy Clubs, the Produce Exchange and Maritime Exchange of New York; delegations from each of these organizations and tax office employees attended at the funeral. Rev. H. A. Handel officiated at the committal services.

Col. Norton was in the fifty-third year of his age, and is survived by his mother, Mrs. Thomas Norton; his wife, who was Miss Florence Chase of Brooklyn; three sons, Mr. Bruce H. Norton, Mr.

Frank H. Norton and Mr. Donald C. Norton; two brothers, Mr. Harry F.

Norton and Mr. Charles F. Norton, and two sisters, Mrs. John H. Rowland and Mrs.

Miles S. Charlock..