National Association of Elocutionists. Sixth Annual Meeting to be Held in New York City, June 28--July 3, 1897. ADVANCE PROGRAMS OF THE SECTIONS. SECTION I. METHODS OF TEACHING. I have the honor to submit my final report and tentative program for Section Work No. 1, Methods of Teaching, for the approaching convention. At the last meeting the Directors appointed the following committee for this section: ROBERT I. FULTON, Chairman, Delaware, Ohio. CAROLINE B. LE Row, Brooklyn, N. Y. PRESTON K. DILLENBECK, Kansas City, Mo. The members of the Association who join the Teaching Section will constitute a class in which practical methods of teaching expression will be explained and exemplified. The work will be divided into three subsections corresponding to the three days assigned by the directors; each sub-section will be conducted by one of the abovenamed committee as follows: SUB-SECTION A-Methods for Special Schools of Elocution and Oratory. PRESTON K. DILLENBECK, Conductor. 12 M. to 1 P.M., Tuesday, June 29. Questions concerning the private-lesson teacher, adaptation of class-work to pupils of widely differing ages and mental endowments, irregular pupils, talent vs. education, coaching work, dramatic work, presentation of plays, etc., will be considered in this sub-section. OPENING PAPER (10 minutes): "The Relation of Private Schools of Expression to Other Educational Institutions," by Some topics proposed by Section Members: "What to Teach in Class and What to Teach in Private." Proposed by Agnes B. Martin, Des Moines, Iowa. "The Relation of Poise to Expression," Emyllia Zoerb, Toledo, O. "Methods of Teaching Reading," Kathryn L. Bissell, New York City. "Class Methods of Teaching Action," Mrs. Louise Jewell Manning, Minneapolis, Minn. SUB-SECTION B-Methods for Public Schools. 12 M. to 1 P.M., Wednesday, June 30. CAROLINE B. LE Row, Conductor. The management of large classes, grades of work for children of different grades, the proper proportion of technique,study of principles, illustration by instructors, sight-reading, memoriter recitations, public school exhibitions, etc., will be studied. OPENING PAPER (10 minutes): "How to Teach Children Elocution," By Miriam Nelke, New Orleans, La. Some topics proposed: "How Should Elocution be Taught in Public Schools?" Proposed by Agnes C. Early, Toledo, O. "How Can We Develop Emotion in Children?" Jean B. Elwell, Xenia, O. "How Can We Secure Better Articulation in Public Schools?" "The Value of Dramatic Recitation in High Schools," Laura E. Aldrich, Cincinnati, O. "The Place of Dialects in School-Work," Minee A. Cady, Des Moines, Ia SUB SECTION C-Methods for Academies, Colleges, and Universities, 12 M. to 1 P.M., Thursday, July 1. ROBERT I. FULTON, Conductor. The place of elocution in the college curriculum, its value as a mental development, college credits for a full course in elocution and oratory. Relation of elocution to oratory, extempore speaking, debating, oratory, Shakespearian study, the psychology of expression, etc., will be discussed. OPENING PAPER (10 minutes): "How to Teach Extempore Speaking," by Some proposed topics: "How to Organize Elocution Classes in Colleges," "Class-Methods of Teaching Vocal Principles," Proposed by Emma Ehret Adams, Milford, O. "Practical Methods for Arousing the Lethargic," Alice Washburn, Oshkosh, Wis. Text-Books," Emma Russell, Stevenson, Ala. Correlation of Education and Literature," Laura E. Aldrich, Cincinnati, O. is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery can not save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary for us to instruct the throne in the language of truth. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelop it, and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors." SUB-SECTION B-"To What Degree Shall We Employ Physical Expression in Character-Reading." To be practically illustrated from the subjoined extracts. 12 M. to 1 P.M., Wednesday, June 30. PAPERS (limited to 10 minutes) by John W. Churchill, Andover, Mass. Charles F. Underhill, Brooklyn, N. Y. DISCUSSION (limited to 5 minutes) Opened by Mrs. Anna Randall-Diehl, New York City. Dickens's "David Copperfield." [Strikes Halliday's Play "Little Em'ly," Act II., Scene 2. "MICAWBER-Permit me to observeHEEP-Nonsense! out of my way! MICAWBER across the stomach with his umbrella. Exit HEEP.] MIC-A blow! a blow stamped on the brow No, not the brow-of Wilkins Micawber." Dickens's "Christmas Carol," Stave two. "And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance-advance and retire, both hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread-the-needle, and back to your place --Fezziwig cut'-cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came down upon his feet again without a stagger." Aldrich's The Set of Turquoise." "PAGE-Oh! that's a secret which I can not tell. LARA [catching him by the throat]-No? but you shall, though, or I'll strangle you! In my strong hands your slender neck would snap Like a fragile pipe-stem. PAGE-You are choking me! Oh! Loose your grasp, sir! LARA-Then the name! the name! Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar,"-Act V., Scene 3. "Here, take thou the hilts; And, when my face is covered, as 'tis now, Shakespeare's "Othello," Act II., Scene 1. "It is too much of joy; And this, and this, the greatest discords be [kissing her], That e'er our hearts shall make!" Shakespeare's "The Tempest," Act III., Scene 1. "MIRANDA-My husband then? FERDINAND-Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom; here's my hand. MIR. And mine, with my heart in't. And now farewell, Till half an hour hence." Shakespeare's " Julius Cæsar," Act III., Scene 1. "Let each man render me his bloody hand. First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand; Now, Decius Brutus, yours; now yours, Metellus ; Yours Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours." SUB-SECTION C-" How Far Shall Public Readers Make Use of Vocal Imitation or Vocal Suggestion?" To be practically illustrated from the subjoined extracts. 12 M. to 1 P.M., Thursday, July 1. PAPERS (limited to 10 minutes) by E. Livingston Barbour, Rutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J. Mrs. Anna Randall-Diehl, New York City. DISCUSSION (limited to 5 minutes). Opened by Charles Montaville Flowers, Norwood, Ohio. Dickens's David Copperfield," Chapter 55. "Ham watched the sea, standing alone with the silence of suspended breath behind him and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance to those who held the rope, which was made fast around his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys-lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in toward the shore, borne on toward the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The dis tance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length, he neared the wreck. He was so near that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it,when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward from beyond the wreck, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone. Shakespeare's "As You Like It," Act II., Scene 2. "At first, the infant, And then the justice Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Respectfully submitted, HANNIBAL A. WILLIAMS, Chairman, New MARY MILLER JONES, Philadelphia, SECTION III. SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUE. The committee appointed to report a program for the section of Science and Technique, submit the following program: TUESDAY" Voice-Production Scientifically Discussed, with Illustrations and Experiments." William Hallock, Ph.D., Columbia Univ., New York. Floyd S. Muckey, M.D., New York. WEDNESDAY" The Place of Emotion in Physical Training." Paper by L. May Haughwout, Baltimore, Md Discussion by Mrs. Evelyn B. Ayres, Syracuse. N. Y. THURSDAY" Defective Speech, Its Diagnosis and Treatment." Paper by Dr. G. Hudson Makuen, Philadelphia, Pa. Questions led by Miss Carrie Berry Phelps, Adrian, Mich., and Mrs. Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, Toledo, O. Respectfully submitted, GEO. W. SAUNDERSON, Chairman. A. H. MERRILL. NOTICE. Readers of WERNER'S MAGAZINE visiting New York are invited to make this office their headquarters, to have their mail sent here, to inquire about the Convention, or about teachers, or to seek here any other information either for business or for pleasure. MUSIC TEACHERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Nineteenth Annual Meeting, New York City, June 22-28, 1897. ADVANCE PROGRAM. Performance on Monday evening of Handel's Messiah," with chorus of 1,500, orchestra, organ and eminent soloists; Mr. William L. Tomlins, director. Selections at various concerts by the Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra (Seidl's); Mr. Arthur Claassen, director. Saint-Saëns's pianoforte concerto, Wm. H. Sherwood and Metropolitan Orchestra. Violin concerto, Bernard Listeman and Metropolitan Orchestra. Address by Dudley Buck. Address by Rev. Dr. Chas. Cuthbert Hall, President of Union Seminary. Lecture pianoforte recital, by Edward Baxter Perry. Lecture-recital by Mrs. Regina Watson, of Pittsburg, on "Early French Music." Two selections at Saturday evening concert by the Arion Society of Brooklyn (100 male voices); Arthur Claassen, director. Conference on Music in the College and University, Prof. Geo. Coleman Gow, of Vassar College, chairman; college presidents of America and eminent European and American musicians. Conference on Public School Music Training and Popular Music Culture; committee of supervisors and prominent teachers of music in public schools. Conference on Methods and Results in Music schools, Mr. Chas. H. Morse, Brooklyn, chairman. Conference of Musical Journalists, Mr. Louis C. Elson, of Boston, chairman. Conference of National Association of Elocutionists and Music Teachers' National Association on Monday morning. An afternoon devoted to the musical work of women, Mrs. Theodore Sutro presiding. Model church service by boy-choirs arranged by Entertainment Committee, Miss Laura Sedgwick Collins, chairman. Chamber music concerts, recitals, essays, addresses, discussions, etc., etc. The production of prize compositions written for this occasion, comprising a cantata for mixed voices, unaccompanied partsong for male or mixed voices, string quartet, organ, pianoforte and violin solos, and song with accompaniment of pianoforte and obligato instrument. On Sunday: Two services by William C. Carl in First Presbyterian Church; choral services at First Baptist Church, Brooklyn. Mixed choir of 200 voices, E. M. Bowman, organists; two choral services at old St. Paul's, Leo Kofler, organist; service at St. Michael's Church. Invitation to these and other interesting services is given by the American Guild of Organists. Addresses appropriate to the occasion by eminent divines. Excursions on Saturday morning and afternoon on the Bay and up the Hudson River on Steamer Mohawk, Frank Taft, New York. Bertha Howe, Warsaw. VIOLONCELLISTS. Maud Morgan, New York. Percy Goetschius, Boston. John C. Griggs, New York. Mrs S. N. Love, Binghamton. R. Huntington Woodman, Brooklyn. The convention will close with a performance of Haydn's oratorio, The Creation," with the following soloists: Mme. Anita Rio, soprano, J. H. McKinley, tenor, Ericsson F. Bushnell, bass; and with a grand chorus and orchestra under the direction of Louis Arthur Russell, conductor of the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of Newark, N. J. Any person may become a member of the Association by the payment of $2; only professional mu sicians are entitled to vote. Fee for renewal of membership, $1. Remittances should be sent to Walter J. Hall, Sec.-Treas., 706 Carnegie Hall, New York Special hotel rates and reduced railroad fares guaranteed. For boarding accommodations, address Chas. Speh, 132 Chapin Street, Binghamton, N. Y. The Manning College of Music, Oratory and Dramatic Art, Minneapolis, gave an orchestral concert April 26, at which were played several compositions of Franceso d'Auria who has recently joined the faculty of that college, and who, June 1, will become the director. On May 20 the Dramatic Department gave the three-act comedy "Between the Acts." Mrs. Louise Jewell Manning will be in New York in June in attendance at the musical and elocutionary conventions. Miss M. Grace Pinkham was the reader in the Musical Festival held at Whitefield, March 22-25. Mr. Townsend Fellows, the tenor, sang in the cantata, "Fair Ellen," at the Montclair Glee Club, May 4. Mr. W. L. Hatch and Miss Adelaide Westcott were married April 21. WERNER'S MAGAZINE extends its congratulations. Miss Sara Greenleaf Frost and her associate, Miss Sarah Louise Behn, gave a Shakespeare recital, at Hardin College, April 23. Miss Mollie E. Jackson reports much greater interest in elocution in Burleson College, where she began teaching the first of the year. Miss Lydia J. Newcomb will be succeeded by her pupil, Miss Lucy S. Macomber, as teacher of physical culture at the Moravian Seminary next year. Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal A. Williams are still giving Shakespearian recita's in New England, where their engagements will keep them until the latter part of June. Miss Caroline B. Le Row, in celebration of Shakespeare's birthday, had the junior division of the Brooklyn Girls' High School give an elaborate Shakespeare program. Miss Louise Forsyth read "The Banishment of Rosalind" and "Judy O'Shea Sees Hamlet" at the annual reception given by the Stratford Shakespeare Club, N. Y., May 3. Miss Rachel M. Axford will not teach at Christian College next season. Her pupils there gave a recital April 26, giving" Sappho," "The Register," and a scene from "A Fool's Revenge." Mr. Edwin Star Belknap and Mr. Harvey Worthington Loomis, reader and composer respectively, have had a busy season, giving recitals and concerts that have been unique and artistic. Miss Alice May Youse, president of the Shaftesbury College of Expression, gave "The Comedy of Toys" as her seventh annual entertainment, April 27, for the benefit of St. Lukeland's Hospital, Baltimore. The New York School of Expression pupils gave recitals Feb. 22 and April 23, the programs consisting of recitations, drills, pantomimes, statueposing, dancing of the minuet, and the comedietta, A Cup of Tea." Mrs Bertha Kunz-Baker, who will read at the N. Y. Elocutionary Convention, recited Aldrich's "Judith and Holofernes" at Erie, May 24. She is one of the very few readers who can recite in German as well as in English. The Thespian Club of the Lewellyn Dramatic School, Memphis, gave an entertainment. April 27, the program consisting of orchestral music, a scene from "Ingomar." and the plays," Her First Appearance," and "Weeping Wives." Miss Marie L. Bruot, chairman of the Department of Drama, read a paper on "The Drama" before the Cleveland Sorosis in April. She also recited "The Trial of Queen Katharine." Her pupil, Miss Belle Goldsmith, gave "The Wooing of Henry V." The Women's String Orchestra Society of New York, Mr. Carl V. Lachmund, conductor, gave its third concert of the season at Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall, New York, May 6. Among the founders and associate members are prominent citizens of New York. Mrs. A. Ann Wentworth's portrait appeared in the Chicago Times-Herald, April 13. On April 21 568 she made her first appearance in Chicago, presenting an original dramatization of "The Scarlet Letter," and an original monologue, "The Dance before the Cardinals." Miss M. Genevieve West gave a recital in April, some of the selections being Brutus's Oration, "Lasca," "The Minuet," "Spinning-Wheel Song," "How Ruby Played," "The Expulsion of the Acadians" and "Calls." She reports an awakening interest in elocution in Maine. Mrs. Carrica Le Favre has been lecturing on "Art in the Home" and other kindred topics in Chicago. She will be remembered as one of the charter members of the American Delsarte Association, which flourished a few years ago in New York, but which now no longer exists. The New York Shakespeare Club celebrated Shakespeare's birthday at the Hotel Marlborough. During the club's eight years all the leading Shakespeare plays have been studied. The members presented President Smedley with a set of Furniss's Variorum edition of Shakespeare. Miss Sarah McGehee Isom resigned some weeks ago her position in the Union Female College, Miss., giving her classes to Miss Daisye Buck, one of her most talented pupils. Miss Isom has had the largest number of students during the last session of any department in the University of Mississippi. Miss E. Esther Owen gave a Shakespearian recital, April 23, in Chicago. On May 1 she directed the recital celebrating the second anniversary of the Independent Pen Women's Club, taking the leading role in the one-act sketch "The Hypatia Bachelor Girls' Club." By request she also gave "The Bobolink." Mr. V. A. Austin, principal of the Wesleyan School of Oratory, sends a very unique and artístic program of the graduating exercises May 5. Besides several pantomimes and statue-poses, were the recitations, "The Shadow of a Song," "The Royal Bowman," "Aux Italiens," "The Bride of One Hour" (original). The Nebraska State Normal School Elocution Dept., Mr. M. R. Ely, director, gave an elocutionary recital, April 17, the principal pieces being "Prince Eric's Christmaid," "The Erl-King," "Molly," "Gazelle and Swan," "The Bear Story," "Music on the Rappahannock," " Paradise and the Peri," and a pantomime, "The City of the Heart." Miss Kate Percy Douglas gave her third recital of American music at Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall, New York, April 23, assisted by W. C. Carl, organist, and Mrs. Florence B. Joyce accompanist. In some respects this recital was the best of the series. The song," A Foolish Little Maiden." by Miss Laura Sedgwick Collins, was particularly pleasing. Mr. Lemuel B C. Josephs read Matthew Arnold's "Sohab and Rustum at the Ogontz School, April 13. He also took part in Mr. Edmund J. Myer's lecture-recital April 21. Queen Stella of the Gonzales tribe of Gitane received her dramatic training of Mr. Josephs, in preparation for the entertainment she gave May 12, at Carnegie Lyceum, New York, The School of Expression, Boston, Dr. S. S. Curry, president, held its graduating exercises as follows: Studies from Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" April 26; Class Day exercises, Apri! 29; Short Stories, May 1; Studies from Chaucer, May 3; Short Stories, May 4; Dramatic Studies, May 5; Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," May 6. Mrs. Curry will read a paper at the June convention of elocutionists. The school will hold two summer terms this year, one in Tennessee, and another in Boston. Miss Mary Eleanor Lynn's pupil, Miss Maude Abbott, who, owing to the illness of the regular actress, took one of the leading roles in "A Texas Steer" in Washington, recently, did not receive the lines of her part until three hours before she had to appear. The press speaks highly of her acting. She has been a pupil of Miss Lynn for four years Miss Eugenia Williamson and pupils gave their "Septième Soirée," April 13. Besides vocal and instrumental music, were the recitations: "The Gypsy Flower Girl," "Princess Finger-Nail," "The Fishing Party," ," "The Battle," "In May,'. "The Usual Wav, My Ships," Scene from As You Like It," "The Sculptor's Display" (statue-posing), etc. Mr. Austin H. Merrill, who is in the front ranks of what may be called "the new elocution" readers, will, after assisting Dr. S. S. Curry in his summer school at Monteagle, Tenn., go to Bay View, Mich., as director of the Assembly School of Oratory. He is also to read on the platform program at Monteagle and later goes to Chautauqua, N. Y., for two readings. Mrs. Charles M. Alford has given recitals in various places in Pennsylvania and in Jersey recently. She writes that in giving "King Robert of Sicily" she has used organ accompaniment with much success. Some of her other principal pieces are: "The Set of Turquoise," "Naughty Zell,' Molly," "Palestine," "The Innocent Drummer, "The Slumber Islands," "Lily Servosse's Ride." Miss Alice Clara Moses, writing from California, says that at her third Y. M. C. A. annual contest the pupil who won the prize, by reciting Marc Antony's Oration, was a bad stammerer two years ago; that he has not entirely overcome his difficulty in conversation, but has lost it utterly in declamation. This phenomenon of a stammerer being able to declaim is one of the peculiarities of stammering. Miss Marie Collins, one of the most artistic readers of Washington, D. C., read Aldrich's "The Set of Turquoise," May 14, at a musicale at the Woman's West End Republican Association of Brooklyn. It took immensely. As encores she recited "Little Boy Blue," and "Foreign Views of the Statue." Early in June Miss Collins reads in Boston, giving Vondel's "Lucifer," from an unpublished translation from the Dutch, by Charles L. von Noppen, the Dutch poet. Mrs. Adeline Stanhope Wheatcroft has opened a studio for private and class instruction in dramatic art and recitation. This new departure will not conflict in any way with her present position as Principal Associate in the recent consolidation of the Empire Theatre Dramatic School and the. American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Manager Charles Frohman recently paid her, through the New York daily papers, the compliment that the success of the Empire Theatre Dramatic School was largely due to her energy, thought, her knowl edge of the practical requirements of stage-work and capacity as an instructor. Miss M. Elizabeth Millard's pupils gave "An Evening with American Writers,' in April, the program being : Maryland, My Maryland (piano solo). Marse Chan, Father Ryan Will Carleton Thomas Nelson Page A. Melville Bell Alice Cary Edgar Allan Poe Eugene Field Longfellow Susan Coolidge Kissing (a parody on "The Raven"), The Indian Girl's Revenge, The Ride of Collins Gray, The Courtin', Mr. Travers's First Hunt, Seein' Things, L. R. Hamberlin Joaquin Miller Will Carleton J. B. O'Reilly Lowell Richard Harding Davis Eugene Field Delegates from the Physical Educational Societies of Boston, Springfield, Providence, New Haven, and Bridgeport met at Clark University April 24, to organize the New England District of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, and to discuss questions relating to the work. The officers elected were: President, Dr. Jay W. Seaver, New Haven; vicepresidents, Baroness Rose Posse, Boston, Dr. E. M. Hartwell, Boston; secretary, Miss Amy Morris Homans, Boston; treasurer, Mr. Harvey C. Went, Bridgeport. Miss Maggie Thomas's elocution class gave an entertainment April 10, the program consisting of vocal and instrumental music, a farce, tableaux and the recitations: "Ginevra," "The Old Woman's Story," "The Mystery Solved," " Mr. Brown Gets His Hair Cut," "Baby's Soliloquy," "Little Girl's Life in a Hotel," "I'm Sitting Alone by the Fire,' "Guilty or Not Guilty." Baby's Language,' ""Socrates Snooks," ""The Sale of Virginia," My Mother's Song," Anna Belle Lee," Miss Edith Entertains, Miss Smart Learns How to Skate," "The Glacier Bed," "Maud Muller,' "Dream of Eugene Aram," "New Church Organ." Prof. R. L. Cumnock, director of the Northwestern School of Oratory, reports 555 pupils last year, and says that his is "the only school of oratory in America that has a building specially designed for its work and used exclusively by its pupils." Miss Frances E. Willard, the eminent temperance advocate, in writing to Prof. Cumnock, says: "I have recently seen the beautiful and fitting habitation of your beloved School of Oratory; and our dear old campus, known to me for wellnigh forty years, has nothing that fills the eye with more completeness. Perhaps few among your many pupils have had more solid comfort in gazing on that poem in stone than I, for away back in 1871, when you generously gave me the benefit of your instruction as a token of your brotherly interest in our Women's College. I knew then how much you desired to have a building adapted to the beautiful art to which your life was dedicated. From that day to this I have rejoiced in your steady onward and upward march; and here, by the beautiful shore, and where our fledgeling orators of other days were wont to rehearse speeches to the listening waves, stands the temple of the larger hope." The New York Teachers of Oratory, under the auspices of the University and College Settlements, gave an entertainment at Apollo Hall, New York, May 6. Program: Introductory Remarks, Music, DR. FRANCIS T. RUSSELL. Francis Scott Key The Star-Spangled Banner (sung by audience), H. C. Bunner Dickens Geibel CALEDONIA CHORAL CLUB. |