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MISS JEANETTE GOODMAN AS VIRGINIA CLAIRE

In Livingston Russell's Monologue "The Green-Eyed Monster."-(See page 750.)

(1) "Thank heaven, it is all over at last!"

(2) "How often he has told me I was pretty; yes, beautiful! My glass tells me so, also." (3) "Oh, I die! Come closer. I feel you slipping from me!"

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OFFICERS 1897-98.

National Association of Elocutionists.

President-Thomas C. Trueblood.
First Vice-President-Henry M. Soper
Second Vice-President-Caroline B. Le Row.
Secretary-George B. Hynson.
Treasurer-Edward P. Perry.

Chairman Board of Directors-Robert I. Fulton.
Literary Committee - Hannibal A. Williams,
Chairman; F. Townsend Southwick, Leland
T. Powers, W. B. Chamberlain, F. H. Sargent,
Mary Miller Jones, Mrs. Ida M. Riley.
Ways and Means Committee--Virgil A. Pinkley,
Chairman; Robert I. Fulton, Livingston Bar-
bour, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Irving, Austin H.
Merrill, S. H. Clark, Mrs. Edna Chaffee-Noble.
Board of Trustees-F. F. Mackay, Chairman;
Cora M. Wheeler, George R. Phillips, Emma
A. Greely, Walter V. Holt, J. W. Churchill, R.
E. Mayne.
Committee on Credentials-W. B. Chamberlain,
Chairman; Mrs. Ida M. Riley, H. M. Soper.
Committee on Necrology-M. Helena Zachos,

Chairman; George B. Williams, Anna Warren
Story.

History Committee-S. S. Curry, Chairman; F. H.
Sargent. R. I. Fulton, Miss Evans, W. B.
Chamberlain.

Section 1.-Methods of Teaching-Austin H. Merrill, Chairman; H. Helena Zachos, Martha Fleming.

Section II-Interpretation-Charles F. Underhill, Chairman; Mary A. Blood, Genevieve Stebbins. Official Organ-WERNER'S MAGAZINE, New York. Next annual meeting to be held in Cincinnati, June 27-July 1, 1898.

Honorary member elected at New York Convention-John C. Zachos.

New York State Association of Elocu

tionists.

(Organized July 2, 1897, at the close of the New
York Convention of the National Associa-
tion of Elocutionists.)

President-Rev. Francis T. Russell.
First Vice-President-Mrs. Elizabeth Marney

Conner.

Second Vice-President-F. Townsend Southwick. Recording Secretary-Lily Hoffner Wood. Corresponding Secretary-Lemuel B. C. Josephs. Treasurer-Mme. E. A. Alberti.

Committee on Organization -- F. F. Mackay,

Chairman; H. G. Hawn, Charles F. Underhill,
Mary S. Thompson, Stella King.

Ways and Means Committee- Mrs. Elizabeth Marney Conner, Chairman; Mrs. D. T. Murray, Kathryn Moore.

Program Committee-L. B. C. Josephs, Chairman, with power to add.

First annual meeting to be held in Buffalo, April 12 and 13. 1898.

Ohio State Association of Elocutionists.
President-Moses True Brown.
First Vice-President-Robert Irving Fulton.

THE TONE-LINE. BY ALBERT BAKER CHENEY.

Published by the author. Boston.

This little book presents an objective method of training which doubtless Mr. Cheney's experience as a teacher has proved to be of practical value. "To give a name to nature's way over which the voice travels, I call it the physical tone-line; and, since the voice is developed by means of mental concepts, I speak of a mental tone-line corresponding to the physical tone-line." In the catechism which is added at the end of the book, Mr. Cheney puts this question and answer: What is the mental tone-line? An imaginary line, curving from the mouth outward and downward, corresponding to and controlling the physical tone-line." His First Principle is that the mind controls the body. Singing is a physical act and before the act, must be the mental mandate."

Second Vice-President-Marie L. Bruot.
Secretary-Laura E. Aldrich.
Treasurer-William H. Cole.

Chairman Board of Directors-Virgil A. Pinkley.
Literary Committee Mrs. M. E. Bentley, Chair-
man Mrs. Frances Carter, Chas. M. Flowers,
Virgil A. Pinkley.

Ways and Means Committee-Mrs. Rose O. Anderson, Chairman; Elizabeth Armstrong, Martha H. Bailey, Mrs. Lucia Julian Martin. Official Organ-WERNER'S MAGAZINE, New York. Second annual meeting to be held in Cleveland during Christmas holidays, 1897.

Michigan State Association of Elocutionists.

President-Thomas C. Trueblood.
Vice-President-Mrs. C. R. Smith.
Secretary-Mrs. M. H. Preston.
Treasurer-Mrs. Mildred A. Bolt.

Chairman Board of Directors-Mrs. Edna Chaffee-
Noble.

Literary Committee-Fred L. Ingraham, Chairman, Charles Carlisle, Mrs. Lucy A. Leggett, Mrs. Edna Chaffee-Noble, A. Webb.

Ways and Means Committee-Mrs. Loraine Immen, Chairman: Cora Marsland, Carrie Berry Phelps, Frank Reed, Mrs. Helen ChaffeeWorkman.

Official Organ-WERNER'S MAGAZINE, New York. Second annual meeting to be held in Grand Rapids, Dec. 17, 1897.

California Association of Elocutionists.
President-Wm. T. Ross.

Vice-President-Mrs. Edna Snell-Poulson.
Secretary-Mrs. Louise Humphrey Smith.
Treasurer-Emily Curtis.

A meeting was held in San Francisco, May 8, 1897, the program being a paper on "Voice-Production," by Alice Clara Moses; a paper on "Elocution and the Stage," by John I. Houseman; reading of Act III., Scene 4, from "Hamlet," by Mrs. Alice P. Ludlam; also piano and vocal music.

Music Teachers' National Association.

President-Herbert Wilber Greene.
Secretary-James P. Keough.
Treasurer-Alexander S. Gibson.

Executive Committee A. J. Wilkins, Carl G.
Schmidt, F. A. Fowler.

Program Committee-Wm. E. Mulligan. Wm. C. Carl, John Tagg.

New York State Music Teachers' Association.

President-Sumner Salter.
Secretary-Treasurer-F. W. Riesberg.
Program Committee-J. de Zielinski, Chairman.
Louis Arthur Russell, W. H. Hoerrner.

"True song is mind and heart revealed through tone. Tone is of mental and emotional origin; and to read it we must go behind physical science. A voice is not like a piano. You can not buy it; your voice is you. Real singing is the spirit of the singer floating in vocalized air. To this voice all hearts and minds listen; the spirit of the singer and of the listener meet. People that really think and feel, get nothing from the meaningless noise so commonly substituted for song.

The chapter on The Mental and the Physical Tone-line" gives some excellent suggestions. Written at the request of his pupils and for their use, its lack of pretence removes the little volume from serious critical consideration, but all students of the voice for song will find the suggestions valuable and many of them of practical advan tage.

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The Kansas City School of Oratory graduated 'eleven pupils May 1.

Mr. Frank de Rialp has his summer school at his country residence at El Pardo, Pa.

Mr. Marshall Darrach, prominent as a Shakespearian reciter, reports a busy season.

Miss Eglantine Abers has returned to Nebraska after a course of instruction with Miss Marion Short, New York.

"Love's Labour's Lost" was given by the Shakespearian Society at Wellesley College, June 12, in the presence of 500 persons.

Miss Minnie Swayze is summering in the Thousand Islands, training several Canadian readers, and teaching a class of teachers.

Miss Annie M. Somerville directed the_entertainment given May 8 for the benefit of the Buffalo High School Athletic Association.

Prof. Moses True Brown, the veteran elocutionist, is in Europe. Upon his return he intends to settle permanently again in Boston.

Miss Ida Benfey read "Fra Lippo Lippi" at the meeting of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ of New York City and Brooklyn, May 15.

Mme. Lena Doria Devine remains in New York during the summer to give a special course in the Lamperti method for teachers and singers.

Mr. Frederick W. Holland, of Montreal, is winning reputation as a song-composer. Some of his songs are well known throughout Canada.

The Society of Expression, Buffalo, discussed, during the last season, "The History of Elocu tion. and "The Relation of Elocution to the Fine Arts."

Mr. W. J. Le Moyne, the well-known actor, made his début as a reader at Stamford, Conn., in June, assisted by his wife, Mrs. Sarah CowellLe Moyne.

Mrs. Edna Chaffee-Noble was so ill when she reached New York that she was unable to attend the elocutionary convention. She is now in the Adirondacks.

Mrs. Lena Hawkins Watson, of the Boston School of Expression, will have charge of the elocution department of the Southern Normal University next year.

The closing exercises of the Mt. Vernon Institute of Elocution and Languages were held on six evenings, May 17-31. The Grand Prize Contest took place June 3.

Miss Lillie B. Pierce, who has been a conspicuous reciter at political conventions, has gone to California to recover from nervous prostration caused by overwork.

Mrs. Anna Randall-Diehl managed the presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew," given July 20, on Staten Island, for the benefit of the Little Mothers Outing Fund.

Miss Edna Dean Proctor, some of whose fine recitations we have published, has just returned from traveling in South America. She is 67 years old, and in excellent health.

Notice has just come of the marriage of Miss Lillie C. Bassler and Mr. Fred R. Jelliff, Feb. 25. Their home is at Galesburg. WERNER'S MAGAZINE extends its congratulations.

Mr. William J. Hall, director of the Cedar Rapids College of Music, and Mrs. Katharine Kulp-Cameron, were married Easter Monday. WERNER'S MAGAZINE extends its congratulations.

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Owing to nervous prostration, which has incapacitated him for work for some time, Judge Wm. B. Green, the entertainer. received a benefit, May 26, at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn.

Miss Jennie Mae Peck, a graduate of Miss L. May Haughwout's School of Elocution, has been engaged to teach elocution in Ward's Seminary, one of the largest girls' schools in the South.

The Boston School of Expression holds a conference on expression, August 12-14 Mrs. Eliza Josephine Harwood gave a special course Swedish gymnastics in this school in July.

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The Woman's College, of Frederick. Mr. J. H. Apple, president, like other schools in the South, pays special attention to music and elocution.

A large portrait of Mrs. Genevieve Stebbins, whose address at the recent N. Y. elocutionary convention evoked the liveliest discussion, appeared in the N. Y. Tribune, in its report of the convention.

The Kate Page-Nelson Seminary, Miss Mamie Johnston, teacher of elocution. had its 18th commencement June 9. Like other Southern schools, it pays special attention to elocution.

Miss Miriam Nelke closed her season in New Orleans, May 20, by a recital in which she gave "Henry V.'s Wooing," "Kissing Cup's Race," "That Fire at the Nolans'" and "Behind the Curtain."

Miss Joan C. Orr, teacher of elocution at the Missouri Valley College, gave her annual recital May 29. There were tableaux, Shakespearian scenes, a Howells farce, and a number of recitations.

Miss Nettie Arthur Brown, composer of "The Red Fan" and "The Idyl of an Orchard," and Mr. George. L. Weitz, were married June 2. WERNER'S MAGAZINE extends its congratulations.

Mrs. W. F. Gates, a pupil of the Murdoch School, has become principal of the Western School of Elocution and Physical Culture. Mr. Gates is director of the Western College Conservatory of Music.

Miss Charlotte Sulley and pupils gave a recital in Jersey City, May 20. Among the features were several of Genevieve Stebbins's drills, Livingston Russell's monologue, "Engaged," and various statue-poses.

Mrs. Belle P. Ockenden, writing from California, says that her classes in physical culture are larger every year. She has been a pupil of Mrs. Eleanor Georgen, Prof. Moses True Brown, and Mrs. Edna Chaffee-Noble.

Among the elocutionary children may be mentioned Jeannie Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Mary Drew Wilson. Both mother and daughter appear during the same program and are highly spoken of by the Western press.

Mrs. S. Etta Young's pupils gave their annual recital, June 1, at the Turner Opera-House. Some of the recitations were: "Laureame, the Marble Dream," "Susan's Escort." "To-morrow at Ten," and " The Eve of Marriage."

Mme. Luisa Cappiani took part in the conference between the Music Teachers' National Association and the National Association of Elocutionists in New York, June 28. She also read a paper at the M. T. N. A. on voice-culture.

The Maryland School of Expression, Miss M. Elizabeth Millard, principal, gave its fourth annual commencement May 25. The class motto was: "Seek not to walk by borrowed light, but keep unto thine own; do what thou dost with thy

nd might, and trust thyself alone." Some of the recitations were: "The Soul of the Violin," "Zingarella," "The Whistling Regiment." The Indian Girl's Revenge," and "Laureame, the Marble Dream."

Dr. Floyd S. Muckey and Prof. Wm. Hallock, distinguished for their revolutionary ideas in regard to voice-production, photographed the voices of many singers and elocutionists during the recent conventions in New York.

Mrs. H. B. Holmes and pupils gave, May 11, "Scarf Fantastics,' "Eastern Temple Drill," and the recitations: "Tiger Lily's Race," Italiens," ""How Dot Heard The Messiah,' Sisters," and "The Christening."

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Miss Alice May Youse is the teacher of elocution in the Maryland Summer Music School, of which Mr. B. C. Unseld, the singing-teacher, is principal. Miss Youse gave" A Comedy of Toys" in Baltimore, April 26, with much success.

Mrs. Carolyn H. Trueblood, who was, owing to illness, unable to attend the N. Y. convention of elocutionists, is writing a valuable series of articles on "A Plea for Elocution in the Public Schools," for a Western school journal.

Miss Minee Alma Cady, who was compelled, owing to sickness, to give up her work Jan. 1, recovered sufficiently to do some commencement work and to take a prominent part in forming the Iowa State Association of Elocutionists.

Mr. Frederick Paulding, the actor, introduces in the course of the evening. "Tiger Lily's Race," (published in "Robert H. Hatch's Recitals"). The Dramatic Mirror says that the piece invariably arouses the audience to great enthusiasm.

Mrs. Jessie D. Dorward, née Crommett, gave a recital, May 29, with the recitations: "The Boat Race,' The Soul of the Violin," "Behind the Curtain,' "In Answer," "The Quaker," "The Execution of Sydney Carton," "Helen Thamre "

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Mr. Ad. M. Foerster closed his season with his ninth recital, June 19, when he played five sonatas, and his pupils sang songs by Robert Franz. His recital, May 15, was wholly from Beethoven and his recital, May 22, was wholly from Wagner.

Mrs. Anna G. Cole gave her fourth annual pupils' recital June 8. The principal recitations were: "The Marriage of the Flowers," "The Burning Ship," "Jes' 'fore Christmas," "The Dime Museum," The New Preacher," " What She Said."

Mrs. Anna P. Tucker's School of Expression gave an entertainment, May 27, at which were mandolin and guitar music, the comedies, "An Up-to-date Shakespeare Club," "My Lord in Livery," and "Pauline Pavlovna" as a duologue.

Miss Marie L. Bruot managed the production of "As You Like It," in Cleveland, June 19. The play was given in the open air in the presence of over 500 people. Miss Bruot's portrait was in the N. Y. Tribune in its report of the N. Y. elocutionary convention.

Miss Gertrude McMillan, who, in the opinion of many, made a hit at the N. Y. convention of elocutionists, in discussing Mr. S. H. Clark's paper on "The New Elocution," will teach elocution and the Delsarte System next season at Washington Seminary.

The Buffalo School of Elocution graduated this year Miss Grace Babcock and Miss Katharine Ruch, who recited, in June, "The Squire's Rooster,' "Meg's Curse," "A Connubial Controversy," "The Boy's Composition" and a scene from "The School for Scandal."

The dramatic critic of the St. Louis Criteron speaks in the highest terms of Miss Sue Van Duser's recital at Washington University. She is a pupil of Mr. Edward P. Perry, whom the critic calls a master of his art. Miss Van Duser intends going on the stage.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Walton was versatile enough to manage two plays in two different schools at the same time, in Washington, this spring. Besides the plays, she introduced five of Genevieve Stebbins's drills. Both plays and drills were highly praised by the press.

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s. Helena Crumett-Lee is teacher of elocution

RS physical culture at St. Lawrence University, institution of which the Boston Transcript says: "It has more distinguished alumni in proportion to their number than any other institution in the United States."

The 20th commencement of the Indianapolis School of Elocution and Oratory, Mr. T. J McAvoy, principal, took place June 30. Some of the recitations were: "The Dandy Fifth," "The Eve of Marriage," An Old Sweetheart of Mine," and "Courting under Difficulties."

Mr. Henry Ludlam stage-managed One Touch of Nature and "The Arabian Nights," at the South Broad St. Theatre, Philadelphia, June 12. The artistic program that we reproduced in our June number was used by another dramatic club of which he is the stage-manager.

Dr J. M. W. Kitchen, author of the prize treatise, "The Diaphragm, Considered Specially in its Relations to Respiration and the Production of Voice." is a grower of rare orchids. His is said to be the largest collection in this country and is located at East Orange, N. J.

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Mr. Lucius Perry Hills, one of the most genial of Southern poets, and whose "The Opera Encore appeared in our July issue, is making a study of Georgia moonshiners for future literary work. Many of his poems have been set to music, and he himself is a charming reciter.

The Calvin Chilton Club, Mrs. William Calvin Chilton, president, gave a recital June 2. consisting mainly of pantomimes and drills by Genevieve Stebbins, a scene from "A Winter's Tale," and the recitations. "Doom of Claudius and Cynthia," "Bill Smith" and "De S'prise Party."

Miss Mary Steevens Farrand, teacher of elocution at St. Agnes School, one of the leading girls' schools in central New York, held commencement exercises May 10. The Albany Journal says: "Miss Farrand's exceptional method of training was plainly evinced in the success of her pupils."

A large audience gathered in Chickering Hall, June 18, in attendance at the prize speaking by members of the '97 class of the College of the City of New York. Mr. Robert H. Hatch has charge of the elocution department, and the fine speaking of the boys reflects much credit upon his instruction.

The pupils of the Esther Owen School of Expression gave a scholarship recital, June 15, some of the recitations being "Aux Italiens," "Jephtha's Daughter," Marco Bozzaris," "A Little Quaker Sinner,' "The Isles of Greece," "Mammy's Li'l' Boy "and a scene from "The Spanish Gypsy."

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Miss Lucia B. Griffin has secured a judgment of $10,000, which has been affirmed by the Illinois Court of Appeals, against the Illinois Central Railroad, for injuries received by the falling of a baggage-room door at Madison, Wis. The accident has obliged Miss Griffin to give up her readings.

Miss Anna C. Smith, teacher of elocution in the Fremont High School, gave two recitals in June, • with her pupils. There were the pantomime of "Jesus. Lover of My Soul." and the recitations, "The Minstrel's Curse." "Willie's Girl," "Jamie,' "A Visit of Condolence," etc., besides the Scarf Drill" and various exercises in æsthetic physical culture.

Miss Jennie Mannheimer, principal of the Cincinnati School of Expression, directed recitals May 25 and June 10. the principal pieces being “Á Second Trial," "The One-Legged Goose," "The Blind Girl of Pompeii," "How Dot Heard The Messiah,'" and "The Courting of Dinah Shadd."

Mrs. Rose O. Anderson, who made a spirited speech at the recent N. Y. elocutionary convention in defence of Genevieve Stebbins, received an extended notice in the N. Y. Tribune. In this interview it is said that her school of oratory is the only chartered school of elocution in the state of Ohio.

The annual recital of the pupils of Mrs. Emma Prichard Hadley took place at Somerville, May 31. The program was: "In the Hospital," In the Sweet Bye and Bye (piano accompaniment), Trial Scene from The Merchant of Venice," "Christian Science," "The Life Boat," "Long,

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