Nine Singing Groups
To End Christmas
j arty At Wallace Tomorrow Evening
MRS. W. H. FARRIOR
By JOHN SIKES
WALLACE, Dec. 20.—There’ll
be many a song in the air at
Wallace’s living Christmas tree
Monday night.
And there are likely to be
many stars in the sky for the
men and women and children
who’ll be here to send those
song? into the air.
The songs will climax
Wallace’s series of Christmas
Carol sings which started the
yuletide season here Dec. 4.
' There will be nine singing
groups from as many commu
nities in this section, and
there’ll be approximately 350
voices in the combined choirs.
The communities that will be
represented are Calypso, War
saw, Charity, Magnolia, Bur
gaw. Long Creek, Chinquapin,
Wallace, and Franklin School.
The last one includes the towns
of Delway, Kerr Station, Har
rell's Store, Ivanhoe, and Toma
hawk.
The number of voices in each
choir will range from 18 to 65.
On tomorrow night’s program
each group will sing one carol.
At the end of the individual
sings, the choirs will be judged
MISS EUGENIA QUINN
_MRS. B. J. BRADY
for excellence and the best will
receive $100, second $50, and
third, $25.
Edwin Clark, director of mu
sic for the First Presbyterian
church, Wilmington, and direc
tor of the men’s and women’s
choruses of the Atlantic Coast
Line, will be chief judge. He
will be assisted by Mrs. Laura
Hall Norton, director of the New
Hanover High School Glee Club,
Wilmington; music critic, and
music columnist of the Charlot
te Observer. Mr. Hall and Mrs.
Norton - will probably be assist
ed by others from Wilmington.
Following the individual sing
ing, all carol groups will com
bine and, under the directorship
of Mr. Clark, lead all those
present at the sing in one huge
medley of Christmas numbers.
Each of the choirs named
already has appeared on the
pine straw - strewn stage under
Wallace’s Christmas Tree.
These have been preliminary
sings to accustom the groups to
singing outdoors.
At least, that’s the technical
reason for those preliminary
sings. Actually, the choirs got
together here in a grand effort
to revive carol singing at Christ
mas-time, to imbue this and all
communities with the true spirit
of Christmas.
Most of these groups were or
ganized especially to sing here
this year. In each community
the choir directors not only have
trained their singers, but
they’ve also had to go about the
country-side and recruit singers
from all walks of life. There are
few trained voices in the groups,
t>ut those who’ve heard the pre
liminary sings have acclaimed
them all.
The Warsaw Baptist Church
choir, under the leadership of
Mrs. Clarence J. Brown, may
be said to be the only trained
group which is participating in
the carol series.
At Long Creek, Mrs. B. J.
Brady as director, is using some
members of the school glee club
to sing with adult members of
the community. This is also true
at Franklin school, where Mrs.
Rob Murphy is director, at Chin
quapin, with Miss Eugenia
Quinn directing, and at Burgaw,
where Mrs. J. H. Burnette and
Mrs. C. F. Mallard, Jr., are co
directors.
MRS. CLARENCE J. BROWN
In Wallace, where Mrs. W. H.
Farrior, Mrs. Clifton Knowles
and Miss Iris Herring are choir
leaders, the group was recruit- !
ed from several singing sources.
Charity, directed by Mrs.
Dixon Wood, . is a community
choir composed mostly of adults
from the several church denom
inations.
Calypso, with Mrs. George Al
britton in the lead, is made up
of townspeople. And Magnolia,
led by Mrs. I. F. Pope, is a
sort of town project. i
Tomorrow night is the finale
so far as this Christmas season
is concerned, but the sings have
attracted so much favorable
notice here, and the group lead- :
ers have said they derived so
much pleasure from their ef
forts, the carol singing very
likely will become an annual
part of Wallace’s yearly Christ
mas Festival.
Next year, it is hoped, other
communities will join in the
sings so that every section in
Southeastern North Carolina j
will be represented under j
Wallace’s Living Christmas
Tree, their communal voices
raising in the familiar, and
glorious, songs of old.
BEACH CHURCH
PRESENTS PLAY
Carolina Community Con
gregation To See
Four Acts
The Carolina Beach Commu
nity church will present its most
elaborate Christmas pageant
since its founding tonight at 8
o’clock in the church.
The pageant, “Let Us Adore
Him." will be in four scenes,
which will be replete with spe
cial lighting effects of an elabo
rate nature arranged by F. L.
Ludwig and Sons. It wi be di
rected by the pastor, the Rev.
James B. Mc-Quere, A choir will
be in the supporting cast.
Principal characters are: priest,
William Russell; helpers, David
Thomas and Russell Nichols;
Spirit of Christmas, Faye Gra
ham; reader, M. T. Ridaught;
Mary, Helen Johnson; Joseph,
Robert Ludwig; shepherds, Wal
lace Hanchey, Joseph Marley,
and Jack Hawes; wise men,
James Thomas, S. D. Kelly, Jr.,
and David Graham; children,
Ramona Ludwig, James Russell,
Joy Jones, Dan Jones and Jane
Ann Mc^uere.
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
"ill be sung by the entire con-!
gregation immediately prior to
the presentation of the pageant.
EASTERN7 star meets
BURGAW, Dec. 10.—A Christ
mas program presented by Mrs.
“• W. Southerland, Mrs. O. G.
,enn';l st the meeting of Burgaw
chapte' 217, Order of the East
ern Star was preceded by a b si
!!ess session conducted by Miss
mma Bryan, associate matron.
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King’s Point Grad
DONALD W. RUSSELL, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Russell, Wil
mington, is today an engineering
officer in the United States Mer
chant Marine, having graduated
this month from the King’s Point
sign’s commission in the United
academy. He also holds an en
States Naval Reserve.
BURGAW STAGES
SERVICES TODAY
Carol Singing To Be Pre
sented On Court House
Square
BURGAW, Dec. 21 — Local
Christmas festivities will be
highlighted by a community ca
rol sing and pageant of the Nativ
ity to be presented on Ihe court
house^quare by the Woman’s
club on Sunday afternoon. All
choirs of the town, the high school
Glee club and the ministers of all
the churches will participate.
The singers will marc in a
procession around to the east side
of the building, where the nati
vity scene will be located; sing
ing as they come, “Hark the
Herald Angels Sing.”
As the shepherds and wise men
appear before the manger, “Si
lent Night” will be sung. The
Christmas story from the Gospel
of St. Luke will be read by Rev.
W. A. Poole and a prayer will be
! offered by Rev. W. E. Walston,
1 Mrs. Milton Humphrey will ren
der a solo, “O Holy Night”. The
i benediction will be given by Rev.
P. L. Clark. The program will be
concluded with the congregation
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CHRISTMAS PLAY
SCHEDULED TODAY
First Presbyterian Church
To Present Life Of
Jesus
“A Mystery for Christmas in
the Medieval Manner”, com
posed by Howard D. McKinney,
will be presented this afternoon
at 5:30 in the First Presbyterian
church.
The medieval mystery is
similar to a modern pageant
and is being directed by J. Pad
dison Pretlow, assisted by
Everett Huggins with the lights,
both members of the congrega
tion and widely known for their
talent in dramatic arts. The
chancel choir, singing from the
balcony, will be directed by Ed
win D. Clark, minister of music
for the church, and accom
panied by Miss Elizabeth Mc
Whorter on the Skinner organ.
The part portraying Mary,
the mother of Jesus, will be tak
en by Mrs. John Tinga and the
traditional three Wise Men will
be impersonated by Claude
Howell. James E. Russell and
Sam Troy. A number of young
people will take the roles of
shepherds and angels. Lynn
Williams DuRant and Truman
Magill will be contralto and
tenor soloists.
The Mystery for Christmas”
was presented last year also in
the church and is being repeat
ed this year because of the un
usual type of production it is.
One of the interesting features
of this year’s production will be
that the carol. “That Sweetest
Ancient Cradle Song” will be
sung to music composed by
Henri Emurian. local musician
and director of music in the
First Baptist church.
“We Prefer a Star” will be
the subject of the sermon by
William Crowe, Jr., mimster.
for the morning service at 11:15,
and three of the Church’s choirs
are ready to sing during this
service. Their selections will be
from the tradit’onal Chr:stmas
music, including four brief num
bers, the announcement states.
singing “Joy To The World”, as
they leave the square.
Participating in pageant will
be Mrs. David Williams as Mary
the mother of Christ, J. F. Brad
shaw as Joseph, E. M. Thompson,
Bill Wells and Devane Murphy
as wise men, Heide Davi W. H.
Robbins and Raymond Bell, Jr.,
as shepherds.
Members of the Woman’s club
who are serving with Mrs. Clif
ton Moore, president on arrange
ments committees are Mrs. Helen
Bland who is in charge of the
art and scenery. Mrs. J. H. Bur
nett is directing the music and
Mrs. N. C. Wolfe of the club’s
home department.
An invitation was issued this
week by the club to the people
of the community and entire
county.
‘Sugar Plum Tree’
Presented To Children
By Local Red Cross
Childrens ward at James Walk
er Memorial hospital has been
presented “Sugar Plum Tree,” a
point of interest at Holiday House,
by the Wilmington chapter of the
American Red Cross, it has been
announced.
The Red Cross has announced
its plans for playing Santa Claus
for the children’s ward Wednes
day night.
HOWARD SENTENCED
William H. Howard, 23-year
old Wrightsville Beach book
keeper ,was given a six-months
suspended jail sente: yester
day in Recorder’s court by Judge
H. Winfield Smith after Howard
was found guilty of assaulting
with a deadly weapou, resulting
ir the serious injury of Herman
L. Flythe last Nov. 25.
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