Cassidy. __
Mrs. Emily Freeh Barnes presented
her pupils In musk: and dramatic
art at a recital on Saturday evening
at her residence etudlo. The program
consisted of piano and vocal solos,
with recitations, dramatic and hu
morous; readings with music, and se
lections In negro, Irish and Yankee
dialect. ■ '
These who took part were Maty
Ellen Bailey: Marjorie Fakss. Ruth
Brill. Gertrude Massey. Ira Bright
Priddy, Edyth Priddy. Emily Lillie.
Katherine Gaither, Charlotte Ham
mer, Ethel Thompson. Roberta Freeh,
Dorothy Dunmire, Margaret V ild
man, Bertha Beans, Alida Johnson,
Esther Marshman and Mrs. Alma V.
Budget. ■
Doumergue* Free Piano
Proves White Elephant
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. July 10.—An American
piano house that presented President
Doumergue with a sample has placed
him In a rather embarrassing posi
tion. With the police that the piano
had reached Havre came a request
from the custdma authorities to pay
six thousand trance duty.
As a non-piano playing bachelor, |
the President had no great, nae for
the Instrument and the idea of jrnying
some two hundred dollars on it offered
no attraction. Consequently he wrote
to the customs department to explain
that he had only accepted the
through courtesy, not *o hurt tne reel
ings of the donor, but that he had re
garded the gift as having been made
to his office rather than to him per
sonally. He added that lie intended to
leave the piano at the Elysee Palace
on the expiration of hie term of of
fice In the hope that it would be of
more use to his successor. Therefore
he told the authorities that M.
Doumergue, the private individual,
ought not to be asked to pay the duty.
