Foreign Language Press Service

Despite the fact that the entrance fee was raised last winter, the membership of the Chicago Arbeiter-Verein has steadily increased. The new constitution has been printed and every member has received a copy. As far as we can judge at this time, the Verein will do well under it. The finances

I take great pleasure in submitting my quarterly report; and I wish to congratulate the members upon the favorable standing of the society. Not only has the membership greatly increased and the fund for widows and orphans received sufficient contributions to put it on a sound basis, but also

Last Saturday evening, the Germania Maennerchor gave its first concert, which was well attended despite the extremely cold weather, which made transportation difficult. The chorus, which numbers forty members, rendered the various songs under the direction of its able conductor, Otto Lob, wit

On Wednesday evening September 11, the German Young Men's Club gave its first entertainment at Library Hall, at the corner of Randolph and La Salle Streets. By 8 P. M. several hundred people, men and women, young men and young ladies, assembled in the hall, in compliance with reques

The attendance at the Soldiers' Fair is increasing from day to day, and consequently the receipts for the benefit of the widows and orphans of soldiers who died in the defense of the Republic are also increasing. Thus it may be safely assumed that the Fair will be a success. As announced in y

Report on the reception of the news of the fall of Paris and the armistice. Spontaneous victory demonstration at a concert in the Turnhalle. Enthusiasm of which the word enthusiasm is only a weak description. Question if bets regarding the fall of Paris should be settled immediately

At half past seven the rush began to be terrific and even dangerous. Ten policemen were not enough to keep back the eager masses which filled all the streets leading to the Opera House. There were more Germans inside than had ever been before in one building in Chicago. The expectation of a d

Mr. Florenz Ziegfield is leaving this afternoon at five for Germany with the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne train. He intends to make contracts with musical circles and to win capable personalities for his Conservatory. We wish him a happy journey, happy return and good luck in all his enter

"Oh, that this headline could be used for an article about the completion of a German Opera House! .... From the German viewpoint a great German Opera House, a center for German art, is desirable. From the artistic viewpoint it is necessary and from the Capitalist point of view it would certa

The Singing Society Orpheus gave its seventh big concert, Saturday, in the great hall of the German House. An unusual audience came together for it, almost all unknown faces from the North Side. The Orpheus can be proud to be able to draw the West Side in such great numbers to any place where

The unification of the "Germania" and"Concordia" is now an accompolished fact. On Thursday (June 22nd,) the Concordia approved at its general meeting the unification and last night, (June 23rd,) the "Germania" did likewise. Now a meeting will have to be called in order to elect a pr

...It is undeniable that the singing festivals in America have entered a new phase. At each new festival the need for change and improvement is voiced. The old Constitutions have been changed, computated, enlarged, without any great improvement of the results, and ever wider spreads the convi

1. The name of the club, founded on July 1, 1871, is Germania Male Choir. 2. The aim of the club is: To further German singing through study and recital of selected pieces of music, and to further social life. 10. The director shall be elected by the active members at the

The recital of the "Kaiser Marsch" by Wagner in the Sunday concert of the Great Western Light Guard was a musical event, and the Turn Hall was unusually well filled. At any rate, Chicago is, aside from New York, the only city in the United States where the newest composition by Wagner so far

Haase's Park, situated so close to the city that it is almost part of it, but on the other hand contrasting to it so pleasantly by its country air and its landscaping-Haase's Park has yesterday for the last time been used for a festivity. The occasion was the merger of the Germania

(Otto Lob, in an article about Singing Festivals, quotes from the "Festival Paper" (Fest Zeitung) of the last Singing Festival in Cincinnati, May 1870). "These great national festivals, as the Constitution expressly states, shall serve to raise and ennoble German life in the United

Otto Lob has been chosen director of the Germania-Concordia Singing Society, and as he is already director of the "Orpheus" and of the Swiss Male Singing Choir, all "Chicago Singing Societies, in a way, have been united. Added to this many members of the Liederkrantz now want to join the Germ

Yesterday the dedication of the new hall of the Orpheus took place in presence of a select audience. An orchestra consisting of the best artists of Chicago gave a brilliant rendition of Beethoven's "Prometheus"...and then Louis Meyer, president of the Orpheus, introduced the speaker of the ev

In an issue of January of one of the local papers I found a notice reporting the election of Mr. Otto Lob as Director of the Germania and Concordia Male Choir. This was erroneous, because, though among other names also that of Mr. Lob had been mentioned, Mr. Julius Fuchs was almost unanimousl

The Welshmen of Chicago held a meeting last evening, as they are in the habit of doing every week, the proceedings mostly being of a literary and musical character. Amont the exercises was music by the Cambrian Choral Society, readings and recitations, and an address by Rev. Mr. Hughes. The m