Owens; secretary, Irvin E. Stuber; treasurer, Joseph Reese. Leader, T. E. Morgan, and accompanist Miss Rose Sloan. It comprised a chorus of about one hundred and fifty voices, and in 1901 sang at the National Eisteddfod at Cincinnati, and at Atlantic City the following year. The last in which it took part was the one held in Pittsburgh in May, 1903. In June, 1904, the society adjourned for the summer and has never reconvened.
On the 8th and 9th of April, 1904, the Memorial Opera Company produced the opera “Pinafore” in the Cambria Theater, Johnstown, for the benefit of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital. The company had been organized for this especial purpose and was under the personal direction of Mr. E. B. Entwisle and Drs. John B. Lowman and M. C. Kohler. About eighty of the young folks participated in the production, either in the cast, the chorus or the orchestra, which was composed of twelve pieces. This venture was so successful both financially and in the pleasure it gave to the people of the city that on the 5th and 6th of the following May the same company presented the comic opera, “Chimes of Normandy.” The chorus numbered over forty voices, and their splendid work, as well as that of the soloists, was highly appreciated. The third and last of the operas given by this company was “Erminie,” on May 10th and 11th, 1906, under the same direction as the previous year, Messrs. E. B. Entwisle, H. B. Mainhart and Dr. M. C. Kohler. The musical director of all three operas was Mr. Iorworth Prosser.
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