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MISS WILLIAMS TO ENTERTAIN WITH NEGRO SONGS AT P. B. H.

Open House Thanksgiving Festivities to Be Held Tomorrow Night

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At 6.30 o'clock tomorrow evening Phillips Brooks House will welcome all members of the University to its annual Thanksgiving "Open House" festivities.

Professor E. C. Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will welcome the guests. After his speech Miss Louise Alice Williams of Georgia, famous Southern raconteur, will entertain with Negro folk songs and lullabies.

While Miss Williams is singing the guests will gather around an open fire and refreshments consisting of apples, doughnuts, cider, nuts, and candy will be served.

The program is as follows: 1. "Dixie"  Piano 2. "Mammy's Memories of Christmas in the Old Plantation"  Miss Williams "Georgia Sunbeams"  Miss Williams 3. "Old Black Joe"  Audience 4. Silhouettes of Dixie: "A Mississippi Test of Love" "The Old Virginia Reel" (Banjo accompaniment)  Miss Williams 5. "Way Down on the Suanee River"  Audience 6. "Old Wash Up fer Moonshine" "The Haunted House. . (Negro ghost story)  Miss Williams 7. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia"  Audience 8. Cabin Folk Songs of Dixie (collected from life): "A Cottonfield Serenade" "Down in de Valley" "Sis Patsy"  Miss Williams 9. My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight"  Audience

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