Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1927, Page 15

. - “SOCIETY # _{Continued from Fourtéenth Page.) Hobbs, Mrs. Syposton, Mr. Donald | Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kite, Nr. J. Floyd Cissell, Mr. and Mrs, J. H. de Sibour -and Mr. -Marion Parker, jr. - Mrs. C.J..Williamson will entertain at a children's party in the Florentine room at the Wardman Park Hotel this. afternoon for her little grand- daughter, Kathryn Chalmers, in honor of. her fifth birthday. Theodore Tiller, jr., will exhibit his marionettes. Mrs. Charles W. Wetmore of Char- lottesville, Va., is passing a few days In Washington at the Mayflower. Mrs. Rudolph Forster has rejoin- ed Mr. Forster in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, after spending the Summer on the North Shore, visiting Swampscott, New Bed- ford and other resorts. She al: spent some time with her brother-ii Jaw and sister, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Maurer, in . Brookline, Mass., and en Toute. home visited her son and daughterinJaw, Mr.and Mrs. Warren R. Forster, in New York. Miss Margaret Lewis Shelton, whose engagement to Mr. John Brown Mc- Carty of New Orleans has been an- nounged by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Shelton, has selected Thursday, November 10, as the date ©f her wedding, the marriage to take lace at the former home of the ride’s mother in Dalton, Ga. - Col. Manton Davis of New York was host last evening at the Carlton Hotel to a party of delegates to the Interna- tional .Radio Telegraph conference. His guests were Mr. E. F. W. Volter, Mr. G. J. Hofker and Comdr. J. C. M, Warnsinck of the Dutch delegation, o Mr. C. H, Taylor, Mr. William A. d Mr. T. M. Stevens. , executive secre- ry of the States’ Park Commission, as returned to her home, 2627 Adams i1l road, from a week's stay in Cin- einpati. Miss Adelaide Douglass is spending #everal weeks in the South, where she is visiting friends in Birmingham, Ala,, and Atlanta, Ga. Shé will rejoin her parents, and Mrs. ®David H. Blair, at the Wardman Park Hotel shortly after the 1st of November. Mrs. Gilbert Cole Smith and Mrs. Henry A. Barber are at the Wyoming. Mr. John Irwin has returned to ‘Washington after an absence of many weeks occasioned by the illness of his father in Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard P. Johnston of New York, the latter formerly Miss Ellen Bruce Lee of Washington, have me to Stockbridge, Mass., where ley-are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Delaney. Mrs. Paris Brengle is passing some time in Atlantic City and is a guest et the Hotel Dennis. The marriage of Miss Arline Harold Hainson of Takoma Park to Mr. Wil lam Penn Tavlor took place Satur- day, October 22, at 4 o'clock in St. Quincy place northwest, Friday eve. ning. The company were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sill, Mrs. Harry Mauger, Miss Helen Mauger, Miss Vera Mau- ®er, Miss Agnes Roach, Mrs. L. Meloy, Miss Marian Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Niess, Miss Marie Kelly, Miss Katherine Nieram and Mrs. L. Dennis. Miss Ethel Norwood will be hostess at a Halloween dance given in honor of her birthday anniversary, October 29, at the Hotel Gordon. Miss Lela Angleberger, formerly a yeomanette in the United States Navy, who sailed for Burope on the S. S. Pennland, September 8, to attend the American Legion convention in Paris, arrived home this week on the S. 8. Cedrick, after a visit to the continent. Her itinerary included Antwerp, Brus- sels, Paris and its environs, Bou- logne, Folkestone, London and Liver- pool. A tea was given Sunday at the studio and residence, 1462 Harvard street northwest, of Mr. Dorsey Doni- phan in honor of Miss Florence But- ler, daughter of former Senator Ma- rion Butler of North Carolina, whose portrait- Mr. Doniphan recently com- pleted. Mrs. Emma Norris Martin presided at the tables,” assisted by Mrs. Albert Rudes and Mrs. Ellis Logan. Miss Myrtle Seidler and Miss Fay Lambert rendered a number of musical selections. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ferguson have as their house guests Mr. and Mrs. Merle Sidener of Indianapolis, Tnd. The Elmira College Club will be en- tertained Thursday evening at- the home of Miss Mary McNair, 900 East Capitol street. The Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Delta Theta Sorority will give the last dance of the rush season at the Carlton Hotel this evening. They will have as their guests Miss Virginia Barrett, Miss Elizabeth White, Miss Mary Childrey, Miss Catherine "Todd, Miss Carolyn Snyder, Miss Martha Stevens, Miss Ailleen MacDaniel, Miss Barbara Sinclair, Miss Beatriee Thom, Miss Frances May, Miss Rose Love, Miss India Bell Corea, Miss Louise ‘Wenchel, Miss Ruth Butler, Miss Ella Louise Lindsay, Miss Margaret Hicks, Miss Florence Brookhart and Miss Virginia Wise. m OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS NATIONAL THEATER—“Surmise.” Mysterious titles have been frequent. “Surmise” Frank Vosper, a play- wright gifted with analytic intelli- gence that enables him to bring a new idea even into the “eternal triangle,” leaves his audiences to guess what the meaning of “Surmise” may be in connection with so extraordinary and yet so simple a story. Where one guess is as good as an- other the uncanny ability of a hus- band of low grade mentality and lower grade morality to “surmise” the reac- tions of a sensitive woman even before she is conscious of her own impulses, would seem as proper an explanation as any. It is a study of an unscrupu- lous man’s power over a high-strung woman; a man who knows her better than she knows herself. A story hinting at that of Trilby and Svengali is reduced with remorse- less vivisection to the terms of mod- ern psycho-analysis. The weird po- tency of hypnotic power is discussed without' the patter of the conventional showman. There are two great roles in, the play, that of the husband who has fas- tened himself on the soul of a woman; that of the wife who seeks in vain to liberate herself from the thralldom of a brutally dominant nature. The old eternal triangle is tiited over to a new point which makes the lover the'respected figure and the hus- band the intruder. Pauline Lord has the part which de- fines the basic interest of this remark- able play, a play which does not as- sume to be brilliant in the laughing sense; a play which strives to explain what 1s going on back in the brain of a passion-swayed woman. Care is displayed in defining the role which Pauline Lord keenly vivifies. At the outset, even, as one Who must earn a wage, she is a being of impulse. The world to her is a creation of her own imagination and the man who, by trading on_her vacillating emotions, has married her has contrived in an almost mathematical dullness to antici- pate every thought of which she is ca- pable. It is a great role which Paul- ine Lord has undertaken, one in which the personality of a star must often i John’s” Episcopal Church, 'Baltimore, ‘ ‘the Rev. William Dallam Morgan < officiating. Following the ceremony a reception | was held at_the home of the bride's * .sunt, Mrs. Harry Tyler Campbell of ! '216 Oakdale road, Roland Park, Bal- . timore. Mrs. Luke Strider, Mrs, William H. Herron, Mrs. Willoughby Chesley and :Miss Emnia S have motored to ¢ Staunton, Va., to, visit Col. and Mrs. Russell at the Staunton Mili- tary Academy. Mrs. Herron is to give her talk oh “Flower Lore” before the Staunton Garden Club tomorrow. Miss Dorothy Virginia Kauffman, @aughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Kauffman, “3715" Woodley road, was married Wednesday afternoon, Octo- ber 19, at the home of her parents, . jto Mr. Joseph Young Trundle, son of ¢ . Mrs. Helen Trundle. Miss Kauffman wore a gown of tvory crepe satin, a veil of tulle and orange blossoms, and carried a show- er bouquet of white roses and lilles of the valley. € gl 4 Miss Grace Eleanor Sladen was her only attendant and wore orchid taffeta and tulle"and carried a sheaf of pink Toses, Mr. Robert Geib was Mr. Trundle's ‘best man. ‘ A reception followed the ceremony. Mr. and Mr¥. Trundle are now on a wedding trip in the South. The bride wore for her traveling suit a dress of golden brown satin with coat and hat to match. They will be ta home after : November 1, 3010 Wisconsin avenue [ |, morthwest. The marriage of Miss Frances Gil- key, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pyam Loring Gilkey of Germantown, Pa., to Mr. Richard Stevens Cross of German- town, son of Mr. and Mrs. Whitman Cross of ‘Chevy Chase, will take place ’ Saturday at 6:30 o'clock, the Rev. Roger 8. Forbes of the Unitarian Church of Germantown. officiating. Utah State Soclety to Open ! The Utah. State Society is opening ts social season with a Halloween ball at the Washington Hotel on Sat- urday night. The society is a splendid organiza- ! tion which provides social contact for ! more than 500 Western people who enthusiastically support the society in the activities it undertakes. | The permanent organization of Utahans in the Capital was first ef- fected in 1919. Mr. Benjamin Sum- merhays served as the first president and made the society function so suc- cessfully that he was later elected as its permanent honorary - president. Since the soclety was first organized | Utah people have shown ‘great inter- est and care in the annual selection] of officers. For the current year Mr. Junius Romney is sprving as presi- dent, with Miss Marguerite Maughn Colton, Mr. W. H. Willey and Mr. Weston Vernon as vice president, treasurer and secretary, respectively. Senator Reed Smoot is chairman of the executive committee, which also includes Senator William H. King, Representative Don B. Colton and Mr. E. O. Leatherwood, Tariff Com- missioner E. B. Brossard, Mrs. Amy Lyman Merrill and Mr. Orval Haten. The society’s tentative program for the current seoson calls for a Hal- loween ball, a Christmas ball, the an- nual banquet in February, a Spring festival and a celebration on July 24, commemorating the entrance of the ploneers into the Salt Lake Valley. Dancing at the Halloween ball Sat. urday is scheduled for 9 to 12 o'clock at the Washington, and Mrs. Clare | Thomas Murdock, contralto, of Sait | Lake City, is to entertain the mem- | bers and-guests with a vocal solo dur- ing a short intermission. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Niess enter- ined a dinner at_their home on Greenway Inn cathedrst Blamions South DINNERS Special Tuesday and Thursday Chicken Wednesday and Friday Hoods Sea 5 to 7:30, 85 Cents FIRST ANNIVERSARY DINNER Sunday, October 30, 1897 Special Menu 1108 G Street The Quality and Excellence of & Henderson Furniture —insure satisfaction and usefulness to more than one generation—make it an unusual investment, particularly at our Moderate Prices. T It will pnvy you to familiarize yourself with Henderson values, before you do your Fall house refurnishing. Inspection, without obligation invited. Fine Paperhanging & Painting for Over 50 Y ears JAMES B. 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The re- hearsals in which Mr. Gullan has par- ticipated indicate a brilliant and dis- tinctive characterization, likely to ri- val in subtle significance the perform- ance of the star herself. O. P. Heggie, a cherished friend of many seasons, has one of those roles in which he excels. He triumphs again in what seems a gentle but hdppily ineffectual effort at self-efface- ment, Mr. Heggie is credited with having staged the play. A curtain call reveal- ing the coppany, not bowing in a straight line, but in tableau appar- ently carrying on a bit of action in the piece, earns him gratitude for getting away from wooden conventionality. The sponsorship inspires confidence. The producer, George Tyler, says it is a truly great play. And George Tyler, always artistic regardless of the smiles of fortune, is the best dramatic critic in Americ: PHILANDER JO! BELASCO—Holbrook Blinn. Sandor Turai, a playwright of some renown whose productions were noted for their happy endings, was more than a little perturbed seeking a pleas- ant finale for an unhappy situation that had developed in the midst of his home circle and encompassed a protege in whose future he was deep- ly interested. The protege had fallen desperately in love with a beautiful young lady of the opera and a wedding ceremony was in the offing. But, alas and alack! at a house party the Riveria butter- fiy and her fiance and his two author friends were given adjoining suites, while neither was aware that the other had arrived. Whereupon the young lady hazards a chance and per- an old flame to burn for a few m moments in her boudoir. The girl's suite is off-stage, while the husband-to-be and his friends are within the view of the audience. To- gether, the latter hear the conversa- tion between the man and woman through what is a shamefully thin wall. What the listeners hear is de- cidedly delicious to all—except the young man, whose boyish heart just about cracks under the strain. So, it is upon this conversation that Sandor Turai, author, writes a play, not, this time, to test the con- science of the king, but to be enacted to shame the young woman, ridicule her lover and deceive and make happy his_protege. To tell of the unexpected turn given the houdoir conversation in the play- let written for the edification of the young fiance, would be to deprive fu- ture audiences at the Belasco of much which, together with a novel begin- ning, kept last night’s large audience in_continuous high good humor. 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The cast of “The Play's the Thing” is a small one, and one set suffices for the three acts. The action takes place between the hours of 2 a.m. and | 7:30 pm. of one day, and it moves without a dull moment. Martha Lorber, reminiscent of col- orful nights on the Amsterdam roof, when she was one of Ziegfeld's chief exhibits in the matter of glorifying the American girl, has the sole female role of the play—that of Ilona Szabo, prima donna and heart-snarer ex- traordinary. Miss Lorber plays her part well and is good to look upon. Hubert Druce as Mansky, Turai's p hili 606 - 614 collaborater, and Charles Millward as Almady, the gentlemen whose per- sistent attentions to Ilona started all the trouble, both drew generous ap- plause from the audience for their fine characterizations in difficult parts. Gavin Muir as_heartbroken young Albert Adam, and Claude Allister in a last act bit both gave satisfactory performances. This concluding paragraph is re- served for the lingering memory of Ralph Nairn as Dwornitschek, a serv- ant. Here was one of the most ap- pealing bits of acting in the entire play. a delightful impersonation that won rounds of approbation from those out in front and placed Mr. Nairn very close to the star for popularity with the audience. iag A woman artist in Paris makes statues of absorbent cotton. | I SLAIN MAN IDENTIFIED. Alanson Russell Assumed to Be Man Killed in Chile. By the Associated Press, In the absence of any official | advices, State Department authorities assumed that the “Mr. Russell,” men- tioned in dispatches from Santiago, Chile, as reported killed in Tocopilla, Chile, was Alanson Russell, an Amer- ican business man in that place. He was considered for appointment as American consular agent, but was said to have been unable to take time from his private business for that work. The consular agent at Toco- pilla is C. F. Urbutt. psborn ELEVENTH ST. 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