New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 3

— NEWS OF NEW BRITAIN CLUBS AND SOCIAL MISS ISABELLE FOOTE Miss Foote is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Foote of Stanley street. She is in charge of the domestic science department of Dr. Reiders’ School at Hastings on the Hudson, New York HAPPENING ABOUT., TOWN Talking of vehearsals, never have our amateur prima donnas, premiere danseuses and chorus ladies been subjected to such vigorous training as they arc getting now in prepara- tion for the Shuttle Meadow Club cabaret which is to be given on the evening of Saturday, March 21, at the Shuttle Meadow Club. ; Following the plan started in last vear's offering there will he a chorus of anen, led hy Mrs. Emory Corbin. This chorus is doing such good work that there is some danger of their running away with the show. In it are Donald Gaffney, Clifford Merwin, Clesson Parker. i And if it isn't a “Student Prince” star chorus it will not be the fault of the obliging young men and their clever leader, Mrs, Corbin. Mrs. Howard Parsons and Mrs. Art charge of the production which will lend colox for it is to be done much after the Soirfs.” Evervbody is interested in the which are limited are heing quickly take: clever schemes arranged by the house co whereby nearly 200 guests may sit in the ballroom. Aside from this there will be tables in the dining room which, though they are not considered so choice, must accommodate the oyer- flow. Two of the most important dinner parties to take p¥a(w' are those which Mrs. William 1. Hatch and Mrs. Andrew J. Sloper will give. Si-Yaffe will play for the dancing. » £ * wr Kimball are in a note of Russian order of the “Chauve affair and the-seats n up. One of the mmittee is a plan Mrs. Amy Guilford has been working hard, with what looks now to be her usual successful resu ts, to whip the cast of “Adam and Eva” into shape for its staging on Friday evening, March 27, in the High School Auditoriun, The play is given under the auspices of the Amphion Club, a dramatic ?}:gar}izgtion of the school and the cast includes members of e club. * * The latter part of next week will see a number school set returning to town for the spring holidays. that time on, through the Easter season y in small groups, for it seems this year the various school holidays do not come § o of the From more than ever hefore together. OLUB NOTES Current events subjects will bhe discussed at the next meeting of the Emma Hart Willard chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, which comes on Thursday, March 19, at the homs of Mrs. Charles Glover of Berlin, . s . Mrs. Alva L. Rogers opened her Mrs. Richard 8, Hubert opened her home in Maple Hill Wednesday to an all day sewing meeting of the Maple Hill Woman's club in ald of the New Britain C hospital. Mrs. Leonard Fox, B, Proudman, Mrs, Douglas A. Johnston and Mrs. W. H. Prince, |foreign missionary-department of the | , they will be returning | home in Plainville Wednesday afternoon to the regular mesting of the Plainville Woman's club of which Mrs. Frank Wheeler is pres- fdent. A talk on “Moving Pictures and Actors” by Mrs. Joseph N, Mec- Kernan and Mrs. Edwin L. Hiils was the feature of the afternoon. ¢« s e The New Britain College club, | president, Mrs, Douglas A. John- ston, will hold a guest night in the South church parlors Monday eve- ning, April ‘13, when Mrs, Ernest | Thompson Seton will talk on “Ad- | ventures in India.” .. | | | * | Mrs. Frederick G. Platt of this city spoke at the noonday lunchean | and gervice of the women's Service League at the Trinity church parish house if Hartford Tue chose for her subject Who Need Our Help." | RS Miss Laura Parker, group direc- tor of mission work, gave an f{l- lustrated talk at the South Congre- gational church Thursday evening. | The talk followed a supper which was served at 6:30 o'clock. In ad- dition to Miss Parker's lecture Mrs. | A. J. Willlam Meyers sang a group | of folk songs and national anthems. o e The Woman's Home Missionary society of the First Congregational church held en all day sewing | meeting Thursday. Luncheon was served at noon and was followed by an interesting talk on the work of the City Mission by Miss ella Dickinson and Miss Vers Kucera. e . Professor Stanley T. Williams Yale university gave the sccotM his lectures Wednesday morning 1 o'clock at Christ church cath al parlsh house under the a pices of the Hartford McAll atixil- ary. | prominent members of the club, as- sisted Mrs, Hubert as hostess. $70ek @ The first meeting of the Newing- ton Garden club will be held next Thursday, March 19, at the home of Mre, Skinner of Maple HillL BTt Woman's Club Presents Plays Members of the New Britain Woman's club turned out in full force last Tuesday afternoon for the presentation of “The China Pig” and “Rehearsal,” two short plays whi were successfully staged under the direction of Mrs. George Flanagen in St. Mark's parish rooms. Mrs. Louis W. Young presided at the meeting and the music was furnished by Miss Gladys Day, who rendered most acceptably the piano four short numbers from Mec- Dowell, Grainger and. Scott. The “The China were taken by Mrs. Frank Trau Mrs. Arthur W. Bacon and Mrs. F. Raymond Gilpatric. In “Rehearsal,” Mrs. Russell Nel- son, Mrs. Harold Ingraham, Mrs. William S. Rowland, Mrs. ward 8. Lancast Mrs. Emory C. Cor- bin and Mrs. Fred Porter compggsed the cast. A short business meeting preceded the plays, at this time a list of offi- cers for the coming year was pro- posed by the nominating committee. President, Mrs. John C. Loomis; first vice-president, Mrs. Louis W. Young: second vice-president, Miss Cornelia Chamberlain; recording socre Mrs. Gardner Weld; cor- responding secretary, Mrs. William H. Judd; treasurer, Mrs. William F. assistant treasurer, Mrs. Ar- H. Harrop; auditor, Mrs. Henry on Pig" rnoon fea was served with s Merwin and Miss Jen- . e The eighth general meting of annnal fleld day and Ahe Associated NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1025, R — New England Yale clubs will meet in Bridgeport as the guests of the I'airfleld County Alumni association May 15th and 16th. A tentative program for the ggtheridg includes On Friday afternoon, informal sports, in the evening an informal dinner and entertalnment. Saturday morn- | ing there will be formal sports, fol. lowed by luncheon at the Brooklawn Country club., 1In the afternoon the Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Co- lumbia race will be held, . .o Mrs, Leroy Brown, who has been In Chinese misslonary fields for a number of years, wlll address th Woman's Assoclation of tho South Congregational church at 3 o'clock next Thursday afterfioon, Her sub Ject will ba#The Light That Stream. Fagthest Shines Brightest at Home Tea will be served and lour will follow. a social . ART CENTER An exhibition of the work of the | students of the Hartford Art school, of which Albertus E. Jones is di- rector s shown at the gallortes of the New* Britain Institute. The work | covers a wide range and includes portraits, figure studies, landscapes in olls and water colors, pastels and Wlustrations, interior decoration, poster and costume des very definite theorles of th tor have borne fruit in the fine color sense shown In his pupll's work. | A brilliant portrait study of vivid | color by Monica Reddy of Bristol is the most prominently displayed canvas at the exhibit. It Is a verl- | table symphony in color and s one | of those outstandingly meritorious | compositions which have to be seen | to he appreciated | Two landscapes done by Miss| | Florence Mouat, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurenco Mouat of Grove Hill, are attracting equal attention, although' more subdued in coloring as is wont in this type of picture, | they employ delightful details and indicate ektraordinary fidelity to| MRS. “p FRED PORTER | Mrs. Porter played in “Rehearsal,” the one act play given by the Woman's Club Tuesday afternoon nature and, the ability to eee its| beauties. . | mo The delicate blending of trees age a barn iIn the background, enhances vas. | Another New Britain girl is rep-| resented with commercial drawings, forts in this line are on a the hest in her grade at hibition. There par with | the ex- | Me are other picturea of dis.| by followers of the hrush and pal-| ette in Hartford and other nearby artists are far in the| majority, but a lifo study by John O'Donnel exhibits unusual strength. A color study by Polly Whitney, and | othgr pletures by Helen Maisley, Malcolm Horne and Doris King are | of excellent value. The depiction of | a man by Kathleen Becker s un- |2 usnally good, The exhihition tire four walls of one of the large rooms on the upper floor of the in stitute. One will is taken up with the “star paintings.," another with nudes, a third with miseellaneons drawings, mercial productions. A charcoal drawing finished in three hours creates much interest, both in its subject and the speed shown in executing 1t Six chalk drawings on a background of black, | each done in five minutes, attracts/ ! lattention for the eame reason. The work of an artist must be speedy To palnt a landscape requires it to ba finished in one day — or an- !other day the same landscape may | | be changed in detail. The entire | fruition of talent and study must be | concentrated in the short time at | the disposal of the artist. | . . s0¢ Mi; takes the en "W Ia | Mi At S( in Ed the the an | An audience ranking high in the |social and artistic life of this local- ity heard and marvelled at the ex- |acting program of piano music |which 15 year old Lois Phelps gave on Wednesday evening in Unity hall in Hartford | Beginning with Bach's Italian con- she ended with Greig's con- A minor, with Irene a second piano. playing at In be- senergly tween were numbers by Schumann, Mrs. EF schubert, “Chopi nand Debussy. | A twinge of nervousness secmed to affect her in the first number, but quickly disappeared. Her playing of Bach was not mature; the tech- nique was present, but it s very dif- ficult to perform Bach perfectly. He requires more than technique, and that something comes with years than a prodigy can The intertwining parts so character- istic of this great master require an extraordinary variety of touch and W quite as m tone color as the modern masters. The Schumann pieces , Warum, and In Der Nacht; e she contributed the ro nu by were Gril- to a happy rendering of th Moment Musical in C giv lending to the first at elightful esprit that most effective play- sharp minor, movement was so of No plano recital during the gen- erations since Chopin lived has been p, complete without the poet of the piano being adequately represented. e included the C sharp minor pre- ide, the waltz in A flat op. 42, the Berceuse and the B flat minor ' Scherzo. : The waltz was given with much probably too spirited. Th unique first strain lacked in clear- ness, the need for which a maturer mind would more readily grasped Impetuosity must be shorn of youth to bring such idealistic conceptions to adequate reproduction. The love- Berceuse suffered a little for the same reason. But in the brilliant Scherzo the player gave a reading that was satisfying in most particu on gusto, Jo La ly tha She i3 Kate Goodwin, and her of-|lome o March | noon to tinction in the exhibition, painted|YOUNg f ; | magicians, terions The Elizabeth Sloper, colm ing ing harg After home will be tt od of a th the atill sylvan heanties of the can- [finale a pulsation of accomplishment. | CHILDREN'S McALL Mrs, 0 All auxilia gg of Yale universi juveniles iation are ss Mi, Ratte s rmer, the g5 Doris twood | and the fourth with com- | PLAINVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 'ORES SUCCESS IN als was made this week on Wednes y evening, lience § hey played he leadi mund Tol woman, resy and eingi audience d of Gert re iton Krar carried out his part to perfe W llent ts W and ny mber i1, Mies 1 CHILDREN'S HOME TO BENFE Y ren's Home eds from a conc he Chi pro en this city bers on eral omposed of Walter O the ey n church societ n any to raise f lars. The distinctiveness {style was quite clearly evolved in her Fing of the Noctu and Jard- dins sous la Plu \e latter has been one of Miss P! “ers for some time. made sort shrift of both of Debussy’s representations. The Grieg blooming perennial, was given in the of Debussy's ' oth by mo Tec hot concerto, an ever- | of Professional ald of members ney in wyer much beyond her The brilliant allegro, always and foliage is done with astonishing |pretty morsel for lithe digits, proved | Mijdrod skill and effect, and in one of them |\Well a [tes; plo wpted to player's capabiliti- | 1o, Miss Ma adagio a little less so James 0 Sunnyled at 4 o'clock in meeting of the Children's | Hartford there will with performances. | officors of 1 Parsons, Adelaide nhury Farmer, Winthrop Warren r secrefary he tre attempt of a v when before i and Helen Ostman ¢ : : | old.man and the " portrayed among t phia Mildred Flodquist, Doro- man very good fechn s Yy the and ch executive the c Falk hnson, John P. 1 Miss Mary 1 Miss Clarissa ntley, Miss Weld, Miss Charlott Symo- McCue, Miss Dorothy Anna Borg and Miss son, a a| Judd tham, Miss fan Campl | siliee: | BRIDGE, PARTIES AN OTHER ITF Mrs. Bennet three tables at on Vine noon Mre, G TO MEF will next North open her Friday 1S O INTEREST bard ained her home after- 1ed to Robert H entert hhe ¢ street nesday i to At this time e is to talk P o Coi also he two and Hewett will entertain 11l sorts of mys Silshy bert of who Mre ard Hall Christ has sent tea home on for bridge and = | which she z h childrer president Miss viee-presidents, Helen Bennett, Hoyt Pener Richard Murray & Tuesday afternoon of B the Robert Rilshy r Moore me Miss | A Mal- [ a ar en entertained her on Cooper esday T The Mi. recordir Merwin correkpe secrotpe and Will 1surer, DR at viey ftreet Miss Emma Ver. DRAMATICS Lowi the Rutla High el ateur theatri Mrs. luncheon Frank J. Porter gave a Farmington ternoon to A Crowe at the Comn y day "A Merry Comy p were taken 16 her in honor little old AR e ion o revelation 10| o in Thur, 1 T or Bee-lior Min by Virginia ( rti, N A recent y Catherine Beaulicu, | tef Fece = best, and Captain | Ohl gt °"P® | William Sander decorations cly in gre Patrick award Mrs Mrs, Harold ( Fonis fternoon in sil who in efore Dayton, mar: i corps ber, Miss Doris ve a small e on Hami M Rutland, E M Mclldowie, Hel Naan Mre, ruesday a Mrs. and Johnaon Booth won red Woodruff. in the play ren-| J os and d Hope Gle Cooper 18 a member of tl Ge returned ven. He Kansas cl nd a violin d rge Coit and Flod from W. House of SEIT od Monday fo! Yale W cefve gpen afternoon Mend will provide the program. committee h in this ¢ mmitte son, David Larson and Carl A. Ca concer Bridge is relie oth Women's clv 11 Y eir bu on Thursday they those will series of card parties at their reserving ta Miss Mary Meyer, Miss Abi hold t list mbe ( 1des v A reet s i e on Forest Sunny- ACTIVITIES — Miss Florence Harrlgan of Spring- fleld Is spending the week-end with [ Mrs. Willlam F, Mangan of Bassett {street, Miss Harrigan is well known |in Springfield's musical circles, ..o | Mr.and Mrs. Arthur Kimball |gave a very delightful supper party | followed by dancing at their home on Lexington street last Saturday cvening, Among the features of the cvening were a number of solo |dances and a musical program sung {by & group of Weselyan students 8i Yaffe furnished the music for the | general dancing. . 4. Cooper of Vine street has re. turned from Southern Pines, N, C. | “ .. | Willlam H. Walther of New York city 18 visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Walther of Cottage place. & s Ve | Mrs. Edward 1. Steinle, 8Sherman court, gave a bridge, Friday ter. |noon in honor of Mr R. Welr, |who will leave soon for a western |trip. Tour tables played and prizes were awarded Mrs, Jourdan and Mr: |Reid Hudgins Raymond Goodale has returned to Boston, Mass, after spending several days with hils pa , Mr, |and Mrs. Ben Goodale, of Newing- ton, Frank B. Rau and Miss Rau of Kobbing avenue, Maple Hill, are visiting relatives in Westfleld, Mass, Miss Eleancr Proudman, daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs, E. B. Proud- | man of Maple Hill, is attending the Alpha Alpha sorority convention in | New Haven this week-end, | e Mrs. Marion o o | i | ! Joseph Kally ot Plainville will | sail for Europe on Friday, March | Mr. Kally is planning to away about two months, RS be | | Mrs. C. W. Buckey gave a Junch- {eon followed by bridge at her home on Park Terrace yesterday. PR . Miss Fleanor Lewis has returned to her home in New York city. . . o» S Washington, Miss Trene Swi | Talmadge Swift of | returned from New York where she | ias been zpending the past week. . .. ollege A joint birthday party in honer of s of Edith Dicker- > Kimball of 35 Wal- was held this afternoon. Mrs. Dudley Walker of Hamilton street has for her house guests her [the 1 mother, Mrs, Vanhorn Hall, and her Mrs. Harry W. Indell, with her daughter, Bar- The home was prettily decorated in bara, of New York city. pink and green. The hostesses wer | P |the recipients of many pretty gi Iridge Beecher of Grove Hill |Piano and vocal selections were ren- ned from a short trip to|dered by Edith Dickerman and Ania |Landis and a birthday supper serv- ed. Guests were present from Bris- tol, Hartford, Unionville and this Cornellus sister, | E has retu oston, Mass Miss Helen Phillips of Berlin, | { Miss Mildred Weld of Park place |C}tY |and Miss Susan Murphy sailed m\ | day for Bermuda to be away about | | two weeks. . Mrs. fome on LA oon. Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Bennet H. Hibbard | and daughter of Vine sireet spent | last week-end with Mrs. Hibbard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. D, Stan- ley, of Short Beach, .. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Allen and son, Roger, of New Haven, are spending the week-end with 1M Allen’s mother, Mrs. Rose T. Hib- bard, of Arch street. . o Miss Florence Mouat, daughter of | noon in honor of her $th bi Mr. and Mrs, Laurence Mouat of | L N L) Grove Hill, will leave on Monday for Springfield, Mass, to spend a week with her sister, Mrs. Harry Adams. Mrs, at her on day evening. Th ed to Mrs. Helen H i : . i MISS ELOISE UNKELBACH \ Victoria Fiske, daught I NMGea Tinle Z f 5 0 ity i liss Victorla Fiske, dpughter of| Migs Unkelhach, who is a senior at the Boston University is Reverend Samuel A. Fisfe and Mrs 2 1 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Unkelbach |to the staft of the “Smith College | Weekly,” a publication at the col- | lege. Miss Fiske is a freshman at | the school and her appointment ia | PR | Emory Corbin of West Main| Carl Frisbie of Russell strect has : street has returned from 4 trip to |returned from Southern Phies. | . Boston, Mass, SHoES | S — . | Miss Georgia Parker of Vine . 2 s ‘Goolidge Sees Geneva. Situation Virginia to visit Mrs. Harry Abbe, | Mrs, Dorls Waters Hartshorn, for- | : e merly of New Britain was recently | . . Dusies Watker of Famiton stsatfeciea 1o the Bets chapier of e 43 Chalging Aspaot lastievaiinz, {recelved in this city. This legal | . {Women's fraternity in Washington, | daughter of [D. C. Mrs. Hartshorn 1s a graduate |awaiting more compl 5 ‘edic sireat has||of/tha 2 in High school and | £ S0Ik opmiviets and el f el at the Washington tic advices concerning the disarmae (ment situation abroad, President Coolidge believes recent develop- ments theré' as already indicated inite approach to the project of an- other arms limitation conference to be called by the United States. As soon as more definite advices are in hand as to the effect of recent the League of Nations disurmament and security protocol, the presidént purports to give close attention te the matter in conference with Secre- v Kellogg. Anything approaching ence idea to the nations 'interested two tabl br however will await a survey of tHe Maple street Monday situation on the basis of more auth~ Walter Bunce won the entic advices to be received through » official channels home proach to any of the powers on the subject and the conferences planned by the president with his secretary of state will, in fact, be the initial move in getting the many prelimi- Fiske of Berlin, has heen appointed | of Black Rock Avenue a member of that class, | came home from Beston, M ., |Phi Delta, according to information March 14.—While have opened the way to a more def- Hovelopments at Geneva concerning :-1 formal presentation of the confer- Walter F As there has been no actual ap~ res attending the project undeér ) ues- s award- . Miss Mr, and ter of Gar | 30 of her young friends at the tle Meadow club next Tuesday after- day. le it will be for these discus- sions to determine the plan of pro- dure, Mr. Coolidge at this time vors a simultaneous approach te the various powers. Under such = plan it would then remain for Sec- retary Kellogg to lay the project bee f the governments at London, : e o or the _ | Paris, Rome and Tokio through the Miss Catherine Wells is home | tion of Miss Mar American ambassadors there, with from Simsbury to spend the week-|lcader of the organ the reaction of each to be reported end with her mother, Mrs. W The program to Washington. While hopeful that Wells of Newington. 1 1d be favorable received by & of the governments it is the esent intention of President: Cool- w » For Ha v |idge that, in the event of a contrary \‘1;:‘”’“‘1:,”’””."\ levelopment the Washington gov- ¥ crnment shall go forward with the ct to such governments as are Among the New Britain able. who are stopping along the French 3 The president Kiviera are Mr. and Mrs. George I Tocal'aolo, X nd and Hart, Miss Lillian Brown t Mrs. Maxwell Porter, Sta who are at e Miss Churchill and am F. Brooks are at Messto and Miss Letty Learned is in Ca . . Mrs. George Corbin is visiting her ghter, Mrs. Paul Johnston of De- and, Florida. mong se who en- rtained for Mrs. Corbirn before she eft for the south were Mrs. A Mack of Lincoln street and M Harry C. Blakesley of H street. . The Youn the Jorda entertainmer Judd’s hall Judaea will hold , L their An v Piano solo, Playlet ca characters, et Miss Barbara Swift, daughter of Talmadge Swift of Cedar street, i8 home from Wells college, Aurora, N. Y, for her spring recess. .« s s Stella Et people would like to see naval armaments the scope of the ference but as to neither phase American policy be other than on of moral appeal, in no wag marked by coercion. ey Min NEW BRITAIN MUSICAL CLUB CONCERT TUESDAY € one of the T_vpicai March Blizzard Rages in Middle West March 14.—A typlcal rd, laden with raim ow and borne on & -mile wind was moving into the middle west today with warnings of harp drop in temperature. dy it has the west, particu- cky Mountain region, in and was sweeping two ways, north and from the Chicago. ted large parts of le in Towa heavy snow high winds were accompanied a rapidly falling thermometer. snow was seen as a benefit pring crops as the soil was said to be badly in need of moisture. cago, a; tendance. clude . e 4 gave a bridge G Mrs. Louis Jone party Monday afterncon a on Ten Acre road. The p awarded” to Mrs. Alfre and Mrs. John Tlannery s were Mrs. W. C. S/‘Jri will ent members of her bridge ¢ next Wednesday afternoon home on Trumbu Mrs. Joh Flannery the members of her bri her home on Corbin aven: day afternoon. Mrs. Richa won the prize Crowell Recommended for Ordnance Reserve Officer Washington, March 14.—Secretary has recommended to Presi- Coolidge the appointment of dict Crowell of Ohlo, former t secretary of war, as & brige er general in the ordnance offie cers’ reserve corps. Crowell is presie at of the army ordnance assocls ation and Secretary Weeks seeks the ise of his technical and business es- |perience. ETWE WS Miss Margaret Mi ed from New York city on T after spending a few days wit sister, Mrs. Aldon Rickey. ST A Mr. and Mrs. William C ford of Russell street ar home from a trip in the south and Atlantle City the early part of next week, | mass T Debussy ius Cap weki Miss Florence Ruth Tommasonl