New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1926, Page 3

m me MRS. KENNETH T. SLOPER Mrs. Sloper is showing a number of oil paintings at the Artist club of Hartford, in the new studio on Main street. Socially prominent herself, the exhibit takes on an air of social importance and during the next two weeks will draw a brilliant gathering of visitors. | Sccial Activities About Town The most recent announcement of the most ambitious entc ent to take place at the Shuttle Meadow club this nis “A Night in Florida,” to be held on the eve- ning of largest Saturday, Feb, 27. This is planned to be the id grandest affair of its kind held this winter The annual fancy dress ball, of pleasant memories, will, in a way, be resuriected at this indoor fete. The committee has arranged a most attractive advance card announcing the pe The information concerning the event is printed attractively and guests are requested to add to the gayety of the evening by appearing in mid-summer costumes, weh clothes, the Spanish athlete, the croupier, in fact, vthing in keeping “A Night in Florida” in the picture is permissible, Si Yaffe will play. Set aside the night of i it promises to be very much worth while! \s the date draws near for the annual cabaret ball which will be held at the Shuttle Meadow club on the eve- ning of Saturday, March 20, plans for the entertainment ne more and more interesting. The entire cast orrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the club with rd Parsons, who is to have complete charge of tie aflair this year. Further plans will be discussed and rel alz will begin at once. As usual, the cast includes v mmiber of well-known members of New Britain's social world. i hecon W s will mark the event this year, but what il be kept secret until the night of the are to he Hawever, they promise to outdo in many respects the mast claborate and surprising endeavors heretofore the elub; in fact, one might say they will set i cvening hitherto unparalleled in the annals o ave fond of music are greatly interested in it theater concert of the on to he given under the s of the New Britain Musical club. It comes next vock sunday afternoon at the Capitol theater, when Duso- Jina Giannini, the latest sensation among sopranos, will be heard in recital, The advance notices have met with much enthusiasm and it goes without saying that Miss Giannini yacity house. elub of Hartford is holding an exhibition of s by Norma Wright Sloper in its new studio on Main street in Hartfor Opening today, the pictures will on display for the next two weeks from 1 to 6 o'clock in s alternoon. On Saturday afternoons tea will be served from 1 to 6 o'clock. Iington Country ciub on Monday for land Miss Ross Darow wers enthus. jPenin and Miss Hazc NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, I p— for the highest scores at each table. . . | Mre. Johnstone Vance will enter- 'tain at tea at her home on Monro *streel thls afternoon from 4 to # o'elock for Miss Helen Cadwell o New York city, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cadwell of Har- rison street whose marriage to Ed- vard Sechrist of New York will take place early in the spring. Mrs. James Robinson and Mrs Cadwell will preside at the table and assist- ing in the dining room will be Mies Euniee Humphrey, Mrs. William Peace, Mrs. Russell Willlams and Miss Evelyn Cadwell ajie e | Mrs. Lawrence Humason gave & [bridre party at her home on Liberty |street Thursday afternoon when ehe ontertained four tables at auction, |The prizes were awarded to Mrs. James Baldwin, Mre. Clifton Wil son and Mrs. Brayton Porter. After- Ihoon tea was served in the dining room with Mre. Earl Bowman pre- «iding at the tea table which was decorated with tall yellow candles and calendulas. Mrs. Maurice John- son, Mrs. Richard Prichard, Mrs. Clifton Wilson and Mrs. Brayton | PPorter assisted with the serving. . “« .o Mrs. George Ashlev gave a de- \ightful tea and shower at her home | on Corbin avenue last Saturday aft- | ornoon for Miss Eunies Humphrey. whose marriage to Burton Hilde- brandt of Minneapolis, Minn., will take place April 12th. Both Mrs Hildebrandt and Mrs. Humphrey presided at the tea table in the din- !ing room, the centerplece of which |was a largs bowl of pink roses and |freizia, with tall pink candles on | either side, Assisting in the dining | lroom wew Miss Elizabeth Kimball, Mss Virginia Humphrey, Miss Flva | McKirdy and Miss Winnie Plant of West Hartférd. . e Miss Beatrice Revnal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reynal of Lex- ington etreet entertained the mem- bers of the Thursday afternoon card lelub at her home this week, that day. o« o The Artlsts’ club of Hartford has sent out cards for an exhibition of paintings by Norma Wright Sloper lof this clty to be exhjbited in the new studlo at Main strect, in tha Brown-Thomson building. ‘Fh'- exhibit is open from Feb, 20 to March 5 from 1 to & o'clock in the ved on afternoon. Tea will be ¢ Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6 o'clock. o o . Everything was very festive and at the seventh anual ball of tho Allin's Saciety) MRS. AUSTIN STOWELL Mre. Stowell took part in the presentation of “Lord Jaughter” at a meeting of the College club held SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926, Those holding over from 1024 and 1926 are Mrs. . W. Corbin of New Haven; Mrs. W. P. Barber of West Hartford; Miss Florenco 8 M. Crofut of Hartford; Mrs. C. H. Arm- strong, 6r, of Bridgeport; Mrs, Harry R. Willlams of Hartford and Mre. C. F. Merwin of New Haven As delegate to the general court members elected Mrs. George May- vard Minor of Waterford and Miss Crofut as alternate. Plans for the court were outlined by Miss H. P. Marsh who has served the state for elx years at national councillor. After business, members and thelir friends adjourned for luncheon for which §8 reeervation had been made from all sections of the state. The hostesses of the day were Mrs. Alan M. Bateman, Mrs. C. B. Bol- mer, Mrs A. H. Jackson and Miss | Emeline Street, all of New Haven. | The speaker of the afternoon was | Dr. Richard Swan Lull, director of | Peabody Museum, who explained | the arrangement and design of the | collections. Later under expert | guldance those present were taken | through the musaum, which Is one {of the largest bulldings to be opened | | by Yals university | At the meeting much interest was | manifested fo the candidacy next | April of Mrs. John Laldlaw Buel of | Litchfield for the office of natlonal | president. In accordance with the | enthusiastic and unanimous endorse- ment voted at the meeting of Octo- | ber 21, 1925, official announcement cards to that effect have already !been issued by the chapter. Mrs. Buel's singular fitness for this in | portant position 18 the natural out- coma of a career of diversified In. terests and continuous activity. Since 1924 as national historlan of this organization, she has collected valuable historical data, which will | promote rescarch work in that de- | partment. Never a private in the ranks of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she became widely known from 1909-1922, as the state regent of Connecticut: and to that office she brough executive ability | {and skill in organization, that per- fected the foundation laid by her predecessor in that office, who was accounted dean of state regents, the late Mrs. Sara Thomson Kinney of chajrman of the committes on the widely known “Manual for Immi- | grants,” Mrs. Buel has served with high efficlency the National Society Daughters of the Amerjcan Revolu- Homestead b3 cting insi MRS. GEORGE FLANAGAN ! Mrs. Flanagan is again lending her time in the dra- matic field, in preparing for presentation three one-act plays to be given at the first March meeting of the New Britain Woman's club. Miss Bristoll, Miss and Present;” |were won by The Chronicles of a and Mrs. McDonough. Harttord, SCHooli and £ tATarioan ant hostesses were Mrs From 1922.1925, as vice-prestdent | oco Malkers.” hoth by Fmil ren M. Blodgett general and since 1920 as national | \'ayqornoot | Are. Duels w MR e Mrs. an Emory Corbin, and Miss Marion Hungerford. | A business meeting preceded the social hour at which the membership patriotism, for lious for un: ) i 4 the constitution of the committee reported four new mem- | Eddy-Glover post, Ameriean Leglon |y osqay evening at Miss Gertrude Rogers' home on Sunny- | ton. She ls & member of many other | (7yjteq states rs, Miss Eloise Unkelbach, Mrs. held at the state armory on Areh | B9 5 " | socicties and organizations, which GO0 Donald Hidden, Mrs. C. M. Van Igtroct last cvening. The ofticial| ledge. | include the following: The Connec- o S T R e T ‘ime sot for the ball to open was 8 | ticut Society of Colonial Dames of | T1° L V! Mrs. Donald Bartlett reported o'elock. i Yafte and his orchestra ; i ¥ America, of which she served as his- | Britain Waman's club have arr. at the scholarship fund had now ! opened the ball with a splendid con- | Solo, Inger E. Roberts and tomorrow evening Mrs. Howard | torian for three years; a members a very entertaining program to be ed ¢ 71. Already two grad- cort of music. This was lan\\‘ l‘ Wennerberg Male Chorus ©phrey will entertain with a sup- | of the Colonial Dames club, Wash- given next Tuesday afternoon at Tne s of the mid-year class of 1926 by the general «:f.nnum 'm;l*wl Readlie [EERRRAL ington; the Society of MayfOWer | p,gular mecting of the ciub which f have applied for scholarships. o'clock. The list of patronesse 2 LA Descendants in the State of Conne Batheiain: R Afark's | The next meeting of the za- cluded Mrs. W. E. Atwood el Mildred Erickson | Mrs. T .H. Bristol gave a tea at lyjent; the John Howland Soclety; | wapioy .],',,,,‘;’ Bl ;rg:!m‘m F. Bennett, Mrs. Isaac B s, Daffodils A German her home on Corbin avenus Frida¥ thy Daughters of Colonial Wars: | ' spembers of the denartm 1y home of Mrs. P. F. McDonough of Wilam R. Booth, Mrs. William J. To 4 Minf Braily rnoon for her daughter Mrs. Al- ¢n, Hartford Colony, National Cemaerecine aopar et aR il . street Farley, Mrs. B. T DMys.f Serent erte |lan Bristol of Philadelphla, Pa. clatvTot N W B land EWaran gl s ok e i e 030 Willlam T.. Hatch, Mrs. W. C. Hun- | S fLone Sl gerford, Mrs. H. Johnson, Mr: \. G. Kimball, Mrs. G. T. Kimball, Mrs. C. G. Landers, Mrs. J. C T.oomis, Mrs. P. F. McDonough, s Mrs. A. C. McKinnie, Mrs B ; " o & North, Mrs. C. B. Parsons, Mrs 'W ‘\ 1lquist, conductor " Wi s . Philip B. Stanlc >rofessor Per son, associate | Mrs. F. G crts and ) RN Jacsom | Young. | Stanley Eddy headed the general committes, which was Hvided into the following groups: Dox commit tee, Stanley J. eoski (chairma Joseph C. Edward T Ogren, Howard J mus committee, Harr (ehairman), Howa tieket committee, G nec (ehairman), William Kelly 1ay C. Winger; decoration eor mit- | tee, Curtis T (ehairma Dusolina Giannini, the young Ttal- n soprano is coming to Sunday 2511 after- under th Rritain Musi appearane looked forward fo wi 1ch of anticipation among the o muste Trimb Carlson Gus- Sadie Goldsmit fit hridge par jon treet Sunday afterno 1- (1. Molander: committee. Rus obadial @ i o <ol H. Shailer hall committer, | MIAEY 20 s 'u A y L o unfor Hadassah will be ten Willlam W. T. Sanire. PR R e Mp. And. | Mre, Enen Putnam {MiIlibe served S e | vare given a farewell dinner Wed- | podip o s I datt (e Hot el Byl ULy [cTso A a t ! Helen Hunter enterta four ¢t by Mr. Putnam's form i e S o SN Siitastanltha) GonecyibiteLigntinniptables S DR LA LIRMSE MR R Power Co., Mr. Putnam is lea Ao A o) M tn accept the presidency of t dlGs anrizeSpRare 2 100 1920 Greenwich Gas and Water Co (W J el Ity AT foe sntlemen's prizes wen i r Goodwin and Dr. George The members of the Corbin 8¢ |Oftice Girls' elub held their second A lunc on was served ACre |annual banquet Tuesday evening at |midnis i 4 Iy, v Meriden. Miss | Ye Olde Colony Inn, Mer : ey |Mas Ryar. Miss Huldah Johnson| Mrs. Lillian Majuary, Mrs. Treno Maivary gave (w A «”l\'pg |Mrs. Arthur Kimball \mu,nny received in a group of jtheir mother Mrs. Z. Richard, a i AN b ) ‘ance mambers. The remainder of |birthday surprise party yesterday = et Miss Mary § Whittlesey of West |the program follos A nfternoon_at. her : a ° ‘\ i ‘ i ) Ak Main strect and her house guest,| Toast and remarks, President sfreet Ba Uhousell wasi pre Musical Club Concert Sun- | yjs™ yortus Atiis o Haverhill, |Gretta Gavanaugh; plano selnction |decorated with pir A day, Feb. 28—Mrs. A, G. | I\fass, were the honor guests at a |Miss Martha FErnest; song. Missjluncheon was ser Kimball Honoved. bridge party which Miss Tlorenca |Nan Cullinan; song, Miss Mollio | Saahed o | v Crofut of North Beacon |Jackson; reading of valentines, all| Mrs. A. A. Kaplan enferfained ——— t. Hartford, gave at her home |the girls; song, Miss Marle Heslin; jthree tables of bridge at I ma 1 cong, Miss Martha Ernest; song. wood street 18 intarestingRprogram lias) been s {\fiss Kathleen Walsh; chorus, as The prizes © 1 BAor ALl By ea s Slen Harding entertalned 'sembly. Accompanists. Misses Jes- Charlea 1. Groi Mrs. 5 e ; of the Maple Hill [ste Beh and Beatrice Patorson N i and Mrs, Samuel i St bridge club at her home on Rob- | O s A R e ) ol bins avenue Tuesday afternoon. The [ The committee "'_""”"\ e | el o Friday e o prizes were awarded to Mrs. Leon- [bridge party given la e rodm = A, i I R. B. Doane, and {afternoon at the EIK's club under [trimmed with Va i S L ren i R kweather the auspices of the New Rritain \\frs Fdward Feliman Mrs. . mas PR ageh, Connecticut council —of Lylius T serving. o G ‘? The Second Company, Governor's |Catholic Women {‘n‘n‘;l _h‘y‘;: “ e | ”1 H:;"\\ fent. {1700t Guard will give a military re- lies of men “M",‘f__“ Bloehiilaiot sbalisaie e iRy cchool (CCPtion and ball March 2nd at the INorth & Judd disa ‘Iwn amin S0 Lo Con & g S sum of $300.00 cleared lon, Mrs. Martin H. Horwl rs. omeo |Hotel Taft in New Haven on the sum j nent was furnished [Davia 1. Nair, Mrs. Isadore Wein- I occasion of the 151st anniversary of | AN en 'rfir:m\ns‘ S ished |David 1 i i ts charter grant |y, ipuplisSofs Miss LAMBORE. &ose bere At ; Sy ing tencher, including aumbers b 5 R 1 v Miss Phyllis Senning entertained |Grace Tuddy, ‘.\1‘1‘\ y“m‘xv fl“ [ Mrs. T ,F. ) ’ ' oL <‘ x a number of her friends at a soclal |Vian McBriarty, Liiza e o L e ey o 2d dance at the Worthington Com- |Gertrude Girard. | S G B S ¢ . London, |munity 1 in Berlin Thursday | Members of the Wennarhere Male 1 \rs. E. N, Among evening. R L-hfl,u, and the Men's club of the et ¢ for the Stanley emorial arch rave Koo are Jocon Crain of Water-| Alumnae teek-end at Connecticut \‘:Tfl;;d :"w"’_{_,“o, AR At e e Pl ather(J Harvey {Sollege I8 helng obssved |day evening In the South Congrega 1 ; Willir me \structor at the end, with Bradford house Stonal ehureh in ald of a fund be- SO 400l Paul Mellon of Pittsburg, |turned over to the graduates. An [/ 8L (4 Tor he erection of A com- ' { ! a1 Yalo university, /interesting program has been ar- | 18 L0 in the eastern section SaRell e ! : A sanged &) follows. ¥a alumuae oo 4pe city. The program presented Pardon Rickey gave a LV Iy basketball game in the gym {to the large audience in attendance ridce at her home in Ber- r Charles Louis |Saturday at 2:30 p. m folltra lin Thursday for Mrs. Arthur Kim- Aidams {am Hunt, both alumnae tea in Colontal Hou Star Spangled Banner {ball who : s e ¢ " eshman class at urday at 4 p. m. Bauer-Wrld mus- {gn the Sea % Dudley Buek {\fr. K 1 a cir children on p ha Hibbets and Theo- [icale in the gymnasium Saturday | Wennerberg Male Chorus the Adr \ e Jore” Manning of Wallirgford, both night at 8:15 p. m. Special alumnae |Reading ..... . Mildred Erickson |ahroad the other . \ts at Princeton university, are (vesper service Sunday in th® RYM- |Arja—Pleurez Mes Yeux (from Le 5 Kimball's i g t end also. nasium at 7 p. m., reading by Pres- | (i), Massenet. 5 per party which ) 'ident Marshall in Colonial !muso‘ Inger E. Roberts, soprans. |Mrs. T. H ol gave at her home 1oy evening, Mrs. Howard |after vespers. Alumnae luncheon at! Florence Tommasoni, ompanlst lon Co je last Sunday eve- 1 1. W. Porter and |Colonial hi Monday at 1 p. m. Olay Trygvason F. A. Refssiger |ning inesday Mra Harry N Vance aate The alumnae will be quartered at Furuskogen ... W. Peterson-Berger |Parsons of Russell street gave a 1 at Mrs. Branford Saturday and Sunday {Bon T Stormen ... J. Durrner | lunche nd theater party for Mrs home on M street in compli- [nights. Wennerberg Male Chorus Kimt Frid Mrs. Wil- ' ) rs. Arthur Kim- | . e INTERMISSION h Eay bali of Lexington str who will| Mrs. Roger Whitman entertained | Vineta 5 Franz Abt [her home on 1 ) \ r Europe. four tables at cards at her home on God Bless Thee Americ re. Kimt e Corbin avenue Wednesday afternoon. | . Alfre 1 Mrs, all entertained |Afternoon tea w red ain is at the Farm- s scrved In the din- ¢ |ing room and prizes were awarded .. Bland 'Mrs. Loomis' home on Lincoin road for twenty-two years she served as DHED O | secretary of the Litchield chapter, Clark, daughter of Etude de Concert, E flat At a meeting of the Emma Hart k. In ad itio ) tobert Cl « rs. Cla nf folk dances 1n ¢ Willard chapter, Daughte 4 et wiil atortain.a mumw | American Red Cross. R M L o oty & tiordl| e ¥ Bueliwasifan Sincorporatori| pofian oon at the homs of Mrs. noon. for Miss Elizabeth Kimball, [2nd Is now trustes of Connectlcut W. Guwatkin of Berlin, the A Ee | college. Educationally she won| yfjes 5 fos o the state apdipational Mrs. John Olson gave a mnm\mnf""‘mrfi even in preparatory school: |yome on of the organization her home on Pearl street. Friday | 21d not long hefore the founding of |ning to the The state confers e Niies Blizaveth Lindbers of Wor. | Barnard college, she had the dis- lof the New Halilat Barafordiion ~cster, Mass, who has been the|tinction of being the fourth woman !wyieh Mrs, Dot The delegates will be trat ot Mre. Taymond Holleing, |0 whom Columbia university con- |prosident ey Wi Stevens Mis. Mortls oiie | ferred the degree of Bachelor of | The pr ot iiie eveni D Rl N B W ¢ Traver, daughter|ATts Mrs. Buel fs the author of isisted fo a piano durt by Mildrum and Mrs. Eddy N. Smith. nd Mrs, H. A, Traver of Many historical papers and public (15 Harvey and Miss Gl The alternates to this conference Mapl pupllof | Aurelio | addresses of a patrlotic nature, that o voeal solo by Mrs. Robe will be Mrs. Charles B. Glover, Mra. Glorni of New York clty, took part | include such subjects as “The Con- fman, and a drama nd W, Gwatkin and Mrs. inar 1 which he ) T nrs\l,\y;“"“’”o“ of the United States™ and Allin's Daughter,” played by Francis Deming. {evening cd School of | “The Dangers of Sociallst Propa- | Ldw Lancaster s Elmer W. Stevens and Mra. program fol. | FAnda’" In addition, she has pub- |Huhbard, Mrs. Rustin L. ter .. Rhodes were appoint- |lished a booklet “The Tale of the land Miss th Bristoll ed to act as delegates from Emma e ‘horesqie, op. 20 | SPINNINE Wheeli® and has edited | Tho entertainment followed R \”," i | thres larger works: “The Ellsworth by Valentine es in which prizes ! (Continued on Page 14) mbati ... . vresean | Nocturnes, op. 21, Nos. 1, 2 Margaret Traver. Chopin Etude i Chopir Waltz, A flat t Choypin . Scherzo, B minor [ || Grace Wolfe. { Seambati .. Sixth Nocturne, E major MaeDowell . Witches Dance it Saint Saens % Tm~r;1'n( | Winnio Davis Long. { \ On Tuesday evening the Immae- | How Will Your Woodwork Look Twenty Years from Now? i It's Far Cheaper to Buy the Best llate Conception Guild of St. Mary's | church gave a pre-Lenten card party | || Whether You Are Building or Remodeling in the Young Men's Temperance| |l hall. Pt numbers and solo dane- | I OODWORK is inf featured during the evening. | | okt | I you buy just once. And CLUB EVENTS | it the valuation of your | I home can be greatly in | i creased or reduced—all | Emma Hart Willard Chap- ter, D. A. R., Selects Con- i kind you buy. | vention Delegates. it Before you decide let t ue tell you about Cur- tis Woodwork. 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