The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 14

PAGE 14 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921 Seattle THE SEATTLE STAR DM. ANGUS, of Seattle, amt mn of ona “§ the same an the] [TIS MEALS LATE, WANTS DIVORCE onea| CLEVELAND, Dee 6 Felix ‘ and | Colin gays hin wife wo an't give him her folks their's, Now he wants a divorce. | paten that # Cynthia Grey: Hundreds of Letters Commenting on “Main Street’ | | Society x on Ais. sind di. Subs Atctaan. ino. | Arrive as Contest Nears Close—Difficult Task to) © Dinner Will Compliment wraed Monday trom Caixars where | Select Best Ones. House Guests; Musical ser at sccompanied by Mee Me | BY CYNTHIA GREY lidar | Lean's mother, they are leaving for| 4 | " oR ‘ Program for Holiday Los Angelea to spend the winter | | Talk about floods! This department is absolutely buried 11 | human Party. | |"“Main Street” letiers. We are afraid we will have to burn! Once more, before I midnight oil in an effort to select the prize-winning letter—\*y Sinclair Lewis o eee Mr, Charles Walker left today for there are so many perfectly splendid ones, and it is to be re- |" © wae _ gretted that we cannot have a whole page just for “Main! DR DAVE 6 convicted in the federa bh people who have grown up with the violating narcotic \- =. "y Personal Mr. town Lewis} | Wednesday tre h's trip in the Bast, Mra, Eyman, who re mained tn Chieago, will return in a few day ! see Kyman returned appear t Miles Djornatam, the He he ny faulte yet do we al ve should? standoffiwiness, the aneors and Sibep of you and I and the other follow that keep him from being the right kind of a citizen? Hie haw demonstrated the thet that he has it in him to aoeornpliah things. @ little of “the milk of kindnese” to help bith along Voor Swede » of the state license board undews hia meal until finished | show why + is Uh revoked jcense aa a pb Ne AS = i | but he need: AND MRS. DAVID EDWARD | New York to spend the winter. eee } SKINNER have extended tnvi Miss Mary Reber has come in from | Dear Miws Grey; Sinclair Lewin’ tations for a dinner of twenty-four jovers to be given at the Sunset clud. imenting Miss Dorothy Little | Miss Barbara Ruxton “Phe dinner will precede the holiday | | Bance for the benefit of the Orthope. | Ho hospital, which will be given by | Rollo group of the younger girls in | Bire wood, Mich. } fhta of Columbus hall, Monday December 26. | | Mien Little is the house guest of and Mrs. Skinner, and Miss Bux- ts arriving from St. Paul next to be their guest over the holi for Christmas Party Plans for the holiday card party Musiceletea the Tennis club is) at the Masonic temple Thurs- afternoon, December 29, ure de- ing each day, Announced today the musical program which has| Srranged by Miss Sara Yeagiey ; James Colbert Sullivan and/ Ruth Durheim, preceding which | carols will be sung by a N's chorus. | The program follows Mendelssohn | Auer | mpton at the piano + Chaminade | vee Godard | wi “ae 1d Eitiott teniawski Bidridge By | nh Dance” ‘Bylvia Bernhard fer and “Tarentell Pauline Mackay and Leora Goriot “Coquette” (from “Schuman Car- | .- Silver Metrentaum: nadom"* « Bocherint Lilfian Greenberg: | “Variation on Toes Chopin . Syivia Rernhara } “Spanish Dance”... ....Rubdenstetn 4 Irene Teham | dance numbers will be {in| of Caird Leslie, Teservations may be made honing Mrs. Loule L. Men Bast 6 chalrmamot arrange ta, or Mra RK. William Crosby, 0971, m charge of the tea, mer Hosts es | ir. and Mrs. Charles F’. Tregoning | certained with a dinner of twelve at their home last evening. eee it. Mark’s Parish Plans tmas Party Christmas party will be given Mark's parish on Wednesday 5, December 28, im Chriaten- | fs hall, in which the missions of; 1 and St. Barnabas have tnyited to participate. A Christ- Ram tree for the children will begin thé evening’s entertainment at 6 oe and the singing of carols take place at § Dancing wil! be | Bt 9 o'clock, which will be the con-| feature of the affair. eee fr. and Mrs. Whittwell m Mr. and Mrs. HH. Van Kuran were |48%: December 20, at 1:30 p, m., with | play, “Her Tongue, honor guests at an informal which Mr. and Mrs. George | _Whittwell ga at their home, | Mth ave. N. E., last evening. | eee s at Informal ing - and Mea. R. C. Baumgarten ined informally at their home Saturday evening, cards being the | Wersion enjoyed. ary Dinner on Christmas Day | *Bighteen covers will be placed Bround the ‘board at the family din. | | Ser Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Waldo will | ‘Bive at their home on Christmas day. | oe | “ Plan Dinner for os y, December 25 Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Tollefsen have @ dinner of ten covers at | home for Sunday, December 2 sot Later, about thirty friends will com fi for an informal evening. ee eo | > | Birthday Celebration son Clar. Mr. | Qfd Mrs. C. 0. ualheim entertained with a dinner of fourteen covers at their home last evening. ’ cee Tea Shop in Charge of Frink Park Guild Mrs. W. C. Miles will be hostess at | Orthopedic Tea Shop for the| with Mrs. J. E, McCallum, 1347 18th| pee pels lave. N., Tuesday, December 20, from Park guild, Saturday. Assist ing ber will be Mrs. Ivan H d, | John Wallace, Mrs. W. B. Mc » Mrs. Frank T. Pratt, Mrs. | ~ J. Holmes, Mrs. Max Harrison, | irs. C. I. Harrison and Miss Marion t her country bome at Beach and will spend the remainder of the winter at the Hotel Assembly oe Mr. and Mra, Alfred Rollo have as thelr house guests Mr. Rollo's mother and sister, Mrs, G, D. V. and Miss Cecile Rollo, of . . Judge and Mra, W. A. Holsheimer will entertain as their guest for the holidays Miss Roberta Jean Lind. berg, daughter of Mr. and Mra. G. Lindberg of Los Angeles, formerly of Seattle. eee De. R. C. Raumgurten returned last week from a ten days’ trip to Phoenix, Aria. ee Mr, and Mrs. E.R. Bowden and children left yesterday for Palo Alto, Cal, where they will spend the holt da with Mra, Bowden's parenta, and Mrs, William Derste, Bowden and children will remain for the winter, but Mr. Bowden will re- turn early in January. eee Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Sargent have Purchased the home of Mr. M. Drumheller, 1122 Federal ave. which they will occupy on their re: turn from Portland, where they will spend the holida eee Mr. and Mra, R. William Crosby and daughter, Helen Ainsworth, with Mrs. Ida Schroeder, will leave about the first of the year for Coronado, to spend the winter. CLUBS FOR SATURDAY Stadium Club's Dance ‘The Stadium club will entertain with ita “winter trot” at the Masonic temple Saturday evening, December 1, honoring the University of Wash: ington varsity and freshman gridiron warriors, and the high school foot: | ball eletens whieh have recently completed their activitic Aloha Chapter No. 116 Aloha chapter No. 116, © 8, wit! meet in Thorn’s hall, Green| Lake, at 8 p.m. Present officers will confer degrees Yor the last time They will also christen Raby Mitch-| ell. P.O, Mitehell, the baby’, father. is worthy patron, while Mra “Mitchell is Blecta, cee Happy Hearts Ctod Happy Hearts club will meet at the Y. W.C. A. Mins Alice Lindsay is In charge of the program and deco rations for the Christmas party. eee Y. M. H. A. Bazaar The ¥. M. H. A. bagnar at 17th and E. Union st. will be in charge Saturday evening of | the Eagies, Moose, World, Knights of Pythias and L Q.| e- ADDITIONAL CLUBS Queen Ande Conservation League Queen Anne circle of the Child Conservation league will meet Tues Mrs. L. B. Rebkopf, 2457 First ave.| N. Miss Dor@fhy Snowden of the) Snowden Elliott Dramatic @hoo! wilt! give dramatic readings and an in |Structive talk om dramatic, Visitors|™ore grim ey was “Trifles,” wélcome, ee Lady Eagles Lady Eagles will meet Wednesday. December 21, 1 p. m., in M. BE. B.A. ball. Luncheon and election of of. ficers. . } eee Queen Anne Circle Fruit and Flower| Mission | Queen Anne circle of the Fruit and | Flower mission will meet Monday, | December 19, at 1:30 p, m., with Mra. | Charles 8. Wills, 414 W. Comstock t. There will be no sewing. Busi-/ ness meeting and election of officers. | Members urged to attend. eee Sunset Heights Literary Club Sunset Heights Literary club will | hold its next meetingsat the home of | 92: Ida Edwards, 3626 Woodlawn | 1 Mra. ave., Tuesday, December 20, at 1:26 p.m. ‘Take Wallingford or Meridian ear. Christmas program, e-e Sunshine Club lw The Queen City Sunshine club will meet in the club rooms of the| temple, Tuesday, December | m. Cards. All Eastern | Stars invited. eee Capitol Hill W. C. T. U. Capitol Hill W. C. T. U. will meet 11 until 4 o'clock. Bring lunch and come prepared to sew for poor chil. dren. cee King County Legislative Federation King Co Federn- HE world’s your selecti Richmond | Roscoe | ‘Three Plays at ‘The second of a series of five com- piimentary piano recitals given by) the pupils of Silvio Risegari will be held tomorrow evening at 8:20 in the Fine Arta hall, Mr. Edward | Whiting will be presented in the fol- lowing program: 1 fonata B MINCE... ...sereeeens ss CROpID tt Concert Study—C Sharp Miner tate Kibelive Ainding Romance Ruatle of Bpring Waite from “Faust mt A Minor (two plages).. Moderate a ee | 5 ’ Recital Tonight ‘The pupils of the Van Harlingen School of Music will be heard in re. cital this evenmmg at § p. m. in the Calvary M. E. church, W. T@th and |» 23rd ave. N. W. jr The program follows: t Pia) “La Papition” Breda ae Cancert. | H Galina Lavelle I x Ni jh (a) “T Know « Lovely Garden ‘ D’Nardetot (>) “1 Heard @ Wood Thrush in the Doak p Courteney Mra. Grace Medgecork Hines Hidgewsy Clyde at Une pl ey let ant Rhopping™ Mot samba sre Bibel Webd Liveely i ti Piano (a) “An don Fronting* Allears Appaasionats, Op Op. 36. Ne 9 Mendelasonn Migs Nettie Menaei | Frans Reit| Se Na ¢ (0) “Consolation m Mise Raby Pacst Mra Mdward Hailey at the ptaee ry (a) “Tirth of Morn. .... Laon! (0) “Flower Song” from “Faust ° Gomod Mra Grace Hedgeccek inten Rid y Clyde at the place 4 Worth White"... Kathires Misa Nettle Menset Cornish Theatre ‘There Was & warning to all women who talk too much in the one-act staged Thursday evening at the Cornish theatre by the} Members of the Cornish Repertory company, The chief character waa ably played by Edana Ruhm. A tragedy by Susan Glaspell, shows the importance of seeming trifles to one who is thelr victim for years. The bill ended with the pres ation of a fanciful play, “Bix O Pass While the Lentils Boil,” in which a little peasant boy is reward. | ed by his queen for hiding her in! hin house while she is under sen. tence for execution for “the ortme of stepping on her great-aunt’s ring "An he watches his pot of lentils, an amazing procession of strangers go by, each one on his} way to the execution, | The plays will be repeated this! evening and tomorrow afternoon ‘The cast includes rrr LER (Dy Busan Giaspety Jeorge Henderson which ™ Mrs. Hale ‘MER TONOL (By Henry Arthur Jon Ts + bad ¥ Hansiope “SIX WHO PASS WHILE LENTILS (hy Stuart Ww Prologue ° a one | wd fon will meet in the second floo clubroom of the Y. W. C, A. Fi December 19, at 2p. m. Dr. Willis K. McKibben, executive secretary of | the China club, will speak on the| Jon lc bi i Street” letters, have been spent in small towns in three states, I feel have attained some knowledge of village life. standing in the town where | had lived since 12 years of | age. he was writing about any experience in small town life be | fore her marriage she never would have made euch a mistake with the [idea of being able to change Gopher | Prairie. [most of them would resent an nid | Unless the mame could be made to appear as coming from one of their own people. | will towards another small town vis- itor usually than towards the city visitor, even tho the latter may be |& person of some importance. many times, « | not all, doctors. | who would loan his friend his only "10" when he knew hie wife peeded | wished for necennity. and i» supposed to sanction what of your business as all small towne in @ small town. Any of the modern fiction that 1 en and as L can see these characters all around me, taking exeeption to the book, but we tities, which are merely a componite het in the characters, but in their Associations toward each other Here are some of them: As something like 30 of my 34 wtory of “Main Street” is #o familiar to me that most of the time it has been absolutely monotonous; which bs probably the biggest compliment I could extend to the author, i 1 do not agree with Mra. lL. L. PP that Mr, Lewis does the small town and its people injustios, It probably | jis true that many of our fi and most intelligen( people hale from the | able and isagreeable features Of nai townn but not from the clans such contact, the neighboriiness @M4 vat Mr. Lewis depicts in his story nop-interference in their affairs lt neve Seed Gil’sny life in tall Dosan't everyone possess tWO PET towns and the one in which I live jeonalitien? That Binclair Lewis s600 | Low iy typical of all the others, We theme personalities we all find when jive our “Main Street.” but most in & cynical mood doesn't make the | OY" ihe happens on the side |book any the leap clever and inter: | 200) Nm PP in’ utory cating. In certain moods we wee the “oa joy Beventeen” was 4 |dependablenean instead of uninterest:| 4 inn the town) by all the white edness of the Doctor Kennlestis, the | ciisrcg men around the mill, (Thin imagination instead of egotiam of the lbeing strictly a mill town.) jCarola and the independence apd) “rise fayored ones have gratul-| capacity for thought and power to], Ui) ltter ears to the town Dhilosophize instead of the shiftien-| ONY UC tor, and a couple of| nese of the Red Swedes, W: | grocery clerks, one of the last men-| aiwaye in Mindly meets, how tioned being our “Cy Bogart.” and Why neatamin, © vary sever Suk. who can qualify os a lounge lizard = an well ax a grocery clerk Of the Miles Bjornstams there are | Dear Miss Grey: I am & YOUnEi many, but somehow they come and married woman and have lived 10 igo ay in Gopher Prairie little and big towns and iso the!" rhe game conditions prevail in cities, no 1 feel that I know |iarger cities, but to me there ts noth Main Street” and “the big town” ah | ing quite so dingurting an a few small Most equally well. town cheap skates getting together | With a firm idea in mind to weigh |and trying to imitate high pociety on cach point carefully and “give the salaries that they couldn't possibly devil his due," will my that I hon: |tive decently en if they kept within eatly believe Sinclair Lewis bas their means. | painted us 4 pretty realistic picture! Mrs Bogurt ts another «mall town Main Street.” afflictions and I believe she Is not You who have lived tn emall towns, | civen so much attention in the larger don't you recognize the Widow and cities, | Cy Mogart, the Haydocks, Hicks the| 1 thank you for giving me the op! tailor, Uncle and “Auntie” Whittier, portunity to express myself on this | and all the rest? Of course you do. | subject, as it in one that I have long | too, that there are some | wanted to unburden myself of, even capable, indulgent Will befare I read “Main Street” Yours fow Vida Sherwin» truly, MRS, RB. T. and Taymie Wutherspoons among them, also. Carol Kennicott —the cities have many of her——-the amall town, rarely Carol te rather weak and fond of ad miration, temperamental, too, I ad mit, but Wwithal a Ukable, high «pir. jited. clever young woman with lots of admirable qualities, She has many lersons to learn, but will eventually find herself und come out on top, Carol Kennicott in Gopher Prairie is just another case of “a square peg in m round hole.” must not expect her to rave over P. on the map” cam Dear Cynthia Grey: ears att 1 was, at the time of my marriage, a business girl of good T still love my old friends and home. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion hat Sinclair Lewis knew well what If Carol Kennicott had ever had) Of all the towne I havé known. ut * suggestions for improvement, A small town will show more good T have met with all the characters eee Dr. Kennicott t» typical of many, He is the same man just that or less for some long She is his wife, he doen, one writer says, citier are the me ae towns, Yes, but it is impos ible for the whole city to know all urely 40. A perron does not have 0 ansociate with the Mg Bogarts in he city. Even with all theae opinions, tho, would be willing to spend my life LG . Dear Mine Grey T ean’ think of Oynters are able to move by sud denly closing their shells and ex peiling the water. joyed to the exteng that I did “Main | treet.” Sinclair Bewis’ analynin of 1 derived much bumor he book. inhabitants of villager are in reading Many ind these same characters In the f many villages, The difference lien. City people knew eighbors, there fow of their We have just received a delayed shipment of 200 TONS OF CHINESE BASKETS Which must be sold at any price These Baskets should have reached us months ago—now they are too late for our Eastern wholesale trade These High-Grade Chinese Art Baskets Must Be Sold Now at Sacrifice Prices In the shipment are the newest designs in Baskets, many trimmed with China silk tassels, novelty beads and Chinese coins; many are beautifully tinted. Here is an opportunity to purchase beautiful and practical Christmas gifts at a fraction of their regular prices. We Must Turn Them Into Cash Before Christmas Big Bargains in Chinese Goods The largest stocks, the lowest prices. Our Christmas Sale of Imported Goods includes SE BRONZES AND BRASSWARE TEA SETS PEARL NECKLACES LUNCHEON CLOTHS CHINAWARE BASKETS FURNITURE, ETC. SHOP NOW—AVCID THE RUSH LATER CHINESE EMPORIUM 1121 Third Avenue Andrew Kan SELECT THE GIFT AT SEATTLE’S MUSICAL HEADQUARTERS | Phonographs three leaders are here for ion. Hear them side by side and be sure you are getting the instrument that suits your COLUMBIAS at prices to suit— $32.50 to $175.00 taste and requirements, NEW EDISONS in Period designs— * $95.00 to $500.00 VICTROLAS in various cabinets and sizes —$25.00 to $300.00 EASY TERMS ALWAYS Pianos he Pianos that add distinction to the home—players that produce the playing of the world’s famous pianists—upright and grand models that make the gift of lifelong value, . Records ‘A LL the world’s best music— here all the time. Make your selections of Christmas Records now while stocks are complete. fa METCO--in the Chickering and Marshall & Wendell—Kimball, Packard, Mehlin, Hinze and others, Elhrelt 12 EASY TERMS 14.21 Third Ave.* Seattle's Musical Headquarters Y payment. Cheast Holiday Specials in the Cheasty Junior Shop 25% Discount 5 Off all Boys’ Suits and Overcoats in the Cheasty Junior Shop from $20 up. A wonderful opportunity to buy Quality Clothes at reasonable prices. A large selection of All-worsted Mid- dy Sweaters in school colors at Special Prices. Regular Price $5.50—Holiday Price... . Regular Price $8.50—Holiday Price 7.35 Regular Price $10,00—Holiday Price. . -$8.25 A Special Lot of Boys’ Suits, with 2 pairs of full-sized knickers, at $14.85 Buy “Her” a Box of Luxife Hosiery “No more darning for mother, daughter, sister or wife.” The Cheasty Junior Shop carries a complete stock of this famous Hosiery. Prices from 75c to $3.50 a pair. We have just received a most beau- tiful assortment of Oliver Twist and Sailor Middy Suits for children from 3 to 8 years of age. Priced $10, $12.50, $15.00 _ Buy a Christmas Gift for your boy in the Cheasty Junior Shop. 85 5 AND BOYS’ WEAR OUR OLD PIANO taken in exchange as part