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THE INDEX, Saturday, January 7, 1928
C L U B S - - P H I L A N T H R O P I E S - C I V I C S
T H E Pittsburgh Colony of New England
Women is establishing a scholarship
fund in the Pennsylvania College for Women
and as an aid in this direction is presenting a
play Tuesday night, January tenth, by the
Community Players in the auditorium of the
College. The Community Players under the
direction of Mrs. Lane Thompson have done
some very creditable plays that have received
most favorable comment from critics and
those who attend Tuesday night's effort will
be well repaid for the evening in the amusement
and comedy afforded.
The play is "To the Ladies," a sparkling
comedy by George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly, who have written a number of
Broadway successes. Mr. Connelly is a former
Pittsburgh newspaper man and has
made a success of playwriting. In the cast
of the Community Players will be Mrs.
Jerome Katz, J. C. Starr Hull, Ray Hurd,
Paul Croffid, Mrs. C. W. Scheck, William C.
Roe, Jr., William Strieker, Carl Van Essen,
John Hammon, Chester Story, J. Lloyd Steel,
Miss Lydia Patterson and Claude McNair.
The Colony women in charge of the affair
for the evening are Mrs. C. F. C. Arensberg,
chairman of production; Mrs. A. W. Tarbell,
chairman of the Ticket Committee; Mrs. Edward
P. Buchanan, chairman for ushers and
candy, and Mrs. William H. French, chairman
of publicity. Other women in charge of various
details are Mrs. Edgar Kate, who is president
of the Colony; Mrs. Wesley G. Carr,
first vice president; Mrs. E. B. Lee, a direc­
John P. Kessler; "Swedish Gymnastics and
tor; Dr. Cora Helen Coolidge, president of
the Ballet," Mrs. Robert G. Armstrong.
the Pennsylvania College for Women, and a
member of the Colony from Massachusetts;
Miss Edith Ely, of the College, who is second
vice president of the Colony, and Mrs. H. M.
Marvel, treasurer.
The regular meeting of the Colony will be
held Monday, January ninth, in the form of
an all-day sewing, in the parlors of the First
Unitarian Church, with members of the
Woman's Alliance of the church as hostesses.
The Colony will sew for the Zoar Home and
the New Future Home. Mrs. Burton C. Royce
is the chairman of hostesses and Mrs. Judson
A. Crane of the Sewing Committee.
Following the business meeting of the
Woman's Alliance of the First Unitarian
Church, Morewood and Ellsworth Avenues,
Wednesday, January eleventh, Mrs. R. M.
Gilson will speak on "Some Continental
Novels." At half past six o'clock that evening
there is to be a dinner in the church, followed
by the annual congregational meeting.
The speaker for the meeting of the College
Club Friday, January thirteenth, at three
o'clock will be Miss Mary B. Gilson, Nationally
known consultant in industrial relations in
the United States and Europe. Mrs. John E.
Nelson is chairman of the hostesses and
assisting her will be Mrs. William M. Mc-
Kelvy, Mrs. W. H. R. Hilliard, Mrs. Henry C.
Evans, Mrs. Karl C. Randall and Mrs. Stowell
C. Stebbins. Mrs. McKelvy and Mrs. Hilliard
will pour at the tea following Miss Gilson's
talk.
At the meeting of The Tourists to be held
Monday afternoon, January ninth, in Congress
Clubhouse, Mrs. A. S. Keister will describe
"Porto Rico, the Bridge Between the
Americas," and Mrs. D. R. Kellogg will review
Orcutt's "In Quest of the Perfect Book."
Mrs. Anna Laura Wilson Felter will be in
charge of the music and Mrs. Otis 0. Cole
will be hostess for the day.
Monday afternoon, January ninth, at the
meeting of the Homewood Women's Club in
Homewood Carnegie Library, Mrs. Helen E.
Gregg, head supervisor of cafeterias in Pittsburgh
schools, will speak on "How We Feed
the High School Student." Mrs. William J.
Mahood will be the leader and ushers for the
day are Mrs. C. W. Caldwell, Mrs. Otto Haudenshield,
Miss Irene Carlisle and Miss Edna
Anderson.
Mrs. Ralph L. Smith will be hostess at the
meeting of the Colloquium Club Monday,
January ninth, when the following program
will be presented: "Character and Religion of
the Scandinavians," Mrs. Clara B. McCombs;
"Customs—dress, sports and festivals," Mrs.
The Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley,
with the Edgeworth Club, will present Richard
Hale, baritone, in the clubhouse Monday
evening, January ninth, at half past eight
o'clock.
Mrs. Lane Thompson, of Mattern Avenue,
is now receiving applications for the fourth
annual amateur players' contest which will be
held under the auspices of the Pittsburgh
Drama League during the week of April sixteenth.
Since the number of entrants is limited
to sixteen, early registration is urged.
All applications must be sent to Mrs. Thompson
before February fifteenth, although the
name of the play to be offered and the names
of the cast need not be sent until later.
A prize of one hundred dollars is offered
to the group that has the best production of
a one-act play. In addition, the Samuel
French trophy will be given to the winners
of the first prize; this trophy will remain in
the possession of the group for one year,
when it will again be competed for, becoming
the permanent possession of the group which
succeeds in winning it three times. The
trophy is now in the hands of The Puppets,
who were awarded the first prize in 1927 for
their presentation of Eugene O'Neill's "The
Dreamy Kid."
A second prize of fifty dollars and a third
prize of twenty-five dollars will be awarded
to groups and individual prizes of twentyfive,
fifteen and ten dollars will also be award
ed. The plays will be judged for interpretation,
acting, choice of play, speech and staging,
and the judges will represent the best
schools of speech in Pittsburgh. The contest
is open to any non-professional group in any
city.
January fourteenth the Public Charities
Association of Pennsylvania will begin its
sixteenth year in state-wide service with a
luncheon in the William Penn. Miss Isabella
Chalfant is chairman of the Luncheon Committee,
Miss Augusta Leovy and Mrs. Enoch
Rauh are vice chairmen and Frank Davis
Preston is secretary. The speaker will be
former United States Attorney George W.
Wickersham.
Also serving on the Luncheon Committee
are Louis Affelder, Wilson S. Arbuthnot, Dr.
Thomas S. Baker, Mrs. James G. Bennett, Dr.
Ludwig B. Bernstein, H. B. Blaxter, Dr. John
G. Bowman, Mrs. Mary Clarke Burnett, Dr.
R. G. Burns, Samuel Harden Church, Dr. Edward
N. Clopper, Mrs. George L. Collord,
Mrs. Carl E. Cosolowsky, Miss H. Marie Dermitt,
Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl, Dr. Theodore
Diller, James McA. Duncan, Reuel W. Elton,
Congressman Harry Estep, J. Rogers Flannery,
Mrs. William Frew, Miss Mabel L. Gillespie,
Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, Mrs. Rollins
A. Haddock, Jr., James D. Hailman,
Colonel James S. Hammers, Miss Eleanor
Hanson, Miss Esther M. Hawes, Dr. Edward
B. Heckel, Dr. C. H. Henninger, Miss Lillian
M. Hobart, Dr. R. R. Huggins, Mrs. Frank B.
Ingersoll, Mrs. William L. Jones, Jr., Dr. and
Mrs. Percy G. Kammerer, Congressman M.
Clyde Kelly, Judge Richard A. Kennedy, Miss
Katherine L. Lawless, Mrs. John W. Lawrence,
Frank A. Leovy, Bishop Francis J. Mc-
Connell, Dr. G. A. McCracken, Bishop Alexander
Mann, H. Lee Mason, Jr., Wilbur F.
Maxwell, William L. Mellon, Major J. Clyde
Miller, Congressman John M. Morin, Miss
Forsyth Patterson, W. F. Penn, Owen M.
Phillips, Miss Rose Porter, Mrs. Donald S.
Rodgers, H. W. Shepard, Mrs. William Watson
Smith, A. V. Snell, Mrs. Marcus Spiro, Joseph
Stadtfeldt, Miss Alice E. Stewart, Miss Grace
L. Stoakes, Sidney A. Teller, David J. Terry,
Mrs. Francis J. Torrance, Mrs. Helen Glenn
Tyson, the Rev. Dr. C. A. Voss, Daniel M.
Winters and Dr. George J. Wright.
Haniel Long, instructor, author and poet,
will be the speaker at the meeting of the
Women's Press Club at four o'clock Monday
afternoon, January ninth, in the Womans
City Club, the William Penn. Mrs. Madeline
Young Love will preside.