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THE INDEX, Saturday, March 31, 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
All the winners in last year's amateur
players' contest will again compete in the
fourth annual amateur players' contest, to be
held April seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
in the East Liberty Carnegie Library
under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Drama
League. The South Hills Repertoire Club has
chosen "Release," a strong play of a gang
from the Bowery, which won one of the
awards in the New York amateur players'
contest in 1916. The members of the cast
will be Howard R. Eulenstein, William B.
Strieker, Frederick G. Clerihue, C. Paul Crofford
and William C. Roe, Jr. The Puppets of
Pittsburgh, who are now in possession of the
Samuel French trophy, will defend their
possession of the cup by presenting "The
Rescue," by Rita Creighton Smith, under the
direction of Mrs. Helen R. Stout, of the
Drama Department of the Carnegie Institute
of Technology. The play is based on a psychological
study of the reaction of a neurotic
girl to the influence of an unfortunate heredity.
The cast will consist of Miss Olivia
Kelly, Miss Margaret Murray and Miss Rita
A. Criste.
The Gargoyle Society of Shady Side Academy,
whose members are all under seventeen
years of age, will present a rollicking comedy
which is reminiscent of some of Booth Tarkington's
stories of boy life. Ray E. Hurd,
dramatic coach in Shady Side Academy, will
direct the following cast: William Miller,
Alexander Hill, Edward Davidson and George
Acheson. The play, "Outclassed," was written
by Carl Glick. A charming comedy by
Essex Dane called "Wrong Numbers," will
be presented by the Seton Hill College Players,
including two players who have received
honors previously in the amateur contests.
The play will be directed by Mrs. Mary Jones
Sherrill, instructor of dramatics in the school,
and the members of the cast will be Miss
Mary Clancy, Miss Martha Raab and Miss
Catherine Cox.
Every borough and suburban district in
Allegheny County will have some part in the
Merit Badge Exposition of the Allegheny
County Council, Boy Scouts of America, to
be held in Duquesne Garden April twentysixth,
twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth. A.
T. Benson, executive of the Allegheny County
Council, has impressed on the boys and
troop leaders that the success of the Exposition—the
largest of the kind ever attempted
in the United States—depends upon them,
but scores of local business and professional
men, as well as civic and industrial organizations,
have volunteered to sponsor many of
the activities, for which merit badges are
given.
The Forestry exhibit, for instance, has attracted
the attention of Thomas Liggett,
active leader in the movement to save the
Cook Forest as a state park, and he is assist­
ing in the arrangements for that booth. The
State Forestry Association will also give its
assistance. The Red Cross has taken an interest
in the life-saving demonstration, in
which, as is known, the boys are exceptionally
proficient. The Humane Society and veterinary
surgeons are doing their part to make
the demonstrations on the care and protection
of dumb animals a success.
J. S. Jiles, former National amateur archery
champion, has presented a yew bow in
connection with the booth which will be devoted
to that sport. A local department store
is sponsoring the model camp. Fire chief R.
L. Smith is aiding in the plans for the fire
prevention program. Aviation is not to be
overlooked. There will be plenty of model
aeroplanes and other models pertaining to
that science. Officers of Rodgers Field have
taken an interest in the work of the boys and
are assisting in the plans. Teachers in the
University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech and
the public schools are also doing other work
to make the dramatization, which will be presented
in the seventy-six sections into which
the show has been divided, a success. Boys
or scout leaders interested in any way in the
Exposition should call at the special headquarters
which have been opened at Room
No. 802 Fulton Building. Thomas C. Venable
is in charge.
The Sewickley Music Club will give the
program at the meeting of the Woman's Club
of Sewickley Valley Monday afternoon, April
second, at three o'clock in the Edgeworth
Club. There will be two groups for two
pianos played by Miss Marie Vierheller and
Mrs. Christine Haskell; groups of songs by
the club Choral, directed by Arthur B. Jennings,
and a group of songs by pupils of Miss
Amanda Vierheller's sight-singing class. At
the close of the program tea will be served.
Mrs. William P. Snyder, Jr., and Mrs.
Harry Darlington arranged the exhibit of the
Woman's Exchange shown at the Fashion
Revue given by the Womans City Club in the
ballroom of the William Penn Hotel last evening
and again this afternoon at two and four
o'clock.
Miss Craigie McKay, Miss Eleanor Mc-
Cargo, Miss Elizabeth Scott, Mrs. George
Kelly and Mrs. Alan S. Humphreys will model
the costumes. The children's exhibit is in
charge of Mrs. Walter Heron.
The Exchange also has a booth supervised
by Mrs. John P. Penney in the Place de les
petites Shoppes, where painted novelties,
book-ends and other gifts will be shown before
and after the Fashion presentation.
While formal invitations have only been
sent to Club members and their friends,
everyone is invited to attend who is interested
in seeing the newest modes. Tickets may
be purchased at the door and reservations
made at the Womans City Club office-
Grant 6716.
Washington Seminary Alumnae will give a
bridge in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Saturday, April fourteenth, the proceeds to
go to the library fund, an annual gift of the
Pittsburgh alumnae.
Mrs. Wilson Ferguson is president of the
Pittsburgh alumnae and Mrs. Edgar McCain
is chairman of the benefit. Working with
her on various committees are Miss Helen
Ahlers, Mrs. Hobart Means, Mrs. Foster Donaldson,
Miss Henrietta MacLeod, Miss Gertrude
Bradshaw, Mrs. A. N. Faller, Miss
Anne Kiskaddon and Mrs. Austin Lee
George, who is in charge of the table reservations.
Among those who have taken tables are
Mrs. F. W. Conner, Mrs. Edson Emery, Mrs.
Wilson Hanna, Mrs. Charles Lloyd, Mrs. John
C. Bane, Mrs. Reed Vincent, Mrs. W. L. Little,
Mrs. Alex P. Reed, Mrs. C. E. Covey, Mrs.
Arthur Harnden, Mrs. A. Copeland Campbell,
Mrs. Roscoe D. Brown, Mrs. William Langfitt,
Miss Alice McCartney, Miss Helen Boswell,
Mrs. James M. Clark, Mrs. Moses Atwood,
Mrs. A. G. Lee, Mrs. Theodore Ahlers, Miss
Esther Bradley, Mrs. Lee Hemingway, Mrs.
Andrew Wurtz, Mrs. Harold Taylor, Mrs.
John Harrison, Mrs. E. A. Nisbet, Miss Elizabeth
Robbins, Miss Hazel McBride, Mrs.
George C. Hess, Mrs. J. Donald lams, Mrs.
George Sherman and Miss Mary Gibson.
Mrs. J. C. Schreiner will be chairman of the
meeting of the Woman's Club of Pittsburgh
Tuesday afternoon, April third, in Congress
Clubhouse and the hostesses will be Mrs. G.
Stanley Petrik and Mrs. Harry S. Brown. The
other members of the Music Committee who
will assist Mrs. Schreiner are Mrs. Vida Mc­
Cullough McClure, Mrs. W. E. Whitemore,
Mrs. W. L. Stone, Mrs. George D. Herwig
and Mrs. Estelle Medley.
Monday evening, April second, Mile. Marguerite
Clement will lecture before the Alliance
Francaise in the small auditorium of
the Frick Training School for Teachers at a
quarter past eight o'clock. "French Politics
to Date" will be her subject.
Mile. Clement, who has come to this country
from Versailles since the World War, at
first represented the government but lately
has been making an independent tour. She
lias not only held government positions but
has been a newspaper correspondent and in
close touch with leaders in French politics.
At two o'clock Monday afternoon, April
second, The Tourists will have their annual
Spring Musicale in the Womans City Club,
The William Penn. Mrs. H. H. Hanna is in
charge of the program.