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THE INDEX, Saturday, April 14, 1928<br />

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<br />

Genevra Keating, Miss Cora Friday, Mrs.<br />

John R. Hermes, Miss Marie Sybert, Mrs. T.<br />

Taney, Miss Kathryn Cullinan, Miss Mayme<br />

Cullinan, Miss Ida Farrell, Mrs. Nan S. Kirk,<br />

Mrs. Edward M. Diebold, Mrs. Joseph Hartman,<br />

Miss Agnes Hartman, Mrs. William M.<br />

Lord, Mrs. J. V. Maher, Mrs. John M. Rice,<br />

Mrs. D. P. Bennett, Mrs. E. H. Binns, Mrs.<br />

E. D. Eichenlaub. Divisional "Adult Blind<br />

Exhibit" escort chairman, Mrs. T. Barnes<br />

Newell, Miss Marie Travers, vice chairman,<br />

assisted by Miss Margaret I. Newell, Miss<br />

Marie Einstein, Miss Frances Coyle, Miss<br />

Margaret M. Bell, Miss Mary Burns and Miss<br />

Mary Lou Vetter. Junior Male Escorts from<br />

the Catholic Boys High School are John B.<br />

Dalton, Robert L. Bennett, Harmar D. Bell,<br />

John V. Maher, William M. Lord, Jack Kiely<br />

and Robert Kennoy. Diningroom escort<br />

chairman, Mrs. Leo J. Coyle, with Mrs. J.<br />

H. Blackburn, vice chairman, assisted by<br />

Mrs. Harper 0. Price, Mrs. James P. Murray,<br />

Mrs. William K. Munhall and Mrs. M.<br />

Weber.<br />

A number of interesting dates are on the<br />

calendar of the Congress of Clubs. Monday,<br />

April thirtieth, the annual meeting, with the<br />

reading of reports and election of officers,<br />

will be held at half past ten o'clock.<br />

Wednesday, April eighteenth, the Benefit<br />

Hospitality Committee will sponsor a musical<br />

tea in the clubhouse for the benefit of Torrance<br />

House, the North Side home for blind<br />

girls. Mrs. Harry G. Samson is chairman of<br />

the committee in charge of the afternoon.<br />

In May the Department of Recreation,<br />

Mrs. Ralph C. Shaw, chairman, will have its<br />

fourth annual kirmess, with Karl Heinrich<br />

directing.<br />

Twelve groups will compete for the five<br />

cash prizes and the Samuel French trophy in<br />

the fourth amateur players contest, to be<br />

held under the auspices of the Pittsburgh<br />

Drama League in the East Liberty Carnegie<br />

Library, April seventeenth, eighteenth and<br />

nineteenth. All programs will begin promptly<br />

at a quarter past eight o'clock, and no<br />

latecomers will be admitted during the time<br />

when any of the competing plays is being<br />

presented. More than half of the contesting<br />

groups have taken part in previous contests,<br />

all the winning groups of last year's contest<br />

being represented. An attempt will be made<br />

by the Puppets of Pittsburgh to retain possession<br />

of the Samuel French trophy, which<br />

is to become the permanent possession of any<br />

group which succeeds in winning the cup<br />

three times. The following will be the program<br />

for the contest: Tuesday, "Release,"<br />

a tragedy of gang life in the Bowery written<br />

by Edward H. Smith, to be given by the<br />

South Hills Repertoire Players with the following<br />

cast: Howard R. Eulenstein,, Frederick<br />

G. Clerihue, William B. Strieker, William<br />

C. Roe, Jr., and C. Paul Crofford. Charles<br />

W. Van Essen will be the stage manager.<br />

The Play and Players Club of Latrobe will<br />

present "Op o' Me Thumb," a wistful tragedy<br />

based on the disillusionment of a London<br />

waif who had built up a romance about a<br />

stolid Cockney youth. The members of the<br />

cast will be Mrs. Karl Krummel, Miss Irene<br />

Heitchue, Miss Eleanor Everett, Miss Mar-<br />

MRS. J. SIDNEY HAMMOND<br />

Is chairman of the Homeopathic Hospital Social Service<br />

Department, for the benefit of which a luncheon<br />

bridge will be given in the Longue Vue Country Club<br />

Wednesday, April twenty-fifth.<br />

guerite McAtee, Mrs. Rudolph Lynch and<br />

Francis Harvey, with Miss Rose Reeping as<br />

director. The Ralph Shugar Club of the<br />

Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association<br />

will present "Alien Sins," a comedy<br />

written by Alex Hamal, a Pittsburgher, with<br />

the following cast: Irwin J. Schultz, Miss<br />

Nettie Bennett, Hyman Bennett, Miss Bessie<br />

Grozman, Miss Eleanor Frank and Isadore<br />

Shepse. The Puppets have chosen "The<br />

Rescue," Rita Creighton Smith's drama<br />

based on the reaction of a modern girl to<br />

an unfavorable heredity. The cast will consist<br />

of Miss Olivia Kelly, Miss Margaret Murray<br />

and Miss Rita Criste. Wednesday the<br />

West Virginia University Dramatic Club<br />

under the direction of Miss Ruth Simonson<br />

will present "The Giant Stair," a tragedy by<br />

Wilbur Daniel Steele, the cast being Charles<br />

William Zoeckler, Miss Amy LaFollette, Miss<br />

Leah Hurst and Wilbur McCollough. The<br />

Associate Players of Pittsburgh will give a<br />

dramatic sketch by Raymond Byrnes, a Pitts­<br />

burgh attorney, called "Two by Two" with<br />

the following cast: Mrs. Helene B. Backus<br />

Eugene Patterson, Mrs. Katherine Dawson,<br />

Joseph Keenan, Ge<strong>org</strong>e Black and Miss<br />

Nellie McGinniss. The play will be directed<br />

by Mrs. Backus, and staged by Ray Boeggemann.<br />

The Barrymore Dramatic Club of the<br />

New Kensington High School will present<br />

one of the North Carolina folk plays,<br />

"Peggy,' a tragedy of the tenant farmer<br />

written by Harold Williamson. Cyril Clare<br />

Sarver will direct the play and the players<br />

will be Bernard J. Roethele, Miss Lois<br />

Sprowls, Miss Florence J. Schocker, B. Richard<br />

Quay, Benjamin J. Evans, Charles Vaughan,<br />

Jr., and Clarence J. Bengel. The final<br />

play on Wednesday evening will be Ge<strong>org</strong>e<br />

Kelly's "The Flattering Word," to be given<br />

by the Art Club of Pittsburgh under the direction<br />

of Miss Margaret Louise Eckhardt,<br />

a graduate of the Drama Department, Carnegie<br />

Institute of Technology. The cast will<br />

consist of Henry Meixner, Miss Joan Tyler,<br />

Miss Florence Weinberg, Miss Helen Sanoska<br />

and Alexander Kann. Thursday the Reading<br />

Community Players will present Sada<br />

Cowan's play, "In the M<strong>org</strong>ue," with the<br />

following cast: Richard H. Kline, David F.<br />

Horst, Griswold Williams and Nathaniel<br />

Rhoads, Jr. The Seton Hill College Players<br />

of Greensburg will give a comedy "Wrong<br />

Numbers" by Essex Dane, the cast consisting<br />

of Miss Mary Clancy, Miss Martha Raab and<br />

Miss Catherine Cox. Mrs. Mary Jones Sherrill,<br />

drama instructor in Seton Hill College,<br />

will direct the play. The youngest group in<br />

the contest will be the seventh and eighth<br />

grades of the Hillsdale Avenue School ol<br />

Dormont, who will present Stuart Walker's<br />

fantasy "Six Who Pass While the Lentils<br />

Boil" under the direction of Miss Harriet<br />

Gould. The children who will take part will<br />

be James Shields, Ruth McKibben, Charles<br />

Williams, Evelyn Leebove, Ord Kaufman,<br />

Raymond Robertson, Edwin McNair, Mary<br />

Louise Jenkins and June Williams. The final<br />

number of the program will be Carl Glick's<br />

comedy "Outclassed," which will be given<br />

under the direction of Ray E. Hurd by the<br />

following members of the Gargoyle Club of<br />

Shady Side Academy: William Miller, Alexander<br />

Hill, Edward Davison and Ge<strong>org</strong>e<br />

Acheson, assisted by John Horning as stage<br />

manager.<br />

The Beaver-Beechwood Club of Pittsburgh<br />

will hold its annual breakfast at the College<br />

Club today at twelve o'clock. A surprise program<br />

will be given by girls from the college<br />

home for the Easter vacation. The Committee<br />

on Arrangements is Mrs. J. G. Moorhead,<br />

chairman, Miss Mary Condon, Mrs.<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e K. Young, Mrs. L. A. Button, Mrs.<br />

E. G. Bowler. A business meeting will follow<br />

the breakfast. Mrs. J. W. Marsh is<br />

president of the Club.

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