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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.