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8 THE INDEX, Saturday, January 21, 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
WEDNESDAY evening, February first, Quartet of Toronto and Christine Haskell,
is announced as the date for the sec­ concert pianist, of Sewickley, in a recital at
ond performance of the Stage and Play So­ the Edgeworth Club at three o'clock. The
ciety, in Carnegie Music Hall. Three short personnel of the Quartet includes Gesa de
plays are to be presented. One, "Margaret Kresj, violin; Harry Adaskin, second violin;
in Naxof," is the work of Carroll H. Fitz- Milton Blackstone, viola, and Boris Hamhugh,
president of the Stage and Play Sobourg, violin 'cello.
ciety. The others are "The Valiant," by
Robert Middlemass and Holworthy Hall, and
"Double Demon."
National Drama Week will be celebrated by
the Drama League of America in the second
week of February, beginning February
twelfth. This week has been established in
an effort to bring before the public the importance
of the theatre as a social force and a
great educational movement. The Drama
League is supported in the movement by the
American Library Association, various
Church Federations, representatives of the
Professional Actors and Managers Associations,
the National Federation of Women's
Clubs, and the Year-Round Bookselling Committee.
The honorary sponsors of Drama Week
are: Winthrop Ames, George Arliss, David
Belasco, Percival Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn,
S. H. Clark, Arthur Hopkins, Charles
Rann Kennedy, Edith Wynne Matthison,
Nance O'Neil, Eugene O'Neill, Augustus
Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Skinner. T. Earl
Pardoe, of Provo, Utah, is chairman of the
Drama Week committee for 1928.
The celebration will include attendance
upon the professional theatre, production of
amateur plays either on the Radio or on the
stage, reading or discussing of recommended
plays, preparation of exhibits of books or costumes
designed to aid in the better understanding
of the art of the theatre. More than
five hundred women's clubs will present programs
centering about the drama. New circulars
and lists of dramas will be distributed
by the book publishers. Suggestions for cooperating
with the Pittsburgh Drama League
may be secured from Elmer Kenyon, Schenley
High School, Mrs. Sarah Pettit, Forbes
Street, or Mrs. Francis A. Devlin, of North
Dithridge Street.
MRS. JOHN O. MILLER
Chairman of the Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters, will address the Woman's Club of Oakmont
January twenty-fourth.
Mrs. William Gates, Mrs. William Whigham
and Mrs. John M. Irwin will be hostesses
at the open meeting of the Colloquium Club
Monday afternoon, January twenty-third.
At its meeting in Carnegie Homewood
Library Monday afternoon, January twentythird,
the Homewood Women's Club will present
Richard W. Martin, judge of Common
Pleas Court. Dr. Caroline Marshall will be
the leader and ushers for the day are Mrs. H.
G. Hartman, Mrs. H. C. Bell, Mrs. J. W. Mc-
Knight and Mrs. J. E. Dixon.
the day and assisting her will be Miss
Eleanor M. Laird, Mrs. John McCartney Kennedy,
Mrs. James H. Greene, Mrs. S. Murray
Rust and Mrs. Joseph W. Kennedy. Miss
Laird and Mrs. Kennedy will pour at the tea
following the program.
Friday afternoon, January twenty-seventh,
Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, will hold its annual mid-
Winter business meeting in the French room
of the Hotel Schenley. At this time delegates
to the thirty-seventh Continental Congress
in Washington will be elected.
The annual dinner of the McKinley Commemoration
Society will be held at The William
Penn Saturday evening, January twenty-eighth.
The event, which usually takes
place on the birth anniversary of the martyred
president, precedes the date by one day,
as the actual anniversary falls on Sunday.
Mayor Charles H. Kline, who is president of
the Society, will preside. A memorial address
sketching the high lights in the life of Mc­
Kinley will be delivered by United States
Senator David Aiken Reed. There will be
speaking and music, and following the commemorative
portion of the program there
will be entertainment of a diverting character.
This will be preceded by the annual election,
reports of committees, and the conferring
of jewels upon the retiring officers.
The Committee in charge of the dinner
consists of the following: Mayor Charles H.
Kline, Edward Swindell, James B. Clark,
Eugene L. Connolly, William Furey, John F.
Casey, George W. McCandless, A. E. P. Kerr
and Samuel Jamison.
Mrs. Marie Tello Phillips, author of the novel,
"Stella Marvin," has been asked to read
selections of her "Book of Verses" at the
poetry luncheon and evening program at the
convention of the League of American Pen
Women in Washington, April eleventh to
fourteenth.
"The Drama" will be the general subject at Mrs. Phillips was 1924-26 Pennsylvania
the meeting of The Tourists Monday after­ State vice president and first Pittsburgh
The annual card party of the Woman's noon, January twenty-third, in Congress president of the League of American Pen
Club of Oakland will be given at two o'clock Clubhouse. Mrs. Elmer E. Flaccus will be in Women. She is National president of the
this afternoon in the Oppenheim Collins' charge of the music and the following pro­ Bookfellows Library Guild and president of
auditorium, under the auspices of the Educagram has been arranged: Book Review "The the Pittsburgh Poetry Society.
tional Committee, which is headed by Mrs. Royal Road to Romance" (Halliburton), Mrs.
George Lowry, chairman. Assisting her are F. E. Wiley; "The Art of the Drama," Ches­
Mrs. Mary Murphy, Mrs. W. F. Webb, Mrs. ter M. Wallace, Drama Department, Carnegie
J. Hazelwood, Mrs. Carl Ehni, Mrs. J. Craw­ Institute of Technology; "Current Events,"
ford, Mrs. J. B. Sedwick, Mrs. J. Garver, Mrs. Mrs. R. C. Mulhattan.
At the Public Charities Association of
Pennsylvania's fourteenth annual conference
in The William Penn January fourteenth Mrs.
William Thaw, Jr., was re-elected vice presi­
G. Heaps, Mrs. C. B. McFail, Mrs. C. Reeves
dent ; Miss Isabella C. Chalfant, Miss Augus­
and Mrs. Norval Dougherty.
The Discussion Committee, of which Mrs. ta G. Leovy and Mrs. Henry R. Rea were re­
Louis K. Manley is chairman, has arranged elected directors to serve three years. Pitts-
Monday, January twenty-third, which is an a discussion meeting for the College Club burghers whose terms did not expire are
open day, the Woman's Club of Sewickley Friday afternoon, January twenty-seventh. Horace F. Baker, Mrs. Franklin C. Irish and
Valley will present the Hart House String Mrs. Manley also is chairman of hostesses for Irvin F. Lehman.