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f * VOL. 52—NO. 34. PART THREE. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1923._1—C_____ '
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Miss Gertrude Pollard leaves tomorrow evening with Iwr mother, Mrs.
C. W. Pollard, to attend the Dartmouth whiter carnival, the guest of her
brother, Joseph, who Is in Ids senior year there. Mrs. Pollard has been
chosen as one of the patronesses of the affair and will chaperon at the
Alpha Delta Phi house.
Miss Antoinette Adams of Middletown. N. A., who will be remembered
l an 0ne of the most popular guesfb of the summer season, when she visited
her uncle, Charles Harding, will join them in Springfield, Mass., and will
also be a guest at the house party.
The trip Is or especial Interest to Miss Pollard, as she will be in North
ampton, Mass., for a short time and will see Smith college, where she will
be a student following her graduation from Central Higli school next year.
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An announcement ef interest is made today by Mrs. Ida Douglas of the
engagement of her daughter. Alice, to Peter Barber, jr.. son of Dr. and Mrs.
Peter T. Barber. The wedding, which they are planning to solemnize very
quietly this month, is the culmination of a romance begun when they were
both students at the Central High school.
Miss Douglas, following her graduation, attended the Frances Shinier
school at Alt. Carroll, III., and the University of Omaha. She Is a member of
the Sigma fill Onileron sorority. Air. Barber was a member of the class
of 1922 at the University of Nebraska, an Alpha t ill Sigma and a member of
the Bushnell guild.
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Of the younger musiriaiis. Aliss Uelalt Turner is said to be attracting (lie
greatest attention in Omaha, for her work with the piano and organ. Miss
Turner is the organist for Trinity Methodist church, accompanist for Fred
G. Ml is. and for Airs. Maude Giitzmer. In addition, Aliss Turner accom
panies for the Central High School Glee club, where she was a graduate
in 1922; for the Technical High School Glee club and for Die Y. AI. C. A.
association chorus.
She lias hern a pupil of August Borglum and J. If. Simms and. plans to
spend the next year in New Aork under the tutelage of Joseph Bonnet, noted
French orranlst and conqioser. Henry Fames, with whom she worked in
the presentation of the Nebraska pageant at Ak-Sar-Ben time last year, paid
her talent the highest tributes.
An Omaha high sehool student who is specializing in piano with con
spicuous success is Aliss Helen Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
T. Graham. Miss Graham Is planning a busy spring In anticipation of her
first vear at college, which starts next fall at the University of Nebraska.
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Aliss Mildred Taylor during the past week has been spreading the fame
of Omaha's attractive young girls, for she journeyed from the University of
Nebraska, where she Is a junior this y ear, to .Madison, WIs., to be a house
party guest at the Wisconsin prom. Aliss Taylor, although an enthusiastic
Omalian. has not always lived in the city, for she moved here with her fam
ily, Air. and Airs. K. W. Taylor, from Alason City, la. She is a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Bachelor Is Searching for
Girl to Endow
Gabby Wonders If Mrs. Post’s Book of Etiquette Ad
vises Being Clubby With the Butler.
s i xn now Gabby introduces Frank
Z\ Builta to her column'. Mr. j
^^•Builta. or so the story goes, is!
searching for a girl and though to
the casual eyes the town seems fairly
full of them ho is acting choosy, and
has enlisted the aid of such prominent
members of the Woman's club as Mrs.
Charles Johannes, Mrs. E. If. Ward,
Mr*. Joseph Bushman, and even Mrs.
Edgar Penney of Fullerton, stale pres
ident of the Federation of Women's
Clubs. He wants to endow the maiden
with ten dollars. Ct court-4 at this
paint Gabby warns the girl readers
to be ^dies and not to crowd! When
they find her, if she measures up on
his yard stick, he will give the ten
dollars to make her a member of the
•1,000 Club,” to aid tho Nebraska
Children's Home society, sh ce being |
a man he can't join it.
Xoble, wc calls it!
SINCE the ‘ Peg o' MV Heart”
heroine, with her supremely
democratic ways, has ceased to
get a snicker out of blase tnovie and
» theater fans who have become used
to butlers a*nd like appurtenances, it
comes as rather a surprise to hear
that a prominent bachelor about
town inadverently played Bnurette
Taylor the other evening when he
went out to dinner. He arrived al
most too punctually, clad in his
business clothes, and met a gentle
man in faultless evening dress float
ing down the hall.
•'Good I,ord, old man. I didn't
know the affair was to be formal,
he burst out. apologetically.
The gentleman merely gave him
hn enigmatic glance and a courteous
f‘Good evening.”
It was not until he found the im
presslve personality behind his chair
f vrlth a decanter that he realized the
Cull enormity of his mistake.
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AND Gabby still tilth her mind
on all this talk of etiquet is
reminded tjiat it is also of ab
sorbing interest to our colored bretli
- pen. The other day she overheard
one dusky-cheeked maiden talking to
k another about a dance she’d been to
* the night before. It seems she bad
hern in a contest to determine her
(arpichorean powers and had won a
medal. However. she had not come
oft with premiere honors. "I should
have gotten the first prize." she said
afterward, "but I was ruled out on a ■
technicality. I was chewing gum."
A HAY of light streaks across the
gloom.
Gabby, along with most of her
friends, has always considered house
keeping a dull, prosaic thing.
Comes now an author, no less than
Milne, who wrote the charming “Mr.
Pirn Passes By.” and settles the whole
thing once and for all in his new
play, "The Romantic Age," now run
ning in New York.
if you are a doubting Thomas, read
for yourself the following dialogue:
Gcrvase—You have never realized
what a gloriously romantic tiling
housekeeping is?
Malisandi—Romantic!
Gcrtaise—You have never realized
It? .Did you ever long when you
were young to be wrecked on a desert
island?
Melisandr—Oil, yes!
Gervaisc—You imagined yourself
tliere—alone with a companion?
Melisande—Often!
Gervaisc—And what were you do
ing? What Ls the romance, of the
desert island wliieh draws us all?
Climbing the bread-friyt tree, dis
covering the spring of watlr, build
ing the hut. Housekeeping! Melis
nnde! Or take Robinson Crusoe.
When. Man Friday eame along and
left liis footprint in the sand, why did
Robinson Crusoe stagger back ill
amazement? Because he said to him
self, like a good housekeeper: "By
do, I’m on the track of a servant at
last.” There's romance for you!
Romantic dajs are here now Melis
snde (or people with imagination, (or
you and me. We must learn to be
companions for life. That’s difficult,
Melisande. That's worth trying!
That’s an adventure! That's ro
mance!
Unity Book Club.
The Unity Book club will meet
Friday, 8 p. m., at the First Unitarian
church, Turner boulevard and Harney
street. "John Galsworthy” will be dis
cussed under the leadership of Mrs.
Kva Morse and Alan McDonald, _ ,
Phonograph Best
Teacher Says
Maurel
Barbara JIaurel, mezzo-soprano, who
will appear in concert at the Audi
torium Friday evening, February 3 6,
under the auspices of the business and
professional women's division of the
Chamber of Commerce, looks upon the
phonograph not only as a means of
enlarging her income but also as a
voice critic extraordinary. "When the
young American mezzo-soprano was
interviewed recently she called par
ticular attention to the recording pow
ers of the phonograph as an oppor
tunity for the singer to discover faults
in singing. "Not only did I learn
through listening to my own records
what mistakes I was making in mat
ters of diction and phrasing—details
which are extremely hard for the
average singer to judge in his own
work—but I also learned much about
the quality and evenuess of the tone
I was producing. The mechanical in
strument is almost terrifying to a.
singer, so inevitably does it record
every deviation from the perfect and
then hold these deviations.
"In some respects It is more use
ful than a teacher, for no matter how
intelligent a teacher may be nor how
retentive his memory, he cannot be
depended upon to notice every mis
take, nor if he notices it to hold the
memory when the singer has com
pleted the song in question. The
teacher has only one recourse—to
stop the student whenever he makes
a mistake. It can be readily appre
ciated that in doing so he is bound to
break the full interpretative line and
sometimes even to reduce the stager's
delivery of a song to a mere succes
sion of technical phrases.
"But in the case of the phono
graph the singer will sing an entire
song, and then at his leisure can
examine the effect, can take up the
individual mistakes one by one and
rectify them, retaining at the same
timo the satisfaction that comes from
I the Interpretation of a complete mu
jsical unit."
College Tea Club.
The Omaha College club book re
view* section will lie entertained at
tea Wednesday afternoon, 4 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Paniel E. Jenkins,
1921 Binney street.
Miss Zora ishields will review
"Novels and Poetry." bv Walter de
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Architects Hold
First Exhibit
at Library
In the galeries of tlio Omaha So
ciety of Fine Arts at the public li
brary the Nebraska chapter of the
American Ilnstitute of Architects will
hold its first exhibition on Monday,
February 5, when among the exhibi
tors Mill bo T. R. Kimball. John and
Alan McDonald, Cieorge Prinz, and
Fred Stott, local architects.
The plan of the society this year is
to emphasize that the architect is
first the artist rather than Just a
builder.
Gallery talks Mill be given each
Sunday during the exhibition M'hich
closes February 26.
Of great interest Mill be the show
ing of the Goodhue studies of the
Nebraska capitoi. The exhibition of
American art just dosed had an at
tendance of 6,000 and two gallery
talks Mere given by Maurice Block,
art director of the society.
Date Set for Wedding of
Denman Kountze
in April.*
The wedding of Miss Mary Mallory
Harris of Memphis, Tenn., to Den
man Kountze Mill be solemnized in
Memphis on Wednesday, April 25, and
the bride to-be will make a flying pre
nuptial visit to Omaha during the
last week of March on her return
from California where she lias spent
tbe last month folloM’ing her visit
here early in January.
A number of Omahnns will go on
for the wedding but as yet no definite
plans have been made other than
that Miss Elinor Kountze who is in
school at Farmington, Conn.. M’ill join
her father, C. T. Kountze, and
brother in the south.
Miss McHugh to Read
“The Dover Road” Be
fore Drama League.
Miss Kate McHugh Mill read "The
Dover Road," by A. A. Milne, on
Wednesday afternoon. 4 o'clock, at
the Burgess-Nash auditorium.
Milne Is the author of "Mr. Pirn
Passes By." The leading character In
"The Dover Road” has much the same
M'himsicality as Mr. Pirn. Ho lives
on the Dover road and takes a keen
interest in all Mho pass by.
Monday Musical
The Monday Musical club will meet
Monday evening, 8:30 o'clock, at the
home of Sirs. DeEmmett Bradshaw,
103 South Fifty-first avenue. Assist
ing the hostess will be Mesdames
Flora Sears Nelson, Martin Donlon
and Miss Jessie McDonald.
The program will be given by Mar
garet Spalding Sturgis, contralto; Mrs.
I,eo Hoffman, soprano; Helen Kahn
Neilson, soprano; Mrs. Ernest Beese,
violinist; Miss Margarite Jdljenstolpe.
pianist; Miss Mario Swanson, Miss
Winifred Traynor, pianist; Miss Ade
laida Fogg, dancer.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cox, Jean r.
rtuffield. the Misses Greta, Marie and
ElsaHilgcr wilt be guests of the club.
The Misses Hilger will appear in
a stringed trio number at the musical
given this afternoon under direc
tion of Mrs. Hoffman at Creighton
auditorium for tho benefit of the Sis
ters of Mercy building fund for the
new convent to be erected in Fair
acres.
Engaged to Officer in Philippines
mm .••• r-.Mm
Irene Ayres sxogtgrio.
Following a
romance at Cor
regidor, a military
outpost in the
Philippine group,
Miss Irene Ayres
today is announc
ing her engage
ment to James
Liggett of Marlon,
O., whom fho met
while sho was
visiting her
sister at this Fort
in the Pacific and
he was doing wel
fare work at. the
Army S e r v i ce
club there. The
announcement fol
lows a courtship
as romantic as
would be ex
pected of a south
sea island setting,
and days spent
in horseback ex
ploration, swim
ming and golf.
"We met two
days after I ar
rived last Feb
ruary and in April
at a gay din
ner given by the
officers of the
post wo told our
friends of our hap
happlness,” said
Miss Ayres. ‘Tt is
even more w on
rlerfui to me, be
cause in all my
travels, I have
net cr seen a man
who deserved a second glance.
They will wed in June, hut as yet
they arc undecided whether It will be
in Omaha or in Japan.
Since Miss Ayres feels that a
career, and marriage are not com
patible she is renouncing her voice
training. She has been on the stage,
when as a little girl under tho name
of lone Royce she traveled with a
theatrical troup through the west.
Later bhe took up singing, and is
counted one of the best sopranos of
note in Omaha where she has been
heard frequently in the Hanscom
Park Method lsUchurch, before various
clubs and over the radio.
Miss Ayres found that, though
romantic, life in the Philippines would
not be attractive for permanent resi
dence. "We simply longed for fresh
milk and vegetables,” she said, "but
since those that are raised thero in
fect with cholera, according to the
authorities, we had to wait from month
to month for tho bouts to come with
them from the states, and then in
l wo weeks' time everything good would
he eaten and we'd go back to canned
stuff. The folks were so hungry when
the good food AuivgU.'' They had to
do all their shopping in Manila,
which was three hours away by boat,
and since there is a limited choice in
clothes, they had to make them with
out even a pattern to aid.
“Of course there was plenty to
amuse us; the Island is a big rock,
seven miles across and 30 miles long,
but there are wonderful trails often
Just wide enough to go Indian fashion,
with high walls on one side which
fall away on tho other to tho sea
sparkling hundreds of feet below.
In making future plans, Mr. Lig
gett and Miss Ayres are considering
California and the orient as locations.
Mr. Liggett In addition to his army
work, manages and trains the Osaka
Japan Athletes, and will enter them in
the Philippine league tournaments.
This work, of course, he will have to
givo up If he conies back to the
states.
Travel and life away from home
hold no terrors for Miss A} res, who
has been over a great part’of the
United States, and who was in
Kurope until tho outbreak of tho war.
Sho received her education in New
Tj?rk city, ]
! Musical Bridge Tea
for Daughters
of 1812
A group of unusuaj and worth
while prizes have been assembled
by Mrs. G. C. AA'interson for the Mu
sical Bridge tea benefit sponsored by
(lie Omaha chapter of the Daughters
of 1 SI2, at the Brundeis grill Thurs
day afternoon, February 8, at 2 30.
A tea set of 16 pieces is being great
ly admired. There are attractive
salad bowls, flower holders, silk vests
and stockings, bridge napkins and
vases. One of the prizes is a book of
John G. Neihardt’s poems and "One
of Ours” by AVilla Gather. There will
be a door prize as well as prizrs for
the highest *corcs. The tickets for
the afternoon’s entertainment are *1
and can be purchased from any mem
ber of tho committee or at the door.
Tho committee in charge includes
Mrs. G. C. AVinterson, Airs. Byron
Peterson, Afrs. Roland Jones, Mrs.
Franklin Shotwell, Mrs. B. M. Ander
son, Airs. Paul Fleming, Airs. 11. J.
Hatch.
An interesting program of vocal,
violin and musical monologue num
bers will be given by Mrs. Leone Dris
coll, Airs. Grace Burger and Airs.
Grant AVilliams accompanied by
Blanche Allen and Hazel Chaloupka
while tea is served.
St. Peters Choir
Forms Club
A new and progressive club to bo
known ns the St. Peters Choir club
was organizes! last month at the
home of Mrs. Blaine Young, organist
at the church. The object of the club
is to raiso funds for a pipe organ to
be installed in the new St. Peters
church.
’ Tbe officers are Sirs. J. R. Fercoit,
president; Mrs. J. V. Hamilton, vice
president; Mrs. J. W. Arnold!, secre
tary ami ■publicity chairman, and Rev.
Father Kluthe, treasurer.
Mrs. Blaine Young was appointed
chairman of ail club activities. '
There are 20 chatter members in
the club and any person is eligible
to membership who attends regular
choir rehearsal and high mass on Sun
day for a period of three months.
One dance has already been given
by the club at the Burgess-Nash tea
room on January 6, at which $325
was cleared.
The next affair will be an afternoon
bridge and high five card party at
Burgess-N'ash auditorium on Shrove
Tuesday afternoon, February 13th. Ad
mission will be 73 cents. Reservations
for bridge may be made by calling
Mrs. Blaine Young, HA. 0262. or Mrs.
R. Ferciot, HA. -I92R Reservations
for high five may be made with Mrs.
J. W. Arnold!, HA. 6*38, or Mrs.
J. \. Hamilton, WA. 2392. Reserva
tions may also be tn&do by calling
Falhtr KlulUe. UA. 2130, ,
Last Pre-Lenten
Week Quiet
Socially
In former years the week befor*
Lent has been packed with galetlea
the last mad flings of those w ho ex
pected to spent their 40 daya in
denial and penance but this year af
fairs are comparatively quiet. Per
haps society Is turning from things
wordly with relief rather then re
gret. However it's not entirely dull,
there Is calendared a country house
party. a few luncheons and dinners,
and the first party of the New Tear
at the University club. On Monday
tljere will be a luncheon given by
Mrs. Victor Jeep at her home. In
honor of Mrs. Carl Modisett of Den
ver, an Orplieum parly given by Mr*.
Robert iSwitzler for Mrs. John D.
Lynn of Boston her sister-in-law, and
there will be many parties to see the
“Gold Diggers.” The next evening
thero will be a buffet bridge at th*
home of Miss Emily Keller, and on
Wednesday Miss Harriett Metz will
entertain for Mrs. Kollin Sturtevant
of Kansas City, formerly Miss Alice
Duval.
Mrs. Clifford Weller will give a
bridge for Mrs. G. Sutphen Kipllnger,
and Mrs. Frank Conlin will be hostess
at a buffet bridge in the evening for
Mrs. Lynn.
Miss Lydia Cook will be honor
guest on Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Newman Benson. Mrs. Irving
Benolkon will give a bridge, and Fri
day Mrs. Naasson Young will enter
tain for Mrs. Sturtevant.
On Saturday Mrs. Katherine Alli
son will greet the Messrs, and Mes
dames Temple McFayden, Lewis Bur
gess. Hark ness Kountze, Burden*
Kirkndall, Miss Dorothy Jtidson, and
Wallace Shephard, who will spend
the week-end with her at Kosemer*
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Creighton Allison. Mrs. George Flack
wjll also be hostess at luncheon on
Saturday and In the evening Mrs.
Frank Conlin will give a buffet
bridge. Mrs. J. H. Conrad will enter
tain at bridge for her daughter. Mrs.
Arthur Ross, Jr., of Minatare, Neb.
Mrs. Harry Nicholson is the first
hostess to plan for a party on Valen
tine's day, Wednesday, the 14th. sh*
will gi\c a luncheon for Mrs. Lynn.
j Walking Club .
The Omaha Walking club will hate
an all-day outing today, starting at
i :30 a. m. from the Webster street
station at Fifteenth and Webster
streets on the M. A O. train for Cal
houn. Tho walk will be from Cal
houn to Florence, a distance of 12
miles, under the leadership of Homer
Pen nock.
The regular afternoon walk will
start at 3:30 o’clock from the north
end of the Florence car line, under
leadership of Miss lininia Kment. This
group n il! join the all day hikers ntar
Lous Oak,