I ] The- Omaha Sunday Bee I
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VOL. 53—NO. 37 PART THEEE , OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1924. 1—C _HVE CENTS
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Bamboos, circles, dragons, flowers, seasonand cim: oterswill parade on
Tutsii iy •■' •■’ling March •!. ■ < U»« Mub .BoiVg tall, to be given h> the c •. ;,i
chapter, Guild of Pt. Pm ! Ki.-s* opal church, Council Bluffs.
A great ilc il < f Interest is aroused over the afTuli, not only i 1 r‘> im this
latest of crazes is to be celebrated in the costumes of the king and queen ami
princesses, but localise this is the annual midwinter frolic, which Council
Bluffs and Omaha society huvo learned through experience is one of the
gayest of the seasons affairs.
The princesses chosen for Ibis year include Miss Dorothy Hurd, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bred K. Hurd, who was graduated In .Kino from National
Bark Seminary, Washington, D. C„ and is spending the winter at home,
cultivating her decided musical talent, at the organ.
Miss Margaret Augustine, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Grant Augustine, a
senior at Brownell Hall.
Miss Nancy Stillman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Stillman. s*po
■ ial student at the University of Omahn.
Miss Charlotte Zurmuclilcn, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Bouis Zurniueh
x len, who is spending the winter at home.
• .Miss June Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John I*. Davfs, a (graduate of
Marlborough school in L.os Angeles.
Mlt-S Kltza belli Woodbury, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Woodbn: ,
and a graduate if Ward Belmont, Nashville, Term.
Miss lilizabeth Douglas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Douglas, si n "
at Miss Pratt’s Bchool of Individual Instruction. Alls* Douglas leaves In tbs
fall lo enter Sweet Briar college In Virginia.
The daughter or Mrs. Itobtit B. Wallace. Miss Mary Wallace, a student
^ tin Council Bluffs high school, will he among the royal family. A classmate
of hers, Miss Jacqueline And-iron, daughter of Dr. nnd Mrs. .1. C. Anderson,
has also been chosen for this group.
A third high school student to he included is Miss Mildred Tinley, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Tinley.
And still another Is Miss Genevieve Powllson, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs.<
George Powllson.
A representative from the University of Omaha will hr Miss Margaret
Sauer, daughter of the G. W. K. Sauer.
Aliss Norma Tyler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tyler, who Is a
student In the school of pharmacy at Creighton university, is also to be •
princess.
The Misses Hurd, Augustine, Stillman, Douglas, Sauer. Anderson nnd
Bollinger are daughters of members of Central Chapter of SI. Paul Guild, who
are sponsoring the hall.
Formal Opening of Social Settlement
Sunday Afternoon, March 2
The recently reorganized Social Set
tlement of Omaha hold* Its formal
opening next Snrjdny, March 2, In the
new (cattlement. house at 30HI) (|
streel. The house will he open to all
(alien from 2 to 7 p. m., and ten
will lie served.
lt'ocelvlnt? with Mian Helen Oaiiss.
lead resident of the settlement, will
|,o Miss I7thn Jlogera, assistant In
charge of recreation, and tlie ladles of
i he hoard. The latter Includes
.Meadamea .1. .1. Mullen, president; O.
\V. HoUtrege. first ylo« president;
Harold Clifford, second vice president;
i'hailea 17. Johannes, secretary; It. I.
tVInkleman, corresponding secretary;
,\ K. Jonas, J. If. rnimont, J. I'
Hanna, tldgar Scott, J. f». Porter.
O, \\\ Axtell, 17 W. Nash, Mark M.
J.evlngs, I,. M. I/ord. N K. Hype,
i leorge Bin klaad, Waylaid Magee,
J.M. r>. Hassle, A. W. McHugh, Sidney
Smith, W. Ft. Htnndeven, Howard
rtushtop
Tea Will he poured In the r1lnln;c
room by Mlif'es Hefei NTghtlngnk
and Kiithi,vil Basrlovleh, n>dated By
Mlaaca Veda Billy, Marls and Emma
Graham. Fannie Dubroff arid the
Mfeaen Knrlcht.
Members of the. Men’* Glee club,
of which John Pedmetlch Is preal
.lent, will seive ns ushers to conduct
»lie visitors through the new building.
The social settlement, which tins
been closed for. over a yenr while
the new house was being built, re
npened In January in its new quarters
under a reorganised board of direr
tors. Its work in non ser lariat), every
denomination being represented on the
on the hoard. Its object, according to
the hoard, Is “cooperation with the
people of the district for a finer corn
| munlty life, and to serve hr a rente*
for social and educational aetiviLtofl."
Phi Itli<» Sigma.
The Phi Rho ftlgrna fraternity en
i«*j tatned at a house dance last, eve
ning at their home
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Dinner lloul*.
Folonel and Mrr. Frank Amos will
i a dinner on Tuos»la\ evening at
J (heir horns.
Mrs. Joe Baldrige Gives
Dance in Boston for
Winifred Smilli.
Mrs. Joseph Baldrige nnd hei
daughter, Gwendolyn 'Wolfe,% were
hostesses at a danca given In the
Brunswick hotel, Boston, for Mian
\yjnlfred Smith, who is their gueHt.
Mr. and Mrs. George Storking, win*
were in Boston at the time on their
honeymoon, were other OmnhnriH
among the guests, ns w*ns Miss
Smith’s brother, George, n Dartmouth
1 student.
Student* Initiated Into
Spanish Society.
J.ofi Pablo*, the Hpaniith *orlety »d
the l'nivor*lty of Omaha, hold it* mid
Horn enter Initiation of* now inomhoi-H
Friday evening «t tho Imino of llor
l>ert Fi*cher.
All the candidates wne eucceearui
In pneein* through n eevere ordeal
and were duly received Inin full nirui
he ralilp.
Initiated were: Helm Magaret. Ann
I'rlchlon. Beatrice Harvey. Alice Itnr
time, rtuth Hnr/.ei . Itulh lielte, Ted
Drdln, lid Vlelran. Burton Thompeon
mid Ktnnelh tintrs Wight tnembera j
anil Mlee Znzayn, apohaor, aealated In
tho initiation.
hnlertuhin \\ edneeday.
Mra. J. K. Havldaon will have aigld
Kneels to luncheon with her at h<
apartment on Wednesday.
Mrs Minina llonirliind reiuii. d
Thnmday from I 'm t Riley, limi
where aha woe the guewl of tin com>n
Mra. Llevlne, ami Lleutunant Devine
National Business
Woman President
Comes Wednesday
The visit of Mias Adelia Pritchard,
president of the National Federation
of this federation, which wri orga
Women’s Clubs, represents the first
visit to Omaha of a national officer
°f lliis federation, which was orga
nixed four years ago. Miss Pritchard
is on her w.iv from the midyear coun
ell of the federation in Dallas, Tex.,
to her home in Portland, Ore.
The regular Tuesday dinner of the |
Omaha Business Jffoyian's club has
been postponed on account of the
banquet the following evening at the
Burges* Nash tea room in honor of
the visitor.
Permanent reservations made for
the regular dinners will not hold for
the banquet. All reservations for
Wednesday evening must be made
r ot later than Tuesday evening With
Miss Elizabeth Van Bant, Harney
3282.
Miss Pritchard will speak before
the Omaha business women on "What
Our National Freedom Means to Its
Members.” Delegates from the Fre
mont and Council Bluffs clubs will
present at the meeting and invita
tions have been extended to officers
"f |he state federation.
Ml** Pritchard will arrive In Omaha
early Wednesday morning and will
breakfast with Mis* Fhaence Hath
• way, president of the local cluh.
.-h* will h* entertained at lunch at
the Hrnndeia restaurant at 12:30 by
member* of the executive board and
•inmlttee chairmen
Junior I.rnpur t’n'ttidmt
Honorrd in Dcmrr.
Ml*a Marlon Towb\ who I* now in
' wllfornin with tier parent*, Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Towle, was honor
guest at lea In Denver early thl
weak when she stopped there to con
fer with Denver league gi»ls regat*!
I Inp the approaching national meeting,
to he held In that city. Ml** Towle Is
president of the Dinahs Junior leagtn
The Ihinhets Host*.
j The l.awrencc Itrlnker* had 1
: .ueats to dine with them last evening
| st th*ir home
Movies Shown in
Wooded Islands
of Dutch Indies
When Malayan Husband
Misses His Wife He Goes
to Movie to Find Her.
No longer does the South Sea Is
lander husband look for his wife In
ambush. 'Tis to the movie hs goes
for to find her.
So wriiea John Kcnnebcck of Oni-'
aha from Sydney. Australia, where he
went a few months ago to represent
an American motion picture corpora
tion. lie says:
"Our pictures are shown even In
the wooded Islands of the Hutch In
dins. One of our managers writes
that when a Malayan hubby misses
Ids wife, he looks In the movie for
her.
"Sydney Is a city of nearly a mil
lion souls. It Is theater wild. It la
warm throughout the yenr and In the
evening everybody wears dinner
clothes. A stock musical comedy
company opened "The Merry Widow"
Inst week at Her Majesty's thenter.
It Is the hit of the town.
"Irene Yunburgh mid Bondcault
fioin "I.unnun town" are taking the
populace hy storm In "His House In
Order." The best sent* In a thenter
here are In the dress circle (the hnl
eony). The lower priced seats are
down stairs.
"The voyage over was wonderful
and we landed the day before Christ*
mas. On New Year's day l was surf
ing at Mmavulo near IjR Cornlcho,
New South Wales, one of the so-called
fashionable snots of Australia. I’ve
seen the beaches of California and of
Michigan, hut Australia has
beaches that are perfect for hun
dreds of miles. They are big. wide;
and free from commercial enterprises.
Sydney women are clever, rt unlver
»! and everlasting trait. Their dla
• ct is ns pleasant to hear as that of
i South American, ldke the men
here, the women are lovers of sports,
tares, trunk*, yachting and cricket.
\u»t rails lx backward by about RO
\chis. except that there are sot tv* au
tomobiles here,
I In- Sam Hums Hmi
Mi and Mil* Samuel Hum* enter
plained at theli home last evening
cifipp Jfild*c<£ fjx/ey
South High Gives
Vaudeville Show
Oi.r if the n^t sign* of spring
South High is the annual passing
show. It la a \audevllle show In
which various departments partici
pate. The performance «ill be given
iwo consecutive evenings. Wednesday.
February 27. and Thursday. Febru
ary 28.
A unique feature of the show is the
method -of selling tickets. Tuesday.
February 2*. will lie annual tag da>
at South High. Tickets for the pass
ing show are In the form of tags and
all who buy tags wear them on that
date.
South has a unique plan of placing
the weekly publication, The Tooter
and season football tickets tn the
home of every student free of charge.
Four dramatic performances arc
staged during the year, the proceeds
of whlrh go to Tlte Tooter and ath
lelie funds. The passing show is th<
last of these entertainments this year
A very pretty number on the pro
gram will he the "Clown dance," a
pantomime done by l.uellle Helmets,
accompanied by South High orchea
tra.
The hoys’ double <|uhi fct. which
received hundred* of encores from h1.
parts of the country after thetr r*
dio program* will l»c In the passing
show with new songs.
The Story Hook bah. under the di
lection »»f Miss Jeanette poyle will b*'
n dainty character offering of song*
drills and dance* in “Mother Goose
rhyme costumes. Miss Vera Veeh.i
will Interpret the part of “Mothei
The big number of the program,
prepared by Miss Mabel hhtpherd.
Miss Marguerite Walker and Mis*
Jeanette Iknle, is “Mis* Nlbbe* No\
• It\ Hhop " The choral number?- wdt
be taken by members selected from
the advnnced chorus classes. Klevrti
song* will he given in chorus and he
stoi \ of the play w ill be recited and
I acted l»> ,U nifmbers of dramatic nil
classes.
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Millionaire From
Nearby City Is
Captured
By GABBY.
A MILLIONAIRE widower has'
been captured and a European 1
honeymoon looms. He's not an
Omaha man but the town of hla resi ,
dence is only a very short distance]
away, street car ride, in fact, and
news travels fust, you know.
Being a grandfather, one would ex
pect hint to have reached the years
of discre‘.i* n which ho evidently has.
for the lady of hts heart's desire would
l»e deemed by even a severe critic as
a moot admirable choice. Her pianistle
brilliance hnrdly outshines the sparkle
of the ring she is wearing
Yes. Gabby produces the ring as
real evidence Candy and flowers
would hardly he a sufficient basis for
suspicion in this case for the hand
some widower has for many years
beer very generous with such favorA
as these among a great many of the
fair beauties of his city.
GAKBT. being a woman with a
not too accurate knowledge of1
men, thinks that ths greatest
enigma life can hold for the social
main Is "shall 1 or shan't I wear ntv
dinner coal?"
Possibly In some more sophisticated
community no such burning quest lot.
Is aroused by a mere invitation but
here where men ate men. Kmlly
Post, a name unknown to fame and
what's wrong with this picture ' a
genuine puttie, the hunting question
becomes a conflagration.
As bud as It is for tbe guests It Is
ust so much worse for the hosts.
However, flabby has heard of one
a lever hostess who Inadvertently
solved ihe latter s problem at some
cost In energy however to the gentle
man.
As tbe fit si guests arrived at tin
Inner tha other night, she explained
prettily that her husband hud been
delayed at the office "and would be
a little late "
toiler she flew- off upstairs leaving
them to chat pleasantly unaware that
(over their heads tragedv siil-vd
Tragedy' for a man. who had just put
the finish ng touches to the perfect
dinner costume was being h.sjuiigly
commanded back Into hts business
clothes lx*' > ' “the ' first arrival*
had come that way."
Ten minutes elapsed a frantic tan
minutes for the second story worker.
A placid pleasant interval below*. Then
the last guests arrived. Horror* upoa
horrors. They were In full dinner re
galia.
A bna\» smile played about the l:p*
if the hostess as she made them wel
come and met a situation which had
now- grown desperate.
No such brave smile played about
the lips of her spouse, as the nee a ™
was imparted to him. If anythin*
played there it was a few strengthen
ing oaths, as he re put the finishing
touches to -n almost finished dres*
shirt, and dinner Jacket.
A solution. A hard one. but * soiu
tion. you'll asree.
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SEVERAL year* ago a boy of 15
starfled . the population •( Lin
coln. his own home town, by
presenting a dance program alone and
unaided. He conceived hi* own
dances, arranged the music, designed
and made the costume*, borrowed an
auditorium and gave a varied and
successful program.
That boy was Charles \Vetdman
now ft years old, who appeared thia
week at the Brandeis theater with the
Penishawn dancer*. He ha* been
yvlth them three years. His ambition
and ability yvtll doubtless carry him
beyond even his present success. In
the Omaha audiences were member#
of hi* family from* IJncoln who spent
with him here the two day* of ha
stay.
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j I \ r i:\v WIVES FOR Ol.P ‘a
|\| the cry of the age. and the
-s- s .. .. ttr,, dt-es not voter -I in
the tone of Bluebeard. Henry VIII. or
W E P. Stokes, is llkelv to have his
own way of reaching such a consum
mation devoutly to he wished, gome
times his wife is able to forestall b
loving fancy by acme act of vtol „
■ gainst her normal appearance,
in a real crisis masculine deterr
tton may be relied upon to fin
a w*', even without Invoking ...»
1 dtvor. e law <
Recently' a handsome t>mal'. 1
« o m. as I »,•:«. w tie; *»IH
;est>ecs. roaring 40s, strode hoMt? 4.1
! the lair of a fashionable hand, ess#*
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