New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-08
SOROSIS'S LAST SOCIAL.
"A MIDSUMMER DAYS DREAM" THE
SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION.
THE roRr1A CLUB TRIO. FLORENCE C. sUTRo'
MRS WEBER AND ISABELLA s. LoVELAND

THE poRr1A CLUB TRIO. FLORENCE C. sUTRo.
MRS. WEBER AND ISABELLA 6. LovELAND
AMONG THE ENTERTAINERS.
sorosls held its last meeting Of the season yester
oay afternoon at the Waldorf, the usual breakfast
preceding IT, The programme for the DAY was al :
ranged nv the chairman of the Committee on
Drama. Dr. Jennie de la NJ. Lozier who instead OF
the usual discussion. gave the club "A Alidsuiiiie,
DAYS Dream" Shakespeare being inc principal
subject thereof. ,,o
The first number consisted Of a couple or piano
solos "A Midsummer Nights Dream" by Ascher'
and q nocturne by Chopin. by Mrs Theodore Sutro'
Then Mrs Alice Fairbrother Weber recited Inc
Stowaway." and the Porta Club TITO sang VT
pheus with His Lutte" from Henry WILL Inc
trio consists Of Miss Florence De b. Allen and MISS
Frasces f Cook sopranos. and Miss Clara l. Stu's-
man contralto but Miss Cooks place was taken
Yesterday by Mrs. j. W Macy Papers followed
by Mrs Lozier. Mrs. Isabella s. Love!ahd' MIS-
Mary L. Becker Mrs Miriam Mason greeley MISS
Agnes W. Mastick and Mrs. Emily Palmer cape
Miss Stutsman sang 1T Was Lover ana Ills
Lass" from LAS You Like IT.; the trio gave "Hark
Hark. the Lark" from "Cymbeline" and Tell Me
Whore Is Fancy Bred" from The Merchant OF
Venice" and the regular programme ended WIN the
closet scene from Hamlet, by Mrs. Weber
Mrs Loziers paper was on "A Day spent win
Shakespeare" and described a day IN the count!
entirely in the poets words Mrs. Becker told OF
,hs songs OF Shakespeare"-not the ones that ne
xrote but the ones that he makes his characters
s,ne-and before she stepped on the platform MIS-
Margaret Ravenhin begged the PRESIDENT Peri
sion TO remind the women that the ias' tiliie mis-
y,ecker addressed them she stood on the taoie.
Nc Greeley gave q picture Of THE England or
sbakesneare" and took the advice OF the French
cvnic in looking for the woman whom she iouio III
Elizabeth. , a.. -,
"she was the heroine" said Mrs. greeley Oh INC
,,or,ous drama of English history IN the sixteenth
~ hot
.noch ~ the Anglo-Saxon race. An heroic queen
r,,ed an heroic race Of men at time when men
hearts were stirred never before Faouious taie'
of q new world made them forget their own prosai'
homes without windows and chimneys' the odiHs
Of their Viking forefathers revived in the buccaneers
,ha printing press gave wings TO their words ana
the glory of the Renaissance came TO acorn the
court of their queen; $500 .,,o, thu sam. .Orne
Times OF Shakespeare but she looked a. ~ ron fa
different p9nh, ave cast glamour over the age that
The facts do not warrant ana aIa neT hps tines
Mrs Capes paper was entitled "A Modern Mid d,
summer Night, Dream" and Mrs Loveland tod
OF the the Conclusion Of the programme Mrs. Weber
complied with request TO TeGle sS Ssa a bT Mrs.
Anna Randall Denl Mrs. Waite, or Jersey CITY;
the New-Jersey colonial Danes, and Mrs Higgins
vcepresiaent Of the san Francs SEQ sor0ss visit
and although she has only been Few Gays mere
She charmed with her refePihG,n ab the Newyor
oen have received me is beautiful" she said 10
~0 rih,na renorter She is a member Of the
cart,rv club OF san Francisco, the second in I'M
portance after Soross, and of the kansnS History
Tjub n nd she is president OF the Nathahlel Gray
E,ree Iiindergarten. She organized the Kingsley
Art Club Of SACRAMENTO and was presiort Cd % 1T
unu she left She is enthusiastically interested IN
Tho club of which she is vice-president, ana says
that they try TO follow the first Sorosis as cioSei!
as possible The club has l25 members ana Is 'hor-
oughly alive -. ,oohcoe. o nd
rneeiine were Mrs f. c. Hazard. of Shrewsbury,
X j. Mrs Osborn regent of the Illinois state $50
cietv Of the Daughters Of the Revolutloh; MISS
Kote Wheeock of Chicago. queen Of whist; Mrs
CarreIi widow of the Governor OF Prince re-. Ed%ard
island: Mrs L. r. C. Young, OF Jersey Clty MIS-
Leslie smith Of Detroit; Miss sara *; Munson, OF
the Monday Evening Club Of Westhe:d; Mrs C are
Of New-Jersey Mrs. STANLEY, of Newark; MISS
Hawkins OF New-York: DR., Brinkman. OF New.
York: Mrs Wldman, Of San Francisco; Mary
Cub Mrs. Haxton the genea9gis and Ms Es
Mrs William Tod Hemuth, ex-president was
also among those present she informed r@ao h Nr
~ I'm and would spend the summer there.