The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-25
OUT AND ABOUT.


Miss Beatrice HEREFORD has named
Nov. 10 as a date when she is free
to come to Worcester, and it is prob
able that she will appear on the even
ing of that date in Memorial hall. Miss
Herfords art is credited with having
made Israel Zangwill lose an important
engagement, and working havoc with
William Dean HCWells famous fore
loch and Mr. Richard Watson elders
velvet skull cap. William Archer and
&. Bernard Shaw have publicly testi-
fed to their delight in it. The Chi
cago Tribune says of her recital in
Steinert hall last year:
Miss Beatrice HEREFORD gave a series
OF original monologues at Steinway
hall last night.
These character sketches of middle
class American life are so good that
trey stand almost pre-eminent as typ
zeal of American humor of the day.
Yet at the present moment American
humor has fallen upon evil days. In
books it hardly exists at all, the maya
zines avoid i if possible, and on the
stage it is mournfully conspicuous by
its absence. But in Miss Beatrice Her
ford, the lover of the comic side Of
things will find something unique,
something exquisitely humorous, and
something which could only be accom-
plished by an American. She is the
one distinctly humorous person at pres
ent before the public who has borrowed
nothing from any one else, for she is
the author as well as the reciter of her
monologues"
Mrs. Albert H. Chaffee gave the first
in her course of lectures on Modern
art" yesterday forenoon to an audi
ence OF ladies that comfortably filled
her charming studio at l Hancock
street Always filled with pictures,
many of them the work of Mr.. Chaffee,
the beautiful room was yesterday gior-
ffed with additional rows upon rows OF
photographs illustrative of Modern
French art and the Paris salon of 1859"
the subject of the morning. Mrs. Chat
fee spoke in detail of about 40 of the
more prominent or interesting works in
the latest salon, dividing them INTO the
figure pieces, the nudes and the ma
donnas, and indicating some OF the
leading characteristics of modern
French art. She said that love OF the
nude was characteristic of modern
French painters, who studied it as a
science, an art, quite distinct from sen
timent. and that it's presence IN the
salon was marked feature of the eX-
hibitions, distinguishing them from the
exhibitions of other nationalities. She
paid a warm tribute to Gerome, who,
she said, had for more than 40 years
followed the ideals Of his youth, and
she quoted from his letters conc arning
his first visits to Italy and Egypt, and
THE cockpit" which was exhibited
first in the salon of 184S, and is now
in the Luxembourg. Mrs. Chaffee also
spoke admiringly of Rosa Bonneur's
last work. Upon leaving, each lady was
presented with a little photograph of
one of the works mentioned in the lee
ture as a souvenir
Adolphus Hunt-Don't you think it
would be noble thing for you TO do
with your wealth to establish home
for the feeble-minded?
Miss Rox-O, Mr. Hunt, this is so
sudden!-Stray Stories.
Charles Lane Hanson, instructor in
in the Mechanic Arts high
school, Boston, but formerly a teacher
in the English high school in Worcester.
has brought out through CHM & Co.,
the well-known firm of Boston school
book publishers, a volume of Repre-
sentative Poems of Robert Burns,
with Carlyles essay on Burns"
There are introductions, notes and a
The book is dedicated
ITO my Burns section of the class of
1898, Worcester English high school
appreciative, sympathetic, eager toI
learn"
The Second Parish Club will meet in
the vestry Of the First Unitarian
church, this evening, at 8 o'clock. Ma
than Rice will read a paper on "Relig-
ious wars in France in the seventeenth
century" The meeting is public.
THE KneiseI quartet" says Louis Ell
son. has not suffered as many changes
as the proverbial jack-knife of which
first the handle and then the blade was
renewed The first violin remains the
same as when the club began it's con-
certs.
This season brought one change
however. the second violin being no
longer Mr.. Roth, but Mr.. Ondricek; the
latter has done such effective work in
public that he needs no introduction
to any Boston concert-goer. The quar-
tet begins the season as strong as ever"
And the Boston Transcript, in COM
on last years work, remarks.
$50 ends the Kneisels' fourteenth sea-
son, one of their greatest, if not their
very greatest! They have got beyond
praise; they are an institution to thank
God on, not to compliment"
The success of the Kneisel quartet
In Worcester, on Nov. 3 and
Dec. q, is already assured. Tickets
are on sale at Steinert's and Lelands
music stores. Let us, as the Tran
script suggests, thank God and buy
some more tickets.
On Thursday the 18th annual conven-
ton of the Collegiate Alumnae asso-
citation will open in Chicago for three
days session, and will gather in the
Windy City an interesting group of
Miss Marion Talbot, dean of
at the University Of Chicago,
will give the address of welcome; Miss
Millicent w. Shinn, whose statistics
upon the marriage rate of college alum
nae have served to fill with arguments
both the antagonists and the cham
oions of the higher education of wom-
IN, and who a few years ago was the
guest of DIR. Edmund G. Sanford of
Clark university and Miss Sanford,
will present the report of the com
mittee on child study. Miss Kate Hal
aday Claghorn, whose bright sequence
Of articles on college life for women
will be recalled by readers of the Out
ook; DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews, super
of public schools in Chicago;
President William r. Harper of the
of Chicago; Mrs. Alice Free
man Palmer and Mrs. Florence Kelley,
secretary Of the National Consumers
league, will also be among the speak
ers.
A strong-minded woman. albeit she