The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-15
Out & About

o'clock p. m. yesterday. About $50
invitations had been issued. The young
women who assisted Miss Flint were
later her guests at dinner, and with her
received 10 young men of the West
Side set from to 10 o'clock in the
evening. The reception room, drawing
room and diningroom had been deco
rated by LANCE in pink and green and
white with roses, chrySanthemums,
palms and ferns Rebboli served ices.
Many beautiful flowers had been sent
to Miss Flint in recognition Of her
debut. Mrs. Flint and Miss Flint were
assisted in receiving by Mrs. George B.
Witter, Mrs. Alexander Dewitt, Mrs.
Charles Dudley Lamson, Mrs. Samuel
E. Winslow, Mrs. Henry e. Hill, Mrs.
Homer Gage, Mrs. J. Fred Mason, Mrs.
Francis Dewey, Mrs. Charles S. Bar
ton, Mrs. David Narrower, Mrs. Will
liam Harrington, Miss Elizabeth Pratt,
Miss Mary Green, Miss Alice Ward,
Miss Edith Richardson, Miss Helen
Marble, Miss Edith Warren, Miss Ruth
Lamson, Miss Margaret Lincoln. Miss
Eleanor Brigham of North Grafton,
Miss Mary Richardson of Boston, Miss
Leigh Ricketts, Of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
Miss Elizabeth Harrington of Boston.
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Arthur Hazen Chase delivered his
second French lecture in the Y. w.
C. A. classs room, yesterday afternoon
at o'clock. The lecture was even
more enjoyable than the first deliv-
cred two weeks ago. Mr.. Chase is
to give three parlor talks, one in jan
uary one in February and one in
March. The first will be given prob
ably at the home of Mrs. Charles S.
Barton. S57 Main Street.
Mr.. Chase is engaged for a course of
10 lectures in Salem and will also give
a series of talks in Bostson.
The subject of yesterdays lecture
was lie Theatre Francais," or La
Coincide Franchise" The national
theatre is established in the Palais
Royal and here French drama is most
artistically produced. LIE Theatre
Francois had its beginning in 1880,
when Louis XIV effected an organiza-
ton of the actors Of Hotel Bour-
gogne and Molliere's company. A COM
mittee of six. presided over by gov
eminent officials, names the socie-
taires, actors and actresses who belong
to the regular staff of players. This
committee also appoints the pension
naires, whose positions are not perma-
nent. The committee passes judgment
on new plays and arranges for the re-
production of standard French dramas
from time to time. All financial mat
tiers are in the hands of the commit
tee.
Mr.. Chase began his lecture with
Napoleon's words, 1.-THE theatre is
Frances glory and opera her vanity"
Then a sketch of the French theatre
was given from its earliest days to
the present time.
Mr. Thoca ant 70 4aIJ - t1,a f,,o
portant place that the theatre occu-
pies in French life and literature. He
gave anecdotes of famous actors and
actresses - Coquelin, Bernhard and
others - and related historical and
amusing episodes in the existence of
the theatre.
The French theatre dates from old
France and fills a void that does not
exist in England or America. There
are special schools to prepare actors
for this national theatre 1t is the
criterion of pronunciation. Instead of
going to the dictionary to learn the
pronunciation of words, the French
people adopt the standard of pronun-
citation used at the Theatre Francois.
A woman who attended the lecture
remarked afterwaTd that America
would be in a sorry fix if it should
adopt as the most-cultured pronuncia-
LAOIl lildl VI dCLOlO anu dClICoOGS Ou
the stage.
The lecturer gave rise to this
thought: Should the dictionary be
the standard for cultured people, or
is there a higher tribunal for decision
in questions of the proper pronuncia-
ton of words?" A writer in some
magazine has said that the dictionary
does not always give the pronuncia-
ton of words as heard among people
M
should not always be the court of last
appeal.
Leverett B. Merrill of Boston has
been engaged to sing the bass role in
Bachs "Sleepers, Awake which will
be given at the first oratorio concert in
Pilgrim Church Friday night, Nov %.
Mr.. Merrill will be heard also in a solo
number. He is the bass soloist at the
Boston church, of which B. ]. JezS Is
organist Mr.. Merrill has sang in con-
cert and oratorio throughout the coun-
try
There will be a special rehearsal of
the Bach cantata in Pilgrim vestry to-
night.
The Home Club meets this afternoon
with Miss Hattie A Cushman, Tx
bridge Street.
Everett E. Truette organist, Miss
Geraldine G. Damon contralto, Fred ].
Day tenor. appear on the program Of
second recital in Union Church series
tonight H. d. Sleeper is the accom-
PIANIST
A large company attended the recep-
ton given by the Ladies' Missionary
Society to the Two Cent a Week Club,
in Hope Church parish house, last
night. The club contains 100 members,
most of whom were present. The
rooms were decorated, and the attend
ants at the tables were in costume.
There were four of these tables. Re
freshments were served at three OF
them. The guests were received by
Mrs. E. W. Phillips, wife of the pas
tor of Hope Church, and the ladies' IN
charge of the tables.
The largest display was that OF arti-
Giles to be given to The Seaman
Friend Society of Boston and Glouces-
fer There was a large display of com
fort bags. made by the willing hands OF
the Junior Society. Each bag con-
tanned a pair of wristers, buttons for
coats and trousers, needles. pin cusn-
ion thread. a bottle Of vaseline and
court plaster. A model Of two-mast-
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