Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-29
WOMEN OBSERVE
SHAKESPEARE DAY
GALPIN CLUB IN CHARGE OF
EXERCISES
WRITINGS ARE DISCUSSED
WRITINGS ARE DISCUSSED
Prominent Members Of Various Los
Angeles Organizations Take
Part In the Days
Program

THE woman who studies Shake.
speare is not the one who will get off
the car backward while 1t is going"
THE woman who studies Shake
speare is not the one who will chew
gum. except behind the locked door of
her room"
THE woman who studies Shake
speare is not the one who pretends to
know what she does not know"
These three 'is nots" were learned
yesterday afternoon at the Shake
speare commemoration day given by
the Galpin Shakespeare club and par
ticipated in by members of the various
clubs OF Los Angeles as well as the
Shakespeare club of Pasadena.
The meeting was a treat to all lovers
of Shakespeare, for every moment of
the time was taken up with something
that some one particular person or
club had CLEANED from the study of
the master playwright.
Mrs. Oliver p. Bryant, president of
the Gapin club, presided and opened
the session in a happy manner by ex-
tending greeting to those who had
gathered.
Responses From Clubs
Responses from the different clubs
followed and it was in one of these
that the statements quoted were made.
Mrs. Emma Greenleaf was the speaker
and she, representing the Shakespeare
section of the Ebel club. talked of the
practical benefit to be derived from
study of Shakespeare and dwet upon
the fact that the person who gets out
OF Shakespeare some of that which Is
there to get cannot help being more
sensible for the knowledge.
Miss Neeta Marquis of the Much Ado
club responded in a manner that won
the applause of the whole audience.
Miss Marquis represents a club Of
twelve girls organized three years ago
and her descriptions of the study hours
were filled with wit.
"a club of girls studying as we do la
apt to get the practical side more than
the literary" said Miss Marquis.
1.-The men for the most part come
under our knives for vivisection. Ham,
let was most in disfavor from the first,
and he was most condemned for the
crime of appearing before Ophelia with
his stockings down. We felt that hon.
est Iago was intended by nature for a
real estate agent, and we all through
commiserated with poor suffering
Othello because he was unable to salt
his so great love with little Yankee
common sense"
Miss Marquis explained that after
the club had run the gamut of the ten
der passion 1t turned to studying the
historical plays
"Wooed With Perdita"
1--WE had been wooed with Perdita and
Tilted with Nero" said she, tasted
welded bliss and welded woe with
Desdemona, filial devotion and it's OPP
posite with Cordela and the wicked
sisters, and we needed to be comforted
with apples for we were sick of love.
Thus we found history" She ended with
the statement that perhaps the Much
Ado" had been not quite about moth
ing.
Monte Shakespeare club; the Wednes-
day morning club was also repre-
scented. On behalf of the Academy of
Sciences, B. R. Baumgardt gave per-
sonal recollections of Hamlet's castle at
Elsinore and Judge Enoch Knight
brought a message from the Sunset
club.
Another of the delightful features OF
the afternoons program was the music
given by Charles FarWell Edison as
sisted by Miss Violet Savage as ac-
companist Mr. Edison sang the songs
of Shapespeare in a charming manner
and before each song Mrs. Bryant ex-
planned the setting. Among them were.
"A Sea Dirge," 1.-The Tempest" (Har-
dee); 1T Was Lover and His Lass"
LAS You Like 1t" ParkeD; "Tell Me
Where Is Fancy Bred Merchant Of
Venice" (DeKoven) and 'Falstaff's
Song" by E. Clarence Stedman Dudley
Bucl).
Mrs. W. d. Turner, president of the
Pasadena Shakespeare club. gave
reading from Henry " Act V, Scene II,
and Paul England of London gave
talk in which he spoke of Shakespeare's
secret, quoting words uttered by Cali
ban as a crevice through which part of
the secret leaked out.
In response to a request from the
president Mrs. Kate Tupper Galpin,
founder of the club made a short
address.
SAYS CI 0llDY WEATHER