Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-16
Women S Clubs

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- planned in the interest of its new
club house, will open this AFTERNOON IN
| the club rooms, 2615 Pasadena aVenue,'l
and will continue through SATURDAY
| evening.
A lot on the corner of Avenue 2S and
Sichel street, valued at $4,000, has been
donated by one of the members, ana
! the club now Is only facing the task Oh
raising funds to erect the building. /
| Ten Shakespearean plays will be rep
resented by as many booths, and the
women connected with the booths, as
well as those on the program, will be In
costume.
Friday afternoons program will in
clude scene from Midsummer
Nights Dream" and the Dance of the
Fairies by young. ladies vii also pe
| given. In the former Miss myrtle
Daum will represent Queen Titania;
| Miss Mary Nee. Kin Oberon; MISS
Gertrude Terry, Fairy Ariel, and MISS
| Gladys Park, Puck. A duet from the
play, II Know Bank Whereon the
Miss V. Gilmore of Long Beach ana
Mrs. w. w. Scott. Miss Mary Nee will
| sing Shakespeare's Fairy Lullaby" by |
II. H. Beach. A Mendelssohn piano |
selection from Midsummer Nights
Dream" will ts given by Miss Ella
Park, and readings from "As You Like
IT. by Miss Isabel Reynolds. There
will be several songs from the play
also by Miss Anna Nolan.
Friday evenings program will open
with a vocal solo from "As You Like
It." by Herbert Pierce, to be followed |
by another by Miss Pearl Conklin, bid
Me Discourse" Joseph De Grasse and
pupils will present the trial scene from
,The Merchant of Venice" the charac- |
ters of the play to be represented as
follows: Joseph De Grasse, II. Welfer, |
Joseph Ludwig, Clifford Horn, Fred |
.iserrS Dol md MiSCnc
May Park and Lenora Montgomery. |
A. H. Hand will sing Sigh No More, |
ladies'" by Sir Arthur Sullivan, taken |
from Much Ado About Nothing"
Saturday afternoon has been reserved |
for the children, and special attractions
Dream" booth will be turned into a |
fairyland. Autolycus with his wonder
full "peddler's pack" of 1.-The Winters
Tale" will be represented by little
Ethel Hodgson. Miss Dorothy Blanch-
ard will sing "Who Is Sylvan" and
''Nymphs and Shepherds" introducing |
rustic dance by shepherds and shep-
herdesses. These will be represented |
by Ethel Hodgson, Gladys Park, Mar
garet Tilley, Marie Nieto, Dorothy n. |
Nieto, Helen Smith. Helen Randolph,
Mabel Dysart, Verna Kerr, Clarissa |
Bachelor and Isabel Skeels.
In the scene Hamlet" which Will |
also be given Saturday afternoon, Mrs. |
Hattie Bishop, Miss Minnette Worley. |
Miss Olivia Esterbrook will represent |
the characters.
Saturday evenings program will in |
clude a scene from Macbeth" and one |
from Twelfth Night and selected |
readings from CAS- You Like It," by |
Miss Isabel McReynolds. In the Mac
beth scene Mrs. Clarence r. Park, Mrs. |
Fletcher and Miss Ethel Smith Will |
take part The witches dance Will be |
played by Mrs. Frank S. Sturge, and
the Fallstaff song given by Edward |
Gowan. The scene from '"Twelfth |
Night" will be in the hands of A. H.
Hand, H. r. Lawson, w. w. Scott and |
Mrs Nellie Tilley, and the following |
musical numbers will be introduced:
20 Mistress Nine" Hold Thy Peace"
and a trio, "Three Merry Men Be We"
Duets from "As You Like IT. will be
sung by A. H. Hand and Herbert
Pierce.
At a meeting of the executive board |
of the Woman's Parliament held Tues |
day 1t was decided to hold the next i
annual meeting, which occurs in the
spring, in Los Angeles.
Cosmos club opened auspiciously |
Wednesday afternoon with a short pro-
gram, followed by a song recital by
Nuncie Sabina Bittman, which in turn |
was followed by an informal half hour |
over the teacups in the pleasant recep- |
tion rooms
the president Mrs. r. p. Howell VINO |
has been quite ill., was present and de-
livered a most interesting address on |
the threefold purpose of the club, |
which is literary, philanthropic and so
cial, and expressed a hope that the club |
will deySelop along each of the several |
lines of endeavor a harmonious, we'll |
balanced whole.
Several members responded to Mrs. |
Howelrs request for vacation expert
ences.
Mrs. Catherine Nettleship, for nine
wears a missionary in Japan, lectured
before the Crescent Bay Woman's club
at Ocean Park yesterday afternoon, her
subject being "The Ainu, the Hairy
| Aborigines of Japan" The speaker Is
one of the two white people living who
can speak the language of these an
cient people.
| She traced the history of the race
from the time ascribed by the Japanese
| legends, which state that these people
were in possession of the Island KING
dom" at the time of the ARRIVAL or the
! first Japanese from heaven in boat,
to the present day, when a mere hand
! full occupy the most northern extremity
| of the islands of Japan.
"The race was old when Egypt was
| voung" said the speaker, and nave
| been driven back until in a few years
they will have passed entirely out of
existence" Mrs. Nettleship drew COM
prehensive word pictures of this inter-
esting people and described their Gus
toms with minuteness of detail that
showed long and faithful study of the
subject.
At the short business session of the
! club which followed five new members
were admitted, and a committee was
appointed to take charge of the lunch
| con to be rendered the delegates to the
Southern California federation gather
| ing on November 10, at Venice.
Rabbi Hirsch will be the speaker a t
the next meeting of the club and Will
talk on 1.-THE Jewish Religion" and
1.-THE Zionist Movement"
|
A large attendance of members
| turned out to the meeting of the South !
| Coast Civic league, held at the home of
| Mrs. C. Fl. Ritchie in Venice Wednes-
day. The Shakespearean study hour
was devoted to beginning the study of
| '"The Merchant Of Venice" which will
be continued at each meeting until the
play is finished.
Mrs. Ritchte gave an interesting dem
onstration in cooking after which the
guests showed their appreciation by
partaking of the luncheon set before |
| them by their hostess.
At the civic session which followed |
the members discussed various methods |
by which the club could be of assist |
ance in maintaining a clean city, and |
made nIans for the carrying out of |