Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23

leading article in the December or
January number.
The College Women's club will give a
reception and tea in honor of Miss
Evangeline Gray, president Of the club
and the past officials at the Alexan-
dria Saturday, November g. Miss
Gray has been in Honolulu and Aus
tralia for several months and the re-
ception is planned to afford club wom-
en- an opportunity to give her greeting
upon her return.
The reception hours will be from
until o'clock in the drawing room and
tea will be served in the dining room.
The book and conversation section OF
the Ebell club will have an interest
ing program for the first Thursday in
November, when the subject will be
"The Literature of Suffrage" A de-
bate on this subject is promised with
Mrs. Sumner P. Hunt in favor Of equal
suffrage and Mrs. Eugene Pettigrew
OF posed to the privilege of ballots for
women. These two club women have
the entire program in charge, and 1t
will include also reading of George
Bernard Shaw's latest and most divert
ing play, press Cuttings" The parts
will be read by club members as fol-
lows: Mrs. O'Farrell, Mrs. j. B. Mil
| lard; General Kitchener, Miss Helen
Louise Kimball; Premier Balsquith,
Mrs. West Hughes; Lady Corinthia,
Mrs. Stephen S. Wilder; Mrs. Bangor,
| Miss Ellen Augusta Lamb; orderly,
| Mrs. Fred Selwyn Lang.
Following this reading Mrs. George
Goldsmith, curator of this section,
will read the 'mob scene" from Eliza
! beth Robins play, "Votes for Women"
The first Monday in December Mrs.
| Goldsmith is to give the program at
! the Ebell club and will read Josephine
Preston Peabodys prize play, 1.-THE
Piper with incidental music on flute
and piano.
Members of the Arroyo Dinner club,
which meets on Thursday evening of
the full moon, will have the pleasure
of listening to Dr. Webster Merrifield
of Pasadena at me next meeting, No
.vember II. DIR. Merrifield will speak
of student days in Germany, and the
members Of Occidental college faculty
have been invited as guests for the
evening. DR.. Mortified was formerly
president of the University of North
Dakota, at Grand Forks, and many
former students as well as associate
teachers of that institution are now in
Los Angeles, several of whom will be
included in the list of guests to hear
his lecture.
The Political Equality league held
board meeting Friday afternoon with
an unusually large attendance in the
club headquarters, 512 Story building.
reports of the committees were read
and the press committee was author
lied to make a more active campaign.
The club is growing rapidly both in
its branches and in it's list Of resident
members.
Mrs. Charles Farweu Edison, assist
ant chairman of the organization de-
partment of the Political Equality
league, addressed a large assemblage
of women at San Pedro last Tuesday.
The talk on equal suffrage was fol-
lowed by a request that those women
who were interested in effecting an
organization should remain and con-
slider such a plan. Nearly every wo-
man in the audience remained, and a
committee with Mrs. Edward D. Sew
ard as chairman was appointed to
nominate officers and perfect the or
ganization Of a club to be known as
the San Pedro branch of the Political
Equality league. Other members of
! the committee We're Mesdames Bout
ger, Goodrich, Bateman, Reynolds,
| Dodson and w. A. Weldon. Mrs Sew
ard entertained Mrs. Edison and eight
| other guests at luncheon before the af-
| ternoon meeting.
Miss G.. H. wadleigh was in charge
of the Ruskin Art club meeting We'd
nesday, in the absence Of Mrs. Jeffer-
son D. Gibbs and Mrs. Robert Young.
The program, development of North
America" was studied Mrs. E. r.
Trown, Miss Belle Smith, Mrs. G. L.
Hutchinson and Mrs. z. S. Hodgin
were among those who participated in
the program.
Haig Arklin, a talented Euro
pean of Armenian birth, was the
sneaker at the Hollywood Woman's
club last Wednesday. His topic, Art:
Flemish and Modern Schools" was
ably illustrated, and listeners received
points as to the chief characteristics
of Florentine, Venetian, Flemish and
modern schools. The artists represent
ed were Leonardo de Vinci Michael
Angelo. Raphael, Titan, Pintoretto,
Reubens, Rembrant and Turner OF
his subjects 1.-THE Madonna of the
Chair" and the Sistine Madonna were
especially beautiful productions. These
pictures were shown by means of
| stereopticon slides eXduisitely colored
in exact accordance with the original
painting. These pictures initiated the
ma sterDieces of the most famous gaf-
leries with the most absolute faithful
ness. Lights and shadows were re-
produced, and the spectators who were
familiar with great galleries of this
country and Europe declared the lee
ture TO be educational and insn'ra-
tional. Professor Arlolin is n fluent
speaker and an appreciative critic as
he is also a gifted painter. His dis
course concerning the pictures was
| beneficial not only along educational