Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
Club News

EN- BEERS of the Woman'S Press
wi club of Southern California are
A'A delighted with the election of
their own president, Mrs d. G. McCan,
to the vice presidency of the Friday
Morning club.
Mrs. McCan's work In connection
with the Press club this year has at
tracted general attention not only
from the club members themselves, but
from club women throughout the state.
The committees appointed under her
regime have been efficient, the club
work harmonious and the growth or
the club almost phenomenal, the body
having an increase from membership
of about fifty at the time of the last
annual meeting to something over
eighty now. OF the recent membership
the club is especially proud, for the
roster now contains the names of many
women of decided prominence in liter
airy and professional fields. With n
true spirit OF fraternal spirit the mem
bers of the club are rejoicing in the
success of their fellow workers, Mrs
Samuel Travers Glover and Miss Lu-
ella Comfy, whose play, What Every
Woman Wants." is to be given a pro-
duction at the Friday Morning club
within the month. Both Mrs. Glover
and Miss Comfy are recent members,
but the club women feel most proud
of them and rejoice in their associa-
tion.
Mrs. Edmund Burton, whose songs
delighted her audience Friday night,
is also a member of the club, and her
progress in her musical work Is
watched with keenest interest and
pleasure by her club sisters.
Another member whose work has re-
CeiVed perhaps the most practical ap--
probation is Mrs Elizabeth DeJean
Budget, whose recent novel has gone
into its second edition, after having
been on the market only a few weeks.
The membership of such women has
been brought about largely by the sus-
tained high standard of the programs
which have been under the direction of
Miss Laura Grover Smith. Through
her endeavors the club has listened to
addresses by William Lines Hubbard,
one of the most noted of newspaper
critics; Mrs. Richard Hovey originator
in America of the Delsarte system OF
expression, and widow of the noted
poet; DR. Walter Nichols playwright
and student of literature; DR.. Dorothea
Moore, than whom Los Angeles boasts
no more brilliant woman speaker, and
willard Huntington Wright, a local
critic of books and writer's, whose facile
pen is always entertaining.
One especially brilliant program was
OHGreQ tnlS year ny MTS. IlIlidn Ioui n
nard Goldsmith, In whose reading of a
Suderman play the members of the
club enjoyed the splendid dramatic
talent and wonderfully beautiful voice
of this gracious actress.
John Vance Cheney was the guest or
the club at a reception which Mrs. Nc
Can gave for him at her residence In
West Adams street in the early win
ter reading several of his poems,
which were especially written for
Southern California. Generally enter
tanning too, was the chatty, informal
talk which l.. e. Behymer offered the
club members, explaining in his own
intimate way the secrets of many pub
licity enterprises, the habits and moods
of great singers and telling of many
generous, human and sympathetic
deeds done by the men and women of
the professional world, in which his
activities have been so wide and so
successful.
Members of the club have contributed
generously to these programs, and with
the new members whose names nave
been added to the roster recently the
outlook for anothr year of successful
work is most promising.
Not only in esthetic and artistic mat
ters has the club flourished, but in the
more tangible one of bank account,
and the treasurer Mrs. n. A. stowe,
has been instructed to set aside 5000
of the fund now on hand as the nucleus
for a club home, the one constant am
bition of these club women. This year
the club meetings have been held at
the Alexandria hotel and amid the
beautiful surroundings of parlors and
banquet halls the meetings have as
sumed a dignity and splendor quite
unprecedented in the annals of the
club.
The annual meeting of the Press club
will be held Tuesday, June IA, at As
sembly hall. in the Blanchard build
ing, when the election of officers will
be the business of the day.
The Civic association will hold it's
regular meeting Tuesday morning at
10 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce
building. Florence Mills of Chicago
university will speak on city planning
and the Rev. Dana Bartlett will give
short talk upon his recent eastern trip.
Members of the Parent Teacher asso-
citation are especially invited.
s.
Members of the Travel club enjoyed
a drill in parliamentary law last Fri
day Mrs. Edith l.. Kuck described a
trip down the Rhine, pointing out the
many interesting places, while Mrs.
Irene B. Davis met the members at the
different castles. Mrs. Kuck sang
"Ehren on the Rhine" Mrs. Wood de-
ScrlDed her meetings and conversations
with Emerson and the meeting ad-
iourned to meet Friday at the home of
Mrs. S. B. Smith, 1923 Vermont avenue.
s
New officers for the Political Equal
ity league are as follows: President,
Mrs. Cora Pond-Pope; vice president,
Miss Frances Wills; recording secre-
tary Mrs. C. e. Shattuck; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs Kate Bryan;
treasurer, Mrs. Il. W. Mattern: auditor
Mrs. Mary Kinney. District chairmen
are to be appointed who will serve as
vice presidents and upon the board of
directors.
The members of the Stanford Wom-
ans club will give garden fete Satur-
day night at the residence of Miss Jane
Spaldlng, 1874 North Gates street.
A short farce will be enacted by Miss
mercedes de Luna, Miss Sue Carpenter
and VIII Walker, and vaudeville en-