The San Francisco call., 1910-03-16

JAP PANESE PLAYS
GIVEN BY CLUB
Cap and Bells Presents Sketch
and 0peretta Before Large
Number of Guests

Cap and Bells club held one of its
most delightful social meetings last
night at Century club hall, at which a
number Of guests, both men and women,
were entertained.
Two bits Of japanese life were pre-
senteo, the frst quantity amusing
comedy, A Flower of Yeddo," and the
second, a more ambitious but equally
clever operetta, in which appeared the
emperor, a retinue of japanese court
ladies and maidens and a stalwart
japanese guard. All of those who ap-
peared in this were members of the
Cap and Bells choral section. Johannes
c. Raith was musical director and Reg
lnald Travers stage director.
Mrs a. B. Swan was the accompanist
and Mrs Benjamin J. Curtaz was chair
man of the section. The staging was
particularly effective and the costumes
were very handsome and correct in
every detail. Mrs. w. W. Wymore was
chairman Of the day.
The cast of characters was as fol-
lows in the comedy:
i.sinsrs Mrs. Walter Ernest Jank,
Nusure- ------------------- MISS Pearl SooA
seene-Intertor Of Kami's little country house,
pesr Yeddo
Tme-Night.
The cast in the operetts was as fol-
lows:
o'Hara san. the jewel maiden. ...:.......
-------------- Mrs. Emil BI6ckenburg
Kofugi. fisher maiden. Mrs. Charles L. Parent
urosima, young fisherman
-.--...-....-.--...-M Mrs. L. Grant Bartlett
The Tycoon, emperor Of Japan
--.--.--.-...-----.-... Mrs. Charles E.. ker
Matzukd kdse............Mlss Gladys Blumenberg
D Tatsu San-...........-..Mi Miss Ellie f. Ewing
o Roll Poll ssn.......... Mrs. Benjamin Curtaz
klku San-----.-------Miss Claire McDermott
Ioru San ATs Henry l,I; Eaekaon
JaUanese meidens and court ladies-Miss
Ernestine Book Miss Alma Tobin. Miss Ada
Conlin. Miss Viola Mattner, Miss Bessie Norton
japanese guard-Ernest Ker. Fred Keystone
George Keystone, Mr.. Doren.
Delegates Are Elected
The California club held its regular
meeting yesterday afternoon. and the
most important business of the day was
the election Of the delegates and al
ternates who Will represent the club at
the state federation convention to be
held in Santa Barbara next month.
The balloting resulted as follows:
Delegates. Miss Elizabeth Hill, Mrs.
Y s Bradley, Mrs. L. A. Hayward.
Mrs Louis Hertz, Mrs. Aaron Schloss;
alternates, Mrs. Aylett Cotton, Miss
Josephine Crowley, Miss Laura Music,
Mrs. J. d. MacMaster and Mrs. Z. o.
Burns.
The program consisted of an address
olution in Sex Education. She was
introduced in a brief speech by Dr.
Caroline Rosenberg, and was followed
by DR.. Minora Kibbe. who spoke along
the same lines. Mrs. cambridge gave
an address and Mrs Eisner read.
Irwin to Address Club
VIII Irwin, the well known writer,
viii address the votes for women club
this morning at II o'clock at their
clubrooms, On the practical side Of
suffrage. in which he is deeply inter
ested. Mrs. Elsie Arden Brickell will
have charge of the musical program
and Miss Selma Solomons, president of
The club, Will preside. Mrs. George
Kerr. who is deeply interested in the
suffrage movement in the east, may be
present and speak also
Tells Club of Travels
The Mills club met yesterday after
noon 70 hear an interesting lecture on
Algeria and TUnis by Mabel Thayer
GRAY. who told of her travels in those
lands She said that she had gone over
the same ground that Robert Hichens
describes in THE Garden OF Allah" and
that she met the same characters and
the same existing conditions as were
so fascinatingly and vividly described
by the novelist
Charles H. de la Plate sang a num-
Der Of songs displaying his versatility
as well as his talent. He was accom-
panied by June Brewster Gossard.
Lecture on Stabat Mater
The Caedmon club announces that
Rev. John n Sullivan, professor at
St Patrick's seminary, will deliver a
lecture on the stabat mater on Palm
sunday afternoon, March 20, at Century
Club hall. Selections from Rossinfs
celebrated composition viii be rendered
under the direction of Santiago Arril-
lsga by the following soloists: Miss
Lucy Speetzen, Miss Laeticia Marshall
end NJ. 2. HrUbanik.
The lecture viii begin at 3 o'clock.
The directors OF the Cardman club
are: President, Mrs. J. VI. Driscoll;
vice president, Mrs Francis J. Sulli-
van: corresponding secretary. Miss
Louise Sprague; recording secretary;
Miss Florence Murphy; treasurer. Mrs.
n. r. Fottrell: Mrs. Eleanor Martin,