The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-11
Social and Personal


Mr.. and Mrs. &c. ]. Hickey have re-
turned from a trip to Panama and
Colon.
Edwin DENLY Will be the guest OF
honor and speaker at the monthly
dinner of the Mems association OF the
Fort-st. Presbyterian church, Monday
evening, In the church house. Mr..
DENLY will give an illustrated talk on
China, old and new"
The second In a trio OF free talks
Introductory to foreign travel was
given Monday afternoon, In the
Museum OF Art auditorium by the
Rev. w. Byron Forbush. DIR. Forbush
told his audience How to see Italy"
The annual orStorical contest of
the University OF Detroit will be
held, Monday evening, In the uniyer-
sity auditorium.
The Know Your City club of the Y.
w. G. A. will be addressed. Monday
evening, by Miss Sylvia Allen, who
Will take one OF Detroit's early bellies
and beauties. Isabella Cass. for whom
Belle Isle was named, as the subject
Of her talk.
A meeting OF women who have at
tended the University OF Michigan
has been called for Wednesday after
noon, March IL, at o'clock, In the
College club, for the purpose OF form
ing an association.
o.
A large audience gathered In the
Detroit opera house, Sunday evening.
for the annual gymnastic exhibition OF
the various classes OF the Detroit So
cialer Turnverein. The exhibition To-
Guided all sorts OF gymnastic and aLh-
letic stunts by boys, girls, men and
women.
A society vaudeville will be given
In the Detroit opera house, April 8,
3 and 10, for the benefit Of the East
Side settlement.
o.
Miss Ethel Bowen, of London,
Eng, who has been the guest of her
aunt. Mrs. B. c. Whitney, Cedar Hall,
Crosse -Pointe, since the holidays,
has left for an extended trip west.
A representative audience promises
to greet Nine. Beatrice La Paine,
the Partisan prima donna, Tuesday
evening, in the Hotel Pontchartrain
ballroom, when the singer appears
under the auspices Of Alliance Fran
caise. Nine. La Paine Is young
woman who has won enviable oper-
attic honors In Europe. The program
for her song recital includes operate
and leider compositions which pro-
mise to display every variety Of her
vocal art. The sale of seats for the
concert is now open in Grinnell's.
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Miss Amy A. Acock, a Y. w. G. A.
worker in Japan, who gave an inter
esting account Of Japanese girls, Sun
day afternoon, in the Y. w. c. A.. Will
give a similar address, Monday even
Ing, in the First Baptist church.
o.
An interesting travelogue was taken
by large crowd of travellers, Sunday
afternoon, in the Museum of Art aud
itorium, along the famous River
Rhine, with Director Griffith as the
guide. The trip was begun In Switz-
erland and ended at Cologne, with
Director Griffith's fund of historical
and stories further IL
lumined with beautiful stereopticon
views.
j. Adolph Krug. Detroit's we'll
known German violin maker, is cele-
brating his twenty-ffth anniversary as
a resident of Detroit and a maker
of violins. In the quarter century
since Mr.. Krug has been in Detroit
he has made just 1876 violins. His
little workshop at No. 16 Champaign
ST., Is known to violin collectors. far
and wide.
The northwestern operate en-
semble which gave a successful pro-
duction Of the operetta, Sylvia" a
short time ago, will put robin Hood"
into immediate rehearsal for public
production IN May. Arthur Russell,