The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-24

with a cast larger than the House
That Jack Built is to be given at the
Grand April II and II. Mrs. Margaret
Martin, author and composer. is per-
.sonally directing the piece. Mrs. Mar.
tin has written several kindergarten.
studies and, in boy Blue" has accom-
plished a sunny. happy little opera
that is charming. She was the original
director of the House That Jack Built
and coached Mrs. Hortense Reynolds
who presented it here.
The cast is to include 300 pretty chill
dren, local musicians and dancers
Some of the characters are Well De
loved youngsters from Nursery Land
Boy Blue, Mary Contrary, and Mary
who had a little lamb. Then there's
a drill of trained lambs, frog or
chestra, and a will o. the wisp ballet
The operetta received most flattering
press notices in ST. Joseph, Where 1t
was recently given. One critic deelar-
ing 1t was destined to have a profess
siona1 career.
The committees of arrangements are
being completed today. and rehearsals
will begin Immediately. Proceeds
from the play will be devoted exclu-
sively to the benefit of the Topeka
play ground association:
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Mrs. Jouett Shouse gave a farewell
tea this afternoon, at 1243 Topeka ave-
nue. The rooms were attractive IN
Easter decorations of palms ana
flowers. The dining room was espe-
cially pretty in it's arrangements of
spring flowers, daffodils and tulips.
The friends who assisted Mrs. Shouse
were: Mrs. George H. Hodges, MRS.
Benjamin Scandrett. Mrs. ]. c. Mohler'
Prentis, Mrs. Harry Donaldson, Mrs.
Merrill Mills and Mrs. Warrick Upde-
graft. Mr.. and Mrs. Shouse and their
baby will leave Friday OF this week
for their home in Kinsley.
Mrs. Ray Walker will entertain her
bridge club Wednesday at her apart
ments in the Plaza :
The Art club met today with Mrs.
G. J. Mulvane; s17 !, EaSlS q street.
| The TivoH crowd will dance tonight
at Hudson's hall, on Jackson street,
| formerly Steinberg's halD, instead OF
at the Elks hall. where the ciuo
dances have been held this winter
meeting of the Nautilus club, call
ed for Tuesday afternoon, has been
postponed one week. when it will be
held at the home of Mrs. j. E. kirk
patrick, 1924 Boswell avenue.
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Charles Kouns will give matinee
dance Friday at McRae's hall for the
boys and girl. of his set
Miss Georgia Neese, Miss Violet Mat
thews and Miss Helen Neese, gave a
matinee dance Saturday at McRae's
hall. The chaperonS were: Mrs Albert
Neese, Mrs. Charles Matthews Mrs. "A.
M. Petro, Miss Sparkling, Mrs. W. Rut-
ter Mrs. B. Lucas, Mrs. N. j. Petro
and Mrs. Charles Kline. Those VINO
danced were: Antoinette Clark, Esther
Thomas, Dorothy Sproat' Helen WHIT
ted, Ruth Thompson, Dorothy Wagh,
Hester Barber, Helen Lucas, Lucille
Gilmore, Theodore Smith, Marian Dana,
Dorothy Coe, Pauline McVey, Mildred
Bowman, Mary Paxton, Irene Miller
Dorothy Crane. Elizabeth Edison, Mar
jorie Petro, Ramona Kirkpatrick, Doro-
thy Petit, Anna Shortt, Harriet Hlll'
Helen Cook, Margaret Shakeshaft, Vlo-
let Crumbine, Ruth Foster, Emile
Seery, Grace Dana, Gladys Guild, Mary
Clark, Bertha Clay, Florence Bowman,
Ruth Rooster, Jane Alexander, JUL
cite Brown, Louise Bell, Anto1nette
West, Gladys Neal, Jean Lindsay, JOS
ephine Sublette Helen Harsh, Margaret
Ewers, Elizabeth Culver. Helen Welty,
Marguerite Dolan, Marguerite Thrapp,
Mohra Gatchel, Margaret Carney, Luz
Gle Romgardner, Mildred Stanton
Aleen officer, Isabelle Stewart, Ken
meth Adams, Ted Lagerstrom, Chef
WahIe, Alfred Cole, John Dean, Roger
Savage, Roger Davis, Marshall Craw-
ford, Wilbert Cole. Vernon West, Ed
Weber, Erich Sharpp, John Elliott,
Victor Blakely, James Perry, Millard
Wear Willard Bowman, John Porter,
Wellington Culver, Lucien Tirrell,
Douglas Rutter. Edward Clark. Bud
Weightman, Frank Mcfarland, Wayne
Cook, Sam Stewart; Frank Fable, Har-
old Tyler, Kelsie Petro. Paul Ander-
son, Reed Morrison, Hustus Clay, Fred
Beerbohm, Sidney Cunningham, Jack
Erickson, Forest Rice. Angelus Burch,
Sam Lux, Mr.. Beal, Marvin Tucker,
Willis Garvey, Ralph Kingsley, Her
man Ewers, Leonard Kline, Clyde Mills,
Francis Willard. Stanley Copeland.
Donald Talifero, Kennth Ogelby, Philip
Sampson, Archie Jones, Charles Har-
low. David Wilkerson, Charles Kouns.
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A quiet but pretty wedding was
solemnized at o'clock this morning
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Beeler on Madison street, when their
second daughter, Myrtle La Verne, was
| united in marriage to Mr.. Torrance
| Roy Hoover. Miss Floy Oatman of
Kansas City played the wedding
march for the entrance of the bridal
| party and during the ceremony, which
was read by DIR. Stephen S. Estey of
the First Presbyterian church. The
| bridal couple, unattended, stood in
| the living room before the mantle,
| which was banked with palms, ferns,
| smilax and Easter lilies. At one side
was a pedestal bearing a Marie An
toinette basket filled with pink roses,
and in the center was a lily which
| the twenty-Seventh anniversary of the
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