The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-15

enjoyed the remainder of the G
ing. -
Mrs. Clara B. Gin will leave this
evening for Rock Island. Ill, where she
the Royal Neighbors Of America which
%convenes in that city on Monday. En-
route home, Mrs. Cliff will visit friends
In Chicago and the twin cities.
Mrs. J. F. Treat, go First avenue
north gave a prettily appointed lunch
con yesterday afternoon in compliment
the guest Of Mrs. c. o. Fpllett. The
appointments were in pink and white
n pink roses were used on the tables.
Covers were placed for eight guests.
The second of a series ofpluncheons
was given yesterday by Mrs. w. j..
given in the Grill room of the Comstock
hotel at 1870 o'clock and the guests in
cluded fifteen Fargo and Moorhead
friends. The tables were prettily de-
corated In a color scheme of red and
white and red sweet peas carried out
the decorations.
Fargo music lovers are looking for
ward with a. great deal OF pleasure to
the production Of st. Paul, Mendels-
sehns great oratorio, which will be
given next Tuesday evening at the
First Methodist church. The Phil
iiHA AtAOllAS NAN' "hAA AifS u
and among the ~soloists are Manzanita
stephens, soprano: Mrs, H. H. Whee-
lock, contralto; Henry Houglum, tenor;
and Bertrand Allan Orr, baritone. A. J..
stephens will direct the chorus and or
chestra.
The Womans' Home and Foreign
Missionary society of the First Presby-
terrain church will hold their regular
meeting in the church p%arlors, on Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. May 10. The
lnr4 AHA -f1l - -. An~
Hanche and Lawrence. and a cordial in
vitation is extended to the public. The
program Is as follows:
Devotional Period Mrs. J. 9, Love
Paper. on Alaska. Mrs, M. j.. Feckler
Educational and Spiritual.
...,..,,..... Mrs. George Sweetland
Current Events, Mrs. Florence Bunce
Friends in this state have received
announcement of the approaching mar
riage Of Miss 1dah Armstrong to w. M.
Grand Forks, Mr., Oates was registrar
az the university Of North Dakota for
four years and since leaving there has
been secretary of the northern normal
industrial scho 90 in Aberdeen. He is a
brother OF Carl Oates of Grand Forks.
The following item concerning the en-
| gagennent, taken from the Aberdeen
paper. will be of interest to friends in
North Dakota: THE announcement of
the engagement and approaching mar
rtage of a very popular normal couple
was made at a party given at 8 o'clock
at the G. A. Sauer home in honor OF
of Miss Armstrong and w, NJ. Oates
was made known to the assembled
guests and the date of the coming mar
rage was announced on the pretty
tained the following guests with Miss
Armstrong as the guest of honor: Mrs.
Henry Warning, Mrs. William Blanchard
and the Misses Maurehe Carpenter.
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Vetter, Mabel Healey. Helen Lausen
and, Gertrude Mccain. A dainty three
course luncheon was served with the
guests seated at a round table. Flow
ers were everywhere throughout The
house. The color scheme was blue and
the iris flower was used on the table
and elsewhere. Miss Armstrong is at
present attending the northern normal
course this June. Her home is at
Rockton. ILL.,. and she is a graduate Of
the Rockton high school. Mi, Oates
was for four years registrar of the uni
versity of North Dakota and has been
serving as secrtary Of the northern
normal n industrial school for the
last three years, The marriage will
take place in Rockton, III. the first
make their home In the bungalow built
by Mr.. Oates last summer, at 1l09
South Jay street"
An entertainment which, while 1t is
a play, is as far removed from anything
theatrical as anything well could be is
the presentation of Percy MacKaye's,
The Canterbury Pilgrims which will be
given by the Oburn players Of New
York at the Agricultural college June
8 and under the auspices of the Fine
Arts club performed out of doors, there
is no scenery but that which nature has
so generously supplied, at the club
grounds. so that all the airy atmos-
phere of the comedy is preserved. Mr..
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petent to judge, as the most poetic dra-
matist now writing, and round the
characters introduced in the prologue
of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, he has
drama which cannot fail to delight any
one who loves the healthy fun Of q day
when problem plays" were unknown.
Chaucer's adventures with the spritely
Wife of Bath and with the Prioress are
set forth with a .never-waning interest
and at the same time the spirit of the
Tales is preserved throughout. The
failings and virtues of the queerly as
sorted band of Pilgrims are portrayed
irresistibly. Charles Douville Coburn
creates the part of Chaucer in America
and brings to it all of his simplicity of
method with it's freedom from stilted
conventions and it's keen intelligence.
In keeping with the spirit of the per-
Torrance there is, in lieu of an orches-
ira, a quarter of men to sing the Incl
dental music. They are hidden in the
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their voices on the evening air adds
much to the charm of the entertain
ment. Another feature is a pageant of
the Pilgrims, each mounted on the
steed which Chaucer gives him Cor
herr, and which he has described in his
prologue with almost as much pains as
he takes with the rider. Many of the
colleges throughout the country have
recognized the educational as well as
the entertaining features OF the enter
prise n the Coburn players have APP
peared at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Col
umbia, Smith. Bryn Wawr and other
universities. The Morris dance program
that the Coburn players will give on
the green, Is an effort to carry out the
custom as nearly as possible, of the
strolling players of old Merrie Eng
lande before and during Shakespeare
time. The actor of those times was
obliged to attach himself to a noble
man as 'the player of Duke So-and-
Sos Companie" or be arrested as a
~vagabond. We know that our Master
Shakespeare wore the Coat-of-Arms of
his patron on his cape before he be-
came a player of the Lord Chamber
lain's Companie." When the PLAYERS
arrived in the village they would stoo
on the green, usually the center of the
town. or perhaps, the market place, and
give the dances OF the times. known as