Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

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| Der of well-known club women are
trying their talents out on a play
in the Norman Hackett contest. The
establishment of the Drama League has
been an inspiration to both men and
women in matters dramatic, and to be
able to write a play and see 1t ''go on
| the boards" is a new aspiration of the
| writer's of Atlanta.
! If any play Is submitted that can be
! put over it will proabbly be played
/ by some of the local talent in the city.
AT least, one or two amateur players
will be asked to take part
! Mr.. Hackett has in view a municipal
! theater, something like the Toy Theater
| at Boston, in which a former Atlanta
! woman has taken prominent part and in
| which she and her husband, Roger Mo-
| bic Burnham, the noted sculptor, have
| produced plays. A theater of such ma
ture would greatly benefit Atlanta, and
develop the dramatic talent that
| abounds here.
In the last issue of 1.-THE Crier'' a
! bulletin issued by the Toy Theater,
| there is an announcement of new play
] written for the management by George
| n. Atkinson. called The Trial Mar
| rage" In the cast wi be Mrs Burn
! ham. Mr. Burnham and Miss Geraldine
| Mcdowell, a graduate of Sewanee Col
| lege, who is well known in Atlanta.
The plays presented in the Toy The
alter cover a very wide range of sub
jects. including farce comedy, tragedy.
| satire and comedy.
The fact that club women are inter
| ested in the play contest here argues
well for the result. as many of the At
! lanta club women have taken vital in
| terest in the Drama League. and those
| in the Drama League are well up oil
stage affairs.
r He home economies committee
| entertained their friends Monday
afternoon at the Woman's Club
with a program given under the direc-
ton of the chairman, Mrs. Annie Mays
| Dow
| The first part of the meeting was de-
voted to a business session, with Mrs. A.
/ P. Coles in the chair. After few re-
| marks, Mrs. Coles introduced Mrs Dow,
who gave a talk on the importance of
! giving ones undivided attention TO the
home if success is to be hoped for. Fol-
, lowing Mrs. Dow, Miss DeGarrna made
| a talk on the study OF domestic economy
| to the success of the future home, and
| stressed the fact that one reason for
| the inadequaCy of the present day girl
| as a home maker has been largely due
to the fact hat she has not had the
training in housekeeping that boy re-
ceives in business. and that housekeep-
| ing should be a business just as the law
| is. or stenography, or banking is bust
ueSs
Mrs. S r. Dull talked ON the value
! of the cooking school as a source of
| nspira ton for the young housekeeper
and its Importance as the right sort OF
| training for any woman.
| Mrs. John W. Hurt and Mrs. Sam
Clark. of Nashville, contributed sew
eral musical numbers to the program.
"A RS A. P. COLES. president of
vi the Atlanta Womans Club, an
nounced at the last meeting that
| a number of programs had been pre-
pared by the committee for the club
work this spring, and that at the next
meeting a committee of five women will
| be appointed to nominate the officers to
| be voted upon at the next election of
| officers.
| Mrs. Coles has been in office two
| years, having succeeded herself al the
| last election, and has made a capable
and popular president. Her term of ell
| sibility having expired. she Will retire
Several well-known members of-the club
| have been spoken of as possible nomi
nees, but no one has been definitely
| named as yet.
N n unusually interesting program
Il was given by the Twentieth Cen
u fury Coterie Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. w. P. Anderson.
1.-THE Seven Weeks War and the North
German Confederation" Influence of
Germany on English Literature" and
Duty of State as to Insurance and PEN
sions' were the topics under consider
alton. These subjects were presented by
Miss Charlotte Dunn, Miss Nelson and
Mrs G. o. Jones.
The next meeting will be with Mrs.
NJ. G. Campbell and the speakers will
be Mrs. ID. l.. MacIntyre, on Franco
German War" Mrs. Homer Dawson, on
1.-The German Empire" and Mrs Nor
man 7. Pool on Sunday Laws"
An interesting celebration of Georgia
| Day was enjoyed at the Peoples Street
| School Thursday afternoon, when the
! seventh and eighth grades Joined to-
gether and listened to Mrs Alfriend
| the newly elected regent of the Pied
| mont Continental Chapter, Daughters
| of the American Revolution. She read
| several delightful selections of Revolu-
| tionary anecdotes from the interesting
| history recently compiled by the Daugh-
| tiers of the Revolution in this State
| Mrs Alfriend is a good reader. and her
| selections were thoroughly appreciated
| After her readings Mrs Alfriend pre-
scented the eighth grade of the school
with copy of the Revolutionary reader,
which was accepted for the grade by
| one of the boy students in the school
Another feature .of the program was
| the talk Mrs. James d. Carter gave the
| children on Stone Mountain, a sub
| iect discussed by the pupils of the two
| grades.
N1RS. JAMES JACKSON, of the Ex-
III ecutive Board of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy
| will go to Athens next week to visit
! friends. and has been empowered by
the chapter to look into the needs of
! the two memorial rooms kept up by
| the Atlanta chapter in the Normal
| School at that place.
| The Agnes Lee Chapter, United
| Daughters of the Confederacy, was en-
! tertained Friday afternoon at the home
| of Mrs. Lawrence Everhart, the host
| esses being Mrs Everhart, Mrs A. L.
| Wade and Mrs j. r. Maddox. Plans
| for the new chapter house were dis
cussed and a pleasing program given,
after which refreshments were served