The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14


up teaching, Miss Chase studied two
years with Belasco, and has since been
engaged as a moving picture actress
She takes the part of Flora Mcdonald
in the play.
X X X
An enthusiastic admlrer of Kansas
and Kansas people, in the state for a
short tirae, is Miss Elizabeth Kite of
Philad adelphia, who is here to lecture
in the intere SITS OF project for caring
for the feeble minded of the country.
Miss Kite will lecture tonight at the
high school auditorium under the
auspices of the Teachers association,
and she will give an address Sunday
evening at the First Baptist church,
Illustrated with lantern slides. Both
lectures are free and open to the pub
lie.
Miss Kite was invited to Kansas
| thru the efforts of the child hygiene
| department. In looking after the
welfare Of babies the department soon
learned that a high rate of mortality
among children was usually traceable
to defective mentality among children.
Miss Kite is an acknowledged author
ity in the subject, which she is making
her life work. She is interested in see
in-s the establishment in all The states
OF colonies such as massachusetts,,
New Jersey and other eastern states
have found practicable. The idea is
| to colonize and segregate defective
people for the protection of the rest
of the community, and for the reason
that such detectives car be made both
useful and happy by such an arrange
ment. THE buildings for an institu-
ton of that kind" Miss Kite says.
should not be immense detention
| houses, but there should be some
bungalows, with plenty of land about
| them. and chance for the inmates
to work at something they can do.
The problem is a big one, especially
in its early stages. but as time goes
on by reason of the segregation of
| the feeble minded, the race of mental
| detectives will die out, and the prob
lem becomes an ever decreasing one.
Kansas is the place to work out
such scheme. because Kansas people
are enthusiastic, public spirited and
generous. They are alive to the issues
of the day, and the women are fitted
for leadership in welfare measures.
The plan is far past the experimental
stage, for it has succeeded in the
| east
| Miss Kite has fund of interesting
stories that bear on her subject, and
she is an entertaining speaker.
I. I. +
Miss Annabel Garvey entertained at
bridge this afternoon, honoring Miss
Ruth Bauer, whose marriage to DR..
Clark W. Zugg of Great Bend will
take place November /, and Mrs. Hull
burt Yerkes of Chicago, who is visit
| ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albrecht
Marburg. Among the guests was an
: other bride of the autumn, Miss Ger
trude Kitchell, who will be married
soon to Mr.. Robert NJ. March. The
out-of-town guests were Mrs. H c.
Mulroy OF Denver who is visiting her
mother, Mrs. A. B. Jetmore. and also
| Miss Elizabeth Bert of Quincy, ILL.,,
who is the guest of her uncle and
aunt. Mr. and Mrs, j. F. FARRELL.
, The members of the company were
limited to the close friends of the two
honor guests. The score cards for the
game were in the form of hearts and
were adorned with photographs of
| Miss Bauer and Mrs. Yerkes, naming
Miss Bauer as the future Mrs. Zugg
| and Mrs. Yerkes the former Miss
| Wilhilmeni Marburg.
| The guests of honor received as
prizes each a copy of Miss Effie Gra-
! hams new book, Aunt 'LiZas Prais-
in Gate" autographed by the author.
X X x
Interest in Leopold Godowsky, the
pianist, who will give concert in To-
peka, reaches to the personality of
the artist.
! Godowsky possesses in abundance
that far-reaching and indefinable
charm constituting the essential quail
ity of the individual and personal at
tribute we term magnetism. His is a
| character evenly and consistently de-
| veloped; healthily sane and logical,
and entirely lacking in those unde-
sirable erraticisIns usually identified
with genius in literature and music, as
in the kindred and allied arts.
Godowsky is delightful host
whole -heartedly courteous and genu-
inely hospitable-not with the mere
assumption of hospitality. He Is a
man of keen perceptions and unerring
intuitions, and one apparently well
versed in life in all its manifestations:
not a novice apprehensive upon the
threshold of experience.
The innate cordiality of the man
pierces the epidermis of conventional
ity and puts his guests at absolute
ease. GodowSky has the simple man.
ners and direct tho amiable straight
forwardness of the ideal gentleman; a
reversion to the fine Grandisonian
type grown too rare.
The great pianist's elevation of mind
and idealism are made delightfully."-
human by more than touch of the
humorous. and tinctured with a
healthy sentiment. unobtrusive, yet
leavening the whole.
Godowsky is entirely absolved from
a suspicion of the exaggerated or fan
tastic in his mental makeup. His per-
sona1 successes have left him free
from the taint of arbitrariness or af-
fectation.
Y X X
A Topeka man. who has made good
in theatrical work in New York, has
come to the rescue this week of a com
pany of stranded players. and is play
ing a weeks engagement here to assist
a group of his fellows of the craft
Mr.. George Handy Shelton New
York man. whose ability as an actor
and stage manager and director is
recognized in the east. has spent the
entire week in taking the leading part
in the play 1.-The Confession" which
is given in benefit performances all
this week. to enable the company pre-
senting it to get 20 their homes after
financially disastrous season
Mr.. Shelton is with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Shelton, and his
grandmother. Mrs. N F. Handy at
the Handy home, for visit which is
! being prolonged on account of Mrs
Handy's health.