Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-28
Edna Hall.


At the Commercial club a Hall0we 'er
party will be given Monday night by
the Salem Floral society. The affair i.
in celebration of the first birthday OF
the society and an excellent programme
refreshments and all manner of diver.
sions will make the evening gala
one. The committee will appear in weird
ghosts costumes, and everyone is in
vitcd.
Among the popular Salem artists who
will participate in the programme are
Tom Ordemann, who will be heard for
the last time in Salem, as he leaves
soon for New York to pass the winter.
Dan Langenberg and Mrs. Halle Par.
rish Hinges will also sing solos and
Mrs. Blanche Liston Niemeyer will give
a reading.
Mrs. s. E. Yantis and her daughters,
I Miss Anna Yantis and Miss Berdine
Yantis, will leave Sunday for Fargo,
North Dakota, where they will make
their home.
Complimcnting Miss Josephine John
stOn, whose marriage to Arch Harris of
Eugene will take place November the
fifteenth, Miss Alma Ashby was hostess
for a miscellaneous shower at her home,
I2l0 South Nineteenth street, Wcdnes-
day evening. The guests were the close
friends of the brideto be and she was
the recipient of many pretty gifts.
Those present were: Miss Alice
SCHNEIDER, Miss Laura Yantis, Miss
Lena White, Miss Pearl White, Miss
Florence Cory, Miss Ruby Welch, Miss
Lois Ashby, Miss Grace Humphreys,
Miss Blanche Howard, Mrs. Roy Bates,
Mrs. C. C. Cory, Mrs. c. Van Patten,
Miss Jessie Eyre, Mrs. +. r. Vance,
Mrs. Guy NJ. Nugent, Mrs. Ncttic
Jones and Miss Ruth Van Patton.
A delightful event of Monday will
be the bridge party for which Mrs.
George w. Lewis will be hostess at her
residence S92 South Twelfth street.
A group Of young girls will gather
as the guests of Miss Valerie Briggs
tonight to participate in the informal
"500' party for which she will be
hostess at the home of her parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. II. l.. Briggs. Her guests will
be the members of the "Kia club. -
Vtally associated with the foremost
dramatic tendencies of the present day
stage is the class room theatre move
ment which Professor Wallace Mac
Murray, A. NJ, of Willamette univer-
sity will present to Salem this winte'
in series of six public lectures.
Although dedicated to "Those Who
Live in the Land of Never Was the
repertory is of signal interest to all
lovers of the beautiful and the simple
both in literature and in life. The
course promises to he remarkable fOr
its cultural value and its vivid dist.
lation of life as presented in the dla
mas of some Of the greatest Thinkers
of the twentieth century. The spleu
did success which has greeted Prof.
Mac Murray in his previous two lecture
series shows that his ability as dra
matte interpreter is increasing both in
the local community as well as i'll
many higher institutions of learning
throughout the country. Indeed it was
no other than DR.. Richard Burton, who
is recognized as America S leading lit
erary critic, who said on the graduation
of Prof. Mac Murray from the Univer-
sty of Minnesota that he considered
Willamette 5 present professor to ''pos-
scss one of the brightest minds for crit
ical dramaturgy that has ever been
graduated from the University of Min
nesOta.
Artistry is the characteristic note of
the plays which have been selected for
the professor S consideration. The var
ious aspects of the modern school will
be given explicit analysis SO that the
Importance of the new movement may
become the permanent possession of the
patron. 1t is Prof. Mac Murray s pri'
mary purpose to so interpret the plays
that "new thoughts, greater spirit
of happiness and freedom from the
sordid and colorless routine of every
day life may be the lasting message
gained from the course.
In illustrating "The Drama Of Sym
bolism, - the first lecture subject and
introduction to the new movement,
Prof. MacMurray has chosen Lord
Dunsany 5 "The Golden Doom as a
striking example of this type of dra-
maturgy. While Lord Dunsany is 4
comparative stranger to the casual lott
erer along literary bypaths of today,
he is nevertheless recognized as one OF
the greatest eXponents of the magma
tion and simplicity of the new school.
Even though Lord Dunsany is known to
he the disciple of Maeterlinck' S early
mysticism, he is a master in his chos'
nu raaln nf dramatic pNurpsSiOu. Com