Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
CLUB WHLSTUDY
NOTED AMERICANS
Authors Club Program For
Next Season Promises Most
Interesting Work

The Authors club, the largest and
oldest literary club OF the city has an
program arranged for the
season of 1861 with a study of Am
erican Literature, including the works
of dramatists, novelists. prose writers
and poets, with two meetings given
entirely to Pennsylvanians
The club president is Mrs. Maurice
E. Finney who is entering on her sec
ond term; Mrs. Lewis NJ. Neiffer and
Miss Mary Orth are vice presidents:
Miss Anna V. Crowl, treasurer and
Mrs. A. E. Shirley, secretary. On the
program committee are: Mrs Finney,
Mrs. ]. z. Garner, Mrs. E. L. Rinken-
baucn. Miss Mary Orth, Miss Fannie
L. Johnson, Mrs. Willard Young and
Mrs. NJ. H. Thomas.
The complete program follows:
October II Shakespeare Ter
centenary Celebration:
Fairies and ghosts appear.
Monsters and airy forms distinct and
clear
As if his chisel knew to cut in mist
As well as marble"
Song, "Hark, bark; the lark
(Schubert), Mrs. Finney; poem, Mi
randa," (Lanier), Mrs. Balsley; Ter
centenary Celebrations in America.
Miss Mary Orth; Synopsis: "Caliban
aye). Miss Carrie Orth; "A Lad of
Warwickshire." George Madden Mar
TIM, Mrs Quickel
October 81. - Tercentenary Cele-
bration (Continued) Sonnet,
Shakespeare" April Speaks" (Lloyd
Mifflin), Mrs. Rinkenbach; Famous
Shakespearean Actors of America,
Mrs. Neiffer; 'All on a Midsummer
Night. (Masque by Percy Chubb)
Mrs. Shaak; Music from "A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" (Mendelssohn)
Mrs. Omwake; Master Skylark" as
Dramatized by Burrill, Mrs. H. P.
Miller.
November IA. - Development of
American Fiction. Miss johnson;
Sketch of Henry James, Mrs. Wilson
Sketch of William Dean Howells, Mrs.
Balsley; Reading, "A Daughter of the
Storage" (Howells), Mrs Kalbfus;
Poem, Another Day" (HoweiIs), Mrs.
Shirley
November 2S. - y. Wier Mitchell
Poet, Dramatist and Novelist. = An
Appreciation by Owen wister, Mrs
Garner; Synopsis, Constance Tres
cott." Mrs. Bassler; Reading, Bar
abbas," Mrs. Neiffer. F. Hopkinson
Smith = Sketch, Mrs. Thomas; Syn
opsls or Felix O'Day," Mrs. Young
Modern American Poetry
December u. - DEVELOPMENT OF
Modern American Poetry, Mrs. Om-
wake.
Sidney Lanier-
His song was only living aloud.
Ills work, singing with his hand
Sketch, Miss Crowi; Poems, my
Springs" Mrs. Young; Song of the
Chatahoochee," Mrs. Balsley; "Thor
and T. and THE Golden Wedding >
Miss Mary Orth.
Alice Freeman Palmer
"A noble type of good
Heroic womanhood."
Sketch Of life and work, Mrs. Mil.
Ter; Selected Poems from "A Mar.
riage Cycle" Mrs. Flnney.
January 2. - Poems by Edwin
Markham, "Consecration of the Com.
mon Way" Mrs. Thomas; "The jug.
gler.' Mrs. Kalbfus; The Shoes OF
Happiness" Mrs. Miller. Christmas
(F. Hopkinson Smith), Mrs. McFar.
land; The First Christmas Tree
CNan Dyke, Mrs. Royal; THE Bells.
nickel" from katy Gaumer," (Elsit
Singmaster), Mrs. Shaak.
January IS. - Love is not getting
but giving" ("Little Rivers" Var
Dyke. Sketch of Henry Van DYKE
Mrs. Royal; Reading, THE House o,
Rlmmon, = Miss Johnson, Mrs
Bassler Miss Crowl. Miss Carrie Orth
MISS Mary Orth, Mrs. Shirey, Mrs
Rinkenbaeh, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs
Thomas, Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Gibson.
January so. - Sketch of Paul Lau
renee Dunbar, Mrs. Gibson: Poems
When Malindy Sings" Mrs. Bassler
LII Brown Baby" Mrs. Finney; "Th,
Crisis, Mrs. Shaak; When All i
Done" Mrs. Mcfarland: The Ameri
can Drama, Mrs. Quckel; Romance
eSheidon), Mrs Rinkenbach; Ever,
Man and Every Woman" Con
trasted, (Walter Brown), Miss Vert,
February 13. - Analysis of 9TH
Truth" (Clyde Fitch, Mrs. Young
synopsis of THE Prisoner" (Alic
Brown), Mrs. Kalbfus: Madiso,
Cawein, the Poet of the Middle West
Miss Carrie Orth; Poems, "PreIudes
Mrs. Omwake; Beauty and Art
Mrs. Shaak; Sketch of James Ian
ellen mrs. Shirey; Reading, "Ol
KING Solomon's Coronation" Mrs
Neiffer.
American Women Writers
February 27. Poem, Her Firs
Snow" (Margaret Newman Pres
cot), Mrs. Omwake; American Wo
men of the Day in Fiction and Poetry
Miss Crowl; Short Stories, "One Goo
Time, MARY E. Wilkins F'reeman1
| Miss Vert: THE Strange Story of NJ,
Dumbleton," (Zona Gale), Mrs. Gar
ner; THE Second Wooing of Selin
Sue" ruth McEnery Stuart), Mr.,
! Finney.
March 13. - Poems bv c-tir+o
Scollard, wind of the Dawn. I" nv,
Royal; "A Venetian Sunset Mis-
Johnson; "A Roman Twilight" Mr.,
Neiffer; Reading, The Lady fror
Oklahoma" elizabeth Jordan), TIL
Club.
March 27 - PennsyIvania T,
PRODUCTION, Miss Vert; Poems, Penn
/ sylvania," (E. Dram Lyte). Mrs Gar
ner; The Christ of the Andes" (FIor
ence Earle Coates), Mrs. Shirey
Lloyd Mlniin, (Sketch), Mrs. Gibson
! Sonnet % a rriVa1 oF