Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-15

IA \ may truly be said to be Ill full swing
MAJ since the lecture series of the Omaha
" ~ Society of Fine arts begins this week;
the Drama league lecture course has
already begun, and quite the Vas
sar club brings John Cowper Powys to Omaha-to
say nothing of the splendid treats in store for us
' through the good offices of the Tuesday Morning
Musical club +.
Savoring strongly OF interest IN the political too
are the plans OF Omaha women to join with the men
in receiving Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes on
Monday and their own arrangements to entertain
the Hughes Womens Alliance train bearing noted
women speakers later in the month
Charles H. Caffn, New York author critic and
lecturer will open the Fine Arts series by giving
three lectures this week. Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday at GAS P m: at the Hotel Fontenelle. Art
Century Created New Nation and New Art" and
WHAT Have Pictures to Do With Life?" talk, par
tcularly for children, the subjects of his dis
courses. By birth Englishman, graduate OF Ok
ford Mr.. Cafin has had most interesting career
lie taught school for awhile and then went on the
stage. appearing with the Ben Greet Players in old
comedies during the regular season and in the
mer touring the gardens and parks OF England with
open-air performances of Shakespeare. He is NOW
editor of the New York American and critic for
the Evening Post Sun and Harper's Weekly.
Prof. Stockton Arson, brother of the first Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, comes November l8, and James P,
Haney November o. to lecture for the Fine Arts
society.
Another event of interest will take place Friday
afternoon, at O'Clock. when the Daughters of 1872
will unve memorial bench to the organizer of the
- Nebraska chapter Nette Collins Gates, at Turner
park and the boulevard Mrs J. J. Stubs, the presi
1ent announces the presentation exercises as fol-
lows: Mrs. George B, Darr will present the me
mortal to the city, after which will be accepted
for Omaha by Mayor James c. Dahlman Mrs w.
L. Selby and Mrs. William Archibald Smith will un-
veil the memorial, Judge Arthur Wakeley will speak
and Dean James A. Hancock will offer the opening
p ar g oenediction. There will also be
salute to the flag. Y
The bench il; OF Vermont granite five feet long,
twenty-five inches wide and eighteen inches high
The top bears the insignia of the society and the in
: scription, an Memoriam, Nettie Collins Gates
erected 1916 Nebraska Society United States Daugh-
tiers of 1872"
Vassar club is sponsoring lecture by the bril-
liant John Cowper Powys who came here last year
under the auspices OF the Fine Arts society and Gre
ated such furore. 1t would not be amiss to say
that Omaha is still divided between Powys enthusi-
asts and Powvs scofers. Be that it may. mem
Der of the college club has conhded that the advance
seat sale for the lecture the Brandes theater Mon
dey, October &c. at o'clock is decidedly brisk Mr..
Powys will speak on THE Spirit of Modern English
Literature" The lecture is being promoted for the
benefit of the Vassar college end owment fund
Russian dancers will provide welcome diversion
from the lectures the first week in November, being
r-es"-ted IN the local public by the Tuesday Morn
ing Musical club. 1t is the Andreas Pavley Serge
CuHransKy bauet, assisted by Miss Margaret Jar
and complete company Of dancers and SYM
<phony orchestra, of the tnost pretentous per-
formances yet offered by the local musical club.
Thursday November 2 at the Brandeis theaer, is the
''"'H and Mace set for thu even.