The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

A beautiful combination OF ermlne.
sealskin and moleskin. 1t is being
worn this fall
show, and the principals and the
teachers at the schools are asked to
suggest line parties for the pupils and
teachers.
The Orpheum theater has promised
a gift of 25 per cent of the proceeds
of their Saturday matinee for the
fund. The picture will be The Jun
gle Child" with Dorothy Daldon and
Howard Hickman in the leading parts.
The Cozy theater has offered the
women a 10 per cent gift of their Sat
urday matinee proceeds. They will
show Medicine Bend" which is Sc
que1 to Whispering Smith, with Hell
en- Holmes in the lead.
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Mrs c. B. Reed is entertaining at
a chain party this afternoon for the
benefit of the Public Health Nursing
association.
Two of the society girls are bit
terly at outs. 1t all started when
Table criticised Doll on the score of
her new dress and her coiffure right
in front of three of her pet young
men. They were sitting in front of
drug store in an automobile. Three
store their headquarters carried some
sodas out to the girls. Said Table to
Doll: ~ our dressmaker is not do
| ing so we'll as she usually does in fit
| ting you, and your hair is rather un-
| becomingly dressed. 1 tell you that,
dear. because 1 love you so much
cannot bear to see you not looking
| your best Then she annexed two of
the young men-asked them to dinner
and offered to send the machine for
them, explaining sweetly the while
that she was not asking Doll because
she knew she was resting up and try
ing to get over her cold and cure up
the fever blister that was bothering
| her so much. She hoped, too, that
when Doll went to Kansas City next
time she would resume that Irritation
she had started the last time she was
down there.
Table has given Doll a mission in
life, and she is going to concentrate,
and, said she, in telling about her pur-
poses, Il should hate to be Table for
the next few months, knowing how
subtly unpleasant l know how to be
when 1 like
Mrs. William H. Metzdorff gave a
| dinner Monday night at her home,
| 1904 Harrison street. Her guests
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Lauren E. Con-
ger, Mr. and Mrs. James NJ. Littitt,
Miss Helen j. .Conger and Mr.. Edwin
H. Piersen.
| The program for the Godowsky con-
cert is as follows:
1. Thirty-two variations in C Minor
| Beethoven
| Fantasia Op. II, in C major schumann
Qn three movements)
?. Sonata Op. 35, in B flat minor. Chopin
| Grave-Hoppto Movimente
/ Marcha Eunahra
Finale: Presto non tanto.
8. Momento Capriccioso. Weber Godowsky
b Etude, No. 27 (for the left hand
Etude op. 10, No s (for left hand
only .;:::: Chopin -Godowsky
johann Strauss Waltz, Swein,
Webb und Gesang";. -. .Godowsky
T. Joux a d'Eau; La o..,.iN Maurice Ravel
Observation-Disclosures Claude Debussy
d Toccata in f major Op. Ill form
| concerto) .-.....-. .Sa1nt-Saens
1t is hard to compare programs
given by different artists as they all
have merits in their own way, usually
reflecting the individuality and ver-
satility of the presiding musician.
J This program, however, is remark
able in that it extends from Weber to
Saint Saens and several numbers have
| been rearranged by Godowsky.
1t includes a Beethoven IsSmber.
| thirty-twO variations on an original
! theme; Fantasie, by Schumann; |;
| Sonata op. So by Chopin; Momento
| Capriccioso, Weber-Godowsky some
| Chopin-Godowsky Etudes; a Strauss
| Godowsky number; Ravel, Debussy
| and Saint Saens.
Can you conceive of a task that re-
quires more minute concentration
than to personify a message which is
the fruit of genius embodied by so
many different composers, without a
score to consult. all within a hundred
and twenty minutes. The composers
represented are widely different in
temperament, school. and poetic
| depth.
! Godowsky has to associate himself
4 with each of these in spirit as their
/ turn comes and to vivify and make
| Ineligible to his hearers, what he
/ plays, by his own master mind.
! From an artists point of view the
4 construction of this program is a piece
! of wonderful engineering. Examined
by those who are familiar with the
contents of the program. it states just
this-to play this program up to a
Godowsky standard requires almost
superhuman power.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. John Hamilton of Kansas City
is visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard Hall.
Mrs Frazer Cole of Girard, Kan. is
visiting her mother. Mrs Charles
Otis.
Mrs c. q Burgen and her daugh-
= ter. Helen. of Fort Worth, Texas. are