Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-12
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS1
FINE RENDITION
OF A GREEK PLAY
Mrs. Wheeler, Clever English
Actress, Reads For College
Club and Guests

NluD ana Guests
Before a brilliant and appreciative
audience in the main drawing room of
the Executive Mansion last evening.
Mrs. Penelope Wheeler of London.
Eng, gave a reading of the old Greek
tragedy, Electra" by Euripides for
the College Club of Harrisburg with
| Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh as
hosts. Tall, slender. with Iuxuriant
black hair fastened in a Grecian knot
at the nape of her neck and attired
in picturesque draperies appropriate
to the people and place of the narra-
tive, Mrs. Wheeler was a delight to the
eye.
her well trained voice with its pro-
nounced English accent ran the whole
gallut OF human emotions. Hate, fear,
love, sorrow, eXultation were all most
Wondertully expressed. 1t was not
readlng-it was acting with a true
sense OF dramatic values and knowl-
euse OF mastering complicated literary
SITUATIONS. The primative age-oid
passions OF the human race lived for
her audience in the struggles and
temptations of these ancient Greeks
There was the wise philosophy of the
peasant who asked not for wealth be-
cause
once a man is done with hunger,
rich and poor are all as one"
There was the blood lust of revenge
causing Electra" and "Aristos' to
murder their mother, sister of the
famed Helen of Troy, because she had
| Killed "ASamannon," their father,
King OF Argus. And through it all ran
the golden thread of the love of a sis
ter and brother for the mother who
bore them, hated and despised though
she was. Even as they slew her Ma
ture conquered, and, red handed with
her blood, they grieved together for
her loss
Mrs. Wheeler is a well known ac-
tress IN her own country and has ap-
peared extensively in Greek drama
For two years she acted with Ellen
Terry the precious our Ellen" of the
English stage. Five weeks ago she
came to America for the first time to
start en- tour with parlor imperson-
ations She has appeared before var
lous literary and educational societies
starting at Bryn Mawr.
Things at home are so dreadfully
dull because of the war;" she remark
ed during the social hour which fol-
lowed her reading. II thought this
would be good way to fill in my time
at present. The very day | arrived
in America my manager told me he
had already booked me for three ap-
pearances. l had no time to even rest
from the trip! Miss Terry has often
said TO me, Go to America! Go to
America So here 1 am and 1 find
you delightful"
The Rev. DR.. James Fry Bullitt in
troduced Mrs. Wheeler to her au-
dience with few appropriate remarks
in which he spoke of Euripides as
being the first playwright to use poetry
as the medium of expression for all
his characters.
The Mansion was tastefully decor
ated for the entertainment of the
College Club and their guests with
palms and Spring flowers, yellow and
white prevailing in the supper room
where the table was banked with a
huge mound of daffodils.
Receiving with Mrs. Brumbaugh
were Mrs. Lewis f. johnson. president
of the club, Mrs. George B. Kunkel and
Mrs. Harvey Smith.
Among the Guests
Among those present were Judge
and Mrs. George Kunkel, DR.. and Mrs.
Frederick Downes, the Rev. DR.. and
Mrs. James Bullitt, Mrs. Rollin Alger
Sawyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur E..
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Howard r. Om-
wake, Mrs Marlin f. Olmsted, Mrs.
George Edward Hawes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Henry, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Baker,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur +. Harris, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Fox Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis E. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Solo
mon Hiney, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul john
son, Mrs. John Price Jackson, Mrs.
George B. Kunkel DR.. and Mrs. w. p.
Mclaughlin of MELVILLE, Mrs. Frederic
C. Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip r.
Meredith, Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Russell
Palmer, DR.. and Mrs. Harvey Smith,
Mrs. r.. ]. Gillespie, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam d. b. Ainey, Mr.. and Mrs. John
S. Killing, Mr.. and Mrs. William II.
| Ball, Mrs. J. V. w. Reyndcrs, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. P. Melick, Mrs. w. w. Jen-
nings, Mr. and Mrs. Paul England, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Williamson, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Furnam. Mrs. Il. Ross Hull
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert b. McCaleb, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert w. Mead, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cyrus Woods, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H.
! Creighton, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Cum
bier, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. f. McGinnes
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Birllenbine, Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. McCrea of MELVILLE.
Mrs. Charles Bergner, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emory Hamilton. Nfs-. and Mrs Frank
Payne, Mrs. Henderson Gilbert, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar l.. Gage, Mr.. and Mrs.
Spencer c. Gilbert, Lindley Hosford,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Smith. Mrs.
Henry NJ. Slime. DR.. and Mrs. John
Oenslager, DR.. and Mrs. Roy p. NJ.
Davis. Mrs. Samuel c. Todd. Mrs.
Thomas M. Jones, Mrs. Charles S. Re-
buck. Nicholas I. Hench. Mrs. Doug
lass f. Dismukes, Mrs. William Hen
derson, Mrs. William C. Armor Mrs.
NJ. w. Jacobs, Mrs. Frank Carney,
Mrs. Robert Rutherford, Mrs. Richard
V. Mckay, Mrs. Easton of Waterloo,
Iowa; Mrs. Henry Gross, Mrs. James
I. Chamberlin, Mrs. j. w. Sharpe of
Newville, Mrs. ]. Horace Mcfarland,
Mrs. Allen K. Walton of Hummels-
town, Mrs. Farley Gannett, Mrs. Anne
Wallace McClain, Mrs. Charles J..
Wood, Jr., Mrs. +. Herbert Snow, Mrs.
William Watts Galbraith.
Miss Helen Armor, Miss Norma Bar
ker, Miss Amy Louisa Beck Miss
Frances Louisa Beck, Mrs. Charles
Strong Snyder, Frances Acuff Miss
Martha e. Fleming. Miss Jeffers of
York, Miss Sara Jacobs Miss Ellen
McGinnes, Miss Helen Mcfarland,
Miss Frances Morrison, Miss Margaret
Moser, Miss Henrietta Sharp OF New
vile, Miss Carol Walton of Hummels-
town, Miss Margaret Shearer of Car
Isle, Miss Anna Brady, Miss Helen
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