New Britain herald., 1917-04-21

 tiful pieces of silver.
 On Friday evening. May 1, the chill dren of the First Congregational church will present the. operetta, "Florinda". Mrs. Arthur Bacon is di- 1 recting the production which is a
 chtld's fairy tale and of which the
 music is most beautiful. In addition to the operetta there will be living
 moving pictures on this occasion,
 produced by the Girl and Boy scouts, depicting the activities of these or ! ganizations.
 1 As this entertainment promises to
 be an unusually excellent one it will be worthy large patronage.
 Miss Sarah Rowe of Pittsburgh is { the guest of Miss Margaret Eddy. .
 Miss Frances Doolittle entertained
 Thursday evening in honor of Miss
 Gertrude Strosser whose engagement
 to Howard Pascoe of the New Britain Electric Light company. was an l nounccd some time ago. The occasion was a miscellaneous shower for Miss l Strosser.
 1 Mrs. Charles Mitchell who Is Con- necticut director of the International 1 Institute For Girls in Spain was one of the speakers this afternoon at the ! meeting held in the interest of the l school at the home of Miss Margaret
 Bronson, Whiting avenue. New Haven: l Mrs. Isichard Lewis entertained at cards yesterday afternoon at her home | in Hartford in honor of Miss Sarah Rowe The attractive prizes were won 1 by Mrs. Donald Hart of Pennington. l Mrs Howard Wilson, Miss Margaret l Eddy and Miss Alice Hart of New l Britain and Mrs. Harold Hatch and Miss Ruth Bristoll presided at the pretty tea table.
 Miss Dorothy Scherp entertained 1 Monday evening at her home on Camp street in honor of Miss Mildred Prem {, tice. The occasion was a miscellaneous | shower. .. A wedding of local interest will l take place tonight when Miss Ruth Daniels. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Leonard Daniels and Kenneth Case.
 both of West Hartford will be married at the Congregational churcl, of that city, When MT. and Mrs. Case have returned from their wedding trip they will reside in New Britain.
 One of the most difncut plays ever attempted by a high school dramatic association was presented at the Audi torium last night. The house was packed to capacity, and judging from
 the applause, Green Stockings" was the most popular play presented at high school for the last ten years. Promptly at o'clock, the high school rendered Tampa" and at S:30 the first act was offered. The scene was a room in MT. Faraday's house. and the scenery and stage settings would do credit to any professional performance. At the beginning, all the daughters of MT. William Fara- day (David Magnuson) were seated around discussing the possibilities of marrying off Celia Faraday Irene Andrews). Many humorous remarks about her green stockings, and queer habits were made. When Celia F'ara- day appears on the scene. she an- nounces that she is engaged to a Col. Smith, stationed in South Africa. The 1 attitude of the entire family IS changed toward her, and she expect ed this change of affairs for she told the "fib" just for this purpose. Celia Is forced to write to her SUD- posed lover, and her sisters see that the letter is mailed. They also see the name J. w. Smith in the army register. In the last part of the act, Celia takes Mrs. Chryslin Faraday, an aunt (Minnie Paro) into, her conf1- dence, and tells her of the plot. The C413 fn aon6 fhn tice of the coloners death in to the death column of the London Times.
 The second act is eight months later
 when the notice of the colonels death has been sent in. The family sees the coloners death notice and they try to decide the best way to break the news to Celia. They be- come confused, and Celia helps them out by reading the notice herself.
 Col Smith receives the letter, and reports at the Faraday home to learn the cause. He poses as great friend of Col. Smiths and presents trinkets to Celia to try and force her into a confession. The act ends by Celia and the colonel having dinner to- gether, while the rest of the family and their friends go out to dinner and a theater party.
 The last act is short. The colonel tells his right name at the dinner and when the time for Celia comes to leave for Chicago with her aunt, the colonel proposes.
 It would be difficult to choose any one star from the cast, for Miss Mil dred Weld selected every one of her members from a large field of possi- bilities. The entire play is centered around Irene Andrews, as Celia Tara day, and much of the responsibility of the play remained with her. Miss Andrews was credit to the play and to the ability of Miss Weld.