Arizona republican., 1918-10-06

and worth while idea of preparing song and dance acts, sketches and sin- gle numbers in order that a diversified program might be given on short mo- uce. Then, too, there was a lament able sameness about the benefits last year and in having a number of care- ful trained acts this will be avoided. MT. Wickersham is going to invite those who have taken part in past per- fQrmances and others who have talent to register with him and will devote one evening a week to rehearsing the acts and arranging programs.
 Everyone appears to have taken over a new interest of one kind or another. In addition to the war work they are doing or perhaps because of it maids and matrons have become interested in the serious things of life. Any num- Der of well known society folk have recently joined the large army of wage earners-the latest recruit being Mrs. Colt Myers. Mrs. Myers has chosen that most fascinating of all work that of a motion picture actress and her recognized beauty and. cleverness have placed her in the position of leading lady almost at once without the years of experience that many favorites have had before they reached the place of stardom accorded Mrs. Myers. She is now rehearsing the lead in HarolG, Bell Wright's, "The Shepherd of the Hills which the author is directing. It is being filmed in southern California.
 Mrs. George Gardiner, who has been away so many months that her friends had begun to despair of her return will arrive this week from Denver for the winter. She will be accompanied by her small son, Jack. Her daughter, Grace, summereG. on the coast with her grandmother, Mrs. A. K. Stacy, and returned with her yesterday.
 
 Miss Ruth Goldberg, who passed the summer months in San Francisco, ar rived in southern California yesterday and will be away another fortnight at least She will pass the greater part of the time in San Diego.
 Mrs. Thomas Flint Nichols plans to remain in the east until the first oi | November. She is at present in Utica where she is being delightfully."- enter | taineG.
 Mrs. W. C. Ellis gave an informal tea yesterday afternoon asking a few | friends to her North Central avenue | home in honor of Mrs. Jonathan l Blaney, a war bride of the summer Mrs. Blaney, who is connected witt the high school teaching staff, vii continue her work during the wal period Her husband Is at present 1T the officers training camp at Caml Meade to qualify in the signal corps Before the war he was a leading arch | itect of Boston. He is a graduate O | Harvard, and met his bride when sh, was a student at Smith and he a Amherst. There will be a number o informal affairs for Mrs. Blaney durint the autumn. She is an exceptional, clever young woman whose delightful personality has made her a genera favorite. As Miss Garnett, a membe of a pioneer family of the state, sh was always popular.
 It is delightful news to their man, friends to know that MT. and Mrs George Cooke have taken town hous for the winter While living nea Phoenix. the Cockes gave but littl time to town activities while living a their place in Arlington which the disposed of last summer. They hay leased the Spaulding house on Sixtl street where they will be domiciled fo the winter Mrs. Cooke before he marriage was Miss Beulah Mont gomery.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Harrison Lewis and their small son Thornto Lewis are to be here on the nineteentl on their way to San Francisco iron White Sulphur Springs where the have been since early summer. Mrs Lewis has been very active in can teen work and during the weeks she i here will no doubt lend her aid to To
 cal work Her sister, Mrs. Sidne Clearinghouse, is here at present whil her husband is travelling in the north west in the interests of the govern ment. She is with her parents, MT. an Mrs. J. w. Doris, at Casa De Rosa where the Lewises will be domicile while in Phoenix.
 Among the popular girls who will b missed by the junior set this winte will be Miss Mary Ceilings, tn daughter of Mir. and Mrs. E. T. Col lings. who will attend the Girls Col legiate school in Los Angeles. There will be a number of youn folks away this season among whor will be Louis ]. Chalmers, son of M and Mrs. Louis H. Chalmers, who enrolled at St. Johns Military scho, } In Manlius, New York