The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-19

Mrs. Miller used to be Miss Dorothy
Gleed, of Topeka. She is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs J. Willis Gleed.
La Douzaine Bridge club will meet
Monday afternoon with Mrs. Allan
Lauck.
An eastern woman of distinguished
personality and achievement to be in
Topeka for a number of weeks dur
ing the late summer and early spring,
is Mrs Anna Baright Curry, dean of
the Curry School of Expression, Bos--
ton, Mass, and wife of s. s. Curry,
Phi. D.. Lift. D., president of the
school 1t is her plan to conduct
midwinter term of classes in this city
from February to March l. The
term will be held in the Topeka high
school, and will offer credits toward
the diploma course of the school for
in voice, correction of defective
speech, mind. body and voice train
ing, reading, public speaking, Bible
reading for ministers, platform and
dramatic art, extemporaneous speak
ing, and studies of scenes from Shake
Speare.
Mrs Curry belongs to a celebrated
Boston family, being descended from
the Carpenter and Baright families OF
Revolutionary and Colonial times
General Barker, who served in the
revolution and the war of 1872, was
an ancestor of hers. She is gradu-
ate of Cooks Collegiate institute.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. and also of the
Boston University School OF Oratory-
While she was very young she at
tracted attention by her dramatic
ability. Soon after graduating from
Cooks Institute, she took position as
teacher of expression in the M1lWau-
kee Female college.
Prof. Lewis B. Monroe, Dean OF the
Boston University School of Oratory,
recognized her powers, and under his
influence she continued her studies
In 1877 she was graduated from the
School of Oratory with the highest
class honors, and appointed by the
faculty to represent the class of 1877
at the first Boston University COM
mencement held in fremont Temple.
In July, 1879, she opened at Mar
tha's Vineyard the first summer school
of oratory held in the United States
Professor Monroe was to have con-
Quoted this school, with Miss Baright
as an assistant
Professor Monroe died at the open
ing of the term. and Miss Baright
conducted the school to the end of the
session.
On May 81, 1882. she was married
to S. S. Curry, Phi. D., afterward Snow
| Professor of Oratory in Boston Uni
versity and founder of the School of
| Expression. Boston, and on June first
| sailed with her husband for Europe,
| where. they spent several months in
travel, returning to Boston the fol-
| lowing autumn.
| Mrs. Currys strongest characters
| tic is the harmonious coordination of
intellectual and emotional power.
| Her dramatic instinct has developed
| into a deep insight into truth. She
| has done some strong creative work
in the vocal Interpretation of the dra-
matte and lyric spirits in literature,
notably in her readings from Mrs.
Browning's The Rhyme of the
Duchess May, old ballads. Shelley S
| "Prometheus Unbound and Rossettis
SISTER Helen; of the epic spirit in
an adaptation from Homer's Illiad and
modern epic poems.
Mrs. Curry, while not a club wo-
man, has held membership in the
New England Woman's Club, Can
tabrigia Club Cambridge, Boston
| Browning. Society.
4 Mrs. Curry was editor of EXPIRES
sion" quarterly Review no longer
published.