The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-03

weeks
VIII Read Modern Play.
| Miss Lou Belle Catesby Jones
will give one Of her last readings of
modern plays on Thursday at noon
I in the jefferson hotel. room $40. n
large audience is expectd TO hear her.
| At the Woman's Club.
! An interesting address. probably on
/ philauthropic work ia Armenia. will
/ be delivered at the Woman's club
! Monday afternoon at ! o'clock by Or.
! II. r. Matteosian. of the faculty Of
! the University OF Pennsylvania and
native OF Constantinople. Mrs.
! Marshall M Gillian is chairman OF
the afternoon.
Hostesses at the Informal reception
following will be: Mrs. John @. ARM
! istsad, Mrs. n. O. Burke, Mrs. II. w.
3. Glover. Mrs. Ware b. Cay. Mrs.
John Hancock. Mrs. Eugene Currin.
Mrs. Bernard Guest. Mrs. c. w. Culp,
Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald, Mrs J. Am
bier Johnston. Mrs George c. Pow
ell, Mrs. Alexander II Sands, Mrs.
s, II. Hawes Mrs. G. c. Wilson, Mrs.
Mary T. Workman
At the Art Cub.
Mademoiselle Henriette Haye. re-
Gently OF Paris. France, will speak
, at the Art club on Tuesday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock on the French war
poster. All members and their
friends are invited to attend. Miss
Anne Pitcher and Miss Susan Wilson
will he hostesses. Tea will follow
the lecture.
James River Garden Club.
The annual meeting of the James
River Garden club will be held in
the home OF Mrs. n l. Berniss, III
,
afternoon of this week at O'clock.
G r French viii address the meet
ing on the matter of plant diseases
and their control
A. r. V. 4. to Meet.
The association for the Pres@rva-
ton Of Virginia Antiquities will hold
an important meeting on Tuesday
morning at II O'Clock I'm the John
Marshall house. All members are
expected 70 attend
SCribblers To Meet
TvhA Gcribbiers will meet Wedues-
day evening OF this week at $50
| o'clock in the home Of Mrs. Henry
Aylett Sampson. 1f27 West avenue.
Mira Sampson has returned from
Kentucky. where she has been visit
ing and win be at the meeting and
thre will he two readers.
War benefit Entertainment
There are SO many causes in need
of assistance that those who would
| help can not walt until after Lent
| this year TO "a iae funds go in the field
/ Of benefit affairs the customary ban
on entertainment during the pres
ent season has been lifted and sew
eraI entertainments and teas are be-
Ing planned. Friday evening of this
week there will be an attractive BAN
n
| Of the surgical dressings committee
Of the War Relief association. Mrs
J. Allison Hodges is IN charge There
viii be addresses by two foreign Of
! fcers now stationed at Camp Lee and
moving pictures will show how France
cares for her wounded. Music will
/ follow.
Attractive Girls win Take Part.
A number of the most attractive
girls in the city will take part In the
| Miks.do which is now being rehearsed
for presentation at the Academy of
| Music on the evenings OF March IS
| and 6. The opera win be given by
| the Richmond Rotary club for the
| benefit or the Associated charities war
work and is under the direction OF
| Kirk Mathews and Alvin Smith.
! The caste follows:
I Yum Yum, Mrs. Norman Call: Pit
! Using Miss Marjorie Harcum; Peep
! 70. Mrs Lue1la Cowherd. Katisha,
Mrs. George Bethel; Mikado. Mr..
! Horace Powell; Nanki-Poo, Mr. r.
Lynn Tucker, Tish -Tush, Mr. Norman
/ Call; Pooh Bah Mr. Howard Bryant:
| Ko-Ko, Mr. Alvin NJ. Smith. Mem
beers OF the chorus are tfTs Misses
Pattie Johnson, Minnie vollma n.
Doris Baker, Reta Baker, Emma
/ yys.SA- - IL l.
Kidd; katherine Rhoads. Vernon
Gregory. Marion King, Ruth Ptet,
Anne Fletcher Mary Huxter, Julia
12var. Chandler; Mesdarnes Jeter
Jones. w. Henry Baker, r. ]. Sulli-
van, Warren walthsll, Burnett, How
ard y. Bryant. Joseph Ray. Cooper.
NJ h Cofrman. Jeter Jones, r. r.
Piper, Melvin O'Gra dy Rosenegk Dy-
son. Or Henry Street, Woodson Wed-
/ dey. Mark Stockton, w. walford,
/ Goide Smith. Columbus Canepa,
Hugh Busg Guy Corhitt, Ray Bugg,
Charles Warren. John wombls, w
Floyd Reans. Carson, Harding.
| Evening OF Dancing.
An evening OF dancing will be given
in the Y. W. G, A. gymnasium on
Friday and Saturday, March "a and
%, by all OF the gymnasium and dan
cling classes. The feature of the
evenings entertainment will be the
presentation of Narcissus by the In
terpretive dancing classes Rehear-
sails are ncw going on and the mem
bers OF the two Classes are piannins
several beautiful dances In addition
TO the solo dances of the leading
characters.
Members of tho gymnasium cAAsSes
VIM represent every European coun-
try in native dances and they VIII all
he In costume. npeciaI feature will
be an Egyptian dancA Miss Ruth
Pect ard Miss Hubbard are directing
the entertA inment
AT the Y. w. O. A.
AZ e recent meeting of SONS of the
four hundred girls and women who
took the Red Cross course in 4irst
aid TO the injured last year, one girl
told of an experience she had I'm
tressttng a man who was badly burn
ed. Tho doctor said her first aid treat
rnent saved the mans life. Another
holder Of fryt AZ. certificate said she
had saved the life OF big dog. some
ones pet, by bandaging the dogs
leg when she knew an artery had
been cut In so many instances the
knowledge gained in the first aid
classes has been of real value. To
further increase the usefulness OF