The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-03
BOTH RAGfAlTS AND EDUCATIONAL
Demonstrations At CENTENARY

vi distinctive personal charm and
gifted with both literary ana dramas
tic ability Is the diminutive but In
vincible dramatic director OF the Eu-
ropean building. Miss Helen Wilcox,
of the Hartford, Conn, high school.
The daughter Of DIR. Munson A. Will
cox, minister Of wide Eastern
acquaintance growing from pastoral
residence In Burlington. VT, in
Oswego, New York, and later at Mt.
Holyoke. Miss Wdllcox has written
much and been actively identified with
the organized movement to educate
the masses through religious and in
structional dramatic productions.
Modest Producer.
What have done? Not much
not enough to talk about in print"
said the modest little author--lecturer
at Centenary Celebration headquarters
one late. hot afternoon the first June
week.
II was dramatic director of the
missionary play, All in the World
In Baltimore in 1912. I have taught
ed Lcational dramatic method at the
Hartford School of Religious Peda-
gogy. and at the Silver Bay confer
ence OF the missionary education
movement u916 and 1910, and at
the Ocean Park conference, OF the
missionary education movement (sev-
eral years., and at the Epworth
League institute at Auburndale, Mass,
In 1917.
Then. too. directed plays AT these
conferences and have nine plays and
one pageant published by the mis-
sionary education movement, have
directed plays in various churches and
Y. w. c. AS, as we'll as at a girls
patriotic league camp lin the summer
of 1919, but none OF this will in
terest the public. am sure
The Columbus public has grown
d fnitely interested. however, in the
life play Europa" which Miss VIII
cox has written for production in the
European building, and the waiting
list for openings on the cast indi-
Gates the efficient pre-campaignina
done by the author producer.
Demonstrations in the building de-
voted to exhibits from Central and
North Africa will be directed by Mrs.
Clarice Vallette Macaulay. author Of
The Garden of Dreams and many
short stories. Mrs. Macaulay has
served long apprenticeship in the
drama. but gave up her professional
work some years ago for the more
readily allied arts of story writing
and home-making She has neverthe-
less, managed to keep in touch with
the experimental stage of today; three
years ago. as member OF the Morn
irgside Players. Columbia university
organization. sponsored by Professors
Barrett H. Clarke and Hatcher
Hughes: winter before last in doing
entertainment work at the encamp-
ments, and last year as a member of
0Vr1A
Mrs. Macauiay has written all the
life plays which will be presented in
the African building.
She Is assisted by Mrs. Irene @
Nogel in conducting these varied fea-
lures.
In the Chinese building while the
exhibits and demonstrations alike
will seem the expression of the per-
sonality. and the culture OF DR.. and
Mrs. John NJ. Gowdy, Of Fuchau. In
mat DR.. Gowdy will be due in great
est measure the treasure house OF
rare collections of Chinese arts. both
industrial and aesthetic. yet will be
found. in addition To Madame Sugi-
mote and Mrs Fanny Caldwell
Macaulay. dispensing Inequalities and
revealing the home life OF the Orient.
William Hung. OF New York. to whose
guidance must be attributed the artis-
tic interior decoration being executed
by Richard c. Yen, of Colum bia mil
yersity.
Real Chinaman
Mr.. Hung Is given leave of absence
from ms duties as secretary of the
chinese Y NJ G. A. in New York. In
oroer that he may contribute to the
success Of the reproduction OF the
orient in the Centenary grounds The
son OF the chief magistrate in Chu-
Flu. the city OF Confucius, Mr.. Hung
Is graduate of both Ohio WESLEYAN
university and Columbia. and In now
student at Union Biblical seminary.
Asked what Methodism has done
Tor China. Mr.. Hung gestured eio-
quently toward the Centenary Cele. /
nration grounds with both fine. slender
hands and exclaimed, ''AU thar the
centenary Celebration is--that il what
Methodism has done for China," He
Is al the head OF New Yerk,s work |
among her 5000 Chinese residents
INSOFAR as these activities touch thu
lives OF the younger men, ana has
oeen instrumental in securing six,v
chinese students from various colleges
IN the United States as instruct,onal
demonstrators in the sections filled !
with oriental exhibits. This companv |
OF educated Chinese, perhaps one half i
OF whom are women, are children OF |
the highest classes in their native
land They will reach Columbus June 4
10, ana act as peripatefic hureau. -