The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-08-10
Work Of COlumbians Receives Beau
tiful Compliments.

of Phaeacia, in the recent. pageant
given at the University of Virginia,
Miss Nina Weeden Oliver of this
city, has won golden opinions from
press and public, and her artistic
dancing is described as notable
feature of the evening.
The University News, in its adj
mirable criticism of The Shores of
Happiness" has such very compli-
mentary mention of Miss Oliver,
that it is pleasure to reproduce the
following excerps from the article:
The entrance of Nausicaa and her
maidens running up from the beach
where they had pulled the ship
wrecked stranger, Odysseus, ashore,
carries ones Imagination INTO the
heart of the Homeric story. At this
point Nausicaa, played by Miss Nina
Weeden Oliver, slipped from the side
of her old governess and gave a solo
dance of exuberant joy. This was the
first glimpse that the public has had
of Miss divers marvelously ex-
pressive dancing Her grace, the
rhythm of her movements, and her
ability to display a perfect sympa-
thy with the idea she is interpreting
are SO truly artistic as to hold one
speeches. throughout her perform !
ance. Seldom is one so accomplished |
in this graceful art seen outside of /
the professional ballet. iJausicaa's
final dance, called the Cruelty of
War, followed. In this Miss Oliver
demonstrated her marked finish of
expression to the breathless admira-
ton of all who saw her.
Of Miss Pohl of the l. |. and c.,
whose established reputation as
director climbed to new heights in
this production, the News says
The pageant was written by Mrs.
Rice Gather in collaboration with
Miss Emma Ody Phol, who gave the
author the benefit of her wide ex-
perience, and is herself the composer
OF both of the solo dances of Nau-
sicaa and of the Dance of the Sea
Nymphs and that of the Glory of
Battle. 1t is due to the inexhaustible
energy of Miss Phol, who has been
working on this pageant since Janu-
airy, that it was made possible. She
has been the pageant master, and
has been the responsible head of
nearly everything connected with it.
In Homer of Miss Isabel WILKINSON y
of Washington.
4. Mrs. H. X. Robinson was hostess
at a lovely morning card party on
Thursday when she entertained for
her sister, Miss. Isabel Wilkinson, of
Washington, d. c., who is one of the
popular summer visitors.
For the occasion, the Robinson
country home place was decorated
effectively in quantities of the gay,
colored blossoms that adorn garuens
at this season, golden glow and zen
las in ali their rich variety. Dainty
fans, with score cards attached, were
distributed among the players, and
after games of whist, an elegant
The guests were: Mrs. K. NJ. Knox,
Mrs. Everett Lyon, of New Orleans,
Mrs. Jones Barksdale, of Marks, Mrs.
Henry Sherrod, Mrs. Hunter Walker, d
Jr., Mrs. Leonard Brooks, Mrs. j. w.
Cox, Mrs. Waightes Ottley, Mrs.
Jeter Woodward, of Richmond, Va,
Mrs. Jack Aldridge, Mrs. William
Morris, Mrs. Ellzey Pope, Mrs.
Chandler Dee, Mrs. .Chambley, Mrs.
Earl Richards, of New Orleans, Mrs.
j. W. Slaughter, Mrs. Alison Hardy
Mrs. r. L. Stephenson, Miss RATHER .
Miss Lucille Kaye, Miss j.
Lily May Randle, Miss Harriet
Wood, Miss Mary Glenn McGaul, CT
Miss Ruth Senter, Miss Josephine
Senter, Miss Antionette Moore. Miss d.
Eleanor Steele, Miss Elsie Lipscomb, F
Miss Wilson, hiss Helen Equen,
Miss Louise Goodlow, of New On,
leans.
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