Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-03
MANNER MONDAY
FOR WOMAN'S CLUB

The Woman's Club will meet in the
Presbyterian Chapel next Monday at
ternoon, at 1850 O'Clock, and will again
have the pleasure of hearing Jane
Manner, drama reader, who made a
most favorable impression upon the
occasion of her initial appearance hero
last month. A crowded house is an
ticipated.
Good reading Is q rare accomplish
ment and Miss Manner is in every way
a mistress of that art. She is not an
impersonator, nor IN eiocutionist; she
is a most satisfying reader, who uses
her text, but who enters so thoroughly
into the various characters. and inter-
prets them with such intelligence and
discrimination that her audience re-
ceives a vital succinct conception of
the play.
In her first program here she pres
ented J.. NJ. Barrie's play. The WILL"
in which the characters ang widely
from confident youth to dofdering sem
ility. from a respectful servant to a
man of wealth n recently
acquired title. from the sentiment of
a young wife to the calculating shrewd-
ness and self assertiveness of a social
climber. In this play Miss Manner
showed to a nicely her art Of combin-
ing vocal and facial expression with
Illuminating posture and gesture. to
summon the men and women of the
, story before the mental eyes of her
audience.
! Her second selection, '@roller's Wife,
by Cosmo Hamilton, contrasted force
fully voice and action of the heroine
| under different mental conditions. and
| was to many the most artistically
given number of the evening, testing
as 1t did her ability to show lightning
n p opo roQ ~ failing in both a man and
a m
Kitty Give, a comedy by L. Frank
fort Moore gave a chance for many
O good laugh, and proved Miss Man
ner a charming entertainer, with a
very Irresistible sense of humor.
Upon her second appearance Miss
Manner will present an entirely differ
ent kind of drama. Her presenta-
ton of THE Great Galeoto," by Jose
| Enchegaray, Spanish writer, viii
carry a lesson which every community
needs to learn-the dangerous influ-
ence of gossip. In this play an en-
tirely innocent situation Is seized upon
exploited and enlarged, until II &C
ttually becomes a great evil and wrecks
the lives of the principal characters
Miss Manners showed her capability
in lighter veins when she appeared
here ON March 18th, and will pu
ner art TO u Bfedtof leSI III SSiiou'
work next Monday.
AS in the case of the preceding
meeting. the club will waive all re
strictions Monday except the paymen
of the usual fee for each guest, anC
even this rule will be waived in cas-
of the club daughters whose recogni
ition is annually planned, but failed thtI
year through the necessary abandon
ment of Daughters Day in February
The girls are, therefore, to be tn
guests of the club next Monday an
some will act as ushers. Miss lrmi
tStern and Miss Marie FritZinger viii
play a piano duet, and Miss Rutl
| Jacobsen will sing.
A number of guests from outsid'
the city have also been invited from
, clubs which have recently extended
,Icourtesies to the Woman's Club.
The committee on amendment o
the constitution and bylaws will re
port, and other business will be re
tduced to q minimum.
The third district of the state feder
alton will hold a convention on mex
Tuesday at Freehold. Miss Daniels
, district vice-president. will preside an
a number of good speakers are OF
the program. 1t is hoped that a larg'
delegation Of club will go from
, this city. A box luncheon Is plan
ned for the noon intermission. TIL
convention will open at ten o'clock.