The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-29
Jayhawkers of All Ages to CeIe-
brate Tonight.
Kansas Society In New York
Plan Unique Festival.
TWO HUNDRED TO ATTEND
Sixteenth Annual Dinner
Dance VIII Be Held.
Three Prominent Kansans and
Ex-Kansans to Speak.
BY SAN FARRELL.


New York. Jan. 29.-The chef at the
Hotel McAlpin today is preparing a
repast worthy of the reputation he has
built up in Paris and New York. His
genius will be represented tonight at
the bounteouS board of the Kansas So
ciety of New. York, which will cele-
brate in an historic fashion the six
tieth anniversary of the Sunflowsr
states birth. Jayhawkers of all ages
and every status of society will don
conventional black and white. If they
be males, and creations originating in
Paris, If their features are cast in.
fairer meditation.
Sixteenth Annual Affair.
Tonight's dinner-dance is the six
teenth annual affair of the Kansas So
ciety of New York, the members OF
which honor in this manner the COM
monwealth of their nativity. Always
the best speakers obtainable are gar
nered for the dinner, which is an event
of huge importance to these Kansas
..ex-patriots.'' Tonight's three speak
ers are Eugene Myer, jr., head of the
firm of Eugene Myer & Company and
former managing director of the War
Finance corporation; Mrs Margaret
Hill McCarter. Topeka writer and
prominent in Republican party poll
| tics and Brock Pemberton. former
protege of William Allen White and
now a Broadway theatrical producer.
b. f. Wollman to Preside.
| Benjamin F. Wollman, well known
/ New York lawyer anc once a resident
| of Leavenworth, is the retiring presi-
| dent OF the Kansas Society. and will
preside. After the dinner the officers
| named by the nominating committee
| will be elected for the coming year.
| They are: President, John p. Fritts.
director of publicity and advertising
| for Realart Pictures and former To-
| peka newspaper man: first vice presi-
dent, Clarke G. Daley, president OF
the Alliance Realty company, an ex-
/ Topekan and Washburn graduate: sec
ond vice president, Harry +. Sinclair,
| multi-millionaire oil magnate;a secre-
tary. William 1. Mitchell, of the New
York Geological Park. incumbent.
treasurer. H. o. Coughlin. vice presi
dent of the United States Corporation
i company, incumbent
Two Hundred to Attend
Two hundred or more persons will
attend the dinner-dance according to
figures available at the office of Secre-
!, tary Mitchell. Among them will be
those whose engagement books always
! are filled weeks ahead. but January
2e'' is a date on which no function,
!, great or small, has priority over the
Kansas Day banquet. Even those who
in the days gone by preferred above
and then, turn a deaf ear to invita-
, tions-rare indeed these times--to af-
fairs in which a private stock is to be
, encroached upon.
After the dinner and the election of
officers. an orchestra of many pieces,
half-hidden behind palms reminiscent
f-of the lazy Orient. will begin to play
and dreamy waltzes and snappy fox
trots and jazzy toddles will occupy the
| rest of the evening. over a. well
, waxed floor the happy Kansas couples
will glide and during the intermissions
many a cigaret will be enjoyed with
the complacent reflection that no out
J side reformer will be present to show
how obnoxious is Lady Nicotine. I'D