The Washington herald., 1921-04-17

ever old. beginning last Friday 10
June 1S nclusive-something all
parents feel the need of keenly. The
performances of each play-a new
play each week-will be given on
Fridays at $3.50 p. m. and S:l5 .. m.
Saturdays at 1890 a. m. and 2:3O
p. m. at Holton Arms Theater, on
Church street between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets northwest.
two blocks from Dupont Circle and
the Connecticut avenue car line.
Real plays mot reel pIays) with
real actors on a real stage in a real
thester for real kids!
The plays under consideration.
from which ten will be selected,
are: The Forest OF Wild Thyme, by
Alfred Noyes: A Thousand Years
Ago. by Percy Mackaye: Treasure
Island. by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Barbsrosa, by Marie Richardson;
The Wolf of Gubbio. by Josephine
Preston Peabody; The Most Won
derful Thing in the World, by Hans
Christian Andersen; A Lady Here
and There. by Hans Christian An
dersen; The Miracle of st. Anthony.
by Maurice Maeterlinck; Prunella,
by Housman and Barker: The Chi
nese Lantern. by Laurence Hous-
man; The Yellow Jacket, by Halle
ton and Benrimo; A Midsummer
Nights Dream. by William Shake
spesre: The Princess Who Wouldn't
Say Die. by Bertram Block; The
Land Where Lost Things Co.. By Tin
min and Pezet; The White Gods
Come, an Indian play.
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The plays are acted by a select
ed company of professionals. They
are produced under the personal
direction of Mrs. Glenna Smith Tin
min. originator and director Of the
Children's House of Play, in Wash
ington; director of the House Of
Play. Christodora House, New York
City; director House of Play. Henry
street settlement, New York City,
Mrs. Tinnin is being advised by
Katharine S. Brown and A. Wash
ington Pezet. professional producers
and stage directors.
Through the interest and kind
ness Of the Holton Arms School for
Girls, the Holton Arms gymnasium
has been made into the Holton Arms
Theater. A thoroughly safe and
comfortable place to take or send
your child.
Mrs. Joseph e. widener. Of
'Tynnewood Hail." Elkins Park, Pa,
was the center of admiring atten-
ton at the Ambassador, Atlantic
City. last week. OF course, we grant
that this is nothing extraordinary,
but she seemed to be more than
usually charming as she dined In
the Renaissance Salon Thursday and
Friday evenings. Her diamonds
glittered, but with all their sparkle
they failed to subdue her vivid per-
sonality, which radiated to the far
thest corner of the. spacious room.
When she smiled everybody did.
even though they were all too far
away to have the faintest idea as
to what caused her to look SO hap
PVT was enough that she did.
She wore-of course. everyone
wants to know what she wore-a
very gorgeous black lace decollete
gown, cut very low and very short,
making her already slim figure the
more girlish Handsome lace hose,
also black, encased her trim ankles,
and her slippers were Of Cinderella
size A'rope Of pearls, some of which
were almost as large as eggs, hung
almost to her waist and her famous
black pearl solitaire. which is said
to be the largest and most sumptu-
Gus in existence, graced the ring
finger Of her left hand.
Really, as one watched her-and
when Mrs. wideher is about Il Is
easy to be magnetized to an extent
that one almost unconsciously
staresi 1T was unbelievable that
she Is the mother of a great big
boy and a charming matron-daugh-
ter! How could she be more than
35 herself?
Avery charming wedding. though
simple, was that of Miss Sarah Sum-
mersall Mccoy, the lovely young
daughter Of Mrs. Julia Lynah Mce
Coy, and Morris William Gilland,,
lieutenant in the Engineer Corps,
U. 8. A, and a member of the class
Of 40 at the United States Military
Academy who were married last