New Britain herald., 1922-01-07


 Stanley Chapter D, A, R., met in the Center church chapel and enjoyed an especially entertaining and delightful meeting, pr. Charles lIpson Clark. author of "rhe Italy of Today" tell ing many interesting facts about that country and Illustrating his talk with colorful stereoptieon views
 After the lecture tea was served at n most artistic tea table, where the Christmas decorative motif was car ricd out in red and silver and where Mrs Laurence Mouat, regent of The chapter, and Miss Mary E. Bingham presided The hostesses of yesterday were as follows; Mrs. Morton C. Swift, Mrs Orlando Swift Mrs. George B. Ashley, Miss Mary E. Bingham, Mrs. William A. House, Mrs. William A. Judd, Mrs. Charles II. Norris, Mrs. Herbert II Wheeler. Mrs. James D. Williams and Mrs. Edwin W. Schultz
 The recent number of the Bee hive" the annual publication of the New Britain High school is very in- teresting one. As usual, the work was done by the graduating class, 1921, and 1t is made up of articles, pictures, and verses pertaining to subjects of interest to High school students. The book is dedicated to Miss Mildred Weld of the school faculty
 Grace Sage captivated the large audience at the Center Congregational church last evening, by her reading of Booth Tarkington's and Julian Streets three-act comedy, The Country Cousin.' The Mendelssohn trio, Herbert E. Anderson, vioinist i; Henry G. Schauffler, 'cellist and The ron Wolcott Hart, pianist, added splendid musical conception and exc cution to the attractive program.
 The entertainment was given under the auspices of the Center church Fellowship club and furnished a de- lightful evening for appreciators and lovers of true dramatic and musical art.
 Perhaps the most vivid impression left by the orchestral trio was in their deicacy of execution. Mir. An derson's exquisite performances on
 
 tion of the artistic value of thorough tone sympathy At no time was there a shade of too great emotion alism in his playing,
 Mir. Schauffler's cello, an always popular instrument. was handled in the same spirit which marked all the work of the trio. His ploying proved him to be thorough musician, his musical understanding eXcelling even his good execution.
 The work of Mir. Hart on the piano was possibly the most noticeable to the musical experts in the sometimes almost spectacular rendering of the most difficult passages of the works presented. Worthy of especial com ment was MT. Harts performance in the last number, Mendelssohn s First Movement Trio Opus 49." In it Mir Hart displayed an earnest study of the work, a resulting sym pathy with the theme and an exact ness and perfection of execution truly remarkable. The trio became a piano solo to the fine, submerged ac- compartment of violin and cello in the hands of. Mir Anderson and Mr. Schauffler.
 Miss Sage read "The Country Cousin" in three acts The trio open cd the entertainment and appeared after the conclusion of each act and at the end of the play. The combina- tion gave the effect of a dramatic performance the interest in which was intensified by interspersed music of fine orchestra.
 Miss Sage represented the many characters of the play with no indi- cation. other than a change of man. ner, voice or gesture. what character was supposed to be speaking. So clever was her presentation that few follow the story of the comedy with thorough understanding.
 The play tells of young girl, Eleanor, who lives in a small town called Centerville, Ohio, which pos sesses all the attributes of widely known Main Street." She longs for the great city, life and joy. Her mother, separated from her father for seventeen years, longs to keep the girl with her and dreads the. day when the father may return and see his daughter who, now being of age, is the possessor of a considerable for tune.
 Eleanor is loved by Centerville youth, of great ambition, who has always had the idea" that certain trite phrases express the greatest Of wisdom. lie has had a year at col lege, but remains remarkably simple in the innocence of his dreams.
 "The Country Cousin is a hand some, clever young woman, who has sought and successfully run a farm in Centerville, to the astonishment of her relatives and friends who have no conception of the brains which "even woman" may possess. Her, Eleanor's mother calls in after the mothers habit when she hears that Eleanor's father has returned to see the girl. The father appears, accom- panied by a typically conventional man Of the society of a great city. whose intellect has suffered because of lack of development-a develop ment not needed to one of his great wealth, it would seem.
 Eleanor goes to the city where her father lives with the woman he has married after his separation from Eleanor's mother. The daughter is captivated by the exciting society life; her fortune is in imminent danger of being used by the father and step mother" and she herself taught to dring champagne and to accustom herself to the ways of the members of the fast set to which her father and second wife belong.
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