The New York herald., 1922-11-05
WORK MAJOR INTEREST OF WOMENS CLUBS

Hawkes., second vice-president Mrs.
Thomas Reed Powell. secretary, and
| Mrs. Harlan It. Stone, treasurer.
India and England will be the subject
for discussion at the meeting of the
Post Parliament on Friday at the Hotel
| McAlpin. 1t will be In charge of the
| committee on current events, with Miss
Julia Ring as chairman.
| The Rubinstein Club, Mrs. William Rog
ers Chapman. president, will begin its
thirty-sixth season on Saturday after
noon, November IS. at the Waldorf-As-
toria, when Nine Schumann-Heinck will
be heard in a song recital. She will be
assisted by Florence Hardman. violinist,
and Arthur Loesser pianist.
| The choral rehearsals will be held as
usual at the Waldorf on Wednesday
| morning at 10 80 o'clock. The club will
have it's first evening choral concert on
| December g.
! A meeting of the Writers was held
on, Tuesday evening at AZ Fifth avenue.
The vice-president. Ethel Watts Num-
| ford. presided. and the speaker was
Hugh MacNair Kahler. who took for
his subject "a Workshop View of Story
| Making"
Mrs. Anna Mae White of $50 West
Ninety-fifth street will give a nom
partisan election dinner on Tuesday at
| the Waldorf Astoria It will be fol-
lowed by dancing Election returns by
| a special wire will be shown on large
screen during the evening.
The annual recital and dance for the
benefit of the Voice Training Scholar
ship Fund, under the auspices OF the
National Association for American
Speech. will be held at the Hotel Plaza
on December y. Miss Dagmar Perkins
is chairman, and the patronesses will
include Mrs. William Belknap. Mrs
Paul d. Cravath, Mrs. Daniel Guggen-
helm. Mrs Oliver Hartman, Mrs. Ed
ward McVickar and Mrs. William Blair
Perkins.
The regular social meeting Of Sorosis.
Mrs. John Lewis Childs. president. will
be held tomorrow at the Waldorf. The
reception will be at l2:oO ana luncneon
at l o'clock.
The program in charge Of the COM
mittee on literature, Mrs. Lucy Hill
Briggs, chairman, has as its topic
"Glimpses of Literature" Mrs. Briggs
introduction will be followed by talk
on self Expression Among Primitive
People" by Miss Jean Mackenzie.
"Self Expression of the scotch, in Bal
lad and Verse" will be the subject of
Mrs. Carroll Brown. Miss Norma Nc
MILAN, contralto. will sing. accompanied
by Miss Margaret Hamill.
ThYee hundred members of the Amer
lean Criterion Society. Mrs. Leonard l.:
Hill, president. gathered at the Hotel
Commodore on Friday for the initial
luncheon Of the clubs eleventh season.
Mrs. Cora Welles Trow, first vice-pres.
ident was in charge of the program,
1.-THE Art of Painting Day" The lunch
con was preceded by a reception, and
Mrs Hill was assisted in receiving BY
Mrs. William J. Sloane, Mrs. Hubert
Templeton Parson, Mrs. Alexis f. Bes-
son, Mrs. Bedell Parker Mrs. Sidney b.
whitlock. Mrs. John c. Turner. Mrs.
Marion Zabriskie, Mrs. l.. A. Cushman,
| Mrs William G.. Demarest and Mrs.
Charles v. Paterno. After the Rev. Dr.
Edgar Whitaker Work. chaplain OF the
organization. gave the Invocation. eight
cen new members were received into
membership.
The guests OF honor. each of whom
gave a brief talk. included Mr.. Albert
Sterner. Mr.. Herbert Tschudy, Miss
Susan Kicker Knox. Mr.. Jerome Myers.
Miss Alethea Hill Platt. each of whom
gave brief talk on art; also Mrs John
Lewis Childs, president of Sorosis; Mrs.
Herbert Tschudy, Mrs. Edgar w. Work
Mrs. Jerome Myers. Mrs. Robert j.
Sharp, Mrs. Henry V. ID. Black, Mrs.
Albert Sterner and Mrs. Arthur Judge.
The afternoons program concluded with
music by professionals.
The Woman's Service League. Of
which Mrs. Stanley Lyman Otis is presi
dent. will give its annual dance on Mon
day evening, December 2. at the Hotel
McAlpin. The proceeds will be used to
supply Christmas boxes for permanently
disabled ex-service men at Central Islip
Hospital. Mrs. Arthur Livingston Buck
hout is chairman of the dance COM
mittee.
The usual monthly meeting OF the
Free Industrial School for Crippled
Children, AL West Fifty-seventh street,
and the Lulu Thorley Lyons Home for
Crippled and Delicate Children. at
Claverack, n. Y, will be held at the
home of the corresponding secretary.
Mr.. James Colt well known in Aneri-