New Britain herald., 1922-03-11
:-: Social Notes :-:

One of the most notable of the sea sons engagement announcements Is that Of Miss Catherine Mills, daughter Of MT. and Mrs Herbert l.. Mills, Of Curtis street, to Edwin W. Davis of Rock Island, III, The engagement was announced at luncheon which Mrs Mills gave to her daughter at the Shuttle Meadow club today. The club dining room was very beautifully. decorated with pale pink roses, tulips and orchid colored sweet peas. Tiny old-fashioned bouquets were given to each guest, Miss Mills is a popular member of the younger set in town. She Is a graduate of the local High school and Wellesley college in the class Of 1920. Mir. Davis is the son of MT. and Mrs. Samuer F. Davis of Rock Island, III. He is a graduate of Hill school and of Yale university in the class of 1918. He is also a mem- ber of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The New Britain Musical club has planned most attractive program of music for its active and associate members. to be given Monday even- Ing at the Camp school. The sub tct of the evening will be Opera" k1th paper on this theme by John A. Lindsay, and with the musical numbers on the program taken from famous operas. Miss Tomassoni will preside.
 The program is as follows:
 Aria Vissi D'Arte Ga Tosca). ...
 Puccini
 Miss Vater
 Trio, Scene of the Swords (Faust)
 Gounod Messrs. Smaller, Lindsay and Klein. Spinning Song (Flying Dutchman)
 Wagner Two pianos.
 Miss Hine and Miss Parker. Aria, o, mic Fernando Ga Favor ita ................ Donizetti
 Miss Schade.
 Aria, As when the Dove (Acis and Galatea) ............. Handel
 Mrs. Smaller.
 Piano, To the Evening Star (Tann- hauser) ......... Wagner-LisZt
 Miss Manning.
 Meditation, Je Souvient il du lnmineux (Thais) With violin. ... .Massenet
 Mrs. Sindell, MT. F'leitzer. La Fatal Pietra (Aida) (The Fatal Stone) ................. verdi
 Miss Earnest, Mir. Stuhlmann. Quartet, Good Night (Martha) .... Flotow Mrs. Sindell. Miss Schade, MT. Etuhl-
 mann, Mr. Latham.
 Accompanies: Miss Parker, Miss Tomassoni and MP. Hart.
 The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts will hold its twelfth annual ex- hibition in the annex of the Wads- worth Athenaeum. Hartford. April IF to 30. There will be many exhibits by Connecticut artists, the only work acceptable being oils and sculptures which have not before been publicly shown in Hartford. The two cash prizes which will be awarded by the jury of awards are the Charles Noel Flagg prize of $1o0 and the Alice Col lins Durham prize of $25.
 " The jury of selection which will de- eide whether or not work. will be shown is composed of the following people: Daniel F. Wentworth, chair man; Albertus Jones, Harold Abbot Green, James Goodwin McManus, Carl Ringius, Norma Wright Sloper, Nunzio Vayana. Evelyn Beatrice Longman. Clara Mamre Norton. William H. Smith and Cornelia c. Vetter.
 MT. and Mrs. Simon Luddy of Bas- sett street have announced the en- gagement of their daughter, M. Ger trude, to James Kiniry, son of MT. and Mrs Michael Kiniry of Curtis street. Miss Luddy is graduate of the local High school in the class of 1917, and she attended the Connecti- cut Agricultural college for two years. MT. Kiniry is an accountant, being connected with the firm of Kiniry &. company. No date has been set for the wedding. A large attendance was present at the first of a series of six lectures which was given Monday evening at the Chamber of Commerce rooms un- der the auspices of the New Britain League of Women Voters. Mrs. F. l.. c. Kitchelt of Hartford was the speak CT and chose as her subject, Town and Country Government. Next Monday evening the class will be ad- dressed by Mrs. c. Taylor Henry of West Hartford, who will speak on Borough and City Government"
 
 Friends of Mir. and Mrs. Frederick West Porter of Hartford, will be interested to know that Mir. and Mrs. Porter are planning to make their residence in New Britain eat| in the spring. MT. Porter has purchased an interest in the Citizens Coal Co.,, and will be actively associated with that concern after March IS. Mir. Porter will be connected with the sales department.
 Under the auspices Of the Nathan FIale Community association, may meeting and entertainment was held at the Nathan Hale school last eve ming. with Nelson F. Marion presid- ing. The meetings program consist cd of 6 talk by Stanley H. Holmes, xchoot superintendent violin selec- tscns bt George Westerman, accom- nanied by Barbara Troop; vocal solos by Benjamin Cohn, and a talk by James F. O'Brien, Americanization director.
 The woman's club of Maple Hill held a card party on Wednesday af. teruoon at the home of Mrs. w. J Borrow, the proceeds going to the