New-York tribune., 1922-03-19
High School Club
Scores Success i'm
Play at Greenwich
''And Billy Disappeared''
May Be Repeated; Travel
Club Has Afternoon of
Poetry to Mark Meeting
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

opcCiOf DISpUtCN 10 me 1ftUuHe
GREENWICH, Conn, March 1S-
The Havemeyer Auditorium was sold
out for the annual performance of the
High School Dramatic Club on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, last evening and
tonight, and many of the prominent
residents of the town were in attend
ance. There was matinee for chill
dren on Monday afternoon, and there is
= possibility of the entertainment be-
ing repeated next Monday evening, so
great has been the demand for tickets
The play, "And Billy Disappeared" >"
written by Walter Ben Hare, is com
edy and mystery in four acts, the
scenes being laid in the Silver Trout
Inn in the Adirondacks. A new setting
of scenery was purchased for the play.
be realized. This amount will go to-
ward the athletic fund and other
branches Of the school. Charles 10y
Sanders, head of tho English depart
ment, was the coach. The Misses Ruth
Machette and Louise Hale, of the fac
ulty, wero stage directors; Sydney
Sobol, stage and publicity manager,
and George Lampert, electrician.
william Crawford appeared in the
leading role of Billy, and Viola Petrelli
took the heroine's part.
Yesterday afternoon the Travel
Club, the membership Of which in
women Of the town, held meeting at
the Y. NJ. c. A. Auditorium. Mrs.
Katherine Jones gave readings from
poets of -day-Alfred Noyes, Joyce
Kilmer, Alfred Mayfeid and others;
also "A Glimpse of the Negro Of the
Old South in Story and Legend"
Laurence Southwick, organist of ST.
Andrewss Church, Meriden, a son of
Frank Treat Southwick, at one time
organist of the Second Congregational
Church, Greenwich, played piano Sc
lections.
The Travel Club, which was or
ganized with sixteen members, row has
membership of 1926: Among those
actively identified with the club are are
Mrs. Henry Dayton, founder of the
organization; Mrs. Ernest Thompson
Seton, Mrs. Donald Mackenzie, Mrs.
Helen Williams, Mrs. Augustus |.
Mead, Miss Susan II. Mead, Mrs. f. NJ.
Barlow, Mrs. Oliver Huckel, Mrs. Ma
thanel Webb, Mrs. A. j. Martin, Mrs.
George Wharton Edwards, Mrs. Robert
Wilcox, Mrs. Newell Dwight Hills and
Mrs. Richard Burdsal].
Mrs. Donald Mackenzie is presi-
dent of the club; Mrs. E. NJ: Barlow,
vicc-presidcnt; Mrs. Robert M. Wilcox,
secretary; Mrs. Edward S. Slater,
treasurer. Mrs. Henry Dayton is
honorary president of the club.
Mrs. Newell Dwight Hills was the
hostess for the members of the College
Club, which met at her home on Mon
day afternoon at o'clock. Mrs.
Caorro + Nincont smoke on two WOm-
ems medical colleges in the Orient, and
Miss Natalie Hills sang group of
songs. The subject of the afternoon
was "Oriental Colleges for Women"
Contributions were made at the meet
ing for the fund which is being raised
to assist these colleges by the Ameri-
can Association Of University Women.
Music lovers here are looking for
ward to a recital to be given at the
Havcmeyer Auditorium next Wednes-
day evening by Thomas Egan. tenor,
and Nine Lillian Breton, soprano, for
the benefit of the Caruso Memorial
Foundation, of which President Har-
ding is honorary chairman and Mrs.
Caruso vicc-chairman of the commit
tee.
Frank Alyah Parsons, head of the
School of Applied Design in New York,
will speak on "The How and Why of
an Artistic Home" at the next meet
ing of the Woman's Club, to be held
Monday afternoon in the Y. NJ. C. A.
auditorium.
The speaker at the next monthly
meeting of the Greenwich League Of
Women Voters on March % will be
Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, of Washing
ton, who is the National League chair
man Of the committee on the cost Of