Evening star., 1924-05-04
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

The final meeting of the season will
be held at the College Women's CLUB,
1922 1 street. May 81. The program
will consist of a paper, Depression
| in Relation to the. Voice by MISS
Fannye NJ. Sweeney, followed by
readings by new members Wiley u
Ison will preside
international Association of Art and
Letters.-At the weekly tea given
April 26 at the art center, Miss
| Laura Thornborough, a charter mem
honor. Miss Thornborough, who was
national chairman of the motion pic
ture conference held here during the
week, had as her guests MIS- Ethei
of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Elizabeth r;
| Dessez of the Pathe Exchange and
Don Carlos, Ellis" of the General
Vision Company, all of whom were
Ethel Styles Middleton, an original
scenario writer, deplored the fact
that but a small minority of moving
picture audiences want artistic pic
| lures, but she feels this minority
| should have screen plays written for
them. This artistic development will
call for more action and less motion.
Mrs. Guthrie, whose special work is
comedy. declared the moving picture
| art is not art at all but an industry.
their. own affiliation with art To
show the enormous strides this in
dustry has made she quoted the fact
| that no more than eight years ago
none of the high grade magazine ed
| itors would allow mention of either
| the organizers directors or actors of
| moving pictures in their publications.
| Mrs. DeSsez spoke of film cutting as
| an art in itself; fascinating art
| when one falls into the RHYTHM in
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spool of the film. She also stressed
! the education value of the pictures
and the fact that this value is con-
stantly receiving greater recognition
Don Carlos Ellis declared the po-
tential field of education, whether re-
| iisious or secular, to be enormous and
its development depends upon the
supply of material offered There is
a need for conservative original
writer's in this work
DR.. Henneman, in an amusing i'm
promptu talk. told "just how he
wrote the musical score for the mo-
tion picture. 'Fabiola.''
Prof. Schroeder played a Hungarian
rhapsody of his own composition
Mrs. Florence Jackson Stoddard
| founder of the association talked on
its aims and ideals. A card party is
| being arranged.
Audubon SOciety.-The fifth field ex-
Curslon for bird study purposes will
| take place Saturday in the vicinity
OF Miller. Va. The observers are to
leave the Mount Vernon station. 18th
and Pennsylvania avenue. on the s
am. train.
The outing Saturday. April 70. was
IN the Geological Park. There were
| hfty-four bird observers in the party.
| which was divided into five groups
each group being under the direction
or leader. At noon the groups came
| together for luncheon at the great
bird cage in the park. where they
compared notes of the mornings OBJ
| servation.
A great many species of migrant
and resident birds were found, the
| most interesting spring arrivals be-
ing the solitary vireo, the yellow
thoated virea and the northern water
thrush. The Louisiana water thrush
and the oven bird were observed and
| were in full spring song.
| The afternoon was spent in study
| ing the rare birds in captivity at the
Zoo. The species and their habits
were named and described by DIR. T.
). Palmer of the biological survey.
League Of American Pen women
The postponed monthly meeting 10;
ming at the clubhouse. 8 pm. ~
ports for the years work will be
given by the elected officers and the
chairmen of committees.
| Announcement will be made of the
winners of the children's story prize
and the fellowship essay prize.
The District organization has been
| devoting its energies for some weeks
| to preparations for its duties and
privileges as the hostess branch at
| the biennial convention. which closed
| April 26. and has in great measure
laid aside its own activities during
| that period.
1t now enters upon the important
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latter part of May. Craft groups.
one of the outstanding innovations of
| Mrs. Locher's administration. will
round out their years programs and
| preparations will be completed for the
cessation during the summer of the
major part of the clubs regular ac-
tivities.
The Shakespeare society will meet
Wednesday in the auditorium of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. DR.. Paul
Kaufman of the American University
will speak on the unnamed charac-
ters in Shakespeare and H. II. B.
Meyer of the Library of Congress
will give a resume of the newest lit
erature on Shakespeare. The dra-
matte number will be given by Miss
Anita Schade and will consist of two
scenes. In scene 3 of act ~ from
King Henry W. Katherine of France
will be played by Miss Schade and
Alice, lady waiting, by Miss
Amy G. Leavitt, and in scene of
act I of The Merchant of Venice"
Miss Schade will play Portia and Miss
Rosemary Arnold Nerissa.
The society presented the story of
Imogen and the wager, from "Cym-
beline, Wedn esday evening and
again Thursday for the benefit of
L'Allegro Club in Pierce Hall. All
Souls Church. The condensed ver-
sion was arranged by Mabel Owens
Wilcox, who portrayed the role of
lmogen, daughter of Cymbeline
American Association of University
Wemen.-Tomorrow at 8 pm. Janabe
Fazel, one of the progressive thinl,N
ers of modern Persia, will speak on
The Feminine Movement in Persia"
Wednesday at 4:3O Mrs. H. C.
Saturday Miss Selma Ekren of
Turkey will speak on Progressive
Turkey" Miss Priscilla Ring will in
troduce the speaker.
The Petworth women's Club,
through general committee, under
the Craftsmanship of Mrs. Horace !.
Phelps, is arranging for the biennial
! banquet. which will be held June
IN Petwotth Methodist CHURCH The
banquet this year will be of unusual
interest, as it is the tenth anniversary
OF the rounding of the club When
ten years ago Mrs. Harriet d. Hill in
vlted little group of her neighbors
On Iayior street to her home for the
purpose of forming a club for the
pursuit of any social, progressive
ana philanthropic movement which
the club shall choose" she little
area med of what a splendid work she
was launching. The charter list con-
tanned the names of Mrs. H. d. Hill
MRS. q. w. Stose. Mrs William I'D
Parsons, Mrs. A. c. Norcross, Mrs r.
w. Baxter, Mrs. II. v. Bisbee, Mrs. w.
Il Gutelius. Mrs. A. N. Baden, Mrs.