The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-11
GIRL ABOUT
TOWN
-RY MARMYN

What-no conjunction? Not even
after our little group of serious
thinkers Monday night, Roland
Hayes, Tuesday night, Captain Carl
Won Hoffman lecturing before the
Contemporary Club on jungle
Gods" Wednesday night, Edna St.
Vincent Millay Thursday night?
Why, I'm a mental, moral, and
physical wreck-or at least more so
than usual. That is the reason that
girls leave home or do other things
equally important. Only I never
have any luck that way. Every
time L threaten to leave home the
family Immediately pricks up its
ears. keenly interested in the propo-
sition.
Edna st. Vincent Millay gave a
charmingly expurgated edition of
her dramatic self Thursday night
for the little Tudor hall girls. Hav-
ing casually lost all the clothes she
possessed on an airplane ride she
appeared on the stage in a green
sweater and a brown tweed skirt.
Even her own books she had lost
| in the debacle and she had to Dor
row various editions from the au-
dience.
In the completely captivated audi
ence were Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Sullivan. Mrs. William Allen Moore.
Mrs. Henry I. Raymond whose own
poetry has acquired not a, little
fame; Mrs. Frances Buckley, Mrs.
Lee Burns. Miss Marjorie Fisher,
Miss Dorothy Goodman, Mrs. Neil
Campbell, Mrs. Leonard Campbell,
Mrs. Elias Atkins, Mrs. Louise
Haerle, Mrs. Edward Gates, Mrs.
Olivar Willard Pierce, Mrs. William
P. Myers. An audience of about
four hundred packed the Tudor
gymnasium originally designed to
hold 300 to the cracking POINT.
The Flonzaley Quartet gave its
next to last concert here at the
Indianapolis Maennerchor Sunday
afternoon. 1t will be back again in
March for its farewell appearance.
1t was an afternoon of pure sooth-
ing claSsiciSm with two quartets, one
by Glazounow and one by Bee
thoven, and Schubert's Death and
the Maiden" For one startling, gall
vanizing moment at the very end
was Ernest Bloch's Might"
Ernest Bloch is one of the most
provoking of the young modernists
and without pity and without ruth
that marvellous quartet that plays
together in breathlesS harmony as
ii it were one single instrument
yanked its audience out of the at
mosphere of gentle, plaintive melody
into all the strange exciting dis
sonances Of the ultra modern. 1t
was all the more effective coming
as it did after the Beethoven quar-
tet.
After the performance Mr.. and
Mrs. John P. Frenzel entertained
members of the quartet and a few
friends, among them Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Levey, at supper.
While all the members are charm
ing both to hear and to meet So
cially, it is Adolpho BETH, the first
violiniSt, who fires the imagination.
He is a tall, slight man whose
frock coat hangs from his bent
shoulders. His hair is soft and
rumpled and he wears a sad little
moustache. Though he seems to
be gentlenesS and sadness itself, his
bow greetS you most radiantly as
he comes out on the stage and first
acknowledges the applause of the
audience.
Many of Indianapolis music low
erS were there among them Mrs
Isaac Born, Mrs. DemarchuS Brown,
Mrs. Harry B. Ohr with her daugh-
tiers Miss Cere1le and Miss Eliza
beth, Mrs. j. William Wright, Miss
Virginia True, Mrs. Stanley Brooks
and Miss Lillian Reeves.
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Well, boys and girls. I'm going
out to dinner with Henry SEVERN
this evening and with his usual in
imitable savoir faire he is only an
hour and twenty minutes late. And
I suppose I'll be amiable about it
everyone always is! With any
luck I may see him in the next
twenty-four hours.
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