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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1929)
World and News of Varied Club Activities Events the S in ocia Phone 500 OLIVE DOAK Society Editor Attractive Tea Complimentary Aiiair Mrs. F. A. Erixon was hostess for a beautiful tea given In com pliment Thursday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wflsoa, parent ol Mr. R. L. Payne, who have been visiting here from Louisville, Ken tucky, and who will leave Monday for their home. i lie iiyidk room was eueciiTe ly decorated in California plant a-jfrs In shade running from d -ep purple to light lavender. In th? dining room red and white asters carried "out the decorative note. The deep purple asters In the living room were arranged In an orange lustre hand decorated bowl and the result of the color combination was decidedly unusu al.. During the first part of the aft ernoon, Mrs. Clifton Mudd gave two readings and in the last part of the afternoon. Miss Ruth Moore, daughter of Mrs. Krixon, gave eer er;il readings. Thoi assisting Mr. Erixon w.'-xe Mrs. E. M. Halley, Mrs. James Foster, Mrs. W. H. Meeker, ?.ir.-. Theodore Roth. Mrs. Mark S:iff, ar.J Mrs. Marvin Roth. Guests came and paid their re-s;..-cts to the honor guests, chatted a !it and were gone, for the hour3 between 2:30 and 4 o'clock. Junior Guild Plans Benefit Bridge October 11 The Junior Guild of St. Paul's Episcopal church is progressing satisfactorily with its plans for the benefit bridge which it will spon sor October 11 at the parish bouse. Reservations for tables will b made with Mrs. E. II. Kennedy. , The following committee has fceeu appointed. The table commit tee is Mrs. U. G. Shipley, Mrs. Carlton Smith, Mrs. George Ar buckle, and Mrs. J. E. Law. The t i committee is Mrs. A. C. F. ivrry, Mm. George White, and Miss Sarah Lansing. Mrs. John Cugbell. Jr., has charge of the serving. Jefferson Couple Are Wedded JEFFERSON Of I ale refit to their many friends is the an-S-ptembr 17 of Miss Elsie Main, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas per Main of Jefferson, to Cletus Rice of Albany. The wedding took place at La Grande, Oregon, at the home of the groom's mother. Tuesday evening at 7:30. Those present at the ceremony were Mr. and Mr3. W. N. Patter son, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Morhead. their torn, Lyle and Dean and daughter, Mildred Fay. The bride la well known here. having spent the greater part of j fcer life in thl vicinity. Salem Arts League Writers Club to Meet i4 - J: J if" -,--.-y -'ymm. T -1P " rm I i i i ii ' '' f i .... m III Y-t... :.--.-aL.:-.:-y- 7T"-- -- a t . . i - - m m IB V ---:-:..-..--:- -r'-v MRS. EVELYX PADDOCK SMITH I rf New and Old . een by 'X';VM i T fJ; i Broadway's Offerings An Ore gonian Every fall finds half a dozen plays, that, in the Spring;, dived into the hot weather still playing; to full houses, emerg ing from the heat intact and even yet commanding audiences. Playgoers who are gone from the city for the summer catch up on what they didn't see in the spring, and then wait for the fall Hat of productions, which this season command more interest than they have for some time. Perhaps no more disastrous theatrical season has been experienced in New York for several years, than that of last year. Fifty play3 opened before Christmas that lasted no longer than two weeks, andfj, shaw by February theatre after month ago. Today We Present Mrs. Evelyn Paddock Smith, who tcith her hus band, Paul Smith, has been visiting Mrs. William DiUmon Smith, mother of Mr. Smith. Mrs. Smith, who is a musician of prominence in the south, was - extensively entertained while visiting here. Mrs. F. A. Erickson, wife of Dean F. A. Erick son of Willamette university, who has been one of the active tea committee members of the Salem Woman's club at the state fair this week, and who is also an officer in the South Salem Woman's club. Mrs. J. M. Derers, general chairman of the ap plied arts division of the Salem Womayi's club who has been an active member of the tea committee for the state fair week. 1 A? is il i i I! Jtr-.-.:-x- . i .'v.-v.vw.'.'. . .'j-.-"l ","'"-. "-' "-"'"Ki 15 'J'rtM''! m:m?m::S4L.i MRS. F. A. ERICKSON t ,.v For the first time In 10 years the Writers section of the Salem ;rts league took a summer vaca tion this summer and had no meetings. They are beginning i point to bring a camp chair and their activities with a Tuesday theatre had removed the bulbs from its electrical sign work and remained dark ev ery evening, or were sab-leased to talkies that added, rather than subtracted, to glare the Time Square with one miracle after an other In the way of electric signs. It became not a race for the best production, but for the most ex travagant electrical display. There was no reason to attend the per formance. It was more to the night meeting at the home of Mrs. Blanche Jones, COS Sooth Church street. There will be as usual a pro gram rf original work Tuesday night. ?.fnry of the folk are not writers who belong to the club, only 20 charter members may be long? at once, but aU are Inter ested In literature, and many do write. Besides original work book reviews are given, and studies of literature are made. Mrs. C R Wilson Calls Monthly Meeting The Woman's Home Missionary society of the First Methodist eharch wIU meet in the church parlors Wednesday afternoon at 2:39 o'clock. Mrs. C. F. Wilson, president of the society will pre side. Mrs. Harriet Durkhelmer will ' have charge of the devotions, and Mrs. Benjamin Blatchford will lead the lesson discussion on the ' subject of "Immigrants." Special mastc wUl be a feature of the afternoon program,. This wOI be provided by Miss Mary Allen of Willamette university. Benefit Dance Event is Planned The Salem Daughters of the Nile club is one among the several very active lodge clubs which keeps up a busy social season all during the fall and winter months. They are starting their activities this year with a dance. 1 The affair will be a benefit ; dance given October -2 6 at Castll : lian Hal!. Complete arrangements , have as yet not been made. jvpuarc) I:os Monday Study class of literature 1:30 o'clock. Woman's club- bouse. Tuesday Institutions departmental W. C. T. U. regular meet ing. Temperance Hall, Ferry and 8. Commercial streets. Unitarian supper compli menting Berkley Blake, field secretary. Unitarian church, 9: tO o'clock. Friday Woman's Alliance, busi ness meeting, Emerson room, t o'clock. McDowell club first prac tice. Music building. Willam ette vnlverslty, Prof. Gaw studio. 7:10 o'clock. spend the evening outside. Such fireworks added no Joy to the life of producers of the legit imate drama. Critics screamed for good plays; speculators bought up all the tickets for the few that were on the boards, and sent the price sky-rocketing so that even top hats and opera cloaks were forced to climb the tortuous way to the second balcony (a sec tion the speculators bad over looked); the ordinary poor play goers became confused and dis heartened, and ended by staying at home. In such a state was the play business at the end of tbe Spring season. Producers and their long cigars, left New York, utterly routed by a rusUlade of newspaper print against an aggregation of men who co old not put on good enter tainment and keep tt going. A few hangers on would not retreat. The Theatre Guild continued to present "the camel through the needle's eye." (a very fresh view of rich and poor beggars In Prague); the English company who had brightened the spring season with John Drink water's new play. "Bird In Hand," decid ed to try the summer; "Journey's End, by all odds the best play of last year an English view of the war that became so popular that orchestra seats went for ten ana twelve dollars, bad no thought of ending its Broadway stay; "Street Scene" by Elmer Rice, of last year's Pulitzer prize play, found the summer more in harmony with its atmosphere lower east side on stuffy, soggy nights than the winter had been; and half a dosen musical shows cut down on costume expense and went in for coolness during July and August. All these lasted out the summer and came up very little the worse for it this fall All four of the dramas mentioned are playing now to good houses But the producers and manag ers who had so ingloriously re treated now came back, not mili tant and asking forgiveness, but boastful and promising. All had been to England. Each carried half a dosen manuscripts of Eng lish plays. It was not. they said, the fault of the producers that last season had been disastrous, it was purely the fault of the playwrights. If American play wrights could not give what the producers demanded, then It was right for them to go to England for their needs. Therefore, an nouncements cluttered every pa per: New York was to become English; Broadway, Picadilly; El. mer Rice, Galsworthy; Eugen was one Since then a rather dubious and thoroughly skeptical play-going public has watched with pa ternal patience the return not of a prodigal, but a boastful son, hop ing somehow that the American stage has not received its last cur tain call; that New York with its scores of legitimate theatres which total more than those of all the other big cities put to gether, may once more nightly call a horde of people to good plays. A few of the promises have been kept. Several dramas have opened. "Strictly Dishonorable," (in name only) is proving to be the brightest and wittiest play so far; "Rope's End" an English version of Loeb and Leopold has brought Ernest Milton to Amer ica, an actor whose subtlety de fies description a rising inflec tion, a twist of hia hand, says more than many do in books "Hawk Island." which boasts of being an intelligent mystery play rather Droves its assertion. Ana finally Eva Le Gallienne and her Civic Repertory." with among their many offerings, one tremen dona nlar The Sea Gull, by Tchekoff, a Russian drama that tor years was considered so diffi cult, so hard of production, that none essayed it. it was leix ior the Russian Art theatre in New Tnrlt to make it famous a few wars aao. and for Eva Le Gal iinne. to revive It. in what most people agree Is the most nruuani f cme KenertoTy penornote These and many others nave made New Yorkers take nean. and have persuaded disiUusioned txiaveoers of last year to again put a theatre Item In their week Often la it said that New York has a frivolous stage and play go- in nnmilace. The drama 01 pro- rt.ipoi- and theatre audience that was inacted here throughout last .nrnr u certainly more proof of the falacy of that state meQt" By" KEN McCORMICK. Unitarian Folk Will Entertain With Supper Complimenting Berkley Blake of San Francisco, and who Is field secretary for the American Uni tarian association of the Pacific northwest, members and friends of the Unitarian church will meet for a picnic supper at tne cnurcn Tuesday evening, at 6:30 o'clock. It is requested that hot dishes be brought and also sandwiches Coffee will be served. O. E. S. To Have Business Meeting The regular Tuesday night meeting for the Order of the East ern Star. Chad wick chapter No 57 will be only a brief business meeting and then dismissal con trary to the custom of the lodge, This action is made necessary because of the remodelling; which U being dtons in the hail. MRS. J. M. DEVERS Mrs Vir ginia Bacon Speaks On Standards of Literary worked out The bulb sale which will be held at the next regular meeting Qf the club in connection with the talk by Miss Elizabeth Lord on "gardens and bulbs" wa dis cussed briefly. It was also announced that 15 new applications for membership had been made at the Saturday meeting. The Saturday afternoon meet ing closed with a delightful tea in charge of Mrs. Ronald Jones and her committee comprised of Mrs. George Forge, Mrs. Charles Stricklin. and Mrs. Hary Worth. Pouring at the beautifully ap pointed table covered with a lace cloth and centered with a low bowl of fall flowers In pastel shades, was the president, Mrs. Harry Weidmer, and secretary, Mrs. W. H. Pennington. e Miss Lucille Rhoten who Is now teaching in the lone high school, was a guest at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rhoten 'over the week end. She was ac companied by Miss Genevieve Fer- rens. Criti lcisms ers Mrs. Virginia Bacon captivated the fancy of her listen Saturday afternoon with a scintillating discussion of Standards of criticisms with special consideration for mod ern literature," when she spoke at the program hour of the regular meeting of the Salem Woman's club regular meeting. Modern books cannot be judged according to the stand ards maintained for the classics, nor from the standpoint of realism, nor will the moral stick be sufficient, nor will an impressionistic criticism be a successful gage for criticism of the modern literature, according to the opinion of Mrs. Bacon. W . a . .... j bo a no noai juncueon serve a at Wnat nas actuated tneseinoon and It Is requested that all a a. w f .... new books is tne creaking down of conservatism on the part of a few daring souls and according to Mrs. Bacon this breaking; down, of eeaserratism 1 is the life of artistic growth." Mrs. Bacon believes that "con servatism is the usual thing the age of conservatism is until the age of 21 and from 22 years on to the end of tile." But through these very inno vations, caused by breaking orer from tbe conservative plan and which are generally laugbed at, growth is developed and. eventual ly the innovation becomes a stand ard for the conservatives, was the general opinion of Mrs. Bacon. The standard by which one may criticise modern literature is the author's success in developing his theme, and whether he is or is not sincere. Sincerity in hia purpose and successful development of bis theme is necessary in order to sump a work "good." Mrs. Ba con cited many modern books as illustrations of her points as she made them. Adding to the pleasure of the social hour were two soloa, one "A Bird of Love Divine," and the other "Within Your Hand," sung by Rachel Bayne accompanied by Ruth Bedford. Mrs. Roy Burton talked most interestingly on the picture "The Golden Stair" painted by Bare Jones. She bad a copy of her own present with which she illustrat ed her remarks. Further plans were made in the business meeting for the district meeting of the state organization which win meet in Salena October 8 for tbe purpose of organization there. The morning session will begin at 10 o'clock and continue during the day. Mrs. Sadie-Orr Dunbar will preside. There will be a bo host' luncheon at the Elk's club during the' noon hour. Another important announce ment was made concerning the County Confereration of Women's (dubs meeting which will meet In Mm City October 24. There win members intending to go make reservations as soon as possible. Announcements were made of institutions departmental meeting Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the club house and the Monday study class of the literature division of the club. This later meeting will be at the clubhouse at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Alice Dodd win speak on the "History of Art" Mrs. C. K. Speulding called at tention to the fact that the Doern becker hospital benefit bridge will be given October SO, and that plans were not as yet definitely GRAY BELLE State St., Salens, Ore. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER 50c 50c GRAY BELLE DINNER 75c 75c $1 DINNER DELUXE k Phone S33 for fty Among week-enders at the Uni versity of Oregon from -Salem this week were Miss Dorothy Liresley, Miss Mildred Roberts, Miss Katherlne Hartley, and Miss Rovena Eyre. This party motored down to attend rush week-end, and also stopped at Corvaill to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Q. Brown of Rose- burg, have been recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rhoten. Mrs.H. Thielsvn Is Now Home From Tour Mrs. H. B. Thlelsen :-.r ' daughter. Miss Nell Thitl- r returned to their home en street, having been through the United Sr.v -Canada since AuU3t 1. T! tored all the way cover miles In the course of Miss Thielsen drove. They left Oregon travt' . the Oregon Trail ani ma.': first stop at Lincoln and la -Coleridge, Nebraska, wh.-revisited friends. They wont u- Chicago to Jackson and I Michigan, and from t'::--? : into Canada, corning h... k ;: United States at Buffalo. N York, where they spent two visiting there aid In Spaff r'. -surrounding country. From here Mr?. T!:i,.-n i: Miss Tkieisen motored to ' dence, Rhode Island ar. l N Scitoate, a suburb of 1'rov: ! where thy were the z-.-Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tour: :: Tourtellot is the dau2fcr f r gresjman and Mr?. W. r. i; After a brief visit in P r: -. Nantucket.- R. I., whr a was visited, tbe travel- r- r.; to West Poiat. Peeksv:: to Philadelphia and C r: In Philadelphia they v; and Mr. Robert F. fiiil. .!-. f will be remeralif red. L-v i lem folk r the" Yttor r; copal church at one tirr.- The return was ma!--- m c" ' by way of Denver and V r lins, Colorado, throueh ?;.- mountains and the Blue- over the Old Oregon Trn. :! ag: and home Friday nisht. J. O. Mathis Home Entertains Guests Dr. and. Mrs. J. O. Mat:); n tained nnrles of Mrs. M.v.: i-. Charles J. and Lynch and F. Jef ferson Lynch from Gr----n M cur tain, Iowa, during this -a - v The Iowa guests wpre here v tending the state fair as won :ii visiting Dr. and Mrs. Matthis Friday evening Rev. and Mr?. H. F. Pemberton of ?-. . Washington, and formerly of !ue Leslie Methodist church of -.. were dinner guests of Dr. ?.;.J Mrs. Matthls. Amy Drevenstedt is internationally known through her blockprlnts. She Illustrated the first editions of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. She Is now producing a wonderful line Christmas cards, ties, seals and wrappings. We show the complete line in our shop. 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