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THE HARTFORD DAILY COU RANT: SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1924. -i jrrr 1 '(((n WzO 1 7 I'hot. l.y li.nhr.oh I 4 'WT T.tV JMloto by 1'lioto by Curtiss-a-hcrvee I 'Cm-! I i lwHKkwtii-w wmr y- Mm. K.Af.alA in-nrmn hi unwiyMiiiiti ft riioto by Curtiss-Schervee chairman of the rmn annual meeting of the ll'nl Cuard avenue a member of Voters. at the the program commtlec for the 'V fe 5rcc.

West Haitford. amor League Revue and of ie canJi) commifec. Junwi League iicvue rvluch is 1 'X 'o be glVen on 12 and Mrs. Robert B. Swain (above) and Mrs.

Kenneth C. Collins till entertain at a bridge part) tomorrow afternoon at the Hartford Coif Club for Mrs. Allen W. Bevin. nity at the Palais Itoyal and the Urn.

Frederick W. Arnold will I KJVS'y-fV 7' Icavfi about tae necund w-ck in 1 -b- jf i ruury for Itpllaiie, lo spfnd the K-inL VvVW remainder of the r-, The usual Satmdav nutht dime jeR-K-i -iy 1 was held lust evening at the Jlnrt- VV.l. I. c. 4gr -hyy.

by Johnstone Miss Louise Flo)d, rvho sailed Thursday for France, rvhere she will tal(e up children's at the American Memorial Hospital in Rheims. 1 SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Scieti' was vpiy gay Friday evening; when the. Hartford debutantes and jounK matrons took tlm part of living models In a fashion show the first of its kind in this city at; the Hartford Golf Club, at a uniiiue auction aale of tickets for the premiere performance of the Junior League Revue. The auction followed the idea of those preceding New York first and prove 1 both Unusual and amusing. Hartford men were the auctioneers, ana members of the entertainment committee ns-aisted the biddei.

in 1 ho fashion arrow exhibited, costume for immediate, Soutlvjin and gprin wear, furnishing atriklng nt r-tainment The auctioneers included Joseph W. Thurston. Chailis IS. Beach and Walter Ji. Allen.

REVIEWING TH-TWEEK Of Interest to society was tlio announcement of the date set fur the wedding of Miss Kleim.r Tuft onl Arthur Van Jtiper Tilton on Saturday, February 2, at Trinity Clii'nh The wedding will bo a small one with only rejativea mrtl intimate frlenji attending. Mrs. John It. J.arus, will be the matron of honor and Miss Kmma McDonald of Brooklyn will be the maid of horror. Master Charles Taft Larug will bo an attendant.

The, best man ill be President Uemsnn B. Ogilby of Trinity College. and the ushers will be Charles J. Howard K. Finer Slither and J.

Bayard Cunningham of Schenectady, K. V. The League of Women Voters held a luncheon Monday at the Hotel Bond which was largely attended. Judge William M. Mallbie and Hamilton Holt were the.

upeakeis. Mr. Holt spoke again later ii the afternoon at the Center Church Hoiiiic, giving his second current events lecture before the Hartford Woman's Club. On the same day the Hearthstone Club met at the Busincsj and Professional Women's Club to hear Mrs. F.

W. Gerard, state federation chairman on conservation, speak on "Forestry." and the Woman's Connecticut Home Missionary Union mot at the parish house of the West Hartford Congregational Church. Mrs. Joh.rt O. Knders, Mrs.

I.m lus B. Barbour and Mrs. W. Stuart Glazier each gave benefit bridge patties on Tuesday at their respective homes, tor, the Woman's Aid Society on Barbour street. The Charter Oak t'el-phian Society heard.

Mrs. Antonio S. Andretta speak at the Y. W. c.

A. on "Art Galleries In Florence," and the Buth Wyllys Chapter, D. A. Chapter House Circle of King'. Daughters and' Southwest Community Circle all held meetings.

On Wednesday Mrs. William II. lihodss of Retreat avenue entertained the Hartford Colony of New England Women. While the Business and Professional Women held their weekly lunqheon and heard Miss Fannie W. Davis speak.

T8e State Federation of Women's Clubs held a' board meeting Thursday at the JHtotel Bond, an all day affair! with luncheon served at noon. The; Hartford section of the SoclPty of theCoIonlal Dames of Connecticut was-entertained at the home of Mrs. Bernard T. Williams on Woodland street. Mils.

William H. H. Smith gave' an account, st the meeting; her visit last summer to the ancient ancdstral home of the Washington In Midland, England. The Mlisiedl Club held an open meeting for active and, associate members at tlte Center Church House. The Connecticut Valley Garden Club met the home of Mrs! Daniel S.

Morrell on Oxford There were several dimes on Friday, among them being that given' by the Omega Gamma Delta Frater 4 Mrs. Louis F. Middkbrook cmUUx for the mW Uap a Women Ma Jmc Hall 5 Muin limantic Welfare ruircau, on the work that im being done by that organisation. Relreshmenls were served. Mis.

'Dramas W. Russell of Bloom-field avenue, has as her guest Mias Rosemary Kellogg of Water-bury. Kellogg is the daughter of Mr. and MrV. J.

J. T. Kellogg of Water-bury. COLLEGE NEWS One Connecticut man, J. D.

liarrett, of Greenwich, will be in the cast when the Yale Dramatic Association presents "The Faun" by Edward Knoblock, at the Shubert Theater on Monday, February 4, during the Junior Promenade. "The Faun" is a light comedy, thought by the association lo he more entertaining to the undergraduates and their guests, than the more staid plays given in the past. "The Faun" will be presented in both afternoon and evening performances. Miss Crook, first English woman minister of a large church in England, and associate professor in the department of Biblical literature at Smith College, is giving another of her series lectures on the "Challenge of Fundamentalism." on Tuesday at Connecticut College, New Ixmdon. H.r lecture tour is under the exclusive direction of G.

Arnold Shaw. Miss Crook is not attacking primarily the Fundamentalists but is attempting to show what positive religious message liberal Christianity has to offer in reply to the challenge; of the Fundamentalists. "You cannot hold your scienco and any religion." Miss Crook maintains that to know science aids religion. Trinity College undergraduates are completing- plans for junior week to take place immediately after the midyear examination period, February I to 4. Among the features of the occasion will be the Delta I'hl tea dance at the fraternity house on Friday afternoon with the Bacchanalian Orchestra furnishing the music; the play to be given by The Jesters, the Trinity Col'ege dramatic club, a concert by the Glee Club, and a dance at the Hartford Club on Frldayeve-ning.

February 1. Psl Upsilon will give a tea dance at' the fraternity house on Saturday afternoon, February 2, and the Bacchanalian Orchestra will furnish the music. In the evening there will be a basketball game be-vveen Fordham University and Trl-v at the Hopkins street gymnasl-A special chapel service will be Sunday morning, and on Mon- evening the Junior Promenade will be held in Alumni Hall. Y'affe'd Orchestra will furnish the music. Rehearsals, for The Jesters plac, "The Turtle Dove," a Chinese tragedy by Margaret Oliver, are being held at the home of Mrs.

Hallie Gelbart Reynolds, Miss Frances Simpson, will play the sole feminine role, that of Kwen-Lin, daughter of he mandarin. Miss Simpson is a member of the Actor's Guild of New York City, and is well known in Hartford professional and amateur circles. The remainder of the cast is composed of G. Waldron O'Connor, '21, George F. Humphrey; "23, Sereno B.

Garnmel. '24, Miron B. Sherman, '2fi, Howard S. Smalley, '27, 1'. Ottis SCnissler, '25 and Roger R.

Eastman, '21. Nicholas Manocchio, '2G is production manager of the society, M. E. Dann, ''20. is advertising manager and W.

S. Hubbard, '26 is property manager. David M- Hadlow Is chairman of tho Junior Prom committee. Mr, Hadlow has been ill since the early prtrt of December and his place has been taken temporarily by L. Hall Bartlett.

The memhers of the com mittee Rre INNS J. I jnueisoo oi the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Francis J. Cronin of the neutral body. William J.

Beers of iSt. Anthony flail. Raymond A. Montgomery of Delta Kappa Epsilon, L. Hall Bartlett of Alpha Delta Phi.

William K. Applebaugh of Delta Phi, Marius P. Johnson of Sigma Nu, Robert M. Healey of Alpha Tail Kappa and Chauncey A. Jepson, president of the junior class, ex-officio.

The chaperons for the premena'de are Mrs. Remsen B. Ogilby, Mrs. Lyman Brainerd, Mrs. Robert C.

Buell, Mrs. George E. Rulkley. Mrs. J.

H. Kelso Davis, Mrs. Stanley L. Galpin, Mrs. Irenus K.

Hamilton, Mrs. Benjamin Knower, Mrs. Henry A. Perkins, Mrs. C.

L. F. Robinson, Mrs. George Simpson, Mrs. Robert A.

Wadsworth and Mrs. John C. Wilson. CLUB NOTES' Dr. Gibbons.

Lift D. Ph. D. will speak before the Hartford Woman's Club tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Center'Church use, on the "Unsheathed Sword of France." Throughout the European War Dr. Gibbons lived in Paris.

He made frequent trips to the front; was In the Verdun campaign; went with the English to the Suez Canal; spent several months In Cairo. He was in Italy at the outbreak of the war with the Central Powers, and made an extensive trip through Germany, Austria and Hungary. When the United States entered the war, Dr. Sigma l.am'xla Nn Fraternity at the ('lob. There were a number of unrulier club meetings on this day.

The Hartford College Cluh held a subscription bridge party at the Hotel Bond yesterday afternoon which was very largely attended. Miss Helen C. Cross w.is tire chairman of the com mittee on arrangements. ENGAGEMENTS Mrs. William Harrison Day of No.

100 Fast Sixty-first street. New York, has announced the engagement of her niece. Miss Filna Forde, formerly of Pittsburgh, to William Williams Crehoie. of West'ield. N.

J. Miss Forde alien. led the Winchester School in Pittsburgh and Miss Bird's School in Norwiilk. Mr. Crehore graduated from Vale University, class of '17.

Birring the war he served in France as captain ill the air service, commanding the r.Mh, Balloon Company. Ho Is associated with lire National Hank of Commerce and la a member of the Vale Club. Mr. and Mrs. Kdnuind Dwicht of New York City hive announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Julia II.

IHvlglit and Darwin James Adams also of New York. Miss IHvigbt, who is a debutante of this season, attended the Spenen School and Westnvcr in Middlebury. and is a member of the junior league, Mr. Adams is a member of the class of lfll'O at Princeton University. He Is vice-president of the Mentopine Corporation of Philadelphia and Is a member of the Princeton clubs of that city, rmd of New York.

No date has been set for the wedding. VeRSON ALS" Mrs. A. P.ayinond Kllis, who has been spending a few da)n with her mother, Mrs. F.

Shailer of Center-brook, returned yesterday. Mrs. Kverett J. Lake is spending several weeks in Atlantic City. Mrs.

John Garvan will give a dinner party at her home, on Woodland street, followed by a theater party, on Tuesday for Miss Anno Car.ol.in Bisscll, one of this season's debutantes. Miss Pit-sell ia the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bis-sell of Farmington. The Beta Beta Chapter of the Tsl Upsllon Fraternity will give a tea dance Saturday Rfternoon, February 2.

from 4 until 7 o'clock at the fraternity house. No, SI Vernon street. Smilax and flowers In the fraternity colors of gold and garnet will be used In the decorations. The hostesses for tiie afternoon will be Mrs. Remsen B.

Ogllby, Mrs. Frank C. Babbit, Mrs. Arthur Adams, M.S. Henry A.

Perkins, Mrs, Vernon K. Krleble, Mrs. J. H. Kelso Davis, Mrs.

William Hum-mersly, Mrs. Benjamin Knowler, Mrs. I. K. Hamilton, Mrs.

George E. Rulkley. Mrs. John C. Wilson, Mrs.

C. L. F. Robinson, Mrs. Robert A.

Wadsworth, Mrs. H. 1 F. Locke, Mrs, Robert C. Buell, Mrs.

Lyman Bushnell Brainerd and Mrs. Frederick T. Simpson. Mrs. Taul R.

Buchanan of Farmington avenue mill entertain at a bridge party on Tuesday afternoon at the Hartford Golf Club for Mrs. Ernest K. Esenbach of Glrard avenue. Mrs. William Lewis of Carlson, W.

is viKiting her daughter, Mrs. Harold M. Holdemess, of Farmington. Miss' Harriet Maxwell of Bockvllle slid this cily will give a hidge party Tuesday afternoon at her apartment on Gillett street In honor of Miss Rosemary Kellogg of Watcrbiiry. William E.

Conklln of No, 10 Forest street. Miss Elizabeth F. Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S.

Allen of Kenyon street gave a luncheon at the Hai tford Golf Club last week for several of her friends. A midwinter ball will be held on Saturday, January 20, at the Shuttle Meadow Country Club. Yaffe's Orchestra will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs.

AVilllam A. Bnlke-ley spent several days last week in New York. Mrs. Annie R. Becker of Fail pnr, N.

Y. Is the week-end guest of Airs. S. Wales Dixon of Vinelnnd terrace, The Friday Cluh met at the home of the Misses Cone of Asylum avenue. Miss Bailey Leo Clark gave several readings.

Francis T. Maxwell of Roekville is spending two weeks at Palm Reach, Fla. Miss Lorettn Higgins, prima donna of the Opera Continue, Paris, will give a song recital lit the High School Assembly Hall, Wlllimantle, on Friday. February 1, under the auspices ot the Willimantic Rotary Club, E. Bosworth Grior entertained at a bridge paity on Thursday at his heme, No.

1IU Fern street. A tea will be given this afternoon from 4 until II o'clock at the Business and Professional Women's Club at which oflleers of the Hartford Woman's Cluh will he guests of honor. A special musical program will be given by Miss Florence Augusta Atkins and Mrs. Irene Cook. The program will be nj follows: Miss Atkins: 1.

Prelude, minor by Rachmaninoff, "Gavotte," major, by Glaionnow and "Dreamer's Tale" by I'eterkln; 2, Etude, sharp minor and Scherzo, sharp minor by Cticp-ln: Mrs. Cook: "Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses" by Openshaw; "Just A'Wearyln for You" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Mrs. Cook will be accompanied by Mits Marion Hyde Roberts. The Thursday Club met at the home of Mrs.

Lucius B. Barbour of Washington street Friday afternoon, Arthur S. Hlldcbrand, of New York. Gibbons volunteered to lecture on the American intervention for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under French departments, -traveling all over France laboring among people. The hostess for the afternoon will firiwrt DR.

HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS. be Mrs. Silas H. Chapman. Mrs.

Cur tis P. (iladding and Mrs. Howard H. Burdick ill pour, assisted by Mrs. James Gray, Mrs.

Richard D. Faxon, Mrs. S. L. Ogden, Mrs.

Alfred C. Wurts, Mrs. William E. Fanning, Mrs. Frederick W.

Turner, Mrs. Frank H. Stocker and Mrs. Peter Loeser. Music will be by Miss Evelyn T.

Mar-cil who will sing an aria in French. Mrs. William E. Butterfield will ac company her. The annual meeting of the West Hartford League of Women Voters will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 23, at 1:15 o'clock.

In tho new Masonic Hall on S. Main street. West Hartford, at which officers will be elected. The constitution in ids final form will be read and adopted. Luncheon will be served promptly at 1:15 p.

m. by the committee of which Mrs. F. Middle-brook Is chairman, assisted by the following: Mrs. S.

GrlswoM, Mrs. L. Bryant, Mrs. W. E.

Duffy, Mrs. J. H. Steane, Mrs. C.

M. Hatheway, Mrs. A. E. Single, Mrs.

R. E. Stronach, The Hampton Club of Springfield la planning a largo dance to be held nt the Auditorium In Springfield on April 3, with a twenty piece orchestra furnishing the music. On Friday and Saturday evenings of February 8 and 9 dances will be given at the Eclectic House, Wes-lcyan College. Middletown.

Music will be furnished for the dancing by Yaffe's Orchestra. Mrs. Kenneth G. Collins and Mm. Robert B.

Swain will give a bridge party tomorrow afternoon at the Hartford Golf Club In honor of Mrj. Allen W. The Jitney players will leave on their second tour on Monday, June 30. Miss Rachel McKnight will no manager of the company. Miss Priscilla Maxwell of Rockvllle anil this city left Thursday for Bell-aire, where she will spend several weeks.

Mi. E. A. Kenyon left last week for Chicago on her way to California where she ill spend the remainder of the winter. Edward It.

Grier of No. 110 Fern street and his son, E. Bosworth drier, will sail from New York Saturday. IH, on the Cunarder, S. Samaria, for a four months' cruise around the world.

They will return to Hartford sometime in June. Dr. D. Everett Taylor and Mrs. Taylor of Wlllimantle entertained the Saturday evening Whist Club yesterday at their home.

Mrs. Helen Boss Cummlngs won (Jie prize for the women and Judge William A. Arnold for the men. Consolations went to Mrs. William A.

Arnold and Caiieton Pollnrd. Eighteen guests were entertained at supper. Miss Glenna Collett of Providence and Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Philadelphia are spending some time at Rellalre. Fla.

Miss Marjorle Lake and Miss Priscilla Maxwell, who were prominent on the golf links last year, will play again this year. Miss Grace Markham, daughter of Judge Daniel A. Markham and Mrs. Markham. entertained Tuesday evening at a bridge prty at her home on Aeylum avenue.

Miss Dorothy Godfrey, daughter of Mrs. Nathena P. Godfrey of Beacon street, spent last week In New York City. Miss Charity Conklln and her roommate. Miss Charity Brown of Philadelphia, both student, at Smith College, are spending the week-end with Miss Conklln'i parents, Mr, and Mrs.

Keeping We are Jnerers in granite and marble write for illustrated booklet. All cr tan J'ou formerly of Hartford, spoke on his latest book; "Blue Waters," He will speak net Thursday on "Islands of tlio Mrs. George W. I'omeroy of Sig-ollrney street has returned to her home after having spent several eeks as the gu -st of her niece, Mr.s. Harold R.

Smith of Pittsburgh, pa. Miss Ann Barry of Sigourney street left Tuesday for Pasadena, Calif, to spend the remainder of the winter witn her aunt, Mrs. Edwin Thatcher Johnson. Miss Elizabeth Robinson of Gains-viile, who is. 11 student at Emerson College, I ronton has returned to ehool after hit rug spent several weeks with her sister, Mrs.

Clinton 1. Dciniug of Steele road. West Hurt-ford. Mrs. Cliailes H.

liedfleld designed the. poster for the Junior League Revue and had the honor of the first tickets for the opening niKbt performance to Governor Char'es A. Templeton and Mrs. Temp.letou of Watcrbiiry. The Junior League of New Yolk will give a ball at the Hotel Astor on, Tuesday evening lor the benefit of the Prospect Hill Shelter, New-York.

Mrs. (ieorgo P. Post, is in charge of the affair and Miss Murbi Vanderbilt is In charge of the program. Mr. and Yrs- fi- Diale Forma of Farmingtun are planning to attend.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Win field Noyes of No. 178 Prospect street.

Willimantic, entertained members of their whist cluh yesterday evening. The occasion also marked the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Case, mem bers of the club, who were given an orange lustre bridge set.

A luncheon was served, a feature of one dee oration being a wedding cake. were present. Mrs. E. B.

Crane of Willimantic entertained the Home Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church at her home, No. 217 Windham Road, Tuesday. Twenty-five were present and listened to a talk by Miss Elizabeth Anderson, secretary of the Wil Tel. 3-0197 Welcome AVERY9 WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP NO. 737 MAIN STREET a Good Resolution REAL PLATINUM MFG.

rcsohiti-m are not made at New Year's evert though that is the commonly accepted lime for "turning over a new Man) resolutions are made ever) day in the year to the effect that more attention shall be paid the little plot of ground where so man dear to a certain family rest in the Wait for the final call. Resolutions of this nature should be cpt. is the duty of every mfmhtr of the family lo do their part not leave it lo an older brother or even a richer relative. It decidedly is a family matter. Visit lh.il family lot today if it is in Hartford and appreciate what be done to improve its appearance.

We will be glad loidvise the cost of a monument whether it be simple or prclcniious without obligation. OF CHILDREN'S SHOES MISSES' AND GROWING GIRLS Children's Sandals, Oxfords and Boots. 11.00 grade 4.50 grade misses' sizes" $3.45 $5.00 grade misses' sizes 1 $5.50 grade in growing girls Diamonds If there is one piece of jewelry thai must be perfectly, exeeuteil, it is the diamond engagement ring. 0ur 27 years exiei ieni'c in working and designing rings in platinum and gold qualify us to make a diamond ri yr for you. Come in and let us show you what we do.

De Feo Manufacturing and Retail Jeweler Waverly 721 Main St. grade in growng girls Anderson Bros. No. 12 Windsor Avenue Visitors Always These are all new goods made up for us. We want you to know our children's shoes.

This is a chance for you to try them out. Ml llllll III IHTHTTTimMTT.

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