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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1908
Page
6
Literary notes describe The Delineator campaign that promotes placing homeless children in warm homes rather than endowing an orphanage. It reports contact with 45 agencies and 1,200 institutions, has helped place several hundred children, and links agencies with Dr Hastings Hart.
Readers recall a lifelong invalid seeking relief from pain and fear while others seek Heaven in small mercies. A mournful chorus of voices yearns for safety, love, and a world free from sickness as a girl admires a marble bust and contemplates heaven. The piece contrasts grim suffering with brief visions of solace amid urban imagery and literary references.
Houghton Mifflin & Co. announce Miss Alice Brown's new novel Rose MacLeod to be released April 25. The narrative blends comedy and pathos with a cast including Electra a beautiful New England conscience bound heroine Rose and her widowed relation. The plot centers on family comic complication and a serious labor leader father enriching the tale with depth.
For over twenty five years Satin Toilet line has served a refined clientele. Ladies praise Satin Skin and Satin Skin Powder and Soap for superior merits and satin smooth skin. Leading druggists carry Satin toilets and reputable dealers will not offer substitutes.
The Cincinnati Woman's Club announces two major events this week with social and literary significance. Notables include President Charles William Eliot and Mrs. Eliot at a Wednesday reception, and a Friday event for the American Association of Hospital Superintendents.
Mrs. E W Robinson of Avondale hosted the Riverside Culture Club Monday April 13. Longfellow was the featured poet with quotations from Hiawatha, readings by Mrs. Harwood and Mrs. Robinson, and papers on Americas Greatest Poets and Evangeline. The club adjourned to meet April 27 with Mrs. Swing.
Miss M. F. Magurk, noted literary figure, will present a lecture with illustrations on The Holy Grail. The event is scheduled for the evening of April 28 at the Woman's Club rooms.
The Woman's Fortnightly Reading Club gathered at Mrs Calloway's home. Readings included King Lear and selections from Shakespeare essays and sonnets. Mrs Hand led a paper on Calumniation of English Drama and Miss Stark presented Self-Revelation of Shakespeare.
The pupils of Miss Matilda Wiegand, stringed instruments teacher at the YWCA, will perform in recital tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The annual YWCA meeting for officer elections is set for tomorrow at 3 p.m. The first Saturday outing for association members is April 18 with a 2:30 p.m. trolley departure to Sedamsville woods to seek flowers.
The Susan B Anthony Club will meet in the Gibson House on Tuesday at 2 30 pm. Mrs N S McLaughlin and Mrs Rech tin will give current events followed by a business meeting.
Twenty members met at Mrs. Georgia Long's home on Wednesday for roll call and a program after a talk by Mrs. William Weidinger on The Second Revolution. Miss Wells, Mrs. Long, and Mrs. Wortham discussed French musical composers followed by instrumental and vocal performances by Mrs. Hummel and a quartet including Mrs. Donahue, Armstrong, Bosley, and Whitaker.
Mrs. M. M. Robertson presided as hostess for the Philomathians annual day meeting on April 14 with many guests. Outside talent performed violin and piano pieces including Souvenir De Haydn, while Mrs. Alfred Hartzel sang Farewell to Summer. Mrs. Laura Aldrich read from Scott Kipling and Dickens with humorous recitations. Mrs. Hartzel and Mrs. Hall presented Scotch Irish and Welsh songs. Refreshments followed social hour. Mrs. Mary Taylor will host on April 28.
The Wyoming Monday Club will hold a gathering tomorrow afternoon with Mrs W H Connor at a local venue. Members are expected to discuss upcoming club activities and community outreach plans.
The Norwood Culture Club held its annual election last Monday afternoon naming Mrs. Robert McGowan as President and Mrs. Frank Lawrence as Vice President along with Mrs. E. C. Bartram elected Recording Secretary.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. H. E. Greene, Treasurer, Mrs. N. B. Beckett, Historian, Mrs. W. F. Robertson. Mrs. Julius Friedeborn and Mrs. George Shields elected to membership. Joint meeting of the Council of Jewish Women and the Council of Jewish Juniors held Sunday afternoon in Avondale. Mrs. Ben Loewenstein presided. program opened with vocal solo My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice by Saint-Saens sung by Miss Adele Sachs. Miss Czarnomska spoke on What the Hebrews Owe to Older Nations with historical and Biblical points. OOeE GdOOD GREENROOM GOSSIP. P. O. OOOOOOD. Drama prize fight idea born at a charity tea attended by Taylor Granville, leading to The Star Bout in vaudeville. Granville recalls seeing boxing displays that inspired the act. An ambitious playwright asked Blanche Ring about a burlesque Three Weeks in Life's Shop Window. she declined.
This Sunday afternoon the Lyric Theater presents a program of motion pictures that talk through action and visual humor. A reel of twenty three hundred yards of film offers a variety of humoristic scenes, interspersed with travel and journey footage in search of fun.
Jefferson De Angelis compiles anecdotes from his professional life spanning a lengthy career. His agile work in The Gay White Way and a world tour include extended visits to China India Africa and Australia.
The Four Huntings present The Fool House a three act musical comedy at the Walnut with forty performers mostly girls. A madhouse setting misleads onlookers as no real lunatics appear while vaudeville acrobatics and a strong plot promise lively entertainment.
David Warfield speaks with James B. Morrow about audience influence on theater at the Belasco Stuyvesant Theater. He notes cues come from the audience and actors follow them, and suggests hiring and rehearsing audiences to control coughing and timing for better climaxes and jokes.
Sarah Bernhardt will stage a new Easter production in Paris titled The aid of Rabenstein. Ernst Von Wildenbruth wrote it, Rudolph Beiser translated, with London performances planned and potential New York transfer. The tale centers on a clash between medieval outlaws and aristocrats in Augsburg, featuring a nobleman’s son in love with an outlaw leader’s daughter, a role Bernhardt will portray.
The Warrens of Virginia completed its 150th performance at the Belasco Theater in New York with the Thursday matinee on April 16.
Lew Welch recalls wandering the East Side and Hell's Kitchen seeking a person who used the words dis and dat. He notes he failed to find anyone and questions whether the slang has died out or never existed.
In the editorials the speaker recalls East Side upbringing and notes scarce real life encounters with certain language. March library requests show Ibsen Shaw and Pinero plays top the list while Shakespeare seems under demanded, inviting reflection on ownership of the Bard.
Miss Laura Hope Crews, former leading lady for Otis Skinner in His Grace de Grammont and star of The Great Divide with Miss Margaret Anglin and Henry Miller, is chosen for a premier in a modern American life drama by Edgar Allan Woolf titled A Queen's Garden.
Clara Novello, famed singer once celebrated by Charles Lamb in a poem, died in Rome several weeks ago at ninety. She is also linked to the literary world as the heroine of the sentimental musical novel Charles Auchester.
David Warfield fills Belasco's Stuyvesant Theater for every performance with The Music Master and A Grand Army Man as the weekend attraction, the latter play featured every Saturday night.
The same little black and tan dog from The Music Master remains in the cast as David Warfield performs his famed Von Barwig nightly at Belasco's Stuyvesant Theater New York except Saturdays.
Charles Frohman has secured Love Watches a comedy by Mm. Fleurs and Cavillet now past its hundredth Comedie Francaise performance. Billie Burke will star next season as a Trixie type, similar to her role in My Wife, opening the Lyceum bill.
Maude Adams has devised a light bridge adaptable to the proscenium opening of any theater where The Jesters is performed. The device uses seventeen baby spot lights joined and suspended twelve feet inside the arch, offering a powerful flood of light onto cyclorama scenes. It is a variation of her stationary night bridge now hanging in the Empire Theater New York.
James Fordbys author of The Chorus Lady and The Traveling Salesman departed for Europe aboard the Kron Princess in Cecile last Tuesday, signaling a promotional tour or literary journey.
Henry B Harris announces four US companies will present Charles Klein's The Lion and the Mouse for the 1908 9 season, bringing the great play to stages nationwide.
Ralph Stuart, presented by Henry B. Harris in Strongheart at the Walnut, once studied law before choosing the stage. He admits he would not have become a Blackstone or a Choate, since acting books hold more interest for him than law volumes.
Henrietta Crosman appears in Garrick's adaptation of The Country Girl. The play, titled for Miss Crosman's use, is adapted by Maurice Campbell from Garrick's version.
Art notes report an exhibition of George R. Barse works at the Art Museum. Nelson Peebles will devote his time to painting while Henry Sharp shows his piece titled pic.
The museum displays portraits of noted Indians and their home life in Closson's store on West Fourth street. Today marks the final day to view Kenyon Cox's works, while Gruppe's Holland scenes remain on view and attract attention.
Members of the Cincinnati Art Club plan a cottage on the Little Miami River run on the bachelor plan, detailing a communal living arrangement for dedicated artists.
Arrangements are underway for the annual May dinner honoring Frank Duveneck, the Cincinnati Art Club's esteemed instructor, with details to be announced.
The Cincinnati Women’s Art Club gathered yesterday in the Woman’s Club rooms. Miss Kate Wilson presented Current Art, followed by American Sculptors readings by Miss Abby Gray, Miss Virginia Thomas, and Miss Henrietta Wilson. Members’ works were exhibited.
Jacob H. Clemmer aged 86 the oldest attorney with one exception in Hamilton County passed away Monday April 6 funeral held April 8 in Walnut Hills Methodist Church. He belonged to the Methodist Church over sixty years served in church councils helped build Trinity and local Methodist structures. He was an Odd Fellows member sixty four years and contributed to the Children’s Home and the Home for the Friendless leaving two sons and a daughter.
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