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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1913
Page
16
A Mobile magazine paragraph discusses the musical Kismet with Otis Skinner and a Mobile dancer joining a chief role. It reflects on misconcepts of Arabian Nights and literary purity, citing Wordsworth and a view of Arabian tales as a treasured but misinterpreted prize and critiques critics unfamiliar with literature.
Phone tenant and Mrs. Barlow. Dr. Tuckey after a week as guest left for San Francisco. Captain and Mrs. Garcia returned from leave. Mrs. Flower and two children and Miss Schieffelin of Mobile are weekend guests of Chaplain and Mrs. Newsome. Lieutenant Smith hosted an informal party. Officers and ladies danced at the Quarantine Station with the post band, followed by a midnight bathing party. Barbara Burgess celebrated ninth birthday with friends.
Dr Sophie Laws the charming guest of Miss Margaret Austin will be honoree Wednesday evening at an informal supper party at the Battle House Roof Garden. The quartet includes Dr Laws of Nova Scotia Miss Margaret Austil of Spring Hill Mrs Sydney Robbins and Mrs W W Croom.
Miss Ethel Burgess and Miss Ruth Mc Gowin return from a European trip with two chums sailing from London. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Burgess plan to meet their daughter in New York City and stay north until mid autumn. Belle Tilden reports from Berlin and Italy, and Mrs. Lauretta finishes Norway Sweden tour, while Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Sims end summer in England en route from Le Havre.
Mr H H Wefel and his daughter Marguerite return from a Western tour and plan to leave this week for Tate Spring and Asheville for about a month. Several Mobile social figures and vacationers are mentioned with travels to New Orleans Lake Chautauqua Week's Bay Saengerstown Inn and Biloxi, noting Mrs Mickle's foot injury and wishes for speedy recovery.
The Fort Morgan chaplain has started a program of entertainment by purchasing and installing a moving picture machine for soldiers. Excellent films and music accompany the show, and the initiative is praised as a pleasant morale boost at the distant post. Lieutenant Campbell traveled to Mobile Week to meet his wife and two daughters who had just arrived from the lake. A dinner was hosted Monday by Captain and Mrs. Dia for their brother, Dr. Tuceky, Sanewe-old Bailo and Burgess, with Lt. Jones in attendance.
Miss Mary Van Allen sails for Europe and visits England and Germany with relatives while her niece Eugenia Van Allen plans to return home in early autumn. Miss Leona McAdory leaves for Chicago to spend weeks with Mrs. Tom Butt at 8316 Van Buren Street.
Mr Barry Lyons makes a flying trip to Texas with visits planned in Galveston and Houston. Mrs E D Bondurants friends greet her again after a siege of severe cold and fever that kept her at home for a week or more.
Mrs R P Pope and her daughter depart this week for Franklin Tennessee to visit relatives. Misses Dorothy and Elizabeth Wefel, among the city’s young set, left last night with their grandmother Mrs Nieman for Three Springs Tennessee.
Local society pages record Mrs S F Gailliard and family returning from Fairhope while Mr and Mrs Ford Forchheimer end seashore plans at Pass Christian. Contralto E G Turrentine praised for summer tours in Dresden Keyser and Indiana as Madeline Maury shines at Fairhope seashore events. Georgia Higley and Frances Ervin join Point Clear social circle. Genevieve Watson visits Pensacola after Notre Dame studies. Miss Mollie Blount returns from Mobile. Continued on page five.
A lighthearted yet revealing episode follows a 19 year old Irish conductor on a New York streetcar who dodges a passenger’s nickel with two chopstick picks, drawing laughs from the crowd. The broader piece shifts to a domestic drama about Mr Thurston’s growing alcohol problem at a dinner party, affecting his wife Helen and friends who fear for his business and home life.
A formal dinner with the Thurstons reveals social pretension and alcohol excess. Mr. Thurston drinks heavily, prompting Mrs. Thurston to curb refills while Helen observes growing embarrassment and tension among the guests.
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