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THE SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1921. Seattle Society Interesting Lectures to Be Given at Cornish School; Betrothals Announced at Pretty Tea. the auspices of the CornTINDER school and the Repertory Theatre lectures will be given at the Little theatre Friday afterat 4 o'elock by Mrs. Mary Aldis noon of Chicago, noted author and leo turer, and Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke of Davenport, Iowa, well known author and dramatist, whose drama, "Mr.

Faust." will be Cornish given Its first production at the school September 15. A social hour will follow, which will give oppor tunity to meet the distinguished guests. Engagement of Two Popular Girls Announced Yesterday Afternoon Dr. George Newlove. U.

S. and Mrs. Newlove announce the engage. ment of their daughter Margaret Frazer, to Lieut. Robert Wallace Burke, who is now stationed at Fort Lawton.

Yesterday afternoon at their quar ters at Fort Lawton, the interesting news was divulged, when Mrs. New. love and her daughter entertained with a pretty ten. At the same time the engagement of Miss Dorothy Van Way, daughter of Col. Charles Van Way, U.

S. and Mrs. Van Way. of Portland, to Mr. Donald Harold Hayselden, of Honolulu, who will graduate next year from West Point, was announced.

As the guests entered the drawing room little Eleanor Fleming, niece of Mrs. Peter Davison, presented them with tiny French bouquets tied with pastel shaded ribbons, from which fell four small cards bearing the betrothed names. Gorgeous baskets of vari hued asters and daisies adorned the rooms and the attractive tea table, where Mrs. Oscar J. Charles, wife of Col.

Charles. U. 8. presided, assisted by Miss Gwendolyn Newlove, Miss Grace Car. son and- Miss Louise Cleland.

No date has been set for the wedding. Mrs. White Will Entertain Departing Misses Mrs. Frederick Hall White is entertaining with a house party next Monday and Tuesday at her summer home at Agate Point for the pleasure of Miss Janet Henry and Miss Jane Stimson, who are leaving in a short time for California, where they will enter Miss Ransome's school. Ten friends of the honor guests will be entertained.

Engagement of Mr. Fraser Announced in the South Mr. and Mrs. Ben Campbell Cook of Croset, announce the engage ment of their daughter. Miss 10 sephine Williams Cook.

to Mr. Donald Robert Fraser, son of Mr. A. G. M.

Fraser of this city. The betrothal was disclosed this afternoon at a tea Mra. Cook gave at her home to the South. Miss Cook lg a charming Southern girl, a member of one of the old famIlies, Mr. Fraser attended the Uni versity of Washington, and member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

He served three years in the world war with the 63rd artillery and the 209th engineers, ten montha ore which were spent overseas. No date has been set for the wedding. Mrs. Coe Dinner Hostess Mrs. F.

H. Coe will entertain with dinner at her home this evening. in compliment to Miss Effie Johnson, of Vancouver, B. who 1s the house guest of Dr. and Mrs.

Herbert E. Coe. Covers will be placed for eight, Mrs. Augustine Plans Luncheon Mrs. M.

B. Augustine will enter. tain the Aunt Elizabeth club with a luncheon in the private tea room at Frederick Nelson's Saturday afternoon, followed by bridge at her home. Farewell Dinner Complimenting Miss Miriam Youell, who is leaving Friday for Portland and Astoria, where she will do social service work, Miss Ruth Price will entertain with a dinner at her home this evening. Dinner Dance Honors Mr.

and Mrs. Hines Mr. and Mrs. Heber Plank were hosts at their home last evening, honoring Mr. and Mrs.

James Shackelford Hines, of San Francisco, with a large dinner, followed by dancing. when additional guests joined the party. The handsome table decorated with a long, low center. piece of delicately tinted dahlias and candles in corresponding shades. Luncheon for House Guest Miss Margaret Armstrong entertained with a luncheon of twelve covers at her home this afternoon, complimenting her house guests, Miss Norma Jones of Oakland, and Miss Catherine Smith of Ocean Park, Cal.

Pretty Birthday Party For the pleasure of her little daughter, Louise Margaret, on her 11th birthday, Mrs. A. C. Lage entertained with a pretty party for eighteen of her little friends Monday afternoon. Ivory baskets of pink gladioli and snapdragons decorated the home, and the dainty refreshments were served on small tables prettily adorned in pink and white blossoms.

Hand painted cards marked the places for the little guests, and pink parasols were distributed for favors. Informal Luncheon Mrs. E. N. Brady and Ming Margaret Brady of Tacoma entertained with a luncheon at Frederick and Nelson's today, complimentary to Mrs.

George Youell and Miss Miriam Youell, DATES TO REMEMBER THURSDAY, AUGUST 95 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lilly will be dinner hosts, honoring Mr. and Mra.

John N. Perry, of New York City. Mra. John Lee Hall will, complimeat Mrs. James Shackelford Hines, of San Francisco, at lunchcon.

FRIDAY, ACGEST Mre Edward Hale to entertain with tea from until complimentIna Mrs. John G. Welch. Mrs. Fred Everett will entertain at bridge, complimentipe Mina Katherine Shank, Mra.

Witt Otto Hell to entertain at tea honoring her mother. Milton Baker Blouke, of Chicago, Miss Cymbra Daniela to entertain with luncheon at the Tennis club. The wedding of Miss Helen Holster to Mr. Ralph Lehman will take place In the Church of the Epiphany at 8:30 elock. SATURDAY.

AUGUST Miss Vernita Sweatna will tain with a large picnic supper at her home at Halter lake. TUENDAY. AUGUST 36. Stra. Charles B.

Mra. 9. Wingate and Mra. Charles Parker will be Joint hostesses at progressive funcheon, honoring Mra. Harry Packard and Misa Alice Watkins, ef Denver.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31- Mre. Monte Reld Coleman and Miss Wyleha Bell to entertain at an afternoon bridite, complimenting Miss Katherine Shank. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will entertain the Gamma Phi Beta delegates with a drive, tollowed by receptoin at the Kappa house at 4 o'clock WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14- Katherine wedding Shank to Mr. Arthur Trumbull Lee will be solemnited in the First Baptist church. Small Dinner at Home Complimenting Mrs.

Sarah W. B. Sisson, ex army nurse of the elvil war, and Mrs. Elsie Cole Wilcox. president of the Kate B.

Sherwood chapter, of Retail, Mrs. A. B. Calhoun entertained with a small dinner at her home Sunday evening. House Party at Summer Home Miss Feral Mcinturff was hostess lover the week- end, entertaining with a house party at her summer home at Indianola Beach.

The guests in eluded Miss Elizabeth Carrol, Miss Mildred and Miss Myrtle Galer, Mr. Wesley Baker, Mr. Itobert Holmstrom, Mr. Carl Ingledue, Mr. Ray land Mr.

Arnold Amonson. Little Tea Shop Service at the Little Tea Shop of the Orthopedic hospital will be in charge of the Queen Anne guild Thursday, with Mra. Peter Mogensen as hostess, assisted by Mrs. Fred Boyd, Mrs, C. Schwabe, Mrs.

Florence Russell, Mrs. E. Bushnell. Mfrs. W.

T. Robinson, Mrs. G. D. Longmuir, Mrs.

H. R. Elliott. Mrs. W.

H. Humanson and Miss Moline, of Chicago, Personal Col. Charles Van Way, U. S. Mrs.

Van Way, Miss Dorothy Van Way, of Portland, and Mr. Donald Hayselden, of Honolulu. are the guests of Dr. George Newlove, U. 8.

and Mrs. Newlove, at Fort Law. ton, for a few da ye Mra. Louls Hill arriving from St. the guests their Mrs.

Archibald G. and children are Paul today, to be relatives, Mr. and Clark. Mr. and Mrs.

George Warren Boole have returned from Lake Crescent, where they spent the past two weeks. Miss Mary Struve, of Paris, France, who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Struve, will leave about September 15 for New York. whence, on October 28, she will sail for France.

Mrs. Ernest Conley Reynolda has her house guests Mrs. Virginia Reynolds, Mias Ethel Reynolds and Mr. Nathan Ruddock, who motored up from Long Beach, and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Armstrong, of Chicago.

Miss Charlotte Williams has returned from a trip to Yellowstone park. Mr. and Mrs. H. F.

Waechter and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Waechter are on a motor trip to Oregon, planning to remain a week at Seaside. Dr. Roberta Wimer-Ford has returned to Seattle.

After attending the Montana State Osteopathic convention at Great Falls, she motored thru Glacter National park. Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Miss Edna Colman, Mias Agnes Winn, Miss Rhea Culver and Miss Lela Maple left Monday for Big Four Inn, to be gone several days. Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Morgan left yesterday on a motor trip to Mount Rainier, where they will spend sev. eral days. Judge and Mra. Stephen J. Chad.

wick have as their guests at Crystal Springs Mrs. K. Randal, of Colfax. who is leaving the first of next week for her home, and Mrs. Arthur S.

Karr and son, Chadwick, of Yakima, who arrived Monday for an indefinite stay. Profeasor A. H. Fuller and Mrs. Fuller, who have been visiting Prolessor Fuller's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar yesterday for their home, in Ames, la. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lowenthal left Saturday for Snohomish, to visit friends for a week.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Berry, of Brewster, arrived today, to spend a month with their son and daughter. in-law. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Berry, at their home at Sunnyside. Commander Stewart Barber, U. S. and Mrs.

Barber returned to Bremerton Monday, after ten days spent at Lake Crescent. Mra. Donald A. Nicholson and daughter, Anne, left yesterday to spend a short time at Bozanto Tav. ern, Hayden Lake, Mr.

Ernest L. Skeel left today on a short trip to Chicago. Mrs. Frank Waterhouse, Miss Muriel Waterhouse and Miss Helen Walker returned yesterday from two weeks spent at Hayden Lake. MRS.

JOHN N. PENLINGTON BRINGS TOKYO ART HERE -Photo by Wayne Albee, McBride Studio. Mrs. John Newton Penlington Tokyo, Japan, wearing her Japanese pearls. BY DOROTHY FAY GOULD People with a world contact, who are passing thru our city, are particularly interesting Just now when connected with the.

great Ariatic continent In which, whether we wish it er not, we are being brought into close relationship. Mrs. John Newton Penlington, who la the wife of the Tokio corre- spondent of the London Times, sister of Prof. Trevor Kincaid, of the University of Washington, is now at the Sorrento Hotel, surrounded by her remarkable collection of Asiatic material on the art of the theatre, both the ancient and the very up to date art of the present. In her 12 absence from the Northwest she has had exceptional opportunities of meeting the people of the Far East, and in able to interpret them to Un dA Do Occidental has yet especially on account of her work with her husband in his widely circulated paper.

"The Far In her two rooms at the Hotel Sorrento, the walls are hung with billboards by Toril. the great theatre artist of Japan, all new; others by members of him "school." first prints off the block of portraita of famous actors. "No" tans used in the cisasle mask dramas are stuck here and there, strangely gold and red in a drab hotel room. Forty prints, given her by an old man, that no one could possibly get today, are on one window will, 100 color printa of the "No." and cotlection of colored motifs of Japa nene contumen, costing $80 over there, lie on the couch, Such poetic designa as the "blue magpie and weeping cherry tree en a back. describes one.

Pictures by Fukaya, the artist, who devotes his time to painting the theatre, stand against the wall. Well defined paintings of the three types of theatres, volumes of rare books and innumerable photographs are everywhere. The room contains a veritable treasurer house for the eye and the mind to feast upon. Due to' the fact that Lord Northcliffe, for whose paper Mra. Penling ton's husband is the Tokio cor respondent, is en route to Tokio, Mr.

Penlington has changed his plan of coming to Seattle in September, and is obliged to remain in the Instead of going to London, where she had planned to publish her material "Kabuki," the popular theatre of Japan, she is returning home September 16. However, accompanied by her husband, she expecta to fulfill this minsion after the Christmas but wilt make the trip via India. Should you desire to come in contact with the vigor of her personality (for she in bubbling over with material fascinating and unknown here), don't fall to attend the public lecture she will give at the Cornish School on Oriental Drama Tuesday afternoon, August 30, at 2:15. And. if you are a member of the Sunset club, attend the talk there September 7.

The drama with the Oriental 18 woven into the very life, not only of the intellectual classes but of the masses. Thru it they learn their history, not only that of the traditional past but also the effemeral problems and the latest fads of the present. Their theatres are not supported by the state or any institution, but are maintained solely by the popular attendance. Nor are the theatres controlled by a managerial class, but by the actors themselves. (New York actors attempted Inst year but failed at a similar control of their theatres.) perhaps not fully understood in this country, there are three dis.

tinctive types of dramatic productions. The theatre to which belongs the most skilled and renowned actors is known as the "No." which crys. talized some 500 years ago and ex. presses the aristocratic art of the theatre. It is a perfected special type dis.

tinct from the theatre the people. The plays are a series of 250 written by a group of artists and handed down thru the ages from father to son. The unknown group authora are thought perhaps to have been Buddhist priests. It In the most spiritual stage in the world, a subjective theatre, The stage for these, tho now in. doors, was originally a platform outdoors, approached by a bridge.

It has been taken indoors bodily with the result that the audiences sees the play from three sides. The platform is of highly polished wood- rich contrast to the brilliant I costumes. On one side sits the Clubs CLUBS FOR THURSDAY Day Nursery Association Seattle Day Nursery association meets in Frederick audi torium at 10:330 a. Sunshine Guild Sunshine guild meets wtih Mrs. A.

Lundahl, 2615 E. Pike at 11 a. m. Council of Catholle Women Seattle Council of Catholie Women will meet at Providence hospital from 10 a. and 5 p.

m. Altruistic Club Pythian Sisters' Altruistic club will meet at Pythian hail at 2 p. m. Ladies of the Golden North The Ladies North will hold their regular business meeting in the Knights of Pythias hall, Third ave, and Virginia Thursday. Daughters of St.

George Mina Anne Smith wilt entertain the Daughters of 8t. George with an afternoon tea at the home of Mrs. al. Moore, 1731 California Thursday afternoon, August 25, at o'clock. Members and friends cor.

dially invited. Elite Social Club Elite Social club will entertain with military whist party in Lake Washington hall. Jackson Thursday, Rebekahs evening. and August their 25, at friends invited. Refreshments will be served.

Canadian Women's Club Pienle Members of the Canadian Women's club will hold a picnic in Volunteer park, Thurday, August 25, at 12 m. Further information can be obtained by calling the president, Mra. W. E. McLeod.

Summer Dance The Knights of Columbus will hold their final summer of the sea. son next Thursday evening at Lescht park. The committee in composed of Mr. J. M.

Vidone, Mr. E. D. Finni. gran.

Mr. C. P. Moriarity, Mr. G.

G. Dreany and Mr. E. C. Conway, chairman.

The patrons and patronensea include Mr. and Mrs. E. Connor. Mr.

and Mra. J. A. Strehlau, Mr. and Mrs.

1, A. Savage, Mr. and Sirs. F. F.

Dore and Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Benshoof.

Seattle Chapter No. 95, 0. E. Seattle Chapter No. 95, E.

will meet next Thursday at 8 p. in the Corinthian room of Masonic temple. Initiation will take place, Borrowed Time Club Excursion The Borrowed Time club extends an invitation to each G. A. R.

post. Relief Corps. Circles of Ladies of the G. A. R.

and all other patriotic sock eties and friends them in an excursion to the Soldiers' Home at Port Orchard on Thursday, August 35. Boat leaves Colman dock at 10 m. Returns at 4 p. m. Round trip fare, 30 centa.

Bring lunch. The Home will furnish coffee. Lee are for Women at Y. W. C.

A. Under the auspices of the Y. w. c. Dr.

Charlotte De Grotiere Darenport will deliver her famous lecture to married women only on "The Mar. ringe at the Y. W. C. A.

auditorium. Thursday afternoon, August 25. at 2 o'clock. Tickets may be secured at the Y. W.

C. from Dr. Davenport, at the Washington apartments, or Mra. F. E.

Palmerton. Women of Mooseheart Legion The Women of Mooseheart Legion will give an entertainment and dance on Thursday evening at Moose temple at 8:30 o'clock. Seattle Chapter, No. 93 Seattle chapter, No. 95, O.

E. 8., will meet Thursday, at 8 p. in the Corinthian rooms of the Masonic temple. A large class will be initiated at that time, Exhibi Son of Batik Mr. Laverne Messer will give an exhibition batik at the Cornish school Thursday evening, August 25, from until 10 o'clock.

Seattle Review, No. 8 Seattle review, No, 8. W. B. of the Maccabees, will hold its regular meeting Thursday, August 25, at p.

in the W. O. W. hall, Fourth ave, and Marion st. Nina M.

Frye Tent, No. 19 Nina M. Frye tent. No. 12.

Daugh. tera of Veterans, will entertain with A card party in Veterans' hall, Armory, Thursday, August 25, at 8 p. m. All welcome. ADDITIONAL CLUBS Wistaria Dancing Club The Wistaria Dancing club will entertain with an Night dance" at Leschi pavilion, Saturday evening, August 27.

Informal Sunday 'Afternoon Tea Miss Rhea Culver entertained informally at tea Sunday afternoon at her home on Queen Anne hill, complimenting Miss Bertha Winn of Vie. toria. B. C. Miss Nina Winn and Mrs.

Jennie Culver presided at the tea table. mous dancing school, and is a great mimic. He took the part of Napo. leon in one play and of Townsend Harris, first American minister to Japan, on another occasion. The third type is called the doll theatre.

In this marionettes, life size, are manipulated by five or six actora. Five cover their faces with black cloths, the sixth keeps his face expressionless. The interest in the story acted. it is said, keeps from noticing them as they manipulate the figure in gestures movements most cleverly. The big theatre of this type is in Osaka.

There are 1,000 plays written for these dolls. As the dolls act at a lacquer desk, a minstrel sings and reads a ballad describing the story and musicians play according to the feeling of the story, To hear Mrs. Penlington talk is to find the seemingly incomprehensible Oriental theatrical art human and full of a charm unique and fascinating. Don't miss her talk Tuesday, the 30th. During the year 1919-20 nearly 50,000 child-labor permits were issued in Wisconsin.

Annual losses from rodent pests on farms in the United States amount to $300,000,000. Cynthia Grey: Woman Who Wed Man Years Older, Writes Her Experience for Another Girl Contemplating Same Step. Miss Grey: May I tell my experience for the benefit Dear of "Another Ten years ago, just after the death of my mother, when, I felt, my world was all chaos, a man 15 years my senior as (not 22 years as in your case) courted and we were me married. While we were engaged, which was the greater part of a year, he rarely took me out, as I thought on account of my recent bereavement, but 1 know now it was to save the dollars. As I was nearer 30 than 20 and had plenty of former comI felt there was not much "love" in our regard for each pany, other, bat he was so steady and thrifty, and how he could talk religion! On that basis I was willing to marry, feeling that as we were both Bible readers we were building on a firmer foundation than love- displaying my ignorunce of one of life's great fundamentals.

The man was deceived in me you see, aN I was not my normal self at how a letter would reach Roy C. Lyle, Added to this, our bringing the new prohibition officer who latethis time, up was an opposite as the polen. (ty succeeded Donald McDonald? But here in the point I want most M. T. D.

for Miss Eighteen to consider provid- Sr. Lyle's office address is 420 ed she wants babies, an did. Does Federal Seattle. the man in his 40'a care to have them come? My husband did not. However, I am the mother of three and their father in too old to get the enI get from their "senseless prattle" and more "senseless actions." Him children should be grown men and women by now.

There are many other unpleasant angles from which to view our 111- fated marriage, also. In conclyding I would ask you: Does it pay to take such when there are MO many desirable young men nearer your own age? OUT OF TOWN READER. Asks Address of Prohibition Director MISS of GREY will receive this department The Star office on Tuesdays from to 4, and Please other times by pointment, do not come sp on other days than Tuesday un you have an appointment with Miss Grey, unexpreted visitors interfere with her writ ing. Would Gain Legal Possession of Child Dear Miss Grey: I am coming to you as many others do for you to give me advice. My husband and have our little niece.

Her father. died when whe WAN a wee baby and her mother passed away months ago. Now do you think we should adopt her? We are going to have her as our own, as it was her and mother's wish, and we have letters witnesses who will prove it. Do think her stepfather, her mother married again, could touch her in any way as her mother did not want him to bring her up? Or do you think we should adopt her outright. But who would sign the papers, as both parents are dead! I wouldn't like to raise her to young womanhood then have her taken away from us by someone.

In there any possible way her stepfather could? A. E. G. do not believe you need worry about your niece's stepfather gein. ing posscasion of her, as long as 1 mother wished her to remain in 1 care.

However, if you want to be the safe side, you should take the matter up with Juvenile Judge King, Dyleman, 200 Broadway, city. Wishes to Forget Love Dear Mina Grey: Will you please Dear Miss Grey: Can you tell me thanks. LONELY. -Advertisement, FRASER-PATERSON CO. SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET A Special Purchase: 1,200 Pairs Full-Fashioned All-Silk Stockings, $2.50 Pr.

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ance and practical for wear. help me? There is a young man living near my home whom I love dearly. He has told me be loved me and then all of a sudden 1 heard he was engaged to another girl. How can 1 forget him? I work in a place of business and associate with many nice people, but I have him in my thoughts always. Altho 1 do lots of work at home and try to keep myself busy, still think of I would appreclate with all my heart if I could find some way to forget about him.

Please help me, Cynthia and many Unless the young man har toll you he was engaged, or the engage. ment has been formally anhounced, YOu should pay no attention to the rumor. If it to true, you can do no more than you are nose. Hard work, interest in life in general, the society of many friends, always proves cure-all for a broken heart in the course of time. (formerly Zoe Kincaid) of unusual and handsome string of chorus, on the other the property men and at the back the musicians.

The actors approach along the cor ridor or old bridge in full view of the audience. One of the striking characteristics in the use of the mask. which, it might be interesting to note, in just coming Into use in this country. Benda has made some famous ones, among them one for a new dance for Boim. The richnens, beauty and symbolle story in in the very fabric of the contumes, AN Illustrated by a magnicest net of volumes Mrs.

Penlington has here, produced in Japan, and not owned by any brartes elsewhere and never yet brought to European eyes. typical "No" play in the "Ok interpreted by Y. Kanze and given in honor of peace on Armistice Duy. It 800 yearn old, more ancient than Chaucer or Shakes peare, and the masks are so old to be priceless treasures, What keeps the interest in these plays, from year to year, in the fact that they are variously interpreted by actors of great intellect and pow er. The theatre on which Mrs.

Pen. lington has prepared her first volume in of the type known as Kabuki. the popular theatre, the theatre in which they do not use masks nor are they circumscribed by tradition. Such plays are given as was given in Seattle last winter in the local Japanese theatre. Razor" I- lustrates this group.

The theatre leself la constructed more like ours. Male actors take all feminine parta, as they do in all the Japanese theatres, even tho this particular type of theatre was founded by a woman. Okuni. This is the theatre to which the audiences go at 12 and Matsumoto Koshiro, one of the most versatile actors in Japan--popular in the Kabuki theatre plays. stay 10 m.

We can under stand its popularity when we see the picture of Mrs. Penlington's painted about the time Admiral Perry landed in Japan. Everyone sits about, elbow on the rail, enjoying hugely the play, and their teapots as well BA other delicacies. It would add HO A Nyngyo Tsukai, or doll handler, with his marionette. much to the enjoyment of our thentre if we didn't have to sit in stiff seats without being able to budge.

No wonder the theatre in Japan 19 as popular as our ball games. Matsumoto Koshiro is one of the most versatile actors in Japan. He is a wonderful dancer, head of a fu- After the show, we'll go to Bolt's -Advertisement,.