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BROOKLYN LIFE Clubs and Club women. Mynderse, Miss Anna J. Pierrepont, Mrs. William A. Putnam, Mrs.

Frederic B. Pratt, Mrs. Charles S. Miss Mary A. Seaman, Mrs.

George G. Southard. Miss Julia Ring and Mrs. John Sayres are chairmen of Publicity and Mrs. Thomas F.

Green, chairman of arrangements, Mrs. Charles E. vice chaiYman, and Mrs. Franklin Taylor, Mrs. Jefferson Hanf, Mrs.

Clarence R. Nims, Mrs. A. Campbell Weston, Mrs. Ralph H.

Tiebout, Mrs. Carl G. Schmidt, Mrs. Thomas R. Fleming, Mrs.

George Harmon, Mrs. Harry C. Greene, Mrs. Herbert L. Holly, Mrs.

John Jackson, Mrs. Gustav! Volckening, Mrs. Frederick M. Terhune, Mrs. George H.

Jones, Mrs. George Reichman. Mrs. Joseph D. Harrison will preside at the tea table.

tiss, Mrs. Frederick H. Paine, Mrs. Stuart H. Rush-more, Mrs.

J. R. Rogers, Mrs. Edgar S. Shumway, Mrs.

Frederick H. Schluter, Miss Maude H. Sylvester, Mrs. Susie C. Snyder, Mrs.

Pierrepont Twitchell, Mrs; John Van Buren Thayer, Mrs. C. F. Fielding and Mrs. James Mervin Wilson.

FRIENDS SCHOOL MOTHERS' opening meeting was held on Friday a fternoonr November 12th, at 3 o'clock, in the meeting house of the Friends School, 112 Schermerhorn Street. The speaker for the was Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, head of the Department of Philosophy of the College of the City of New York, who discussed the subject, "What Does This Age Require of Our Children?" The hostesses for afternoon were Mrs. Russell T.

Starr, Mrs. Robert Strobridge, and Mrs. Henry Turner. The officers of the Mothers' Club for the ensuing year are i President, Mrs. Frank Shaw vice-presidents, Mrs.

William G. Kelso, and Mrs. Hector C. Adam recording secretary, Mrs. Albert W.

Meisel corresponding secretary, Mrs. T. T. Whittier, and treasurer, Mrs. John H.

Ohly. GIVITAS' MEETING last Wednesday afternoon at the Brooklyn Woman's Club had for its speaker Kenneth MacGowan, theatrical critic, and editor of the Theatre Arts Magazine, and his subject was "Modern Art and the Theatre." He showed very interestingly how the modern movement towards freedom in the arts had behaved in the theatre, pointing out the difference between the realistic setting, of which Mr. Belasco is so much the most faithful exponent that his name is synonymous with realism in this field, and the sugges-tive scenery to which audiences are becoming more ani more accustomed. He spoke of the device of the revolving stage, and said that it was more used in Europe than here, and that it was of great use in enabling Shakespeare's plays to be produced with the scenes in the order in which Shakespeare arranged them, instead 1 of their being transposed in order to do away with as much scene shifting as possible the method on which most of us were brought up. He also spoke of the method, which seems to the writer to be becoming more and -more prevalent each year, of having one big set made suggesting the mood and time of the whole play, and introducing various movable properties for the different scenes.

He cited the great Romanesque hall which was the setting for Barryrnore's "Hamlet" as an example of this. At the same time, said Mr. MacGowan, and starting from about 1905 to 1910, playwrighting has liberated itself from its old cast-iron form of arbitrary divisions into acts. Tolstoi's "Redemption," he pointed out, had thirteen scenes. Then Molnar wrote a play, "The Phan-.

torn Rival," in which a large part of the action was a dream within the play. This does not seem now a very unconventional thing to do, but it seems that it was fifteen or twenty years ago. "Under Cover," said Mr. MacGowan, violated one of George F. Baker's favorite rules, i.e., that you must not keep the audience in the dark as to the motives of the characters.

But it ran on Broadway three years, and, as Mr. MacGowan said, after that people began to wonder if there really were any rules that must not be broken. The plays of Eugene O'Neill may be taken as prophetic, of our future theatre, Mr. MacGowan thinks. Miss Marguerite Salmon spoke briefly on behalf of the "Cleaner Brooklyn" movement; and it was tentatively decided that the meeting on Modern Music should be held on the, afternoon of November 29th at the Neighborhood Club.

Tea was served by Mrs. Henry A. Mark, Mrs. H. V.

Kaltenborn, Mrs. John B. Creighton, Mrs. William IT. 1 Whiton.

A few of those noted were Mrs. Mortimer Mrs. James Lancaster Morgan, Miss Bess Fol-lansbee, Mrs-Burt Fpss Nichols, Miss Gertrude Lachlan, Edward Charles Blum, Mrs. Charles M. Higgins, Mrs.

Alfred Hall Everson. VIRGINIA DARE CHAPTER, D. the afternoon of Saturday, November 6th, the Virginia Dare Chapter held a most success ul bridge at Oppen-heim-Collins. The committee in charge were Mrs. Ben-net R.

Speer, chairman, Mrs. George A. Sheilas, Mrs. John H. Squires, Mrs.

Edward D. Reynolds, the Misses Parks, Mrs. Howard Norris, Mrs. Richard Mannheim, Miss Suzanne Pretz, Mrs. Lilian Ball, Mrs.

Horace Mitchell, Mrs. John Feenick, Miss Irene King, Mrs. Vera J. Matthews, regent ex-officio. Miss Suzanne Pretz was chairman of the Candy Committee and those selling were the Misses Janet Andrews, Clover Holly, Constance Pretz and Catherine Amery.

Among those present were Mrs. Edward D. Reynolds, Mrs. P. T.

Rogers, Mrs. Valentine H. Everson, Mrs. Henry W. Philip, Mrs.

Douglass Marsland, Mrs. John L. Swan, Mrs. Lody Smith, Mrs. Walter C.Burr, Mrs.

Alexander H. Fraser; Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, jMrs. Walter Wells, Miss Ruth Weller, Mrs.

Raymond; Savage, 1 Mrs. Roland Smythe, Miss Mignon MgCliQtk, Miss Dorothy Hoagland, Miss Irene Mr sMark Hatch and Miss Florence Sparks, Miss Virginia jFinkel, Mrs. Waldemar Busing. GHAMINADE, of which Mrs. Frederick Starr Pendleton is president, will give its first afternoon musicale on Wednesday, November 17th, at the Hotel Bossert.

A reception will be held from 2 to 2 .30, and will be followed by the very attractive program which has been arranged by Mrs. Louis F. Page, chairman of Music. Catherine Wade-Smith, violinist, Laura Consaul Ross, contralto, Oliver Stewart, tenor, will the artists. The decorations and flowers are in charge of the Flower Committee, Mrs.

Robert H. Baxter, chairman, Mrs. Harry A. Schafuss, Mrs. Hazel Clark Kent, Mrs.

Lee Peterson The distributors of programs are Mrs. Henry A. King, chairman; Mrs. Lewis J. Spence, Mrs.

James B. Fisher, Mrs. Boyd G. Curts, Mrs. LeRoy Coghill, Mrs.

Henry Michelsen, Jr. 4 I Ahnan Studio MRS. PAUL B. CONKLING President of Maine Women's Club of New Ydrk President of National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors Chairman of Artistic Celebrities given at the Women's Arts and Industries Exposition. She presented the prize of $100 in gold to Genevieve Herr Hamlin for her medal which won the contest, held by the Women's Arts and Industries, under the auspices of the National Association, of Women and Sculptors, and also presented the prize of $100 in gold to Mrs.

Georgiana Brown Harbison, whose panels won the prize in the exhibition held at the Women's Arts and Industries by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Mrs. Conkling represented the Maine Women's Clu'b of New York at the Sesqui-Centen-nial Maine Day, October Sth NATIONAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND WOMEN, Brooklyn Colony, held its first meeting of the season on Thursday afternoon, November 4th, at the Pouch Mansion. The new president, Mrs. Palmer Smith, presided.

Musical selections by Mrs. George C. LeBlanc, and vocal by Miss Ruth Haskins, accompanied by Miss Margaret Brown, followed the reception. A very interesting feature of the program was an original impersonation by Mrs. Lucy Allen Smart of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, second President of the United States.

Mrs. Smart appeared in an authentic reproduction of the costume worn by Mrs. Adams at the time of her marriage to John Adams. Those present at the meeting included, in part, Mrs. Grant Cleaver, Mrs.

John A. David, Mrs. John L. Kilbon, Mrs. Claude H.

Priddy, Mrs. Horace M. Snyder, Mrs. A. Palson, Mrs.

Lewis Thurston Reed, Mrs. Charles W. Knowles, Mrs. Guy E. Capron, Mrs.

Edward W. Haskins, Mrs. Charles D. Sperry, Mrs. Frederick W.

Burbank, Mrs. John S. Turner, Mrs. Henry Emerson, Mrs. George H.

Dame, Mrs. George Beveridge, Mrs, Henry Geckler, Mrs. James Thomas, Mrs. Eugene Scrib-ner, Mrs. Charles Decker, Mrs.

Frederick Pendleton, Mrs. Roland W. Smythe, Mrs. William H. Halstead, Mrs.

William Robinson. FORT GREENE CHAPTER, D. A. held a meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the Lefferts Home-stead. Chapter "reports were given, followed by mes- sages from the thirty-first annual meeting of the New York State Conference, K.

S. D. A. R. The conference was held at Elmira, N.

and in the words of Lieutenant-Governor Seymour Lowman, who addressed the Assembly, "no more fitting place could have been found because of its historical background and the battle which was fought here." Be that as it may, certainly the delegates were most enthusiastic in their praise of the hospitality which was shown them and the entertainments given for them. Miss Julia J. Ring, the regent, announced that Fort Greene Chapter will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by giving a dinner at the Hotel Bossert on December 3rd. Several interesting features have been planned, the most important being the presentation of the collection of historic memorial flags with proper pomp and ceremony. Mrs.

Edward E. Read is chairman of the dinner." Mrs. James Lefferts was the guest of honor for the afternoon. She was called upon by Miss Ring and expressed the opinion that she thought the homestead formerly occupied by her family was in its present state "delightful and charming." Among others present were Mrs. Richard B.

Browne, Mrs, M. Luther Bowden, Mrs. Walter B. Brown, Miss Mary Byer, Mrs. Daniel K.

DeBeixedon, Mrs. H. P. Ball, Mrs. Irving J.

Chapman, Miss Josephine Carpenter, Mrs. Hubert Dunning, Miss Alice Driggs, Mrs. Tames Edsall, Mrs. Jefferson R. Edwards, Mrs.

Charles W. Furey, Mrs. Harry Clifford Greene, Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison, Mrs. Fredrick E.

Hamlin, Mrs. George Hills Her, Miss Theda Kenyon, Mrs. Randolph H. Lee, Mrs. Cecil Sef ton Molineux, Mrs.

Daniel E. Mackay, Mrs. Charles A. Miller, Miss Anna McC: Pren PVTRIOTIC WOMEN The Allied Patriotic Society, of which Mrs. Ferdinand Van S.

Parr is president and Mrs. Harry Greene, treasurer, is working hard to make their tea, on November 16th at the University Club, Lafayette Avenue, a success. The Reception and Tea Committee are headed by Mrs. Eugene J. Grant and Miss Louise Zabriskie.

Receiving with them will be the judges who preside at the sessions of the Naturalization Court, Mrs. James Lancaster Morgan, and the presidents of the clubs co-operating in Americanization work. Mrs. Robert F. Ives is chairman of the Hostess Committee, assisted by Mrs.

John Jackson, Mrs. Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, Mrs. Kahl Bates, Mrs. Moses Becker, Mrs. William S.

Dorg, Mrs. Benjamin Headdon, Mrs. William C. Beecher, Miss Alice Brins-made, Mrs. James O.

Carpenter, Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin, Mrs. George W. Chauncey, Miss A.

Josephine de Cardenas, Miss Charlotte E. Dudley, Mrs. Frank Davol, Mrs. Guy Du Val, Mrs. John E.

Leech, Mrs. Wilhelmus ILLUMINATI, Mrs. Egbert Guernsey Brown, president, announces a card party for philanthropy on Tuesday, November 16th, at the Hotel St. George. Miss Edythe Guttenberg is chairman of the party and among the subscribers are: Mrs.

Egbert Guernsey Brown, Miss Edythe Guttenburg, Mrs. Charles H. Breese, Mrs. Mer-ritt F. Loomis, Mrs.

H. William Thmels, Mrs. Sarah D. Hall, Mrs. Arthur Gelston, Mrs.

Edward C. Van Altena, Mrs. Frank Morris, Miss Marie Quinn, Mrs. Arthur Quenzer, Mrs. Charles Renouard, Mrs.

Raymond Schumacher, Mrs. C. Du Puy Marke, Miss Isabel Holsten, Mrs. E. M.

Farrington, Mrs, William R. MacDaniel, Mrs. Edward Everitt Roberts..