v.1 mj:,' I EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-I5HILADEEPHIAr, SATURDAY, MARCH T, 1919, m" v I V i i JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE Card Party This Afternoon for Miss Evelyn Drayton Dr. William Heivson and Miss Stokes Wed at Noon. Tableaux at Bellcvuc-Stratford Arc Successful EVELYN DRAYTON Is to have a lovely party this afternoon and evening. The little girls will play cards most of tho after noon and then a supper will be served. Evelyn Is a most attractive little girl and has hosts of friends. Sho had rather a long and distressing Illness a couple of years ago and It Is splendid to know hpw well she Is again. Her mother was Miss Anna Jones, you remember, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Charles Honry Jones, of this city. A GREAT many people went o er to - Moorestown today for the wedding of Nancy Stokes and Dr. William Hewson. The wedding took place at noon In Trinity Church there and was awfully pratty. Nancy was quite 111 last week with a case of "flu" and I was so nfrald she might havo to put off her wedding. Somehow, when you have settled everything about your wedding, you don't want to havo to change your plans, do you? Well, tnyway, Nancy is better, In fact, well again (except for the tired feeling that comes after the "flu"), and the wedding, as I said, came off at noon. Nancy Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Newlln Stokes, Jr., of Moorestown, and Bill Is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Addlncll Hewson, of thl3 city. He Is a brother of Dr. Addlncll Stevenson Hewson and, by the way, Is to have him as best man. Nancy had Frances Stoughton Ballard and Emlllo Williams Hopkins as matrons of honor, and her bridesmaids wcro Nancy Heath, Eleanor Deans, Helen Stoughton and Mary Boyd. T' HERE'S no doubt about It, the tableaux were wonderful and I pretty nearly had a rtt at Alice and tho tea party last night. Of course I was all prepared for a won derful tableau; but when the curtain parted and thero was the tea table and tho Hatter and March Haro and tho weeny dormouse all crowded up together at one end and no Alice, I Just wondered (f It could bo possible that they wero going to work It out. And then In came Alice and sat herself down and Immediately tho March Hare said: "Have somo wine?" Well, my joy knew no bounds. -yAnd at the end when Allco got up In disgust and tho Hatter and the March Haro lifted tho doi mouse up and jammed him head first Into the tea pot, I Just felt as thrilled as I did when I read "Alice" for the first time and that was some thrill, believe me. Frlscllla Bohlen Brooks was Alice and Morris Tllden was the March Hare, and oh did you sco the wreath of hu? around his right ear? And Mr. Page was the Hat ter and small Charlie Harrison was the dormouse. And he told all about "Elsie, Lade and Tlllle" and the "treacle well" and the "much of a muchness" ana he went to sleep and squeaked when they pinched him till the cup of my content was full. The living pictures wero wonderful. Ellen Mary Cassatt as tho "girl with a parrot" was a splendid reproduction and Madame Itecamler, who w'as Mrs. Robert L. Mont gomery, was a dream of loveliness. Alto gether It was a beautiful performance, and judging from the number of persons who attended I should say brought in splendid returns for the tuberculosis soldiers and children of France. I hope somewhere and sometime they'll glvo tho Mad Tea Party again. Of course, living plcturis mean an i ,.,i w nf wnrk for a very short time, but then they are &o stunning while they 4ast I always love to see them. Virtually evory one was there. Mrs. Cor nelius Stevenson entertained In one of the boxes, as did Mrs. Arthur Lea, Mrs. George H. Lorlmer and .Mrs. Stanley G. Flagg, Jr. And In the audience and boxes were Mr. and Mrs. John Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Yarnall, Mrs. Robert Emott Hare, Mr Phelps, who Is visiting Mrs. Hare. Miss Mary Norrls Cochran, Miss Fannld Cochran, Miss Emile Rivinus, Miss Mai Xilvlnus, Mrs. Nicholas Blddle, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Llppincott, Mrs. Ned Toland, Cap. tain Joe DuBarry and Mrs. DuBarry, Mr. Kobert L. Montgomery and two of the Montgomery children. Mrs. Norman Jack son, Mrs. Madison Taylor, and oh! Just everybody. DID I tell you that Lillian Russell Is going down to the Independence Square Auxiliary of the Red Cross next Tuesday afternoon? She has had Clot to do In war work, you know, and she is going to talk to the workers. The meeting that afternoon Is to be at 4:30 o'clock, and on the 11th Dr. Carollno Purnell is going to talk at 3 o'clock. That's one of tho busiest centers of Red Cross activity there Is in the city, It seems to irVifijiQuite a number of the church aux!f3(es that have work to do for the conizations are winding up their affairs in Red Crossdom, bu the larger auxiliaries have been asked to go on. There Is much work to be done yet, though no bandages -iioro irnrments aro required now. Vnt hn refugees are In great want and there are dozens of little frocks to make .nd socks to knit ana snawis xor we oia women. The Independence square aux- lary will keep on, as there is much to accomplish. HAVE you ever bceajjito that business building that hatrno front door, on Chestnut street at Fifteenth? Sort of a building that "buttons up the back," you know. Well, you see she had to go thero to get to an office or something, and so she hashed into the next door cafo and 'jht up to the bar to send a telegram, S, trnfnrA she realized where she was the man brought her to by gazing at her' with nrh a look as has not been seen before or since, and, needless to say, she turned and "exited" as quickly as she had gone Jn. And afterwards when people met her In the street as she dashed down to the Broad street telegram ofllce they wondered why she had a large and broad grin upon her countenance . NANCY WYNNE. Social Activities ' Miss Lois L. Jackson will give a luncheon today at her home, 326 South Twenty.ftrst treet, followed by a theatre party, In honor of Mrs. William du Pont, Jr., of Newtown aure. Mrs. du Pont will be remembered MKlH Jan L. Austin, of Reseroont. , jpls) JSsWffMsj. " ISiS Vlpsw ssjsssssp Goodc, daughter of Mrs. Leila Symington Ooodo, of Baltimore, and Mr. ltobert Mc Lean, son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mc Lenn, of Indian Queen lane, Oermantown, will be solemnized shortly after Easter. Mr. and Mrs. Pomberton Holllngsworth, of Glendower Farm. Gwyncdd, are lonvlng to day for Japan, to bo gone four months. Mrs. Harrison Taylor, of 8008 Lincoln drive. Chestnut Hill, will leave today to spend two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Robert Randolph, in Virginia. An Interesting engagement nnnounced to day is that of Miss Margaret Wharton Smith, daughter of Mrs. Courtland Whnrton Smith, of llaltlmore. and Mr. Eben D. Finney, also of Baltimore. Miss Smith Is tC sister-in-law of Mrs. D. C. Wharton Smith, who will bo remembered as Miss Edvvlna Henscl. Miss Eleanor Galser, of Cynwyd, gae a shower today for Miss Mne Jean Scott, whose engagement to Lieutenant J. E. Black, of Cleveland, O., has been announced. Among the guests wero Miss Kathryn Thompson, Miss Dorothy Clear, Miss Dorothea Donald son, Mi's Dorothy Sutherland, Miss Cath arine McClatchy. Miss Ruth Fedrlck, Miss Margaret Olyn, Miss Marjorle Little, Mrs. William Pierce, Miss Helen Todd, Miss Marlon Vanncman, Miss Ida Hanbert, Miss Mary Kerlgan, Miss Margaret Lonergan. Mlsa Catharine Vanneman, Miss Margaret Hutch inson, Miss Edith Edwards', Miss Helen Boyd, Miss Alice Roster, Miss Dorothy Mor timer, Miss Eleanor Christine. Miss Eliza beth Slaymakcr, Miss Louis Parsons, Miss Virginia Getty, Miss Ros-emary Delahunty, Mrs. E. Muldgrew. Miss I). Holland. Miss Dorothy Snow, Miss Madeline Delahunty, Mrs. O. Scott and Mrs, O. M. Galscr. Mr. and Mrs. G. Lynn Coane, of Narberth, will moe to their homo at Wayne about April 1. They recently purchased the Tow ers, on Woodland avenue. MISS NAOMI THACKARA IS BRIDE OF ENSIGN Wedding Solemnized in Chestnut Hill, Followed by Reception at Country Club An Interesting wedding to take place this evening will be that of Miss Naomi Revnolds Thackara. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Thackara, of C83C Anderson street, Ger mantown, and Ensign Allen Dyer Cornell. U. S. N. The ceremony will be performed at T o'clock In the Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, by the rector, the Rev. S. Atmore Calne, and will be followed by a reception at the Stenton Country Club. The brkle will wear a gown of white satin and georgette crepe trimmed with net embroidered with pearls, with the court train of satin. Her veil of point lace will be caught with orange blossoms, and her bouquet will Include orchids, gardenias and lilies of the vnlley. Mr. Thackara will glvo his daughter In marriage, and her sister, Miss Esther Thackara, will be maid of 1 onor. The latter will wear a frock of apricot taffeta trimmed with narrow feather bands of the same shade. Her hnt Is of bronze tulle, and sho will carry Ward roses. Miss Florence Hancock, Miss Sara Noblitt and Miss Ruth Hanson, the bridesmaids, will wear crepe de chine frocks of French blue, with organdie hats of tho samo shade, and will carry arm bouquets of spring flowers. The flower girl, Miss Ruth Thackara. the bride's sister, will wear a quaint trock of wjlilte ruffled net, with a leghorn hat trimmed with bluo flow ers and blue satin streamers. She will carry an old-f.ishloned bouquet. Mr. Cornell will havo Mr. Thomas Bradley I for best man, nnd for ushers Mr. Stanley J Ketcham, Mr. Alonzo Campbell and Mr. John ' Cornell. The bridegroom nnd bride will leavo on an extended trip, and will be at home after April 1 at 3'0 West Ashmcad place, Oermantown. RICE MORSE A very pretty wedding took place nt noon today nt tho Rlttenhouse, when Miss Ade laide J. Morse, daughter of Mrs. Lawrence E. Morse, of 4037 Locust street, and Sir. Wll larrt M. Rice, of Phll-EUena street, Gcr mantown, were married by the Rev. Bernard A. McKenna. O. D.. of the Catholic Univer sity of Washington, D. C The hrlde wore a gown of white satin and georgette crepe made with a court train of the satin. Orange blossoms held her tulle veil In place and she carried white sweet peas. Miss Marian A. Morse, the bride's sis ter, who was maid of honor, wore a frock of turquoise bluo crepe de chine, with a plc turesquo leghorn hat trimmed with pink satin. Pink roses formed her bouquet, Miss Mary K. Rice, the flower girl, wore a lin gerie frock trimmed w Ith pink ribbon rosettes. Her flower basket held pink sweetpeas. Mr. Joseph A. Culbcrt, cousin of tho bride groom, was his best man. The service was followed by a breakfast. Mr. Rice ana ms bride will leave on a trip through the South, remaining In that section through the spring. They will spend the summer at their cottage In Chelsea. ADAMS LANTZ Announcement Is made of the marriage of Miss Sara Lantz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lantz. of 225 South Forty-fourth street, and Lieutenant George M. Adams, U. S. A., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Adams, of 7162 Ridge avenue, Roxborough, on Tues day, February 25, in this city. " Thoto' by J. Mitchell Elliot. MISS NAOMI REYNOLDS THACKABA Miss Thackara is the diughter of Mr. nd Mrs- Charles V. Tbicluri, of Cer nuatown. HeriHirriiie.te EaslfH Allea Pyy1CwU.S..jW,yHI ::Um afsssssssssssssBs1&-A . '.-!, BSSSSSB aissssssssHLiV,&' ... .--v.iM-. Kt.- " 'mm raLssK ; s ' ',rW wPIBSSSSSSSSW.;- V B i I JBKvT.sA. V VA4f 1 RECENT Thoto by rhllllpi. Mr;. FrancU Murphy HrooUs, Jr., and the attendants at her wedding, which took place on Washington's Itirtli Jay in St. Stephen's Protestant Epiicopal Church, Tcnlli street above Chestnut. Mr?. llrooWs will be remembered as Miss Elizabeth Dorclta Ertel THE READER'S VIEWPOINT Letters to the Editor on Topics of General Interest For orefntanco and publication 111 this column, Mter must he written on one Aide of the paper, deal with topics of General urrent Intercut and be ulencil with the name and luldrcxi of the writer. Names will be withheld on requcKt nnd confidence respected. No manuscript" will be re turned unless accompanied by surfclcnt postajre. and a special request to this effect. Publication Involves no Indorsement by this nevvsparer of in sentiment esnressrd. No copyright matter will be Included, nor will religious discussions be per mitted. ; OUR FLAG To the Editor of the Kvcnlng l'ullic Ledger: Sir The vile snake of Bolshevism and anarchy Is endeavoring to raise Its hideous head In our democratic land. Now Is the tlmo for every loyal citizen to begin to fight It tooth and nail. The United States has a beloved flag which stands for nil that Is sacred nnd most cher ished In the hearts of true men. That glori ous flag, fluttering over school houses, pub lie buildings nnd homes, Is the flag of a gov ernment which wns declared to be "of the people, by the people, for the people," and which has been. Is nnd will remain to be a. government of Just that sort. We do not want nnd will not have the red flag of an archy, the flag of premeditated murder, to wave In place of the flag of true freedom and justice for all. In the United States thousands of men who havo been honest and willing to work have risen from poverty nnd obscurity to po sitions of Importance and trust and honor. Millions more hnve accumulated, as a result of their own mentnl nnd physical abilities, a little property and a small Income which enables them to enjoy for a time the fruit of their honest struggles In life. These millions of men have achieved th.e results under the Stars and Stripes: they have never had to resort to the red flag of murder to help them bring their dreams to pass. The Bolshevists, wherever they get a foot hold, take pains to relieve people of their little property nnd Income. Their mad Idea seemingly Is that, by rendering every one ragged and penniless nnd void of personality, great benefits are. In some vague way, to come to everybody. The benefits, as Iewed up to date, seem to take the form of violent deaths, starvation, pestilence nnd unheard of wretchedness. These madmen would set up everywhere an autocracy worye than aty that ever ex isted. Their ambition l to make virtual slaves of or kill all those who stand In their .way or who do not agree with their crack brained notions. They do not uncfefstann n democracy like ours; they cannot grasp the Idealism of such p. land. They want, and are now fighting for. In Russia, a one class rule! They would have no representa tives for all the people, but only representa tives of one class, for one class the plunder ers nnd assassins parading under the wrongly applied title of "workers." Famine, pestilence nnd misery stalk through Russia today. Would we Americans have our own land turned Into a plague-spot, where the flesh of cab-horses Is devoured In the streets? And would we nil be ready to welcome the one-class autocracy which would dictate as it Is already doing In Russia to day even the number of bathi. to be allowed each c'tlzen Per month? Would we hfar of exchanging the fair flae which stands for the protection of life, liberty and personnl rights for the red flag of riots and murders? No, a thousand times no I nnd we must fight the skulking monster with every power In our means. , All those who would wave the red flag In place of1 Old Glory should be taken from our midst and deported. The finest flower of our manhood went over the sen to help the civll'zed nations of the earth fight the mad dog among nations. N'ow the mad dog" Is run down, and we want good old-fashioned peace In which to follow the course of our lives In our nccustomed free dom and safety. We know that we are liv ing In a land which gives to all who are willing to work a chance to realize their dreams. The monster which Is trying to throttle Russia calls for flrm-hhndedness everywhere. Let everybody get together to banish the hideous phantom from the screen of lfe. Let the Bible and Christian education march hand In hand Into every corner of the earth. When the disordered bra'ns of the world have been clear-d of their mental cobwebs by education, and the perverted spirits re claimed by the light of the world, there Is hopo that we shall hae the beloved peace that the befogged brains would deny us. Meanwhile, let us redouble our efforts to teach the children Ih the schools to respect and abide by the laws of the starry flag flut tering In the free breezes of America, Let the watchwords of the nation be, "On ward, Christian Soldiers," and the "Star Spangled Banner!' EMILY L. BOOTH. Merchantvllle. N. J., February 28. Two Matters of Moment To the Editor of the Evening Publie Ledger: glr I cannot understand why the news papers throughout the United States hnve not taken up a more vigorous campaign In oppo sition to the repeal of the daylight-saving act now pending In the Senate at Washington. I feel that this Is of national Interest and Importance and favored by all business Inter ests and of a large majority of people In gen eral. I fvel that a paper of your standing should make a special effort to Induce the press of other cities to make a campaign on this subject before It is too late. I also wish., to call your attention to the effect on business In the city of Philadelphia by the withdrawal of the service of the Clyde Line from Philadelphia to Southern porta. The status I as follows: Since this withdrawal It takes from three tn five wsuVst tar shipments madA from .Phil. i 4JUsYlttMfc wuUMn.oUMAvtoMu. Jst BRIDE AND ATTENDANTS . the past It tool: from thtee to four days. Bal tlnioie and New York are "both making ship, inents ns heretofore Philadelphia should move forward and not be compelled to take a step backward by tho withdrawal of shipping facilities at tho pres ent time. M. FRANK STRAUS, President American Tin and Terne Plate Co. Philadelphia, February 2C. To Make Divorce Easy To the Editor of the Evening I'nblic I.edper: Sir My attention was called by a friend to jour BotchkareMt's life story and on reading Its first part I found much that was beautiful for both man and woman to think over ns a dally lesson in this country. I was partlcu. larly Impressed by what she said about the divorce laws of Russia and the almple civil agreement laws of marriage so common In Russia because of the difficulty of obtaining a divorce. How beautiful were her words about her thlid and only real lover, after being fooled In two previous worthless nnd ileceptlve marriages. This good, patriotic and most charitable woman did perfectly right to abolish forever the devilish husbands who so selfishly deceived her nnd only n little tech. nlcullty of unjust law for money could ever deny her right to turn to the man of her own heart, who. through his kind ways, saved her life, when she j,ayii. "I liked him all the more for giving his last penny, pleco of bread or shirt to the poor. So we vowed to bo faith ful to each other forever and I entered upon my duties as housewife by civil agreement." Our civil courts should learn n lesson from Russia to make Just divorces, as hers should havo been, not difficult by recular law, for. as she says, the failure has the tendency to make civil agreement mnrrlages. In my opinion marriages and divorces have become too much of a money-making scheme for court officials and lawyers, Inviting all kinds of tipping nnd intrigues. The man who pas the money gets his divorce through quickly, while the man who has little or none has to do without. For this reason I think our present divorce laws simply make a lot of men and women bigamists or worse. I claim we have had sufficient proof In Penn. f.ivanla that divorces should be made by a master, free of alt charges, or at least a small nominal charge paid by taxes of the whole people, while marriage should be as simple as the Quaker ceremony vow. also without charge. A CITIZEN. Philadelphia. February 27. Court-Martial Defects To the Editor of tho Evening Public Ledger: Sir From present discussions and aglta. tlon, It Is apparent we are about to witness some radical changes In that parti of our army administration code known as Articles of War, violations of which are tried by courts-martial. Tho present dissatisfaction with recent sentences bears heavily upon the shoulders of officers commissioned for tho "present emer gency" and. to a less degree. National Guard officers. For this reason I hope whatever changes Congress makes In the Articles of War will not entirely reflect the present tem perature of public feeling, because recent ar ticles and dlscutslons have not fairly covered the situation, which Is a war-wlth-Germany situation. I frankly admit that whatever foundation In fact there Is In recent magni fied accusations of miscarried Justice. It lies largely with us new officers and National Guard officers. By new officers I mean civilians treated to a threo months' training camp course an Institution demanded by stupendous undertaking requiring speed, And where, In perhaps1 200,000 cases, the Incubator eggs to be hatched Into officers expected to be the equals of West Pointers and the su periors of Prussian Guard officers, but were far removed, by nature, experience and ambi tion, from what an Ideal officer should be ; certainly not trained for wise nnd broadmlnd ed Judges. The training camp course com pleted, we were decorated with sliver or gold bars, officers of tho United States army. This Is a picture of myself. If of no one else, who served six months as a private and then went through h Itself to win a com mission In the Coast Artillery. But Just as the airplane program fell be hind schedule: the shipbuilding plans became badly Involved ; Just as the machine guns, small arms cannon, clothes and some other things were slow In being turned out so some of use new officers made mistakes. Some of us are back In civil life again, and the present charges are for us to answer. Like a new ship that needs shaking down, and recaulk Ing, we needed experience to balance our de cisions; to make us remember that the men on trial were also new to their tasks, nnd should hnve been forgiven much. And while some of us might have been drunk with our authority, blinded by the glare of our new bats, I thing the highest spirit of patriotism and fairness was behind our decisions. The flame of criticism Is burning danger ously in high and low places, fed upon num erous questions. In this great country today. But we should not forget the scorn with which we held "slackers" that we were but recently asking the question, "Can this war last three more years?" that wo were fnclng a very struggle for national life only a few months ago. Might It not be wise, without Impairing military discipline or efficiency, to appoint army Judges, officers such as colonel or higher rank, to pass sentence on all persons con victed before a general or special courts martial, leaving 'summary courts-martial un changed? Such rapk,' with careful choice, would assure Judges of wide experience, n4 It- -.would t etmuBtte. a situation wn yowujec. gltotM MUJlMbeurtvote, ' Hill" HIPiMISUl II II I '' i sentences ranging from ono to ten years; a fact, unrecorded In the written records, but which are nevertheless true. At present the military court which passes upon the guilt of the accused, also sentences him. In peacetime, with u small nnnv, offi cered In large part by regulars; when courts are almost always composed of officer grad uated from the academies, this Is not neces sary. But It Is possible that a situation, wherein thousands of new officers would be commissioned with short training, may again nrlfe, and we should solve the emergency now. BACK-IN-MUFTI. Philadelphia, February 28. POET-JEWELER ORATES OF AMERICAN POESY Louis Untcrmaycr Thinks Philo- inusian Club Should Discard Greek Name Yesterday was a great day for poets. Vachel Lindsay was roaring like a lion nt Erj n Maw r nnd Louis Untermcyer, swimmer. Jeweler, poet and talker, bought lunch for the poetry reporter Louis I'ntermever wears a mahogany nlush hat, which Is his right as a poet, and sleeve links of while gold, which Is his right as a designer of beautiful Jewelry. Ono of the most dvnamlc and athletic of American poets, he has the good sense to bo nlso a business man, the Uce president and designer of a large firm of manufacturing Jewelers In New Yorl;. Like a swimmer diving from a spring boardswimming is Mr. Untcrmcyer's favor ite pastime the poet leapt from the base of the Franklin statue outside the iostofflce at Ninth and Chestnut streets and greeted tho reporter. lie was frcth from delivering on address on "Tho New Era In American Poetry" at the Phllomuslnn Club In West Philadelphia, and was bubbling with enthu siasm over the Greek gasoline temple he had seen at Thirty-ninth ami Walnut streets, near the Phllomuslan clubhouse. "I think It's tho most beautiful bit of cl.-u.slc architecture I've seen in America " hociled. ' "What did ou tell the I'hilomusians'" Interpolated tho reported. Catching at various eddies and rlllles In the sparkling stream of Mr. Untermeyer's utterance the interviewer netted the following Cried .Shame on Tliem "I told them they ought to be nshanicd of themselves," said Mr. Untermeyer. "In nn era full of so much fine, Interesting Amer icanism, they went nnd picked out an ugly, ancient Greek name for their club, Jt's the Influence of that marvelous Gasoline Temple, I suppose. And In an era when the Amcr-' lean poets aro doing such Interesting, vital and original work, they are all talking about the English poets and looking everywhere but nt homo for their poetry. I enjoyed myself by telling them that Just round the corner from their clubhouse. In the West Philadelphia High School, a young teacher of English, Roy Helten, Is writing poetry that Is vivid of their native pavements, poetry that Is genuine nnd fresh nnd full of originality. Mr. Helton Isn't going back to the Acropolis for his inspiration ; he finds It on Race nnd Vine streets, which Is something of A feat. "American poetry didn't stop with Long fellow," said Mr. Untermejcr. "I was amused to see jour paper reprinting Long fellow's poem about a turnip. Well. Phila delphia poets today arc writing even better poems about turnips. It's tlmo people get wise to tho wonderful Impulso that Is moving In American poetry today. VHIUce Smithies No Longer Inspire "Poets no longer go to village blacksmiths and chambered autlluses to extort an ir relevant motto. And the democracy of lan guage: poets are using tho spoken word rather than archaic and showy language. People don't need a dictionary of rare words to understand poetry. Life Is now tho poet's glossary. I read the rhllomuslans a poem or air. Heltons. Air. Helton was the only other man In the room, among several hun dred fadles You should have seen him blush. Well, It's nice to know that there are .still poets capable of blushing, "Robert Frost, I believe, la the greatest living American poet. When the history of American poetry Is written, Frost wlli go down ns the greatest pioneer since WliltrVn. Do you find It works well to be both a business man and a poet?" asked tho re porter. "Well," said Mr Untermeyer, "I have a curiously constituted landlord who likes to be paid at least by the 10th of the month; nnd an oleven-year-old son who likes to havo three meals u day. I've been seventeen years In the Jewelry business I'm thirty three now I enjoy being vice president of the firm, because that's where the pay envelope comes from, and I llko being the designer of Jewelry because It's fascinating work. My business uses a different lobe of my brain assuming that I have both the lolje and the brain and I como to my writing fresh In the evening. The Ivory tower attitude Is no good for a poet. He needs to bo a man mingling with men. Vachel Lindsay's naivete Is largely due to the fact that he has never worked at a really steady Job." Mr. Untermeyer thinks that the best poet In his family is his eleven-year-old son Dick, who collaborated with him In some of the poems In his book, "These Times." After Wck, he believes that hie wife, Jeen Starr Untermeyer, Is the-aeeond-best poet -of tii. family. TO UNVEIL STATUE OF IRISH PATRIOT Hibernians Plan Hig Celebration in Honor of Robert Emmet Tho 141st anniversary of the birth of Rob ert Emmet. Irish patriot nnd orator, will be celebrated by tho Ancient Order of Hiber nians at Its clubhouso cr. North Broad street by the unveiling of a statue of the famous Irish patriot, which Is the exact du plicate of one possessed by President Wilson. Robert Emmet's birthday anniversary Is next Tuesday. The unveiling ceremony may, however, bo delayed until after that date. A committee, of which John O'Dea, of the local A. O, It. council, Is a member. Is now en gaged In preparing a program for the occa sion The statue to bo unveiled comes from the hands of Jerome Connor, a Washington sculptor. Mr. Connor's original statue was unveiled at the Smithsonian Institution nt Washington with elaborate ceremonies. Later the sculptor made two small copies of his statue. One was presented to President Wilson The other was purchased by tho A. O 11 of this city. Roland's fight for freedom and tho hang ing of Emmet for treason by the British will be tho themes of the speakers at tho exer cises. POTTERY FROM 1260 AT MEMORIAL HALL Recently Excavated Ancient De signs Purchased From Per sian Government Tim Pennslvnula Museum and School of Industrial Art has Just purchased from the Persian Government three pieces of early Persian pottery, recently excavated from the sito of the ancient city of Rakka, destroyed by the Mongols in 12C0. Rakka was located on the Euphrates River, between Aleppo and Bagdad, and wns the favoille residence of the Caliph llnroun al Raschld, of "Arabian Nights' fame. During nl Rawhid's life ono of his particular Interests was the promotion of the cernmlo art. The Museum, in obtaining these three pieces, which nre about to be put on ehlbltion at Memorial Hall. Falrmount Park, has aided not only archeologlsts, but art students and all Interested In the develop ment of pottery. . One of tho threo pieces is a white, iridescent plate with a Kufic inscription in blue. Another Is a turquoise pitcher of Sultanabad ware, with a band representing wild animal hunting. This Is In relief. The third pleco Is nn unusual bowl with blaclc itrlpcs on a bluo background. All the pieces arc fine examples of the Petslan potter's art from the ninth to the twelfth century. The btudy of pottery from the rulnu of Rakka Is of comparatively recent date, and a number of expeditions are now working there and making excavations In order to discover ns much as possible of this Inter esting phase of ancient civilization. PRAYER FOR SERVICE MEN '"Bovs on Land and Sea" to Be Honored Tomorrow The fifth patriotic sen lee of pr.iver and praise In honor of "the boys" on land and sea will be held tomorrow evening In St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Fiftieth street nnd Baltimore avenue. Special music by a solo quartet, under the director of May I'orter, organist and director of the choir, line been provided. Albert E. Seymour will direct thu congregational singing. The Ushers' Association of the church, which has a membership of 330, will nttend the service. The Rev. Dvvlght Wltlierspoon Wlie, pastor, will deliver the addresr. POLISH DAY TOMORROW Will He Celebrated Throughout City and Stale Polish Day will he celebrated tomorrow throughout the city and state. In honor of tho nt-w republic, special services will be held In churches and by various patriotic and fraternal organizations. "The people of the United States, and especially of Pennsylvania, where fo many Americans ot Polish birth or descent have settled, have a deep Interest In the fate of Poland," Governor Sproul said In a state ment asking that tomoirow be set aside for this purpose. Homeopathic Ho-pildl lieiiefit Success Several hundred persons attended the en tertainment nnd dance given last night in the Knights of Columbus Hall, Thlrt.elghth nnd Market streets, for the benefit of the West Philadelphia General Homeopathic Hospital, at Fifty-fourth street ami Glrard avenue. Tho Institution Is raising funds for the pay ment of the debt incurred recently by the erection of an addition to the maternity building. Miss Ruth Goshorn, directress of nurses, and Dr. J. B. Buckley had charge of last night's event. Tribute to Luke North by Single Taxcrs Tribute to the memory of Luke North, a Single Tax advocate, who died February in Los Angeles, Cal., will be paid tomorrow night nt n meeting of tho Philadelphia Sin gle Tax Socletv In CIaton Auditorium, Ninth street and Glrard avenue. William L. Ross will preside. Sermons on Life of John Wesley Pastors of many Methodist Episcopal churches will preach on the life of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, to morrow, tne 128th anniversary of his death. &OUIS;UNTERMEYER IJjJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJA 9 IjHl J7VIS bI . 'ioUIS-'UNTERMEYER ' V -. ORCHESTRA PRESENTS PHILADELPHIA S0L0KT Edwin Evans Sings Americas C T .' n - l ouiigs ivomanuc Vjompouiuons Dominate Program Tho seventeenth pair of concerts of th nineteenth season will go down in the chronicles of the Philadelphia Orchestra as a triumphant demonstration of the great poetry of the romantic composers the poetry of Intriguing magic, lyric cry, pulsating pan slon, sheer nnd striking beauty for beauty' take even of novelty, quest of which breeds the romantic In art In reaction against the spiritual serenity and austere contours of classical formularies. For time cannot stalely hackney nor customed performance wither the freshness of the numbers which Mr. Stokovvskl assembled in a masterpiece of program-archltecture, and which he and hll men played yesterday afternoon before an ap plausive Academy of Music audience with a gracious technical art that obliterated oon sclous artistry, with a glamourousness that was all poesy. Ills program-architecture truly reared "a stately pleasure dome" of sound that had proportion, poise, value of tonal line, curve and color, perspective and vision the tlslon of beauty along Its 'Ustas. ltd Renascent lovelinesses will charm another audience this evening. Old ns flie perennial stuff of beautiful art. et ns fresh as the wildfiowers even novr breaking out of tho earthen sod (sine beauty Is eternal and has existed ever, no matter when In time's course supreme genius charmed It Into tangible Bhape for all to share Its benlson and bounty), the substance of the program integrated the "Unfinished .Symphony" of Schubert, the "Frelschueti" overture of Weber, the overture to "The Mnsterslngers" of Wagner, "The Afternoon of n Faun" of Debussy, written two of them near a century ngonc, one of them half a century ago and one of them so recently In our own time that only a decade ago' It was the subject of animated and embittered dis cussion ns the "music of the future." Of ro mantic content, too, were the five songs by contemporary American composers In which Edwin Evans, baritone, whose repute and nrt aro wider than his Philadelphia habitat, served admirably as soloist. What with the angelic hymning the sing ing as of seraphs' wings of the celestial Schubert symphony and the strange symbol Isms of the sunning, gamboling, wistful, wanton Faun of Debussy, the demands on the woodwind choir were exigent and the woodwind players absolved themselves mel lowly nnd sweetly, with purity of Intonation nnd limpidity of tone. The brass In the Weber and Wagner numbers was smoothly orotund, nnd throughout the program the strings performed their complementary duties vivaciously or gravely, as the occasion called and nlwajs nobly In utterance. Mr. Evans Is a singer who has made clear enunciation of English nn art In Itself. Added to his clarity are a natural voice of individual timbre and insight in interpreta tion. He dramatized F. S. Converse's ballad setting of Keats's "La Bello Dame Sans Merer" ns should be, for a ballad Is, after all, a narrated drama tn which voice is scenic setting, action and dramatis personae. Mr. Converse has written strikingly for the voice nnd with Interesting modern tang for the orchestra, The most Interesting of Mr. Evans's offerings was "The Odalisque," one of two "Chinese Water Colors" by John Aldeu Carpenter, In which the delicate traits of the aquarelle had characteristic Oriental accent Cyril Forsyth's "O, Red Is the Eng lish Rose" and II. Clough-Lelter's "Posses sion," both Interesting, neither highly sig nificant, completed the soloist's list. SLAV SCHOLARS MEET AT PENN NEXT MONTH Every Stale in the Union and Canada to Be Represented ' in Big Gathering Slavonic scholars fro'm all parts of the United States will meet at the University of Pennsylvania, on April 21 and 22. This announcement was made at the Uni versity today by Dr. Franklin Edgerton, professor of Sanskrit, who Is In charge of the class In Russian at the University. The conference will be conducted under the auspices of the Society for the Advance ment of Slavonic Study, which was organized two years ago to advance Interest In the Btudy and teaching of Slavonic languages, literature, history, nrt and culture. The society has a large membership, and Includes prominent men and women from every state In the union and Canada. Will Meet Annually It proposes to hold a meeting each year at one of the great universities for the purpose of having scholarly papers presented and Plans worked out for the furtherance of the. cause. It Is anxious to accomplish not only the maintaining the languages of Slavonic) peoples, but the members also are Interested In encouraging tho Introduction of their), study In American educational Institutions', the preparation of adequate textbooks, creation nnd awards of scholarships' to de serving students, lectures and the distribu tion of books dealing with the literature and history of various Slavonic nations. The proceedings of the society will be pub lished annually The scholar who Is largely responsible for the present activities of the society is Dr. L Zelenka Lerando, of Swarthmore, who was chosen Its first secre tary and treasurer. , l)ltlniulhfd Men on Holt In the large membership list of the society are such names as President Woodrow Wil son, ex-President Taft, the late Colonel Roosevelt, Prof., M. S. Mandell, of Yale University; Prof. Alexander Kaun, of the University of California ; Prof. DIngeley Prince, of Columbia University; Prof. S. Harper, of Chicago Unlversl'y; Prof. A. Heyberger, of Coe College; Prof. S. Hrbkova, of Nebraska State University; Prof. B. Kerner, of University of Missouri; Prof. C. Knlzek, of the University of Texas; Pi of V. J. Louzecky, of Baldwin-Wallace College; Prof. C L. Meader, of University of Michigan; Prof. G. Noyes, of University of California! Prof. L. Wiener, of Harvard University; Professors Jastrovv and Edger ton, of the University of Pennsylvania. "WOMANHOOD AND PROGRESS" Theme of Griggs Lecture Monday Night at Association Hall The University Extension Society's pro gram for next week follows: Monday Wltlierspoon Hall. 8 o'clock. Earl Barnes, "The Disputed Nationalities," "Cxecho-Slo-vakla"; Association Hall, S849 Oermantown avenue, 8 o'clock. Edward Howard Grigs, "Human Progress," "Womanhood and Hu innn Procress." Tuesday Wit he rsnoon Hall. n'..lnlr Innat TItrhnnlfl "Pn.r-nt fiiK11j' 4ti Questions: Political. Legislative. Interna tlonal." Thursday Wtthersnoon Hair, 8:11 nVlnelc. Hnhn Quartet: Aline van Baercnti'-" Din n 1st, assisting artist, chamber music. j-TJ cert; Association Hall, BUS Germaiitowa ; avenue, 5 oi-luii v-imnn tneuuuro uirnKn, j "Painters of the Renaissance." "Ghlrlandane, the Great Wall Painter of Florence" (lllue-' ' trated). Friday Association Hall, ,'M4 Oermantown avenue, 8 o'clock, EllubVBj Pooler Rice, recital, Paul Hester's "Frtess Hannah." Saturday Wtthersnoon Hall, X:t o'clock, George Earle Italguel. "PereeaM ailmpses of England, Franoe and. Italy" ft. lustrated with new Burton Holmes nUhirss)) Wttherspoon nan, -.i ociock, ms Ralguel, "Personal Glimpses France and Italy" tll!utrs,el Burton Holmes pictures?;', Hit) Oermantown avenw !HUHa in Talent mm' l Um WaacUrtnf ttoir? m 'T5a 'jK - .4-:
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