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THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGP.AM. SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS
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SUNDAf. OCJfOBEft it, 1950.
MRS. FRED MOELK.
Society Editor
SOCIAL mCMUGNTS
SOCIETY DESK
Phone No. 481
Miss de Haro Thrills Woman’s Forum With Book Review
Ernest Hemingway’s
Novel Called Qreatest Of
Career Despite Revi
By MRS. FRED MOELK three day*. <ffut they are days
Charming vivacious Maria de charged with fueling and intensity.
Haro, »■ .landing iecturer ai i re- .Cohn Ki.-hard Cantwell o# the
viewer of this section, scored an- United States Array is the central
other great success here Wednes- figure in 'the book. Venice is this
day in her review of Ernest Hem- setting. The Colonel, a Brigadier
ingway’s latest book “Across the General before, the reduction in ,
.River and' Into the Trees.” The grade, is in middle years. He is a
occasion was the iniui|l luncheon man of fierce and bitter pride who >
meeting of the Sulphur Springs is coming too soon to-tihe end of
Woman's Forum for the current his physical strength. The rear
season held in First Methodist has scarred and marred his body j
church dining rooms. Hostess club and his heart in particular has
for the, program was the Mothers . given him warnings which he can-j
Culture club of this city.* not ignore.
. A naturalized •citizen of the With cruel irony, in the very
1 flited States. Miss de Haro has moment when life is showing the
ali the fire, the eloquence and the Colonel its grimmest realitv, it
delightful mannerisms of- those of aJso 0fferg bim its mogt J»eautiful
her own beloved native Mexico, experience. A lonely man who
To these requisites she has that ]0oks back on the wreckage of an .
added matter-of-fact and down-to- unhappy marriage. Cantwell now,
earth reasoning That she must ba? tba j0ye 0f a young Italian
have acquired from her adopted +^gggjjj£___A-4eve—young,-gg
countrymen, that enables her to ■ so tenderly given, it has
put across to them her very beau- - stirred and aroused a tenderness
tiful and heart-warming reviews, m tbe mar, that has not been »ur-
New
Her review Wednesday of this
great piece of American literature,
as well as her characterization of
the author himself, was one of
the finest examples of the true
reviewer at her best that we have
ever had the privilege of hearing.
faced in years. And even as he
hopes savagely for a future, he
knows there can lie no hope for
very long.
Only Hemingway, with his un-;
canny understanding of human !
nature, and hLs rare ability to pro-
Before reviewing the story, jet.( living people into his stories,
Miss de Haro, in brief but beauti- could have made thig storv the
ful language, told the story of living, throbbing and vibrant thing
Woolens
These wool dresses demonstrate the trend to
a shorter, -dimmer, straightef look. A suit-
dress <left > by Fira Benenson in dark stone
grey is trimmed in pale smoke grey. Pauline
Trigere’s two-toned, slim-lined wool dress
(center) is designed to sheath-straightness.
The gauntlet silhouette appears in a sheer
wool dress (right) by Trigere. It has deep-
cut armholes, zipper centered below belt,
hieh neckline with winged collar.
Byron Vtilliams
Speaks Before
P-TA Meeting
paying because of her long ten-
ure.
Mary McGrath stopped going
to church of a Sunday recently,
_. „ . c , , only because of a broken leg. And
The Houston School PTA met. not many peop|e R0 to that church
Tuesday, October 10, at three i on gundavs anymore. On week
o'clock in the school auditorium Jayg it>s packed wjth office work-
with forty-nine members present. erg but on Sundays — when the
Mrs. Faye Flemming was intro-, 0ffjceg ar{> ci0Sl.d — she says
“you can count the attendance.”
It wasn’t always that way. The
church is called “Old Peter’s”—
the oldest Catholic Parish in New
hors, who moved uptown years j The Run’," she says — “1 want*
ago, now envy the low rent she’s 1 cd to quit being an actress. Much
that story takes
duced as the new first grade
teacher and also Mrs. Truman
Drake as a special teacher.
Byron Williams, manager of the
Chamber of Commerce, brought
an interesting. talk on “What is
More Often Followed Than the
Models of Parents?" This was the
first study under the general
theme for 195Q?51, “It’S Up To
ot the action in
place on a carnival roller coaster.
1 get dreadfully sick on a roller
coastei and my stomach started
acting up as soon m we started
shooting film over ^ this roller
coaster in a San Francisco amuse
ment park.”
“Woman on the Run” gavei
one of her few serious dranf
roles as an actress. Rd( it
gave her a start at quistSg acting
—maybe. She says she’H quit If
she finds she can make money as
York. And Mrs. McGrath is its! a producer instead. So she started
oldest parishioner. The plump, with “Woman on the Run.” In-
gray-haired widow was baptized: stead of taking a salary, she is
there and married there, ldhg ago.
She recalls when the Sunday at-
tendance used to overflow the
1 church and its galleries, before
Houston school is cooperating i everybody moved uptown.
with the City Council in plans
for the school of instruction on
Wednesday, October 18, in Sul-
phur Springs.
Plans are also being made for
| the Hallow’en Carnival to be held
the evening of October 31.
Mrs. McGrath says: “We al-
ways used to walk to church. It
was like a country town. People
walked from as far as the battery.
That's where all the millionaires
lived. Kept their boats and yachts
right outside."
There will be a called meeting on I bhe also used to love a ride on
Tuesday morning, October 17 at; the old horse trolley. Mrs. Mc-
yTrine^Vetock
, plans. those subways they have now. But
Following the business meeting,! she *** §64 — it least — that
a social period was enjoyed by
taking a financial interest in the
picture — a share of the profits,
if any. And she’s convinced there
is going to pe plenty, at the box
offices. Profits to start her as a
producer. '
But profits aren't exactly some-
thing new to Ann Sheridan. She
is part owner of a wire recording
company, a cosmetic company and
what not. Maybe Ann insists it’s
all due to her Texas-bred spirit.
She likes to roam — from Hol-
lywood to Broadway to bull fights
To compfele thpse Grath -doe-m't thfhk w much - of " jn Mexico. Also like a Texan, she
likes her steak and potatoes. She
says: “I don't have to diet ... , .
the subways caused the demolition Hnd I stay skinny as I please. Ex-
of the old Ninth and Sixth Ave- j cept when I’m doing a picture
nue EL’s. E's, huh. "Saw them go j where I have to perform on a
up and saw them taken down,' roller coaster”—which makes her
said Mrs. McGrath. “I never did a little queasy in the tummy.
Hemingway, the author, and'her
version of the meaning of ail of
bis writings." His book? and short
that it is, in spite of its tragic
and hitter conclusion.
Hemingway, who loves Venice
any other author of our time. Miss
de Haro told her audience Wed-
nesday that one does not read
Hemingway because one likes his
stories, his philosophy of life, or
because he agree? with Heming-
way the man. Rather he is read
for the sheer beauty arid luster
that is contained in his works as
true literature. "True literature (
is the complete, the whole and the
unadulterated truth as
a Venice and a Paris that they
have never before seen so vividly
and so realistically. He, through
Colonel Cantwell, makes us see
the beautiful canals as they were
during the war, when they were
filled with the bodies of his war
comrades, when the awfulness and
the grimness of war was over the
countryside and #11 of its beauty
was'kiddeh by the ugliness of
tk^author bombed ruins, of the stench and
the foul smells that accompany
VEW YORK — <NEA> —
* shorter, straighter, slimmer
look is evidenced everywhere in
the newest wool dresses for fall
It's often an unadorned, sheath-
like look; it frequently depends
chiefly on line for its effectiveness.
Pauline Trigere demonstrates
this purity of line in a sheath-
straight dress in dark and light
gray flannel. Dark gray is used
to band the three-quarter length
sleeves and to outline the collar,
which frames a plunging neckline.
By GAILE DUGAS
NEA Staff Writer
Wide strips of the dark gray are
used along the arm and down the
entire length of the dress on both
sides.
A wool suit-dress by Fira Ben-
enson has skirt and unlined jacket
in dark stone gray with button
touches and trim in pale smoke
gray. The skirt is wrap-around
with a panel closing at front,
anchored by three buttons placed
B-PW Club
Holds Dinner
Meeting Tuesday
Garden Club
Study Class
Holds Meeting
low on the skirt. High neckline
and jacket closing are outlined in
the smoke gray.
A slim-lined sheer virgin wool
crepe dress in town purple, by
Trigere, has the fluid treatment
for sleeves and skirt. Armholes
are deep-cut and there is modified
fullness at the sides of the skirt.
The neckline is high with a
squared-off line and winged collar.
The large buttons at the front
closing are self-covered.
Miss Anderson
Entertains With
Bridge Party
Mrs. Caldwell
Entertains With
Bridge Party
think they would last.”
Movie Actress Ann Sheridan
comes from a flat country of
wide open spaces. It’s called Tex-
as. And maybe that’s why she
likes to roam but she doesn't like
ups and downs. She hasn't had
Mis* Sheridan has three sisters
in Texas — a Mrs. L. R. Kent in
Fort Worth, a Mrs. C. H. R^Uon
in Waco and a Mrs. R. E.
Dallas. Right now Miss Sh«Ml«5i
isn’t a Mrs. anybody. Skinny or
not, she’s one of Hollywood’s most
eligible bachelor girls. With fame,
Mrs. Dick Caldwell was hostess
to the Tuesday Afternoon bridge
ciub the past week in her home
Roses ^iahHas and other autumn ! !r‘*ny. U,,S and doWP;‘l '*) t,R‘ ,mov‘ looks and those little profits roll-
les J,IS1 UP® but ‘■he had plenty ; inK jn. And she even keeps house,
of them in her last picture. Let 0|. at |east one boUse. if, a nicei
her tell it: 1 profitable apartment house pro-
“After I finished 'Woman On ject of which she is part owner.
j flowers decorated the party rooms.
A dainty dessert course was
served by Mrs. Caldwell at the
quartet tables laid with white linen
and centered with dainty contain-
I ers of roses.
i In the series of bridge Mrs.
Nelson Gilreath was presented with
the high score award. Mrs.- Gil-
reath and Mrs. W. M. Chandler
were both lucky in the games of
bingo.
Guests other than members of
tr.v to his readme Dublic.” This. ,l attleS- ihtn with m**'C thtt ! 0ct 10> at th(, Firgt rhrUti.., “Whv T Ilk. .» .11 .„inin„ nf th,. n.«t w*ire <-umn and Mnj- Ur°y
tray to hi* reading public.” This,
the reviewer said. i- the hone and
the sinew of the writing? of Hem-
in g-way.
The reviewer, as the author
himself, believes that this book
“Across the River and Into the
he seems to possess, he takes his
readers to the opposite realm as K hurch dining rooms
he describes a duck blind with a
thin skim of morning ice over its
waters. The Venetian countryside
seen from a swiftly moving car.
The beautiful Viennese women
Christian “Why, I like anv color at all so i ning of the past week, receiving .,
on North long as it is red.” The majority members of the Monday Night
Davis street. „ j of men agree with him, and cer- Bridge club for their re-assembly ■■■
Mrs. Dudley Alien, president of tainly the humming birds do. The meeting for the current season in
the organization, presided at the Vi'oup of ladies making up the the home of Mrs. Lou Coke on
business session, during whichj Stud>’ class of thl* Ga,den Club Garrison avenue,
time reports were given by the scorned to he of the same opinion Roses and marigolds in colorful
WomenTodcty
Trees ^ is Hemingway s greatest M,es on streets, at the various committee chairmen. Mrs.;"1 ^a!<t Tuesday s class when theauj.umn prof ustion decorated the fin a narrow, one-block street
hotel and in the W. R. London, chairman of the arrangement *"ad<' brilliant; roonla where the tables were ar- in downtown Manhattan — almost
Ways and Means Committee, re- red Ktoile de Hollande roses was ranged for desseit and bridge. ! swallowed up by office buildings
ported on the square dance to be selected the most outstanding. i Centerpieces for the individual and skyscrapers — is a
ful and moving review Wednesday held in the^ North Hopkins Gym ' Five arrangements were made ubleg> mixed faM f]ower9 in love- sto/L>' ped. bri^ apartment house
piece of literature, contrary to the cosmopoiitan
reactions of numerous critics and barg
reviewers who havg reported ... , „ . , ,
^ ■ i Miss de Haro closed her power-
„ . , , ful and movinjp review \Nedne.sda> ... , , , . , »«.* ..vwio
Miss de Haro said "the first with four Uttle WOrds “and that Oct. 24. Tickets are being mail- during the study period, using an ,y containerg> were given
as cut1
-the last residence in the neigh-
time you read “Across the Riverk»g al].. Tbe!.e words came after ed to the club members to be sold.; assortment of flowers and foliage. prizeg tf) yrs' j Reynolds Jr borhood' That house was there
and Into the Trees" you won't hfrr description of Colonel Cant- Iona Pearce, membership chair- The subject Jor studv was “Fun- and Mrs. Lucille Brvan'. Favors in ‘ '--------"*
like the hook. But you will pick wej).g last wi)| and testament. In man, reported the addition of the damentals of Composition" from the series of bridge games went to
it un and read it again and maybe whk.h h(, expregs€d a desire to be following new members: Mrs. Gay John Taylor Arm’s book “Design Mrs Reynolds who held high
the second or third time you read buri<,d on the bi(rb hillside over- Koonce, Mrs. Thelma Graves, in Flower Arrangement.” sfore and Mrs j K Brim, Jr. for
it. it will sma1 k you squarely be- iookjrif, Venice. Where the young Mrs. Raymond E. Kerby, Mrs. Mrs, C. N. Hunt, president, pre- second high score,
tween the eyes with it? stark real- cbildren would run across the! Homer Hennon, Mrs. J. B. Lewis, |sjded over a br;ef business ses-| Members attendim* fbe n«rtv in
ism. its vivid portrayal of the ^ragM.s and the powerful birds of and Mrs. Jessie Leg Barker._ In jsion and -......... «... Members attending the party in-
long before the giants around it
had sprung from the soil to drive
the residents uptown — leaving
the district a towering cummer-1
cial city by day and a ghost city
by night.
But the little red brick house
the air would pause to refresh the absence of Minnie Lee Con-; Davis, read the
themselves on their take-off to , nor, finance chairman, Mrs. Ma- jasj meeting,
not concerned newer fields. There was a tender- mie Pate read the budget for the
, ... . i . . ... , , , t This meeting was in the lovely
we today like his ness and a warmth in her voice club year, which was adopted. ihome of Mrs. B. F. Chapman »n
book or not." the reviewer *aid, and a trace of tears in her eyes as -- ~
College
embittered fighting man and
life in the aftermath of war.
“Hemingway is
with whether
or not.” the reviewer said, and a trace of tears in her eyes as; Mrs. Florine Chapman, pro- Church street. Mrs. Chapman, al-
“Thi* book is for posterity. Our|sbe prepared to leave the review ^ani chairman for the evening, wayS a gracious hostess served a
children’s children will be reading: stand and as she said "not even; presented Norma Crawford and dainty refreshment plate to mem-
the book along with Shakespeare’s | the surface of what Hemingway joan France in two musical num- |it.rs 'al1,i added guest-
works. when many of today’* writ- h, talking about has been scratch- bers .accompanied by Pat Lemon. Thf. Novembei. f(,urt_r.,b mpe(
compare? thf story s meaning to, presented to her audience by.and Ever Sweetheart were the m.r jn the hom# of he,. molht.,.
an ugly wound that has almost Mrs. Shelby Yowell, president of numbers by the girls. A very irj- m,-„ j purdv
completely h«kled over, Hut that J40thers Culture Club, Miss teresting' report was jfiven by the
■till contain* a festering poison : de }jaro came to Sulphur Springs members of the club who attend-
that at time- breaks forth and ag a ^gture of friendship and ed the recent conference held m .
must be doctored and bound up KOOC| wjn from Sanger Brothers Dallas. At the. conclusion of j Iflr 8. Will. I I'UllKM
again. She thinks that Hemingway j £)anaSj where *he is presented these reports a very clever skit
twice a week in a lecture on con-
versational Spanish.
Prior to the review Wednesday
» and certainly war. to allow whkh was given in th; nlain aud‘-i Mr?. Nichols and daughter,
just a peer beneath the band-! fura,* F*"1 A n* ’ Lolorado Springs,
We of this *ear. that is the after-: be*ut,fuI‘y W.,tb £ i Col° ’, *fre "»**■ at ,the
math of all war*. To show future ros«‘f‘ Pin^ ^hli?*’u °f Gr“Ce and ,GladyS A,eX'
generations just how uselea? and , « as served by ladies of that church ander.
Zn- B,yan- M,S' A: K- clings\rbb^y7o\rpU°on
Wood, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Jack Thames street — a street most
H. Henderson, Miss Mary Lynne
Hurley. Added guests were Mrs.
Brim and Mrs. A. F. Massingill.
street.
intended through the telling of
thi* frank and at times almost
brutal story, which i* concerned
with love, sorrow, death, happi-
ness
us
was given by the group which RpC61Vt*8 M(‘Hi1kT8
they gave as part of the program j
at the conference.
New Yorkers of today never heard
of. Long ago — 82 years ago —
a family moved with their daugh-
ter into a seven-room apartment
on the second floor. They paid
all of $17 a month, in those days.
The daughter has remained there
now these 82 years. Mrs. Mary
McGrath has all of the set — but
easy-going—spirit of that little
The eight children and families red house. She says: “What was
of the late W. H. Dickerson will! Rood enough for my mother is
•have a family reunion at the Le- *ood enJ0UKh for me*” She’s livin*
... c, , . „ _ with a daughter and three nieces,
gion Hut ... Sulphur Spring, Sun-) From a purely practical point of
day. A large gathering is expected, view, her elderly former neigh-
Dickernon Family
Reunion Sunday
for
review.
both the luncheon
atupid wars can be, and how th** ,n the d,nln•, r<>om,,•
•curs are never completely healed The luncheon table* were cen-
and made well again. itered wdth masses of dahlias for
The title “Across the River and Ithe occ“ion and »po“nd tw^ hund-
Into the Trees” was perhaps tak- red women trom Sulphur Spnngs
en from those last words of an- and surrounding areas were in at-
•ther great American, Andrew (endante
Jackson, as he told his men “let
Us cross over the river and rest Mrs. David iiwmon, president of
under the shade of the trees." | the Forum, presided at the lunch-
They were selected by Herring-'eon and. in the recognition of spec-
way, Miss de Haro thinks, for hi* i >*1 guests, Mrs. Charles Ripley,
latest book, just as carefully a?|Mrs. Nelson A. Farry and the
•re all of his titles. Into those | speaker’s mother, Mrs. J. de Haro
few beautiful words the author all of Dallas. Other special guests
has spanned a whole lifetime for included Misses Ann Salmon and
a man. And as on# reads thf book, | Mary Ann Hardy, honorary forum
Fink and red roses very taste-
fully decorated the dining and re-
ception rooms. Hostesses for the
evening were: Mis* Mary Murray,
Mrs. B. E. Morris, Mrs. Gene
Moore and Mrs. John H. Mc-
Climons.
Luncheon Gluh
Pretty Bouquets
Feature Local
Flower Parade
he is forced to admit that here
Hemingway has cleverly, pains-
takingly and at times brutally
lifted the bandage from the rav-
ages of war, and through the lips
af hia hero, Colonel Richard Cant-
well, has allowed us a brief view
•f the awfuinehs of all war*.
Ht® gtory itself is limited in
•cope to a very short time in the
members from the High School
for October.
The luncheon invocation was
spoken by Mrs. T. 0. Perrin and
assembly music presented by Mrs.
A. W. Lindley. Mrs. Hodge Sellers,
secretary of the forum, read the
minutes of the April meeting
prioh to the program.
The next forum luncheon will
an AuMMH-an. It* structure bo hold on Wednesday, November
bqjjt hot on length of days, 8, at Finrt Methodist church, with
' Ju*t a matter of hours, for the Garden Club presenting the
,pf Il>a ho®fc4M®at WWgHMi. •
Mrs. William Tramel entertain-
ed with a lovely party Thursday
in her home on North Davis street,
receiving members of the Thurs-
day Luncheon club for their re-
assembly meeting of the fall sea-
son. ,
The reception rooms were at-
tractive with arrangement* of
pink roses, dahlias and other
autumn flowers. Luncheon was
served at the quartet tables, laid
with pastel colored linen and cen-
tered with miniature containers
filled with pink rosebuds.
In the series of bridge follow-
ing luncheon Mrs. Waire Currin
was presented with the high score
award and Mrs. Graydon Johnson,
second high. Mr*. Dick Caldwell
was lucky in the round of bingo.
Guests other than member* of
the club included Mrs, Caldwell
and Mrs. George Williamson.
The flower* for the Chamber
of Commerce offices were contri-
buted by various ladies of the city
during the past week.
Mrs. J. C. Holcomb brought in
a lovely bouquet of yellow and
orange marigolds in a crystal vase.
Mrs. Mollie Blalock sent in a
lareg bouquet of salmon Supreme
dahlias in a cream-colored chiha
Ma Lucy Moore brought in a
lovely bouquet of orange marl- C()leua ^ exoti<, co,arg nrran„fd
golds and purple irage in a' '8h1tt in ah'Wong coSulner.
pottery vase. *
Mrs. Mollie Faulk sent in a gor-
geous arrangement of Sherwood
peach dahlias and lupins i^i a
boat-shapod crystal- holder.
- Mr*. H. O. Day brought in three
blended shades of dahlias with
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Heard . . .
About The
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CLUB’S Benefit
BRIDGE
WHEN?
Tuesday Evening at 7:30 o’clock.
WHERE?
American Legion Hut, Church Street.
WHO?
Everyone ia invited—$1.00 each.
• Over 30 Prizes—Donated by
Sulphur Springs Merchants!
• Proceeds to Support Club’s
Charity Program!
Come . . . enjoy the party . . . and help a worthy
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yVmr own group for progression. ^
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