1915-04-04-New York Sun-General Society and Club News
General Society and Club News
- New York Sun, 4 April 1915, p. 12
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The Women's American Club of New York, which was recently organized on April 11 will inaugurate a series of salons on Sunday evenings. The object of the club is to encourage all things American--art, music, literature, drama, products and industries. Members must be American women. At the first meeting recently held at the Hotel Astor there was a large attendance and the president, Mme. Beatrice Goldie, in her opening address called attention to the little Americans know of the beauties of their own country and how they have been indifferent to American singers, artists and dramatists, not to mention the lack of support given to American industries. Col. J. Frank Supples gave a talk on the "Origin and Evolution of the American Flag" Miss Alice Ives, author of "The Village Postmaster" and many other plays, spoke of the "American Drama"; Harvey O'Higgins, author of "Polygamy," gave a most interesting outline of "The Power of the Mormon Church." Mrs. Helen Varick Boswell, president of the Woman's Forum, spoke on "Our Duty as Americans"; Phadrie Agoin, a Kentucky girl, sang American songs, and Reid Spencer, an American composer, played his own compositions.
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