1922 12 17 Salt Lake Telegram-Utahns in New York
From the Salt Lake Tribune 17 December 1922; page 44
UTAHNS IN NEW YORK.
BY ELSIE GREENE.
December 16--There's Christmas spirit and to spare in the Utah colony this year. All sorts of plans for holiday festivities are afoot. No Utahn should have a lonely Christmas, for they haven't got a Marlow's ghost of a chance to escape the general merrymaking with everybody in on the plot.
The Saturday night before Christmas every Utahn, particularly the students and missionaries who are the guests of honor, will gather in the big hall on 103rd street. Holly wreaths and scarlet ribbon will flaunt a gay welcome from the walls and windows while unsuspected twigs of mistletoe suspending from doorways and chandeliers will help to promote a congenial spirit. Details of the entertainment are withheld from us but mysterious rumors of a Christmas tree are afloat. The party is being given in the Relief society, New York branch, with Mrs. Howard R. Driggs in charge.
Last week the annual Christmas bazar of the Relief society drew everybody Brooklyn-ward. And made the trip well worth their while. Besides the many dainty hand-embroidered articles, various big wholesale houses in New York had contributed liberally, helping to make the affair a big success financially.
That it was a success socially goes without speaking. Why "Uncle" John Young himself said he never tasted a better picnic dinner than that served to the hungry bazar-ites. There were roles and wienies, of course, but that was not all. Potato salad, the delicious home-made kind, hot chili con carne, mouth-melting cocoanut and chocolate cakes and pumpkin pie made "Uncle" John's remark truly descriptive than boasting. Mrs. Driggs and Mrs. Hamlin superintended this feast and won a vote of thanks from those present.
The entertainment was so entertaining it put everyone in good humor, thus attaining its proper end. There is nothing funnier than well-acted burlesqe and the take-off on "Friday afternoon in a village school," met with well-merited applause and laughter. Ernest Hoff was the comically dignified school master. John Thorsen and Leroy C. Snow the critical school "board." Edith Alsen made a laughable bawl-baby; Grace Cardon an appealing Red Riding Hood; George L. Hogan cut capers as a tramp. Eva Lewis as a gypsy violinist, Mamie Rowland as a Dutch girl and Daniel C. Clark as the school cut-up came in for their share of approval.
Christmas morning a special breakfast will be held at the Mission Home for all the members of the Brooklyn conference. There everyone will open their Christmas boxes while a big tree will help to promote a regular "Christmas at home" spirit.
Announcement has been made that the Sunday school classes under the direction of Superintendent H. H. Haglund will present their annual Christmas program in the Brooklyn meeting house on the Friday night before Christmas. It is in the shape of a story-book pageant, entitled "Mother Goose's Christmas Visit." Mrs. Mae Cutler has the staging of the affair in hand.
It is conference time in the Eastern States mission. President Roberts, Secretary Leroy Snow and Mabel Holmgren recently returned from a round robin trip that took them to Syracues, Rochester and Buffalo. From Buffalo, President Roberts and Secretary Snow returned to New York while Miss Holmgren went on to Jamestown to organize a Relief society, having previously done this for Buffalo and Syracuse.
Miss Holmgren then came home by way of Niagra Falls. It was a windy day, she said, when she went to look at the falls, and the spray was whipped into a semblance of a regular rainstorm for some distance surrounding the falls. But with umbrella, raincoat and rubber boots, she ventured to the very edge of the railed platform where she was seized she confessed, with an almost irresistible desire to jump over into the angrilly bubbling cauldron below.
Last Saturday President Roberts, Elder Hogan and Secretary Snow went to Scranton, Pennsylvania, for conference.
"Rare Mormon Imprint Brings $1030 at Auction" we read in the New York Tribune the other day. Continuing, the article said "This was what is known as the "Mormon Constitution," or the "Constitution of the State of Deseret, Utah," with the journal of the convention which formed it and the proceedings of the legislature consequent there on. The work was published in 1840 at Kanesville, afterward Council Bluffs. Also one of the first imprints of the Mormon press at Nauvoo, Illinois. "The Journal of Heber C. Kimball," went to Dr. Rosenbach for $615.
Leslie K. Frank holds the lucrative position of agent for New York territory of the famous Powder River war film. This is a true and authentic picture taken in the trenches and on the battlefields during the world war. It has appeared widely throughout the west and is meeting and enthusiastic reception here. It keeps Les pretty busy traveling over the state of New York, but Edna says they expect to celebrate Christmas in their delightful little apartment over in Brooklyn.
After seeing John Barrymore in "Hamlet" the other night, we were in despair over adequately expressing our enjoyment and admiration. It was the most untheatrical presentation of Shakespeare we had ever seen. Shakespeare's beautiful, but rather grandiloquent, rolling lines became simple, natural everyday speech from the lips of every member of the cast. john Barrymore's portrayal of the tragic Hamlet was superb. As we were saying, since we find it impossible to find the proper words for our enthusiastic ravings, we are going to print this account of it copied from the New York Tribune.
"Shocking Affair In Ohio--A Spiritualist Goes Mad and Murders a Whole Family."
The papers are full of a tragic story from Ohio. A young Harvard student Silas P. Hamlet, whose mother, Gertrud, had married her deceased husband's brother, Colonel the Hon. Z. Claudius, had fallen a victim to the wiles of the spirit rapping fraternity, by whom he was deluded into believing that his late father, Judge Hamlet, had been poisoned by the colonel.
This delusion, coupled with the young man's conscientious objection to a marriage with a deceased husband's brother, so worked upon his mind that he "guyed" his step father, the colonel, in some private theatrical and shot old Brer Polonius, the faithful colored servant of the family, whom he found airing his eye at the keyhole.
For this offense he had to get away for a time to Texas, but returning unexpectedly he forced Artemus W. Laertes, one of the best leaders of the German in Ohio, into a duel with rifles. Both combatants perished, but not until the colonel had been shot by his stepson and his lady had been accidentally poisoned by drinking a bottle of liniment. The leading citizens have subscribed to give the whole family a first class funeral.
