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Mrs. Peattie to Be Entertained
by Mrs. Doorly and Mrs. Howell

Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, novelist
critic and dramatist who comes to
Omaha to give readings of her original
plays Friday, February 16, at 4
p.m. at the Fontenelle under auspices
of Woman's Press club, will
be honor guest at a dinner which
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Howell will give
at the Blackstone hotel that night.
She will again be honor guest at a
tea which Mrs. Henry Doorly will
give for the Press club, of which she
is a member, the afternoon of Saturday,
February 17, at her home.

Mrs. Peattie, who was a member
of the World-Herald editorial staff
a number of years ago and who
after leaving here, was for sixteen
years literary critic on the Chicago
Tribune, is a personal friend of Mrs.
Howell. She was also an intimate
friend of Mrs. Gilber M. Hitchcock,
and her daughter, the late Mrs. Barbara
Erskine, was a girlhood friend
of Mrs. Henry Doorly.

Literary ability seems to be the
natural heritage of the Peattie
family. Both Mrs. Peattie and her
husband, Robert Burns Peattie, have
always been newspaper people. After
leaving the Chicago Tribune, they
both tried to retire and built themselves
a little home at Tryon, N.C.,
which they called "Dunwaudrin."
They immediately, however, began
wandering again, Mr. Peattie being
called forth by insistent editors as
a special correspondent and Mrs.
Peattie to lecture and give readings
of her original plays, many of which
have this North Carolina country for
their local. Mrs. Peattie has always
been a contributor to Scribners,
Harpers, Century and other publications.
She is the author of "The
Shape of Fear," "The Edge of Things," "The
Precipice" and other novels.

A son, Donald Peattie, a government
expert who has been sent on
many expeditions in the study of
plants, has his parents' ability and
last year won the first prize offered
by the New York Poetry society.
Mrs. Erskine had also published a
book of verse before her death. There
are two other sons, both of whom
lived here. Edward is a New York
business mand and Roderick a member
of the faculty of the University
of Ohio at Columbus.

Mrs. Peattie has chosen for her
readings in Omaha two original
plays "The Wander Weed" and
"Family Reunion." She will also
give a short talk and will read from
her collection of poems entitled
"Poems From a Southern Garden."

Tickets for Mrs. Peattie's lecture
will be sold at the door.