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Chairman Peattie Lecture

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Miss Irene McKnight.

Miss Irene Mcknight is chairman of the lecture committee of the Woman's Press club which is sponsoring the dramatic and poetic readings to be given by Mrs. Elia W. Peattie at the Fontenelle at 4 p. m. Friday. Proceeds from this lecture go to defray expenses of awards made in the annual writing contests conducted by the Woman's Press club.

Mrs. Peattie, who was formerly an Omaha newspaper woman, later went to Chicago where she and her husband, Robert Peattie, were with the Tribune for sixteen years. Mrs. Peattie was the literary critic and as such attained national reputation in the field of literature. She has contributed stories, poems and says to leading periodicals; is the author of many books, and of recent years has written a number of short plays. She will read two fo these plays, "The Wander Weed" and "The Family Reunion." She will also give a talk on folk plays and will read from her poems book, "Poems from a Southern Garden." She has given these readings with marked success throughout the country.

As a recognition of her literary attainments, the Northwestern university recently conferred an honorary degree in Phi Beta Kappa upon Mrs. Peattie.

Tickets for this lecture Friday will be sold at the door.

The West Sisters' String quartet will give a fifteen-minute program at 3:45 p. m., preceding the lecture.

Mrs. Peattie arrives Friday morning from Chicago and will be at the Fontenelle, Mr. and Mrs. R. Beecher Howell entertain at dinner in her honor Friday evening. Mrs. Henry Doorly entertains the members of the Press club at a tea in her honor at home Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Peattie helped organize the Omaha Women's club, of which she is a charter members. These other charter members have also been invited to be guests Saturday at Mrs. Doorly's tea: Mesdames Edgar Allen E. M. Axtell, Irving Baxter, C. C. Belden, Ellis Blerbower, T. R. Braden, F, B. Bryant, F. II, Cole Neeley Cooke, D. W. Covell, C. N. Dietz, J. II. Dumont, Fred Engel, J. W. Griffith, W. W. Marsh, Phillip Potter, E. L. Stone, C. H. Townsend, Harriet S. MacMurphy, Draper Smith, G. L. Fisher, A. J. Love and Mrs. J. M. Metacalfe.

Miss Irene McKnight.

Miss Irene Mcknight is chairman of the lecture committee of the Woman's Press club which is sponsoring the dramatic and poetic readings to be given by Mrs. Elia W. Peattie at the Fontenelle at 4 p. m. Friday. Proceeds from this lecture go to defray expenses of awards made in the annual writing contests coducted by the Woman's Press club.

Mrs. Peattie, who was formerly an Omaha newspaper woman, later went to Chicago where she and her husband, Robert Peattie, were with the Tribune for sixteen years. Mrs. Peattie was the literary ertic and as such attained national repuation in the field of literature. She has contributed stories, poems and says to leading periodicals; is the author of many books, and of recent years has written a number of short plays. She will read two fo these plays, "The Wander Weed" and "The Family Reunion." She will also give a talk on folk plays and will read from her poems book, "Poems from a Southern Garden." She has given these readings with marked success throught the country.

As a recognition of her literary attainments, the Northwestern university recentyly conferred an honorary degree in Phi Beta Kappa upon Mrs. Peattie.

Tickets for this lecture Friday will be sold at the door.

The West Sisters' String quartet will give a fifteen-minute program at 3:45 p. m., proceding the lecture.

Mrs. Peattie arrives Friday morning from Chicago and will be at the Fontenelle, Mr. and Mrs. R. Beecher Howell entertain at dinner in her honor Friday evening. Mrs. Henry Doorly entertains the members of the Press club at a tea in her honot at home Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Peattie helped orgainze the Omaha Women's club, of which she is a charter memebes. These other charter members have also been invited to be guests Saturday at Mrs. Doorly's tea: Mesdames Edgar Allen E. M. Axtell, Irving Baxter, C. C. Belden, Ellis Blerbower, T. R. Braden, F, B. Bryant, F. II, Cole Neeley Cooke, D. W. Covell, C. N. Dietz, J. II. Dumont, Fred Engel, J. W. Friffith, W. W. Marsh, Phillip Pottor, E. L. Stone, C. H. Townsend, Harriet S. MacMurphy, Deaper Smith, G. L. Fisher, A. J. Love and Mrs. J. M. Metacalfe