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Chairman Peattie Lecture

(IMAGE)
--Heyn Photo.

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 es
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.

Chairman Peattie Lecture

(IMAGE)
--Heyn Photo.

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 es
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.