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THIS CLIPPING FROM NEW YORK N. Y. AMERICAN [[stamp]] JAN 29 1937 [[/stamp]] Snarks, Group of Young Mayfair Women, Desert Their Theatrical Activities Long Enough to Stage a Hobby Exhibition Showing the "Art of Living"; Passing Lila Agnew Stewart Felt Keenly by the Society in Which She Was So Active Cholly Knickerbocker Says: One hears much of the Amateur Comedy Club and its theatrical activities, but not so much of the uniquely named Snarks - but the latter organization is fully as intriguing and interesting a group of fashionable amateur thespians as the former. With the difference that all the members of "The Snarks" are feminine, and that their interests are more varied and wide-flung. Members of "The Snarks," in which group Hope Williams and others have attained fame in the theatrical world received much of their preliminary training for their later professional careers, have not confined themselves merely to acting, although the drama is their prime activity. They have various other hobbies - paying and non-paying hobbies - and this week the group staged a unique event entitled "Creation and Recreation" - a sort of exhibition of hobby pursuits and "the art of living," as one of the members so aptly put it. Taking an untenanted apartment at 901 Lexington ave., The Snarks transformed the empty rooms into a museum-like salon with a collection of exhibits including sculpture, painting and literature for which the various members of the group were responsible - and it was, indeed, a truly "different" event. At the entrance to the apartment, distributing pamphlets on the history of the club, which was organized in 1909 and whose name was taken from Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Hunting of the Snark," was Mrs. Drelincourt Martin, who under the name of Helen Martin has appeared on the concert stage. Mrs. Henry T. Eaton, who as Ina Kissell Eaton edited a series of sports articles some years ago, and who now puts her energy to taking orders for "cakes designed to suit the occasion," was busy putting the kettle on for tea - and on top of all the excitement of getting the tea things ready, the fuse burned out! But Ina took the situation in hand and before you knew it, there was tea - being poured by Peggy Kauffman, Patricia Martin and Mrs. Jarvis Cromwell. There was such a variety of exhibitions, many amusing, many cultural - and in looking over th entries I saw those of Beatrix Buel Smith, who invented some sort of cellophane map protector years ago - a gadget which is much in demand in the stores selling such articles. There were the entries of Mrs. Francis Biddle, of Philadelphia, who writes poems and fiction under her maiden name, Katherine Garrison Chapin, and whose latest book, "Time Has No Shadow," shows evidence of being a "best seller"; of sister Cornelia Van Aukin Chapin, who had on exhibition her sculptures of ebony and stone; a set of photographs shown by John H. Steinway; pen and ink drawings of players sketched backstage during the performance of one The Snarks plays. There were portrait studies by Albert Sterner and Gordon Grant, who are honored in the club by being "companionate members"; books written by Eva T. McAdoo; poems by Dorothy Bull; magazine articles by Beatrix Smith; photographs taken professionally by Ruth Gardner Steinway; needleworked articles of furniture by Rachel McClenahan, Eleanor Kissell, Lena Curtis Poillon and Margaret Porter Ijans; pamphlets from the office of Grace Bristed Jackson on travel; and trophies, medals and "clips" attesting to the professional and amateur merit of the members. It really was the darnedest collection - but completely intriguing. The Snarks will present Lennox Robinson's play, "Is Life Worth Living?" as their next dramatic offering at the Heckscher Theatre next May. Members of the group who have attained professional success are Margaret Brett, who played in Summer stock; Grace Bristed, another stock member; Amanda Duff, who is in the current stage production of "Tovarich"; Katherine Emery, Mrs. Herbert Groesbeck, Jr. Patricia Martin, Virginia Lomas, Eva Ward, all "stock"; Edith Piper, of the concert stage - and the one and only Hope Williams. What, by the way, has become of Hope? She just hasn't been around of late. National Arts Feb. 1937 [[image]] THE ORIGINAL ROMEIKE PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU HENRY NEW YORK 220 WEST 19th ST., NEW YORK Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 THIS CLIPPING FROM NEW YORK, N. Y. SUN [[stamp]] JAN 16 1937 [[/stamp]] Miss Cornelia Van Auken Chapin of the Carlyle is in Philadelphia for the opening of the Hermandez Exhibition of drawings and prints recently show at the Fifteen Gallery here. Her sister, Mrs. Francis Biddle, is chief sponsor of the exhibition now being held at the Philadelphia Print Club on Latimer street. Miss Chapin will return to the Carlyle on Sunday.
