NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
HELENE AMES MAKES A HIT 
Her Dramatic Recital at the Oceanside Hotel Very Largely 
Attended 
HELENE AMES 
The Dramatic Reader 
Helene Ames’ dramatic re- 
cital at The Oceanside, New 
England’s largest summer ho- 
tel, last Friday evening, was 
the most clever and artistic bit 
of entertainment done at Mag- 
noha this summer. Miss Ames 
is not a mere reader—she is a 
teacher and a strong one. Be- 
hind every one of her numbers, 
there is some principle or prob- 
lem of life, and she reveals and 
expounds it with consummate 
art. Her efforts were rewarded 
by the attendance of more 
than 200 of the Oceanside’s 
guests and cottagers, who ap- 
plauded her warmly. 
Miss Ames first read several 
charming little story-poems in 
French-Canadian dialect. One 
would think she had spent a 
part of her life in quaint, old 
Quebee,. so startlingly real are 
her characterizations of its 
quaint, old folk. These went 
very well with her audience 
and brought a very responsive 
applause. Then Miss Ames 
read Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘How 
He Lied to Her Husband,’’ a 
piece which afforded her op- 
portunity to show her art and 
the wonderful power of imita- 
tion which her long training 
has given her. Another number 
was Fenn-Pryce’s ‘‘’Op-o-Me- 
Thumb,’’ a one-act play which 
Maude Adams often uses with 
splendid effect as a curtain- 
raiser. The mingled humor and 
pathos of the piece appeal to 
every heart that’s human and, 
in this number, Miss Ames 
made her deepest impression. 
She is a reader of exceptional 
sincerity and is at her best 
in pieces which give outlet to 
her earnestness. 
Miss Ames comes from Chi- 
cago, where she read very ex- 
tensively at last winter’s affairs 
of the fashionable Chicago 
smart-set. This winter she will 
have a studio in Boston. 
Miss Dorothy Wilmot of New Or- 
leans has left the North Shore after 
a month spent at ‘‘ Avalon,’’ the sea- 
shore home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
erick Ayer at Pride’s Crossing. Miss 
Wilmot by her winning way became 
a great favorite with the young peo- 
ple here and all regret her departure. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Washington B. 
Thomas with their daughter, Miss 
Margaret, have forsaken the charms 
of ‘‘Netherfield,’’ their attractive 
home at Pride’s Crossing, for an 
extended trip abroad. They sailed 
Wednesday from New York on 
the ‘‘George Washington.’’? After 
leaving France, they will go directly 
to Switzerland to enjoy the season in 
the mountains, and then some time 
will be spent travelling on the Con- 
tinent and on to Imdia. Finally after 
visiting Japan as an end of the tour, 
they will return to the United States 
by way of the Pacific. The trip wiil 
last during the winter months into 
the middle of May. 
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Dr. Franklin Dexter and _his 
daughter, Miss Harriet, of the Pride’s 
colony, sailed from New York Satur- 
day for a short trip abroad. 
3 
William M. Wood, Jr., son of Mr. 
and Mrs. William Madison Wood of 
Boston and Pride’s, has recently re- 
turned from an extended trip abroad. 
He sailed during the early part of 
the summer. 
3 
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter of Washing- 
ton and Beverly Farms, sailed Tues- 
day on the Franconia for England, 
where she will be the guest of her 
daughter, the Countess of Suffolk. 
3 
Miss Hope Maleolm has as_ her 
cuest at the home of her mother, Mrs. 
George J. Malcolm, at Beverly Farms, 
a charming Newport girl, Miss M. 
Seigfried. Miss Seigfried has many 
friends among the younger set at the 
Farms and will be much entertained 
while here. 
3 
H. V. Morgan of Philadelphia has 
concluded a visit with the Sidney E 
Hutehinsons at Beverly Farms. 
3 
J.S. Curtis has returned to Beverly 
Farms after a several weeks’ vachi- 
ing trip along the Maine coast. 
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Mrs. Henry W. Stevens gave an- 
other of her delightful luncheons at 
‘*Pinethwaite’’, Pride’s Crossing, 
last Sunday, where she is spending 
the summer. The Stevens family is 
from Detroit and in true Western 
style their hospitality is as enjoyable 
as it is free. There are two. very 
charming girls in the family, who 
have enjoyed to the fullest extent the 
out-of-door pleasures of the Atlantic 
coast this season. They have the dis- 
tinction of having motored Kast ali 
the distance from Detroit. 
