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Show NOTED WRITER AND SPEAKER ADDRESSES THE B. P. W. CLUB MILFORD WOMEN HEAR DELIGHTFUL TALK TUESDAY EVE. The B. P. W. club held its regular meeting Monday evening at Hotel At-kin, At-kin, President Mrs. A. J. Atkin, presiding. pre-siding. Mrs. Erma Gillies and Mrs. Grace Jefferson gave in their reports of the state convention held at Ogden, Utah, which were very instructive, entertaining en-tertaining and pleasing. They gave reports from the speeches given by the national president, Lena M. Phillips, Phil-lips, which gave clear views of the worth and importance of these clubs for the women of America. Club songs were given by the memmbers. Margery Wilson, movie star, author and lecturer, was present and was introduced in-troduced by Mrs. Atkin. Miss Wilson held her listeners spellbound; she commenced her talk by telling of her personal contact with the prominent actors and actresses of the day. Showing Show-ing in a wonderful way that many of them possessed sterling worth as well as artistic and world reknowned ability. abili-ty. She brought them out so clearly with her wonderful vocabulary of words and musical intonation that it caused her audience to feel that Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart and Douglas Fairbanks were right there with them. She told of her experience as a radio speaker. She speaks every Tuesday on KHJ, from two-thirty to three. Miss Wilson as an author is surely treading the path of fame, and seems to now be getting more joy out of her work as an author than her other accomplishments. ac-complishments. Her book "Charm" will soon be ready for sale and a prominent Los Angeles publishing firm, has taken it over to publish and sell. This firm feels so certain of the success and popularity of the work that a handsome royalty is to be given the author. Miss Wilson read one chapter from the book which lifted her hearers up to an elevation in thought, that showed show-ed we have all been indifferent to our own charms which we could bring out by cultivation and at the same time enable our lives and characters to be a blessing to the world and a help to humanity. She did not read this chapter to put a commercial tint on the explanation of the work, but to help club women to gain a glimpse of what they unconsciously give out and accomplish. Every one was benefited, and are impatient to possess poss-ess the volume that will startle the book lovers of the world. Margery Wilson is the wife of Mr. Otto Meek, but uses her maiden name in public work and attainments. Mrs. Dr. Parrish, Mrs. Susie Smith and Miss Virginia Parrish, of Center-ville Center-ville were guests of the club. |