Show U LOCAL at HIGH SCHOOL anna pike greenwood eminent reader in delightful program literary critics of acknowledged reputation have said it newspapers all over the country have heralded it magazines of highest standing have approved it by accepting and publishing her works and now the people of richfield can testify to it from their own observations annie pike greenwood is a poet by the grace of god mrs greenwood came to richfield under the auspices of the study club and gave a recital at the high school auditorium monday evening the house was comfortably filled and mrs greenwood who read mostly her own poems with only a few by other writers on the program easily commanded the attention of the audience we would not call her a read er in the original sense of the word her delivery livery le is not her strong point the accompanying gestures are not of that plastic roundness that is so pleasing an attribute of readers of I 1 long ong training and experience and her voice while carrying well has not that certain metallic timber that so softly goes through the ear to the heart but that in spite of these slight chandica handicaps p s the leader made such a deep impression upon the listeners is more than ample proof that she has something to say a vital i nes ines message ag to deliver her poems are in the class of those of goethe the great german poet who states that the best he wrote were di dichne elite poems conceived and born bom in the spur of certain occasions and not only by the poetical contents but also by the short preambles mrs greenwood gave before reading each poem this our classification is fully attested to As a poet sirs mrs greenwood no not only has thoughts of rare beauty but also a most happy faculty to express the th e thoughts in most beautiful language faultless diction and a variety of rhythm that in each case best fits the thoughts she wants to drive home her sense of form is wonderfully developed and a very fine foil for the little genis gems of though set therein mrs greenwood already has an e enviable n reputation among critics and connoisseurs of literature and it is not n ot hard to predict that the literary world will give her more and more of recognition as the years roll on on and the poet grows A verv very welcome addition to the pr program grani was the singing of mrs airs L A poulson alio ho sympathetically accompanied compa nied by mrs anna callaway gave some fopiano solos in splendid voice brilliant technique and with fine artistry |