WHO’S WHO AMONG THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA 1922 An Annual Devoted To The Representative Women of California With An Authoritative Review of Their Activities In Civic Social, Athletic, Philanthropic Art and Music, Literary & Dramatic Circles Security Publishing Co., San Francisco/Los Angeles 1922 Transcribed with permission from the personal library of Barry Cassidy Rare Books This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter. All persons donating to this site retain the rights to their own work. Pages 160 WOMEN OF THE PRESS Los Angeles JEAN LOUGHPOROUGH Club and Society Editor Los Angeles Examiner FRANCES MORRIN Assistant Society-Editor Los Angeles Examiner LANNIE HAYNES MARTIN General Newspaper Work MRS. BLANCHE FRIEND AUSTIN Managing Editor "The Clubwoman" MRS. CLAIRE H. COOMBS (Prudence Perry) MRS. E.L. REED Past President, Los Angeles Woman's Press Club Page 161 THE WOMEN OF THE PRESS "Who's Who Among the Women of California" would not be complete without an appreciation of the "Women of the Press." They are a modest group - these women of the press - modest in their careful consideration of others, and forgetfulness of self. Their trained minds, their sympathies, their broad-visioned way of grasping minute details, make them a positive power for good. They have high standards of life, high ideals, and a recognition of the purpose of their profession, than which there is none more potent in service to humanity. ANNIE LAURIE The name of Annie Laurie is like a gleam shining through the real acheivements for women, generally, and for California women, particularly. Some one has called her the "Dean of American newspaper women." She IS. From coast to coast in the chain of Hearst newspapers, she is known as Winifred Black. In San Francisco, her articles are written under the name of Annie Laurie. While her own newspaper stories have made her name a household word bearing the beacon light of hope and cheer, of right-thinking, right-living, appealing to all people and to all ages, to those in need, to the forsaken, to the cultured, to the brilliant, to those who want to make the good fight - she is what members of her own profession call - "an all-around newspaper man." She has covered almost every phase of newspaper work and is known in Chicago, New York, Washington, all American cities, and, in London, Paris and other European cities where she is recognized for her profession, as she is, here, in America. The influence of Annie Laurie in the work of every other newspaper women who enters the profession is the kind of influence which makes for the very best within - an influence which stands first and foremost for work well done. She has no use for the idler. Work, a steadfast belief in people, and the best things of this world - that is the secret of her success. Page 162 WOMEN OF THE PRESS BETTY DEITRICK "Betty the Shopper" San Francisco Call MOLLIE MERRICK Feature Writer San Francisco Examiner ALMA REED Editorial Staff San Francisco Bulletin BUFORD GORDON BENNETT Assistant Dramatic Critic San Francisco Examiner ETHEL WHITMIRE Editorial Staff San Francisco Examiner CORA WINCHELL Music, Art and Dramatic Critic San Francisco San Francisco Journal GRACE HULL DE WOLFE Editorial Staff San Francisco Examiner GERALDINE SARTAIN Editorial Staff San Francisco Chronicle Page 163 WOMEN OF THE PRESS JOSEPHINE BARTLETT Book Reviews and Special Features San Francisco Journal JEAN HENRY Special Feature Artist San Francisco Examiner ALICE RYAN ROOD Special Features "Keystone News" MRS. MARTIAL DAVOUST Society and Clubs The Wasp, San Francisco MARGARET MEDBURY Clubs and Art San Francisco Chronicle DORIS CLARK "Cynthia Grey" San Francisco Daily News WINIFRED ALLEN SCOTT Editorial Staff San Francisco Chronicle WINONA FLAVEN Society and Publicity Formerly San Francisco Examiner Page 164 Images of MARGARET DOUGLAS ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA MARIE HICKS HEALY BLANCHE UPRIGHT While not actively engaged in newspaper work, now, these four women are proud of their newspaper affiliations, attributing their literary work and their present careers to the wide range of knowledge and training gained from newspaper experience. All four of these women are devoting their time to creative work and to magazine and special publications where trained newspaper women find a compensating field. Kathleen Norris, who has been termed "The best loved woman author," by the very nature of her great success, stands out as a criterion for newspaper work. She has manifested in her short stories, her novels, and her special newspaper articles the vividness of newspaper training. Lillian Ferguson of the Sunset Magazine, Josephine Hart Phelps, "The Argonaut", Helen Bonnet, "The Journal" and formerly "Town Talk"; Marjory Driscoll of the Chronicle who writes such splendid stories and poems, and Laura Bride Powers, author of "California Missions" who is actively in newspaper work as society editor of "The Oakland Tribune" are contemporaries. Miss Ada Sweet, editorial writer of the Santa Rosa Republican, holds high the standard of newspaper work, her writing being of unusual strength and scholarly attainment. Perhaps San Francisco in unusually fortunate in the number of newspaper women who have "arrived" in the different fields of literary expression. Their names gleam from a brilliant page on which we find written Rose Wilder Lane, Bessie Beatty, Genevieve Parkhurst, Helen Dare, Marie Darrach, Myra Hunt Kingsman Miller and Miriam Michelson. From north to south the newspaper women of California create records not only for themselves but for the "newspaper family" to which they have the honor to belong. Newspaper women, generally speaking, love their profession and value the wide opportunities the work affords them as participants in the great, human, world-wide activities requiring character, brilliancy and skill. COLLEAGUES To the newspaper women who have co-operated with me in the interest of "Who's Who Among the Women of California," am I grateful. They have been splendidly gracious, abundantly kind! In the midst of crowded days, they have taken time to add their interest to these pages. In our next edition, we shall have another representative coterie of those consistent, able, "silent workers," the women of the press, they - who make history with women and the best which they put forth. JOSEPHINE WILSON, Editorial Staff, "San Francisco Examiner." Page 165 NOTED CALIFORNIA WOMEN It is interesting to find how many California women have commanded world-wide recognition. Written on the scrolls of success are those in their chosen fields - music, literature, art, the state, education, business, philanthropy and science. In endeavoring to present an authentic list of noted California women we are confronted with a desire to include many whose names, in our opinion, illumine the pages of achievement. The California Department of the California State Library has prepared a list of noted Californians. Quoting them as authority, we record their list without deviation. Adams, Annette, lawyer. *Allen, Maude, dancer. *Anderson, Mary, actress. *Atwood, Lorena, actress. *Atherton, Gertrude, author. Austin, Mary Hunter, author. Bates, Blanche, actress. Bonfils, Mrs. W. B. (Annie Laurie), author. Bower, Mrs. B. M. (Bertha M. Sinclair), author. Burke, Mary A., stock-breeder. Buckingham, Alise P., fruit grower. Burcham, Rose L., gold miner. *Buckley, May, actress. Burroughs, Marie, actress. *Calhoun, Eleanor, actress. Coolbrith, Ina Donna, poet. *Crabtree, Lotta, actress. Craft, Marcella, opera singer. *Crewes, Laura Hope, actress. *Davies, Phoebe, actress. Dolores, Antoinette, opera singer, Savage Opera Company *Duncan, Isadora, dancer. Ehmann, Freda, olive grower. Elliott, Gertrude, actress. Elliott, Maxine, actress. *Fay, Maud, opera singer. Foltz, Clara, lawyer. *Forma, Reta, opera singer. *Francisco, Fannie, Fannie (Michelsen) Coini, opera singer. Gates, Eleanor, author, dramatist. Hearst, Phoebe, philantrhopist. *Heyman, Katherine Ruth, musician. *Hopper, Edna Wallace, actress. Kidder, Mrs. Sarah A., first woman railroad president in California. *Klumpke, Anna, artist. Mills, Susan, educator. *Nevada, Emma, singer. Nielson, Alice, opera singer. *Norris, Kathleen, author. *O'Neil, Nance, actress. Pope, Marion Holden, actress. *Rambeau, Marjorie, actress. Rideout, Phebe M., banker. Riegelman, Mabel, opera singer. Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, author. *Roberts, Dorothy (Klumpke), astronomer. *Sanderson, Sibyl, opera singer. Stanford, Jane Lathrop, philanthropist. *Steeb, Olga, musician. Strauss, Georgiana, opera singer. Summers, Emma A., oil operator. Strong, Harriet W. R., walnut grower. Severance, Caroline M., "Mother of Clubs." Tennant, Dorothy, actress. *Withrow, Evelyn Almond, artist. *Wood, Anna Miller (Mrs. Fred Harvey) concert singer. Yaw, Ellen Beach, concert singer. *Native born. To the eastern and the foreign mind the most remarkable feature of California's contribution to literature is the wonderfully good work of our women writers. It seemed only natural that the men should have found so much material in a frontier state, but it was not thought that there would be equal inspiration for the women. The truth is that California, unlike most of the earlier states on the Western frontier, did not grow slowly but suddenly with a rush of civilization as well as a rush for gold. And then there had been the Spaniards furnishing the Americans with a readymade background of romance. But what more could a woman writer want that a land of fruit and flowers, hills and valleys, snow peaked and cloud capped mountains, the source of rushing rivers? To the women writers of California I owe the inestimable debt of countless hours of delight, of fascination and inspiration. In the pages of Gertrude Atherton I first found the joy and the color of life in the Golden State and it was through her pens then I was thrilled with a love of that splendid patriot, Alexander Hamilton. The work of Mary Austin has more than sustained my conviction that she is peer to any other woman writer of the language. In the field of fiction founded on the facts of life as interpreted with some of the glamour of romance it has been a privilege to walk with Kathleen Norris. The verse of Ruth Comfort Mitchell has broadened my sympathies and deepened my understanding. MARGARET DOUGLAS. Page 166 CALIFORNIA WOMEN AUTHORS, POETS, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND MUSICIANS A SELECTED LIST In response to many requests for lists of California authors, special writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, singers, and players, the California department of the California State Library has arranged selected lists to fulfill the demand. Basing our authority on other standard sources of reference, in addition to the California State Library, we note the following: AUTHORS Adams, Harriet Aiken, Ednah Alden, Isabella Allen, Emma Sarah Alverson, Rosana Angellotti, Marion Polk Ashe, Elizabeth Atherton, Gertrude Austin, Mary Bailey, Florence Augusta Bandini, Helen Beatty, Bessie Beckman, Mrs. William Bonner, Geraldine Bonfils, W. B. Mrs. ("Annie Laure," pseud.) Burbank, Blanche Marie Burbridge, Mabelle Burton, Marie Amparo Carr, Sarah Pratt Castle, Cora Sutton Chamberlain, Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chandler, Katherine Agnes Charles, Frances Churchill, Eugenia Clock, Emma Colburn, Mrs. F. H. Comstock, Anna Cooke, Grace MacGowan Cooley, Alice Kingsbury Coolbrith, Ina Donna (Poet Laureate) Coolridge, Mary Elizabeth Darling, Esther Birdsall Davidson, Alice Davis, Winifred J. Dawson, Emma Frances Deering, Mabel Craft Doliver, Mary ("May Wentworth," pseud.) Du Bois, Constance Eastwood, Alice Eyster, Nellie Blessing Field, Mary Hannah Fitch, Anna Mariska Foote, Mary Hallock Forbes, Mrs. Harry Foster, Caroline Holcombe Fremont, Jessie Gates, Eleanor Gerberding, Elizabeth Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson Grinnell, Elizabeth Pratt Hall-Wood, Mary Hardy, Irene Harraden, Beatrice Harriman, Alice Haslett, Harriet Heaven, Louise Hopkins, Pauline Mackie Houghton, Eliza P. Irwin, Grace Jackson, Helen Hunt James, Juliet Helena Jarboe, Mary Halsey Knapp, Adeline Knox, Jessie Juliet Lambert, Mary Lawrence, M. V. T. Lennox, Mary Lewis, Margaret Cameron Loughead, Flora Haines Lowenberg, Bettie (Mrs. I.) MacGowan, Alice Mezquida, Anna Blake Michelson, Miriam Mighels, Ella Sterling Miller, Elizabeth Gore Milne, Frances Margaret Mitchell, Ruth Comfort Munger, Dell H. Norris, Kathleen Nuttall, Zelia Magdalena Older, Mrs. Fremont O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Curtis Overton, Gwendolen Pacheco, Mary C. Parsons, Mary Elizabeth Peixotto, Jessica Blanche Perry, Stella George Phillips, Mrs. Tully Marshall Pope, Amy Elizabeth Reed, Anna Morrison Sanchez, Nellie Saunders, Elizabeth Seton, Grace Sexton, Ella M. Shuey, Lillian Simpson, Anna Pratt Sinclair, Bertha Smith, Alice Prescott Spencer, Dorcas Steele, Rowena Stetson, Grace Ellery Strohbridge, Idah Sweet, Ada Celeste Thorpe, Rose Hartwick Tiernan, Frances Christine Tobin, Agnes Tompkins, Elizabeth Knight Trine, Grace Hyde Upright, Blanche Victor, Frances Wagner, Madge Morris Walter, Carrie Stephens Warr, Mrs. Veraille De Witt Wentworth, Marion Craig Wheelock, Irene Wiggin, Kate Douglas Wilson, Elizabeth Sargent Wilson, Josephine Winterburn, Rosa Barton Wolf, Alice S. Wolf, Emma Woods, Virna MUSICIANS Ashley, Phylidda Aylwin, Josephine Crew Bond, Carrie Jacobs Carusi, Mme. Ines Crawford, Dorothy Fernanda, Doria Florence, Rose Hausman, Rosalie Jenkins, Cora Jones, Abbie Gerish Keys, Phyllis Lucy Kuester, Edith Hanes Mansfeldt, Mrs. Hugo McDermott, Leila France McGee, Winifred MacQuarrie, Marie Hughes Moore, Mary Carr Roma, Caro (Elsie Pardow) Ross, Gertrude Scott, Marjorie Thatcher, Gladys Knesel Waldie, Lillian Barry Young, Anna SCULPTORS Buchanan, Ella Daggett, Maud Edmonds, Elizabeth Frissell, Mrs. Duncan Wendt, Julia Bracken PAINTERS Balfour, Helen Ball, Katherine Boone, Cora Brannan, Sophie Bremer, Anne M. Cannon, Jessie Champlin, Ada Belle Chittenden, Alice Dunlap, Helena Fortune, E. Charlton Froelich, Maren M. Heynemann, Julia Hyde, Helen Hunter, Isabel Johnson, Caroline Rexford Joslin, Lucille Lundberg, Florence MacChesney, Clara T. Macky, Constance Mathews, Lucia K. McCormick, Evelyn M. Partington, Gertrude Porter, Louise Percy, Isabella Clark Richardson, Mary Curtis Rieber, Winifred Sargent, Geneve Rixford Schuster, Donna Shore, Henrietta M. Spalsbury, Sara H. Wickes, Ethel Transcribed by Pamela Storm Wolfskill. PROOFED by Carolyn Feroben.