Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 19

SOCIETY _ (Continued From Eighteenth Page.) Spignul and Mr. Smith W. Brookhart, . aTe SPONSOTS. Thursday night will be known as “Praternity night,” and at this opening performance, the members of all fra- ternities and sororities at the university will attend the play as special honor guests of “The Troubadours.” Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey has arrived in Washington and is at the Carlton. Other members of the governor's perty include State Senator Fmerson Richards, Judge Joseph A.| Corio, Mr. K. C. Seracusio, Mr. E. L. | Johnson, Mr. G. H. Johnson, Mr. John B. La Cort, Mr. Frederick Brodesser, | Dr. Griscom, Mr. A. H. Johnson, Mr.' Dan Stebbins, Mr. Bob Plager, Mr Patrick Doran, Mr. George Brennan, | Mr. Bob Burns and Mr. L. Kissell. Mr. | Ray Born, Mr. A. Miller, Mr. C. E. G ell, Mr. Sam Weakley, Mr. A. T. Nicols, Mr. L. Jeffers, Mr. As Abbott | and Mr. B. Markland, Mr. Harry Bach- | arach. Mr. Joseph Paxton and Mr. Wil- | lian} Cuthbert, commissioner, all of At- | lantie City, N. J. Miss Lake Directing Card Party for Quota Women. Miss Janet Lake is sponsoring a bridze party to be given at the club | o of the National Association of | University Women at 8 o'clock tomor- row evening for the Quota Club of Washington. A number of tables have been taken by women important in club life and others, and there will be a charm- ing suggestion of pre-Christmas atmos- | phere in the favors. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, president of Quota Club, will assist Miss Lake, as will Miss Katherine Tancil and other members of the club After the Pankhurst memorial meet- ing at the Capitol yesterday afternoon Dr. Alice Paul of the National Wom- | an's Party entertained a small group informally at tea in honor of Miss Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the famous suffragist, at the Dodge Hotel. Her guests were Mrs. John E. Milhol- land of New York, Miss Elsie Hill, act- ing chairman of the Connecticut branch and a member of the national council; Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin, vice president of the Authors'’ League of America; Mrs. Florence Byers Hill, finance chair- man, and her daughter, Miss Catherine Hill; Mrs. William Kent of California, | who' presided at the memorial meet- ing at the Capitol, and others, Mrs. Mabel Cook Coles, wife of the | celebrated anthropologist Fay-Cooper Coles of the Field Museum will be the speaker, replacing the Princess der Ling, who has asked for a change of date, at the first of tho series of talks at the Old English Coffee House to be given by the District League of Ameri- can Pen Women under the direction of THE EVENING Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith, chairman, at the league studio in Stoneleigh Court, Friday, Desember 13, at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Coles is the author of “Savage Gentlemen,” a story of the head hunt- ers. Her subject on Friday will be “Savage Gentlemen.” ‘There will, as usual, be several lunch- eon parties at the club house of the American Assoclation of University Women tomorrow following the_lecture which Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard will give there on “Current Topics.” One of the chief features of tomor- row's lecture will be @ discussion of the present political situation in the Balkans. This_ course of Tuesday morning lec- tures has been so popular that Mrs. Howard is arranging for a further series in the new year. starting on January 9. Tomorrow’s talk will be the last but one of the Fall course. Virginia Wedding of Interest to Washington Friends. Fairview, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willis N. Baylor, near Middlebrook, Va., was the scene of a pretty wedding Wed- nesday evening, December 4, when their daughter, Miss Margie Louise Baylor, | became the bride of Mr. | Berry. | The home was decorated with Christ- mas greens and berries, and Miss Reba Clemmer, a cousin of the bride, played Alfred F.| STAR, WASHINGTON, improvised altar, which was lighted with cathedral candles. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. T. G. Shuey. ‘Two little sisters of the bride walked in front of the bride, Janet Baylor, carrying a basket of roses, and Doris Baylor, a satin pillow with the wedding ring. ‘The bride was attended by her sister, Mrs. Sydney Berry, as matron of honor, who wore nile-green crepe, and carried an_am bouquet of pink Toses. The bride’s gown was of white crepe roma and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses and lilies of the valley. Following the ceremony a buffet sup- per was served to about 125 guests. Mr. and Mrs. Berry left by motor for a Southern trip, and will be at home about December 20 in Staunton, Va. ‘Tomorrow evening the playwriters’ group of the League of American Pen Women of the District, Mrs, Edith Ogden Heldel, chairman, will present to the members of the league and their friends_at the studio, in Stoneleigh Court, Prof. Willlam L. Corbin, who will speak on “The Old Drama and the New.” Prof. Corbin is librarian at the Smithsonian Institution and lecturer in English at American University. A group of players from the Renshaw School of Speech, under the direction of Jane Plummer Rice, will give a one- act play, “Joint Owners in Spain,” with the following students in the cast: Eva 0 o} TONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1929, charge of Mrs. Lily R. Hunt, will be held Wednesday evening at 8 o’'clock, when the following books will be re. viewed by Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith: “The Immortal Lover,” a Robert Burns romance, by John A, Steuart; “A Crown for Carlotta,” by D. M. Henderson, and ““Journey’s End,” by R. C. Sherriff. Mrs. Florence T. Griswold of Sdn Antonio, national Republican commit- teewoman from Texas, arrived at the :Vlllard yesterday for a stay of several ays. Miss Miriam E. O'Brien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former residents of Washington, but now of Boston, who has spent much of her time in Paris, will be the honor guest at a reception by the Bryn Mawr Club Wednesday evening in Boston, to be given at the home of Mrs. James R. Torbert, at 252 Marlboro street. Mrs. Torbert, Mrs. Herbert H. Longfellow and Mrs. Richard Fitzgerald will re- celve, and the ushers will be Miss Harriot _Hopkinson, Miss Margaret Arnold, Miss Alice Whiting and Miss Grace de Roo. Miss O'Brien will speak and will show some of the lantern slides made of her famous Alpine climbs. She is returning to Prance in February. Mrs. Helen McCoy will be at home. informally, Thursday afternoon from 3 to 7 o'clock at her studio home, 1525 1] wrought jewelry from Greenwich Vil-| lage, New York, and a collection of Chinese novelties. The work of several well known artists from Washington and New York will also be on exhibi- tion. Miss Katherine Morris and Mrs. W. 8. Garland will preside at the tea table. Mrs. Walter C. B. Morse and hersnughur, Miss Yvonne Morse, will assist. Mrs. L. E. Collier of Biltmore street will entertain the Patriots Memorial Chapter of the Daughters of the Amer- |ican” Revolution at luncheon at the | Collier Inn tomorrow. WOODMEN ELECT. New Officers Chosen by Camp oft Order at Staunton. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. 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