Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1931, Page 19

SOCIETY (Continued From Second Page.) ctory in Philadelphia, was a guest at S:lc avardman Park Hotel over Sunday. Among those who have taken tables for the benefit card party to be given by Columbian Women of the George Washington University on Saturday afternocn, November 21, at the Ken- nedy-Warren, are: Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. William J. Mallory, Mrs. J jr.; Mrs. Henry Alyah Mrs. Douglas Putnam _Birnie, Abram Lisner, Mrs. Clarence nwall, Mrs. Charles Herries Wood- Mrs, Alfred Adams Wheat, Mrs > venor, Mrs. Charles Riborg erle Thorpe, Mrs. Charles ward Munroe, Mrs rd Lincoln ains, Mrs, wiliar 1 Rucdiger, Smith, Mrs. Owen h ussell McNitt, Miss cerl Cooper, Mrs. F therine Miss Janet Wilkineon, £ chairman ic beth Pect, chairman of Patronesses Virgil B. Jac chairman of Mrs. Edward Eckhart, chairman of Place; Miss Louise Moore, chairman Candy, and Mrs. Edwin Behrend, \airman of Printing Mrs Earl W. Barnbart, who is chair- the Reception Committee, will by assisted by Mrs. William J. Mallory, president of Columbiag Women: Mr D. K. Shute, Mrs. Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, Mgrs. John Paul Earnest Miss Elizabeth Peet and Miss El beth Cullen, past president of the o ganization: Miss Harriet Garrels and Miss Margaret, Pepper proceeds of the benefit will be used to assist the rge Washington | University in the purchase of a rep of the Houdon gtatue of George Wast ington. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton will re- turn to Washingtoa early this week to be the house guest of Mrs, Dorothy De Muth Watson. Mrs. Seton will come to Washington to attend the musicale being given at the home of Mrs. ‘Watson, when the compositions of Mr: Dorothy Radde Emery are to be pr sented by the Capital City Chorister and other interpretative artists. Many of Mrs. Seton's lyrics have been used by Mrs. Emery for her musical settings, and she will hear the great majority of these for the first time at this musicale Wednesday evening. Mrs. Seton is the national president of the League of American Pen Women and Mrs. Watson is the national chairman of music for the league. Mrs. Emery is an active member of the same organization and won second prize in the 1930 music contest, for her “Flower Cycle” a quartet for voice, violin, cello and piano, the words of which were written by Grace Thompson Seton. Mr. end Mrs. William Southall Har- rison Armistead of Nashville, Tenn., have announced the engagement of their granddaughter, Miss Gayle Tigert Armistead of Nashville and Washington, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Houston Armistead, to Mr. John Beale Bordley of Petersburg, Va. The wedding will take place the latter part of November in Washington. The Country Club of Virginia, at Richmond, was the scene of two debu- tante parties last Friday evening, one a dinner, at which Miss Georgia Grin- pan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker Grinnan, was presented, and the other a ball, ‘at which Miss Nency Bridgforth, daughter of Dr. and Mr=, Baskerville Bridgforth, made her bow to society. Dr. and Mrs. Grinnan end Miss Grinnan and her guest, Miss Henrietta Bryan of Washington, re- ceived the guosts in the ball foom, standing before a screen of flowers sent ss Grinn:n. Dinner was served in the main dining room. Pink and green was the color scheme of the decorations, and bowls f pink roses, snzpdragons and sweet peas were arranged on the long dining table. Miss Bridgforth's houss guests, Miss Hilton Roller, For Miss Harriet Baylor, At < Juliet Catlin, Danville, . Miss Frances Davis, Norfolk, Va. and Miss_Louise Lancaster, Staten Island, N. Y., were in the recefving line with Dr. and Mrs. Bridgforth and Miss Bridgforth. The Dictetic Asscciation of the Dis- trict of Columbia will entertain 2t its annual benefit card party tomorrow eve- ning at 8 o'clock at the Dodge Hotel. Miss Elsie Fitzgerald is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for tl party. There will be 20 tables of player Miss Edith Luke of Detroit, Mich., is passing several days at the Dodge Hotel. Hiss Luke is connected with the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit en route home from Philadelphia, wh= she attended the conference of the N: tional Association for Nursery Edu tion. Mr. James Tandy Ellis, Kentucky's poet, humorist and story-teller, will be McCutcheon's Barr Bldg. Farragut Sq. guest of honor at the first meeting of the Kentucky Society which will be held in the grand ball room of the Williard on Tuesday, November 24. Mrs. James Horgan is president of ~the society. Miss Margaret Fitzhugh Browne of Boston has issued invitations to a re- ception and tea to be given this after- noon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the gal- leries of Gordon Dunthorne at the Mayflower, when some of her recent portraits will be on exhibition. Assisting Miss Browne will be Mrs Charles H. Bradley, whose daughter's | portrait is included in the collection Mrs. Theodore N. Gill, jr, and Mrs. 'cnarxos Mason Remey. Dr. and Mrs. L. Wilson Jarman of Staunton, Va., announce the engage- ment of their daughter Mary to Lieut. John Nelson, U. S. A. Lieut, Nelson is a graduate of the United States Mili- [tary Academy. West Point, and at pres- |ent is stationed at Fort M -Kinley, Manila, Philippine Islands M.-s Jar- [man will sail from San Franc'sco No- ¢ | vember 29. The wedding will take |place there about December 15. Dr | Jarman is president of Mary Baldwin College, this city. Mrs, A. L. Rhinestrom will be hostess at tea tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Kellogg Building of the Garfield Memorial Hospital tc the nursery guild of the hospital. | Mrs. Mayme Quattlebaum has re- turned to the home of her son and | daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas | W. Fitzgerald, in Chevy Chase Gardens, | Md., after seven weeks in the hospital { where she was confined by a serious | accident. | Towa State Society Ball | At Willard Tomorrow Night. | _ Tomorrow evening at 8:30 the Towa | tain with a dance and cards at the ington and their friends are invited { Membership secured at this time will not only entitle the holder to admis- sion at the November 17 meeting, but oughout the year of 1932 as well. The next attraction on the season's program will be a dinner and dance arranged for December 17 by Lieut. Col. Hl‘nl’,\t Spencer Merrick, president of the society, which will be attended by the Iowa delegation in Congress, complete plans of which will be an- nounced at the meeting on Tuesday. _ The Woman’s Auxiliary ‘to the Med- ical Soctety of the District of Colum- bia gave a tea Friday at the Medical Society Building, 1718 M street, held in the large drawing room, which was artistically decorated _with yellow chrysanthemums and foliage. In the recelving line were President Mrs, Arthur C. Christie, Vice Presidents Mrs. C. A. Simpson, Mrs. John Nichols, Mrs. M. F. Thompson, Mrs. F. O. Roman, Mrs. R. M. LeComte and Mrs. W. S. Hardesty. Alternating at the tea table were Mrs, Joseph Wall, Mrs. Charles John Foote, Mrs. A. Barnes Hooe and Mrs. D. K. Shute. Constitution Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will have as its honored guest and speaker for its November meeting on Tuesday night at Stoneleigh Court, Mr. H. Ralph Bur- ton of Washington, D. C., who is gen- eral counsel and vice president of the National Patriotic League, an officer of the Order of the Crown of Rumania, a decoration and honor bestowed upon him for the part he plaved in the country. He was also adviser of the Russian National Council of Carpatho- Russia. He is author of an historical treatise on Rumania and foreign rela- tions, and has delivered a number of addresses personally and over the radio upon these subjects. Memorial services will be conducted during the meeting for Mrs. Dunkin D. Ransdell, who died several weeks ago, Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, the chapter chaplain, presiding. Vocal solos will be given by Miss Pierce Perkins, a soloist at Gunston Temple, and will be accompanied on piano by Mrs. John Klien. Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, the chapter regent, will preside at the meeting, which will begin promptly at 8 p.m The twenty-second annual banquet of Theta Alpha Chi Sorority was given in the east ball room of Wardman Park _Chiffons? Picot-Tops! Whether Sheer, clear service or chiffons in Humming State Society of Washington will enter- | Willard Hotel. All Iowans in Wash- | post-war adjustments affecting that | G STREET AT ELEVENTH Service! Semi-service and regular service sheer, all $1 weights may THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, el win an stczaunce ot 35 men. | BRIDGE TOURNEY WON | | the District of Columbia. Among those | who were present were Mrs. Robert Doyle, grand regent; Miss Aubrey Bab- cock, Mrs. Otho Hammond, Miss Jean La Rue, Miss Louise Mennefee, Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Ada Alexander, | Miss Sue Crump, Miss Tsobel Alexander. | Miss Gertrude Blakeslee, Miss Harrlet Edelin, Miss Helen Matthews, Miss Doris Livingston, Mrs. Robert S. Pil- grim, Mrs. Alice Gray and Mrs. Florence Miller. After the banquet the members were joined by their escorts and at- tended the supper dance in the gold room of the hotel. | The patronesses for the Style Show With a_Difference which is to be held by the Washington League for the Hard of Hearing on November 21 at the Arts Club are Mrs. R. S. Woodward, Mrs. John Blake Kendall, Miss Helen Nico- lay. Miss Florence P. Spofford and Mrs. J. Q. Rice Mr, and Mrs. James O. Watson. with | Mrs. 'Samuel L. Watson and their son, Mr. George T. Watson, arrived in town vesterday from their home in Fairmont, Va., to make an indefinite stay, and have engaged an apartment at Wardman Park Hotel. X The members of the Junior Group of the American Association of University Women's Clubs, who will entertain guests at t) eir dinner bridge Tuesday, are Mrs, Otto Veerhoff, Miss Janeiro Brooks, Miss Marguerite Atchison, Miss Acree, Miss Mary Louise Chace, Miss Dorothy Field, Mrs. Howard G. Nich- ols, Mrs. H. D. Py Miss Christine Fassett, Mrs. H. C. Hearn and Miss Pauline’ Yates Long. FINNISH DIET SEEKS Cabinet to Decide on Submiumg‘ Question for Vote | Thursday. By the Associated Press | HELSINGFORS, Finlan§, November {16 (#.—The Legislative Committee of | the Finnish Diet yesterday handed to | the government a prcposal that the nation’s opinion on prohibition be as- certained and the cabinet will decide | Thursday whether the issue will be | | submitted to a general referendum. | The people’s ideas will be sought on | the three following points | 1. Shall the present status of prohi- | bition be upheld or extended? | | 2. Shall prchibition be repealed and a law passed allowing wines of less than 12 per cent alcohol by weight or | a maximum of 3.2 per cent by volume, and malt manufactured, imported, sold | and stored according to legal stipula- | tions? | 3. 'Shall prohibition be repealed and a law adopted permitting the manu- | both mild and stronger drinks? | | Two Die in Rented Plane. | CHICAGO, November 16 (#).—The | | pilot and a passenger were killed late | | yesterday when their rented_airplane | | Went into a tailspin at an’ altitude of | 600 feet and crashed in a pasture near | Chicago. | _'The victims were identified as Robert | | G. Lewis and Theodore Mason, amateur fiyers of Chicago. | Denmark's agricultural exports are greater than a year ago. | | | Justifying Your Confidence | Is Our Success, Upholstering M Chairs ‘ Rush | s Seated 1 Chair Caneing ARMSTRONG'’S || 1235 10th N.w. Met. 2062 ! PUBLIC DRY FEELING : BY KNICKERBOCKERS Cavendish Team Defeated by 1,235 Points in Play-off of Tie. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 16.— The Knickerbocker Whist Club team last | night won the contract bridge tourna- ment for the Vanderbilt Cup, defeating a Cavendish Club team by in a play-off of a tie resu the regularly scheduled play. In a battle of forcing bids, slams and finecses over 32 boards, the Knicger- bocker team came from behind to win | the famous cup donated by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who lost trophy when his team won only one match in a series of six played Satur- day afternoon and night. The Cavendish team led, 1385 1.375, at the end of the first 16 I but could score only 1,205 points during | the final 16, when the Knickerbocke! quartet ran up 2.450. Oswald Jacob; comer among contract bridge’s experts, Was a member of the championship team, known as the Four Horsemer Jacoby is *ae pariner Sidney S. has chosen for his 150-rubber mat with Ely Culbertson, in which a wa of $5.000 to $1,000 has becn posted Jacoby’s partners were P. Hal Sims, | Willard” Karn and David Burnstine. The Cavendish team included Jean Mattys, Howard Schenken, Sherman Stearns and Walter Malowan The latter quartet decided only a few days before the competition opened tr y for the cup. They proved the sen tion of the tournament, as they de. feated teams which had been organized months ago and had played together | frequently. Culbertson’s team, which won the cup last year and which included nis wife, Baron Waldemar von Zediwitz and Theodore A. Lightner, his selec- tions for partners in the heralded bat- tle with Lenz, was eliminated along with the Vanderbilt foursome last night. | It likewise won only one match in six The team of which Lenz was a mem- | ber failed to reach the final FLYER KILLED IN CRASH Dakota Airman Dies in Plane Re- cently Forced Down. DEVILS LAKE, N. Dak. November 16 (#).—Henry Lowan, 24, attendant at a filling station, was killed yester- day when a plane he was piloting | ?m'\hra from an altitude of about 350 eet. 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