Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1935, Page 27

Pageant-Drama. on Pan-American Day The Ambassador of Mexico and Senora de Castillo will be among those to attend the initial presentation in Roosevelt Auditorium Thursday night, April 11, of the pan-American pageant drama, “Simon Bolivar the Liberator,” which the Community Center Department will present in observance of pan-American day, and in honor of the Pan-American Union. The Minister of Guatemala and Senora de Recinos, the Minister of the Dominican Republic and Mme. Brache, Senator and Mrs. Elbert D. Thomas, the Misses Thomas, Senator and Mrs. James Pope, Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, Representative Theodore Christianson, Representative and Mrs. John J. Boylan, Representa- tive and Mrs. Sol Bloom, Miss Vera Bloom, Representative B. T. Castillow, Admiral and Mrs. William H. Stand- ley and surgeon general of public health and Mrs. Hugh S. Commings will also attend the pageant Thursday night, representing the diplomatic and Maryland- Virginia Social Data Mrs. Harrison’s Sun- day Tea—Luncheon Yesterday. Mrs. Roland L. Harrison has issued invitations for a tea Sunday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in her home in Lyon Village, Va., in compliment to her son, Mr. Oren Wingert Harrison, and his bride, the latter before her marriage in Washington March 23 was Miss Wilhelmene Warnick, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Warnick. Mrs. Howard R. Watkins was host- ess at luncheon yesterday at her home in Somerset, Md. The list of guests included Mrs. Horatio Wales, Mrs. Herbert L. Haller, Mrs. Louis Elliof Mrs. Ben White, Mrs. Paul B. Dunbar, Mrs. L. E. Warren, Mrs. Davison, Mrs. Owens and Mrs. Wixson. Dr. and Mrs. Boyd C. Reed have moved from their residence at 3645 ‘Warren street northwest into their | new home on Saratoga avenue, in Sligo Park Hills, Md. Miss Virginia Mackey was hostess to a small company at luncheon yes- terday in her Virginia home, enter- taining in compliment to Miss Lucille Andees of Roanoke, Va., who is the house guest of Mrs. Lincoln Mackey at her home near Langley, Va. Mrs. Oliver Scott has as her house guests in her home in Takoma Park, D. C, Mrs. A. B. Amerige and Mrs. George Oakes of Boston, Mass, who will attend the National D. A. R. Con- | vention here. | Mrs. Eva Boothby and son, John Henry Boothby, have returned to their home in Virginia Highlands, Va., from ® 10-day visit in Bermuda. Mrs. Mack Crippen entertained at luncheon followed by bridge Wednes- day in her home at Browns Chapel, Va., her guests including Mrs. Ruth Keyes, Mrs. Bentley Harrison, Miss Elizabeth Leonhardt, Mrs. Harry Bready, Mrs. Allan Bradley, Mrs. J.| L. Nachman, Mrs. Carlin Wilson, Mrs. Allan H. Kirk, Mrs. Calvin Kidwell, Mrs. Roscoe G. Crippen, Mrs. E. M. Armfield, Mrs. Powell Summers, Mrs. | William Meyer, Mrs. Walter Carter and Miss Nora Ellmore. High score was made by Mrs. Harrison. Weekly K;nmore Tea In Fredericksburg Mrs. George Hamilton Scott and | Miss Elise Ficklen will be the hostesses at tea tomorrow afternoon from 3 to | 6 o'clock at Kenmore, in Fredericks- | burg, the old home of Betty Washing- ton Lewis. They will be assisted by several young women who are mem- bers of the Kenmore Association. official circles of the Capital. Others who will be present include Mr. and Mrs. Jeame E. Colliflower, Mrs. L. B. Castell, Dr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Hough, Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Wetmore, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, Mr. Evan H. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Bamford Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Torbert, Mr. and Mrs. Alton B. Carty, Mr. and Mrs. Willard L. Thorp, Mrs. William B. Hardy, Mr. William J. McManus and Mrs. Her- man G. Miller, The pageant will be presented by the Community Center Department with the co-operation of the Arts Club, Players’ Club, Eckington Players, Southeast Community Players, Mac- Farland Young Men’s Club, Lisa Gar- diner Dancers, Marian Chace Dancers, Alice Louise Hunter Studio of the Dance and the Phil Hayden Studios. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest is general director of “Simon Bolivar.” SALES TAX MEETING PLANNED IN COUNTY | Prince Georges Chamber Asks State Controller to Send Representative. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, April 5—A meeting of retail merchants of Prince Georges County, at which details of the new State gross sales tax law will be explained by a representative of the State controller’s office, is being planned by the Prince Georges Cham- ber of Commerce. Daniel Cox Fahey, jr., president, announced he had vwritten W. S. Gordy, State controller, who is charged with collecting the tax, setting forth the organization’s willingness to call the meeting as soon as the State offi- cial could send a representative. He said the Chamber of Commerce is be- ing flooded with questions about the workings of the new law. “The details of the tax are of tre- mendous interest and importance to cur business men located so close to the District of Columbia who must de- In honor of their excellencies the |Vise some means of paying this tax French Ambassador and Mme. de |and yet compete with the merchants Laboulaye the Alliance Francaise of | Within the District,” President Fahey ‘Washington will give a lunch at the Carlton Monday, April 8, at 1 o'clock. | = At 4:30 o'clock Mr. Paul Leyssac of the Civic Repertory Theater and au- thor will give a recital of scenes of plays by A. France, Daudet, Gautier, Hans Anderson. Rostand and Victor Hugo. This recital will close the sea- | son. | His excellency Mr. de Laboulaye is the honorary president of the Alliance Francaise in the United States. Mme. de Laboulaye is the honorary president of the Washington group, Mrs. J. Carroll Frazer, president; Mrs. | Hugh Campbell Wallace and Mr. Lynch Luquer, vice presidents; Mr. W. Brantly, general secretary, and Mme. | B. J. Bimont, treasurer and corre- | sponding secretary. Mrs. Porte:r Hostess At Meeting Tonight | Judge and Mrs. Bunk Gardner will be guests of Mrs. Mattie Wyatt Por- ter at the meeting tonight at the! Mayflower of the Italy-America So- ciety. Her other guests will be Ma; Claude M. Thiele, U. S. A, and Mrs. | Thiele and Mrs. Ruby Ryburn. | “Some Aspects of the Italian Renais- | sance” is the subject of the address to be made at the meeting by Dr. Elmer Louis Kayser of George Washington University. wrote. 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New England States Army Night Program Plans have been completed for one of the largest dances and entertain- ments which will be in observance of Army day tomorrow evening, at 9 o'clock, in the main ball room of the Meridian Mansions Hotel at 2400 Six- teenth street, under the sponsorship of the New England States Society. One of the city’s outstanding orches- tras will play for dancing until a late hour, and there will be tables for bridge. During the intermission Mr. O'Meara will sing several solos and Mr. Phil Hayden will present an elaborate floor show, including Miss Mary Jane Zernia, Miss Betty Lee Raymond, Miss Katherine Dengler and Miss Margaret Scott. Mr. Elmer E. Field is general chair- man of the society, and the Floor Committee includes Mr. Louis Wood- ruff, Mr. Edward Fleming, Mr. C. S. Carter, Mr. Henry Evans, Mr. Harold Ewing, Mrs. George Harriss, Miss Hazel Goodwin, Mrs. Georgia Tomlin- son, Mrs. Mary Bugbee and Miss Frances Cuyler. The Entertainment Committee is headed by Mrs. Lena Dakin Gibbs, assisted by Miss Louise Munzner, Mrs. Helena Mason, Miss Caroline Evans, Miss Helen Thomas and Mrs. Edward Goddin. Each of the States will be represented by a hostess, who will introduce the na- tives of their State to their respective members in Congress. Reservations should be made as early as possible, as guest tickets will be limited. Mrs. Dann Hostess To Ladies of Home The ladies of the, Episcopal Church Home were taken by bus Wednesday | afternoon to view the cherry blossoms. | The occasion was sponsored by Mrs. | Laura V. Dann, and others who were4 in the company were Miss Lucille Watkins, matron of the home; Mrs. H. R. Kerslake, Mrs. F. H. Howard and Newton L. Collamer. Husband Angered By Wife Reducing; She Wins Divorce By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 5.—Water can be potent. ‘When Ralph Hoover of Willow Springs married Myrtle, his wife, in 1923, she weighed 218, she told Judge Allegretti yesterday. Then she began drinking water from her own mineral springs, with the Medical Auxiliary To Give Card Party " The Woman's Auxiliary to the Medical Society of the District of Co- lumbia will give a bridge luncheon at the Army and Navy Country Club ‘Wednesday, April 24, at 12 o'clock. Mrs. Don Knowlton is in charge of reservations and Mrs. Charles H. Mc- Enerney of transportation. - —— Osaka, Japan, is warring on boy bandit gangs. result that she reduced herself to A AL sylph-like proportions. With each lost pound Ralph’s anger grew, she said, until it became unbear- able. “He said I had a figure like a STREET AT JULug.s GarrinckeL & Co. FOURTRENTH pipe stem,” she asserted. The court gave her a divorce. Fire Started on New Liner. 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