Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 22

? A—22 Georgefown Gardens Expected fo Draw Many Visitors 18 Estates to Be Open For Tours April 27 And May 4 Thousands of Washingtonians and nearby residents are expected to Join the annual Georgetown Garden Tours from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 27 and May 4. The tours will touch most of the great historic estates in old George- town, together with a number of the modern gardens. Eighteen estates will be open. Entire proceeds of the tours will go to support welfare activities of the Georgetown Children's House, 3224 N street NW. In its 10 years of existence it has grown to serve more than 50 children of pre-school age and more than 400 young people and adults. It offers educational and recreational activities in groups and clubs for children and ado- lescents from congested neighbor- hoods. Historic Grounds Open. ‘Two of Georgetown's most historic grounds will be open to the public during the benefit tours. These are Dumbarton Oaks, home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and Ever- may, home of Mr. and Mrs, F. Lammot Belin. Several small, informal gardens will demonstrate what can be ac- complished during two or three years on a small city lot. Also featured on May 4 will be a back yard being transformed from a mud bank to an outdoor living room. A prominent architect will give short talks on how the work is done. Tickets may be bought at garden gates on the days of the tour for $1. They also are on sale at A. A. A. headquarters and the Willard, May- flower and Dodge Hotels. The com- mittee of the Children’s House Board of Directors in charge of the tour includes Mrs. R. F. Whitehead, chairman; Mrs. John Ihlder, Mrs. Bernard Wyckoff, Mrs. Robert Good- ale, Miss Katharine Dougal and Mrs. Ernest I. Lewis. Schedule Announced. The schedule of tours follows: : April 27—Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R street N.-W.; Mrs. Howard C. David- &on, 3238 R street N.W.; Mrs. Fer- nardo Cuniberti, 3234 R street; Mrs. William Poland, 1675 Thirty-first street NW.; Mrs. R. H. A. Carter, 3231 Reservoir road N.W., and 3230 Reservoir road N.W., where a new modernistic house and garden has been designed by Rudolph Stanley- | Brown, architect. May 4—Evermay, 1623 Twenty- eighth street N.W.; Mrs. George Grant Mason, 1224 Thirtieth street N.W.; Mrs. Herman Hollerith, 1633 Twenty-ninth street N.W.; Mrs, Ihl- der, 2811 P street N.W.; Mrs. Benja- min Thoron, 2900 N street N.W.; Mrs. Arthur Woods, 3014 N street N.W.; Mrs. Frederick Brooke, 3021 N street, N.W.; Mrs. Gordon Dunthorne, 3304 N street NW.; Mrs. W. G. Tomlin- son, 3327 Dent place N.W.; Mrs. Caroline Bean Binyon, 2505 P street N.W., and Miss Frances Sortwell, 8410 Volta place N.W. Tea will be served from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Bliss estate on April 27 and the Sortwell estate on May 4. English Cleric-Author To Give Lecture Here The Rev. William E. Orchard, D. D, English author and lecturer, will speak at the Mayflower Hotel at 8:15 pm. next Sunday under the g BUSDiCEs 0f the 4 ; i Washington g Catholic Evi- dence Guild. Father Or- chard, who is as- signed to the ¢ Westminster Diocese of Eng- land, will ad- { dress members of the guild on “Why Are Our Brethren?” A well-known scholar, Father Orchard began Rev. Wm. E. Orchard. preaching at 16, becoming a lay minister of an East London Church at 21. Two years later he was admitted to the Pres- byterian College. He was ordained at St. Paul's Enfield, and in 1908 received his D. D. degree in London. He became pastor of King’s Weigh House, one of the most famous Protestant churches in London, in 1914, and remained in charge of it until 1932, when he traveled fo Rome to study Catholicism. He was or- dained a priest in 1935. 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