Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1940, Page 26

B—4 Men Only on Program of Pen Women Authors’ Breakfast To Open Biennial Convention Only men will be the speakers at the authors’ breakfast of the Na- tional League of American Pen Women on Saturday at the Willard Hotel opening the league’s biennial convention. . Speakers will include Joseph Quincy Adams, director of the Folger Library, and author of a life of Shakespeare; John Vance, head of the Law Division of the Library of Congress and author of “Amer- foan Legal History,” and Hugh Findlay of the Landscape Architec- tural Department of Columbia Uni- versity and author of “Garden Mak- ing and Keeping,” “Imperishable Earth” and several books for ju- veniles. . Pendleton Hogan to Speak. Others to speak will be Pendleton Hogan, Washington novelist; Gor- ham Munson, author of a volume on Rebert Frost; Dr. Elgin Groseclose, author of “Ararat,” and Harlan Mil- ler, columnist. Having the guest speakers limited | to.men is an innovation on this pro- gram, which is always a high light of. the Pen Women's meeting. Among league authors expected to be present are Mrs. Edmund Boone Luckett of Baltimore, Grace Thomp- son Seton, ‘Helen Orr Watson, Dr. Mary Meek Atkeson Moore and Francesca Falk Miller of Chicago. French Dancer on Program. Music and dancing also are sched- uled. Madeline Lazard, French dancer, will be presented in costume, with Miss Evelyn Foster as accom- | panist. Three composers will be presented and their songs featured on the program. They are Clara Edwards of New York, Mary Marianne Genet of Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Miss Pearl Adams of West Palm Beach. Fla. Michael Werhoff of New York, an actor and portrait painter as well as a baritone, will sing. Art Exhibition Sunday. | A Dutch treat buffet supper at 6:30 p.m. Sunday will precede an art exhibition by the league in the Grafton Hotel Annex. Nell V. Smith, 217 Lincoln street, Bethesda, Md., is in charge of reservations, which should be made at once. The supper | and exhibition are open to the| public. *» Joneses Have Guests Mr. and Mrs. Robert Copeland | Jones have as their guests the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George Fiske Dudley of Rumson, N. J. They came for the 50th wedding anniversary recep- tion of the Right Rev. James E. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940. News of State Societies Program for Illinois Dance Tonight Includes Police Boys’ Club Features In presentirg its final dance of the year this evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Shoreham Hotel, the Illinois State Society has arranged one of the most interesting programs to date. A benefit will be held for the Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club of this city, and the society will have as its guests for the entertainment prior to the dance members of the Police Boys! Club Band who will play under the leadership of Leon Brusiloff. The high light of the evening will be the bouts staged by the mos- quito weight boxers of the club for the society. The boys will enter the ring under the referee guidance of Senator Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, while the junior Senator from Illinois, James M. Slattery will hold the stop watch. The boys will be seconded by Representatives Ralph E Church and John C. Martin. Punch and home-made candy will be sold from booths during the eve- ning, and the proceeds will be donated to the fund used to further the boys’ clubs. Mrs. Scott W. Lucas is heading the ladies in charge of the booths. Yowa State Society To Hold Dance Saturday. The Towa State Society of Wash- ington will have its spring dance in the gold ballroom of the Shoreham ' Hotel Saturday evening, from 9:30 % 1 o'clock. This will be the last dance for the season, and a New York floor show will furnish entertainment during intermission. Plans are underway for a special excursion to New York over decora- tion day and that week end. One group leaving Wednesday, May 29, and another, Friday, May 31, all returning Swnday evening, June 2. An invitation has been extended to the Towa Club of Boston which numbers over 700, and to the Iowans of New York, to join the group from Washington. The Fair Committee of the New York World's Fair is arranging a special Jowa day on Saturday, June 1. More information about this trip will be given at the spring dance. Reservations are being made with the secretary, Miss Gertrude M. Louis, Hotel Roosevelt. Maryland Society Plans Reception for April 26. The Maryland Society of Wash- ington will have a reception, enter- tainment and dance at the Ken- nedy-Warren Friday, April 26, in celebration of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States by Maryland on April 28, 1788. Senator Millard E. Tydings will be the speaker of the evening. Prominent Women Back Bryn Mawr Benefit Drama Many women prominent in of- ficial, diplomatic and residential society in Washington will act as patronesses for the benefit performance of George Cohan's play “The Return of the Vaga- bond,” which the Bryn Mawr Club is sponsoring the evening of May 1 at the National Theater. The play is for the benefit of a scholarship fund to send a ‘Washington girl to the college next year, and to help maintain | .three Washington students who are attending the college now. The list of patronesses includes Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Senora de Espil, Countess van der Straten-Ponthoz, Senora de Car- denas, Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, Mme. Pelenyi, Mrs. Ralph W. Close, Mme. Loudon, Mrs. Har- lan Fiske Stone, Mrs. Owen J. Roberts, Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, Mrs. William O. Douglas, Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Mor- genthau, jr., Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, Mrs. Robert H. Jack- son, Mrs. Millard Tydings, the Misses Guffey, Mrs. Sol Bloom, Mrs. George C. Marshall, Mrs. Harold R. Stark, Mrs. Thomas Holcomb, Mrs. Sumner Welles, Freeman and Mrs. Freeman yester- | Mrs. Francis Biddle, Mrs. Dwight Bliss, Mrs. Nevile M. Butler, Mrs. Archibald MacLeish, Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Mrs. Donald Cameron Bingham, Mrs. William R. Castle, Mrs. Selden Chapin, Princess Margaret Boncompagni, Mrs. Philip Marshall Brown, Mrs. Levi Cooke, Mrs. Harry A. Garfield, Mrs. Jessie Moon Holton, Mrs. Demarest Lloyd, Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, Mrs. George Rublee, Mrs. Bruce Smith and Mrs. Mabel B. Turner. Mrs. Justin Miller Luncheon Hostess Mrs. Robert H. Jackson, wife of the Attorney General, was the honor guest at luncheon yester- day of Mrs. Justin Miller. Mrs. Miller gave her party in her apartment at Wardman Park Hotel, and her other guests in- cluded Mrs. Carl Hatch, Mrs. Ernest H. Lundeen, Mrs. Robert L. Doughton, Mrs. Frank Buck, Mrs. Henry F. Grady, Mrs. O. Max Gardner, Mrs. Frank Wide- man, Mrs. Thomas Sebrell, Mrs. Wesley Sturges and Mrs. Will Shafroth. G. P. 0. Men Employees Are Welcome to an Account at EISEMAN’'S F ot 7th Men’s and Women’s Apparel Drama Tournament Of 1940 Climaxed With Reception A reception and dinner at the Y. W. C. A. last evening climaxed the 1940 one-act play tourna- ment of Washington, Mr. L. Zaft Rogers, chairraan of the tourna- ment, and Miss Sibyl Baker, di- rector of community centers and playgrounds, received the com- pany and introduced them to the guests of honor, Mr. Lewis R. Barrett, co-ordinator of recrea- tion in the District of Columbia, and Mrs, Barrett. The dinner was held in Barker Hall and the brief reception pre- | ceding it was held in the board room of the Y. W. C. A. Build- ing—both rooms being delight- fully gay with a profusion of spring flowers, and the banquet hall especially gala with multi- colored balloons hung from the ceiling. Mr. Barrett was toastmaster for the party and made gay comments on the amusing skits and stunts that the after-dinner program offered, given by the various groups who had taken part in the recently closed tour- nament. During the serving of the banquet Mr. Willlam Hassett played a charming program at the piano. Seated at the head table were Miss Baker, Mr. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Bamford Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Williams, Mrs. Gertrude Broderick, Mrs. Alfred T. Brooks and Miss Bess Davis Schreiner., Assisting Miss Baker in the seat- ing of the guests were Miss Grace Ware and a group of tournament ushers representing drama groups of the city. Dr. Perrin Long Luncheon Speaker Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, authority on sulfanila- mide and sulfapyridine, will speak on “New Methods in the Treatment of Pneumonia” at the annual lunch- eon of the Public Health Lay Coun- cil of Montgomery County April 29 at 12:30 pm. at Normandy Farm, Rockville, Md. Dr. Long will be introduced by Dr. V. L. Ellicott, Montgomery County | health officer. | Mrs. John Miles Mader of Bethes- | da is chairman of the luncheon and | will be assisted by Mrs. Ralph D.| Jennings and Mrs. George J. Rich- | ardson. Mrs. Louis A. Gravelle is in charge of tickets. | Shrsd Italian Envoy Plans To See Civic Opera Performance The Italian Ambassador and Princess Colonna have made res- ervations for the performance of “Lucia,” which will be held d the Civic Grand Opera a- tion’s spring season at Constitution Hall May B'through 11. The Minister of Finland will be a patron for all three performances, as will the Minister of Bolivia and Senora de Gauchalla, the Minister of Sweden and Mme. Bostrom, the Naval Attache of the Netherlands Legation and Mme. Ranneft and the Military Attache of the Cuban Embassy and Senora de Munilla. Boxes for the season have been taken by Mrs. Alanson B. Houghton, Mrs. Albion W. Tuck, Col. and Mrs, Robert H. Fletcher and Mrs, How- ard Morton Blandy. . A committe¢ of women promi- nent in Washington club and musi- cal circles has volunteered to accept subscriptions for the operas in the “opera booth” in the Woodward Building lobby. They include Mrs. Franceska Lawson, Mrs. Dolores N. Florea, Mrs. Edith Hoffman Jones, Mrs. Ruth Harmstone, Mrs. Mar- garet M. Anthony, Mrs. Mildred Moore and Miss Mary Vagoni. The operas to be presented are “Lucia,” “Magon” and the double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “La Serva Padrona.” Distinguished singers and directors from New York will be featured in the per- formances. All white bucko with walled last. Walking heel. Made Ezpressly for 7 1. MILLER 1222 F St. ; \\l:‘tmm invited J; l Reception to Follow Luoma Misicale Mrs. Mary Knox Willett, who has done much to further the careers of many young artists, will hold a reception for the sponsors and pa- trons of the musicale to be presented by the 20-year-old Finnish pianist, at 4 o'clock in the Sulgrave Club. ‘The reception will be at Mrs. Willett’s apartment on California street and will take place immedi- ately following the musicale. Mrs. Willett also will serve as hostess for the concert. Among the sponsors for Mr. Lu- oma’s musicale are such distin- guished persons as Mrs. Roosevelt, the Minister of Finland, Mr. Hjal- mar Procope, the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, Mrs, Eleanor M. Patterson, Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, Mrs. Stanley ‘Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hurja, Mrs. Edwin M. Watson, Dr. Hans Kindler, Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, Mrs. Ethel W. Chichester, Miss Lucy Brickenstein, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, Mrs. George B. 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