Evening star., 1917-03-19

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Mrs. Gideon a. Lyon gave the second
and last of a series of teas yesterday
afternoon at her residence in I'd street
for the amateur playwrights who have
written one-act plays to be presented
by the Players Group of the Drama
League.
The honor guests, Miss Evelyn Won
Emig. Miss Esther Z. Galbraith and
Mr.. Bertram Bloch, who is the drama tic
director of the league, received with
Mrs. Lyon.
yellow spring flowers and yellow can
dies formed the decoration, and in the
dining room Mrs. Mary Louise futile
presided at the tea table
Mrs. Lyon received in Il beautiful
gown of White chiffon combined with
silver net.
During the afternoon Mr.. Pugh gave
several violin solos, accompanied on the
piano by Miss Dorothy Burch, and the
hostess recited 1.-The Pipes of Pam"
.Alabaster.' by Sarojini Naidu. and "On
the Journey Home" with music accom-
paniment.
The receiving party included Miss
GUIDE, Miss Kathryn Drain. Miss Elsie
A. Lancaster and Miss Edna Ellis.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron NJ. Parker. ir.
have as their guests Mrs. Parker's SIS
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Manly Baldwin of
Baltimore. who spent part of the winter
at Atlantic City
Hastened by orders to proceed to duty
at sea, the wedding of Junior Lieut..
Harold S. Burdick, U. s N, and Mrs.
Donald p. Morrison, widow of Lieut..
Morrison of the navy and daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Munroe of An
napolis, was celebrated at ANNAPOLIS
Saturday night. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Sydney X. Evans,
chaplain of the Naval Academy, at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ennalls Wagga-
man.
Lieut. Burdick and Mrs Morrison had
been guests at dinner of Mr.. and Mrs.
Waggaman and suddenly decided to
hurry the wedding. 1t is said orders
at midnight had come a few hours be-
fore.
Lieut.. Burdick is native of Rhode
Island. He graduated from the Naval
years he has been member of the
class of student officers under instruc-
tion at the naval postgraduate school
at Annapolis. Lieut. Morrison, former
husband of Mrs Burdick, was killed
several years ago in boiler explosion
aboard the torpedo boat destroyer
Wake while that vessel was being
given test run off the coast of New
port, r. l.
Mrs. Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
who with Mr.. Carroll has been taking
an active part in the war relief work
in Paris, has left for the Riviera.
Mrs. w. T. Borland is in local hos
pital, where she is recovering from a
recent operation.
| The auxiliary board of the Y. w. c.
Home, which is to give spring ball
| April 16, is trying hard to make it n
| financial as well as social success. Miss
| Adelaide Heath has the promised help
| of many of the prettiest girls on the
! floor committee. The auxiliary board
! has charge of the repairs of the two
houses in C street, the maintenance of
| the infirmary and to make homellke
| this temporary abiding place for the
working girls of the city.
| Mrs. James Robert Mckee spent few
days in Washington last week on her
way from a six-week stay at Palm
| Beach TO her home in New York. Mrs,
| Mckee is expected to make longer
visit AMONG old friends during the
| Easter season.
| Mrs Lauterbach had a party of friends
in box at the opera Saturday even
ing and took them to supper afterward
at the New willard.
Miss Caroline Nash and Miss Kate
| Du Bose are chairman and vice chair
man. respectively. of the navy section
| of the young ladies' floor committee
and Miss Blanchard Scott and Miss
| ffeorgiana Schofield of the army section
for the Army and Navy League ball
which takes place on Easter Monday