The Washington times., 1920-01-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
Interesting Items Concerning
Official, Diplomatic, and
Resident Folk.
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corcoran Gallery of Arts TO continue
until January rs inclusive.
| The hours OF opening on week
days are from 9,to 4:30 o'clock, and
on Sundays from 1880 o'clock to 4:So
| o'clock. Special evening openings,
with admission free, will be on Fri
day evenings. January l6 and 2s.
| from TO 10 o'clock.
All visitors to the exhibition dur
ing the week beginning January IL,
are Invited TO cast their vote for the
picture they consider the best.
The Wellesley Club will hold a
meeting on Wednesday afternoon at
4:3O O'Clock at the College Women's
Club. A buffet supper will follow.
A marriage license was issued this
morning to Mrs. Ethelberta III. Twom-
bley, or Richmond. and Warren Bige-
| low, OF New York, who will be mar
ried in Washington today.
Mrs. John Prather entertained at a
pretty and picturesque supper party
| last evening in her home on Eight
eenth street in honor OF Miss Schwee
Dunnag, daughter of the Siamese
minister. who recently Joined her
father here. and Miss Winifred Sire
ater. A large company OF young peo-
pie was present. Miss Bunnag wore
the charming costume OF the young
girl OF her own country, which she
brought over with her, and Miss Sire
ater wore a picturesque costume OF q
young Swiss girl
Senator James A. Reed and Mrs
Reed returned this week from a trip
! to California and Portland. Ore. Mrs.
/
since September and the Senator went
out for a rest and to accompany Mrs.
/ Reed to Washington.
Mr.. Gasch To He Hostess.
| Mrs. Herman Gasch will be the
hostess at the informal reception
held by the directors at the club
| house on Sunday afternoon. from B
| to o'clock. Assisting her will be
the writers and editors Of the mem
bership, including Mrs. Boeckle (Flor-
ence Brewery, Mrs. william Hard,
Miss Helen Nicolay, Miss Spofford,
Margaret Spalding Gerry Mrs. Flora
Macdonald Thompson.
Mrs. Bridget NJ. Culinane, the widow
OF Thomas Culinane, ST., is today OBJ
| serving the thirty-seventh anniver-
sary of her marriage at her home, 921
New Jersey avenue northwest Mr.. and
| Mrs. Culhane were married at st.
Aloystus Church January 10, 1888. by
the late Rev. Francis Noonan. S. j.
The marriage of Miss Virginia
Courtney Henshaw, daughter of Mrs
Ida L. Henshaw, of Carolina county,
Va, to Lieut.. Carl Ashton Broaddus
medical corps, u. S. N, took place
yesterday afternoon at $3.50. in the
home of the brides uncle. w. P
Henshaw. the Rev. Hugh T. Steven
son officiating. Only the families
and a few intimate friends were
present. A buffet supper followed
the ceremony. There were no at
tendants. The bride wore her going.
away gown of blue cloth with black
straw hat with corsage bouquet OF
red roses. She cut the cake with the
bridegroom's sword, and they left i'm
mediately after the supper for theiI
wedding trip. The bridegroom is
stationed at Haiti
Mrs. Joseph Strauss will be at home
this afternoon and the following Fri.
days in January from to O'Clock
at her residence, 22Os Massachusetts
avenue.
Mrs. Edouard Albion will receive
with Mrs. Pearl Moore Gray at 24OC
Sixteenth street at the tea they are
; giving on Sunday afternoon, January
20, in compliment TO Nine. Marguer-
ita Sylvia Members OF the organi.
zation committe and of the board OF
the Washington Opera Company will
assist
All the patronesses of the organi-
zation and those interested in the
community opera movement will be
invited to meet Nine. Sylvia in ap.
probation of her kindness in donating
her services for the role of Carmen
when the opera is sung by the Wash
ington Opera Company in February
; Poet WIN Lecture.
DR.. william Miller Collier, presiden,
of George Washington University
has arranged a university extension
course of eight lectures to be deliv-
cred by DR.. Langdon e. Mitchell. the
well-known poet and playwright
author OF Becky Sharp" "Tne New
York Idea" and other well-known
plays. The lectures, which are to be
; on Poetry As a Necessity OF Life
are to be delivered on Tuesday morn.
ings at 11:15 in the Concordia Church
corner of Twentieth and @ streets
which has been offered to the univer-
city to accommodate Its overflow in
of 5000 for the series.
The following persons have already
enrolled as patrons or patronesses OF
the course: John w. Weeks, Henry
White, Gen. Maxwell Van Zandt
Woodruff, Miss Woodruff, William
Littauer, Mrs. Perry Heath. Hon. John
Barton Payne. DR.. Philander p.
ienator Howard sutherland, Mrs. J.
Il. Hammond. Henry p. Fairbanks, s.
Richard Fuller, Dudley w. Fay, Col
and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, DR..
Thomas N. Mclaughlin, Dr. Charles
Wood, Mrs. John y. Henderson, James