The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-27
JEAN ELIOT"S GOSSIP OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
Bride Syringe Surprise
On Family and Fpiends

OelI, j., SUI OL Judge ana Mrs.
Charles Lobdell, Of this city, Sat
urday, February 2, in st. Peters
Episcopal church. Ellicott City. Md.
Miss Hopkins was the first of
this seasons debutantes to an.
nounce her engagement. The an
| nouncement was made in January
and the wedding was planned for
June.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lobdell left Wash
| ington yesterday afternoon for New
York, where they will remain a
short while before joining Mr.. and
Mrs. Hopkins, who are expecting to
leave Washington for the West in
a few weeks.
Mrs. 2. Carroll Reece entertained
lat luncheon today at the Washing
Ilton Club when her guests were
Mime. Prada, Mrs. Leonard Block,
Miss Mary Louise johnson, Miss
Marcia Chaplin, Miss Dorothy Mon
dell, Miss Mamie Chase, Miss Diana
Cumming, Miss Mary Stitt and
Miss Emma Stitt.
Congressman and Mrs. Reece will
entertain informally at a buffet
supper tomorrow night.
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Mrs. COVin Hostess
For Canadian Guest
Mrs. r. r. Gown entertained at
luncheon today in compliment to
Miss Josephine Drouse, of Canada.
Mrs. GOWNS other guests were Mrs.
Louis Hertle. Mrs. Francis B. Lor
ing, Mrs. Lucien Kinsolving, Mrs.
Lockwood Bishop. Of New York;
Mrs. John Wiley, Mrs. Ben HELEN,
Miss Mary Morgan and Mrs.
Medina.
Mrs. Gown and Miss May Gown
will leave on Monday for New
York. They will then go to Wilkes
barre, Penn, to visit Mrs. GOWNS
son. R. r. Gown, jrr.
The League Of Republican Women
of the District of Columbia. of
which Mrs. Virginia White Speel
is president, will give card party
at the Gordon Hotel Friday after
noon at 2:3O o'clock. Mrs. Henry
Lockwood is chairman of the com
mittee in charge and will be as
sisted by Miss Mary Fox Mrs.
Thomas Crago, Mrs. j. E. Lambie.
Mrs. Amy Leeds, Mrs. e. o. Harri-
man, Mrs. T. E. Reed. Mrs. Ruby
Smith Stahl, Mrs. Edward 3. Clark,
Mrs. Henry d. Fry, Mrs. A. M.
! Wickersham, Mrs. o. j. Woodley,
| Mrs. Mary Skene, Mrs. ]. H. Brad
lev. Mrs. e. Hart Sem, Miss Mary
Heyler, Mrs. Harry Wardman. Mrs.
Cuno H. Rudolph, Mrs. J. Edison
Briggs and Miss Mary Patten.
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Mr.. and Mrs. d. G. Martin, of
Altoona, Pa. are guests at Ward
man Park Hotel for a week.
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Prominent Women to
Assemble for Congress
Twelve women prominent in the
writing world have been selected to
serve as chairman of the twelve dis
tinct groups which will be repre-
scented at the National Authors Con-
gress and breakfast to be held here
under the auspices OF the League
Of American Pen Women from April
% to April 26.
| Anna Katharine Green, author of
4, the famous "Leavenworth Case
and a score of books succeeding it
and will come to Washington from
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Nalbro Barley, Utica, n. Y,
author Of "A Woman's Woman
and a number of other stories, will
preside over the group of Short
Story Writers and present the pro
posals of this body to the national
convention.
! Ida Clyde Clarke, associate editor
| Of Pictorial Review. and founder
| and president of the wOmen's news
service, and chairman Of the editors
| group, will have an unusual office
Helen Rowland, well-known as the
author Of THE Sayings of Mrs
Solomon" will head the group OF
syndicate feature writer's.
Dorothy De Muth Watson, Wash
ington correspondent for Musical
America, and vice chairman Of the
national music committee for the
League of American Pen Women
| will bring to Washington for con
ference, the outstanding women com
posers Of the nation in the first
meeting Of the kind ever held in this
| country. Mrs. H. A. Beach, fore.
most woman composer in America
Harriet Ware and Gena Branscombe
will form the trio.
Mrs. Gertrude Buckingham
Thomas, who is chairman of the
| poets group, and Caroline Giltinan
Harlow, whose verses are carried
i in four anthologies for 1923, vice
chairman of the group, have ar
ranged a meeting for the represen-
tative women poets of America.
Peggy Albion, known to every
child in whose home there is a
radio, as the director of the chill.
dren's hour for the Radio Corpora
ton of America, and author of
| "Children's Stories and How to Tell
Them" is chairman of the juve.
niles.
| Laura Thornburgh, author OF
motion Pictures in Education, u
and instructor in motion pictures
at the George Washington Uni
versity, is chairman of the Ma
tional Motion Picture Committee
with Mrs. H. M. Mulleken, as vice
Mrs. Faith Van Valkenburgt
Villas, of New York, author OF
Tears of Dawn" is chairman OF
the Dramatists, with Mrs. Clover
Roscoe, dramatist, as vice-chair
man.
Miss Catharinc Mahool, of Bal
timore, a member of the eXecu
tive board of the Associated Ad
vertising Clubs of the World, i:
chairman of the advertising group
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John Joyce Broderick Of tn,
British embassy, was host at lunch
con yesterday at the Shoreham, en-
Pertaining a company of nineteer
in the private dining room.
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Mrs. Frederick A. Thompson, o
New Hampshire, who is at the Will