Evening star., 1925-10-18
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED MAMIE LANCASTER

unit and the music section are all II
full swing The Free and Easy auction
class meets each Tuesday night. This
class is outgroWing the cardroom anc
each week extra tables have TO be sci
up in other parts of the house
Chauncey Depew Snow gave taik
at the business and professional sec
lion dinner Wednesday night, and a
capacity audience gathered for the
style show under the direction of Mrs.
kafka.
Mrs f.. J. Brennan will be hostess
at the tea this afternoon. She will be
assisted by Mrs. Mcpherson CriChton
and Mrs. Joshua Evans. jr.. will pour
The guest of honor will he DR.. Ger
trude Brigham, who has pust returned
from China.
The Monday Afternoon Card Club
will hold its first meeting to elect off
GERS tomorrow at pm. All members
who enjoy a good game of bridge
are eligible for membership.
The music and drama sections
unite on Thursday evening at Sis
o'clock to present their first program
under the direction of Mrs. Patrick
Gallagher and Mrs. Gertrude Lyons
Mary Cecilia Horn will give a cornet
solo. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons will sing
Romeo ct Juliette Waltz" (Gounod)
with an interpretative dance by
nelllld StTnlitl ana l'nNllS fSODln
son. Bernadine Horn will give q
violin solo. and musical tableau en-
titled Home, Sweet Home" will be
presented by members of the club.
THE Elusive Bridegroom" comedy
in one act. by Caleb ". O'Connor will
be presented by members of the drama
unit. The characters will be taken
by Teresa Connolly. Thelma Schmitt,
Nadine Lane Gallagher and Jeanne
Renee.
At the meeting of the directors on
Tuesday night Mrs. Grace Hayes
Riley, chairman of the house commit
lee. was elected member of the board
to take the place of Miss Margaret
Hanna, resigned.
Twentieth Century Club.-Mrs. Veer-
hof, the new chairman of the art
section. has arranged a delightful
afternoon for October 10, when at
2:l5 the art section and any other
members of the club who wish to join
the party will visit the centennial eXhi-
hition at the CorCoran Gallery under
direction of members of the National
Academy of Design.
The nature section will meet at
Chevy Chase Circle at 1:3Q Wednesday,
for a walk
The meeting of the civic section, held
October ) at 1884 | street. was ad
dressed by Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy.
director of the Community Centers OF
the District. and by Arthur Ringland,
executive secretary of the National
Conference on Outdoor Recreation,
who told of the aims of this
new organization and what II hopes to
accomplish in providing new parks
and Fairgrounds for the present and
prospective popula tion OF the COun-
try. Mrs Howard. chairman OF the
section. presided and large attend
ance promised much in the way of
constructive work during the Winter.
Commissioner Fenning will speak at
the next meeting.
The Association of University Wom-
en- will give tea tomorrow after
noon at which DIR. Louise Stanley.
Miss Hildegarde kneeland and Miss
Ruth O'Brien of the Bureau Of Home
Economics will be the guests of honor
After tea they will tell What the
bureau is doing to help the house
keeper" Mrs. II. f. Woolever will
be hostess
A book review class will again be
formed this year under the leader
ship of Mrs. Ernest Smith. Columbia
1900. and the first meeting will be
held on Tuesday a 80 am.
There will be a bridge tea Saturday
afternoon, for which reservations
should be made as early as possible,
either at the club or with the host
ess, Mrs. Julian Dowell, Cleveland
2519.
There is a hostess every day at the
club luncheon table. and members
new and old are invited TO take this
opportunity of becoming acquainted.
Arrangements have also been made
for quick luncheon service for those
IN hIrr
The NoteIess League OF Women
Voters of the District will begin its
Winter activities with a tea to he
held at the Franklin Square Hotel.
Tuesday from until pm. Jesse
c. Suter. chairman of the District of
Columbia Advisory Council. will speak
at o'clock on The District Needs
and Future Legislation" Nine. Hen
rietta Coquelet will sing and will
be accompa panied by Mrs. Paul Bleyden
Members and their friends are invited
10 attend. The officers of the league
will receive with the president, Mrs
George A. Kicker. Mrs. Thomas JEFF
ferson Howerton is the chairman of
the hospitality committee.
The Battery Park Garden Club held
Its first meeting since the Summer re-
cess at the home of Mrs. J. J. Bur
leigh, $40 Maple Ridge road, Tuesday
at 10 a m. About 80 members were in
attendance. and among those present
were several Of the new residents of
Battery Park and Edgemoor
Following the business session, the
club listened with appreciation to a
helpful talk by Prof. +. l.. Mulford,
horticulturist of the Bureau of Plant
Industry. on the subject of "Landscap-
tv
address with slides. which were
brought out splendidly on the clubs
new daylight screen by lantern fur
hished for the occa sion by the South
Hrn Motion Picture Corporation and
operated by W. E. Clafin of that COM
pany. A committee of the Garden
Club has been authorized to select and
purchase a suitable lantern in order
that satisfactory and efficient equip
ment for illustrating lectures may al
ways be at hand in the future.
Mrs James True. chairman of
the committee on parkings. reported
that the planting of the triangular
parks at the street intersections
IS to he undertaken almost imme-
diately under the supervision of j. II.
Small & Sons. AS the gray days c'
Winter approach, this new evergreen
planting will add much to the attrac-
tiyenesS of the suburb.
The ways and means committee.
Mrs. E. F. kohman chairman, an
nounced a Kitchen party" TO be
given at the home of Mrs. Jerome
Shear. on Goddard road, tomorrow at
s pm.
At the meeting November 10 at the
home of Mrs. Robert f. Bondy. in
Edgemoor. Peter Bisset. horticulturist,
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction
Sactlnn Bureau of Plant Industry