Evening star., 1925-01-24

-htI. d-tC MIS-. ITeO!B6 NtSt1. VINO are
spending short time at the willard.
| VIII return to their home IN Pitts
| burgh tomorrow.
Miss Ruth Donaldson entertained
a company OF eight at dinner last eve
ming in honor of Miss Jean Gano of
Philadelphia, who Is her house guest
| for the week end. Miss Donaldson
Will give dinner this evening. later
taking her guests to the Club Chan
| tecler.
Miss Claire Green and Miss Mildred
Fallon will entertain at tea this after
noon in compliment to Miss Ethel
Marie McPhilomy. whose marriage
to Mr.. John Peris Lynch will take
place Wednesday,.
Miss Eleanor Posey, who will be
maid OF honor for Miss McPhilomy,
Will entertain at a theater party this
| evening in honor of the bride and
| bridegroom elect
Mr.. and Mrs. William 8. Evatt of
columbus. Ohio. are the guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. John Jacob Locher.
The bathrooms OF the New Willard
Hotel were given over last night to
| one OF the prettiest and most success
full balls of the season, the annual
| event OF the District League of
American Pen Women. when a pro-
gram Of unusual artistic value In
terspersed the regular up-to-d date
dances enjoyed by hundreds Of guests.
| one OF the dance numbers, by the
| way. was the composition of a mem
Der Of the league, Elizabeth Francis,
and her colleagues danced to the
music of Susie" with unusual en-
| Joyment.
The guests were received by a short
| line of hostesses, which included Mrs.
Harriet Hawley Locher. president of
the District League: Mrs. Edna M
Colman. president of the National
| League of American Pen Women, and
Mrs. Eli A. Helmick, chairman of the
ball committee, their gowns being a
harmony in orchid tones of brocade
| with either silver or gold threads in
| the design, and though made along
different lines and of different ma
terial, afforded a harmony seldom
seen at a ball.
The box parties OF brilliantly gown
| ed women. the interesting persons
who attended otherwise, the refresh
ments and the program all afforded
just the proper atmosphere for a ball
given by woman writer's and for woman
writer's,
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook was
hostess at dinner and later took her
guests to the ball, where they occu-
pied her box. In the company were
Gen. and Mrs. John A Lejeune. Mr..
and Mrs. Henry c. Rowland and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank w. Mondell, Mrs.
Senator and Mrs. Robert Nelson Stan
field. Senator and Mrs. William H.
King, Senator and Mrs. Woodbridpe
N. Ferris, Judge Woodruff of Virginia
and Col and Mrs. George thorpe.
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett had as her
| guests Mr.. and Mrs. James L Walsh
of New York, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Parsons Erwin. Mrs. David du Bose
Gaillard. Mrs. Charles G. Matthews
| and the Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde.
Col. and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien enter
tanned at dinner and took their guests
later to their box at the ball.
Miss Grace Hudson, chairman of the
commercial group, had as her guests
Representative Hall of North Dakota
and his daughter. Miss Mildred Hall;
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Laughlin. Miss Mar
jorie Binford. Miss White. Mr.. David
Shorb and Mr.. Claude Fellows. Miss
Meta Evans occupied the box of Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood and enter
tanned the Minister OF the serbs.
Croats and Slovenes, DR.. Pavichich
Comdr. and Mrs. Robert Henderson
and MRS. Il. X. WalmSley. Cen and
Mrs Henry T. Allen were hosts to
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Culbertson, Mrs, Fred
erick Millikan and Mr.. William Price
Among those invited were: The Sec.
| retary OF State and Mrs, Charles
Evans Hughes. Secretary of the Teas
ury, Mr.. Mellon; Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. James J. Davis, the Ambas-
sador of Belgium and Baroness Car.
tier, the Minister Of the Netherlands
and Nine. de Graeff. the Minister OF
Panama and Sonora de Alfaro, the
Chief Justice and Mrs. william
Howard Taft, Mr.. Justice and Mrs
Edward T. Sanford, Senator and Mrs
Nathaniel B. Dial, Representative and
Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Representa-.
tive and Mrs. Louis E. rockingham
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Charles S. Dewey, Maj. Gen
and Mrs. Tasker II. Bliss, Maj. Gen
Schwan. U. s. A: Gen. James A
Buchanan, Gen. and Mrs. Logan Fe.
land, Gen. w. H. Hart, Surg. Gen. and
Nrs. Edwards Rhodes Stitt, Gen. and
s2ss larry TaYlors Lrs. Henry y