The Washington times., 1925-04-04
JEAN EIIOTS NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY

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and Major Charles d. A. Lloeff1er
United States army.
Mrs. Walter E. Hutton is chair
man. Mrs. George Hillyer, jr., and
Mrs. Alexander Forward are in
charge of the boxes.
Miss Charlotte Clark and Miss
Norvelle Munford. chairman and
~vice-chairman Of the young ladies
committee and John A. Chumbley
and Elwood Seal, chairman and
vice-chairman of the floor COM
mittee will announce their com
mittees within a few days.
Extensive plans for the music
festival this year under the
auspices of the League of Ameri-
| Authors Congress, are being made.
Twenty composers will come to
Washington and give concerts in
Memorial Continental Hall on the
nights of April 29th and 30th,
with a possible matinee on one of
the afternoons. Mrs. H. S. Multi
ken is director. of arrangements,
Mrs. Edward H. Watson, director
of the festival, assisted by Mrs.
| Walter Bruce Howe and Mrs. Will
liam r. Benham. Mrs. H. HI. A.
Beach, well-known woman composer,
is national chairman.
The advisory committee COM
prises some of the most prominent
names identified with music in
the Capitol-.-Mrs. Edna M. Colman,
national president of the Pen
Women; Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
Mrs. Adolph Miller, Mrs. Henry
F. Dimock, Mrs. Frederick Gillett,
Mrs. Frank Noyes, Miss Flora VIII
son, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe.
The Authors Breakfast will have
musical star in the person Of
Phyllis Fergus, q Chicago woman,
who has written many compost
tons.
Will c.. Barnes, chief of grazing
Of the United States Forest Service,
speaker at the College Women's
Club tea Monday afternoon, to
o'clock, at the clubhouse, 1922 I
street. Mr.. Barnes will give an
illustrated talk on 1.-THE Flowers of
the Forest"
The hostesses at the tea will be
Miss Margaret A. Mcmahon and
the members of the walking section
Of the club. Mrs. William H.
Heron will preside at the tea table
and will be assisted by Mrs. William
C.. Van Week and Miss Margaret
Bayly.
Miss Maude Yates, Miss Laura
Norris, and Miss Helen Estgate will
be the hostesses for a tea to the
members of the Epsilon Chapter,
Kappa Beta Pi, which will be given
tomorrow afternoon at the May
flower from 4:30 to 6:3O o'clock
Lester Fl. Woolsey, former solicitor
OF the State Department, win speak
OH Arbitration" Mrs. Arthur
Keith will preside. Those receiv-
ing will be Miss Kessler, dean of
the Epsilon Chapter; Mrs. Woolsey,
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, and
Mrs. Laura H. Halsey, dean of the
Washington College of Law.
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Announcement is made of the
engagement of Miss Grace Kanode,
daughter Of Mrs. Florence Kanode,
to Thomas E. Rhodes, of Mississippi
special assistant to the Attorney
General of the United States. Miss
Kanode is a well-known pianist and
organist and has for some time
been with the law firm Of Lansing
and Woolsey, headed by former
Secretary of State Lansing.
Mr.. Rhodes Is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Mathew u. Rhodes, OF
French Camp, Miss. He was edu-
Gated at Mississippi College and
was graduated in law in this city.
For the past few years Mr.. Rhodes
has been connected with the De-
partment of Justice.
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Colonel and Mrs. Hamilton Haw-
kins, Captain and Mrs. Vernon L..
Padgett and Captain and Mrs. John
III. Irving have gone to attend the
races at Upperville, Va.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin V. Killian
left yesterday for a two weeks
trip to Atlanta, Miami and Havana.
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Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews, Mrs.
Frank Moran, and Mrs. Lindsay
Patterson, of Winston Salem, are
among the patronesses of the
poetry costume ball to be given at
the Mayflower on April 10 by the
International Association of Arts
and Letters. Others announced are
Mrs. Beale Howard, Madame Won
LeWlnsk1, wife Of the counselor of
the German embassy, and Mrs.
Paul Bartsch. The poetry costume
ball will conclude the associations
convention, and will follow a. recital
by Margaret Widdemer of her re-
cent poems.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles C. Glover
have closed their house, 1903 K
street, and have gone to their
suburban home, WestoVer.
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Miss Katharine Sutherland has
gone to New York to pass the next
two weeks as the guest Of Miss Ken
dali Lee in her home at 1860 Park
avenue. Miss Lee recently returned
to New York from Washington,
where she was the guest of Miss
Sutherland.
Miss Lees engagement to Jules
Glaenzer, of New York has been
announced. Miss Lee and her
mother were former residents of
Washington.
The second secretary of the
Czechoslovakian legation, Doctor
| Stransky, has gone to Philadelphia
to remain several days.