Evening star., 1925-01-16

Lieut.. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald at
their apartment in Kew Gardens, has
left for Lumberton, N. c.. to visit her
sister, Mrs. Jack Edmunds.
Mrs. Mary Parker Is entertaining g
this afternoon by giving a children's
party at 371S Ingomar street, in honor
OF Miss Virginia LoftiH of New York,
da lighter of Comdr. and Mrs. 1<oftin.
Music IL the feature of the afternoon.
Miss Loftin Is the guest Of Miss Ann
King, daughter of Lieut.. Comdr. and
Mrs. King of Morrison street, Chevy
Chase.
Miss Frances B. Johnston has re-
turned to New York, after spending
the holiday season with her aunt. Mrs.
c. ]. Hagan, at the Franklin Square
Hotel. Miss Johnston will sail jan
uary 81, on the Laconia, for the cruise
of the Mediterranean, and will also
visit Paris and London.
Mrs. Howard Moran is in New York,
at the Waldorf-Astoria, for a week
or ten days.
The home of Miss Dorothy Over
street, 1926 Buchanan street, was the
scene of an informal dance last eve
ming, when the guests were: Miss
helen StOutaInyer, MISS wanda Dur-
kee, Miss Katherine Drake, Miss Mary
Harrison, Miss Mary Louise Chase.
Miss Dorothy Patton. Miss Anne
Wrightson, Mr.. Charles Dyer, Mr..
Malcolm Graham, Mr.. Andrew Orlaski,
Mr.. Stanley Clark, Mr.. Louis Sibold,
Mr.. LIE Roy Crofts, Mr.. Clarence Gra-
ham, Mr. Mirabeau Lamar and Mr..
William Heller.
Bryn Mawr AIumnae
To Hear English Pianist.
The Italian Ambassador, the Min
lister of the Netherlands and Nine de
Graeff. Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon, Mrs
Montgomery Blair, Mrs. William c.
Eustis and Mrs. Edward B. Meigs are
among the patrons for the second
talk of the series to be given Mon
day afternoon at 4:30 at the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, 1874
street, by Mr.. Horace Alwyne, the
English pianist, on the Philadelphia
Orchestra programs.
These talks have been arranged un-
der the auspices of the local Bryn
Mawr alumnae, who offer a competi-
tive scholarship each year to a Wash
ington girl entering Bryn Mawr Col
lege.
The guest Of honor and speaker at
the annual dinner OF the Kansas State
Society of Washington to be given
this year at the Chevy Chase Club,
January 2S, will be Gen. Henry T.
Allen. former commander-in-chi of
the American Army of Occupation in
Germany.
The list Of box holders for the first
performance OF the brilliant Chinese
spectacle, "A Game of Mah-Jong," to
be presented under the patronage of
Mrs. Coolidge and under the auspices
of the Belleau Wood Memorial Asso-
citation in the New Washington Audi
torium the evening of Friday, Febru-
ary 6, includes: Mrs. Sanford Bissell,
Mrs. Delos Blodgett. Mrs. Theodore v.
Boynton, Mrs. w. Harry Brown. Mrs.
Bessie Brueggeman. Mrs. w. r.
Castle, jr.: Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Miss
Katherine Judge, Miss Sarah Lee,
Mrs. Charles A. Lummis, Mrs. Isaac
T. Mann, Mrs. Joseph Noell, Mrs.
Frank B. Noyes, Miss Elizabeth Pat
terson, Mrs. Josiah Pierce, Mr.. John
Barton Payne, Mrs. David A Reed,
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mr.. Eugene
Van Rensselaer,. Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood,
Mrs. Charles woodruff.
The few remaining boxes for this
unique dramatic fantasy are in the
hands Of Mrs. James Carroll Frazer,
and tickets for the first performance
may be had at the New Willard, the
Shoreham and all other leading
hotels.
Mrs Alice De Witt Widdemer will
spend the Winter with Mrs. Florence
Jackson Stoddard. at 2019 N street,
where her daughter will also make a
short visit. during which time she
will be entertained at the Interna-
tional Association of Arts and Letters,
and will later give a recital, the exact
date to be announced later.
Miss Marjory Webster is in charge
of the pageants and special musical
program to be presented at the Pen
Women's League ball at the New
willard Hotel January Do. More
than 40 girls are being drilled daily
in the dances. statuary poses and pan
tomime Included in the pageanks.
Miss Webster, in a solo dance, will
personally interpret a desert poem,
written by Mrs. Emily Stowe, a mem
Der of the league, depicting the
gIories of the painted desert, in con-
trast with the grotesque side, which
will be represented by a slave dance.
Plans for the benefit ball and card
party to be given at Wardman Park
Hotel on Monday evening. January