Evening star., 1926-12-26


The Monday bridge section had q
representative group of players pres
ent last week Further voluntary
contributions were made to the Christ
mas fund for help at the club. Dur
ing the social hour Mrs. Alice MinCt
presided at the tea table. Assisting
were Mrs. a. B. Wilson and Mrs. A
S. Maddox. Members of the section
will play Monday.
Mrs. j. Garfield Riley will receive
club members and their friends at the
club Tuesday from II am. until {
pm. Tea is served from $3.50 unit
6 pm.
The Tuesday evening free-and-easy
auction section will have Mrs. Ivy
Wentworth as hostess. and Miss Swift
will be assisted in instructing by Mrs
w. Il. Sears and Mrs. NJ. l.. Whit
marsh. The card party plans are be
ing carefully worked out, and the
party to be given January at s
o'clock in the evening promises to ,be
n most enjoyable affair, with refresh
ments and awards for each table
Members of the club can invite their
friends to attend and reservations can
be made at the desk or from members
OF the committee.
The public relief committee, Miss
Adela Heaven, chairman, announces
an illustrated lecture from original
slides on Historic Trails of the
SIason and Dixon Line" will be given
the evening of January s. at S pm,
by Miss Alice Heaven.
Members of the club will be given
an opportunity to bring their friends.
During the Winter season there are
so many calls for relief that the COM
mittee in charge is anxious that the
proceeds of this entertainment will be
adequate to meet such requests
y liberal patronage of the mem
bers will assure this desire. Tickets
can be had at the desk or from
committee members. The Near East
exhibit and sale, which was held at
the club under the auspices of this
committee, netted 500 for the refugee
mothers and children of Greece
The current events section will give
dinner on New Year Eve at $50
pm. Mrs. William Chamberlin, chair
man, announces Oliver Owen Kuhn.
news manager of The Evening Star
and president of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation. as speaker.
The Making of a Modern Newspaper
and Its Ideals" will be the subject Of
the after dinner talk. The musical
program will be under the supervision
OF Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, director of
the music section.
During the holidays the French and
Spanish students are having a vaca-
ton. Glasses Will be resumed after
the new year. and club members in
terested in the study of these Ian
Suages should register promptly. Ad-
Tanced students sand beginners are
enrolled and competent instructors
n2Ea GharDn tS. n1I \
fee to club members for this 'instruc-
tion.
ested in this section this morning at
10 o'clock at the club. So.
Mrs. Warmer, chairman of the golf
section, will meet with those inter
Twentieth Century Club.-The sec
tion Of archaeology will meet Tues
day, 2:45 pm. at the residence of the
chairman, Mrs. John Lowe, 262o
Woodley place. Miss Mary f. Wilder
viii speak on Indian literature with
special reference TO the epics OF Nah
rabatta and Ramayana.
The section of literature will not
mold its regular fourth Monday eve
nina meeting this month The next
meeting will take place January "a
at the residence of Mrs Philip Sidney
smith. president of the club.
The board of directors will meet on
thursday morning at II o'clock in the
omen's City Club. 22 jackson place.
The mld-winter reception of the club
Will take place "Wednesday afternoon
from to 6 1T the home of Miss Agnes
Miller. Woodlawn, Cleveland Park.
The past presidents of the club resi-
dent in Washington will stand in the
RECEIVING line with Mrs. Philip Sydney
smith, the present president Miss
Agnes Miller, chairman of the social
committee, will be assisted by the
olher members of her committee. Mrs.
raul Brockett, Mrs. Frederick Y.
'oville and Mrs. David Skinner. No
cards will be issued, but all members
of The club are not only invited but
requested to attend. Several mem.
bels of the club will be assigned to
introduce new members to the ner-
sonnel of the club.
Der Deutsch Literarische Verein
met at the home of it's president. Miss
ANITA Schade. 1929 Rhode Island
avenue, on the evening of December
jS. IL was the clubs annual "Wein-
ltachtS Abend" and the following pro-
gram WAS presented before q large
ana appreciatiye audience: "Stiu vie
Gle Nacht,' by Bohm and Gavotte. by
tles. the George Washington Uni
ycrSity Trio. Miss Prentiss and
Messrs. Gfopp and Prentiss; "Onkel
Engelbrecht," Christmas story. bv
Anna Schieber, read by Mary Isabel
nelly; violin solos, Largo" by Karl
iioler. and "Liebesfrend" L. Krefsler,
81. Rakemann. Karl Holer at the
piano; readings by Amy Clement
Leavltt; 'Rosen i'm Schnee." Christ
nv II
Schade as Grossmutter, Anita Vir.
einia Mueller as Poesie and Helen
Prentlss as Enkelin: incidental
music, Messrs. Crop and Prentiss
piano solos. Largo Appassionato. -
Beethoven; 'Melodie Aussder She" and
DaS Bachleim." MacDowell, Miss A.
a.. Leavitt; short address by Rev
1 tharles Ender of Concordia Lutheran
,hurch and the singing of "Stille
| Nacht. I1eil'ge Nacht" and 20 Tame
baum" by all present.
/ The League of American Per
Women, District Branch.--Mrs. vii
ham Wolf Smith, president, is enter
tanning the members of the Coffee
Shoppe committee at tea this after
noon III her apartment at the Rocham
( beau. Plans for the revival of the
! Old English Coffee Shoppe. which was
such a popular feature of the literary
! times of Queen Elizabeth. are deyel
! oplng rapidly. The first meeting viii
I }ake place January Z at pm.
! The monthly meeting Of the league
/ WI be held tomorrow night at the
club house at 1880. Miss Alic,
I Hutchins Drake. chairman of the
poetry group, will tell the story Of
the Nativity. ST. Patrick's Choir OF
! 80 voices, with Miss Jennie Glennan
director, viii present a program o.
christmas carols.
( There will be no meetings of til,
study groups during holiday week
Z but they will resume their usual ac
tivities at the opening of the new
year.
Mrs. Elsie Laughlin, a member O