Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Washington S Memory
To Receive Due Honor
On Birth Anniversary
Unique Celebration Is Sched-
uled by Board of Lady
Managers of G. W. u.
Hospital.

One of the most unique celebrations
OF WaShington'S birthday anniversary
in the National Capital will be given
Tuesday evening at SIS o'clock by the
board of lady managers or George
Washington University Hospital, Wneh
they are to present their annual pen
eft for the hospital in the gymnasium
of the university on Twentieth street
between G and II northwest, entrance
through Stockton Hall.
The event, known as "Blrtnday
Party at Mount Vernon given by Gen,
and Mrs. Washington in honor or their
Scottish neighbors at Alexandra ana
Dumfries." will serve to bring pack
to this city a quartet of much-loVe
Scotch artists, in the persons OF BAD
win Allan-Allen, baritone, who Is OFTEN
called the Harry Lauder of America
Roger MacGregor, widely known as
David Bishpan's concert accompanies
Angus Frazer and John Ross, popular
pipers and highland dancers, who VIII
appear as a group of Gen. Washing-
tons friends, attending the birthday
party. 1t will also serve to present
number of Washingtonians as Colonial
ladies and gentlemen, with MIR. Walter
Davidge as George Washington ana
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman as Martha
Washington. The program will be
given entirely in Colonial and Scottish
costumes, and the Scottish reel will be
danced under the direction of Mrs.
Tuckerman.
A delightful setting has been de-
signed and is being built by the aren't
tectural students at George Washing
ton University, representing the BAN
quet hall at Mount Vernon. One OF
~. For oab nf
this benefit is the reproduction, under
the direction of Prof Norris l. Gran
dali. of a part of the Mount Vernon
estate. The furniture used on the
stage this year is loaned from Mrs,
Charles w. Richardson's valuable col
lection of original Colonial pieces, and
the portraits to be hung on the walls
will be loaned by the university and
are the Gilbert Stuart paintings OF
George and Martha Washington.
The close friendship between the
general and his Scottish neighbors is
a matter of history, and many illusions
are found in his diary to their almost
daily meetings and frequent hunting
parties on the Virginia estates of the
Washingtons and the Alexanders.
Representatives of both families will
be present as special honor guests
Tuesday evening, occupying the Wash
ington box. which is next to that OF
DIR. and Mrs. William Mather Lewis.
Those who will represent the Wash
ington family are DR.. and Mrs. RI. A.
Latane of Alexandria, Miss Rebecca
Washington, her sister, Mrs. Walter
Fl. Lee, and her niece, Miss Martha
Lee of Washington, and the repre-
sentatives of the AleXanders will be
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Swami Sinclair,
Miss Louise Lippitt. Miss Mary Lip
pitt and Mr.. Montague Lippitt.
For a number of years the board OF
lady managers promoted balls for the
benefit of the hospital. but 1t was not
until 1925 that the anniversary of
Washington's birthday was selected as
the most fitting date for the event. 1t
was then called q ball at Mount Yer
non" and the students of the school
of architecture under Prof. Crandall
reproduced a portion of the Mount
Vernon grounds. The following year,
1926, the benefit was known as AN
evening of music at Mount Vernon"
and the music room at the general s
Virginia estate was reproduced by the
students, with the program given by
Carmela Ponselle. presented before a
vast audience that taxed the capacity
of the big gymnasium. Other artists
contributed also to make the event
truly representative of those early
days when great musicians of Europe
as we'll as America filled the music
room with song.
Interest in this seasons event is so
great that the biggest and most bril-.
liant audience that has yet assembled
is expected to fill the gymnasium
Tuesday night. Only a few boxes and