Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02

| Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, poetry.
The drama group will meet at the
clubrooms tomorrow at S pm. Every
one interested in drama is asked to
come.
Chaiimen of group activities will
hold informal open house Wednesday
at pm. The entire membership is
invited.
Plans have been completed to give
a series of book review teas the first
Saturday of each month at the club
rooms from 4:3o to pm.
The Coffee House. which was inau-
guratcd la st year and proved TO he the
meeting place of residential, official
and diplomatic folk interested in good
literature will open the first Friday in
January.
Dates of the fellowship teas will be
announced later. with the dates of the
Pen Women's ball and series of card
parties:
! AT the close of the business meet
ing Mrs. William Wolfe Smith. Junior
past president. gave an informal talk
about her stay in England this Sum
mer.
The mu3ic group. Mrs. SADIE Cath
crime Coles. chairman. gave musical
| evening following a business meeting
of the group Thursday. Visiting art
lists gave program.
Columbian WOmen.-The first meet
! ing Of the year of the Columbian
! Women OF George Washington Uni
versity will be held on the afternoon
| Of October from 4 until o'clock in
room | of Corcoran Hall. Twenty-trst
street between G and RI streets.
Following social hour, when Mrs.
! Howard Lincoln Hodgins. wife of the
dean Of the university. will pour. the
business nesting will take place. Mrs.
Harvey W. Wiley, the new president
of the orga MIA ton. will preside.
After remarks by the new president.
the reports of the various chairmen
will be received. Miss Hazleton will
give a five-minute sketch Of Miss
Louise Connolly. one Of the founders
of the Columbian Women. who died
last July. Miss Virginia Diedel. last
wears historian. will read the history
Of the year 1861.
The following names of chairmen
of committees have been announced
by Mrs. Wiley: Membership, Miss
Elizabeth &. Cullen: program. Miss
Ella NJ. Monk: publicity, Miss Marcelle
LeMenager: scholarship Mrs. Joshua
| Evans; house, DIR. Minna G. Denton
auditing, Mrs. ID. X. Shute; finance.
! Mrs. Edwin 8. Behrend: life members.
| Mrs. W. F.. Chamberlin: university
relations Mrs. w. &. VanVleck: res
| olutions, Miss Elizabeth Peet; choc-
olate fund. Miss Ruth Bennett.
This years officers Of the Column
bian Women are as follows: President
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley: first vice presi
dent. Miss Julia Macmillan; recording
secretary. Miss Harriet Garrells
treasurer, Miss Rhoda Watkins; cor
| responding secretary. Mrs. &. s. Col
iier; historian, Miss Bertha Wolfe.
quota Cuba meeting of the eX-
ecutive board was held at the country
estate of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest
Seminary Hill, Va. on September IS.
Mrs. Forrest entertained the mem.
bers Of the board at dinner, after
which the meeting was held and i'm.
portant matters discussed.
Later. at the invitation of Mrs.
Minnigerode Andrews, they visited her
delightful home, where refreshments
were served. At the luncheon meeting
thursday held al the University Club
Mrs. Sallie Picket. the president. pre
sided. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. presi.
dent Of the ID. &. Congress of Parent.
Teacher Associations, spoke of the
| recent board meeting of the national
congress OF parents and teachers held
at Atlantic City
Miss Daisy Reed of Woodward e.
Lothfop was guest of honor at the
dinner held September 81, and gave
the members the w. & l.. intelligence
test. which was won by Marie Wer
man. Miss Eleanor Eckhardt per.
sonnei dlrector OF Jelleff's, was hostess.
AT the luncheon October s, 1880
pm. at the University Club. Miss
sym Baker. director Of the com.
munlty center department Of the
public schools, will speak on the com.
munity institute.
~, The Washington Readers Club
We ne nrst meeting Of the season of the
washington Readers Club will he held
on Tuesday evening, October 4. in ths
aiilance room of All Souls Church,
sixteenth and Harvard streets north
west. The subject will be Sound ana
Color with Mrs. Emily Erich Barnes
presiding. 1''4 ''e'
selections illustrating these themes
VIII be read by Mrs. James F.. Hart.
nett, Mrs. Esther Waldron. Miss Alice
Z. Robinson. Mrs. Sarah Morrison
smith and Mrs. William c. Harllee.
MRS. Julia Culbreth Gray will sing
500 accompanied by Mrs. Barnes.
Inc program will close with one.ac.
play. The Prince of Court painters
ny constance Darcy Mackaye. played
! ny William f. Bryant, president Of
the club: Mrs. Mae Jameson Rrvant
and Ruth Powdermaker.
| The Shakespeare Society of Wash.
ington will hold it's first meeting IF
| the .ar tomorrow evening at sis
CLOCK, at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Dr. Paul Kaufman, of the America
! DIVERSITY. Will read paper on
shakespeare and Democracy" and A
reading will be given from one of the
plays.
Members of the society know how
interesting these meetings are. Speak
ers or recognized authority read pa pers
on some phase of Shakespeare's plays
or in the Eliza bethan period and q
costumed scene is presented from
| Shakespeare's plays
! ANY one interested in these lectures
who wishes to become a member of
the society may do so by giving his
name and paying the small dues for
the season. ~
Susan B. Anthony Foundation. Inc.
Inc MARYLAND branch of the founia
ton has been working all Summer
and through the tireless energy of
me MARYLAND director, Mrs. Virginia
Peters-Parkhurst, will make a sp,en-
I'D report in the early Fall. New
membership contributors to the work
and to the memorial clubhouse are:
Mrs. John l.. Alcock Of Baltimore.
president Maryland Federation of
| Women's Clubs; Mrs. J. Enos Rav
Ir. president Southern Maryland Fed.
Grafton of Womans Clubs: State
Senator \. II. Fooks, Caroline County.
state Senator y. J. Ward. Wicomicn
| county; State Senator j. Alan Coad.
4, ~. Marys County: State Senator D.
u Roe, Queen Anne County; Kent
: Roberts MuIlikin member MaryIa ~