Evening star., 1927-12-01
Cards Out for Lecture
Ou Gardens by Miss Johnston.


The Art and Archaeology League of
Washington has issued cards for an
illustrated lecture on historic gardens
bv Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston
Saturday evening at S:15 O'Clock IN
Gunston Hail. at 1906 Florida avenue.
An informal reception to Miss John'
ston will follow the lecture.
Miss Mary Jean Simpson is in
charge of the arrangements for the
card party Saturday evening Tor
which Senator and Mrs. Porter II.
Dale have loaned their house. at l44
+ street northeast. The proceeds
from the party will be added to the
relief fund of the Vermont State So
ciety for use among the flood sufferers
Of Vermont Miss Simpson is assisted
hv Mrs. Joseph Fairbanks. Mrs. w.
w. Husband and Mrs. Charles A
Webb.
The District League of American
Pen Women has changed the date
of the grand opera tea to tomorrow
afternoon from to o'clock, to be
given at HOS Sixteenth street north
west, Prima donnas who have arrived
in the city to take part in the WASH
ington national grand opera festival
will be guests of honor, including
Nine. Louella Melius, Nine. Jeanne
Gordon and Miss Dorothy -Speare.
Miss Speare is a writer of note, haV'
ing written several successful novels,
among which are Dancers inN the
Dark" and Virgin Of Yesterday"
She is now under contract to. write
articles for several of the leading
magazines, the editors Of which will
come to Washington to hear the
author -prima donna make her Ameri-
can debut in "Mignon."
Those receiving tomorrow viii be
Miss Evelyn Weems. Miss Patricia
Poe Bennett, DR.. Anita Maris Boggs.
president; Nine. Louella Melius, Miss
Alice Hutchins Drake, Nine. Jeanne
Gordon, Miss Elizabeth Mallott
Barnes, Miss Dorothy Speare, Mrs.
Richard Gasch, Mrs. Peggy Albion,
Miss Willard Howe and Miss Irene
Juno. Members of the music group
and other members of the executive
board will act as hostesses.
Invitations have been issued to
prominent persons, the music clubs
and to music lovers of the city.
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, who recently arrived in Wash
lngton from her home in Joplin, Mo-,
for short visit, was hostess at dinner
last night to company of 35, at the
Woman's National Democratic Club,
where she is stopping. Her guests in
cluded Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt. Miss Belle Sherwin, Mrs. John
ID. Sherman. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau,
Miss Cornelia Adair. Miss Mary An
derson, Miss Grace Abbott, Mrs. Alvin
T. Hert, Mrs. j. Borden Hartman.
Miss Helen Atwater, Mrs. Arthur c.
Watkins, Miss Anne Richardson, DIR.
Louise Stanley, Mrs. Bertha Brugge.
man, Miss Harlean James, Miss Mary
Lindsey. Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cum
ningham, Mrs. Blair Banister Miss
Caroline Reilly, Mrs, Kate Trenholme
Abrams, Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell,
Miss sCarl Williams, Maj. Julie Slim.
son, Mrs. Edward Costigan, Miss Cor
nelia Basel, Miss McDermott, Mrs
Massanovitch,. Miss Ethel Smith, Miss
Matthews, Mrs. Ellis Meredith and
Miss Isabel Bacon.
Mr.. George Eastman of Rochester,
\. Y, founder of the American Opera
Co., which is to present three operas
at Polls Theater December IL, 13 and
IA, will come to Washington for the
performances. The organization was
founded for the purpose of presenting
opera in English under a system which
VIII provide for all-American casts.
and because of Mr.. Eastman's interest
in its success he will attend it's Wash
ington debut.
Additional box holders include the
Secretary Of the Treasury, Mr.. Mellon:
the Ambassador of Great Britain. Sir
Esme Howard; Nine. van Royen.
Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Mrs.