The Washington times., 1927-03-21
MRS. COOL DGE
GUEST OF
SCRIBES
National Women's Press
Club Entertains First
Lady at Luncheon
Mars. COOLIDGE was a guest at
III luncheon today of the National

The luncheon was given IN the
large dining room of the clubhouse
OF the American Association Of Uni
persity Women. at 1884 st.
The members and their guests
each member was permitted to
bring one guest-Were seated at
several tables accommodating vary
ing numbers. At the head" table
there were Mrs. Coolidge ard at
her left was Miss Cora Rigby, pres.
ident of the club and chief of the
Washington Bureau OF the Christian
Science Monitor On the other side
of Mrs. Coolidge was Mrs. Sailie H.
". Pickett, first vice-presidsnt; and
the others at this table were Miss
Randolph and the officers Miss
Elizabeth Shirley. recording secre-
tary: Miss Winifred Mallon. COR
responding secretary; and Miss
Elizabeth e. Poe. treasurer. Miss
Ruth Jones, second vice president,
Is in Atlantic City with her mother,
Mrs. Paul Jones, and so was the one
officer missing today.
The board of governors--Mrs
Hobart Brooks. Mrs. William Hard
and Mrs. Edward presided
over three small tables facing the
head table-one governor for each
table.
Extra Paper"
Shortly after the company was
seated the noisy babbling of many
tongues was abruptly stilled by the
rushing in of newsboy excitedly
crying out Extra paper. Mrs. Cool
ldge eats with newspaper women.
All about the big lunch. Extra
paper.
Hurrying up to the First Lady he
presented her with the first copy
OF the first issue OF 1.-THE Capital
Comet" published for this occasion
by the members OF the National
Women's Press Club. Then he
gave copies of the "Extra-Specia
70 the others at the table with Mrs,
Coolidge and after that to the others
at the luncheon
'The Capital Comet"
1.-THE Capital Comet consisted Of
two full-size newspaper pages. On
the first page was a four-column
picture OF Grace Goodhue Cool
fdge'' thanked on the sides by such
''neads" as "Idylls of the Spring,
As You Like 1t, Or Much Ado
About" and Glow Far This Lit
tie Comet Throws Her Beams Over
This Town So Shines Our Press
Club in a Naughty World
These front-page stories told OF
personal bits about members of the
club and sketched In light vein the
career of the organization. Other
front-page stories told of the banish-
ment of the raccoon 'Rebeeca" from
the temporary home of the, Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge and OF the
First Lady's refusal TO be inter-
viewed on why Rebecca Left
Home; the difficulties of society
editor in seeing what everybody is
wearing at a crowded reception, and
several timely poems.
just beneath the photograph of
Mrs. Coolidge was a story relating
former times when the First Lady
and the newspaper women had "got
together''-going back as far as
when the former was Mrs. Vice
President.
News Of Second Page
The second page of this stimulat-
Ing journal carried a. four.column
cartoon to match the space taken
UP by the picture of Mrs. Coolidge.
This was captioned "Women's Press
Club Interviews the World" and
depicted a tailored young woman
with pencil in hand questioning a
rather corpulent gentleman with a
face lined after the fashion of
geographical globes.
There such features as a fic-
ton story entitled From Shadows
to Sunshine" in which was sketched
wi. re o.,
from the depths Of dependency
over her social career in the Capt..
tai to the heights of Washington
society; a poem by Mrs. Francis
Parkinson Reyes; Mildred
Muses." rejecting in puzzled fashion
over some of the oddities of the
recent Press Club elections: "Shop-
ping with Bah" on Connecticut
Avenue, telling the changes since
the President moved up that way
and the new fashions in ribbons
for collies! Society Notes, in which
one is told that Mrs. Coolidge
made the trip by motor" to have
luncheon today with the newspaper
women: and list of the members
Of the club with their guests today.
Some Guests Present
Among the latter were Mrs. Will
liam e. Borah. wife of Senator
Rorah; Mrs. Alvin E. Dodd, Mrs.
Albert Boni. of New York, wife
Of the publisher and herself cor.
respondent for paper in Rotter-
! dam, Holland; Mrs. Walter Stilson
Hutchins; Mrs. Frederic William
II Vile; Miss Lavinia aEngle, of Bal
timore and Washington; Mrs. James
Nourse; Mrs. ]. Duncan Elliott,
wife of Major Elliott: Mrs. Carlton
Van Vankenburgh; Mrs. w. Cleve-
land Hicks; Miss Bertha Noyes and
Miss Aline SoIomons.
Running Wide Open"
Another amusing feature Of the
second page was an open letter "to
the editor Of the Capital Comet"
by Mrs. Dora Dumbunny, asking
aid in getting made a ''lady of the
Ladies Press Club" as she has
spent one season in Washington and
was going to write articles for
the "Hicks.and.Sticks" quarterly
back home" telling of her great
life in Washington This appeared
under the caption Running Wide
Open"
. On the front page 1t was an.
nounced that "All the News That
Fits We Print" and opposite this
was the price Priceless
IS
CHIEF JUSTICE
GIVES LUNCHEON
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft
were hosts at luncheon yesterday
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