Evening star., 1927-11-08

Richard AldriCh, ss
Mrs. Wilson4Gfeene iii in charge OF
the details of the local management OF
the opera.
Gov. Parker of Louisiana has arrived
In Washington for the week and is
at the Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter f. Burke of
Larchmont, \. Y, with their small
son. are stopping AT the Carlton Hotel,
where they have been for the past
week Both Mr.. and Mrs. Burke are
former residents of Washington, and
are renewing their old. acquaintances
In this city.
Former Senator William 8. KENYON
or Iowa has joined Airs Kenyon in
washington at the Mayfower. where
she is passing the early Autumn,
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton. ma
tional president of the National
League of American Pen Women. who
has been in Washington for n few
DAYS and has been stopping at the
Willard, returned to her home in
Greenwich, Conn, last evening. Mrs
Seton presided at the November
meeting of the national executive
board at the Willard yesterday morn
Ing, when number of important so
clal plans were made for the league 5
Mldwinter season. Among the outof-
town members of the board present
yesterday was Mrs. Irving r. Prem.
tiss, president of the Philadelphia
branch of the league, who was in
Washington over the week end, and
who was also specially honored guest
at the tea given by Mrs. Seton for the
executive board Sunday afternoon at
the Willard. Mrs. Prentiss left Wash
ington for her home in Philadelphia
last evening.
A card party under the auspices of
the section of education of the Twen-
tieth Century Club will be given at
the Willard Hotel Monday, December
b, at pm, for the benefit of the
national illiteracy crusade, which has
undertaken to stamp out illiteracy in
this country in the next three years.
Mrs. Ernest r. McComas is chair
man and Mrs. Geoffrey Creyke is vice
chairman of the committee having the
affair in charge.
The advisory committee consists of
Mrs. Philip s. Smith, chairman; Mrs.
Thomas w. Sidwell, Mrs. Frederic F.
harrington. Mrs. Lyman B. Sworm-
stedt and Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks.
On the reception committee is Mrs.
Thomas W. Sidwell patronesses, Mrs.
Gilbert H. Grosvenor. chairman; Mrs.
virgil B. Jackson, Mrs. Thomas w.
Sldwell. Mrs. Ernest r. McComas,
Mrs. Edward b. Clark, Mrs Joshua
evans, jr.; publicity, Mrs. Edward B.
clark; arrangements, Mrs. Lyman B.
Swormstedt; tables and ushers, Mrs.
Geofrey Creyke, chairman; Mrs. Ly-
man B. Swormstedt, Mrs. E. w.
Washburn, Mrs. Alfred Brooks, Mrs
Abner Ferguson; prizes, Mrs. George
+. Bowerman; supplies, Mrs. Francis
M. Goodwin, Mrs. Austin Clark; candy,
Mrs. A. T. Fowler, Mrs. J. B. Camp
bell, and tickets, Mrs. Samuel Her
rick. chairman: Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks.
Mrs. A. T. Fowler Mrs. Stephen
3. Campbell, Mrs. c. r. Ball, Mrs. ].
z. Ault, Mrs. C. +. Clagett, Mrs.
Geoffrey Creyke, Mrs. E. w. Wash
burn, Miss Jane Young, Mrs. r. H.
McNeill, Mrs. D. w. Prentiss, Mrs.
F. w. Ballou, Mrs. E. r. .McComas,
Mrs. r. S. Yard, Mrs. C. L. Parsons,
Mrs. Grosvenor Jones, Mrs. Caleb
Miller, Mrs. f. M. Goodwin, Mrs. l..
L. Harter, Mrs. M. A. Warson, Mrs.
e. E. Koss, Mrs. Merle Thorpe, Miss
Grace Willis, Mrs Frank r. Rutter.
Mrs. Ellwood P. Morey, Mrs. Eugene
Byrnes, Mrs. o. l.. Veerhoff, Mrs.
Lyman Tabor.
Mrs. Frederick r. Brewster of
Edgerton, New Haven Conn.,. has
arrived in Washington for the meet
ing of the executive committee of
the Colonial Danes. which will be held
at the Mayfiower, where she is a
guest, on November 0 and 10.
Mrs. Schafer of Wisconsin