Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-22

Oh lue NOIiSlt ANottDfi''h
N Press Club at a luncheon in
Il u her honor yesterday. 1t was
gala day at the Women
University Club and the beautiful
rooms were practically turned over to
the women writers during the hours
Mrs. Coolidge was there. Nice little
formalities attended her arrival, Miss
Cora Rigby, president, and members
of the Press Club house COMMITTEES
meeting Mrs. Coolidge and Miss Mary
Randolph on their arrival and quickly
escorting them to the main dining
room where the luncheon party was
. entertained Later, Mrs. Coolidge and
Miss Rigby went to one of the recep-
ton rooms on the lower floor, where
all of the members of the Press Club
and their guests were received.
Mrs. Coolidge was enthusiastically
greeted as she entered the banquet
room, women who must almost daily
write of her-of her personality, her
clothes, where she goes. what she does
generally, whom she receives and what
not. giving her such an ovation as one
seldom receives. This time she wore
a we'll tailored street ssit of dark
rough weave, garnet color, fashioned
with a coat reaching below the hips
and skirt showing several plaits, a
white lace-trimmed jabot tightening
the effect of the costume. Her very
becoming hat of black satin showed a
curved brim and a high crown. Her
white kid gloves, gauntlet fashion,
were not in evidence until she stood
to receive the guests. and then the
modest diamond ring on her little fin
ger was on the outside of the glove,
a revival of vogue of many years
past. She also wore the corsage bou
quet of yellow roses which were be-
side her plate.
The main dining room of the club.
where formerly ambassadors and po-
tentates We're wont to hold forth
when the building was occupied by
Baron Rosen, the imperial Russian
Ambassa dor. was yesterday exceed
ingly feminine in its decorative treat
ment and turned into a veritable
garden of flowers. Spring blossoms
being transplanted from the White
House propag eating houses through the
courtesy of Mrs. Coolidge and from the
Department of Agriculture through
the compliments of Mrs. William NJ
Jardine
At the guest of honor table. where
sat Miss Rigby with Mrs. Coolidge
on her right, we've Mrs. Sallie V. II.
Pickett first vice president; on the
right of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Eliza
beth r. Shirley, recording secretary;
Miss Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, treas
urer; Miss Winifred Mallon, corre-
spending secretary, and Miss Mary
Randolph A large plaque-shaped
bed of pink roses occupied the center
of the board. and each of the well
arranged tables bore bowls of grace
fully arranged Spring blossoms. Miss
Ruth Jones, second vice president
of the club. is absent from the city.
Long tables surrounded the room,
while in the center were three round
tables, each presided over by one of the
board of governors, Mrs. Hobart
Brooks, Mrs. Edward Heating and
Mrs. Ann Hard.
At an early stage of the luncheon
newsboy's burst into the room call
Ing The Capital Comet" In regular
newsboy fashion, for sale, signal
for dozens of outstretched hands
10 receive 1t. The sheet OF four
pages was the maiden effort of the
club. and highly creditable one.
bearing on its outside page a large
cut of Mrs. Coolidge.
The caption under her picture read:
First Lady, of the Land, who is
guest of honor at luncheon of the
Womens National Press Club, March
81. 1927" As Mrs. Coolidge was
served with the first copy from the
press her eyes fell upon snappv
news story, 'Rebecca Gets the Gate"
whereupon she laughed heartily as
she exclaimed. And Rebecca came
back this morning" She admitted,
however, that the story was a good
one. Notwithstanding it's slight mac
curacy. In her little talk that attend
ed the presentation of Mrs. Coolidge,
Miss Rigby referred to it in humorous
manner. The little paper also bore
many clever skits and two exception
ally clever poems, one by Mrs. Francis
Parkinson Reyes and another by
Elizabeth ElIicott Poe, Our Banner"
dedicated TO Mrs. Coolidge, and a
snappy cartoon by Mrs. Allender.
The members at the luncheon We're:
Helen Atwater, Ruby A. Black, Mrs.
Blair Banister, Miss Roberta Brad
SHAW, DIR. Gertrude Brigham, Kath-
crime Brooks. Mildred Brown. Mrs.
Myrtle Worrell Buckles, Mrs. Edward
j. Clark, Belya CuZZort, Emily Davis,
Mrs. Margaret Downing, Hazel Edgar.
eEourley Edwards, Helen Fetter. Co
rhine Frazier. Mrs. Herman Gasch,
Margaret Germond, Mrs. Mason Gray,
Miss Dorothy Green. Miss Margaret
Hart. Mrs. Nell Clarke Harrington.
Margaret de Forest Hicks, Ruth Hill,
Grace Porter Hopkins Mrs. Arthur ID.
Condor. Blanche NJ. Joyce. Mrs. Ed
ward Heating, Mrs. II. w. Reyes,
Ruth kleinberger. Mrs. Katherine
Lewis. Mrs. John Libby. Bette Larri-
more. Emma Perley Lincoln Jessie
MacBride, Mrs. John McE,lroy, Ger.
.trude Marsden, Cecilia B. Martin. Mrs
Teresa Mcclintic. Maud McDougall.
Dorothy Mondell. Virginia Price, Ada
Rainey, Mrs, Alice Gram Robinson,
Bess Davis Schreiner, Mrs. Rilla En-.
gle Schroeder. Mrs. Dorothy Shu-
mate Scott. Ethel NJ. Smith. Martha