Evening star., 1927-03-08
SOCIETY
Continued from Fourteenth Page)
Eighteenth street for the Spring
season.
Society to Meet for
Benefit Lenten Lectures.

S0C4Cty McGG IOE
Benefit Lenten Lectures.
Mrs. Carlton Van Valkenburg' MIS-
John L. Clem, Miss Bessie kibbey
and Mr.. Heinrich Mein are among
the additional subscribers to the lee
ture series which is under the spon-
sorship of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock' as
chairman, and Mrs. Walter r. Tuck
erman, vice chairman. The series
will open tomorrow morning with the
lecture on "Some Aspects of Anglo
American Relations" by Mr.. Will
mott n. Lewis, Washington CORE
spondeut of the London Times, who
Is a. brilliant speaker as well as
writer. and who is an authority on
the subject he will discuss.
Mr.. Lewis will speak at 11:30
o'clock in the main ballroom at the
Mayfiower Hotel and the lecture will
be followed by a luncheon, for which
many reservations are being made. Ad-
ditional luncheon hostesses are Mrs.
Samuel j. Henry. who will entertain
for her sister. Mrs. Barnard Phillips
of Rye, n. Y; Nine. Ekengren and
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman, who will
be Joint hostesses at the table they
have reserved, and Mrs. Edward E.
Hayden, who will entertain party
of four guests at the lecture and
luncheon.
The series, which consists of four
lectures, to be given at 11:30 am. on
the mornings of March 9, 16, % and
80, with Mr.. Lewis, Hamlin Garland,
John Cowper PoWys and Strickland
Gillian as the speakers is for the
benefit of the fund now being accu-
mulated, under the trusteeship OF Mr..
Charles ]. Bell, for the erection of
the George Washington Memorial
Building, the foundations of which
have already been completed and paid
for The land on which the building
is to stand was donated by Congress
and the corner stone was laid by
President Harding. Mrs. Dimock is
president of the George Washington
Memorial Association, which is carry
ing on the work of raising funds for
the building, and it Is the ambition
of the association to have the build
ing a reality by 1882. the date of the
celebration of the 200th anniversary
of the birth of George Washington.
The presentation of Much Ado
About Nothing" by the Washington
Shakespearean Society Players, will
be given in one performance March 21,
instead of March and 10 as original
ly scheduled, the English Speaking
Union, under whose auspices the play
is to be produced, announces.
The production, which is in aid OF
the fund to rebuild the ShakespeGr-
can Memorial Theater on Stratford-
on-Avon, will be held in Pierce Hall,
All Souls, Church, Sixteenth and Har-
ward streets, as originally arranged.
Boxes have been taken by the Brit
ish Ambassador and Lady Isabella
Howard, the Secretary of Commerce
and Mrs Hoover, Mr.. and Mrs. James
M. Beck, Mrs. Henry III. Flather, Mr..
and Mrs. William Castle. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick III. Brooke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter r. Tuckerman and Mrs. Mich
olas Luquer.
Col. Claude H. Birdseye Of the
United States Geological Survey will
be the honor guest and speaker at the
dinner given at the Women's City
Club at $40 o'clock tomorrow evening.
The after-dinner talk will be on "RO-
nance in Mapping the United States"
Miss Laura Jacques will be hostess.
For a half hour preceding the dinner
guests are invited to meet Col. and
Mrs. Birdseye informally. Among
those subscribing for the dinner are
Maj. and Mrs. Bowie, Mrs. j. Garfield
Riley, DIR. A. Frances Foye, Judge
Mary Kelly, Miss Many Mckinney,
Mrs. III. B. Can't. Mrs. Ida Whiting
ton and Miss Sue Can't.
The English-Speaking Union will
have its monthly tea tomorrow after
noon at the Carlton Hotel headquar-
ters from 4:30 to- 6 o'clock.
The hostess will he Mrg II w Fitch
assisted by Mrs. S. Lawrence Heap,
Mrs. III. G. Chiffon. Mrs. j. Joyce
Broderick, Mrs. Stephan Rowan, Mrs.
r. Giles and Miss Mamie MaComb.
Mr., Stephan Bonsal will give a short
talk on China.
The social evening of the Hilary A.
Herbert Chapter, United Daughters Of
the Confederacy. to be held Wednes-
day evening, March 9. at the Con-
federate Memorial Home, 1922 Ver-
mont avenue. will be an enjoyable
occasion. The chairman of the enter.
tainment committee. Mrs. James
Trimble, has secured Representative
William b. Oliver of Alabama to
address the Chapter and guests on
China, giving the personal impress
sions he received during a recent
visit to that country. The music by
Mrs. Frank Lord, soloist. and Miss
Isabel McGee, yiolinist, accompanied
by Miss Madge Greenhalgh, will be
most attractive.
Luncheon will be served tomorrow
by Mrs. Durant's Circle after the Iec-
ture which Mrs. r. Winston Holt will
give for the Rector's Aid of st. Mar
garet's Church, following the regular
monthly meeting. Mrs. Holt will speak
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