Evening star., 1927-10-09

dent, Mrs. James x%$MNS&$&5
Garfield Riley ,sS $NS3S Sxx
who has just re- ~
turned from a va / A S$ SS$@
cation in Europe.
All members are n RSS tSd
invited to join in ......A.-
according Mrs. MRS. EWING.
Riley a welcome home" DIR. A.
Frances Foye, chairman of the hospi'
tality committee, will assist in recelV'
ing and Miss Laura Berrian will be
hostess, assisted by Miss Louise Patti.
son. who will pour
Miss Pauline Sabin will be hostess
for the Tuesday evening free-and-easy
auction section for the month of Octo'
ber Mrs. Nellie G. Schulz will assist.
Mrs. Jennie o. Berlner. chairman
of the Spanish section. invites all
members interested in the study ot
Spanish to meet at the clubhouse
Tuesdays at 6:30 pm. for instruction.
Mrs. Henrietta Olding assists in !n-
structing and is secretary of the SIC
tion.
Mrs. Grace Ross Chamberlin, chair
man of the current events section. VIII
present Patrick Gallagher to the Sec
ton as speaker on Tuesday afternoon
at 4:50 o'clock THE Secret of Eng
lands Greatness" will be the topic of
discussion. All members are invited
to attend. Miss Julia Coonan is sec.
retary Of this section. and Miss Media
Martin and Miss Nell Cavanaugh are
members of the ways and means COM
mittee.
Miss Florence Bell, chairman of the
tennis section. announces the courts
at the Friends School, 1901 Wisconsin
avenue, have been made available for
play on Sunday mornings at IL
O'Clock through the courtesy of Mrs.
Thomas Sdwell. Play today.
The business and professional Sec
ton is sponsoring a dinner which will
be given Wednesday evening at $50
at the club. Louis Rothschild will be
speaker and guest of honor.
District of Columbia Federation Of
WOmen's Clubs will give card party
October 20 in the large ballroom of
the New Willard.
First vice president of the fedora.
tion, Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt. is chair.
man IN charge. The party is spon.
sored by Mrs. Virginia White Speel,
president of the federation; the officers
Of the organization and the presidents
Of the "a federated clubs.
Mrs. L. c. Criswell, $50 Shepherd
street, is the new corresponding Sec
retary of the federation, and Mrs. T.
w. Newburn. 1912 Cathedral avenue,
has been made chairman of press and
publicity.
The following presidents of the clubs
In the federation are taking an active
part in work for the card party:
Mrs. Snyder r. Jacobs, Mrs. Will
Mrs. Henry c. Cook, Mrs. Vernon H.
Lowrey, Mrs. Anton Heitmueller, Mrs.
Ellis Logan, Mrs. Edith c. Salisbury,
Mrs. Annie M. Hobbs, Mrs. Thomas
e. Robertson, Miss Gertrude Bowling,
Mrs. William E. Chamberlin, Mrs. Ag.
nes s. Barnard, Mrs. Edith King, Miss
Margaret Coles, Mrs. Samuel Burleigh
Milton, Mrs. Roe Fulkerson, Mrs.
George Evans, Mrs. Frederick Ham.
mer. Mrs. Robert Bruce Bare, Mrs.
Frank Morrison. Mrs. j. C. Marquis
Mrs. William Fl. Beahm. Mrs. Alexan.
der Wetmore, Mrs. Clara Bryan Nc.
Crone, Mrs. Mary S. Parker. Mrs. r.
%. Apple, Mrs. r. M. Pollock, Miss
Speel, Mrs. Harriet H. King, Mrs. j.
Garfield Riley, Miss Helen Jones and
Miss Anne May Ellis.
Twentieth Century Club.-The in.
ternational outlook section held the
first meeting Of the year Monday
afternoon at Cleveland Park Club.
Mrs. Edward B. Clark, chairman, pre-
sided. Miss Agnes Miller told of
her trip around the world, which she
illustrated with moving pictures taken
in Java, Buenos Aires and other
countries south Of the Equator. Pre-.
ceding the pictures, Mrs. George F..
Rewermaf1 gave a resume Of recent
happenings in the British Empire,
ana Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley told Of
OF the meeting Miss Miller was host
ess at the tea. The sections of art,
civics. French and music, which
usually meet in the second week of
the month, will not begin until No.
vember. The first meeting of the
nature section will be announced later.
The District Branch Of the League
Of American Pen Women will receive
the contestants in the international
Oratorical contest at a reception this
Z afternoon from to 6 o'clock at the
clubrooms,. 1108 Sixteenth street. The
executive board past presidents and
Mrs. Louis Ludlow, wife of the presi.
dent Of the National Press Club, will
assist DR.. Anita Marie Boggs, presi.
dent of the league. Members and
friends Of the league, the Woman's
Press Club and the National Press
Club are invited.
Wednesday. night, at the informal
open house, at which Miss Elizabeth
Mallett Barnes, second vice president,
presided, DR.. Boggs gave her the
years message to the league. She
dwelt especially upon the fact that
each year the league had made some
new record, pointing out that this
year those at the helm were anxious
that the outstanding feature be q
literary achievement.
Each group chairman briefly out
lined what course of study her par
ticular group would follow. These
groups are free to all members of
the league. Non-members wishing to
Join groups may do so by applying to
the chairman of the group in which
she Is interested.
Groups which will be awarded the
Isabel Anderson prizes at the end of
the club year are: Short story.
poetry, juvenile story and features.
one prize will be given to the best
professional writer's production and
one prize for the best production of
an amateur. Only enrolled members
of the given group who have attended
nine hours in the workshops are elig;.
Die TO compete. There are several
otner prize contests. which will be
open to all members OF the league.
This year each group will act as
host at one Of the fellowship teas
the workshops are beginning to func.
ton most efficiently. The Penn Pub.
fishing Co. has taken Mrs. Estelle
"a. Moses latest drama. Mrs. Anne
Watson Ayers has focused the ewes
OF the Nation upon her by her com.
position Of the Southland, "The Banjo
Story" Comdr. Richard EVELYN
Byrd's Atlantic flight has been com
nnemorated by Mrs. Sade Catherine
Coles in her new march, "The Gal
liant Commander"