Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
PEN WOMEN PLAN
PEARL JUBILEE"
National League to Celebrate
Thrtieth Anniversary of Its
Founding April 14-16.

Prominent pen women from various
parts of the country will come to
Washington this week to participate
in the celebration OF he thirtieth an
niversary of the National League OF
American Pen Women, which will be
held April 1916, inclusive, at the ma
tional headquarters in the MayhoWer
Hotel.
This celebration, known as the pearl
Jubilee. is to have several features, the
main one being the authors congress,
with three sessions daily. April 14-l5,
and the annual authors breakfast, the
social event of the jubilee, at 1880
o'clock Saturday. The authors con-
sreSs will be the fourth held under
the auspices of the league and the
chairman of arrangements is Mrs.
Edna NJ. Colman, founder Of the con-
gress and former national president,
She Is being assisted by Mrs. EdWafd
Nelson Dingley, first vice president OF
the league, as associate chairman.
Addresses Scheduled.
A program of real constructive
value is being arranged and the SEES
sions will be open to any persons IN
terested in the various forms Of writ
ing that will be discussed by speakers
who are authorities in the fields they
will cover. While there will be some
outside speakers. the majority OF those
to be heard at the congress VIII be
prominent members of the league
from various branches scattered
throughout the United States.
Mrs. Colman announces as partial
list of speakers: c. E. Nelson, Sunday
editor of The Star; Alfred Howson of
Warner Brothers Pictures, who VIII
discuss 1.-THE Adaptation of the story
TO the Screen: Mrs. Grace Geldert or
Memphis, Tenn, past president OF the
national league and widely known
writer under the name of Grace Dulfy
Boylan, who viii participate In the
rropran1 Of the Poetry evening, ana
also win speak during the congress on
1.-THE Review from the Authors stand
roint." Others are Mrs. Scottie NC
Kenzie F'rasier Of Alabama. Mrs
Katharine II. Chapman, fourth wee
president of the league, also OF
Alabama: Miss Angela Morgan, chair
man of the Poetry evening; MRS. Mae
Hoisington. associate chairman; Mrs.
Ruth Mason Rice and Miss Isabelle
Conant. all of New York; Mrs. Mar
garet Ball Dickson of South Dakota
and a number of prominent Washlne
ton pen women to be announced
later.
Topics for Discussion
The six sessions of the congress will
ha devoted to the following subjects:
short story, novels, non-fictton books,
Juvenile literature, book reviewing,
drama and motion pictures, poetry,
Journalism, music, painting, sculpture.
Illustrations and pageantry, all OF
which are represented in the work or
members OF the league.
Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, ma
tionaI president of the League of
American Pen Women, will preside
at the congress and at the authors
breakfast, Saturday morning, OF Whlch
she is chairman, assisted by MRS
Dingley as vice chairman, ana by Mrs.
Marie Moore Forrest, chairman OF
features; Mrs. Theodore T1ller, MRS.
William Atherton Du Puy and MIS-
William Wolff Smith, chairman or the
tableaux depicting the three decades
of the leagues existence; Mrs Eoou'
ard Albion and Miss Irene Juno, |
music, and Hiss Marjorie Webster,
fancy dancing.
An important list of speakers has
been secured for the breakfast, among
whom will be: Richard e. Enright, |
former New York police commissioner;
Sarah D. Lowrie, a columnist; George |
A. Dorsey, scientist; Ernest Thomp-
son Seton, naturalist; Cosmo Hamil-
ton, a dramatist, and Clifford X.
Bergman, a cartoonist Of The Eve
ming Star.
Additional Feature.
In addition to brief talks from these
speakers, there will be incidental
music, and the presentation Of a
pageant or Historical Sketch" pre-
senting the achievements Of the organ
ization since its founding in 1897.
On Saturday evening at Memorial
Continental Hall, the league will par
ticipate in joint program and recep-
ton with the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, when there will be
an illustrated talk by DR.. David E.
Mitchell on 1.-The Chalice of Antioch"
with music by the Marine Band and
solos by George Boucher.