Evening star., 1928-12-09
Pen Women's $ Ball. Set
For Dec. 18, Heralded
As Rare Social Event
Opportunity is Offered to
Dress Up and Disport in
the Land of Make
Believe"

The Pen Women ball on December Is
offers another delightful opportunity to
dress UP and disport ones self in the
Land of Make Believe" from pages Of
books that have delighted readers down
the ages are to empty their characters
heller -skelter into the Willard ballroom
on that occasion. Some of them will
have really lived and have become to-
day historical characters" and others
will be creations of an authors imag-
ination, but all will rub shoulders to-
gether at this carnival for the joint
benefit of the memorial club house of
the National League of American Pen
Women and of the work being done by
the District branch of the league un-
der whose auspices the event Is to take
place.
A number of the ''first ladies of the
land" will appear in the box taken by
Mrs. Clarence M. Busch national presi-
dent of the league, for in compliment
to the National Capital she has named
her box for Edna NJ Colmans Seventy
five Years of White House GOSSIP" and
the hostess and her guests will represent
the charming chatelaines of the home
of the Presidents discussed in these
volumes.
Heroes and HerOines
To Feature Program.
Heroes and heroines from the novels
of Mrs. Southworth will be present, as
it is on the land on which now stands
historic Prospect Cottage, once the home
of Mrs Southworth and now the prop
erty of the National League, that the
clubhouse will be erected. The box
taken by group of members of the
national executive board will be named
the "Southworth box i"
Mrs. Aaron D. Newman, president Of
the District of Columbia branch of the
League of American Pen Women, will
be the hostess of the evening. She has
named her box the "Star Spangled
Banner" and will personally entertain
a box party. Mrs. Newman, it will be
recalled, is the author of the Hymn
of Washington" patriotic song. which
has been Endorsed by the Chamber of
Commerce Of this city, the Board of
Trade, and other organizations as the
official song of the National Capital
The lure of the Orient will be found
in the box of Mrs. Grace Thompson
Seton, past national president, who has
named her box after her Chinese Lam
terms" and who will be in Chinese cos
tune as will the guests in her box.
The members of the executive board
of the District league have taken a box
and have named it THE Thirteen Col
onies" as tribute>to the early founders
of America. The box will be attrac-
lively decorated and Mrs. E. Richard
Gasch, first vice president of the Dis
trict league, will be in Colonial CO.'S
tune, as will some of the other guests in
the box.
Leading Society Ladies
Listed As PatrOneSses.
Among the patronesses for the ball
are Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry. Mrs,
Thomas w. Phillips, jr.. Mrs. Walter
r.. Tuckerman, Mrs. Charles j. Bell,
Mrs Stokes Halkett, Mrs William
Wheatley, Mrs. Victor Kaufman, Mrs.
A. Geary Johnson, Mrs. James r,
Mann, Mrs. Edward T. Walker. Mrs.
A. t. Clark, jr, Mrs. Leander McCor-
mick Goodhart. Mrs. Eugene E. Never.
Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, Mrs. Robert Mac
Kenzie, Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin. Mrs.
Duncan Phillips. Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, Mrs Amos Fries Mrs I1arriat