Evening star., 1928-12-05


Greece, old and new. Miss Darlington,
vice president of the society, who has
recently returned from Greece, brought
a message to the club from the prime
minister, his excellency Eleutherios
VenizeloS.
Pen League Ball
Gains New Patronage.
Mrs. George Barnett, chairman of
patronesses for the carnival ball of the
District of Columbia League of Amer
ican Pen Women, which is to take place
December 18 at the Willard Hotel, an
nounces as a partial list of acceptances:
Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips, jr.; Mrs.
Walter r. Tuckerman. Mrs. Charles j.
Bell, Mrs. Stokes Halkett, Mrs. Eugene
E. Meyer, Mrs. Victor Kaufman, Mrs
William Wheatley, Mrs. A. Geary John
son, Mrs. A. T. Clark. jr.; Mrs. James
r. Mann, Mrs. Harry Norment, Mrs.
Edward T. Walker, Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, Mrs. Amos Fries, Mrs. Harriet
Hawley Locher, Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson,
Mrs. Swain Reed, Mrs. Wolff Smith
and Mrs. Theodore Tiller.
Mrs. e. Richard GaSch, first vice
president Of the District League, has
been appointed chairman of tickets for
the league membership, aiding Mrs Rose
Gouverneur Hoes, who is in general
charge of reservations. The public is
invited to aid in the project to establish
in Georgetown a memorial to American
women of genius, which the proposed
clubhouse Of the National League will
be, by attending this ball, half of the
proceeds of which will go to the
memorial clubhouse fund, as the gift OF
Washington, through the District Pen
Women.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Douglas Grubbs,
formerly of Washington and Newark,
are now in Detroit, where Mr.. Grubbs
is connected as legal adviser under the
Treasury Department.
Mrs Gertrude Bonin will be a guest
and the chief speaker at the salon of
the International Association of Art and
Letters which will give a program of
Indian literature and music this eve
ming at the Tayette Hotel. Mai.
Ahearn, who Wa, ,ome years ago Secre-
tary to Sitting Bull, will also speak, as
will Mrs. Fitzgerald, whose work among
the Indians is so well known. The
music will be under the direction of
the chairman of the associations pro-
gram committee, Mrs. Eva Whitford
Lovette. Solos will be sung by Mrs.
Lovette, Mrs. Ethel Lyman Fast and
Mrs. Jack Charlton Ward. In its plan
of interchange of literature and allied
art the association is now giving special
attention to that Of North American
Indians.
The Sigma Theta Pi Sorority will give
q Founders day dinner and bridge at
the Hamilton Hotel Saturday, December
8, at $50 o'clock
Miss Frances Meyer is president of
the Washington Chapter and Miss
RoSalie Weinberg is chairman of the
committee on arrangements.
The Bulletin committee of the
Woman's National Democratic Club,
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, chairman, will
hold bridge and nah jongg party at
the clubhouse, 1926 New Hampshire
avenue, on the afternoon and evening
Of January 8. Prizes will be given on
both occasions and tea will be served
In the afternoon and supper in the
evening. These entertainments are
the campaign expenses Of the Bulletin,
the clubs magazine.
Though the series of book reviews
given every Thursday morning by Mrs.
William Wolff Smith and Mrs. Theodore
H. Tiller at 1880 o'clock at the New
willard is well under way, the list of
seasons patrons continues to grow, and
recent additions are Mrs. Fulton Lewis,
Mrs. Gardner Orine, Mrs. Leone v.
Crawford and Miss Marie Clothilde
Redfern.
The reviews tomorrow will include
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to
Socialism and Capitalism" and "The
Closed Garden"