Evening star., 1928-12-16
Pen Women's $ Carnival
Costume Ball Listed
Outstanding Event
Program Outlined for Tues
day E yening g Embraces
Picturesque Features Rep
resentative of History and
Fiction.

Mrs Aaron D. Newman. president of
the District League of American Pen
Women, will head the receiving line at
the reception which will formally open
the carnival costume ball of her or
sanitation Tuesday evening at the Will
lard Hotel and will have in line with
her Mrs. Clarence M Busch, national
president of the Pen Women; Mrs. Eli
A. Helmick, chairman of the ball and
Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, first vice presi-
dent of the District League.
The ball will open at 10 o'clock, and
dancing will be continuous until
O'Clock, interrupted only by the inter-
mission for supper at midnight. The
large ballroom of the Willard will be a
picturesque scene with the gayly deco
rated boxes filled with characters that
will have stepped forth from history or
fiction for an evenings merriment, and
the attractively costumed pages. mem
bers of the Junior League of American
Pen Women of the District
Two striking figures, reminiscent of
the masquerade dance given by Mrs.
e. D. E. N. SouthWorth years ago at
her home. Prospect Cottage in George
town, now the property of the National
League of American Pen Women and
the site of it's future memorial club
house, will be Might" to be portrayed
by Mrs. Ernest Virgins, and Dawn"
by Miss Agnes Winn. They will be
dressed in fashion similar to the young
ladies who enacted these parts at Mrs.
Southworth'S ball. Night" in filmy
black with silver stars. and Dawn" in
pale blue with golden stars.
Vice President Elect Curtis
fs Listed Among Guests.
The Vice President-elect. Senator
Charles Curtis, and Mr. and Mrs Ed
ward e. Gam will attend the ball and
will be guests in the box of Mrs Busch,
the ladies of whose party will represent
the wives of the Presidents. In this
company will be Mrs. Henry Clay Car
penter and Mrs. Fulton Lewis. who
liam Wheatley. who will impersonate
Mrs. James Monroe: Mrs Charles
Baker, who will be Mrs Martin Van
Buren,; Mrs. Harriet Ward, who will
represent Mrs. John Adams; Mrs. Will
liam Trevor of New York, house guest of
Mrs. Busch, who will take the part of
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson. and Mrs. Edna
NJ Colman, who will be Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, and who will wear the dress
worn by that character in the Drink
water play of Abraham Lincoln" Mrs.
Busch, hostess in the box will imper-
senate Gossip" in keeping with the
name she has selected for her box,
"Seventy-f1ve Years of White House
Gossip" after Mrs. Colman's book of
that name: Mrs. Busch will dress in
black with a white wig, and will carry
an old-fashioned reticule and her knit
ting, picking up stories as we'll as
stitches. Other guests in Mrs. Busch's
box will be former Senator and Mrs.
Robert l.. Owen, Miss Clarice Busch.
president of the Junior League of
American Pen Women: Mr. Henry Clay
Carpenter. who will impersonate George
Washington: Comdr. Charles Baker,
Comdr. Wiley Baker, NJ. Fulton Lewis,
Or. w. M. Perry and Mr.. Lawrence
Campbell.
Mrs. Aaron D. Newman. hostess of
the evening. will have as the guest of
honor in her box, Mrs THEODORE j.
Pickett, president of the Woman's Ma
tional Press Club and an honorary
member of the League of American Pen
Women. Others in her box party will
be Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher. preSi-
dent of the Soroptomist Club: Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Dearfoss. Mr. and Mrs. Ger
aid Ward Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs Law
renee Gilbert Newman, Miss Christine
Groucke, Miss Emily c Davis, Mr.
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gart Her box has been named The
Star Spangled Banner" and will be
decorated with the Nations coIors.
In the box taken by the officers of
the local branch of the Pen Women,
Nnder whose auspices the ball is to be
given. will be Mr. and Mrs. z. Richard
Gasch, Miss Evelyn E. S. Weems and
guest, Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Bagley and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest r. Grant. The
box has been called THE Thirteen Colo
MES" and many of those in the box
will be in attractive Colonial costumes.
Executive Box Named
For Mrs. Southworth.
The national executive board has
named its box for Mrs Southworth
who will be impersonated by Mrs. Theo-
dore Tiller. In the box will be DR.. Mary
Meek AtkeSon, first vice president and
her guest; Mr. and Mrs Daniel C.
Chace Mrs Faber Stevenson. Mrs. c.
w. Allen, Miss Elizabeth Malott Barnes
Mrs. William H. Moses and Mrs. Tiller
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton
will have in their box Senator Pilson Of
Connecticut, Representative Stephen G.
Porter Of Pennsylvania, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Hood Watson, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene ColliSter and Mr. and Mrs
Henry J. Staley. Mrs. Seton has named
her box Chinese Lanterns" It will be
attractively decorated, end the hostess
and her guests will be in Chinese cos
TUNES
Maj. Gen and Mrs. Eli A. Helmick