Evening star., 1928-10-19
Girls Friendly Society
Reception This Afternoon.

Receiving at the reception following
the dedication of the Washington
National Center of the Girls Friendly
Society. at 1888 New Hampshire avenue
this afternoon will be Miss Margaret
Lukens, national president of the soci-
ETY.; Miss Frances Sibley. former ma
tional president of the society: Mrs. Al
fred Aiken, vice president at large: Miss
Julia j. Cunningham, chairman of the
Washington national center committee
and Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, diocesan
president of the society in washington
Assisting Mrs. John c. Boyd at the
tea table will be Mrs. Alexander S.
Steuart. Mrs. Ben HELEN, Mrs. Theodore
Gill. Miss Elizabeth Keyser and Miss
Clara Nourse.
Miss Alice Long Bridwell will be host
eSs this evening for the Institute of Mu-
steal Art at its opening reception at 83l
Eighteenth street northwest, from to
10 o'clock. Assisting Mrs. Bridwell will
be Mrs. Frederick w. True. Mrs. Otto
Torney Simon. Mrs Martin Dowd, Miss
Jessie MacBride and Mrs. Henry V.
Christiani An informal program of
music will be given during the evening.
The League of American Pen Women
of the District of Columbia is arrang-
ing the first of its monthly series OF
book reviews tomorrow at o'clock in
the league clubrooms at 1108 Sixteenth
street northwest. Miss Agnes Winn is
chairman of this activity. The program
for tomorrow night will be given by
Mrs. William Wolff Smith, who will re-
view Thornton Wilder's two books, The
Bridge of San Luis Rey' and "Cabala." "
The reviews are open to all members
of the league and their guests.
Mr.. Charles Moore. chairman Of the
Fine Arts Commission, will give an IL
lustrated after dinner talk at the Won-
ems City Club tomorrow evening at $50
O'Clock. This is the first of series of
talks on the history of the government
of the District of Columbia, which will
be featured the third Saturday of each
month. beginning tomorrow. The era
of L'Enfant's planning will be the sub
jAct of Mr.. Moore's talk. Additional
guests will be Mrs. Lawton Miller Miss
Mary Oursler, Mrs. Benhurd. Mrs. Henry
Seymour, Miss Stiles, Miss Hazel Swift,
Mrs. Flora Hendley, Miss Adelaide Da-
vison, Mrs. Elizabeth F. King, Mrs. Isa-
belle K. Thomas, Mrs. Ada Mills Payne,
Miss Helen Brown, Miss Helen M. Haw-
ley, Miss Marie Gilman, Mrs Beulah
Barnes and Miss Elizabeth Raymond.
The Huguenot Society of Washington.
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware will
give a reception to the Huguenot bish-
ops and delegates to the General Con-
vention of the Episcopal Church Mon
day evening at 8 o'clock in the French
ballroom of the La Fayette Hotel. at Six
teenth and I streets northwest. Mr..
John Leonard Merrill, president of the
National League of Huguenot Societies
will be the guest Of honor, The presi-
dent of the society, Mr.. Henry Latane
Lewis, will preside at the meeting fol-
lowing the reception, and the Rev. DIR.
Florian ]. G. Vurpillot, chaplain of the
society. will speak on the Revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, october 18,
1885," Other officers of the society
who will attend the party are: Vice
presidents, for the District of Columbia,
Mr.. Samuel Herrick; for Virginia, Mr.
Tench Tilghman Marye: for Maryland,
DR.. Nicholas L. Dashiell of Baltimore
for Delaware, Mr.. j. Frank Biggs, Will
n1ington; secretary, Mr.. John Caben
Wilkinson; treasurer, Mr.. Thomas r
Charshee, and registrar, Mrs. Enoch
G. johnson.
Mrs Sidney F. Taliaferro, Mrs. Proc
tor l.. Dougherty, Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty, Mrs. Cloyd II. Marvin, Mrs
Karl Fenning and Miss Jean Cole will
preside at the tea tables Tuesday aft
ernoon at 4 O'Clock ut the tea given
in the University Women's Clubhouse