Evening star., 1928-11-11
FOREIGN D|NNER"
FEATURES DANCES
University Women's Guild
Plans CoIorfuI Program
Friday Night.

International in all its aspects, the
"Foreign Dinner" to be presented by
the Women's Guild of American UNI
yersity at the college gymnasium-a m-audi-
torium next Friday night will include
an entertaining combination of folk
dances by college girls in costume and
a one-act play, "Rosalind," by James
M Barrie.
The colorful and picturesque folk
dances will be presented by different
groups of college girls, who Will act
also as mattresses for the dinner with
its courses of national dishes from
several countries. The dinner is belng
given under direction of a commlttee
headed by Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker,
president of the guild. for the benent
of the scholarship and dormitory fur
nishing funds of the guild.
Mexican Dance in Costume.
In addition to the college gs-ls' en-
tertainment there will be Mexican
dance in costume by Miss Ruth Sedge-
wick and Felix L. Cordova, who re-
Gently appeared in Porto Rico benefit
at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Mrs. Lucius C. Clark, wife OF the
chancellor of the university, is IN charge
of the entertainment for the hrSt
course, which will be Swedish, ana
win present the following girls in folk
dance: Alice Hetzel, Elizabeth Hill,
Elizabeth McVey, Esther McVey, Elsie
Eandburg and Ruth Rinkel.
For the Mexican group entertain
ment during the second course, Mrs.
George B. Woods, wife OF the dean OF
the college, is in charge. Miss Sedge-
wick and Mr.. Cordova will dance, and
the girls in costume demonstrating
Mexican costums will be Miss Pauline
Frederick, Martha Bricker, Mary Scull.
Annielouise Flaig, Kathryn Heath and
Ethel Moulton.
Mile. Simone Schall of Algeria, North
Africa, will sing as feature of the
French course, which is under direc-
ton of Mrs. oscar Rand of the guild.
The girls in costume will be Olive
Rogers, Ruth Edwards, Dorothy Buchan,
Helen Hope, Mary Jane Stewart, Geral-
dine WeStwood, Helen Skidmore and
Dorothy Dunmire.
Czechoslovakia section, under direc-
ton of Mrs. Edwin Fuller, chairman,
win present: Irene Tippett, Kathryn
Buchanan, Orrel Belle Claf1in, Rose
Flowers, Lenora FrieSleben. Lulu Ly-
brook, Mary Jane Pearce, Sylvia Sard,
Jane Rice, Margaret woodward.
The Holland section, under direction
of Mrs. D. o. Kinsman, will present:
Betty Jacoby, Frances Baker, Gwen
dolyn Folsom, Sarah McIlvaine, Vir-
ginia Pratt and Carol Rigby.
One-Act Play Scheduled.
Another attraction at the dinner will
be the one-act play directed by VIII
HutchinS, professor of art at the col
lege. The play will be presented by the |
following players: Laura Barrett, Betty |
Jacoby and Milton CriSt, each of whom |
has starred in previous college thea
tricals.
rhe college orchestra, under the baton !
of DIR. C. Henry Leineweber, will play. |
Miss Mary Louise Brown, dean OF |
women, is chairman of the program |
committee. Miss Dorothy Wulf, direc-
tor OF physical education for women at |
the college, is directing the folk dances. |
The dinner will start at Z o'clock. Elab-
crate decorations for the gymnasium |
auditorium are being planned for what |
the guild expects to be the largest affair |
of its kind ever presented at the college. |
The international menu is being pre- |
pared by Jesse A. Millard, college stew |
ard. /
The annual meeting of the board OF |
trustees of American University Will be |
held tomorrow morning at the Battelle |
Memorial on the campus, for the pur-
pose of outlining plans for the next col
lege year. DR.. Lucius G. Clark, chan
cellor, will present his recommendation
for the advancement of the university.
Arthur S. Flemming, instructor in
political science at the college, addressed
the Washington Branch of the English
Speaking Union at the Mayhower Hotel
Wednesday afternoon, on his trip last
wear to Great Britain, which he took as
the first travelling scholar from the local
branch.
Presents Lecture Recital.
Sigmund Spaeth, accomplished mu-
Sician and lecturer, presented lecture
recital last night at Hurst Hall on
''The Common Sense of Music"
Miss Hattie Teachout, who graduated
last year at the college, has been elected
secretary of the Wesley Club, at the
Yale School of Divinity, where she is
working for her masters degree.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell of
the Methodist Episcopal Church was
the principal speaker at Armistice day
services held last Friday morning in
the college chapel.
Manuscripts in the contest for short
stories on college life will be due to-
morrow in this competition for stu
dents at the college. The stories first
will be presented to a committee of
students to consider their fidelity to
college life. Final decision will be made
by a literary committee consisting of
DR.. Harold Colder. assistant professor
Of English; Mrs. Mary Lee Davis and
M D. Hildreth, both authors, of this
city.
A piano has been presented to Ameri-
can University for use in Hurst Hall
by Mr. and Mrs. Ogle Singleton of
washington.
The Alpha Chapter of Phi Gamma
Delta Sorority held its monthly busi-
ness meeting in its new room at
American University, 1901 F street, last
Wednesday After the completion of
business the John Marshall Chapter of
Chi Psi Omega Fraternity met with
it for a social hour.